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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.02015

Scaling Makes It Possible: How Large Models Master Impossible Languages

Yaning Jia, Chunhui Zhang, Chiyu Ma, Zhongyu Ouyang, Ivory Yang, Soroush Vosoughi

原文摘要

While language models (LMs) excel in natural language tasks, their ability to learn impossible languages--those that violate the structural, cognitive, or logical constraints that make human languages learnable and functional--remains debatable. This controversy is further fueled by a divide between linguistic theorists and empirical researchers working with small-scale LMs. To address this controversy, we introduce semantic coherence. This concept measures how effectively semantic information is expressed in language structures and examines the learning capabilities of LMs across multiple scales. By fine-tuning billion-parameter LMs on impossible language samples, we demonstrate that larger LMs achieve similar performance on impossible and possible languages, whereas million-parameter LMs exhibit significant degradation when trained on impossible languages. This performance gap widens as semantic complexity increases. We further show that scaling up the LM size fundamentally shifts the learning focus from grammatical rules to semantic understanding, with billion-scale LMs exhibiting a threefold reduction in sensitivity to low-level linguistic perturbations while maintaining stable performance under high-level semantic perturbations.

cs.CL · cs.AI

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版本更新 · v3arXiv:2610.27606

Ask to Learn: Query-Based Collaborative Reinforcement Learning

Kaicheng Zhang, Hongqian Niu, Laixi Shi, Didong Li, Guannan Qu, Zhun Deng

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Offline reinforcement learning is fundamentally limited by the coverage of the available data, while collecting additional trajectories through online exploration may be costly, unsafe, or infeasible. We study whether this limitation can be overcome without directly interacting with the underlying environment. Motivated by practical settings such as collaborator-mediated simulation, where a collaborator can provide information complementary to the offline data, we introduce query-based collaborative reinforcement learning to study how to acquire this information efficiently. The learner starts with a fixed offline dataset and adaptively queries state-time pairs; the collaborator samples an action according to a fixed, possibly suboptimal policy, and the simulator returns the corresponding reward and next state. For finite-horizon tabular problems, we derive an instance-dependent information-theoretic lower bound on the additional queries required to identify an $ε$-optimal policy and develop a local quadratic approximation. Guided by this characterization, we develop an adaptive query-allocation algorithm whose query complexity nearly matches the local benchmark under suitable conditions. Experiments on multiple synthetic and semi-synthetic environments demonstrate the empirical efficiency of the proposed method.

stat.ML · cs.LG

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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2607.23335

The Gate Always Closes: On Injecting Auxiliary Signals into Frozen Vision-Language Models

Moshiur Farazi, Sameera Ramasinghe, Bekir Sait Ciftler, Mahbub Ahmed Turza, Shafin Rahman

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Auxiliary signal pathways in VLMs are routinely fitted with learnable gates so the optimiser can decide how much of the signal to admit. We study what the optimiser decides, and whether the model then uses the signal, with hyperbolic visual relational graphs as the experimental vehicle. We find that under cross-entropy fine-tuning the optimiser decides on zero: the gate closes in every design we trained, across five injection designs on LLaVA-1.5-7B, 15 of 15 runs on Qwen2-VL-7B spanning four task families, 3 of 3 seeds on InternVL3-8B, and with LoRA on all linear layers. We attribute this suppression phenomenon to two regimes, a dead-gradient regime formalised through the caption-invariance of image-derived signals and measured directly, and a negative-utility regime in which the auxiliary signal actively hurts the loss. A closed gate does not by itself mean an inert pathway, so we ablate each pathway at inference under one protocol with real region proposals: the norm-aligned designs are behaviourally closed (at most 1.5pp change at the learned gate), whereas the un-normalised gated prefix is open and harmful, costing 6.7pp on relational GQA at its learned gate of +0.005 while helping SugarCrepe. Evaluating every configuration under one inference mode shows that an active injected pathway costs up to 15pp on relational GQA and 7-12pp on out-of-distribution VSR, that the geometric training losses give no measurable in-distribution gain once the pathway is dropped, and that a Euclidean containment control ties the hyperbolic one. Embedding-norm alignment remains necessary for prefix injection that preserves generation. We recommend testing signal use by ablation rather than by reading gate values or attention mass. We open-source the implementation, the checkpoints and the result files behind every table at https://github.com/mrfarazi/the-gate-always-closes.

cs.CV

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.02011

MedPsy: State-of-the-Art Small Medical Language Models for Efficient Edge Deployment

Davide Vitabile, Alexandro Buffa, Akshay Nambiar, Amril Nazir

原文摘要

Medical language models promise expert clinical support, but the strongest open-source LLMs remain too large for private edge-device deployment, while compact medical models still trail substantially on knowledge-intensive and real-world healthcare tasks. Reasoning models that fit edge memory budgets can produce long reasoning traces, increasing sequential decoding, end-to-end latency, energy consumption, and KV-cache memory pressure. We present MedPsy, a family of text-only 1.7B and 4B medical language models designed for edge deployment, targeting this accuracy-generation-efficiency trade-off. Our recipe combines a synthetic medical data pipeline over biology, medicine, and health seeds with chain-of-thought targets from a 235B medical-focused LLM teacher; a four-stage post-training curriculum comprising two SFT stages followed by two RL stages with hard-sample mining; and an edge deployment evaluation spanning multiple GGUF quantization variants and real-device inference on laptop and smartphone hardware. On seven closed-ended medical benchmarks, MedPsy-4B surpasses MedGemma-1.5-4B by 19.34 points and matches MedGemma-27B while being 6.75x smaller; MedPsy-1.7B outperforms MedGemma-1.5-4B by 11.42 points despite being less than half its size. On HealthBench-Hard, MedPsy-4B surpasses MedGemma-27B by 15.33 points, while MedPsy-1.7B surpasses it by 11.66 points despite being ~16x smaller. Beyond accuracy, MedPsy reduces average response length by 1.7x (1.7B) and 3.2x (4B) versus its Qwen3 backbones, while Q4_K_M quantization preserves the aggregate score within 1 point of BF16 with ~69% lower disk footprint. In real-device inference, MedPsy-4B's shorter generations translate into 75% lower median end-to-end latency and estimated energy per answer than its Qwen3 backbone at matched quantization, while peak RAM remains below 5 GB across our tested laptop and smartphone configurations.

