arXiv:2608. 16797v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial recommenders rely on two model families that have evolved largely independently: feature-interaction models over multi-field user/item features, and sequential models over user-behavior histories.
By Rongcheng Lin, Yan Sun, Jamey Zhang, Guanglei Xiong, Ivan Ji, Xianjie Chen, Shujian Bu
arXiv:2608. 15877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search and recommendation serve a shared discovery objective but encode intent differently.
By Rui Wang, Jiazhou Wang, Zheng Wei, Chenglin Lu, Fangcheng Sun, Ivy Sun, Jin Sun, Hui Geng, Lillian Zhang, Chao Yang, Lei Chen, Shahin Sefati, Reem Helou, Joe Zhou, Babak Shakibi, Yiyi Pan, Bi Xue, Hong Yan, Shujian Bu
arXiv:2608. 16621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented and agentic question-answering systems increasingly re-derive the meaning of a corpus at query time.
By Yusuke Takahashi, Kyle Wild, Asako Uraki
arXiv:2608. 16775v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being deployed in cybersecurity operations to assist cybersecurity analysts with rapid decision-making against emerging threats.
By Reza Fayyazi, Michael Zuzak, Shanchieh Jay Yang
arXiv:2608. 16394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating regulation-compliant test scenarios is essential for validating safety-critical automotive systems, yet Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle to ground outputs in long, hierarchical standards.
By Vahid Zolfaghari, Nenad Petrovic, Andr\'E Schamschurko, Alois Knoll
arXiv:2608. 16628v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (M-RAG) systems are fundamentally limited by the binary connectivity paradigm of traditional simple graphs, which fails to capture the intricate, high-order correlations among heterogeneous entities, such as the N-ary relationships between a visual chart, its scattered textual descriptions, and underlying numerical data.
By Shenao Chen, Yidan Xu, Xiangmin Han, Rundong Xue, Duanpo Wu, Yuhan Gao, Chenggang Yan, Yue Gao
arXiv:2608. 16198v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dermatology models face distribution shifts in teledermatology settings, where submitted images differ from the training data in lighting, angle, distance, focus, and framing.
By Fabian Gr\"oger, Marco Weishaupt, Philippe Gottfrois, Simone Lionetti, Linda Wermelinger, Nipun Ranasekara, Ludovic Amruthalingam, Alexander A. Navarini, Marc Pouly
arXiv:2608. 15691v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Health misinformation circulating during pandemics can gain traction rapidly, creating harmful narratives that compete with public health guidance.
By Mkululi Sikosana, Sean Maudsley-Barton, Oluwaseun Ajao
arXiv:2608. 15424v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid adoption of large language models has enabled the development of clinical multi-agent systems (MAS) capable of integrating multimodal patient data and supporting increasingly complex clinical decision-making.
By Rakesh Sharma, Sydney Pugh, Cameron Beeche, Pankhuri Singhal, Rachel Wu, Margaret Eby, Jeffrey Duda, James Gee, Kyra O'Brien, Hersh Sagreiya, Marina Serper, Victoria Gershuni, Angela Bradbury, Anurag Verma, Eric Eaton, Kevin B. Johnson, Walter Witschey
arXiv:2602. 02414v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Timely and accurate identification of student misconceptions is key to improving learning outcomes and pre-empting the compounding of student errors.
By Joshua Mitton, Prarthana Bhattacharyya, Digory Smith, Thomas Christie, Ralph Abboud, Simon Woodhead
arXiv:2608. 14792v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Objectives: To determine whether zero-shot prompting of a large language model (LLM) is sufficient to detect shared decision-making (SDM) behaviors in real clinical encounters, and whether supervised learning adds value under patient-grouped, nested evaluation.
By Bernardo Modenesi, Jody Lin, Kimberly Kaphingst, Angela Zhu, Maya Wheeler, Peilu Zhang, Angela Fagerlin
arXiv:2608. 14763v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Assessment of ventriculomegaly (VM) on fetal brain ultrasound relies primarily on measuring lateral ventricular atrial width on standard planes, which is operator-dependent and may not fully reflect the overall ventricular enlargement.
By Yuhao Huang, Yuanji Zhang, Yuhuan Lu, Dong Ni, P. Ellen Grant, Davood Karimi
arXiv:2608. 15032v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Converting a set of architectural blueprints into a complete material quantity takeoff requires visual perception across drawing sheets, dimensional and multi-hop reasoning, and grounding in construction conventions that the drawings never state.
By Bruno Chicelli, Henrique Alves, Rodrigo Anselmo, Joshua Weinberg, Felipe Lemos, Jan Baryla
arXiv:2411. 15041v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Advanced Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) struggle with recent Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks, such as INFOSEEK and Encyclopedic-VQA, due to their limited and frozen knowledge scope, often leading to ambiguous and inaccurate responses.
By Tao Zhang, Ziqi Zhang, Zongyang Ma, Yuxin Chen, Zhongang Qi, Chunfeng Yuan, Bing Li, Junfu Pu, Yuxuan Zhao, Zehua Xie, Jin Ma, Ying Shan, Weiming Hu
arXiv:2608. 15574v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video question answering systems built on vision-language models often produce timestamped claims with high confidence even when unsupported by the cited frame.
By Yogesh Kumar
arXiv:2607. 22067v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Competence claims for a language model in a safety-critical domain are credible when measured against a standard the domain already enforces.
By Isak Hwang, Yoon Pyo Lee, Syed Bahauddin Alam
arXiv:2608. 15776v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite the powerful multi-scale modeling methods and high-throughput infrastructures established in the materials community, real material computation workflows remain fragmented and heavily manual, requiring researchers to constantly bridge software tools, data analysis, and intermediate decisions.
By Hongfu Huang, Yuzhe Li, Ao Xu, Bo Liu, Changrui Wang, Kan Tang, Ning Yang, Shengxian Liu, Hanyu Liu, Pengpeng Zhang, Linggang Zhu, Fengkai Liu, Yichen Lu, Tong Zhao, Naihua Miao, Jian Zhou, Zhimei Sun
arXiv:2608. 15919v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation over knowledge graphs (Graph-RAG) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for grounding large language models in domain-specific corpora.
By Nicola Cogotti
arXiv:2608. 16111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrosynthesis is a cornerstone of drug discovery and organic synthesis.
By Mianzhi Liu, Fan Xiao, Zhiliang Yu, Huayang Huang, Yuke Li, Yi Yang, Wenbo Liu, Yu Wu
arXiv:2608. 15056v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems often rely on long unstructured contexts or aggressively expanded evidence graphs, which can introduce noisy evidence, weaken multi-hop reasoning, and increase unsupported generation.
By Zafar Ali, Asad Khan, Aalia Malik, Pavlos Kefalas