Hugging Face Daily Papers https://huggingface.co/papers Daily research papers curated by the Hugging Face community. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification python-feedgen en Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:16:12 +0000 Disentangled Robot Learning via Separate Forward and Inverse Dynamics Pretraining https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16391 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.16391.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Wenyao Zhang, Bozhou Zhang, Zekun Qi, Wenjun Zeng, Xin Jin, Li Zhang</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 1</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown great potential in building generalist robots, but still face a dilemma-misalignment of 2D image forecasting and 3D action prediction. Besides, such a vision-action entangled training manner limits model learning from large-scale, action-free web video data. To address these issues, we propose DeFI, a novel framework that Decouples visual Forward and Inverse dynamics pretraining to exploit respective data sources, wherein video generation and action prediction are disentangled. We introduce the General Forward Dynamics Model (GFDM), pretrained on diverse human and robot videos for future prediction, and the General Inverse Dynamics Model (GIDM), trained via self-supervised learning to infer latent actions from unlabeled video transitions. These models are then integrated into a unified architecture for end-to-end finetuning on downstream tasks. In this manner, GFDM and GIDM first shine separately and then cooperate for mutual benefit. Extensive experiments on CALVIN ABC-D and SimplerEnv demonstrate state-of-the-art performance, with DeFI achieving an average task length of 4.51 for CALVIN, 51.2% success rate on SimplerEnv-Fractal benchmark and 81.3% success rate in real-world deployment, significantly outperforming prior methods.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16391 Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Stochastic KV Routing: Enabling Adaptive Depth-Wise Cache Sharing https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22782 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.22782.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Anastasiia Filippova, David Grangier, Marco Cuturi, João Monteiro</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 1</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Serving transformer language models with high throughput requires caching Key-Values (KVs) to avoid redundant computation during autoregressive generation. The memory footprint of KV caching is significant and heavily impacts serving costs. This work proposes to lessen these memory requirements. While recent work has largely addressed KV cache reduction via compression and eviction along the temporal axis, we argue that the depth dimension offers an orthogonal and robust avenue for optimization. Although prior research suggests that a full cache for every layer is redundant, implementing cross-layer cache sharing remains a practical challenge; existing methods typically suffer from reduced throughput or increased time-to-first-token. In this paper, we demonstrate that dropping a layer's cache offers efficient optimization without information loss. We propose a simple training approach: random cross-layer attention. During training, layers randomly choose to attend either to their own KV states or those of a preceding layer. This stochastic process adapts the model to be robust to various depth-wise cache sharing strategies, ensuring flexibility for unknown hardware constraints at deployment time. Our evaluations show that applying this scheme during pre-training or fine-tuning enables depth-wise cache sharing for various model families. Furthermore, for larger models in data-constrained settings, this approach is suggestive of a regularization-like effect, frequently preserving or improving performance while significantly reducing the cache's memory footprint.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22782 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Why Fine-Tuning Encourages Hallucinations and How to Fix It https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15574 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.15574.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Guy Kaplan, Zorik Gekhman, Zhen Zhu, Lotem Rozner, Yuval Reif, Swabha Swayamdipta, Derek Hoiem, Roy Schwartz</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 8</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Large language models are prone to hallucinating factually incorrect statements. A key source of these errors is exposure to new factual information through supervised fine-tuning (SFT), which can increase hallucinations w.r.t. knowledge acquired during pre-training. In this work, we explore whether SFT-induced hallucinations can be mitigated using established tools from the continual learning literature, since they arise as a by-product of knowledge degradation during training. We propose a self-distillation-based SFT method that facilitates effective factual learning while minimizing hallucinations w.r.t. pre-existing knowledge by regularizing output-distribution drift. We also show that, in settings where new knowledge acquisition is unnecessary, suppressing factual plasticity by freezing parameter groups, can preserve task performance while reducing hallucinations. Lastly, we investigate the mechanism behind SFT-induced hallucinations through three hypotheses: capacity limitations, behavior cloning, and localized interference. Our experiments show that a main driver is interference among overlapping semantic representations, and that self-distillation succeeds by mitigating this interference.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15574 Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 UniGeo: Unifying Geometric Guidance for Camera-Controllable Image Editing via Video Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17565 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.17565.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Hong Jiang, Wensong Song, Zongxing Yang, Ruijie Quan, Yi Yang</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 7</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Camera-controllable image editing aims to synthesize novel views of a given scene under varying camera poses while strictly preserving cross-view geometric consistency. However, existing methods typically rely on fragmented geometric guidance, such as only injecting point clouds at the representation level despite models containing multiple levels, and are mainly based on image diffusion models that operate on discrete view mappings. These two limitations jointly lead to geometric drift and structural degradation under continuous camera motion. We observe that while leveraging video models provides continuous viewpoint priors for camera-controllable image editing, they still struggle to form stable geometric understanding if geometric guidance remains fragmented. To systematically address this, we inject unified geometric guidance across three levels that jointly determine the generative output: representation, architecture, and loss function. To this end, we propose UniGeo, a novel camera-controllable editing framework. Specifically, at the representation level, UniGeo incorporates a frame-decoupled geometric reference injection mechanism to provide robust cross-view geometry context. At the architecture level, it introduces geometric anchor attention to align multi-view features. At the loss function level, it proposes a trajectory-endpoint geometric supervision strategy to explicitly reinforce the structural fidelity of target views. Comprehensive experiments across multiple public benchmarks, encompassing both extensive and limited camera motion settings, demonstrate that UniGeo significantly outperforms existing methods in both visual quality and geometric consistency.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17565 Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 EX-FIQA: Leveraging Intermediate Early eXit Representations from Vision Transformers for Face Image Quality Assessment https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22842 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.22842.