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Gender-Based Heterogeneity in Youth Privacy-Protective Behavior for Smart Voice Assistants: Evidence from Multigroup PLS-SEM

arXiv:2603.27117v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper investigates how gender shapes privacy decision-making in youth smart voice assistant (SVA) ecosystems. Using survey data from 469

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Grad-CAM for Vision Transformers: A Systematic Taxonomy and Audit of Methodological Ambiguity in Explainable AI

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arXiv:2608.05258v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM) is widely used to visualize model decisions, but it was originally formulated for convolutional ne

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HERA: Historical Evidence Routing Adapter for Physical Prediction in Latent World Models

arXiv:2608.05523v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predictive video models have emerged as promising world models by learning latent visual dynamics from large-scale video. Yet these models remain challe

Hierarchical Flow Matching for 3D Point Cloud Generation

arXiv:2608.05557v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating high-quality 3D point clouds requires capturing both global shape topology and local geometric details. Existing flow-based methods rely on c

Hierarchical Latent Prediction for Language Models

arXiv:2608.05806v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While standard Next-Token Prediction (NTP) lays the foundation of language model pre- training, its teacher-forced training paradigm may not be optima

HOPE: Hand-Object Pressure Estimation from Monocular Videos

arXiv:2608.06192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Estimating physical pressure from vision is essential for understanding contact-rich hand-object interaction. However, prior vision-based pressure estim

How Far Do Simple Transformations Translate Across Text Embedding Models?

arXiv:2608.05980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate whether simple transformations can translate representations across heterogeneous text embedding models. Understanding how independently

Hybrid Probabilistic Zonotopes for Identifiable and Refinable Predictive Uncertainty

arXiv:2608.05454v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Probabilistic prediction heads in neural networks typically output either a Gaussian mixture or a single conformal region. Neither separates the distinc

HyTBE: Hyperbolic Target-Background Expert Model for Cross-Domain Infrared Small Target Detection

arXiv:2608.05771v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) has achieved substantial progress under domain-consistent evaluation, yet detector performance often degrades

I concur, and the point is broader than just for Biology. Science does not advance by 'pure thinking' alone. We need to do experiments, and …

I concur, and the point is broader than just for Biology. Science does not advance by 'pure thinking' alone. We need to do experiments, and interpret the results of those experiments, which in turn ra

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In the era of base LLM scaling (2022-2024), I believed the LLM line of research would reach a capability plateau (as later seen with base LL…

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In the era of base LLM scaling (2022-2024), I believed the LLM line of research would reach a capability plateau (as later seen with base LLMs). In late 2024, after the o3 test-time compute demo, I ch

Integrating Human Linguistic Insights into AI: Theory-Driven Representation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech

arXiv:2204.07228v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper explores the integration of human linguistic insights into multilingual text-to-speech (TTS) systems by evaluating the Featurally Undersp

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Invisible Shortcuts: Why Vision Encoders Know Your Camera

arXiv:2608.05424v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep vision models exploit shortcuts, relying on cues that correlate with supervision signals. Prior work has focused on visible biases, such as object-

Is Self-Pretraining really useful to improve diagnosis in medical Time Series?

arXiv:2608.06122v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inspired by recent evidence that transformer architectures benefit from Self-PreTraining (SPT) on long-context benchmarks, we investigate whether simi

KVAE: Family of Tokenizers for Multimodal Generative Models

arXiv:2608.05798v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent diffusion modeling (LDM), a prominent paradigm, utilizes tokenizers to map input signal to compressed representation. This dependency positions t

LC-Implicit-QAOA: Active-Workspace-Capped Exact Objective-and-Gradient Evaluation for Training over Bounded QUBO Light Cones

arXiv:2608.05610v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: QAOA training repeatedly queries an objective and all shared gradients, making exact evaluation a feasibility bottleneck even when QUBO terms have bou

Learning from Failures: Retrieval-Centric CoT via Hard Negatives for Unified Multimodal Retrieval

arXiv:2608.06060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unified multimodal retrieval aims to identify candidates that satisfy complex user intent expressed through heterogeneous inputs. Although Large Vision-

LELA: an LLM-based Entity Linking Approach with Zero-Shot Domain Adaptation

arXiv:2601.05192v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Entity linking (mapping ambiguous mentions in text to entities in a knowledge base) is a foundational step in tasks such as knowledge graph construc

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LILAC: An Idempotent Neural Speech Codec

arXiv:2608.05727v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural Audio Codecs are widely adopted in speech generation and editing. However, existing neural audio codecs are not idempotent: across the paper's

Mapping Armenian Paris: Extracting and Geocoding Commercial Advertisements from the 20th-Century Diaspora Press

arXiv:2608.05911v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an end-to-end, IIIF-based pipeline that turns the digitised Armenian press of France into an interactive map of the 20th-century Par

MirrorNet: Can Medical Image Anonymization Really Protect Patient Identity?

arXiv:2608.05938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical images are routinely de-identified---names, dates, and other metadata removed---and then shared for research, teaching, and public benchmarks un

ML-for-ML

arXiv:2608.06046v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI training workloads are growing rapidly, making their time, energy, and infrastructure costs increasingly important. In shared cloud clusters, train

MOSAIK: Multi-Patch Content-Aware Spatial Allocation of Image Tokens for Efficient Generation

arXiv:2608.05450v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pixel-space diffusion models avoid the reconstruction ceiling of latent diffusion models by generating directly in image space. However, their substanti

Multi-Year Geospatial Reasoning using Interannually-Consistent Historical Predictions as a Free Input Modality

arXiv:2608.05979v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning, and deep networks in particular, are increasingly used to derive higher-level Earth observation (EO) products such as annual land-cove

