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Received — 15 September 2026 ⏭

BlueLM-GUI Technical Report: A Real-Device-Centric Flywheel for Self-Improving Mobile GUI Agents

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By: Tong Ye · Kunyang Han · Guozhi Wang · Longqiang Luo · Zhifeng Ding · Yongxiang Zhang · Xiaolei Shen · Yuxuan Zhang · Zhuping Zhang · Tao Xu · Yue Pan · Yucheng Zhao · Yupei Hu · Yuanjiang Ouyang · Danfeng Shen · Runqi Lin · Hongda Cai · Zhaoxiong Wang · Mengjia Yan · Yingjie Zhong · Chen Zhou · Zeyu Zhang · Xuwen Zhu · Penggang Shi · Mingcheng Luo · Ziyang Wu · Min Jin · Mingfu Shen · Zairong Xu · Fan Zhang · Hao Wang · Liang Liu · Zhulin Xie · Lijun Yao · Xiao Liang · Liangmin Wen · Liqiang Feng · Feilong Wu · Min Hu · Min Chen · Guanjing Xiong · Xiaohu Ruan · Xiaoxin Chen
14 September 2026 at 12:00
arXiv:2609.12394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile GUI agents are shifting from multi-module frameworks to native models trained end-to-end, yet industrial deployment faces three persistent gaps. Sandbox training produces a distribution mismatch with production environments; expensive real-device failures remain underutilized; and fixed benchmarks saturate, losing the power to guide iteration. We present BlueLM-GUI, a 35B-A3B mobile GUI agent built as a real-device-centric flywheel that closes these gaps through three principles. Every Sample Matters: a dual-track pipeline with Heterogeneous Triple-System Consensus evaluation and an Error Correction \& Derivation Module salvages every trajectory into usable supervision. Every Rollout Is Real: a three-stage recipe---continual pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, and agentic reinforcement learning on hundreds of real phones---grounds every rollout in real production environments, so the capability the model learns transfers directly to deployment. Every Query Evolves: a quota-driven benchmark methodology with three orthogonal axes enables precise attribution and allows the benchmark to be systematically upgraded as the model improves. BlueLM-GUI achieves 87.4 on MobileGUI-VBench, surpassing the best closed-source model by 5.1 points, and 84.9 on AndroidWorld, the best result among open-source models and competitive with closed-source models. These results demonstrate that grounding model training and iterative improvement in both real devices and the three Every principles yields strong, robust, and transferable mobile GUI capability.
Received — 27 May 2026 ⏭

Mode-as-Sequence: Translating Multimodal Motion Prediction into Unified Sequential Mode Modeling

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By: Zikang Zhou · Haibo Hu · Xinhong Chen · Yifan Zhang · Nan Guan · Yung-Hui Li · Chun Jason Xue · Jianping Wang
26 May 2026 at 12:00
arXiv:2605.24037v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal motion forecasting is inherently under-supervised: each training scene provides only one realized future, yet multiple plausible futures exist. This sparse supervision often leads to mode collapse (redundant hypotheses and insufficient mode coverage) and unreliable confidence ranking when predicting a small set of trajectories. We propose Mode-as-Sequence, a unified decoding framework that translates an unordered mode set into an ordered mode sequence and explicitly models mode-to-mode dependency. Under this framework, we develop two complementary instantiations. ModeSeq performs recurrent mode decoding, where each mode is generated conditioned on the previously generated modes, encouraging diverse, non-redundant hypotheses with calibrated confidence ordering. To remove the mode-by-mode autoregressive bottleneck, we further propose Parallel ModeSeq, which preserves the same causal dependency using masked mode-to-mode self-attention while decoding all modes in a single forward pass, enabling efficient large-$K$ inference and scalable joint-scene prediction. To learn representative modes and calibrated confidence under sparse labels, we introduce Early-Match-Take-All (EMTA) and its joint-scene extension MA-EMTA, together with a lightweight ranking regularizer that reduces confidence inversions. Extensive experiments on large-scale benchmarks demonstrate consistent improvements in both ranking-oriented metrics and best-of-K accuracy across datasets, horizons, and object types. In the Waymo Open Dataset challenges, ModeSeq achieves 1st place in the 2024 LiDAR-free motion prediction track, and Parallel ModeSeq achieves 1st place in the 2025 Interaction Prediction Challenge, validating the effectiveness of Mode-as-Sequence for both accuracy and efficiency.

