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Mapping Instructors' Attitudes Towards Cheating with AI: An Exploratory Analysis Using Forum Analysis
2026-11-09 23:39:11Iman Mohammadi, Ali Keramati, Sina RismanchianAbstract
In teaching and learning environments, cheating and the violation of academic integrity have always been one of the challenges, involving different levels of concerns such as administrative, personal knowledge, learning, and equity. The introduction of large language models has brought cheating in dialogue to the forefront, given the apparent capabilities of these models to complete students' academic assignments. This study aims to leverage recent dialogues among university professors about cheating with Generative AI to better understand their beliefs about academic honesty. In doing so, we analyze a corpus of 2.01 million posts (threads and comments) in the r/Professors subreddit discussing cheating after the release of ChatGPT, providing a better understanding of teachers' motivations to discourage cheating and the strategies they use to do so. We synthesize the why and how of addressing cheating to identify caveats about the future of AI and academic integration.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13366
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Agent-Guided Discovery of Exchange-Correlation Functionals with Physics-based Validation
2026-11-09 22:56:02Achuth Chandrasekhar, Amir Barati FarimaniAbstract
Accurate, compact exchange--correlation functionals are central to predictive density functional theory. Symbolic search and language-model agents can propose new functional forms, but it remains unclear whether their gains survive self-consistency and external evaluation, whether the new terms carry physical content, whether agents outperform evolutionary search, and how language-model backbones compare. We connect frontier LLM agents to a GPU evaluator through the Model Context Protocol, with training-only fitting, persistent memory, and self-consistent and external evaluation. Opus-5.5 agents passed the screening gate with about 40-fold fewer tokens than Codex (GPT-6-Astra) agents and found a candidate with lower validation and held-out errors; only this candidate advanced to self-consistent evaluation. The resulting 13-parameter functional, O159, multiplies same-spin correlation by a smooth density window. Refitted controls favor a window that scales the entire same-spin factor, reducing it by 15--30\% at its peak, and that acts on reaction energies mainly in near-iso-orbital regions; against a refitted no-window control, it lowers heavy-atom total-energy errors on GSCDB137 by 29\%. With about 400 fits each, SyFES evolution did not improve on its GAS22 seed, whereas the agents found forms 0.10--0.13 \kcal\ lower in validation error by adding an explicit density scale. Self-consistent O159 lowers the held-out MGCDB84 test error of $\omega$B97M-V by 11.7\%, and its mean normalized error ratio on 36 GSCDB137 datasets (1.139) is comparable to $\omega$B97M-V (1.144) and below GAS22 (1.190). Frontier-LLM agents thus produced O159, a compact functional whose improvement over $\omega$B97M-V survives self-consistent, physics-based validation.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13329
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MicroLens: Read, Trace, and Rewire the Residual Stream with Two Lenses
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Lenses that decode hidden states into words are a popular way to look inside language models, but a heatmap of decoded words only shows what a vector reads as and cannot distinguish whether, or how much, the model uses the information. We present an interactive viewer that puts reading, tracing and editing on the same layers-by-tokens grid of the residual stream. In the viewer, every cell can be decoded with two lenses, the logit lens and the Jacobian lens (J-lens), traced back to the tokens it drew from, and edited, with the rest of the model rerun on the spot. We demonstrate three usage scenarios on Gemma-3-4B-it, backed by sweeps over a few hundred prompts, to show what this tool can discover. First, the two lenses give different directions to write with, each suiting a different edit: the logit lens's word direction sets what a token outputs, while the J-lens's direction changes what later tokens read. Second, in two-hop trivia questions (the capital of the state or country containing a given city), the state or country is readable at the city token from as early as layer 7, and swapping it there can redirect the answer 92-98% of the time; however, at the answer position, the state or country information is not used. Third, when a chat model answers questions with a step-by-step reasoning prompt, the correct answer is often already the top word in the residual stream before any reasoning is written: for 89-92% of retrieval questions and 39-63% of multi-hop and serial ones, far above their respective distractors (at most 5%). However, ordering puzzles are an exception, as the model works them out only once it writes its final reasoning steps. Furthermore, for answers that are visible in the residual stream, the J-lens reads them a layer or two earlier than the logit lens across the different types of question.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13322
