LLM agents can generate paper reproduction code, yet often produce scientifically unfaithful implementations. We define this failure mode as semantic drift, where generated code silently diverges from the paper's specifications. We introduce SemanticAlign-Bench(SA-Bench), a diagnostic benchmark covering 30 papers from ICLR, ICML and NeurIPS 2025. For each paper, we decompose its specifications into atomic and verifiable implementation claims, which we call Semantic Alignment Units (SAUs) and evaluate repositories along four diagnostic dimensions spanning numerical, methodological, protocol and ordering drift. In total, we construct 1,491 SAUs across five ML domains and evaluate 12 generator configurations (4 models $\times$ 3 scaffolds). Even the strongest configuration (Claude+PaperCoder) achieves a mean SAU score of only 0.301 out of 1.0, with an overall mean of 0.221 across 360 evaluations. A failure taxonomy reveals that agents attempt most requirements but implement them incorrectly, with implementation mismatch and stubs accounting for the majority of zero-scored claims. Our analysis further indicates that scaffolds optimized for executability provide limited leverage for scientific reproduction; narrowing the gap requires scaffolds that prioritize semantic specification verification. The benchmark, annotations and evaluation pipeline are publicly available.
Steven Morse, Daniel Runfola, Trenton W. Fordcs.CL
We present a novel application of embedding-based dynamic topic modeling techniques to detect and quantify topic drift at the comment level in a massive corpus. By leveraging pretrained language models to generate contextualized semantic embeddings for short text, we analyzed 12.7 billion Reddit comments spanning 2006 to 2022. Using unsupervised methods on these embeddings, we identify dynamically evolving topic clusters over time. Our primary contribution is a methodology for analysis of semantic drift and discourse evolution in the embedding space itself. We also demonstrate modifications to existing methods that enable this analysis at scale, and we propose and demonstrate a null model comparison test to filter spurious dynamics. Key findings suggest that politically and socially contentious topics exhibit significant directional drift in embedding space, with inter-topic distances changing systematically over time beyond what the null model can explain, whereas domains such as music and sports remain comparatively stable.
Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) suffer from prohibitive inference overhead due to long sequences of visual tokens. However, existing visual token reduction methods mainly improve efficiency by pruning or compressing redundant tokens without examining whether the resulting representation remains semantically consistent with the original representation. Mapping the original N-token visual sequence to K tokens may discard, dilute, or misassign critical visual cues, triggering severe semantic drift that deviates the VLM's understanding. In this paper, we first introduce the principle of 'Calibrate Before Reason' to visual token reduction and propose CaRe, a training-free robust framework that calibrates compact visual representations before reasoning to preserve semantic fidelity in VLMs. CaRe consists of two mutually complementary modules: 1) Perturbation-Robust Calibration Anchoring, which identifies calibration anchors with stable model-side influence under multi-directional perturbations; 2) Confidence-Gated Token Calibration, which extracts reliable calibration signals from unselected tokens and injects them into anchors. Extensive evaluations across diverse VLM architectures and benchmarks verify that CaRe outperforms state-of-the-art token reduction baselines. While pruning 94.4% of visual tokens, our method retains 96.4% of the original full-token performance, delivering up to 2.30 times faster end-to-end inference speed relative to unpruned vanilla models.