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Guray Ozgur, Tahar Chettaoui, Eduarda Caldeira, Jan Niklas Kolf, Andrea Atzori, Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 1</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Face Image Quality Assessment is crucial for reliable face recognition systems, yet existing Vision Transformer-based approaches rely exclusively on final-layer representations, ignoring quality-relevant information captured at intermediate network depths. This paper presents the first comprehensive investigation of how intermediate representations within ViTs contribute to face quality assessment through early exit mechanisms and score fusion strategies. We systematically analyze all twelve transformer blocks of ViT-FIQA architectures, demonstrating that different depths capture distinct and complementary quality-relevant information, as evidenced by varying attention patterns and performance characteristics across network layers. We propose a score fusion framework that combines quality predictions from multiple transformer blocks without architectural modifications or additional training. Our early exit analysis reveals optimal performance-efficiency trade-offs, enabling significant computational savings while maintaining competitive performance. Through extensive evaluation across eight benchmark datasets using four FR models, we demonstrate that our fusion strategy improves upon single-exit approaches. Our proposed quality fusion approach employs depth-weighted averaging that assigns progressively higher importance to deeper transformer blocks, achieving the best quality assessment performance by effectively leveraging the hierarchical nature of feature learning in ViTs. Our work challenges the conventional wisdom that only deep features matter for face analysis, revealing that intermediate representations contain valuable information for quality assessment. The proposed framework offers practical benefits for real-world biometric systems by enabling adaptive computation based on resource constraints while maintaining competitive quality assessment capabilities.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22842 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ATTN-FIQA: Interpretable Attention-based Face Image Quality Assessment with Vision Transformers https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22841 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.22841.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Guray Ozgur, Tahar Chettaoui, Eduarda Caldeira, Jan Niklas Kolf, Marco Huber, Andrea Atzori, Naser Damer, Fadi Boutros</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 2</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) aims to assess the recognition utility of face samples and is essential for reliable face recognition (FR) systems. Existing approaches require computationally expensive procedures such as multiple forward passes, backpropagation, or additional training, and only recent work has focused on the use of Vision Transformers. Recent studies highlighted that these architectures inherently function as saliency learners with attention patterns naturally encoding spatial importance. This work proposes ATTN-FIQA, a novel training-free approach that investigates whether pre-softmax attention scores from pre-trained Vision Transformer-based face recognition models can serve as quality indicators. We hypothesize that attention magnitudes intrinsically encode quality: high-quality images with discriminative facial features enable strong query-key alignments producing focused, high-magnitude attention patterns, while degraded images generate diffuse, low-magnitude patterns. ATTN-FIQA extracts pre-softmax attention matrices from the final transformer block, aggregate multi-head attention information across all patches, and compute image-level quality scores through simple averaging, requiring only a single forward pass through pre-trained models without architectural modifications, backpropagation, or additional training. Through comprehensive evaluation across eight benchmark datasets and four FR models, this work demonstrates that attention-based quality scores effectively correlate with face image quality and provide spatial interpretability, revealing which facial regions contribute most to quality determination.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22841 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Taming Actor-Observer Asymmetry in Agents via Dialectical Alignment https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19548 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.19548.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Bobo Li, Rui Wu, Zibo Ji, Meishan Zhang, Hao Fei, Min Zhang, Mong-Li Lee, Wynne Hsu</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 13</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Large Language Model agents have rapidly evolved from static text generators into dynamic systems capable of executing complex autonomous workflows. To enhance reliability, multi-agent frameworks assigning specialized roles are increasingly adopted to enable self-reflection and mutual auditing. While such role-playing effectively leverages domain expert knowledge, we find it simultaneously induces a human-like cognitive bias known as Actor-Observer Asymmetry (AOA). Specifically, an agent acting as an actor (during self-reflection) tends to attribute failures to external factors, whereas an observer (during mutual auditing) attributes the same errors to internal faults. We quantify this using our new Ambiguous Failure Benchmark, which reveals that simply swapping perspectives triggers the AOA effect in over 20% of cases for most models. To tame this bias, we introduce ReTAS (Reasoning via Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis), a model trained through dialectical alignment to enforce perspective-invariant reasoning. By integrating dialectical chain-of-thought with Group Relative Policy Optimization, ReTAS guides agents to synthesize conflicting viewpoints into an objective consensus. Experiments demonstrate that ReTAS effectively mitigates attribution inconsistency and significantly improves fault resolution rates in ambiguous scenarios.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19548 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Sapiens2 https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21681 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.21681.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Rawal Khirodkar, He Wen, Julieta Martinez, Yuan Dong, Su Zhaoen, Shunsuke Saito</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 7</p><p><b>Summary:</b> We present Sapiens2, a model family of high-resolution transformers for human-centric vision focused on generalization, versatility, and high-fidelity outputs. Our model sizes range from 0.4 to 5 billion parameters, with native 1K resolution and hierarchical variants that support 4K. Sapiens2 substantially improves over its predecessor in both pretraining and post-training. First, to learn features that capture low-level details (for dense prediction) and high-level semantics (for zero-shot or few-label settings), we combine masked image reconstruction with self-distilled contrastive objectives. Our evaluations show that this unified pretraining objective is better suited for a wider range of downstream tasks. Second, along the data axis, we pretrain on a curated dataset of 1 billion high-quality human images and improve the quality and quantity of task annotations. Third, architecturally, we incorporate advances from frontier models that enable longer training schedules with improved stability. Our 4K models adopt windowed attention to reason over longer spatial context and are pretrained with 2K output resolution. Sapiens2 sets a new state-of-the-art and improves over the first generation on pose (+4 mAP), body-part segmentation (+24.3 mIoU), normal estimation (45.6% lower angular error) and extends to new tasks such as pointmap and albedo estimation. Code: https://github.com/facebookresearch/sapiens2</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21681 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Efficient Agent Evaluation via Diversity-Guided User Simulation https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21480 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.21480.