Discovering Semantic Latent Structures in Psychological Scales: A Response-Free Pathway to Efficient Simplification

This paper introduces a response-free framework that leverages natural language processing and topic modeling to automatically simplify psychological scales by identifying semantic latent structures, achieving an average 60.5% reduction in item count while preserving psychometric validity and construct alignment.

Bo Wang, Yuxuan Zhang, Yueqin Hu, Hanchao Hou, Kaiping Peng, Shiguang Ni2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Benchmark Leakage Trap: Can We Trust LLM-based Recommendation?

This paper identifies and validates the critical issue of benchmark data leakage in LLM-based recommendation systems, demonstrating that exposure to evaluation data during training can artificially inflate performance metrics for domain-relevant leaks while degrading accuracy for irrelevant ones, thereby undermining the reliability of current evaluation practices.

Mingqiao Zhang, Qiyao Peng, Yumeng Wang, Chunyuan Liu, Hongtao Liu2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Mean Flow Policy with Instantaneous Velocity Constraint for One-step Action Generation

This paper introduces the Mean Velocity Policy (MVP), a novel one-step generative policy that employs an Instantaneous Velocity Constraint (IVC) to theoretically guarantee high expressiveness while achieving state-of-the-art performance and significantly faster training and inference speeds on challenging robotic manipulation tasks compared to existing flow-based baselines.

Guojian Zhan, Letian Tao, Pengcheng Wang, Yixiao Wang, Yiheng Li, Yuxin Chen, Hongyang Li, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Shengbo Eben Li2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Accelerated Predictive Coding Networks via Direct Kolen-Pollack Feedback Alignment

This paper introduces Direct Kolen-Pollack Predictive Coding (DKP-PC), a novel algorithm that enhances the efficiency and scalability of biologically inspired predictive coding by establishing direct learnable feedback connections from the output to all hidden layers, thereby reducing error propagation time complexity from O(L) to O(1) while mitigating vanishing updates and maintaining local learning.

Davide Casnici, Martin Lefebvre, Justin Dauwels, Charlotte Frenkel2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Emotion Collider: Dual Hyperbolic Mirror Manifolds for Sentiment Recovery via Anti Emotion Reflection

The paper introduces Emotion Collider (EC-Net), a hyperbolic hypergraph framework that leverages Poincaré-ball embeddings, bidirectional message passing, and contrastive learning to achieve robust and noise-resilient multimodal sentiment analysis by preserving high-order semantic relations and enhancing class separation.

Rong Fu, Ziming Wang, Shuo Yin, Haiyun Wei, Kun Liu, Xianda Li, Zeli Su, Simon Fong2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Characterizing MARL for Energy Control: A Multi-KPI Benchmark on the CityLearn Environment

This paper establishes a comprehensive multi-KPI benchmark for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in urban energy management using the CityLearn environment, demonstrating that Decentralized Training with Decentralized Execution (DTDE) consistently outperforms Centralized Training with Decentralized Execution (CTDE) in both average and worst-case performance while offering greater resilience and sustainability.

Aymen Khouja, Imen Jendoubi, Oumayma Mahjoub, Oussama Mahfoudhi, Ruan De Kock, Siddarth Singh, Claude Formanek2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

RAmmStein: Regime Adaptation in Mean-reverting Markets with Stein Thresholds -- Optimal Impulse Control in Concentrated AMMs

This paper introduces RAmmStein, a deep reinforcement learning framework that optimizes liquidity provision in concentrated Automated Market Makers by solving an impulse control problem via a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman quasi-variational inequality, thereby significantly reducing rebalancing frequency and gas costs while maximizing net returns through regime-aware, mean-reversion-informed decision-making.

Pranay Anchuri2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Benchmarking GNN Models on Molecular Regression Tasks with CKA-Based Representation Analysis

This paper benchmarks four GNN architectures on molecular regression tasks, demonstrating that a hierarchical fusion framework combining GNNs with molecular fingerprints outperforms standalone models by over 7% in RMSE, while CKA analysis reveals that GNN and fingerprint embeddings occupy highly independent latent spaces despite high convergence among isotopic GNN architectures.

Rajan, Ishaan Gupta2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

MrBERT: Modern Multilingual Encoders via Vocabulary, Domain, and Dimensional Adaptation

The paper introduces MrBERT, a family of efficient, open-source multilingual encoders built on the ModernBERT architecture that achieves state-of-the-art performance in specific languages and specialized domains while leveraging Matryoshka Representation Learning to reduce inference and storage costs.

Daniel Tamayo, Iñaki Lacunza, Paula Rivera-Hidalgo, Severino Da Dalt, Javier Aula-Blasco, Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre, Marta Villegas2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG