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ZeD-MAP: Bundle Adjustment Guided Zero-Shot Depth Maps for Real-Time Aerial Imaging

arXiv:2604.04667v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-time depth reconstruction from ultra-high-resolution UAV imagery is essential for time-critical geospatial tasks such as disaster response, yet

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20/20 Vision Language Models: A Prescription for Better VLMs through Data Curation Alone

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arXiv:2605.11405v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data curation has shifted the quality-compute frontier for language-model and contrastive image-text pretraining, but its role for vision-language model

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4DVGGT-D: 4D Visual Geometry Transformer with Improved Dynamic Depth Estimation

arXiv:2605.12027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconstructing dynamic 4D scenes from monocular videos is a fundamental yet challenging task. While recent 3D foundation models provide strong geometric

A categorical error sensitivity index (ISEC): A preventive ordinal decision-support measure for irrecoverable errors in manual data entry systems

arXiv:2605.12328v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data entry systems remain structurally vulnerable to categorical misclassifications, particularly in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). When nom

A Causal Language Modeling Detour Improves Encoder Continued Pretraining

arXiv:2605.12438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When adapting an encoder to a new domain, the standard approach is to continue training with Masked Language Modeling (MLM). We show that temporarily sw

A Comparative Study of Controlled Text Generation Systems Using Level-Playing-Field Evaluation Principles

arXiv:2605.12395v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background: Many different approaches to controlled text generation (CTG) have been proposed over recent years, but it is difficult to get a clear pictu

A Comparative Study of Model Selection Criteria for Symbolic Regression

arXiv:2605.11233v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective model selection is critical in symbolic regression (SR) to identify mathematical expressions that balance accuracy and complexity, and have lo

A Composite Activation Function for Learning Stable Binary Representations

arXiv:2605.11558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation functions play a central role in neural networks by shaping internal representations. Recently, learning binary activation representations ha

A Controlled Counterexample to Strong Proxy-Based Explanations of OOD Performance: in a Fixed Pretraining-and-Probing Setup

arXiv:2605.11554v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Task-agnostic structure proxies are often used to interpret why one pretraining corpus transfers better than another, but such explanations require the

A Formal Comparison Between Chain of Thought and Latent Thought

arXiv:2509.25239v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chain of thought (CoT) elicits reasoning in large language models by explicitly generating intermediate tokens. In contrast, latent thought re

A Mimetic Detector for Adversarial Image Perturbations

arXiv:2605.11492v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adversarial attacks fool deep image classifiers by adding tiny, almost invisible noise patterns to a clean image. The standard ell^infty-bounded attacks

A Mixture Autoregressive Image Generative Model on Quadtree Regions for Gaussian Noise Removal via Variational Bayes and Gradient Methods

arXiv:2605.11585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of image denoising for grayscale images. We propose a probabilistic image generative model that combines a quadtree reg

A proximal gradient algorithm for composite log-concave sampling

arXiv:2605.12461v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose an algorithm to sample from composite log-concave distributions over R^d, i.e., densities of the form pipropto e^{-f-g}, assuming access to

A Semi-Supervised Framework for Speech Confidence Detection using Whisper

arXiv:2605.12387v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic detection of speaker confidence is critical for adaptive computing but remains constrained by limited labelled data and the subjectivity of

Acceleration of horizontal numerical advection for atmospheric modeling through surrogate modeling with temporal coarse-graining

arXiv:2605.10956v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine-learned surrogate modeling of advection may accelerate geoscientific models, but existing approaches have either achieved limited speedup or h

Action Hallucination in Generative Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2602.06339v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robot Foundation Models, such as VLAs, promise end-to-end generative robot policies with broad generalization. Yet it remains unclear whether they f

Active inference as a unified model of collision avoidance behavior in human drivers

arXiv:2506.02215v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Collision avoidance -- involving a rapid threat detection and quick execution of the appropriate evasive maneuver -- is a critical aspect of driving

Adaptive Calibration in Non-Stationary Environments

arXiv:2605.11490v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Making calibrated online predictions is a central challenge in modern AI systems. Much of the existing literature focuses on fully adversarial environme

Adversarial Causal Tuning for Realistic Time-series Generation

arXiv:2506.02084v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We address the problem of generating simulated, yet realistic, time-series data from a causal model with the same observational and interventional d

Adversarial Effects on Expressibility and Trainability in Distributed Variational Quantum Algorithms

arXiv:2605.03629v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Distributed quantum algorithms offer a promising pathway to scale variational quantum algorithms beyond the constraints of noisy intermediate-scale qu

AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it. A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month

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AlphaEarth Satellite Embeddings for Modelling Climate Sensitive Diseases Towards Global Health Resilience

arXiv:2605.10949v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Malaria, childhood acute respiratory infection, and child undernutrition together account for over two million deaths annually in children under five,

Analytical Provisioning for Attention-FFN Disaggregated LLM Serving under Stochastic Workloads

arXiv:2601.21351v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Attentio-FFN disaggregation (AFD) is an emerging architecture for LLM decoding that separates state-heavy, KV-cache-dominated Attention computation

Anomaly-Aware Vision-Language Adapters for Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2605.12069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zero-shot anomaly detection aims to identify defects in unseen categories without target-specific training. Existing methods usually apply the same feat

