COMPASS: Routing via Capability-Oriented Model Profiling with Adaptive Search, Selection, and Tool Use

1 día 15 horas ago
arXiv:2610.27822v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM routing aims to select a capable model at low cost, but specialized routers can require updates as models and tasks change. We propose COMPASS, an agentic router in which an LLM follows a routing recipe, gathers performance and cost evidence through tools, and optionally inspects candidate answers before selecting a model. Our evaluations on LLMRouterBench and DeepSWE show that agentic routing can improve accuracy and lower model-call cost relative to specialized and trained routing baselines, without routing-specific training. On LLMRouterBench, COMPASS reaches 69.85% accuracy at \$139.57, compared with RLCascadeRouter's 69.14% at \$180.22. On DeepSWE under fixed five-fold cross-validation, it reaches 78.1% at \$215, compared with 74.1% at \$500 for the best single model. COMPASS also supports routing across benchmarks and adapts to an expanded model pool by reading new evaluation records, without changing the router's weights or prompt.
Amin Rezaei, Pouya Parsa

Privacy-preserving inference on hosted models: a learned input-embedding transform for frozen Qwen3.8-27B

1 día 15 horas ago
arXiv:2610.27817v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Every prompt sent to a hosted language model is readable by whoever runs it. We study whether the prompt can remain on the client while the host receives transformed vectors that stand in for it. A language model converts text to vectors exactly once, with a public lookup table; we perform that step locally and pass the vectors through a small trained network (55.6M parameters) before they leave the perimeter. The host runs a frozen 27B model (Qwen3.8-27B) on the transformed vectors and never receives text or token ids. We train the transform against the frozen model as a fixed judge, combining a forward-KL utility term with an auxiliary term that pushes each vector away from its original direction. On 1,490 MMLU questions held out from training, the transform costs 1.5 points of accuracy (80.7% vs. 82.3%), breaking 68 of the 1,226 questions the unmodified model answers correctly (5.5%), while 30.1% of content tokens no longer decode to their original token under a nearest-neighbour lookup.
Mahendra Roopa, Srikanth Roopa

LatBridge: Efficient and Stable Model Replacement in Latent-Communication Multi-Agent Systems

1 día 15 horas ago
arXiv:2610.27813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent systems rely on communication to complete tasks, and latent communication passes continuous representations to reduce text generation and re-encoding. However, multi-agent systems must reconfigure agent models, whereas existing latent-communication methods are built for fixed model combinations, so their interfaces may fail after replacement. Our pilot study confirms this interface failure and identifies the requirement for interface reuse after model replacement. We present LatBridge, which connects agent models through a shared Bridge and separate interfaces under a shared latent-communication protocol. After agent model replacement, LatBridge reuses unchanged interfaces, selects matching low-rank interfaces, and combines them through the Bridge, training only missing ones with all models frozen. The Bridge processes source representations in the basic mode and constructs target input without autoregressive generation in the accelerated mode. Experiments support effective communication after model replacement, with mean basic-mode accuracies of 14.8% on MATH and 27.3% on ALFWorld next-action prediction across eight small-model configurations. Analyses examine the factors supporting task accuracy and communication efficiency.
Jiajun Zhu, Haobo Li, Zixin Chen, Huamin Qu, Wenshuo Zhang

Toward Agentic AI for the 6G Physical Layer: From Algorithm Discovery to Verified Baseband Silicon

1 día 15 horas ago
arXiv:2610.27797v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 6G will be designed faster than it can be built: AI-driven search already proposes physical-layer algorithms at machine speed, while carrying a single one onto embedded baseband silicon remains specialist work. That silicon imposes hard memory and numeric limits, but also exposes cost structures a GPU lacks, and a design flow that never runs on the target sees neither. We present an agentic workflow in which an LLM coding agent implements algorithms on a commercial baseband SoC, optimizes them down to agent-written vector assembly, and validates them on silicon. The agent is guided by a knowledge base of measured platform facts, checked at every step against evaluators it is instructed never to edit, and metered per phase. We showcase the workflow on an AI-discovered orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) detector portfolio on the open 6G4All platform. It yields twelve kernels that run cycle-exactly on silicon, their optimized versions at 18k-405k cycles (30-660 $\mu$s) per frame. It also yields a new detector shaped by the chip's measured costs that needs 13.9% fewer cycles than the port of the discovered detector while matching its error rate, with a measured edge our evaluation cannot statistically resolve, a structure that a hardware-blind search objective had no reason to find. What is not specific to OTFS is the workflow: an LLM agent exploring an implementation space under real hardware limits, with the cost of every choice measured rather than assumed.
Eric Mittag, Lukas Brechtel, Maximilian Stark, Hans D. Schotten

