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  1. Physis-Lang: Self-Evolving Language as a Physical Representation for Video World Model

    Sep 30, 2026Liming Lu, Xianzheng Ma, Wenkun He +14Video World ModelsGenerative Video Models

    MIT · University of Oxford · NVIDIA

  2. Retrieval-Augmented Skill Optimization via Cross-Harness Adaptation

    Sep 29, 2026Jaewon Chu, Ji Soo Lee, Jihwan Park +8SkillsAgentic Optimization

    Korea University · KAIST · Meta AI

  3. Semantic Projection for Continual Self-Evolution of Language Agents

    Sep 29, 2026Ziyu Liu, Jun Chen, Lixu WangSelf-EvolutionMultilingual Agents

    University of Pennsylvania · Hark · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

  4. Population Physics, Population Problems: Safety and Emergence in LLM Societies

    Sep 27, 2026Adrian de WynterCollective BehaviorsSelf-Organization

    Microsoft & The University of York

  5. Feedback Makes Perfect: A Closed-Loop Framework for NL-to-STL Translation

    Sep 27, 2026Bowen Ye, Xiang YinSignal Temporal LogicNatural Language

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China

  6. A Wrong Turn Does Not Ruin the Journey: Deviation-Guided Skill Self-Evolution for LLM Agents

    Sep 24, 2026Yichun Feng, Jiawei Wang, Haozhe SunSkill EvolutionLarge Language Model Agents

    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Science and Technology of China · Meituan

  7. KathDB-FAO: Synthesized Query Plans in a Multimodal DBMS

    Sep 23, 2026Guorui Xiao, Douglas Brown, Artur Borycki +1QueriesNatural Language

    University of Washington · Teradata

  8. GeoNLI - A Natural Language Interpreter for Satellite Imagery

    Sep 23, 2026Ashutosh Gandhe, Anupam Rawat, Geet Sethi +5Remote SensingSatellite Imagery

    Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  9. Pro-Bench: Prompt-Robust Open-Vocabulary Visual Grounding Across Real-World Heterogeneous Environments

    Sep 22, 2026Linus Nwankwo, Muslim Alaran, Christian Rauch +2Weak Visual GroundingDynamic Environments

    Chair of Cyber-Physical Systems, Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria. · Department of Design Engineering and Mathematics, Middlesex University, London, UK.

  10. Designing and Analysing Argument Mining Pipelines: Towards a Comprehensive Assessment

    Sep 22, 2026Siddharth Bhargava, Sara Tonelli, Patricia Martín-RodillaArgumentation FrameworksNatural Language Processing

    Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy · Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain · IEGPS-CSIC, Spanish National Research Council, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

  11. Beyond Natural Language: An Agent-Native Language for Autonomous Science

    Sep 21, 2026Yifeng He, Jiachen LiuNatural LanguageTheory

    ARA Lab

  12. Schema-Anchored Latent Reasoning for Semantic Parsing-Based Knowledge Base Question Answering

    Sep 17, 2026Guangze Gao, Zixuan Li, Sikui Zhang +5Efficient Latent ReasoningSparql

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences China · Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences China

  13. Structured Four-Stage Legal Translation: From Natural-Language Traffic Rules to PROLOG

    Sep 17, 2026May Myo Zin, Wachara Fungwacharakorn, Ken Satoh +1Legal Reasoning TasksNatural Language

    Center for Juris-Informatics, ROIS-DS, Tokyo, Japan

  14. For Your Eyes Only: Evaluating Coordination Between Isolated Language Model Instances

    Sep 16, 2026Alexander Shirnin, Aleksey KudelyaNatural LanguageCoordination

  15. Which LLM is Best for Translating Natural Language Goals to PDDL

    Sep 16, 2026Tomas Balyo, Lukas Chrpa, G. Michael YoungbloodLarge Language Model PlanningNatural Language

    Filuta AI, Inc., 1606 Headway Cir STE 9145, Austin, TX 78754, USA

  16. Machine Translation between English and Syriac (East Syriac Dialect) using Statistical Machine Learning

    Sep 16, 2026Hadiana Sliwa, Hossein HassaniMachine TranslationArabic

    University of Kurdistan Hewlêr Kurdistan Region - Iraq

  17. VLM-MPPI: Grounding Natural Language in Behaviorally Diverse Trajectories for Aerial Navigation

    Sep 16, 2026Hanbing Zhang, Fangguo Zhao, Zerui Li +3Aerial Vision-Language NavigationUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China · Australian Institute for Machine Learning, Adelaide University

