From Days to Minutes: An Autonomous AI Agent Achieves Reliable Clinical Triage in Remote Patient Monitoring

The paper introduces Sentinel, an autonomous AI agent that achieves reliable, scalable clinical triage for remote patient monitoring by outperforming individual clinicians in sensitivity and consistency while maintaining a clinically defensible overtriage profile at a negligible cost.

Seunghwan Kim (AnsibleHealth Inc., San Francisco, USA), Tiffany H. Kung (AnsibleHealth Inc., San Francisco, USA, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, USA), Heena Verma (AnsibleHealth Inc., San Francisco, USA), Dilan Edirisinghe (AnsibleHealth Inc., San Francisco, USA), Kaveh Sedehi (AnsibleHealth Inc., San Francisco, USA), Johanna Alvarez (AnsibleHealth Inc., San Francisco, USA), Diane Shilling (AnsibleHealth Inc., San Francisco, USA), Audra Lisa Doyle (AnsibleHealth Inc., San Francisco, USA), Ajit Chary (AnsibleHealth Inc., San Francisco, USA), William Borden (AnsibleHealth Inc., San Francisco, USA, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA), Ming Jack Po (AnsibleHealth Inc., San Francisco, USA)2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

Sim2Act: Robust Simulation-to-Decision Learning via Adversarial Calibration and Group-Relative Perturbation

The paper proposes Sim2Act, a robust simulation-to-decision framework that enhances policy reliability in mission-critical domains by combining an adversarial calibration mechanism to align simulation fidelity with decision impact and a group-relative perturbation strategy to stabilize learning without overly conservative constraints.

Hongyu Cao, Jinghan Zhang, Kunpeng Liu, Dongjie Wang, Feng Xia, Haifeng Chen, Xiaohua Hu, Yanjie Fu2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

Composed Vision-Language Retrieval for Skin Cancer Case Search via Joint Alignment of Global and Local Representations

This paper proposes a transformer-based framework for skin cancer case retrieval that effectively combines reference images and textual descriptors by learning hierarchical representations and performing joint global-local alignment, thereby achieving state-of-the-art performance on the Derm7pt dataset to support clinical decision-making.

Yuheng Wang, Yuji Lin, Dongrun Zhu, Jiayue Cai, Sunil Kalia, Harvey Lui, Chunqi Chang, Z. Jane Wang, Tim K. Lee2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

VIVID-Med: LLM-Supervised Structured Pretraining for Deployable Medical ViTs

VIVID-Med introduces a novel framework that leverages a frozen large language model as a structured semantic teacher to pretrain lightweight, deployable medical Vision Transformers via a Unified Medical Schema and Structured Prediction Decomposition, achieving state-of-the-art performance across diverse medical imaging tasks with significantly reduced data requirements compared to existing vision-language models.

Xiyao Wang, Xiaoyu Tan, Yang Dai, Yuxuan Fu, Shuo Li, Xihe Qiu2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

PM-Nav: Priori-Map Guided Embodied Navigation in Functional Buildings

The paper introduces PM-Nav, a novel framework that leverages priori-semantic maps and hierarchical chain-of-thought prompting to overcome the challenges of language-driven navigation in functional buildings with highly similar features, achieving substantial performance improvements over existing methods in both simulation and real-world environments.

Jiang Gao, Xiangyu Dong, Haozhou Li, Haoran Zhao, Yaoming Zhou, Xiaoguang Ma2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

DexHiL: A Human-in-the-Loop Framework for Vision-Language-Action Model Post-Training in Dexterous Manipulation

DexHiL is the first integrated human-in-the-loop framework for dexterous Vision-Language-Action models that combines coordinated arm-hand teleoperation with intervention-aware data sampling to significantly improve post-training performance and reliability in complex manipulation tasks.

Yifan Han, Zhongxi Chen, Yuxuan Zhao, Congsheng Xu, Yanming Shao, Yichuan Peng, Yao Mu, Wenzhao Lian2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

QUSR: Quality-Aware and Uncertainty-Guided Image Super-Resolution Diffusion Model

The paper proposes QUSR, a novel diffusion-based image super-resolution model that combines an Uncertainty-Guided Noise Generation module to adaptively perturb high-uncertainty regions and a Quality-Aware Prior leveraging Multimodal Large Language Models to guide restoration, thereby achieving high-fidelity results in real-world scenarios with unknown and non-uniform degradations.

Junjie Yin, Jiaju Li, Hanfa Xing2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

Causally Sufficient and Necessary Feature Expansion for Class-Incremental Learning

This paper proposes a Probability of Necessity and Sufficiency (PNS)-based regularization method for Class-Incremental Learning that utilizes a dual-scope counterfactual generator to mitigate feature collisions caused by intra-task shortcut reliance and inter-task semantic confusion, thereby ensuring both the causal completeness and separability of task-specific representations.

Zhen Zhang, Jielei Chu, Tianrui Li2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

Deep Tabular Research via Continual Experience-Driven Execution

This paper introduces a novel agentic framework for Deep Tabular Research (DTR) that addresses the challenges of complex, unstructured tables by formalizing tabular reasoning as a closed-loop decision-making process, utilizing hierarchical meta-graphs for path planning, expectation-aware selection policies, and a siamese structured memory for continual experience-driven refinement.

Junnan Dong, Chuang Zhou, Zheng Yuan, Yifei Yu, Siyu An, Di Yin, Xing Sun, Feiyue Huang2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

DataFactory: Collaborative Multi-Agent Framework for Advanced Table Question Answering

This paper introduces DataFactory, a collaborative multi-agent framework that overcomes the context, hallucination, and reasoning limitations of existing TableQA systems by orchestrating specialized agents for structured and relational reasoning, thereby achieving significant accuracy improvements across multiple benchmarks.

Tong Wang, Chi Jin, Yongkang Chen, Huan Deng, Xiaohui Kuang, Gang Zhao2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI

RubiCap: Rubric-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Dense Image Captioning

RubiCap introduces a novel reinforcement learning framework that leverages LLM-generated rubrics to create structured, multi-faceted reward signals for dense image captioning, thereby overcoming the limitations of supervised distillation and deterministic checkers to achieve state-of-the-art performance and superior word efficiency across various benchmarks.

Tzu-Heng Huang, Sirajul Salekin, Javier Movellan, Frederic Sala, Manjot Bilkhu2026-03-11🤖 cs.AI