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Environmental Drivers of Respiratory Disease: A District Level Analysis
arXiv:2607.04416v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sri Lanka has experienced a decade of progressive forest degradation and rising atmospheric pollution, yet district-level respiratory admissions have paradoxically declined, pointing to the confounding role of healthcare access. This study addresses that gap by constructing an 11-year (2014-2024) panel dataset across all 25 administrative districts, integrating satellite-derived vegetation indices, fire radiative power, pollutant concentrations (particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2)), carbon flux metrics and population-normalized respiratory admission rates. Two temporally validated XGBoost models were created for annual district-level respiratory rate (R^2 = 0.937) and monthly PM2.5 concentration (R^2 = 0.976) with generalization validated in 21 out of 25 districts (Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) <= 20%). Shapley Additive Explanations (SHAP) analysis established that cumulative air quality burden is the overwhelming driver of respiratory rate variance (80.1%), ahead of forest degradation (15.6%) and fire activity (4.3%). The Forest-Air-Health (FAH) Risk Index used these SHAP-derived weights to find the districts with the highest risk: Colombo (FAH = 0.802), Gampaha (0.708), and Kalutara (0.682). These findings present the inaugural evidence-based, district-level framework correlating environmental degradation with respiratory health in Sri Lanka, establishing a quantitative basis for focused public health and environmental policy.
Cross-Contextual Vision-Language Adaptation with LoRA for Personalized Severe Adverse Event Detection in Clinical Wound Monitoring
arXiv:2607.05625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wound monitoring is a critical yet underserved clinical challenge, where timely identification of severe adverse events (SAEs) such as infection, tissue deterioration, and delayed healing can significantly impact patient outcomes. While vision-language models (VLMs) show strong multimodal reasoning, they often lack domain-specific grounding to integrate wound imagery with heterogeneous clinical information, and provide limited mechanisms for detecting cases that diverge from the training distribution. We present a multimodal framework for automated wound monitoring and SAE detection. Our approach leverages paired clinical notes and wound descriptions capturing visual characteristics such as appearance, surrounding skin condition, color changes, and signs of inflammation or healing progression, encoded through a dual-stream Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) framework built on a frozen BiomedCLIP backbone. We introduce a cross-contextual LoRA fusion mechanism enabling information exchange between clinical semantics and visual wound descriptors, producing context-aware multimodal representations without full model fine-tuning. To identify personalized SAEs, we propose a wound-specific out-of-distribution (OOD) detection framework combining semantic matching, visual typicality, caption-text alignment, and caption-visual alignment into a unified SAE (OOD) score. To capture healing dynamics, we incorporate covariate consistency and temporal drift penalties that leverage changes in wound characteristics across visits. Experiments on a longitudinal wound dataset collected through clinical visits show promising performance on both wound healing assessment and SAE detection, highlighting the potential of semantically enriched, temporally aware vision-language systems for clinical wound monitoring and early risk identification.
TACTIC-KG: Toward Small Agent Teams for Cyber Threat Intelligence Knowledge Graph Construction
arXiv:2607.05001v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) reports are predominantly unstructured, heterogeneous, and noisy, which limits their direct usability for automated analysis and reasoning. Cybersecurity Knowledge Graphs (CSKGs) provide a structured representation of adversarial entities, actions, and relations, but constructing such graphs from free-text CTI remains a challenge. Recent approaches rely on monolithic Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform end-to-end extraction and completion, leading to high cost, limited controllability, and unstable performance. This paper introduces TACTIC-KG, an agentic framework for CSKG construction that decomposes the task into modular, specialized LLM agents responsible for extraction, typing, verification, and curation. Using lightweight models (3B--8B), TACTIC-KG improves stability, recall, and graph consistency while reducing deployment cost. We implement and evaluate TACTIC-KG against recent state-of-the-art systems. Experiments on human-annotated CTI reports show that agent specialization consistently outperforms larger monolithic in-context-learning (ICL) baselines in extraction F1-score, typing accuracy, and structural graph similarity.
