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Look Closer: Patch-wise Supervision for AI-Generated Image Detection

arXiv:2609.37937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How much of an image does a detector need to see? Small RGB regions can retain useful evidence of image synthesis even when they reveal little of the fu

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MeanFlowAdvantage: Stable Reward Fine-Tuning for Few-Step Average-Velocity Generators

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arXiv:2609.37670v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: MeanFlow enables efficient few-step generation by predicting interval-average velocities, but this representation creates a mismatch for reward fine-tun

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Message Passing Does More with Less for In-Context Learning on Graphs

arXiv:2609.37057v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving strong performance with graph neural networks (GNNs) typically requires training and hyperparameter tuning for each dataset, incurring repeate

Parallel Tempering for Diffusion-Based Combinatorial Optimization

arXiv:2609.37323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discrete diffusion models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for solving combinatorial optimization (CO) problems on graphs by learning to sample high-

Predicting Team Performance from Communications in Simulated Search-and-Rescue

arXiv:2503.03791v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding how individual traits influence team performance is valuable, but these traits are not always directly observable. Prior research has in

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Pretrain Once, Route Anywhere: Towards a Foundation Model for LLM Routing

arXiv:2609.37362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) routing aims to assign each query to the most suitable model from a heterogeneous candidate pool, improving the quality--effi

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Rational Clarification by Assistive Agents via Value-of-Information Reasoning

arXiv:2609.37588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Users of language-based assistive agents often make ambiguous requests. In response, an assistant can either directly act on its interpretation of the r

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Reasoning with Continuous Latent Diffusion

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arXiv:2609.35694v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continuous diffusion generates complete reasoning solutions through iterative refinement in latent space. We introduce the Continuous Embedding Diff

Reprogramming Vision-Language Models via Structured Prompt Reparameterization

arXiv:2609.36680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual reprogramming adapts pretrained models to downstream tasks by modifying their input and output interfaces while keeping the backbone fixed. In vi

Scheduling Recursive Reasoning in Looped Transformers

arXiv:2609.36653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recurrent reasoning models have attracted growing attention for scaling test-time computation, typically by iteratively refining latent states with shar

Selective Channel Restoration for Backdoored Vision-Language Models

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arXiv:2609.37759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) exhibit strong multimodal capabilities but remain vulnerable to backdoors implanted through poisoned fine-tuning data. E

SKILLLITE: Evidence-Guided Malicious Skill Auditing with Compact LLMs

arXiv:2609.36879v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As LLM-based agents perform increasingly complex tasks, Agent Skills have emerged as a flexible mechanism for extending their capabilities. An Agent S

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Socialality Anchors: Towards Group-bounded Trajectory Prediction

arXiv:2609.36852v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trajectory prediction is a key component for understanding human behavior patterns in dynamic scenes. Researchers have devoted substantial efforts to mo

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Stein-based Optimization of Sampling Distributions in Model Predictive Path Integral Control

arXiv:2511.02015v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper introduces a method for Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) control that optimizes sample generation towards an optimal trajectory thro

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Technical note on: Zero-Training Feature-Space Alignment via Information Geometry

arXiv:2609.37302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep vision models often degrade under distribution shift. Test-time adaptation can improve robustness but typically requires iterative optimization, hy

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The Signed Geometry of One-Shot Recourse: On-Path Validity and the Signed-Curvature Criterion

arXiv:2609.36252v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Closed-form recourse moves a rejected user along the unit gradient hat g of the classifier score f by the promised distance d_p=|f(x)|/|nabla f(x)|, at

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Thinking in Depth, Speaking Directly: Recurrent Latent Reasoning for Paralinguistically Grounded Spoken Dialogue

arXiv:2609.37818v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Empathetic spoken dialogue requires models to use both what is said and how it is said to decide how to respond. Explicit CoT can improve paralinguist

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TRACE: Deployable Tree-Relational Structure Enhancement for Oncology LLMs

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arXiv:2609.35810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used in oncology applications, but their predictions are often weakly grounded in explicit medical structure. W

Traversing the solution space of neural networks with Hessian Null Space Continuation

arXiv:2609.38081v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On a single task, deep networks can learn many solutions, depending on their optimizer, training data, architecture, and hyperparameters. Many of these

UnlearningSoup: Is Repeated Tuning Necessary for Large Language Model Unlearning?

arXiv:2609.37076v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models trained on vast corpora inherently risk memorizing harmful content that may later re-emerge in their outputs. To mitigate this iss

vSkipper: Translating Dynamic Layer Skipping into LLM Serving Gains

arXiv:2609.37062v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic layer skipping reduces LLM computation by allowing each token to execute only a subset of the model's layers. However, existing skippers rely

World2Motion: Turning Video World Models into 3D Human Motion Generators

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arXiv:2609.37004v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present World2Motion, a framework that generates scene-aware 3D human motion and corresponding video from a single image and a text prompt. While exi

Zero Sum SVD: Balancing Loss Sensitivity for Low Rank LLM Compression

arXiv:2602.02848v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Advances in large language models have driven strong performance across many tasks, but their memory and compute costs still hinder deployment. SVD-

A Unified Optimism-Agnostic Framework for Linear Bandits over Spherical Action Sets

arXiv:2609.32149v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Linear bandits model sequential decision-making problems with noisy rewards that are linear in the decision variable, where an agent must simultaneous

