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πŸ“„ Pixel-UMI: Learning Environment-Aware Whole-Body Manipulation from Sensorized Human Demonstrations
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03647v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Jason Jingzhou Liu, Tony Tao, Deepak Pathak (possible past University Of California, Berkeley affiliation), Ruslan Salakhutdinov (possible past University Of Toronto affiliation)
Abstract

Sensorized human demonstrations offer scalable data for mobile manipulation, but embodiment differences complicate policy learning. We present Pixel-UMI, a pipeline for learning environment-aware whole-body policies from human data. We first introduce Environment-Aware Retargeting (EAR), which combines reconstructed scene geometry with demonstrated head and gripper trajectories to determine robot posture and generate collision-aware joint and base targets. Delay-calibrated action assignment conv...

πŸ“„ Pixel: A Co-Designed Full-Stack Robot System for Learning General-Purpose Mobile Manipulation
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03648v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Tony Tao, Jason Jingzhou Liu, Ruslan Salakhutdinov (possible past University Of Toronto affiliation), Deepak Pathak (possible past University Of California, Berkeley affiliation)
Abstract

General-purpose mobile manipulation requires a combination of capable robot hardware, scalable demonstration collection, expressive whole-body control, and effective policy learning. Yet these components are often developed independently, creating mismatches that limit the capabilities of the complete system. We present Pixel, a co-designed full-stack system for learning general-purpose mobile manipulation. Pixel combines a low-cost wheeled humanoid with human-aligned kinematics and compliant gr...

πŸ“„ WebHarbor: Docking Real Websites for Evolving GUI Agent Environments
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03634v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Zhaoyang Wang, Qianhui Wu, Boyu Gou, Demi Wang, Jiacheng Zhang, Peichun Hua, Qize Li, Shi Qiu, Yifan Jiang, Yifan Zhang, Zexu Jin, Baolin Peng, Bolin Shen, Chetan Bansal, Dehan Kong, Deren Lei, Dongshen Peng, Fengqing Jiang, Hao Cheng (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Haoqing Wang, Jiaming Shan, Jicheng Wang, Jingguang Zhou, Jixuan He, Kaide Zeng, Kangyu Zhu, Lama Moukheiber, Mufan Qiu, Peng Xia, Qihan Sun, Qingwei Lin, Qiushi Sun, Ruichen Zhang, Shuqing Luo, Si Qin, Sicheng Fan, Tao Xiong, Wenlin Yao, Xinyu Zhang (possible past Baidu (China) affiliation), Xinyue Zeng, Xuanrui Li, Xuchao Zhang, Yian Wang, Yichao Liu, Yiming Liang, Yiyang Zhou, Yizhu Jiao, Yuetai Li, Yurun Chen, Yuxuan Zhang, Zheyuan Yang, Zhiyuan Yao, Zhongyang Li, Zihao Li, Zili Wang, Jianfeng Gao (possible past Microsoft (United States) affiliation), Huaxiu Yao
Abstract

GUI web agents require realistic and interactive environments that remain stable during both evaluation and training. Live website evaluation suffers from changing content, access restrictions, and limited coverage of authenticated workflows, while existing synthetic environments for training often lack functional depth and visual fidelity. We propose WebHarbor, a suite of 153 executable and dockerized website environments that faithfully reconstruct the visual interfaces, content, and functiona...

πŸ“„ D&A: Decoupling Description and Assessment Enables VLMs as Zero-Shot Robotic Reward Models
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03622v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Marius Memmel, Shawn Yin, Urvi Rutia, Angad Wadhwa, Eldon Li, Gavin Angeloff, Ankit Goyal, Jesse Zhang, Dieter Fox (possible past University Of Washington affiliation), Fabio Ramos, Anqi Li, Abhishek Gupta (possible past University Of California, Berkeley affiliation)
Abstract

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) hold promise for zero-shot video task-progress estimation in robot learning, yet existing frameworks frequently suffer from confirmation bias, hallucinating progress in failed executions due to implicit success assumptions or relative temporal ranking designs. Naive prompting of frontier models collapses into a binary success detector that fails to capture nuanced, non-linear progress and failures. While post-training approaches can mitigate this through explicit tr...

πŸ“„ Tracing the Scientific Discovery Capacity of LLMs to Their Training Data
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03617v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Arda Uzunoglu, Mahler Revsine, Michael Schatz, Benjamin Van Durme (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Mehrdad Farajtabar (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Daniel Khashabi, Eric Nalisnick (possible past Google (United States) affiliation)
Abstract

Large language models (LLMs) show growing promise for scientific discovery, yet basic questions remain about what enables reliable discovery. How can we trace the scientific discovery capacity of LLMs to their training data? We study this question as one of missing probability mass and develop a theoretical account in which monofacts-the facts observed once during training-set the discovery capacity. In materials science and regulatory genomics, we directly manipulate monofact rates in training ...