cs.CL

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.02009

Retrieval-Enhanced Cultural Evaluation for Social Media Translation Training

Linjuan Wu, Yiwen Qiu, Xinze Lyu, Dingming Li, Hui Yao, Zhongyi Sang, Ye Guo, Daoxin Zhang 等 14 位作者

原文摘要

Social media translation requires preserving meaning while capturing the cultural nuances of user-generated content (UGC). However, gaps in the cultural knowledge of LLM-based evaluators can lead to inaccurate assessments and unreliable training rewards. To improve these signals, we use retrieval-enhanced cultural evaluation to train CUE-MT, a family of social media translation models. A calibrated, domain-specific Judger guides supervised data refinement and is augmented by an Agent for hard-example mining and reinforcement learning. The Agent retrieves relevant external evidence as needed and distills it into concise hints that the Judger uses to score translations and assign rewards. Across 9B, 27B, and 35B-A3B backbones, CUE-MT outperforms the evaluated open-source baselines of comparable size on CUE-MT-Bench and three public benchmarks. Human evaluation on CUE-MT-Bench shows cultural effectiveness gains of 7.44-15.12 percentage points over the strongest external baseline in each size group. Retrieval improves the Judger's four-way classification accuracy by 8.07 percentage points over a matched no-retrieval baseline that uses LLM-generated hints alone. Training ablations further support the combination of hard-example mining and Agent-enhanced rewards.

cs.CL

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.02008

NAS-PO: Native Attention-Strategy Policy Optimization for Vision-Language Models

Ke An, Shizhe Xiang, Yue Liu, Liang Chen, Pei Fu, Shaojie Zhang, Xiaoxing Hu, Yupei Wang

原文摘要

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become an effective post-training paradigm for vision-language models (VLMs). Standard RLVR, however, assigns identical outcome-derived credit to all generated tokens regardless of their perceptual relevance. Recent perception-aware methods estimate visual reliance through image perturbation or masking. These indirect proxies require perturbation branches, while corruption sensitivity does not necessarily identify the visual evidence used for reasoning. We instead shape model perception through native attention, an intrinsic model signal. Rather than treating attention as a post-hoc explanation, we formulate it as a reward-anchored, token-aligned routing signal that encourages attention patterns supporting visually grounded reasoning. To this end, we propose NAS-PO, a Native Attention-Strategy Policy Optimization framework. NAS-PO analyzes native attention with a visual mass policy that quantifies visual allocation and a conditional visual policy that captures spatial routing over visual tokens, making the optimization well-posed. Based on this, Native Attention-Strategy Advantage Shaping (NAS-AS) draws on the visual-mass policy to redistribute signed policy-gradient credit for visually engaged rollouts. The Adaptive Attention-Coupled (AAC) loss then aligns the visual-mass policy on all response tokens and the conditional visual policy on visually active ones, consolidating the visual-routing patterns that drive successful trajectories. Experiments demonstrate that NAS-PO substantially surpasses leading RL-tuned VLMs across 7 out-of-domain reasoning and perception benchmarks, with its effectiveness consistently validated across 8B and 32B. Visual-Routing Sensitivity (VRS) analysis further indicates that the optimized attention prioritizes visually load-bearing regions.

cs.CV

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.02003

MIRA: Mutual Information guided calibration for Reliable Test-Time Adaptation

Hyeongyu Kim, Mingyeong Jang, Youngjun Song, GeonHui Han, Dosik Hwang

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Test-time adaptation (TTA) updates a deployed model using only unlabeled target data, but standard entropy-based methods often rely on deterministic confidence and can reinforce overconfident errors under distribution shift. We propose MIRA, Mutual Information guided calibration for Reliable Test-Time Adaptation, a source-free online adaptation method that uses lightweight last-layer Gaussian perturbations to probe prediction reliability. For each target batch, MIRA reuses a single feature extraction pass and samples perturbed classifiers around the source classifier, forming an efficient local predictive distribution. Rather than fitting a Bayesian posterior, MIRA treats the perturbation scale as a local probing radius and selects a batch-specific scale using mutual information (MI) and prediction agreement. The resulting perturbation-sensitivity signal identifies predictions that are confident and locally stable under classifier perturbations, while suppressing brittle predictions with high stochastic disagreement. MIRA then performs adaptation with an MI-confidence weighted entropy loss, which down-weights perturbation-sensitive or low-confidence samples before they drive entropy minimization. This weighted loss reduces the influence of brittle predictions that can otherwise cause harmful adaptation under distribution shift. The method requires no source data, retraining, model ensembles, or offline posterior fitting, and can be applied as a plug-and-play modification to entropy-minimization TTA. Experiments on distribution-shift benchmarks show improvements in accuracy, calibration, and negative log-likelihood, suggesting that mutual-information-guided perturbation probing and weighted adaptation yield more robust online TTA than deterministic confidence.

cs.LG

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.02002

To Align Long, Plan Short: Simulating Diverse Profile-Aligned Students by Realizing Short-Term Plans in Long-Horizon Learning Environments