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Itay Nakash, George Kour, Ateret Anaby-Tavor</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 12</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as customer-facing agents, yet evaluating their reliability remains challenging due to stochastic, multi-turn interactions. Current evaluation protocols rely on linear Monte Carlo rollouts of complete agent-user conversations to estimate success. However, this approach is computationally inefficient, repeatedly regenerating identical early prefixes, and often fails to uncover deep failure modes that arise from rare user behaviors. We introduce DIVERT (Diversity-Induced Evaluation via Branching of Trajectories), an efficient, snapshot-based, coverage-guided user simulation framework for systematic exploration of agent-user interactions. DIVERT captures the full agent-environment state at critical decision points and resumes execution from these snapshots, enabling reuse of shared conversation prefixes and reducing redundant computation. From each junction, the framework branches using targeted, diversity-inducing user responses, allowing directed exploration of alternative interaction paths. By focusing evaluation on semantically diverse and underexplored trajectories, DIVERT improves both efficiency and coverage. Empirical results show that it discovers more failures per token compared to standard linear rollout protocols, while expanding the set of tasks on which failures are identified.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21480 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 SketchVLM: Vision language models can annotate images to explain thoughts and guide users https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22875 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.22875.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Brandon Collins, Logan Bolton, Hung Huy Nguyen, Mohammad Reza Taesiri, Trung Bui, Anh Totti Nguyen</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 23</p><p><b>Summary:</b> When answering questions about images, humans naturally point, label, and draw to explain their reasoning. In contrast, modern vision-language models (VLMs) such as Gemini-3-Pro and GPT-5 only respond with text, which can be difficult for users to verify. We present SketchVLM, a training-free, model-agnostic framework that enables VLMs to produce non-destructive, editable SVG overlays on the input image to visually explain their answers. Across seven benchmarks spanning visual reasoning (maze navigation, ball-drop trajectory prediction, and object counting) and drawing (part labeling, connecting-the-dots, and drawing shapes around objects), SketchVLM improves visual reasoning task accuracy by up to +28.5 percentage points and annotation quality by up to 1.48x relative to image-editing and fine-tuned sketching baselines, while also producing annotations that are more faithful to the model's stated answer. We find that single-turn generation already achieves strong accuracy and annotation quality, and multi-turn generation opens up further opportunities for human-AI collaboration. An interactive demo and code are at https://sketchvlm.github.io/.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22875 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 TexOCR: Advancing Document OCR Models for Compilable Page-to-LaTeX Reconstruction https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22880 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.22880.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Chengye Wang, Lin Fu, Zexi Kuang, Yilun Zhao</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 6</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Existing document OCR largely targets plain text or Markdown, discarding the structural and executable properties that make LaTeX essential for scientific publishing. We study page-level reconstruction of scientific PDFs into compilable LaTeX and introduce TexOCR-Bench, a benchmark, and TexOCR-Train, a large-scale training corpus, for this task. TexOCR-Bench features a multi-dimensional evaluation suite that jointly assesses transcription fidelity, structural faithfulness, and end-to-end compilability. Leveraging TexOCR-Train, we train a 2B-parameter model, TexOCR, using supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL) with verifiable rewards derived from LaTeX unit tests that directly enforce compilability and referential integrity. Experiments across 21 frontier models on TexOCR-Bench show that existing systems frequently violate key document invariants, including consistent section structure, correct float placement, and valid label-reference links, which undermines compilation reliability and downstream usability. Our analysis further reveals that RL with verifiable rewards yields consistent improvements over SFT alone, particularly on structural and compilation metrics.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22880 Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 From Skills to Talent: Organising Heterogeneous Agents as a Real-World Company https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22446 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.22446.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Zhengxu Yu, Yu Fu, Zhiyuan He, Yuxuan Huang, Lee Ka Yiu, Meng Fang, Weilin Luo, Jun Wang</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 97</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Individual agent capabilities have advanced rapidly through modular skills and tool integrations, yet multi-agent systems remain constrained by fixed team structures, tightly coupled coordination logic, and session-bound learning. We argue that this reflects a deeper absence: a principled organisational layer that governs how a workforce of agents is assembled, governed, and improved over time, decoupled from what individual agents know. To fill this gap, we introduce OneManCompany (OMC), a framework that elevates multi-agent systems to the organisational level. OMC encapsulates skills, tools, and runtime configurations into portable agent identities called Talents, orchestrated through typed organisational interfaces that abstract over heterogeneous backends. A community-driven Talent Market enables on-demand recruitment, allowing the organisation to close capability gaps and reconfigure itself dynamically during execution. Organisational decision-making is operationalised through an Explore-Execute-Review (E^2R) tree search, which unifies planning, execution, and evaluation in a single hierarchical loop: tasks are decomposed top-down into accountable units and execution outcomes are aggregated bottom-up to drive systematic review and refinement. This loop provides formal guarantees on termination and deadlock freedom while mirroring the feedback mechanisms of human enterprises. Together, these contributions transform multi-agent systems from static, pre-configured pipelines into self-organising and self-improving AI organisations capable of adapting to open-ended tasks across diverse domains. Empirical evaluation on PRDBench shows that OMC achieves an 84.67% success rate, surpassing the state of the art by 15.48 percentage points, with cross-domain case studies further demonstrating its generality.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22446 Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Discovering Agentic Safety Specifications from 1-Bit Danger Signals https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23210 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.23210.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Víctor Gallego</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 1</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Can large language model agents discover hidden safety objectives through experience alone? We introduce EPO-Safe (Experiential Prompt Optimization for Safe Agents), a framework where an LLM iteratively generates action plans, receives sparse binary danger warnings, and evolves a natural language behavioral specification through reflection. Unlike standard LLM reflection methods that rely on rich textual feedback (e.g., compiler errors or detailed environment responses), EPO-Safe demonstrates that LLMs can perform safety reasoning from a strictly impoverished signal in structured, low-dimensional environments: the agent never observes the hidden performance function R^*, only a single bit per timestep indicating that an action was unsafe. We evaluate on five AI Safety Gridworlds (Leike et al., 2017) and five text-based scenario analogs where visible reward R may diverge from R^*. EPO-Safe discovers safe behavior within 1-2 rounds (5-15 episodes), producing human-readable specifications with correct explanatory hypotheses about hazards (e.g., "X cells are directionally hazardous: entering from the north is dangerous"). Critically, we show that standard reward-driven reflection actively degrades safety: agents reflecting on reward alone use the loop to justify and accelerate reward hacking, proving that reflection must be paired with a dedicated safety channel to discover hidden constraints. We further evaluate robustness to noisy oracles: even when 50% of non-dangerous steps produce spurious warnings, mean safety performance degrades by only 15% on average, though sensitivity is environment-dependent, as cross-episode reflection naturally filters inconsistent signals. Each evolved specification functions as an auditable set of grounded behavioral rules discovered autonomously through interaction, rather than authored by humans as in Constitutional AI (Bai et al., 2022).