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Can Explicit Physical Feasibility Benefit VLA Learning? An Empirical Study

arXiv:2604.17896v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models map multimodal inputs directly to robot actions and are typically trained through large-scale imitation learning. Wh

Can Large Language Models Understand Context?

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Understanding context is key to understanding human language, an ability which Large Language Models (LLMs) have been increasingly seen to demonstrate to an impressive extent. However, though the eval

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Channel Attention-Guided Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation for Referring Image Segmentation

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arXiv:2604.16806v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Referring image segmentation (RIS) requires accurate segmentation of target regions in images according to language descriptions, which is a cross-modal

Clusterability-Based Assessment of Potentially Noisy Views for Multi-View Clustering

arXiv:2604.18024v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In multi-view clustering, the quality of different views may vary substantially, and low-quality or degraded views can impair overall clustering perform

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CoAct: Co-Active LLM Preference Learning with Human-AI Synergy

arXiv:2604.17501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from preference-based feedback has become an effective approach for aligning LLMs across diverse tasks. However, high-quality human-annotated p

Combined Hyperbolic and Euclidean Soft Triple Loss Beyond the Single Space Deep Metric Learning

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arXiv:2510.05643v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep metric learning (DML) aims to learn a neural network mapping data to an embedding space, which can represent semantic similarity between data p

Compressing then Matching: An Efficient Pre-training Paradigm for Multimodal Embedding

arXiv:2511.08480v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models advance multimodal representation learning by acquiring transferable semantic embeddings, thereby substantially enh

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Condense, Don't Just Prune: Enhancing Efficiency and Performance in MoE Layer Pruning

arXiv:2412.00069v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) has garnered significant attention for its ability to scale up neural networks while utilizing the same or even fewer

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Conformal Risk Control under Non-Monotone Losses: Theory and Finite-Sample Guarantees

arXiv:2604.01502v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Conformal risk control (CRC) provides distribution-free guarantees for controlling the expected loss at a user-specified level. Existing theor

Contact-Rich Robotic Assembly in Construction via Diffusion Policy Learning

arXiv:2511.17774v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fabrication uncertainty arising from tolerance accumulation, material imperfection, and positioning errors remains a critical barrier to automated r

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Creating ConLangs to Probe the Metalinguistic Grammatical Knowledge of LLMs

arXiv:2510.07591v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a system that uses LLMs as a tool in the development of Constructed Languages -- ConLangs, which we call IASC (Interactive Agentic System

CRISP: Compressing Redundancy in Chain-of-Thought via Intrinsic Saliency Pruning

arXiv:2604.17297v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning is pivotal for the success of recent reasoning models but suffers from high computational overhead and latency. Wh

CT Open: An Open-Access, Uncontaminated, Live Platform for the Open Challenge of Clinical Trial Outcome Prediction

arXiv:2604.16742v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientists have long sought to accurately predict outcomes of real-world events before they happen. Can AI systems do so more reliably? We study this

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Data Mixing for Large Language Models Pretraining: A Survey and Outlook

arXiv:2604.16380v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) rely on pretraining on massive and heterogeneous corpora, where training data composition has a decisive impact on training

Decoding RWA Tokenized U.S. Treasuries: Functional Dissection and Address Role Inference

arXiv:2507.14808v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Tokenized U.S. Treasuries have emerged as a prominent subclass of real-world assets (RWAs), offering cryptographically secured, yield-bearing

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Deep Hierarchical Knowledge Loss for Fault Intensity Diagnosis

arXiv:2604.16459v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fault intensity diagnosis (FID) plays a pivotal role in intelligent manufacturing while neglecting dependencies among target classes hinders its pract

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Deep Learning-Enhanced Calibration of the Heston Model: A Unified Framework

arXiv:2510.24074v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Heston stochastic volatility model is a widely used tool in financial mathematics for pricing European options. However, its calibration r

DeInfer: Efficient Parallel Inferencing for Decomposed Large Language Models

arXiv:2604.17709v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing works on large language model (LLM) decomposition mainly focus on improving performance on downstream tasks, but they ignore the poor parallel

Demystifying the unreasonable effectiveness of online alignment methods

arXiv:2604.17207v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Iterative alignment methods based on purely greedy updates are remarkably effective in practice, yet existing theoretical guarantees of (O(log T)) KL-

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Designing Explainable Conversational Agentic Systems for Guarani Speakers

arXiv:2603.05743v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Although artificial intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) systems are often presented as universal solutions, their design remains

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Diagnosing LLM-based Rerankers in Cold-Start Recommender Systems: Coverage, Exposure and Practical Mitigations

arXiv:2604.16318v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) and cross-encoder rerankers have gained attention for improving recommender systems, particularly in cold-start scenarios

Differential Privacy in Two-Layer Networks: How DP-SGD Harms Fairness and Robustness

arXiv:2603.04881v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Differentially private learning is essential for training models on sensitive data, but empirical studies consistently show that it can degrade perf

DisCa: Accelerating Video Diffusion Transformers with Distillation-Compatible Learnable Feature Caching

arXiv:2602.05449v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While diffusion models have achieved great success in the field of video generation, this progress is accompanied by a rapidly escalating computatio

Document-as-Image Representations Fall Short for Scientific Retrieval

arXiv:2604.18508v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many recent document embedding models are trained on document-as-image representations, embedding rendered pages as images rather than the underlying

