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Correlation flow governs learning at criticality

arXiv:2608.08350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The initialisation of deep neural networks determines whether information and gradients can propagate across depth, yet a unified theory connecting thes

CPDA: Class-Conditional Path Distribution Alignment for Unsupervised Time-Series Domain Adaptation

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arXiv:2608.09193v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unsupervised time-series domain adaptation (DA) addresses the challenge of transferring a classifier from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled targ

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Critic-Free Deep Reinforcement Learning for Maritime Coverage Path Planning on Irregular Hexagonal Grids

arXiv:2603.28385v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Maritime surveillance missions, such as search and rescue and environmental monitoring, rely on the efficient allocation of sensing assets ove

Crowd-Sourced Geographies of Income: Using Google Maps Points of Interest as High-Frequency Proxies for Sub-Municipal Income Estimation in Sao Paulo, Brazil

arXiv:2608.07871v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate, up-to-date income data at the sub-municipal scale is essential for social policy in middle-income countries, yet in Brazil it depends on a c

CUPA-T2: Covariance-Aware Uncertainty Propagation and Alignment for T2 Mapping in Accelerated MRI

arXiv:2608.08693v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantitative T2* maps have strong potential for biomarker discovery but are limited by long scan times, rendering them impractical in clinical settings.

CyberAGENTS: Structured Autonomy for Agentic Gamified Learning in Cybersecurity

arXiv:2608.07965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gamification is especially effective in learning domains requiring active problem-solving and iterative skill-building, such as cybersecurity education.

DA-NBV: A Direction-Aware Next-Best-View Planner for Efficient 3D Reconstruction of Ships at Sea

arXiv:2608.08025v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate 3D reconstruction of ships at sea is important for maritime supervision, damage assessment, and autonomous maritime operations. Although 3D r

Decoy Images Amplify Caption-Mediated Defenses Against Encoded Jailbreaks

arXiv:2608.01043v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We report a counter-intuitive interaction between image inputs and existing black-box defenses on Vision--Language Models (VLMs): pairing an e

Demystifying Prediction Powered Inference

arXiv:2601.20819v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine learning predictions are increasingly used to supplement incomplete or costly-to-measure outcomes in fields such as biomedical researc

Dense Point-to-Mask Optimization with Reinforced Point Selection for Crowd Instance Segmentation

arXiv:2604.01742v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Crowd instance segmentation is a crucial task with a wide range of applications, including surveillance and transportation. Currently, point labels

Deployable Per-Instance Multi-Layer Activation Steering for Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.08829v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Activation steering edits the behaviour of a frozen language model by adding a learned vector to its residual stream, and current practice fixes the i

Designing for Ethical AI: HCI Feature Considerations to Improve Fairness and User Experience in AutoML use for Human Resources

arXiv:2608.07477v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This thesis examines the fairness of Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) tools in human resource hiring systems through the combined lenses of regulat

Determinization in Structure Theories: A Unified Framework via Closure, Comparability, and Joint Admissibility

arXiv:2608.07476v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We develop a formal framework for constructing canonical interpretations from plural structure theories. A structure theory is a triple T = ({Sigma}, A,

DH-VLM: Dual-Horizon Cooperative Latent Reasoning for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2608.09333v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale language models for autonomous driving enable enhanced global understanding and long-horizon planning. However, when deployed in isolated ve

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DiSCo: Diffusion Sequence Copilots for Shared Autonomy

arXiv:2603.22787v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Shared autonomy combines human user and AI copilot actions to control complex systems such as robotic arms. When a task is challenging, requir

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Discovering and Causally Validating Emotion-Sensitive Neurons in Large Audio-Language Models

arXiv:2601.03115v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Emotion is a central dimension of spoken communication, yet, we still lack a mechanistic account of how modern large audio-language models (LALMs) e

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Distill Skills into Weights, Not Prompts: Abstract Skills as Privileged Signals for On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2608.09826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards yields no group-relative signal when rollout groups are uniformly correct or uniformly wrong, which acc

Distilling Vision-Language Models for Robust Traffic Sign Perception in Autonomous Vehicles

arXiv:2608.08815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic sign recognition (TSR) models based on deep neural networks achieve strong clean-data performance but remain vulnerable to physically realizable

Distributed Optimization with Streaming Data: A Temporal Weighting Perspective

arXiv:2608.09565v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optimization theory is a widely used tool for intelligent decision-making. While classical optimization deals with fixed, time-invariant objective fun

Distribution-Free Conformal Prediction for Steel Fatigue Strength: Marginal Validity Is Not Enough

arXiv:2608.07589v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting fatigue failure in steel components experimentally is costly because it requires testing across multiple compositions and processing condit

DoGMA: A Central-Dogma-Guided Foundation Model for Multi-Omics Alignment and Multi-Task Learning in Oncology

arXiv:2608.08148v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Attention mechanisms have been widely utilized in modern deep learning, and many existing multi-omics models inherit their conventional use to allow u

DreOPD: Degraded-Reference Extrapolative On-Policy Distillation for Flow-matching Models

arXiv:2608.09233v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flow-matching models are now a mainstream method to image generation, but its adaptation to diverse downstream scenarios typically relies on post-trai

DSLE: A Learning Environment for Dark Souls Boss Encounters

arXiv:2608.09902v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce the Dark Souls Learning Environment (DSLE), a containerized platform that presents all 22 boss encounters of Dark Souls: Remastered as game

Dual-Adversarial Safety Alignment: Cultivating Intrinsic Threat Comprehension in LRMs

arXiv:2608.09542v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large reasoning models (LRMs) achieve remarkable success on complex tasks but remain vulnerable to harmful prompts that induce unsafe outputs. Recent

