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Two Flavon Froggatt-Nielsen Models with Genetic Algorithms
arXiv:2606.20000v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present the first systematic and comprehensive scan of two-flavon Froggatt-Nielsen (FN) models, employing artificial intelligence techniques to explore the high-dimensional, mixed discrete-continuous parameter space. Extending the standard single-flavon FN framework to a two-flavon setup in which separate flavon fields couple independently to the up- and down-type sectors, we demonstrate that the relative phase between their vacuum expectation values (vevs) provides a natural and generic source of CP violation absent in single-flavon models. To explore this enlarged model space, we cast the search for phenomenologically viable models as a multi-objective optimisation problem, formulating each experimental constraint as a separate objective, and employ the Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm III to simultaneously fit all 18 FN charges, 45 Wilson coefficients, and flavon parameters to both the quark and lepton sectors. Our approach requires no separate training phase and identifies phenomenologically viable models orders of magnitude faster than prior reinforcement learning methods. Imposing experimental constraints on CKM and PMNS mixing angles and CP phases, charged fermion masses, and neutrino squared-mass differences, we discover over $100\,000$ unique viable models with a remarkably low duplication rate, indicating that the space of valid two-flavon FN realisations has not been exhausted. Both Normal and Inverted neutrino mass squared orderings are realised, with the relative hierarchy between the flavon vevs producing qualitatively distinct predictions for the effective neutrinoless double beta decay mass $m_{ee}$. We further demonstrate the existence of minimal FN realisations with maximal flavon exponent as small as three, and of models reproducing charged fermion masses to within $6\%$ without any dedicated continuous parameter optimisation.
A Categorial and Sheaf-Theoretic Semantics for Autonomic Component Ensembles
arXiv:2606.19525v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The proliferation of large-scale, decentralized systems of autonomous agents, such as swarms of robots and networked cyber-physical systems, presents a formidable challenge to traditional formal methods. The Software Component Ensemble Language (SCEL) offers a formal model for such systems, but its operational semantics is not ideal for reasoning about global, structural, and emergent properties. This report proposes a new, multi-layered mathematical model for SCEL using category theory and sheaf theory. We argue that a society of robots described in SCEL can be formally modeled as a sheaf on a topological space, where components are points, ensembles are open sets, and distributed knowledge forms the sheaf's data. In this framework, computational processes like information sharing become equivalent to the sheaf-theoretic operation of "gluing" local data. System failures can then be understood and quantified as topological obstructions, measurable by sheaf cohomology. This approach transforms the verification of a complex distributed system into the analysis of the geometry of a mathematical object, providing deep, structural insights for the design of robust autonomic systems.
Vancomycert: A Certified Neuro-Symbolic Drug Delivery System (Case Study)
arXiv:2606.19532v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural network controllers for autonomous decision-making are well-established in cyber-physical systems, yet their deployment in safety-critical healthcare settings remains largely unverified. This paper presents a methodology and case study for the formal verification of a neural network controller for antibiotic dosing, motivated by the challenge of systems that must be simultaneously adaptive and provably safe across unbounded time horizons. We construct a simplified yet clinically-interpretable model that tracks drug concentration, body temperature, and white blood cell count. Vancomycin is selected as a representative antibiotic, widely prescribed for severe infections yet carrying a narrow therapeutic window, where supratherapeutic concentrations risk nephrotoxicity and subtherapeutic dosing risks treatment failure. A supervised neural network controller is trained on synthetic clinician-style dosing data. We establish formal verification of input-output safety properties, specifically verifying a property of a neural network that implies an infinite-horizon proof that automated dosing never exceeds the supratherapeutic boundary. This system property is proven in Rocq using the Vehicle interactive theorem prover back-end to integrate the different proof systems. The end result is a verification pipeline that allows for a wide variety of treatment approaches whilst maintaining safety for each specific patient.
Decentralized CBF-based Safety Filters for Collision Avoidance of Cooperative Missile Systems with Input Constraints
arXiv:2510.06846v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents a decentralized safety filter for collision avoidance in multi-agent aerospace interception scenarios. The approach leverages robust control barrier functions (RCBFs) to guarantee forward invariance of safe sets under bounded inputs and high-relative-degree dynamics. Each effector executes its nominal cooperative guidance command, while a local quadratic program (QP) modifies the input only when necessary. Event-triggered activation based on range and zero-effort miss (ZEM) criteria ensures scalability by restricting active constraints to relevant neighbors. To ensure feasibility under multiple simultaneously active constraints, a slack-variable relaxation scheme is introduced that prioritizes critical agents in a Pareto-optimal manner. Simulation results in many-on-many interception scenarios demonstrate that the proposed framework maintains collision-free operation with minimal deviation from nominal guidance, providing a computationally efficient and scalable solution for safety-critical multi-agent aerospace systems.
Universality in Ionic Three-body Systems Near an Ion-atom Feshbach Resonance
arXiv:2511.00325v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We calculate bound and scattering properties of a system of two neutral atoms and an ion near an atom-ion Feshbach resonance. Our results indicate that long-range atom-ion interactions lead to significant deviations from universal behavior derived from contact or van der Waals potentials. We find that ionic systems display an overall suppression of inelastic transitions leading to recombination rates and lifetimes of Efimov state orders of magnitude smaller with respect to those for neutral atoms. We further characterize the dense spectra of triatomic molecular ions with extended lifetimes. Our results provide a deeper insight on the universality and structure of three-body ionic systems and establishing them as a promising platform for exploring novel few- and many-body phenomena with long-range interactions.
Automating Information Extraction and Retrieval for Industrial Spare Parts Pooling
arXiv:2606.03367v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Maintenance organizations in manufacturing try to avoid downtime and unnecessary purchasing by reusing existing assets, but the main obstacle is not a lack of parts but a lack of actionable visibility across sites and partners. Inventories are distributed, described with inconsistent naming conventions, and contain duplicates and partially specified references, so the right part often exists somewhere but remains effectively undiscoverable. The paper proposes PhRAG, a hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation for pooling this fragmented landscape into a Virtual Stock Pool (VSPool) that can be structured and searched as a single resource. Heterogeneous spare part descriptions are structured via Named Entity Recognition (NER) into a shared virtual pool dataset and indexed to support robust retrieval even when users express needs in natural language rather than exact technical specifications. The proposed modular pipeline leverages the multitasking nature of generative language models to cover two dimensions that make industrial parts pooling challenging: ($\boldsymbol{i}$) unstructured technical specifications from diverse data sources (e.g. new partners, catalogs, marketplace listings) are handled through an offline extraction and ($\boldsymbol{ii}$) request variability at runtime (references, partial references, specifications, price/condition constraints) is handled through a hybrid RAG-based search engine capable of retrieving relevant components and justifying results. The framework demonstrates the potential of generative approaches compared with traditional NER approaches in the presence of data scarcity for technical specifications extraction and overcomes the opacity of standard information retrieval systems by generating justifications for retrieved components.
FineREX: Fine-Tuned NER-RE for Human Smuggling Knowledge Graphs
arXiv:2606.19710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Court proceedings contain valuable evidence about human smuggling networks, but this information is often buried within unstructured, jargon-heavy legal documents. While large language models (LLMs) can support knowledge graph construction through automated information extraction, existing approaches rely on general-purpose models that are not tailored to the entity and relationship definitions required in this domain. We introduce FineREX, a streamlined knowledge graph construction pipeline built around a fine-tuned LLM for named entity recognition and relationship extraction (NER-RE). Using a manually annotated dataset of $512$ text chunks, FineREX achieves absolute improvements of 15.50% and 31.46% in entity and relationship F1-score, respectively, compared to a larger general-purpose baseline. These gains translate into higher-quality knowledge graphs, reducing legal noise by nearly half and lowering node duplication on long documents from 17.78% to 11.17%. By eliminating document rewriting and redundant extraction stages, FineREX also reduces end-to-end processing time by 50.0%. Our results demonstrate that domain-specific fine-tuning can substantially outperform larger general-purpose models while improving both the quality and efficiency of knowledge graph construction for illicit network analysis.