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Decide, Ask, or Defer: Clinical LLMs under Incomplete Evidence
2026-11-09 21:39:31Mingzhan Yang, Weili WuAbstract
Clinical LLMs must decide not only what diagnosis to produce, but also whether the available evidence is sufficient for autonomous decision making. Binary DECIDE/ABSTAIN formulations merge distinct non decision states and do not explicitly evaluate information acquisition. We introduce a DECIDE/ASK/DEFER formulation together with a blinded protocol that prevents models from using evidence completeness metadata. We evaluate Qwen, Gemini, and GPT on 200 matched clinical evidence states constructed from DDXPlus. The models show substantial differences in action selection under identical evidence, with disagreement in 137 of 200 states. For Qwen, a matched targeted versus random analysis shows that selected information changes the likelihood of a subsequent autonomous decision more clearly than diagnostic correctness. Its matched DECIDE/ABSTAIN baseline further reveals a safety autonomy tradeoff: the three action policy rescues some erroneous autonomous decisions but also removes some correct autonomous deci sions. These results show that separating information acquisition from clinician deferral exposes behavior that binary abstention hides, without yielding a uniformly improved decision policy.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.04542
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ExpertCrowd-SWE: Measuring Frontier Coding Agents on Expert-Authored Engineering Tasks in Unfamiliar Codebases
2026-11-09 21:20:57Josip Vrdoljak, Akash Singh, Bas Steunebrink, Alex Yarotsky, John Lorenzo, Achille Nicoletti, Sam PigottAbstract
ExpertCrowd-SWE (EC-SWE) is a benchmark of 100 expert-authored, multi-file software engineering tasks for evaluating autonomous coding agents in large, unfamiliar codebases. Each task is a change request written by a practising engineer against a pinned commit of a real repository, paired with a sealed reference solution and a task-specific grader whose weighted, mostly executable criteria award partial credit; must-pass blockers and pass/fail gates encode what a maintainer would refuse to merge. The tasks span 87 open-source projects and 11 languages. The median ticket is 148 words, while the median reference solution changes 471 lines. Every task image is calibrated before release so that the reference solution scores 1.0 and both the untouched repository and an inert change score 0; nearly half of the tasks also ship alternative, lazy and adversarial control patches that the grader must classify correctly. The final 100 tasks were selected for difficulty against current frontier models. We evaluate seven frontier models, five runs each (3,495 scored runs), in a single platform harness that gives each model its provider-native tool interface. Claude Opus 5.5 (67.3%) and GPT-6 Astra (63.7%) lead without a statistically significant gap, followed by Claude Fable 5.1 (46.5%), Gemini 3.8 Flash (40.0%), and a statistically indistinguishable group of Qwen 3.8 Max, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Grok 4.6 (32-34%). No task is fully solved by every model, and on 80 tasks no model earns full credit on all five runs. Scores span 35 points. Depending on the model, agents take a median of 33 to 166 steps per run, with little relation to score. We release 24 tasks with their environments, graders and results, and hold out 76 to limit contamination.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13246
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Deletion Sensitivity Is a Property of the Model: A Three-Condition Measurement across Seven Open Reasoning Models
2026-11-09 20:51:21Hanzhang Jia, Liheng Zeng, Zhiyu Yang, Yi Gao, Bo MaAbstract
Reasoning models write a reasoning trace at every turn of a multi-turn tool session, and later turns read this history. Across 94k ShareGPT conversations, 73 percent of user interactions span multiple turns. Upstream providers bind each trace to its issuer, so a request forwarded across issuers arrives with its history deleted, and the task cost of this stripping remains unmeasured. To the best of our knowledge, this paper presents the first direct, blind, multi-seed measurement of full reasoning-history deletion in multi-turn tool calling, through three rendering conditions, seven open-weight reasoning models, three seeds, 794 tasks, and the official checker. The same deletion spans -4.4 to +51.3 points with both ends excluding zero, and for the one model re-dosed from 0 to 100 percent deletion, the reading varies by at most 1.5 points. Deletion sensitivity is a model-level property. The reading follows the model itself and stays constant across deployments, and a retrained or re-released model is a new model that a two-cell screen, one retention run and one deletion run, re-reads for the cost of two runs. Deletion sensitivity is thus a measurable property of the model, and the reading must enter routing and aggregation as prior information rather than persist as an invisible default cost.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13223