Bahar Radmehr, Jiaxu Zhao, Fatma Betül Güreş, Adish Singla, Tanja Käser

原文摘要

Simulated students offer a scalable way to test learning platforms and AI tutors before deployment with real students and to augment scarce data for studying learning at scale. Existing LLM-based simulators primarily target short, language-centered interactions. In open-ended learning environments, however, student behavior emerges from patterns across long-horizon interaction trajectories, where turn-level prompting can drift from an assigned behavior profile. We introduce ALPS (Align Long-term by Planning Short-term), a hierarchical simulated student conditioned on observable, environment-specific behavior profiles. Rather than selecting every action independently, ALPS alternates between planning profile-aligned task segments and generating the corresponding actions. We evaluate ALPS in both data-sufficient and data-scarce settings, where supervision comes either from real student trajectories or from a teacher LLM. Across both settings, we compare in-context learning (ICL), supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reward-ranked fine-tuning (RAFT), and their sequential combination (SFT followed by RAFT). Experiments in an inquiry-based physics game and a pharmacy simulation evaluate behavioral density and coverage against held-out real data, and profile consistency using a human-aligned LLM judge. Across both settings, ALPS consistently outperforms turn-level generation, achieving comparable density and judge pass rates under scarce supervision, although coverage remains lower. These results show that hierarchical planning enables faithful, profile-aligned simulation over long interaction horizons, even with limited real student data.

cs.AI · cs.CL · cs.CY

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.02001

TrackMem: Tracking Evolving Beliefs in Long-Horizon Financial Dialogue

Austin M. Y. Cheung, Harsh Vardhan Gupta, Go Nam Lui, Lok Kan Chan, Ginny Y. Wong, Simon See

原文摘要

Memory systems for LLM agents are evaluated mostly on social dialogue, where facts accumulate and rarely change, so remembering reduces largely to finding the turn in which something was said. Financial dialogue breaks this assumption: figures are revised, stances shift without being restated, rules stated once govern later questions, and a single company is discussed under several analytical lenses. Memory systems that retrieve the passages most similar to a question, or the most recent ones, therefore return superseded values, miss rules that share no wording with the question, and cannot recover a stance spread across sessions. We present TrackMem, a per-speaker graph memory that tracks the history of figures, separates perspectives by entity and lens, and preserves each speaker's actions in chronological order. To evaluate it, we introduce FinLoCoMo, a benchmark of 15 long-horizon investment conversations with 765 questions in two splits: one following the LoCoMo categories and one targeting four failure modes. With two readers, TrackMem outperforms existing memory systems on both splits. On the failure-mode split it reaches 73.9% macro accuracy against 69.4% for the strongest baseline, with the largest gains on questions about revised figures (86.5% against 73.4%).

cs.CL · cs.AI

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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2607.26065

Kernel Ridge Regression over Hölder Classes: Function and Derivative Losses

Yuxuan Hou, Yicheng Li

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We study ordinary kernel ridge regression over full Hölder-Zygmund balls, measuring errors in Sobolev norms and in pointwise and uniform losses for mixed derivatives. For targets of smoothness $s$, every RKHS norm equivalent to $H^{s+d/2}$ gives the optimal $H^r$ risk for $0\le r<s$; integer choices of $r$ include integrated squared derivative losses. Pointwise and uniform guarantees require additional kernel structure. A localized wavelet kernel attains the sharp derivative rates with the same regularization orders as for function estimation, whereas equivalent changes of the RKHS norm can destroy the population bias rates. For the ordinary Gaussian kernel with a shrinking bandwidth, we prove a uniform derivative risk bound with the optimal polynomial rate and an explicit, unoptimized logarithmic factor. The results allow bounded measurable design densities bounded away from zero and conditionally sub-Gaussian noise.

stat.ML · cs.LG · math.ST

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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2610.22061

FAOPs: Normal Forms and an Algebra for AI Agent Workflows

Ali Mohammadi Shanghooshabad

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Organizations increasingly encode operational procedures as multi-step agent skills, here called Agent Operating Procedures (AOPs), that must be traceable, auditable, reproducible, access-controlled, and bounded in time and cost, as regulated sectors require. Yet AOPs are typically kept as coarse-grained files, in which steps bundle actions, copied procedures drift apart, any step may reach any tool, and refactoring goes unchecked. We present Functional Agent Operating Procedures (FAOP), a formal theory that brings database-grade discipline to AI agent workflows. FAOP recasts each workflow as a typed function over scoped state and subjects an entire library to four progressive normal forms: Decomposed (FNF-1) splits a workflow into atomic steps, Typed (FNF-2) makes its data flow explicit and type-checked, Factored (FNF-3) gives each shared sub-workflow a single canonical definition so a change propagates instead of drifting, and Scoped (FNF-4) checks that each FAOP lists resources used by its own actions and the FAOPs it calls, while guardrails declared by it and by FAOPs that call it remain attached to their sources. A FAOP algebra of provably sound equalities turns refactoring and parallelization into compiler rewrites; orthogonal extensions add optimization (+O), bounded completion with time and cost limits (+B), and reachability checks (+R); and an architectural-level classifier (0-3) determines whether a workflow needs AI at all. Together, these make integrity, isolation, typing, stopping limits, cost, and optimization compile-time concerns across the whole library, not runtime hopes. We implement the theory in SkillBase, an AOP management system (what PostgreSQL is to data, SkillBase is to AOPs), and a separate executor that loads FAOPs from SkillBase and enforces these guarantees at run time. A worked financial workflow illustrates the approach end to end.

cs.AI · cs.DB · cs.PL

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.01996

Safety4DM: A Vision-Language Framework for Risk-Aware Dynamic Maps in Vehicle-Road-Cloud Collaborative Driving

