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On the Interaction of Batch Noise, Adaptivity, and Compression, under (L_0,L_1)-Smoothness: An SDE Approach

arXiv:2506.00181v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Distributed stochastic optimization intertwines (i) stochastic gradient noise, (ii) communication compression, and (iii) adaptive/normalized updates

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On the Limits of Model Merging for Multilinguality in Pre-Training

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arXiv:2605.25846v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Endowing models with consistent multilingual performance can be achieved by mixing pre-training data, or post-training approaches such as language-speci

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One-shot Conditional Sampling: MMD meets Nearest Neighbors

arXiv:2509.25507v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: How can we generate samples from a conditional distribution that we never fully observe? This question arises across a broad range of applicat

Opportunistic Target Selection: Early Directional Commitment for Query-Efficient Black-Box Adversarial Attacks

arXiv:2605.25663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Black-box adversarial attacks that minimize only the ground-truth confidence suffer from class drift: perturbations wander through the feature space wit

Optimal Non-Asymptotic Edgeworth Expansions for Multivariate Neural Network Outputs

arXiv:2605.24072v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Finite-width fully connected neural networks with Gaussian-initialized weights deviate from their infinite-width Gaussian limit, exhibiting non-vanish

Optimal uncertainty bounds for multivariate kernel regression under bounded noise: A Gaussian process-based dual function

arXiv:2603.16481v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Non-conservative uncertainty bounds are essential for making reliable predictions about latent functions from noisy data, and thus, a key enabler fo

P1SCO: Social Dimensions from a Perspectivist Lens

arXiv:2605.25312v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce P1SCO, a dataset of social media comments collected from three distinct platforms, annotated according to ten social dimensions to capture

PAC Learning with Bandit Feedback: Sharp Sample Complexity in the Realizable Setting

arXiv:2605.25678v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the problem of multiclass PAC learning with bandit feedback in the realizable setting. In this framework, there is an unknown data distributi

PACT: Proactive Asking for Continual Task Assistance in Human-Robot Collaboration

arXiv:2605.24350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic assistants in long-term human-robot collaboration need to assist users under partial observations while leveraging cross-day interaction history

PairFlow: Closed-Form Source-Target Coupling for Few-Step Generation in Discrete Flow Models

arXiv:2512.20063v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce exttt{PairFlow}, a lightweight preprocessing step for training Discrete Flow Models (DFMs) to achieve few-step sampling without requiri

PASA: A Principled Embedding-Space Watermarking Approach for LLM-Generated Text under Semantic-Invariant Attacks

arXiv:2605.10977v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Watermarking for large language models (LLMs) is a promising approach for detecting LLM-generated text and enabling responsible deployment. Ho

PathMem: Toward Cognition-Aligned Memory Transformation for Pathology MLLMs

arXiv:2603.09943v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Computational pathology demands both visual pattern recognition and dynamic integration of structured domain knowledge, including taxonomy, grading

PerSoMed: A Large-Scale Balanced Dataset for Persian Social Media Text Classification

arXiv:2602.19333v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This research introduces the first large-scale, well-balanced Persian social media text classification dataset, specifically designed to address the

Phase-Aware Wavelet-Based-Scattering Encoder-Decoder for Dense Predictions

arXiv:2605.24621v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scattering transforms achieve Lipschitz stability and translation invariance, but dense prediction tasks require preserving spatial structure lost in

{Phi}-Noise: Training-Free Temporal Video Conditioning via Phase-Based Noise Manipulation

arXiv:2605.24509v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent video diffusion models generate videos by progressively transforming Gaussian noise into realistic samples conditioned on text or visual inputs

Phonetic Modeling of Dialectal Variation in Vietnamese Speech

arXiv:2605.24451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vietnamese exhibits substantial dialectal phonetic variation across Northern, Central, and Southern regions, where identical lexical items may be realiz

PhySense: Sensor Placement Optimization for Accurate Physics Sensing

arXiv:2505.18190v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Physics sensing plays a central role in many scientific and engineering domains, which inherently involves two coupled tasks: reconstructing d

Physics-Guided Concentration Inference from Resistance Transients in a Mixed-Phase SnO-SnO_2 Carbon Monoxide Sensor with p-n Switching

arXiv:2605.23971v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work presents a physics-guided machine-learning framework for carbon monoxide concentration inference from experimentally measured resistance tra

Pixelwise Uncertainty Quantification of Accelerated MRI Reconstruction

arXiv:2601.13236v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Parallel imaging techniques reduce magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan time but image quality degrades as the acceleration factor increases.

Poisoning the Watchtower: Prompt Injection Attacks Against LLM-Augmented Security Operations Through Adversarial Log Content

arXiv:2605.24421v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as analyst assistants in security operations centers (SOCs), where they ingest log and alert data t

Polymander II: an amphibious salamander-inspired robot with contact and flow sensors

arXiv:2605.24465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots benefit from sensory information to coordinate body movement, gain robustness against perturbations, and transit between different modes to adapt

PoseRefer: Pathway-Local Parameters for Semantically Grounded Reference Resolution

arXiv:2605.24622v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A robot resolving ``put the cup on that one'' must fuse gesture, language, and scene geometry, yet 3D grounding benchmarks only partially capture this r

Posture Clip: Sit properly or I wont let you work

arXiv:2605.25664v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Poor posture is a significant concern due to its detrimental effects on health and productivity. This paper presents a collar-clipped device called Po

