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arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 15

Mind2Dialogue: Training Human-Aware Language Models by Simulating User Mental States

arXiv:2609.15972v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As language models become more capable, long-term collaboration in learning, reasoning, and decision-making calls for a deeper understanding of the p...

By Zixuan Wang, Yufan Zhou, Jinzhou Tang, Xinle Yu, Chengjun Wu, Lyumanshan Ye, Zhaoxiang Feng, Letian Peng, Adyasha Patra, Fan Bai, Enze Ma, Zhengding Hu, Jianyang Gu, Zhao Wang, Yufei Ding, Jingbo Shang, Tianmin Shu, Zhiting Hu, Zhen Wang
arXiv AI
Sep 15

Externalizing Requirement-to-Repair Artifacts as Observable Traces for LLM-Based Program Repair

The paper introduces THEMIS, a stage-aware repair workflow that externalizes the requirement-to-repair process by generating semantic interpretations, a runtime requirement-code graph, graph-derived developer guidance, retained repair rationale and patches, and post-edit audit records. A retrospective audit of 300 SWE-bench Lite cases shows that these artifacts enable cross-stage inspection, with a complete developer rationale available for 288 cases and 214 cases retaining a full audited field set. The retained records also allow systematic measurement of cross-stage correspondence, revealing high recurrence of target symbols across rationales and patches, and a preliminary improvement in resolving cases compared to a direct same-input condition.

By Zewen Tao, Shin-nosuke Ishikawa
arXiv AI
Sep 15

El Agente Potente: High-Throughput Agentic Atomistic Simulations

El Agente Potente is an agentic system that integrates typed execution graphs and a coding mode to facilitate machine‑learning interatomic potential (MLIP) driven atomistic simulations. Typed execution graphs offer structured, provenance‑aware workflows where large language models handle planning and routing while deterministic Python code performs scientific computation and validation. The coding agent builds customized workflows for tasks needing procedural flexibility, invoking existing Potente functions for supported calculations. The system is demonstrated across materials discovery, energy‑landscape exploration, adsorption, and catalytic reaction workflows, with benchmarks on reproducibility and LLM token cost.

By Tsz Wai Ko, Jiaru Bai, Thomas Swanick, Yeonghun Kang, Changhyeok Choi, Angelina Qihong Jiang, Aiwei Yin, Varinia Bernales, Al\'an Aspuru-Guzik
arXiv AI
Sep 15

GGUF-Metadata Prediction of Single-Sequence llama.cpp Throughput Across Three Systems

The paper predicts single‑sequence llama.cpp throughput from GGUF metadata using roofline‑shaped predictors with quantization‑specific scale factors. Experiments on 318 measurements across 53 host‑file configurations on two Apple M4 Max systems and an NVIDIA RTX 5080 show that an active‑parameter decode model achieves significantly lower mean absolute percentage errors compared to models that use total parameters. The study also finds that low‑bit model ladders alter runtime ordering and that GGUF structure improves predictions, though fitted efficiencies vary across systems.

By Xinyu Qiu, Chuhong Xu, Bo Su, Ziyao Chen, Ruiyang Xu, Shimeng Dai
arXiv AI
Sep 15

Learning Human-Like Badminton Skills for Humanoid Robots

arXiv:2602.08370v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Realizing versatile and human-like performance in high-demand sports like badminton remains a formidable challenge for humanoid robotics. Unl...

By Yeke Chen, Shihao Dong, Xiaoyu Ji, Jingkai Sun, Zeren Luo, Liu Zhao, Jiahui Zhang, Wanyue Li, Ji Ma, Bowen Xu, Yimin Han, Xuanyi Li, Yudong Zhao, Liyun Li, Peng Lu
arXiv AI
Sep 15

LLMs or Naive Bayes? Old Gems or New Ways

The paper compares Complement Naive Bayes (NB) with zero‑shot and few‑shot large language models (LLMs) across a wide range of model sizes and text classification tasks. NB outperforms LLMs when labeled data is available, achieving comparable accuracy to large LLMs while running thousands of samples per second on a CPU. In zero‑data sentiment settings, LLMs still dominate, but NB remains the best choice for resource‑constrained HPC practitioners, and the authors provide a Kubernetes Helm operator to automate model selection.

By Mohammad Firas Sada, Dmitry Mishin, John Graham, Seungmin Kim, Mahidhar Tatineni, Frank W\"urthwein
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 15

North Small Translate: Advanced Cost-Effective Translation (Cohere CAT+)

arXiv:2609.13916v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present North Small Translate, an open-weight, LLM-based machine translation (MT) model with instruction-following capabilities built on the same fo...

By Tom Kocmi, Alexandre B\'erard, Phil Blunsom, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Shaun Cassini, Nicholas Frosst, Ona de Gibert, Aidan Gomez, Nithya Govindarajan, Shun Kiyono, Olivia Lasche, Lawrence Rogers, Kelly Marchisio, Nikita Moghe, Yash More, Camila Moran-Hidalgo, Yiyang Nan, Michael Sachs, Trisha Starostina, Daan van Stigt, Spencer Rarrick, Sebastian Vincent, Ivan Zhang