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Received — 27 May 2026 ⏭ cs.AI, q-bio.NC updates on arXiv.org

Measuring Reasoning Quality in LLMs: A Multi-Dimensional Behavioral Framework

arXiv:2605.24661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs have achieved remarkable success in complex reasoning tasks, yet current evaluation approaches predominantly rely on final-answer correctness, offering limited insight into the underlying reasoning processes that produce those answers. To address this gap, this study proposes a unified multi-dimensional framework for measuring reasoning quality in LLMs from a behavioral perspective, operationalizing six theoretically grounded dimensions: Correctness (CQ), Consistency (CS), Robustness (RS), Logical Coherence (LS), Efficiency (ES), and Stability (SS). Extensive experiments on seven LLMs across 975 items from four benchmarks demonstrate that the framework reveals behaviors invisible to accuracy-only metrics. Notably, logical coherence is orthogonal to correctness (r = -0.172, ns), confirming that correct answers can arise from incoherent reasoning, while Claude-Haiku-4.5 achieves the highest multi-dimensional score (Q_bal = 0.778). Furthermore, the framework exposes critical ranking inversions: DeepSeek-V3 ranks second under accuracy-priority but fifth under legal/compliance weighting, a reversal that single-metric evaluation cannot detect. Discriminant validity confirms 11/15 dimension pairs are independent (|r|
Received — 8 April 2026 ⏭ cs.AI, q-bio.NC updates on arXiv.org

Automated Conjecture Resolution with Formal Verification

arXiv:2604.03789v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in large language models have significantly improved their ability to perform mathematical reasoning, extending from elementary problem solving to increasingly capable performance on research-level problems. However, reliably solving and verifying such problems remains challenging due to the inherent ambiguity of natural language reasoning. In this paper, we propose an automated framework for tackling research-level mathematical problems that integrates natural language reasoning with formal verification, enabling end-to-end problem solving with minimal human intervention. Our framework consists of two components: an informal reasoning agent, Rethlas, and a formal verification agent, Archon. Rethlas mimics the workflow of human mathematicians by combining reasoning primitives with our theorem search engine, Matlas, to explore solution strategies and construct candidate proofs. Archon, equipped with our formal theorem search engine LeanSearch, translates informal arguments into formalized Lean 4 projects through structured task decomposition, iterative refinement, and automated proof synthesis, ensuring machine-checkable correctness. Using this framework, we automatically resolve an open problem in commutative algebra and formally verify the resulting proof in Lean 4 with essentially no human involvement. Our experiments demonstrate that strong theorem retrieval tools enable the discovery and application of cross-domain mathematical techniques, while the formal agent is capable of autonomously filling nontrivial gaps in informal arguments. More broadly, our work illustrates a promising paradigm for mathematical research in which informal and formal reasoning systems, equipped with theorem retrieval tools, operate in tandem to produce verifiable results, substantially reduce human effort, and offer a concrete instantiation of human-AI collaborative mathematical research.

BAAI Cardiac Agent: An intelligent multimodal agent for automated reasoning and diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases from cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

arXiv:2604.04078v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is a cornerstone for diagnosing cardiovascular disease. However, it remains underutilized due to complex, time-consuming interpretation across multi-sequences, phases, quantitative measures that heavily reliant on specialized expertise. Here, we present BAAI Cardiac Agent, a multimodal intelligent system designed for end-to-end CMR interpretation. The agent integrates specialized cardiac expert models to perform automated segmentation of cardiac structures, functional quantification, tissue characterization and disease diagnosis, and generates structured clinical reports within a unified workflow. Evaluated on CMR datasets from two hospitals (2413 patients) spanning 7-types of major cardiovascular diseases, the agent achieved an area under the receiver-operating-characteristic curve exceeding 0.93 internally and 0.81 externally. In the task of estimating left ventricular function indices, the results generated by this system for core parameters such as ejection fraction, stroke volume, and left ventricular mass are highly consistent with clinical reports, with Pearson correlation coefficients all exceeding 0.90. The agent outperformed state-of-the-art models in segmentation and diagnostic tasks, and generated clinical reports showing high concordance with expert radiologists (six readers across three experience levels). By dynamically orchestrating expert models for coordinated multimodal analysis, this agent framework enables accurate, efficient CMR interpretation and highlights its potentials for complex clinical imaging workflows. Code is available at https://github.com/plantain-herb/Cardiac-Agent.
Received — 5 March 2026 ⏭ cs.AI, q-bio.NC updates on arXiv.org

