arXiv:2608. 12724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Few-shot in-context learning (ICL) with multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) enables task adaptation without parameter updates, but its performance is highly sensitive to the quality and coverage of the selected demonstrations.
By Zirui Cheng, Xun Xu, Tiankai Chen, Fady Rezk, Bowen Zheng, Xiaodong Shi, Shijie Li, Kangkang Lu, Bharadwaj Veeravalli, Nancy F. Chen
arXiv:2608. 12574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models increasingly need to generate structured outputs that conform to predefined schemas, with one common constraint being selection from a finite set of valid strings.
By Xingzi Xu, Karim Bouyarmane
arXiv:2608. 12585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Improving reasoning LLMs requires the ability to judge the quality of long reasoning traces for effective reasoning data curation, strong training signals during reinforcement learning, and an in-depth understanding of reasoning behaviors during model performance evaluation.
By Congchao Wang, Diwakar Singh, Qiaozi Gao, Spyros Matsoukas, Yang Liu, Mahdi Namazifar
arXiv:2608. 12654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-running LLM agents act through tools, and a single step can send an email, merge a pull request, or wire a payment.
By Oguz Serdar, Cuneyt Mertayak
arXiv:2608. 12674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Maintaining price consistency and executing an Every Day Low Price strategy is critical for global retailers.
By Ravi Teja Chunduri, Srikaran Reddy Boya, Deep Narayan Mishra, Ajay Kumar B, Karthik Kumaran, Pranay Kona
arXiv:2608. 12679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in discovery domains such as math and science.
By Conor F. Hayes, Elliot Meyerson, Kajetan Schweighofer, Roberto Dailey, Babak Hodjat, Risto Miikkulainen, Xin Qiu
arXiv:2608. 12928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce a Polish-language medical visual question answering (VQA) benchmark, built from Polish Board Certification Examination questions for licensed physicians and dentists pursuing specialist certification.
By Jakub Pokrywka, {\L}ukasz Grzybowski, Antoni Lasik, Marek Kubis, Jeremi Ignacy Kaczmarek, Wojciech Kusa
arXiv:2608. 13076v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in natural language understanding and generation, but their deployment is constrained by high computational demands.
By Divya Jyoti Bajpai, Kishan Kumar Upadhyay, Manjesh Kumar Hanawal
arXiv:2608. 13063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prior work on LLM behavior under anomalous conditions asks whether a model notices anomalies.
By Sam Mao
arXiv:2608. 13120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent Skills are today either hand-authored or produced in a single LLM generation pass, and consequently possess no closed loop through which they might improve from the interaction failures they actually cause.
By Qianxi Yan, Chunrong Chen, Jiuzhou Zhao, Min Zhang, Yongzhou Xu, Xiaochuan Xu
arXiv:2608. 13221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The evaluation of LLM reasoning is moving from final-answer accuracy to process-level assessment, yet existing methods still fail to capture how models plan reasoning paths and allocate reasoning resources--that is, how they organize search.
By Shunwen Bai, Ziping Ma, Chaoyang Zhang, Yarong Wang, Jiale Liu, Zhen Qin, Qingpei Guo
arXiv:2608. 13344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon Earth observation reasoning requires models to organize multi-stage geographic evolution, localize spatial changes, detect temporal anomalies, and infer future from extended image sequences.
By Yupan Ding, Jing Xiao, Zhenyuan Zhang, Chaofeng Chen, Liang Liao, Gui-Song Xia, Mi Wang
arXiv:2608. 13476v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Multi-Agent Reasoning and Coordination (MARC), an open-source framework that replaces monolithic LLM prompting with deterministic multi-agent orchestration for clinical reasoning.
By Saisha Shetty, Satvik Tripathi, Austin Lin, Colin Zhao, Theodore Kim, Don Enwerem, Jacinta Arnold, Shahriar Faghani, Tessa S Cook
arXiv:2608. 13547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM coding agents issue Bash commands through interfaces that may serialize, wrap, and reparse model output.
By Shangao Li, Yao Zhang, Volker Tresp, Yuanyuan Yang
arXiv:2608. 12329v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Progress on AI for psychosis-risk assessment is limited by a data-access bottleneck.
By Guilherme C. Oliveira, Stephanie Fong, Zimu Wang, Clarice Lee, Xiangyu Zhao, Duy Khoa Pham, Duong Nhu, Yiwen Jiang, Jiahe Liu, Zhongxing Xu, Dwarikanath Mahapatra, Dominic Dwyer, Zongyuan Ge
arXiv:2608. 12331v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning language models generate lengthy chain-of-thought (CoT) sequences whose key-value (KV) cache grows linearly and becomes a memory bottleneck during decoding.
By Yang Liu, Bin Chong, Chongyang Zhang, Hao Zheng, Jiayu Liang, Xu Kefu
arXiv:2608. 12350v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The energy demand growth and environmental impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) have generated substantial interest in supplying sufficient low-cost electricity for AI-driven data center development.
By Diego Manya, Ethan I. Thorpe, Ji Zhang, Myranda Shirk, Jiamian He, Angel Hsu, Michael P. Vandenbergh
arXiv:2608. 12352v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI governance frameworks can be known, used, and implemented in form without becoming governance in practice.
By Joseph R. Simons, David A. Broniatowski
arXiv:2608. 12374v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models (LMs) struggle with logical tasks like reasoning on syllogisms.
By Hanna Abi Akl, Fabien Gandon, Catherine Faron, Pierre Monnin
arXiv:2608. 12391v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph reasoning provides a promising testbed for evaluating the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs), as graph instances can be programmatically generated, structurally controlled, and naturally scaled to long-input settings.
By Fali Wang, Ali Al-Lawati, Iliyas Bektas, Jinxuan Fang, Alek Melenski, Tianxiang Zhao, Yao Ma, Suhang Wang