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Beyond Sparsity: Weight Location and Network Context in Pruned MRI Reconstruction

arXiv:2609.31812v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pruning reduces the number of weights in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction networks. Equal sparsity, however, can retain weights with di

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Beyond State-as-Action: Exploiting Command-State Discrepancy for Robot Imitation Learning

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arXiv:2609.33145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Constructing action targets from measured robot motion is an established approach in imitation learning. Under interaction constraints, however, command

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Beyond Tasks: A Vision for Reproducing an Animal-like Behavioral Substrate Using Modern Robot Learning Techniques

arXiv:2609.33165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in robot learning have produced increasingly capable embodied agents. Yet comparatively less attention has been given to a more basic fo

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Beyond Teacher Assignment: Domain-Normalized Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2609.35347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning can turn one language model into several specialists, each excellent at a single skill such as mathematics, coding or following i

Beyond Temporal Smoothing: Spatial Energy Budgets Stabilize One-Step Diffusion Editing

arXiv:2609.32841v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: One-step text-guided diffusion editing is efficient but prone to spatially misallocated updates that distort the edited object and alter the background.

Beyond the Graph: An Adaptive Meta-Learner Fuses Explainability, Weather, and Dynamics for Robust Bus ETA Prediction

arXiv:2609.31667v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate bus Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) prediction is vital for urban mobility, passenger satisfaction, and transit efficiency, yet existing models

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Beyond the Manifold Hypothesis: Hybrid Spectral Parameterizations for Flow Matching

arXiv:2609.32432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow matching and diffusion can be trained to predict different quantities, most commonly the data x_1, the source noise x_0, or the velocity~v. Althoug

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Beyond the Training Horizon: Mechanisms and Limits of Length Generalization in Looped Transformers

arXiv:2609.33144v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Looped Transformers can generalize to reasoning chains longer than those encountered during training, but the computations enabling this behavior and li

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Beyond Timestamps: Decision-Aligned On-Policy Distillation for Long-Horizon Agents

arXiv:2609.33391v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) often relies on sparse outcome rewards, providing coarse supervision for long-horizon agents. On-p

Beyond Token Savings: A Systematic Study of Context Compression in LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.32961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLM agents tackle longer tasks, they increasingly compress growing histories of reasoning, actions, and tool outputs. Compression can reduce token us

Beyond Token Scale: Chunk-Level Sparse Autoencoders for Reliable Semantic Feature Discovery

arXiv:2609.35521v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) expose features that help us understand and steer language models, but faithful reconstruction does not guarantee informati

Beyond Verbalized Confidence: Calibrating Reasoners with Differentiable Readouts

arXiv:2609.34857v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) trains reasoning models to produce correct answers, but does not ensure that their stated confiden

Beyond Volume Overlap: Surface Matching for Topology-Aware Coronary Artery Segmentation

arXiv:2609.31740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate coronary artery segmentation on coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) is essential for diagnosing coronary artery disease. Deep netwo

BiasReducer: Adaptive Bias Mitigation for Reward Models

arXiv:2609.32720v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward models score responses from large language models (LLMs) and guide LLM training toward human preferences. However, reward models can favor superf

Bidirectional Information Flow (BIF) - A Sample Efficient Hierarchical Gaussian Process for Bayesian Optimization

arXiv:2505.11294v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Hierarchical Gaussian Process (H-GP) models divide problems into different subtasks, allowing different components to address each part, making them

Bidirectional Neural Networks for Global Nucleon-Nucleus Optical Model Calculations

arXiv:2512.22500v4 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern nuclear data evaluation increasingly requires not only accurate scattering calculations, but also efficient methods for uncertainty quantificat

BiMoGen: Bidirectional Motion-Text Generation via Unified Masked Discrete Diffusion

arXiv:2609.35407v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-motion generation and motion-to-text captioning are two fundamental tasks in human motion modeling, both grounded in the same underlying motion-

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Binaural Audio-Visual Instance Segmentation

arXiv:2609.32180v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Audio-visual segmentation (AVS) aims to segment sounding objects at the pixel level by integrating auditory and visual cues. However, existing methods a

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Binding Multiple Modalities via Multimodal Wasserstein Barycenter

arXiv:2609.33800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal learning beyond two modalities commonly leverages a specific modality (e.g., text) to bind other modalities. However, how to establish a more

Bison: Cross-Dataset Learning for Unseen-Compound Perturbation Prediction

arXiv:2609.32467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting transcriptional responses to unseen compounds is limited by fragmented chemical coverage and heterogeneous experimental platforms and gene pa

BITS: Rethinking Fair and Comprehensive Evaluation for Irregular Time Series Forecasting

arXiv:2609.33303v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite recent progress in irregular time series forecasting, the field still lacks a unified benchmark for fair and comprehensive evaluation. Existing

Black-Box Auditing of Epistemic Reliability in Multi-Agent Debate Distillation

arXiv:2609.32361v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Debate distillation adapts weaker verifiers using multi-agent debate transcripts to improve their judgement in subsequent debates, but gains on monitore

BMND: Direct Poisson Denoising by N-Dimensional Block Matching and Collaborative Filtering

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arXiv:2609.34622v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Poisson denoising of scientific data requires methods that account for signal-dependent noise while accommodating different data dimensionalities and pr

BOCCHI: A More Realistic and Challenging Benchmark for Local Motion Blur Detection with MSDCT-UNet

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arXiv:2607.10427v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Local motion blur detection requires pixel-level localization of blurred regions. Existing benchmarks let models rely on gradient shortcuts that fai