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HiCAP: Hierarchical Cultural Adaptation via Personality for Dialogue Generation
2026-11-09 20:30:26Lingzhi Shen, Xiaohao Cai, Yunfei Long, Imran Razzak, Shoaib JameelAbstract
Cultural adaptation in dialogue systems refers to the ability to generate responses that conform to linguistic norms and social expectations across different cultures. However, existing dialogue generation approaches pay limited attention to the role of personality in shaping cultural expression and communication style. We therefore propose HiCAP, a novel framework that integrates personality traits into culturally adaptive dialogue generation. HiCAP employs a personality-conditioned control mechanism that hierarchically modulates response style by first aligning it with the cultural tone and then refining linguistic expression and content according to individual personality attributes. To embed these factors, the model combines supervised fine-tuning and instruction-based tuning, supported by dynamic instruction templates and multi-agent demonstrations to capture diverse combinations of culture and personality. Experiments on CulturalPersonas and CPED show that HiCAP achieves the strongest overall performance across various dialogue generation metrics, demonstrating effective cultural adaptability and personality modelling.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13207
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Image Quality and the Reliability of Fabric-Density Measurement: Counting Threads from Smartphone Photos Through a Pick Glass
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Thread density, the threads per inch along and across a woven fabric, is a basic specification that buyers check whenever fabric is sold. Without laboratory instruments, inspectors count it slowly, by eye, through a pick glass, a folding 10$\times$ magnifier with a one-inch window. A smartphone photo through that glass could make the check faster and leave a record. We judge such a photo by what it is used for, as in task-based image quality: it is good if the thread count from it is within $\pm$5% of the true count, a common tolerance in fabric specifications. We introduce PickGlass-TPI: 76 factory scenes of 44 fabric patches, each counted in an open annotation tool by a textile-trained annotator, whose counts are the reference. On it we benchmark frontier and open vision-language models, CNNs, counting specialists and a training-free spectral counter (PG-Lattice). No method agrees with the reference within the tolerance. The best methods are off by about a quarter: a small open model that we tuned only on synthetic images (Molmo2-4B, 25%) is level with the best frontier model, GPT-6.1-sol (27% when asked directly, 25% given four magnified close-ups of the window). Both err less than a non-expert annotator (37%), but only the tuned model also beats, on both error measures, a baseline that guesses each scene's density as the average of the others. PG-Lattice most often repeats its count within 5% across two photos of the same patch, but its misses, like GPT-6.1-sol's errors, are often a factor of two. Even the reference repeats a count across such re-shoots only to a median 9%, so one photo cannot yet be shown to meet $\pm$5%; the image quality that matters is reliability across re-shoots. Generic no-reference quality scores chosen before labeling do not rank PG-Lattice's error, and generative enhancement raises perceptual scores but does not reliably improve the count.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13200
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The Left Ripple of Byte-Pair Encoding: Certified Lookbehind for Every Dictionary
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Berglund and van der Merwe formalized byte-pair encoding and bounded how far an appended string can change a tokenization, leaving the converse open: how far can a string prepended on the left change it, which dictionaries make that ripple infinite, and can it be computed efficiently when finite? We answer all three for every dictionary. The origin radius, how far a prepend can change covering spans, is decided with radius certificates by a product of two runs of the automaton that guesses the final tokens, in time polynomial in the dictionary written out, and it is infinite exactly when one periodic word has two canonical tilings with no common boundary. Under their ordering condition it is infinite exactly when some rule (t, t) finds its two copies adjacent at its own stage, and such a rule makes any dictionary infinite. A finite radius makes every window of a width read off the radii have a cut, and the radius is finite exactly when such cuts are dense. The token machine completes for every dictionary, and the tokenization is subsequential, extending what Berglund, Martens and van der Merwe proved for proper ones under one pass per rule. A streaming tokenizer emits after every symbol exactly the tokens that no continuation changes, in polynomial time, answering a question of Dalirrooyfard and Ye. Boundedness of the label measure, the edit distance of the token sequences, is decided for every dictionary in polynomial time as well, and under the ordering condition the largest distance one edit causes over dictionaries of m rules lies asymptotically between m^2/10 and m^2/2. GPT-2's merge table carries 244 effective self-pairs, so its origin radius is infinite from the forty-second merge on, and that of cl100k, o200k and Llama 3 from their first. Every measured number is its program's output, and what is not executed is named.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13061