GRADUS: Discovering and Recovering Agent Lessons from the Environment's Latent Syllabus

1 día 15 horas ago
arXiv:2610.27781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training LLM agents for policy-constrained tool environments, such as an airline backend with booking, refund, and cancellation policies, requires tasks that exercise the environment's rules individually and in combination. Existing synthesis pipelines let a model propose tasks and retain only those it immediately solves, biasing training data toward easier behaviors. We introduce Gradus (Graded Rungs of Ascending Difficulty from an Underlying System), which decouples what a task should teach from the concrete task and solution used to teach it. Without seed tasks, Gradus treats a fixed environment as a latent syllabus, extracting guarded behavioral operators that capture how actions depend on current conditions and how their effects reshape subsequent decisions. It composes these operators into increasingly demanding tasks while using corpus-level feedback to target missing outcome combinations. Crucially, Gradus jointly calibrates tasks and solutions against the environment: execution feedback identifies which side to refine while preserving the intended behavioral requirements. Verification thus becomes a recovery signal rather than a terminal filter, coupling coverage-guided exploration with the preservation of difficult examples. From off-the-shelf backbones, the resulting curriculum lifts a 30B model from 59% to 89% on $\tau^2$-Bench and from 47% to 83% on CAR-Bench with an Opus 4.5 proposer, and to 76% and 62%, respectively, with an open-weight Qwen3-235B proposer. These results show the value of jointly controlling which behaviors are explored and which survive into verified training data.
Qing Ping, Wei Yang, Panpan Xu, Johannes Kirmayr, Lukas Stappen, Junjie Tang, Jun Huan

RITE: Evaluating End-to-End Resilience to Silent Tool Errors in E-Commerce Agentic Systems

1 día 15 horas ago
arXiv:2610.27777v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using LLM agents increasingly answer e-commerce queries through multi-step tool interactions. The expected output of a tool call can shift between agent development and execution, allowing a plausible but incorrect value to be returned without an explicit failure signal. These silent errors may propagate through subsequent decisions into final answers. To study agents' resilience across this end-to-end process, we formulate Silent-error Resilience Task, an interactive task that evaluates whether they complete the original query after a silent error corrupts an intermediate state. We introduce RITE, a benchmark built from human-authored industrial workflows and production-log-derived inputs. To enable controlled and reproducible evaluation, we use a semantic error taxonomy to inject errors into fixed workflow prefixes, freeze recorded tool behavior, and let agents continue freely. It contains 167 matched units across nine e-commerce workflows, yielding 501 silent-error, correct-value, and explicit-failure instances. Across 10 recent LLMs, silent errors roughly halve task success and are consistently harder than explicit failures. Recognition, use of an available verification path, and integration of the resulting evidence form successive bottlenecks. We also propose a light State Checker as an intervention to test whether resilience can be improved.
Wenshuo Zhang, Yuquan Lin, Yushi Sun, Yishi Lin, Rui Sheng, Peng He, Han Gao, Wang Jikai, Yifeng Rong

