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SD-Search: On-Policy Hindsight Self-Distillation for Search-Augmented Reasoning

arXiv:2605.18299v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search-augmented reasoning agents interleave internal reasoning with calls to an external retriever, and their performance relies on the quality of each

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SE-GA: Memory-Augmented Self-Evolution for GUI Agents

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arXiv:2605.16883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents often struggle with multi-step tasks due to constrained context windows and static policies that fail t

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SeamCam: Quantifying Seamless Camouflage via Multi-Cue Visual Detectability

arXiv:2605.16515v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Animals are described as effectively camouflaged when they blend seamlessly with their surrounding, yet no standardized quantitative measure of this sea

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Industry

Secretary Lutnick met with @SpaceX President and COO @Gwynne_Shotwell. The Commerce Department is focused on dominating supply chains and tr…

Secretary Lutnick of the Commerce Department met with SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell to discuss supply chain dominance and trade strategy. The meeting reflects the Commerce Department's focu

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SEDD: Scalable and Efficient Dataset Deduplication with GPUs

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arXiv:2501.01046v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Dataset deduplication is widely recognized as a crucial preprocessing step that enhances data quality and improves the performance of large language

SEDualVLN: A Spatially-Enhanced Dual-System for Vision-Language Navigation

arXiv:2605.17249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) approaches have currently followed two primary paradigms: the end-to-end Vision-Language Model (VLM) policy fine-tuned

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See Silhouettes in Motion with Neuromorphic Vision

arXiv:2605.17984v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quasi-bimodal objects, such as text, road signs, and barcodes, play a basic yet vital role in daily visual communication. By boiling these down to cle

See What I Mean: Aligning Vision and Language Representations for Video Fine-grained Object Understanding

arXiv:2605.18018v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present SWIM (See What I Mean), a novel training strategy that aligns vision and language representations to enable fine-grained object understandi

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Seeing Together:Multi-Robot Cooperative Egocentric Spatial Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models

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arXiv:2605.18431v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made substantial progress in egocentric video understanding, but their ability to reason cooperatively fro

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Seeking the Unfamiliar but Memorable: Conceptual Creativity as Meta-Learning

arXiv:2605.16477v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: What does it mean to create a new concept, rather than retrieve a familiar one? Repeatedly sampling a generative model at the same prompt produces var

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Industry

Seems a lot of autoregressive models will be converted to diffusion models

Emad Mostaque, CEO of Stability AI, suggests that many autoregressive models may transition to or be replaced by diffusion-based approaches. This reflects speculation or prediction about a potential s

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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

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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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