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Scalable Direction-Following TTS via Voice Impression-Guided Pseudo Triplet Construction

arXiv:2609.02623v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Voice actors often re-read the same script while modifying their delivery in response to performance directions. We study this setting as direction-fo

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SkillGLoW: Procedural-Family Skill Consolidation for Self-Improving Agents on Long-Horizon Task Streams

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arXiv:2609.02217v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly self-improve by writing and reusing textual skills, kept either as one global document or as a flat pool of per-task entries, th

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Sparse Readout Prism: Explaining Logit-Lens Scores in Features Instead of Tokens

arXiv:2609.01936v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A language model's prediction of its next token develops across layers, and lens methods track this process by decoding intermediate hidden states int

SpeakPay: Domain-Adaptive LoRA Fine-Tuning of Whisper for Low-Resource Nepali Financial Speech Recognition

arXiv:2609.01737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile payment applications in Nepal are graphically mediated and largely inaccessible to visually impaired users. This paper presents SpeakPay, a voice

Towards Zero-Shot Transfer Across Embodiments For Driving VLAs

arXiv:2609.02341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) have shown strong potential in autonomous driving by leveraging multimodal pretraining for instruction following, v

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A Compact Robotic Finger with 2-DoF MCP Joint Embedding DoF-Selective Passive Continuously Variable Transmission for Wide Force-Speed Operating Range

arXiv:2609.00769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This letter presents a compact two-degree-of-freedom (DoF) robotic finger with a flexion-selective passive continuously variable transmission (CVT) to a

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A Multi-Branch Feature Fusion Approach for Health Misinformation Detection and Propagation

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arXiv:2609.00403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a multi-branch fusion framework for detecting and characterising the propagation of health misinformation in online social networks

Agentic Multimodal Models for Environmental Hyperspectral Unmixing

arXiv:2609.01289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hyperspectral unmixing is a key task in remote sensing that aims to decompose mixed pixels in hyperspectral images into their constituent material signa

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Assessing Alignment and Stability of Feature Importance Explanations via Weight of Evidence

arXiv:2609.00090v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Feature importance Methods (FIMs) are widely used in Explainable AI to interpret model predictions, yet attribution scores alone often provide limited

Beyond Magnitude: Contrastive Routing for Modular Mixture-of-Experts

arXiv:2609.01100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In current Mixture-of-Experts architectures, routing is performed based on representations dominated by structure shared across all tokens, limiting exp

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Beyond the Clock: Measuring the Value of Adaptive Revision

arXiv:2609.00874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As agentic systems become compound systems, increasingly important decisions move above task execution itself: when should a higher-level controller pre

Beyond Tokens: Semantic-Aware Speculative Decoding for Efficient Inference by Probing Internal States

arXiv:2602.03708v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across many tasks but suffer from high inference latency due to autoregressive decoding. The

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CaRL-EM: Cost-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Entity Matching with LLMs

arXiv:2609.01195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Entity matching (EM) requires fine-grained contextual understanding and domain knowledge. Recent work shows that large language models (LLMs) can serve

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Closing Cost-Quality Gap in Document VLMs: Difficulty-Aware Data Curation and Quality-Adjusted Deployment Economics

arXiv:2609.01575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Extracting structured fields from hundreds of millions of documents annually remains costly in regulated industries: bespoke OCR cascades cover only a f

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Compile, Don't Memorize: A Context Compilation Architecture (CCA) for In-Context Learning

arXiv:2609.00759v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly handle in-context learning (ICL) tasks where a long, novel context defines the rules, knowledge, and output sc

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Compressing AI Traffic: Standardized Neural Network Coding of Visual-Token Representations in Split Vision-Language Inference

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arXiv:2609.01200v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When the visual encoder and the language decoder of a vision-language model (VLM) run on different compute nodes, the intermediate visual-token embeddin

Consistency Without Alignment: Item-Sensitive Language Models Indistinguishable From Random

arXiv:2609.00576v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Item-sensitivity, defined as whether a model's choice depends on the specific input rather than on its own output prior, is widely reported as evidence

Control-Data Flow Separation: Stable Prompt Optimization in Multi-Agent LLMs

arXiv:2609.00621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prompt optimization can improve multi-agent LLM systems, but the prompts being optimized often serve two entangled roles: generating task-relevant conte

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Controllable Image Captioning with Prompt-Conditioned Scene Rewards

arXiv:2609.00709v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models produce fluent image descriptions but offer limited semantic control: users cannot reliably specify whether captions shou

Conversation Coach: A Voice-enabled AI System that Helps Practice Difficult Workplace Conversations

arXiv:2609.00441v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective manager-employee communication is critical for retaining high performers and developing underperformers, yet training managers in these skills

Creative Generation via Multi-Agent Debate: Does Debate Suppress Diversity?

arXiv:2609.00683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Creative generation tasks, such as narrative writing and scientific ideation, demand both high-quality outputs and distinct responses across independent

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Dense Process Supervision for Search Agents via Fact Utility Estimation

arXiv:2609.00833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) for search agents typically relies on outcome rewards. However, it often fails to achieve effective credit assignment, due t

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Different representation learning objectives recover distinct latent structures from the same psychometric data

arXiv:2609.00100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Psychometric questionnaires contain rich item-level information, yet it remains unclear whether different representation learning objectives recover the

Distributed Implicit Harm: A Compositional Safety Blind Spot in MLLM-Based Video Moderation

arXiv:2609.00206v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite their growing use in video moderation, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit a compositional safety blind spot: videos composed of

