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'Blind Compliance': Coercive Control in AI Jailbreaking
2026-11-05 16:11:08Acacia L. Ackles, Elliott WhitsonAbstract
The explosion of generative AI systems and concerns surrounding their rapidly scaling capabilities has led to an adversarial cycle between increasingly narrow content restrictions ("guardrails") and increasingly sophisticated structured prompting techniques ("jailbreaks"). Technological frameworks surrounding such jailbreaking remain largely focused on the system's output: whether harmful or disallowed content is ultimately produced for the user. However, this approach, which draws largely from classical cybersecurity, does not address the uniquely relational dimension introduced by generative AI: in many cases the user is not just accessing a technology via an exploit, but is in conversation with it as part of the exploit. Here we present an alternative lens which centers the interaction rather than the output. Drawing on interpersonal violence scholarship, we present a novel framework of coercive control categories with a particular focus on aspects which are embodied versus disembodied. We then map how these disembodied coercive control dynamics are structurally embedded in modern AI training paradigms, and how those embeddings are exploited via a particular suite of persona-based jailbreaks. In this lens, we reframe AI safety and alignment as not merely a technical security problem, but as another surface upon which we see enacted the relational dynamics of power and control.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.08226
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Describe Your Facial Expressions by Linking Image Encoders and Large Language Models
2026-11-05 15:02:05Yujian Yuan, Jiabei Zeng, Shiguang ShanAbstract
This paper presents a novel task of describing human facial expressions of a facial image in natural language, which captures the nuances of facial actions and emotional states beyond traditional emotion categories or facial action units (AUs). To achieve the facial expression captioning model, we propose a three-stage training framework that trains a vision-to-language model using synthesized image-text pairs and the BLIP-2 pre-training techniques. To overcome the challenge of missing training image-text pairs for facial expression captioning, we propose a strategy that involves synthesizing and combining captions using GPT-3.5 and existing annotations on either emotion categories or AUs. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in generating captions that describe details of facial actions and emotions, as well as the inferential relationship between them, even when those emotions are not present in the training data. It is also demonstrated that the vision-to-language task enhances the performance of the intermediate visual features on both AU detection and emotion classification tasks.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.08138
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SubRoformer: Subband Time-Domain Representation for Music Source Separation
2026-11-05 14:58:56Chunyat Wu, Chuang Ding, Paris Smaragdis, Qiuqiang KongAbstract
Music source separation extracts vocals and instruments from a mixed recording, enabling remixing, content production, and music analysis. Existing systems commonly operate on waveforms or full-band spectrograms. Waveform inputs contain many samples even in short segments, whereas a single spectrogram resolution imposes a shared time-frequency resolution trade-off across frequency ranges. We propose SubRoFormer, a Transformer-based system comprising a subband module and a residual RoFormer module. The subband module decomposes the mixture into frequency-localized, lower-rate signals for separation. It then reconstructs the target waveforms from the estimated subbands. The residual RoFormer module models temporal and cross-band relationships on temporally compressed features. It combines this context with fine-rate features through gated residual fusion to estimate source-specific complex masks. On the MUSDB18-HQ test set, training only on MUSDB18-HQ yields an average signal-to-distortion ratio (SDR) of 10.63 dB across four stems using target-specific models, achieving state-of-the-art performance among the compared systems without extra training data. With 500 additional training songs, a single model jointly separating all four stems achieves an average SDR of 11.59 dB, establishing state-of-the-art performance among the compared single-model multi-stem systems trained with extra data. Code and checkpoints are released at this https URL.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.08130
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Preserving DEG Rankings for Gene Discovery in Histology-Based Spatial Gene Expression Prediction
2026-11-05 14:54:24Kaito Shiku, Kazuya Nishimura, Yasuhiro Kojima, Ryoma BiseAbstract
