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Mind Meets Space: Rethinking Agentic Spatial Intelligence from a Neuroscience-inspired Perspective

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Recent advances in agentic AI have led to systems capable of autonomous task execution and language-based reasoning, yet their spatial reasoning abilities remain limited and underexplored, largely constrained to symbolic and sequential processing. In contrast, human spatial intelligence, rooted in integrated multisensory perception, spatial memory, and cognitive maps, enables flexible, context-aware decision-making in unstructured environments. Therefore, bridging this gap is critical for advancing Agentic Spatial Intelligence toward better interaction with the physical 3D world. To this end, we first start from scrutinizing the spatial neural models as studied in computational neuroscience, and accordingly introduce a novel computational framework grounded in neuroscience principles. This framework maps core biological functions to six essential computation modules: bio-inspired multimodal sensing, multi-sensory integration, egocentric-allocentric conversion, an artificial cognitive map, spatial memory, and spatial reasoning. Together, these modules form a perspective landscape for agentic spatial reasoning capability across both virtual and physical environments. On top, we conduct a framework-guided analysis of recent methods, evaluating their relevance to each module and identifying critical gaps that hinder the development of more neuroscience-grounded spatial reasoning modules. We further examine emerging benchmarks and datasets and explore potential application domains ranging from virtual to embodied systems, such as robotics. Finally, we outline potential research directions, emphasizing the promising roadmap that can generalize spatial reasoning across dynamic or unstructured environments. We hope this work will benefit the research community with a neuroscience-grounded perspective and a structured pathway. Our project page can be found at Github.


MR-UIE: Multi-Perspective Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning for Universal Information Extraction

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Information extraction (IE) is a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP), which encompasses a wide range of subtasks such as Named Entity Recognition (NER), Relation Extraction (RE), and Event Extraction (EE) [1-4]. Traditionally, these tasks have been addressed by specialized models trained in task-specific datasets. However, the fragmentation of tasks and schemas has hindered the development of generalizable and scalable IE tasks. To address this limitation, recent research has focused on universal information extraction (UIE), which aims to model all IE tasks within a universal framework. A seminal work in this direction is proposed by Lu et al., which introduced a structured generation paradigm that encodes diverse IE tasks into a common semantic representation[5]. Building on this, InstructUIE[6] extended the idea by incorporating multi-task instruction tuning, enabling models to generalize across tasks via natural language instructions. With the emergence of powerful LLMs[7-11], significant advancements have been made across long-standing NLP tasks such as text classification[12-16], intent recognition[17, 18], entity linking[19-22], and beyond. Inspired by their robust performance and adaptability, researchers have explored their potential for information extraction through prompting and in-context learning learning[23, 24]. For example, CodeIE demonstrated that code generation models can serve as strong few-shot IE extractors by using structured code-like commands[25].


MasconCube: Fast and Accurate Gravity Modeling with an Explicit Representation

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The geodesy of irregularly shaped small bodies presents fundamental challenges for gravitational field modeling, particularly as deep space exploration missions increasingly target asteroids and comets. Traditional approaches suffer from critical limitations: spherical harmonics diverge within the Brillouin sphere where spacecraft typically operate, polyhedral models assume unrealistic homogeneous density distributions, and existing machine learning methods like GeodesyNets and Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINN-GM) require extensive computational resources and training time. This work introduces Mascon-Cubes, a novel self-supervised learning approach that formulates gravity inversion as a direct optimization problem over a regular 3D grid of point masses (mascons). Unlike implicit neural representations, MasconCubes explicitly model mass distributions while leveraging known asteroid shape information to constrain the solution space. Comprehensive evaluation on diverse asteroid models including Bennu, Eros, Itokawa, and synthetic planetesimals demonstrates that MasconCubes achieve superior performance across multiple metrics. Most notably, MasconCubes demonstrate computational efficiency advantages with training times approximately 40 times faster than GeodesyNets while maintaining physical interpretability through explicit mass distributions. These results establish MasconCubes as a promising approach for mission-critical gravitational modeling applications requiring high accuracy, computational efficiency, and physical insight into internal mass distributions of irregular celestial bodies.


Optimizing Length Compression in Large Reasoning Models

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have achieved remarkable success, yet they often suffer from producing unnecessary and verbose reasoning chains. We identify a core aspect of this issue as "invalid thinking" -- models tend to repeatedly double-check their work after having derived the correct answer. To address this specific inefficiency, we move beyond the general principles of Efficacy and Efficiency to propose two new, fine-grained principles: Brevity, which advocates for eliminating redundancy, and Sufficiency, which ensures critical reasoning steps are preserved. Guided by these principles, we introduce LC-R1, a post-training method based on Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO). LC-R1 employs a novel combination of a Length Reward for overall conciseness and a Compress Reward that is specifically designed to remove the invalid portion of the thinking process. Extensive experiments on multiple reasoning benchmarks demonstrate that LC-R1 achieves a significant reduction in sequence length (~50%) with only a marginal (~2%) drop in accuracy, achieving a favorable trade-off point on the Pareto frontier that prioritizes high compression. Our analysis further validates the robustness of LC-R1 and provides valuable insights for developing more powerful yet computationally efficient LRMs. Our code is released at https://github.com/zxiangx/LC-R1.


Visual Grounding from Event Cameras

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Event cameras capture changes in brightness with microsecond precision and remain reliable under motion blur and challenging illumination, offering clear advantages for modeling highly dynamic scenes. Yet, their integration with natural language understanding has received little attention, leaving a gap in multimodal perception. To address this, we introduce Talk2Event, the first large-scale benchmark for language-driven object grounding using event data. Built on real-world driving scenarios, Talk2Event comprises 5,567 scenes, 13,458 annotated objects, and more than 30,000 carefully validated referring expressions. Each expression is enriched with four structured attributes -- appearance, status, relation to the viewer, and relation to surrounding objects -- that explicitly capture spatial, temporal, and relational cues. This attribute-centric design supports interpretable and compositional grounding, enabling analysis that moves beyond simple object recognition to contextual reasoning in dynamic environments. We envision Talk2Event as a foundation for advancing multimodal and temporally-aware perception, with applications spanning robotics, human-AI interaction, and so on.


Inteligencia Artificial jurรญdica y el desafรญo de la veracidad: anรกlisis de alucinaciones, optimizaciรณn de RAG y principios para una integraciรณn responsable

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This technical report analyzes the challenge of "hallucinations" (false information) in LLMs applied to law. It examines their causes, manifestations, and the effectiveness of the RAG mitigation strategy, highlighting its limitations and proposing holistic optimizations. The paper explores the ethical and regulatory implications, emphasizing human oversight as an irreplaceable role. It concludes that the solution lies not in incrementally improving generative models, but in adopting a "consultative" AI paradigm that prioritizes veracity and traceability, acting as a tool to amplify, not replace, professional judgment. -- Este informe tรฉcnico analiza el desafรญo de las "alucinaciones" (informaciรณn falsa) en los LLMs aplicados al derecho. Se examinan sus causas, manifestaciones y la efectividad de la estrategia de mitigaciรณn RAG, exponiendo sus limitaciones y proponiendo optimizaciones holรญsticas. Se exploran las implicaciones รฉticas y regulatorias, enfatizando la supervisiรณn humana como un rol insustituible. El documento concluye que la soluciรณn no reside en mejorar incrementalmente los modelos generativos, sino en adoptar un paradigma de IA "consultiva" que priorice la veracidad y la trazabilidad, actuando como una herramienta para amplificar, y no sustituir, el juicio profesional.


MagicGUI: A Foundational Mobile GUI Agent with Scalable Data Pipeline and Reinforcement Fine-tuning

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This paper presents MagicGUI, a foundational mobile GUI agent designed to address critical challenges in perception, grounding, and reasoning within real-world mobile GUI environments. The framework is underpinned by following six key components: (1) a comprehensive and accurate dataset, constructed via the scalable GUI Data Pipeline, which aggregates the largest and most diverse GUI-centric multimodal data to date from open-source repositories, automated crawling, and targeted manual annotation; (2) enhanced perception and grounding capabilities, facilitating fine-grained multimodal alignment for UI element referencing, grounding, and screen comprehension; (3) a comprehensive and unified action space, encompassing both fundamental UI operations and complex interactive intents to support human-agent interactions; (4) planning-oriented reasoning mechanisms that enable the model to decompose complex user instructions into sequential actions with explicit intermediate meta-paln reasoning; (5) an iterative two-stage training procedure, combining large-scale continue pre-training on 7.8M samples with reinforcement fine-tuning utilizing a spatially enhanced composite reward and dual filtering strategy; and (6) competitive performance on both the proprietary Magic-RICH benchmark and over a dozen public benchmarks, achieving superior performance across GUI perception and agent tasks, while demonstrating robust generalization and real-world deployment potential in practical mobile GUI scenarios, as detailed in Figure 1.


Bridging the Gap in Ophthalmic AI: MM-Retinal-Reason Dataset and OphthaReason Model toward Dynamic Multimodal Reasoning

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable reasoning abilities with reinforcement learning paradigm. Although several multimodal reasoning models have been explored in the medical domain, most of them focus exclusively on basic reasoning, which refers to shallow inference based on visual feature matching. However, real-world clinical diagnosis extends beyond basic reasoning, demanding reasoning processes that integrate heterogeneous clinical information (such as chief complaints and medical history) with multimodal medical imaging data. To bridge this gap, we introduce MM-Retinal-Reason, the first ophthalmic multimodal dataset with the full spectrum of perception and reasoning. It encompasses both basic reasoning tasks and complex reasoning tasks, aiming to enhance visual-centric fundamental reasoning capabilities and emulate realistic clinical thinking patterns. Building upon MM-Retinal-Reason, we propose OphthaReason, the first ophthalmology-specific multimodal reasoning model with step-by-step reasoning traces. To enable flexible adaptation to both basic and complex reasoning tasks, we specifically design a novel method called Uncertainty-Aware Dynamic Thinking (UADT), which estimates sample-level uncertainty via entropy and dynamically modulates the model's exploration depth using a shaped advantage mechanism. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that our model achieves state-of-the-art performance on both basic and complex reasoning tasks, outperforming general-purpose MLLMs, medical MLLMs, RL-based medical MLLMs, and ophthalmic MLLMs by at least 24.92\%, 15.00\%, 21.20\%, and 17.66\%. Project Page: \href{https://github.com/lxirich/OphthaReason}{link}.


Leveraging AI Agents for Autonomous Networks: A Reference Architecture and Empirical Studies

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Abstract--The evolution toward Level 4 (L4) Autonomous Networks (AN) represents a strategic inflection point in telecommunications, where networks must transcend reactive automation to achieve genuine cognitive capabilities--fulfilling AN's vision of self-configuring, self-healing, and self-optimizing systems that deliver zero-wait, zero-touch, and zero-fault services. This work bridges the gap between architectural theory and operational reality by implementing Joseph Sifakis's AN Agent reference architecture in a functional cognitive system, deploying coordinated proactive-reactive runtimes driven by hybrid knowledge representation. Specifically, the system demonstrates sub-10 ms real-time control in 5G NR sub-6 GHz environments. Empirical results show a 4% increase in downlink throughput over Outer Loop Link Adaptation (OLLA) algorithms for enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB). Furthermore, for the ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) scenario, the agent achieves an 85% reduction in Block Error Rate (BLER). These improvements confirm the architecture's viability in overcoming traditional autonomy barriers and advancing critical L4-enabling capabilities toward next-generation objectives. UTONOMOUS Networks (AN), a purpose-specific telecommunications technology pioneered by the TM Forum (TMF) in 2019, target networks with intrinsic self-configuration, self-healing, and self-optimization capabilities--collectively termed the Three-Self Capabilities [1]. These fundamental properties enable the realization of zero-wait, zero-touch, and zero-fault network services, known as the Three-Zero Objectives, which collectively deliver optimal user experiences while maximizing resource utilization throughout the entire network lifecycle. By strategically integrating emerging general-purpose technologies including artificial intelligence (AI), digital twins, and big data analytics, AN not only transforms conventional network operations but fundamentally reorients value creation paradigms from traditional device-centric and management-centric models toward customer-oriented, service-driven, and business-focused frameworks.


Interpretable Physics Reasoning and Performance Taxonomy in Vision-Language Models

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In recent years, VLMs have captured the imagination of the Artificial Intelligence(AI) community, demonstrating an impressive ability to interpret, reason about, and generate content that covers both text and image handling. From answering questions about visual scenes to engaging in multi-modal dialogue, models such as Flamingo [1], PaLI [25], and BLIP-2 [14] are redefining the frontier of vision intelligence. Y et, as these models are widening their application capabilities, a fundamental question emerges: can they truly reason, or are they sophisticated pattern matchers? To explore this question, we turn to the domain of physics--a field that serves as a universal benchmark for logical thoughts of a human being. Physics problems are an ideal testbed for VLMs, as they are multi-modal, combining textual descriptions, mathematical equations, and often clarifying diagrams. A model that can successfully solve these problems must not only understand language and images but also grasp the underlying relationships and principles that govern the physical realm. The challenge, uptil now, has been the lack of accessible tools for this kind of evaluation. Existing benchmarks for scientific reasoning, such as ARC [7] and ScienceQA [17], are often limited to basic text-only question sets, while those that incorporate visual elements, like MathVista [18], frequently depend on complex physics simulators that are computationally expensive for many researchers to deploy, thereby restricting reproducibility.