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Semantic Conditional Similarity (SCS): A Formal Mathematical Framework

arXiv:2611.08778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) operates on document pairs, returning a single scalar per comparison. In a multi-document setting where several sources may have contributed to one or more targets, pairwise STS cannot disentangle each source's marginal semantic contribution from their shared vocabulary. In this paper, Semantic Conditional Similarity (SCS) is introduced as a conditional form of STS that computes similarity between two documents after eliminating semantic elements shared with a third via set-theoretic operations. SCS makes four contributions: 1) it introduces directionality, partitioning pairwise relations into lateral (inter-source) and vertical (source-to-target) classes; 2) conditioning induces role-dependent asymmetry by extending the comparison domain from unordered pairs to ordered, conditioned triples of a target, a reference, and a conditioning document; 3) SCS introduces inter-document conditioning by subtracting shared content from a third document, complementing the intra-document conditioning in recent C-STS work; and 4) the set-theoretic decomposition achieves threshold-free partitioning of shared and residual content, requiring no arbitrary similarity cutoff. Although developed for the $n \to 1$ configuration, the framework extends to $1 \to n$ via vertical role reversal and to $m \to n$ via independent composition of source- and target-side conditioning. With the established $1 \to 1$ case, these span the full spectrum of document cardinality. SCS scores should be interpreted ordinally, as rankings of marginal contributions rather than absolute measurements. The broader implication is that metric space axioms commonly assumed in similarity formalizations constrain expressiveness in role-differentiated multi-document settings, and that extending the domain to conditioned triples can recover information that pairwise-symmetric comparisons suppress.

Trust Responsive Runtime Authorization for Agentic AI with Empirical Characterization of Policy Behavior and Parameter Sensitivity

arXiv:2611.06996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The policy that converts runtime estimates of an autonomous agent's condition into operational authority is rarely specified or measured. We empirically characterize the Trust Responsive Authorization Policy (TRAP), which maps an Authorization Readiness Score (ARS), a weighted combination of runtime trust, operational stability, and contextual risk, onto discrete authorization levels through an asymmetric rule: escalation requires consecutive observations above a band edge plus a margin, while a sharp drop in readiness restricts authority at once. On one matched set of 100 Monte Carlo traces, we compare TRAP with static, trust-only, risk-only, and symmetric policies. Under abrupt degradation, TRAP restricts at onset and re-escalates sooner after recovery than the symmetric policy, with the highest and, descriptively, least variable stability among the adaptive policies, although more of its post-recovery escalations occur below the selected trust threshold. Paired bootstrap intervals exclude zero for the remaining differences. In one-factor sweeps, recovery time rises with the escalation margin and run length, shifts with the score weights, and is unchanged by the restriction threshold. In an exploratory post-freeze experiment, when the same degradation is spread over 5-20 intervals, TRAP restricts only on the 4 traces that retain a single-interval drop above that threshold; averaged over all 100 traces, it holds authority above what readiness supports for 15.9-18.9 of the 20 degradation intervals, against 0.8 under abrupt degradation and about 10 for the symmetric policy. Its restriction advantage therefore depends on degradation being abrupt. All reported values are traceable to the publicly available, versioned research release.

Discarded or Unreachable? Diagnosing and Repairing Spatial Relation Failure in Vision--Language Similarity

arXiv:2611.05565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contrastive vision-language models score left/right relations near chance, but the symptom has two causes that call for opposite repairs: the relation may survive in the pooled embedding yet be unreachable by native image-text similarity, or pooling may discard it while the dense features retain it. On clean two object photographs, across ten encoders, the lateral polarity is linearly decodable from the flip odd component of the pooled vector at 0.77-0.99, yet a search over a million captions leaves nine of the ten at chance under native scoring: an access failure. On controlled C4 orbits, where the relation is the only thing that varies, pooling keeps the arrangement axis at 0.998-1.000 and loses its polarity, which the patch grid retains: a pooling failure. Both sit downstream of the dense features, so one readout covers both. Our zero parameter, query conditioned spatial moment recomputes the geometry from the patch grid and stores it as a vector beside the native embedding. On a 118,287 image index it raises left/right pairwise accuracy against reversed geometry negatives from 0.51-0.53 to 0.81-0.96 and conditional R@1 among 21 category matched candidates from 0.05 to 0.37-0.75, at under a millisecond per batched query, while reproducing the native ranking exactly for queries that name no relation.

