This paper investigates whether safety guardrails actually require chain-of-thought reasoning by training a lightweight bidirectional encoder alongside a reasoning-based guard on the same corpus. The authors find that removing reasoning does not improve moderation accuracy, challenging the common belief that step-by-step thinking is necessary for effective moderation.
This study investigates whether merging abstract logical structures with context-level linguistic cues improves the automated classification of logical fallacies, which often appear in nuanced forms.
HyperDFlash is a block-parallel speculative decoding framework designed to address feature misalignment issues when adapting DFlash to DeepSeek-V4's multi-hyper-connection (MHC) architecture. The authors propose two key optimizations: using pre-collapse residual states for conditioning and replacing the generic linear compressor with a lightweight gated residual reducer inherited from the model's hyper-connection head.
This article investigates how language models learn latent semantic structure despite being trained with one-hot labels that theoretically eliminate shared context statistics. The authors identify a tension between Neural Collapse theory and the observed ability of models to capture categorical features like object properties.
ConvMemory v3 adds a validity context layer to detect and surface update evidence in retrieved memories through target-conditioned relation verification. This mechanism sits after the standard retrieval path and uses a dual-evidence gate to score (target, source) pairs based on specific propositions.
This work presents the first systematic analysis of evaluation pitfalls in multimedia event extraction, identifying three major sources of issues: inconsistent data processing, inconsistent task assumptions, and overly relaxed evaluation settings.
This study reproduces the results of AlphaEdit, a null-space constrained projection method for knowledge editing in language models, and extends the evaluation to newer architectures and longer sequential editing horizons. The authors confirm that AlphaEdit performs as reported within its original scope but identify significant limitations regarding generalization and scalability.
Researchers propose AIGP, a framework using Large Language Models to address interpretability and long-term objective misalignment in e-commerce dynamic pricing. The system employs supervised fine-tuning and a Long-Term Value Estimator trained via offline reinforcement learning to align pricing decisions with business goals.
The authors propose OPID, a framework that extracts skill supervision directly from completed on-policy trajectories to address the sparse reward problem in outcome-based reinforcement learning. By representing trajectory hindsight as hierarchical skills, OPID provides dense, distribution-matched token-level supervision without relying on external memory.
A computational corpus study analyzes vocabulary relationships across eight layers of Bengali and Sanskrit devotional literature from the 8th to 19th centuries, quantifying the historical claim that Buddhist Vajrayana vocabulary was absorbed into the Shakta Tantra tradition. Using TF-IDF character n-gram vectorization on 75 texts, the research provides the first quantitative corroboration of this lexical transmission chain.
The authors propose KARLA, a method enabling large language models to automatically retrieve factual knowledge from an external knowledge base during token generation. This approach allows factual updates without retraining the model and ensures that outputs are traceable to the source data.
This paper details FBK's submission to the IWSLT 2026 Instruction Following shared task, presenting SpeechLLMs designed for both short-form and long-form speech instruction following under constrained settings.
AgentX is a production-deployed multi-agent system designed to automate the iteration of industrial recommender systems, addressing the bottleneck where innovation currently scales linearly with human headcount.
This article introduces a cascaded multi-granularity pruning framework designed to deploy large language models on Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) edge devices by removing layers, attention heads, and feed-forward channels in a coarse-to-fine order. The method utilizes lightweight low-rank recovery between stages to re-estimate component importance, addressing the collapse of existing structured pruning methods at high compression ratios.
Researchers introduce InfoKV, an entropy-aware framework that compresses key-value caches by combining token-level predictive uncertainty with attention scores to improve long-context reasoning.
This study demonstrates that frozen language models can serve as effective neural predictors for brain activity during natural speech and text comprehension, while distinguishing predictive utility from claims about shared neural organization. The analysis of MEG and ECoG data revealed widespread positive prediction gains over low-level baselines, though participant-level advantages were localized rather than uniform.
This study audits the reliability of eight state-of-the-art Automatic Speech Recognition models on real-world psychiatric interview data in Kannada, Hindi, and Indian English. The results reveal substantial variability across models and languages, with some systems performing competitively in Indian English but failing in regional speech.
Vision-language models frequently generate hallucinated outputs where text and images are misaligned, necessitating methods that not only detect these errors but also explain them and localize visual evidence. The authors introduce GAVEL, a task designed to jointly address verification, explanation, and localization for image-text pairs, accompanied by a corresponding dataset and benchmark.
This study investigates whether non-expert malicious actors can successfully jailbreak large language models by using bandit algorithms to select optimal attacks and enhance queries. The authors propose a novel attack strategy based on the multi-armed bandit framework to efficiently learn the best jailbreak from a large choice set through noisy exploration.
Researchers propose a term-centric framework for inducing hierarchical taxonomies from diverse text sources, addressing the limitations of existing methods that rely on document-level representations. This approach maps documents into a shared representation space via automatic term extraction to enable robust cross-source alignment and construct interpretable hierarchies.