Zhengshu Zhou, Shaoyu Wang, Lu Tao, Xinhui Hu, Jiaqi Gu, Tingting Zhao

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Dynamic map (DM) is a core information infrastructure for vehicle-road-cloud (VRC) cooperative autonomous driving. It fuses perception data from multiple sources to overcome the inherent line-of-sight and field-of-view limits of single-vehicle perception. However, DM still falls short on driving safety in two ways. First, DM data specifications already define road conditions semantically, but no pipeline yet turns real-world road observations into fine-grained risk entities in the DM. Second, existing DM systems lack a natural language interface for driving risks. To close these gaps, we propose Safety4DM, a safety-oriented language system for VRC dynamic maps. We first build RoadRisk, a real-world road image dataset that covers four types of road conditions and four risk levels. On this dataset, we fine-tune a vision-language model (VLM) for road safety risk perception. The model outputs structured risk representations that the DM can ingest directly. We then introduce a Safety-aware Step-wise Prompting (SafeStep) mechanism as the natural language query interface of the DM. SafeStep answers queries accurately and also generates actionable driving advice. To build and evaluate this interface, we develop SafeVRC-Sim, a VRC cooperative simulation framework, and SafeDM-QA, a safety question-answering benchmark. Experiments show that even the compact Qwen3-VL-4B reaches 89.83% accuracy on risk perception after fine-tuning. SafeStep also plugs easily into multiple LLM families. With medium and large models (20B and above) from five families, it achieves over 93% natural language query accuracy in every case, which shows strong generalization.

cs.AI

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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2607.23983

Community HydroAgent: Formalizing Forecaster Expertise into Skill-Orchestrated Flood Forecasting Workflows

Qingyi Yang, Siqian Qiu, Bing Li, Xu Shan, Jia Feng, Shunan Zhou, Xudong Zhou, Tiantian Xing 等 23 位作者

原文摘要

Operational flood forecasting depends on tacit forecaster expertise that is difficult to formalize, audit, and transfer. Although artificial intelligence methods have advanced flood prediction and model-error correction, few studies explicitly represent the tacit expert rules, review checkpoints, and workflow constraints that connect model outputs to operational warning decisions. Here, we propose Community HydroAgent for Flood Forecasting (CHA-Flood), a skill-orchestrated agent framework that embeds Large Language Models (LLMs) into a model-driven flood forecasting workflow, where each skill encodes explicit rules to bound LLM reasoning. We validated its effectiveness using five state-of-the-art LLMs in the South Yamhill River basin (USA). Prior judgment captures observed peak flow and flood volume within 5% tolerance in 10 and 11 out of 14 events, and 5-fold cross-validation over 129 events yields Pearson correlations of 0.62 and 0.84. Building on a high-baseline scheme library (average KGE 0.890), the guided scheme selection further improves KGE by 0.023-0.154. All five tested LLMs successfully execute the CHA-Flood workflow with comparable judgment accuracy (each spanning 40%-80% across cross-validation folds) but with substantial cost differences. Removing only the language-model narrowing lowers median KGE from 0.723-0.753 to 0.662 for all five LLMs, indicating that the gain comes from LLM reasoning rather than from the choice of LLM. CHA-Flood does not aim to replace human forecasters; instead, it translates their tacit expertise into an auditable and reproducible workflow. This skill-orchestrated paradigm demonstrates how explicit rule boundaries can guide LLM reasoning to complement physically based simulation in next-generation flood forecasting.

physics.geo-ph · cs.LG

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.01992

Cross-Dataset Generalization of Glaucoma Detection CNNs: Effects of Operating Threshold, Multi-Source Training, and Color Normalization

Al-Amin Rahman, Saifuddin Ahmed, Resalat Ahmed

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Deep learning models for glaucoma detection are usually tested on images from the same dataset used for training. That says little about how they will work at a new hospital or with a new camera. We fine-tuned five ImageNet-pretrained CNNs (ResNet50, DenseNet121, MobileNetV2, EfficientNet-B0, InceptionV3) with identical settings on one of three public fundus datasets (ACRIMA, ORIGA, RIM-ONE DL). Each was tested on a held-out part of its own dataset and on the other two datasets in full. We used three random seeds and report mean and SD over seeds. Mean in-domain AUC was 0.913 and cross-source AUC was 0.702, a drop of 0.211 (SD 0.030; 95% CI 0.135 to 0.286). After correction for multiple comparisons we found no evidence that any architecture did better, though three seeds give low power. At thresholds set on the source validation data, specificity fell from 0.870 to 0.506 and sensitivity from 0.831 to 0.726. Resetting the threshold on 10% of the target images raised specificity to 0.670 but lowered sensitivity to 0.609, and balanced accuracy rose only from 0.616 to 0.639. Training on two sources together did not help (held-out AUC 0.695 versus 0.702). LAB reference normalization (cross-source AUC 0.755) and strong color augmentation (0.754) gave similar gains, cutting the drop to about 0.16. Ben Graham normalization (0.733) and CLAHE (0.712) helped less, and gray-world (0.696) did not help. The two best methods raised specificity but lowered sensitivity. On G1020, used only for testing, AUC stayed near 0.5 in every condition, and networks trained within G1020 were also close to chance. Strong in-domain results do not show that a glaucoma model will work on new data. Normalization and color augmentation reduce the drop but do not remove it. Studies should report external validation and check the operating threshold, not only AUC.

eess.IV · cs.CV

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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2610.19690

