arXiv:2604.23430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The relentless expansion of scientific literature presents significant challenges for navigation and knowledge discovery. Within Research Information Retrieval, established tasks such as text summarization and classification remain crucial for enabling researchers and practitioners to effectively navigate this vast landscape, so that efforts have increasingly been focused on developing advanced research […]
Judging the Judges: A Systematic Evaluation of Bias Mitigation Strategies in LLM-as-a-Judge Pipelines
arXiv:2604.23178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-as-a-Judge has become the dominant paradigm for evaluating language model outputs, yet LLM judges exhibit systematic biases that compromise evaluation reliability. We present a comprehensive empirical study comparing nine debiasing strategies across five judge models from four provider families (Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta), three benchmarks (MT-Bench n=400, LLMBar n=200, custom […]
FOCUS: Fused Observation of Channels for Unveiling Spectra
arXiv:2507.14787v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) captures hundreds of narrow, contiguous wavelength bands, making it a powerful tool in biology, agriculture, and environmental monitoring. However, interpreting Vision Transformers (ViTs) in this setting remains largely unexplored due to two key challenges: (1) existing saliency methods struggle to capture meaningful spectral cues, often collapsing attention […]
Talking Slide Avatars: Open-Source Multimodal Communication Approach for Teaching
arXiv:2604.23703v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Slide-based teaching is widely used in higher education, yet in online, hybrid, and asynchronous contexts, slides often lose the instructor presence, narrative continuity, and expressive framing that help learners connect with content. Full lecture video can partly restore these qualities, but it is time-consuming to record, revise, and reuse. This […]
From Static to Interactive: Authoring Interactive Visualizations via Natural Language
arXiv:2601.17736v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Interactivity is crucial for effective data visualizations. However, it is often challenging to implement interactions for existing static visualizations, since the underlying code and data for existing static visualizations are often not available, and it also takes significant time and effort to enable interactions for them even if the original […]
PhySE: A Psychological Framework for Real-Time AR-LLM Social Engineering Attacks
arXiv:2604.23148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The emerging threat of AR-LLM-based Social Engineering (AR-LLM-SE) attacks (e.g. SEAR) poses a significant risk to real-world social interactions. In such an attack, a malicious actor uses Augmented Reality (AR) glasses to capture a target visual and vocal data. A Large Language Model (LLM) then analyzes this data to identify […]
From Noisy Historical Maps to Time-Series Oil Palm Mapping Without Annotation in Malaysia and Indonesia (2020-2024)
arXiv:2604.23776v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate monitoring of oil palm plantations is critical for balancing economic development with environmental conservation in Southeast Asia. However, existing plantation maps often suffer from low spatial resolution and a lack of recent temporal coverage, impeding effective surveillance of rapid land-use changes. In this study, we propose a deep learning […]
COMO: Closed-Loop Optical Molecule Recognition with Minimum Risk Training
arXiv:2604.23546v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optical chemical structure recognition (OCSR) translates molecular images into machine-readable representations like SMILES strings or molecular graphs, but remains challenging in real-world documents due to inexhaustible variations in chemical structures, shorthand conventions, and visual noise. Most existing deep-learning-based approaches rely on teacher forcing with token-level Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE). This […]
From Coarse to Fine: Self-Adaptive Hierarchical Planning for LLM Agents
arXiv:2604.23194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model-based agents have recently emerged as powerful approaches for solving dynamic and multi-step tasks. Most existing agents employ planning mechanisms to guide long-term actions in dynamic environments. However, current planning approaches face a fundamental limitation that they operate at a fixed granularity level. Specifically, they either provide excessive […]
ZoFia: Zero-Shot Fake News Detection with Entity-Guided Retrieval and Multi-LLM Interaction
arXiv:2511.01188v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid spread of fake news threatens social stability and public trust, highlighting the urgent need for its effective detection. Although large language models (LLMs) show potential in fake news detection, they are limited by knowledge cutoff and easily generate factual hallucinations when handling time-sensitive news. Furthermore, the thinking of […]
Reheat Nachos for Dinner? Evaluating AI Support for Cross-Cultural Communication of Neologisms
arXiv:2604.23842v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neologisms and emerging slang are central to daily conversation, yet challenging for non-native speakers (NNS) to interpret and use appropriately in cross-cultural communication with native speakers (NS). NNS increasingly make use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to learn these words. We study the utility of such tools in mediating an […]
Partition-of-Unity Gaussian Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
arXiv:2604.23599v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Gaussian basis functions provide an efficient and flexible alternative to spline activations in KANs. In this work, we introduce the partition-of-unity Gaussian KAN (PU-GKAN), a Shepard-type normalized Gaussian KAN in which the Gaussian basis values on each edge are divided by their local sum over fixed centers. This produces a […]