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Summarize Before Grounding: Query-Guided Chunk Condensation for Long-Video Temporal Grounding

arXiv:2609.34598v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video temporal grounding (VTG) aims to localize the video interval corresponding to a language query. Recent large vision-language models (LVLMs) show g

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T-MoXAI: A Hierarchical Explainability Framework for Temporal Multimodal Data

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arXiv:2609.33685v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) models for temporal multimodal data have potential in healthcare and agriculture, but their opacity can limit trust and ado

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TerMeZO: Ternary Sparse Zeroth-Order Optimization for Fine-tuning BitNet Models at the Edge

arXiv:2609.33548v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning anguage models (LLMs) with first-order optimizers requires a memory several times larger than that required for inference. Memory-efficient

THEIA: A Multimodal Dataset and Benchmark for Vision-Language Analysis of Layout

arXiv:2609.35035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of artificial intelligence into computer-aided design frameworks has sparked a shift in the design of analog integrated circuits (ICs),

Theory of Scene: Breaking the Symmetry Trap in Multi-Agent LLM Coordination

arXiv:2609.32939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent systems built on large language models (LLMs) are largely homogeneous, as their agents behave alike even across distinct LLMs. We show that

Think Fast, Plan Selectively: Adaptive Deliberation for Efficient Data-Driven MPC

arXiv:2609.32591v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data-driven model predictive control (MPC) combines learned world models with online trajectory optimization, achieving strong performance in continuo

Toward Comprehensive 3D Grounding: Orientation Grounding through Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.33109v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Grounding is a core capability of spatial vision-language models, yet most existing work focuses only on where a referred object is. Many 3D tasks also

Training-Free Uncertainty Estimation for Embedding Models

arXiv:2306.00206v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Embedding models, often obtained via self-supervised learning, extract general-purpose representations from data. Quantifying the reliability of the

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Trapped by Their Own Rollouts: Understanding Aggregation--Rollout Feedback in Federated On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2609.32573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) is a promising approach to language-model adaptation, aligning teacher supervision with the student's own generated traject

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Two-Stage Multi-View Gait Recognition with a Re-Embedding Network

arXiv:2609.32244v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gait recognition always remains challenging due to severe overfitting and the rigid view constraints common in single-stage approaches. We propose a two

Understanding the Synergy between SFT, RLVR, and OPD in LLM Post-Training

arXiv:2609.31900v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern LLM post-training composes supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), and on-policy distillation (OPD)

Uniform Race: Parameter-Free Approximate Rejection Sampling

arXiv:2609.34639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study approximate sampling: given N independent samples from a proposal distribution mu, the goal is to select one whose distribution is close to a t

VideoPhysEdit: Physical Counterfactual Video Editing via Rigid-Body Physical Scene Reconstruction

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arXiv:2609.35134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video editing has advanced substantially in recent years, with methods increasingly accounting for the visual consequences of edits, such as changes to

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Vision-Language Agents for Active Perception in Optics Laboratories

arXiv:2609.32918v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly being used in scientific workflows, but their ability as agents to directly control laboratory experime

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What Does the Rank Buy? A Spectral and Distributional Analysis of Low-Rank Adaptation

arXiv:2609.32002v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rank r in LoRA is widely treated as a capacity control: a smaller rank is assumed to yield a simpler model that generalizes better. We show that,

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What Should a Streaming Video Model Remember?

arXiv:2606.16353v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Streaming video understanding models must answer queries at any moment during an ongoing stream, using only what they have observed so far and under

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When Do Models Admit They Are Wrong? Failure Disclosure Is Unstable Under Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.33220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Outcome-based reinforcement learning can produce models with similar task performance but very different ways of communicating about their mistakes. We

When Helpful Text Hurts: Option-Redirecting Bias in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.32489v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In tri-modal visual question answering (VQA), auxiliary text is commonly used to complement visual and textual inputs, yet its reliability is often un

When Text Matters: Design Principles for Visual Token Pruning in Vision-Language Model

arXiv:2609.34861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual token pruning has been widely studied as a practical approach to reducing the computational cost of large vision-language models. However, it str

Which the Eye Fears: Writing with Read-Blindness Explains Massive Activations in Transformers

arXiv:2609.35630v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Massive activation features (MAs) in Transformers are extreme-value residual-stream features that persist across layers despite the model's ability to

WorldGraph: Graph-Native World Modeling

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arXiv:2609.34159v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models infer latent states of an environment to capture its underlying dynamics and predict future evolution. Many real-world environments, howe

Write Back the Delta: Revisiting the Same Tokens with Fresh Representations

arXiv:2609.32457v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformers process information strictly forward through depth, preventing deeper computation from revisiting and refining earlier representations. To

A Framework for Identifying, Categorizing, and Explaining Bias in AI-Generated Code

arXiv:2609.30642v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) become integrated into software development workflows, concerns regarding unintentional biases in AI-generated code. A

A Safety-Bounded SDC-to-MCP Gateway for Medical AI Agents

arXiv:2609.31358v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) provides a common interface through which AI applications discover and use external resources and tools. It allows la

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Amplify What You Gaze At: Target Saliency Boosting in Text-to-Image Generation

arXiv:2609.30733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image generation has advanced in controlling what, where, and how objects appear, yet how visual attention is distributed among objects remains

