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The concentration game: Bayesian updating, regret, and information

arXiv:2608.18061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We give a two-player zero-sum repeated game between a learner and nature whose value identity generates Bayesian updating and an exact accounting of exp

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The Model's Tell: Measuring Context-Leakage Attack Signals with Behavior Gauges

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arXiv:2608.17829v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs increasingly rely on external contexts, such as pre-defined system prompts or retrieved documents, to improve generation quality. However, proces

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

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Modern AI agents increasingly rely on search infrastructure to execute complex, neuro-symbolic reasoning workflows. These workflows often compile into deeply nested, non-monotonic Boolean queries over

The Plot Thins: Uniformity and Linearity in Literary Summaries

arXiv:2608.17218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Works of literature are complicated; they balance plot, suspense, surprise, and artistic expression. Summaries of literature prioritize plot, and theref

The Price of Thinking: Reasoning Effort as a Model-Specific API Contract

arXiv:2608.16956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: API buyers purchase a dated contract, not a model name alone: the contract includes the requested and served model, reasoning-effort term or its omissio

The Problem Is the Problem: Towards Scalable Mathematical Discovery

arXiv:2608.16977v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems are increasingly capable of contributing to mathematical research. In research practice, frontier-model reasoning is a limited resource, and

TINA+: Probing Residual Visual Knowledge in Unlearned Diffusion Models via Diffusion-Consistent Text-Free Inversion

arXiv:2608.17747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although text-to-image diffusion models exhibit remarkable generative power, concept erasure techniques are essential for preventing harmful content. Ex

To Remove or Not to Remove Clouds: A Comparative Analysis and Fusion of Raw SAR and Synthetic NDWI for Overcast Water Segmentation

arXiv:2608.17398v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Persistent clouds blind optical satellites during floods. While Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) penetrates clouds, its raw data is noisy and lacks clear

Toward Personal Intelligence Through Cooperative Observation

arXiv:2608.17128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A personal AI system needs a model of the user's goals, constraints, and ongoing commitments to plan and act on their behalf, and the quality of that mo

Toward the Optimal Regret-Instability Trade-off in Multi-Armed Bandits

arXiv:2608.17841v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-armed bandit algorithms are evaluated by regret, yet comparable regret can coexist with different allocations across independent runs. We study

Towards Safer RAG: Only Agents Capable of System 2 Thinking may Access Untrusted Documents

arXiv:2608.17153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has significantly enhanced the performance of large language models (LLMs), yet these systems remain vulnerable to

Towards Unified World Models for Visual Navigation via Memory-Augmented Planning and Foresight

arXiv:2510.08713v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Enabling embodied agents to imagine future states is essential for robust and generalizable visual navigation. Yet, state-of-the-art systems typical

Understanding Curriculum Learning in Large Language Models via Cross-Difficulty Optimization Dynamics

arXiv:2608.17268v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Curriculum learning has been widely adopted in the post-training of large language models by organizing training data from easy to hard. However, its

UniQuery4R: Unified 4D Scene Reconstruction from a Single Query

arXiv:2608.17283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconstructing dynamic 4D scenes requires jointly estimating correspondence, geometry, object motion, and camera motion. Existing feed-forward methods t

Unsupervised Deep Generative Models for Anomaly Detection in Neuroimaging: A Systematic Scoping Review

arXiv:2510.14462v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) based on deep generative modelling has been increasingly explored for identifying pathological brain abnormalit

Vision-Language Enhanced Foundation Model for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation

arXiv:2511.19759v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as an efficient paradigm for medical image segmentation, reducing the reliance on extensive expert annota

Vision Transformers for End-to-End Quark-Gluon Jet Classification from Calorimeter Images

arXiv:2506.14934v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Distinguishing between quark- and gluon-initiated jets is a critical and challenging task in high-energy physics, pivotal for improving new physics

What Tokens are Learned when Tokenization is Optimized Jointly with Language Modeling?

arXiv:2608.17325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tokenization is a fundamental component of language modeling pipelines. Despite its importance, it is often fixed, even though it significantly impacts

Whether LLMs Can Navigate Beliefs and Facts Depends on How You Phrase It

arXiv:2608.17809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans naturally form and express beliefs in daily communication, e.g., 'I think the answer is 3' or 'I suppose that's right.' Such beliefs inevitably i

Why GPT-Style Models Do Not Directly Transfer to Symbolic Music: Compression in the Wrong Coordinate System

arXiv:2608.18025v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GPT-style models achieve strong performance by representing language with finite vocabularies of reusable discrete tokens. This success has motivated

YILDIZ-VPR: A Novel Dataset with Dense Coverage Under Diverse Environmental Conditions for Visual Place Recognition

arXiv:2608.17033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual Place Recognition (VPR) aims to recognize the location of a query image by comparing it with a set of geo-referenced images. Although many data

6G Native AI and Channel Foundation Models

arXiv:2608.14591v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and wireless communications is widely regarded as a core objective of sixth-generation (6G) systems. H

A Banach-Space Theory of Markovian Halpern Iteration for Non-Expansive Maps

arXiv:2608.15966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study stochastic approximation of fixed points of a non-expansive operator when the oracle samples originate from a continuing Markovian trajectory.

