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AIFIND: Artifact-Aware Interpreting Fine-Grained Alignment for Incremental Face Forgery Detection

arXiv:2604.16207v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As forgery types continue to emerge consistently, Incremental Face Forgery Detection (IFFD) has become a crucial paradigm. However, existing methods t

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Amazon’s AI coding boom is creating a mess. Vibe coding their way to chaos.

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Amazon’s AI coding boom is creating a mess. Vibe coding their way to chaos. @GaryMarcus 🦔The internal document was reported by Business Insider. Here’s the link: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-spr

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AutoDrive-R^2: Incentivizing Reasoning and Self-Reflection Capacity for VLA Model in Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2509.01944v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models in autonomous driving systems have recently demonstrated transformative potential by integrating multimoda

C-Mining: Unsupervised Discovery of Seeds for Cultural Data Synthesis via Geometric Misalignment

arXiv:2604.15675v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving cultural alignment in Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly depends on synthetic data generation. For such synthesis, the most vital initi

CASR: A Robust Cyclic Framework for Arbitrary Large-Scale Super-Resolution with Distribution Alignment and Self-Similarity Awareness

arXiv:2602.22159v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Arbitrary-Scale SR (ASISR) remains fundamentally limited by cross-scale distribution shift: once the inference scale leaves the training range, nois

Causal Bootstrapped Alignment for Unsupervised Video-Based Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification

arXiv:2604.15631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: VVI-ReID is a critical technique for all-day surveillance, where temporal information provides additional cues beyond static images. However, existing a

Cognitive Agency Surrender: Defending Epistemic Sovereignty via Scaffolded AI Friction

arXiv:2603.21735v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The proliferation of Generative Artificial Intelligence has transformed benign cognitive offloading into a systemic risk of cognitive agency s

Comparing the latent features of universal machine-learning interatomic potentials

arXiv:2512.05717v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The past few years have seen the development of ``universal'' machine-learning interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) capable of approximating the gr

Concept-wise Attention for Fine-grained Concept Bottleneck Models

arXiv:2604.15748v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently impressive performance has been achieved in Concept Bottleneck Models (CBM) by utilizing the image-text alignment learned by a large pre-traine

Constant-Factor Approximations for Doubly Constrained Fair k-Center, k-Median and k-Means

arXiv:2604.16061v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study discrete k-clustering problems in general metric spaces that are constrained by a combination of two different fairness conditions within the

Contact-Aware Planning and Control of Continuum Robots in Highly Constrained Environments

arXiv:2604.15638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuum robots are well suited for navigating confined and fragile environments, such as vascular or endoluminal anatomy, where contact with surroundi

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Deliberative Searcher: Improving LLM Reliability via Reinforcement Learning with constraints

arXiv:2507.16727v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Improving the reliability of large language models (LLMs) is critical for deploying them in real-world scenarios. In this paper, we propose extbf{De

Distribution Shift Alignment Helps LLMs Simulate Survey Response Distributions

arXiv:2510.21977v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) offer a promising way to simulate human survey responses, potentially reducing the cost of large-scale data collection.

Dynamic Sampling that Adapts: Self-Aware Iterative Data Persistent Optimization for Mathematical Reasoning

arXiv:2505.16176v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In mathematical reasoning, data selection strategies predominantly rely on static, externally defined metrics, which fail to adapt to the evolving c

DyTact: Capturing Dynamic Contacts in Hand-Object Manipulation

arXiv:2506.03103v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reconstructing dynamic hand-object contacts is essential for realistic manipulation in AI character animation, XR, and robotics, yet it remains chal

Elucidating the SNR-t Bias of Diffusion Probabilistic Models

arXiv:2604.16044v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion Probabilistic Models have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of generative tasks. However, we have observed that these mo

Enhancing AI and Dynamical Subseasonal Forecasts with Probabilistic Bias Correction

arXiv:2604.16238v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decision-makers rely on weather forecasts to plant crops, manage wildfires, allocate water and energy, and prepare for weather extremes. Today, such for

Exploitation Over Exploration: Unmasking the Bias in Linear Bandit Recommender Offline Evaluation

arXiv:2507.18756v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) algorithms are widely used in recommender systems that require continuous, incremental learning. A core aspect of MABs is t

Find, Fix, Reason: Context Repair for Video Reasoning

arXiv:2604.16243v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning has advanced video reasoning in large multi-modal models, yet dominant pipelines either rely on on-policy self-exploration, which

FineSteer: A Unified Framework for Fine-Grained Inference-Time Steering in Large Language Models

arXiv:2604.15488v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit undesirable behaviors, such as safety violations and hallucinations. Although inference-time steering offer

Flexible Empowerment at Reasoning with Extended Best-of-N Sampling

arXiv:2604.15614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes a novel method that incorporates empowerment when reasoning actions in reinforcement learning (RL), thereby achieving the flexibilit

Follow the Flow: On Information Flow Across Textual Tokens in Text-to-Image Models

arXiv:2504.01137v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Text-to-image generation models suffer from alignment problems, where generated images fail to accurately capture the objects and relations in the t

From Competition to Coopetition: Coopetitive Training-Free Image Editing Based on Text Guidance

arXiv:2604.15948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-guided image editing, a pivotal task in modern multimedia content creation, has seen remarkable progress with training-free methods that eliminate

From Intention to Text: AI-Supported Goal Setting in Academic Writing

arXiv:2604.15800v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study presents WriteFlow, an AI voice-based writing assistant designed to support reflective academic writing through goal-oriented interaction.