Unified Audio Intelligence Without Regressing on Text Intelligence
arXiv:2607.05196v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Audio intelligence involves understanding, reasoning about, and generating both audio and speech. In this work, we introduce Nemotron-Labs-Audex-30B-A3B (Audex), a unified audio-text LLM built on Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B, a strong text-only MoE LLM. Audex adopts a simple unified design with a single Transformer decoder: audio inputs are encoded and projected into the text embedding space, while text tokens and quantized audio output tokens are treated uniformly during generation. This architecture enables strong audio-text fusion, seamless multimodal generation, and compatibility with standard LLM training and inference infrastructure. For training, we meticulously curate audio-text datasets comprising 157.4B audio tokens and 320.5B text tokens. We apply multi-stage supervised training on these datasets, followed by text-only Cascade RL and multi-domain on-policy distillation. Audex delivers state-of-the-art audio understanding, speech recognition and translation, text-to-speech, audio generation, and speech-to-speech generation, while preserving very compelling reasoning, alignment, knowledge, long-context, and agentic capabilities of its text-only LLM backbone with marginal or no regression. We release the model checkpoints to facilitate open research.
Dirac Spin Liquid Candidate in a Rydberg Quantum Simulator
arXiv:2602.14323v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We experimentally investigate a frustrated spin-exchange antiferromagnet in a quantum simulator, composed of N = 114 dipolar Rydberg atoms arranged into a kagome array. Motivated by a recent theoretical proposal of a gapless U(1) Dirac spin liquid ground state, we use local addressing to adiabatically prepare low-energy states. We measure the local polarization and spin-spin correlations over this adiabatic protocol, and observe our system move from a staggered product state, through an intermediate magnetic crystal, and finally into a disordered, correlated liquid. We estimate the entropy density of this atomic liquid to be similar to that of frustrated magnetic insulators at liquid nitrogen temperatures. We compare the correlations in our liquid to those of a simple, parameter-free ansatz for the Dirac spin liquid, and find good agreement in the sign structure and spatial decay. Finally, we probe the static susceptibility of our system to a local field perturbation and to a geometrical distortion. Our results establish Rydberg atom arrays as a promising platform for the preparation and microscopic characterization of quantum spin liquid candidates.
Distribution-free changepoint localization after sequential change detection
arXiv:2606.01256v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper introduces a distribution-free framework for constructing post-detection confidence sets for changepoints after stopping a sequential change detection procedure. It is well known that conformal test martingales can be used to sequentially detect changes in distribution, but by themselves provide no inference for the time at which a proclaimed change occurred. Past work on post-detection inference requires pre- and post-change classes of distributions to be known, but this paper accomplishes localization of the changepoint without any distributional assumptions. We establish finite-sample coverage guarantees (conditional on correct detection). We provide non-asymptotic bounds on the conditional expected size of the confidence sets. Under suitable asymptotic regimes, we prove that the conditional expected size of the confidence set remains uniformly bounded and demonstrate strong empirical performance on simulated and real data. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first general distribution-free framework for sequential changepoint localization with valid post-detection coverage.
KAT-Coder-V2.5 Technical Report
arXiv:2607.05471v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present KAT-Coder-V2.5, a coding-focused agentic model trained to act autonomously inside real, executable repositories rather than as a single-turn code generator. Its capability is bottlenecked less by model scale than by the scarcity of reproducible environments, verifiable rewards, and high-value trajectories, which we address with an end-to-end agentic post-training framework. AutoBuilder reconstructs multilingual repositories into sandboxed environments with fail-to-pass and pass-to-pass verification at scale, from which we regenerate self-contained task specifications, recover near-miss trajectories, and distill supervision through process-aware filtering, while KwaiClawEnv synthesizes large-scale tool-use trajectories from executable services and real task seeds. We further scale reinforcement learning with harness randomization, a reliability-hardened sandbox, an asymmetric actor--critic PPO with hindsight-augmented value estimation, and a harness-oriented reward framework, and unify SWE, Agent-Claw, and WebCoding experts via Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation. Across six software-engineering and agentic benchmarks, KAT-Coder-V2.5 delivers the best agentic tool-use result on PinchBench and ranks second only to the frontier Opus 4.8 on repository-level software engineering. Our service is available at https://streamlake.com/product/kat-coder.
