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Revisiting Padded Transformer Expressivity: Which Architectural Choices Matter and Which Don't

arXiv:2605.30523v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work describes what transformers can and cannot compute through connections to boolean circuits, but existing results lack exact characterizati

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Revisiting the Bertrand Paradox via Equilibrium Analysis of No-regret Learners

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arXiv:2602.21620v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the discrete Bertrand pricing game with a non-increasing demand function. The game has n ge 2 players who simultaneously choose price

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SAC-Opt: Semantic Anchors for Iterative Correction in Optimization Modeling

arXiv:2510.05115v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have opened new paradigms in optimization modeling by enabling the generation of executable solver code from natural la

SALAAD: Sparse And Low-Rank Adaptation via ADMM for Large Language Model Inference

arXiv:2602.00942v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern large language models are increasingly deployed under compute and memory constraints, making flexible control of model capacity a central cha

Scalable Bayesian Inference for Nonlinear Conservation Laws

arXiv:2605.31127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Nonlinear conservation laws are at the heart of many of the most important dynamical systems in science and engineering. In practical applications, such

Scalable Inference-Time Annealing with Surrogate Likelihood Estimators

arXiv:2605.31498v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A long standing challenge in computational chemistry and biophysics is efficiently sampling the Boltzmann distribution of molecules. Advances in generat

Scalable Topology-Preserving Graph Coarsening: Concepts and Algorithms

arXiv:2601.22943v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Graph coarsening reduces the size of a graph while preserving certain properties. Most existing methods preserve either spectral or spatial characte

ScaleMAP: Preserving Local Density and Neighborhood Structure in Low-Dimensional Embeddings

arXiv:2605.30597v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Nonlinear dimensionality-reduction methods such as UMAP and PaCMAP adaptively normalize local distances during graph construction, erasing neighborhood

Scaling Higher-Order Graph Learning with Maximal Clique Complexes

arXiv:2605.31373v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph neural networks (GNNs) are limited to modeling pairwise interactions, while higher-order models based on cell complexes achieve greater expressi

SCOPE: Self-Play via Co-Evolving Policies for Open-Ended Tasks

arXiv:2605.31433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-play can train language models without external supervision. However, existing methods require rule-checkable answers, leaving open-ended tasks dep

Score Broadcast and Decorrelation: A General Framework for Broadcast-Based Credit Assignment

arXiv:2605.30638v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Score Broadcast and Decorrelation (SBD), a principled framework for broadcast-based credit assignment for general families of differentia

Seeing Fast and Slow: Bimodal 3D Scene Graphs for Open-set Tasks

arXiv:2605.31067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-set task execution can significantly benefit from seamlessly switching between coarse and fine scene representations depending on the context and t

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Self-Certifying Transport MCMC via Dual Spectral-Gap Certificates

arXiv:2605.30722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose CerT-MCMC, a framework that equips learned-transport Markov chain Monte Carlo with automatic, rigorous convergence certificates. A normalisin

Self-Reflective Generation at Test Time

arXiv:2510.02919v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly solve complex reasoning tasks via long chain-of-thought, but their forward-only autoregressive generation

Semantic Triplet Restoration: A Novel Protocol for Hierarchical Table Understanding in Large Language Models

arXiv:2605.31550v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Table question answering requires models to recover semantic relations encoded implicitly by two-dimensional layout, merged cells, and hierarchical head

Separating Secrets from Placeholders: A Hybrid CNN-CodeBERT Framework for Three-Class Credential Leakage Detection

arXiv:2605.31520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Credential leakage in public source code repositories poses a critical security threat, with over 23.8 million secrets exposed in 2024 alone. Existing

ShapDBM: Exploring Decision Boundary Maps in Shapley Space

arXiv:2603.22235v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Decision Boundary Maps (DBMs) are an effective tool for visualising machine learning classification boundaries. Yet, DBM quality strongly depe

Shared Doubt: Zero-shot Cross-Lingual Confidence Estimation for Language Models

arXiv:2605.31220v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Confidence estimation (CE), i.e. quantifying the reliability of a model's prediction, has attracted great interest in the context of large language mo

SHIELD: Secure Hypernetworks for Incremental Expansion Learning Defense

arXiv:2506.08255v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continual learning under adversarial conditions remains an open problem, as existing methods often compromise either robustness, scalability,

Sinkhorn Normalization of Diffusion Kernels

arXiv:2507.06161v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Smoothing a signal based on local neighborhoods is a core operation in machine learning and geometry processing. On well-structured domains such as

Skin Lesion Classification Based on ResNet-50 Enhanced With Adaptive Spatial Feature Fusion

arXiv:2510.03876v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Skin cancer classification is challenging due to high inter-class similarity, intra-class variability, and artifacts in dermoscopic images. To addre

SLAP: The Semantic Least Action Principle for Variational Video-Language Modeling

arXiv:2605.30750v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the era of Large Video-Language Models (LVLMs), the computational necessity of sparse frame sampling creates a fundamental ``temporal gap'', renderin

SLAT: Segment-Level Adaptive Trimming for Efficient CoT Reasoning

arXiv:2605.30832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Large Reasoning Models have significantly improved chain-of-thought (CoT) capabilities via reinforcement learning (RL). However, gene

SlotMemory: Object-Centric KV Memory for Streaming Long-Video Generation

arXiv:2605.31033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Streaming video generation models typically rely on temporal-centric memory, which organizes historical context as raw frames, chunk segments, or unclus

