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MLDAS: Machine Learning Dynamic Algorithm Selection for Software-Defined Networking Security

arXiv:2604.14957v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Network security is a critical concern in the digital landscape of today, with users demanding secure browsing experiences and protection of their per

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Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Exploits Passive Body Dynamics for High-Performance Biped Robot Locomotion

DGX agent

arXiv:2604.14565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodiment is a significant keyword in recent machine learning fields. This study focused on the passive nature of the body of a biped robot to generate

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NEAT-NC: NEAT guided Navigation Cells for Robot Path Planning

arXiv:2604.15076v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To navigate a space, the brain makes an internal representation of the environment using different cells such as place cells, grid cells, head direction

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No More Guessing: a Verifiable Gradient Inversion Attack in Federated Learning

arXiv:2604.15063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gradient inversion attacks threaten client privacy in federated learning by reconstructing training samples from clients' shared gradients. Gradients ag

NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Video Saliency Prediction: Methods and Results

arXiv:2604.14816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an overview of the NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Video Saliency Prediction. The goal of the challenge participants was to develop automati

On the Expressive Power and Limitations of Multi-Layer SSMs

arXiv:2604.14501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the expressive power and limitations of multi-layer state-space models (SSMs). First, we show that multi-layer SSMs face fundamental limitation

One-shot Compositional 3D Head Avatars with Deformable Hair

arXiv:2604.14782v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a compositional method for constructing a complete 3D head avatar from a single image. Prior one-shot holistic approaches frequently fail to

OptEMA: Adaptive Exponential Moving Average for Stochastic Optimization with Zero-Noise Optimality

arXiv:2603.09923v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The Exponential Moving Average (EMA) is a cornerstone of widely used optimizers such as Adam. However, existing theoretical analyses of Adam-style m

Optimal last-iterate convergence in matrix games with bandit feedback using the log-barrier

arXiv:2604.15242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the problem of learning minimax policies in zero-sum matrix games. Fiegel et al. (2025) recently showed that achieving last-iterate convergence

OVT-MLCS: An Online Visual Tool for MLCS Mining from Long or Big Sequences

arXiv:2604.13037v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mining multiple longest common subsequences (extit{MLCS}) from a set of sequences of three or more over a finite alphabet Sigma (a classical NP-hard p

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Path-Sampled Integrated Gradients

arXiv:2604.14338v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce path-sampled integrated gradients (PS-IG), a framework that generalizes feature attribution by computing the expected value over baselines

Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Pouch Cell Temperature Estimation

arXiv:2604.14566v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate temperature estimation of pouch cells with indirect liquid cooling is essential for optimizing battery thermal management systems for transport

Pie Day 2026

Ellie’s Pi Day post: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/pi-day-2026-food-institute/ How Ellie orchestrated the baking of 30 pies: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/behind-the-scenes-of-thirty-p

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PixelDiT: Pixel Diffusion Transformers for Image Generation

arXiv:2511.20645v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Latent-space modeling has been the standard for Diffusion Transformers (DiTs). However, it relies on a two-stage pipeline where the pretrained autoe

Polyformer: a generative framework for thermodynamic modeling of polymeric molecules

arXiv:2604.14241v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The classic paradigm of structural biology is that the sequence of a biomolecule (protein, nucleic acid, lipid, etc) determines its conformation (shap

Portfolio Optimization Proxies under Label Scarcity and Regime Shifts via Bayesian and Deterministic Students under Semi-Supervised Sandwich Training

arXiv:2604.14206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes a machine learning assisted portfolio optimization framework designed for low data environments and regime uncertainty. We construct

Predicting Post-Traumatic Epilepsy from Clinical Records using Large Language Model Embeddings

arXiv:2604.14547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Objective: Post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) is a debilitating neurological disorder that develops after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Early prediction of P

Predictions of charge density distributions for nuclei with Z geq 8

arXiv:2604.05312v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A deep neural network (DNN) has been developed to accurately predict nuclear charge density distributions for nuclei with proton numbers Z geq 8. By i

Prompt-to-Gesture: Measuring the Capabilities of Image-to-Video Deictic Gesture Generation

arXiv:2604.14953v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gesture recognition research, unlike NLP, continues to face acute data scarcity, with progress constrained by the need for costly human recordings or im

Psychological Steering of Large Language Models

arXiv:2604.14463v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) emulate a consistent human-like behavior that can be shaped through activation-level interventions. This paradigm is conver

PUFFIN: Protein Unit Discovery with Functional Supervision

arXiv:2604.14796v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Proteins carry out biological functions through the coordinated action of groups of residues organized into structural arrangements. These arrangement

Q-MambaIR: Accurate Quantized Mamba for Efficient Image Restoration

arXiv:2503.21970v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: State-Space Models (SSMs) have attracted considerable attention in Image Restoration (IR) due to their ability to scale linearly sequence length whi

QualiaNet: An Experience-Before-Inference Network

arXiv:2604.14193v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human 3D vision involves two distinct stages: an Experience Module, where stereo depth is extracted relative to fixation, and an Inference Module, where

Quantitative Approximation Rates for Group Equivariant Learning

arXiv:2602.20370v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The universal approximation theorem establishes that neural networks can approximate any continuous function on a compact set. Later works in approx

