Does LLM Alignment Really Need Diversity? An Empirical Study of Adapting RLVR Methods for Moral Reasoning

This paper empirically demonstrates that contrary to the hypothesis that moral reasoning alignment requires diversity-seeking algorithms, standard reward-maximizing RLVR methods are equally or more effective because high-reward moral responses exhibit a concentrated distribution in semantic space similar to logical reasoning tasks.

Zhaowei Zhang, Xiaohan Liu, Xuekai Zhu, Junchao Huang, Ceyao Zhang, Zhiyuan Feng, Yaodong Yang, Xiaoyuan Yi, Xing Xie2026-03-12🤖 cs.AI

Gradient Flow Drifting: Generative Modeling via Wasserstein Gradient Flows of KDE-Approximated Divergences

This paper establishes a mathematical framework called Gradient Flow Drifting that proves the equivalence between the recently proposed Drifting Model and the Wasserstein gradient flow of the forward KL divergence under KDE approximation, while extending the approach to a mixed-divergence strategy on Riemannian manifolds to simultaneously mitigate mode collapse and blurring.

Jiarui Cao, Zixuan Wei, Yuxin Liu2026-03-12🤖 cs.LG

Geo-ATBench: A Benchmark for Geospatial Audio Tagging with Geospatial Semantic Context

This paper introduces Geo-ATBench, a new benchmark and the Geo-AT task that leverage geospatial semantic context to resolve acoustic ambiguities in multi-label audio tagging, demonstrating through the GeoFusion-AT framework that incorporating location-based priors significantly improves recognition performance and aligns with human judgment.

Yuanbo Hou, Yanru Wu, Qiaoqiao Ren, Shengchen Li, Stephen Roberts, Dick Botteldooren2026-03-12⚡ eess

Surrogate models for nuclear fusion with parametric Shallow Recurrent Decoder Networks: applications to magnetohydrodynamics

This paper demonstrates that a data-driven framework combining Singular Value Decomposition with Shallow Recurrent Decoder (SHRED) networks can accurately and efficiently reconstruct full spatio-temporal magnetohydrodynamic states from sparse temperature sensor measurements, offering a robust surrogate model for real-time monitoring and control in nuclear fusion applications.

M. Lo Verso, C. Introini, E. Cervi, L. Savoldi, J. N. Kutz, A. Cammi2026-03-12🤖 cs.LG

EvoSchema: Towards Text-to-SQL Robustness Against Schema Evolution

This paper introduces EvoSchema, a comprehensive benchmark featuring a novel taxonomy of ten schema perturbation types to evaluate and enhance the robustness of text-to-SQL models against real-world database schema evolution, revealing that table-level changes significantly impact performance and demonstrating that training on diverse schema designs improves model resilience.

Tianshu Zhang, Kun Qian, Siddhartha Sahai, Yuan Tian, Shaddy Garg, Huan Sun, Yunyao Li2026-03-12💬 cs.CL

Sample-and-Search: An Effective Algorithm for Learning-Augmented k-Median Clustering in High dimensions

This paper introduces "Sample-and-Search," a learning-augmented algorithm for high-dimensional kk-median clustering that utilizes a predictor to preprocess data, thereby significantly reducing both computational complexity and exponential dimensionality dependency while achieving lower clustering costs compared to state-of-the-art methods.

Kangke Cheng, Shihong Song, Guanlin Mo, Hu Ding2026-03-12🤖 cs.LG

CacheSolidarity: Preventing Prefix Caching Side Channels in Multi-tenant LLM Serving Systems

CacheSolidarity is a lightweight system that secures multi-tenant LLM serving against Automatic Prefix Caching side-channel attacks by selectively isolating suspicious cache reuse, thereby achieving significantly higher cache efficiency and lower latency compared to existing all-or-nothing isolation defenses.

Panagiotis Georgios Pennas, Konstantinos Papaioannou, Marco Guarnieri, Thaleia Dimitra Doudali2026-03-12🤖 cs.LG

Deep Randomized Distributed Function Computation (DeepRDFC): Neural Distributed Channel Simulation

This paper proposes a deep learning-based autoencoder architecture for the Randomized Distributed Function Computation (RDFC) framework that minimizes the total variation distance to an unknown target distribution using only data samples, demonstrating superior communication efficiency compared to traditional data compression methods, particularly under limited common randomness.

Didrik Bergström, Onur Günlü2026-03-12🔢 math