arXiv:2608. 16416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated machine learning (AutoML) systems search for pipelines within a space of preprocessing operators, learners, and hyper-parameters specified in advance: they can select and tune known components, but cannot produce structure outside that space.
By Sofoklis Kitharidis, Cor J. Veenman, Jan N. van Rijn, Thomas B\"ack, Niki van Stein
arXiv:2608. 14584v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In Multimodal Question Answering (MQA), models are required to jointly encode and integrate heterogeneous information from multiple modalities, including text, images, and speech, to perform complex semantic reasoning and decision making.
By Hailong Yang, Jianqi Wang, Guanjin Wang, Zhaohong Deng
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:2608. 14791v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Abductive reasoning, often characterized as inference to the best explanation, is central to explanation under uncertainty, from everyday sense-making and investigation to scientific discovery.
By Moein Salimi, Danial Parnian, Shaygan Adim, Amirmohammad Ebrahiminasab, Nima Alighardashi, Parsa Gholami, Sahand Akramipour, Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani, Mohammad Hossein Rohban
arXiv:2608. 15389v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based Text-to-SQL progress is reported across heterogeneous benchmarks, backbones, and inference protocols, making cross-system comparison fragile.
By Changruo Zhao, Zujun Peng, Yu Tian, Yuting Liu, Yiyun Su, Huiying Zhu, Luyan Zhang, Heming Zeng
arXiv:2608. 16269v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in neural topic models with pre-trained language models (PLMs) have achieved strong performance by leveraging general-domain pre-training, yet their topic interpretability often degrades on specialized corpora.
By Seung-Won Seo, Won Ik Cho, Yongmin Yoo
arXiv:2608. 14903v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantitative forecasts of frontier artificial intelligence often connect dated targets to trends in benchmark scores, training compute, release time, or expert belief.
By Fabricio F Costa
arXiv:2608. 15022v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models hold latent quantities in a form they can report on, and more of a quantity is present in that form when the task requires reusing it flexibly.
By Parsa Mazaheri
arXiv:2608. 16178v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Operational telemetry is predominantly engineered for human reading: systems repeatedly serialize verbose prose, static keys, and redundant context across billions of log lines.
By Jun He, Deying Yu
arXiv:2608. 16198v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dermatology models face distribution shifts in teledermatology settings, where submitted images differ from the training data in lighting, angle, distance, focus, and framing.
By Fabian Gr\"oger, Marco Weishaupt, Philippe Gottfrois, Simone Lionetti, Linda Wermelinger, Nipun Ranasekara, Ludovic Amruthalingam, Alexander A. Navarini, Marc Pouly
arXiv:2608. 16457v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Procedure planning seeks to estimate a sequence of actions to transition from an observed initial state to a given goal state.
By Mohamed Afham, Christoph Reich, Oliver Hahn, Daniel Cremers, Stefan Roth
arXiv:2608. 16663v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Direct text-to-SQL asks a language model to do two jobs: interpret the business question and construct the complete relational query.
By Yi Ai
arXiv:2608. 16316v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) for video reasoning have long been hindered by the high computational cost of processing vast amounts of visual information.
By Ao Shen, Yongheng Zhang, Yinghui Li, Manning Wang, Di Yin, Xing Sun
arXiv:2608. 15428v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multiple-choice benchmarks are graded on whether a model picks the right option, not on whether it needed the question.
By Volodymyr Ovcharov
arXiv:2608. 16513v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in diffusion models and Transformer architectures have led to significant progress in text-to-video generation.
By Junhao Chen, Zheqi Lv, Keting Yin, Shengyu Zhang, Zhou Zhao, Feiyang Chen, Xinyu Duan, Baoxing Huai, Fei Wu
arXiv:2608. 16494v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern power systems face growing operational complexity driven by the integration of renewable energy sources, decentralization, and the need for real-time decision-making across a wide range of timescales.
By Martin Sadric, Sebastian P\"utz, Christian Nauck, Veit Hagenmeyer, Frank Hellmann, Dirk Witthaut, Benjamin Sch\"afer
arXiv:2608. 16539v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) have made rapid progress on standardized benchmarks, yet their deployment in practical media workflows, curation, archival indexing, and content distribution remains largely unrealized.
By Tony Alex, Wish Suharitdamrong, Sara Atito, Armin Mustafa, Muhammad Awais, Philip J. B. Jackson, Jiankang Deng, Ismail Elezi
arXiv:2608. 15975v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Labeling large text corpora with LLM teachers has become a practical route to training data at scale.
By Ravi Satya Durga Prasad Yenugula
arXiv:2608. 16742v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in code generation, yet ensuring correctness in complex, repository-level tasks remains challenging.
By Hongyue Yu, Kefan Li, Jiakun Li, Hongzheng Chai, Yuan Yuan, Rui He, Junyi Wei
arXiv:2608. 16384v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Universal visual representations require adaptation mechanisms that adapt across heterogeneous domains without fragmenting knowledge into domain-specific modules.
By Suraj Yadav