Benchmarks and evaluation

Leaderboards, eval harnesses and ablations — the contested business of deciding which model is actually better.

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arXiv AI
Aug 10

Seeking SOTA: Time-Series Forecasting Must Adopt Taxonomy-Specific Evaluation to Dispel Illusory Gains

arXiv:2603. 15506v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We argue that the current practice of evaluating AI/ML time-series forecasting models, predominantly on benchmarks characterized by strong, persistent periodicities and seasonalities, obscures real progress by overlooking the performance of efficient classical methods.

By Raeid Saqur, Christoph Bergmeir, Blanka Horvath, Daniel Schmidt, Frank Rudzicz, Terry Lyons
arXiv AI
Aug 10

PHOENIX: Fine-Tuned SLM-Powered Autonomous Satellite Lifetime Extension via Predictive Self-Healing and Multi-Agent AI Recovery

arXiv:2608. 07126v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most CubeSats, small and low-cost satellites roughly the size of a shoebox, do not survive as long as they were designed to: a study of 178 missions found that only 48-65% remain operational after two years, against a designed lifetime of 2-5 years.

By Sumaiya Islam, Harsha Kumara Moraliyage
arXiv AI
Aug 10

Beyond Text Matching: Towards Reference-Free Evaluation for Human-Oriented Binary Reverse Engineering

arXiv:2608. 07038v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human-Oriented Binary Reverse Engineering (HOBRE) aims to transform decompiled pseudocode into a more human-friendly representation, thereby reducing the cognitive burden of reverse analysis and improving efficiency.

By Xiuwei Shang, Li Hu, Xiao Jiang, Jieke Shi, Junda He, Zhou Yang, Shaoyin Cheng, Guoqiang Chen, Weiming Zhang, David Lo
arXiv AI
Aug 10

Beyond Isolation: Unlocking Reinforcement Learning Component Synergy for Sample-Efficient Continuous Control

arXiv:2608. 07086v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning systems are significantly more complex than other machine learning paradigms due to inherent properties, causing RL system design to jointly account for many tightly coupled factors.

By Qi Zhao, Guozheng Ma, Yilun Kong, Lu Li, Haoyu Wang, Zilin Wang, Tiantian Zhang, Yuxing Wang, Jian Sha, Yongzhe Chang, Xueqian Wang, Dacheng Tao
arXiv AI
Aug 10

LifelongCrossNav: Persistent 3D Semantic Memory for Cross-Floor Multi-Object Navigation

arXiv:2608. 07079v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Object-goal navigation has made substantial progress in semantic perception and exploration, yet persistent memory for multi-object navigation and cross-floor navigation are still commonly addressed separately.

By Zehui Li, Zihao Sun, Jiawei Xu, Zheqi He, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Jing-Shu Zheng, Lu Liu, Dahui Gao, Xiuwan Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 10

NTDH: Complex Reasoning for Comprehensive Affective Analysis

arXiv:2608. 06425v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Comprehensive affective analysis is challenging for two reasons: it spans heterogeneous prediction tasks with continuous, ordinal, and multi-label outputs, and affective meaning is context-dependent, requiring conflicting cues to be reconciled rather than mapped directly to labels.

By Tianlei Zhu, Zhiwei Liu, Yuyan Wang, Xiao-Yang Liu, Sophia Ananiadou
arXiv AI
Aug 10

ResidencyRL: Reinforcement Learning in Simulated Clinical Environments

arXiv:2608. 07418v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In medical education, physicians convert academic knowledge into clinical expertise through residency: years of training across thousands of encounters, with diverse sources of feedback and progressively greater autonomy.

By Valentin Li\'{e}vin, Samuel Schmidgall, Tim Strother, Alex Bijamov, Akshay Goel, Anil Palepu, Chunjong Park, Vahid Balazadeh, Min Woo Sun, Marius Guerard, Justin Chen, Dave Steiner, Vikram Dhillon, Ibrahim Azar, Akhil Mehta, Nicholas Spetsieris, Shilpan Shah, Maen Abdelrahim, Amit Dahiya, Yun Liu, Katherine Chou, Yossi Matias, Avinatan Hassidim, Dale R. Webster, Quoc V. Le, Raia Hadsell, Joelle Barral, Carey Radebaugh, Aleksandra Faust, Shekoofeh Azizi, Mike Schaekermann, Po-Hsuan Cameron Chen, Tao Tu, David Racz, Lin Yang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 10

Let's Unlearn Stereotypes Before Decision-Making: Assessing the Impact of Intrinsic Bias Mitigation on Downstream Fairness in LLMs

arXiv:2509. 16462v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in high-stakes decision-making systems, where biased predictions can reinforce social and economic disparities.

By Mina Arzaghi, Alireza Dehghanpour Farashah, Florian Carichon, Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Plante, Golnoosh Farnadi