AI News Archive: July 22, 2026 — Part 25
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- Understanding Generative AI-mediated User Engagement with Academic Library Resources
This study empirically analyzed generative AI as an emerging discovery pathway to academic library resources. Utilizing web analytics from August 2023 to October 2025, the research identifies a significant increase in AI-mediated traffic, particularly following the integration of linked citation fea...
- Toward Reliable RGB-D Semantic Segmentation: Handling Missing Modalities via Condition Dropout
RGB-D semantic segmentation has achieved remarkable progress, yet most models assume that RGB and depth are always available. In practice, failures or occlusions of surveillance sensors often remove one modality. Although RGB or depth alone can contain sufficient cues, models trained only on full-mo...
- Don't Trust the Label: License Laundering in AI Supply Chains
AI artifacts move through a multi-platform supply chain, spanning datasets and models on Hugging Face and applications on GitHub. While each artifact carries a license whose obligations should propagate through redistribution, no study has yet measured whether those obligations survive the chain or ...
- Courteous Anticipation: Improving Long-Lived Task Planning in Persistent Shared Environments
We consider a task planning scenario in which robots sharing a persistent environment are assigned tasks one at a time from a held-out sequence. Standard task planners, lacking foresight of future tasks and inconsiderate of others' constraints, solve each task in isolation, leaving terminal states t...
- Self-supervision drives representational convergence in medical foundation models more than clinical supervision
Medical image encoders from different groups are increasingly treated as interchangeable, on the assumption that scale and clinical supervision concentrate their representations onto a shared structure. Whether this convergence is real, what produces it, and whether it is clinically usable are untes...
- Pushing the Frontier of Full-Song Generation: Hierarchical Autoregressive Planning Meets Flow-Matching Rendering
In this report, we present a unified song generation framework capable of producing high-quality full-length music from lyrics, text descriptions, and musical attributes. The proposed framework supports three tasks: Lyrics-to-Song Generation, which generates complete songs from text descriptions, ly...
- ELSAA: Efficient Low-Rank and Sparse Attention Approximation for Training Transformers
The quadratic $N\times N$ attention score matrix remains a central obstacle to extending Transformers to longer input lengths. Existing efficient attention methods usually reduce this bottleneck by either imposing sparsity, so that each query attends to only a small subset of keys, or by using low-r...
- StreamHOI: Interaction-aware Temporal Memory Adaptation for Streaming HOI Video Generation
Existing human--object interaction (HOI) video generation methods are largely limited to offline short-video generation with complex driving conditions, making them unsuitable for real-time interactive applications. We present \emph{StreamHOI}, a low-latency streaming framework for long-duration HOI...
- Audio-Zero: Label-Free Self-Evolution for Fine-Grained Audio Reasoning
Large Audio Language models (LALMs) have made rapid progress on acoustic understanding, yet they still struggle with fine-grained audio reasoning (e.g., recognizing event order, repetitions and duration). Existing post-training methods heavily rely on expensive external labels or provide only coarse...
- Active Inference as a Convex Markov Decision Process
Active Inference (AIF) frames adaptive behavior as the minimization of expected free energy (EFE), combining epistemic and pragmatic objectives within a single variational principle. We frame AIF as policy optimization and show that, for closed-loop control policies, EFE minimization can be formulat...
- PRIME-SVR: Physics-infoRmed Implicit Multi-Echo Slice-to-Volume Reconstruction for Fetal T2 mapping
Slice-to-volume reconstruction (SVR) is the standard method for obtaining high-resolution (HR) 3D fetal brain volumes from motion-corrupted 2D MRI slice stacks acquired in multiple orientations. Existing SVR methods are optimized and validated only for clinical-range echo times (TEs), limiting their...
- ENTRAP-VL: A Taxonomic Probe for Dual Contextual Entrainment in Vision-Language Models
Contextual entrainment is the tendency of a model to let auxiliary context in its input pull its output, independently of whether that context is relevant, true, or even meaningful. Recently, it has been identified and given a mechanistic account in unimodal language models. Whether and how it manif...
