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Who Built This Model? Tracing LLM Lineage via Spectral Fingerprints in Weight Space

arXiv:2608.07786v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-weight large language models (LLMs) are increasingly developed through complex, multi-stage pipelines, leading to intricate lineage relationships t

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World Tokens: Enhancing Embodied Policies with Training-Time World Modeling

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arXiv:2608.09730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models are a widely adopted paradigm for embodied policies. They excel at efficient closed-loop control but do not explicit

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Yesterday's Shield, Today's Spear: A Self-Evolving Safety Guardrail in Production

arXiv:2608.08471v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deployed LLM safety guardrails are predominantly static: trained once and frozen at release, while new jailbreak techniques and previously un-addressed

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A Practical Evaluation Method for Long-Form Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation

arXiv:2606.15059v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Simultaneous speech-to-speech translation (SimulS2ST) enables real-time cross-lingual communication, but existing evaluation has focused largely on

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An AI4AI Framework for Visual Token Pruning

arXiv:2608.07193v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual-token pruning can substantially reduce the inference cost of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), yet existing methods largely rely on fix

AutoIntervene: Calibrated Intervention for Action-Chunking Imitation Learning Policies

arXiv:2608.07065v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Action-chunking visuomotor policies learn from demonstrations and improve temporal consistency by predicting short action sequences rather than single

Automated item evaluation: Predicting item acceptance and rejection using LLM-generated critiques

arXiv:2608.06609v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated item evaluation (AIE) refers to the use of computational methods to assess item quality without requiring manual expert review or field testin

Automated Terminal-to-Housing Assembly System for Flat Ribbon Cable Harness

arXiv:2608.06996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a sensor-minimal automated assembly system for bidirectional single-row flat ribbon cable harnesses (FRCHs). Unlike conventional peg

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Beyond Post-Hoc Temperature Scaling: Bilevel Optimization for LLM Calibration

arXiv:2608.07419v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Preference alignment often makes large language models (LLMs) overconfident and poorly calibrated. Traditional post-hoc temperature scaling is inherentl

bioMoR: Biology-Guided Mixture-of-Recursions for Effective Genomic Learning

arXiv:2608.06727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer models for high-dimensional omics analysis process thousands of genes or pathways, although only a subset requires deep computation. Mixture

Blind to the Pivotal Vote: Aggregate Independence Metrics Miss Where Verification Actually Helps

arXiv:2608.06940v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM judge panels are a standard evaluation tool, but prior work reports highly correlated panel errors: nine judges provide roughly the effective inform

Bootstrap-Conditioned Action Selection with Tabular Foundation Models

arXiv:2608.06559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contextual bandits offer a natural framework for sample-efficient personalization, but practical deployment remains difficult under sparse, biased inter

Bypassing Krum: Selection-Aware Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning

arXiv:2608.06637v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust aggregation methods are widely used in federated learning to mitigate the impact of adversarial client behavior. Distance-based aggregation rul

Calibrating WEAT Against Anisotropy: ZCA Whitening as a Geometric Pre-Processing Step for Embedding Association Tests

arXiv:2608.06908v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose Zero-phase Component Analysis (ZCA) whitening as a geometric pre-processing step for the Word Embedding Association Test (WEAT). WEAT is a

CASA: Classification Augmented with Safety Attention for Robust Multimodal Alignment

arXiv:2604.00310v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large-language models (MLLMs) often experience degraded safety alignment when harmful queries exploit cross-modal interactions. Mod

Cascade: Exploiting SLO-Aware latency budget for fair and high goodput LLM inference serving

arXiv:2608.06557v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The reasoning and agentic capabilities of large language models have expanded the range of applications they support, from short interactive exchanges

CEDAR: Agent-Orchestrated Tree Search for Goal-Directed Optimization of Complex Systems

arXiv:2608.06871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Complex systems, core objects of study in artificial life, model diverse phenomena through nonlinear, feedback-driven interactions that produce emergent

CHIME: A Case for Efficient Long-Context Attention-FC Disaggregated Inference with DIMM-PIM

arXiv:2504.17584v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Attention-FC Disaggregated (AFD) LLM inference systems offload memory-bound Attention operations to memory-rich accelerators (e.g., CPUs, HBM-

Confidence Estimation for Financial Vision-Language Models in Chart and Document Understanding

arXiv:2608.06532v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LVLMs are increasingly used to read financial charts, tables, and documents, where a single misread figure can move a decision and the most authoritativ

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Corrupting Attention: Evasion-Based Adversarial Attacks on Encoder Attention in Detection Transformers

arXiv:2608.06674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adversarial vulnerabilities remain a major concern for the safe deployment of neural networks, particularly in object detection, a core task embedded in

Counterfactual Shapley Credit Assignment

arXiv:2607.16999v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Credit Assignment Problem (CAP) is fundamental to developing efficient and explainable Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents. Existing framew

CreativeInstruct: Scalably Teaching LLMs to Balance Quality, Creativity, and Diversity

arXiv:2608.07460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While post-training improves the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), it generally lowers their output diversity and creativity, negatively i

CrystalGRPO: Target-Aligned and Coverage-Preserving Reinforcement Learning for Flow-Based Crystal Structure Prediction

arXiv:2608.06582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow-based generative models can efficiently produce candidate structures for crystal structure prediction (CSP), but their pretrained objectives do not

DA-Cal: Towards Cross-Domain Calibration in Semantic Segmentation

arXiv:2602.20860v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While existing unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods greatly enhance target domain performance in semantic segmentation, they often neglect n