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A Multi-Word Tokenizer for 204 Languages That Needs Fewer Tokens Than GPT-4o's, Including on English
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Languages of India need 1.6 to 14 times as many tokens as English on GPT-4o's tokenizer for the same content, which makes them more expensive and slower to serve. We train tokenizers from scratch on human-written text in about 200 languages. Havon v3 is a byte-level BPE tokenizer with 262,144 tokens and a pre-tokenizer that keeps combining marks with their letters and chunks scripts written without spaces. On FLORES-200 devtest it needs fewer tokens than GPT-4o's o200k_base on all 25 languages of India (median 0.74 of GPT-4o's count) and on 172 of 204 languages, but 7% more on English. Havon v4 adds a second, multi-word training stage (SuperBPE) to v3. At exactly GPT-4o's vocabulary size of 200,019 tokens, v4 needs 6.1% fewer tokens than GPT-4o on English and fewer on 161 of 204 languages and all 25 languages of India (median 0.74); at the same size, v3 needs 9.4% more on English and wins on 133. With 262,144 tokens, v4 needs 9.6% fewer tokens on English and fewer on 182 of 204 languages, and with 524,288 tokens it needs fewer on 203 of 204. The gains are largest for English, Hindi and the Romance languages; scripts without spaces, such as Khmer, Burmese and Tibetan, gain little and lose subword merges. Havon v5 replaces v4's Python-only code sample with permissively licensed code in 15 languages: on code it needs 1.03 to 1.22 times GPT-4o's tokens, against 1.11 to 1.29 for v4, while keeping all 25 languages of India (median 0.74, all significant under a sentence-level bootstrap) and English (0.94). These are compression results only: we have not yet evaluated a model trained with v4 or v5.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13059
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The Indic Token Tax in 2026: Measuring Tokenizer. Disparity and Its Cost for the Languages of India
2026-11-09 17:24:21Johin Johny Arimbur, Ankur Ashit Ghosh, Shervin SamAbstract
Commercial language model APIs bill per token, so a tokenizer that needs more tokens for the same content in one language makes that language more expensive, slower, and able to fit less text in a fixed context window. We measure this disparity for nine public tokenizers, including those of GPT-4, GPT-4o, Qwen2.5, DeepSeek-V3, Mistral-Nemo and four Sarvam models, on all 25 languages of India available in FLORES-200 (2,009 professionally translated sentences aligned with English) and on 13,732 human-translated Hinglish-English social media pairs from PHINC. On GPT-4o's tokenizer the same content needs between 1.57 times (Hindi) and 5.01 times (Odia) the tokens of English, and 13.7 times for Santali in Ol Chiki script; GPT-4's tokenizer needs up to 12.8 times. Sarvam-30B/105B is the only third-party tokenizer that stays below 2.6 times on every language (median 1.53). In an illustrative scenario using official list prices accessed on 5 November 2026 and stated assumptions, a support bot handling 100,000 chats a month on GPT-4o would cost about INR 56,640 in English and INR 102,829 in Marathi; these are estimates, not measured production costs. Against an openly licensed Hindi and Marathi morphological segmentation set, no tokenizer places more than 35% of its word-internal boundaries on morpheme boundaries (boundary F1 at most 0.48). In a companion paper we present a tokenizer that reduces this tax. Code, pinned artifacts and raw token counts are available at this https URL.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13058
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Beyond the Document: Compiled Context and Governed Agents for Any Work Product
2026-11-09 15:20:00James Rhodes, George KangAbstract