Metropolis-Scale Resilient and Trustworthy Traffic Flow Inference Using Multi-Source Data

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By: Qishen Zhou · Yifan Zhang · Michail A. Makridis · Anastasios Kouvelas · Yibing Wang · Simon Hu
26 May 2026 at 12:00
arXiv:2605.25004v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inferring network-wide traffic states from sparse observations with high accuracy and trustworthy uncertainty quantification is essential for intelligent transportation systems, yet it remains challenging due to the underdetermined nature of the problem, multifaceted disturbances in sensing networks, and the inherent conflicts among multiple inference sub-tasks when modeled jointly. We propose the Task-Aware Attentive Neural Process (TA-ANP), a unified probabilistic framework for resilient and trustworthy global traffic state inference (GTSI) by fusing floating car data (FCD) with sparse fixed-detector measurements. By casting GTSI as a stochastic process, TA-ANP leverages the meta-learning properties of neural processes to adapt rapidly to changes in sensing configurations without retraining. A task-aware multi-query attention module with distinct spatiotemporal inductive biases is introduced to jointly handle three GTSI sub-tasks, while mitigating cross-task interference. For uncertainty quantification, we combine neural processes with Monte Carlo Dropout to capture both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty. To support metropolis-scale evaluation, we construct the Metropolitan Multi-Source Traffic Dataset (MMTD), integrating fixed-loop sensor measurements, FCD statistics, and OpenStreetMap road-network data over an urban network of 2,371 road segments. Experiments on MMTD show that TA-ANP achieves state-of-the-art performance across all sub-tasks under deterministic and probabilistic metrics. The resulting well-calibrated uncertainties enable more efficient fixed-sensor placement with fewer sensor deployments. Under a Damage-Repair-Addition sensing lifecycle, TA-ANP demonstrates superior resilience in terms of disturbance absorption, performance recovery, and adaptability to unseen sensing configurations.

Can LLMs Time Travel? Enhancing Temporal Consistency in Legal Agentic Search through Reinforcement Learning

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By: Wei Fan · Yining Zhou · Mufan Zhang · Yanbing Weng · Yiran HU · Tianshi Zheng · Baixuan Xu · Chunyang Li · Jianhui Yang · Haoran Li · Yangqiu Song
26 May 2026 at 12:00
arXiv:2605.25920v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While large language models (LLMs) augmented with agentic search capabilities show promise for legal reasoning, they overlook a fundamental constraint that applicable law must match the temporal context of each case, as retroactive application of statutes violates core legal principles and leads to erroneous conclusions. Our observations reveal that current legal LLMs suffer from temporal bias anchored to their training cutoff, while search agents rarely incorporate temporal constraints into queries, and that web search alone cannot provide the precise statute and precedent citations that legal reasoning demands. To address these challenges, we propose LegalSearch-R1, an end-to-end reinforcement learning framework that pairs local statute RAG for precise article matching with online web search for broader legal knowledge, trained on temporally-indexed data spanning multiple amendment periods to enforce temporal consistency. Extensive experiments on our benchmark covering 13 legal tasks demonstrate that our 7B-parameter agent outperforms state-of-the-art deep research frameworks and specialized legal LLMs by 12.9% to 29.8%, surpasses baselines by 57.7% to 80.3% on temporal consistency, and exhibits robust out-of-domain generalization. The code and data are available at https://github.com/AlexFanw/LegalSearch-R1.

L-Drive: Beyond a Single Mapping-Latent Context Drives Time Series Forecasting

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By: Fan Zhang · Shijun Chen · Hua Wang
26 May 2026 at 12:00
arXiv:2605.17730v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mainstream methods for multivariate time-series forecasting largely follow the Direct-Mapping paradigm. They learn a unified mapping from history to the future in the observation space to fit value-level dependencies. However, real-world systems often undergo distribution shifts and regime changes. In such cases, a unified mapping can exhibit response lag around turning points, causing error accumulation within the switching window and reducing forecasting reliability. To address this issue, we propose L-Drive, a change-aware forecasting framework. L-Drive introduces a Latent-Context, to explicitly characterize high-level dynamics evolving over time, and uses gating to modulate increment representations. This provides more timely change cues and improves adaptation to changing segments. In addition, it incorporates patch-shared relative positional basis functions to strengthen intra-segment structural modeling and reduce overfitting caused by absolute-position memorization. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of L-Drive and show a better overall trade-off between forecasting accuracy and computational efficiency.