ShadowProbe: Language-Extensible Detection of Hidden Algorithmic Complexity Vulnerabilities
arXiv:2607.05474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Algorithmic Complexity Vulnerabilities (ACVs) arise when adversarial inputs trigger worst-case execution behavior, causing severe performance degradation or Denial-of-Service conditions. A key but underexplored source is shadow complexity: non-trivial computational costs hidden inside seemingly benign standard library APIs. Because these costs are invisible at call sites, attackers can exploit them to induce unexpected superlinear runtime behavior. Existing ACV detectors often rely on fuzzing, symbolic execution, or hybrid analysis, but they are usually language-specific, require substantial manual effort to construct harnesses, and depend on heavy runtime instrumentation. We present ShadowProbe, a scalable and language-extensible framework for discovering ACVs through lightweight static analysis, automated reconstruction of execution contexts, and Large Language Model (LLM) assisted test generation. ShadowProbe uses a structured multi-stage pipeline: it statically screens for candidate functions guided by shadow-complexity signals, reconstructs minimal executable contexts from project-level symbols, and synthesizes size-controlled inputs to probe worst-case behavior. It then validates candidates using execution-time measurements and robust statistical growth inference, separating true algorithmic blowups from runtime noise such as garbage collection and JIT compilation effects. We evaluate ShadowProbe on the WISE benchmark, where it consistently improves analysis efficiency over existing approaches. We further apply it to large-scale systems including CPython, the JDK, Zig, Rustc, and vLLM, uncovering many previously unknown ACVs, many of which have been confirmed and partially remediated by maintainers. These results show that ShadowProbe can identify hidden algorithmic risks across diverse real-world codebases.
VEIL: How Visual Encoding Hijacking Induces Bias In Vision Models
arXiv:2607.05641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rendering time series as chart images for CNN-based classification has become increasingly common in time-series classification (TSC). However, it remains unclear whether models learn underlying temporal patterns or rely on encoding-specific visual cues introduced by chart design. We present VEIL: a systematic study examining how chart encodings influence learned representations through complementary analyses of similarity, transferability, and attribution. Attention-guided training appears to mitigate this effect when encoding sensitivity is consistently identified across diagnostics, but provides limited or negative benefit when such signals are absent. These findings position VEIL within the broader question of how machines perceive visualizations -- extending graphical perception from human readers to vision models -- and show that visualization design choices shape learned representations in ways that warrant treating chart-based TSC as a representation and measurement problem rather than a simple modeling decision.
GeoXplain: On-the-Fly Visual Explanations for Weather Foundation Models
arXiv:2607.05655v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Weather and climate foundation models produce high-dimensional forecasts whose learned relationships are difficult to inspect with static plots alone. GeoXplain is an interactive Python-based visualization toolkit for exploring geospatial attribution maps across climate variables, atmospheric pressure levels, and forecast time. The toolkit accepts attribution bundles containing attribution grids together with corresponding metadata and renders them in a notebook widget or browser with map and globe modes, linked timelines, pressure-level controls, target annotations, and optional physical-field overlays. We frame GeoXplain as a model-agnostic earth-system visualization toolkit and present the GeoXplain Aurora Adapter as its first computation backend. The adapter computes explanations for the Aurora foundation model, either in a local GPU process, through a GPU listener, or through a SLURM-backed listener, while preserving the same Python call site for analysts. It currently supports gradient saliency, Integrated Gradients, RISE, ViT-CX, multi-frame saliency and Integrated Gradients rollouts, and retrieval of ERA5 overlays. GeoXplain can be installed as a PyPI package with pip install geoxplain. The code is open-source and available at https://github.com/clemenskoprolin/geoxplain.
The structural method for Ordinary Differential Equations
arXiv:2508.02440v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We design and analyse a new numerical method to solve ODE system based on the structural method. We compute approximations of solutions together with its derivatives up to order $K$ by solving an entire block corresponding to $R$ time steps. We build the physical relations that connect the function and derivative approximations at each time step by using the ODE and its derivatives, and develop the structural equations that establish linear relations between the function and its derivative over the whole block of $R$ times steps. The non-linear system is solved and provide very accurate approximations with nice spectral resolution properties.
