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Composition, Not Conversation: VLMs Lose the Scene, Not the Thread

arXiv:2609.38368v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) increasingly reason over visual evidence that is cropped, segmented, retrieved, or revealed over time. Yet most VQA benchm

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Compression Footprints as Security Signals for Model-Poisoning Defense in Federated Learning

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arXiv:2609.40312v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lossy compression is widely used in Federated Learning (FL) but is generally treated as an error source, while conventional poisoning defenses inspect u

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Concept Subspaces Compute Beyond the Logit Lens: A Weights-Only Test for Locating Representations Upstream of Readout

arXiv:2609.39263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A concept subspace's effect on model behavior does not establish how it relates to the output readout. We introduce a two-sided geometric diagnostic tha

Concurrent Semantic Search and Mission Execution for LTL Missions in Unknown Environments

arXiv:2609.39153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Planning complex missions in unknown environments requires robots to reason simultaneously about what they should do and what they still need to discove

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Consensus-Aware Multi-Source Fusion for Reference-Guided Camouflaged Object Detection

arXiv:2609.38747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reference-guided camouflaged object detection aims to segment a target whose visual appearance closely resembles its surroundings by exploiting auxiliar

Control Laguerre Tessellation: Semi-discrete Optimal Transport Over Control Systems

arXiv:2607.09139v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the optimal transport of optimally controlled agents from a compactly supported absolutely continuous source to a discrete target mea

CORE: Conflict-Oriented Reasoning Elimination for Verifiable Language-Model Search

arXiv:2609.39069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time reasoning systems often respond to failure by restarting or revising the latest step, even when an earlier decision caused the error. We intro

Correcting CondOT: Exact Finite-Step Sampling in Gaussian Flow Matching

arXiv:2609.39488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow matching generates samples by gradually transforming noise into data. In practice, using a finite number of sampling steps introduces a numerical e

Decentralized Projection-free Online Upper-Linearizable Optimization with Applications to DR-Submodular Optimization

arXiv:2501.18183v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce a novel framework for decentralized projection-free optimization, extending projection-free methods to a broader class of upper-l

DecoMoE: Decoupling Visual Propagation and Expert Computation for Efficient Multimodal MoE Inference

arXiv:2609.38823v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal mixture-of-experts (MoE) models combine sparse expert activation with visual-language capabilities, yet their inference remains costly becaus

DEdit: Iterative Draft Editing for Speculative Decoding

arXiv:2609.38510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates autoregressive LLMs by having a lightweight drafter propose tokens that the target model verifies in parallel. Diffusio

Defining and Categorising Human-AI Interactions in Clinical Trials: A Multidimensional Human-AI Classification Approach

arXiv:2609.38559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper examines human-AI interactions (HAIIs) in clinical trials and presents a multidimensional categorisation framework that classifies interactio

Detail in Context: A Dual-Scale Machine Learning Framework for Mycosis Fungoides Detection

arXiv:2609.38560v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mycosis fungoides (MF) is a rare form of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma that is often misdiagnosed in early stages due to its visual similarity to benign inf

Determining Vertical Displacement of Agricultural Areas Using UAV-Photogrammetry and a Heteroscedastic Deep Learning Model

arXiv:2609.39756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This article introduces an algorithm that uses a U-Net architecture to determine vertical ground surface displacements from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV

Differentiable Expectation-Maximisation and Applications to Gaussian Mixture Model Optimal Transport

arXiv:2509.02109v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The Expectation-Maximisation (EM) algorithm is a central tool in statistics and machine learning, widely used for latent-variable models such as Gau

Differentiable Structure Learning for Cyclic Linear Gaussian Models with Latent Confounders

arXiv:2609.38618v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study causal structure learning from observational data in linear Gaussian structural causal models in the presence of directed cycles and an unkno

Diffusable Latents from Structure-Agnostic Distillation

arXiv:2609.39657v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distilling pretrained foundation models into an autoencoder bottleneck improves latent diffusability, enabling diffusion models to converge faster and r

Dimension-Free Rank Lifting from Random Hyperplane Arrangements

arXiv:2609.39855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the width required for a randomly initialized hidden layer of a neural network to achieve rank lifting. Namely, given a dataset X in R^{m imes

Disentangling Computation in Multi-Task Neural Networks with the Green's Operator

arXiv:2609.40292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How is computation organized and reused across tasks and time in a trained recurrent network? Most analyses emphasize the geometry of neural activity, d

Disentangling Self-Distillation: Measuring and Modeling Acquisition and Retention

arXiv:2609.39494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-distillation with privileged context adapts a language model from demonstrations by letting the model, once conditioned on a reference response, te

Distribution Matching Distillation for Continuous Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2609.40235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continuous diffusion language models generate all tokens in parallel, yet high-quality generation can still require hundreds of network evaluations (N

Diversity Combining for Multi-Path LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2609.38829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-path reasoning methods such as self-consistency (SC) sample K reasoning paths and choose the most frequent answer. However, their gains quickly pl

Does a Shared Temperature Imply a Shared Angular Scale in Probabilistic Contrastive Learning?

arXiv:2609.38784v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In probabilistic contrastive learning, a shared temperature is commonly interpreted as a shared similarity scale, but this interpretation does not hold

Does Gradient Conflict Predict the Understanding--Generation Trade-off? A Controlled Audit of Conflict-Metric Validity in Unified Multimodal Models

arXiv:2609.38465v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) are increasingly designed around gradient conflict between understanding and generation objectives. The premise that

Does Learning Protein Folding Generalize to Broader Reasoning?

arXiv:2609.38879v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models rely heavily on human text, which often conveys surface answers rather than the spatial and structural logic behind them. Protei

Don't Inoculate Everything: Stratified Inoculation Prompting Narrows Backdoor Triggers and Preserves Desired Traits

arXiv:2609.35356v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Supervised fine-tuning can teach language models undesired behaviours alongside desired ones. Inoculation prompting (IP) aims to limit unwanted gene

Don't Repeat Yourself: Self-Supervised Fine-Tuning for Coverage

arXiv:2609.31688v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In verifiable domains such as math and coding, finding one correct solution among many attempts can matter more than the pass rate of each attempt.