Drift-Aware LLM Routing with Sparse Contexts and Shared Budgets

arXiv:2609.00662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A multi-model language service must route each request while preserving workload-level budgets for compute, latency, memory, or monetary cost. Two featu

EGT-KG: Evidence-Grounded Typed KG Retrieval for Practical Scientific QA with Small Language Models

arXiv:2609.00479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For emerging scientific research domains, local Small Language Models (SLMs) are becoming more attractive, as they offer stronger privacy control and mo

ES-AHD: An Evolution Strategy Framework for Automatic Heuristic Design

arXiv:2609.00023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we introduce ES-AHD, a novel framework that fundamentally integrates Evolution Strategy (ES) into Large Language Model (LLM)-driven Aut

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Few-Shot Out of Domain Intent Detection with Covariance Corrected Mahalanobis Distance

arXiv:2609.00961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversational agents like chatbots and voice assistants are trained to understand and respond to user intents. On encountering an utterance with an int

FinLifeBench: Exhaustive Life-Event History and Financial-State Reconstruction from Longitudinal Banking Dialogue

arXiv:2609.01198v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Repeated banking interactions require assistants to maintain complete, current, and traceable customer records as life changes emerge incidentally in ro

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Forbid Your Attention: Fooling Multimodal Large Language Models by Selectively Removing Intrinsic Focus in Spectral Domain

arXiv:2609.00788v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have extended the capability of large language models (LLMs) to process more contextual multimodal information,

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From Detection to Refusal: Safer LLMs via Circuit-Guided Weight Scaling

arXiv:2609.00051v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite extensive alignment efforts, Large Language Models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to generating unsafe content under adversarial prompting, yet the

From Rollouts to Recipes: Self-Contained Post-Training for LLMs

arXiv:2609.01422v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training large language models usually applies a single training recipe to all samples, even though the model's own rollouts reveal different sampl

Generativism: Toward a Learning Theory for the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence

arXiv:2606.12441v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The four dominant learning theories of behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, and connectivism show significant conceptual limitations as g

GenScale: A Benchmark for Relative Object Scale in Image Generation and Editing

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arXiv:2609.00525v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern image generation and editing systems can produce photorealistic, prompt-aligned images, but still often render familiar objects at implausible re

Group Adaptive Clipping Policy Optimization

arXiv:2609.00444v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Group relative policy optimization for reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) typically uses a fixed importance-sampling (IS) ratio cli

HiMPO: Hindsight-Informed Memory Policy Optimization for Less-Entangled Credit in Long-Horizon Agents

arXiv:2606.16285v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon agents rely on memory mechanisms to compress interaction history, but optimizing memory writing faces a distinct credit assignment chal

HiveTraceGuard-Pro: A Compact Generative Guardrail for Prompt Injection, Jailbreaks, and Adversarial Obfuscation

arXiv:2609.01046v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Production LLMs must handle inputs that attempt to override system instructions, bypass safety policies or elicit harmful responses. A common mitigati

InComeS: Integrating Compression and Selection Mechanisms into LLMs for Efficient Model Editing

arXiv:2505.22156v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Although existing model editing methods perform well in recalling exact edit facts, they often struggle in complex scenarios that require deeper sem

Incremental Risk Assessment of Progressive Elder Financial Scams via Instruction-Tuned Small Language Models

arXiv:2609.00005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial scams targeting older adults increasingly occur through text and voice channels such as email, SMS, and phone calls, unfolding over multiple c

Instella-MoE Technical Report

arXiv:2609.00791v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this work, we introduce Instella-MoE, a fully open Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model with 16 billion total parameters and 2.8 billion active

Less Is More: Balancing Positive and Negative Space in Visual Concept Blending

arXiv:2609.00476v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graphic designers often blend visual concepts to communicate multiple ideas within a single image, leveraging positive and negative space to create bala

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LLMPEDIA: Browsing, Verifying, and Comparing the Parametric Encyclopedic Knowledge of LLMs

arXiv:2609.01182v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flagship language models appear saturated on benchmarks like MMLU (Hendrycks et al., 2021), scoring above 90% - yet benchmarks test only what the experi

MADS: A Multiview Acoustic Descriptor Set Beyond Standard Spectral Summaries

arXiv:2609.00792v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dominant audio classification pipelines rely either on compact handcrafted summaries or on fixed time-frequency frontends such as log-mel representati

Making Prospective Memory SLM-Shaped: Typed Intention Stores for Small-Model Agents

arXiv:2609.01272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prospective memory means carrying out a deferred intention at the right future cue while other work continues. Benchmarks now isolate it as an agent ski

Multi-Step Knowledge Interaction Analysis via Rank-2 Subspace Disentanglement

arXiv:2511.01706v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Natural Language Explanations (NLEs) describe how Large Language Models (LLMs) make decisions by drawing on external Context Knowledge (CK) an

Neuro-Symbolic Geometric Abstraction (NeuSOGA): From Observations to Symbolic Mathematical Representations

arXiv:2609.01408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A fundamental challenge in artificial intelligence is the transformation of observations into explicit symbolic representations suitable for abstraction

NSIDDx: A Design Framework for Neuro-Symbolic, Practitioner-First Differential Diagnosis in Low-Resource Settings

arXiv:2609.00256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based diagnostic systems achieve high semantic accuracy on benchmarks, but open-ended evaluation on clinically uncommon presentations reveals a syst

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Ontology-Guided Neuro-Symbolic Inference: Grounding Language Models with Mathematical Domain Knowledge

arXiv:2602.17826v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Language models exhibit fundamental limitations -- hallucination, brittleness, and lack of formal grounding -- that are particularly problematic in