Distilling and Adapting: A Topology-Aware Framework for Zero-Shot Interaction Prediction in Multiplex Biological Networks

This paper proposes a novel topology-aware framework that leverages domain-specific foundation models, a graph tokenizer for multiplex connectivity, and knowledge distillation to achieve robust zero-shot interaction prediction in multiplex biological networks, outperforming state-of-the-art methods.

Alana Deng, Sugitha Janarthanan, Yan Sun, Zihao Jing, Pingzhao Hu2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

From ARIMA to Attention: Power Load Forecasting Using Temporal Deep Learning

This paper empirically demonstrates that a Transformer model utilizing self-attention mechanisms outperforms traditional ARIMA and recurrent neural network approaches (LSTM, BiLSTM) in short-term power load forecasting on PJM data, achieving a superior 3.8% MAPE and highlighting the effectiveness of attention-based architectures for capturing complex temporal patterns.

Suhasnadh Reddy Veluru, Sai Teja Erukude, Viswa Chaitanya Marella2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

HEARTS: Benchmarking LLM Reasoning on Health Time Series

The paper introduces HEARTS, a comprehensive benchmark comprising 16 real-world health datasets and 110 tasks across four reasoning capabilities, which reveals that current large language models significantly underperform specialized models in health time series analysis due to struggles with multi-step temporal reasoning and reliance on simple heuristics.

Sirui Li, Shuhan Xiao, Mihir Joshi, Ahmed Metwally, Daniel McDuff, Wei Wang, Yuzhe Yang2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Trust Aware Federated Learning for Secure Bone Healing Stage Interpretation in e-Health

This paper proposes a trust-aware federated learning framework that utilizes an Adaptive Trust Score Scaling and Filtering mechanism to secure bone healing stage interpretation in e-Health by mitigating the impact of unreliable or adversarial participants while maintaining model integrity and predictive performance.

Paul Shepherd, Tasos Dagiuklas, Bugra Alkan, Joaquim Bastos, Jonathan Rodriguez2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

HURRI-GAN: A Novel Approach for Hurricane Bias-Correction Beyond Gauge Stations using Generative Adversarial Networks

The paper introduces HURRI-GAN, a novel TimeGAN-based framework that corrects systemic biases in high-resolution hurricane simulation models like ADCIRC, enabling accurate, near real-time storm surge forecasting and bias extrapolation beyond gauge station locations while significantly reducing computational runtime.

Noujoud Nadera, Hadi Majed, Stefanos Giaremis, Rola El Osta, Clint Dawson, Carola Kaiser, Hartmut Kaiser2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Geodesic Gradient Descent: A Generic and Learning-rate-free Optimizer on Objective Function-induced Manifolds

This paper introduces Geodesic Gradient Descent (GGD), a generic, learning-rate-free optimization algorithm that approximates local neighborhoods of objective function-induced hypersurfaces using n-dimensional spheres to ensure update trajectories remain on the manifold, achieving significant performance improvements over Adam on both regression and classification tasks.

Liwei Hu, Guangyao Li, Wenyong Wang, Xiaoming Zhang, Yu Xiang2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

PaLMR: Towards Faithful Visual Reasoning via Multimodal Process Alignment

PaLMR is a novel framework that enhances the faithfulness of multimodal large language models by aligning both the reasoning process and outcomes through a perception-aligned data layer and a hierarchical reward fusion scheme, thereby significantly reducing visual hallucinations while achieving state-of-the-art performance on key benchmarks.

Yantao Li, Qiang Hui, Chenyang Yan, Kanzhi Cheng, Fang Zhao, Chao Tan, Huanling Gao, Jianbing Zhang, Kai Wang, Xinyu Dai, Shiguo Lian2026-03-10💻 cs

GameVerse: Can Vision-Language Models Learn from Video-based Reflection?

The paper introduces GameVerse, a comprehensive benchmark featuring a novel reflect-and-retry paradigm and a hierarchical taxonomy across 15 games, demonstrating that Vision-Language Models can effectively improve their gameplay policies through video-based reflection by combining failure trajectories with expert tutorials.

Kuan Zhang, Dongchen Liu, Qiyue Zhao, Jinkun Hou, Xinran Zhang, Qinlei Xie, Miao Liu, Yiming Li2026-03-10💻 cs