BOReFT: Manifold Steering of Language Models for Black-box Optimization

arXiv:2609.33722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models are increasingly used as proposal models for black-box search, from program optimization to molecular design. Existing approaches typica

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Bounding Retraining Equivalence and the Deletion Floor in Materials Machine Unlearning

arXiv:2609.35635v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In materials machine learning, closely related retained structures can sustain accurate property predictions even after removing a specific record, rend

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BR-MPPI: Barrier-Rate Guided MPPI for Enforcing Multiple Inequality Constraints with Learned Signed Distance Fields

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arXiv:2506.07325v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) control provides a sampling-based framework for optimal control, while Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) provid

Brain-Conditioned Action Policies for Neural Motor Decoding

arXiv:2609.34561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motor brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) aim to decode motor intention, enabling people with paralysis to control external devices. Neural motor decoding

Bregman geometry-aware split Gibbs sampling for Bayesian Poisson inverse problems

arXiv:2511.12257v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper proposes a novel Bayesian framework for solving Poisson inverse problems by devising a Monte Carlo sampling algorithm which account

Bridging Generative and Discriminative Noisy-Label Learning via Direction-Agnostic EM Formulation

arXiv:2308.01184v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Although noisy-label learning is often approached with discriminative methods for simplicity and speed, generative modeling offers a principled alte

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Bridging Stochastic Flow Maps and Boltzmann Generators with Normalizing Flows

arXiv:2609.31978v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generating independent, equilibrium samples of molecular systems at scale remains a central obstacle in computational statistical mechanics. Boltzmann

Broken Symmetry in BF16 Attention: Why FlashAttention Gradients Blow Up Late in Training

arXiv:2609.34272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: BF16 is now standard in large-scale pretraining, including in fused attention kernels such as FlashAttention, and these kernels are widely trusted. When

BudgetVerify: Budget-Tiered Verification for Financial QA

arXiv:2609.33052v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Financial question answering often requires precise numerical extraction, unit handling, and arithmetic over tables and text, but applying expensive v

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Building Intelligent Agents with Neuro-Symbolic Concepts

arXiv:2505.06191v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This article presents a concept-centric paradigm for building agents that can learn continually and reason flexibly. The concept-centric agent

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Building Transformation Layers for Riemannian Neural Networks

arXiv:2609.35436v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recently, deep neural networks on manifold-valued representations have garnered significant attention across various machine learning applications. On

Byzantine-Robust Federated RAG via Aligned Calibration and Fixed-Membership Conformal Prediction

arXiv:2609.33037v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) lets language models answer questions more accurately by consulting relevant documents. Many valuable collections

Cache-Aware Conv3D Lowering Across Embedded World-Model Decoders

arXiv:2609.31938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative world models can provide visual rollouts for embodied planning, yet their feasibility on edge devices depends not only on the learned model b

CacheRepair: Learning to Repair Cross-Chunk Context in RAG for KV Cache Fusion

arXiv:2609.35139v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-document retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) requires a language model to process multiple retrieved text chunks before answering a question. Pre

CAESAR: Clustering via Autonomous Embedding-Space Agglomerative Reorganization

arXiv:2609.32570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clustering algorithms that operate on nearest-neighbor graphs, such as FINCH (First Integer Neighbor Clustering Hierarchy), depend heavily on the qualit

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CAFE: Counterfactual Prediction via Fast Posterior Estimation

arXiv:2609.32167v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Counterfactual prediction estimates an individual's outcome under an alternative intervention given their factual observations. Such outcomes are genera

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CalibHyper: Chance-Corrected Relational Hypergraphs for Few-Shot Molecular Property Prediction

arXiv:2609.33342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Molecular property prediction is central to drug development and materials discovery, but experiments are costly and labeled data are scarce. Context-aw

Calibrated Derivative-Process Sensitivity for Gaussian-Process Variable Selection

arXiv:2609.33549v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic relevance determination (ARD), the default tool for variable selection in Gaussian-process (GP) regression, ranks inputs by inverse lengthsc

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Calibration-Free Surface Normals Estimation in Vision-Based Tactile Sensing using Universal Photometric Stereo

arXiv:2609.31754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-based tactile sensors are a popular solution for capturing rich contact surface geometry. However, to obtain high-detail contact surface normals

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CAME: Company-Aware Evidence-Memory Experts for Interpretable Quarter-Ahead Revenue Forecasting

arXiv:2609.33143v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quarter-ahead revenue forecasting requires company-scale numerical accuracy, strict temporal validity, and company-specific interpretation of narrativ

Can Attack Difficulty Be Characterized Before Optimization? A Study of Pre-optimization Difficulty in Person-Vanishing Attacks

arXiv:2609.34501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adversarial attacks against object detectors are traditionally studied from an optimization perspective, where attack difficulty is regarded as an outco

Can Circuit Alignment Predict OOD Generalization?

arXiv:2609.31996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization be predicted from a trained model's weights alone, without any target-domain data? Existing representationa

Can Motion-Language Models Ground Structure? STRIDE for Evaluating the Evaluators

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arXiv:2609.32462v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motion-language models are typically scored by motion-language evaluators, but how well these evaluators ground language structure remains unclear. Here

Can Protein-Derived Knowledge Improve Pathology Foundation Models?

arXiv:2609.33178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Molecularly guided pathology foundation models (PFMs) exploit transcriptomic or proteomic information to enrich whole-slide image (WSI) representations,