Quantization of Spiking Neural Networks Beyond Accuracy

arXiv:2604.14487v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantization is a natural complement to the sparse, event-driven computation of Spiking Neural Networks, reducing memory bandwidth and arithmetic cost f

Quantum-inspired tensor networks in machine learning models

arXiv:2604.14287v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tensor networks were developed in the context of many-body physics as compressed representations of multiparticle quantum states. These representations

RACER: Retrieval-Augmented Contextual Rapid Speculative Decoding

arXiv:2604.14885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive decoding in Large Language Models (LLMs) generates one token per step, causing high inference latency. Speculative decoding (SD) mitigate

Random Matrix Theory for Deep Learning: Beyond Eigenvalues of Linear Models

arXiv:2506.13139v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) often operate on high-dimensional data and rely on overparameterized models, wher

ReasonScaffold: A Scaffolded Reasoning-based Annotation Protocol for Human-AI Co-Annotation

arXiv:2603.21094v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human annotation is central to NLP evaluation, yet subjective tasks often exhibit substantial variability across annotators. While large language mo

Rethinking LLM-Driven Heuristic Design: Generating Efficient and Specialized Solvers via Dynamics-Aware Optimization

arXiv:2601.20868v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced the field of Combinatorial Optimization through automated heuristic generation. Instead of relying on man

Revisiting Token Compression for Accelerating ViT-based Sparse Multi-View 3D Object Detectors

arXiv:2604.14563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision Transformer (ViT)-based sparse multi-view 3D object detectors have achieved remarkable accuracy but still suffer from high inference latency due

Robustness of Vision Foundation Models to Common Perturbations

arXiv:2604.14973v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A vision foundation model outputs an embedding vector for an image, which can be affected by common editing operations (e.g., JPEG compression, bright

S2AM3D: Scale-controllable Part Segmentation of 3D Point Cloud

arXiv:2512.00995v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Part-level point cloud segmentation has recently attracted significant attention in 3D computer vision. Nevertheless, existing research is constrain

Sandwich: Joint Configuration Search and Hot-Switching for Efficient CPU LLM Serving

arXiv:2507.18454v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: CPUs are critical for LLM serving due to their availability, cost efficiency, and edge applicability. However, efficient CPU serving is hinder

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Scalable Model-Based Clustering with Sequential Monte Carlo

arXiv:2604.14810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In online clustering problems, there is often a large amount of uncertainty over possible cluster assignments that cannot be resolved until more data

Seen-to-Scene: Keep the Seen, Generate the Unseen for Video Outpainting

arXiv:2604.14648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video outpainting aims to expand the visible content of a video beyond the original frame boundaries while preserving spatial fidelity and temporal cohe

Segment-Level Coherence for Robust Harmful Intent Probing in LLMs

arXiv:2604.14865v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly exposed to adaptive jailbreaking, particularly in high-stakes Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nucl

SegviGen: Repurposing 3D Generative Model for Part Segmentation

arXiv:2603.16869v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce SegviGen, a framework that repurposes native 3D generative models for 3D part segmentation. Existing pipelines either lift strong 2D pr

SegWithU: Uncertainty as Perturbation Energy for Single-Forward-Pass Risk-Aware Medical Image Segmentation

arXiv:2604.15271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable uncertainty estimation is critical for medical image segmentation, where automated contours feed downstream quantification and clinical decisio

Sentiment analysis for software engineering: How far can zero-shot learning (ZSL) go?

arXiv:2604.13826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sentiment analysis in software engineering focuses on understanding emotions expressed in software artifacts. Previous research highlighted the limita

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Similarity-Distance-Magnitude Activations

arXiv:2509.12760v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce the Similarity-Distance-Magnitude (SDM) activation function, a more robust and interpretable formulation of the standard softmax

Social Story Frames: Contextual Reasoning about Narrative Intent and Reception

arXiv:2512.15925v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reading stories evokes rich interpretive, affective, and evaluative responses, such as inferences about narrative intent or judgments about characte

SPaCe: Unlocking Sample-Efficient Large Language Models Training With Self-Pace Curriculum Learning

arXiv:2508.05015v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong reasoning capabilities when fine-tuned with reinforcement learning (RL). However, such methods requir

Stability and Generalization in Looped Transformers

arXiv:2604.15259v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Looped transformers promise test-time compute scaling by spending more iterations on harder problems, but it remains unclear which architectural choices

STEP-Parts: Geometric Partitioning of Boundary Representations for Large-Scale CAD Processing

arXiv:2604.14927v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many CAD learning pipelines discretize Boundary Representations (B-Reps) into triangle meshes, discarding analytic surface structure and topological a

StreamCacheVGGT: Streaming Visual Geometry Transformers with Robust Scoring and Hybrid Cache Compression

arXiv:2604.15237v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconstructing dense 3D geometry from continuous video streams requires stable inference under a constant memory budget. Existing O(1) frameworks primar

Structural interpretability in SVMs with truncated orthogonal polynomial kernels

arXiv:2604.15285v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study post-training interpretability for Support Vector Machines (SVMs) built from truncated orthogonal polynomial kernels. Since the associated re

Structure as Computation: Developmental Generation of Minimal Neural Circuits

arXiv:2604.15143v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work simulates the developmental process of cortical neurogenesis, initiating from a single stem cell and governed by gene regulatory rules deriv