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Repetition, Not Length: Isolating the Counting Failure in Neural Text-to-Speech

arXiv:2609.36974v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-speech models loop, truncate and lose count on text that repeats a phrase many times. We show that repetition itself is what breaks them, not th

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Representation Dynamics Reveal Semantic Saliency and Similarity for Visual Token Pruning in MLLMs

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arXiv:2609.36916v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) incur high inference latency from long visual token sequences. Existing pruning methods commonly use attention

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Representational and Functional Robustness to Electrode Montages in EEG Foundation Models

arXiv:2609.36288v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: EEG foundation models (EEG-FMs) are intended to generalize across different datasets by learning representations that, ideally, are invariant to dataset

Representational Simplicity and Circuit Size Dissociate in a Threshold-Dependent Way: A Controlled Test via Adversarial Training

arXiv:2609.35890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse-autoencoder decomposability and concentrated feature attribution are increasingly treated as evidence that a model's computation is easier to rev

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

ResComEmb: Effective and Efficient Multimodal Embedding via Residual Homogeneity Compression

arXiv:2609.37225v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential for universal multimodal representation learning. However, existing methods eithe

Rethinking Soft Tokens for Parallel Decoding in Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2609.37391v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) enable parallel generation by predicting and committing multiple tokens at each denoising step, yet they can generate i

Retrieval Capacity of Self-Attention Under Competition

arXiv:2609.37879v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How many tokens from its context does a language model actually use, and what determines that number? We study this question through self-attention. Wit

Risk-Controlled Selective LLM Answering by Pricing Label-Free Checks

arXiv:2609.37493v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Serving an answer from a large language model requires deciding when to abstain, yet a verifier's ranking accuracy alone does not determine the error

Rollout-Marginal Distillation for Long-Horizon Autoregressive Video Generation

arXiv:2609.37925v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive (AR) video diffusion enables low-latency, streamable video generation, but prediction errors often accumulate over long rollouts. Train

Routing Should Pay for Itself: Sparse Supervision for Economical LLM Routing

arXiv:2609.37402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) routing reduces serving cost by assigning each query to an appropriate model while preserving response quality. Learning such

S^3: Spectral Null-Space Swap Makes Reasoning Models Efficient

arXiv:2609.37976v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs trained with Chain-of-thought excel in reasoning capability, but often come with excessive token cost. We find that the core of reasoning capacit

SAKI: Skill Assembly and Kinematic Imitation from Human Videos for Long-Horizon Mobile Manipulation

arXiv:2609.36031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from human videos offers a promising route to acquiring diverse manipulation skills. Extending this capability beyond tabletop settings to long

Scale-Invariant Manipulability Shape Tracking Across Heterogeneous Manipulators

arXiv:2609.36784v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When transferring manipulability across systems with different sizes and kinematic structures, matching absolute ellipsoid scale may be unnecessary when

Scale Sensitivity in Low-Bit Post-Training Quantization: Curvature of the Quantization Error Landscape

arXiv:2609.37416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) methods in the GPTQ family minimize a layer-wise reconstruction error on a uniform grid whose scale must be chosen; the

Scene-Consistent Illumination Transfer for Inserted Advertising Graphics

arXiv:2609.37951v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Replacing a visible advertisement in a broadcast frame is geometrically straightforward but photometrically delicate. A pasted graphic can have the corr

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

SCOPE: Observation-Conditioned Full-Target Prediction for Sparse PDE Inference

arXiv:2609.36527v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recovering complete physical fields from sparse observations is challenging because the measurements may not uniquely determine the underlying state. Di

Search Dimension in Unlabeled Projection Pursuit: A Scaling Law for Subspace Restriction

arXiv:2609.37917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Projection pursuit searches for a direction along which the data look least Gaussian. When the observation space contains a large Gaussian complement, t

Second-Moment Stochastic Approximation Methods

arXiv:2609.36600v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Classical stochastic approximation methods rely on estimators of the first moment (mean) of a random regression function. We study methods that employ

SEED: Self-Speculative Decoding via Implicit Encoder-Decoder

arXiv:2609.36590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-speculative decoding accelerates large language model (LLM) inference by drafting tokens from the target model itself, but faces a sharp tradeoff b

Segment Anything for Dendrites from Electron Microscopy

arXiv:2411.02562v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Segmentation of cellular structures in electron microscopy (EM) images is fundamental to analyzing the morphology of neurons and glial cells in the

Selecting The Most Informative Tokens in Natural Language Autoencoders

arXiv:2609.37040v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Natural language autoencoders translate a language model's internal activations into readable explanations. Explaining every token position is costly.