πŸ“„ FedReady: Bounded Agents for Federation Formation
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03586v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Ziyue Xu (possible past Nvidia (United States) affiliation), Holger R. Roth (possible past Nvidia (United States) affiliation), Chester Chen, Peter Cnudde
Abstract

Federated learning (FL) runtimes standardize aggregation and deployment, but each new study still requires federation formation: selecting task-eligible sites and preparing their local data and task code for federated training or analysis. This preparation recurs when the target changes, while raw records and site-private mappings are excluded from cross-site FL messages. We present FedReady, a system that performs federation formation with bounded LLM agents. Agents propose shared contracts, lo...

πŸ“„ CoworkOS:Scaling Agent Coworkers for Real-world Automation
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03178v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Jiajie Jin, Guanting Dong, Chengjun Pan, Xin Deng, Zhuohui Sheng, Guoqiang Wang, Tao Gui, Yutao Zhu, Yujia Chen, Shihong Yi, Binze Hu, Zhixiong Yang, Zhichao Sun, Rui Wang (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Han Han, Mingyu Ma, Junhao Huang, Xiaotao Wang, Huicheng Jiang, Yuyang Hu, Xinyu Yang, Wanghan Xu, Yajie Yang, Zhecan Wang, Honglin Guo, Xiaoyu Xing, Xiaoqian Zhang, Yulun Zhu, Xiaoxi Li, Jiahang Lin, Shaofan Liu, Shihan Dou, Zhiheng Xi, Qi Zhang (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Yu-Gang Jiang, See-Kiong Ng, Yang Zhang (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Tat-Seng Chua, Ji-Rong Wen, Zhicheng Dou
Abstract

Rapid advances in cowork agents are shifting human-AI collaboration toward real-world automation, delivering software, designs, and other artifacts. However, such productivity work demands both high-quality delivery on complex productivity tasks and continued monitoring and decision-making over long horizons, a combination that remains an open challenge. We introduce CoworkOS, a general-purpose harness for long-horizon work that separates task strategy from execution management: the model decide...

πŸ“„ CUA-Master: Scaling Computer-use Agents through Open-World Recursive Improvements
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03126v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Xinlei Yu, Gen Li (possible past University Of Edinburgh affiliation), Ji Zhao, Zhangquan Chen, Congcong Wang, Shuai Dong, Zelin Peng, Yuqi Xu, Hongrui Wu, Kaiwen Tuo, Cheng Yang (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Kaituo Feng, Yifan Wu (possible past Carnegie Mellon University affiliation), Jiayi Zhang, Dongming Wu, Wenqi Shao, Jiaqi Wang, Xiangyu Yue (possible past University Of California, Berkeley affiliation)
Abstract

Despite recent advances in CUAs, their development remains constrained by the limited diversity, controllability, and reliability of interaction data. Moreover, conventional optimization pipelines lack iterative feedback, while existing recursive improvement approaches often rely on self-generated experiences, limiting ability expansion and yielding diminishing returns. To address these challenges, we introduce CUA-Master, a nested double-loop recursive improvement framework. At the system level...

πŸ“„ Multimodal Prompt Learning with Dual-Granularity Contrastive Alignment for Preoperative Prediction of Lung Adenocarcinoma Invasiveness Using 3D CT
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03109v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Qing Huang, Xiaotong Tan, Lintong Yao, Wufeng Xue, Ruobing Huang, Dong Ni, Hao Wu (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Tian Xiao, Jun Cheng (possible past Deepmind (United Kingdom) affiliation)
Abstract

Accurate preoperative prediction of lung adenocarcinoma invasiveness is important for surgical planning and individualized treatment. However, overlapping CT appearances make it challenging to distinguish invasive adenocarcinoma (IAD) from Pre-IAD lesions. We propose a multimodal prompt-learning framework with dual-granularity image-text alignment for 3D CT-based IAD classification. A 3D ResNet-CBAM encoder extracts global and spatial visual features. A frozen RadBERT backbone is adapted with se...