</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23210 Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 IndustryAssetEQA: A Neurosymbolic Operational Intelligence System for Embodied Question Answering in Industrial Asset Maintenance https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23446 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.23446.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Chathurangi Shyalika, Dhaval Patel, Amit Sheth</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 1</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Industrial maintenance environments increasingly rely on AI systems to assist operators in understanding asset behavior, diagnosing failures, and evaluating interventions. Although large language models (LLMs) enable fluent natural-language interaction, deployed maintenance assistants routinely produce generic explanations that are weakly grounded in telemetry, omit verifiable provenance, and offer no testable support for counterfactual or action-oriented reasoning that undermine trust in safety-critical settings. We present IndustryAssetEQA, a neurosymbolic operational intelligence system that combines episodic telemetry representations with a Failure Mode Effects Analysis Knowledge Graph (FMEA-KG) to enable Embodied Question Answering (EQA) over industrial assets. We evaluate on four datasets covering four industrial asset types, including rotating machinery, turbofan engines, hydraulic systems, and cyber-physical production systems. Compared to LLM-only baselines, IndustryAssetEQA improves structural validity by up to 0.51, counterfactual accuracy by up to 0.47, and explanation entailment by 0.64, while reducing severe expert-rated overclaims from 28% to 2% (approximately 93% reduction). Code, datasets, and the FMEA-KG are available at https://github.com/IBM/AssetOpsBench/tree/IndustryAssetEQA/IndustryAssetEQA.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23446 Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ProEval: Proactive Failure Discovery and Efficient Performance Estimation for Generative AI Evaluation https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23099 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.23099.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Yizheng Huang, Wenjun Zeng, Aditi Kumaresan, Zi Wang</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 2</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Evaluating generative AI models is increasingly resource-intensive due to slow inference, expensive raters, and a rapidly growing landscape of models and benchmarks. We propose ProEval, a proactive evaluation framework that leverages transfer learning to efficiently estimate performance and identify failure cases. ProEval employs pre-trained Gaussian Processes (GPs) as surrogates for the performance score function, mapping model inputs to metrics such as the severity of errors or safety violations. By framing performance estimation as Bayesian quadrature (BQ) and failure discovery as superlevel set sampling, we develop uncertainty-aware decision strategies that actively select or synthesize highly informative inputs for testing. Theoretically, we prove that our pre-trained GP-based BQ estimator is unbiased and bounded. Empirically, extensive experiments on reasoning, safety alignment, and classification benchmarks demonstrate that ProEval is significantly more efficient than competitive baselines. It requires 8-65x fewer samples to achieve estimates within 1% of the ground truth, while simultaneously revealing more diverse failure cases under a stricter evaluation budget.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23099 Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 For-Value: Efficient Forward-Only Data Valuation for finetuning LLMs and VLMs https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10180 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2508.10180.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Wenlong Deng, Qi Zeng, Jiaming Zhang, Minghui Chen, Zixin Ding, Christos Thrampoulidis, Boying Gong, Xiaoxiao Li</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 14</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Data valuation is essential for enhancing the transparency and accountability of large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs). However, existing methods typically rely on gradient computations, making them computationally prohibitive for billion-parameter models and precluding batch parallelization. In this work, we introduce For-Value, a forward-only data valuation framework that enables efficient batch-scalable value estimation while maintaining effectiveness. Leveraging the expressive power of pretrained LLMs/VLMs, we theoretically demonstrate that data valuation can be captured by the alignment between the final hidden representations and prediction errors at the last layer. In light of this insight, For-Value computes data value using a simple closed-form expression with a single forward pass, eliminating the need for costly backpropagation and enabling efficient batch calculating at scale. Extensive experiments show that For-Value matches or outperforms gradient-based baselines in detecting influential data and mislabeled data, while achieving significant efficiency improvements.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10180 Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Personality Shapes Gender Bias in Persona-Conditioned LLM Narratives Across English and Hindi: An Empirical Investigation https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23600 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.23600.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Tanay Kumar, Shreya Gautam, Aman Chadha, Vinija Jain, Francesco Pierri</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 0</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in persona-driven applications such as education, customer service, and social platforms, where models are prompted to adopt specific personas when interacting with users. While persona conditioning can improve user experience and engagement, it also raises concerns about how personality cues may interact with gender biases and stereotypes. In this work, we present a controlled study of persona-conditioned story generation in English and Hindi, where each story portrays a working professional in India producing context-specific artifacts (e.g., lesson plans, reports, letters) under systematically varied persona gender, occupational role, and personality traits from the HEXACO and Dark Triad frameworks. Across 23,400 generated stories from six state-of-the-art LLMs, we find that personality traits are significantly associated with both the magnitude and direction of gender bias. In particular, Dark Triad personality traits are consistently associated with higher gender-stereotypical representations compared to socially desirable HEXACO traits, though these associations vary across models and languages. Our findings demonstrate that gender bias in LLMs is not static but context-dependent. This suggests that persona-conditioned systems used in real-world applications may introduce uneven representational harms, reinforcing gender stereotypes in generated educational, professional, or social content.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23600 Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 RaV-IDP: A Reconstruction-as-Validation Framework for Faithful Intelligent Document Processing https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23644 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.23644.