AI News Archive: May 12, 2026 — Part 16
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- A Causal Language Modeling Detour Improves Encoder Continued Pretraining
When adapting an encoder to a new domain, the standard approach is to continue training with Masked Language Modeling (MLM). We show that temporarily switching to Causal Language Modeling (CLM) followed by a short MLM decay improves downstream performance. On biomedical texts with ModernBERT, this C...
- CAAFC: Chronological Actionable Automated Fact-Checker for misinformation / non-factual hallucination detection and correction
With the vast amount of content uploaded every hour, along with the AI generated content that can include hallucinations, Automated Fact-Checking (AFC) has become increasingly vital, as it is infeasible for human fact-checkers to manually verify the sheer volume of information generated online. Prof...
- Formalize, Don't Optimize: The Heuristic Trap in LLM-Generated Combinatorial Solvers
Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle to solve complex combinatorial problems through direct reasoning, so recent neuro-symbolic systems increasingly use them to synthesize executable solvers. A central design question is how the LLM should represent the solver, and whether it should also attempt to...
- Stories in Space: In-Context Learning Trajectories in Conceptual Belief Space
Large Language Models (LLMs) update their behavior in context, which can be viewed as a form of Bayesian inference. However, the structure of the latent hypothesis space over which this inference operates remains unclear. In this work, we propose that LLMs assign beliefs over a low-dimensional geome...
- Predicting Decisions of AI Agents from Limited Interaction through Text-Tabular Modeling
AI agents negotiate and transact in natural language with unfamiliar counterparts: a buyer bot facing an unknown seller, or a procurement assistant negotiating with a supplier. In such interactions, the counterpart's LLM, prompts, control logic, and rule-based fallbacks are hidden, while each decisi...
- Semantic Reward Collapse and the Preservation of Epistemic Integrity in Adaptive AI Systems
Recent advances in reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and preference optimization have substantially improved the usability, coherence, and safety of large language models. However, recurring behaviors such as performative certainty, hallucinated continuity, calibration drift, sycopha...
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- OGLS-SD: On-Policy Self-Distillation with Outcome-Guided Logit Steering for LLM Reasoning
We study {on-policy self-distillation} (OPSD), where a language model improves its reasoning ability by distilling privileged teacher distributions along its own on-policy trajectories. Despite the performance gains of OPSD, we identify a common but often overlooked mismatch between teacher and stud...
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- Fill the GAP: A Granular Alignment Paradigm for Visual Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models
Visual latent reasoning lets a multimodal large language model (MLLM) create intermediate visual evidence as continuous tokens, avoiding external tools or image generators. However, existing methods usually follow an output-as-input latent paradigm and yield unstable gains. We identify evidence for ...
- QAP-Router: Tackling Qubit Routing as Dynamic Quadratic Assignment with Reinforcement Learning
Qubit routing is a fundamental problem in quantum compilation, known to be NP-hard. Its dynamic nature makes local routing decisions propagate and compound over time, making global efficient solutions challenging. Existing heuristic methods rely on local rules with limited lookahead, while recent le...
- A Family of Quaternion-Valued Differential Evolution Algorithms for Numerical Function Optimization
The numerical optimization of continuous functions is a fundamental task in many scientific and engineering domains, ranging from mechanical design to training of artificial intelligence models. Among the most effective and widely used algorithms for this purpose is Differential Evolution (DE), know...
- MedHopQA: A Disease-Centered Multi-Hop Reasoning Benchmark and Evaluation Framework for LLM-Based Biomedical Question Answering
Evaluating large language models (LLMs) in the biomedical domain requires benchmarks that can distinguish reasoning from pattern matching and remain discriminative as model capabilities improve. Existing biomedical question answering (QA) benchmarks are limited in this respect. Multiple-choice forma...
- BSO: Safety Alignment Is Density Ratio Matching
Aligning language models for both helpfulness and safety typically requires complex pipelines-separate reward and cost models, online reinforcement learning, and primal-dual updates. Recent direct preference optimization approaches simplify training but incorporate safety through ad-hoc modification...
- EHR-RAGp: Retrieval-Augmented Prototype-Guided Foundation Model for Electronic Health Records
Electronic Health Records (EHR) contain rich longitudinal patient information and are widely used in predictive modeling applications. However, effectively leveraging historical data remains challenging due to long trajectories, heterogeneous events, temporal irregularity, and the varying relevance ...
- Reinforcing VLAs in Task-Agnostic World Models
Post-training Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models via reinforcement learning (RL) in learned world models has emerged as an effective strategy to adapt to new tasks without costly real-world interactions. However, while using imagined trajectories reduces the sample complexity of policy training, ex...
- Towards Automated Air Traffic Safety Assessment Around Non-Towered Airports Using Large Language Models
We investigate frameworks for post-flight safety analysis at non-towered airports using large language models (LLMs). Non-towered airports rely on the Common Traffic Advisory Frequency (CTAF) for air traffic coordination and experience frequent near mid-air collisions due to the pilot self-announcem...
- LISA: Cognitive Arbitration for Signal-Free Autonomous Intersection Management
Large language models (LLMs) show strong potential for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), particularly in tasks requiring situational reasoning and multi-agent coordination. These capabilities make them well suited for cooperative driving, where rule-based approaches struggle in complex and d...
- Transferable Delay-Aware Reinforcement Learning via Implicit Causal Graph Modeling
Random delays weaken the temporal correspondence between actions and subsequent state feedback, making it difficult for agents to identify the true propagation process of action effects. In cross-task scenarios, changes in task objectives and reward formulations further reduce the reusability of pre...
- Executable Agentic Memory for GUI Agent
Modern GUI agents typically rely on a model-centric and step-wise interaction paradigm, where LLMs must re-interpret the UI and re-decide actions at every screen, which is fragile in long-horizon tasks. In this paper, we propose Executable Agentic Memory (EAM), a structured Knowledge Graph (KG) that...
- PriorZero: Bridging Language Priors and World Models for Decision Making
Leveraging the rich world knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents offers a promising path toward general intelligence. However, a fundamental prior-dynamics mismatch hinders existing approaches: static LLM knowledge cannot directly adapt to the complex...
- Iterative Audit Convergence in LLM-Managed Multi-Agent Systems: A Case Study in Prompt Engineering Quality Assurance
Prompt specifications for multi-agent large language model (LLM) systems carry data contracts and integration logic across many interdependent files but are rarely subjected to structured-inspection rigor. This paper reports a single-system empirical case study of iterative, agent-driven auditing ap...
- NARA: Anchor-Conditioned Relation-Aware Contextualization of Heterogeneous Geoentities
Geospatial foundation models have primarily focused on raster data such as satellite imagery, where self-supervised learning has been widely studied. Vector geospatial data instead represent the world as discrete geoentities with explicit geometry, semantics, and structured spatial relations, includ...
- How Useful Is Cross-Domain Generalization for Training LLM Monitors?
Using prompted language models as classifiers enables classification in domains with limited training data, but misses some of the robustness and performance benefits that fine-tuning can bring. We study whether training on multiple classification tasks, each with its own prompt, improves performanc...
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- Reconnecting Fragmented Citation Networks with Semantic Augmentation
Citation graphs are fundamental tools for modeling scientific structure, but are often fragmented due to missing citations of scientifically connected articles. To address this issue, we propose a computationally efficient hybrid framework integrating citation topology with large language model (LLM...