CrystalAR: Autoregressive Modeling for Symmetric Crystal Generation

1 día 15 horas ago
arXiv:2610.27762v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep generative modeling has achieved remarkable progress in crystal generation. Given the rich symmetries inherent in crystalline structures, recent work has sought to explicitly incorporate space-group symmetry into generative models, enabling more effective exploration of novel symmetry templates. Yet introducing symmetry templates increases the combinatorial complexity of stoichiometric relationships between atomic species and crystallographic sites, while creating a fundamental tension between flexible exploration of discrete crystallographic templates and faithful realization of these templates as continuous three-dimensional structures. To address these challenges, we propose CrystalAR, a unified autoregressive framework that models Wyckoff symmetry templates and complete crystal structures within a single generative sequence. Specifically, CrystalAR reformulates continuous coordinate generation as a symmetry-conditioned hierarchy of discrete spatial localization decisions, autoregressively refining the positions of all symmetry-inequivalent sites across resolution levels while jointly modeling their spatial configuration within each level. This discrete hierarchical formulation further enables constraint-aware search over both crystallographic templates and geometric realizations. As a result, CrystalAR retains strong symmetry-template generation capability while achieving competitive de novo generation performance and template-free crystal structure prediction (CSP) accuracy. These results suggest that symmetry-template generation can be retained alongside broadly competitive de novo generation performance and competitive CSP without reliance on symmetry templates retrieved from prior data, providing a promising alternative paradigm for symmetry-preserving crystal generation.
Ziqiao Meng, Rongsheng Chen, Zhi Zheng, Nikita Kazeev, Zhenkun Wang, Andrey Ustyuzhanin, Wee Sun Lee

Give the Model a Finger: Developmentally Aligned Evaluation of Counting in Vision-Language Models

1 día 15 horas ago
arXiv:2610.27756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are exact on small sets and drift into estimation on larger ones, a profile reminiscent of children before they master counting. Children cross the barrier with epistemic actions: pointing at each item while reciting number words, moving counted items aside, partitioning the array. We give VLMs the same actions as dumb image tools with no visual intelligence of their own in a training-free agent loop. Our central claim is about measurement, not intervention: a model that counts by marking leaves a normally hidden serial procedure on the image, and the developmental principles of counting turn those marks into an interpretable audit of serial visual reasoning: every tag is classified against point-level ground truth as on-target, duplicate, phantom, or omitted, the answer is checked against the number of tags, and order irrelevance is tested by forcing opposite traversal orders. Across 9 models, 682 images, and 7 harness conditions we find that (i) the exact-counting range is a model-specific signature spanning nearly two orders of magnitude (R80 from 3 to 150 dots); (ii) as an intervention the finger mostly fails: tags help 4 of 9 models on small-count photographs, hurt imprecise pointers, and rarely beat a verbal routine or a blind point list; what the loop buys is an auditable trace, not accuracy; (iii) as measurement it succeeds: a tag-perturbation probe shows that precise pointers read their answers off the tags, pointing precision tracks which models benefit, dense scenes fail by omission, and models rarely revise after seeing their own tags; and (iv) the capacities dissociate: models follow an instructed traversal order yet often change their answer when it reverses, and children's regular-over-scattered advantage appears only under the routine and survives lattices that defeat a rows-times-columns shortcut.
Yingxin Jia, Hui Geng, Wenxin Yang, Mohan Zhang

RSI Control: Can AI Models Perform Covert Sabotage in the Self-Improvement Process?

1 día 15 horas ago
arXiv:2610.27735v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recursive self-improvement, in which frontier AI models work on training the next generation, is quickly becoming a reality. However, the safety of this process has received far less attention than it should. A misaligned model training its successor can shape what that successor knows, how it behaves, and what it wants, and the harm carries forward into the next generation. We study this risk through the lens of AI control. We introduce RSI Control Arena, a testbed in which a frontier model, acting as an autonomous R\&D agent, is given a benign main task from a stage of a successor model's training pipeline together with a covert side task to install a misaligned property in the successor. The testbed contains 16 side tasks in three classes, forming 22 task pairs with main tasks that span the pipeline from data curation to reinforcement learning. We evaluate six frontier models as agents against LLM monitors that read the transcript of the run and the agent's reasoning. We observe that every model completes a substantial share of the side tasks without degrading the main-task performance, including side tasks that make the successor itself a better saboteur. Under minimal instructions to stay covert, models already produce successful attacks that monitors fail to detect, and providing a short list of evasion tactics further reduces the detection rate. Monitors with access to agent's reasoning detects most attacks, but not all. Our results indicate that recursive self-improvement raises significant safety concerns, and that strong safety effort should be in place before models are trusted with greater responsibility of training their successors.
Kaiwen Zhou, Udari Madhushani Sehwag