Agents with Feelings? Personality and Emotion in Multi-Agent Software Teams
arXiv:2607.05659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems for Software Engineering (SE) typically differentiate agents through roles and workflows, but little is known about how agents' behavioral profiles affect team performance. We investigate the impact of personality and emotion profiles on LLM agent teams using a psychology-informed framework that combines Big Five personality traits, basic emotions, SE-relevant work styles, and task roles. We evaluate 78 team-profile configurations across code generation and code review using four LLMs and 659 task instances. Results show that profile choice substantially affects both performance and team behavior. For code generation, the gap between the best and worst shared-profile configurations reaches 7.1-11.3 percentage points in pass@1 across models, while the best mixed-profile configuration outperforms the best shared-profile configuration in six of eight model-task settings. Profiles also influence collaboration dynamics and cost: fear and high-conscientiousness profiles increase revision activity, over-revision, and token usage without consistent performance gains. These findings identify agent profiles as an important design dimension in multi-agent SE systems, affecting not only task outcomes but also the efficiency of collaboration.
From Conversation to Contribution: Characterizing Coding Agent in Open-Source Software
arXiv:2607.05677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot and Cursor have evolved from code-suggestion tools into conversational collaborators, enabling vibe-coding workflows in which developers guide AI-generated code through natural-language dialogue. Although researchers have increasingly recognized the importance of AI coding agents and begun examining their impact on open-source development, a comprehensive understanding of how developers' chat-based interactions with AI relate to subsequent open-source development and collaboration remains limited. This hinders efforts to effectively design, evaluate, and govern AI-assisted open-source software development. To address this gap, we collected 13,360 AI conversation sessions comprising 79,172 user messages from 1,356 OSS repositories, linked them to repository development histories, and complemented this analysis with a targeted developer survey. We find heavier AI use in smaller, less mature, and less collaborative repositories. After AI adoption, projects tended to show more active contributors and lower contributor concentration (p < .001), although communication remained highly concentrated. Code Writing was the dominant chat purpose, and nearly all AI chat sessions were followed by subsequent commits. We find no broad deterioration in code-quality signals or pull request merging rates. However, developers perceive others' AI-generated code as harder to maintain than their own (p = .029) and view AI as lowering barriers to OSS contribution. While most developers (68%) are willing to share their chat, concerns remain around appearing incompetent, increasing reviewer burden, and exposing ideas to competitors. These findings provide a large-scale empirical characterization of AI-assisted OSS contribution and offer practical insights for designing and governing responsible vibe-coding practices in open-source development.
Dithered Gaussian Mechanism for Randomness-Efficient Differential Privacy
arXiv:2607.06320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present the dithered Gaussian mechanism, a novel alternative to the discrete Gaussian mechanism for differential privacy that discretizes the private output rather than the noise distribution itself. By interpreting this discretization as post-processing of the Gaussian mechanism, our construction directly inherits the privacy guarantees of the standard Gaussian mechanism while avoiding vulnerabilities caused by finite-precision floating-point outputs. We show that the mechanism is provably randomness-efficient: by sampling the discretized output values directly, the number of high-quality random bits required for privacy can be reduced significantly and made independent of the noise level. This is achieved by separating the randomness into two sources: a high-quality source used for the privacy-critical sampling step, and a high-performance public source, possibly known to the adversary, that supplies the additional randomness needed for randomized discretization. This separation enables the use of cryptographically secure randomness without substantial performance loss. As an application, we study model training with DP-SGD and show that cryptographically secure noise generation with reduced exposure to floating-point vulnerabilities can be achieved with modest practical overhead.
