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FDIR: Harmonizing Fidelity and Human-Machine Preference in Lossy Compression Image Restoration

arXiv:2608.00111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Image restoration quality can be evaluated along three complementary facets: pixel-level fidelity, human perception, and downstream machine preference

Model Releases

FedChronos: Federated Fine-Tuning of Time-Series Foundation Models for Privacy-Preserving Commodity Price Forecasting

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arXiv:2608.01290v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time-series foundation models (TSFMs) such as Chronos have demonstrated strong forecasting capabilities across domains, yet adapting them to institution

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FeDepth: Federated Learning for Depth Estimation under Robot Heterogeneity

arXiv:2608.01129v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although recent robot perception research emphasizes training on data from diverse environments to improve generalization, most existing methods still

Feed-Forward Steering in Transformer Residual Dynamics

arXiv:2608.02071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Attention-only dynamical theories model Transformer residual directions as particles aggregating on a sphere. We extend this framework by incorporating

Fenced Citation-Context Retrieval for Case Law: Temporal Leakage and Degree Control Across Two Jurisdictions

arXiv:2607.17142v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Prior case retrieval (PCR) aims to identify the precedent cases relevant to the facts of a query case. Incoming citation context, the text wit

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Fermat Active Laplace Learning for Semi-Supervised Hyperspectral Image Classification

arXiv:2608.02483v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Two active learning algorithms for hyperspectral image (HSI) classification are proposed that combine density-aware Fermat distances with Poisson-reweig

Few-Shot Biomedical Relation Extraction with Large Language Models: A Viable Alternative to Supervised Learning?

arXiv:2606.15412v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Biomedical relation extraction (BioRE) is a key step in transforming biomedical literature into structured knowledge. Most existing approaches rely

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Few-Shot Concept Prompt Learning for Segmentation Foundation Models via Visual Grounding

arXiv:2608.01663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Promptable segmentation foundation models (FMs) such as SAM3 and Medical SAM3 promise few-shot, interactively-specified segmentation for medical imaging

FineMoLA: Towards Fine-Grained Motion-Language Alignment from Clip-Level Supervision

arXiv:2608.01392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-conditioned human motion generation has made rapid progress with the emergence of large-scale motion--language datasets. However, even datasets wit

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FinHardBench: Can LLMs Generate Latency-Aware Hardware for Financial Computing?

arXiv:2608.00909v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can large language models generate not just correct, but fast hardware? This paper investigates the question in financial FPGA design, where 5-10 nanose

Finite-Probe Total-Variation Certificates for Finite-Basis Drifting Models

arXiv:2608.01547v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Drifting objectives compare a target and model distribution through a vector field observed noisily at finitely many locations. We ask what distributi

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Finite-Time Analysis of Discounted Exponential-Utility Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.01917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discounted exponential utility provides a principled criterion for risk-sensitive sequential decision-making, but its nonlinear structure complicates re

First Deployable Dynamic-CoM: A Unified Policy and Method-Agnostic Benchmark for Humanoid Single-Leg Balance

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arXiv:2608.00500v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unified humanoid policies handle agile whole-body motion, yet stumble on a simple demand: staying balanced on one leg. On our single-leg-balance benchma

FL-OA: A Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning Framework with Outsourced Auditing for Intelligent Devices

arXiv:2608.01095v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables multiple intelligent devices to collaboratively train a high-accuracy model without sharing raw data. However, due to it

Floor, Ceiling, and the Fusion Gap: How Much of Crowd Reading Attention Can Machines Predict?

arXiv:2608.01704v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A benchmark score means nothing without knowing what a trivial method achieves and what the best possible method could achieve. We construct both boun

FlowPilot: Real-Time World-Action Modeling for Agile UAV Navigation

arXiv:2608.00635v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present FlowPilot, a compact world-action model for real-time onboard UAV navigation from depth. Unlike map-then-optimize pipelines that require loca