Robustness of Stable Matchings When Attributes and Salience Determine Preferences
arXiv:2602.04115v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In many matching markets--such as athlete recruitment or academic admissions--participants on one side are evaluated by attribute vectors known to the other side, which in turn applies individual \emph{salience vectors} to assign relative importance to these attributes. Since saliences are known to change in practice, a central question arises: how robust is a stable matching to such perturbations? We address several fundamental questions in this context. First, we formalize robustness as a radius within which a stable matching remains immune to blocking pairs under any admissible perturbation of salience vectors (which are assumed to be normalized). Given a stable matching and a radius, we present a polynomial-time algorithm to verify whether the matching is stable within the specified radius. We also give a polynomial-time algorithm for computing the maximum robustness radius of a given stable matching. Further, we design an anytime search algorithm that uses certified lower and upper bounds to approximate the most robust stable matching, and we characterize the robustness-cost relationship through efficiently computable bounds that delineate the achievable tradeoff between robustness and cost. Finally, we show that for each stable matching, the set of salience profiles that preserve its stability factors is a product of low-dimensional polytopes within the simplex. This geometric structure precisely characterizes the polyhedral shape of each robustness region; its volume can then be computed efficiently, with approximate methods available as the dimension grows, thereby linking robustness analysis in matching markets with classical tools from convex geometry.
GenTrack: A New Generation of Multi-Object Tracking
arXiv:2510.24399v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper introduces a novel multi-object tracking (MOT) method, dubbed GenTrack, whose main contributions include: first-a hybrid tracking approach employing both stochastic and deterministic manners to robustly handle unknown and time-varying numbers of targets, particularly in maintaining target identity (ID) consistency and managing nonlinear dynamics, second-leveraging particle swarm optimization (PSO) with some proposed fitness measures to guide stochastic particles toward their target distribution modes, enabling effective tracking even with weak and noisy object detectors, third-integration of social interactions among targets to enhance PSO-guided particles as well as improve continuous updates of both strong (matched) and weak (unmatched) tracks, thereby reducing ID switches and track loss, especially during occlusions, fourth-a GenTrack-based redefined visual MOT baseline incorporating a comprehensive state and observation model based on space consistency, appearance, detection confidence, track penalties, and social scores for systematic and efficient target updates, and five-the first ever publicly available source-code reference implementation with minimal dependencies, featuring three variants, including GenTrack Simple, Strengthen, and Super, facilitating flexible reimplementation. Experimental results have shown that GenTrack provides superior performance on standard benchmarks and real-world scenarios compared to state-of-the-art trackers, with integrated implementations of baselines for fair comparison. Potential directions for future work are also discussed. The source-code reference implementations of both the proposed method and compared-trackers are provided on GitHub: https://github.com/SDU-VelKoTek/GenTrack
Too long; didn't solve
arXiv:2604.07593v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mathematical benchmarks consisting of a range of mathematics problems are widely used to evaluate the reasoning abilities of large language models, yet little is known about how their structural properties influence model behaviour. In this work, we investigate two structural length variables, prompt length and solution length, and analyse how they relate to model performance on a newly constructed adversarial dataset of expert-authored mathematics problems. We find that both prompt and solution lengths correlate positively with increased model failure across models. We also include a secondary, exploratory analysis of cross-model disagreement. Under a difficulty-adjusted normalised analysis, both variables retain weak negative associations with realised model separation, slightly stronger for prompt length. Overall, our main robust finding is that structural length is linked to empirical difficulty in this dataset.
FloatDoor: Platform-Triggered Backdoors in LLMs
arXiv:2606.19535v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in sensitive settings such as software engineering, where their outputs directly shape downstream artifacts. Recent work has shown that an identical model can produce measurably different outputs depending on the deployment platform, a consequence of non-associative floating-point arithmetic and divergent kernel implementations. We study the security implications of this platform-dependent variability and uncover a novel attack surface on LLM deployments. We introduce FloatDoor, the first input-independent, platform-triggered backdoor attack against generative LLMs. The compromised model exhibits adversary-chosen behavior when served on a target platform and is otherwise benign. FloatDoor is realized through two lightweight LoRA adapters, one that amplifies inter-platform numerical divergence and one that binds the resulting platform signature to a malicious downstream task, while leaving aggregate model utility largely intact. FloatDoor exploits a pronounced time-of-check, time-of-use gap between model auditing and serving. We demonstrate FloatDoor on Qwen3-4B across a broad range of deployment targets, including NVIDIA GPUs, Google TPUs, AWS Graviton, and Alibaba Yitian-710. As a final case study, we show that FloatDoor reliably induces exploitable code vulnerabilities on a chosen target platform. Our results establish a new class of attacks on LLM deployments and underscore the pressing need for trusted model supply chains in sensitive, LLM-powered applications.
