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When 'YES' Meets 'BUT': Can Large Models Comprehend Contradictory Humor Through Comparative Reasoning?

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arXiv:2503.23137v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding humor-particularly when it involves complex, contradictory narratives that require comparative reasoning-remains a significant c

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Why MLLMs Struggle to Determine Object Orientations

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arXiv:2604.13321v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) struggle with tasks that require reasoning about 2D object orientation in images, as documented in prior work.

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Brain-DiT: A Universal Multi-state fMRI Foundation Model with Metadata-Conditioned Pretraining

arXiv:2604.12683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current fMRI foundation models primarily rely on a limited range of brain states and mismatched pretraining tasks, restricting their ability to learn ge

Cell Instance Segmentation via Multi-Task Image-to-Image Schrodinger Bridge

arXiv:2604.12318v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing cell instance segmentation pipelines typically combine deterministic predictions with post-processing, which imposes limited explicit constrain

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Characterizing Human Semantic Navigation in Concept Production as Trajectories in Embedding Space

arXiv:2602.05971v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Semantic representations can be framed as a structured, dynamic knowledge space through which humans navigate to retrieve and manipulate meaning. To

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CoG: Controllable Graph Reasoning via Relational Blueprints and Failure-Aware Refinement over Knowledge Graphs

arXiv:2601.11047v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities but often grapple with reliability challenges like hallucinations.

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Cognition-Inspired Dual-Stream Semantic Enhancement for Vision-Based Dynamic Emotion Modeling

arXiv:2604.12777v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The human brain constructs emotional percepts not by processing facial expressions in isolation, but through a dynamic, hierarchical integration of se

Cross-Attentive Multiview Fusion of Vision-Language Embeddings

arXiv:2604.12551v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models have been key to the development of open-vocabulary 2D semantic segmentation. Lifting these models from 2D images to 3D scenes, h

Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation for PET-Free Amyloid-Beta Detection from MRI

arXiv:2604.12574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Detecting amyloid-eta (Aeta) positivity is crucial for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease but typically requires PET imaging, which is costly, invas

DeferredSeg: A Multi-Expert Deferral Framework for Trustworthy Medical Image Segmentation

arXiv:2604.12411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Segmentation models based on deep neural networks demonstrate strong generalization for medical image segmentation. However, they often exhibit overconf

Detecting Precise Hand Touch Moments in Egocentric Video

arXiv:2604.12343v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We address the challenging task of detecting the precise moment when hands make contact with objects in egocentric videos. This frame-level detection is

Do Transformers Use their Depth Adaptively? Evidence from a Relational Reasoning Task

arXiv:2604.12426v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate whether transformers use their depth adaptively across tasks of increasing difficulty. Using a controlled multi-hop relational reasonin

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Efficient Inference for Large Vision-Language Models: Bottlenecks, Techniques, and Prospects

arXiv:2604.05546v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) enable sophisticated reasoning over images and videos, yet their inference is hindered by a systemic efficiency

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EMBER: Autonomous Cognitive Behaviour from Learned Spiking Neural Network Dynamics in a Hybrid LLM Architecture

arXiv:2604.12167v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present (Experience-Modulated Biologically-inspired Emergent Reasoning), a hybrid cognitive architecture that reorganises the relationship between la

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GRADE: Probing Knowledge Gaps in LLMs through Gradient Subspace Dynamics

arXiv:2604.02830v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Detecting whether a model's internal knowledge is sufficient to correctly answer a given question is a fundamental challenge in deploying responsibl

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HazardArena: Evaluating Semantic Safety in Vision-Language-Action Models

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arXiv:2604.12447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models inherit rich world knowledge from vision-language backbones and acquire executable skills via action demonstrations.

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Knowledge Is Not Static: Order-Aware Hypergraph RAG for Language Models

arXiv:2604.12185v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language models by grounding outputs in retrieved knowledge. However, existing RAG methods including

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metasnf: Meta Clustering with Similarity Network Fusion in R

arXiv:2410.17976v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: metasnf is an R package that enables users to apply meta clustering, a method for efficiently searching a broad space of cluster solutions by

MultiDocFusion: Hierarchical and Multimodal Chunking Pipeline for Enhanced RAG on Long Industrial Documents

arXiv:2604.12352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: RAG-based QA has emerged as a powerful method for processing long industrial documents. However, conventional text chunking approaches often neglect com

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PipeLive: Efficient Live In-place Pipeline Parallelism Reconfiguration for Dynamic LLM Serving

arXiv:2604.12171v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pipeline parallelism (PP) is widely used to partition layers of large language models (LLMs) across GPUs, enabling scalable inference for large models

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Replicable Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation

arXiv:2509.08660v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Replication of experimental results has been a challenge faced by many scientific disciplines, including the field of machine learning. Recent work

Risk-Calibrated Learning: Minimizing Fatal Errors in Medical AI

arXiv:2604.12693v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning models often achieve expert-level accuracy in medical image classification but suffer from a critical flaw: semantic incoherence. These hi

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RPRA: Predicting an LLM-Judge for Efficient but Performant Inference

arXiv:2604.12634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) face a fundamental trade-off between computational efficiency (e.g., number of parameters) and output quality, especially w

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RSGMamba: Reliability-Aware Self-Gated State Space Model for Multimodal Semantic Segmentation

arXiv:2604.12319v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal semantic segmentation has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing scene understanding by leveraging complementary information from multi