Does 'Do Differentiable Simulators Give Better Policy Gradients?'' Give Better Policy Gradients?

arXiv:2604.18161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In policy gradient reinforcement learning, access to a differentiable model enables 1st-order gradient estimation that accelerates learning compared to

DreamShot: Personalized Storyboard Synthesis with Video Diffusion Prior

arXiv:2604.17195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Storyboard synthesis plays a crucial role in visual storytelling, aiming to generate coherent shot sequences that visually narrate cinematic events with

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Dual Alignment Between Language Model Layers and Human Sentence Processing

arXiv:2604.18563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A recent study (Kuribayashi et al., 2025) has shown that human sentence processing behavior, typically measured on syntactically unchallenging construct

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Dual-Anchoring: Addressing State Drift in Vision-Language Navigation

arXiv:2604.17473v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation(VLN) requires an agent to navigate through 3D environments by following natural language instructions. While recent Video Lar

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Dual Strategies for Test-Time Adaptation

arXiv:2604.17542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional test-time adaptation (TTA) approaches typically adapt the model using only a small fraction of test samples, often those with low-entropy p

Dynamic Emotion and Personality Profiling for Multimodal Deception Detection

arXiv:2604.17037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deception detection is of great significance for ensuring information security and conducting public opinion analysis, with personality factors and emot

Dynamic Risk Assessment by Bayesian Attack Graphs and Process Mining

arXiv:2604.18080v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While attack graphs are useful for identifying major cybersecurity threats affecting a system, they do not provide operational support for determining

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DynaWeb: Model-Based Reinforcement Learning of Web Agents

arXiv:2601.22149v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The development of autonomous web agents, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) and reinforcement learning (RL), represents a significant step tow

E2E-GMNER: End-to-End Generative Grounded Multimodal Named Entity Recognition

arXiv:2604.17319v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Grounded Multimodal Named Entity Recognition (GMNER) aims to jointly identify named entity mentions in text, predict their semantic types, and ground

Efficient Task Adaptation in Large Language Models via Selective Parameter Optimization

arXiv:2604.17051v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated excellent performance in general language understanding, generation and other tasks. However, when fine-t

Enabling Stroke-Level Structural Analysis of Hieroglyphic Scripts without Language-Specific Priors

arXiv:2601.05508v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Hieroglyphs, as logographic writing systems, encode rich semantic and cultural information within their internal structural composition. Yet,

Enhancing Anomaly-Based Intrusion Detection Systems with Process Mining

arXiv:2604.18066v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Anomaly-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) ensure protection against malicious attacks on networked systems. While deep learning-based IDSs achi

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ESsEN: Training Compact Discriminative Vision-Language Transformers in a Low-Resource Setting

arXiv:2604.18452v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language modeling is rapidly increasing in popularity with an ever expanding list of available models. In most cases, these vision-language mod

Estimating Commonsense Plausibility through Semantic Shifts

arXiv:2502.13464v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Commonsense plausibility estimation is critical for evaluating language models (LMs), yet existing generative approaches--reliant on likelihoods or

Evolutionary Negative Module Pruning for Better LoRA Merging

arXiv:2604.17753v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Merging multiple Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) experts into a single backbone is a promising approach for efficient multi-task deployment. While existing

Exploring Mutual Cross-Modal Attention for Context-Aware Human Affordance Generation

arXiv:2502.13637v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human affordance learning investigates contextually relevant novel pose prediction such that the estimated pose represents a valid human action with

Faithfulness vs. Safety: Evaluating LLM Behavior Under Counterfactual Medical Evidence

arXiv:2601.11886v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In high-stakes domains like medicine, it may be generally desirable for models to faithfully adhere to the context provided. But what happens if the

FaithLens: Detecting and Explaining Faithfulness Hallucination

arXiv:2512.20182v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recognizing whether outputs from large language models (LLMs) contain faithfulness hallucination is crucial for real-world applications, e.g., retri

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Federation over Text: Insight Sharing for Multi-Agent Reasoning

arXiv:2604.16778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-powered agents often reason from scratch when presented with a new problem instance and lack automatic mechanisms to transfer learned skills to othe

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FedOBP: Federated Optimal Brain Personalization through Cloud-Edge Element-wise Decoupling

arXiv:2604.16574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) faces challenges from client data heterogeneity and resource-constrained mobile devices, which can degrade model accuracy. Perso

FLARE: A Data-Efficient Surrogate for Predicting Displacement Fields in Directed Energy Deposition

arXiv:2604.16649v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Directed energy deposition (DED) produces complex thermo-mechanical responses that can lead to distortion and reduced dimensional accuracy of a manufact

Flow-Opt: Scalable Centralized Multi-Robot Trajectory Optimization with Flow Matching and Differentiable Optimization

arXiv:2510.09204v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Centralized trajectory optimization in the joint space of multiple robots allows access to a larger feasible space that can result in smoother

FlowRefiner: Flow Matching-Based Iterative Refinement for 3D Turbulent Flow Simulation

arXiv:2604.17149v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate autoregressive prediction of 3D turbulent flows remains challenging for neural PDE solvers, as small errors in fine-scale structures can accu

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FM-CAC: Carbon-Aware Control for Battery-Buffered Edge AI via Time-Series Foundation Models

arXiv:2604.16448v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As edge AI deployments scale to billions of devices running always-on, real-time compound AI pipelines, they represent a massive and largely unmanaged

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