Natural language processing

Classical and neural NLP: translation, question answering, tokenization and the evaluation of language understanding.

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arXiv AI

Jul 28

Opti-Q: A Constraint-Based Optimization Framework for Multi-LLM Question Planning

arXiv:2607. 22621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While large language models (LLMs) enable strong question answering (QA), budgeted deployment is complicated by nondeterminism and heterogeneous resource profiles (cost, latency, and energy).

By Aamir Hamid, Bharg Barot, Satvik Racharla, Tim Finin, Primal Pappachan, Roberto Yus

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 28

Foundation Models and Fine-Tuning: Toward a New Generation of Models for Time Series Forecasting

arXiv:2607. 23146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inspired by recent breakthroughs in large language models for natural language processing, foundation models have emerged as a promising paradigm for zero-shot time series forecasting, enabling accurate predictions on datasets never seen during pre-training.

By Morad Laglil, Bertrand Pracca, Emilie Devijver, Eric Gaussier

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 28

Transfer learning for conflict and duplicate detection in software requirement pairs

arXiv:2301. 03709v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Consistent and holistic expression of software requirements is important for the success of software projects.

By Garima Malik, Savas Yildirim, Mucahit Cevik

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arXiv AI

Jul 28

Unified Embodied VLM Reasoning with Robotic Action via Autoregressive Discretized Pre-training

arXiv:2512. 24125v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: General-purpose robotic systems operating in open-world environments must achieve both broad generalization and high-precision action execution, a combination that remains challenging for existing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models.

By Yi Liu, Sukai Wang, Dafeng Wei, Xiaowei Cai, Linqing Zhong, Jiange Yang, Guanghui Ren, Jinyu Zhang, Maoqing Yao, Chuankang Li, Xindong He, Liliang Chen, Jianlan Luo

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arXiv AI

Jul 28

LuxInstruct: A Cross-Lingual Instruction Tuning Dataset For Luxembourgish

arXiv:2510. 07074v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Instruction tuning has become a key technique for enhancing the performance of large language models, enabling them to better follow human prompts.

By Fred Philippy, Laura Bernardy, Siwen Guo, Jacques Klein, Tegawend\'e F. Bissyand\'e

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arXiv AI

Jul 28

RoleMix: Unifying Sequential and Non-Sequential Features via Semantic Tokenization for Post-Click Conversion Rate Prediction

arXiv:2607. 22700v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-click conversion rate (PCVR) prediction is central to industrial recommendation, but remains challenged by the structural mismatch between sparse, unordered multi-field features and long, domain-specific behavior histories.

By Wenan Wang, Qin Zhao, Zhixiang Lu

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 28

BHARATI: Morphology-Aware Tokenizers for Classical Indian Languages with Subword Fertility Analysis

arXiv:2607. 23319v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard subword tokenization algorithms such as Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) and SentencePiece are trained predominantly on modern language corpora and produce inefficient segmentations when applied to classical Indian languages.

By Poornima Kumaresan, Pavithra Muruganantham, Lakshmi Rajendran, Santhosh Sivasubramani

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arXiv AI

Jul 28

Speed Reading Tool Powered by Artificial Intelligence for Students with ADHD, Dyslexia, and Short Attention Span

arXiv:2307. 14544v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper presents an artificial intelligence tool designed to assist students with dyslexia, ADHD, and short attention spans in processing text-based information more efficiently.

By Megat Irfan Zackry Bin Ismail, Ahmad Nazran bin Yusri, Muhammad Hafizzul Bin Abdul Manap, Muhammad Muizzuddin Bin Kamarozaman

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arXiv AI

Jul 28

Multi-Modal Scene Graph with Kolmogorov-Arnold Experts for Audio-Visual Question Answering

arXiv:2511. 23304v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, we propose a novel Multi-Modal Scene Graph with Kolmogorov-Arnold Expert Network for Audio-Visual Question Answering (SHRIKE).

By Zijian Fu, Changsheng Lv, Xianlin Zhang, Mengshi Qi, Huadong Ma

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 28

MioFFAn: an Annotation Software for Formula Formalization with LLM Automation Capabilities

arXiv:2607. 22552v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The automatic translation of mathematical expressions in scientific literature into executable symbolic code (a process we refer to as Formula Formalization) is hindered by a severe scarcity of high-quality, ground-truth datasets specialized for technical scientific domains.