Auditing System-1 Models on Biosecurity-Relevant Benchmarks: Calibration, Selective Prediction, and Permutation Instability in a Non-Generative Model

arXiv:2609.30454v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-generative 'System-1' models return structured probabilistic decisions in a single forward pass, without autoregressive decoding, at a small fractio

BeatGraph: Self-Supervised Heartbeat Graphs for Infant ECG Representations from the Home Environment

arXiv:2609.31546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electrocardiogram (ECG) foundation models typically tokenize the signal into fixed-length patches that ignore cardiac structure, so a patch may split a

Bridging LLM Agents and Data Spaces: An Architectural Mediation Approach using the Model Context Protocol

arXiv:2609.30341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data Spaces enable sovereign and governed data sharing across organizational boundaries, but their integration with AI agents remains challenging due to

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

CacheReforge: Bounded Recovery for Stale KV Caches under Evolving Adapters

arXiv:2609.30884v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models rely on KV caching to reduce repeated prefill computation in long context and interactive applications. As lightweight adapters ev

Causal Retention in Interactive Agents: Interface Factorization and Selective Adaptation

arXiv:2609.30650v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Task performance need not determine which intervention mechanism an agent retains. We study causal retention: whether a frozen learned state answers a

Coding Agents Aren't Enough! Evaluating an Enterprise Security Brain for Agentic Cloud Investigations

arXiv:2609.30345v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cloud-security investigation is dominated by population tasks: which identities can read a data store, how many resources fail a control, which assets

Cognitive Skills in the Age of AI: Computing Students and Experts Perceptions

arXiv:2609.31272v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI is becoming increasingly integrated into daily workflows, especially in computing. We are gradually shifting towards an AI-rich future, an impendin

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DeepEdu-v1: Efficient and Scalable Agentic LLMs for Vietnamese Education

arXiv:2609.31568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI tutoring could markedly improve learning outcomes for students in developing regions such as Vietnam, yet the two obvious paths both fall short. Clou

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Detecting Time Series Anomalies Like an Expert: A Multi-Agent LLM Framework with Specialized Analyzers

arXiv:2605.05725v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Time-series anomaly detection often returns scores or intervals, while analysts need to understand the abnormal behavior and the evidence supporting

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Do Neural Networks Preserve Case Structure? Case-Based Decomposition, Interpretation, and Decision Consistency

arXiv:2607.11347v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Neural networks increasingly inform consequential decisions, making their reliability increasingly important. Yet their internal mechanisms provide

applicationsarxiv-cs-ai

Energy Efficiency of Locally Deployed LLMs: A Preliminary Quantitative GPU Power Benchmark on Consumer Hardware

arXiv:2608.00008v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The local deployment of large language models (LLMs) is gaining traction due to privacy concerns and the desire for on-premise inference. However, t

Externalized CPDAG Summaries Improve LLM Causal Deduction

arXiv:2609.31071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Corr2Cause asks whether a causal claim holds in every DAG compatible with observed correlations and conditional independencies. We frame this as latent-

FlyAOC: Evaluating Agentic Ontology Curation of Drosophila Scientific Knowledge Bases

arXiv:2602.09163v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scientific knowledge bases accelerate discovery by curating findings from primary literature into structured, queryable formats for both human resea

From Reward Signal to Visual Utility: A Controlled Audit of Medical VLM Post-Training

arXiv:2609.31450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical vision-language model (VLM) post-training is commonly evaluated through answer accuracy. We examine how changes in accuracy and training objec

HybridInfer: Thermal-Aware Reinforcement-Learning Tier Routing for On-Device, Edge, and Cloud LLM Inference

arXiv:2609.30270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-device inference with small language models keeps user data local, works offline, and incurs no per-query cost, so the on-device tier is preferred wh

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LocUS: Head Selection and Subspace Projection for Targeted Activation Steering

arXiv:2609.31122v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation steering is a powerful training-free paradigm for controlling large language models at inference time. However, standard approaches estimate

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MACBT: A Multi-Agent Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Decision Support System with Longitudinal Memory

arXiv:2609.30939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based first-line treatment for depression, yet its scale is constrained by the time clinicians spend o

MM-VeriAgent: Learning to Use Extensive Tools to Verify Multimodal Misinformation with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.30698v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world multimodal misinformation often involves mixed forgery sources, requiring sample-specific detection strategies. Existing tool-augmented metho

MOPD-Router: Rethinking Teacher Routing in Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2609.30837v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-teacher on-policy distillation (MOPD) integrates specialized capabilities into a single student, but existing practice typically hard-routes eac

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

OpenVAM: Open-World Visual Attention Modeling with VLMs

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cv

arXiv:2609.31364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting human gaze is a core capability for applications ranging from web/UI design analysis to robotics and human-computer interaction. Yet, most vi

OSPO: Object-Centric Self-Improving Preference Optimization for Text-to-Image Generation

arXiv:2506.02015v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have enabled unified multimodal understanding and generation. However, they still strugg

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Parameters vs. Context: TRACE Fine-Tuning for Robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2609.30337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mitigates knowledge obsolescence and factual hallucination in large language models by introducing external context

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Population loss in shallow ReLU networks: Bias & families of critical points

arXiv:2609.30661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The main result presented is a formula for the population loss in the student-teacher kernel model that is applicable to shallow ReLU networks with bias