Dynamic Distribution-Aware Uncertainty Tracking in Vision-Language Representation Learning

arXiv:2608.09011v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) aims to measure the reliability of model predictions, serving as a critical safeguard for deploying Vision-Language Mode

EFFEKT: Efficient Federated Knowledge Transfer to Foundation Models

arXiv:2608.08138v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent data protection laws have accelerated the adoption of Federated Learning (FL) for privacy-preserving decentralized training. Nevertheless, increa

Efficient Real-World Online Reinforcement Learning for Robot Manipulation via Centralized Training and Critic Decomposition

arXiv:2608.09762v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world online reinforcement learning (RL) provides a promising approach for training robotic manipulation policies directly in the physical world, a

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EHR-MPC: Inference-Time Control for Sepsis Treatment with Generative Patient Digital Twins

arXiv:2607.08793v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sepsis is a leading cause of mortality, yet optimal treatment policies remain contested. Existing reinforcement learning (RL) approaches learn

Energy-Structured Latent World Models with Neural Time Fields for Physically Constistent Open-World Motion Planning

arXiv:2608.09876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physically consistent motion planning remains a fundamental challenge in embodied AI, as generated trajectories must strictly conform to real-world ex

Ethical Framework for Responsible Foundational Models in Medical Imaging

arXiv:2406.11868v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The emergence of foundational models represents a paradigm shift in medical imaging, offering extraordinary capabilities in disease detection,

Evaluation of Motivational Interviewing Counsellors with Task-Aware Multi-Stage LLM-Based Simulated Clients

arXiv:2608.07499v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The development and benchmarking of Large Language Model (LLM)-based Motivational Interviewing (MI) counsellors now often rely on LLM-based simulated

Evolving Safety Landscape of Multi-modal Large Language Models: A Survey of Emerging Threats and Safeguards

arXiv:2608.07535v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) integrate heterogeneous modalities through modality alignment and fusion, enabling stronger understanding an

Explaining, Verifying, and Aligning Semantic Hierarchies in Vision-Language Model Embeddings

arXiv:2603.26798v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language model (VLM) encoders such as CLIP enable strong retrieval and zero-shot classification in a shared image-text embedding space,

Explore, Map, Remember, Decide: Are Embodied VLMs Ready for Safety-Critical Scenarios?

arXiv:2608.08077v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Theory of Space framework (ToS) assesses the spatial understanding of curiosity-driven Vision-Language Models (VLMs) under partial observability. As AI

F2STNet: Fair and Federated Spectral-Temporal Modeling for Graph Forecasting

arXiv:2608.09082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatiotemporal prediction on graph-structured data is central to traffic forecasting and environmental monitoring, yet decentralized and heterogeneous d

FactorDrive: Adaptive Multi-Step Reasoning Driven by Planning-Critical Factors for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2608.09591v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced scene understanding and enabled explicit reasoning in end-to-end autonomous driving. However, existing met

Fairness in Link Prediction Beyond Demographic Parity: A Reproducibility Study

arXiv:2608.09899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In fair ranked link prediction, demographic parity (Delta_DP) is a common fairness metric. Yet, Mattos et al. (2025) argue that it fails to detect expos

Financial Numerical Prediction and Allocation as Token Generation

arXiv:2608.09880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial prediction typically relies on task-specific regression, ranking, or policy heads, separating the language model from the numerical object ult

Finite basis physics-informed neural networks with hard constraints for viscous fluid flow in highly perforated domains

arXiv:2608.08114v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this work, viscous fluid flow governed by the Stokes equations in highly perforated domains is studied using physics-informed neural networks (PINN

flowengineR: A Modular and Extensible Framework for Fair and Reproducible Workflow Design in R

arXiv:2511.00079v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: flowengineR is an R package designed to provide a modular and extensible framework for building reproducible algorithmic workflows for general-purpo

FlowErase-OPD: Multi-Concept Erasure via Anchored On-Policy Distillation in Flow Matching Models

arXiv:2608.07620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in flow matching models have substantially improved the quality of text-to-image generation, but have also raised increasing safety conc

Forgotten History or Test-of-Time? Retrospect and Prospect on RAG from an IR Perspective

arXiv:2608.08445v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is widely regarded as a novel paradigm born from the limitations of large language models (LLMs)--a mechanism to gr

From Alignment to Synthesis Contrastive Volumetric Grounding for Text-to-CT Generation

arXiv:2506.00633v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generating semantically controllable 3D CT volumes from radiology reports requires more than a rich text encoder, it requires vision-language

From Fake to Real: Pretraining on Balanced Synthetic Images to Prevent Spurious Correlations in Image Recognition

arXiv:2308.04553v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual recognition models are prone to learning spurious correlations induced by a biased training set where certain conditions B (eg, Indoors) are

From Inaudible Inputs to Model Failures: Low-Frequency Safety Risks in LALMs

arXiv:2608.09158v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large audio-language models (LALMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in understanding diverse audio inputs. This diversity includes low-frequency

From Operational Design Domain to Action: A Systematic Behavioral Taxonomy for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2608.08941v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Operational Design Domain (ODD) specifications describe where an automated driving system (ADS) is permitted to operate, but they do not prescribe wha

From Rebound to Remedy: Understanding and Mitigating Reward Hacking via Representation Engineering

arXiv:2604.01476v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning for LLMs is vulnerable to reward hacking, where models exploit shortcuts to maximize reward without solving the intende

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From Semantic Grounding to Decision Optimization: A Unified Framework for Long-Horizon UAV Vision-Language Navigation

arXiv:2608.09564v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: UAV vision-language navigation (UAV-VLN) focuses on enabling an aerial agent to follow natural-language instructions in open 3D environments from egoc