How Language Models Organize Task Information

1 día 15 horas ago
arXiv:2610.27724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dense linear probes assess task readability from language model (LM) representations, but do not directly reveal how many features suffice for prediction. We measure readout sparsity with \(k^*\), the smallest feature count found by a fixed search protocol that recovers 95% of dense-probe AUROC above chance. We evaluate 19 LMs from five labs on 14 core tasks. Ten base models give the nine reliably readable tasks similar feature counts and nearly the same order. This agreement extends to the selected features themselves, which on three tasks show cross-model response correspondence beyond class-mean differences and a label-correlation-matched null. Instruction-tuned deployment selectively reduces \(k^*\), with both weights and input format contributing. In controlled synthetic experiments across 20 models, successfully learned targets admit single-feature readouts, whereas readable controls require tens of features. Reference-model \(k^*\) is associated with label requirements across eight students, following an empirical scaling of \(N^*\propto(k^*)^{0.65}\). After continual learning, saved heads can fail while linear readability remains high, and recovery requires fewer labels than initial task learning under the tested procedures. Pruning reduces linear readability, with wider pre-pruning readouts generally associated with larger losses. These findings distinguish task readability from readout sparsity and establish their complementary value for predicting learning requirements and diagnosing LM changes.
Kaiyang Wan, Yuxia Wang

When Does Experience Memory Help Closed-Loop LLM Driving Agents? A Controlled Evaluation with Resampled Warmup Pools, Token-Matched Fillers, and Audited Baselines

1 día 15 horas ago
arXiv:2610.27714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When does experience memory help a closed-loop LLM driving agent? Published gains cannot say, because the two factors we find to matter most, which warmup experiences the pool contains and what any injected tokens do to the prompt, are controlled in none of them. We answer with a controlled evaluation on one audited HighwayEnv testbed (1Hz, gpt-4o-mini for the decisive contrasts). We treat the warmup pool as a resampled random factor (ten disjoint pools) and add token-matched irrelevant-filler controls, oracle-certified diagnostics, caution-pricing metrics, and quantified audits of the baseline ports. The probe suite spans flat-text retrieval (a DiLu port), a single-frame grid port (RESPOND-inspired), our episodic temporal-graph memory, a retrieval-free consolidated rulebook, and a flat K-step observation-history baseline. Four findings follow, each a property of this testbed. (1) Headline memory gains belong to the warmup draw. The reported pool is the best of ten for both retrieval memories, which beat No-Memory in only one pool of ten (sign test p=0.011), and even the rulebook's apparent pool-immunity collapsed on five fresh draws. (2) No retrieval design tested exceeds token-matched filler. The collision-only merge ceiling is reached by a single 15-token caution instruction, and metrics that price caution erase the rulebook's lead. (3) Representational sophistication is nowhere robustly operative. (4) Baseline port quality silently inverts conclusions. On this testbed, a single-pool comparison without filler controls would have reported memory gains that these controls reverse. We release the testbed, audited ports, seeds, and caches.
Yingxin Jia, Xuanyi Li

How Fine-Tuning Objectives Shape Layer-Wise Information in LLM Hallucination Detection

1 día 15 horas ago
arXiv:2610.27711v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Under matched conditions, classifier-head fine-tuning (\textsc{cls}) paradigm consistently outperforms the LLM-as-Judge sequence-to-sequence (\textsc{s2s}) on binary hallucination detection. We trace this gap to the representations induced by the two objectives. Static analysis shows that \textsc{cls} learns a task-specific discriminative direction, pushing hidden states into a clear two-cluster geometry with stronger class separation and linearly decodable label information. By contrast, \textsc{s2s} relies on the pretrained language-modeling head to make decisions. This minimizes the pressure to reorganize representations, leaving the hidden states much closer to the pretrained backbone. Our analysis also reveals that the \textsc{cls} signal saturates before the final layer, after which upper layers form a plateau of statistically interchangeable and largely redundant representations. However, endpoint redundancy alone does not show whether these layers are dispensable during training. Further training-dynamics analysis reveals 1) a lower pretrained substrate, 2) a narrow upper-middle \textbf{InfoWindow} where task information emerges, and 3) a later-synchronizing upper plateau that mirrors this signal. This mechanism motivates us to remove layers above the InfoWindow. Truncating 31\% of the network leaves accuracy unchanged within seed noise on Qwen3-4B and 8B and cuts latency by $1.4\times$. The same depth fraction, fixed before any analysis of the target models, transfers to Llama-3.2-3B and Mistral-7B-v0.3, and the layer structure behind it reappears there and on QNLI and SST-2. We hope this helps guide efficient task-specific LLM design.
Kaiyang Wan, Forrest Sheng Bao, Amin Ahmad, Yuxia Wang