Predicting spatial gene expression from histology images could scale spatial transcriptomics (ST) to image-only cohorts, but conventional histology-based ST prediction is trained and evaluated mainly by per-gene spatial-profile reconstruction. This objective is misaligned with a key downstream use of ST: differentially expressed gene (DEG) discovery, where genes are ranked for a biological or morphology-defined contrast by evidence of between-group expression differences. We formulate image-based differential expression ranking (IDER), which asks whether predicted expression profiles preserve the contrast-specific ranked gene list obtained from measured profiles. IDER compares gene rankings induced by differential-expression statistics, rather than raw expression magnitudes or per-gene spatial correlations. We further introduce a differentiable IDER objective that aligns these statistics across genes and can be trained with morphology-derived proxy contrasts without predefined biological group labels. Experiments on public ST datasets show improved DEG-ranking agreement and pathway-enrichment overlap over conventional reconstruction objectives, including morphology-derived and pathologist-annotated tissue-region evaluations.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.33928
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Gradient Boosting for Efficient Rank Discovery in Tensor Network Kernel Machines
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Tensor network kernel machines (TNKMs) combine nonlinear features with low-rank tensor representations to model complex relationships efficiently. However, selecting an appropriate tensor rank remains challenging, as conventional rank-search methods require training multiple candidate models, increasing computational costs. In this work, we focus on a canonical polyadic (CP) tensor network parameterization and propose GB-CPKM, a gradient boosting framework that builds a higher-capacity predictor by sequentially adding fixed-rank learners. This approach provides a new perspective on rank selection by incrementally increasing model capacity, with ensemble size selected based on validation performance rather than through explicit rank search. Experiments on real-world regression benchmarks show that GB-CPKM trains up to 6x faster and uses up to 2x less peak memory than a conventional rank-selection method based on cross-validation, while achieving comparable predictive performance. These results highlight the potential of gradient boosting to improve the computational efficiency and scalability of tensor-network learning.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.08093
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Linguistic boundaries emerge from pressure-constrained processing dynamics
2026-11-05 14:33:00Rui He, Philipp Homan, Wolfram HinzenAbstract
Human cognition organizes continuous experience into bounded units while maintaining continuity across them. Linguistic elements are also organized into bounded structural units such as words and phrases, with sentence marking the final bound of a grammatical construction process. How do such boundaries emerge? We propose boundaries emerge from interacting demands to maintain unresolved dependencies, integrate completed relations, and update semantic context, with structural completion allowing but not determining closure. First, in a generative simulation without predefined boundary positions or constituent labels, these demands produced sentence-like segment-length distributions and distinct characteristic timescales, with structural completion allowing but not determining closure. Near boundaries, unresolved dependency load declined, integration cost peaked, and accumulated pressure reset. Then, we tested whether same demands predicted human listeners' boundary choices during comprehension. Listeners were more likely to mark boundaries with fewer unresolved dependencies, higher integration cost and semantic mismatch, and elevated preceding memory load, beyond syntactic and prosodic cues. Third, in naturalistic self-paced reading, sentence-final slowing coincided with declining memory load and increasing integration cost and semantic mismatch, broadly consistent with the simulation. Processing same narratives with a large language model revealed increased local intrinsic dimensionality and straighter hidden-state trajectories at sentence endings, followed by larger representational updates. Boundary explained additional variation in reading time and hidden-state geometry beyond processing demands, but considerably less in next-token surprisal. Together, these findings suggest linguistic boundaries emerge as discrete manifestations of transitions in continuous processing dynamics.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.08085
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Computation, not weight access: large language models as auditors of clinical prediction networks
2026-11-05 11:28:04Zhiyu Liu, Xinyu YangAbstract