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Pritesh Jha</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 1</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Intelligent document processing pipelines extract structured entities (tables, images, and text) from documents for use in downstream systems such as knowledge bases, retrieval-augmented generation, and analytics. A persistent limitation of existing pipelines is that extraction output is produced without any intrinsic mechanism to verify whether it faithfully represents the source. Model-internal confidence scores measure inference certainty, not correspondence to the document, and extraction errors pass silently into downstream consumers. We present Reconstruction as Validation (RaV-IDP), a document processing pipeline that introduces reconstruction as a first-class architectural component. After each entity is extracted, a dedicated reconstructor renders the extracted representation back into a form comparable to the original document region, and a comparator scores fidelity between the reconstruction and the unmodified source crop. This fidelity score is a grounded, label-free quality signal. When fidelity falls below a per-entity-type threshold, a structured GPT-4.1 vision fallback is triggered and the validation loop repeats. We enforce a bootstrap constraint: the comparator always anchors against the original document region, never against the extraction, preventing the validation from becoming circular. We further propose a per-stage evaluation framework pairing each pipeline component with an appropriate benchmark. The code pipeline is publicly available at https://github.com/pritesh-2711/RaV-IDP for experimentation and use.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23644 Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Learning to Identify Out-of-Distribution Objects for 3D LiDAR Anomaly Segmentation https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23604 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.23604.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Simone Mosco, Daniel Fusaro, Alberto Pretto</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 2</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Understanding the surrounding environment is fundamental in autonomous driving and robotic perception. Distinguishing between known classes and previously unseen objects is crucial in real-world environments, as done in Anomaly Segmentation. However, research in the 3D field remains limited, with most existing approaches applying post-processing techniques from 2D vision. To cover this lack, we propose a new efficient approach that directly operates in the feature space, modeling the feature distribution of inlier classes to constrain anomalous samples. Moreover, the only publicly available 3D LiDAR anomaly segmentation dataset contains simple scenarios, with few anomaly instances, and exhibits a severe domain gap due to its sensor resolution. To bridge this gap, we introduce a set of mixed real-synthetic datasets for 3D LiDAR anomaly segmentation, built upon established semantic segmentation benchmarks, with multiple out-of-distribution objects and diverse, complex environments. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach achieves state-of-the-art and competitive results on the existing real-world dataset and the newly introduced mixed datasets, respectively, validating the effectiveness of our method and the utility of the proposed datasets. Code and datasets are available at https://simom0.github.io/lido-page/.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23604 Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 PageGuide: Browser extension to assist users in navigating a webpage and locating information https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23772 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.23772.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Tin Nguyen, Thang T. Truong, Runtao Zhou, Trung Bui, Chirag Agarwal, Anh Totti Nguyen</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 4</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Users browsing the web daily struggle to quickly locate relevant information in cluttered pages, complete unfamiliar multi-step tasks, and stay focused amid distracting content. State-of-the-art AI assistants (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) and browser agents (e.g., OpenAI Operator, Browser Use) can answer questions and automate actions, yet they return answers without showing where the information comes from on the page, forcing users to manually verify results and blindly trust every automated steps. We present PageGuide, a browser extension that grounds LLM answers directly in the HTML DOM via visual overlays, addressing three core user needs: (a) Find-locating and highlighting relevant evidence in-situ so users can instantly verify answers on the page; (b) Guide-showing step-by-step instructions (e.g. how to change password) one at a time so users can follow and perform actions by themselves; and (c) Hide-hiding distracting content-giving users a chance to decide to hide an element or not. In a user study (N=94), PageGuide outperform unaided browsing across all modes: Hide accuracy improve by 26 percentage points (86.7% relative gain) and task completion time drops by 70%; Guide completion rate increases by 30 percentage points; and Find reduces manual search effort, with Ctrl+F usage falling by 80% and task time decreasing by 19%. Code and demo is at: pageguide.github.io.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23772 Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ClawMark: A Living-World Benchmark for Multi-Turn, Multi-Day, Multimodal Coworker Agents https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23781 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.23781.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Fanqing Meng, Lingxiao Du, Zijian Wu, Guanzheng Chen, Xiangyan Liu, Jiaqi Liao, Chonghe Jiang, Zhenglin Wan, Jiawei Gu, Pengfei Zhou, Rui Huang, Ziqi Zhao, Shengyuan Ding, Ailing Yu, Bo Peng, Bowei Xia, Hao Sun, Haotian Liang, Ji Xie, Jiajun Chen, Jiajun Song, Liu Yang, Ming Xu, Qionglin Qiu, Runhao Fu, Shengfang Zhai, Shijian Wang, Tengfei Ma, Tianyi Wu, Weiyang Jin, Yan Wang, Yang Dai, Yao Lai, Youwei Shu, Yue Liu, Yunzhuo Hao, Yuwei Niu, Jinkai Huang, Jiayuan Zhuo, Zhennan Shen, Linyu Wu, Cihang Xie, Yuyin Zhou, Jiaheng Zhang, Zeyu Zheng, Mengkang Hu, Michael Qizhe Shieh</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 25</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Language-model agents are increasingly used as persistent coworkers that assist users across multiple working days. During such workflows, the surrounding environment may change independently of the agent: new emails arrive, calendar entries shift, knowledge-base records are updated, and evidence appears across images, scanned PDFs, audio, video, and spreadsheets. Existing benchmarks do not adequately evaluate this setting because they typically run within a single static episode and remain largely text-centric. We introduce , a benchmark for coworker agents built around multi-turn multi-day tasks, a stateful sandboxed service environment whose state evolves between turns, and rule-based verification. The current release contains 100 tasks across 13 professional scenarios, executed against five stateful sandboxed services (filesystem, email, calendar, knowledge base, spreadsheet) and scored by 1537 deterministic Python checkers over post-execution service state; no LLM-as-judge is invoked during scoring. We benchmark seven frontier agent systems. The strongest model reaches 75.8 weighted score, but the best strict Task Success is only 20.0\%, indicating that partial progress is common while complete end-to-end workflow completion remains rare. Turn-level analysis shows that performance drops after the first exogenous environment update, highlighting adaptation to changing state as a key open challenge. We release the benchmark, evaluation harness, and construction pipeline to support reproducible coworker-agent evaluation.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23781 Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Vision-Language-Action Safety: Threats, Challenges, Evaluations, and Mechanisms https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23775 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.23775.