Retrieval-augmented generation

Retrieval pipelines, vector search, chunking and reranking: how models are grounded in a corpus instead of their weights.

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arXiv AI
4d ago

Large language model and reinforcement learning based autonomous construction and progress updates

The paper proposes an autonomous construction system that combines a large language model (ChatGPT‑5) with a reinforcement learning algorithm to control a mobile crane during retaining wall construction. An enhanced soft actor‑critic model plans crane actions, while robot kinematics ensure these actions are executable. The system also uses a custom embedding model to extract relevant construction data and generates progress updates, safety information, and reports.

By Yifei Xiao, Huasheng Lin, T. Y. Yang
arXiv AI
4d ago

MoSAIK: Motion Search with Artificial Intelligence in K-space

MoSAIK (Motion Search with AI in K-space) is a new method that retrospectively estimates in-plane rigid-body motion directly from standard multi-coil TSE k-space data without requiring motion-free references, external navigators, or additional acquisitions. It uses a decoupled convolutional embedding and Transformer encoder to predict rotation and translation parameters, which are then incorporated into a motion-aware reconstruction. In both simulated and in-vivo tests, MoSAIK achieved low estimation errors and improved image quality, reducing visible artefacts while preserving anatomical detail.

By Oscar Dabrowski, Abijith Jagannath, Fr\'ed\'eric Grouiller, S\'ebastien Courvoisier
arXiv AI
4d ago

Sparse RL Relaxation for LLM Reasoning

The paper introduces SpaRLax, a sparse relaxation method for reinforcement learning that enhances soft Chain-of-Thought reasoning in large language models. By treating soft tokens as differentiable intermediate steps and applying an adaptive entmax sparsity technique, SpaRLax stabilizes training and improves performance across nine reasoning benchmarks. The method retains multiple plausible candidates when uncertain while truncating noise at confident steps.

By Jiabin Fan, Matthias Lindemann, Zita Marinho, Andr\'e FT Martins, Lili Mou
arXiv Computation and Language
4d ago

WaveCommitments: Private and Verifiable Speech-Agent Marketplaces

WaveCommitments is an open‑source framework that enables private and verifiable marketplaces for autonomous speech agents. It combines confidential asset valuation using Data Shapley within a trusted execution environment with multivariate polynomial commitments, allowing selective openings and tamper‑evident provenance. Experiments on three datasets and state‑of‑the‑art encoders, including Whisper, show up to 20× faster benchmarks and 39× smaller proofs, while also revealing how speaker value varies across tasks and encoders.

By Oguzhan Baser, Kaan Kale, Sriram Vishwanath, Sandeep Chinchali
arXiv AI
4d ago

HierDTA: Hierarchical Structure-Aware Representation Learning for Drug--Target Affinity Prediction

HierDTA is a hierarchical structure‑aware framework for drug–target affinity prediction that represents drugs as atom–motif heterogeneous graphs and proteins as residue interaction graphs. It integrates atom and residue representations via cross‑attention, supplemented by molecule fingerprints and pretrained ESM‑2 embeddings, achieving superior performance on the Davis and KIBA datasets and strong generalization in cold‑start scenarios. Ablation studies and interpretability analyses confirm the contributions of its hierarchical augmentation and interaction components, and case studies demonstrate early enrichment of candidate bioactive compounds.

By Huangchao Xu, Baohua Zhang, Qian Liu, Zhong Jin, Yi Du
arXiv AI
4d ago

MOSS: A Production Framework for Monitoring and Diagnosing Semantic Failures in Search and Recommendation Systems

MOSS (Model Sanity Service) is a production framework that embeds LLM-based relevance scoring into a continuous monitoring loop for recommendation, search, and offer surfaces, using targeted sampling, strategy-aware prompting, and structured alerting to diagnose semantic failures. It has been deployed for over six months at a large U.S. retailer, identifying two confirmed serving defects and quantifying a 76.4% reduction in alert rate for a backfill blending fix. Benchmark results show that LLM judges outperform non-LLM baselines on both recommendation and search tasks, demonstrating that a single LLM monitoring framework can deliver actionable quality signals across multiple product discovery surfaces.

By Alina Nesen, Prathyusha Kanmanth Reddy, David Relyea, Rohit Avinash Mujumdar, Samaneh Karimi, Bo Shen, Jordan Hashemi
arXiv AI
4d ago

SZED at ArGuard Shared Tasks: Multi-Task Label-Attention and Cross-Modal Fusion for Arabic Hateful Meme Detection

SZED submitted a system to the ArGuard 2026 Arabic hateful meme detection challenge, tackling both binary classification (A1) and fine‑grained multi‑label tagging (A2). For A1, the team fused MARBERTv2 and CLIP ViT‑L/14 embeddings using concatenation, self‑attention, and ensemble heads, achieving a macro‑F1 of 0.7597. For A2, they employed a multi‑task label‑attention architecture with per‑class query vectors and an auxiliary cascade‑calibration head, reaching a macro‑F1 of 0.3142 across ten active classes and analyzing per‑class error patterns and calibration effects.

By Selma Khelili, Zohra Abdeli