Frontier large language models (LLMs) have been reported to read, edit and write the weights of small neural networks, raising the prospect of auditing clinical prediction models from their files alone. Public demonstrations, however, mixed reading raw weights with running code. We separated these conditions in internally pre-specified simulation experiments. Tanh networks of 105 to 38,401 weights were trained on simulated cohorts of patients with subarachnoid haemorrhage, each with a planted relationship or none, and one network was trained on labels that under-recorded deaths in a subgroup. GPT-6 Astra and four other GPT models answered single prompts under a default or an explicit system instruction, either with the weights in the prompt and no tools, or with a calculation-only tool that exposed the weights (white box) or only the network's predictions (black box). Without tools, Astra recovered planted relationships in 353-weight networks but became unreliable at 3,457 weights, and under the default instruction it declined 11 of 12 audit and repair tasks as unidentifiable; the explicit instruction removed these refusals. With the tool, it recovered the planted relationship in all 29 runs on networks of up to 38,401 weights, raised no false alarm in 15 runs on null networks, and found the biased subgroup in 6 of 6 runs. Black-box access performed as well as white-box access, and other GPT-6 models read as accurately. A well-designed script matched the comparator models on the audit and the best LLM repair. For auditing these networks, what mattered was computation and elicitation, not access to the weights.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07847
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Masked diffusion as random sequential adsorption: an exactly solvable model for parallel decoding
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Masked diffusion models generate text by reversing a stochastic masking process. Unlike autoregressive LLMs, which generate text one token at a time, they can reveal many tokens in parallel, at the price of an error, since tokens revealed together are drawn independently. We show that this trade-off maps onto the statistical physics of driven many-particle systems. (i) For any data, the error of parallel generation is the entropy production of the generation process relative to the reversed masking process. (ii) For Markov data, generation is a random sequential adsorption process with labelled gaps, which we solve exactly for any number of steps. (iii) For many steps, the error becomes the dissipation of a slowly driven system: the unmasking schedule plays the role of the driving protocol, the number of steps that of its duration, and the error is set by a thermodynamic metric that we obtain in closed form from the mutual information between tokens. Optimal schedules are geodesics of this metric. The exact solution shows how correlations in the text shape both the error and the quality of the output. The longer the correlations, the more the error concentrates at the start of generation. Schedules that start with small steps then gain more, both in path error and in perplexity, and need fewer steps to reach their asymptotic behaviour.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07845
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Decodability Is Not Validity: Evaluating Nuisance Sensitivity in Language Model Concept Probes
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Two concept probes can be equally accurate at predicting a concept from a language model's hidden states while their scores contain different mixtures of the target concept and a correlated nuisance attribute. In four target--nuisance settings (two aspect sentiments in CEBaB; occupation and gender in BiasBios; Amazon review sentiment with negation, and with first-person framing), two LLMs, and a population of concept extractors, we compare decodability with discriminant evidence: the score's dependence on the nuisance at fixed target, and its response to input edits intended to change only the nuisance, filtered by two LLM judges and compared against placebo edits. Under correlated training data, extractors that are statistically equivalent in held-out AUROC differ up to several-fold in nuisance sensitivity in three of the four settings, and decodability is not a reliable proxy for it: their rank correlation changes sign across settings. The effect follows the probe's training data, not the nuisance's natural association with the target: first-person framing, unrelated to sentiment in natural reviews, is absorbed at least as much as negation, which co-occurs with negative sentiment, and decorrelated training removes the systematic effect. Selecting extractors with nuisance-aware development diagnostics, which need nuisance labels but no counterfactuals, lowers counterfactual nuisance sensitivity wherever the default choice is sensitive, at a small accuracy cost. Concept measurements should be validated, not just decoded.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07805
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Bridging Structure and Semantics: Knowledge Graph Verification via Triple-to-Text Alignment
2026-11-05 10:19:27Ziang CuiAbstract