Geometric regularization of autoencoders via observed stochastic dynamics

arXiv:2604.16282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stochastic dynamical systems with slow or metastable behavior evolve, on long time scales, on an unknown low-dimensional manifold in high-dimensional am

GroupDPO: Memory efficient Group-wise Direct Preference Optimization

arXiv:2604.15602v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Preference optimization is widely used to align Large Language Models (LLMs) with preference feedback. However, most existing methods train on a single

Hierarchical Codec Diffusion for Video-to-Speech Generation

arXiv:2604.15923v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video-to-Speech (VTS) generation aims to synthesize speech from a silent video without auditory signals. However, existing VTS methods disregard the h

How people use Copilot for Health

arXiv:2604.15331v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We analyze over 500,000 de-identified health-related conversations with Microsoft Copilot from January 2026 to characterize what people ask conversati

Import AI 454: Automating alignment research; safety study of a Chinese model; HiFloat4

This newsletter covers three main topics: advances in automating alignment research to improve AI safety processes, a safety evaluation study of a Chinese AI model, and technical details about HiFloat

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Importantly, the tweet by @itsolelehmann may be misleading. I stand by what I said but have some reason to think that @AmandaAskell’s views …

Importantly, the tweet by @itsolelehmann may be misleading. I stand by what I said but have some reason to think that @AmandaAskell’s views may have been misrepresented. Seeking clarification and will

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Improving Reasoning Capabilities in Small Models through Mixture-of-Layers Distillation with Stepwise Attention on Key Information

arXiv:2604.15701v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The significant computational demands of large language models have increased interest in distilling reasoning abilities into smaller models via Chain-o

Information-Consistent Language Model Recommendations through Group Relative Policy Optimization

arXiv:2512.12858v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in business-critical domains such as finance, education, healthcare, and customer suppo

Jailbreak Scaling Laws for Large Language Models: Polynomial-Exponential Crossover

arXiv:2603.11331v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Adversarial attacks can reliably steer safety-aligned large language models toward unsafe behavior. Empirically, we find that strong adversari

Je suis passé à Découverte de @CBCRadioCanada pour discuter des risques de l’IA, des raisons scientifiques qui expliquent certains des compo…

Je suis passé à Découverte de @CBCRadioCanada pour discuter des risques de l’IA, des raisons scientifiques qui expliquent certains des comportements inquiétants des modèles de pointe, et des solutions

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Joint-Centric Dual Contrastive Alignment with Structure-Preserving and Information-Balanced Regularization

arXiv:2604.16247v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose HILBERT (HIerarchical Long-sequence Balanced Embedding with Reciprocal contrastive Training), a cross-attentive multimodal framework for le

Language Models as Semantic Teachers: Post-Training Alignment for Medical Audio Understanding

arXiv:2512.04847v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pre-trained audio models excel at detecting acoustic patterns in auscultation sounds but often fail to grasp their clinical significance, limi

Language, Place, and Social Media: Geographic Dialect Alignment in New Zealand

arXiv:2604.15744v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This thesis investigates geographic dialect alignment in place-informed social media communities, focussing on New Zealand-related Reddit communities. B

Large Language Models for Market Research: A Data-augmentation Approach

arXiv:2412.19363v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed artificial intelligence by excelling in complex natural language processing tasks. Their ability to ge

Learning to Look before Learning to Like: Incorporating Human Visual Cognition into Aesthetic Quality Assessment

arXiv:2604.15853v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated Aesthetic Quality Assessment (AQA) treats images primarily as static pixel vectors, aligning predictions with human-rating scores largely thro

literally my basic model since 1998. crazy that some people still haven’t figured this out.

literally my basic model since 1998. crazy that some people still haven’t figured this out. My basic model of capabilities: LLMs are good at problems similar to those that appear in their training dat

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LLMs are “ good at math style problems, where you tell them A, B and C are true, and then ask them to figure out D [but] extremely bad at an…

LLMs are “ good at math style problems, where you tell them A, B and C are true, and then ask them to figure out D [but] extremely bad at anything involving what I would call mature scholarship .. [so

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Long-Term Memory for VLA-based Agents in Open-World Task Execution

arXiv:2604.15671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated significant potential for embodied decision-making; however, their application in complex chemical

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M3R: Localized Rainfall Nowcasting with Meteorology-Informed MultiModal Attention

arXiv:2604.15377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate and timely rainfall nowcasting is crucial for disaster mitigation and water resource management. Despite recent advances in deep learning, pr

MFC-RFNet: A Multi-scale Guided Rectified Flow Network for Radar Sequence Prediction

arXiv:2601.03633v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate and high-resolution precipitation nowcasting from radar echo sequences is crucial for disaster mitigation and economic planning, yet

Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning With Augmented States Requires Rewards After Deployment

arXiv:2604.15757v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This research note identifies a previously overlooked distinction between multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL), and more conventional single-ob

On the Rejection Criterion for Proxy-based Test-time Alignment

arXiv:2604.16146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent works proposed test-time alignment methods that rely on a small aligned model as a proxy that guides the generation of a larger base (unaligned)

On theCUBE Pod: IBM’s AI strategy, infrastructure bottlenecks and ecosystem partnerships reshape markets

Artificial intelligence infrastructure is now the deciding force behind enterprise competitiveness. What was once a backend concern has moved directly into the center of business strategy, shaping how

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One-Shot Cross-Geometry Skill Transfer through Part Decomposition

arXiv:2604.15455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Given a demonstration, a robot should be able to generalize a skill to any object it encounters-but existing approaches to skill transfer often fail to

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