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Sample Complexity of Autoregressive Reasoning: Chain-of-Thought vs. End-to-End

arXiv:2604.12013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern large language models generate text autoregressively, producing tokens one at a time. To study the learnability of such systems, Joshi et al. (CO

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SpecBound: Adaptive Bounded Self-Speculation with Layer-wise Confidence Calibration

arXiv:2604.12247v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speculative decoding has emerged as a promising approach to accelerate autoregressive inference in large language models (LLMs). Self-draft methods, w

Subcritical Signal Propagation at Initialization in Normalization-Free Transformers

arXiv:2604.11890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study signal propagation at initialization in transformers through the averaged partial Jacobian norm (APJN), a measure of gradient amplification acr

Towards Long-horizon Agentic Multimodal Search

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arXiv:2604.12890v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal deep search agents have shown great potential in solving complex tasks by iteratively collecting textual and visual evidence. However, mana

VidTAG: Temporally Aligned Video to GPS Geolocalization with Denoising Sequence Prediction at a Global Scale

arXiv:2604.12159v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The task of video geolocalization aims to determine the precise GPS coordinates of a video's origin and map its trajectory; with applications in forensi

XANE(3): An E(3)-Equivariant Graph Neural Network for Accurate Prediction of XANES Spectra from Atomic Structures

arXiv:2604.12140v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present XANE(3), a physics-based E(3)-equivariant graph neural network for predicting X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectra directly f

A Mathematical Explanation of Transformers

arXiv:2510.03989v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Transformer architecture has revolutionized the field of sequence modeling and underpins the recent breakthroughs in large language models

A3-FPN: Asymptotic Content-Aware Pyramid Attention Network for Dense Visual Prediction

arXiv:2604.10210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning multi-scale representations is the common strategy to tackle object scale variation in dense prediction tasks. Although existing feature pyrami

Agentic Aggregation for Parallel Scaling of Long-Horizon Agentic Tasks

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arXiv:2604.11753v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study parallel test-time scaling for long-horizon agentic tasks such as agentic search and deep research, where multiple rollouts are generated in pa

Are We Recognizing the Jaguar or Its Background? A Diagnostic Framework for Jaguar Re-Identification

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arXiv:2604.09690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Jaguar re-identification (re-ID) from citizen-science imagery can look strong on standard retrieval metrics while still relying on the wrong evidence, s

Attention Sink in Transformers: A Survey on Utilization, Interpretation, and Mitigation

arXiv:2604.10098v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As the foundational architecture of modern machine learning, Transformers have driven remarkable progress across diverse AI domains. Despite their trans

bacpipe: a Python package to make bioacoustic deep learning models accessible

arXiv:2604.11560v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 1. Natural sounds have been recorded for millions of hours over the previous decades using passive acoustic monitoring. Improvements in deep learning

Beyond Theory of Mind in Robotics

arXiv:2604.09612v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Theory of Mind, the capacity to explain and predict behavior by inferring hidden mental states, has become the dominant paradigm for social interaction

Breaking the KV Cache Bottleneck: Fan Duality Model Achieves O(1) Decode Memory with Superior Associative Recall

arXiv:2604.07716v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present FDM (Fan Duality Model), a linear sequence architecture that resolves the fundamental tension between memory efficiency and associative r

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CodeComp: Structural KV Cache Compression for Agentic Coding

arXiv:2604.10235v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic code tasks such as fault localization and patch generation require processing long codebases under tight memory constraints, where the Key-Value

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CoMelSinger: Discrete Token-Based Zero-Shot Singing Synthesis With Structured Melody Control and Guidance

arXiv:2509.19883v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Singing Voice Synthesis (SVS) aims to generate expressive vocal performances from structured musical inputs such as lyrics and pitch sequences

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Controlling Multimodal Conversational Agents with Coverage-Enhanced Latent Actions

arXiv:2601.07516v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models are increasingly employed as multimodal conversational agents (MCAs) for diverse conversational tasks. Recently, reinfo

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DecepGPT: Schema-Driven Deception Detection with Multicultural Datasets and Robust Multimodal Learning

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arXiv:2603.23916v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal deception detection aims to identify deceptive behavior by analyzing audiovisual cues for forensics and security. In these high-sta

Decoupled Similarity for Task-Aware Token Pruning in Large Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2604.11240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Token pruning has emerged as an effective approach to reduce the substantial computational overhead of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) by discardin

Delving Aleatoric Uncertainty in Medical Image Segmentation via Vision Foundation Models

arXiv:2604.10963v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical image segmentation supports clinical workflows by precisely delineating anatomical structures and lesions. However, medical image datasets medic

DiSPA: Differential Substructure-Pathway Attention for Drug Response Prediction

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arXiv:2601.14346v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate prediction of drug response in precision medicine requires models that capture how specific chemical substructures interact with cell

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Energy-Efficient Federated Edge Learning For Small-Scale Datasets in Large IoT Networks

arXiv:2604.10662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) networks enable intelligent services such as smart cities and autonomous driving, but often face resource constrain

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Enhancing Fine-Grained Spatial Grounding in 3D CT Report Generation via Discriminative Guidance

arXiv:2604.10437v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision--language models (VLMs) for radiology report generation (RRG) can produce long-form chest CT reports from volumetric scans and show strong potent

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Enhancing Multilingual RAG Systems with Debiased Language Preference-Guided Query Fusion

arXiv:2601.02956v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation (mRAG) systems often exhibit a perceived preference for high-resource languages, particularly English, r

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