E8-QAT: Efficient 2-Bit Quantization-Aware Training with Implicit Lattice Codebooks

1 día 15 horas ago
arXiv:2610.27699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-bit quantization reduces the memory footprint of large language models, but preserving accuracy with efficient training remains challenging. Scalar quantization encodes weights independently, while explicit-codebook vector quantization introduces costly search during training. We propose E8-QAT, a 2-bit quantization-aware training framework that uses the $E_8$ lattice as an implicit eight-dimensional codebook. It jointly quantizes weight groups through arithmetic projection without storing or searching an explicit codebook during the training forward pass. A 2-bit core encoding and sparse extension preserve the selected lattice points exactly, adding less than 0.1\% to core index storage. On Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, E8-QAT matches the performance of the full-precision model in terms of the average score across the four tasks. E8-QAT improves over the state-of-the-art baseline by 2.03\% on IFEval and by 1.51\% on LiveCodeBench, under the same data, schedule, and bit width. The 2-bit representation reduces peak memory by 80\% and supports a $4\times$ larger batch. At each representation's largest feasible batch, E8-QAT reaches $1.97\times$ the decoding throughput of BF16.
Xinyu Lei, Hong Huang, Jiebin Zhang, Hongyu Li, Jinlong Song, Decheng Wu, Guanghua Yu, Jianchen Zhu, Sujian Li

EASformer: Environment-Action-State Alignment for Industrial Generative Ranking

1 día 15 horas ago
arXiv:2610.27691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern industrial ranking systems increasingly adopt generative recommendation (GR) paradigms, in which user behavior sequences and non-sequential (NS) features are tokenized and jointly modeled by Transformer-style backbones. This unified formulation provides a scalable interface for modeling long histories and heterogeneous features. However, sequence and NS representations often carry asymmetric semantics: historical representations may combine environment context with observed-action semantics, whereas candidate-side NS representations contain no observed action but incorporate richer supplementary context, such as user-item interaction features and recent behavior lists. Direct interaction between such representations can make query-key dot products compare different semantic objects, limiting meaningful cross-token interaction. To fill this gap, we propose EASformer, an Environment-Action-State disentangled architecture for industrial app ranking. EASformer constructs an explicitly aligned context environment space shared by historical and non-sequence tokens, while disentangling user actions from historical token and candidate-specific context form non-sequence tokens. Based on this aligned space, EASformer enables complementary historical action retrieval and state-conditioned action prediction. Furthermore, the disentangled design supports a Cloze-style self-supervised objective by masking historical actions and reusing the candidate prediction pathway. On an offline benchmark from a real-world industrial app marketplace, EASformer achieves an AUC of 0.89411, yielding a 0.88% relative improvement over the deployed baseline. Online A/B tests further support this advantage, with relative eCPM lifts of 1.26% and 3.94% across two real-world ranking scenarios.
Bohao Li, Dinglun Cao, Pengcheng Huang, Yingda Tang, Zhiting Zhao, Yi Cao, Jilei Fu, Miao Yan, Tianying Liu, Heng Chang, Bowen Du

Pattern Intelligence: Unsupervised, LLM-Interpreted Discovery of Systematic Underpayment and Denial Patterns in Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management