  18. AquiLLM: Evaluating Faithfulness in Open-Weight RAG-LLM Systems for Scientific Research

    Sep 15, 2026Bernie Boscoe, Srinath Saikrishnan, Vikram Seenivasan +6Scientific DiscoveryScientific Workflows

    Dept. of Computer Science, Southern Oregon University, USA · Dept. of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, USA · Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, USA +1

  19. Magenta: Closing the Loop Between Mathematical Reasoning and Lean Verification

    Sep 12, 2026Joshua Ong Jun Leang, Haonan Li, Zheng Zhao +6Mathematical ReasoningTheorem Proving

    Institute of Foundation Models · Imperial College London · University of Edinburgh +1

  20. IAE-VTG: Interaction-Aligned Action-Entity Video Temporal Grounding

    Sep 9, 2026Shiwen Zhao, Qi Zhang, Sezer Karaoglu +2Video Temporal GroundingVision-Language Model Grounding

    School of Computer Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia · Informatics Institute at University of Amsterdam, 1098 XH Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  21. Validating DBpedia Triple Sets for Natural Language Generation

    Sep 7, 2026Mark Andrade, Simon Mille, Anya Belz +1RdfNatural Language

    ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland · University of Bordeaux, CNRS, LaBRI-UMR5800, France

  22. Compile by Training: Turning Natural-Language Specifications into Local Neural Functions

    Sep 3, 2026Yuntian Deng, Pengyu Nie, Stuart ShieberNatural LanguageText-Driven

    University of Waterloo · Harvard University

  23. Understanding Autonomous Driving Datasets by Describing Differences between Image Subsets in Natural Language

    Sep 3, 2026Julian Truetsch, Felix Hauser, Christoph Stiller +1Naturalistic Driving DataAutonomous Driving

    FZI Research Center for Information Technology, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

  24. No country for old linguists: LLM-brain alignment underdetermines neural computation

    Sep 2, 2026Elliot MurphyLarge Language Model AlignmentArtificial Intelligence Alignment

    Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

  25. Assessing Suicide Risk in Arabic Crisis Helpline Calls: A Comparison of Arabic and English Large Language Models

    Aug 31, 2026Linhai Ma, Rita El Hachem, Mahatab El Hajj +2Suicide RiskArabic

    Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. · Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. · Embrace, Mental Health Center, Beirut, Lebanon.

  26. Responsible Integration of AI in Cancer Genomics: Barriers, Risks, and Pathways to Trustworthy Clinical Translation

    Aug 31, 2026Bahar İlgen, Yiannos Tolias, Denise Kühnert +5Multidisciplinary Tumor BoardsBiomedical

    1*Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research (ZKI-PH),2026 Robert Koch Institute, Nordufer 20, Berlin, 13353, Germany. · 2Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety, European Commission, Rue de Loi 200, Brussels, B-1049, Belgium.Aug · Department of Natural Sciences, School of Science and Technology, Deree-The American College of Greece, Gravias 6, Athens, 15342,31 Greece. +5

  27. Which Rules Matter Now? Policy-Centroid Routing Before an Intelligent System Acts

    Aug 31, 2026Thomson D. NguyPolicy EvaluationFalsehood

    Radiant Institute for Manifold Studies

  28. Stratified Consistency Distillation for Natural Language Formalization

    Aug 31, 2026Zhichao Hou, Ferhat Erata, Joe Lilien +1LLM Reasoning StrategiesNeuro-Symbolic Framework

    North Carolina State University · Amazon Web Services

  29. Generating Workflow DAGs from Natural Language with Non-Reasoning LLMs

    Aug 31, 2026Anand Iyer, Bhanu Khetharpal, Srinivas Upadhya +1Large Language Model WorkflowsDirected Acyclic Graph

    Microsoft

  30. SpecMine: A Large-Scale Corpus of Spec-Driven Development Artifacts

    Aug 25, 2026Shyam Agarwal, Anmol Singhal, Travis Breaux +1Text CorporaMetadata

    Carnegie Mellon University

  31. DIVE: Unlocking Self-Improvement in Frozen Language Models Through Diversity-Driven Skill Evolution

    Aug 12, 2026Siheng Xiong, Ali Payani, Oguzhan Gungordu +1Self-Evolving Skill LibrariesFrozen Language Model