Advancing solar and wind penetration in China through energy complementarity

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By: Yuan Hu · Hou Jiang · Chuan Zhang · Jianlong Yuan · Mengting Zhang · Ling Yao · Qiang Chen · Jichao Wu · Hualong Zhang · Subin Ma · Xiang Li · Weiyu Zhang · Quanhua Dong · Congcong Wen · Gege Yin · Fan Zhang · Chaohui Yu · Zhijun Jin · Yu Liu
20 May 2026 at 08:00

Nature, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10570-z

Using high-resolution satellite imagery combined with a deep-learning-based framework to build a national energy inventory enables a data-driven assessment of solar–wind complementarity strategies to reduce power variability and enhance renewable energy penetration across China.

Accelerating scientific discovery with Co-Scientist

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By: Juraj Gottweis · Wei-Hung Weng · Alexander Daryin · Tao Tu · Petar Sirkovic · Artiom Myaskovsky · Grzegorz Glowaty · Felix Weissenberger · Alessio Orlandi · Dan Popovici · Anil Palepu · Keran Rong · Ryutaro Tanno · Khaled Saab · Fan Zhang · Jacob Blum · Andrew Carroll · Kavita Kulkarni · Nenad Tomašev · Dina Zverinski · Ivor Rendulic · Elahe Vedadi · Florian Hasler · Luka Rimanic · Marina Boia · Ivan Budiselic · Ben Feinstein · Mathias Bellaiche · Tom Sheffer · Jan Freyberg · Jeremy Ratcliff · Ottavia Bertolli · Katherine Chou · Avinatan Hassidim · Burak Gokturk · Amin Vahdat · Yuan Guan · Vikram Dhillon · Eeshit Dhaval Vaishnav · Byron Lee · Tiago R. D. Costa · José R. Penadés · Gary Peltz · Yossi Matias · James Manyika · Demis Hassabis · Yunhan Xu · Pushmeet Kohli · Annalisa Pawlosky · Alan Karthikesalingam · Vivek Natarajan
19 May 2026 at 08:00

Nature, Published online: 19 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10644-y

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Integrative multi-omics analysis identifies stromal-immune crosstalk as a determinant of immunotherapy efficacy and establishes a prognostic signature in gastric cancer

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By: Fan Zhang · Qingqing Zhang · Shuai Shao · Xiaobo Li · Yi Cheng · Xu Cao · Xiaotang Yu · Zhengming Gao
2 May 2026 at 18:00

Comput Biol Chem. 2026 Apr 23;124(Pt 1):109095. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2026.109095. Online ahead of print.

ABSTRACT

Immune checkpoint inhibitors like pembrolizumab exhibit variable efficacy in metastatic gastric cancer (GC). This study aimed to identify molecular drivers of pembrolizumab response, explore mechanisms of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) efficacy, and develop a prognostic signature. Transcriptomic analysis of pembrolizumab-treated GC (TIGER database) identified 165 response-associated differentially expressed genes (DEGs). Functional annotation and single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) revealed that responder-upregulated genes (R-DEGs) were enriched in immune activation pathways and mainly localized to CD8 + T/NK cells. In contrast, non-responder-upregulated genes (D-DEGs) were linked to extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling and mainly expressed in fibroblasts/endothelial cells. CellChat analysis demonstrated that key DEGs mediate immune-stromal crosstalk via MHC-I and collagen/laminin signaling. A prognostic signature (Lasso-StepCox[forward] Riskscore; LSR: APOD, APOH, BATF2, GJA1, MAGED1, SLC5A1, SLCO2A1, VWF, VCAN) was derived and validated in four independent GC cohorts from the GEO and Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. Multi-omics analyses showed that LSR-high tumors exhibited aggressive clinicopathological features, increased stromal components, reduced cytotoxic immune infiltration, diminished tumor mutational burden (TMB), and poorer prognosis. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) and spatial transcriptomics in GC showed that stromal VWF/VCAN expression correlates with reduced CD8⁺ T cell granzyme B expression, suggesting T cell dysfunction. High VWF expression in GC predicted poor survival, and a combined VWF/VCAN score showed enhanced prognostic stratification. This study highlights stromal-immune crosstalk as a driver of pembrolizumab resistance and provides a signature as a clinical tool for prognosis and personalized therapy in metastatic GC.