EvalLoop: A Methodology for Evaluation-Driven Iterative Improvement of Business AI Systems
arXiv:2607.05638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Teams deploying large language models in business contexts need evaluation systems, yet most treat evaluation as static model selection: run benchmarks, rank models, deploy the winner. This framing misses evaluation's primary value for production systems--diagnosing why a system underperforms and guiding what to fix. We present EvalLoop, a methodology for evaluation-driven iterative improvement. EvalLoop organizes evaluation around three mechanisms: (1) dimensional metric grouping that decomposes quality into business-relevant dimensions enabling orthogonal failure diagnosis; (2) failure mode classification that categorizes why outputs fail within weak dimensions, bridging diagnosis to action; and (3) a structured iteration workflow where each evaluation run varies one system variable and compares dimensional profiles before and after. We validate EvalLoop through a case study on sales intelligence briefing generation (10 models, 3 providers, 18 metrics, 5 dimensions, 3 iterations). Dimensional diagnosis identified that 69% of hallucination failures were prompt-induced interpretation errors--invisible in aggregate scoring. A targeted prompt fix improved the best model from 82.6% to 94.6% overall, with improvement concentrated in diagnosed dimensions (Content Accuracy +16.8pp, Synthesis Power +26.4pp). An undirected configuration change in a prior iteration produced zero impact, illustrating the cost of iterating without diagnosis. We additionally demonstrate that dimensional profiling enables deployment-specific model selection, and that a one-time blind human gate on a finalist panel (4 models, 16 cases) confirms dimensional rankings while resolving multi-criteria deployment trade-offs--a 94% reduction in review burden compared to evaluating the full design. EvalLoop is packaged as reusable artifacts (playbook, agent specification, template repository) for adoption by other teams.
DT-Guard: Intent-Driven Reasoning-Active Training for Reasoning-Free LLM Safety Guardrail
arXiv:2607.06326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models deployed in open-world applications require safety guardrails that are both robust to complex risks and efficient enough for low-latency runtime moderation. Existing guardrails face a practical trade-off between lightweight classification-based models, which are efficient but often struggle with concealed intent, ambiguous semantics, and borderline safety decisions, and reasoning-based guards, which improve judgment quality but introduce additional token generation and inference latency. We present DT-Guard, a content safety guardrail model based on a Reasoning-Active Training, Reasoning-Free Inference paradigm. The key idea is to use reasoning supervision during training while emitting only structured safety labels at inference time. DT-Guard formulates safety judgment as a progressive decision process, Intent - Category - Safety, and constructs an intent-driven dataset with intent labels, risk categories, safety labels, and structured reasoning trajectories. To further improve hard-case robustness, we propose Rollout-Guided Progressive Hard-Case Optimization (RG-PHO), which uses multi-rollout consistency to identify stably mastered, persistently failed, and preference-unstable samples, and applies targeted supervised and preference optimization accordingly. At inference time, DT-Guard directly generates structured labels without explicit reasoning traces, preserving deployment efficiency. Experiments on prompt-side and response-side safety benchmarks show that DT-Guard achieves average F1 scores of 0.886 and 0.870, respectively. With only a 4B backbone, it reaches a dual-side average F1 of 0.878, outperforming strong 8B guardrail baselines. These results demonstrate that reasoning supervision can be effectively internalized into low-latency safety discrimination.
TMF-RSE: Tri-Modal Fusion with Regional Semantics and Evidential Uncertainty for Lung Severity Scoring
arXiv:2607.06356v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate quantification of lung disease severity from chest imaging is critical for clinical decision-making and resource allocation. We propose a tri-modal deep learning framework, TMF-RSE (Tri-Modal Fusion with Regional Semantics and Evidential Uncertainty), that combines appearance features from two-dimensional chest inputs, structural features from lung segmentation masks, and semantic features from vision-language models (VLMs) for severity quantification. Our approach employs complementary fusion mechanisms that integrate semantic guidance, structural priors, and hierarchical interactions across modalities. The model employs evidential regression to provide both severity predictions and uncertainty estimates. Experiments on the Per-COVID-19 CT and RALO datasets show that TMF-RSE outperforms recent transformer-based baselines, achieving MAE of 4.02 and Pearson correlation of 0.9629 on Per-COVID-19 validation, and 0.339 MAE / 0.973 PC on RALO geographic extent.
FourTune: Towards Fully 4-Bit Efficient Post-Training for Diffusion Models
arXiv:2607.05711v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models have become a dominant paradigm for high-quality generative modeling, while post-training is essential for adapting them to diverse downstream applications. However, post-training of large diffusion models is still challenging due to the prohibitive memory footprints and slow training speed, which existing parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods only partially address. To overcome these limitations, we propose FourTune, an efficient post-training framework for diffusion models based on an end-to-end W4A4G4 paradigm. FourTune introduces a triple-branch hybrid pipeline that augments the standard LoRA architecture with a frozen numerical stabilizer to isolate quantization-sensitive outliers, enabling stable training under native 4-bit computation. In addition, FourTune employs hardware-efficient block-wise quantization and customized fused kernels to support efficient quantized backpropagation and reduce memory bandwidth overhead. Across customization, reinforcement learning, and distillation tasks, FourTune matches the quality of full-precision fine-tuning. On FLUX.1-dev (12B), FourTune reduces memory overhead by 2.25$\times$ and increases end-to-end training throughput by 2.27$\times$ compared to BF16 LoRA.
