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Parallel Manifold Steering: Efficient Adaptation of Large Associative Memories via Residual Energy Shaping

arXiv:2606.24396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Transformer models function as Dense Associative Memories (DAMs), retrieving knowledge via high-dimensional attractor dynamics driven by the self-

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Pigeonholing: Bad prompts hurt models to collapse and make mistakes

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arXiv:2606.24267v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While in-context learning is generally shown to be effective in Large Language Models (LLMs), bad contexts can cause performance degradation and mode

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PORTER: Language-Grounded Event Representations for Portable Structured EHR Foundation Models

arXiv:2606.24102v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most electronic health record (EHR) foundation models encode clinical events as discrete event tokens from a fixed vocabulary and therefore cannot direc

Posterior Refinement: Fast Language Generation via Any-Order Flow Maps

arXiv:2606.24773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-autoregressive generation offers a powerful paradigm for iterative refinement, allowing models to recursively critique, erase and regenerate arbitra

Posterior Sampling Reinforcement Learning with Gaussian Processes for Continuous Control: Sublinear Regret Bounds for Unbounded State Spaces

arXiv:2603.08287v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We analyze the Bayesian regret of the Gaussian process posterior sampling reinforcement learning (GP-PSRL) algorithm. Posterior sampling is a

Prague Dependency Treebank -- Consolidated 2.0: Enriching a Complex Annotation Scheme

arXiv:2606.24324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Prague Dependency Treebank framework is unique in its attempt to systematically include and link different layers of language, including a meaning r

Predicting brain tumour enhancement from non-contrast MR imaging with artificial intelligence: a multi-cohort retrospective diagnostic accuracy study

arXiv:2508.16650v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Brain tumour MRI typically requires both pre- and post-contrast imaging, but gadolinium is not always desirable (frequent follow-up, renal imp

Predicting Poets' Origins from Verse: A Computational Analysis of Regional Linguistic Fingerprints in the Complete Tang Poems

arXiv:2606.24093v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We ask whether the geographic origin of Tang-dynasty poets leaves a detectable linguistic trace in their work. Aggregating every poem attributed to ea

Prediction of Viscoelastic Droplet Impact Dynamics Using a Vision Transformer-Based Approach

arXiv:2606.23940v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Droplet impact on solid surfaces is a complex fluid dynamics problem with applications in spray cooling, inkjet printing, and pharmaceutical processin

Prob-BBDM: a Probabilistic Brownian Bridge Diffusion Model for MRI sequence image-to-image translation

arXiv:2606.24313v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-driven image-to-image synthesis is rapidly advancing, with growing applications in medical imaging. Multi-modal image analysis plays a crucial role i

Probing the Misaligned Thinking Process of Language Models

arXiv:2606.24251v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models exhibit a growing range of misaligned behaviors such as strategic deception, sandbagging, and self-preservation. As they are incre

Promise and challenges of heart chamber segmentation from non-contrast CT scans using contrastive unpaired image translation: a feasibility study

arXiv:2606.23879v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility and challenges of heart chamber segmentation from non-contrast CT scans using contrastive unpaired image translat

QC-SMOTE: Quality-Controlled SMOTE for Imbalanced Classification

arXiv:2606.24625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Class imbalance poses a significant challenge in classification, where existing methods such as SMOTE often generate low-quality synthetic samples in re

Quantifying Prior Dominance in RAG Systems

arXiv:2606.23695v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) grounds Large Language Models in external knowledge, yet current evaluations rely on discrete heuristics that suf

Quantum Cinema: An Interactive Cinematic Exploration of Quantum Computing Hardware via Generative World Models

arXiv:2606.17102v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Quantum computing promises transformative advances across science and industry, yet the physical hardware that enables these computations rema

Random coloured digraphs defined by a Markov logic network

arXiv:2606.23715v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A Markov Logic Network (MLN) is a probabilistic relational model used in Statistical Relational Artificial Intelligence for defining a probability dis

Reentrant value fields as delayed coupled reaction-diffusion systems on finite graphs

arXiv:2605.03940v4 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We describe a dynamical system in which a symbolic field is coupled to a geometric field via a bipartite Hilbert-Schmidt kernel. The system is fully d

Relatively Smart: A New Approach for Instance-Optimal Learning

arXiv:2603.01346v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We revisit the framework of Smart PAC learning, which seeks supervised learners which compete with semi-supervised learners that are provided full k

Removing Noise, not Finding Gold: Quality Filtering for Large-Scale Pretraining

arXiv:2510.00866v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large-scale models are pretrained on massive web-crawled datasets containing documents of mixed quality, making data filtering essential. A po

Robust Dual-Signal Fusion: Hybrid Neuro-Symbolic Gating with Compressed Chain-of-Thought Refinement for Irony Detection in Social Media Texts

arXiv:2606.16845v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Small-scale Large Language Models (LLMs) natively default to literal semantic interpretations, making few-shot irony detection a persistent ch

S1-Omni-Image: A Unified Model for Scientific Image Understanding, Generation, and Editing

arXiv:2606.24441v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present S1-Omni-Image, an open-weight unified multimodal model for scientific image understanding, generation, and editing. Unlike general-purpose im

Same Lesson, Different Story: Cross-Lingual Reconstruction of Cultural Narratives in Large Language Models

arXiv:2606.24610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The evaluation of cultural grounding context becomes complex when multiple cultures convey the same moral lesson. This challenge is particularly relevan

Segmentation and Classification of Pap Smear Images for Cervical Cancer Detection Using Deep Learning

arXiv:2508.17728v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cervical cancer remains a significant global health concern and a leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women. Early detection through Pap sm