- TRUST-ESD: A Risk-Calibrated and Governance-Aware AI Framework for Enterprise Strategic Decision Support Under Uncertainty
Enterprise strategic decision support requires AI systems that are not only accurate, but also uncertainty-aware, risk-calibrated, explainable, and governance-compliant. This paper proposes TRUST-ESD, a risk-calibrated and governance-aware framework for enterprise decision support under uncertainty....
- Language-Specific versus Cross-Lingual Knowledge Graphs for Implicit Aspect Identification in Arabic: A Comparative Study of Reasoning and Adaptation Strategies
Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) in Arabic must recover both explicitly stated aspects and implicit aspects that are never named in the text. Implicit identification typically relies on an auxiliary knowledge source (e.g., a knowledge graph (KG)) linking opinion cues to aspect categories, but ...
- EvoDRC: A Self-Evolving Agentic Framework for Automated DRC Violation Repair
Design rule check (DRC) closure remains a major bottleneck in advanced-node physical design. Although detailed routers are rule-aware, residual design rule violations (DRVs) often require manual engineering change order iterations. Automating this process is challenging because repairs must account ...
- Drift-Aware RL-based Wavelet Denoising for Network-Traffic Anomaly Detection
Traffic-utilisation measurements for network monitoring are corrupted by additive noise and statistical drift: time-dependent change in the signal's mean, variance, distributional shape, or tail behaviour. Static wavelet denoising, calibrated under stationary independent and identically distributed ...
- Safe Remediation as Risk-Constrained Intervention Decision in Microservice Systems
In modern IT operations (IT-Ops), the cost of an incorrect repair often exceeds the cost of no action at all. Yet existing automated remediation systems are designed to generate actions rather than to decide whether intervention is warranted, leaving safety as an afterthought enforced by manual appr...
- Time Series Network Utilization KPI Forecasting Using Advanced AI/ML Models
The rapid proliferation of data-intensive applications, cloud infrastructure, and IoT ecosystems has made proactive resource provisioning critical for maintaining optimal network performance. However, network administrators face a constant battle against capacity constraints, where traditional react...
- EvoThink: Evolving Thinking in Large Reasoning Models via Self-Pruning and Aha-Moment Preference Optimization
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) often suffer from overthinking due to redundant verification steps. Existing approaches for mitigating overthinking, such as fast-slow thinking switching and reasoning trajectory compression, fail to make a fine-grained distinction between beneficial and redundant steps...
- LKValues: Aligning Large Language Models with Sri Lankan Societal Values
Value alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) has been shown to be culturally biased toward Western norms. This results in the mishandling of local values in multilingual societies such as Sri Lanka that have their unique cultural dynamics. Existing benchmarks overlook Sri Lankan-contextualized va...
- Notes to Self: Can LLMs Benefit from Experiential Abstractions?
Humans distill experience into reusable abstractions, e.g., strategies and cautionary reminders, and apply them to gradually solve problems more effectively. We study whether Large Language Models (LLMs) can similarly benefit from such experiential abstractions. From LLMs' solution traces on the MAT...
- PyroDash: Cost-Efficient Token-Level Small-Large Language Model Collaborative Inference
Large language models (LLMs) provide strong reasoning capabilities but are expensive to serve at scale, whereas small language models (SLMs) are cheaper but less reliable on difficult problems. We introduce PyroDash, a cost-aware framework for token-level SLM-LLM collaborative inference. During gene...
- The Blessing of Dimensionality: How Near-Orthogonality in High-Dimensional Spaces Explains Temporal Portability
Fine-tuning has been widely used to adapt large language models (LLMs) for domain-specific tasks. Parameter efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods such as low-rank adaptation (LoRA) are frequently used to reduce computational costs. PortLLM is a training-free and data-free scheme used to adapt LLMs af...
- Which Values Do LLMs Confuse? A Schwartz-Based Recognition Study
Large language models are increasingly evaluated through the values they endorse, but such evaluations presuppose that models can identify the value expressed in a concrete situation. We study this prerequisite as controlled top-1 recognition over Schwartz's ten basic values. Our evaluation set cont...