An adaptive, space-time discretized linear iterative scheme for doubly-degenerate parabolic problems
arXiv:2607.05714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Degenerate diffusion problems, where the governing parabolic equation can change type to either an ordinary differential equation or an elliptic equation, model many real life applications. Due to the presence of free-boundaries, accurate numerical simulation of such problems require extremely small mesh and time step sizes locally. To remediate this issue, in this work, we consider a space-time formulation of the problem based on an efficient splitting of the nonlinearities. First, an iterative linearization scheme is proposed to resolve the nonlinearities that effectively reduces to solving a sequence of heat equations. Unconditional convergence of the scheme is proven even for double degenerate cases with linear convergence achieved if the problem is non-degenerate. Next, the dual norm of the nonlinear residual is decomposed into a linearization error component and a discretization error component corresponding to the heat equation. This leads to reliable and fully computable a posteriori estimates for the problem that are robust with respect to the nonlinearities/degeneracies. These estimates are used then in a fully adaptive (discretization + linearization) space-time solver. Numerical experiments for multiple test cases (one and two dimensions in space) demonstrate that this solver efficiently allocates the computational resources in the space-time domain, resulting in a rapid decay of error in terms of total degrees of freedom spent.
On the Communication Complexity of Maximum Matching and Negative-Weight Shortest Paths
arXiv:2607.05751v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We revisit several fundamental graph problems in the deterministic two-party communication model. Our main contributions include: (1) a new $\widetilde{O}(n^{3/2})$-bit protocol for computing a maximum matching in general graphs. While the same upper bound can be obtained by simulating the classic algorithms of Micali-Vazirani and Gabow, our protocol is conceptually simple and avoids the intricacies of finding a maximal set of shortest augmenting paths; (2) a new $\widetilde{O}(n)$-bit protocol for negative-cycle detection and negative-weight single-source shortest paths. Our protocol simplifies that of Blikstad et al. by replacing a long chain of reductions with a more direct approach based on vertex potentials; (3) a combinatorial $\widetilde{O}(n)$-bit protocol for computing a maximum matching in bipartite graphs, obtained by reinterpreting the near-linear communication protocol of Blikstad et al. through a discretized analysis. Together, these results provide simpler protocols for several basic graph problems. We hope they will inspire further advances on the communication complexity of a wide range of graph problems.
Computing singular solutions of polynomial systems: towards superlinear convergence without deflation
arXiv:2607.06329v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Numerical Algebraic Geometry (NAG) isolated solutions of polynomial systems are usually computed by tracking a solution curve defined by a homotopy equation. The tracking problem becomes especially challenging close to a singular root (the ``endgame'' regime). Existing approaches include power series endgames, Cauchy endgames, and various methods that regularize the system via dual-space-based {\em deflation}. We make the following contributions. (1) For corank-1 systems we introduce a new ``Arclength Endgame'' which combines the idea of the classical {\em pseudo-arclength continuation method} with the estimation of the Puiseux series of the curve. We formally prove that it has a superlinear rate of convergence in some neighborhood of the root. The method uses only evaluations of the system and its Jacobian, whereas previous techniques with proven superlinear convergence (such as deflation) require computing additional derivatives of the system. (2) For systems with a larger corank we propose a heuristic ``Lifted Arclength Endgame'', which shows promising experimental results. (3) A key step in our approach (as well as in the standard power series endgame) is estimating the Puiseux series of the curve, which is characterized by fractional exponents $k_i/c$ for $i\ge 1$ together with associated coefficients. Previous work addressed only estimating the ratio $k_1/c$. We present a new method for that which empirically appears to be more stable than previous methods, and also show how to estimate $k_i/c$ for $i\ge 2$.