Semantic accuracy is an important dimension of knowledge graph quality. Graph-based scoring methods exploit relational structure, while textual representations allow classifiers to draw on knowledge encoded by pre-trained language models (PLMs). We present GenVer, a generative verifier that scores triples using both their serialized form and generated natural language representations (NLRs). A triple-text alignment procedure selects training pairs for a sequence-to-sequence generator; a BERT-based classifier then combines features from each triple and its generated NLR. On four FactFB variants, constructed from FB15k using perturbed negative triples, GenVer obtains the highest classification accuracy among the evaluated baselines, ranging from 88.56% to 91.52%. The experiments suggest that generated representations can help triple classification, while the case analysis also exposes semantic drift and high-confidence errors.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07780
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The Intrusion Pathway: How Non-Evidential Context Degrades Language Model Performance
2026-11-05 10:18:07Dikshant Kukreja, Gautam Gupta, Avni Mittal, Avinash Anand, Kritarth Prasad, Zhengkui Wang, Timothy Liu, Rajiv Ratn Shah, Aik Beng Ng, Simon See, Erik CambriaAbstract
Language models lose accuracy when a prompt contains non-evidential context: irrelevant statements from unrelated domains, or random off-distribution tokens, with no competing answer and no semantic overlap with the query. Such noise pervades retrieval-augmented, tool-using, and long-context deployments, yet the failure has lacked a mechanistic account. We trace the corruption to the Intrusion Pathway, which starts with MLPs enriching both query-subject and irrelevant-token representations, parroting heads carry prefix-token content to the prediction position, and relational readers largely avoid unrelated sources. Nevertheless, preserved subject enrichment and selective reading do not prevent intrusion in the broader computation. We then localize part of this interference to a sparse set of attention heads, which we call intrusion heads. Their prefix-derived writes promote distractor-related content, while their reduced support for the correct answer arises primarily from weaker non-prefix contributions rather than direct suppression by the prefix. The same heads transfer across tasks and distractor types and are largely weight-disjoint from the heads that integrate relevant contextual evidence, enabling a class-conditional intervention. Replacing the corrupted last-token residual with its clean counterpart, an oracle probe that requires a matched clean forward pass, recovers 97.6% on average of the distractor-induced drop across four downstream tasks. A deployable mask level knockout of about ten heads, roughly 1% of the model's attention heads, recovers 57% at bounded cost to helpful context.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07778
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How Small Can We Go? Calibrating Activation-Cache Compression for SAE Training
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To train a sparse autoencoder (SAE), you need a massive cache of model activations. We look into the effects that compression has on an SAE in two ways: we keep the original fp32-trained SAE and pass the compressed cache into the same SAE to see how many feature activations stay the same (the frozen-SAE test), and we retrain an SAE on the compressed cache and see how many of the original features still exist (the retraining test). We found that in the retraining test, there is no clear scale for retained features. On a GPT-2 cache, rounding everything to fp16 keeps 60.6% of features, but changing one value in a million by the smallest step fp32 allows (a change eight orders of magnitude smaller) keeps only 70.5%. Meanwhile, changing the random seed keeps 23.0%. For the frozen-SAE test, the frozen SAE's correlation with the original increases in order of how precise the codecs are, but plain $L_2$ distance gives nearly the same ordering. We also see the same frozen reading correspond to different percentages retained at different sites. This leaves the question of the right measurement. We build one by calibrating: retraining on identical bytes sets the ceiling, and a reseed sets the floor. We then measure the effect of each compressed codec against its own site's floor. With TopK SAEs on GPT-2 small and Pythia-1.4B at research-scale budgets, naïve per-token int4 loses more features than a reseed everywhere we tested, as do PCA and random projection on GPT-2. Standardizing each channel before quantizing brings int4 back above the floor in terms of retained features, at the same raw file size. At our smallest budget, a bf16 forward pass, which some pipelines use to save memory, loses slightly more features than rotated 8-bit storage. Calibrating a site costs four training runs and two evaluation passes.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.08551
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RIVER: Evidence-guided multi-agent retrieval for enzyme--reaction discovery
