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Response Time Enhances Alignment with Heterogeneous Preferences

arXiv:2605.06987v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning large language models (LLMs) to human preferences typically relies on aggregating pooled feedback into a single reward model. However, this sta

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Retail markdown optimization: from reactive markdowns to proactive

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This Databricks resource examines retail markdown optimization strategies, contrasting reactive markdown approaches (responding to inventory issues after they occur) with proactive markdown strategies

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Rethinking Dense Optical Flow without Test-Time Scaling

arXiv:2605.08000v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress in dense optical flow has been driven by increasingly complex architectures and multi-step refinement for test-time scaling. While these

Rethinking Dense Sequential Chains: Reasoning Language Models Can Extract Answers from Sparse, Order-Shuffling Chain-of-Thoughts

arXiv:2605.07307v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern reasoning language models generate dense, sequential chain-of-thought traces implicitly assuming that every token contributes and that steps must

Rethinking Experience Utilization in Self-Evolving Language Model Agents

arXiv:2605.07164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-evolving agents improve by accumulating and reusing experience from past interactions. Existing work has largely focused on how experience is const

Rethinking Importance Sampling in LLM Policy Optimization: A Cumulative Token Perspective

arXiv:2605.07331v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning, including reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), has emerged as a powerful approach for LLM post-training. Cen

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Rethinking State Tracking in Recurrent Models Through Error Control Dynamics

arXiv:2605.07755v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The theory of state tracking in recurrent architectures has predominantly focused on expressive capacity: whether a fixed architecture can theoretical

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Rethinking Weight Tying: Pseudo-Inverse Tying for LM Stable Training and Updates

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arXiv:2602.04556v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Weight tying is widely used in compact language models to reduce parameters by sharing the token table between the input embedding and the output pr

Retina-RAG: Retrieval-Augmented Vision-Language Modeling for Joint Retinal Diagnosis and Clinical Report Generation

arXiv:2605.06173v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of preventable blindness among working-age adults worldwide, yet most automated screening systems

Retrieval from Within: An Intrinsic Capability of Attention-Based Models

arXiv:2605.05806v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) typically treats retrieval and generation as separate systems. We ask whether an attention-based encoder-decode

Retrieval Heads are Dynamic

arXiv:2602.11162v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent studies have identified 'retrieval heads' in Large Language Models (LLMs) responsible for extracting information from input contexts. However

Retrieve, Integrate, and Synthesize: Spatial-Semantic Grounded Latent Visual Reasoning

arXiv:2605.07106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made remarkable progress on vision-language reasoning, yet most methods still compress visual evidence int

Revisiting Adam for Streaming Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2605.06764v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning from a sequence of interactions, as soon as observations are perceived and acted upon, without explicitly storing them, holds the promise of

Revisiting Transformer Layer Parameterization Through Causal Energy Minimization

arXiv:2605.07588v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer blocks typically combine multi-head attention (MHA) for token mixing with gated MLPs for token-wise feature transformation, yet many choic

RIDER: 3D RNA Inverse Design with Reinforcement Learning-Guided Diffusion

arXiv:2602.16548v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The inverse design of RNA three-dimensional (3D) structures is crucial for engineering functional RNAs in synthetic biology and therapeutics. While

Risk-Consistent Multiclass Learning from Random Label-Subset Membership Queries

arXiv:2605.07413v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Obtaining accurate class labels is often costly or unreliable, and may also be limited by privacy or other practical conditions. Compared with asking an

RL-RIG: A Generative Spatial Reasoner via Intrinsic Reflection

arXiv:2602.19974v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advancements in image generation have achieved impressive results in producing high-quality images. However, existing image generation models

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RNAGenScape: Property-Guided, Optimized Generation of mRNA Sequences with Manifold Langevin Dynamics

arXiv:2510.24736v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generating property-optimized mRNA sequences is central to applications such as vaccine design and protein replacement therapy, but remains ch

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Robust and Reliable AI for Predictive Quality in Semiconductor Materials Manufacturing with MLOps and Uncertainty Quantification

arXiv:2605.07752v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semiconductor materials manufacturing presents unique challenges for machine learning deployment due to evolving process conditions, equipment degradati

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Robust stochastic first order methods in heavy-tailed noise via medoid mini-batch gradient sampling

arXiv:2605.07634v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We consider a first order stochastic optimization framework where, at each iteration, K independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) data point sample

Robust Sublinear Convergence Rates for Iterative Bregman Projections

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arXiv:2602.01372v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Entropic regularization provides a simple way to approximate linear programs whose constraints split into two or more tractable blocks. The re

Robustness of Refugee-Matching Gains to Off-Policy Evaluation Choices

arXiv:2605.06686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Previous research has investigated the potential of refugee matching for boosting refugee outcomes, first considered by Bansak et al. (2018). This paper

Rollback-Free Stable Brick Structures Generation

arXiv:2605.06947v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While autoregressive models have advanced 3D generation, creating physically stable brick structures remains a challenge due to the strict requirements

RRCM: Ranking-Driven Retrieval over Collaborative and Meta Memories for LLM Recommendation

arXiv:2605.07129v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation recommender systems, offering strong semantic understanding and

Rubric-based On-policy Distillation

arXiv:2605.07396v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) is a powerful paradigm for model alignment, yet its reliance on teacher logits restricts its application to white-box sce

