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UAV-Based Environmental Monitoring of Rip-Current Indicators Using Wavelet-Derived Texture Features

arXiv:2608.02448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rip currents are recurrent coastal natural hazards that threaten beachgoers and create operational challenges for lifeguards and coastal managers. Relia

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UCBound-Net: Uncertainty-Guided Boundary-Aware Continual Learning for Domain-Incremental Ultrasound Segmentation

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arXiv:2608.01518v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning in clinical imaging faces a dual challenge: a model must assimilate knowledge from new anatomical domains while retaining representat

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UDT: Reconciling U-Nets and Diffusion Transformers with Data-Adaptive Token Reduction

arXiv:2608.01298v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have emerged as a core architecture in generative modeling due to their scalability and adaptability to multimodal tasks.

UEmbed: Unified Sparse and Dense Multimodal Embeddings

arXiv:2608.02583v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse retrieval underpins modern search systems, from web search to retrieval-augmented generation. Existing work has introduced Learned Sparse Retri

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Uncertainty-Aware Simulation-Based Inference for Operations Research with Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.00019v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying large language models (LLMs) for operations research (OR) tasks remains challenging because correctness depends on a coherent modeling process

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Uncertainty-guided active learning for surrogate prediction of stream-finishing wear fields

arXiv:2608.00593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In stream finishing, the wear experienced by a workpiece depends strongly on its orientation within the rotating abrasive media. Determining suitable

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Uncertainty Is Not Enough: Value-of-Information Routing for Mixtures of LoRA Experts

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arXiv:2608.02528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixtures of low-rank adaptation experts increase parameter-efficient capacity by routing each input through a subset of adapters. Recent dynamic routers

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Uncertainty Quantification for Visual Object Pose Estimation: S-Lemma Ellipsoidal Bounds

arXiv:2511.21666v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Quantifying the uncertainty of an object's pose estimate is essential for robust control and planning. Although pose estimation is a well-stud

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Uncovering and Mitigating Positional Blind Spots in Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2608.01573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve promising performance in robotic manipulation, typically measured by success rates aggregated over pr

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Understanding and Correcting Low-Frequency Bias in EEG Foundation Model

arXiv:2608.01898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Increasing EEG pretraining data scale or model capacity does not consistently improve downstream performance. We identify a persistent low-frequency bia

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Understanding and Overcoming Cross-modal Fusion Bias in Multimodal Anomaly Detection From A Fisher Information Perspective

arXiv:2608.00986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current advancements in Multimodal Anomaly Detection (MAD) are largely driven by enhancing multimodal fusion, particularly through the integration of RG

Understanding Sparse Attention Selectivity in Long-Context Foundation Models via Counterfactual Evaluation

arXiv:2608.01676v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse attention is widely deployed in long-context serving stacks, yet no framework audits how discarding blocks changes the influence of specific cont

Understanding Synergistic Interactions among Pathology Foundation Models via Adaptive Fusion

arXiv:2608.01370v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pathology foundation models (PFMs) provide strong tile-level representations via self-supervised pre-training on large-scale pathology images. Yet, PFMs

UniHEAR: Unified Heterogeneous-Source Attentive Retrieval for Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering

arXiv:2608.01147v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) requires retrieving relevant entity knowledge from external sources to answer visually grounded que

UniMoCa: Unifying Motion and Camera Controls as Visual Proxies for Faithful Human Video Generation

arXiv:2608.01944v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Controlling human motion and camera movement is essential for faithful human-oriented video generation, yet remains challenging in multi-person scenes w

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UniqueSplat: View-conditioned 3D Gaussian Splatting for Generalizable 3D Reconstruction

arXiv:2608.02145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we propose UniqueSplat, a view-conditioned feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting model to reconstruct customized 3D radiance fields for each

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UniSim-SLAM: Feed-Forward SLAM with Unified Sim(3) Optimization

arXiv:2608.01706v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent geometric foundation models enable feed-forward inference for SLAM, but their predictions are strongly dependent on the input view set, which lea

Universal Prompt Language - Browse, Edit, Build and Store dynamic prompts with variables. Build once, run many

https://i.redd.it/kkmy9qtemmgh1.gif Hello everyone! Today I want to present a nice project I've been working on. As you know, writing prompts takes time, sometimes you write similar prompts, sometimes

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Unleashing the Potential of Large Language Models: A Blueprint for Real-Time, Enterprise-Ready Deployments

arXiv:2608.00419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models deployed in real-time, regulated settings face knowledge staleness, catastrophic forgetting, hallucination, and weak feedback lo

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Unleashing the Power of Text: Text-Guided Flow Matching for Image Fusion under Complex Degradations

arXiv:2608.00530v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Infrared-visible image fusion under realistic degradation scenarios is a challenging task, as degradations not only cause a loss of reliable modality-sp

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Unpacking ChatGPT Work: the Agent for a Billion Users

ChatGPT Work was launched by OpenAI on July 9, 2026 as an agent‑oriented knowledge‑work platform that combines chat, Codex tools and cloud agents across fourteen model configurations. Within three wee

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Unpacking Hateful Memes: Presupposed Context and False Claims

arXiv:2510.09935v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While memes are often humorous, they are frequently used to disseminate hate, causing serious harm to individuals and society. Current approaches to

Unsupervised Multidomain Approaches to Named Entity Recognition with Small Datasets

arXiv:2608.00984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper explores the challenges and the methodologies associated with learning quality representations in scenarios with unlabelled small or limited

UOT-IR: Structured Routing of High-Polyphony Symbolic Music into Fixed-Budget Representations

arXiv:2608.00576v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-polyphony symbolic music is increasingly used in generation, analysis, and arrangement, yet many downstream tasks require bounded representations

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UpliftBench: Revealing Outcome-Regime and Objective Mismatch in Uplift Evaluation

