arXiv:2609.38205v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: System prompts are the primary lever practitioners use to control language model behavior, yet what they actually do to the computation inside the tran...
By Muhammad Usama, Dong Eui Chang
arXiv:2609.38334v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as agents for multi-step decision-making, yet transfer poorly to unseen environments. World-mode...
By Yuhan Guo, Jinming Liu, Liang Xu, Ziqiang Li, Jianguo Huang, Zhicheng Wang, Hu Zhu, Qiuyu Chen, Yuntao Wei, Xin Jin, Wenjun Zeng
arXiv:2609.38976v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Demographic fairness gaps in automatic speech recognition are almost always reported from a single training run. We fine-tune the Q-former projector an...
By Srishti Ginjala, Eric Fosler-Lussier, Srinivasan Parthasarathy
arXiv:2609.39238v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: An agent that moves must recognise a place from a viewpoint it has never seen. We introduce 4MT-VLM, a dataset of procedurally generated landscapes, ea...
By Markus Frey
arXiv:2609.39514v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models bridge multimodal understanding and robotic control, advancing the dominant paradigm for embodied intelligence. How...
By Shuai Wang, Malu Zhang, Mingquan Liu, Weihui Dai, Dehao Zhang, Jieyuan Zhang, Yimeng Shan, Zijian Zhou, Yang Yang
arXiv:2609.39572v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We analyze how lexical ambiguity and underspecification affect language model training. We create artificial homonyms and artificial hypernyms as pseud...
By Michaela Regneri, Nina Scheller, S\"oren Laue
arXiv:2609.39639v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Tabular learning uses structured data to predict target outcomes. Traditionally, this process has relied on labeled data. However, large language model...
By Liangyu Teng, Yicheng Ding, Jing Liu, Hengsong Liu, Juncen Guo, Hongru Li, Jingyu Zhang, Liang Song
arXiv:2609.39913v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We test whether large language models solve formally matched kinship problems equally well when relations are expressed in familiar vocabulary or by ex...
By Thomas Pashby
arXiv:2609.40064v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Purpose: This study examines whether domain-specific public mood is associated with stock-market dynamics and whether these relationships vary across c...
By Ece Elif Adak, Berta\c{c} \c{S}akir \c{S}ahin, \c{S}aziye Bet\"ul \"Ozate\c{s}
arXiv:2609.40118v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: As LLM capabilities advance, agents are tackling increasingly complex tasks over longer horizons. Their growing interaction histories make memory compa...
By Jingbo Yang, Kwei-Herng Lai, Xiaowen Wang, Zhaoxuan Tan, Pei Zhou, Mengting Wan, Yaar Harari, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Shiyu Chang
arXiv:2609.34024v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Jev is a non-generative "System One" model that assigns probabilities to predefined answer options and cannot answer outside them. Its accuracy and c...
By Alfredo Madrid-Garc\'ia, Beatriz Merino-Barbancho
arXiv:2609.38291v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are vulnerable to safety risks such as injected malicious instructions or misleading information, motivating runtim...
By Zhuo Liu, Moxin Li, Zhixin Ma, Wentao Shi, Wenjie Wang, Fuli Feng
arXiv:2609.38371v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Existing LLM-driven robot task planners rely on a taken-for-granted assumption of an ideal user whose instructions are clear, complete, and task-focu...
By Guangxin Zhao, Yiran Hu, Yuan Cao, Chenxi Jiang, Jianfei Yang, Yegang Du, Yasuyuki Taki, Yoshifumi Kitamura, Lin Gu, Zhi Zheng
arXiv:2609.38389v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks that circumvent safety alignment to elicit harmful outputs. It remains unclear...
By Yelyzaveta (Lisa), Husieva, Lauren Alvarez
arXiv:2609.38806v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Next-token prediction has driven remarkable progress in large language models, yet a growing body of evidence suggests that they can struggle on prob...
By Woosang Jeon, Jaeyeon Kim, Sham Kakade, Yilun Du, Amrit Singh Bedi, Arun Kumar Chithanar, Chul Lee, Taehyeong Kim, Sitan Chen
arXiv:2609.39496v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Typed decision models such as Jev offer an efficient alternative to generative LLMs in decision-making workflows by selecting directly from predefine...
By Jike Zhong, Ming Li, Yuxiang Lai
arXiv:2609.39929v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Long-context failures of RoPE-based language models can arise from RoPE's intrinsic tradeoff between maintaining stable token preferences and disting...
By Yuyang Wu, Yufeng Du, Hao Peng
arXiv:2609.40127v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Modern transformers pair impressive capabilities with substantial memory and compute demands. Low-rank weight factorization reduces both while keepin...
By Massimo Bini, Anders Christensen, Stephan Alaniz, Judah Goldfeder, Ole Winther, Yann LeCun, Ravid Shwartz-Ziv, Zeynep Akata
arXiv:2410.02343v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) routinely fail to output the correct option in multiple-choice question answering (MCQA) while encoding the answer int...
By Eduard Tulchinskii, Kristian Kuznetsov, Laida Kushnareva, Anastasia Voznyuk, Andrei Andriiainen, Irina Piontkovskaya, Evgeny Burnaev, Serguei Barannikov
arXiv:2609.40241v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for recommendation reranking, but their use introduces an important tradeoff between recommendation q...
By Hanjia Lyu, Yinglong Xia