- HalluTruthQA: A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Hallucination Detection, Localization, and Explanation in Arabic Question Answering
Large language models (LLMs) can generate fluent Arabic answers, yet factual errors remain difficult to detect, localize, explain, and verify. Existing hallucination benchmarks often provide response-level labels, with limited support for identifying the exact erroneous content, explaining why it is...
- Back to Back with a Copy: A Computational Analysis of AI-Generated Visual Contemporary Art Pastiches
The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it investigates whether newer generative models are getting better at pastiching contemporary artworks. Second, it explores the consistency of the multidimensional nature of stylistic evaluation across different LLMs. Building on previous work, we analyze sty...
- OpenSkillRisk: Benchmarking Agent Safety When Using Real-World Risky Third-Party Skills
LLM-based agents leverage third-party skills to extend their capabilities in open-world scenarios. However, third-party skills can introduce extra security vulnerabilities, as seemingly harmless skills can contain latent safety risks that only emerge during actual execution. In this work, we conduct...
- Understanding the Impact of Linguistic Realization Choices on LLM Stance with Causal Tracing
Large language models (LLMs) are known to be sensitive to prompt and input formulations. However, existing studies have focused on lexical realization and largely ignored constructional choice. This paper studies whether linguistic construction can systematically shift LLM decisions and where these ...
- Solar Open 2 Technical Report
We present Solar Open 2, a 250B-A15B Mixture-of-Experts language model built for long-horizon agentic tasks, scaled up from Solar Open 1 (Solar Open 100B). To hold entire agent trajectories in a single context, Solar Open 2 reaches a 1M-token window through a hybrid attention stack that interleaves ...
- TalentCLEF at CLEF2026: Skill and Job Title Intelligence for Human Capital Management
This paper presents the second edition of the TalentCLEF Challenge, which will run as an evaluation lab as part of CLEF 2026. The aim of TalentCLEF is to promote the development of systems and methods that use Natural Language Processing (NLP) in the field of Human Capital Management (HCM), fosterin...
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- When Does Knowledge Distillation Hurt? Reliability-Aware Distillation for Low-Resource Language Summarization
Knowledge distillation (KD) is a standard approach for compressing sequence-to-sequence models, but its per-sample effects are rarely examined. On the BanSum Bangla summarization benchmark, we find that standard KD improves ROUGE-L by only +0.0003 over a cross-entropy baseline, and that approximatel...
- Efficient Chain-of-Modality Reasoning via Progressive Compression for Spoken Language Models
Spoken language models (SLMs) enable natural human-computer interaction, but their reasoning ability still lags behind that of text-based large language models, especially on spoken mathematical question answering tasks. One important reason is that SLMs reason over purely verbalized mathematical ex...
- Overview of FinMMEval 2026 Task 2: Multilingual Financial Short-Answer Question Answering
FinMMEval 2026 Task 2 evaluates short-answer financial question answering over multilingual evidence. Each final-test item pairs an English question with financial statements and news in English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and Greek. Participating systems submit one concise answer per item in JSONL...
- Overview of FinMMEval 2026 Task 1: Multilingual Financial Multiple-Choice Question Answering
FinMMEval 2026 Task 1 evaluates multilingual financial multiple-choice question answering in English, Chinese, Arabic, and Hindi. The task tests whether systems can select the correct answer to finance questions involving domain terminology, numerical interpretation, and conceptual financial reasoni...
- emb-diversity: A Tool for Embedding-Based Measurement of Data Diversity
There is growing evidence that data diversity is crucial for developing fair and robust NLP models. However, current approaches to measure diversity remain inconsistent and fragmented: While there exist a number of tools for measuring the lexical diversity of texts, researchers lack standardized too...
- Sentence Splitter: Uncovering Latent Factual Structure for Self-Supervised Learning
This paper introduces Sentence Splitter, a self-supervised framework built upon a T5-based encoder--decoder architecture for uncovering the latent factual structure of natural language sentences. The proposed method identifies the semantic boundary between a descriptive prefix (head) and its factual...
