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Trajectory Inference of Human Aging from Cross-Sectional DNA Methylation Data

arXiv:2607.06583v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: DNA methylation (DNAm) serves as one of the most robust molecular biomarkers of biological aging. While conventional epigenetic clocks accurately pred

Unmasking On-Policy Distillation: Where It Helps, Where It Hurts, and Why

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On-policy distillation offers dense, per-token supervision for training reasoning models; however, it remains unclear under which conditions this signal is beneficial and under which it is detrimental

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UP: Unbounded Positive Asymmetric Optimization for Breaking the Exploration-Stability Dilemma

arXiv:2607.06987v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become the standard paradigm for enhancing the complex reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). To achiev

Validate the Dream Before You Trust Its Verdict: Admissibility for World-Model Simulators

arXiv:2607.07196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Across robotics, World Models (WMs) are increasingly used to evaluate action policies by simulating the consequences of actions in an imagined world,

VFM-Loc: Training-Free Cross-View Geo-Localization via Aligning Discriminative Visual Hierarchies

arXiv:2603.13855v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) in remote sensing aims to locate a drone-view query by matching it to geo-tagged satellite images. Although super

Vision Foundation Models in Radiology: A Scoping Review of Data, Methodology, Evaluation and Clinical Translation

arXiv:2607.07219v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision foundation models (VFMs) are increasingly being developed for radiological imaging, yet their definition, development and evaluation remain het

When Agents Remember Too Much: Memory Poisoning Attacks on Large Language Model Agents

arXiv:2607.06595v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Personal AI agents powered by large language models can reason and act using available tools to access emails, manage calendars, and push code to remo

When Certificates Fail: A Unified Safety Framework for Embedded Neural Interface Models

arXiv:2607.06630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Formal robustness certificates for embedded neural-interface models can pass while task accuracy collapses: at perturbation budget e=0.25, EEGNet classi

WHERE to Generate Matters: Budget-Aware Synthetic Augmentation for Label Skewed Federated Learning

arXiv:2607.06616v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Label skew in federated learning (FL) causes client drift and degrades global accuracy. Synthetic data augmentation can reduce this imbalance; however

Zero-Human Demonstration End-to-end Autonomous Driving with Trajectory Scorer

arXiv:2510.24108v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Human demonstrations are widely considered the cornerstone of end-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving despite human demonstration's scarcity for l

Zoom In Disparities in Healthcare LLM Q&A

arXiv:2510.17476v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Equitable access to reliable health information is vital when integrating AI into healthcare. Yet, information quality varies across languages, rais

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A Coin Flip Per Token: Bernoulli Sparse Steering of Large Language Models

arXiv:2607.05615v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation steering via sparse autoencoders (SAEs) enables behavioral control of large language models without task-specific fine-tuning, but standard m

A Function-Space Dichotomy for Compositional Learning: Exponential Sub-Optimality of the Neural Tangent Kernel

arXiv:2607.06382v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A persistent empirical observation is that trained neural networks outperform their neural tangent kernel (NTK) limit on tasks with compositional stru

A toy framework for single and multi-agent human-AI curiosity ecosystems

arXiv:2607.06214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper offers a toy framework for considering curiosity as an ecosystem. First, it suggests that a single agent's inquiry policy (how, when, and why

Agentic AI for Commercial Insurance Underwriting with Adversarial Self-Critique

arXiv:2602.13213v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Commercial insurance underwriting is a labor-intensive process that requires manual review of extensive documentation to assess risk and determine p

ARMS: Anchor-Relational Motion Streaming for Seamless Solo-Social Motion Transitions

arXiv:2607.05733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating temporally continuous and socially coherent human motion from text remains a fundamental challenge, particularly in realistic streams where p

Automated Recommendation of Programming Learning Content Using Pattern-based Knowledge Components

arXiv:2607.05409v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Introductory programming instruction relies on hands-on practice and short learning activities to support mastery of foundational concepts. Although m

Bridging Diffusion Pruning and Step Distillation with Teacher-Aligned Repair

arXiv:2607.06335v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models generate high-quality images, but their inference cost comes from two sources: large denoising networks and repeated denoising steps. E

Bridging Physical Reasoning and Task Generalization via Visual Action Outcome Reasoning Alignment

arXiv:2607.06522v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) struggle to generalize in interactive physical reasoning, particularly under unseen tasks and environments. Two key failur

Choose What to Observe: Task-Aware Semantic-Geometric Representations for Visuomotor Policy

arXiv:2603.07875v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visuomotor policies learned from demonstrations often overfit to nuisance visual factors in raw RGB observations, resulting in brittle behavior unde

Controlling Tool Use with Heading-Specific Activation Steering

arXiv:2607.05790v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented large language models extend their capabilities beyond parametric knowledge through external tools, but tend to invoke them unnecessarily

Cross-Contextual Vision-Language Adaptation with LoRA for Personalized Severe Adverse Event Detection in Clinical Wound Monitoring

arXiv:2607.05625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wound monitoring is a critical yet underserved clinical challenge, where timely identification of severe adverse events (SAEs) such as infection, tissue

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Origin-Destination Matrix Estimation in Microscopic Traffic Simulations Considering Credit Assignment

arXiv:2511.06229v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper focuses on dynamic origin-destination matrix estimation (DODE), a crucial calibration process necessary for the effective application of

DeSeG: Decoupling Semantic Intent and Geometric Constraints for Physically Plausible Human-Scene Interaction

arXiv:2607.05787v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthesizing physically plausible human-scene interactions (HSI) remains a critical challenge in computer vision and the development of human avatars. A

Domain-Adaptive Climate Downscaling Under Temporal Distribution Shift

arXiv:2607.05645v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep-learning-based climate downscaling aims to learn relationships from historical low-resolution (LR) and high-resolution (HR) climate data to generat