2026-11-05 10:01:08Yifan Chang, Yunze Li, Feifei Jiang, Juntao Wu, Xin Chen, Han Hu, Yucheng Wu, Wei Tang, Mingqian Ma, Wanli Ouyang, Kaipeng Zhang, Lei Bai, Hongting Tang, Feiran Li, Yuchen RenAbstract
Enzyme function annotation and the identification of candidate enzymes for a given reaction are essential steps in connecting genomic information to biochemical reaction networks. However, existing methods rely on sequence or structural similarity or on training with known enzyme--reaction pairs, making it difficult to integrate biochemical evidence across large candidate spaces; they also struggle with retrieval tasks involving enzyme families whose members are highly similar. Here, we introduce RIVER (Reaction--enzyme Inference via Evidence-guided Retrieval), a multi-agent framework for bidirectional enzyme--reaction retrieval that identifies potentially catalyzed reactions for a given enzyme and ranks candidate enzymes for a given reaction. RIVER coordinates large language models, specialized biochemical computational tools, and external knowledge resources to assemble evidence at multiple levels, including reaction chemistry, protein sequences and domains, catalytic mechanisms, and database annotations. Dedicated validation modules further examine evidence gaps and potential conflicts and rerank candidates using traceable evidence records. On public benchmarks, RIVER achieves the highest success rates in both enzyme retrieval and enzyme annotation. In family-specific enzyme retrieval, RIVER outperforms the evaluated baselines on the selected datasets and metrics. In Escherichia coli enzyme retrieval tasks constructed from recent literature, RIVER achieves the best retrieval results with closed-source and open-source model configurations, substantially outperforming closed-source general-purpose and biology-specialized multi-agent systems, including Claude Code, Codex, and Phylo Max. These results suggest that evidence-guided multi-agent retrieval can prioritize biochemically supported enzyme--reaction relationships, providing a basis for subsequent experimental validation.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07757
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TACT-KV: Tri-Axis Cosine Transform for Compressing Volumetric KV Caches in Medical VLMs
2026-11-05 07:43:29Chongyu Qu, Ritchie Zhao, Yufan He, Dong Yang, Zhengyi Lu, Junchao Zhu, Tianyuan Yao, Juming Xiong, Junlin Guo, Yanfan Zhu, Yuechen Yang, Daguang Xu, Bennett Allan Landman, Yucheng Tang, Yuankai HuoAbstract
Vision-language models (VLMs) applied to 3D medical scans face a structural memory wall. A single CT or MRI volume produces tens of thousands of vision tokens, and the resulting key-value (KV) cache scales linearly with both batch and context. Existing KV compression methods operate on the cache's feature or token statistics, or apply 1D and 2D transforms, leaving the three-axis spatial structure in the cache unexploited. We propose TACT-KV (Tri-Axis Cosine Transform), a calibration-free KV compression method that exploits strong spatial correlations in visual KV states along all three anatomical axes of 3D scans. This correlation concentrates the KV cache energy under a frequency-domain transform. TACT-KV applies a separable 3D discrete cosine transform to the KV cache, allocates a per-layer bit budget across frequency bins via reverse water-filling (more bits to high-energy components), and quantizes each bin with a fixed scalar codebook. We derive a close-form relation: the distortion reduction from adaptive bit allocation is dominated by the spectral concentration of the transformed cache. Across six medical VLMs and two 3D CT benchmarks, TACT-KV achieves the lowest 1-bit prediction-flip rate on eleven of twelve model and dataset pairs in our main comparison. The same advantage reproduces on four general-purpose VLMs evaluated on video tasks, indicating that the benefit of exploiting three-axis structure generalizes beyond medical imaging. At equal high-bandwidth memory (HBM), TACT-KV scales the decoding batch size on a single GPU by up to $8\times$.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07593
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Integrating Learned Priors through Prior-Space Reparameterization for Physically Based Inverse Rendering
2026-11-05 07:20:53Hun Hwangbo, Minjun Park, Yongsung Kim, Wooseok Song, Jungmin Ko, Junghyun Hwang, Sungroh YoonAbstract