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arXiv:2608.00915v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Uplift modeling (conditional-average-treatment-effect estimation) drives personalized targeting, yet published uplift benchmarks frequently disagree on

Upper-Expectile Multi-Step Q-Learning for Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.02034v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-step returns accelerate reward propagation in off-policy reinforcement learning, but couple the evaluation of each decision to the suboptimal logg

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Using Lower-Bound Representations for Trajectory Similarity Learning

arXiv:2608.01039v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Trajectory similarity learning is fundamental to efficient trajectory retrieval under complex distance measures. Existing learning-based methods typic

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Using Non-Lipschitz Signum-based Functions for Distributed Optimization and Machine Learning: Trade-off Between Con-vergence Rate and Optimality Gap

arXiv:2608.01220v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In recent years, the prevalence of large-scale data-sets and the demand for sophisti-cated learning models have necessitated the development of effici

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USP-Mamba: Unmixing-Derived Spectral and Structural Prompting for Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution

arXiv:2608.02401v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hyperspectral image super-resolution aims to reconstruct high-resolution imagery while preserving dense spectral information. Recently, Mamba-based mode

V-Mem: Modality-Routed Retrieval for Long-Term Multimodal Agentic Memory

arXiv:2608.01543v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Interaction between users and LLM agents is increasingly multimodal: conversations interleave text with images, and a later question may target either

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What's Changed Qwen3.5 is faster on Apple GPUs: the MLX engine now uses the model's MTP head for speculative decoding automatically /v1/chat/completions streaming now matches OpenAI's wire format: rol

VARPose: Flexible 2D Pose Densification via Visual Autoregressive Modeling for Enhanced 3D Lifting

arXiv:2608.02214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual AutoRegressive Modeling (VAR) has excelled in natural image generation via next-scale prediction, but its use on topology-structured data like hu

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VaRS-Doc: Interpretation-Aware Variant Representations via Latent Self-Probing for Visual Document Retrieval

arXiv:2608.01211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual document retrieval has recently become increasingly important in applications such as enterprise search, scientific literature discovery, and ret

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VC-Tooler: Learning Compositional and Adaptive Visual Tool Use

arXiv:2608.02217v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic multimodal reasoning extends passive image understanding by allowing VLMs to actively acquire and refine visual evidence through visual tool int

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Verification Without Sufficiency: Per-Chunk Filtering Fails on Multi-Hop RAG, and Decomposition Repairs It

arXiv:2608.00585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Verification for retrieval-augmented generation usually scores each retrieved chunk and drops the ones that fail. We show this cannot work for multi-hop

Verifier-Induced Support Reshaping in On-Policy Optimization

arXiv:2608.00220v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We show that on-policy reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) can improve the current objective while making successful behaviors for l

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VertiAKD: Adaptive Off-Road Kinodynamics on Vertically Challenging Terrain

arXiv:2608.00945v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Off-road mobility requires autonomous mobile robots to generalize across heterogeneous vehicle fleets and continuously changing terrain conditions. Exis

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VespaSeg: A Resource-Aware Ground-then-Segment Pipeline for Referring Expression Segmentation

arXiv:2608.01077v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Referring expression segmentation requires language conditioned localization and pixel-accurate masks, but monolithic models can be costly to deploy. We

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VGER: Voxel-Guided Global Event Ranking for Event Cloud Attribution

arXiv:2608.01470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Event cameras produce sparse and asynchronous event streams that provide rich spatio-temporal information for efficient perception. Recent advances in e

Video Models as Native 4D Renderers: World-Grounded Conditioning from Animated Mesh

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arXiv:2608.00094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained video diffusion models can act as renderers when the desired scene state is already specified by an animated mesh, a camera trajectory, and a

Visualising Information Flow in Word Embeddings with Diffusion Tensor Imaging

arXiv:2601.05713v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding how large language models (LLMs) represent natural language is a central challenge in natural language processing (NLP) research. Many

VLAGuard: A Framework for Evaluating and Mitigating Physical Attention Hijacking in Vision-Language-Action Robots within Wireless Sensor Networks

arXiv:2608.01028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying Vision-Language-Action (VLA) robots as mobile edge nodes within wireless sensor networks (WSNs) requires robust protection against physical ad

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Volcanic Clouds Detection through QCNN and Geostationary Satellite Multispectral Imagery

arXiv:2608.00072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in quantum computing are opening new possibilities for Earth Observation (EO) data analysis. Quantum machine learning (QML) approaches o

VR3D: View-Robust 3D Representation Learning for Aerial-Ground Person Re-Identification

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arXiv:2608.02598v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerial-ground person re-identification is a challenging task due to cross-platform viewpoint variations, which cause severe occlusion and geometric defo

WAM-Diff2: Hierarchical AR-to-Diffusion Distillation for Highly Efficient Autonomous Driving VLA

arXiv:2608.01035v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a prominent paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving; however, their efficient deployment is sev

Wasserstein mixing time of the unadjusted Langevin algorithm

arXiv:2608.02430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We provide new estimates in Wasserstein distance for the asymptotic bias of the unadjusted Langevin algorithm, in the classical setting of log-smooth

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We were proud to host “Build with Frontier Intelligence,” http://Z.ai ’s first community meetup, together with @AISingapore, at Tencent’s ve…

We were proud to host “Build with Frontier Intelligence,” http://Z.ai ’s first community meetup, together with @AISingapore, at Tencent’s venue. During the event, http://Z.ai shared insights into the

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Weights or Skills? A Survey of Robot-Learning Techniques: from Action-Predicting Weights to Robots that Write their Own Skills

arXiv:2608.01851v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot learning is splitting into two bets: policies that bake competence into frozen weights (vision-language-action, or VLA, models), and agents that w

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