SMART: SMPLest-X Mesh Adaptation and RAFT Tracking for Soccer Pose Estimation

arXiv:2605.31551v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present our approach to the FIFA Skeletal Tracking Challenge 2026, which requires estimating 3D world-space poses of soccer players from broadcast vi

SPECTRA: Synthetic IR Test Collections with Relevance Oracles and Controlled Distractor Diagnostics

arXiv:2605.31575v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scalable information retrieval testing needs corpora that are large enough to stress index construction, ranking latency, query routing, and evaluatio

Spectral Anatomy of Quantum Gaussian Process Kernels

arXiv:2605.30952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Two recent results have reshaped quantum Gaussian processes (QGPs). On the one hand, itet{lowe2025assessing} rule out the exponential speedups claimed b

Speculative Decoding Across Languages

arXiv:2605.30580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative decoding has become a crucial component of large language model (LLM) inference, enabling faster generation by drafting multiple tokens and

Speculative Pipeline Decoding: Higher-Accruacy and Zero-Bubble Speculation via Pipeline Parallelism

arXiv:2605.30852v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative Decoding (SD) accelerates low-concurrency LLM inference by employing a draft-then-verify paradigm. However, mainstream methods typically rel

SteerFace: Debiasing Synthetic Face Generation via Adaptive Residue Perturbation

arXiv:2605.30894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The shortage of legally compliant data for face recognition training has sparked growing interest in using synthetic data as an alternative. While recen

Stochastic Gradients under Nuisances

arXiv:2508.20326v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Stochastic gradient optimization is the dominant learning paradigm for a variety of scenarios, from classical supervised learning to modern se

Stop the Flip-Flop: Context-Preserving Verification for Fast Revocable Diffusion Decoding

arXiv:2602.06161v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Parallel diffusion decoding can accelerate diffusion language model inference by unmasking multiple tokens per step, but aggressive parallelis

Student Capacity Moderates Knowledge Distillation Effectiveness: A Systematic Study Across ResNet Teacher-Student Pairs on CIFAR-10

arXiv:2605.31191v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate how teacher-student capacity relationships modulate knowledge distillation (KD) effectiveness in ResNet-based image classification on C

Target-Side Paraphrase Augmentation for Sign Language Translation with Large Language Models

arXiv:2605.31393v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sign language translation (SLT) remains constrained by limited paired sign-video/text corpora and heavy-tailed target vocabularies. We study target-si

TASER: Task-Aware Stein Regularisation for Geometry-Driven Robustness

arXiv:2605.30601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern deep networks remain fragile under distribution shift and adversarial perturbations, often due to excessive or poorly structured input sensitivit

Technical note on Sequential Test-Time Adaptation via Martingale-Driven Fisher Prompting

arXiv:2510.03839v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a theoretical framework for M-FISHER, a method for sequential distribution shift detection and stable adaptation in streaming data. For d

The Download: China’s brain implant ambitions

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. China has approved the world’s first invasive brain-computer c

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The Fast Mixing Mechanism for Differential Privacy

arXiv:2605.30600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Randomized sketching is a central tool for compressing large-scale optimization problems while preserving accuracy. In particular, sketches that are bas

The Gaussian-Head OFL Family: One-Shot Federated Learning from Client Global Statistics

arXiv:2602.01186v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Classical Federated Learning relies on a multi-round iterative process of model exchange and aggregation between server and clients, with high

The Inclusion Depth of Pattern Languages: An Open Problem in Algorithmic Learning Theory

arXiv:2605.30389v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pattern languages are a classical model in formal language theory and algorithmic learning theory. This note formulates the problem of computing the i

The Information Geometry of Softmax: Probing and Steering

arXiv:2602.15293v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper concerns the question of how AI systems encode semantic structure into the geometric structure of their representation spaces. The

The Latin Substrate: How Language Models Represent and Mediate Script Choice

arXiv:2605.31363v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many languages are written in multiple scripts, requiring large language models (LLMs) to generate equivalent linguistic content in distinct orthographi

The SuperActivator Mechanism: Transformers Concentrate Reliable Concept Signals in the Tail

arXiv:2512.05038v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Concept vectors aim to enhance model interpretability by linking internal representations with human-understandable semantics, but their practical u

TIC-VLA: A Think-in-Control Vision-Language-Action Model for Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments

arXiv:2602.02459v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robots in dynamic, human-centric environments must follow language instructions while maintaining real-time reactive control. Vision-language-action

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To Grok Grokking: Provable Grokking in Ridge Regression

arXiv:2601.19791v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study grokking, the onset of generalization long after overfitting, in a classical ridge regression setting. We prove end-to-end grokking results

TokTalk: Expressive Real-time Facial Animation from Audio-LLM Tokens

arXiv:2605.31294v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Audio-LLMs like GPT-4o have ushered in an era of conversational interaction with language models. Conversational avatars however, sti

Towards Atoms of Large Language Models

arXiv:2509.20784v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The fundamental representational units (FRUs) of large language models (LLMs) remain undefined, limiting further understanding of their underl

Towards Efficient LLMs Annealing with Principled Sample Selection

arXiv:2605.31175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The annealing phase is a pivotal convergence stage in LLM pre-training that ultimately determines final model quality. However, effectively selecting tr