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Relative Wasserstein Angle and the Problem of the W_2-Nearest Gaussian Distribution

arXiv:2601.22355v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding the distributional structure of high-dimensional datasets has become an important topic, yet direct visual characterization is difficu

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Reply to comments arXiv:2512.07881 and arXiv:2601.06104 on quantum structure in human and AI-generated language

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arXiv:2609.25797v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We reply to the comments by M. Sienicki and K. Sienicki (arXiv:2512.07881) and by K. Sienicki (arXiv:2601.06104) on our work on quantum-mechanical stati

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RepUCB: Representation Learning-Based UCB for Heterogeneous Multi-Task Linear Bandits

arXiv:2604.00531v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-task representation learning exploits the shared structure among related tasks by learning a common latent representation, thereby improving s

RGSQ: Riemannian Geometry-Sensitive Quantization for Large Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.25492v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large vision-language models (VLMs) can be efficiently deployed under stringent memory and latency constraints through post training quantization (PTQ).

ROAM-ASD: Robust Open-World Active Speaker Detection with Flexible Multimodal Fusion

arXiv:2609.26648v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Active speaker detection (ASD) requires reliable association between visible faces and acoustic speech, yet existing systems often degrade under chall

ROBE: Reversed-Order-Biased-Experts for Extracting Extreme Long-tail Events from Historical Texts

arXiv:2608.24268v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper proposes methods to extract over 50 types of events from a Dutch historical corpus spanning the 17th and 18th centuries. The methods we p

Sample-Smooth Spaces: A Convenient Category for Differentiable Probabilistic Programming

arXiv:2609.26270v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce the category mathbf{SSS} of sample-smooth spaces over a mixed site. The test objects are the products Omega_n := R^n imes Omega of a Cart

Self-Supervised Combinatorial Optimization with Constraints via Frank-Wolfe

arXiv:2609.25728v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-supervised learning for combinatorial optimization has emerged as a promising paradigm for solving discrete optimization problems with neural netwo

Semantic Abstraction for Natural Language Inference: a Methodological Framework for Discovering and Compensating Semantic Knowledge and Reasoning Gaps in Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.26610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite their outstanding performance on many NLP tasks, LLMs face serious challenges related to semantic abstraction. In this study, we are interested

Semantic-Anchored Evidential Fusion for Domain-Robust Whole-Slide Survival Analysis

arXiv:2606.19966v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Whole-slide images (WSIs) are widely used for computational cancer prognosis. However, most existing methods primarily focus on in-domain perf

Semantic Self-Distillation for Language Model Uncertainty

arXiv:2602.04577v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models present challenges for principled uncertainty quantification, in part due to their complexity and the diversity of their outpu

Separators in Enhancing Autoregressive Pretraining for Vision Mamba

arXiv:2603.03806v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The state space model Mamba has recently emerged as a promising paradigm in computer vision, attracting considerable attention for its efficient han

Sex Estimation from Footwear Outsole Impressions Using CNN Transfer Learning and Interpretable Image Statistics

arXiv:2609.25386v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Footwear outsole impressions are a common form of forensic pattern evidence, yet quantitative methods for estimating wearer attributes from these imag

Shaft-Configuration-Adaptive Catheter Tip Position Estimation via Motor-History Conditioned Residual Learning

arXiv:2609.26304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tendon-driven continuum manipulators are widely used in medical applications, where accurate tip-position estimation is essential for precise navigation

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Sharp First-Order Lower Bounds for Higher-Order Smooth Nonconvex Optimization

arXiv:2606.05438v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study the deterministic first-order oracle complexity of finding (epsilon)-stationary points in smooth nonconvex optimization when the objective

Slow Decay and Silenced Expression: Iterated Subliminal Trait Transfer in Language-Model Lineages

arXiv:2609.25721v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models are increasingly trained on the outputs of other models, forming chains that we call lineages, in which a trait present in one generat

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Social Influence and the Allocation of Scientific Attention in AI Populations

arXiv:2609.22408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems are becoming participants in the evaluation and use of scientific research. They encounter citation counts, download statistics and lists of

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Sonicmesh: Enhancing 3D Human Mesh Reconstruction in Vision-Impaired Environments With Acoustic Signals

arXiv:2412.11325v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 3D human mesh reconstruction (HMR) from RGB images often degrades under poor illumination, occlusion, and non-line-of-sight conditions. Acoustic sen

SPARC: SuperPixel-Aware Region Contrastive Learning for Self-Supervised Dense Prediction

arXiv:2609.25067v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) has become an effective approach for learning visual representations without manual annotations. Among SSL approaches,

SparseNav: Instruction-conditioned Sparse Semantic Perception for Training-Free Vision-Language Navigation

arXiv:2609.26408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Map-based vision-language navigation (VLN) relies on persistent spatial representations to connect language understanding with geometric planning. Howev

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SPECTRA: Adaptive Execution of Speculative Decoding on a Runtime-Reconfigurable Tiled Architecture

arXiv:2609.24847v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM inference on edge devices is constrained by computational and memory resources, making efficient autoregressive decoding challenging. Speculative

Spectral Overfitting in Noisy Linear Probing of Pretrained Representations

arXiv:2603.02293v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Frozen pretrained features are often treated as a safe interface for downstream learning: only a small linear readout is trained, while the backbone

Spectral Tail Interventions in Decoder-Only Language Models: Reasoning-Sensitive Weight Structure from Controlled Surgery

arXiv:2609.26165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Weight-space structure often correlates with language-model behavior, but correlation alone does not establish computational involvement. We study conce

