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Getting the Numbers Rightnicode{x2014}Modelling Multi-Class Object Counting in Dense and Varied Scenes

arXiv:2510.02213v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Density map estimation enables accurate object counting in heavily occluded, and densely packed scenes where detection-based counting fails. In mult

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Gradient Descent's Last Iterate is Often (slightly) Suboptimal

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arXiv:2604.13870v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We consider the well-studied setting of minimizing a convex Lipschitz function using either gradient descent (GD) or its stochastic variant (SGD), and

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Granularity-Aware Transfer for Tree Instance Segmentation in Synthetic and Real Forests

arXiv:2604.13722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We address the challenge of synthetic-to-real transfer in forestry perception where real data have only coarse Tree labels while synthetic data provide

Graph Propagated Projection Unlearning: A Unified Framework for Vision and Audio Discriminative Models

arXiv:2604.13127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The need to selectively and efficiently erase learned information from deep neural networks is becoming increasingly important for privacy, regulatory c

Heuristic Style Transfer for Real-Time, Efficient Weather Attribute Detection

arXiv:2604.13947v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present lightweight and efficient architectures to detect weather conditions from RGB images, predicting the weather type (sunny, rain, snow, fog) an

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with Augmented Step-Level Transitions for LLM Agents

arXiv:2604.05808v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in complex interactive decision-making tasks. However, existing LLM ag

HiProto: Hierarchical Prototype Learning for Interpretable Object Detection Under Low-quality Conditions

arXiv:2604.13981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interpretability is essential for deploying object detection systems in critical applications, especially under low-quality imaging conditions that degr

How Can We Synthesize High-Quality Pretraining Data? A Systematic Study of Prompt Design, Generator Model, and Source Data

arXiv:2604.13977v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthetic data is a standard component in training large language models, yet systematic comparisons across design dimensions, including rephrasing stra

(How) Learning Rates Regulate Catastrophic Overtraining

arXiv:2604.13627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a common first stage of LLM post-training, teaching the model to follow instructions and shaping its behavior as a hel

HUANet: Hard-Constrained Unrolled ADMM for Constrained Convex Optimization

arXiv:2604.13179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents HUANet, a constrained deep neural network architecture that unrolls the iterations of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipli

Hybrid Approach for Enhancing Lesion Segmentation in Fundus Images

arXiv:2509.25549v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Choroidal nevi are common benign pigmented lesions in the eye, with a small risk of transforming into melanoma. Early detection is critical to impro

I defended my thesis today! Sincere thanks to my advisors @sainingxie @ylecun and committee members: @mengyer @YiMaTweets @LukeZettlemoyer @…

I defended my thesis today! Sincere thanks to my advisors @sainingxie @ylecun and committee members: @mengyer @YiMaTweets @LukeZettlemoyer @liuzhuang1234. I could not have wished for a better PhD life

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Identifiability of Potentially Degenerate Gaussian Mixture Models With Piecewise Affine Mixing

arXiv:2604.13218v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Causal representation learning (CRL) aims to identify the underlying latent variables from high-dimensional observations, even when variables are depe

Indexing Multimodal Language Models for Large-scale Image Retrieval

arXiv:2604.13268v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong cross-modal reasoning capabilities, yet their potential for vision-only tasks remain

Is carbon removal in trouble?

Last week, news outlets reported that Microsoft was pausing carbon removal purchases. It was something of a bombshell. The thing is, Microsoft is the carbon removal market. The company has single-hand

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JD Vance is lecturing the Pope on Catholicism and Pierre Poilievre is lecturing Mark Carney on economics and RFK Jr is lecturing scientists …

JD Vance is lecturing the Pope on Catholicism and Pierre Poilievre is lecturing Mark Carney on economics and RFK Jr is lecturing scientists about vaccines and Donald Trump is lecturing the world on ta

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Just Use XML: Revisiting Joint Translation and Label Projection

arXiv:2603.12021v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Label projection is an effective technique for cross-lingual transfer, extending span-annotated datasets from a high-resource language to low-resour

Learning-Based Estimation of Spatially Resolved Scatter Radiation Fields in Interventional Radiology

arXiv:2512.17654v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present three variants of a lightweight, fully connected artificial neural network, suited for interactive estimation of three-dimensional, spati

Learning Inference Concurrency in DynamicGate MLP Structural and Mathematical Justification

arXiv:2604.13546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional neural networks strictly separate learning and inference because if parameters are updated during inference, outputs become unstable and ev

Learning Sewing Patterns via Latent Flow Matching of Implicit Fields

arXiv:2601.17740v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sewing patterns define the structural foundation of garments and are essential for applications such as fashion design, fabrication, and physical si

LEGO-MOF: Equivariant Latent Manipulation for Editable, Generative, and Optimizable MOF Design

arXiv:2604.13520v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are highly promising for carbon capture, yet navigating their vast design space remains challenging. Recent deep generat

Linear Probe Accuracy Scales with Model Size and Benefits from Multi-Layer Ensembling

arXiv:2604.13386v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Linear probes can detect when language models produce outputs they 'know' are wrong, a capability relevant to both deception and reward hacking. However

MAGA has a Europe problem. Not the real Europe. The one they invented. The one with sharia courts and no-go zones and zero tech companies an…

MAGA has a Europe problem. Not the real Europe. The one they invented. The one with sharia courts and no-go zones and zero tech companies and miserable citizens begging for permission to cross the str

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Making AI operational in constrained public sector environments

The AI boom has hit across industries, and public sector organizations are facing pressure to accelerate adoption. At the same time, government institutions face distinct constraints around security,

