Natural language processing

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

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arXiv AI
Jul 14

PhysMRV: Physical Memory Retrieval and Verification for Physics Plausibility Reasoning

arXiv:2607. 10190v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video-language models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable performance on video understanding and visual question answering, yet they remain unreliable in reasoning about physical plausibility, where understanding object interactions, causal dynamics, and fundamental physical principles is essential.

By Wenyuan Wang, Lianyu Hu, Hao Wang, Yang Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

AutoNorm: Understanding Adaptive Normalization in Transformers through Differentiable Gating

arXiv:2607. 10593v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Normalization is a critical component for stabilizing Transformer training, yet the choice between static strategies such as Layer Normalization (LN) and adaptive alternatives remains largely task-dependent.

By Piyush Kaushik Bhattacharyya, Divyanshu Rai, Swastik Singh, Kumar Aakash, Ayush Ranjan, Krutika Verma
arXiv AI
Jul 14

ActiveFly-Bench: Aligning Embodied Question Answering with Vision-Language-Action for Aerial Embodied Perception

arXiv:2607. 10180v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce ActiveFly-Bench, the first benchmark to bridge cyberspace reasoning and physical-world interaction for UAV embodied perception.

By Weichen Zhang, Shiquan Yu, Yinan Zhu, Peizhi Tang, Shilong Ji, Zhiyuan Deng, Tianyi Lyu, Haoyang Wang, Xin Zeng, Chen Gao, Yong Li, Xinlei Chen
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 13

RAGU: A Multi-Step GraphRAG Engine with a Compact Domain-Adapted LLM

Graph retrieval-augmented generation (GraphRAG) enhances large language models with structured knowledge, yet existing systems construct knowledge graphs in a single extraction pass, producing noisy entities and brittle retrieval. RAGU, an open-source modular GraphRAG engine, addresses this by separating extraction from consolidation: entities and relations pass through two-stage typed extraction, DBSCAN-backed deduplication, LLM summarization, and Leiden community detection.

arXiv AI
Jul 13

Video Generation Models are General-Purpose Vision Learners

arXiv:2607. 09024v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Driven by next-token prediction, NLP shifted from task-specific models into powerful generalist foundation models.

By Letian Wang, Chuhan Zhang, Rishabh Kabra, Jasper Uijlings, Steven Waslander, Andrew Zisserman, Joao Carreira, Kaiming He, Misha Andriluka, Eduard Gabriel Bazavan, Andrei Zanfir, Cristian Sminchisescu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 11

GRASP: GRanularity-Aware Search Policy for Agentic RAG

Agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) extends static RAG by allowing language models to iteratively reason, generate search queries, retrieve evidence, and predict answers. However, it remains challenging for models to decide when to retrieve, whether to use lexical matching or semantic similarity, and how to control context granularity to prevent irrelevant tokens from interfering with agent reasoning.

arXiv AI
Jul 10

How Do I Know What to Say Next? Barenholtz's Autogenerative Theory as an Enrichment of Harrisean Integrationism

arXiv:2607. 07891v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Roy Harris's Integrationist linguistics offers a compelling critique of the referentialist tradition embedded deep at the heart of computational approaches to language, arguing that language is not a code that maps onto a pre-given world but a situated, bipartite activity oriented toward prospective joint action.

By J. Mark Bishop, Stephen J. Cowley