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LLMs for Academic Workflows: An Evaluation of Literature Reviews Generated with Short and Long Context Windows of LLMs

arXiv:2608.26145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Our research focuses on evaluating literature reviews generated in short and long context settings of large language models (LLMs) to investigate the im

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Mitigating Fabrication in Multi-Stage LLM Pipelines for Hiring: An Empirical Evaluation of Prompt Guardrails and Human-in-the-Loop Checkpoints

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arXiv:2608.26171v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-stage LLM hiring pipelines (resume improvement, interview question generation, answer feedback) can fabricate credentials, inflate qualifiers, a

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28 Aug 2026

Neuro-symbolic PRM: Enhancing Scientific Reasoning via Structured Traces and Symbolic Verification

arXiv:2608.26329v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While tool-augmented Large Language Models have significantly improved multi-step reasoning in quantitative STEM tasks, a critical residual failure mode

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PACEShop: Evaluating Personalized, Actionable, Compositional, and Evidence-grounded Shopping Assistants

arXiv:2608.26180v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Shopping assistants are shifting from ranked product lists toward structured decision support, where systems must synthesize shopper context, product

pro-team at LLMs4OL 2026 Tasks Flagship and Reuse: Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Vocabulary-Constrained Filtering for Ontology Learning

arXiv:2608.27101v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ontology learning from text remains challenging despite significant progress in Large Language Models (LLMs), which can hallucinate domain terms, produc

RATIO: A Benchmark for Retrieval Across Typed Ideation Operations in Scientific Literature

arXiv:2608.27394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieved scientific literature can serve as inspiration for both human and AI scientists. Inspiration can take different forms: prior work may directly

Selective State-Space Adaptation and Retrieval for Language Model Reasoning

arXiv:2607.19326v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Low-rank adaptation introduces a static learned update applied identically to every input. The update provides task-level adaptation but does not ex

Squeezing More from Limited Data with Recursive Transformers

arXiv:2608.26973v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pre-training under limited data requires a different view of scaling than web-scale language modeling. With a fixed data budget but relatively abundant

SymbolLKG: Towards Verifiable Logical Reasoning via Logical Knowledge Graph and Symbolic Solvers

arXiv:2608.26836v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in natural language understanding, yet they struggle with strict multi-step reason

Why RAGs Hallucinate: Penalty-Aware Evaluation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems with Knowledge-Gap Canaries

arXiv:2608.26385v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Volume-based accuracy rewards retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems for guessing: a system that answers everything outscores one that declines

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AWM: Answerable Working Memory for Long-Document VQA Agents

arXiv:2608.25618v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-document visual question answering increasingly relies on VLM agents that retrieve candidate pages, inspect page images, write findings to working

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27 Aug 2026

Can We Read the Mind of an Audio LLM? A Verbalizable, Multilingual Middle-Layer Workspace

arXiv:2608.24958v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An audio language model is a black box in a specific way: we see what it says, never what it works out on the way there, and chain-of-thought monitori

27 Aug 2026

Reasoning or Rambling? Exploring the Effect of Thinking on Agent Persuasion

arXiv:2509.21054v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding persuasion is critical for the safety and reliability of multi-agent systems built on large language models (LLMs). This paper s

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27 Aug 2026

HiQA: A Hierarchical Contextual Augmentation RAG for Multi-Documents QA

arXiv:2402.01767v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) significantly improves document-based question answering by integrating external documents during generat

Memory Is Not Always Needed: Characterizing Conditional Memory in Scientific Reasoning

arXiv:2608.23982v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific reasoning requires language models to retrieve specialized knowledge and incorporate it reliably into multi-step computation. Conditional mem

Neurosymbolic Alignment for Physiologically-Safe Clinical Language Models

arXiv:2608.24534v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical LLMs can generate recommendations that are factually plausible yet physiologically unsafe. We investigate whether safety alignment can be impro

SAGE: From Direct Answering to Evidence-Grounded Inference for Chinese Ancient Document Understanding

arXiv:2608.24011v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chinese ancient document understanding demands complex visual, linguistic, and historical reasoning. Current Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) typi

Beyond Factual Knowledge: Benchmarking and Learning Step-Level Procedural Rule Reasoning in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.22753v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) excel at text understanding and generation, yet still struggle to reliably understand and apply externally provided procedu

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Compositional Chain-of-Relations for Faithful Knowledge Graph Question Answering with Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.22762v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge graph question answering (KGQA) is a key task for evaluating KG-augmented Large Language Models (LLMs), and complex KGQA that requires multi-h

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MEMONDEMAND: A Memory Management System for Large-Scale Enterprise Data

arXiv:2608.22141v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise repositories are large, heteroge- neous, and continuously updated, making re- trieval difficult when efficient access, source- faithful evide

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RAD: Rule-Augmented Relational Anomaly Detection

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arXiv:2608.23468v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Anomaly detection is often applied to data stored in relational databases, yet most existing methods require flattening multiple tables into a single fe

Ansari: A Retrieval-Grounded Islamic AI Assistant -- Architecture, Deployment, and Lessons from 140,000 Conversations

arXiv:2608.20390v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General-purpose large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to answer religious questions, but for Islamic content they carry two serious risks

Can Scientific Claims Be Removed from Large Language Models? A Systematic Evaluation of Claim-Level Unlearning

arXiv:2608.20960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models (LMs) are trained on static scientific corpora, whereas scientific knowledge continuously evolves through correction and revision. Scien

CAS: Conformalized Agentic Search via Adaptive Retrieval and Policy Weighting

arXiv:2608.20771v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search Agents face a severe reliability crisis during reinforcement learning (RL) fine-tuning. Heuristic Top-K retrieval often causes critical evidence

Continuous-Time Quantum Walks based Graph Neural Network

arXiv:2608.20738v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used on graph-structured data, but most suffer from two key weaknesses. First, message passing behaves as a low-

Degree-Mass Message Passing for Betweenness Ranking in Directed and Undirected Networks

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arXiv:2602.09716v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Computing the importance of nodes in networks is a long-standing fundamental problem that has driven extensive study of various centrality measures.