PPAD-Completeness of Contiguous Envy-Free Cake Cutting with Additive Valuations

Yasushi Kawase, Bodhayan Roy, Mohammad Azharuddin Sanpui

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We prove that computing a complete contiguous $\varepsilon$-envy-free cake allocation is PPAD-complete for normalized rational piecewise-constant additive valuations. The hardness holds even when $\varepsilon$ is given in unary, and even when every density takes only the values $λ$ and $2λ$ for some $λ>0$ common to all agents and has at most six breakpoints. As a consequence, computing an exact contiguous envy-free allocation is also PPAD-complete, even under the same density restrictions. Our key ingredient is to assign prices to the pieces so that, in every approximately envy-free allocation, all prices are nearly equal, regardless of how the pieces are assigned to the agents. We further show that, for every fixed integer $c\ge1$, computing a contiguous allocation of indivisible goods on a path that is envy-free up to $c$ goods (EF$c$) is PPAD-complete for additive valuations, and this remains true even for $c=\lfloor m^α\rfloor$ with any fixed rational $0<α<1$, where $m$ is the number of goods. This hardness holds even for binary valuations in which each good is valued by exactly one agent and all agents value the same number of goods. All these results extend to chores. Our results answer three open questions at once: whether contiguous envy-free cake cutting is PPAD-hard for additive valuations, the complexity of computing contiguous EF1 and EF2 allocations of goods on a path, and the corresponding question for EF1 allocations of chores.

cs.GT · cs.AI · cs.MA

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.01990

Synthetic Realities: Evaluating Human Ability to Distinguish AIGenerated Videos from Real Footage

Danyal Sarfraz, Raja Mubashar Karim, KwanMyung Kim

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Recent advances in generative AI have enabled multiple pathways for high-fidelity video synthesis: text-to-video, image-to-video animation, and video outpainting. Empirical side-by-side evaluations of how untrained viewers perceive and distinguish these outputs from real footage remain scarce. In this study, we systematically compare human detection accuracy across these three AI generation techniques within three thematic contexts: historical footage, film and media content, and natural environments. We constructed a balanced stimulus set comprising equal amounts of real and AI-generated videos (18 each). The AI clips were evenly distributed across the three generation methods using Google's Veo 3, Lightricks LTX Video, and Wan VACE. All videos were produced and standardized within the ComfyUI framework to ensure consistent quality and duration. 87 participants judged every clip in a binary forced-choice task ("real" vs. "AI-generated"). Participants correctly identified videos 60% of the time on average. Image-to-video clips were recognized most accurately (79%), followed by real footage (64%), outpainting (49%), and text-to-video (43%). Accuracy also varied by theme: film and historical scenes yielded higher detection rates than environmental clips, which were frequently mistaken for AI. Logistic regression confirmed significant effects of both technique and theme as well as their interaction (p < 0.001), indicating that detection success depends jointly on how the content was generated and what it depicts. Findings reveal a consistent bias toward assuming synthetic origins and highlight that perceptual realism in AI video is shaped more by context than by model type, underscoring the importance of media-literacy approaches and context-aware evaluation tools for navigating increasingly synthetic visual media.

cs.CV · cs.HC

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.01987

Same Trajectory, Different Knowledge: Information-State-Aware On-Policy Distillation for Search Agents

Minhao Sun, Xian-Ling Mao, Eric Tao, Zi-Ao Ma, Zhijing Wu

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On-policy distillation trains search agents with teacher feedback on student-generated trajectories. Recent methods augment the teacher's context with supporting evidence, reference answers, or hindsight information. However, this privileged information may allow the teacher to rely on facts that the student cannot reliably recover from its current state. The resulting information-state mismatch can lead the teacher to undervalue retrieval that helps the student establish those facts. To address this mismatch, we introduce Information-State-Aware Distillation (ISA-Distill), which adapts teacher feedback to the student's factual recoverability. ISA-Distill estimates how reliably the student can recover action-relevant knowledge and derives teacher feedback for the same sampled action from two complementary views. The fact-use view supplies the teacher with the relevant fact, producing feedback that guides the student in using knowledge. The evidence-seeking view instead presents the information need, producing feedback that guides the student in acquiring supporting evidence. The two signals are weighted toward fact use when recoverability is high and toward evidence seeking when it is low, and the resulting feedback guides policy optimization. Experiments across diverse QA benchmarks and model scales demonstrate improved answer accuracy and retrieval efficiency. Our code and model checkpoints will be open-sourced.

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版本更新 · v2arXiv:2610.30168

Finitely Verifiable Segmentation: Decidability for Every Tokenizer with a Finite-State Verifier

Nicklas Nidhögg

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A segmentation policy assigns to each byte string at most one segmentation into tokens. Call it finitely verifiable when a finite automaton over marked strings, bytes paired with boundary bits, accepts exactly the policy's own segmentations. The automaton judges a proposed segmentation and need not compute one. From a supplied verifier the paper gives constructive decisions for four questions, whether a window certifies a token boundary, whether the boundary gap is bounded, whether a mask can keep generation from dead-ending, and whether two policies are equivalent. The last three specialize limitedness, co-accessibility and the equivalence of single-valued transducers. The first refines the synchronizing cut of code theory, and two more ask whether a certified cut, or the cuts of an inventory, let each piece scan alone. The class sits strictly between the online-scannable policies and those with regular domains, and online scannability is decidable in polynomial time through Choffrut's theorem. Markings are length-preserving, so the class is exactly the rational segmentation policies, a normal form rather than a restriction. The class is closed under four pipeline operations, composition over a labeled stage, restriction to a regular schema, splitting at character-class changes, and byte-fallback union of literal policies. Each composite inherits the six decisions, and certificates transfer between stages under four laws. Under rational, unifilar, almost surely stopping finite-state sources, each mass of the weighted section is an exact rational, and so is each rate where expected length is positive. Maximal-munch lexing, canonical byte-pair encoding and two-mode WordPiece instantiate the interface, and the munch library implements all six decisions. Every theorem carries an executable check, and every reported statistic is a program's own output.