Degradation-Aware Prompt Learning with Cross-Modal Compensation for Adverse Weather Removal

arXiv:2608.06939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adverse weather causes diverse and complex image degradations, severely compromising the reliability of computer vision systems. Existing all-in-one res

Density-Functional Excited-State Gradients and Nonadiabatic Couplings on a Consumer GPU from a Contraction-DAG

arXiv:2608.06536v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Nonadiabatic dynamics needs an excited-state gradient and an interstate nonadiabatic coupling matrix element (NACME) at every nuclear geometry, and a

DiDPO: Diff-in-Diff Policy Optimization for Coding Agent Training

arXiv:2608.07147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training coding agents, where the execution feedback from co

Do 3D Medical Foundation Models See Through MRI Artifacts? A Controlled Study of Representation Robustness

arXiv:2608.06613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-supervised 3D medical foundation models are increasingly used as general-purpose feature extractors, yet their sensitivity to MRI artifacts remai

Does Splitting a Triage Decision Across Agents Hide Bias or Help Catch It? A Multi-Agent Simulation Study of LLM-Based Resource Allocation Under Audit Capacity Constraints

arXiv:2608.06949v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prior benchmarking work has shown that a single large language model (LLM), forced to make life-or-death resource-allocation decisions, exhibits measura

Dual-Space Modality Consistency Learning for Universal Cross-Modal Re-Identification

arXiv:2608.06943v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-modal Re-Identification (ReID) aims to retrieve the same identity across heterogeneous imaging modalities and has been widely studied in visible-i

Explore or Converge? Stage-Guided Per-Step Optimization for Diffusion Models

arXiv:2608.06768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models have strong generative capabilities. However, their maximum likelihood training objective only focuses on reconstructing the data distr

FedVAR: Prototype-Aligned Federated Framework for Video Anomaly Recognition

arXiv:2608.06876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In the era of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Federated Learning (FL) offers a promising decentralized intellig

From Cheap Fakes to Pure Synthesis: Addressing the New Era of T2V Fake News Videos

arXiv:2608.06732v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent text-to-video (T2V) generation models enable fake news videos to be synthesized from scratch, shifting the threat beyond cheap fakes assembled fr

From Optimal Actions to World Models: Identifiability of Transition Kernels in Discounted MDPs

arXiv:2608.07301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study what can be recovered about the transition probabilities of a Markov decision process from optimal actions alone. This is closely related to th

Gated-BEPO: Confidence-Gated Bellman Credit Assignment for Large Language Model Agents

arXiv:2608.06861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training large language model agents in long-horizon environments requires assigning credit from sparse terminal outcomes to individual actions. Existin

Genotypic Triggers: Exposing Pharmacogenomic Blind Spots via Host-Specific Backdoors in Generative Antimicrobial Peptide Models

arXiv:2608.06779v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have accelerated drug discovery, particularly in the automated design of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). However, current

GOPI: Generation-Oriented 3D Pose Inference for Furniture Insertion from Single-View RGB-D Indoor Scenes

arXiv:2608.06836v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the problem of inserting new furniture into indoor scene images. Under masked single-view 2D image-plane conditioning, however, the physical sc

Grad-ECLIP: Gradient-based Visual and Textual Explanations for CLIP

arXiv:2502.18816v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Significant progress has been achieved on the improvement and downstream usages of the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) vision-languag

Graph Machine: Exploring Edge Mechanisms as an Inductive Bias

arXiv:2608.06834v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformers provide a powerful architecture for global content-based matching, but reasoning problems may benefit from a stronger inductive bias toward

High-dimensional ridgeless least squares interpolation under spiked covariance structures

arXiv:2608.07281v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of the out-of-sample prediction risk of the high-dimensional ridgeless least-squares estimator when th

How Much, Then Where: Credit-Conserving Action-to-Token Allocation for Multi-Turn Agent Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.07118v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Credit assignment in multi-turn agent reinforcement learning operates at two levels: assigning trajectory-level credit to actions and distributing each

How Should I Pick a Foundation Model for My Robot? In Favor of a Community Evaluation Framework for Social Robots

arXiv:2608.06898v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Researchers who seek to build social robot applications on foundation models are faced with a difficult question: how should we pick a model? Public l

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How WPP operationalizes platform and data engineering for AI marketing

Between chaotic levels of market fragmentation and economic volatility, marketing and communications agencies can no longer rely on the human intuition they’ve traditionally used to win clients and op

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Identity as Presence: Towards Appearance and Voice Personalized Joint Audio-Video Generation

arXiv:2603.17889v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in video synthesis have enabled realistic integration of real individuals, driving demand for identity-aware generation. While emerg

Improving Performance of Spike-based Deep Q-Learning using Ternary Neurons

arXiv:2506.03392v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose a new ternary spiking neuron model to improve the representation capacity of binary spiking neurons in deep Q-learning. Although a ternar

Interpretable reinforcement learning with decision-tree pruning

arXiv:2608.07151v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning policies are difficult to inspect, but interpreting them is a prerequisite for trustworthiness. Converting a trained policy int

Is Forward Prediction Enough? Physical State Grounding for JEPA World Models

arXiv:2608.06799v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning structured and control-relevant latent representations remains a key challenge for world models. Recent JEPA-based world models learn action-

KnifeHunter: Structured Local Representation Learning for Fine-Grained Knife Image Retrieval in Law Enforcement

arXiv:2608.07057v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knife-enabled violence presents a major public safety challenge, and law enforcement agencies require scalable tools for catalogue-level knife identific