PMID:42068630 | DOI:10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2026.109095

Received — 4 April 2026 ⏭

Group Representational Position Encoding

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By: Yifan Zhang · Zixiang Chen · Yifeng Liu · Zhen Qin · Huizhuo Yuan · Kangping Xu · Yang Yuan · Quanquan Gu · Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
3 April 2026 at 12:00
arXiv:2512.07805v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present GRAPE (Group Representational Position Encoding), a unified framework for positional encoding based on group actions. GRAPE unifies two families of mechanisms: (i) multiplicative rotations (Multiplicative GRAPE) in $\operatorname{SO}(d)$ and (ii) additive logit biases (Additive GRAPE) arising from unipotent actions in the general linear group $\mathrm{GL}$. In Multiplicative GRAPE, a position $n \in \mathbb{Z}$ (or $t \in \mathbb{R}$) acts as $\mathbf{G}(n) = \exp(n \, \omega \, \mathbf{L})$ with a rank-2 skew-symmetric generator $\mathbf{L} \in \mathbb{R}^{d \times d}$, yielding a relative, compositional, norm-preserving map with a closed-form matrix exponential. RoPE is recovered exactly when the $d/2$ planes correspond to canonical coordinate pairs with a log-uniform spectrum. Learned commuting subspaces and compact non-commuting mixtures strictly extend this geometry to capture cross-subspace feature coupling at $O(d)$ and $O(r d)$ cost per head, respectively. In Additive GRAPE, additive logits arise from rank-1 (or low-rank) unipotent actions, recovering ALiBi and the Forgetting Transformer (FoX) as exact special cases while preserving an exact relative law and streaming cacheability. Overall, GRAPE provides a principled design space for positional geometry in long-context models, subsuming RoPE and ALiBi as special cases. Project page: https://github.com/model-architectures/GRAPE.
Received — 2 April 2026 ⏭

Derived Fields Preserve Fine-Scale Detail in Budgeted Neural Simulators

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By: Wenshuo Wang · Fan Zhang
1 April 2026 at 12:00
arXiv:2603.29224v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-scale-faithful neural simulation under fixed storage budgets remains challenging. Many existing methods reduce high-frequency error by improving architectures, training objectives, or rollout strategies. However, under budgeted coarsen-quantize-decode pipelines, fine detail can already be lost when the carried state is constructed. In the canonical periodic incompressible Navier-Stokes setting, we show that primitive and derived fields undergo systematically different retained-band distortions under the same operator. Motivated by this observation, we formulate Derived-Field Optimization (DerivOpt), a general state-design framework that chooses which physical fields are carried and how storage budget is allocated across them under a calibrated channel model. Across the full time-dependent forward subset of PDEBench, DerivOpt not only improves pooled mean rollout nRMSE, but also delivers a decisive advantage in fine-scale fidelity over a broad set of strong baselines. More importantly, the gains are already visible at input time, before rollout learning begins. This indicates that the carried state is often the dominant bottleneck under tight storage budgets. These results suggest a broader conclusion: in budgeted neural simulation, carried-state design should be treated as a first-class design axis alongside architecture, loss, and rollout strategy.
Received — 26 March 2026 ⏭

Enhancing AI-Based Tropical Cyclone Track and Intensity Forecasting via Systematic Bias Correction