πŸ“„ PACERec: Progressive Adaptation of LLM Item Embeddings with Collaborative Evidence for Recommendation
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03068v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Junzhao Huang, Xi Wu (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Zihan Wang (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Zijing Wang, Ming Wang, Kang Liu, Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Daling Wang, Yifei Zhang, Ting Yang, Xurui Li
Abstract

Large language model (LLM) embeddings have been increasingly adopted in sequential recommendation to encode static item attributes and alleviate the limitations of item ID embeddings under sparse interactions. However, these embeddings typically capture only static content similarity while neglecting sequential transitions, and since their adaptation quality relies on sparse per-item updates or global geometric calibration, existing methods still struggle to explicitly transfer preceding interac...

πŸ“„ Towards a Trustworthy and Governable Internet of Agentics: An Architectural Perspective on Protocols, Systems, and Services
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03066v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Haoyi Xiong (possible past Baidu (China) affiliation), Yi Liu (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Jiang Bian (possible past Baidu (China) affiliation), Peng Diao, Bin Zhu, Tingting Hu, Yi Wang, Sumi Helal (possible past Google (United States) affiliation)
Abstract

Large language model applications are increasingly being organized as tool-using and multi-agent workflows rather than as isolated chat interfaces. This perspective paper examines the architectural problem that follows from that shift: agents may reason, invoke tools, and delegate work, but dependable deployment still requires interoperability across frameworks, runtimes, data boundaries, and organizational control domains. We study this problem through the lens of the \emph{Internet of Agentics...

πŸ“„ Networked AI: Architecture, Theory, and Applications
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03063v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Liang Song, Jiayue Jin, Peng Sun (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Di Li, Yang Liu (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Athanassios Skodras, Dimitris Ampeliotis, Yong Yuan, Amit Dvir, Jiangchuan Liu, Victor C. M. Leung, Qi Bi (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation)
Abstract

Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly large-scale deep learning, have been driven by monolithic or offline training on massive curated datasets. While successful, these approaches face structural limitations: escalating data and computational demands, limited online adaptability, and a lack of system-level intelligence in open, non-stationary environments. This paper presents Networked AI - a networked intelligent system composed of interacting, heterogeneous, and continu...

πŸ“„ VideoEditor-MoE: Scaling Complex Video Editing with Mixture of Experts
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03043v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Xiao Cao, Fuchen Long, Yansong Qu, Wen Xiao, Xin Zhang (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Xinlong Sun, Xi Chen (possible past University Of California, Berkeley affiliation), Zhiyong Huang
Abstract

Complex video editing requires understanding complex instructions while jointly fulfilling multiple editing requests. Meeting these demands through dense model scaling substantially increases computational cost. We introduce VideoEditor-MoE, the first open-source mixture-of-experts framework for video editing. Beyond sparse MLP-MoE layers, MoE-Attention expands attention capacity through routed key--value experts while preserving global interactions among video tokens. Initialized from a 5B vide...

πŸ“„ Bridging Low-Level Image Fusion and High-Level Semantic Understanding
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.02896v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Guangyuan Dong, Lingdong Shen, Xudong Zhang, Haodong Jing, Haoyu Wang (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Zihao Li, Zonghao Ying, Ziyu Song, Shenghao Liu, Jiachen Luo, Hao Zhang (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation)
Abstract

Remote sensing image fusion and semantic interpretation are usually optimized separately, so reconstruction quality need not preserve downstream retrieval utility. We propose LANCE, which uses structured language as an explicit, indexable semantic state. A frozen vision-language model maps the input to a closed-vocabulary text record; a language-conditioned generator fuses the imagery; and a dense verifier with a differentiable continuous summarizer re-describes the output. Text-text consistency...

πŸ“„ Accelerating LLM Pretraining with Zeroth-Order Curvature on Idle Serving Compute
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.02688v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Mingchuan Ma, Dongqi Cai, Daqian Yang, Zhenyan Lu, Chen Chen (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Teresa Lv, Yan Gao, Shangguang Wang, Mengwei Xu, Nicholas D. Lane, Yu Huang (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation)
Abstract

LLM pretraining is increasingly compute-intensive, while substantial inference serving compute remains idle during off-peak periods. However, such serving hardware is difficult to use for conventional first-order training due to its memory, networking and other system requirements. Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization offers a natural interface to this forward-only compute resource, but its gradient estimates break down in pretraining. Unlike fine-tuning, which can confine updates to a small parameter...