AOI-SSL: Self-Supervised Framework for Efficient Segmentation of Wire-bonded Semiconductors In Optical Inspection

arXiv:2605.12430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Segmentation models in automated optical inspection of wire-bonded semiconductors are typically device-specific and must be re-trained when new devices

Approximating Simple ReLU Networks based on Spectral Decomposition of Fisher Information

arXiv:2505.17907v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Properties of Fisher information matrices of 2-layer neural ReLU networks with random hidden weights are studied. For these networks, it is kn

Approximation of Maximally Monotone Operators : A Graph Convergence Perspective

arXiv:2605.12301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Operator learning has been highly successful for continuous mappings between infinite-dimensional spaces, such as PDE solution operators. However, many

Arbitrated Indirect Treatment Comparisons

arXiv:2510.18071v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Matching-adjusted indirect comparison (MAIC) has been increasingly employed in health technology assessments (HTA). By reweighting subjects fr

arepsilon-Good Action Identification in Fixed-Budget Monte Carlo Tree Search

arXiv:2605.11324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the fixed-budget max-min action identification problem in depth-2 max-min trees, an important special case of Monte Carlo Tree Search. A learne

Behavioral Mode Discovery for Fine-tuning Multimodal Generative Policies

arXiv:2605.11387v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We address the problem of fine-tuning pre-trained generative policies with reinforcement learning (RL) while preserving the multimodality of their actio

Beyond Masks: The Case for Medical Image Parsing

arXiv:2605.11438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical imaging research has spent a decade getting very good at one thing: producing per-voxel masks. Masks tell us size, volume, and location, and a d

Beyond Point Estimates: Distributional Uncertainty in Machine Learning Performance Evaluation

arXiv:2501.16931v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine learning models are often evaluated using point estimates of performance metrics such as accuracy, F1 score, or mean squared error. Such sum

Beyond Similarity: Temporal Operator Attention for Time Series Analysis

arXiv:2605.11287v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A persistent paradox in time-series forecasting is that structurally simple MLP and linear models often outperform high-capacity Transformers. We argue

BitLM: Unlocking Multi-Token Language Generation with Bitwise Continuous Diffusion

arXiv:2605.11577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive language models generate text one token at a time, yet natural language is inherently structured in multi-token units, including phrases,

BLOCK-EM: Preventing Emergent Misalignment via Latent Blocking

arXiv:2602.00767v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Emergent misalignment can arise when a language model is fine-tuned on a narrowly scoped supervised objective: the model learns the target behavior,

BronchoLumen: Analysis of recent YOLO-based architectures for real-time bronchial orifice detection in video bronchoscopy

arXiv:2605.11748v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bronchoscopy is routinely conducted in pulmonary clinics and intensive care units, but navigating the complex branching of the respiratory tract remains

Can Nano Banana 2 Replace Traditional Image Restoration Models? An Evaluation of Its Performance on Image Restoration Tasks

arXiv:2604.03061v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in generative AI raise the question of whether general-purpose image editing models can serve as unified solutions for image restora

CAST: Collapse-Aware multi-Scale Topology Fusion for Multimodal Coreset Selection

arXiv:2605.11705v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The training of large multimodal models fundamentally relies on massive image-text datasets, which inevitably incur prohibitive computational overhead.

Choosing features for classifying multiword expressions

arXiv:2605.11779v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multiword expressions (MWEs) are a heterogeneous set with a glaring need for classifications. Designing a satisfactory classification involves choosing

Closing the Motion Execution Gap: From Semantic Motion Task Constraints to Kinematic Control

arXiv:2605.12053v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses the Motion Execution Gap, the disconnect between high-level symbolic task descriptions using semantic constraints and executable ro

Compositional Neural Operators for Multi-Dimensional Fluid Dynamics

arXiv:2605.11691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Partial differential equations (PDEs) govern diverse physical phenomena, yet high-fidelity numerical solutions are computationally expensive and Machine

Computational Design of a Low-Visibility UAV Using a Human-Aligned Perceptual Metric

arXiv:2605.11296v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Phantom Twist, a type of single-propeller UAV designed to achieve low visibility through high-speed spinning and the exploitation of motion

Concepts in Motion: Temporal Concept Bottleneck Model for Interpretable Video Classification

arXiv:2509.20899v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) enable interpretable image classification by structuring predictions around human-understandable concepts, but exte

Constrained Stochastic Spectral Preconditioning Converges for Nonconvex Objectives

arXiv:2605.11850v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this work, we develop proximal preconditioned gradient methods with a focus on spectral gradient methods providing a proximal extension to the Muon

Context Convergence Improves Answering Inferential Questions

arXiv:2605.12370v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used in open-domain Question Answering (QA), their ability to handle inferential questions-where answers m

Contrastive Learning under Noisy Temporal Self-Supervision for Colonoscopy Videos

arXiv:2605.12320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning robust representations of polyp tracklets is key to enabling multiple AI-assisted colonoscopy applications, from polyp characterization to auto

Curriculum Learning-Guided Progressive Distillation in Large Language Models

arXiv:2605.11260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge distillation is a key technique for transferring the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) into smaller, more efficient student models.

DAG: A Dual Correlation Network for Time Series Forecasting with Exogenous Variables

arXiv:2509.14933v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Time series forecasting is essential in various domains. Compared to relying solely on endogenous variables (i.e., target variables), considering ex