Synthetic Consumer Insight Generation with Large Language Models
arXiv:2607.05761v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern data-driven marketing relies on large amounts of consumer data, yet collecting such data can be costly, time-consuming, and difficult to scale. This research examines whether large language models (LLMs) can be used to generate synthetic consumer data for projective techniques, a set of methods designed to elicit consumer associations, emotions, wants, and needs. We test LLM-generated responses across multiple projective tasks, LLMs, prompting strategies, and temperature settings, and compare them with human responses from a primary research study on perceptions of city tourism destinations. Human and LLM responses were analyzed using linguistic measures, diversity and concentration metrics, topic models, and top-term analyses. The results show substantial overlap between human and LLM responses in broad topics and associations, but also important differences in style, linguistic structure, and the way diversity is generated. Recommendations are given on how to best utilize LLMs for generating synthetic consumer data, how model and prompt choices shape response quality, and on recognizing the limitations of LLM synthetic consumer data generation.
Articulating Assumptions in AI-Generated Scientific Analyses through Task Decomposition
arXiv:2607.05762v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific results produced by LLM generated analysis code must be understandable and reproducible. However, uncertainty can arise at different stages of the process, both in the original natural language specification and in the generated implementation. As a result, even executable code may not provide a clear understanding of which quantities are being computed or which assumptions determine the final results. To address this challenge, we introduce quantity grounded semantic differencing, a multi-agent framework for analyzing and comparing scientific programs generated by LLMs. The framework assigns code generation, execution, tracing, and validation to separate agents, allowing it to reconstruct how key output quantities are produced and to identify differences between the intended analysis and the implemented code. We also introduce a module that inspects ambiguities in the initial user instruction and suggests alternative rewrites before code generation. Its modular design enables application to different scientific domains by replacing domain specific resources while preserving the same workflow. We validate the framework on representative collider physics analyses. The results demonstrate that the modular task decomposition enhances both transparency and reliability relative to the previous single prompt approach, while enabling substantially smaller models to execute the complete workflow.
Generalized Feedback Control Modeling Method for Control-Driven Converter Systems
arXiv:2607.05782v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Converters-based systems like wind farms manifest themselves as control-intensive systems, where control-driven stability issues frequently occur, e.g., oscillations. Such issues are popularly studied via circuit impedance-based methods. However, given its implicit controller modeling trait, the impedance-based methods have limitations in system analysis and designs involving large-scale controllers. To address this issue, this paper presents a novel frequency domain modeling framework, as a perspective shift from the circuit to the control system. Since the obtained model features a multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) feedback control structure and explicit controller placement, it is termed the Generalized Feedback Control (GFC) model. GFC modeling is conducted for both single and multi-converter cases, and the resulting models are validated by frequency scan and stability test. Moreover, advantages of the GFC method in achieving interaction analysis and stability-oriented designs of multi-controllers are demonstrated by three application examples, further suggesting its great potential for being applied to the analysis and design issues of converter systems involving large-scale controllers.
DeSeG: Decoupling Semantic Intent and Geometric Constraints for Physically Plausible Human-Scene Interaction
arXiv:2607.05787v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthesizing physically plausible human-scene interactions (HSI) remains a critical challenge in computer vision and the development of human avatars. Although recent generative models enable diverse motion synthesis, they suffer from an inductive bias referred to as semantic-geometric entanglement. Because spatial constraints often strongly correlate with specific actions in training data, monolithic models will learn the shortcut bias, aggressively overriding the semantic intent when faced with strict geometric cues. Furthermore, this entanglement exacerbates physical hallucinations, such as body-scene penetrations. To address these limitations, we propose DeSeG, a hierarchical framework that explicitly decouples semantic intent from geometric constraints. First, we introduce a Residual Semantic Planner that encodes textual instructions and canonicalized goal voxels into a compact latent space, enabling fine-grained semantic control independent of spatial trajectories. Second, we propose a physics regularized diffusion executor that incorporates differentiable repulsive potential fields directly into the diffusion objective, enforcing collision-aware motion generation. Extensive experiments on the Lingo dataset demonstrate that DeSeG achieves state-of-the-art performance, reducing mean scene penetration by 47% and improving semantic alignment by 29% over the SOTA baselines.