πŸ“„ Latent Spectral Prompting for Multimodal Hyperspectral Object Tracking
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.02512v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Wangshu Cai, Jun Zhou, Lei Wang (possible past Baidu (China) affiliation), Mohammad Aminul Islam, Xu Han (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Kuldip Paliwal
Abstract

Hyperspectral videos provide rich spectral signatures for robust tracking under challenging conditions such as camouflage and low illumination. However, limited hyperspectral annotations and the large RGB-hyperspectral domain gap hinder the direct use of modern temporally pretrained RGB trackers. We propose SProTrack, a multimodal framework that transfers temporal knowledge from pretrained RGB trackers to the hyperspectral domain through latent spectral prompting. The key idea is to decouple tem...

πŸ“„ RecRSI: Mechanism-Guided Discovery of Recommendation Algorithms
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.02487v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Tingran Gan, Zhouziyue Lu, Dian Jin, Tao Li (possible past Baidu (China) affiliation), Yang Gao (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Ming Liu, Weiwen Liu, Jianghao Lin, Weinan Zhang (possible past Shanghai Jiao Tong University affiliation), Yong Yu (possible past Shanghai Jiao Tong University affiliation)
Abstract

Improving recommendation algorithms for the Web requires coordinating interacting design choices and learning from experiments. We present RecRSI, an LLM-based research framework that uses mechanism hypotheses to organize algorithm discovery. Each hypothesis links a proposed mechanism change to a reference design, a rationale, and an expected observation. MechSpace derives implementable primitives and composition rules from the task source; Research Line uses this space and prior evidence to dev...

πŸ“„ Solver-Like Behavior in Large Language Models as Formalizers
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.02395v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Rikhil Amonkar, Stuti Mohan, Kevin Nguyen, Ceyhun Efe Kayan, Ronan Le Bras (possible past Allen Institute For Artificial Intelligence affiliation), Li Zhang (possible past University Of Oxford affiliation)
Abstract

In the LLM-as-formalizer paradigm, a large language model translates a problem into a formal program and leaves the search to a solver, gaining the solver's guarantees. Formalizers are now often reasoning models that write a long reasoning trace before the program, yet they are judged only by the program's output. We find that the trace routinely does the solver's job, assigning, testing and ruling out values until it often reaches the full answer; we call this solver-like behavior (SLB). We def...

πŸ“„ Hinted Scaling Laws
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/1/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.02270v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Suze Van Adrichem, Luke Bailey, Rohith Kuditipudi, Christine Ye, Neil Band, Ahmed Ahmed, John Duchi, Percy Liang (possible past Stanford University affiliation), Tatsunori Hashimoto (possible past Stanford University affiliation)
Abstract

Scaling laws predict the outcome of large, expensive training runs by extrapolating trends from smaller, cheaper runs. On downstream accuracy evaluations, these predictions fail when the weaker models produced by the cheaper runs score near zero accuracy, because these scores give no trend to extrapolate to larger scales. We introduce hinted scaling laws, which use privileged information to turn a benchmark into a continuum of easier versions so that even the small models score above zero. We fi...

πŸ“„ DynaSolver: A Neural Operator for Autoregressive 4D Flow Prediction with Dynamic Boundaries
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03595v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Rui Qian (possible past Shanghai Jiao Tong University affiliation), Shibo Dai, Mengjun Lin, Yuk-Kit Hou, Saining Zhang, Bohan Li (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Junhao Chen, Hao Zhao, Chaojian Li
Abstract

Neural operators provide efficient surrogates for computational fluid dynamics (CFD), but most are designed for static geometries and are not equipped to model unsteady flows induced by continuously moving boundaries. We study dynamic-boundary 4D CFD prediction for articulated moving geometries and introduce RoboCFD-4D, a temporally resolved robotic CFD benchmark spanning diverse morphologies and flow conditions. To address the computational and autoregressive challenges of this setting, we prop...

πŸ“„ A Common Language for Dynamic Graphs: Interaction Tokenization Enables Foundation Models
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03246v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Fuyuan Ma, Yili Wang, Xin He, Xin Zhang (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Ying Wang (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Xin Wang (possible past University Of Edinburgh affiliation)
Abstract

Dynamic graphs capture evolving interactions in Web systems, including online communication, user engagement, and recommendation. Graph foundation models aim to reuse predictive capabilities across networks, but extending this capability to dynamic graphs faces two challenges. First, node identities are graph-specific, and similar interaction patterns can appear at different temporal and activity scales, making histories difficult to represent consistently across networks. Second, the predictive...