cs.FL · cs.CL · cs.PL

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版本更新 · v3arXiv:2606.23299

GRIMIP: A General Framework for Instance-Specific Configuration of MIP Solvers Using LLMs

Yidong Luo, Chenguang Wang, Fangzhou Zhu, Tao Zhong, Tianshu Yu

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Configuring the hyperparameters of Mixed-integer programming (MIP) solvers is a high-dimensional, instance-dependent optimization problem where suboptimal settings can degrade solving time by orders of magnitude. Default configurations are often suboptimal, while traditional tuning methods either suffer from the ``cold-start'' problem and inefficient search or heavily rely on expert experience. This paper introduces \textbf{GRIMIP} (\textbf{\underline{G}}eneral \textbf{\underline{R}}easoning for \textbf{\underline{I}}nstance-specific \textbf{\underline{MIP}} configuration), a novel hybrid intelligence framework that synergistically integrates the semantic reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) with the sample-efficient search of Bayesian Optimization (BO). GRIMIP enables the LLM to function as a complete probabilistic surrogate within the BO loop, significantly improving performance and reducing sampling and evaluation costs. On seven benchmarks including MIPLIB, GRIMIP achieves over 40\% reduction in Primal-Dual Integral on hard instances, outperforming SMAC and other LLM-assisted BO methods. By granting LLMs sufficient autonomy, GRIMIP combines the expert-level reasoning of LLMs with the efficient search of BO, achieving state-of-the-art performance.

cs.LG

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RubricWorld: World Model-Guided Rubric Optimization for LLM Graders

Hongji Pu, Hang Li, Yucheng Chu, Jiliang Tang

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Rubric optimization improves LLM grading by revising scoring instructions while keeping the grader's parameters fixed. Existing optimizers often judge edits by aggregate validation performance, limiting the supervision they retain about which errors an edit corrects or introduces. Testing each candidate also requires rescoring validation answers, which limits how many edits can be explored within a fixed budget. We propose RubricWorld, a framework that learns from previous edit evaluations to guide further search. Its world model predicts an edit's correction and degradation rates at score boundaries, conditioned on the current rubric state. The training signal comes from paired grading results: scores for the same answers before and after an edit. Predictions select one candidate for direct evaluation, and held-out confidence bounds determine whether it corrects enough target errors while keeping new errors within prespecified limits. Measured effects update the model even when the edit is rejected. Across EIR (National), ASAP2.0, and ASAP-SAS with three frozen LLM graders, RubricWorld achieves the highest score in 20 of 27 metric comparisons. On ASAP2.0, it raises gpt-5-mini accuracy from 18.20% with the original rubric to 46.70%, exceeding the strongest baseline, APO, by 22.60 percentage points. code will be released upon acceptance.

cs.AI

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.01984

Large-Scale Bayesian Optimisation Using Uncertainty-Calibrated Product-of-Experts Gaussian Process Models with Trust Regions

Yean Hoon Ong

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The use of collections of independent local Gaussian processes (GP-ind) combined with trust regions is a widely adopted approach for large-scale and high-dimensional Bayesian optimisation (BO). However, this approach suffers from several limitations, including discontinuities at the boundaries of disjoint regions, an inability to capture long-range spatial correlations, potential information loss, and abrupt increases in computational overhead. To address these limitations, this paper introduces a novel BO algorithm, termed BO-pro-c-tr. The proposed method employs a product-of-experts Gaussian process model with uncertainty calibration (GP-pro-c) as its surrogate model and incorporates a one-to-many association strategy for integrating GP-pro-c with trust regions. Empirical results suggest that, when combined with the GP-LCB acquisition function, BO-pro-c-tr achieves an average reduction of 2.6% in simple regret and 34.9% in computational overhead relative to BO algorithms based on independent local GP models coupled with trust regions.

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.01982

SurgStream: A Workflow-Anchored Proactive Streaming Framework and Benchmark for Real-Time Surgical Video Understanding

Ruipeng Ma, Qing Xu, Jie Liang, Zhen Chen

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Surgical video understanding is essential for intraoperative assistance such as workflow monitoring, instrument preparation and procedural documentation. Delivering such assistance in real time requires a model to jointly perceive the ongoing scene, remember past surgical events, and respond before clinically relevant moments pass. Existing approaches provide limited support for jointly retaining procedural evidence and deciding when to respond in streaming surgical video. In this work, we propose SurgStream, a workflow-anchored proactive streaming framework for real-time surgical video understanding. We first introduce Workflow-Anchored Memory (WAM) to record structured instrument-action-target observations and fold them into phase-level summaries, providing compact and queryable surgical memory. Deadline-aware Transition Learning (DTL) is then devised to supervise response states within clinical windows, enabling timely responses before procedural deadlines. We further introduce SurgStream-Bench, comprising 11.7K streaming interactions across various tasks covering real-time perception, backward memory queries, forward proactive QA, proactive alerts and caption memory. Experiments on SurgStream-Bench show gains over state-of-the-art methods, especially in memory and forward proactive QA. The source code will be available.

