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SSTG-Nav: Metric-Grounded Spatial-Semantic Topological Graphs for Reusable Object Navigation

arXiv:2608.00527v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Service robots operating for months in the same homes, offices, and facilities should become more reliable with experience instead of searching familiar

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Stabilized Best-of-K Training for Neural Combinatorial Optimization

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arXiv:2608.00296v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Leader Reward modifies POMO training to emphasize the best trajectory produced by repeated inference. We test a narrow extension: replace its binary lea

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Statistical comparisons of time-series feature sets on classification tasks

arXiv:2608.01586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In recent years, numerous open-source software libraries have been developed for computing sets of features from univariate time series. The type and

Statistical Mechanics of Learning on Product Wasserstein Manifolds

arXiv:2608.01434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Normally the statistical mechanics of learning treats constraints on weight distributions as restrictions that shrink the space of possible solutions. T

STC-Net: Electroluminescence-Based Solar Cell Crack Segmentation for Power Loss Estimation

arXiv:2608.01714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate crack assessment in electroluminescence (EL) images is important for photovoltaic (PV) reliability analysis, yet existing segmentation methods

Stochastic Sequential Search in Very-High-Dimensional Feature Selection

arXiv:2608.01502v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sequential subset search -- forward selection with floating backtracking and its descendants -- remains the quality reference in feature selection, bu

StreamSplat: Streaming Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Splatting

arXiv:2608.01659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting enables efficient novel-view synthesis without per-scene optimization, but most existing methods assume a fixed set o

StreamTalk: Streaming Co-Speech Gesture Generation with Key-Pose Anchoring

arXiv:2608.01643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time co-speech gesture generation must produce 3D motion clip by clip as speech arrives. Existing streaming methods are open-loop: each clip depend

Subtype Robustness Is Not Just Accuracy: Calibration Under Unseen Subtype Shift

arXiv:2608.00928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Subtype robustness asks whether a model keeps the correct coarse prediction when test examples come from fine-grained subtypes absent from training but

Surrogate Modeling for the Design of Optimal Lattice Structures using Tensor Completion

arXiv:2510.07474v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: When designing new materials, it is often necessary to design a material with specific desired properties. Unfortunately, as new design variables ar

Swimm3R: Splatting with Medium-aware SfM for Underwater 3D Reconstruction

arXiv:2608.00950v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose Swimm3R, a unified framework that combines medium-aware structure-from-motion (SfM) with Underwater Beta Splatting to address scattering- and

SWINSleepNet: A Hierarchical Context-Aware Framework for Sleep Staging (v2)

arXiv:2608.02183v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic sleep staging is a critical role in sleep disorder diagnosis, sleep quality assessment, and long-term health monitoring; however, existing app

T-TAMER: Provably Taming Trade-offs in ML Serving

arXiv:2509.22992v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As machine learning models continue to grow in size and complexity, efficient serving faces increasingly broad trade-offs spanning accuracy, latency

Test-time Adaptation of Pelvic Bone Segmentation Models via Dynamic Reliability-Guided

arXiv:2608.00510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable pelvic bone segmentation (PBS) from CT is essential for robot-assisted pelvic trauma surgery, yet deploying a source-trained model to a new hos

tFUSOperator: Operator Learning for Transcranial Focused Ultrasound Digital Twins

arXiv:2608.01839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) requires accurate estimation of the intracranial acoustic field, which is distorted by skull-induced aberrations.

The Bayesian Reflex: A Predictive Coding Engine for Artificial Intelligence

arXiv:2608.00492v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predictive coding offers a powerful theory of cortical computation, but corresponding scalable algorithmic implementations for artificial intelligence

The Download: US robot restrictions, and ICE’s DNA grab

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics —James O’Donnel

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The Elements of Differentiable Programming

arXiv:2403.14606v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Artificial intelligence has recently experienced remarkable advances, fueled by large models, vast datasets, accelerated hardware, and, last but not

The Fourth Quadrant: A Stylized View of Benign Misfitting

arXiv:2608.01032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training error is what we can observe on a training set; test error is the quantity we actually care about. We study linear regression with squared-erro

The Gate, Not the Cache: Gate Provenance Bounds the Closed-Loop Reliability of Training-Free VLA Token Skipping

arXiv:2608.00391v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Token skipping is a widely used training-free way to accelerate vision--language--action (VLA) models by bypassing computation for most visual tokens at

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The Holistic Storage of Verb+Up Phrases in Text-based and Audio-based Language Models

arXiv:2606.13993v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A crucial aspect of linguistic capability is the ability to trade off between stored representations and abstract knowledge: one must retrieve learn

The Label Defines the Timescale: Trait-State Limits of Temporal-Aggregate Learning

arXiv:2608.01587v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine-learning benchmarks often pair a label that aggregates a long temporal horizon with input observed through one or a few short windows. Their a

The methodology of Constructing the Large-Scale Dataset for Detecting Presuicidal and Anti-Suicidal Signals in Social Media Texts in Russian

arXiv:2608.00497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The suicide is a terrifying act of a person who is misled by his own mental state. This problem arises across many countries. Sadly, Russia also has qui

The No-Clash Teaching Dimension is Bounded by VC Dimension

arXiv:2603.23561v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In the realm of machine learning theory, to prevent unnatural coding schemes between teacher and learner, No-Clash Teaching Dimension was intr