Predicting Mergeability of Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Updates
arXiv:2606.19549v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) makes it cheap to train many domain- and task-specific language model adapters, but whether two adapters can be merged is usually discovered only after both have been fully trained and evaluated. This late feedback is costly: adapters that are strong in isolation can interfere destructively once their updates are combined. We ask whether this outcome can be anticipated. We formalize adapter mergeability as the degree to which an adapter preserves its single-task utility after merging, and show that it can be forecast from signals measured in the first few percent of training -- chiefly how the low-rank updates and their gradients align across tasks and how much they disturb shared representations. We package these signals into MergeProbe, a lightweight predictor that estimates pairwise and set-level retention and turns the estimate into a concrete decision: merge directly, reweight, prune, or route. On MERGE-PEFT, a five-domain benchmark spanning math, code, science, instruction following, and safety, MergeProbe attains the best average and worst-case retention among strong interference-aware merge baselines while adding far less deployment overhead than full task routing. This turns LoRA merging from a post-hoc engineering step into an anticipatory measurement problem.
Exploring Pre-training Benefits on Phoneme Addition through Fine-tuning in Speech Synthesis
arXiv:2606.19792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transfer learning is widely used for low-resource text-to-speech. When the target corpus contains phonemes unseen in pre-training, the model must expand its phoneme inventory during fine-tuning; we call the process "phoneme addition." However, it remains unclear whether the pre-trained ability to generate seen phonemes contributes to this process. This study investigates phoneme addition in two settings: (1) a simulation setup using LLM-generated phoneme-controlled corpora that enables investigation without considering confounding factors, and (2) a real-speech cross-lingual transfer setup (English to Japanese) to validate whether the findings hold in practice. Experiments in both settings showed that while fine-tuning achieved higher naturalness than training from scratch, it required as much or more data to achieve comparable PER for new phonemes. These results indicate that pre-training mainly contributes to naturalness improvement, but offers limited benefit for phoneme addition.
Analyzing the Narration Gap in LLM-Solver Loops
arXiv:2606.19588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Formal tools such as SAT and SMT solvers are increasingly embedded in language model reasoning pipelines when a safety or security critical question can be formulated in logic. Unlike chain of thought whose steps are sampled from the model distribution without formal guarantee, a solver produces a sound and independently verifiable answer. However, the soundness guarantee can be lost in the interaction between the solver and the model. The hybrid pipeline has three components: formalizing the question, deciding it, and narrating the result. Prior work has studied the formalization and decision, but not narration, which is the step that turns a formal tool's output into the user answer. To fill the narration gap, we first model the LLM-solver loop as a verified decision procedure. We further evaluate five open-sourced models under prompt injection, and we find certificate gating makes the solver verdict sound, while an adversary can invert a verified conclusion across phrasings and channels. We study the mitigation through hardened prompt that reduces injection significantly but cannot eliminate it and still suffers under adaptive attack. Combining the formal analysis and empirical studies, we show in the LLM-solver loop, robustness does not reach to the answer that the user finally reads.