ACPruner: Visual Token Pruning as Biased Attention Coverage Maximization in LVLMs

arXiv:2609.34558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) face significant computational inefficiencies caused by the large number of visual tokens. Existing visual token pr

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Addressing Spatial Indistinguishability in Spatiotemporal Prediction via Optimal Transport-Guided Masking

arXiv:2609.35021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatiotemporal prediction aims to learn discriminative representations from correlated temporal signals over spatial structures for accurate future infe

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Alignment-Guided Flow Transformer for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Policy Learning

arXiv:2609.34467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models point toward general-purpose robotic intelligence by unifying perception, instruction, and contro

ARS: Agentic Reward System for Robot Learning

arXiv:2609.34484v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Progress reward modeling is the problem of estimating how a robot's behavior changes task progress over time. Reliable estimation requires distinguish

Backdoor as Probe: Test-Time Adversarial Defense for CLIP

arXiv:2609.34641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time adversarial defense improves the robustness of vision-language foundation models such as CLIP without retraining. However, adversarial activat

CapField-OPD: Learning Continuous Capability Fields via Joint-Anchored Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation for Flow Models

arXiv:2609.34658v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward-specialized post-training produces strong experts for flow-based generative models, while multi-teacher on-policy distillation (OPD) consolidates

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ChestPheNoT: Deployable, Auditable Label-Status-Evidence Extraction from Radiology Reports

arXiv:2609.31629v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Structured phenotype extraction from radiology reports supports cohort construction, quality auditing, and clinical analytics, but practical deploymen

Compute Time Scaling with Recursive Models for Combinatorial Optimization

arXiv:2609.34585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose Tiny Recursive Models for Combinatorial Optimization (ours{}), a general neural method for combinatorial optimization that scales both depth

Controlling Speaking Rate in Autoregressive TTS via Activation Steering

arXiv:2609.33810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive text-to-speech (TTS) systems synthesize natural speech but, once trained, offer little control over speaking rate. We show that speakin

Direct Hidden-State Alignment: Mapping and Controlling Preference Expression in LLMs

arXiv:2609.33298v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In many settings, post-training need not create the target behavior from scratch: the base model can already produce it, but not reliably. This shifts p

Distribution-Conditioned Task Routing for Class-Incremental Learning

arXiv:2609.34503v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parameter-efficient adaptation enables continual learners to acquire task-specific knowledge through compact model updates while maintaining strong with

EntroPack: Fast and Accurate Entropy-Coded Weight Compression at Arbitrary Bitrates

arXiv:2609.34185v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Weight compression helps large neural networks fit deployment memory budgets, but common fixed-width formats offer only coarse storage choices. Entropy

From Feed-Forward to Flow: Unifying Reconstruction and Generation Is Easier Than You Think

arXiv:2609.32761v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconstruct where the images provide evidence, and generate where they do not: recent success of spatial world models such as Atlas (World Labs Team, 20

From UNI2-h to ConvNeXt-T: Lightweight Nuclei Instance Segmentation via Knowledge Distillation

arXiv:2609.35203v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Nuclei instance segmentation is a core task in digital pathology, yet high-accuracy models rely on large vision transformer (ViT) encoders whose inferen

HALO: Enhancing Time Series Generation via Hyperspherical Latents and Masked AutoregRessive Modeling

arXiv:2609.34511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most existing time series generators rely on a two-stage modeling paradigm: the first stage learns discrete latent representations of time series; the s

How Strong Is the Evidence for the Artificial Hivemind? Reevaluating Evidence for the Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models

arXiv:2609.33936v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent research argues that language models exhibit pronounced homogeneity in open-ended generation, framing such behavior as an Artificial Hivemind tha

How to Tame a Multi-Headed Hydra? Adaptive Multi-Category Safety Steering for Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.34514v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly widespread, preventing unsafe responses to harmful prompts is essential for their safe deployment.

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Hyperbolic Manifold Constrained Tabular Neural Network

arXiv:2607.09710v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tabular prediction is central to a wide range of real-world applications. Tabular data typically contain heterogeneous features as well as rich and

Improving Video Sparse Attention with Fine-grained Router and Sparse Rebasing

arXiv:2609.32882v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present VSA2, a frontier trainable sparse attention for video DiTs. VSA2 includes a variety of new architectural features and training procedures tha

Interpretable Physics Informed WiFi Indoor Localization: Learning an Effective Access Point Geometry and Using It to Prune

arXiv:2609.32539v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning models can achieve high accuracy for indoor localization, but their black-box nature limits interpretability and the reuse of learned in

Intuition vectors

arXiv:2609.32619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large self-supervised vision models learn representations that support scene segmentation and the semantic decomposition of physical objects. We ask whe

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Lightweight Wrappers for Adapting Time Series Foundation Models to Regional Drought Forecasting

arXiv:2607.17511v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Time Series Foundation Models (TSFMs) demonstrate strong zero-shot forecasting capabilities across diverse domains. However, their application

LLM4Trust: Exploring the Capabilities of Large Language Models for Trust Evaluation

arXiv:2609.33521v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trust evaluation plays a critical role in cybersecurity by supporting risk mitigation and decision-making. A variety of trust evaluation methods have be

Modernising the Compressed-Domain Video Captioner: A Controlled Study of SigLIP2 and GPT-2 Substitutions

arXiv:2609.31700v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compressed-domain video captioning avoids full video decoding by operating directly on I-frames, motion vectors and residuals, trading a small amount of