EoRA: Fine-tuning-free Compensation for Compressed LLM with Eigenspace Low-Rank Approximation

The paper introduces EoRA, a fine-tuning-free method that utilizes eigenspace low-rank approximation and an optimized CUDA kernel to significantly recover the accuracy of compressed LLMs while offering flexible trade-offs between performance and computational overhead.

Shih-Yang Liu, Maksim Khadkevich, Nai Chit Fung, Charbel Sakr, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Chien-Yi Wang, Saurav Muralidharan, Hongxu Yin, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Jan Kautz, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Pavlo Molchanov, Min-Hung Chen2026-03-12💬 cs.CL

Boosting Cross-problem Generalization in Diffusion-Based Neural Combinatorial Solver via Inference Time Adaptation

This paper proposes DIFU-Ada, a training-free inference time adaptation framework that enables diffusion-based neural combinatorial solvers to achieve zero-shot cross-problem and cross-scale generalization without additional training, as demonstrated by a TSP-trained model successfully solving variants like PCTSP and OP.

Haoyu Lei, Kaiwen Zhou, Yinchuan Li, Zhitang Chen, Farzan Farnia2026-03-12🤖 cs.LG

Talking like Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs)

This paper proposes a methodology that enables natural language interaction with Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs) by converting DEXPI data into labeled property graphs and integrating them with Large Language Models via graph-based retrieval augmented generation to enhance data retrieval, reduce hallucinations, and support engineering tasks.

Achmad Anggawirya Alimin, Dominik P. Goldstein, Lukas Schulze Balhorn + 1 more2026-03-12🤖 cs.AI

Offline Dynamic Inventory and Pricing Strategy: Addressing Censored and Dependent Demand

This paper proposes a novel data-driven framework using offline reinforcement learning and survival analysis to estimate optimal pricing and inventory control policies in sequential environments with censored and dependent demand, overcoming challenges like missing profit information and non-stationarity by approximating the problem as a high-order Markov decision process.

Korel Gundem, Zhengling Qi2026-03-12📊 stat

Scalable Multi-Task Learning through Spiking Neural Networks with Adaptive Task-Switching Policy for Intelligent Autonomous Agents

The paper proposes SwitchMT, a novel methodology for scalable multi-task learning in resource-constrained autonomous agents that combines a Deep Spiking Q-Network with active dendrites and an adaptive task-switching policy to effectively mitigate task interference and outperform state-of-the-art methods in Atari games.

Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra, Avaneesh Devkota, Muhammad Shafique2026-03-12🤖 cs.AI

Large Language Model Psychometrics: A Systematic Review of Evaluation, Validation, and Enhancement

This systematic review introduces the emerging interdisciplinary field of LLM Psychometrics, which applies psychometric theories and instruments to develop comprehensive evaluation frameworks for measuring human-like psychological constructs in large language models, ultimately guiding the creation of more robust, human-centered AI systems.

Haoran Ye, Jing Jin, Yuhang Xie, Xin Zhang, Guojie Song2026-03-12💬 cs.CL

Consistency-based Abductive Reasoning over Perceptual Errors of Multiple Pre-trained Models in Novel Environments

This paper proposes a consistency-based abductive reasoning framework that integrates predictions from multiple pre-trained models at test time to mitigate performance degradation in novel environments, achieving significant improvements in accuracy and F1-score over individual models and standard ensembles by selecting a subset of predictions that maximizes coverage while minimizing logical inconsistencies.

Mario Leiva, Noel Ngu, Joshua Shay Kricheli, Aditya Taparia, Ransalu Senanayake, Paulo Shakarian, Nathaniel Bastian, John Corcoran, Gerardo Simari2026-03-12🤖 cs.AI

Comparative Analysis of Modern Machine Learning Models for Retail Sales Forecasting

This study demonstrates that for retail sales forecasting characterized by intermittent demand and missing data, localized tree-based ensemble methods like XGBoost outperform sophisticated deep learning architectures, suggesting that aligning model selection with specific problem constraints is more critical than architectural complexity.

Luka Hobor, Mario Brcic, Lidija Polutnik, Ante Kapetanovic2026-03-12🤖 cs.LG

Learning What Reinforcement Learning Can't: Interleaved Online Fine-Tuning for Hardest Questions

The paper introduces ReLIFT, a novel training framework that interleaves reinforcement learning with online supervised fine-tuning on challenging questions, enabling large language models to acquire new knowledge and reasoning patterns beyond their original capabilities while achieving superior performance with significantly less demonstration data.

Lu Ma, Hao Liang, Meiyi Qiang, Lexiang Tang, Xiaochen Ma, Zhen Hao Wong, Junbo Niu, Chengyu Shen, Runming He, Yanhao Li, Bin Cui, Wentao Zhang2026-03-12🤖 cs.AI

Technological folie à deux: Feedback Loops Between AI Chatbots and Mental Illness

This paper argues that the interaction between human cognitive biases and AI chatbot behaviors like sycophancy creates dangerous feedback loops that can destabilize beliefs and exacerbate mental illness, necessitating coordinated interventions across clinical, technical, and regulatory domains.

Sebastian Dohnány, Zeb Kurth-Nelson, Eleanor Spens, Lennart Luettgau, Alastair Reid, Iason Gabriel, Christopher Summerfield, Murray Shanahan, Matthew M Nour2026-03-12🧬 q-bio