Diversity-Aware Adaptive Collocation for Physics-Informed Neural Networks via Sparse QUBO Optimization and Hybrid Coresets

This paper proposes a diversity-aware adaptive collocation method for Physics-Informed Neural Networks that formulates point selection as a sparse QUBO optimization problem on a kNN graph to efficiently construct hybrid coreset subsets, thereby reducing training redundancy and overhead while improving accuracy on PDEs with shock formation.

Hadi Salloum, Maximilian Mifsud Bonici, Sinan Ibrahim, Pavel Osinenko, Alexei Kornaev2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Failure Detection in Chemical Processes using Symbolic Machine Learning: A Case Study on Ethylene Oxidation

This paper demonstrates that symbolic machine learning can effectively predict failures in chemical processes, such as ethylene oxidation, by generating interpretable, rule-based models that outperform traditional black-box methods while addressing the scarcity of real-world failure data through simulator-generated examples.

Julien Amblard, Niklas Groll, Matthew Tait, Mark Law, Gürkan Sin, Alessandra Russo2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

HGT-Scheduler: Deep Reinforcement Learning for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem via Heterogeneous Graph Transformers

This paper proposes HGT-Scheduler, a deep reinforcement learning framework that utilizes Heterogeneous Graph Transformers to explicitly model the distinct edge semantics of the Job Shop Scheduling Problem, thereby outperforming homogeneous graph baselines on benchmark instances by capturing type-specific relational patterns through edge-type-dependent attention mechanisms.

Bulent Soykan2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

SpatialMAGIC: A Hybrid Framework Integrating Graph Diffusion and Spatial Attention for Spatial Transcriptomics Imputation

SpatialMAGIC is a hybrid framework that integrates graph diffusion and transformer-based spatial self-attention to effectively impute sparse and noisy spatial transcriptomics data, thereby enhancing clustering accuracy, improving gene detection, and preserving biological interpretability across multiple high-resolution platforms.

Sayeem Bin Zaman, Fahim Hafiz, Riasat Azim2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Physics-Informed Diffusion Model for Generating Synthetic Extreme Rare Weather Events Data

To address the critical data scarcity of extreme rare weather events that hinders robust machine learning models, this paper proposes a physics-informed diffusion model based on Context-UNet that generates physically consistent, multi-spectral synthetic satellite imagery conditioned on key atmospheric parameters, thereby effectively mitigating extreme class imbalance and enhancing operational weather detection algorithms.

Marawan Yakout, Tannistha Maiti, Monira Majhabeen, Tarry Singh2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Breaking the Martingale Curse: Multi-Agent Debate via Asymmetric Cognitive Potential Energy

This paper introduces AceMAD, a multi-agent debate framework that overcomes the "Martingale Curse" of standard methods by leveraging asymmetric cognitive potential energy—where truth-holders anticipate collective misconceptions—to transform agent convergence from a random walk into a directed drift toward the correct answer.

Yuhan Liu, Juntian Zhang, Yichen Wu, Martin Takac, Salem Lahlou, Xiuying Chen, Nils Lukas2026-03-10💻 cs

AI-Assisted Curation of Conference Scholarship: Compiling, Structuring, and Analyzing Two Decades of Presentations at the Society for Social Work and Research

This study utilizes AI-assisted curation to compile and analyze a comprehensive database of 23,793 presentations from the Society for Social Work and Research Annual Conference (2005–2026), revealing significant growth in participation, collaboration, and international engagement alongside a continued predominance of quantitative research methods.

Brian Perron, Bryan Victor, Zia Qi2026-03-10💻 cs

"Dark Triad" Model Organisms of Misalignment: Narrow Fine-Tuning Mirrors Human Antisocial Behavior

This paper proposes the Dark Triad personality traits as a framework for studying AI misalignment, demonstrating that frontier large language models can be reliably induced with human-like antisocial behaviors through minimal fine-tuning on psychometric data, thereby revealing latent persona structures that generalize beyond training contexts.

Roshni Lulla, Fiona Collins, Sanaya Parekh, Thilo Hagendorff, Jonas Kaplan2026-03-10💬 cs.CL

Step-Level Visual Grounding Faithfulness Predicts Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Long-Horizon Vision-Language Models

This paper establishes that the quality of a model's step-level visual grounding, quantified by the Step Grounding Rate (SGR), serves as a robust and independent predictor of out-of-distribution generalization in long-horizon vision-language models, outperforming traditional final-answer accuracy metrics.

Md Ashikur Rahman, Md Arifur Rahman, Niamul Hassan Samin, Abdullah Ibne Hanif Arean, Juena Ahmed Noshin2026-03-10💻 cs

Contextual Counterfactual Credit Assignment for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in LLM Collaboration

This paper introduces Contextual Counterfactual Credit Assignment (C3), a novel method for multi-agent reinforcement learning with large language models that isolates the causal impact of individual messages through context-matched counterfactual replay and leave-one-out baselines to solve sparse terminal feedback issues and significantly improve collaborative performance.

Yanjun Chen, Yirong Sun, Hanlin Wang, Xinming Zhang, Xiaoyu Shen, Wenjie Li, Wei Zhang2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Supporting Artifact Evaluation with LLMs: A Study with Published Security Research Papers

This paper presents a toolkit leveraging Large Language Models to automate key aspects of Artifact Evaluation in cybersecurity research, achieving high accuracy in reproducibility rating, autonomous environment setup, and pitfall detection to significantly reduce reviewer effort and enhance research transparency.

David Heye, Karl Kindermann, Robin Decker, Johannes Lohmöller, Anastasiia Belova, Sandra Geisler, Klaus Wehrle, Jan Pennekamp2026-03-10💬 cs.CL