    Georgia Institute of Technology · Cisco Research

  32. Policy-as-logic for robust reasoning over rules

    Aug 12, 2026Rahul Nair, Bastian Lipka, Elizabeth DalyGenerative Artificial IntelligenceNatural Language

    1IBM Research · 2IBM

  33. Reifying Research Logic: AI-Assisted Workflow Construction and Incremental Refinement for Quantitative Syntax

    Aug 11, 2026He Wang, Jingbo Chen, Yuqiao Lai +3Agentic Workflow DesignNatural Language

    College of International Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210000, China.

  34. Evaluating Rational Contracting in Natural Language

    Aug 11, 2026Bhavyesh Sajja, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Roger Zimmermann +1Multilingual AgentsNegotiation

    Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore · Department of Computer Science, University of Washington · A*STAR Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing

  35. Evaluation-Conditioned Training: Teaching Models to Generalize to Stronger Oversight Regimes

    Aug 10, 2026Alec Harris, Kasey Corra, Archie Chaudhury +1Large Language Model EvaluationLarge Language Model Alignment

    AI Safety Initiative at Georgia Tech · University of Chicago · Independent

  36. Bidirectional Context Self-Distillation for Reinforcement Learning of Skill-Based LLM Agents

    Aug 10, 2026Tianjun Pan, Yuan Li, Hongda Wang +8Unsupervised On-Policy Self-DistillationAgentic Reinforcement Learning

    Fudan University · Zhejiang University · Alibaba Group +1

  37. SHRIMP: Iterative Refinement of Robot Task Plans

    Aug 9, 2026Mya Schroder, Yuna Hwang, Callie Y. Kim +5Robot SystemsMulti-Robot Motion Planning

    Department of Computer Sciences University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, Wisconsin, USA

  38. Reason Wide, Not Deep: Amortizing the Reasoning Premium into Distilled Skills

    Aug 8, 2026Agamdeep Singh, Srishti Gautam, Priyanshu Gupta +3Reasoning SkillsAgentic Benchmarks

    Microsoft

  39. SCP-NL2TL: Selective Conformal Prediction with Semantic Verification for Natural Language to Temporal Logic Specifications

    Aug 5, 2026Yixuan Wang, Licheng Luo, Yu Fu +3Signal Temporal LogicNatural Language

    University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA · City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  40. Bi-semantic Chemical Embedder for Joint Representation Learning of SMILES and Natural Language

    Aug 4, 2026David Ming Segura, Jeremy Goumaz, Joshua W. Sin +2Molecular Representation LearningLanguage Modeling

    Laboratory of Artificial Chemical Intelligence (LIAC), EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland · Process Chemistry & Catalysis, Synthetic Molecules Technical Development, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Basel, Switzerland · National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Catalysis, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

  41. Scoring Rules! Statistical and Strategic Alignment for Text Evaluation Metrics

    Aug 2, 2026Shengwei Xu, Yuxuan Lu, Yifan Wu +2Evaluation MetricsText Analysis and Detection

    University of Michigan · Peking University · Microsoft Research +1

  42. Do Diagrams Help Large Language Models Reason? Evidence from Syllogistic Reasoning

    Jul 26, 2026Risako Ando, Koji MineshimaDiagramsLLM Reasoning Strategies

    Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8345, Japan

  43. TLA+-Bench: An Execution-Grounded Benchmark and Dataset for Natural-Language to TLA Specification Generation

    Jul 26, 2026Arslan Bisharat, Eric Spencer, Brian Ortiz +8Probabilistic Model CheckingNatural Language

    Loyola University Chicago Chicago, Illinois, USA

  44. NL2SHACL-Bench: A Benchmark Suite for Natural Language to SHACL Translation

    Jul 24, 2026Yuchen Zhou, Niels Bobet, Maribel AcostaNatural LanguageShapes Constraint Language

    Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

  45. Scaling Up Formal Representation of Clinical Trial Protocols in Ensemble Logic Using LLMs: A Preliminary Study

    Jul 23, 2026Yan Huang, Xubing Hao, Xiaojin Li +4Clinical TrialsNatural Language

    McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA · McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

