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Validating LLMs in social science: Epistemic threats and emerging norms

arXiv:2607.07915v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping social science methodology. Researchers increasingly prompt language models to generate quantitative measur

When Structured Sparse Autoencoders Learn Consistent Concepts Across Modalities

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arXiv:2607.08605v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have emerged as a promising technique for mechanistic interpretability by learning a set of sparse latent features in large

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When Synthetic Speech Is All You Have: Better Call GRPO

arXiv:2607.08409v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based ASR adapted to regulated domains such as banking is bottlenecked by privacy: real speech is costly and legally constrained to collect, makin

Who Gets Missed in the Tail? Thresholded Subgroup Underdiagnosis in Long-Tailed Chest X-ray Classification

arXiv:2607.07717v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In chest X-ray (CXR) classification, acceptable ranking performance can still leave rare-positive patients below threshold, especially within subgroup

Workflow as Knowledge: Semantic Persistence for LLM-Mediated Workflows

arXiv:2607.08740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) applications increasingly use explicit workflows for tool use, retrieval, branching, checkpointing, and human approval. Exist

XALPHA: A Memory-Driven AI Quant Researcher for Hypothesis-to-Code Alpha Discovery

arXiv:2607.08332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial markets are noisy, non-stationary, and high-dimensional, making it difficult to discover predictive and robust trading signals. Alpha discover

XFACTORS: Disentangled Information Bottleneck via Contrastive Supervision

arXiv:2601.21688v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Disentangled representation learning aims to map independent factors of variation to independent representation components. On one hand, purel

Zoom-IQA: Image Quality Assessment with Reliable Region-Aware Reasoning

arXiv:2601.02918v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a long-standing problem in computer vision. Previous methods typically focus on predicting numerical scores withou

A Distributionally Robust Optimisation Approach to Fair Credit Scoring

arXiv:2402.01811v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Credit scoring has been catalogued by the European Commission and the Executive Office of the US President as a high-risk classification task, in li

Ad Headline Generation using Self-Critical Masked Language Model

arXiv:2607.06818v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For any E-commerce website it is a nontrivial problem to build enduring advertisements that attract shoppers. It is hard to pass the creative quality

AGAPI-Agents: An Open-Access Agentic AI Platform for Accelerated Materials Design on AtomGPT.org

arXiv:2512.11935v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic AI systems increasingly connect large language models (LLMs) to external scientific tools, yet whether and when tool access improves predict

AI for Cultural Heritage Textiles: Fine-Tuned Latent Diffusion for Novel Ulos Motif Synthesis

arXiv:2607.06590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Preserving and revitalising traditional textiles such as Ulos, a cultural heritage of the Batak ethnic group in North Sumatra, Indonesia, requires balan

`Attention-Guided Cross-Temporal Clustering for Self-Supervised Video Object Segmentation

arXiv:2607.07230v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video object segmentation (VOS) is a fundamental task in video understanding, requiring accurate delineation and consistent tracking of objects across f

Automatic Echocardiography Segmentation via Transition Probability Correlation for Stable Semantic Extraction

arXiv:2607.07580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While echocardiography is essential for cardiovascular diagnosis, inherent speckle noise and low signal-to-noise ratio often lead to ambiguous semantic

Behavior Leverage Imbalance in Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2607.07050v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic language models must learn when to call tools, when to consume tool responses, and when to answer directly. This makes multi-teacher on-policy d

ContrastiveCFG: Guiding Diffusion Sampling by Contrasting Positive and Negative Concepts

arXiv:2411.17077v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) has proven effective in conditional diffusion model sampling for improved condition alignment, many applicat

D2PO: Optimizing Diffusion Samplers via Dynamic Preference

arXiv:2607.06609v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose D2PO (Dynamic Direct Preference Optimization), a principled framework for optimizing diffusion sampling policies with respect to timestep s

DASH: Dynamic Audio-Driven Semantic Chunking for Efficient Omnimodal Token Compression

arXiv:2603.15685v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Omnimodal large language models (OmniLLMs) jointly process audio and visual streams, but the resulting long multimodal token sequences make in

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Reliability Based Bi-Objective Portfolio Optimization

arXiv:2607.06610v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Portfolio optimization under uncertainty is inherently a multi-objective decision problem involving complex interactions among return, risk, market dy

DiaLLM: An Investigation into the Robustness-Generation Gap in English Dialect Adaptation

arXiv:2607.07669v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models increasingly understand dialectal English, yet still produce only standard, US-leaning English, leaving dialectal generation, th

Discovering Geometric Biases in 3D Face Reconstruction: A Curvature-Aware Spectral Framework for Fairness Evaluation

arXiv:2607.07486v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Morphable Models (3DMMs) remain the standard parametric shape priors for many state-of-the-art 3D face reconstruction algorithms. However, as these m

Do Counterfactually Fair Image Classifiers Satisfy Group Fairness? -- A Theoretical and Empirical Study

arXiv:2607.06603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The notion of algorithmic fairness has been actively explored from various aspects of fairness, such as counterfactual fairness (CF) and group fairnes

Dual Latent Memory in Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2607.07608v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mainstream Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models predict actions primarily from the current observation under a Markovian assumption, thus struggling wi

EmbodiedGen V2: An Agentic, Simulation-Ready 3D World Engine for Embodied AI

arXiv:2607.07459v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present EmbodiedGen V2, a generative 3D world engine for building executable sim-ready environments for embodied intelligence. Sim-ready 3D asset g

