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Yi Zhao

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arXiv2026

SurveyAgent-HKA: A multi-agent framework for scientific survey generation with LLMs and human knowledge augmentation

Automatic scientific survey generation has become an important task in scientific document processing. The common approach of retrieving literature from a single source (e.g., arXiv) and generating surveys through a one-pass large language model (LLM) call often leads to limited reference coverage and, more importantly, fails to replicate the expert-driven revision process that is crucial for writing high-quality surveys. In this paper, we introduce SurveyAgent-HKA, a multi-agent framework that improves end-to-end scientific survey generation by incorporating knowledge derived from published surveys and peer-review comments. The framework decomposes survey generation into well-defined sub-tasks handled by LLM-powered agent. It first retrieves relevant papers from multiple sources and identifies key topics through clustering to construct an initial outline, which is then refined using outlines from related human-written surveys. Based on the refined outline, topic-focused papers are retrieved and re-ranked to select for drafting a well-grounded survey. Then, we identify common issues raised by experts in peer-review comments from published surveys to guide the revisions and finalize the survey. Experiments on two domains show that our approach outperforms mainstream baselines in citation quality, structural consistency, and content quality. Furthermore, our framework is efficient in both time and cost, making it a practical solution for broader AI-assisted scientific writing applications.

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arXiv2026

Measuring the Novelty of Biomedical Papers Using the Latent Distances between Knowledge Units

Measuring the novelty of scientific papers is a central concern in research evaluation and scientometrics. From a recombination perspective, prior studies have largely focused on the co-occurrence of knowledge units to assess the novelty of scientific papers. However, these studies often overlook other relationships between knowledge units. This narrow view may result in inaccurate or incomplete evaluations of novelty for scientific papers. To fill this gap, this study introduces a comprehensive novelty measurement that incorporates three types of relationships between knowledge units: network, semantic, and hierarchical. These relationships are used to quantify the latent distances among knowledge units. Using a dataset of 142,036 articles published in PLoS ONE and a validation dataset from the H1 Connect platform, our results demonstrate that (1) each relationship type captures distinct latent distances between MeSH terms; (2) compared to the widely used indicators proposed by Uzzi et al. (2013), our measures show stronger alignment with peer judgements; and (3) combining all three distance metrics yields more effective identification of novel papers than using any single perspective alone.

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arXiv2026

A Universal Context-Reuse Layer for Cross-Model KV Sharing

Modern large language model (LLM) serving systems increasingly operate over repeated or shared context, yet each model typically performs its own prefill computation even when another model has already processed the same input. Existing KV-cache reuse mechanisms substantially reduce redundant computation within a single model, but generally assume that the producer and consumer of a cache are identical. We study \emph{cross-model KV sharing}, which translates the KV state produced by a source model into a representation that can be consumed by a different target model, including models that differ in scale, architecture, attention configuration, tokenizer, and model family. We evaluate the approach in both within-family and cross-family settings. For Qwen2.5-7B $\rightarrow$ Qwen2.5-1.5B, translated KV states improve LongBench2 accuracy from 27.59\% to 34.48\%, a gain of 6.89 percentage points over the native 1.5B baseline, while reducing handoff cost relative to native target prefill. For the cross-family Qwen2.5-1.5B $\rightarrow$ Gemma-2-2B setting, KV handoff reduces target-side prefill cost by up to 67.05\% at 4K context length while maintaining decoding perplexity close to native-model baselines. In a more heterogeneous Llama3.1-70B $\rightarrow$ Qwen2.5-7B setting, cross-family handoff achieves 44.0\% accuracy compared with 45.7\% for native Qwen2.5-7B inference, while reducing measured latency from 899ms to 138ms. These results provide initial evidence that KV states can serve as transferable computational representations rather than strictly model-local caches, and motivate \emph{context mobility} as a systems abstraction for reducing redundant prefill across heterogeneous LLM and multi-agent inference workflows.

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arXiv2026

ValueGraph: Value-Signal Guided Graph Pre-training for Contextualized User Representation

Value signals are aggregated user-level moral representations that capture users' inferred value-related tendencies from their online discourse. User behavior on social media is shaped not only by what users say or whom they interact with, but also by the value signal through which they express attitudes. Existing user representation methods largely miss this value-relevant dimension. We propose ValueGraph, a graph pre-training framework that uses automatically inferred moral-value signals as noisy auxiliary signals for contextualized user representation. From post-reply graphs, ValueGraph learns semantic and structural representations and further aligns users through relative value similarity with contrastive and clustering objectives. Rather than treating inferred values as gold psychological labels, ValueGraph uses them as soft constraints for representation learning. Experiments on stance detection and twitter bot detection show consistent gains over strong text-based, graph-based, and text-only LLM baselines, highlighting value-signal guidance as a useful inductive bias for socially informed user modeling.

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