PowerFlow: Unlocking the Dual Nature of LLMs via Principled Distribution Matching

arXiv:2603.18363v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning from Internal Feedback (RLIF) has emerged as a promising paradigm for eliciting the latent capabilities of

PowLU: An Activation Function for Stable Pre-Training of LLMs

arXiv:2605.25704v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In contemporary large language models (LLMs), the swish-gated linear unit (SwiGLU) activation function is widely adopted to regulate the information flo

Predicting Stock Price Direction on Earnings Announcement Days using Multi-modal Deep Learning

arXiv:2605.25894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting stock price movements during Earnings Announcements (EAs) is a significant challenge due to market noise and high-impact price discontinuitie

Prism: Spectral-Aware Block-Sparse Attention

arXiv:2602.08426v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Block-sparse attention is promising for accelerating long-context LLM pre-filling, yet identifying relevant blocks efficiently remains a bottl

Proactive for Uncertainty: Cause-Aware Error Diagnosis and Interactive Clarification for Spoken Dialogue Systems

arXiv:2605.25404v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cascaded Automatic Speech Recognition -- Large Language Model (ASR-LLM) pipelines remain popular for industrial Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS), primarily

Probability Distributions Computed by Autoregressive Transformers

arXiv:2510.27118v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Most expressivity results for transformers treat them as language recognizers -- devices that accept or reject strings -- rather than as they are us

Probing the Preferences of a Language Model: Integrating Verbal and Behavioral Tests of AI Welfare

arXiv:2509.07961v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We develop new experimental paradigms for measuring welfare in language models. We compare verbal reports of models about their preferences with pre

PromptAudit: Auditing Prompt Sensitivity in LLM-Based Vulnerability Detection

arXiv:2605.24171v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used for vulnerability detection, yet their reliability under different prompt formulations remains uncharacter

Psychometric Item Validation Using Virtual Respondents with Trait-Response Mediators

arXiv:2507.05890v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As psychometric surveys are increasingly used to assess the traits of large language models (LLMs), the need for scalable survey item generati

Qiskit Global Summer School 2026: Registration now open

Qiskit Global Summer School 2026 is an educational program offered by IBM that focuses on quantum computing and the Qiskit framework, with registration now available for interested participants. The s

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Quantifying Empirical Compute-Supervision Tradeoffs in RLVR

arXiv:2605.25252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a standard paradigm for post-training language models, but in practice, verifiers are

RAMBA: 4D Radar Mapping by Bundle Adjustment

arXiv:2605.25041v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 4D radar is increasingly attractive for robotic mapping because it provides range, azimuth, elevation, and Doppler measurements while remaining robust i

Random Neural Network Expressivity for Non-Linear Partial Differential Equations

arXiv:2605.25057v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural networks with randomly generated hidden weights (RaNNs) have been extensively studied, both as a standalone learning method and as an initializ

Rao-Blackwellized Score Matching on Manifolds

arXiv:2605.25567v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study denoising score matching (DSM) when the latent distribution is supported on a smooth embedded manifold M subset R^D. Under ambient Gaussian c

Rapid mixing in positively weighted restricted Boltzmann machines

arXiv:2604.00963v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We show polylogarithmic mixing time bounds for the alternating-scan sampler for positively weighted restricted Boltzmann machines. This is don

Re-defining Humor Data Objects for AI Humor Research

arXiv:2605.25171v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In most existing AI humor research, humor was treated as either 'present' or 'not present.' We explore the concept of humor as a social interaction with

Re-examining Granger Causality with Causal Bayesian Networks and Reichenbachs Principles

arXiv:2501.02672v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Characterising cause-effect relationships in complex systems is fundamental to understanding their underlying mechanisms. Granger causality (G

ReactEmbed: A Plug-and-Play Module for Unifying Protein-Molecule Representations Guided by Biochemical Reaction Networks

arXiv:2501.18278v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: State-of-the-art models represent proteins and molecules in separate embedding manifolds, limiting the modeling of systemic biological processes. We

Reading the Finetuning Prior: Verbatim Content Recovery via Contrastive Decoding Diffing

arXiv:2605.25902v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Narrowly finetuned language models memorize implanted content verbatim, but auditing what a deployed model has been taught, without access to its weight

Reinforcement Learning for Reachability: Guaranteeing Asymptotic Optimality

arXiv:2605.24740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) for reachability specifications is fundamental in sequential decision-making, yet theoretical guarantees remain less explore

Rejoinder: The ICML 2023 Ranking Experiment: Examining Author Self-Assessment in ML/AI Peer Review

arXiv:2605.25172v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This article is the rejoinder to ``The ICML 2023 Ranking Experiment: Examining Author Self-Assessment in ML/AI Peer Review,'' to appear in the Journal

Relative Repairability: A Calibration-Based Diagnostic for High-Sparsity Post-Pruning Allocation

arXiv:2605.25508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: At very high sparsity, neural network pruning does more than decide which weights remain. It also determines where pruning induced damage is placed acro

Relative Translation Invariant Wasserstein Distance

arXiv:2409.02416v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Motivated by the Bures distance, we introduce a new family of distances, relative translation invariant Wasserstein distances, denoted by RW_p, as a

Remote sensing data imputation using deep learning for multispectral imagery

arXiv:2605.24003v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Remote sensing techniques have been increasingly utilised in aquatic applications in recent years. A common challenge in using optical satellite data

Repeated Sequences Reveal Gaps between Large Language Models and Natural Language

arXiv:2605.24850v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating whether large language models (LLMs) capture the structure of natural language beyond local fluency remains an open challenge. Existing evalu