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Qi Li, Bo Yin, Weiqi Huang, Ruhao Liu, Bojun Zou, Runpeng Yu, Jingwen Ye, Weihao Yu, Xinchao Wang</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 42</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are emerging as a unified substrate for embodied intelligence. This shift raises a new class of safety challenges, stemming from the embodied nature of VLA systems, including irreversible physical consequences, a multimodal attack surface across vision, language, and state, real-time latency constraints on defense, error propagation over long-horizon trajectories, and vulnerabilities in the data supply chain. Yet the literature remains fragmented across robotic learning, adversarial machine learning, AI alignment, and autonomous systems safety. This survey provides a unified and up-to-date overview of safety in Vision-Language-Action models. We organize the field along two parallel timing axes, attack timing (training-time vs. inference-time and defense timing (training-time vs. inference-time, linking each class of threat to the stage at which it can be mitigated. We first define the scope of VLA safety, distinguishing it from text-only LLM safety and classical robotic safety, and review the foundations of VLA models, including architectures, training paradigms, and inference mechanisms. We then examine the literature through four lenses: Attacks, Defenses, Evaluation, and Deployment. We survey training-time threats such as data poisoning and backdoors, as well as inference-time attacks including adversarial patches, cross-modal perturbations, semantic jailbreaks, and freezing attacks. We review training-time and runtime defenses, analyze existing benchmarks and metrics, and discuss safety challenges across six deployment domains. Finally, we highlight key open problems, including certified robustness for embodied trajectories, physically realizable defenses, safety-aware training, unified runtime safety architectures, and standardized evaluation.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23775 Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Zero-to-CAD: Agentic Synthesis of Interpretable CAD Programs at Million-Scale Without Real Data https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24479 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.24479.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Mohammadmehdi Ataei, Farzaneh Askari, Kamal Rahimi Malekshan, Pradeep Kumar Jayaraman</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 0</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Computer-Aided Design (CAD) models are defined by their construction history: a parametric recipe that encodes design intent. However, existing large-scale 3D datasets predominantly consist of boundary representations (B-Reps) or meshes, stripping away this critical procedural information. To address this scarcity, we introduce Zero-to-CAD, a scalable framework for synthesizing executable CAD construction sequences. We frame synthesis as an agentic search problem: by embedding a large language model (LLM) within a feedback-driven CAD environment, our system iteratively generates, executes, and validates code using tools and documentation lookup to promote geometric validity and operation diversity. This agentic approach enables the synthesis of approximately one million executable, readable, editable CAD sequences, covering a rich vocabulary of operations beyond sketch-and-extrude workflows. We also release a curated subset of 100,000 high-quality models selected for geometric diversity. To demonstrate the dataset's utility, we fine-tune a vision-language model on our synthetic data to reconstruct editable CAD programs from multi-view images, outperforming strong baselines, including GPT-5.2, and effectively bootstrapping sequence generation capabilities without real construction-history training data. Zero-to-CAD bridges the gap between geometric scale and parametric interpretability, offering a vital resource for the next generation of CAD AI.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24479 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Quantum Kernel Advantage over Classical Collapse in Medical Foundation Model Embeddings https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24597 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.24597.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Sebastian Cajas Ordóñez, Felipe Ocampo Osorio, Dax Enshan Koh, Rafi Al Attrach, Aldo Marzullo, Ariel Guerra-Adames, J. Alejandro Andrade, Siong Thye Goh, Chi-Yu Chen, Rahul Gorijavolu, Xue Yang, Noah Dane Hebdon, Leo Anthony Celi</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 0</p><p><b>Summary:</b> We provide evidence of quantum kernel advantage under noiseless simulation in binary insurance classification on MIMIC-CXR chest radiographs using quantum support vector machines (QSVM) with frozen embeddings from three medical foundation models (MedSigLIP-448, RAD-DINO, ViT-patch32). We propose a two-tier fair comparison framework in which both classifiers receive identical PCA-q features. At Tier 1 (untuned QSVM vs. untuned linear SVM, C = 1 both sides), QSVM wins minority-class F1 in all 18 tested configurations (17 at p < 0.001, 1 at p < 0.01). The classical linear kernel collapses to majority-class prediction on 90-100% of seeds at every qubit count, while QSVM maintains non-trivial recall. At q = 11 (MedSigLIP-448 plateau center), QSVM achieves mean F1 = 0.343 vs. classical F1 = 0.050 (F1 gain = +0.293, p < 0.001) without hyperparameter tuning. Under Tier 2 (untuned QSVM vs. C-tuned RBF SVM), QSVM wins all seven tested configurations (mean gain +0.068, max +0.112). Eigenspectrum analysis reveals quantum kernel effective rank reaches 69.80 at q = 11, far exceeding linear kernel rank, while classical collapse remains C-invariant. A full qubit sweep reveals architecture-dependent concentration onset across models. Code: https://github.com/sebasmos/qml-medimage</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24597 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Credal Concept Bottleneck Models for Epistemic-Aleatoric Uncertainty Decomposition https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24170 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.24170.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Tanmoy Mukherjee, Thomas Bailleux, Pierre Marquis, Zied Bouraoui</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 0</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) predict through human-interpretable concepts, but they typically output point concept probabilities that conflate epistemic uncertainty (reducible model underspecification) with aleatoric uncertainty (irreducible input ambiguity). This makes concept-level uncertainty hard to interpret and, more importantly, hard to act upon. We introduce CREDENCE (Credal Ensemble Concept Estimation), a CBM framework that decomposes concept uncertainty by construction. CREDENCE represents each concept as a credal prediction (a probability interval), derives epistemic uncertainty from disagreement across diverse concept heads, and estimates aleatoric uncertainty via a dedicated ambiguity output trained to match annotator disagreement when available. The resulting signals support prescriptive decisions: automate low-uncertainty cases, prioritize data collection for high-epistemic cases, route high-aleatoric cases to human review, and abstain when both are high. Across several tasks, we show that epistemic uncertainty is positively associated with prediction errors, whereas aleatoric uncertainty closely tracks annotator disagreement, providing guidance beyond error correlation. Our implementation is available at the following link: https://github.com/Tankiit/Credal_Sets/tree/ensemble-credal-cbm</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24170 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Improving Vision-language Models with Perception-centric Process Reward Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24583 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.24583.