Pretrained Vision-Language-Action Models are Surprisingly Resistant to Forgetting in Continual Learning

arXiv:2603.03818v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual learning is a long-standing challenge in robot policy learning, where a policy must acquire new skills over time without catastrophically forgetting previously learned ones. While prior work has extensively studied continual learning in relatively small behavior cloning (BC) policy models trained from scratch, its behavior in modern large-scale pretrained Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models remains underexplored. In this work, we found that pretrained VLAs are remarkably resistant to forgetting compared with smaller policy models trained from scratch. Simple Experience Replay (ER) works surprisingly well on VLAs, sometimes achieving zero forgetting even with a small replay data size. Our analysis reveals that pretraining plays a critical role in downstream continual learning performance: large pretrained models mitigate forgetting with a small replay buffer size while maintaining strong forward learning capabilities. Furthermore, we found that VLAs can retain relevant knowledge from prior tasks despite performance degradation during learning new tasks. This knowledge retention enables rapid recovery of seemingly forgotten skills through finetuning. Together, these insights imply that large-scale pretraining fundamentally changes the dynamics of continual learning, enabling models to continually acquire new skills over time with simple replay. Code and more information can be found at https://ut-austin-rpl.github.io/continual-vla

Preference Leakage: A Contamination Problem in LLM-as-a-judge

arXiv:2502.01534v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) as judges and LLM-based data synthesis have emerged as two fundamental LLM-driven data annotation methods in model development. While their combination significantly enhances the efficiency of model training and evaluation, little attention has been given to the potential contamination brought by this new model development paradigm. In this work, we expose preference leakage, a contamination problem in LLM-as-a-judge caused by the relatedness between the synthetic data generators and LLM-based evaluators. To study this issue, we first define three common relatednesses between the data generator LLM and the judge LLM: being the same model, having an inheritance relationship, and belonging to the same model family. Through extensive experiments, we empirically confirm the bias of judges towards their related student models caused by preference leakage across multiple LLM baselines and benchmarks. Further analysis suggests that preference leakage is a pervasive and real-world problem that is harder to detect compared to previously identified biases in LLM-as-a-judge scenarios. All of these findings imply that preference leakage is a widespread and challenging problem in the area of LLM-as-a-judge. We release all codes and data at: https://github.com/David-Li0406/Preference-Leakage.
Received — 25 February 2026 ⏭ cs.AI, q-bio.NC updates on arXiv.org

Boolean Satisfiability via Imitation Learning

arXiv:2509.25411v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose ImitSAT, a branching policy for conflict-driven clause learning (CDCL) solvers based on imitation learning for the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT). Unlike previous methods that predict instance-level signals to improve CDCL branching indirectly, or rely on reinforcement learning and insufficient CDCL information to enhance branching, ImitSAT learns from expert KeyTrace that collapses a full run into the sequence of surviving decisions. Replaying a KeyTrace on the same instance is nearly conflict-free, providing dense decision-level supervision and directly reducing propagations -- the dominant contributor to wall-clock time. This prefix-conditioned supervision enables ImitSAT to reproduce high-quality branches without exploration, yielding faster convergence, stable training, and seamless integration into CDCL. Extensive experiments demonstrate that ImitSAT reduces propagation counts and runtime, outperforming state-of-the-art learned approaches. We released the source code and trained model at https://github.com/zewei-Zhang/ImitSAT
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