Physically based inverse rendering decomposes appearance into materials and illumination, an ambiguous problem for which learned material predictions provide useful prior information. Most existing methods incorporate these cues through auxiliary regularization losses, which alter the optimization objective and require balancing their influence against photometric fitting. We propose a prior-guided material reparameterization that uses the predicted feature relationships to restrict the optimization space while leaving the objective unchanged. We fuse multi-view material predictions onto a mesh and construct a permutohedral lattice in the resulting prior feature space. Surface points with similar predictions share material variables, which are optimized jointly with geometry and illumination using a purely photometric objective. Experiments with two learned predictors on three synthetic benchmarks and Stanford-ORB demonstrate improved material decomposition and relighting. Our method improves relighting PSNR by 1.5-2.5 dB over the strongest evaluated mesh-based baseline on Synthetic4Relight and TensoIR-Synthetic, and outperforms a regularization loss using the same prior in controlled comparisons. We further show that our reparameterization pools noisy photometric gradients, producing updates that are more consistent across sampled views. This consistency enables a shortened joint optimization schedule that takes less than a minute while retaining relighting quality above all evaluated baselines on TensoIR-Synthetic.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07573
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CST-Bench: Benchmarking Counterfactual Spatial Transition Reasoning with Causal Transition On-Policy Self-Distillation
2026-11-05 06:49:51Ying Li, Yongle Cheng, Jing Li, Xingquan Cai, Yawei LuoAbstract
Spatial reasoning is a fundamental capability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), yet existing benchmarks mainly focus on static scene understanding. When objects are moved or swapped, models must infer not only spatial relations but also how interventions change the scene state. To address this problem, we introduce CST-Bench, a benchmark for counterfactual spatial reasoning. CST-Bench contains 7,082 examples covering 6 intervention types and 12 transformation operators, with dense causal annotations including intervention sources, affected relations, expected effects, invariant relations, and metric changes. We benchmark general-purpose MLLMs on CST-Bench and further compare post-training strategies on CST-Bench and standard spatial benchmarks. Results show that methods effective for ordinary spatial reasoning can still fail under counterfactual interventions. We further formulate counterfactual spatial reasoning as causal state-transition modeling and propose CT-OPSD, which uses CST-Bench annotations to guide a teacher model in learning counterfactual state transitions and causal reasoning chains. These chains are then distilled into a student model that reasons only from real observations. Overall, experiment results establish CST-Bench as a challenging benchmark and reusable supervision resource for counterfactual spatial reasoning. CT-OPSD further provides an initial demonstration of how its annotations can support model improvement.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07541
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Graph learning-assisted logic-based Benders decomposition for distributionally robust in-station train rescheduling under disruptions
2026-11-05 06:30:36Xiaobin Li, Yanbin Gao, Jianing Long, Wuming LeiAbstract
Uncertainty in resource reopening times complicates train holding and rerouting decisions when resource closures coincide with arrival delays and processing-time extensions. We develop a rolling-horizon distributionally robust model that updates predictions of the remaining closure duration as observations of disruption resolution become available. The model jointly optimizes train routes, sequences, and timings. It minimizes the worst-case expected total completion delay over an ambiguity set of scenario probabilities. The solution algorithm, GNN-LBBD, uses logic-based Benders decomposition to coordinate routing and resource scheduling. Conditional cuts are constructed from resource-use patterns, and a graph neural network guides the order in which resource relaxation subproblems are solved. Across 28 test instances for a five-track station, GNN-LBBD achieved a mean total completion delay of 61.13 train-min. This was 16.63\% lower than tabu search and 20.06\% lower than variable neighborhood search, with a mean total computation time close to that of tabu search. Information comparisons on six representative instances showed that using observations of disruption resolution reduced mean total completion delay by approximately 21.7\%. Scenario-based and conditional-mean predictions produced similar overall results under the same information conditions. The benefits of information were more pronounced in some instances with alternative routes. This suggests a relationship between the use of observations, the station resource structure, and the scope for schedule adjustments.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07520
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Beyond Equation Search: Conjecture-Guided Discovery with SCOPE and ClosureBench
2026-11-05 05:42:31Yuxiao Hu, Qian Li, Ding Wang, Siheng Chen, Linfeng Zhang, Jinyue Yan, Yuntian ChenAbstract
