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SWB-DM: A Calibrated Sliced-Wasserstein-Barycenter Aggregator with Delayed-Momentum Caching for Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning under Partial Participation

arXiv:2609.16099v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust aggregation methods for federated learning quietly rest on a fragile assumption: that whoever shows up in a given round is a fair sample of the f

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Swim-and-Breach at Palm Scale: A Rudder-Steered Two-Propeller Underwater Robot Platform with Differential-Thrust Pitch Control

arXiv:2609.17240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a palm-scale (65 mm, 34 g) swim-and-breach robot platform. Two vertically stacked propellers provide both propulsion and differential-thrust

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Symmetry-Aware Likelihood-Orbit Aggregation for Selective Left-Right Claim Verification

arXiv:2609.17004v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frozen vision-language models (VLMs) remain unreliable on fine-grained left-right claims, and raw claim likelihoods need not reliably rank verification

SyncVoice: Simple and Effective Automatic Video Dubbing with Vision-Augmented TTS

arXiv:2512.05126v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automatic video dubbing aims to generate high-fidelity speech that is temporally aligned with visual content. However, existing methods still

Target-Language Generation in Multilingual Models: Activation Steering and Optimal Control

arXiv:2609.16967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ensuring that multilingual language models generate coherent text in a specific target language is a major issue in multilingual language modeling. We d

tcnerv:dual-domain temporal context modeling for implicit neural video compression

arXiv:2609.16870v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video compression aims to minimize reconstruction distor tion under a constrained bit rate. Existing video implicit neural representations (INRs) often

Temporally Consistent Graph Extraction and Matching for Longitudinal Angiographic Images

arXiv:2609.16889v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in angiographic imaging have enabled longitudinal visualization of the microvasculature. Image processing pipelines based on vessel grap

The AI-Enabled Scientific Frontier

arXiv:2609.16258v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As artificial intelligence's capabilities improve, it is increasingly viewed as a general scientific method. But how true are these claims? Does AI outp

There Is More to Refusal in Large Language Models than a Single Direction

arXiv:2602.02132v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Prior work argues that refusal in large language models is mediated by a single direction, enabling steering and abliteration. We show that this acc

Time-warping estimation via stationarity-based learning of the de-warped signal

arXiv:2609.16796v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time-warping estimation is a fundamental problem in signal processing with applications in bioacoustics, radar, and biomedical analysis. This paper in

Today everyone is talking about Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI). In 1987, when compute was 100,000,000 x more expensive, I published the 1s…

Today everyone is talking about Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI). In 1987, when compute was 100,000,000 x more expensive, I published the 1st concrete RSI algorithms. Now compute is cheap, and RSI is

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Towards Illusions Awareness in Cyber-Physical System's Design

arXiv:2609.17260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) operate through a continuous sense-compute-act loop within an open context environment, making it impossible to anticipate

Tracking the Unseen: An Occlusion-Robust Framework for Target Tracking Under Full and Long-Term Occlusion

arXiv:2609.17427v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time multi-object tracking systems remain highly vulnerable to full and long-term occlusion, where targets temporarily or completely disappear fr

Training Energy-Based Models with Non-MCMC Samplers and Efficient Temperature Estimation

arXiv:2512.02323v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Efficient sampling from Boltzmann distributions over discrete variables is a fundamental operation in a wide range of applications. While fast non-M

Trajectory as the Teacher: Few-Step Discrete Flow Matching via Energy-Navigated Distillation

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Discrete flow matching generates text by iteratively transforming noise tokens into coherent language, but may require hundreds of forward passes. Distillation uses the multi-step trajectory to train

UDAV: Uncertainty-Driven Adaptive VLM Waypoint Planner

arXiv:2609.16368v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) can generate routes directly from aerial imagery for off-road navigation, but their predictions provide no indication of

Unified Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network solver for Power Flow, Optimal Power Flow and State Estimation

arXiv:2609.16738v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Power Flow (PF), Optimal Power Flow (OPF), and State Estimation (SE) are fundamental problems in power system analysis, but solving them is computatio

Verbalizing Subliminal Learning Effects Using Text Optimization

arXiv:2609.16927v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Subliminal learning is a phenomenon in which a distillation dataset transmits traits from the teacher model that are not legibly encoded in the datase

ViCo: Visual-oriented Coding with Self-Reflection for Chart Replication

arXiv:2609.16014v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses the challenge of generating high-quality academic charts that match the visual standards of human-authored papers. While existing A

VideoMM: Adaptive Macro-Micro Inference for Efficient Video MLLMs

arXiv:2609.16722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to long-form video understanding is bottlenecked by the explosion of visual tokens, which saturates con

Vision And Text Transformer For Predicting Answerability On Visual Question Answering

arXiv:2609.16565v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Answerability on Visual Question Answering is a novel and attractive task to predict answerable scores between images and questions in multi-modal dat

Vroom-Vroom at SHROOM-Visions: A Multi-Judge Committee for Detecting Hallucinated Spans in Vision-Language Outputs

arXiv:2609.17327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper describes our submission to the SHROOM-Visions shared task on detecting and classifying hallucinated character spans in vision-language mod

What Breaks Under Pruning in Smart Homes, and When? Evaluating LLM Degradation Across Architectures and Task Complexity

arXiv:2609.17515v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pruning can reduce the deployment cost of large language models (LLMs), but its impact on context-grounded tool calling remains poorly understood. We sy

When Should LLMs Abstain? Chain-of-Self-Questioning for Selective Risk Control

arXiv:2609.17516v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models can produce fluent answers when their factual support is weak. This paper introduces Chain-of-Self-Questioning (CoSQ), a prompt-

