arXiv:2608. 10339v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hospital quality improvement (QI) programs routinely face multiple candidate interventions to optimize hospital flow, but existing methods struggle to estimate and rank the causal effects of such interventions.
By Patrick Vossler, Jialin Ouyang, F. Richard Guo, Anran Huang, Ali Shojaie, Lucas Zier, Fan Xia, Jean Feng
arXiv:2608. 10258v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly provide conversational health information that may influence treatment decisions, yet existing benchmarks do not isolate whether medication-safety boundaries persist across follow-ups after explicit self-treatment intent.
By Waleed Jamil, Raphael Schmitt
arXiv:2602. 24287v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In multi-turn conversations, large language models typically condition on the full conversation history: both past user prompts and assistant responses.
By Jenny Y. Huang, Leshem Choshen, Wei Sun, Omar Khattab, Ram\'on Fernandez Astudillo, Mehul Damani, Tamara Broderick, Jacob Andreas
arXiv:2608. 10289v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep neural networks are increasingly deployed in safety-critical domains as perception modules, where failures are often caused due to rare and under-represented scenarios.
By Nusrat Jahan Mozumder, Divya Gopinath, Corina Pasareanu, Matthew Dwyer
arXiv:2608. 10056v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Following a target human in crowded environments involves an inherent conflict between staying close to the target and navigating safely among surrounding pedestrians and obstacles.
By Shiting Gong, Jianpeng Yao, Jinfeng Wang, Marco Pavone, Jiachen Li
arXiv:2608. 10273v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying large language models (LLMs) for decision support in emergency departments (EDs) faces two major challenges: privacy risks of transmitting patient data to closed-source commercial LLMs and the lack of systematic evaluation of fine-tuning strategies for locally deployable open-source small language models (SLMs).
By Qingfeng Zhang, Yuanxiong Guo, Yanmin Gong
arXiv:2608. 10204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe reinforcement learning maximizes reward subject to safety constraints.
By Chenhua Fan, Jiahui Zhu, Yuhang Zhang, Honghao Wei
arXiv:2608. 10047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In modern industry, keeping complex systems reliable, safe, and efficient hinges on Prognostics and Health Management (PHM).
By Christopher Braun, Julian Raible, Marco F. Huber
arXiv:2608. 10126v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) aggregates heterogeneous preferences into a single reward model, assuming preference homogeneity.
By M P V S Gopinadh, Karthik Kamuju, Kummari Avinash, John Joshua, Srinivasa Raju Rudraraju
arXiv:2608. 10562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Not all clicks are equal.
By Shiwen Shen, Xiru Huang, Liang Luo, Jianbo Sun, He Lyu, Zihang Fu, Ivonne Xu, Zhizhuo Li, Zhengyu Zhang, Pei-Ju Sung, Yunmiao Wang, Zixuan Wang, Zhengli Zhao, Qiang Jin, Mike Jermann, Mingda Li, Yang Xiao, Bhavana Challa, Brooke Bian, Yang Li, Ashish Chamoli, Bibek Bhusal, Danning Di, Yuan Jin, Meet Raval, Zhiwen Chen, Boyao Sun, Shuguang Wang, Yunlong He, Yantao Yao, Sagar Chordia, Wenlin Chen, Santanu Kolay, Qin Huang, Ellie Wen
arXiv:2608. 09972v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: First-generation AI weather models are often reported to underperform at extremes, mostly in reanalysis-based evaluations of deterministic regression systems.
By Marvin Vincent Gabler, Roberto Molinaro, Niall Siegenheim, Henry Martin, Mark Frey, Niels Poulsen, Philipp Seitz, Olivier Lam
arXiv:2608. 10256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate vessel trajectory prediction is critical for maritime safety and anomaly detection, yet existing models often struggle with geographic bias and navigational realism.
By Alexander Schi{\o}tz, Bertram Hage, Christian Rand, Felix Thomsen, Peder Heiselberg
arXiv:2608. 10149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Due to the diversity of real-world time series, no single forecasting model consistently dominates across all samples.
By Xu Zhang, Chang Xu, Hui Sun, Nan Ma, Zijian Zhang, Peng Wang, Wei Wang, Li Zhao
arXiv:2608. 10709v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) enables the deployment of quantized models with minimal accuracy degradation.
By HyeonJun Lee, Hyeonsik Jo, Jinwoo Chung, Jangho Kim
arXiv:2608. 10344v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Thermo-mechanical compliant devices are commonly designed with small-strain linear elasticity and temperature-independent material properties, even though they might operate hundreds of kelvin above ambient where both assumptions are questionable.
By Shirin Hosseinmardi, Xiangyu Sun, Ramin Bostanabad
arXiv:2608. 10166v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Digital watermarking has emerged as a critical technique for provenance and copyright attribution in AI-generated imagery, yet its robustness against realistic, model-agnostic removal attacks remains poorly explored.
By Jie Cao, Qi Li, Zelin Zhang, Xiaodong Wu, Lingshuang Liu, Xiangman Li, Jianbing Ni
arXiv:2608. 11006v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Governments worldwide have responded to the rapid expansion of AI by publishing national and regional AI strategies.
By Benjamin Faveri, Brie Bhasin
arXiv:2605. 23146v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Classical reinforcement learning assumes the agent interacts with a fixed environment whose behavior does not depend on the agent's policy.
By Manish Aryal, Faiyaz Azam, Agnivo Banerjee, Syed Mahir Ahamed, Sai Sidhanth Manoharan Jayanthi, Allegra Laro, Cl\'ement Legentilhomme, Andrew Lin, Florian Lorkowski, Marina P\'erez del Valle, Radman Rakhshandehroo, Patric Rommel, Emanuel Ruzak, Nathan Theng, Paul Yushin Rapoport
arXiv:2608. 10209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Feedback signals used to train Large Language Models (LLMs) are the primary driver of their behavior and our main lever for instilling alignment with human values and objectives.
By Alec Harris, Kasey Corra, Archie Chaudhury, Yixiong Hao
arXiv:2608. 09944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern web interfaces are increasingly difficult to use with screen readers, particularly when pages update dynamically or hide important structure behind visual layout.
By Santosh Patapati