Recent auto-research systems can produce complete papers, but feasibility is not the same as quality, and the field still lacks a systematic study of how good agent-generated papers actually are. We introduce ResearchArena, a minimal scaffold that lets off-the-shelf agents (Claude Code using Opus 4.6, Codex using GPT-5...
Zhengxin Zhang, Ning Wang, Sainyam Galhotra et al.· 0 citations
A striking geometric disparity has long persisted in the practice of deep learning. While modern neural network architectures naturally exhibit rich symmetry and equivariance properties, popular optimizers such as Adam and its variants operate inherently coordinate-wise, rendering them unable to respect the equivarianc...
Do large language models (LLMs) exhibit systematic ideological bias when reasoning about economic causal effects? As LLMs are increasingly used in policy analysis and economic reporting, where directionally correct causal judgments are essential, this question has direct practical stakes. We present a systematic evalua...
Donggyu Lee, Hyeok Yun, Jungwon Kim et al.· 0 citations
Reinforcement learning (RL) is effective in enhancing the accuracy of large language models in complex reasoning tasks. Existing RL policy optimization frameworks rely on final-answer correctness as feedback signals and rarely capture the internal logical structure of the reasoning process. Consequently, the models wou...
Situational awareness, the capacity of an AI system to recognize its own nature, understand its training and deployment context, and reason strategically about its circumstances, is widely considered among the most dangerous emergent capabilities in advanced AI systems. Separately, a growing research effort seeks to im...
Subramanyam Sahoo, Aman Chadha, Vinija Jain et al.· 0 citations
Cardiovascular disease arises from interactions between inherited risk, molecular programmes, and tissue-scale remodelling that are observed clinically through imaging. Health systems now routinely generate large volumes of cardiac MRI, CT and echocardiography together with bulk, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics...
Minh H. N. Le, Tuan Vinh, Thanh-Huy Nguyen et al.· 0 citations
The deep learning revolution has enabled major AI advances in physical sciences, particularly in discovering dynamical systems from observational data. Yet the reliability of learned surrogates and symbolically discovered models is often undermined by non-uniqueness: models may fit observed trajectories perfectly, but...
Zakhar Shumaylov, P. Zaika, Philipp Scholl et al.· arXiv.org· 11 citations· ⚡1
Modern ML research increasingly faces an evaluation bottleneck: building benchmarks and running experiments is costly, slowing iteration. We ask how much can be inferred about evaluation outcomes before experiments, given only a natural-language description of the task and setup. We call this setting anticipatory evalu...
Jungsoo Park, Ethan Mendes, Gabriel Stanovsky et al.· 0 citations
Large Language Models (LLMs) with billions of parameters are prime targets for network pruning, which removes some model weights without hurting performance. Prior approaches such as magnitude pruning, SparseGPT, and Wanda either concentrated solely on weights or integrated weights with activations for sparsity. Howeve...
Rocktim Jyoti Das, Mukul Ranjan, Mingjie Sun et al.· 0 citations
We study contextual bandit problems with correlated arms and access to surrogate reward signals produced by a machine learning model, motivated by applications such as large language model (LLM) routing. Unlike classical contextual bandits that rely solely on bandit feedback and assume conditional independence across a...
Real-world time series exhibit complex dynamics characterized by multiple simultaneous temporal patterns: short-term fluctuations, periodic seasonal cycles, long-term trends, and irregular abrupt changes. However, most forecasting architectures rely on single-path temporal modeling---transformers capture long-range dep...
A comprehensive study of activation-steering-induced emergent misalignment reveals activation steering as a significant yet underexamined source of emergent misalignment and provides an activation-space perspective on emergent misalignment and its safety risks.
Qi Cao, Jian Lou, Mei-Ting Liu et al.· 0 citations