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Technology is changing the way we make babies. The pioneering work of the scientists who invented IVF led to the birth of the first “test tube baby” in 1978. We’ve come a long, long way since then. Th
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arXiv:2605.04757v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce an elastic-driven self-folding approach that fabricates robots directly from flat 3D-printed conductive PLA nets. Elastic bands routed thro
arXiv:2605.05095v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We develop a framework for task-specific active next-best-view selection in 3D reconstruction from point clouds, by casting the problem in the languag
arXiv:2605.03391v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Weighted first-order model counting (WFOMC) is a central task in lifted probabilistic inference: It asks for the weighted sum of all models of a first
arXiv:2605.04899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GPT-style language models are sensitive to single-token changes at generation points where the predicted probability distribution is spread across multi
arXiv:2605.04175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gromov--Wasserstein optimal transport (GWOT) aligns metric measure spaces by matching their within-domain relational structures, but large-scale GWOT re
arXiv:2603.00714v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual analysis and reconstruction of pipeline inner walls remain challenging in industrial inspection scenarios. This paper presents a dedicated re
arXiv:2604.02995v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce a nonnegative functional mathfrak{S} on the space of line arrangements in P^2 that vanishes precisely on free arrangements, obtai
arXiv:2605.02936v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Representing dynamical systems through data-driven universal spaces has proven effective; however, achieving this universality for human brain activit
arXiv:2605.04169v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Surgical team performance arises from complex interactions between technical execution and non-technical skills, including communication and coordinat
arXiv:2605.04610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot-to-human object handover is an essential skill for robot assistants, from serving drinks at home to passing surgical tools in the operating room.
arXiv:2605.03644v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many-Shot In-Context Learning (ICL) has emerged as a promising paradigm, leveraging extensive examples to unlock the reasoning potential of Large Langua
arXiv:2605.04269v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We provide a theoretical analysis of Adam under non-stationary stochastic objectives, separating two regimes: Euclidean tracking under adaptive strong
arXiv:2509.10784v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Medical vision foundation models remain limited in downstream tasks, particularly volumetric medical image segmentation. While fine-tuning on
arXiv:2605.04236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model ensembles improve reasoning accuracy up to a performance boundary; beyond it, additional deliberation degrades accuracy. Static-bud
arXiv:2605.04952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture-of-experts (MoE) models enable scalable transformer architectures by activating only a subset of experts per token. Recent evidence suggests tha
arXiv:2309.09550v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The human brain can self-organize rich and diverse sparse neural pathways to incrementally master hundreds of cognitive tasks. However, most e
arXiv:2605.04609v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Composition is a cornerstone of visual aesthetics, influencing the appeal of an image. While its principles operate independently of specific content, i
arXiv:2301.06217v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We provide a detailed exposition of the connections between Boltzmann machines commonly utilized in machine learning problems and the ideas already we
arXiv:2605.03149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans typically use natural language to update teammates on task states. Since not all updates are communicated, discrepancies arise between the team m
arXiv:2603.00492v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Per-scene optimization methods such as 3D Gaussian Splatting provide state-of-the-art novel view synthesis quality but extrapolate poorly to under-o
arXiv:2603.17771v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Attention sinks and massive activations are recurring and closely related phenomena in Transformer models. Existing explanations have largely focuse
arXiv:2605.04683v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We analyse the computational power of transformer encoders as sequence-to-sequence functions on vectors. We show that average hard attention can be us
arXiv:2605.04128v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present JoyAI-Image, a unified multimodal foundation model for visual understanding, text-to-image generation, and instruction-guided image editing
arXiv:2605.04754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep neural network (DNN) inference at the edge demands simultaneous improvements in accuracy, computational efficiency, and energy consumption. Approxi
arXiv:2605.04406v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices into deep learning has historically relied on fixed algebraic Riemannian metrics. Analogou
arXiv:2602.03452v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is effective for training large language models on deterministic outcome reasoning tasks. Prio
arXiv:2605.04793v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Koopman-based neural MPC models generate time-varying dynamics from historical data, but preserve convexity by enforcing that the system operator is ind
arXiv:2605.04087v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optimization over the Stiefel manifold St(p,d), the set of p imes d column-orthonormal matrices, is fundamental in statistics, machine learning, and s
arXiv:2605.04834v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unlike vision and language domains, graph learning lacks a shared input space, as input features differ across graph datasets not only in semantics, but
arXiv:2601.11689v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal image registration between diffusion MRI (dMRI) and T1-weighted (T1w) MRI images is a critical step for aligning diffusion-weighted
arXiv:2602.06810v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tabular anomaly detection (TAD) remains challenging due to the heterogeneity of tabular data: features lack natural relationships, vary widely in di
arXiv:2605.03261v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Romantic breakups are among the most common and intense sources of psychological distress. We evaluated *overit*, a single-session AI chatbot that use
arXiv:2605.04495v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) depends on document ranking to provide useful evidence for generation, but conventional reranking methods mainly op
arXiv:2506.22226v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automatic detection and classification of Cardiovascular disease (CVD) from Computed Tomography (CT) images play an important part in facilita
arXiv:2605.04641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on downstream tasks, they frequently produce contents that deviat
arXiv:2603.20684v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Echo State Networks (ESNs) are a reservoir computing framework widely used for nonlinear time-series prediction. However, despite their effectivenes
arXiv:2505.05880v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Monitoring and analyzing process traces is a critical task for modern companies and organizations. In scenarios where there is a gap between t
arXiv:2605.03067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Approval-based committee voting has received significant attention in the social choice community. Among the studied rules, Thiele rules, and especially
arXiv:2605.05124v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We develop and evaluate a data-driven approach for detecting unusual (anomalous) patient-management actions using past patient cases stored in an electr
arXiv:2504.11101v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is fundamental to Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and high-quality data generation for LLM training. Yet, despite
arXiv:2605.04662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating realistic reactive motions, in which one person reacts to the fixed motions of others, is challenging due to strict interaction constraints a
arXiv:2605.04400v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Separate Source-Channel Coding (SSCC) retains the practical benefits of modular system design, its effectiveness in noisy text transmission is f
arXiv:2605.04059v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning models continue to scale, with some requiring more storage than many large-scale datasets. Thus, we introduce a new paradigm: Continual
arXiv:2605.05097v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs are trained once, then deployed into a world that never stops changing. External memory compensates for this, but most systems manage it explicit
arXiv:2605.04396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work has shown that Transformers' compositional generalization is governed by complexity control, initialization scale and weight decay, which st
arXiv:2512.14954v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Computing next-token likelihood ratios between two language models (LMs) is a standard task in training paradigms such as knowledge distillation. Si
arXiv:2410.23222v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advancements in foundation models have been successfully extended to the time series (TS) domain, facilitated by the emergence of large-scale
arXiv:2605.03882v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Individuals frequently form deep attachments to physical objects (e.g., plush toys) that usually cannot sense or respond to their emotions. While AI c
arXiv:2605.03420v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper describes a submission to the Environment-Aware Speech and Sound Deepfake Detection Challenge (ESDD2) 2026, which addresses component-level
arXiv:2605.04324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decentralized multi-source domain adaptation seeks to transfer knowledge from multiple heterogeneous and related source domains to an unlabeled target d
arXiv:2605.04418v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The empirical success of large language model (LLM) pre-training relies heavily on heuristic stabilization techniques, such as explicit normalization la
arXiv:2602.19651v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning-based methods commonly treat state estimation in robotics as a sequence modeling problem. While this paradigm can be effective at max
arXiv:2605.04239v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optical satellite image time series are extensively used in many Earth observation applications, including agriculture, climate monitoring, and land sur