Selecting What Matters: Semantic Compression-Guided Selective Pooling for Long-Context Embeddings

arXiv:2609.37782v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong potential as training-free text encoders for long-context embeddings. Existing approaches primarily impro

Self-Supervised Representation Learning as Mutual Information Maximization

arXiv:2510.01345v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Self-supervised representation learning (SSRL) has demonstrated remarkable empirical success, yet its underlying principles remain insufficiently un

SemPSG: A Semantic Channel-Aware Foundation Model for Polysomnography Analysis

arXiv:2609.36619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Polysomnography (PSG) integrates multiple physiological signals to provide a comprehensive characterization of human sleep, yet its heterogeneous channe

Sequence Variables: A Constraint Programming Computational Domain for Routing and Sequencing

arXiv:2510.09373v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Constraint Programming (CP) offers an intuitive, declarative framework for modeling Vehicle Routing Problems (VRP). While classical successor-based

Sharp Convergence and Sampling Trade-offs for Riemannian Diffusion under Nonnegative Ricci Curvature

arXiv:2609.36568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models have emerged as state-of-the-art generative models, with recent extensions from Euclidean spaces to Riemannian manifolds. However, exis

SiDiaC-v.2.0: Sinhala Diachronic Corpus Version 2.0

arXiv:2603.10861v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: SiDiaC-v.2.0 is the largest comprehensive Sinhala Diachronic Corpus to date, covering a period from 1800 CE to 1955 CE in terms of publication dates

SIFARI: Self-Supervised Interferometric Fitting for Astronomical Radio Imaging

arXiv:2609.35966v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Radio-interferometric images are reconstructed from sparsely sampled visibilities, and CLEAN-based imaging can struggle with spatial filtering, comple

Similarity Is Not Validity: Defending LLM Semantic Caches Against Poisoning

arXiv:2609.35908v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic caches reduce LLM serving costs by reusing previously generated answers for semantically similar queries. However, retrieval is based solely

SMat-Attention: Structured Long-Context Sequence Modeling

arXiv:2609.36062v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context sequence models face a fundamental tradeoff: softmax attention uses flexible token-level interactions at quadratic cost, whereas linear att

Soft Curriculum Learning for Optimizing Fresh and Generalized Recommendations

arXiv:2609.35783v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale recommender systems, particularly short-form video platforms, are often bottlenecked by massive popularity feedback loops. In such environ

Sparse cubical complexes for efficient topology-preservation in image data

arXiv:2609.37177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Persistent homology (PH) is a frequently used tool for extracting and preserving topological information from image data, particularly in image segmenta

Stealth Is a Relation, Not a Property: How Event Representations Create Blind Spots for Timing Attacks in Event-Based Perception

arXiv:2609.36386v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An event camera produces an asynchronous stream, but what is visible in that stream depends on how a downstream consumer, such as a model or detector, p

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

Stochastic Optimization Under Power-Law Spectra: Tight Bounds and Shuffling Analysis

arXiv:2609.36271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work has established that power-law spectral conditions on data enable tight convergence bounds for deterministic gradient descent, resolving the

Strict-Saddle Landscapes and Multi-Rank Geometry in Low-Tubal-Rank Tensor Sensing

arXiv:2609.37865v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the optimization landscape of low-tubal-rank tensor sensing through a balanced factorization. Under a tubal restricted isometry condition, we e

StructRL: Online Structured Reinforcement Learning for Long-Horizon Vision-Language-Action Tasks

arXiv:2609.36352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models perform well on shorter-horizon manipulation tasks but still struggle with long-horizon tasks that require multiple

Structured Visual Target Learning For Cross-Subject eeg-to-image retrieval

arXiv:2609.36971v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-subject EEG-to-image retrieval requires a neural represen- tation trained on source subjects to remain aligned with a visual embedding space for a

Support-Set Target Leakage in Relational Foundation Models during In-Context Learning: Impact, Detection, and Mitigation

arXiv:2609.36384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Relational in-context learning (ICL) conditions predictions on the labeled support examples and their linked tables, creating a failure mode when the su

Surgical Master Console Using General-Purpose Robot Arms and a Separable Articulated Distal Interface: Porcine In-Vivo Evaluation

arXiv:2609.37455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-performance surgical master consoles offer intuitive articulated manipulation but are expensive and difficult to reproduce, while accessible commer

Sycophancy Is Not One Thing: Causal Separation of Sycophantic Behaviors in LLMs

arXiv:2509.21305v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit sycophantic behaviors -- such as excessive agreement with or flattery of the user -- but it is unclear wh

Temporal-Aware Fusion for Robust Outdoor LiDAR Localization

arXiv:2609.36432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LiDAR relocalization aims to estimate the global 6-DoF pose of a sensor in the environment. However, existing regression-based approaches often encounte

Texture Space Material Diffusion

arXiv:2609.37654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a method for generating high quality materials for 3D objects entirely in texture space. We finetune a video diffusion transformer for text-g

The Default Trap: Rethinking Plan Evaluation in Tool-Using LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.36829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An executor can respond strongly to a change in a supplied plan's priority while showing a small change in the same information-selection probability wh

The Detectability Gap: Hidden Heterogeneity in Hallucination Detection Across Language Models

arXiv:2609.35860v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sampling based consistency is widely used for hallucination detection, yet aggregate performance can conceal systematic differences in which errors ar

The finite-horizon five-expert prediction problem

arXiv:2609.38035v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We give an explicit solution to the five expert prediction with expert advice partial differential equation (PDE) in the finite-time horizon setting.