STAIRS-Former: Spatio-Temporal Attention with Interleaved Recursive Structure Transformer for Offline Multi-task Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

STAIRS-Former is a novel transformer architecture for offline multi-task multi-agent reinforcement learning that leverages spatio-temporal attention, an interleaved recursive structure, and token dropout to effectively handle varying agent populations and long-horizon dependencies, achieving state-of-the-art performance across diverse benchmarks.

Jiwon Jeon, Myungsik Cho, Youngchul Sung2026-03-13🤖 cs.AI

OSCBench: Benchmarking Object State Change in Text-to-Video Generation

This paper introduces OSCBench, a novel benchmark derived from instructional cooking data that evaluates the ability of text-to-video models to generate accurate and temporally consistent object state changes, revealing that current models struggle significantly with this capability despite their progress in other areas.

Xianjing Han, Bin Zhu, Shiqi Hu, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Patrick Carrington, Roger Zimmermann, Jingjing Chen2026-03-13💬 cs.CL

Scaling Laws for Educational AI Agents

This paper introduces the "Agent Scaling Law" and the AgentProfile framework to demonstrate that the capabilities of educational AI agents scale predictably with structured profile richness—specifically role clarity, skill depth, tool completeness, runtime capability, and educator expertise—rather than solely through increased model size, as validated by the EduClaw platform's deployment of over 330 agent profiles.

Mengsong Wu, Hao Hao, Shuzhen Bi, Keqian Li, Wentao Liu, Siyu Song, Hongbo Zhao, Aimin Zhou2026-03-13🤖 cs.AI

Affect Decoding in Phonated and Silent Speech Production from Surface EMG

This paper introduces a new dataset and demonstrates that surface electromyography (sEMG) signals from facial and neck muscles can reliably decode affective states, particularly frustration, during both phonated and silent speech, highlighting their potential for affect-aware silent speech interfaces.

Simon Pistrosch, Kleanthis Avramidis, Tiantian Feng, Jihwan Lee, Monica Gonzalez-Machorro, Shrikanth Narayanan, Björn W. Schuller2026-03-13⚡ eess

When OpenClaw Meets Hospital: Toward an Agentic Operating System for Dynamic Clinical Workflows

This paper proposes an architecture for an "Agentic Operating System for Hospital" that adapts the OpenClaw framework to safely deploy LLM agents in clinical environments by integrating a restricted execution environment, document-centric interactions, page-indexed long-term memory, and a curated medical skills library to ensure reliability, security, and auditability in dynamic workflows.

Wenxian Yang, Hanzheng Qiu, Bangqun Zhang, Chengquan Li, Zhiyong Huang, Xiaobin Feng, Rongshan Yu, Jiahong Dong2026-03-13🤖 cs.AI

Gender Bias in Generative AI-assisted Recruitment Processes

This study evaluates the potential for gender bias in generative AI-assisted recruitment by analyzing how a state-of-the-art model (GPT-5) suggests occupations for simulated Italian graduates, revealing that while job recommendations remain neutral, the model perpetuates gender stereotypes by attributing emotional traits to women and analytical traits to men.

Martina Ullasci, Marco Rondina, Riccardo Coppola, Antonio Vetrò2026-03-13🤖 cs.AI

Anomaly detection in time-series via inductive biases in the latent space of conditional normalizing flows

This paper proposes an anomaly detection framework for multivariate time-series that leverages conditional normalizing flows with explicit inductive biases to constrain latent representations to prescribed temporal dynamics, thereby defining anomalies as violations of these dynamics rather than low observation likelihoods.

David Baumgartner, Eliezer de Souza da Silva, Iñigo Urteaga2026-03-13🤖 cs.AI

Exploiting Expertise of Non-Expert and Diverse Agents in Social Bandit Learning: A Free Energy Approach

This paper proposes a free energy-based social bandit learning algorithm that enables agents to effectively identify and leverage the behavioral information of both expert and non-expert peers without reward observations, thereby achieving optimal policy convergence and significantly enhanced learning performance with logarithmic regret.

Erfan Mirzaei, Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi, Alireza Tavakoli, Reshad Hosseini, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi2026-03-13📊 stat

Governing Evolving Memory in LLM Agents: Risks, Mechanisms, and the Stability and Safety Governed Memory (SSGM) Framework

This paper introduces the Stability and Safety-Governed Memory (SSGM) framework to address critical risks like memory corruption, semantic drift, and privacy vulnerabilities in evolving LLM agents by decoupling memory evolution from execution through consistency verification, temporal decay modeling, and dynamic access control.

Chingkwun Lam, Jiaxin Li, Lingfei Zhang, Kuo Zhao2026-03-13🤖 cs.AI

An Automatic Text Classification Method Based on Hierarchical Taxonomies, Neural Networks and Document Embedding: The NETHIC Tool

This paper presents NETHIC, an automatic text classification tool that combines scalable neural networks with hierarchical taxonomies and document embeddings to achieve significant improvements in both effectiveness and efficiency across generic and domain-specific corpora.

Luigi Lomasto, Rosario Di Florio, Andrea Ciapetti, Giuseppe Miscione, Giulia Ruggiero, Daniele Toti2026-03-13🤖 cs.AI

DocSage: An Information Structuring Agent for Multi-Doc Multi-Entity Question Answering

DocSage is an end-to-end agentic framework that addresses the limitations of existing RAG systems in multi-document, multi-entity question answering by integrating dynamic schema discovery, error-aware structured extraction, and schema-aware relational reasoning to significantly improve cross-document evidence aggregation and accuracy.

Teng Lin, Yizhang Zhu, Zhengxuan Zhang, Yuyu Luo, Nan Tang2026-03-13🤖 cs.AI

Automating Skill Acquisition through Large-Scale Mining of Open-Source Agentic Repositories: A Framework for Multi-Agent Procedural Knowledge Extraction

This paper presents a framework for automating the acquisition of specialized procedural agent skills by systematically mining open-source repositories to extract, standardize, and evaluate capabilities like mathematical visualization, demonstrating that such methods can significantly enhance LLM performance in autonomous workflows without requiring model retraining.

Shuzhen Bi, Mengsong Wu, Hao Hao, Keqian Li, Wentao Liu, Siyu Song, Hongbo Zhao, Aimin Zhou2026-03-13🤖 cs.AI