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cs.CV2026

Distilling Visual Reasoning into Text Space

Wenhan Yang, Nilay Naharas, Ali Payani +1

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown strong promise for multimodal reasoning, yet often struggle with tasks requiring concepts beyond what is directly observable in the…

cs.AI2026

AdaMEM: Test-Time Adaptive Memory for Language Agents

Yunxiang Zhang, Yiheng Li, Ali Payani +1

A central challenge for language agents is utilizing past experience to adapt to dynamic test-time conditions. While recent work demonstrates the promise of agentic memory mechanis…

cs.LG2026

Predicting Plasticity in Deep Continual Learning: A Theoretical Perspective

Jiuqi Wang, Jayanth Srinivasa, Claire Chen +3

Deep continual learning requires models to adapt to new tasks without retraining from scratch. However, neural networks can lose their ability to adapt to new tasks after training…

cs.CL2026

Universal Activation Verbalizer: A Unified Framework for Cross-Model Activation Explanation

Haiyan Zhao, Zirui He, Guanchu Wang +3

Activation verbalization explains hidden representations in natural language, but existing methods are mostly limited to self-explanation, where each model explains only its own ac…

cs.AI2026

D3-Gym: Constructing Real-World Verifiable Environments for Data-Driven Discovery

Hanane Nour Moussa, Yifei Li, Zhuoyang Li +7

Despite recent progress in language models and agents for scientific data-driven discovery, advancing their capabilities is held back by the absence of verifiable environments repr…

cs.DB2026

Halo: Domain-Aware Query Optimization for Long-Context Question Answering

Pramod Chunduri, Francisco Romero, Ali Payani +2

Long-context question answering (QA) over lengthy documents is critical for applications such as financial analysis, legal review, and scientific research. Current approaches, such…

cs.CL2026

Balancing Faithfulness and Performance in Reasoning via Multi-Listener Soft Execution

Nithin Sivakumaran, Shoubin Yu, Hyunji Lee +4

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning sometimes fails to faithfully reflect the true computation of a large language model (LLM), hampering its utility in explaining how LLMs arrive at…