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Minimax Optimality and Spectral Routing for Majority-Vote Ensembles under Markov Dependence

arXiv:2604.13414v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Majority-vote ensembles achieve variance reduction by averaging over diverse, approximately independent base learners. When training data exhibits Marko

Mitigating Barren Plateaus in Quantum Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model

arXiv:2512.06695v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Quantum generative models exploit quantum superposition and entanglement to enhance learning efficiency for both classical and quantum data. Recentl

MixAtlas: Uncertainty-aware Data Mixture Optimization for Multimodal LLM Midtraining

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This paper was accepted at the Workshop on Navigating and Addressing Data Problems for Foundation Models (NADPFM) at ICLR 2026. Principled domain reweighting can substantially improve sample efficienc

mLaSDI: Multi-stage latent space dynamics identification

arXiv:2506.09207v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurately solving partial differential equations (PDEs) is essential across many scientific disciplines. However, high-fidelity solvers can be comp

Mobius transforms and Shapley values for vector-valued functions on weighted directed acyclic multigraphs

arXiv:2510.05786v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mobius inversion and Shapley values are two mathematical tools for characterizing and decomposing higher-order structure in complex systems. T

Momentum Further Constrains Sharpness at the Edge of Stochastic Stability

arXiv:2604.14108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work suggests that (stochastic) gradient descent self-organizes near an instability boundary, shaping both optimization and the solutions found.

Monthly Diffusion v0.9: A Latent Diffusion Model for the First AI-MIP

arXiv:2604.13481v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Here, we describe Monthly Diffusion at 1.5-degree grid spacing (MD-1.5 version 0.9), a climate emulator that leverages a spherical Fourier neural operat

Multi-modal panoramic 3D outdoor datasets for place categorization

arXiv:2604.13142v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present two multi-modal panoramic 3D outdoor (MPO) datasets for semantic place categorization with six categories: forest, coast, residential area,

Multistage Conditional Compositional Optimization

arXiv:2604.14075v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Multistage Conditional Compositional Optimization (MCCO) as a new paradigm for decision-making under uncertainty that combines aspects of

MyoVision: A Mobile Research Tool and NEATBoost-Attention Ensemble Framework for Real Time Chicken Breast Myopathy Detection

arXiv:2604.13456v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Woody Breast (WB) and Spaghetti Meat (SM) myopathies significantly impact poultry meat quality, yet current detection methods rely either on subjectiv

Native Hybrid Attention for Efficient Sequence Modeling

arXiv:2510.07019v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transformers excel at sequence modeling but face quadratic complexity, while linear attention offers improved efficiency but often compromises recal

Neural 3D Reconstruction of Planetary Surfaces from Descent-Phase Wide-Angle Imagery

arXiv:2604.13235v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Digital elevation modeling of planetary surfaces is essential for studying past and ongoing geological processes. Wide-angle imagery acquired during spa

Neural Chain-of-Thought Search: Searching the Optimal Reasoning Path to Enhance Large Language Models

arXiv:2601.11340v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Chain-of-Thought reasoning has significantly enhanced the problem-solving capabilities of Large Language Models. Unfortunately, current models gener

Neuromorphic Spiking Ring Attractor for Proprioceptive Joint-State Estimation

arXiv:2604.14021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Maintaining stable internal representations of continuous variables is fundamental for effective robotic control. Continuous attractor networks provide

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node2vec or triangle-biased random walks: stationarity, regularity & recurrence

arXiv:2604.13681v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The node2vec random walk is a non-Markovian random walk on the vertex set of a graph, widely used for network embedding and exploration. This random w

OmniTrace: A Unified Framework for Generation-Time Attribution in Omni-Modal LLMs

arXiv:2604.13073v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern multimodal large language models (MLLMs) generate fluent responses from interleaved text, image, audio, and video inputs. However, identifying wh

On an L^2 norm for stationary ARMA processes

arXiv:2408.10610v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose an L^2 norm for stationary Autoregressive Moving Average (ARMA) models. We look at ARMA models within the Hilbert space of the past with

OneHOI: Unifying Human-Object Interaction Generation and Editing

arXiv:2604.14062v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-Object Interaction (HOI) modelling captures how humans act upon and relate to objects, typically expressed as triplets. Existing approaches split

Outperforming Self-Attention Mechanisms in Solar Irradiance Forecasting via Physics-Guided Neural Networks

arXiv:2604.13455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate Global Horizontal Irradiance (GHI) forecasting is critical for grid stability, particularly in arid regions characterized by rapid aerosol fluc

ParlaSpeech 3.0: Richly Annotated Spoken Parliamentary Corpora of Croatian, Czech, Polish, and Serbian

arXiv:2511.01619v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: ParlaSpeech is a collection of spoken parliamentary corpora currently spanning four Slavic languages - Croatian, Czech, Polish and Serbian - all tog

PAT-VCM: Plug-and-Play Auxiliary Tokens for Video Coding for Machines

arXiv:2604.13294v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing video coding for machines is often trained for a specific downstream task and model. As a result, the compressed representation becomes tightly

Person Re-Identification via Generalized Class Prototypes

arXiv:2510.17043v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Advanced feature extraction methods have significantly contributed to enhancing the task of person re-identification. In addition, modifications to

Physically-Guided Optical Inversion Enable Non-Contact Side-Channel Attack on Isolated Screens

arXiv:2604.13419v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Noncontact exfiltration of electronic screen content poses a security challenge, with side-channel incursions as the principal vector. We introduce an o

Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Methane Sorption: Cross-Gas Transfer Learning, Ensemble Collapse Under Physics Constraints, and Monte Carlo Dropout Uncertainty Quantification

arXiv:2604.13992v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate methane sorption prediction across heterogeneous coal ranks requires models that combine thermodynamic consistency, efficient knowledge transfe