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The evolution of sex for artificial intelligence: a population-genetic framework for multigenerational model populations

arXiv:2609.18560v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Some aspects of AI development resemble a population process in which models are specialised, retrained on the output of peers, or combined by averaging

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The Free Inference Dimension: Complexity Measure for Zero-Collision Navigation under Hypothesis Mixtures

DGX agent

arXiv:2609.17816v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Solomonoff induction frames prediction as a mixture over computable hypotheses, typically leading to identification of the true environment. In a fini

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

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Hardware

The Inference Engineering Pareto Atlas: Which Optimizations Dominate the Cost, Quality, and Latency Frontier?

arXiv:2609.17863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM inference optimizations report speedups on different models, GPUs, prompts, and quality metrics, making them hard to compare or combine. We build a

hardwarearxiv-cs-ai

The Limits of BPE Tokenization in Polish: Segmentation-Flexional Forms, Grammatical Anchoring, and First-Person Stability in Inflectional Language Models

arXiv:2609.17553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This article analyzes BPE tokenization in Polish as a test case for the limits of statistical segmentation in an inflectional language. It asks whether

researcharxiv-cs-cl

The Mirage of Calibrated Confidence: Trajectory-Independence of Verbalized Confidence in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.18453v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A calibrated Vision-Language Model (VLM) can repeatedly self-correct, say 'Wait, I should recheck,' arrive at the wrong answer, and still report high co

The Missing 'I Don't Know': Why Three Reasoning-Reliability Findings Converge on Calibrated Abstention

arXiv:2609.17686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Three recent results describe what look like unrelated LLM reliability problems. Yin et al. (2026) show reasoning RL collapses tool-reliability repres

The Operable Pareto Front: Distilling Offline Search into Run-Time Control for Multi-Objective UAV Edge-Computing Scheduling

arXiv:2609.17992v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A UAV mobile edge computing (MEC) fleet trades energy against delay, and its schedules form a Pareto front; we call a scheduler operable when the flee

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

The Other Half of the Memory Wall: Serving 35B MoEs from SSD with Trained Routing Prediction

arXiv:2609.18063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture-of-experts (MoE) inference on consumer hardware is bounded by weight memory: a 35B-class model is 19.5GB at 4-bit, and sparsity shrinks the comp

The Unbearable Weight: Scaling Models and Methods for UAV Audio Classification

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2609.17884v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) become increasingly prevalent in consumer and defense settings, classifying them reliably from limited, modality-sp

The Uneven Impact of Generative AI on Student Learning: Examining the Roles of Reliance, Evaluation Literacy, and Course Policy in AI-related Courses

arXiv:2609.18676v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is changing how students learn, yet the roles of course context, cognitive reliance, evaluation literacy, and

Think Before You Comfort: Reflective Cognitive Alignment for Protocol-Grounded Elderly Stimulation Agents

arXiv:2609.17536v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) offers non-pharmacological support for elders with cognitive impairment, yet scalability remains constrained by reli

safetyarxiv-cs-cl

Think Before You Move: Latent Motion Reasoning for Text-to-Motion Generation

arXiv:2512.24100v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current state-of-the-art paradigms predominantly treat Text-to-Motion (T2M) generation as a direct translation problem, mapping symbolic language di

safetyarxiv-cs-cv

Timbre Analysis of the Hulusi, a Southwestern Chinese Free-Reed Instrument, using Machine Learning

arXiv:2609.17612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The hulusi is a wind instrument that was invented in Yunnan Province, China, and has become tremendously popular in recent years. It consists of a mou

Tutorials

Time-Aligned Evolving Concept Graphs for Scientific Relation Forecasting

arXiv:2609.18163v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forecasting scientific relations can guide discovery by identifying promising connections before they emerge. Existing approaches often model concept se

tutorialsarxiv-cs-ai

Timely Activation of Safety Filters via One-Step Reachability Expansion

arXiv:2609.17904v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Least-restrictive safety filters based on Hamilton-Jacobi reachability provide strong safety guarantees by overriding a nominal controller only when the

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

Token Latency Fairness: Performance Isolation for Multi-Tenant LLM Serving

arXiv:2609.18112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM serving is typically offered as a shared, multi-tenant service, where high-demand workloads from one client can cause latency SLO violations for o

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

Too Good to Be Real? Diagnosing and Reducing the Gap Between AI Preference and Real User Engagement

arXiv:2609.18282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used to generate and evaluate online content, yet it remains unclear whether the qualities they associate with hi

researcharxiv-cs-cl

Topology-enhanced machine learning for speech signal processing

arXiv:2311.15210v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In artificial-intelligence-aided signal processing, existing deep learning models often exhibit a black-box structure. Here, conceptually beyond spe

Toward 3D Printable Non-Planar Electroadhesive Structures for Active Anchoring

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ro

arXiv:2609.18700v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper investigates multi-material 3D printing as a method to fabricate non-planar structures with 3D-printed electrode patterns for electroadhesion

Applications

Toward Composable Network Digital Twins: A Subgraph-Based Latency Prediction Study

arXiv:2609.18704v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern networks must support changing topologies, configurations, and performance objectives, motivating fast and reliable performance estimation. Net

applicationsarxiv-cs-lg

Toward Markerless Video-based Tremor Analysis: Objective Quantification of Pathological Tremor in Mouse Preclinical Models

arXiv:2609.18753v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tremor is a movement disorder characterized by involuntary, rhythmic oscillations of body parts and is a hallmark of several neurological conditions, in