Bounding Queue Waits for Fair Scheduling of Bursty HPC Workloads via Hierarchical Algorithms

arXiv:2610.32027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: HPC clusters are shared among many projects, each holding an allocation of node-hours, and ensuring fairness is becoming harder. Foundation models workflows and automated pipelines have made job submissions bursty and concentrated among a few heavy users, so occasional users absorb queueing delays created by frequent ones, with no indication of how long their jobs will wait. Existing schedulers either forget past usage, protect only the job at the head of the queue, or assume that running jobs can be preempted. We propose HyDRA, a Hybrid Deadline and Ranking-Aware scheduler that enforces fairness among users while bounding the queue wait of every job. HyDRA assigns each job a deadline on arrival based on its size, the priorities of its projec

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Tradeoff-Aware Territory Design: A Multi-Objective Decision System for Enterprise Customer-to-Seller Allocation

arXiv:2610.31701v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise customer journeys are shaped not only by product experiences and marketing, but also by recurring resource-allocation decisions. In B2B go-to-market (GTM) organizations, territory carving determines which accounts receive seller coverage, which seller-account relationships are preserved, and how limited field capacity is distributed. Yet the process often remains manual, making it difficult to compare opportunities, value continuity, and evaluate tradeoffs among growth, balance, capacity, and feasibility. We present a production decision system for tradeoff-aware customer-to-seller allocation in enterprise GTM planning. It integrates three components: a multidimensional account-value layer that combines predictive signals to score

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Patronizing and Condescending Language Detection in English and Mandarin

arXiv:2610.31808v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Patronizing and condescending language (PCL) is a form of harmful language that belittles and assumes pity for vulnerable groups, reinforcing negative societal stereotypes. However, unlike overt hate speech, it is often difficult to detect, even for human judges. This paper proposes a system for the automated detection of PCL. Our first approach uses static word embeddings and a convolutional neural network for classification, while our second approach uses pre-trained BERT embeddings fine-tuned for the PCL task. Our second approach was considerably more successful, and achieved an F1 score of 0.528 over the development set.

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Autoregressive Multimodal Anomaly Detection with Large Language Models for Microservice Systems

arXiv:2610.31722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Microservice systems have become a dominant architecture for large-scale cloud applications, enabling rapid deployment and elastic scaling. However, ensuring the reliability and availability of microservice systems critically relies on effective anomaly detection, as failures and performance anomalies can quickly propagate across services and severely impact end-to-end system behavior. Existing multimodal anomaly detection approaches for microservice systems often struggle with two fundamental limitations: (i) the neglect of modality-specific characteristics in favor of cross-modality fusion, and (ii) the "identity-shortcut" problem that affects the feature reconstruction process. To address these issues, we propose LLMMAD, an autoregressive

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RetiJev: Fast and Source-Grounded Ophthalmic Decision Models

arXiv:2610.30947v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ophthalmic clinical decision support requires fast, accurate, and privacy-preserving inference, yet autoregressive large language models (LLMs) incur substantial latency and computational overhead for decisions among predefined actions. We therefore investigate a decision-oriented alternative to generative reasoning. Specifically, we first introduce RetiJev-Data, a source-grounded ophthalmology corpus comprising 78,158 clinical-decision and diagnosis questions derived from articles in PubMed Central and a MeSH vocabulary covering 531 eye diseases, and 50,074 guideline-grading questions spanning 11 grading systems, along with a 24,662-question evaluation benchmark. Based on this, we develop RetiJev, a family of 0.8B-9B decision models that dir

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Code with CodeQwen1.5

GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD Introduction The advent of advanced programming tools, which harnesses the power of large language models (LLMs), has significantly enhanced programmer productivity and accuracy. Notwithstanding these advancements, dominant coding assistants like Github Copilot, built upon proprietary LLMs, pose notable challenges in terms of cost, privacy, security, and potential copyright infringement. Recognizing the imperative for a more transparent and accessible alternative, the open-source community has embarked on a concerted endeavor to develop open codeLLMs.