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SegRAG: Training-Free Retrieval-Augmented Semantic Segmentation

arXiv:2605.17630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Here's a trimmed version under 1920 characters: Open-vocabulary segmentation models such as SAM3 achieve strong performance through concept-level text p

Self-Distillation is Optimal Among Spectral Shrinkage Estimators in Spiked Covariance Models

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arXiv:2605.17778v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-distillation has emerged as a promising technique for improving model performance in modern machine learning systems. We develop the statistical

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Self-Evolving Spatial Reasoning in Vision Language Models via Geometric Logic Consistency

arXiv:2605.18162v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have made striking progress, yet their spatial reasoning remains fragile: models that answer an original input correctly

Self-Improving CAD Generation Agents with Finite Element Analysis as Feedback

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arXiv:2605.17448v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computer-aided design (CAD) is the backbone of modern industrial design, yet learned CAD generators still fall short of real engineering pipelines: th

Self-Play Only Evolves When Self-Synthetic Pipeline Ensures Learnable Information Gain

arXiv:2603.02218v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) make it plausible to build systems that improve through self-evolving loops, but many existing proposals are bett

Self-Supervised Bootstrapping of Action-Predictive Embodied Reasoning

arXiv:2602.08167v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Embodied Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has significantly enhanced Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, yet current methods rely on rigid te

Self-supervised Hierarchical Visual Reasoning with World Model

arXiv:2605.17537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D open-world environments with adversarial opponents remain a core challenge for reinforcement learning due to their vast state spaces. Effective reaso

Self-Supervised Learning for Sparse Matrix Reordering

arXiv:2605.17403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rearranging the rows or columns of a sparse matrix using an appropriate ordering can significantly reduce fill-ins, i.e., new nonzeros introduced during

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Tutorials

Self-supervised local learning rules learn the hidden hierarchical structure of high-dimensional data

arXiv:2605.18557v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The brain learns abstract representations of high-dimensional sensory input, but the plasticity rules that enable such learning are unknown. We study bi

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Self-Supervised On-Policy Distillation for Reasoning Language Models

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arXiv:2605.17497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GRPO-style RLVR trains reasoning models from multiple on-policy attempts per prompt, but typically uses these attempts only through terminal rewards. We

SEMA-RAG: A Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework for Medical Reasoning

arXiv:2605.17101v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is widely employed to mitigate risks such as hallucinations and knowledge obsolescence in medical question answer

Semantic Generative Tuning for Unified Multimodal Models

arXiv:2605.18714v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) strive to consolidate visual understanding and visual generation within a single architecture. However, prevailing tr

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Applications

Semantic Reranking at Inference Time for Hard Examples in Rhetorical Role Labeling

arXiv:2605.18007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rhetorical Role Labeling (RRL) assigns a functional role to each sentence in a document and is widely used in legal, medical, and scientific domains. Wh

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Semantic Smoothing via Novel View Synthesis for Robust SAR Image Classification

arXiv:2605.16440v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, limiting deployment in safety-critical applications such as synthetic aperture radar

Semantics Disentanglement and Composition for Universal Image Coding with Efficiently LLM Reasoning and Generative Diffusion

arXiv:2412.18158v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learned image compression methods have shown impressive performance but are often highly specialized for either human perception or specific machine

Semi-LAR: Semi-supervised Contrastive Learning with Linear Attention for Removal of Nighttime Flares

arXiv:2605.18156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lens flare removal is challenging due to the large spatial extent of flare artifacts and their entanglement with scene structures, while existing method

SENSE: Satellite-based ENergy Synthesis for Sustainable Environment

arXiv:2605.18101v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Urban Building Energy Modeling plays a critical role in achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals 7 and 11. Although existing studie

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Applications

Sequential Structure in Intraday Futures Data: LSTM vs Gradient Boosting on MNQ

arXiv:2605.17724v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper compares gradient boosting and long short-term memory (LSTM) architectures for intraday directional prediction in Micro E-Mini Nasdaq 100 f

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Setting the Stage: Text-Driven Scene-Consistent Image Generation

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arXiv:2512.12598v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We focus on the foundational task of Scene Staging: given a reference scene image and a text condition specifying an actor category to be generated

SG-CADVLM: A Context-Aware Decoding Powered Vision Language Model for Safety-Critical Scenario Generation

arXiv:2601.18442v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous Vehicle (AV) requires rigorous testing in safety-critical scenarios for safety validation, yet its validation is hindered by the high cos

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SGSoft: Learning Fused Semantic-Geometric Features for 3D Shape Correspondence via Template-Guided Soft Signals

arXiv:2605.18039v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning dense correspondences across deformable 3D shapes remains a long-standing challenge due to structural variability, non-isometric deformation, a

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Shallow Deep Learning Can Still Excel in Fine-Grained Few-Shot Learning

arXiv:2507.22041v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep learning has witnessed the extensive utilization across a wide spectrum of domains, including fine-grained few-shot learning (FGFSL) which heav

Shallow ReLU^s Networks in L^p-Type and Sobolev Spaces: Approximation and Path-Norm Controlled Generalization

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arXiv:2605.18468v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study approximation by shallow ReLU^s networks, sigma_s(t)=max{0,t}^s, and the generalization behavior of such networks under ell_1 path-norm contr

ShareChat: A Dataset of Chatbot Conversations in the Wild

arXiv:2512.17843v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: By evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) through uniform, text-only interfaces, current academic benchmarks obscure how the unique designs a

Shared Backbone PPO for Multi-UAV Communication Coverage with Connection Preservation

arXiv:2605.17999v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes a Shared Backbone Proximal Policy Optimization (Shared Backbone PPO) algorithm. By sharing the base module between the Actor and Cri

SHED: Style-Homogenized Embedding Alignment for Domain Generalization

arXiv:2605.16973v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Domain generalization aims to enhance model robustness against unseen domains with embedding distribution shifts. While large-scale vision-language mode

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Shift Detection and Adaptation for Network Intrusion Detection

arXiv:2508.15100v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Distribution shift, a change in the statistical properties of data over time, poses a critical challenge for deep learning anomaly detection s

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Industry

Shouldn’t this mean > $100b in charitable giving for effective altruism adjacent projects from Anthropic founders & team members alone?