Thermalizing Stochastic Programs

arXiv:2608.01615v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a set of tools for mapping general stochastic programs to thermodynamic hardware designed for energy-efficient stochastic sampling. Given a

Think in Sets for Streaming Video Token Compression

arXiv:2608.01169v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Streaming VideoLLMs process frames causally while visual tokens grow continuously, making compression essential for controlling prefilling latency and m

Token Radius Attention for Efficient Video Generation

arXiv:2608.02504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video Diffusion Transformers (VDiTs) enable high-fidelity generation but incur quadratic cost from dense 3D self-attention. Existing head- and block-lev

Towards a theory of morphology-driven marking in the lexicon: The case of the state

arXiv:2604.03422v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: All languages have a noun category, but its realisation varies considerably. Depending on the language, semantic and/or morphosyntactic differences

Towards Effective Federated Multimodal Graph Learning via Navigating Multifaceted Heterogeneity

arXiv:2608.00623v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal-attributed graphs (MAGs), where nodes carry heterogeneous semantic content across multiple modalities while edges encode relational dependenc

TRACE: Ergodic Trajectory Optimization for Active Scene Reconstruction

arXiv:2608.02304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing active reconstruction systems with Gaussian-splatting maps select observations greedily, optimizing a single next-best-view (NBV) at each step

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Training-Free Out-of-Distribution Detection for Pathology Whole-Slide Images

arXiv:2608.01407v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe deployment of AI methods in medicine requires robust guardrails that detect when input data deviate from the training distribution to ensure that m

Training-Free versus Training-Based Intent Classification in LLMs: Accuracy, Robustness, and Failure Modes

arXiv:2608.02415v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intent classification in Large Language Models (LLMs) involves categorizing user prompts into predefined classes. For instance, given a user prompt, the

TRAM: Enhancing Multimodal Reasoning with Trajectory-Derived Auxiliary Memory

arXiv:2608.01922v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Reasoning Models (MLRMs) have achieved strong performance on tasks requiring visual understanding and multi-step inference. However, as

Transformer Geometry Observatory TGO-III: Semantic Geometry Observatory

arXiv:2608.01876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the widespread adoption of Vision Transformers in modern AI, the need to analyze their inherent representational behavior has become increasingly i

Transformers perform adaptive partial pooling

arXiv:2602.03980v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Any language model must decide what to say in novel contexts based on information from similar contexts. But what about contexts that are not novel

TurboClear: One-Step Object-Effect Removal via Region-Calibrated Distribution Matching and Fusion

arXiv:2608.01288v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, diffusion-based removal methods have achieved promising visual quality in removing both target objects and their associated effects. However,

Two Sides of the Same Coin: Co-Evolving Search for Cross-Task Attacks on Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608.02137v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) exhibit strong generalization across multimodal tasks but remain vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. Existing attacks

Uncertainty-guided active learning for surrogate prediction of stream-finishing wear fields

arXiv:2608.00593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In stream finishing, the wear experienced by a workpiece depends strongly on its orientation within the rotating abrasive media. Determining suitable

Understanding Sparse Attention Selectivity in Long-Context Foundation Models via Counterfactual Evaluation

arXiv:2608.01676v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse attention is widely deployed in long-context serving stacks, yet no framework audits how discarding blocks changes the influence of specific cont

Understanding Synergistic Interactions among Pathology Foundation Models via Adaptive Fusion

arXiv:2608.01370v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pathology foundation models (PFMs) provide strong tile-level representations via self-supervised pre-training on large-scale pathology images. Yet, PFMs

UniHEAR: Unified Heterogeneous-Source Attentive Retrieval for Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering

arXiv:2608.01147v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) requires retrieving relevant entity knowledge from external sources to answer visually grounded que

UniMoCa: Unifying Motion and Camera Controls as Visual Proxies for Faithful Human Video Generation

arXiv:2608.01944v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Controlling human motion and camera movement is essential for faithful human-oriented video generation, yet remains challenging in multi-person scenes w

UniSim-SLAM: Feed-Forward SLAM with Unified Sim(3) Optimization

arXiv:2608.01706v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent geometric foundation models enable feed-forward inference for SLAM, but their predictions are strongly dependent on the input view set, which lea

Unpacking Hateful Memes: Presupposed Context and False Claims

arXiv:2510.09935v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While memes are often humorous, they are frequently used to disseminate hate, causing serious harm to individuals and society. Current approaches to

Unsupervised Multidomain Approaches to Named Entity Recognition with Small Datasets

arXiv:2608.00984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper explores the challenges and the methodologies associated with learning quality representations in scenarios with unlabelled small or limited

UOT-IR: Structured Routing of High-Polyphony Symbolic Music into Fixed-Budget Representations

arXiv:2608.00576v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-polyphony symbolic music is increasingly used in generation, analysis, and arrangement, yet many downstream tasks require bounded representations

Using Non-Lipschitz Signum-based Functions for Distributed Optimization and Machine Learning: Trade-off Between Con-vergence Rate and Optimality Gap

arXiv:2608.01220v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In recent years, the prevalence of large-scale data-sets and the demand for sophisti-cated learning models have necessitated the development of effici

VARPose: Flexible 2D Pose Densification via Visual Autoregressive Modeling for Enhanced 3D Lifting

arXiv:2608.02214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual AutoRegressive Modeling (VAR) has excelled in natural image generation via next-scale prediction, but its use on topology-structured data like hu