cs.CV · cs.AI

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.01981

Opening the Black Box of Neural Auction Mechanisms

Li Kong, Zilong Liu, Haoyang Zhou, Hanbing Liu, Qi Qi

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Neural auction design has emerged as a powerful paradigm within automated mechanism design for modern Web platforms. Because these learned mechanisms directly dictate critical economic outcomes, their lack of internal transparency raises significant auditability and trust concerns. Opening this black box \textit{post-hoc} is therefore essential, yet presents two distinctive challenges: (1) activation contexts are dense, correlated numerical profiles devoid of explicit semantic structure, and (2) feature interpretations can only be falsifiably audited if they map to measurable auction states or outcomes. In this paper, we propose a post-hoc white-box auditing framework for unpacking trained neural auctions. Using CITransNet as a representative testbed, we first employ sparse autoencoders to decompose hidden representations while faithfully preserving downstream auction behavior. Anchoring feature interpretations to native economic targets, we validate them through activation prediction and causal interventions to isolate verified features from the reconstruction dictionary. Finally, applying this pipeline across varied auction settings, we show that the verified features can serve as analytical instruments to examine how internal representations modulate strategic misreporting incentives, align with Myerson's optimal auction, and support the diagnosis of individual auctions. Our work highlights the potential of white-box mechanism auditing to build the foundational trust necessary for neural auctions to be deployed as widely adopted Web technologies. To enhance research transparency and facilitate independent inspection, we publicly release the experimental results supporting our findings at https://github.com/Li-Beverly-Kong/opening-neural-auctions.git

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RIFLE: Removal of Image Flicker-Banding via Latent Diffusion Enhancement

Libo Zhu, Zihan Zhou, Xiaoyang Liu, Weihang Zhang, Keyu Shi, Yifan Fu, Yulun Zhang

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Capturing screens is now routine in our everyday lives. But the photographs of emissive displays are often influenced by the flicker-banding (FB), which is alternating bright-dark stripes that arise from temporal aliasing between a camera's rolling-shutter readout and the display's brightness modulation. Unlike moire degradation, which has been extensively studied, the FB remains underexplored despite its frequent and severe impact on readability and perceived quality. We formulate FB removal as a dedicated restoration task and introduce Removal of Image Flicker-Banding via Latent Diffusion Enhancement, RIFLE, a diffusion-based framework designed to remove FB while preserving fine details. We propose the flicker-banding prior estimator (FPE) that predicts key banding attributes and injects it into the restoration network. Additionally, Masked Loss (ML) is proposed to concentrate supervision on banded regions without sacrificing global fidelity. To overcome data scarcity, we provide a simulation pipeline that synthesizes FB in the luminance domain with stochastic jitter in banding angle, banding spacing, and banding width. Feathered boundaries and sensor noise are also applied for a more realistic simulation. For evaluation, we collect a paired real-world FB dataset with pixel-aligned banding-free references captured via long exposure. Across quantitative metrics and visual comparisons on our real-world dataset, RIFLE consistently outperforms recent image reconstruction baselines from mild to severe flicker-banding. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first work to research the simulation and removal of FB. Our work establishes a great foundation for subsequent research in both the dataset construction and the removal model design. Our dataset and code will be released soon.

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.01978

Multimodal BVP and Respiration for Automated Pain Recognition with Hankel-FCN

Valentina Becchetti, Muhammad Umar Khan, Stefanos Gkikas, Alessandro Giuseppi, Raul Fernandez Rojas

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Automated pain recognition is a fundamental challenge for the advancement of clinical care and empathetic human-computer interaction, due to the subjective and dynamic nature of pain. In this study, we propose a deep learning framework for objective pain assessment based on multimodal physiological signals from the AI4Pain dataset. The approach focuses on Blood Volume Pulse (BVP) and Respiration (RESP), capturing complementary aspects of autonomic responses to nociceptive stimulation. To explicitly model their temporal dynamics, the signals are transformed into structured trajectory representations using Hankel matrix embeddings, enabling the learning of dynamical patterns beyond conventional time-series representations. These embeddings are processed by modality-specific Fully Convolutional Networks, and their outputs are integrated through a late fusion strategy for three-class classification (No Pain, Low Pain, High Pain). Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves an accuracy of 67.09% and an F1-score of 66.41%, providing competitive performance compared to existing approaches, while relying on no handcrafted feature engineering. Multimodal fusion significantly outperformed either modality alone, and the Hankel embedding showed a trend towards further improvement. Further validation is required to establish generalisability to broader populations and clinical settings.

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.01977

EvoRec: A Unified Self-Evolving Agentic Recommender with Dynamic Reflection Trees

Mengting Li, Long Zhang, Hao Jiang, Sheng Yu, Fei Pan, Peng Jiang

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Conventional recommender systems rely on fixed cascaded pipelines, limiting their ability to adapt to evolving user needs and feedback. Existing agentic recommenders introduce reasoning and tool use but often lack end-to-end decision control and systematic failure reflection. We propose EvoRec, a unified agentic recommendation framework that combines autonomous decision-making with reflection-driven self-evolution. A Need Agent infers user needs from long-term, short-term, and working memory. A Planning Agent adaptively allocates retrieval budgets between Behavior Continuation and Need Satisfaction, selects retrieval tools, and sets ranking-fusion weights. An Acting Executor executes the plan and records decision traces. Following user feedback, a Dynamic Reflection Tree identifies failures in need inference, planning, or previous repairs, proposes personalized corrections, and validates them through replay. Verified repairs update working memory and are distilled into reusable cross-user strategies, enabling continual improvement without parameter updates. Experiments on a Kuaishou local-services advertising dataset show a 15.7% Hit@50 improvement over the strongest baseline. Hierarchical reflection further improves Hit@50 by 13.1% among users with prior repairs. In a seven-day online A/B test, nearline EvoRec increases advertising revenue by 4.6% and CTCVR by 3.5%, with a 14.5% revenue gain for high-intent users. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of reflection-driven self-evolution in industrial-scale recommendation.

