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arXiv AI
Sep 30

AerialDojo-200K: A Large-Scale Benchmark Suite for Open-World Aerial Object-Goal Search

AerialDojo-200K is a large-scale benchmark suite for open-world aerial object-goal search, featuring 42 simulation scenes across four families and 21 types, including urban, natural, infrastructure, and disaster environments. The dataset contains 205,732 task instances—over 100K semantic-goal and over 100K image-goal tasks—each with a collision-free reference trajectory and multi-view video recordings. A unified evaluation framework splits scenes into 21 in-distribution and 21 out-of-distribution sets, and preliminary tests on multimodal large language models show significant room for improvement in general-purpose aerial agents.

By Tongtong Feng, Xin Wang, Haoran Hou, Ren Wang, Weiran Wang, Shaokai Zhu, Ziqi Jia, Hao Wang, Yu-Wei Zhan, Zongyuan Wu, Jinghao Cui, Wenwu Zhu
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arXiv AI
Sep 30

Generalizable Lifelong Model Editing via Preference Optimization

The paper introduces GLIME, a lifelong model editing framework that integrates knowledge editing with preference optimization to handle continual updates in large language models. GLIME employs replay-based editing and a gradient constraint to prevent overfitting to target prompts and preserve previously edited knowledge. Experiments demonstrate that GLIME enhances knowledge generalization while maintaining editing performance and overall model capabilities.

By Dahyun Jung, Suhyune Son, Heuiseok Lim
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arXiv AI
Sep 30

Locating Answer-Correctness Signals in Frozen Large Language Models

The paper investigates where and how large language models encode signals that indicate answer correctness. By examining hidden states, token probabilities, residual-stream features, attention, and their combinations, the authors find that correctness signals are concentrated in the answer span and that different signal families complement each other. Fusing these signals improves robustness, especially under distribution shifts, and can be used to control retrieval in downstream tasks.

By Yuansen Liu, Yixuan Tang, Anthony Kum Hoe Tung
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arXiv AI
Sep 30

Which Attention Heads are like the Human Head? Not the Ones that Compute

The study investigates whether attention heads in large language models that align with human EEG signals are causally involved in model computation. By ablating these brain‑aligned heads during a pattern‑completion task, the authors find that while such heads contribute to performance, their removal is less disruptive than removing heads selected by attribution patching. The research also distinguishes two families of brain‑aligned heads—novelty and repetition heads—highlighting that novelty heads track human attention but are less critical than random ablation, whereas repetition heads modestly aid performance and align with abstract‑pattern representations.

By Christopher Pinier, Gustaw Opie{\l}ka, Hannes Rosenbusch, Taylor Webb, Michael D. Nunez, Claire E. Stevenson
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arXiv AI
Sep 30

Diagnosing and Improving Probabilistic Reasoning in Large Language Models

The paper introduces a decision‑theoretic framework that splits a large language model’s decision loss into belief formation and action selection components. Using a synthetic benchmark, it evaluates how reinforcement‑learning interventions on beliefs, decisions, or both affect these components across three domains. The study finds that targeting a single component improves that part but may not transfer to others, while jointly targeting both improves both only when training and evaluation formats match.

By Huaman Sun, Dingcheng Wang, Jason Hartline, Jessica Hullman
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arXiv AI
Sep 30

GeoOutageBench: Benchmarking Ambiguity-aware, Ontology-grounded Geospatiotemporal KGQA for Multimodal Power Outage and Resilience Analysis

arXiv:2609.36082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce GeoOutageBench, a benchmark for assessing LLM-based geospatiotemporal KGQA for multimodal outage and resilience analysis. Unlike existing...

By Ethan D. Frakes, Amy Kvien, Rishabh Kundu, Redad Mehdi, Van D. Tran, Vibha S. Mandayam, Kristopher O. Davis, Erika I. Barcelos, Roger H. French, Yinghui Wu, Mengjie Li
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