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By: Peisong Niu · Haifan Zhang · Yang Zhao · Tian Zhou · Ziqing Ma · Wenqiang Shen · Junping Zhao · Huiling Yuan · Liang Sun
25 March 2026 at 12:00
arXiv:2603.22314v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tropical cyclones (TCs) pose severe threats to life, infrastructure, and economies in tropical and subtropical regions, underscoring the critical need for accurate and timely forecasts of both track and intensity. Recent advances in AI-based weather forecasting have shown promise in improving TC track forecasts. However, these systems are typically trained on coarse-resolution reanalysis data (e.g., ERA5 at 0.25 degree), which constrains predicted TC positions to a fixed grid and introduces significant discretization errors. Moreover, intensity forecasting remains limited especially for strong TCs by the smoothing effect of coarse meteorological fields and the use of regression losses that bias predictions toward conditional means. To address these limitations, we propose BaguanCyclone, a novel, unified framework that integrates two key innovations: (1) a probabilistic center refinement module that models the continuous spatial distribution of TC centers, enabling finer track precision; and (2) a region-aware intensity forecasting module that leverages high-resolution internal representations within dynamically defined sub-grid zones around the TC core to better capture localized extremes. Evaluated on the global IBTrACS dataset across six major TC basins, our system consistently outperforms both operational numerical weather prediction (NWP) models and most AI-based baselines, delivering a substantial enhancement in forecast accuracy. Remarkably, BaguanCyclone excels in navigating meteorological complexities, consistently delivering accurate forecasts for re-intensification, sweeping arcs, twin cyclones, and meandering events. Our code is available at https://github.com/DAMO-DI-ML/Baguan-cyclone.
Received — 17 March 2026 ⏭

CognitionCapturerPro: Towards High-Fidelity Visual Decoding from EEG/MEG via Multi-modal Information and Asymmetric Alignment

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By: Kaifan Zhang · Lihuo He · Junjie Ke · Yuqi Ji · Lukun Wu · Lizi Wang · Xinbo Gao
16 March 2026 at 12:00
arXiv:2603.12722v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual stimuli reconstruction from EEG remains challenging due to fidelity loss and representation shift. We propose CognitionCapturerPro, an enhanced framework that integrates EEG with multi-modal priors (images, text, depth, and edges) via collaborative training. Our core contributions include an uncertainty-weighted similarity scoring mechanism to quantify modality-specific fidelity and a fusion encoder for integrating shared representations. By employing a simplified alignment module and a pre-trained diffusion model, our method significantly outperforms the original CognitionCapturer on the THINGS-EEG dataset, improving Top-1 and Top-5 retrieval accuracy by 25.9% and 10.6%, respectively. Code is available at: https://github.com/XiaoZhangYES/CognitionCapturerPro.
Received — 5 March 2026 ⏭

Mozi: Governed Autonomy for Drug Discovery LLM Agents

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By: He Cao · Siyu Liu · Fan Zhang · Zijing Liu · Hao Li · Bin Feng · Shengyuan Bai · Leqing Chen · Kai Xie · Yu Li
5 March 2026 at 13:00
arXiv:2603.03655v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented large language model (LLM) agents promise to unify scientific reasoning with computation, yet their deployment in high-stakes domains like drug discovery is bottlenecked by two critical barriers: unconstrained tool-use governance and poor long-horizon reliability. In dependency-heavy pharmaceutical pipelines, autonomous agents often drift into irreproducible trajectories, where early-stage hallucinations multiplicatively compound into downstream failures. To overcome this, we present Mozi, a dual-layer architecture that bridges the flexibility of generative AI with the deterministic rigor of computational biology. Layer A (Control Plane) establishes a governed supervisor--worker hierarchy that enforces role-based tool isolation, limits execution to constrained action spaces, and drives reflection-based replanning. Layer B (Workflow Plane) operationalizes canonical drug discovery stages -- from Target Identification to Lead Optimization -- as stateful, composable skill graphs. This layer integrates strict data contracts and strategic human-in-the-loop (HITL) checkpoints to safeguard scientific validity at high-uncertainty decision boundaries. Operating on the design principle of ``free-form reasoning for safe tasks, structured execution for long-horizon pipelines,'' Mozi provides built-in robustness mechanisms and trace-level audibility to completely mitigate error accumulation. We evaluate Mozi on PharmaBench, a curated benchmark for biomedical agents, demonstrating superior orchestration accuracy over existing baselines. Furthermore, through end-to-end therapeutic case studies, we demonstrate Mozi's ability to navigate massive chemical spaces, enforce stringent toxicity filters, and generate highly competitive in silico candidates, effectively transforming the LLM from a fragile conversationalist into a reliable, governed co-scientist.