MiqraBERT: Regression-Based Sentence-BERT Finetuning for Biblical Hebrew Parallel Detection
arXiv:2606.19638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Textual reuse pervades the Hebrew Bible, yet the computational methods used to detect it still rest largely on lexical overlap, and they falter once a parallel involves paraphrase, lexical substitution, or syntactic reworking. This paper introduces MiqraBERT, a Sentence-BERT model finetuned from AlephBERT (a Modern Hebrew encoder) for verse-level semantic similarity in Biblical Hebrew. The training set comprises 1,650 labeled verse and half-verse pairs: 825 true parallels drawn from the Chronicles synoptic material and from foundational studies of poetic parallelism, balanced against 825 randomly sampled negatives. Through cosine-similarity regression, the model learns an embedding space in which parallel verses cluster together and unrelated verses move apart. We evaluate separation with distribution-based metrics, Wasserstein distance and the overlap coefficient, across ten random seeds. MiqraBERT improves distributional separation 2.7-fold over the pre-trained baseline and reduces the ambiguous overlap region from roughly 24% to about 6%. Narrative synoptic parallels reach a recall@10 of 87.1%; poetic parallels remain difficult, below 9%. This genre-dependent asymmetry confines the model's reliable scope to narrative textual reuse. MiqraBERT is publicly available at https://huggingface.co/davidmsmiley/MiqraBERT
Scaling Self-Play for End-to-End Driving
arXiv:2606.19641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving models are typically trained on offline human-demonstration datasets that provide limited state coverage and often no closed-loop feedback, making them prone to compounding errors when deployed in closed-loop and brittle to long-tail agent interactions. To overcome these limitations, we propose an alternative strategy for training end-to-end driving models: large-scale self-play directly from pixels in simulation. While prior self-play approaches have shown promising transfer to real-world driving, they typically assume vectorized Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) observations that are incompatible with end-to-end policies operating directly on sensor observations. To this end, we introduce Gigapixel, a high-throughput batched driving simulator with perspective rendering, enabling scalable self-play directly from pixel observations. Rather than targeting compute-costly photorealistic sensor simulation, Gigapixel renders a simplified bounding-box world that preserves essential scene structure while achieving throughput at 50k agent steps per second. Since direct pixel-space self-play RL is prohibitively sample-inefficient at end-to-end model scale, we propose self-play DAgger training: we train pixel-based policies in self-play via on-policy distillation from a privileged RL teacher. To bridge the sim-to-real gap, we subsequently transfer the self-play trained policies to real-world sensor data through lightweight perception adaptation. Policies trained in Gigapixel and adapted to real-world sensor data achieve competitive performance on the HUGSIM and NAVSIM-v2 benchmarks without human trajectory supervision. Moreover, scaling self-play training yields proportional gains in policy performance, establishing self-play as a practical and scalable strategy for training end-to-end models.
Do Vision-Language Models Understand 3D Scenes or Just Catalogue Objects?
arXiv:2605.20448v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language models reliably name objects in a scene, but do they represent the 3D layout those objects inhabit? We introduce a 3,034-sample human-curated benchmark targeting three components of spatial understanding: depth-ordered occlusion (probed via three independent counterfactual operationalisations), optical-geometry inference over visible reflections, and volumetric rearrangement planning. Six frontier and open-weight VLMs, scored by trained annotators on 18,204 responses with no LLM-as-judge, reveal a sharp dissociation: models that plan rearrangements over visible layouts at 53--97% accuracy and rarely violate collision constraints fall to 6--45% on occlusion and below 7% on reflections. An embodied-reasoning model reproduces the same profile. White-box analysis on Qwen3-VL-8B-Thinking localises the failure to the visual-token merger: spatial information recoverable throughout the vision encoder becomes inaccessible after token compression and only stabilises again when clean post-merger activations are patched into the language decoder.
SAGE-OPD: Selective Agent-Guided Intervention for Multi-Turn On-Policy Distillation
arXiv:2606.19659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) improves student models by training them on trajectories induced by their own policy, making it a promising approach for mitigating exposure bias in agent training. However, most OPD studies focus on single-turn settings, while realistic LLM agents interact with environments over multiple turns. In this regime, early errors can alter future observations and compound across the trajectory, and standard dense token-level OPD becomes brittle, as it may over-penalize semantically valid alternatives, reinforce local degeneracies such as repeated actions, and propagate unreliable teacher supervision on off-distribution histories. We propose SAGE-OPD, a verifier-free selective intervention framework specifically designed for multi-turn OPD. Instead of applying teacher supervision uniformly across all turns, SAGE-OPD first observes environment feedback and uses teacher judgment to decide whether each student response should be skipped or intervened on. To further address compounding errors, SAGE-OPD weights token-level distillation by teacher confidence, reducing the influence of uncertain teacher distributions on corrupted or ambiguous histories. Finally, SAGE-OPD applies loss normalization to preserve the overall loss scale of standard OPD while retaining selective turn-level weighting. Experiments on agent tasks show that SAGE-OPD consistently improves over baselines, achieving up to a 13.3% relative improvement in ALFWorld unseen success rate over standard OPD. Ablation studies further demonstrate that turn-level intervention, teacher confidence weighting, and loss normalization provide complementary benefits. Our results suggest that effective multi-turn OPD should remain on-policy, but teacher supervision should be selectively allocated to turns where intervention is necessary and reliable.