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Tutorials

Foundations of Reinforcement Learning and Control:Connections and New Perspectives

arXiv:2608.02433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning and control theory are two adjacent scientific fields that focus on optimizing the controller of unknown dynamical systems using

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Foveated Probes Recover Localized Binding Information in Vision Foundation Models

arXiv:2608.00726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frozen vision foundation models are commonly evaluated through a single global image embedding, but this interface can conflate missing information with

Agents

FRA-NBV: A Fast and Reflectivity-Aware Next-Best-View Strategy

arXiv:2608.01950v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous 3D reconstruction with depth sensors is strongly affected by reflective surfaces, which cause missing or unreliable measurements and reduce t

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FreqAnchorAD: Language-Free Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection via Frequency-Deviation Anchoring

arXiv:2608.00695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD) aims to detect anomalies and localize defective regions in unseen target domains without target training data. Recent

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FreqNav: Stage-Wise Frequency Routing for Object-Oriented Aerial Vision-Language Navigation

arXiv:2608.00970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Object-oriented aerial vision-and-language navigation (VLN) requires searching for a described target and landing on it precisely, under long-horizon an

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From AI Weather Prediction to Infrastructure Resilience: A Real-Time Correction-Downscaling Framework for Tropical Cyclone Impact Forecasting

arXiv:2603.12828v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper addresses a missing capability in infrastructure resilience: turning fast, global AI weather forecasts into asset-scale, actionable

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From Chains to Trees: Parent-Conditioned Drafting for Semi-Autoregressive Speculative Decoding

arXiv:2608.02123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference only when drafted continuations survive target-model verification. Semi-autoregressive drafters such as D

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From Digital to Physical Reservoir Computing: Co-Optimizing Soft Robotic Reservoirs via Dynamics Matching

arXiv:2608.00484v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Soft robotic substrates are promising for Physical Reservoir Computing (PRC) because their compliant nonlinear dynamics can provide temporal memory, h

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From Direction to Magnitude: How Multimodal Instruction-Tuning Reorganizes the Geometric Encoding of Identity-Specifying Prompts in Transformer Hidden States

arXiv:2607.09842v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We investigate whether identity-specifying system prompts produce statistically distinguishable geometric fingerprints in the hidden-state tra

From Failures to Supervision: DynamicEnvPlan for Robust Long-Horizon Embodied Planning

arXiv:2608.00613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical-world interaction is inherently dynamic, as environments can evolve during execution, requiring agents to adapt their plans under non-stationar

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From field-scale to large-scale spectral libraries: Tabular foundation models in soil spectroscopy

arXiv:2608.00608v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visible and near-infrared (vis-NIR) and mid-infrared (MIR) spectroscopy enable rapid, cost-effective prediction of soil properties. Yet, translating hig

From Forest to Future Capital: Tracking Land Cover Change in Ibu Kota Nusantara (IKN) from 2021 to 2026 with PlanetScope Imagery

arXiv:2608.01230v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Indonesia's relocation of its political and administrative capital from Jakarta to Ibu Kota Nusantara (IKN) has been framed around a ``Forest City'' vis

From fragmented data to actionable design: Physics-calibrated learning for plastic upcycling

arXiv:2608.02402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Thermochemical upgrading of plastic waste is a key upcycling pathway, yet the experimental literature is fragmented by heterogeneous conditions and inco

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From Global to Local: A Scalable Benchmark for Local Posterior Sampling

arXiv:2507.21449v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Degeneracy is an inherent feature of the loss landscape of neural networks, but it is not well understood how stochastic gradient MCMC (SGMCMC

From Information to Delegation: Mapping Human-AI Financial Decision Making

arXiv:2608.02100v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI increasingly participates in human decision making, understanding how decision-making authority is distributed between humans and AI has become

Tutorials

From Patches to Evidence Balls: Class-Conditioned Evidence Retrieval for Few-Shot Whole Slide Image Classification

arXiv:2608.01104v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whole slide image (WSI) classification is an evidence-driven task, where diagnostic cues are often sparse, spatially organized, and class-dependent. Exi

