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Large Language Models for Market Research: A Data-augmentation Approach

arXiv:2412.19363v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed artificial intelligence by excelling in complex natural language processing tasks. Their ability to ge

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Learning to Look before Learning to Like: Incorporating Human Visual Cognition into Aesthetic Quality Assessment

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arXiv:2604.15853v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated Aesthetic Quality Assessment (AQA) treats images primarily as static pixel vectors, aligning predictions with human-rating scores largely thro

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M3R: Localized Rainfall Nowcasting with Meteorology-Informed MultiModal Attention

arXiv:2604.15377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate and timely rainfall nowcasting is crucial for disaster mitigation and water resource management. Despite recent advances in deep learning, pr

MFC-RFNet: A Multi-scale Guided Rectified Flow Network for Radar Sequence Prediction

arXiv:2601.03633v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate and high-resolution precipitation nowcasting from radar echo sequences is crucial for disaster mitigation and economic planning, yet

Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning With Augmented States Requires Rewards After Deployment

arXiv:2604.15757v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This research note identifies a previously overlooked distinction between multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL), and more conventional single-ob

One-Shot Cross-Geometry Skill Transfer through Part Decomposition

arXiv:2604.15455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Given a demonstration, a robot should be able to generalize a skill to any object it encounters-but existing approaches to skill transfer often fail to

PAWN: Piece Value Analysis with Neural Networks

arXiv:2604.15585v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting the relative value of any given chess piece in a position remains an open challenge, as a piece's contribution depends on its spatial relat

PLAF: Pixel-wise Language-Aligned Feature Extraction for Efficient 3D Scene Understanding

arXiv:2604.15770v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding requires semantic representations that are both language-aligned and spatially precise at the pixel leve

Preregistered Belief Revision Contracts

arXiv:2604.15558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deliberative multi-agent systems allow agents to exchange messages and revise beliefs over time. While this interaction is meant to improve performance,

Prototype-Grounded Concept Models for Verifiable Concept Alignment

arXiv:2604.16076v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) aim to improve interpretability in Deep Learning by structuring predictions through human-understandable concepts, bu

Reckoning with the Political Economy of AI: Avoiding Decoys in Pursuit of Accountability

arXiv:2604.16106v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Project of AI is a world-building endeavor, wherein those who fund and develop AI systems both operate through and seek to sustain networks of pow

Revisiting Entropy Regularization: Adaptive Coefficient Unlocks Its Potential for LLM Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2510.10959v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reasoning ability has become a defining capability of Large Language Models (LLMs), with Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR)

Reward Weighted Classifier-Free Guidance as Policy Improvement in Autoregressive Models

arXiv:2604.15577v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Consider an auto-regressive model that produces outputs x (e.g., answers to questions, molecules) each of which can be summarized by an attribute vect

Robust Multispectral Semantic Segmentation under Missing or Full Modalities via Structured Latent Projection

arXiv:2604.15856v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal remote sensing data provide complementary information for semantic segmentation, but in real-world deployments, some modalities may be unav

Robust Synchronisation for Federated Learning in The Face of Correlated Device Failure

arXiv:2604.16090v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Probabilistic Synchronous Parallel (PSP) is a technique in distributed learning systems to reduce synchronization bottlenecks by sampling a subset of

Sample Complexity Bounds for Stochastic Shortest Path with a Generative Model

arXiv:2604.16111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the sample complexity of learning an epsilon-optimal policy in the Stochastic Shortest Path (SSP) problem. We first derive sample complexity bo

Scalable Multi-Task Learning through Spiking Neural Networks with Adaptive Task-Switching Policy for Intelligent Autonomous Agents

arXiv:2504.13541v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training resource-constrained autonomous agents on multiple tasks simultaneously is crucial for adapting to diverse real-world environments. R

Scalable Unseen Objects 6-DoF Absolute Pose Estimation with Robotic Integration

arXiv:2503.05578v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Pose estimation-guided unseen object 6-DoF robotic manipulation is a key task in robotics. However, the scalability of current pose estimation metho

Self-Distillation as a Performance Recovery Mechanism for LLMs: Counteracting Compression and Catastrophic Forgetting

arXiv:2604.15794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success, underpinning diverse AI applications. However, they often suffer from performance degra

SIMMER: Cross-Modal Food Image--Recipe Retrieval via MLLM-Based Embedding

arXiv:2604.15628v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-modal retrieval between food images and recipe texts is an important task with applications in nutritional management, dietary logging, and cook

Skill-RAG: Failure-State-Aware Retrieval Augmentation via Hidden-State Probing and Skill Routing

arXiv:2604.15771v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a foundational paradigm for grounding large language models in external knowledge. While adaptive re

Subliminal Transfer of Unsafe Behaviors in AI Agent Distillation

arXiv:2604.15559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work on subliminal learning demonstrates that language models can transmit semantic traits through data that is semantically unrelated to those t

'Taking Stock at FAccT': Using Participatory Design to Co-Create a Vision for the Fairness, Accountability and Transparency Community

arXiv:2604.16224v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As a relatively new forum, ACM FAccT has become a key space for activists and scholars to critically examine emerging AI and ML technologies. It bring

Targeted Exploration via Unified Entropy Control for Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2604.14646v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL) have improved the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (

Temporal Contrastive Decoding: A Training-Free Method for Large Audio-Language Models

arXiv:2604.15383v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large audio-language models (LALMs) generalize across speech, sound, and music, but unified decoders can exhibit a temporal smoothing bias: transient

The Harder Path: Last Iterate Convergence for Uncoupled Learning in Zero-Sum Games with Bandit Feedback

arXiv:2604.16087v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the problem of learning in zero-sum matrix games with repeated play and bandit feedback. Specifically, we focus on developing uncoupled algorit

The Informational Cost of Agency: A Bounded Measure of Interaction Efficiency for Deployed Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2603.01283v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deployed RL agents operate in closed-loop systems where reliable performance depends on maintaining coherent coupling between observations, actions,

The Price of Paranoia: Robust Risk-Sensitive Cooperation in Non-Stationary Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2604.15695v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cooperative equilibria are fragile. When agents learn alongside each other rather than in a fixed environment, the process of learning destabilizes th

Truncated Kernel Stochastic Gradient Descent with General Losses and Spherical Radial Basis Functions

arXiv:2510.04237v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, we propose a novel kernel stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm for large-scale supervised learning with general losses. Compar

Unsupervised domain adaptation for radioisotope identification in gamma spectroscopy

arXiv:2603.05719v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Training machine learning models for radioisotope identification using gamma spectroscopy remains an elusive challenge for many practical applicatio

UsefulBench: Towards Decision-Useful Information as a Target for Information Retrieval

arXiv:2604.15827v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conventional information retrieval is concerned with identifying the relevance of texts for a given query. Yet, the conventional definition of relevan

VADF: Vision-Adaptive Diffusion Policy Framework for Efficient Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2604.15938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion policies are becoming mainstream in robotic manipulation but suffer from hard negative class imbalance due to uniform sampling and lack of sam

What Makes LLMs Effective Sequential Recommenders? A Study on Preference Intensity and Temporal Context

arXiv:2506.02261v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: What enables large language models (LLMs) to effectively model user preferences in sequential recommendation? Our investigation reveals that e

Whose Facts Win? LLM Source Preferences under Knowledge Conflicts

arXiv:2601.03746v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are more frequently used in retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, it is increasingly relevant to study their beh

Why Colors Make Clustering Harder:Global Integrality Gaps, the Price of Fairness, and Color-Coupled Algorithms in Chromatic Correlation Clustering

arXiv:2604.15738v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chromatic Correlation Clustering (CCC) extends Correlation Clustering by assigning semantic colors to edges and requiring each cluster to receive a sing

WildFeedback: Aligning LLMs With In-situ User Interactions And Feedback

arXiv:2408.15549v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance, aligning these models with human preferences has emerged as a critical challenge. Traditional a

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3D Instruction Ambiguity Detection

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arXiv:2601.05991v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In safety-critical domains, linguistic ambiguity can have severe consequences; a vague command like 'Pass me the vial' in a surgical setting could l

A Mechanistic Account of Attention Sinks in GPT-2: One Circuit, Broader Implications for Mitigation

arXiv:2604.14722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformers commonly exhibit an attention sink: disproportionately high attention to the first position. We study this behavior in GPT-2-style models w

Abstract Sim2Real through Approximate Information States

arXiv:2604.15289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years, reinforcement learning (RL) has shown remarkable success in robotics when a fast and accurate simulator is available for a given task.

AFFORD2ACT: Affordance-Guided Automatic Keypoint Selection for Generalizable and Lightweight Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2510.01433v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-based robot learning often relies on dense image or point-cloud inputs, which are computationally heavy and entangle irrelevant background fe

Beyond Importance Sampling: Rejection-Gated Policy Optimization

arXiv:2604.14895v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a new perspective on policy optimization: rather than reweighting all samples by their importance ratios, an optimizer should select which sa

Bias in Surface Electromyography Features across a Demographically Diverse Cohort

arXiv:2604.14460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neuromotor decoding from upper-limb electromyography (sEMG) can enhance human-machine interfaces and offer a more natural means of controlling prosthe

Bird-SR: Bidirectional Reward-Guided Diffusion for Real-World Image Super-Resolution

arXiv:2602.07069v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Powered by multimodal text-to-image priors, diffusion-based super-resolution excels at synthesizing intricate details; however, models trained on sy

BoundRL: Efficient Structured Text Segmentation through Reinforced Boundary Generation

arXiv:2510.20151v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Structured texts refer to texts containing structured elements beyond plain texts, such as code snippets and placeholders. Such structured texts inc

Calibration-Gated LLM Pseudo-Observations for Online Contextual Bandits

arXiv:2604.14961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contextual bandit algorithms suffer from high regret during cold-start, when the learner has insufficient data to distinguish good arms from bad. We pro

Chain of Modality: From Static Fusion to Dynamic Orchestration in Omni-MLLMs

arXiv:2604.14520v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Omni-modal Large Language Models (Omni-MLLMs) promise a unified integration of diverse sensory streams. However, recent evaluations reveal a critical pe

ClimateCause: Complex and Implicit Causal Structures in Climate Reports

arXiv:2604.14856v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding climate change requires reasoning over complex causal networks. Yet, existing causal discovery datasets predominantly capture explicit, di

ConfLayers: Adaptive Confidence-based Layer Skipping for Self-Speculative Decoding

arXiv:2604.14612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-speculative decoding is an inference technique for large language models designed to speed up generation without sacrificing output quality. It c