- D2VBench: Benchmarking Large Language Models with Value Dilemmas in Daily Scenarios
With the wide application of large language models (LLMs) in real-world scenarios, the value implication of their outputs is crucial. However, existing evaluation benchmarks suffer from insufficient coverage of value dilemmas in daily scenarios involving multiple value conflicts and simplistic evalu...
- VizRAG: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Hypergraph Visualization
Hypergraph-based RAG systems surpass traditional graph-based approaches by organizing complex n-ary atomic facts among entities, rather than relying solely on binary relationships. Despite the advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) with enhanced visual capabilities, current hypergr...
- Rewarding Better Thinking for LLM Preference Alignment
LLM preference alignment aims to optimize models toward human preferences across diverse user instructions. Reinforcement learning has become a major post-training approach for this goal, but existing proxy rewards are often outcome-level, mainly evaluating the final response while providing limited...
- TriAgent: Divergence-Aware Multi-Agent Committees for Cost-Efficient Financial Sentiment Analysis
Production LLM-based financial sentiment analysis faces a structural cost trap: most queries are trivially classifiable, yet expensive cloud reasoners process them all, and the bill scales linearly with user count. We present TriAgent, a multi-agent committee stratified by contextual granularity -- ...
- SLPO: Scaling Latent Reasoning via a Surrogate Policy
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards has become the predominant recipe for eliciting test-time scaling in explicit Chain-of-Thought reasoners. Yet this scaling path remains computationally costly, since every intermediate step must be decoded as a language token. Latent reasoning instead c...
- Test-Time Training for Modality Order Consistency in Vision-Language Models
We find that vision-language models are sensitive to a specific semantically irrelevant change: the order in which the image and question are presented. Across three models and three benchmarks, image first prompting consistently outperforms question-first prompting, revealing a repeatable modality ...
- Exposure is Optional: Learning Unlike Coordination in Language Models
Coordination, a fundamental linguistic structure, remains a subject of intense debate, and its exact nature continues to elude theoretical linguistics. A common view holds that only same-category constituents can be conjoined, which has been challenged by the many grammatical unlike coordinations fo...
- Gotta Catch them all: the modes of Sycophancy
Large language models often align with users' beliefs at the expense of factual accuracy, a behavior known as sycophancy. Prior mechanistic studies largely treat sycophancy as a single behavioral dimension that can be uniformly amplified or suppressed. We challenge this assumption by analyzing three...
- The Two-Process Theory of Machine Self-Report
Language models are increasingly asked to self-report, informing safety evaluations, public understanding, and model-welfare debates. Yet their reports are elicited with human questionnaires never validated for models or ad hoc prompts of unknown reliability. We propose the first language-model-spec...
- RALS: Resources and Baselines for Romanian Automatic Lexical Simplification
We introduce the first dataset that jointly covers both lexical complexity prediction (LCP) annotations and lexical simplification (LS) for Romanian, along with a comparison of lexical simplification approaches. We propose a methodology for ordering simplification suggestions using a pairwise rankin...
- A Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Explainability in Media Bias Detection
Detecting media bias automatically is difficult because biased framing is often subtle, yet in domains such as news analysis, accurate predictions alone are insufficient without explanations that reflect the model's underlying reasoning. We present a multi-dimensional evaluation of explainability in...
- JANUS: Foreseeing Latent Risk for Long-Horizon Agent Safety
Agent safety is moving from content moderation toward preventing operational failures before tool-using agents act. We propose Janus, a foresight-oriented framework for long-horizon agent safety that trains guards to anticipate delayed risks from partial trajectories. Janus synthesizes diverse agent...
- DocOps: A Verifiable Benchmark for Autonomous Agents in Complex Document Operations
As autonomous agents rapidly evolve, their ability to reliably manipulate ubiquitous digital documents has become critical for enabling general-purpose AI assistants and automating complex workspace workflows. In this paper, we introduce DocOps, a deterministically verifiable evaluation framework un...