A Bi-directional Multi-solution Scalable Grover Search Algorithm

arXiv:2404.15616v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Grover's search algorithms, including various Partial Grover Searches (PGS), suffer from scaling issues when multiple solutions are sought, as

A Cognitively Motivated Multidimensional Framework for Evaluating Metaphor Explanations

arXiv:2608.15828v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current evaluation of metaphor explanations relies mainly on holistic quality ratings, revealing little about how explanation quality is structured or

A concentration result for multilayer feedforward neural networks

arXiv:2608.15335v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We consider for an arbitrary fixed rho and for each positive integer n a multilayer feedforward artificial neural network with rho layers, n neurons in

A Counterexample to the Tang Zhang Schatten Norm Conjecture and Sharp Positive Results

arXiv:2608.15558v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For mgeq 2, let c_p(m) be the all-dimensional best constant in $ left|sum_{k=1}^m A_kright|_p leq c_p(m)left|sum_{k=1}^m |A_k|right|_p. Tang and Zhang

A cross-modal generative model for incomplete and degraded prostate MRI with multicentre clinical validation

arXiv:2608.16233v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Missing or degraded sequences can limit prostate multiparametric MRI. We developed MSCNet, a sequence-conditioned cross-modal generative framework for

A Declarative-Procedural Perspective on Expert Routing in Bilingual Mixture-of-Experts Language Models

arXiv:2608.15102v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate whether Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models develop linguistically structured expert routing during bilingual language acquisition.

A Deep Learning Model for Spatially Clustered Data via Differentiable Cluster Assignment

arXiv:2608.14968v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We consider nonparametric regression when the association between a response and its covariates changes across an unknown partition of a spatial domai

A Generative Deep Learning Workflow for Inverse Molecular Design of Fuels

arXiv:2504.12075v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In the present work, a generative deep learning framework combining a Co-optimized Variational Autoencoder (Co-VAE) with quantitative structure-prop

A Highly Efficient Diversity-based Input Selection for DNN Improvement Using VLMs

arXiv:2601.08024v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Maintaining or improving the performance of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) through fine-tuning requires labeling newly collected inputs, a process that

A Human-Centred Approach to Benchmarking LLMs for Parenting Advice

arXiv:2608.14622v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: People are increasingly using large language models (LLMs) to seek advice, including for parenting. Parenting is a critical and socially sensitive domai

A Human-LLM Teaming Framework for Privacy Risk Analysis: An Illustration with CBDC-Based Welfare Schemes

arXiv:2608.16461v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)-based welfare schemes may be potentially privacy invasive as they process significant volumes of beneficiary pers

A Multi-Annotator Study of Segmentation Noise and Uncertainty in Turbid Underwater Images

arXiv:2608.15363v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Label uncertainty and annotator disagreement are common challenges in the field of computer vision, yet their study has largely been confined to the med

A multi-center analysis of deep learning methods for video polyp detection and segmentation

arXiv:2603.04288v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Colonic polyps are well-recognized precursors to colorectal cancer (CRC), typically detected during colonoscopy. However, the variability in appeara

A Novel Fourier Feature Network for Solving Partial Differential Equations

arXiv:2608.14733v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Building on the foundation of single-hidden-layer neural networks, Fourier Feature Networks (FENs) are proposed, which incorporate Fourier features us

A Pre-Specified Construction-Confirmation Test of Operation-Level Causal Transfer Across Finite Isomorphic Symbolic Domains

arXiv:2608.15809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Behavioral accuracy, linear decodability, and successful activation interventions do not by themselves show that a model carries an operation-level stru

A Privacy Study of Sparse Collaborative Inference

arXiv:2608.16236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative inference (CI) splits a model between an edge device and a server, whereby the client computes an intermediate activation, transmits it, a

A Reproducibility Study of Partial Residual Ablations in Pre-LN Transformers

arXiv:2608.14689v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Residual connections are a fundamental component of transformer architectures, yet the roles of the attention and feed-forward residual pathways remain

A Specialized Semismooth Newton Method for Kernel-Based Optimal Transport

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Kernel-based optimal transport (OT) estimators offer an alternative, functional estimation procedure to address OT problems from samples. Recent works suggest that these estimators are more statistica

A Survey of Body and Face Motion: Datasets, Performance Evaluation Metrics and Generative Techniques

arXiv:2512.09005v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Body and face motion play an integral role in communication. They convey crucial information on the participants. Advances in generative modeling an

A Unified Backbone--Expert Framework with Relation-Token and Residual--Classifier Interfaces for Automatic Modulation Recognition

arXiv:2608.15160v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic modulation recognition (AMR) faces distinct representation bottlenecks under varying observation lengths, where a single model architecture

A Unified Geometric Framework for Developmental Analysis of Spatial Transcriptomic Data

arXiv:2608.15306v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-throughput single-cell and spatial transcriptomic technologies provide high-resolution snapshots of heterogeneous cellular states, but their dest

A Unified Mamba--MoE Surrogate for Closed-Loop Simulation and Measurement-Window Forecasting of Inverter Transients

arXiv:2608.15051v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes a Mamba surrogate model with mixture-of-experts (MoE) routing to represent the transient dynamics of inverter-based resources. A Mam

A validity-guided workflow for robust large language model research in psychology

arXiv:2507.04491v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly being integrated into psychological and behavioral research as research tools, evaluation targets, hu

Accelerating Mixed Discrete-Continuous Motion Planning via Neural Graphs of Convex Sets

arXiv:2608.15440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motion planning problems such as collision-free navigation and contact-rich manipulation can be naturally formulated as optimization problems that coupl

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Accuracy and Reliability of Large Language Models in Cosmetic Chemistry and Skin Health: A Benchmarking Study

arXiv:2608.14631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As consumers increasingly turn to AI chatbots for skincare advice, the technical accuracy of Large Language Models (LLMs) in cosmetic chemistry remains