Where Post-Training Quantization Breaks Text Embedders: A Measured Map Across Four Embedder Families

arXiv:2609.16391v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Weight-only post-training quantization is the cheapest way to shrink a retrieval embedder, and the received advice for applying it -- protect the embe

Which Pretext Task Transfers? Self-Supervised Pretraining Objectives for Lung Ultrasound

arXiv:2609.16551v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) can reduce the need for labelled medical images, but the choice of pretext objective remains unclear for lung ultrasound

Zero-shot narrative detection in social messaging

arXiv:2609.17310v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study investigates the zero-shot ability of large language models (LLMs) to identify and classify hidden narratives in social messages. Our researc

A 25-mus/inf Event-driven Graph Neural Network Processor with Spatiotemporal Caching and Spline Convolution for Ultra-low-latency AI at the Edge

arXiv:2609.15241v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic-vision-sensor (DVS) cameras generate events on a per-pixel basis with a mus-level temporal resolution, calling for new algorithm-hardware co-des

A Comprehensive Review of Multimodal Facial State Analysis: Tasks, Methods, and Resources

arXiv:2609.13255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Facial state analysis plays a crucial role in understanding human expressions, psychological modeling, and human computer interaction. Traditional unimo

A Controlled Reevaluation of Coreference Resolution Models

arXiv:2404.00727v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: All state-of-the-art coreference resolution (CR) models involve finetuning a pretrained language model. Whether the superior performance of one CR m

A Cross Community Agenda for Speech AI

arXiv:2609.13168v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech AI, any AI system that recognizes, transforms, or generates speech, is built and evaluated across two communities with only a small overlap: te

A Generative AI Integrated Multimodal Framework for Low-Latency Multi-Camera Person Re-Identification

arXiv:2609.14419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Person re-identification (ReID) is essential for multi-camera surveillance and tracking, yet remains difficult due to viewpoint and illumination chang

A Hybrid Hierarchical 1D-CNN-BiLSTM Framework for Extractive Summarization of Biomedical and Clinical Text

arXiv:2609.13481v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models have made abstractive summarization remarkably fluent, but generated summaries can hallucinate facts, posing serious risks in biom

A latent dimension of Condorcet's jury theorem for multiple AI advisers

arXiv:2609.14438v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When the same question is asked of multiple AI advisers, as in self-consistency and LLM-as-a-judge panels, Condorcet's jury theorem predicts that addi

A Lifecycle Cost Analysis of Smart-Contract-Coordinated Federated Learning Marketplaces

arXiv:2609.13170v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Blockchain-enabled Federated Learning (FL) marketplaces enable collaborative model training among mutually distrustful participants through smart cont

A Machine Learning API for Earth Observation Data Cubes Based on openEO

arXiv:2609.13453v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Earth Observation (EO) data are increasingly organized as spatio-temporal data cubes, while machine learning (ML) methods operate on tabular feature mat

A Novel Robot-Assisted Learning Pedagogy for Children with ASD

arXiv:2609.14710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interaction paradigms used in robot-assisted autism intervention have historically employed robots as teachers, clinical assistants, or more-abled peers

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A Personalized Dynamic Balance Evaluation Paradigm for Hip Exoskeleton-Assisted Walking under Unexpected Ground Perturbations

arXiv:2609.14765v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hip exoskeletons may improve recovery from unexpected gait perturbations, yet personalizing assistance remains difficult because balance is multidimen

A pullback-corrected scalar auxiliary variable optimizer with momentum and adaptive mobility

arXiv:2609.13569v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Objectives in scientific machine learning are often prescribed as a sum of several terms, such as the residual, boundary, initial, and data losses of

A Three-Axis Stress Test of LLM vs Classical ML for Network Intrusion Detection under Distribution Shift and Adversarial Evasion

arXiv:2609.13511v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly benchmarked against classical machine learning for network intrusion detection (NIDS), almost always using same

A Ticket from Marginals to Joints: Coupled-Noise Distillation for One-Step Block Generation in Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2609.06324v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion language models (dLLMs) predict all tokens of a block in parallel, but a single forward pass samples each position from its own marginal d

A Variational Optimal Transport Operator on Incompressible Flow

arXiv:2609.13729v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present the Variational Incompressible Optimal Transport (VIOT) operator, a generative neural operator for amortized incompressible density transport

A Voxel-Spacing-Aware Extension of PyRadiomics for Anisotropic Texture Analysis

arXiv:2609.14103v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Radiomic texture features are commonly extracted from anisotropic CT and MRI acquisitions, where identical voxel offsets may represent different physi

AbFlow : End-to-end Paratope-Centric Antibody Design by Interaction Enhanced Flow Matching

arXiv:2602.07084v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Antigen-antibody binding is a critical process in the immune response. Although recent progress has advanced antibody design, current methods

Abstract-LoRA: Unlocking Single-Image Style Transfer through Targeted U-Net Block Training

arXiv:2609.13239v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models represent one of the most advanced paradigms in generative modeling. Leveraging their development, a growing number of style transfer m

Accelerating Transfer-Learning-Based Autotuning with Predictive LLVM IR Performance Ranking

arXiv:2609.15807v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As the complexity of High Performance Computing (HPC) ecosys- tems continually increases, achieving optimal performance becomes a challenge. Tradition

Active Learning with Bayesian Multi-Fidelity Laplace Neural Operators for Oscillatory Parametric PDEs

arXiv:2502.00550v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Surrogate models of parametric dynamical systems are essential for many-query and real-time predictions in engineering applications such as design o

Adapting Open-Weight MLLMs to Generate Point Prompts for Electron Microscopy Segmentation

arXiv:2609.14080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Promptable models such as microSAM segment electron microscopy (EM) images from point prompts, but automation requires generating prompts without user i