Sentence-Level Contextual Entrainment in Large Language Models

arXiv:2606.24077v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contextual entrainment, which is a newly discovered phenomenon in large language models (LLMs), refers to the tendency of a model to assign higher proba

Separating Oblivious and Adaptive Models of Variable Selection

arXiv:2602.16568v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sparse recovery is among the most well-studied problems in learning theory and high-dimensional statistics. In this work, we investigate the s

Sesame: Structure-Aware Molecular Generation via Spatial Density-Map Conditioning

arXiv:2606.23856v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative molecular models for drug design are a promising direction with much active research. In the next phase of computational drug design, such mo

Sexualised synthetic personas encode and amplify gendered power asymmetries through voice

arXiv:2606.21366v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This work examines sexualised AI-generated English-speaking voices offered by a popular commercial platform. New technologies may enable sexua

Sim-to-Real Betting on the E-Process: Bringing 'simulators' to anytime-valid confidence sequences

arXiv:2606.24038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This note describes an integration of the sim-to-real performance estimate with betting (from Chen et al.) and the safe anytime-valid inference (from Ra

SlipSense: Multimodal Sensing for Online Slip Detection in Legged Robots

arXiv:2606.24350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Legged robots rely on accurate ground interaction awareness to traverse variable terrains, such as slippery surfaces. Existing slip detection methods of

Spherical-to-ERP Epipolar Rectification for Single-Axis Disparity in 360 Stereo

arXiv:2606.24847v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Omnidirectional stereo images provide full-surround perception but violate the geometric assumptions of classical disparity estimation: in spherical or

Stabilizing Black-Box Prompt Optimization with Textual Regularization and Signal Aggregation

arXiv:2507.09839v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: An increasing number of NLP applications interact with large language models (LLMs) through black-box APIs, making prompt engineering critical for c

Stabilizing Physics-Informed Consistency Models via Structure-Preserving Training

arXiv:2602.09303v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose a physics-informed consistency modeling framework for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) via fast, few-step generative inferen

Stochastic Expectation Maximization for Robust State-Space Radio Interferometric Imaging

arXiv:2606.23944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: State--space models provide a flexible framework for analyzing dynamical systems, yet they often rely on Gaussian assumptions that fail to capture hea

Stripe, Anthropic, and OpenAI are backing an effort to stop respiratory infections

The common cold comes for us all—often more than once a year. And there is no way to prevent it. The best you can do is take vitamin C and stay away from people with the sniffles. Now the payment comp

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Subtyping patients with chronic disease using longitudinal BMI patterns

arXiv:2111.05385v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Obesity is a major health problem, increasing the risk of various major chronic diseases, such as diabetes, cancer, and stroke. While the role of ob

Supervise What Survives: Geometry-Guided VLA Adaptation from Synthetic Robot Videos

arXiv:2606.24448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models require large-scale video-action pairs, yet real teleoperation remains scarce. While generated robot videos offer a

Talos: Scaling rare disease diagnosis with automated, iterative genomic reanalysis

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Talos was built to help resolve a major bottleneck in genomic medicine: human review time. The open-source system recovered 90% of in-scope diagnoses while surfacing just 1.3 candidate variants per pa

Task Vector Bases: A Unified and Scalable Framework for Compressed Task Arithmetic

arXiv:2502.01015v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Task arithmetic, representing downstream tasks through linear operations on task vectors, has emerged as a simple yet powerful paradigm for transfer

Tensor-based second-order causal discovery

arXiv:2606.18074v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Causal discovery seeks to uncover the causal dependencies among variables. For this purpose, we propose an algorithm called Tensor-based Secon

Thank you all for the overwhelming interest in our new Member of Technical Staff (RSI Lab) role. Just to clarify many questions asked, the r…

Thank you all for the overwhelming interest in our new Member of Technical Staff (RSI Lab) role. Just to clarify many questions asked, the role is not remote. We expect candidates to move to Tokyo, Ja

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The best way to understand a complex system is via edge cases and failure modes, because they define the contour of the system.

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Edge cases and failure modes reveal the fundamental boundaries and constraints of complex systems more effectively than typical operations, making them valuable for understanding system behavior and l

The Download: introducing the Engineering issue

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Engineering issue We can’t fix everything, bu

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The emergence of the web data infrastructure layer for AI

AI is booming. New use cases are emerging each day. To capitalize on the technology’s potential, enterprises require data at scale. In many cases, though, the relevant information is blocked or unstru

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The Evaluation Cost of Task Specialization in Evolutionary Multi-Robot Systems

arXiv:2606.24191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Task specialization can improve the efficiency of multi-robot systems (MRSs). Previous works have investigated the emergence of task-specialist robot co

The Geometry Behind Diffusion and Flow Matching: Gradient Flows and Geodesics in Wasserstein Space

arXiv:2606.24157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The space P_2(R^d) of probability measures with finite second moment carries a natural geometry: the quadratic Wasserstein distance W_2 makes it a compl

The mathbf{P}-Completeness of Inverted Index Traversal: On the Complexity of Evaluating Boolean Query DAGs

arXiv:2601.18747v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern AI agents increasingly rely on search infrastructure to execute complex, neuro-symbolic reasoning workflows. These workflows often comp

The Measurable Majority

arXiv:2606.23853v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper studies strict majority reasoning in finite electorates using so-called extit{social decision frames}: finite sets of voters equipped with

The most complex phenomena arise from scalable recombination of very simple rules. Whether it's galaxies, chips, or neural networks, if you …

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The most complex phenomena arise from scalable recombination of very simple rules. Whether it's galaxies, chips, or neural networks, if you find the right primitive building blocks, the complexity tak