By Nicolas Sibuet, Horacio Saggion, Riccardo Rossi

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arXiv AI

Jul 28

Choosing a Text Embedding Model: A Practical Benchmarking and Decision Framework

arXiv:2607. 23507v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Choosing the right text embedding model is one of the most consequential -- and most frequently under-examined -- decisions in building a retrieval or search system, yet the model that tops a leaderboard is rarely the best choice for a given deployment.

By Madhav S Baidya

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arXiv AI

Jul 28

Evolving from Lessons: Skill-Augmented Table Graph Reasoning for Operation-wise Table Question Answering

arXiv:2607. 22633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Table Question Answering (TableQA) aims to reason over tables to answer user queries.

By Guixin Su, Qiankun Pi, Mayi Xu, Wenli Li, Ming Zhong, Yuanyuan Zhu, Jiawei Jiang, Tieyun Qian

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arXiv AI

Jul 28

Eviction as Estimation: A Fixed-Lag Smoothing View of Test-Time Memory, and When Measuring Beats Accumulating

arXiv:2607. 24667v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A language model with a bounded working memory must repeatedly decide which stored items to keep.

By Maruthi Vemula, Neeraj Praneeth Gajula

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arXiv AI

Jul 28

KG2Code: Bridging Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models via Executable Code for Question Answering

arXiv:2607. 22652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent research has explored the integration of knowledge graphs (KGs) with large language models (LLMs) to enhance their performance on downstream knowledge-intensive tasks, particularly knowledge graph question answering (KGQA).

By Yike Wu, Nan Hu, Guilin Qi, Guohui Xiao, Chen Jiang, Xinchun Zou, Yuchen Lu, Songlin Zhai, Yongrui Chen, Yuyang Zhang, Xiaoguang Li, Lifeng Shang, Jiaoyan Chen, Jeff Z. Pan

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arXiv AI

Jul 28

PathScale-R1: Cross-scale Reasoning for Pathological Image Analysis

arXiv:2607. 23794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pathological diagnosis is inherently multi-scale, requiring the integration of global tissue architecture at low magnification with cellular morphology at higher magnification.

By Chi Phan, Tianyi Zhang, Yufeng Wu, Qiaochu Xue, Jiajie Zhang, Linghan Cai, Zeyu Liu, Sudong Wang, Yueming Jin, Dan Hu

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arXiv AI

Jul 28

Neural Machine Translation for Low-Resource Tangkhul--English

arXiv:2606. 25365v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a study on low-resource machine translation for the Tangkhul-English (nmf-en) language pair.

By Chormi Zimik Vashai, Agniva Maiti

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arXiv AI

Jul 28

VecTree-RAG: An Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework Combining Vector and Tree Retrieval for Efficiency and Accuracy

arXiv:2607. 23006v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific question answering requires a retrieval system to solve two distinct problems: identifying which papers are relevant and locating the supporting evidence within those papers.

By Xinyan Zhong, Yuwei Shi, Yuqi Wei, Chen Shen, Tianhang Zhou, Zhenghao Wu

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arXiv AI

Jul 28

Language-Routed RAG and Direct Option Scoring for Multilingual Financial QA: DS@GT at FinMMEval

arXiv:2607. 22841v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present DS@GT's submission to FinMMEval 2026 Task 1, a multilingual financial exam question answering benchmark spanning English, Spanish, Greek, Chinese, and Hindi.

By Justice Ayela, Kabir Sahni

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 28

Does Faithfulness-Guided Alignment Hurt Accuracy? Unlocking Accurate and Faithful Post-Retrieval Reasoning

arXiv:2602. 01348v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) can achieve strong answer accuracy on multi-hop questions, but outcome-level rewards often leave reasoning traces weakly grounded and difficult to audit.

By Yu Liu, Wenxiao Zhang, Diandian Guo, Cong Cao, Fangfang Yuan, Qiang Sun, Yanbing Liu, Jin B. Hong, Zhiyuan Ma

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arXiv AI

Jul 28

Voice-Driven Semantic Perception for UAV-Assisted Emergency Networks

arXiv:2602. 17394v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-assisted networks are increasingly foreseen as a promising approach for emergency response, providing rapid, flexible, and resilient communications in environments where terrestrial infrastructure is degraded or unavailable.

By Nuno Saavedra, Pedro Ribeiro, Andr\'e Coelho, Rui Campos

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