MedLA: A Logic-Driven Multi-Agent Framework for Complex Medical Reasoning with Large Language Models

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By: Siqi Ma · Jiajie Huang · Fan Zhang · Yue Shen · Jinlin Wu · Guohui Fan · Zhu Zhang · Zelin Zang
4 March 2026 at 13:00
arXiv:2509.23725v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Answering complex medical questions requires not only domain expertise and patient-specific information, but also structured and multi-perspective reasoning. Existing multi-agent approaches often rely on fixed roles or shallow interaction prompts, limiting their ability to detect and resolve fine-grained logical inconsistencies. To address this, we propose \textsc{MedLA}, a logic-driven multi-agent framework built on large language models. Each agent organizes its reasoning process into an explicit logical tree based on syllogistic triads (major premise, minor premise, and conclusion), enabling transparent inference and premise-level alignment. Agents engage in a multi-round, graph-guided discussion to compare and iteratively refine their logic trees, achieving consensus through error correction and contradiction resolution. We demonstrate that \textsc{MedLA} consistently outperforms both static role-based systems and single-agent baselines on challenging benchmarks such as MedDDx and standard medical QA tasks. Furthermore, \textsc{MedLA} scales effectively across both open-source and commercial LLM backbones, achieving state-of-the-art performance and offering a generalizable paradigm for trustworthy medical reasoning.
Received — 25 February 2026 ⏭

Group Representational Position Encoding

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By: Yifan Zhang · Zixiang Chen · Yifeng Liu · Zhen Qin · Huizhuo Yuan · Kangping Xu · Yang Yuan · Quanquan Gu · Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
24 February 2026 at 13:00
arXiv:2512.07805v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present GRAPE (Group Representational Position Encoding), a unified framework for positional encoding based on group actions. GRAPE unifies two families of mechanisms: (i) multiplicative rotations (Multiplicative GRAPE) in $\operatorname{SO}(d)$ and (ii) additive logit biases (Additive GRAPE) arising from unipotent actions in the general linear group $\mathrm{GL}$. In Multiplicative GRAPE, a position $n \in \mathbb{Z}$ (or $t \in \mathbb{R}$) acts as $\mathbf{G}(n) = \exp(n \, \omega \, \mathbf{L})$ with a rank-2 skew-symmetric generator $\mathbf{L} \in \mathbb{R}^{d \times d}$, yielding a relative, compositional, norm-preserving map with a closed-form matrix exponential. RoPE is recovered exactly when the $d/2$ planes correspond to canonical coordinate pairs with a log-uniform spectrum. Learned commuting subspaces and compact non-commuting mixtures strictly extend this geometry to capture cross-subspace feature coupling at $O(d)$ and $O(r d)$ cost per head, respectively. In Additive GRAPE, additive logits arise from rank-1 (or low-rank) unipotent actions, recovering ALiBi and the Forgetting Transformer (FoX) as exact special cases while preserving an exact relative law and streaming cacheability. Overall, GRAPE provides a principled design space for positional geometry in long-context models, subsuming RoPE and ALiBi as special cases. Project page: https://github.com/model-architectures/GRAPE.
Received — 17 February 2026 ⏭

Transferable XAI: Relating Understanding Across Domains with Explanation Transfer

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By: Fei Wang · Yifan Zhang · Brian Y. Lim
17 February 2026 at 13:00
arXiv:2602.13675v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current Explainable AI (XAI) focuses on explaining a single application, but when encountering related applications, users may rely on their prior understanding from previous explanations. This leads to either overgeneralization and AI overreliance, or burdensome independent memorization. Indeed, related decision tasks can share explanatory factors, but with some notable differences; e.g., body mass index (BMI) affects the risks for heart disease and diabetes at the same rate, but chest pain is more indicative of heart disease. Similarly, models using different attributes for the same task still share signals; e.g., temperature and pressure affect air pollution but in opposite directions due to the ideal gas law. Leveraging transfer of learning, we propose Transferable XAI to enable users to transfer understanding across related domains by explaining the relationship between domain explanations using a general affine transformation framework applied to linear factor explanations. The framework supports explanation transfer across various domain types: translation for data subspace (subsuming prior work on Incremental XAI), scaling for decision task, and mapping for attributes. Focusing on task and attributes domain types, in formative and summative user studies, we investigated how well participants could understand AI decisions from one domain to another. Compared to single-domain and domain-independent explanations, Transferable XAI was the most helpful for understanding the second domain, leading to the best decision faithfulness, factor recall, and ability to relate explanations between domains. This framework contributes to improving the reusability of explanations across related AI applications by explaining factor relationships between subspaces, tasks, and attributes.