Splitting Documents at Lower Cost: Multi-Split Boundary Decisions for LLM-Based Page Stream Segmentation

arXiv:2609.22620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scanned mail, uploaded PDFs, and consolidated attachments often arrive as page streams that must be split into individual documents before downstream cl

Spoken Language Models that Think Aloud

arXiv:2609.26488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has improved the capability of language models, directly applying it to Spoken Language Models (SLMs) may introdu

Stable Unsupervised Continual Chunking with Sheaf SyncMap

arXiv:2609.25143v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unsupervised Continual chunking is a fundamental problem in machine learning and neuroscience, where the goal is to identify groups of states that frequ

StableVQ: Practical Guidelines for Stable Vector-Quantized Tokenizer Training

arXiv:2609.26774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vector Quantization (VQ) is fundamental to discrete visual tokenizers that power modern autoregressive and masked image generation models. While recent

STAR-VAE: A Scalable Latent-Variable Transformer for Controllable Molecular Generation

arXiv:2511.02769v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many molecular Transformers lack probabilistic latent variables for posterior inference and latent interpolation. We introduce STAR-VAE, a SELFIES-e

Statistical Rates for Entropic Optimal Transport in the Discrete to SubGaussian Regime

arXiv:2609.26647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study statistical rates in entropic optimal transport in the semi-discrete regime where one measure has finite support and the other is subGaussian

StreamTTO: Efficient Online Test-Time Optimization for Video Depth Completion

arXiv:2603.01765v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Monocular depth foundation models generalize across diverse scenes, but recovering accurate metric depth consistent with a target sensor remains cha

STRUCTUREDAGENT: Planning with AND/OR Trees for Long-Horizon Web Tasks

arXiv:2603.05294v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing LLM-based web agents struggle on complex, long-horizon tasks due to limited in-context memory, weak planning abilities, and greedy behavior

SuperPCA: subspace analysis and an efficient algorithm for high-dimensional PCA

arXiv:2609.26406v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Principal component analysis (PCA) is a fundamental tool to reduce the dimensionality of the data in many applications. PCA finds a few signal directi

Synthesis and editing of multi-instrument audio mixtures using scalar-quantised latents with MIDI Span conditioning

arXiv:2609.25546v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Music creation often involves iterative refinement, changing selected musical details while retaining the rest. To support such refinement, we introdu

Text, Pixels, or Both? Evaluating Input Representations for Multimodal Document QA

arXiv:2609.22628v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Every document QA system begins with a choice that is rarely studied on its own: whether to feed the model page images, extracted text, or both. We isol

The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating

Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or j

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The Dynamics of Quasiregular Neural Learning

arXiv:2609.26018v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many learning problems combine a dominant regularity with systematic exceptions. Motivated by U-shaped learning in language acquisition, we study this i

The Informational Content in Lepto-Variance and Its Relation to Higher Moments

arXiv:2609.25144v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lepto-regression is defined as the machine learning process of constructing a Regression Tree of a target feature on itself. It is a novel, model-free

The Probabilistic Structure of Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.25134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a probabilistic perspective on large language models (LLMs), developed with the aim of bringing together, in a single self-contained

Toolcompass: Guiding Tool Trialing, Not Suppressing It

arXiv:2609.25678v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents must generalize from tools seen during training to unseen tools at deployment. A key challenge is tool trialing, i.e

ToW3D: Consistency-aware Interactive Point-based Mesh Editing on GANs

arXiv:2609.26078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we propose ToW3D that enables precise and consistent control over 3D generative adversarial networks (GANs) with the Tug-of-War competiti

Toward an automated science of the mind

arXiv:2603.20988v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Artificial Intelligence is starting to automate scientific discovery, raising the prospect of an automated science of the mind. We chart this field

Towards Hierarchical GNNs for multi-grid power flow: generalization across operating scenarios

arXiv:2609.26603v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hierarchical latent communication improves the generalization of a multi-grid power-flow model to new operating scenarios. The module exchanges informat

TRACE: Trajectory Representation and Consistency Estimation for AI-Generated Video Detection

arXiv:2609.25775v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in generative video models have enabled the synthesis of visually realistic content, posing significant challenges to synthetic video de

TransBERT: A Framework for Synthetic Translation in Domain-Specific Language Modeling

arXiv:2609.26347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The scarcity of non-English language data in specialized domains significantly limits the development of effective Natural Language Processing (NLP) too

Transformer Heads Looking for Order

arXiv:2609.25588v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this note, we show that the problem of checking, whether a sequence of bits is ordered, is not doable by 1-head 1-layer transformers but is doable

Ultra-fast Neural Inference for Stochastic Gaussian Splatting Denoising

arXiv:2609.25604v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stochastic rendering eliminates the sorting and alpha blending process in Gaussian splatting, at the cost of introducing spatial noise. Formulating temp

Understanding Hyperspherical Geometry of ECAPA-TDNN Embedding and Its Impact on Zero-Shot Voice Conversion

arXiv:2609.24688v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Angular-margin speaker encoders are widely used in voice conversion, yet the geometry of their classifier prototypes remains poorly understood. We ana

Underwater Navigation in Unsteady Flows Using Measurement Histories from a Single Sensing Unit

arXiv:2609.26753v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial flow measurements support underwater navigation, but distributed sensing is constrained by robot size and sensor layout. We use a causal observe

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