DreamPartGen: Semantically Grounded Part-Level 3D Generation via Collaborative Latent Denoising

arXiv:2603.19216v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding and generating 3D objects as compositions of meaningful parts is fundamental to human perception and reasoning. However, most te

DT-Guard: Intent-Driven Reasoning-Active Training for Reasoning-Free LLM Safety Guardrail

arXiv:2607.06326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models deployed in open-world applications require safety guardrails that are both robust to complex risks and efficient enough for low-l

DynaKRAG: A Unified Framework for Learnable Evidence Control in Multi-Hop Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2607.06507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-hop retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) acquires evidence sequentially, with each new document potentially revealing missing facts, bridge entiti

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ELSA3D: Elastic Semantic Anchoring for Unified 3D Understanding and Generation

arXiv:2607.06565v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unified 3D foundation models aspire to generate 3D assets and reason about them in language within a single backbone, but their text-3D interaction re

Embodied Human-Robot Interaction via Acoustics: A MARL Approach with AcoustoBots for Spatial Data Physicalization

arXiv:2607.06563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional data physicalization is often static and disconnected from real environments, limiting its ability to convey embodied spatial dynamics and e

FADRA: Frequency-Aware Diffusion with Residual Adaptation for Video Face Restoration

arXiv:2607.06389v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video face restoration (VFR) aims to recover high-quality and temporally consistent facial details from severely degraded video sequences; however, exis

FreqDepthKV: Frequency-Guided Depth Sharing for Robust KV Cache Compression in Long-Context LLM Inference

arXiv:2607.06519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context LLM inference is increasingly limited by the memory and bandwidth cost of KV caches, yet aggressive compression can remove the layer-specif

From Application-Layer Simulation to Native Meta-Architecture: Structural Tension as an Endogenous Driver for Heterogeneous AI Evolution

arXiv:2607.06269v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current large language models (LLMs) are fundamentally stateless: their behavior is fully determined by input at inference time, and any higher-order co

From Blueprint to Reality: Modeling and Applying Putnam's Social Capital Theory with LLM-based Multi-agent Simulations

arXiv:2607.06080v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Putnam's Social Capital Theory is a foundational framework for collective action and community prosperity. However, traditional empirical methods face

From Passive Retrieval to Active Memory Navigation: Learning to Use Memory as a Structured Action Space

arXiv:2607.05794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term user memory is essential for personalized conversational agents, yet many memory systems still expose memory through passive retrieval interfa

From Pixels to Portraits: A Comprehensive Survey of Talking Head Generation Techniques and Applications

arXiv:2308.16041v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Talking head generation has progressed rapidly from landmark- and GAN-based facial animation to diffusion models, neural rendering, 3D-aware avatars

GaussFusion: Towards Multimodal 3D Gaussian Pretraining

arXiv:2607.05906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting provides an explicit representation that jointly models geometry and appearance, serving as a scalable foundation for 3D represent

GraspIT: A Dataset Bridging the Sim-to-Real gap and back for Validated Grasping SE(3) Pose Generation

arXiv:2607.05869v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust robotic grasping of novel objects requires datasets that simultaneously provide photorealistic RGB-D observations, physically validated grasp q

Heckman-Corrected Epistemic Uncertainty: Selection on Unobservables Defeats Importance Weighting

arXiv:2607.05806v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training data for machine learning is routinely collected by a selection process the model never sees: loans are observed only when granted, outcomes on

Information Gain-based Rollout Policy Optimization: An Adaptive Tree-Structured Rollout Approach for Multi-Turn LLM Agents

arXiv:2607.06223v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning has become a promising paradigm for improving large language model (LLM) agents on long-horizon search tasks, where the agent mus

Intercepting an Agile Target with Net-Carrying Drones using Competitive Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607.05939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This article presents a solution to intercept an agile drone by a team of agile drone carrying catching nets. We formulate the problem as a competitive

Is Domain Adaptation Always Helpful? A Frozen-Backbone Study of Cross-Domain Sentiment Transfer

arXiv:2607.05937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sentiment analysis with frozen pre-trained language model (PLM) backbones has become a common paradigm, yet the practical benefit of explicit domain ada

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IUU+DB: Tracking Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing, Seafood Fraud, and Labor Abuse through LLM-driven Information Extraction

arXiv:2606.18181v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU) traditionally refers to fishing activities that violate applicable laws or occur in areas t

K-ABENA: K-Adaptive Backpropagation with Error-based N-exclusion Algorithm : (Compensated Loss-Based Sample Exclusion with Unbiased Gradient Estimation)

arXiv:2607.05903v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present K-ABENA (K-Adaptive Backpropagation with Error-based N-exclusion Algorithm), a selective gradient computation framework that reduces per-it

KAT-Coder-V2.5 Technical Report

arXiv:2607.05471v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present KAT-Coder-V2.5, a coding-focused agentic model trained to act autonomously inside real, executable repositories rather than as a single-tur

KernelEvolve: Scaling Agentic Kernel Coding for Heterogeneous AI Accelerators at Meta

arXiv:2512.23236v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Making deep learning recommendation model (DLRM) training and inference fast and efficient is important. However, this presents three key syst

KOAL: Knowledge-Driven Prostate Cancer Grading with Ordinal-Aware Learning

arXiv:2607.06019v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-invasive prediction of Gleason Grade Group (GGG) in prostate cancer using multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) is clinically vital for reducing unnecessary b

LAMP: Latent Motion Prior-Guided Real-World Learning for Dexterous Hand Manipulation

arXiv:2607.06323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world learning for dexterous hands remains brittle because high-dimensional hand actions amplify imitation errors and make reinforcement-learning e