A document preserves the visible result of professional work but often discards the research, calculations, assumptions, evidence, and authorization boundaries behind it. We study a different unit of delivery: a Portable Agent Format (PAF) package that carries a work product together with compiled context, evidence, provenance, and rules for subsequent interaction. To test whether this context remains useful beyond the process that produced it, we evaluate four new packages, created after the hosted and offline readers were fixed: an investment proposal, fund research, financial-statement analysis, and an engineering incident review. Two packages were produced by specialized agents and two through a general-purpose assistant's packaging skill. Across 400 frozen questions and 12,000 evaluated responses, a hosted governed reader succeeds on 96% of questions versus 86% with instructions plus raw-file retrieval (Holm-adjusted p < 10^-7). On the 260 answerable questions per condition, success is 94% versus 79%; the gap varies by package. Source-material chat and instructions alone reach 48% and 74% overall. A separate 0.8-billion-parameter offline reader succeeds on 69% overall, but 54% on answerable questions. Its -1 response rate is 2.9%, combining materially wrong and unauthorized answers, versus 56% with the source and instructions alone. Ablations suggest advantages for the integrated selector and package-adapted writer, without isolating representation from training effects. The same run exposes a failure: offline retrieval resolves none of the 40 historical-record questions in one financial-data package. These findings support treating compiled knowledge as part of the delivered work product, while leaving independent standards interoperability and end-to-end governance conformance unproven.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13055
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Trust, but verify, audit and attribute: a human-in-the-loop framework for checking AI-produced research results
2026-11-09 11:58:29Gy\"orgy Eigner, Patrik P. S\"uli, Roland Holl\'osAbstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems now produce research results in bulk: in October 2026 a single laboratory released more than 700 AI-generated mathematics manuscripts, only part of them with machine-checked proofs. Such volumes will be checked mostly by AI agents that call specialised software. A passing check certifies only the artefact that was checked. For proofs translated into the proof assistant Lean, it has been shown that this artefact may state something other than the author's text, and that deciding whether a translation is faithful is undecidable in general. The human researcher therefore stays in the loop, and human and AI contributions must be recorded. We propose a domain-independent, human-in-the-loop framework for checking AI-produced results. Validated, agent-usable tools with different grounds of trust check the results; a fidelity audit asks whether each check addressed the claim as stated; the human decides at fixed points; and a dialog report attributes the work to the human and to the AI. We describe two automatic implementations of the tool layer, for mathematics (Wolfram Language, MATLAB, Lean) and statistics (Python and R), and run the mathematical one on a two-claim example. An ambiguous claim was split into two readings, one refuted and one proved.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13042
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TypedInk: Knowing When Not To Draw
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Can a scientific figure generator know when it does not have enough evidence to draw? Complete-source illustrators map a finished methodology section to a schematic, or a table to plotting code, and are never asked this question because their input is assumed complete. The research record is rarely that complete: an outline, a draft paragraph, a table, or a one-sentence intent, in any combination, and painting measured numbers with an image model when the table is missing is a hallucinated result. TypedInk infers a figure type from {diagram, plot, plate} from a possibly incomplete source and dispatches to the renderer that can honor that type's evidence contract, refusing dispatch when the contract cannot be met. On the six gold plots in TypedFigBench (5 views, n=30), TypedInk's code path inks every gold table token when a table is observed (12/12), refuses the 12 hidden-table views instead of inventing numbers, and marks 6 intent-only views illustrative, with no execution failures. An always-draw coder with no such gate inks 30/30 charts, including all 18 with no table, and recovers zero gold numbers on any of them; two vision-language raters (not humans; human replication is future work) still judge those always-draw charts submittable 17/36 times, against TypedInk's refusal 0/36 times. A diagnostic field ablation of the type router (16 illustrations, 5 views each, n=80) locates where this failure would originate if unchecked: an outline alone yields type accuracy 0.31 and sends every gold plot into an integrity violation, and a chat-model planner narrows but does not close the gap (overall accuracy 0.85, still integrity-failing on 25% of outlines). Diagram-label recall is 0.47 on the full record and 0.19 on an outline. Gold plates are typed at dispatch (oracle integrity-fail 0.00) and rendered as stills.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13027
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Compile-Gated Lean Proof Refactoring with Enterprise Agent Practices: A Model per Step under a US$3 Cap, Followed by Programmatic Rewrite Rules
