Improving reasoning at inference time via uncertainty minimisation

This paper proposes a computationally efficient inference-time reasoning method that improves accuracy by selecting thought-level continuations that maximize the model's internal self-certainty, demonstrating that optimizing for uncertainty minimization at early planning stages yields performance comparable to or exceeding existing scaling techniques like self-consistency.

Nicolas Legrand, Kenneth Enevoldsen, Márton Kardos, Kristoffer Nielbo2026-03-10💻 cs

Learning to Rank the Initial Branching Order of SAT Solvers

This paper proposes using graph neural networks to predict initial branching orders for CDCL SAT solvers, demonstrating significant speedups on random and pseudo-industrial benchmarks while noting that the approach struggles with complex industrial instances due to the solver's dynamic heuristics overriding the predictions.

Arvid Eriksson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Gabriel Poesia (Kempner Institute at Harvard University), Roman Bresson (Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence), Karl Henrik Johansson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), David Broman (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)2026-03-10💻 cs

From State Changes to Creative Decisions: Documenting and Interpreting Traces Across Creative Domains

This paper addresses the limitation of existing creative activity tracing methods that capture state changes without preserving intent or higher-level structure by proposing three complementary domain-specific approaches: a node-based interface for GenAI, a vocabulary of visual cues for visualization authoring, and a semantic history-embedded programming model.

Xiaohan Peng, Sotiris Piliouras, Carl Abou Saada Nujaim2026-03-10💻 cs

A Miniature Brain Transformer: Thalamic Gating, Hippocampal Lateralization, Amygdaloid Salience, and Prefrontal Working Memory in Attention-Coupled Latent Memory

This paper introduces a miniature brain transformer architecture that demonstrates a novel, falsifiable prediction: functional lateralization of hippocampal banks requires the synergistic interaction of a prefrontal working-memory buffer (acting as a symmetry-breaker) and inhibitory callosal coupling, a mechanism that triggers a sharp phase transition in memory performance while a cerebellar fast-path merely accelerates convergence.

Hong Jeong2026-03-10💻 cs

VINO: Video-driven Invariance for Non-contextual Objects via Structural Prior Guided De-contextualization

VINO is a self-supervised learning framework that overcomes the "co-occurrence trap" in dense video by using a teacher-student distillation approach with structural priors to force representations to focus on foreground objects rather than background context, achieving state-of-the-art unsupervised object discovery performance.

Seul-Ki Yeom, Marcel Simon, Eunbin Lee, Tae-Ho Kim2026-03-10💻 cs

LEPA: Learning Geometric Equivariance in Satellite Remote Sensing Data with a Predictive Architecture

This paper introduces LEPA, a learned architecture that conditions on geometric augmentations to accurately predict transformed satellite image embeddings, effectively overcoming the limitations of standard interpolation in non-convex geospatial foundation model manifolds and significantly improving geometric adjustment performance.

Erik Scheurer, Rocco Sedona, Stefan Kesselheim, Gabriele Cavallaro2026-03-10💻 cs

Do Deployment Constraints Make LLMs Hallucinate Citations? An Empirical Study across Four Models and Five Prompting Regimes

This empirical study demonstrates that deployment-motivated prompting constraints significantly exacerbate citation hallucinations across four large language models, with no model achieving a citation existence rate above 47.5% and a substantial portion of unverifiable outputs being fabricated, thereby underscoring the critical need for post-hoc verification in academic and software engineering contexts.

Chen Zhao, Yuan Tang, Yitian Qian2026-03-10💻 cs

MAviS: A Multimodal Conversational Assistant For Avian Species

This paper introduces MAviS, a domain-adaptive multimodal conversational assistant for avian species that leverages the newly created MAviS-Dataset and is evaluated on the MAviS-Bench to achieve state-of-the-art performance in fine-grained bird species understanding and multimodal question answering.

Yevheniia Kryklyvets, Mohammed Irfan Kurpath, Sahal Shaji Mullappilly, Jinxing Zhou, Fahad Shabzan Khan, Rao Anwer, Salman Khan, Hisham Cholakkal2026-03-10💻 cs