arXiv:2608. 16776v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-capacity encoders in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) can let the query dominate the latent state, leaving retrieved evidence functionally irrelevant.
By Lirui Teng
arXiv:2608. 16002v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential for deploying large language model (LLM) agents in complex interactive environments.
By Zhengzhao Ma. Boxi Cao, Yaojie Lu, Hongyu Lin, Xianpei Han, Le Sun
arXiv:2608. 14778v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the third leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, with early detection improving survival from 70\%.
By Pranav Kulkarni, Nikhil Shah, Amritansh Suryavanshi, Jana Delfino, James Tonascia, Jade Wong-You-Cheong, Barton Lane, Joseph Chirico, Jeffrey D. Hirsch, Ang Li, Heng Huang, Florence X. Doo
arXiv:2608. 14558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current multimodal models have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in recognizing static visual and auditory content.
By Garima Arya Yadav, Nilay Yilmaz, Yezhou Yang
arXiv:2608. 14559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective communication in multi-agent reinforcement learning requires agents to decide not only \textit{what} to communicate, but when?
By Teoman Kaman
arXiv:2608. 14566v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work on evaluating the moral competence of large language models (LLMs) has focused primarily on what we call the moral value problem, i.
By Aidan Kierans, Ritam Dutt, Kaley Rittichier, Shiri Dori-Hacohen, Avijit Ghosh
arXiv:2608. 14585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Euclidean geometry is a compelling testbed for AI reasoning, as it demands the combination of intuitive diagram understanding, axiomatic deduction, and algebraic computation.
By Zhaoyu Li, Hangrui Bi, Youyuan Zhang, Wenjie Ma, Zenan Li, Zhaolei Zhang, Xujie Si, Kaiyu Yang
arXiv:2608. 14610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Legal reasoning tasks such as legal judgment prediction (LJP) require identifying the temporally correct version of the law governing a case -- a capability we term temporal applicable-law determination.
By Yiqian Huang, Shuyuan Zheng, Qianying Liu, Shaowen Peng, Yuntao Kong, Kotaro Funakoshi, Chuan Xiao, Manabu Okumura, Yang Cao
arXiv:2608. 14613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern LLM-agent frameworks increasingly interoperate through standards such as Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) for agent-to-tool access and Google's Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol for agent delegation and negotiation.
By Wael Albayaydh, Rui Zhao
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. 14631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As consumers increasingly turn to AI chatbots for skincare advice, the technical accuracy of Large Language Models (LLMs) in cosmetic chemistry remains largely under-evaluated.
By Amelia Liu
arXiv:2608. 14651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective disaster risk communication is a foundational humanitarian challenge, yet current emergency infrastructure fails to meet the needs of individuals with access and functional needs, including hard-of-hearing individuals, pregnant women, mothers with toddlers, and elderly individuals with dementia.
By Anuridhi Gupta, Samara Mansoor, Hemant Purohit
arXiv:2608. 14669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence systems applied to mathematics verify correctness but not novelty: an automatically generated theorem can compile in Lean without errors and yet be an already known result.
By Ayrton Porto
arXiv:2608. 14680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliability in LLM-based agentic systems is a property of the whole execution (its tool calls, model calls, guardrails, and inter-agent messages), not of the final answer alone, yet evaluating only task outcomes reveals little about how or why a run fails.
By Chenkai Zhang, Yiran Li, Yifang Tian, Michalis Bachras, Hans-Arno Jacobsen
arXiv:2608. 14711v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI coding agent benchmarks rank agents with the Chen et al.
By Jiajun Jiang, Sharon Zheng, Natan Vidra, Spurthi Setty
arXiv:2608. 14789v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large low-Earth-orbit (LEO) Earth-observation (EO) constellations offer frequent access to geographically dispersed ground targets, but emergency requests may arrive after committed routine-plan execution has begun.
By Qian Yin, Xinwei Wang, Guohua Wu
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. 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. 14927v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent large language model (LLM) systems can improve reasoning by spending more computation, but deployment requires deciding when extra collaboration is worth its cost.
By Chih-Hsuan Yang, Jingyan Jiang, Cheng-Hau Yang, Vikram Vasudevan, Huihuo Zheng, Venkatram Vishwanath, Rajeev Thakur
arXiv:2608. 14936v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small proxy models are commonly used to identify data mixtures for larger-scale training.
By Seungmin Choi, Jiwon Sung, Muhammad Umer, Abhiram Rao Gorle, Guijin Son, Youngjae Yu, John M. Cioffi