Multivariate Time Series Forecasting needs Cross Variable Loss

arXiv:2608.05742v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multivariate time series forecasting presents unique challenges because future variables often co-evolve under shared system dynamics. While existing

Muon on the Stiefel Manifold Admits an Exact Closed-Form Update

arXiv:2608.06218v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study Muon, a recently proposed matrix-aware optimization method, in the context of the Stiefel manifold. This manifold consists of matrices with o

Near-sensor Computing for Rapid Visuotactile Perception

arXiv:2608.05725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visuotactile sensors reconstruct dense contact geometry from measured surface gradients, but host-based processing increases power consumption and intro

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NeuroAdaptTrainer: A Fiji/ImageJ Plugin for YOLO-Based Neuron Segmentation, InteractiveCorrection and Transfer Learning

arXiv:2608.05226v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neuron counting and segmentation in microscopy images of neuronal cultures is a routine and time-consuming task in neuroscience research, traditionally

On Same-Sample and Independent-Sample Stochastic Extragradient for Monotone Variational Inequalities

arXiv:2608.06182v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study stochastic extragradient (SEG) methods for solving monotone variational inequality problems (VIPs) over a feasible set. Although extragradien

On the Anisotropy of Score-Based Generative Models

arXiv:2510.22899v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We investigate the role of network architecture in shaping the inductive biases of modern score-based generative models. To this end, we introduce t

Once a Response, Always a Response: Detecting LLM-generated Text via Latent Prompt Restoration

arXiv:2608.05741v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can generate fluent and convincing text at scale, creating growing risks for misinformation dissemination, educational mi

One Qubit Can Beat One Bit: Quantum Advantage for Post-Training Quantization

arXiv:2608.05240v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: One-bit post-training quantization represents each weight using only its sign, requiring all deployment contexts to share the same binary weight matri

One Ranking, Any Budget: Matryoshka Evidence-to-Context Frame Selection for Long-Video Understanding

arXiv:2608.05707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frame selection is essential for applying Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) to long videos due to severe frame redundancy and limited context windows. Sinc

Online Reasoning Calibration: Test-Time Training Enables Generalizable Conformal LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2604.01170v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While test-time scaling has enabled large language models to solve highly difficult tasks, state-of-the-art results come at exorbitant compute

Optimal or Greedy Decision Trees? Revisiting their Objectives, Tuning, and Performance

arXiv:2409.12788v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recently there has been a surge of interest in optimal decision tree (ODT) methods that globally optimize accuracy directly, in contrast to traditio

Optimal Rates for Learning with Monotone Adversaries

arXiv:2608.06337v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A monotone adversary observes an i.i.d. labeled sample and appends a finite number of further examples of its choice, every one of them labeled correc

OTLesMix: Wasserstein Barycenter and Optimal Transport Map for Synthetic Lesion Generation with Diverse Shapes and Locations

arXiv:2608.06264v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of deep learning over the past decade has revolutionized medical imaging segmentation, allowing the extraction of precise descriptors fr

PaCoNet: Deep Data Extraction for Parallel Coordinates

arXiv:2608.06030v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Extracting data from visualizations has long challenged computer vision, with current research focused on bar, line, and pie charts, among other low-dim

Patient Pose Assessment Using a CT-Based Framework for Synthetic Data Generation

arXiv:2608.06126v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An adequate diagnostic quality of radiographs is essential for reliable diagnoses and treatment planning. The patient's pose during radiography is one o

Perturbation Sensitivity at Convergence: A Simple Signal for Identifying Spuriously Correlated Samples

arXiv:2608.05419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Models trained by empirical risk minimization on data containing spurious correlations achieve high average accuracy while failing on subpopulations w

Physics-Based Molecular Fingerprints from Spectral Graph Theory Provide Efficient Geometry-Aware Measures of Chemical Similarity

arXiv:2608.05336v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Molecular representations are essential for the evaluation of molecular similarity and the development of structure-property relationships. Despite th

Pixel-TTS: Image based Text Rendering for Robust Text-to-Speech

arXiv:2606.14750v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in pixel-based text modeling show that representing text as images enables models to exploit visual cues for language understa

Posture and Sustainment Optimization Under Adversarial Uncertainty

arXiv:2608.05256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pre-commitment posture, the assignment of military assets to theater locations before conflict scenarios resolve, is a critical and formally unsolved pr

Potential Matching Optimal Transport: Continuous Normalizing Flows for Exact p-Wasserstein Dynamics

arXiv:2608.05666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Potential Matching Optimal Transport (PMOT), a potential-flow framework for general p-cost optimal transport with c_p(x,y)=|x-y|^p. PMOT pa

Predicting Social Media User Actions: A Hybrid Approach for Common and Rare Behavior Prediction on Bluesky

arXiv:2511.17241v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding and predicting user behavior on social media platforms is crucial for content recommendation and platform design. While existing appro

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ProDVI: Programmatic Dynamics Priors for Value Network Initialization

arXiv:2608.06015v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) is notoriously sample inefficient. One contributing factor is that RL agents are typically initialized from scratch,

PromptForSegCXR: Prompt-Driven Multi-Organ and Multi-Disease Segmentation in Chest X-rays using a Multi-stage Fusion Mechanism

arXiv:2507.00673v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Image segmentation is central to automated medical image analysis, enabling precise identification of anatomical structures and pathological r

Provably Efficient Self-Calibrating Quantum Fault Tolerance

arXiv:2608.05686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum error correction protects logical information only when every physical operation remains below the fault-tolerance threshold, a condition that