EMO-R3: Reflective Reinforcement Learning for Emotional Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2602.23802v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable progress in visual reasoning and understanding tasks but still struggle to capture th

Entropy Pacing Policy Optimization for Multi-Task Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607.07178v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent breakthroughs of Reinforcement Learning (RL) have highlighted its potential for complex agentic Large Language Model (LLM) tasks. However, exis

Fast Rates for Semi-Supervised Learning via Data-Augmentation Graph Regularization

arXiv:2607.07513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-supervised learning matches supervised accuracy from a fraction of the labels, but the labeled-sample efficiency behind this has lacked a theoretic

Feynman Kac Reweighted Schrodinger Bridge Matching for Surface-Based Tau PET Harmonization

arXiv:2606.17420v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Tau positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used for the in vivo characterization of disease stage and progression in Alzheimer's disease

Framing Instability in LLM Ethical Stance: Auditing Negation Sensitivity in Moral Dilemmas

arXiv:2601.21433v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Language models are increasingly consulted on ethically consequential questions, yet the stance a model expresses may not survive a change in framin

GemNav: Discrete-Token Visual Robot Navigation using a Multimodal Large Language Model

arXiv:2607.06882v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual navigation policies built on large pretrained models have so far followed a common recipe: a dedicated visual encoder, a bespoke action head, a

Gen4U: Unifying Video Generation and Understanding via Diffusion

arXiv:2607.06856v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prior work suggests that diffusion representations capture low-level geometry but struggle with high-level semantics. We demonstrate that state-of-the-a

Gradient-Based Speech-to-Text Alignment for Any ASR Model: From CTC to Speech LLMs

arXiv:2607.06831v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech-to-text alignment means finding the temporal boundaries of each word in the audio. Some models provide such an alignment directly and others do

HART: High-Resolution Annotation-Free Reasoning Technique through a Closed-loop Framework

arXiv:2602.23615v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) struggle with high-resolution visual inputs during the reasoning process, as the number of image tokens incre

HiDVFS: Hierarchical Multi-Agent DVFS for Real-Time OpenMP DAG Workloads

arXiv:2601.06425v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Leakage power in multicore embedded systems now rivals dynamic power, so DVFS schedulers must respect deadlines and thermal limits, not just a

HumAIN: Human-Aware Implicit Social Robot Navigation

arXiv:2607.07357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Effective social robot navigation requires sensitivity to human behavior, often revealed through subtle skeletal cues like gait and orientation. We pr

Incentivizing Temporal-Awareness in Egocentric Video Understanding Models

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have recently shown strong performance in visual understanding, yet they often lack temporal awareness, particularly in egocentric settings where reasoning dep

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InductWave: Inductive Multi-Hop Logical Query Answering on Knowledge Graphs

arXiv:2607.07422v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Logical Multi-Hop Query Answering over Knowledge Graphs (KGs) can be formulated as querying, with an implicit completeness assumption. Current works mai

Latent Policy Steering through One-Step Flow Policies

arXiv:2603.05296v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning (RL) allows robots to learn from offline datasets without risky exploration. Yet, offline RL's performance ofte

Learning social norms enhances compatibility in dynamic human-AI coordination

arXiv:2607.07021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans continuously coordinate with others in dynamic interactions, often through implicit, hard-to-quantify social norms that act as shared tacit expec

LHM-Humanoid: Long-Horizon Human Motion Control for Continuous Object Transport in Cluttered Scenes

arXiv:2508.16943v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Physics-based human motion control can make a simulated character walk, sit, and manipulate objects with high physical realism. Almost always,

Lipschitz-Regularized Critics Lead to Policy Robustness Against Transition Dynamics Uncertainty

arXiv:2404.13879v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Uncertainties in transition dynamics pose a critical challenge in reinforcement learning (RL), often resulting in performance degradation of trained

LLM-Guided Task-Semantic Field Factorization for Industrial Process Forecasting

arXiv:2607.06623v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Process industries rely on time-series forecasting and soft sensing to estimate quality variables that are hard to measure online. Labeled data are sc

LLM-powered reasoning in agent-based modeling

arXiv:2607.06757v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent-based modeling (ABM) has the capability to model millions of individuals and their interactions, which is useful for policy making. However, ABMs

LLMs Silently Correct African American English: Auditing and Mitigating Dialect Bias via Activation Steering

arXiv:2607.06845v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: African American English (AAE), a rule-governed dialect spoken by over 30 million people, is routinely misinterpreted and 'corrected' by large language

Mathematical methods of reinforcement learning

arXiv:2607.06935v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) is increasingly grounded in tools from probability, optimization, and operator theory. This survey organizes the mathemati

Max Out GRPO Signal: Adaptive Trace Prefix Control for Hard Reasoning Problems

arXiv:2607.07674v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) stalls on a model's hardest problems: when no rollout in a group succeeds, the group-relative advantages van

Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US now has AI 'regulation without transparent or complete rules', and adds that 'without rules, businesses can't plan' (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)

Beatrice Nolan / Fortune: Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US now has AI “regulation without transparent or complete rules”, and adds that “without rules, businesses can't plan” — Microsoft Pre

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NativeMEM: Native Memory Compression for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2607.06678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How can pretrained Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models retain long-horizon visual histories with high-frequency updates without sacrificing efficiency?

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