Rubric-Grounded RL: Structured Judge Rewards for Generalizable Reasoning

arXiv:2605.08061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We argue that decomposing reward into weighted, verifiable criteria and using an LLM judge to score them provides a partial-credit optimization signal:

RuleSafe-VL: Evaluating Rule-Conditioned Decision Reasoning in Vision-Language Content Moderation

arXiv:2605.07760v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Platform content moderation applies explicit policy rules and context-dependent conditions to decide whether user content is allowed, restricted, or rem

S2M-Net: Spectral-Spatial Mixing for Medical Image Segmentation with Morphology-Aware Adaptive Loss

arXiv:2601.01285v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Medical image segmentation requires balancing local precision for boundary-critical clinical applications, global context for anatomical coherence,

S2S-Arena: Evaluating Paralinguistic Instruction Following in Speech-to-Speech Models

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arXiv:2503.05085v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have fundamentally reshaped speech-to-speech (S2S) systems, enabling increasingly natural spoken int

Safactory: A Scalable Agentic Infrastructure for Training Trustworthy Autonomous Intelligence

arXiv:2605.06230v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As large models evolve from conversational assistants into autonomous agents, challenges increasingly arise from long-horizon decision making, tool

Safe, or Simply Incapable? Rethinking Safety Evaluation for Phone-Use Agents

arXiv:2605.07630v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When a phone-use agent avoids harm, does that show safety, or simply inability to act? Existing evaluations often cannot tell. A harmful outcome may b

Safety Anchor: Defending Harmful Fine-tuning via Geometric Bottlenecks

arXiv:2605.05995v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The safety alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) remains vulnerable to Harmful Fine-tuning (HFT). While existing defenses impose constrain

SAGE: Hierarchical LLM-Based Literary Evaluation through Ontology-Grounded Interpretive Dimensions

arXiv:2605.07102v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating literary quality requires assessing interpretive dimensions such as cultural representation, emotional depth, and philosophical sophisticatio

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Saliency-Aware Regularized Quantization Calibration for Large Language Models

arXiv:2605.05693v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) is an effective approach for deploying large language models (LLMs) under memory and latency constraints. Most exis

SAM 3D Animal: Promptable Animal 3D Reconstruction from Images in the Wild

arXiv:2605.07604v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D animal reconstruction in the wild remains challenging due to large species variation, frequent occlusions, and the prevalence of multi-animal scene

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Same Brain, Different Prediction: How Preprocessing Choices Undermine EEG Decoding Reliability

arXiv:2605.07212v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) is a cornerstone of brain-computer interfaces and clinical neuroscience, yet deep learning models are typically trained a

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Same Signal, Opposite Meaning: Direction-Informed Adaptive Learning for LLM Agents

arXiv:2605.06908v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adaptive test-time compute for LLM agents aims to invoke extra computation only when it improves performance. Existing methods typically use confidenc

Sample Complexity of Stochastic Optimization with Integer Variables

arXiv:2605.07239v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We establish sample complexity results for stochastic optimization over the integers, especially with a view to understand the complexity with respect t

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Samsung made a “mockery” of Dua Lipa by putting her picture on TV boxes, lawsuit says

Dua Lipa filed a $15 million lawsuit against Samsung, alleging the electronics company used her photograph to sell televisions without permission or payment. Samsung began featuring Lipa's image on TV

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SARA: Semantically Adaptive Relational Alignment for Video Diffusion Models

arXiv:2605.07800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent video diffusion models (VDMs) synthesize visually convincing clips, yet still drop entities, mis-bind attributes, and weaken the interactions spe

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Sarra builds apps with her two sons. Noni shipped Bamboo Brain into the App Store's top 12 in Education. Rebecca built the system she wished…

Sarra builds apps with her two sons. Noni shipped Bamboo Brain into the App Store's top 12 in Education. Rebecca built the system she wished she'd had during her custody battle. To every mother buildi

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Sat3R: Satellite DSM Reconstruction via RPC-Aware Depth Fine-tuning

arXiv:2605.07264v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate Digital Surface Model (DSM) reconstruction from satellite imagery is critical for applications such as disaster response, urban planning, and l

SatSurfGS: Generalizable 2D Gaussian Splatting for Sparse-View Satellite Surface Reconstruction

arXiv:2605.07181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse-view satellite image surface reconstruction remains highly challenging, fundamentally because the reliability of multi-view matching under satell

Saving Foundation Flow-Matching Priors for Inverse Problems

arXiv:2511.16520v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Foundation flow-matching (FM) models promise a universal prior for solving inverse problems (IPs), yet today they trail behind domain-specific

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SB-TRPO: Towards Safe Reinforcement Learning with Hard Constraints

arXiv:2512.23770v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In safety-critical domains, reinforcement learning (RL) agents must often satisfy strict, zero-cost safety constraints while accomplishing tas

Scalable Equilibrium Propagation via Intermediate Error Signals for Deep Convolutional CRNNs

arXiv:2508.15989v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is a biologically inspired local learning rule first proposed for convergent recurrent neural networks (CRNNs), in whic

Scalable Option Learning in High-Throughput Environments

arXiv:2509.00338v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Hierarchical reinforcement learning (RL) has the potential to enable effective decision-making over long timescales. Existing approaches, whil

Scaling Categorical Flow Maps

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arXiv:2605.07820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuous diffusion and flow matching models could represent a powerful alternative to autoregressive approaches for language modelling (LM), as they u