arXiv:2603.18859v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) holds significant promise for enhancing the agentic reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) with external environments. However, the inherent sparsity of terminal rewards hinders fine-grained, state-level optimization. Although process reward modeling offers a promising alternative, training dedicated reward models often entails substantial computational costs and scaling […]
Agentic Business Process Management: A Research Manifesto
arXiv:2603.18916v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a manifesto that articulates the conceptual foundations of Agentic Business Process Management (APM), an extension of Business Process Management (BPM) for governing autonomous agents executing processes in organizations. From a management perspective, APM represents a paradigm shift from the traditional process view of the business process, driven […]
Serendipity by Design: Evaluating the Impact of Cross-domain Mappings on Human and LLM Creativity
arXiv:2603.19087v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Are large language models (LLMs) creative in the same way humans are, and can the same interventions increase creativity in both? We evaluate a promising but largely untested intervention for creativity: forcing creators to draw an analogy from a random, remote source domain (”cross-domain mapping”). Human participants and LLMs generated […]
Reasonably reasoning AI agents can avoid game-theoretic failures in zero-shot, provably
arXiv:2603.18563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are increasingly deployed in interactive economic environments characterized by repeated AI-AI interactions. Despite AI agents’ advanced capabilities, empirical studies reveal that such interactions often fail to stably induce a strategic equilibrium, such as a Nash equilibrium. Post-training methods have been proposed to induce a strategic equilibrium; however, it […]
ZEBRAARENA: A Diagnostic Simulation Environment for Studying Reasoning-Action Coupling in Tool-Augmented LLMs
arXiv:2603.18614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented large language models (LLMs) must tightly couple multi-step reasoning with external actions, yet existing benchmarks often confound this interplay with complex environment dynamics, memorized knowledge or dataset contamination. In this paper, we introduce ZebraArena, a procedurally generated diagnostic environment for studying reasoning-action coupling in tool-augmented LLMs, with controllable difficulty […]
Balanced Thinking: Improving Chain of Thought Training in Vision Language Models
arXiv:2603.18656v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal reasoning in vision-language models (VLMs) typically relies on a two-stage process: supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL). In standard SFT, all tokens contribute equally to the loss, even though reasoning data are inherently token-imbalanced. Long traces overshadow short but task-critical segments, leading to verbose reasoning and inaccurate answers. […]
MemMA: Coordinating the Memory Cycle through Multi-Agent Reasoning and In-Situ Self-Evolution
arXiv:2603.18718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memory-augmented LLM agents maintain external memory banks to support long-horizon interaction, yet most existing systems treat construction, retrieval, and utilization as isolated subroutines. This creates two coupled challenges: strategic blindness on the forward path of the memory cycle, where construction and retrieval are driven by local heuristics rather than explicit […]
A Concept is More Than a Word: Diversified Unlearning in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
arXiv:2603.18767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Concept unlearning has emerged as a promising direction for reducing the risks of harmful content generation in text-to-image diffusion models by selectively erasing undesirable concepts from a model’s parameters. Existing approaches typically rely on keywords to identify the target concept to be unlearned. However, we show that this keyword-based formulation […]
Can LLM generate interesting mathematical research problems?
arXiv:2603.18813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper is the second one in a series of work on the mathematical creativity of LLM. In the first paper, the authors proposed three criteria for evaluating the mathematical creativity of LLM and constructed a benchmark dataset to measure it. This paper further explores the mathematical creativity of LLM, […]
Bridging Network Fragmentation: A Semantic-Augmented DRL Framework for UAV-aided VANETs
arXiv:2603.18871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) are the digital cornerstone of autonomous driving, yet they suffer from severe network fragmentation in urban environments due to physical obstructions. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), with their high mobility, have emerged as a vital solution to bridge these connectivity gaps. However, traditional Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL)-based […]
I Can’t Believe It’s Corrupt: Evaluating Corruption in Multi-Agent Governance Systems
arXiv:2603.18894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly proposed as autonomous agents for high-stakes public workflows, yet we lack systematic evidence about whether they would follow institutional rules when granted authority. We present evidence that integrity in institutional AI should be treated as a pre-deployment requirement rather than a post-deployment assumption. We evaluate […]
Evaluating 5W3H Structured Prompting for Intent Alignment in Human-AI Interaction
arXiv:2603.18976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural language prompts often suffer from intent transmission loss: the gap between what users actually need and what they communicate to AI systems. We evaluate PPS (Prompt Protocol Specification), a 5W3H-based framework for structured intent representation in human-AI interaction. In a controlled three-condition study across 60 tasks in three domains […]