arXiv:2606. 05608v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: For over half a century, software engineering has operated on a foundational premise: human engineers decompose problems, encode decision logic into static code, and manually adapt that code as requirements evolve.
By Zhenfeng Cao
arXiv:2512. 11982v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Finding scientifically interesting phenomena through slow manual labeling campaigns severely limits our ability to explore the billions of galaxy images produced by telescopes.
By Nolan Koblischke, Liam Parker, Francois Lanusse, Jo Bovy, Irina Espejo, Shirley Ho
arXiv:2605. 02411v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A semantic gap separates how users describe tasks from how tools are documented.
By Kyle Zheng, Han Zhang, Renliang Sun, Chenchen Ye, Wei Wang
arXiv:2504. 09762v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Intermediate token generation (ITG), where a model produces output before the solution, has become a standard method to improve the performance of language models on reasoning tasks.
By Subbarao Kambhampati, Karthik Valmeekam, Siddhant Bhambri, Vardhan Palod, Lucas Saldyt, Kaya Stechly, Soumya Rani Samineni, Durgesh Kalwar, Upasana Biswas
arXiv:2606. 11585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Kuramoto attention, a self-attention layer in which each hidden coordinate is an angle.
By Joshua Nunley
arXiv:2606. 11386v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Full-duplex spoken language models (FD-SLMs) enable seamless speech interaction by allowing models to listen and speak simultaneously, yet the internal mechanism by which they coordinate listening and speaking remains underexplored.
By Cheng-Kuang Chang, Kai-Wei Chang, Alexander H. Liu, James Glass
arXiv:2606. 12059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We address transformer attention on energy-constrained physical substrates.
By Fabio Pasqualetti, Taosha Guo
arXiv:2606. 11270v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Distillation of a language model intended to transfer benign behavior to a student model may also transfer undesirable characteristics, if they are present in the teacher model, a phenomenon known as subliminal learning.
By Uwe Konig, Hamza Kazmi, Ruizhe Li, Maheep Chaudhary
arXiv:2510. 02660v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: When researchers claim AI systems possess ToM or mental models, they are fundamentally discussing behavioral predictions and bias corrections rather than genuine mental states.
By Xiaoyun Yin, Elmira Zahmat Doost, Shiwen Zhou, Garima Arya Yadav, Jamie C. Gorman
arXiv:2506. 03933v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in multimodal understanding, yet their susceptibility to adversarial perturbations poses a significant threat to their reliability in real-world applications.
By Jia Fu, Yongtao Wu, Yihang Chen, Kunyu Peng, Xiao Zhang, Volkan Cevher, Sepideh Pashami, Anders Holst
arXiv:2509. 25359v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a systematic stress-test of geometric metrics for LLM evaluation.
By Viacheslav Yusupov, Anna Antipina, Ameliia Alaeva, Danil Maksimov, Anna Vasileva, Tatyana Zaitseva, Alina Ermilova, Evgeny Burnaev, Egor Shvetsov
arXiv:2606. 11290v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems are increasingly powerful, but current agentic workflow optimization paradigms make an unsatisfying trade-off.
By Lingzhi Yuan, Chenghao Deng, Fangxu Yu, Souradip Chakraborty, Mohammad Rostami, Furong Huang
arXiv:2606. 11675v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diagnosing pulmonary diseases requires integrating heterogeneous evidence amid phenotypic variability and cross-disease overlap.
By Haoyang Zeng, Yuanxi Fu, Rongzhen Li, Yuming Yang, Xiao Sun, Jingwang Huang, Gujie Shao, Guohui Xiang, Quan Lu, Dongfan Ye, Xuetao Chen, Jiang Zhong, Kaiwen Wei, Zhi Xu
arXiv:2606. 11724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Theory of Mind (ToM) reasoning requires inferring agents' beliefs from partial and asymmetric observations, which remains an open challenge for LLMs.
By Chao Lei, Guang Hu, Meng Yang, Yanbei Jiang, Nir Lipovetzky
arXiv:2509. 14860v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Image classification has traditionally relied on parameter-intensive model training, requiring large-scale annotated datasets and extensive fine tuning to achieve competitive performance.
By Wonduk Seo, Minhyeong Yu, Hyunjin An, Seunghyun Lee
arXiv:2606. 12191v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Environments serve as interactive systems for large language model (LLM) based agents across diverse scenarios and play a crucial role in driving the continual evolution of model capabilities.
By Jiachun Li, Zhuoran Jin, Tianyi Men, Yupu Hao, Kejian Zhu, Lingshuai Wang, Dongqi Huang, Longxiang Wang, Shengjia Hua, Lu Wang, Jinshan Gao, Hongbang Yuan, Ruilin Xu, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao
arXiv:2601. 22025v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Evaluating Large Language Model (LLM) applications differs from conventional software testing because outputs are probabilistic, semantically variable, and sensitive to prompt and model changes.
By Daniel Commey
arXiv:2606. 12412v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) project images into hundreds to thousands of visual tokens, making decoder inference expensive in both attention computation and KV-cache memory.
By Cheng-Yu Yang, Shao-Yuan Lo, Yu-Lun Liu
arXiv:2606. 11660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data attribution is a promising field in interpretability that aims to explain model behavior through the influence of its training data, with applications including debugging undesirable model behavior and training dataset curation.
By Lucia Quirke, Louis Jaburi, David Johnston, William Z. Li, Gon\c{c}alo Paulo, Guillaume Martres, Girish Gupta, Stella Biderman, Nora Belrose
arXiv:2606. 12117v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Benchmark scores often misrepresent a large language model's (LLM's) knowledge, because they rely, e.
By Selen Erkan, Bastian Boll, Kristian Kersting, Bj\"orn Deiseroth, Letitia Parcalabescu