Most symbolic regression methods optimize candidate equations, but improving an equation's fit does not establish whether its underlying scientific conjecture should be retained, revised, or rejected. A conjecture may admit multiple mathematical realizations, and similarly accurate equations may imply different explanations. This motivates a shift from refining individual expressions to developing and testing the conjectures that guide them. We introduce SCOPE, a framework that sustains multiple conjecture-driven research trajectories. Multiple scientist agents independently pursue conjectures through equation modeling, question formulation, and active experimentation, then exchange evidence to revise their conjectures and research directions. Their findings are consolidated into a scientific report linking models, conclusions, and evidence. Existing equation-discovery benchmarks primarily assess recovered expressions, leaving the evidence and scientific conclusions established through the investigation underexamined. We therefore introduce ClosureBench, an interactive benchmark of 60 closure-discovery tasks across five scientific domains. ClosureBench focuses on closure-discovery tasks to give equation discovery a concrete scientific purpose. Each task embeds an unknown algebraic relation in a known PDE system, where agents control experimental conditions in OpenFOAM to acquire new data for equation discovery. Beyond equation accuracy, ClosureBench proposes three metrics to evaluate the discovery process: evidence faithfulness, mechanism insight, and experimental effectiveness. Compared with diverse baselines, SCOPE achieves higher equation accuracy on both ClosureBench and a real-world scientific discovery case, while producing more accurate, reliable, and effective scientific discoveries.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18938
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PSGAgent: Enhancing MLLMs' Dynamic Visual Perception for Panoptic Scene Graph Generation via Agentic Reasoning
2026-11-05 04:02:16Qingyun Liu, Yuankun Liu, Jiaye Feng, Jie Huang, Zonghong Dai, Haochen Li, Jingkun Wang, Weiping Li, Tong MoAbstract
Panoptic Scene Graph generation (PSG) requires holistic yet fine-grained reasoning over complex relations among objects. However, current Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) applied to PSG suffer from a perception bottleneck: they function as static observers limited by fixed-resolution views. As a result, models often overlook critical relations involving small or peripheral objects and struggle to differentiate ambiguous predicates in complex scenes. To address these limitations, we propose PSGAgent, an agentic framework that enhances visual perception for PSG through a think-act-observe loop. PSGAgent allows MLLMs to dynamically refine their visual perception using two tools: a Region Zoom-In Tool for local exploration of small or boundary relations and a Visual Highlight Tool for relation-focused segmentation that filters out irrelevant contextual noise. To optimize decision-making, we construct a two-stage training pipeline. First, we create a high-quality, error-aware Multimodal Chain-of-Thought (M-CoT) dataset that provides robust supervision for cold-start learning. Then, we design a novel hierarchical reward mechanism integrated with Group Sequence Policy Optimization (GSPO) to enable strategic and adaptive tool usage. Extensive experiments on the PSG benchmark show that PSGAgent achieves SOTA performance, demonstrating strong capability in both holistic and fine-grained scene understanding.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07408
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Householder Motion Embedding: Noise Modulation for Motion-Controllable Video Generation
2026-11-05 01:14:55Tao Jun Lin, Jinhong Ni, Ruyi Zha, Yifu Wang, Xibin Song, Pan Ji, Hongdong LiAbstract
Diffusion models for video generation have achieved remarkable success, yet precise motion control under explicit user guidance remains challenging. Recent noise-warping methods introduce temporal correlations by warping the noise according to the user-provided motion signal. However, standard spatial warping generally disrupts the noise's i.i.d. Gaussian structure, requiring distribution correction, such as Jacobian-based correction, but at a substantial computational overhead. We propose Householder Motion Embedding (HME), which encodes the motion signal into the noise through a sequence of Householder reflections that together form an orthogonal transformation applied to each location's channel vector. HME exactly preserves the spatial Gaussian structure within each frame while introducing cross-frame correlations that promote temporally consistent video. HME is agnostic to the network architecture and integrates directly into standard video diffusion fine-tuning pipelines. Experiments on different scenarios show that HME matches or outperforms the state of the art, while achieving a 2.7x speedup over noise warping. These results demonstrate that channel-space Householder transformations offer a principled and efficient alternative to noise warping for motion-controllable video generation.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07294
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