Persistent agent memory is only as reliable as its retention decision: an assertion weakly supported by its source can be stored and later reused as established fact. We study whether the retention decision should be governed by a confidence bar conditioned on the semantic category of the assertion rather than by a sin...
Experimental studies of generative AI in education mostly report average effects, yet field evidence shows that AI can narrow attainment gaps or widen them. We argue that the direction depends on the judgement burden, the expertise a learner must supply to screen AI output before learning from it, and that expert verif...
High-quality datasets are essential for reliable machine learning, but dataset curation remains costly and hard to generalize across domains. Existing methods typically rely on manually designed heuristics or model-dependent signals, limiting their applicability across tasks and user queries. To address these limitatio...
The Offline AI Modules workstream enables practical, low-power, and community-accessible deployment of voice-first AI systems that operate fully offline. Designed for African language communities where speech is the dominant mode of interaction and internet connectivity is unreliable or absent, the workstream delivers...
Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved strong performance in multimodal reasoning, yet they remain prone to generating plausible but incorrect answers. Self-verification offers a practical way to improve answer reliability without relying on external judges, but existing methods typically depend on a single verifi...
Ziquan Zhu, Hanruo Zhu, Si-Yuan Lu et al.· 0 citations
Task planning for LLM agents requires workflows that satisfy both user intent and complex sub-task dependencies. While existing planners work well for sequential or directed acyclic graph (DAG)-like structures, they struggle with workflow patterns such as verification-correction loops, convergent branch merging, and re...
Sen Zhao, Jia Tang, Ruiqi Kong et al.· 0 citations
Whether more accurate traffic forecasts or higher uncertainty coverage improve route decisions is unclear. We evaluate this question with a frozen protocol that separates speed error, joint candidate path upper bound coverage, route selection, and realized loss. Using processed road speed data from Beijing and Chengdu,...
Jianing Long, Xiaobin Li, Wuming Lei et al.· 0 citations
Improved traffic forecasts do not necessarily yield better signal-control decisions. We investigate this gap through a layered diagnostic study using 29 days of reconstructed demand from Xuancheng, China, with seven dates reserved for testing. The framework evaluates point forecasts, conformal intervals, dependence-awa...
Jianing Long, Xiaobin Li, Wuming Lei et al.· 0 citations
AI research agents are increasingly used to search over programs, mathematical constructions, and proofs. However, existing systems typically optimize evaluator feedback without adequately governing how that feedback is interpreted, challenged, and reused. As a result, promising but fragile candidates can be promoted a...
Binjie Guo, Aisheng Mo, Ruitong Li et al.· 0 citations
We study how Vision Transformers ground abstract concepts (e.g., angry) when training data provide limited direct referential evidence. We hypothesize a metonymic grounding mechanism in which abstract predictions are driven by concrete, interpretable anchor concepts (e.g., fire) that bridge visual signals to abstract s...
Jing Ding, Ziqiao Ma, Jiayuan Mao et al.· 0 citations
Artificial intelligence has advanced individual radiotherapy tasks, yet these capabilities remain separated across clinical stages, software environments and data modalities. This fragmentation contrasts with the longitudinal radiotherapy workflow from treatment decision-making through follow-up. Here we present RadOnc...
Caiwen Jiang, Shuoyang Wei, Songlin Zhao et al.· 0 citations
Prefill-decode disaggregation is becoming a common architecture for LLM serving because it separates two phases with distinct execution patterns and SLO objectives. Existing systems typically combine a fixed prefill/decode worker ratio with request routing across workers. However, real-world workloads exhibit both shor...
Kartik Ramesh, Kaidi Fu, Zihan Zheng et al.· 0 citations
With $2.1 million funding from Google.org, the open-source Public Transit Intelligence Hub will unify public transit monitoring, operations, and passenger communication.
Professor Sherry Turkle’s new book, “Artificial Intimacy,” offers a withering critique of chatbots and the antisocial dynamics she believes they encourage.