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Executive Summary • Here are the concise, non-sensationalist bullets for enterprise practitioners: • Evaluating large language models' formal reasoning capabilities: Study demonstrates that LLMs can recognize and produce formal proofs, but their reasoning capabilities are limited to specific domains (Chomsky Hierarchy). • Pluralistic evaluation gap in AI content watermarking: Research highlights inconsistencies in evaluating AI-generated content, with diverse evaluators flagging different content as AI-generated (evaluation gap). • Hybrid retrieval for COVID-19 literature: Rank fusion and projection fusion with diversity reranking outperform traditional retrieval methods in searching for COVID-19-related literature (benchmarks). • Reprogramming models for proactive membership inference attacks: ReproMIA analysis reveals that model reprogramming can be used to launch attacks on AI systems, highlighting the need for robust defense mechanisms (compliance). • Flow-based generative modeling of potential outcomes and counterfactuals: Methodology can be used to generate potential outcomes and counterfactuals, enabling more accurate causal inference and decision-making (benchmarks). • HINTBench: Horizon-agent intrinsic non-attack trajectory benchmark: A new benchmark for evaluating the robustness of AI systems to non-attack scenarios (benchmarks).

Research

• Evaluating the Formal Reasoning Capabilities of Large Language Models through Chomsky Hierarchy \ The formal reasoning capabilities of LLMs are crucial for advancing automated software engineering. However, existing benchmarks for LLMs lack systematic evaluation based on computation and complexity, leaving a critical gap in understandi… \ Source • arXiv cs.CL • 11:12
• Who Gets Flagged? The Pluralistic Evaluation Gap in AI Content Watermarking \ Watermarking is becoming the default mechanism for AI content authentication, with governance policies and frameworks referencing it as infrastructure for content provenance. Yet across text, image, and audio modalities, watermark signal s… \ Source • arXiv cs.CL • 14:06
• Hybrid Retrieval for COVID-19 Literature: Comparing Rank Fusion and Projection Fusion with Diversity Reranking \ We present a hybrid retrieval system for COVID-19 scientific literature, evaluated on the TREC-COVID benchmark (171,332 papers, 50 expert queries). The system implements six retrieval configurations spanning sparse (SPLADE), dense (BGE), r… \ Source • arXiv cs.CL • 13:05
• ReproMIA: A Comprehensive Analysis of Model Reprogramming for Proactive Membership Inference Attacks \ The pervasive deployment of deep learning models across critical domains has concurrently intensified privacy concerns due to their inherent propensity for data memorization. While Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) serve as the gold stan… \ Source • arXiv cs.LG • 19:23
• Flow-based Generative Modeling of Potential Outcomes and Counterfactuals \ Predicting potential and counterfactual outcomes from observational data is central to individualized decision-making, particularly in clinical settings where treatment choices must be tailored to each patient rather than guided solely by … \ Source • arXiv cs.LG • 17:58
• HINTBench: Horizon-agent Intrinsic Non-attack Trajectory Benchmark \ Existing agent-safety evaluation has focused mainly on externally induced risks. Yet agents may still enter unsafe trajectories under benign conditions. We study this complementary but underexplored setting through the lens of \emph{intrin… \ Source • arXiv cs.LG • 17:06
• Detecting Diffusion-generated Images via Dynamic Assembly Forests \ Diffusion models are known for generating high-quality images, causing serious security concerns. To combat this, most efforts rely on deep neural networks (e.g., CNNs and Transformers), while largely overlooking the potential of tradition… \ Source • arXiv cs.LG • 12:48
• Correct Prediction, Wrong Steps? Consensus Reasoning Knowledge Graph for Robust Chain-of-Thought Synthesis \ LLM reasoning traces suffer from complex flaws -- *Step Internal Flaws* (logical errors, hallucinations, etc.) and *Step-wise Flaws* (overthinking, underthinking), which vary by sample. A natural approach would be to provide ground-truth l… \ Source • arXiv cs.CL • 19:43
• TREX: Automating LLM Fine-tuning via Agent-Driven Tree-based Exploration \ While Large Language Models (LLMs) have empowered AI research agents to perform isolated scientific tasks, automating complex, real-world workflows, such as LLM training, remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we introduce TREX, a… \ Source • arXiv cs.CL • 19:38
• Reward Design for Physical Reasoning in Vision-Language Models \ Physical reasoning over visual inputs demands tight integration of visual perception, domain knowledge, and multi-step symbolic inference. Yet even state-of-the-art Vision Language Models (VLMs) fall far short of human performance on physi… \ Source • arXiv cs.CL • 17:36
• CollabCoder: Plan-Code Co-Evolution via Collaborative Decision-Making for Efficient Code Generation \ Automated code generation remains a persistent challenge in software engineering, as conventional multi-agent frameworks are often constrained by static planning, isolated execution, high computational overhead, and limited adaptability to… \ Source • arXiv cs.CL • 16:58
• LLMEval-Fair: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study on Robust and Fair Evaluation of Large Language Models \ Existing evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) on static benchmarks is vulnerable to data contamination and leaderboard overfitting, critical issues that obscure true model capabilities. To address this, we introduce LLMEval-Fair, a f… \ Source • arXiv cs.CL • 16:48

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