arXiv:2608. 08126v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Credit scoring increasingly relies on models whose decision logic cannot be read off their parameters, in tension with supervisory expectations that adverse decisions be explainable.
By Gregorius Reynaldi Pratama, Kuo-Kun Tseng
arXiv:2608. 08224v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning post-training unlocks complex reasoning in LLMs.
By Binwen Tan, Jingchao Wang, Dengzhe Hou, Lingyu Jiang, Zeyuan Wu, Yunhan Shen, Fangzhou Lin, Kazunori Yamada, Atsushi Koike
arXiv:2608. 08239v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM routers promise efficiency by matching each request to the cheapest adequate model, and are increasingly applied per step inside multi-step agents.
By Ashritha Gonuguntla
arXiv:2608. 08282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using language-model agents face constraints whose meaning changes with observations and prior actions.
By Ibne Farabi Shihab, Md Najmus Swaqeeb, Abu Sa-Adat Mohamed Moon-Im Al Ahsan
arXiv:2608. 08528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise AI coding assistants incur substantial inference spend, and naive token-cost minimization often fails to reduce end-to-end cost once retries, escalations, and developer wait time are included.
By Srinivasan Manoharan, Junhua Zhao, Fangbo Tu, Haifeng Wu, Jian Wan, Maliah Rajan M, Ashwin Hegde, Mithun Sasidharan, Kalyan Chakravarthi Podamekala
arXiv:2608. 08536v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Circuit localization is a mechanistic interpretability task whose goal is to identify a sparse subgraph of a transformer's computation graph sufficient to reproduce a particular behavior.
By Chester Tan, Moritz Lampert, Courtney Maynard, Ankit Ramakrishnan, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Ingo Scholtes
arXiv:2608. 08542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model merging has become the default way to give an aligned language model new skills without retraining: a practitioner folds task vectors from math, code, or domain specialists into a safety-aligned base using task arithmetic, TIES, or DARE.
By Yu Ma, Hongli Shi, Jing Li, Xinran Xu, Weiwei Hou
arXiv:2608. 09100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Millions of chemical structures appear in patents and papers only as drawings, and using that information at scale requires reading the drawings.
By Yani Guan, Dengpan Dong, Zi Wei, Shuang Luo, Dan Hannah, Yumin Zhang, Kang Xu
arXiv:2608. 09160v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Query-Key Normalization (QK-Norm) improves the training stability and quality of modern Large Language Models (LLMs).
By Gyudong Kim, Wonjun Han, Young Geun Kim
arXiv:2608. 09558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How expressive is prompting a transformer?
By Alexander Hsu, Rongjie Lai
arXiv:2608. 07550v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models return structured chest-radiograph findings through interfaces exposing no confidence score, so a receiving institution cannot read off how far to trust an individual judgment.
By Pengyang Yu, Yiou Wang, Zhongping Dong, Sahraoui Dhelim, Chun-Mei Feng, M. Tahar Kechadi
arXiv:2608. 07575v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Confocal microscopy of optically cleared and swelled tissue resolves complex biological structures in 3D, but such acquisitions are highly anisotropic: along the under-sampled axial direction the structure can appear discontinuous, hampering reconstruction and automated quantitative analysis.
By Arash Fatehi, Robin Ebbestad, Linus Butt, Hans Blom, Sigrid Lundberg, Hannes Olauson, Hjalmar Brismar, David Unnersj\"o-Jess, Thomas Benzing, Katarzyna Bozek
arXiv:2608. 07583v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems route among model-backed advisors, yet a deployer rarely knows before shipping whether routing will help at all.
By Anchen Sun, Kaiqi Yang
arXiv:2608. 07816v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in generative recommendation (GR) leverage large language models (LLMs) as recommender backbones, enabling LLMs to directly generate recommendations conditioned on item-interaction histories.
By Donald Loveland, Liam Collins, Bhuvesh Kumar, Danai Koutra, Neil Shah
arXiv:2608. 08167v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) excel at open-ended captioning and visual QA but often describe objects, attributes, or relations absent from the image, a phenomenon known as object hallucination.
By Ameen Ali, Tamim Zoabi, Lidor Brami, Lior Wolf
arXiv:2608. 08910v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: PTQTP decomposes LLM weight matrices into two ternary (trit) planes with two free per-group scales.
By Matteo Grella
arXiv:2608. 09209v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural language models trained on large crowdsourced corpora frequently exploit spurious surface patterns tied to target labels without true linguistic or causal relevance, boosting benchmark performance while failing on adversarial or out-of-distribution inputs.
By Chidaksh Ravuru, Shashank Srivastava
arXiv:2503. 18970v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Structured State Space Models (SSMs) have become a prominent class of sequence models, developed against two long-standing difficulties: the sequential computation and gradient propagation limits of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), and the quadratic time and memory cost of self-attention in Transformers.
By Shriyank Somvanshi, Md Monzurul Islam, Mahmuda Sultana Mimi, Sazzad Bin Bashar Polock, Gaurab Chhetri, Anandi Dutta, Amir Rafe, Subasish Das
arXiv:2604. 01499v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Evolution Strategies (ES) have emerged as a scalable gradient-free alternative to reinforcement learning based LLM fine-tuning, but it remains unclear whether comparable task performance implies comparable solutions in parameter space.
By William Hoy, Binxu Wang, Xu Pan
arXiv:2510. 20739v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Program analysis tools often produce large volumes of candidate vulnerability reports that require costly manual review, creating a practical challenge: how can security analysts prioritize the reports most likely to be true vulnerabilities?
By Ronghao Ni, Aidan Z. H. Yang, Min-Chien Hsu, Nuno Sabino, Limin Jia, Ruben Martins, Darion Cassel, Kevin Cheang