Dream4ACT: A Shared Visual Action Interface for Multi-Embodiment Video-Action Modeling

arXiv:2609.40153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video generation models (VGMs) offer strong spatiotemporal priors for embodied observation--action modeling. However, joint-space action vectors lack ex

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Dynamics to decision: A mathematical theory of Lyapunov spectra and decision boundaries in deep classifiers

arXiv:2609.39190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A deep classifier is defined not only by the decision it produces, but also by the sequence of transformations through which that decision is formed. Tr

Effective Does Not Mean Useful: Conditional Functional Substitutability for Redundancy and Scaling in Transformers

arXiv:2609.39259v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern neural networks scale predictably, yet the mechanisms behind these regularities remain unclear. Neural redundancy is typically characterized by c

Effects of Structural Allocation of Geometric Task Diversity in Linear Meta-Learning Models

arXiv:2509.18349v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Meta-learning aims to leverage information across related tasks to improve prediction on unlabeled data for new tasks when only a small number

EffGS: Efficient and High-Fidelity Gaussian Splatting

arXiv:2609.39553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables real-time novel view synthesis, but existing general-purpose acceleration methods suffer severe rendering quality d

EHR-RobustGym: Benchmarking and Training Agents for Robust Clinical Reasoning

arXiv:2609.39371v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In hospital workflows, electronic health records (EHRs) are often noisy, and may not contain the evidence needed to confirm events or measurements refer

ElectrolyteFM: Unifying Electrolyte Property Prediction through Cross-Property Knowledge Learning

arXiv:2609.39340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electrolyte formulation design requires balancing multiple physicochemical properties, yet existing models often focus on a limited subset. Learning eac

Embedding Physical Reasoning into Diffusion-Based Shadow Generation Under the Sun and Sky

arXiv:2512.06174v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generating realistic cast shadows for inserted foreground objects requires reasoning about scene geometry and illumination. However, most learning-b

Emergent Multi-View Geometry Through Self-Distillation

arXiv:2609.39227v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Over a century ago, Henri Poincare argued that a motionless observer cannot acquire the notion of space. Yet, most visual representation learning meth

EPIC: Epipolar-Consistent 360{eg} Immersive Stereo Video Generation

arXiv:2609.38689v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Immersive displays can enable rich and diverse virtual experiences. Manually authoring every possible experience to realize this potential, however, is

Estimation of the Label-Noise Transition Matrix with Performance Guarantees via Selective Classification

arXiv:2609.39829v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern machine learning depends heavily on massive datasets, but obtaining high-quality annotations at scale is often expensive. As a result, learning

Evaluating Multi-Task Morphological Concept Learning for Pulmonary Nodule Malignancy Assessment in 3D CT

arXiv:2609.38271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Morphological characteristics such as spiculation and lobulation play an important role in assessing pulmonary nodules on computed tomography (CT), part

Evaluating Persistent Calibration under Evolving Model Knowledge

arXiv:2609.38797v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI systems move from static repositories to agents that are capable of continual adaptation and learning, maintaining their trustworthiness means e

Event-Driven Refresh and Recurrence Memory to Reduce Stale Grounding in Referring Video Object Segmentation

arXiv:2609.38758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to produce a pixel-accurate mask sequence for an object specified by natural language. Sa2VA combines a

Evidence First, Arithmetic Second: A System Report and Failure Analysis for DocSem

arXiv:2609.39013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: EVICALC, our system for the DocSem shared task, achieved 8.61% joint accuracy on 1,730 tasks in the official final test evaluation. It reads a PDF, sele

Examining Variation in How Guided AI Tutors Resolve Student Impasses

arXiv:2609.38346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a student is stuck, a tutor faces the assistance dilemma: help given too early can hinder productive struggle, while help withheld too long leaves

Exo2EgoHOI: Hand-Object-Interaction Aware Exocentric-to-Egocentric Video Generation

arXiv:2609.38615v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Egocentric videos of human manipulation provide valuable visual experience for embodied intelligence, yet collecting such data at scale is costly. Exo

False Frontiers: Diagnosing and Mitigating Co-Cheating in Self-Evolving Search Agents

arXiv:2609.39102v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-evolving search agents build their own training curricula by jointly optimizing a proposer that generates questions and a solver that answers the

Feature-Aware Token Attack for Compression-Triggered Stealthy Failures in Large Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.39134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual-token compression improves the efficiency of large vision-language models, but can expose failures that full-token evaluation misses. We study ad

Fine-Tuning Diffusion Language Models with Context Selection and Target Weighting

arXiv:2609.38385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Supervised fine-tuning of discrete diffusion language models masks some response tokens and trains the model to recover their original values from the v

Finite-Horizon Fisher Memory in Two-Sided Power-Bounded Recurrent Systems

arXiv:2609.39800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We analyse allocation, admission and post-write retention in finite-horizon linear-Gaussian noisy recurrent memories. At every horizon, the directional