DirEAG: Dirichlet Evidence Aggregation for Calibrating Verbalized Confidence in Mathematical Reasoning

arXiv:2608.20717v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable confidence estimation is essential for using large language models in mathematical reasoning, but black-box verbalized confidence is difficult

Enhancing LLMs in Predictive Political QA with Semi-Structured Data

arXiv:2608.21218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predictive political question answering (QA), such as predicting how a political actor will vote, goes beyond factual lookup. External political resourc

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Evidence-Consistent Generative Detection under Scenario-Level Distribution Shift

arXiv:2608.21043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional in-distribution evaluation can overestimate robustness when training and test data share recurring task-specific patterns or surface cues.

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Knowledge-Graph-Gated Defactualization for Style-Controllable and Fact-Preserving Generation in Agentic Conversational AI

arXiv:2608.20393v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic large language models (LLMs) deployed in fact-sensitive applications such as customer support must simultaneously preserve factual correctness

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LingShu: A Large-Scale Symptom-Centric Contextualized Knowledge Graph Bridging Traditional Chinese Medicine and Modern Biomedicine

arXiv:2608.20402v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Biomedical knowledge graphs (KGs) are pivotal for knowledge organization, yet traditional binary relations often struggle to represent the conditional

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SKILL-RAG: Self-Knowledge Induced Learning and Filtering for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2509.20377v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has significantly improved the performance of large language models (LLMs) on knowledge-intensive tasks i

When Failures Propagate: Causal Failure Attribution in Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2608.20627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) interleaves retrieval, reasoning, and answer generation across multiple hops. A retrieval error at hop 1

When Trust Meets Truth: Trust-Truth Separability in LLM-as-Judge

arXiv:2608.21097v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-as-Judge systems can produce multi-dimensional evaluations, such as trustworthiness, reliability, and factuality, and these outputs are often interp

A Virtual Member of a Community of Practice for the Society of Petroleum Engineers: From Prototype to Deployment

arXiv:2608.19199v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We describe the evolution of a virtual assistant, called ATHENA, designed to support the capture, retrieval, and dissemination of knowledge for member

From Retrieved Context to Runtime Control: Adaptive Compression for Edge-based RAG

arXiv:2608.19535v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves language-model responses by grounding generation in external passages, which comes with overhead: retrieve

Hallucination as a Feature, not a Defect: Evaluating a multi-agent architecture to transform speculative language-model outputs into testable scientific hypotheses

arXiv:2608.19206v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contemporary Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly aligned to suppress hallucinations, prioritizing factual retrieval over combinatorial creat

SABET-QA: Temporal Knowledge Graph Question Answering

arXiv:2608.20083v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Question Answering over Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGQA) requires reasoning over time-sensitive facts, yet existing embedding-based methods struggle

When Contextual Inference Fails: Cancelability in Interactive Instruction Following

arXiv:2603.19997v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We investigate the separation of literal interpretation from contextual inference in a collaborative block-building tasks, where an agent must resol

When Machines Speak: A Unified Generative Framework for Integrating Machine-Native Symbols into Pretrained Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.19529v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many real-world AI systems represent entities, behaviors, and structured information using discrete machine-native symbols rather than natural languag

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When Text and Numbers Disagree: Evidence Arbitration in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.20116v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in settings where textual summaries, numerical observations, and external tool outputs may provide co

Beyond LLM-Based Reasoning: Lightweight GNNs for Agent Failure Attribution

arXiv:2608.18575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems (MAS) often exhibit complex failure modes, which frequently cause agents to produce incorrect outco

DART-SD: Diamond-topology Aware Retrieval and Tuning for Self-Distillation of Multi-Turn Tool-Calling Agents

arXiv:2608.18524v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Equipping Large Language Models (LLMs) with multi-turn tool-calling capabilities is essential for building autonomous agents. However, progress is fun

MissDiag: Diagnostic Evaluation of Incomplete-Knowledge Robustness in KGQA and KG-RAG

arXiv:2608.18489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge graph question answering (KGQA) and knowledge-graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (KG-RAG) aim to ground answers in explicit graph evid

RTPO: Reverse-Turn Policy Optimization for Stabilizing Agentic RL Training

arXiv:2608.18682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training multi-turn agentic workflows with reinforcement learning (RL) enables large language models to perform complex reasoning, use external tools, a

SESSE: Sketch, Expand, Sort, Summarize, Evaluate -- LLM-as-Judge Evaluation via Structured Decomposition

arXiv:2608.18303v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-as-judge evaluation reduces response quality assessment to a single holistic A/B preference choice, providing no mechanism to isolate which quality

Tatarstan Toponyms: A Bilingual Dataset and Hybrid RAG System for Geospatial Question Answering

arXiv:2605.05962v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper addresses end-to-end geospatial question answering over multilingual toponymic data. We introduce a bilingual (Russian-Tatar) dataset of

G-ReAct: Graph-Guided Deep Search via Structure-State Co-Evolution

arXiv:2608.01324v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep search has become a fundamental capability of large language models (LLMs) for solving open-domain complex tasks. However, existing approaches