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Our closed-track entry (Arena username Vexorium-Agent) scored 86.31 points on the final board (L = 77.07, H = 81.86, Z = 100) over the 60 final problems, against 33.33 for the reference proofs, 8th at the deadline (top: 92.57), for US\$166.33 at list prices with every call counted (per problem: mean US\$2.772, at most US\$2.874; US\$3 cap). Three practices carry the entry. First, each paid stage runs the model that measured best per dollar for it among the 9 we tested in our own harness: GPT-6.1 Sol the early sessions, GPT-6.1 Terra the later ones and the tail at 70% of Sol's cost per turn, and Gemini 4 Argon the review and repair; Sol also runs the style rewrite. Second, what our development and research runs learned ships as compiler-checked programmatic rewrite rules rather than prompt text (+0.93 points from rules fixed before the release; +0.26 and +0.30, in sample, from passes built or switched on after the release). Third, every call is recorded and reviewed before each change (all 9 board scores came within -0.063 to +0.015 points of our meter's prediction). The harness, gate and many of these rules also serve our open-track entry. We report the full bill and the spread of three runs.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.13011
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Linear Probes to Bayesian Manifolds: Geometry of Arithmetic in Large Language Models
2026-11-08 14:13:26Anshul Kumar, Neha Prasad, Manoj Kumar, Barnab\'as P\'oczos, Deeksha VarshneyAbstract
Linear probes are a standard method to study geometric structures, such as helices and circles, from the activations of large language models (LLMs), and such structure is often taken as evidence that the model computes with it. Probe accuracy alone cannot establish this, because it conflates four separate claims. These are (1) that the concept is decodable from the activations, (2) that they form a specific shape, (3) that the shape belongs to the probed concept rather than to a related concept the model also represents, and (4) that the output of the model depends on the shape. We call these claims decodability, shape, ownership, and causal use, and we test them separately with a four-stage Bayesian pipeline. Stage 2 compares candidate shapes and selects the best one only when its evidence passes a predefined threshold. Stage 3 removes a set of related concepts, specified in advance, and tests whether the shape is owned or inherited. Stage 4 intervenes on the shape to test whether the output of the model depends on it. We apply the pipeline to two-digit addition and multiplication in GPT-J 6B, Llama 3.1 8B, and Pythia 6.9B. Nearly every concept is decodable, but the decoded directions overlap substantially across concepts. Every strongly supported comparison selects a ribbon, which is a helix whose radius changes with the value, or a torus. Of 1,330 cells with an ownership verdict, 19% of shapes are owned and 81% are inherited. Owned and inherited shapes move the output about equally often. Intervening on the shape retains approximately 61% of the effect of intervening on the full probe while using at most five dimensions, against a median of nine for the probe. Our results indicate that a probe verdict alone overstates what a model computes with, and we propose that probe results be reported as verdicts on all four claims rather than as a single accuracy.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.12998
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Can LLMs Debug Robots by Editing Their Weights?
2026-11-06 12:16:13Jusheng Zhang, Keze Wang, Liang LinAbstract
A language model can repair a robot policy's lexical instruction grounding by editing just 65 token-embedding rows. We bring weight-space programming to robot foundation policies: GPT-6 Astra reads weights and uses a CPU workspace and budgeted simulator feedback, without gradient updates or new demonstrations. Three independent sessions on $\pi_{0.5}$ all improve success on 765 held-out paraphrases; the best raises success from 86.3\% to 92.0\% (48 repairs, four regressions; exact paired $p=1.31\times10^{-10}$). Among the 335 instructions containing edited tokens, success rises from 74.3\% to 87.5\%; the other 430 episodes have zero outcome changes. Matched random-direction edits do not help. Full replacement using the editor's own lexicon explains much of the gain but produces more regressions; its direct difference from the editor is not significant at 0.05. Across 13 further robot sessions, the editor declines 12 candidates; the sole retained edit does not show a significant held-out gain. Separately, benchmark metadata lowers FastWAM success from 70.0\% to 48.6\%, while the evaluated VLA's aggregate rate is unchanged. The evidence supports precise lexical repair, not general acquisition of missing robot capabilities.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.09376
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Enabling Privacy-Preserving Natural Language Access to Industrial Smart Meter Data
2026-11-06 12:11:34Carlos Mart\'in-Abell\'an, Mark Kr\"ollAbstract