ForEnt: A Multi-Modal Dataset for Characterizing Quadruped Robot Entrapments in Forest Environments
arXiv:2606.19675v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Legged robots are increasingly deployed in forests for ecological surveying and monitoring, yet their autonomy is often interrupted consequent to the challenges posed in traversing forest environments. Forest entrapments, for example, when a robot's legs are ensnared in vines or other vegetation, result in loss of stability and toppling. Such events not only disrupt the mission and require manual intervention, but also risk damage to the robot hardware. To address the absence of a dedicated dataset to investigate these failure modes in forest environments, we present ForEnt, a multi-modal dataset collected with the low-cost Unitree Go2 quadruped across eight forest sites in the Southampton Common Woodlands, UK. For our dataset, over approximately 1.7 km of traversals in 11 sequences were conducted, yielding 69 recorded entrapment events. ForEnt includes time-synchronized RGB-D images, LiDAR scans, proprioceptive data, and third-person video, enabling analysis of terrain factors contributing to entrapment and providing labeled sensor streams for reproducible benchmarking. By supporting the evaluation of entrapment detection strategies, ForEnt lowers the barrier to developing robust quadruped robot deployments in challenging forest environments.
Multi-Granular Attention-Driven Reinforcement Learning Framework for Web Intelligent Enhancement Systems
arXiv:2606.19690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: From the past few years, web intelligent enhancement systems increasingly rely on heterogeneous and dynamic web data to deliver personalized, context-aware services. However, traditional machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning models often struggle with semantic understanding, adaptability, and scalability in continuously evolving web environments. In this research, a Multi-Granular Attention-based Reinforcement Web Intelligent Enhancement System (MGAR-WIES) is proposed to address the challenges by integrating semantic graph modeling, attention mechanisms, and adaptive reinforcement learning. Initially, heterogeneous web data comprising structured, semi-structured and unstructured sources are collected and preprocessed for generating unified feature representations. These representations are transformed into a dynamic semantic graph, where entities and their relationships are modeled by using graph embeddings enhanced by attention mechanisms for capturing both local relevance and global contextual dependencies. Subsequently, an adaptive multi-agent reinforcement learning strategy leverages the attention-aware semantic states to optimize personalized web actions like content recommendation, navigation optimization, and service adaptation. Finally, the continuous online feedback is further integrated to update graph representations and learning policies in real time by ensuring sustained adaptability and performance. The proposed MGAR-WIES acheived better results in terms of accuracy (80%) when compared with existing approaches.
When Global Gating Is Enough: Admission-Time Hubness Control in Anisotropic Vector Retrieval Systems
arXiv:2606.19692v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vector hubness, where a few points become nearest neighbors of many queries, creates a poisoning risk in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG): one injected document can influence unrelated requests. Existing defenses use periodic reverse-kNN scans, leaving an exposure window and repeated corpus-wide work. We study admission-time control, scoring each candidate against sentinel queries and quarantining hub-like documents before insertion. Across two 100,000-document corpora, five encoders, and disjoint attacker and defender query sets, a global gate achieves recall 1.0 at the decisive embedding-space point (>=0.92 across the effective range) and 0.91 +/- 0.07 on HotFlip attacks, with 1% false positives on general documents. A per-topic gate provides no reliable benefit, consistent with anisotropy coupling local and global visibility. Thresholds are maintained incrementally, with corpus-size-independent insertion cost and amortized deletion cost. On HNSW, admission adds about 3.1% to ingestion latency, scoring remains flat to 10^6 vectors, and 1.2% of decisions flip under approximate indexing, none involving attacks. Provenance complements the gate for natural or tight-domain hubs.