Shouldn’t this mean > 100b in charitable giving for effective altruism adjacent projects from Anthropic founders & team members alone? New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy Hundreds o

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show me your /goal prompt that beats this (i'll share mine below so as not to bias)

This post appears to be a community prompt-sharing discussion where Swyx invites people to share their '/goal' prompts (likely system prompts or directives designed to optimize AI behavior toward spec

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Hardware

SignMuon: Communication-Efficient Distributed Muon Optimization

arXiv:2605.16311v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distributed training of large neural networks is bottlenecked by full-precision gradient communication and by coordinatewise optimizers that ignore the

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Tutorials

SignRoundV2: Toward Closing the Performance Gap in Extremely Low-Bit Post-Training Quantization for LLMs

arXiv:2512.04746v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Extremely low-bit quantization is critical for efficiently deploying Large Language Models (LLMs), yet it often leads to severe performance de

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Simple Approximation and Derivative Free Inference-Time Scaling for Diffusion Models via Sequential Monte Carlo on Path Measures

arXiv:2605.17850v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: iffusion-based generative models increasingly rely on inference-time guidance, adding a drift term or reweighting mixture of experts, to improve sampl

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Tutorials

Single Image Reflection Removal with Patch Reflectance Prior

arXiv:2312.03798v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Single Image Reflection Removal (SIRR) in real-world images is a challenging task due to diverse image degradations occurring on the glass surface d

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Single-Sample Black-Box Membership Inference Attack against Vision-Language Models via Cross-modal Semantic Alignment

arXiv:2605.17341v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success, yet their reliance on massive datasets and unintended memorization of training data ra

SIPO: Stabilized and Improved Preference Optimization for Aligning Diffusion Models

arXiv:2505.21893v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Preference learning has garnered extensive attention as an effective technique for aligning diffusion models with human preferences in visual

SIREM: Speech-Informed MRI Reconstruction with Learned Sampling

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arXiv:2605.18221v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time magnetic resonance imaging (rtMRI) of speech production enables non-invasive visualization of dynamic vocal-tract motion and is valuable for

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Sketch Then Paint: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Multi-Modal Large Language Models

arXiv:2605.16842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion Multi-Modal Large Language Models (dMLLMs) are powerful for image generation, but optimizing them through reinforcement learning (RL) remains

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Local Ai

SKG-Eval: Stateful Evaluation of Multi-Turn Dialogue via Incremental Semantic Knowledge Graphs

arXiv:2605.16650v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluating multi-turn dialogue systems remains challenging because response quality depends not only on the current prompt, but also on previously est

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SkillGenBench: Benchmarking Skill Generation Pipelines for LLM Agents

arXiv:2605.18693v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLM agents are increasingly built around reusable skills, a central challenge is no longer only whether agents can use provided skills, but whether t

SkillJect: Effectively Automating Skill-Based Prompt Injection for Skill-Enabled Agents

arXiv:2602.14211v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agent skills are increasingly used to extend LLM agents with task-specific instructions, executable scripts, and auxiliary resources. While im

Skills on the Fly: Test-Time Adaptive Skill Synthesis for LLM Agents

arXiv:2605.16986v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents benefit from reusable skills, yet test-time tasks often require guidance more specific than a static skill library can provide. We propose

SkillsVote: Lifecycle Governance of Agent Skills from Collection, Recommendation to Evolution

arXiv:2605.18401v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon LLM agents leave traces that could become reusable experience, but raw trajectories are noisy and hard to govern. We treat Agent Skills a

Skim: Speculative Execution for Fast and Efficient Web Agents

arXiv:2605.16565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skim is a speculative execution framework for web agents that exploits the predictable structure of purpose-built websites. Today's web-agent expense is

SkyNative: A Native Multimodal Framework for Remote Sensing Visual Evidence Reasoning

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arXiv:2605.17949v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Remote sensing vision-language models commonly rely on pretrained visual encoders to convert images into semantic features before language-model reasoni

SLEIGHT-Bench: A Benchmark of Evasion Attacks Against Agent Monitors

arXiv:2605.16626v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Since autonomous coding agents generate complex behaviors at high-volume, we may want to use other LLMs to monitor actions to reduce the risk from dan

Small-scale photonic Kolmogorov-Arnold networks using standard telecom nonlinear modules

arXiv:2604.08432v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Photonic neural networks promise ultrafast inference, yet most architectures rely on linear optical meshes with electronic nonlinearities, rei

Tools

Sneaky interventions, interactive installations, tools built for other artists to use. @kcimc's practice lives where machine learning, compu…

Sneaky interventions, interactive installations, tools built for other artists to use. @kcimc's practice lives where machine learning, computer vision, and social technology collide. See his new inter

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SNLP: Layer-Parallel Inference via Structured Newton Corrections

arXiv:2605.17842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive language models execute Transformer layers sequentially, creating a latency bottleneck that is not removed by conventional tensor or pipe

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