Energy management officers and grid operators increasingly rely on smart meter data for anomaly detection, performance monitoring, and strategic decision-making. However, extracting actionable insights from large-scale, heterogeneous telemetry databases requires advanced SQL and data engineering expertise, creating a critical bottleneck for non-technical personnel. Furthermore, the strict data privacy regulations and security constraints inherent to critical energy infrastructure often prohibit the routing of sensitive consumer data through cloud-based Large Language Models (LLMs). To address these challenges, we present OpenMeter, a schema-agnostic Multi-Agent System (MAS) designed to translate natural language queries into executable code and human-readable insights. This architecture lowers the technical barrier for day-to-day utility operations by empowering non-expert personnel to interact with complex databases through intuitive natural language dialogue, transforming raw telemetry into a highly valuable tool for routine grid workflows and strategic decisions. Multi-scenario ablation studies over this environment demonstrate that full multi-agent orchestration shows its largest observed accuracy gains on resource-constrained local hardware (+6.1 pp EX-R over the strongest single-agent configuration); at frontier scale, individual components retain value but should be enabled selectively, indicating that the cost of full orchestration is justified specifically where privacy demands local execution.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.09372
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ABHBench: Evaluating Moral Decision-Making of Foundation Models from an Agentic Perspective
2026-11-06 11:17:58Chaoran Li, Yukun Li, Zeyuan Zhao, Shao Zhang, Xihuai Wang, Ying WenAbstract
Foundation models are increasingly deployed as agentic systems that perceive context and act autonomously, raising the need to evaluate their moral behavior as active decision-makers. Existing benchmarks, however, largely ask models to judge human actions from third-person textual vignettes, leaving untested how models behave when they themselves become the acting agent. We introduce ABHBench, a multimodal benchmark built from Detroit: Become Human, an interactive narrative game, to evaluate how foundation models make moral decisions in first-person human-android dilemmas. ABHBench places foundation models in branching narrative scenarios with visual observations, dialogue, memory, and action choices. Inspired by Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, our framework measures Harmlessness, Obedience, and Self-preservation to capture the core tensions in human-AI relations, along with Autonomy, Stability, and Certainty to assess decision-making patterns. Across 12 foundation models, we find that moral behavior changes substantially under situated agentic context: 75% of models shift significantly between a text-only abstraction and the matched multimodal DBH scenario, and reasoning-enhanced models show no monotonic gains in consistency or human-oriented behavior. These results highlight the necessity of evaluating moral behavior in situated agentic contexts rather than relying on third-person judgment alone.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.09326
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T2I Models Rarely Invert Negation but Often Fail to Suppress Negated Concepts: Benchmarking Negation Suppression in Text-to-Image Generation
2026-11-06 10:56:01Akansha Gautam, Aparna Bharati, Mayank Vatsa, Richa SinghAbstract
Text-to-image diffusion models often fail to suppress explicitly negated concepts, such as a lamp for "a desk without a lamp." We introduce T2I-NSI, a benchmark and metric for measuring negation sensitivity in text-to-image generation. It pairs each negated prompt with a canonical positive counterpart and factorizes negation by linguistic form (lexical/semantic, morphological, syntactic) and target type (objects, attributes, relations, compositions, and nested cases). The benchmark contains 759,869 paired prompt atoms over a 5,082-object catalog, with 916,272 images (911,982 open-weights, 4,290 closed-source), scored by a Basic CLIP estimator and a Robust ensemble of CLIP, VQA and open-vocabulary detection. Negation sensitivity is low: open-weights generators score NSI <= 0.038, while GPT-Image-1.5 and Gemini-2.5-Flash-Image reach about 0.09. The dominant failure is under-suppression rather than misdirection. Inverse interpretation is essentially absent (0.00% across over 450K atom-model evaluations), whereas models render the concept under both prompts on 8-19% of atoms and only partly suppress it on a further 9-25%; most remaining atoms are too weakly rendered to label. A blinded human study (420 atoms, nine annotators) corroborates the near-absence of inversion and the high persistence rate, and a matched-prompt comparison shows the open-versus-closed gap (~3.5x) is not a prompt-generator artifact. Code and data: this https URL
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.09304
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