Supporting Design Decisions in Rule-Based Model Transformations
arXiv:2606.19342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model Driven Engineering relies on model transformations to automate the derivation of target models or source code from source models. However, the design decisions that govern how source elements are mapped to target artifacts typically remain embedded in the transformation source code, limiting flexibility, reusability, and traceability. This paper proposes an approach to explicitly model and manage design decisions in rule-based model transformations. Design decisions are separated from transformation implementation through three mechanisms. First, a decision model captures design decisions and their options independently of any source modeling language for a given transformation domain. Second, a binding model connects these decisions to specific metamodel concepts in a given source modeling language, enabling reuse of the same design knowledge across transformations from similar languages. Third, a configuration model records the specific option chosen for each applicable source model element, with defaults pre-selected automatically. During execution, variability points in transformation rules are resolved dynamically according to configured choices. A trace model records which rules and options were applied to produce each target element. We establish a formal mathematical framework that defines the core concepts of variability-based transformations and proves key properties of the resulting transformations. The formal concepts are realized in a practical architecture of four interconnected artifact models. We demonstrate practical feasibility by extending an existing embedded domain-specific language for model-driven engineering with variability support and illustrate the approach with a complete ER-to-Relational transformation example.
Detecting Hallucinations for Large Language Model-based Knowledge Graph Reasoning
arXiv:2606.19351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge graph (KG) reasoning infers new knowledge from existing facts and is widely applied in question answering, recommendation, and decision support. With the rapid development of large language models (LLMs), LLM-based KG reasoning frameworks have become increasingly popular by leveraging retrieved KG information. However, hallucinations in LLMs remain a critical issue. Even when relevant KG knowledge is incorporated, models may still generate incorrect outputs, leading to misinformation and unreliable decisions. Existing hallucination detection methods either focus on LLM internal states or verify consistency with retrieved contexts, but both overlook the structural information in KGs, resulting in suboptimal performance. To address this gap, we propose LUCID, the first halLUcination deteCtIon method for LLM-based knowleDge graph reasoning frameworks. LUCID jointly leverages LLM attention scores, KG semantics, and structural information. Specifically, it extracts node and edge features from attention scores and semantic similarities, and integrates them with KG structure using a graph neural network. We also construct manually annotated benchmark datasets for evaluation. Experiments on nine datasets show that LUCID achieves state of the art performance compared to 15 baselines.
Towards Truly Multilingual ASR: Generalizing Code-Switching ASR to Unseen Language Pairs
arXiv:2606.05846v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has become a key technology for human--AI interaction. However, code-switching ASR (CS-ASR) remains particularly challenging due to the severe scarcity of multilingual CS speech resources across diverse language pairs. Existing approaches primarily improve CS-ASR performance through synthetic CS speech generation or pair-specific fine-tuning on limited bilingual datasets. Nevertheless, these approaches face an inherent scalability limitation, as support for CS must be developed separately for language pairs whose number grows combinatorially with the number of supported languages. In this work, we investigate whether CS capabilities learned from a limited set of seen language pairs can generalize to unseen language pairs through model merging and domain generalization methods. Our experiments show that merged bilingual CS-ASR models modestly generalize to unseen language pairs, suggesting limited transfer of bilingual CS capabilities across language pairs.
Contraction-based Neural Control for Cooperative Aerial Payload Transportation with Variable-length Cables
arXiv:2606.20127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a novel neural nonlinear control framework for a multi-drone slung payload system with variable-length cables and a rigid-body payload. The equations of motion are formulated into a decoupled structure, where the payload and cable length dynamics are governed by independent control channels, facilitating modularized controller design on reduced-order subsystems. A neural control contraction metric (CCM) controller and a neural feedback controller are jointly trained to enforce contraction conditions for the payload subsystem. Separately, a cable length control law is derived that exploits the variable-length degree of freedom for obstacle avoidance. Numerical simulations demonstrate trajectory tracking of a rigid-body payload and gate traversal capabilities of the overall system under the proposed control framework.