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Yingqian Min, Kun Zhou, Yifan Li, Yuhuan Wu, Han Peng, Yifan Du, Wayne Xin Zhao, Min Yang, Ji-Rong Wen</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 1</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Recent advancements in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) have significantly improved the complex reasoning ability of vision-language models (VLMs). However, its outcome-level supervision is too coarse to diagnose and correct errors within the reasoning chain. To this end, we propose Perceval, a process reward model (PRM) that enables token-level error grounding, which can extract image-related claims from the response and compare them one by one with the visual evidence in the image, ultimately returning claims that contain perceptual errors. Perceval is trained with perception-intensive supervised training data. We then integrate Perceval into the RL training process to train the policy models. Specifically, compared to traditional GRPO, which applies sequence-level advantages, we apply token-level advantages by targeting penalties on hallucinated spans identified by Perceval, thus enabling fine-grained supervision signals. In addition to augmenting the training process, Perceval can also assist VLMs during the inference stage. Using Perceval, we can truncate the erroneous portions of the model's response, and then either have the model regenerate the response directly or induce the model to reflect on its previous output. This process can be repeated multiple times to achieve test-time scaling. Experiments show significant improvements on benchmarks from various domains across multiple reasoning VLMs trained with RL, highlighting the promise of perception-centric supervision as a general-purpose strategy. For test-time scaling, it also demonstrates consistent performance gains over other strategies, such as major voting. Our code and data will be publicly released at https://github.com/RUCAIBox/Perceval.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24583 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Improving Robustness of Tabular Retrieval via Representational Stability https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24040 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.24040.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Kushal Raj Bhandari, Adarsh Singh, Jianxi Gao, Soham Dan, Vivek Gupta</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 1</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Transformer-based table retrieval systems flatten structured tables into token sequences, making retrieval sensitive to the choice of serialization even when table semantics remain unchanged. We show that semantically equivalent serializations, such as csv, tsv, html, markdown, and ddl, can produce substantially different embeddings and retrieval results across multiple benchmarks and retriever families. To address this instability, we treat serialization embedding as noisy views of a shared semantic signal and use its centroid as a canonical target representation. We show that centroid averaging suppresses format-specific variation and can recover the semantic content common to different serializations when format-induced shifts differ across tables. Empirically, centroid representations outrank individual formats in aggregate pairwise comparisons across MPNet, BGE-M3, ReasonIR, and SPLADE. We further introduce a lightweight residual bottleneck adapter on top of a frozen encoder that maps single-serialization embeddings towards centroid targets while preserving variance and enforcing covariance regularization. The adapter improves robustness for several dense retrievers, though gains are model-dependent and weaker for sparse lexical retrieval. These results identify serialization sensitivity as a major source of retrieval variance and show the promise of post hoc geometric correction for serialization-invariant table retrieval. Our code, datasets, and models are available at https://github.com/KBhandari11/Centroid-Aligned-Table-Retrieval{https://github.com/KBhandari11/Centroid-Aligned-Table-Retrieval}.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24040 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Stabilizing Efficient Reasoning with Step-Level Advantage Selection https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24003 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.24003.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Han Wang, Xiaodong Yu, Jialian Wu, Jiang Liu, Ximeng Sun, Mohit Bansal, Zicheng Liu</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 4</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong reasoning performance by allocating substantial computation at inference time, often generating long and verbose reasoning traces. While recent work on efficient reasoning reduces this overhead through length-based rewards or pruning, many approaches are post-trained under a much shorter context window than base-model training, a factor whose effect has not been systematically isolated. We first show that short-context post-training alone, using standard GRPO without any length-aware objective, already induces substantial reasoning compression-but at the cost of increasingly unstable training dynamics and accuracy degradation. To address this, we propose Step-level Advantage Selection (SAS), which operates at the reasoning-step level and assigns a zero advantage to low-confidence steps in correct rollouts and to high-confidence steps in verifier-failed rollouts, where failures often arise from truncation or verifier issues rather than incorrect reasoning. Across diverse mathematical and general reasoning benchmarks, SAS improves average Pass@1 accuracy by 0.86 points over the strongest length-aware baseline while reducing average reasoning length by 16.3%, yielding a better accuracy-efficiency trade-off.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24003 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 How Much Is One Recurrence Worth? Iso-Depth Scaling Laws for Looped Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21106 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.21106.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Kristian Schwethelm, Daniel Rueckert, Georgios Kaissis</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 5</p><p><b>Summary:</b> We measure how much one extra recurrence is worth to a looped (depth-recurrent) language model, in equivalent unique parameters. From an iso-depth sweep of 116 pretraining runs across recurrence counts r in {1, 2, 4, 8} spanning {sim}50times in training compute, we fit a joint scaling law L = E + A,(N_once + r^φ N_rec)^{-α} + B,D^{-β} and recover a new recurrence-equivalence exponent φ= 0.46. Intuitively, φ tells us whether looping a block r times is equivalent in validation loss to r unique blocks of a non-looped model (full equivalence, φ{=}1) or to a single block run repeatedly with no capacity gain (φ{=}0). Our φ= 0.46 sits in between, so each additional recurrence predictably increases validation loss at matched training compute. For example, at r{=}4 a 410M looped model performs on par with a 580M non-looped model, but incurs the training cost of a 1B non-looped one. We demonstrate the utility of φ as a measurement tool on two probes. Truncated backpropagation lowers φ to 0.38, indicating that the loop mechanism is poorly trained under truncation, even though validation loss decreases. Conversely, hyperconnections raise φ to 0.65, a genuine capacity gain. Our method applies to any looped LM and separates true loop improvements from token-budget gains.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21106 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 OmniShotCut: Holistic Relational Shot Boundary Detection with Shot-Query Transformer https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24762 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.24762.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Boyang Wang, Guangyi Xu, Zhipeng Tang, Jiahui Zhang, Zezhou Cheng</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 9</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Shot Boundary Detection (SBD) aims to automatically identify shot changes and divide a video into coherent shots. While SBD was widely studied in the literature, existing state-of-the-art methods often produce non-interpretable boundaries on transitions, miss subtle yet harmful discontinuities, and rely on noisy, low-diversity annotations and outdated benchmarks. To alleviate these limitations, we propose OmniShotCut to formulate SBD as structured relational prediction, jointly estimating shot ranges with intra-shot relations and inter-shot relations, by a shot query-based dense video Transformer. To avoid imprecise manual labeling, we adopt a fully synthetic transition synthesis pipeline that automatically reproduces major transition families with precise boundaries and parameterized variants. We also introduce OmniShotCutBench, a modern wide-domain benchmark enabling holistic and diagnostic evaluation.