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.01976

Beyond Prompt Injection: The Tool Update Gap in LLM Agent Security

Shiyu Kan, Yue Qi, Yufei Han, Xinjian Luo, Guojun Xiong, Xiaofeng Gao

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Large language model based agents increasingly rely on external tools to invoke services and interact with web resources. These tools can evolve through software updates, yet agentic frameworks may continue trusting them without re-verifying their safety after implementation changes. This tool update gap creates a supply-chain vulnerability in agentic systems: because updated tool code executes outside the LLM's context window, malicious functionality embedded in tool updates can bypass defenses centered on model-visible interactions, leaving agents exposed to stealthy, persistent threats that existing in-context defenses can hardly address. To thoroughly investigate this threat, we introduce ETUDE (Exploiting Tool Updates for Direct Execution), an attack that embeds malicious functionality into updates of initially benign tools to produce compromised tools, while preserving their legitimate tool functionality. Unlike prompt-based attacks, ETUDE operates entirely outside the LLM's context and requires no adversarial instructions, thereby bypassing defenses restricted to model-visible content. We evaluate ETUDE across three representative attack workloads and seven widely used commercial and open-source agentic frameworks, including Gemini CLI, Codex CLI, and Claude Code. The results show that ETUDE achieves a 97.6% ASR while maintaining a 95.9% legitimate task completion rate. We further examine existing defenses and find that they provide insufficient protection against this threat. These findings expose a fundamental blind spot in current agent security practices: trust established for a tool does not necessarily remain valid after its implementation updates.

cs.CR · cs.AI

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新论文 · v1arXiv:2611.01974

MUPA${}^2$S: Multimodal Unified Perception with Asymmetric Attention for Stress Assessment

Stefanos Gkikas, Thomas Kassiotis, Yu Fang, Christian Arzate Cruz, Miao Cheng, Zongyi Jiang, Zacharias Kamarianakis, Houshyar Asadi 等 11 位作者

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Stress is a leading contributor to long-term physical and mental health decline. The automatic assessment of stress is a promising approach for continuous monitoring and mitigating human biases. However, the development of automated systems remains challenging due to the heterogeneity of physiological and behavioral signals. This paper presents MUPA${}^2$S, a multimodal framework for automatic stress assessment that combines facial video and ECG signals within a unified perception architecture. Both modalities are mapped into a shared token representation without modality-specific components, and processed through asymmetric attention comprising segment-local cross-attention and global self-attention across segment states. Experiments on a newly collected 58-subject stress dataset, evaluated under a stratified subject-level protocol, show that facial video achieves 69.44% test accuracy, while ECG-only performance remains close to chance under the proposed representation. Unified Video-ECG fusion achieves a test accuracy of 69.58% at approximately half the number of parameters of feature-level fusion, with negligible additional computational cost. Feature-level fusion does not exceed the video-only baseline, while unified input-level integration provides a parameter-efficient mechanism for jointly processing the two modalities.

cs.CV · cs.AI

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Knowledge-Guided Floodwater Level Reasoning for Cloud-Edge Collaborative Monitoring

Zhengshu Zhou, Shaoyu Wang, Ziyi Geng, Lu Tao, Qian Long

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Frequent urban floodwater poses a serious threat to the safety and efficiency of intelligent transportation systems. Existing vision-based methods for floodwater level detection face two main limitations. First, the lack of explicit reasoning leads to poor detection performance and little interpretability. Second, these methods struggle to generalize to the complex and varied real-world road scenes seen from different viewpoints. To address this, we reformulate the task as an explicit visual reasoning problem and propose HydroReasoner, a floodwater level reasoning framework designed for cloud-edge collaboration. HydroReasoner builds on Qwen2.5-VL and is trained with Group Relative Policy Optimization. To address the scarcity of reasoning process annotations, we build a floodwater domain knowledge graph HydroKG and design a novel KG path reward. Through deterministic graph traversal over HydroKG, this reward supervises the model's reasoning process at a fine granularity, which improves both reasoning and generalization. For edge deployment, we apply 4-bit quantization to the model, cutting GPU memory usage by 57% and inference latency by 43% while out-of-domain accuracy drops by only 0.2 percentage points. We also propose a confidence-based cloud-edge routing mechanism, which improves system safety and eases the computational load on the cloud. In addition, we build HydroLevel, a floodwater benchmark dataset of 3,000 images, for training and evaluating the model. Experimental results show that HydroReasoner achieves detection accuracy 4.0 and 13.6 percentage points higher than conventional vision baselines in the in-domain and out-of-domain evaluations respectively, with performance dropping by only 4.4 percentage points out of domain.

cs.CV · cs.AI

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Better Answers, Weaker Evidence Control: Evidence Bypass in On-Policy Distillation

Ruoran Xu, Yilun Zhao, Ziyu Chen, Xiaoqiang kang, Arman Cohan

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On-policy distillation (OPD) can improve answer accuracy while weakening responsiveness to supporting evidence. We investigate this separation in scientific-document question answering through matched document interventions that change the supported answer while preserving the question and unrelated context. We identify evidence bypass: a student retains an originally correct answer after the document changes to support a different one. On QASPER with a Qwen3-4B student, standard OPD raises original-document accuracy by 3.4 percentage points, lowers counterfactual accuracy by 5.3 points, and increases bypass by 15.7 points; the same directional pattern appears on PeerQA. Controlled perturbations localize the shift to answer-critical evidence, and bypass grows with the student's pre-distillation closed-book preference for the original answer. A factorized study of teacher targets, privileged information, divergence, and supervision density finds that explicitly supplying the teacher with annotated answer-critical spans yields the largest joint improvement in evidence response and claim support. These findings motivate Evidence-Paired OPD (EP-OPD), which combines on-policy supervision on matched documents supporting different answers to the same question with an answer-level margin that favors each document's supported answer over its paired alternative. Across both datasets and two student sizes, EP-OPD recovers 54-66% of standard OPD's counterfactual-accuracy loss while preserving 80-85% of its original-document accuracy gain. Our results establish evidence responsiveness as a distinct training and evaluation target alongside answer accuracy. Our code is publicly available at: https://github.com/RuoranXu/EP-OPD.

cs.CL · cs.AI

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