Scaling Search Relevance: Augmenting App Store Ranking with LLM-Generated Judgments

This paper addresses the scarcity of expert textual relevance labels in large-scale app store search by leveraging a specialized, fine-tuned LLM to generate millions of high-quality labels, which, when used to augment the production ranker, significantly improves both offline metrics and real-world conversion rates, particularly for tail queries lacking reliable behavioral data.

Evangelia Christakopoulou, Vivekkumar Patel, Hemanth Velaga, Sandip Gaikwad, Sean Suchter, Venkat Sundaranatha2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Attn-QAT: 4-Bit Attention With Quantization-Aware Training

This paper introduces Attn-QAT, the first systematic 4-bit quantization-aware training framework for attention mechanisms that ensures stable FP4 training and inference by matching low-precision recomputation in the backward pass and correcting implicit precision assumptions, thereby eliminating quality drops and delivering up to 1.5x speedup on FP4-capable GPUs without relying on outlier-mitigation heuristics.

Peiyuan Zhang, Matthew Noto, Wenxuan Tan, Chengquan Jiang, Will Lin, Wei Zhou, Hao Zhang2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

How Well Do Multimodal Models Reason on ECG Signals?

This paper introduces a reproducible, scalable framework for evaluating multimodal models on ECG signals by decomposing reasoning into "Perception" (verified via code generation) and "Deduction" (verified via retrieval against clinical criteria) to address the limitations of existing manual or superficial evaluation methods.

Maxwell A. Xu, Harish Haresamudram, Catherine W. Liu, Patrick Langer, Jathurshan Pradeepkumar, Wanting Mao, Sunita J. Ferns, Aradhana Verma, Jimeng Sun, Paul Schmiedmayer, Xin Liu, Daniel McDuff, Emily B. Fox, James M. Rehg2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Conformal Prediction for Risk-Controlled Medical Entity Extraction Across Clinical Domains

This paper proposes a conformal prediction framework that ensures safe, domain-specific deployment of LLMs for medical entity extraction by adapting calibration thresholds to counteract the distinct underconfidence observed in structured FDA labels and overconfidence in free-text radiology reports, thereby achieving target coverage guarantees with manageable rejection rates across diverse clinical settings.

Manil Shrestha, Edward Kim2026-03-10💬 cs.CL

HarmonyCell: Automating Single-Cell Perturbation Modeling under Semantic and Distribution Shifts

HarmonyCell is an end-to-end agent framework that automates single-cell perturbation modeling by combining an LLM-driven semantic unifier to resolve metadata incompatibilities and an adaptive Monte Carlo Tree Search engine to synthesize architectures that handle distribution shifts, thereby achieving high execution success and outperforming expert baselines without manual engineering.

Wenxuan Huang, Mingyu Tsoi, Yanhao Huang, Xinjie Mao, Xue Xia, Hao Wu, Jiaqi Wei, Yuejin Yang, Lang Yu, Cheng Tan, Xiang Zhang, Zhangyang Gao, Siqi Sun2026-03-10💻 cs

LLM-assisted Semantic Option Discovery for Facilitating Adaptive Deep Reinforcement Learning

This paper proposes a novel LLM-driven closed-loop framework that maps natural language instructions to executable rules and semantically annotates options to enhance the data efficiency, interpretability, and cross-environment transferability of Deep Reinforcement Learning, with experimental validation showing superior performance in constraint compliance and skill reuse.

Chang Yao, Jinghui Qin, Kebing Jin, Hankz Hankui Zhuo2026-03-10💻 cs

Leveraging Model Soups to Classify Intangible Cultural Heritage Images from the Mekong Delta

This paper proposes a robust framework combining the hybrid CoAtNet architecture with model soups ensembling to effectively classify Intangible Cultural Heritage images from the Mekong Delta, achieving state-of-the-art performance on the ICH-17 dataset by reducing variance and enhancing generalization in data-scarce, high-similarity settings.

Quoc-Khang Tran, Minh-Thien Nguyen, Nguyen-Khang Pham2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Information Routing in Atomistic Foundation Models: How Task Alignment and Equivariance Shape Linear Disentanglement

This paper introduces Compositional Probe Decomposition (CPD) to demonstrate that linear disentanglement of geometric and compositional information in atomistic foundation models is primarily driven by task alignment rather than architecture, revealing a significant performance gradient where models trained on specific properties like HOMO-LUMO gaps outperform energy-trained models and exhibit symmetry-dependent information routing.

Joshua Steier2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG