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Chengke Wu

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Where vs What: Decomposing Structural and Content Failures in LLM-Generated Structured Outputs

Structured outputs such as JSON and tables are central to modern LLM-based systems, yet generation failures are evaluated monolithically, conflating two distinct error modes: placement errors (correct values at wrong positions) and value errors (wrong values at intended positions). We introduce Structure-Content Decomposition (SCD), a framework that independently measures structural fidelity and content accuracy. Applying SCD to nested JSON and table tasks across six models (7B to frontier), we uncover a consistent phenomenon: structural fidelity degrades earlier and more sharply than content accuracy as complexity increases. At the highest complexity, even DeepSeek-V4-Flash (with reasoning) misplaces 35% of recalled values, while Qwen2.5-7B misplaces 74%. Controlled ablations suggest that this pattern is associated with reliance on semantic shortcuts rather than topological understanding of output structure. Based on these findings, we propose SA-RLVR, converting SCD metrics into verifiable rewards for reinforcement learning via GRPO. SA-RLVR successfully optimizes structural addressing across distinct topologies: it lifts JSON Value Placement Accuracy (VPA) from 26% to 63% while generalizing to held-out schemas; moreover, it consistently drives VPA improvements in the table domain, demonstrating that structure-aware rewards can directly enhance multi-domain structural positioning.

cs.AI

AuditAgent: Expert-Guided Multi-Agent Reasoning for Cross-Document Fraudulent Evidence Discovery

Financial fraud detection in real-world scenarios presents significant challenges due to the subtlety and dispersion of evidence across complex, multi-year financial disclosures. In this work, we introduce a novel multi-agent reasoning framework AuditAgent, enhanced with auditing domain expertise, for fine-grained evidence chain localization in financial fraud cases. Leveraging an expert-annotated dataset constructed from enforcement documents and financial reports released by the China Securities Regulatory Commission, our approach integrates subject-level risk priors, a hybrid retrieval strategy, and specialized agent modules to efficiently identify and aggregate cross-report evidence. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method substantially outperforms General-Purpose Agent paradigm in both recall and interpretability, establishing a new benchmark for automated, transparent financial forensics. Our results highlight the value of domain-specific reasoning and dataset construction for advancing robust financial fraud detection in practical, real-world regulatory applications.

cs.AI

Sparsification and Reconstruction from the Perspective of Representation Geometry

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have emerged as a predominant tool in mechanistic interpretability, aiming to identify interpretable monosemantic features. However, how does sparse encoding organize the representations of activation vector from language models? What is the relationship between this organizational paradigm and feature disentanglement as well as reconstruction performance? To address these questions, we propose the SAEMA, which validates the stratified structure of the representation by observing the variability of the rank of the symmetric semipositive definite (SSPD) matrix corresponding to the modal tensor unfolded along the latent tensor with the level of noise added to the residual stream. To systematically investigate how sparse encoding alters representational structures, we define local and global representations, demonstrating that they amplify inter-feature distinctions by merging similar semantic features and introducing additional dimensionality. Furthermore, we intervene the global representation from an optimization perspective, proving a significant causal relationship between their separability and the reconstruction performance. This study explains the principles of sparsity from the perspective of representational geometry and demonstrates the impact of changes in representational structure on reconstruction performance. Particularly emphasizes the necessity of understanding representations and incorporating representational constraints, providing empirical references for developing new interpretable tools and improving SAEs. The code is available at \hyperlink{https://github.com/wenjie1835/SAERepGeo}{https://github.com/wenjie1835/SAERepGeo}.

cs.LG