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From Pixels to PCells: A Neurosymbolic Approach to Photonic Component Creation

arXiv:2608.00084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present PixCell, a neurosymbolic system in which multimodal agents convert a visually presented photonic component into a parametric program over a s

From Representational Complementarity to Dual Systems: Synergizing VLM and Vision-Only Backbones for End-to-End Driving

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arXiv:2602.10719v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) driving augments end-to-end (E2E) planning with language-enabled visual backbones, yet it remains unclear how vis

From Vessel Trajectories to Safety-Critical Encounter Scenarios: A Generative AI Framework for Autonomous Ship Digital Testing

arXiv:2603.28067v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Digital testing has emerged as a key paradigm for the development and verification of autonomous maritime navigation systems, yet the availability o

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From We to Me: Theory Informed Narrative Shift with Abductive Reasoning

arXiv:2603.03320v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Effective communication often relies on aligning a message with an audience's narrative and worldview. Narrative shift involves transforming text to

Applications

Fruit-HSNet: A Machine Learning Approach for Hyperspectral Image-Based Fruit Ripeness Prediction

arXiv:2608.01202v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fruit ripeness prediction (FRP) is a classification-based agricultural computer vision task that has attracted much attention, thanks to its wide-rangin

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Fused Bayesian Flow Networks for Dual-Target Molecular Design

arXiv:2608.01007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dual-target drug design aims to generate 3D molecules that can simultaneously interact with two target proteins, offering a promising route for discover

FusionRS: A Large-Scale RGB-Infrared-Style Remote Sensing Dataset for Cross-Modal Vision-Language Learning

arXiv:2606.17020v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Remote sensing vision-language models have advanced Earth observation, but available large-scale vision-language resources remain RGB-centered, leav

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Future Mode Part 2: The foundation for securing agentic browsing

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Editor's Note: Our Future Mode series will give businesses insight into how Chrome Enterprise is approaching AI in the browser. Stay tuned for more blogs in this series.Future Mode Part 2: The foundat

G-Skin: Learning to Bind 3D Gaussians with Generative Visual Priors

arXiv:2608.01726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting has achieved remarkable success in photorealistic and efficient rendering, leading to a rapid increase in 3D assets represented by

Gaokerena: A Small Persian Medical Language Model Family

arXiv:2608.00932v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of artificial intelligence into medical question-answering systems has advanced rapidly; however, research remains predominantly focused

GAPSL: A Gradient-Aligned Parallel Split Learning over Data-Heterogeneous Edge Computing Systems

arXiv:2603.18540v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The increasing complexity of neural networks poses significant challenges for democratizing federated learning (FL) on resource-constrained edge dev

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Applications

GaussianSelector: Lightweight Human-Guided Object Selection in 3D Gaussian Splatting with Graph Optimization

arXiv:2608.01492v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Selecting a complete 3D object from a reconstructed scene with minimal user effort is essential for practical scene editing and embodied interaction. Ex

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Tutorials

Gecko: Fast Private Inference via Secure Public Encoder Offloading

arXiv:2608.02378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Private inference protects both user inputs and server models during neural network inference, but existing solutions remain too slow for practical depl

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GeminiPainter's sequence-formed pipeline comprised of perception, cognition, planning, and action stages

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arXiv:2608.00829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present an autonomous robotic portrait-generation system combining real-time face detection, AI-based sketch generation, and robotic drawing. The sys

Generalized Quadratic Gradient: A New Direction in Optimization via the Fusion of Positive-Definite Curvature Matrices and Gradients into A Unified Framework

arXiv:2608.01552v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quadratic Gradient (QG) is a Newton-type optimization framework that bridges first-order gradient descent and second-order optimization by incorporati

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Hardware

Generate Trajectories, Reasoning Traces, and Auto-Labels with NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super

NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super is a publicly available 34‑billion‑parameter vision–language–action model that merges a 32‑B Cosmos 3 Super Reasoner with a 2‑B action‑expert diffusion network. It produces uni

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