Comparables XAI: Faithful Example-based AI Explanations with Counterfactual Trace Adjustments

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By: Yifan Zhang · Tianle Ren · Fei Wang · Brian Y Lim
17 February 2026 at 13:00
arXiv:2602.13784v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Explaining with examples is an intuitive way to justify AI decisions. However, it is challenging to understand how a decision value should change relative to the examples with many features differing by large amounts. We draw from real estate valuation that uses Comparables-examples with known values for comparison. Estimates are made more accurate by hypothetically adjusting the attributes of each Comparable and correspondingly changing the value based on factors. We propose Comparables XAI for relatable example-based explanations of AI with Trace adjustments that trace counterfactual changes from each Comparable to the Subject, one attribute at a time, monotonically along the AI feature space. In modelling and user studies, Trace-adjusted Comparables achieved the highest XAI faithfulness and precision, user accuracy, and narrowest uncertainty bounds compared to linear regression, linearly adjusted Comparables, or unadjusted Comparables. This work contributes a new analytical basis for using example-based explanations to improve user understanding of AI decisions.

GeoEyes: On-Demand Visual Focusing for Evidence-Grounded Understanding of Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery

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By: Fengxiang Wang · Mingshuo Chen · Yueying Li · Yajie Yang · Yifan Zhang · Long Lan · Xue Yang · Hongda Sun · Yulin Wang · Di Wang · Jun Song · Jing Zhang · Bo Du
17 February 2026 at 13:00
arXiv:2602.14201v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The "thinking-with-images" paradigm enables multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to actively explore visual scenes via zoom-in tools. This is essential for ultra-high-resolution (UHR) remote sensing VQA, where task-relevant cues are sparse and tiny. However, we observe a consistent failure mode in existing zoom-enabled MLLMs: Tool Usage Homogenization, where tool calls collapse into task-agnostic patterns, limiting effective evidence acquisition. To address this, we propose GeoEyes, a staged training framework consisting of (1) a cold-start SFT dataset, UHR Chain-of-Zoom (UHR-CoZ), which covers diverse zooming regimes, and (2) an agentic reinforcement learning method, AdaZoom-GRPO, that explicitly rewards evidence gain and answer improvement during zoom interactions. The resulting model learns on-demand zooming with proper stopping behavior and achieves substantial improvements on UHR remote sensing benchmarks, with 54.23% accuracy on XLRS-Bench.

Making Slow Thinking Faster: Compressing LLM Chain-of-Thought via Step Entropy

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By: Zeju Li · Jianyuan Zhong · Ziyang Zheng · Xiangyu Wen · Zhijian Xu · Yingying Cheng · Fan Zhang · Qiang Xu
17 February 2026 at 13:00
arXiv:2508.03346v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) using Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting excel at complex reasoning but generate verbose thought processes with considerable redundancy, leading to increased inference costs and reduced efficiency. We introduce a novel CoT compression framework based on step entropy, a metric that quantifies \emph{the informational contribution of individual reasoning steps} to identify redundancy. Through theoretical analysis and extensive empirical validation on mathematical reasoning benchmarks, we demonstrate that steps with low entropy are indeed highly redundant. Our experiments reveal that an astonishing 80\% of low-entropy intermediate steps can be pruned with minor degradation in the final answer accuracy across DeepSeek-R1-7B, 14B and Qwen3-8B. This finding sharply contrasts with random or high-entropy pruning, which severely impairs reasoning performance. Building on this, we propose a novel two-stage training strategy combining Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) reinforcement learning. This approach enables LLMs to autonomously learn to generate compressed COTs during inference by strategically incorporating [SKIP] tokens. Our method significantly improves LLM inference efficiency while preserving accuracy, paving the way for more scalable LLM deployments and a better understanding of their internal reasoning. The code and data are released in https://github.com/staymylove/COT_Compresstion_via_Step_entropy.
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