arXiv:2608. 09343v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation-based optimization (SBO) evaluates executable policies under stochastic dynamics, but most methods treat the simulator as a black box: aggregate scores rank candidates without revealing why they fail or which policy logic should change.
By Jinbo Li, Chuanhao Li
arXiv:2608. 09374v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electrical circuit analysis requires more than recognizing components in an image.
By Xinqi Yang, Kang An, Tengyue Wang, Zhongyu Yang, Chenxu Du, Yuanchi Zhu, Hebao Zhu, Ziliang Wang, Faqiang Qian, Yunli Yang, Qibing Ren
arXiv:2608. 09380v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon complex tasks require agents to repeatedly observe states, formulate plans, invoke tools, verify results, and recover from failures in continuously changing environments.
By Siqi Wang, Xinlin Li, Zhenglin Li, Li Li
arXiv:2608. 09412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: KV-cache compression reduces long-context memory, but aggregate task scores reveal neither which correct executions fail nor why.
By Chen Qiu, Ziwu Liu, Chao Fei, Guozhong Li, Panos Kalnis
arXiv:2608. 09629v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-evolving agents are usually built around prescribed optimization pipelines: the framework decides how to gather evidence, revise a persistent artifact, select candidates, and stop.
By Hui Xue, Fan Yang
arXiv:2608. 09638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Theory of Mind (ToM) is essential for agent interactions, yet existing evaluations either rely on static scenarios that oversimplify mental-state reasoning or interactive settings that provide limited diagnostic insight.
By Yen-Shan Chen, Yu Chian Duan, Chih-En Kuo, Jian-Bin Wu, Yun-Nung Chen
arXiv:2608. 09696v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting the answer to interventional ``what if'' questions --- the outcome of an action never taken --- requires a \emph{mechanistic}, causal model, not a curve fit; and learning such a model requires \emph{experiments}, because passive data leaves its mechanisms unidentified.
By Kevin Murphy
arXiv:2608. 09790v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online credit card discussions provide a natural setting for studying how consumers communicate about financial products.
By Yaoning Yu, Kai-Min Chang, Ye Yu, Yi-Chia Wang, Haojing Luo, Haohan Wang
arXiv:2608. 07494v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI tools like ChatGPT and DeepSeek, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), allow users to obtain instant and effective content responses simply by typing requests, such as ``plan a three-day Vienna trip'', ``solve the attached mathematical problem'', ``draft an email to inquire review progress'', etc.
By Yiqun Zhang, Yunfan Zhang, Mingjie Zhao, Sen Feng, Yiu-ming Cheung
arXiv:2608. 07498v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous AI agents in social media present concrete risks to democratic discourse and platform governance, while also offering tools for pre-deployment recommender system testing.
By Ljubisa Bojic, Ljiljana Matic, Joerg Matthes, Milan Cabarkapa, Bojana Dinic, Jue Wang
arXiv:2608. 07508v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are already advisors to millions of people of faith who bring them real decisions.
By M. Waleed Kadous (iaser.ai, Faith Family Technology Network), Benjamin Olsen (Faith Family Technology Network)
arXiv:2608. 07520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mass religious gatherings such as the Kumbh Mela concentrate tens of millions of people into a single region over a few weeks, producing intense, repetitive, multilingual, and safety-critical demand for information.
By Saurabh Sakalkar, Abhishek Singh, Ramesh Raskar
arXiv:2608. 07529v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as technical assistants, but their competence in solid waste management (SWM) remains difficult to assess because existing benchmarks emphasize general knowledge rather than professional decisions under engineering, environmental, and policy constraints.
By Yi Zhang, Hongyang Wang, Zheng Hao Leong, Zihao Wu, Kaijun Lin, Zhixing Pan, Qixun Huangfu, Wei Ren, Wenyan Wu, Fangyun Wang, Wenting Yu, Hengyu Lin, Muling Yang, Zongguo Wen
arXiv:2608. 07541v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transforming raw neuroimage archives into analysis-ready derivatives relies on three brittle stages: data standardization, modality-specific preprocessing, and quality control (QC).
By Yiyao Chen, Yucheng Li, Jungong Tong, Shaoqi Wang, Kunhao Zhou, Ziquan Wei, Monica Murea, Marissa DiPiero, Tingting Dan, Guorong Wu
arXiv:2608. 07557v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV-VLN) requires rapid and reactive control in complex 3D environments.
By Peng Xu, Chengcheng Wang, Shaohua Wan
arXiv:2608. 07570v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Explainable aesthetic image cropping requires not only localizing a visually pleasing crop but also explaining why it is preferred.
By Rui Yang, Wei Zhou, Dingyong Gou, Xiaohui Cui, Cong Li, Yinyin Gong, Yipo Huang, Jiliang Zhao
arXiv:2608. 07808v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Four years after prompt injection was first identified in 2022, attacks are still predominantly documented as verbatim strings rather than structured exploits, despite advancing agent capabilities and threat actors embedding injections to subvert AI-assisted security analysis.
By Jeremy McHugh
arXiv:2608. 07952v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-augmented LLM agents can harbor implicit state that persists across sessions, activates through events, and propagates across agent boundaries---largely invisible to standard debugging.
By Zhaohui Wang
arXiv:2608. 08459v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Practical AI systems increasingly need to turn long, heterogeneous documents into queryable relational databases, not isolated spreadsheets.
By Zhuowen Liang, Zhengxuan Zhang, Jiayang Wang, Jiazhuo Chen, Nan Tang
arXiv:2608. 08713v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models offer a promising path toward automating radiology report generation, but applying them to full 3D CT volumes poses substantial computational challenges.
By Jonathan Suprijadi, Raphael Stock, Moritz Langenberg, David Zimmerer, Kim-Celine Kahl, Stefan Denner, Yannick Kirchhoff, Karol Gotkowski, Maximilian Rokuss, Jeremias Traub, Tassilo Wald, Constantin Ulrich, Klaus Maier-Hein