Benchmarks and evaluation

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

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arXiv AI
2d ago

Large Language Models and their Awareness of Mechanics and Spatial Geometry

arXiv:2608. 14615v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) perform well on established code-generation and mathematical-reasoning benchmarks, but their capabilities in mechanics and spatial geometry, here denoted as mechanical engineering awareness, has not been quantified systematically.

By Johannes Gerstmayr, Sebastian Weyrer, Tobias M\"oltner, Peter Manzl, Michael Pieber
arXiv AI
2d ago

Beyond Thresholds: A Quality-Aware Decision Intelligence Framework for Cold Chain IoT Systems

arXiv:2608. 15082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cold chain logistics has advanced technologically, yet most deployed systems remain reactive monitors, not decision-making agents: thresholds trigger alerts, but nothing relates violations to cumulative product degradation or converts degradation signals into logistics decisions.

By Aashna Sofat, Balwinder Sodhi
arXiv AI
2d ago

Scaling Manual-Grounded Appliance Manipulation with Data Synthesis and Unified Planning

arXiv:2608. 15863v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Operating household appliances requires long-horizon planning that is state-dependent and robust to disturbances, yet existing large models fall short, as no sufficiently diverse, task-oriented dataset exists to support such planning.

By Yuxing Long, Lei Kang, Ziyan Yu, Yuzheng Gao, Bin Cheng, Jiyao Zhang, Xiaoqi Li, Haolin Yang, Dongjiang Li, Hui Shen, Hao Dong
arXiv AI
2d ago

QUMem: Personalized Memory for Query-Conditioned User-State Inference in LLM Agents

arXiv:2608. 16168v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly use external memory systems to support personalization by drawing on long and evolving interaction histories, in which user preferences may be distributed across time, change with context, and conflict with earlier evidence.

By Heng Wang, Yifei Li, Lingling Zhang, Pengyu Li, Xinyu Che, Xinyu Zhang, Zesheng Yang
arXiv Machine Learning
2d ago

A Low-Cost IoT Device for Environmental Monitoring and Embedded Solar Forecasting with On-Device Incremental Learning

arXiv:2608. 14698v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hyperlocal meteorological sensing is essential for accurate solar photovoltaic forecasting, yet professional-grade meteorological stations require investments easily exceeding 1000~USD per node, making distributed deployments economically inaccessible.

By Erick Michel Lara Pinal, Abhinav Das, Stephan Schl\"uter
arXiv AI
2d ago

Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Federated Learning via Explainable Adaptive Differential Privacy

arXiv:2509. 10691v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Decentralized federated learning enables collaborative model training without a central server, but shared model updates can still leak sensitive information through inversion, reconstruction, and membership inference attacks.

By Fardin Jalil Piran, Zhiling Chen, Yang Zhang, Qianyu Zhou, Jiong Tang, Farhad Imani
arXiv Machine Learning
2d ago

Convolution-Free Holistic Multivariance Decomposition Layer for Efficient Hyperspectral Image Classification Tensor Networks

arXiv:2608. 16241v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Feature extraction for hyperspectral image classification is conventionally addressed using rigid tensor decompositions that fail to capture complex spatio-spectral interdependencies, or heavily parameterized convolutional neural networks that are computationally expensive.

By S\"uha Tuna, \"Ulker Ba\c{s}ar
arXiv AI
2d ago

FloodReasonBench: Benchmarking VLM Reasoning Segmentation for Embodied Flood Response at the Edge

arXiv:2608. 15410v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning segmentation enables vision-language models (VLMs) to translate mission-relevant language requests into pixel-level visual grounding, offering a natural perception interface for embodied agents.

By Rajat Bhattacharjya, Yoomee Jung, Minwoo Kim, Sing-Yao Wu, Eli Bozorgzadeh, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Nikil Dutt