Natural language processing

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

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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
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
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
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
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
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
arXiv AI
Jul 28

ClinFusion: A Vision-Centric Multimodal LLM System for Holistic Medical Understanding

arXiv:2607. 24743v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) hold immense potential to revolutionize clinical practice, yet deploying them in the medical domain is fundamentally a vision-centric challenge: models must absorb knowledge from heterogeneous 2D and 3D medical images, and evaluation protocols must align with radiologists' clinical practice and provide an accurate, fine-grained and factualness-driven assessment.

By Hangjie Yuan, Yichen Qian, Zhiwei Tang, Xianzhe Xu, Lirong Wu, Sicheng Yang, Jinwang Wang, Pengju Wang, Zhitao Zeng, Yizeng Han, Yan Xing, Shengxuan Luo, Tao Feng, Qing Xie, Weigen Yao, Yi Yang, Zuozhu Liu, Jiasheng Tang, Shaocheng Wang, Jitao Wang, Jiahong Dong, Weihua Chen, Feng Xu, Fan Wang
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
arXiv AI
Jul 28

CAPT: A Multi-task Continuous Autoregressive Transformer enabling Cross-dataset and Cross-species Transfer for Calcium Population Dynamics

arXiv:2607. 23258v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale calcium imaging has created an opportunity to build foundation-style models for neural population dynamics, but a central question remains unresolved: \textbf{whether a model pretrained on one collection of recordings can generalize to new datasets, experimental paradigms, and even species.

By Xinhong Xu, Yimeng Zhang, Yuanlong Zhang