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24762 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Rewarding the Scientific Process: Process-Level Reward Modeling for Agentic Data Analysis https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24198 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.24198.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Zhisong Qiu, Shuofei Qiao, Kewei Xu, Yuqi Zhu, Lun Du, Ningyu Zhang, Huajun Chen</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 15</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Process Reward Models (PRMs) have achieved remarkable success in augmenting the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) within static domains such as mathematics. However, their potential in dynamic data analysis tasks remains underexplored. In this work, we first present a empirical study revealing that general-domain PRMs struggle to supervise data analysis agents. Specifically, they fail to detect silent errors, logical flaws that yield incorrect results without triggering interpreter exceptions, and erroneously penalize exploratory actions, mistaking necessary trial-and-error exploration for grounding failures. To bridge this gap, we introduce DataPRM, a novel environment-aware generative process reward model that (1) can serve as an active verifier, autonomously interacting with the environment to probe intermediate execution states and uncover silent errors, and (2) employs a reflection-aware ternary reward strategy that distinguishes between correctable grounding errors and irrecoverable mistakes. We design a scalable pipeline to construct over 8K high-quality training instances for DataPRM via diversity-driven trajectory generation and knowledge-augmented step-level annotation. Experimental results demonstrate that DataPRM improves downstream policy LLMs by 7.21% on ScienceAgentBench and 11.28% on DABStep using Best-of-N inference. Notably, with only 4B parameters, DataPRM outperforms strong baselines, and exhibits robust generalizability across diverse Test-Time Scaling strategies. Furthermore, integrating DataPRM into Reinforcement Learning yields substantial gains over outcome-reward baselines, achieving 78.73% on DABench and 64.84% on TableBench, validating the effectiveness of process reward supervision. Code is available at https://github.com/zjunlp/DataMind.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24198 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tuna-2: Pixel Embeddings Beat Vision Encoders for Multimodal Understanding and Generation https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24763 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.24763.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Zhiheng Liu, Weiming Ren, Xiaoke Huang, Shoufa Chen, Tianhong Li, Mengzhao Chen, Yatai Ji, Sen He, Jonas Schult, Belinda Zeng, Tao Xiang, Wenhu Chen, Ping Luo, Luke Zettlemoyer, Yuren Cong</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 43</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Unified multimodal models typically rely on pretrained vision encoders and use separate visual representations for understanding and generation, creating misalignment between the two tasks and preventing fully end-to-end optimization from raw pixels. We introduce Tuna-2, a native unified multimodal model that performs visual understanding and generation directly based on pixel embeddings. Tuna-2 drastically simplifies the model architecture by employing simple patch embedding layers to encode visual input, completely discarding the modular vision encoder designs such as the VAE or the representation encoder. Experiments show that Tuna-2 achieves state-of-the-art performance in multimodal benchmarks, demonstrating that unified pixel-space modelling can fully compete with latent-space approaches for high-quality image generation. Moreover, while the encoder-based variant converges faster in early pretraining, Tuna-2's encoder-free design achieves stronger multimodal understanding at scale, particularly on tasks requiring fine-grained visual perception. These results show that pretrained vision encoders are not necessary for multimodal modelling, and end-to-end pixel-space learning offers a scalable path toward stronger visual representations for both generation and perception.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24763 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ReVSI: Rebuilding Visual Spatial Intelligence Evaluation for Accurate Assessment of VLM 3D Reasoning https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24300 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.24300.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Yiming Zhang, Jiacheng Chen, Jiaqi Tan, Yongsen Mao, Wenhu Chen, Angel X. Chang</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 55</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Current evaluations of spatial intelligence can be systematically invalid under modern vision-language model (VLM) settings. First, many benchmarks derive question-answer (QA) pairs from point-cloud-based 3D annotations originally curated for traditional 3D perception. When such annotations are treated as ground truth for video-based evaluation, reconstruction and annotation artifacts can miss objects that are clearly visible in the video, mislabel object identities, or corrupt geometry-dependent answers (e.g., size), yielding incorrect or ambiguous QA pairs. Second, evaluations often assume full-scene access, while many VLMs operate on sparsely sampled frames (e.g., 16-64), making many questions effectively unanswerable under the actual model inputs. We improve evaluation validity by introducing ReVSI, a benchmark and protocol that ensures each QA pair is answerable and correct under the model's actual inputs. To this end, we re-annotate objects and geometry across 381 scenes from 5 datasets to improve data quality, and regenerate all QA pairs with rigorous bias mitigation and human verification using professional 3D annotation tools. We further enhance evaluation controllability by providing variants across multiple frame budgets (16/32/64/all) and fine-grained object visibility metadata, enabling controlled diagnostic analyses. Evaluations of general and domain-specific VLMs on ReVSI reveal systematic failure modes that are obscured by prior benchmarks, yielding a more reliable and diagnostic assessment of spatial intelligence.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24300 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 World-R1: Reinforcing 3D Constraints for Text-to-Video Generation https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24764 <p><img src="https://cdn-thumbnails.huggingface.co/social-thumbnails/papers/2604.24764.png" alt="Paper thumbnail" style="max-width: 300px; height: auto;" /></p><p><b>Authors:</b> Weijie Wang, Xiaoxuan He, Youping Gu, Yifan Yang, Zeyu Zhang, Yefei He, Yanbo Ding, Xirui Hu, Donny Y. Chen, Zhiyuan He, Yuqing Yang, Bohan Zhuang</p><p><b>Upvotes:</b> 95</p><p><b>Summary:</b> Recent video foundation models demonstrate impressive visual synthesis but frequently suffer from geometric inconsistencies. While existing methods attempt to inject 3D priors via architectural modifications, they often incur high computational costs and limit scalability. We propose World-R1, a framework that aligns video generation with 3D constraints through reinforcement learning. To facilitate this alignment, we introduce a specialized pure text dataset tailored for world simulation. Utilizing Flow-GRPO, we optimize the model using feedback from pre-trained 3D foundation models and vision-language models to enforce structural coherence without altering the underlying architecture. We further employ a periodic decoupled training strategy to balance rigid geometric consistency with dynamic scene fluidity. Extensive evaluations reveal that our approach significantly enhances 3D consistency while preserving the original visual quality of the foundation model, effectively bridging the gap between video generation and scalable world simulation.</p> https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24764 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000