February 2026

arXiv:2602.15237v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in emergency first response (EFR) applications to support situational awareness (SA) and decision-making, yet most operate on text or 2D imagery and offer little support for core EFR SA competencies like spatial reasoning. We address this gap by evaluating a prototype that fuses robot-mounted depth sensing and YOLO detection with a vision language model (VLM) capable of verbalizing metrically-grounded distances of detected objects (e.g., the chair […]

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arXiv:2602.15236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Virtual screening aims to efficiently identify active ligands from massive chemical libraries for a given target pocket. Recent CLIP-style models such as DrugCLIP enable scalable virtual screening by embedding pockets and ligands into a shared space. However, our analyses indicate that such representations can be insensitive to fine-grained binding interactions and may rely on shortcut correlations in training data, limiting their ability to rank ligands by true binding compatibility. To address these issues, […]

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arXiv:2602.15233v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium (PBE) is a refinement of the Nash equilibrium for imperfect-information extensive-form games (EFGs) that enforces consistency between the two components of a solution: agents’ strategy profile describing their decisions at information sets and the belief system quantifying their uncertainty over histories within an information set. We present a scalable approach for computing a PBE of an arbitrary two-player EFG. We adopt the definition of PBE enunciated by Bonanno in 2011 […]

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arXiv:2602.15229v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We address prediction problems on tabular categorical data, where each instance is defined by multiple categorical attributes, each taking values from a finite set. These attributes are often referred to as fields, and their categorical values as features. Such problems frequently arise in practical applications, including click-through rate prediction and social sciences. We introduce and analyze {tensorFM}, a new model that efficiently captures high-order interactions between attributes via a low-rank tensor approximation representing […]

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arXiv:2602.15228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Instruction-tuned Language Models (ILMs) have become essential components of modern AI systems, demonstrating exceptional versatility across natural language and reasoning tasks. Among their most impactful applications is code generation, where ILMs — commonly referred to as Code Language Models (CLMs) — translate human intent into executable programs. While progress has been driven by advances in scaling and training methodologies, one critical aspect remains underexplored: the impact of system prompts on both general-purpose ILMs […]

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arXiv:2602.15225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a general class of symmetric games called position-optimization games. Given a probability distribution $Q$ over a set of targets $mathcal{Y}$, the $n$ players each choose a position in a space $mathcal{X}$. A player’s utility is the $Q$-mass of targets they are closest to under some proximity measure, with ties broken evenly. Our model captures Hotelling games and forecasting competitions, among other applications. We show that for sufficiently large $n$, both pure […]

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arXiv:2602.15222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward models are central to large language model (LLM) post-training. However, past work has shown that they can reward spurious or undesirable attributes such as length, format, hallucinations, and sycophancy. In this work, we introduce and study the research problem of automatically finding reward model biases in natural language. We offer a simple approach of using an LLM to iteratively propose and refine candidate biases. Our method can recover known biases and surface […]

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arXiv:2602.15219v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The growing complexity in home energy management demands advanced systems that guide occupants toward informed energy decisions. Large language model (LLM)-integrated home energy management systems (HEMS) have shown promise, but prior studies relied on prompt engineering or pre-built platforms with limited customization of agent behavior, or assessed performance through single-turn or -task evaluations. This study introduces a multi-agent home energy management assistant (HEMA), built on LangChain and LangGraph, designed to adaptively and intelligently […]

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arXiv:2602.15214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Container startup latency is a critical performance metric for CI/CD pipelines, serverless computing, and auto-scaling systems, yet practitioners lack empirical guidance on how infrastructure choices affect this latency. We present a systematic measurement study that decomposes Docker container startup into constituent operations across three heterogeneous infrastructure tiers: Azure Premium SSD (cloud SSD), Azure Standard HDD (cloud HDD), and macOS Docker Desktop (developer workstation with hypervisor-based virtualization). Using a reproducible benchmark suite that executes […]

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arXiv:2602.15212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a secure wireless agentic AI network comprising one supervisor AI agent and multiple other AI agents to provision quality of service (QoS) for users’ reasoning tasks while ensuring confidentiality of private knowledge and reasoning outcomes. Specifically, the supervisor AI agent can dynamically assign other AI agents to participate in cooperative reasoning, while the unselected AI agents act as friendly jammers to degrade the eavesdropper’s interception performance. To extend […]

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