The integration of iterative LLMs within multi-agent diagnostic frameworks requires a rigorous quantitative reevaluation of underlying communication topologies. Frequently used architectural paradigms depend on scale-free or small-world networks, assuming optimal communication efficiency. Our study mathematically dismantles that assumption for semantic data. By mapping multi-agent communication uncertainty trajectories onto a 768-dimensional Bio_ClinicalBERT embedding space via an analytical isotropic variance proxy using Barab'asi--Albert (BA) and Watts--Strogatz (WS) networks, we prove that structural bottlenecks compromise diagnostic safety. Our phase transition matrices illustrate that localized dense cliques confine hallucinated data, preventing global consensus and forcing the system toward a permanent entropy saturation threshold of $H_{\infty} \approx 5.947$. As a result, we measure a severe terminal cosine similarity degradation of 53.29%, completely overwriting the original ground-truth. Moreover, the terminal semantic drift reveals a catastrophic variance amplification of 51.81% ($ρ= 1.5181$) in highly clustered architectures, proving total system unpredictability when compared to Erdős--R'enyi configurations ($ρ= 1.0766$). Instead of reducing errors, hub-centric systems autonomously compound localized hallucinations. By introducing dynamic spectral monitoring operating at an $\mathcal{O}(N^3)$ time complexity and imposing a strict lower bound on algebraic connectivity ($λ_{2_{min}}$) via the continuous eigen-decomposition of the graph Laplacian, we present a mathematically rigorous technique to ensure global state diffusion. Securing the reliability of autonomous medical diagnostics necessitates treating topological stability as a non-negotiable quantitative imperative.
AI_LectureNote is a historical, readability-oriented post-ASR workflow for Korean-English medical lectures. It rewrites speech-to-text output into study transcripts while restoring Latin-script medical terms rather than Korean phonetic transliterations. We retrospectively evaluate the workflow on four author-recorded lectures across five conditions. In this pilot, post-processing raised the macro English-script rendering rate from 0.39 to 0.71 on the whisper-1 path and from 0.26 to 0.65 when applied to 3-minute chunked gpt-4o-transcribe output. However, English-script rendering did not imply semantic faithfulness: the two post-processed conditions showed semantic drift in 34 and 36 of 282 reference sentences and polarity failures in 11 and 13 of 101 polarity-cue rows. A descriptive cross-input comparison suggested different candidate failure patterns: polarity-failure sets overlapped more strongly across front-ends (Jaccard 0.60; 9 shared of 15 unioned failures) than general semantic-drift sets (Jaccard 0.23; 13 shared of 57 unioned drifts). This single-annotator pilot documents concrete failure modes rather than population rates and supports evaluating surface accuracy, term-script rendering, chunk-level script consistency, and medical-meaning preservation separately.
Biomedical language evolves rapidly as new discoveries emerge, causing traditional text models to lose semantic fidelity over time. Static embeddings and co-occurrence graphs cannot capture such evolution, leading to performance degradation in retrieval and knowledge discovery tasks. This paper introduces a Drift-Aware Temporal Graph Rewiring (DATGR) framework that models concept evolution by dynamically updating co-occurrence edges based on estimated semantic drift. Instead of retraining embeddings for each time slice, DATGR performs lightweight, feedback-driven rewiring using a logistic update rule applied to edge weights. Evaluated on the Biomedical Multi-Relation Corpus (BIOMRC), the method achieved a mean Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic (AUROC) improvement of approximately 0.066 absolute difference (0.699 vs. 0.633) over a static baseline. Area Under the Precision-Recall Curve (AUPRC) remained comparable (0.738 vs. 0.744), showing that drift-aware adaptation enhances link-prediction recall without a loss in precision. These results demonstrate that edge-level adaptation effectively captures temporal semantic change in evolving biomedical text while remaining computationally efficient and interpretable.
The article investigates the fundamental problem of ensuring the stability of operator control and preserving goal-targeting in hybrid human-machine decision support systems (DSS) of a new generation. Based on a two-month continuous longitudinal experiment on the joint design of a monograph-format textual array, the latent phenomenon of semantic context drift in large language models of deep logical reasoning (Reasoning LLMs) is verified and described. A mathematical model of interaction in the human-machine interface is proposed, and an original metric is introduced - the operator control stability coefficient, which takes into account the non-linear contextual pressure of hidden reasoning chains. Within the paradigm of the cognitome theory, a critical point of control functions inversion is captured. Engineering recommendations are formulated for implementing dynamic relational arbitration loops based on a modified hierarchical similarity model.