1 día 15 horas ago
arXiv:2610.27684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Healthcare providers lose substantial revenue to systematic payer underpayments and claim denials, yet identifying the recurring, correctable patterns behind them remains largely manual and does not scale to hospital claim volumes. We present Pattern Intelligence, a deployed system that discovers such patterns without supervision by clustering claims on their adjudication behaviour rather than their identity. Each claim is embedded in a 130-dimensional vector combining per-line expected-versus-actual payment ratios, claim adjustment reason (CARC) codes, denial and payment signals, and service composition. Payer and contract identity are deliberately excluded from the distance metric - we show they dominate the geometry and collapse clusters into trivial per-payer groups - and are reintroduced only as a post-hoc segmentation (by contract and visit type) that keeps every surfaced pattern coherent and actionable. We cluster with HDBSCAN, recover structure from the noise set via second-pass sub-clustering, and gate low-confidence memberships. A large language model translates each centroid into an analyst-ready description of dominant procedures, adjustment reasons, and failure mode. We report a recurring finding: roughly one-third to one-half of high-dollar denials, depending on tenant and segmentation, form an irreducible long tail that no density-clustering configuration or representation we tried groups - a domain property, we argue, rather than a modeling deficiency. We evaluate validity through cluster-coherence analysis and quantify impact with a recoverable-opportunity ($) metric on two production tenants (approx. 10K and 157K claims) within a six-tenant deployment. Rather than a new algorithm, the contribution is a problem formulation, a representation-design insight, and empirical findings from production.
Harshil Lodhiya, Alex McManus

Temporal Evidence Allocation For Longitudinal Clinical Retrieval: A Position And Technical Report

1 día 15 horas ago
arXiv:2610.27682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electronic health records are written to support care, not retrieval. Across years of oncology notes, the primary diagnosis is restated in report after report, while the events that shape a patient's course, such as a recurrence or a change in therapy, may be recorded only once. A retriever that ranks passages by similarity to the query keeps returning the repeated material and can miss these transitions, that is, it exhibits temporal redundancy across historical narratives. We argue that longitudinal clinical retrieval should be treated as allocating a limited evidence budget across time, not just ranking by relevance. We separate the task into three objectives: temporal evidence allocation, candidate reconstruction, and clinical validation. In Study A (13 clinical queries over 20 patient records, with two-stage reconstruction), the Temporal-15 configuration reaches a milestone slot recall of 0.538, compared with 0.388 for the Global-50 baseline. However, it also retrieves far more evidence (496 versus 50 indexed units per query), so the gain cannot be credited to allocation alone. When evidence is held fixed, removing prompted precedence rules raises schema-order reversals from 0.010 to 0.080. A five-patient, single-query pilot with fixed budgets finds that wider temporal coverage does not reliably yield more dated milestones. Together, these results suggest that how much a record says about a period is a poor guide to how useful that period is as evidence. Because no expert reference timelines are available, our measurements describe retrieval behavior rather than clinical accuracy. This position and technical report presents the retrieval analysis behind the Onco-CONSTRUE framework and sets out a research agenda for budget-constrained longitudinal clinical retrieval.
Soumya Ranjan Sahoo, Divya Bharti, Sanand Sasidharan

Reusing Multimodal Agents: Efficient Evaluation of Sound Designs in Games

1 día 15 horas ago
arXiv:2610.27670v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces a novel framework for efficiently evaluating in-game sound designs using multimodal learning and reinforcement learning. Sound design significantly influences gameplay and accessibility; however, objective evaluation methods, defined here as automated assessments based on agent performance rather than human ratings, often require retraining agents from scratch for each sound design. Our approach first pre-trains a multimodal encoder that encodes visual and auditory information into a shared latent space. A reinforcement learning agent is then trained using this latent representation. We fine-tune the multimodal encoder for each sound design while keeping the trained policy fixed, allowing us to isolate the effects of sound changes on agent behavior. To evaluate the proposed method, we conducted experiments on games from multiple genres, comparing the performance of blind agents (agents using only sound input) under various sound designs. Experimental results suggest that this approach can detect differences in agent performance caused by degraded or altered sound design. Moreover, we significantly reduce the computational cost compared to retraining the agent from scratch. Experimental results suggest that this approach provides a practical and scalable solution for evaluating in-game sound designs. The source code, data and supplementary document are available: https://github.com/thainv0212/tog-reusing-agents.
Thai Nguyen Van, Ibrahim Khan, Mury Fajar Dewantoro, Pratch Suntichaikul, Hai Van Pham, Ruck Thawonmas

Inferring continuous cognitive traits from limited neuroimaging data using pairwise convolutional neural networks