πŸ“„ PaddleMaterials: An End-to-End Deep Learning Toolkit for Materials Science
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03154v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Xuwei Liu, Zhimin Zhang, Xiaoguang Hu, Zhongwei Liu, Yuanhui Sun, Jun Huo, Hua Wu (possible past Baidu (China) affiliation), Haifeng Wang (possible past Google (United States) affiliation)
Abstract

Machine learning supports materials design, atomistic simulation and experimental characterization, yet models and workflows remain fragmented. We present PaddleMaterials, an open-source framework integrating heterogeneous materials-learning tasks while preserving task-specific representations and scientific semantics. It unifies data processing, training, evaluation, pretrained-model management and workflows across six task classes: property prediction, structure generation, machine-learning in...

πŸ“„ Optimal Subgroup Discovery at Every Support Threshold
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03053v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Lincen Yang, Qi Huang (possible past Meta (United States) affiliation), Niki Van Stein, Thomas BΓ€ck, Matthijs Van Leeuwen, Zhong Li (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation)
Abstract

Subgroup discovery aims to identify regions of the feature space where a target variable deviates from its marginal distribution. A fundamental challenge in this problem is the trade-off between a subgroup's deviation and its support: small subgroups can be highly deviating but statistically meaningless, while large ones cannot deviate much by construction. Existing methods tackle this challenge by collapsing the two into a single scalar quality measure, implicitly committing to one particular t...

πŸ“„ Energy-Based Policy Orchestration
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.02546v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Weirui Ye, Yen-Jen Wang, Elvis Hsieh, Zhiyang Dou, Shibo Zhao, Pieter Abbeel (possible past University Of California, Berkeley affiliation), Yilun Du (possible past Massachusetts Institute Of Technology affiliation), Leslie Pack Kaelbling, TomΓ‘s Lozano-PΓ©rez
Abstract

Hierarchical control scales robot behavior by separating task-level planning from low-level control. In dynamic, high-dimensional tasks, however, a fixed planner-to-policy interface can fail when contacts, balance, or disturbances evolve faster than high-level policy updates. Execution therefore requires choosing not only which low-level policy to run, but also which policy-specific goal should be given to it. We formulate this problem as policy orchestration: runtime selection of a policy-goal ...

πŸ“„ SpecPilot: Autonomous Algorithm Discovery and Systems Optimization for Speculative Decoding
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.02501v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Kunjun Li, Wenhao Chai, Yihao Liang, Yuezhou Hu, Shuyao Xu, Yi Pan, William X. Zheng, Kannan Ramchandran (possible past University Of California, Berkeley affiliation), Kurt Keutzer (possible past University Of California, Berkeley affiliation), Jiantao Jiao
Abstract

Speculative decoding accelerates memory-bound LLM decoding with a lightweight drafter, and parallel drafters extend this speedup by drafting a whole block in one forward pass. However, it remains unclear whether their released systems (stock) attain the full speedup that parallel drafting permits. We identify three challenges. First, with one request, each step accepts few tokens but reads every target weight. Second, with batching, per-request verification work roughly halves the speedup over a...

πŸ“„ M3Former: Fine-Grained Cross-Layer Mixing for Transformers
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.02436v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Jiasong Han, Yunkai Chai, Tong Zhu (possible past Nvidia (United States) affiliation), Hengyu Zhang, Wei Fang, Jintao Wang, Guoqi Li, Yu Cheng (possible past National University Of Singapore affiliation)
Abstract

Residual connections give each Transformer block access to all earlier layers only through one fixed sum, broadcast to all of the block's inputs. This broadcast bottleneck imposes three constraints: the query, key, value and residual inputs of a block, which we call its roles, read the same vector; all hidden dimensions within a role share one set of weights over earlier layers; and every earlier layer has the same fixed weight for every token. We propose the Multi-Role Multi-Group Mixing Residu...

πŸ“„ EviCast: Forecasting Retrieval Gains Through Shared Response Calibration
πŸ—“οΈ Published: 11/2/2026
πŸ”— http://arxiv.org/abs/2611.02387v1
πŸ‘₯ Authors: Yibo Wang, Jisheng Dang, Bimei Wang, Jiongpei Hou, Jingwen Zhao, Wenjun Ma, Fei Shen, Juncheng Li, Meng Wang (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Qi Tian (possible past Huawei Technologies (China) affiliation), Bin Hu, Tat-Seng Chua
Abstract

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) extends large language models with external evidence, yet relevant evidence does not ensure that a generator can use it. Indiscriminate retrieval can degrade task performance while adding retrieval and long-context inference costs. Existing methods neither determine before large-scale execution whether a generator, task distribution, and retriever configuration is worth deploying nor diagnose multiple candidate retrievers under a shared budget. We introduce E...

*Notable papers are those with at least two authors from a "big" AI/ML lab.