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preprint2026arXiv

Following the TRACE: A Structured Path to Empathetic Response Generation with Multi-Agent Models

Empathetic response generation is a crucial task for creating more human-like and supportive conversational agents. However, existing methods face a core trade-off between the analytical depth of specialized models and the generative fluency of Large Language Models (LLMs). To address this, we propose TRACE, Task-decomposed Reasoning for Affective Communication and Empathy, a novel framework that models empathy as a structured cognitive process by decomposing the task into a pipeline for analysis and synthesis. By building a comprehensive understanding before generation, TRACE unites deep analysis with expressive generation. Experimental results show that our framework significantly outperforms strong baselines in both automatic and LLM-based evaluations, confirming that our structured decomposition is a promising paradigm for creating more capable and interpretable empathetic agents. Our code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/TRACE-18EF/README.md.

preprint2026arXiv

Generalized Priority-Aware Shapley Value

Shapley value and its priority-aware extensions are widely used for valuation in machine learning, but existing methods require pairwise priority to be binary and acyclic, a restriction spectacularly violated in real-data examples such as aggregated human preferences and multi-criterion comparisons. We introduce the generalized priority-aware Shapley value (GPASV), a random order value defined on arbitrary directed weighted priority graphs, in which pairwise edges penalize rather than forbid order violations. GPASV covers a range of classical models as boundary cases. We establish GPASV through an axiomatic characterization, develop the associated computational methods, and introduce a priority sweeping diagnostic extending PASV's. We apply GPASV to LLM ensemble valuation on the cyclic Chatbot Arena preference graph, illustrating that priority-aware valuation is not a one-button operation: different balances of pairwise graph priority versus individual soft priority produce substantively different valuations of the same data.

preprint2026arXiv

Slum Detection and Density Mapping with AlphaEarth Foundations: A Representation Learning Evaluation Across 12 Global Cities

Pixel-level slum mapping has long been constrained by limited cross-city generalisation, the absence of continuous density estimation, and weak global comparability. AlphaEarth Foundations (AEF), a globally consistent 64-dimensional annual surface embedding at 10 m, offers a new analysis-ready basis for lightweight slum monitoring, but its applicability to slum detection - an indirectly coupled task shaped by both built form and socio-economic processes - remains untested. We evaluate AEF on slum classification and sub-pixel density estimation across 12 cities and 69 city-year pairs (2017-2024), using GRAM pseudo-masks as supervisory labels. The evaluation spans four training strategies, two protocols (random split and 3x3 spatial block cross-validation), six auxiliary feature configurations, and five baseline models, complemented by representation-level analyses (PCA, SHAP) and full-AOI mapping. Five findings emerge. (1) Same-city cross-year training is optimal under both protocols (median spatial F1 = 0.616, R^2 = 0.466); temporal expansion outperforms cross-city transfer, indicating city-scale representational drift. (2) Regression R^2 is driven primarily by zero/non-zero boundary discrimination: positive-pixel R^2 is consistently negative across all cities, revealing limited capacity to model intra-pixel density gradients at 10 m. (3) PC36 is consistently top-ranked across tasks; classification saturates at k = 32 while regression remains unsaturated at k = 64. (4) POI features yield the largest density gain (Delta R^2 = +0.064). (5) For six cities meeting dual-task usability thresholds, full-AOI inference across 2017-2024 preserves slum cluster structure (mean SSIM = 0.926). The study delineates the capabilities and complementarity needs of foundation-model embeddings for slum monitoring.