  46. Natural Language Access to Domain-Specific Metadata: A Reusable Framework for LLM Query Generation

    Jul 20, 2026Blake G. Fitch, Cato Elia KurtzSparqlMetadata

    Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Tübingen, Germany

  47. SEED: Self-Evolving On-Policy Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 16, 2026Jinyang Wu, Shuo Yang, Zhengxi Lu +8Agentic Reinforcement LearningUnsupervised On-Policy Self-Distillation

    1Tsinghua University · 2Zhejiang University · 3The Chinese University of Hong Kong +2

  48. Finding the Right Tables and Columns: A Benchmark and Corpus-Adaptive Embeddings for SQL Schema Retrieval

    Jul 14, 2026Qingcheng Zeng, Puxuan Yu, Aman Mehta +2Text-To-SqlSchema

    Northwestern University · Snowflake Inc.

  49. Faithful Autoformalization of Natural Language Assertions

    Jul 14, 2026Hongyi Liu, Madhusudan Parthasarathy, Adithya MuraliAutoformalizationSystemverilog Assertions

    University of Wisconsin-Madison · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  50. Contract-Grounded Behavior Tree Synthesis via Coding Agents

    Jul 13, 2026Jonathan Salfity, Robert Blake Anderson, Mitch PryorBehavior TreeCoding Agents

    Nuclear and Applied Robotics Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

  51. Comparing Semantic Navigation in Humans and Large Language Models using Natural Language Processing

    Jul 13, 2026Gabriel Paris-Colombo, Rodrigo M. Cabral-Carvalho, Felipe D. Toro-HernándezNatural LanguageNatural Language Processing

    Center for Mathematics, Computing and Cognition, Federal University of ABC

  52. Communicating Chess Strategies in Natural Language

    Jul 13, 2026Langyuan Cui, Chun Kai Ling, Hwee Tou NgChessNatural Language

    Department of Computer Science National University of Singapore 13 Computing Drive, Singapore 117417

  53. The Nuts and Bolts of Natural Language to SQL Translation: A Systematic Analysis of Model Pipeline Optimisation Approaches and their Interactions

    Jul 12, 2026Filip Klubicka, Vasudevan Nedumpozhimana, Sneha Rautmare +3Text-To-SqlSql

    ADAPT Research Centre Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland · Huawei Ireland Research Centre Dublin, Ireland

  54. NL-PAC: Specification Ambiguity and Certified Minimax Risk Floors in LLM-Mediated Supervision

    Jul 9, 2026Berkay AnahtarciAutomatic LabellingNatural Language

    Department of Mathematical Engineering, Özyeğin University, Istanbul, Türkiye

  55. PHITSBench: an execution-scored benchmark for AI-assisted PHITS radiation-transport input generation using natural language

    Jul 8, 2026Xianglin Ji, Svetlana V. BoriskinaData Generation PipelinesReproducibility

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

  56. Plainbook: Data Science, in Plain Language

    Jul 7, 2026Luca de Alfaro, Mathis Aubert, Ranjit Jhala +2PythonReproducibility

    University of California · Santa Cruz, California, USA · San Diego, California, USA +2

  57. ASSEMCAD: Production-Ready CAD Assembly Generation from Natural Language

    Jul 6, 2026Yurui Dong, Shu Zou, Siqi Li +7SolidworksAssembly

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · Fudan University · The Australian National University +2

  58. The Remarkable Effectiveness of Providing AI Agents with Natural Language Tools: A Replication Study Validating NLT Performance Across 14 Models

    Jul 4, 2026Alexander Somma, Isabelle Plante, Fred PremjiLarge Language Model Tool UseNatural Language

    Sage.is AI-UI

  59. Consistent but Miscalibrated: Evaluating LLM Limitations for Risk Communication in Natural Language

    Jul 4, 2026Diego Cerda-Mardini, Sarath Chandar, Sreenath MadathilLarge Language Models FailNatural Language

    Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada · Chandar Research Lab, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, H3T 1J4, Canada · Mila – Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute, Montréal, H2S 3H1, Canada +2

  60. Natural Language Camera Movement Understanding

    Jul 3, 2026Yuwen Tan, Joey Huang, Jin Huang +2Video-Language ModelsCamera Control

    Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA · Pixocial Technology, Bellevue, WA 98004, USA