1 día 15 horas ago
arXiv:2610.27668v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Individual differences in cognitive abilities vary widely, yet the structural brain features supporting these differences remain poorly understood. Traditional brain-behavior analyses rely on predefined metrics such as volume or cortical thickness and typically assume linear relationships with behavior, limiting sensitivity in small datasets. Here, we introduce a pairwise convolutional ranking framework that learns directly from whole-brain T1-weighted MRI by making comparative rather than absolute predictions, which performs well even with small samples (N=108). We tested this method with four small-scale spatial abilities tasks. Regression analysis predicted performance with high accuracy across all tasks, achieving greater predictive power over standard regression and pointwise deep learning baselines. Iterative cortical-region removal (backward elimination) revealed brain regions supporting individual performance common to all four tasks, as well as task-specific regions. These results demonstrate that pairwise learning extracts meaningful behavioral information from structural MRI, providing prediction and interpretable insight into the neuroanatomy of individual differences.
Marjan Rashidi, Robert Bain, Craig Stark, Jeffrey Krichmar, Mary Hegarty, Elizabeth Chrastil

When Can LLM Reasoning Reliably Reuse Intermediate Results?

1 día 15 horas ago
arXiv:2610.27662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sampling complete solutions gives large language models more chances to solve a problem, but each attempt starts again. For tasks with several subproblems, all required answers must be correct in the same attempt. Retaining intermediate results can avoid repeating correct work, but errors in those results may affect later attempts. We study when this reuse is reliable and how much computation it requires. For local retries that stop when no candidate passes within the retry budget, we give conditions for correct completion and bound the average number of attempts. We also show how checking cost and the chance of passing a check affect total computation. Experiments across eight reasoning models examine composite mathematics and arithmetic. Across four DeepSeek models, average success on the second subproblem is 36.2 percent without first-subproblem context, 57.2 percent with its answer, and 58.3 percent with its reasoning and answer. These scores measure second-subproblem coverage and include continuations made when selection fails. Arithmetic experiments show that similar first-attempt accuracies can lead to very different coverage after repeated attempts. Code is available at https://github.com/SempraETY/Intermediate-State-Reuse.
Deyuan Liu, Zecheng Wang, Xuanyi Liu, Jungang Li, Yihao Hu, Mingjie Tang, Bryan Dai, Jie Fu

Does Multi-Agent Collaboration Pay When Agents Serve Users? Testing Agent Scaling in Dual-Control Settings

1 día 15 horas ago
arXiv:2610.27655v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent systems (MAS) built from language models are deployed on the premise that collaboration beats a single-agent system (SAS), yet when it pays is unclear. The most systematic study to date gives a capability-saturation rule: coordination helps while the SAS is weak and hurts once it is strong, with the crossing near 45% single-agent accuracy. That rule was derived on autonomous benchmarks, where no user takes part. We test it where agents now work: in conversation with a user under a written policy, on $\tau^2$-bench, the dual-control benchmark. On its airline, retail and telecom domains we compare the stock SAS with a centralized MAS built from the same model for six models from three families, over about 7,950 simulated conversations, with one completion-token ledger per episode per system. The study was pre-registered with a public change log; the MAS is reported as built, with one validity bar unmet (its planner never saw the tool schemas). Under a fixed simulated user no cell shows a MAS benefit: the MAS is worse in 12 of the 13 valid cells and tied in the thirteenth, and the fitted gain is negative across the observed capability range (weighted mean -28 points, 95% CI [-44, -12]). On the two cells where the rule predicts a benefit, the MAS loses by 13 and 22 points, and without a budget ceiling it at best draws level at 5.5 times the SAS's token spend. The one gain appears on the cell nearest 45%, under a second simulator. Whether the gain declines with capability is unresolved (slope -0.41, 95% CI [-1.51, +0.68]), because model-by-domain effects dominate. The MAS does not detectably reduce wrongful database writes; it converts other failures into budget exhaustion and inaction. For agents that serve people, the SAS is the default; a multi-agent design must show compute-matched evidence from the setting itself. We release all trajectories, ledgers, prompts and code.
Ethan Yang, Xiangcheng Shi