Science Literacy: Generative AI as Enabler of Coherence in the Teaching, Learning, and Assessment of Scientific Knowledge and Reasoning

This chapter explores the potential of generative AI to enhance K-16+ science literacy by proposing a coherent architectural framework that aligns the teaching, learning, and assessment of scientific knowledge and reasoning, while addressing associated challenges and outlining future research needs.

Xiaoming Zhai, James W. Pellegrino, Matias Rojas, Jongchan Park, Matthew Nyaaba, Clayton Cohn, Gautam Biswas2026-03-10💻 cs

Hybrid Orchestration of Edge AI and Microservices via Graph-based Self-Imitation Learning

This paper introduces SIL-GPO, a reinforcement learning framework that combines graph attention networks with self-imitation learning to optimize the joint deployment and routing of heterogeneous edge AI and microservices, significantly reducing end-to-end latency and improving resource utilization compared to existing methods.

Chen Yang, Jin Zheng, Yang Zhuolin, Lai Pan, Zhang Xiao, Hu Menglan, Yin Haiyan2026-03-10💻 cs

AutoFigure-Edit: Generating Editable Scientific Illustration

AutoFigure-Edit is an end-to-end system that generates fully editable, high-quality scientific illustrations from long-form text with flexible style adaptation via reference images, leveraging long-context understanding and native SVG support to overcome limitations in editability and efficiency found in existing automated tools.

Zhen Lin, Qiujie Xie, Minjun Zhu, Shichen Li, Qiyao Sun, Enhao Gu, Yiran Ding, Ke Sun, Fang Guo, Panzhong Lu, Zhiyuan Ning, Yixuan Weng, Yue Zhang2026-03-10💻 cs

VB: Visibility Benchmark for Visibility and Perspective Reasoning in Images

This paper introduces VB, a novel benchmark designed to evaluate vision-language models' ability to determine image visibility and appropriately abstain from answering when evidence is insufficient, utilizing controlled minimal edits and specialized metrics to reveal that top-tier models like GPT-4o and Gemini 3.1 Pro significantly outperform open-source alternatives in confidence-aware accuracy and perspective reasoning.

Neil Tripathi2026-03-10💻 cs

Thinking with Gaze: Sequential Eye-Tracking as Visual Reasoning Supervision for Medical VLMs

This paper introduces a method that enhances medical Vision-Language Models by using sequential eye-tracking data as supervision to train dedicated gaze tokens, enabling the models to mimic radiologists' visual search patterns and achieve state-of-the-art performance in both in-domain and out-of-domain medical reasoning tasks.

Yiwei Li, Zihao Wu, Yanjun Lv, Hanqi Jiang, Weihang You, Zhengliang Liu, Dajiang Zhu, Xiang Li, Quanzheng Li, Tianming Liu, Lin Zhao2026-03-10💻 cs

Mining Beyond the Bools: Learning Data Transformations and Temporal Specifications

This paper proposes a novel approach to mining data-aware temporal specifications from execution traces by combining Syntax Guided Synthesis with a finite-prefix interpretation of Temporal Stream Logic (TSLf_f), enabling the robust and sample-efficient synthesis of reactive programs that capture both data transformations and temporal behaviors.

Sam Nicholas Kouteili, William Fishell, Christian Scaff, Mark Santolucito, Ruzica Piskac2026-03-10💻 cs

Scaling Agentic Capabilities, Not Context: Efficient Reinforcement Finetuning for Large Toolspaces

The paper introduces ATLAS, a reinforcement finetuning framework that enables small language models to effectively navigate large toolspaces by learning adaptive context acquisition and execution strategies, thereby achieving frontier-level performance with significantly reduced parameter and context budgets.

Karan Gupta, Pranav Vajreshwari, Yash Pandya, Raghav Magazine, Akshay Nambi, Ahmed Awadallah2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Dynamic Targeting of Satellite Observations Using Supplemental Geostationary Satellite Data and Hierarchical Planning

This paper proposes a hierarchical planning approach that integrates supplemental geostationary satellite data to extend lookahead horizons for Dynamic Targeting missions, demonstrating up to a 41% performance improvement over traditional onboard-only planners, particularly in scenarios with sparsely distributed targets.

Akseli Kangaslahti, Itai Zilberstein, Alberto Candela, Steve Chien2026-03-10💻 cs

UWPD: A General Paradigm for Invisible Watermark Detection Agnostic to Embedding Algorithms

This paper introduces Universal Watermark Presence Detection (UWPD), a novel task for identifying invisible watermarks without prior algorithm knowledge, supported by the UniFreq-100K dataset and the Frequency Shield Network (FSNet) model that achieves superior zero-shot detection by dynamically amplifying high-frequency watermark signals while suppressing semantic content.

Xiang Ao, Yiling Du, Zidan Wang, Mengru Chen2026-03-10💻 cs