Towards Generalizable Deepfake Detection via Real Distribution Bias Correction

arXiv:2603.14005v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: To generalize deepfake detectors to future unseen forgeries, most existing methods attempt to simulate the dynamically evolving forgery types using

safetyarxiv-cs-cv

Towards Interaction Regulation from Human Feedback via Free Energy Minimization

arXiv:2609.18853v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central challenge across control and learning is the design of mechanisms regulating the interactions between humans and autonomous agents. Inspired

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

TRACER: Adaptive Multi-Robot Social Navigation via Joint Human-Response Prediction and Interaction-Aware Replanning

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ro

arXiv:2609.18776v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot navigation in human-shared spaces is inherently interactive: coordinated robot motions influence how nearby entities respond, while those re

Tracing individual knowledge trajectories in a changing field: the case of general relativity and gravitation

arXiv:2609.18697v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Historians have reconstructed the twentieth-century transformation of general relativity and gravitation (GRG) at the field level and through individual

safetyarxiv-cs-cl

Track, Articulate, Act: Generating Articulation from Casual Human Videos

arXiv:2609.19119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human videos contain rich causal evidence for robot manipulation: they reveal how hand motion induces object motion and produces task-relevant changes i

Training-Adaptive Convolutional Sparse Coding via Information Bottleneck for Robust Visual Representation

arXiv:2609.19122v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual signals require compact yet sufficient representations for robust downstream prediction. Convolutional sparse coding (CSC) provides an explicit m

Trajectory Learnability for Offline On-Policy Distillation with Imperfect Teachers

arXiv:2609.18321v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Offline on-policy distillation gains efficiency by collecting student trajectories and teacher supervision once and reusing them throughout optimizati

Transcribe, Then Reason: Two-Pass Decomposition for Multimodal Review

arXiv:2609.18958v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The natural way to review a long recording or document with a multimodal model is to hand it the raw source and ask for a review in one call. We show

Transformation Laws in Neural Representations: Structure, Realisability, and Construction

arXiv:2609.18190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How neural representations preserve the structure of input changes connects representation analysis with internal intervention. We study operable repres

TRIPROBE: Probing Task Separability Beyond Classification for XAI

arXiv:2609.18525v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern evaluation of learning pipelines often reduces to downstream accuracy, leaving open the question of why tasks succeed or fail. TriProbe addresses

TTM-Bench: A Framework for Text-to-Music System Performance Benchmarking

arXiv:2609.18585v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-music (TTM) systems are increasingly used to generate musical audio from natural-language descriptions. Robust evaluation is therefore essenti

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

TuiML: Machine Learning for AI Agents

arXiv:2609.17984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine-learning libraries such as Weka and scikit-learn were designed for human programmers. Language-model agents now use these same libraries by reca

TwinMark: A Unified Watermark for Provable Survival Under Feature and Logit Distillation

arXiv:2609.19011v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose TwinMark, a watermarking scheme that reads a single SHAKE128 secret through two complementary linear functionals of model-output summaries: a

Agents

UAVs Meet Embodied Intelligence: Bridging Human Intents and Flying Dynamics Via Harnessing Physical-Digital AI Agents

arXiv:2609.18326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) extend embodied intelligence into continuous three-dimensional space, where perception, reasoning, physical embodiment,

agentsarxiv-cs-ro

Ultralytics YOLO Evolution: An Overview of YOLO27, YOLO26, YOLO11, YOLOv8, and YOLOv5 Object Detectors for Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

arXiv:2510.09653v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper presents a comprehensive overview of the Ultralytics YOLO family, emphasizing architectural evolution, benchmarking, deployment, an

UMI-Bridge: Action-Anchored Latent Alignment across Human and Robot Manipulation Data

arXiv:2609.18232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-robot demonstrations are limited, motivating the use of human manipulation data collected without robots, including egocentric videos and handheld

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

Applications

Uncertainty-Aware Continual Learning for Open-World Intent Discovery Under an evolving Label Space

arXiv:2609.17866v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world intelligent systems increasingly operate under open-world conditions, where user intents are not fixed or exhaustively known a priori and m

applicationsarxiv-cs-cl

Uncertainty measurement for complex event prediction in safety-critical systems

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2411.01289v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Complex events originate from other primitive events combined according to defined patterns and rules. Instead of using specialists' manual work to

Understanding AI Provider Recommendations in Local Service Markets

arXiv:2609.18341v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When someone asks an AI assistant which doctor to see or which firm to trust with their savings, the answer is a referral. We audit AI provider recomm

researcharxiv-cs-cl

Understanding Dynamic Scenes at Gigapixel Scale: Wide-Area Spatio-Temporal Perception from UAVs

arXiv:2609.18210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: UAV-borne imaging has advanced from megapixel to gigapixel sensors, shifting aerial perception from recognizing individual targets to understanding enti

Local Ai

Understanding LLM Failures: A Multi-Tape Turing Machine Analysis of Systematic Errors in Language Model Reasoning

arXiv:2602.15868v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) exhibit failure modes on seemingly trivial tasks. We propose a formalisation of LLM interaction using a deterministic m

local-aiarxiv-cs-cl

Unified Response Geometry for Structured Pruning

arXiv:2609.18239v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured pruning is commonly formulated as ranking individual channels, although channel responses can be complementary or cancel through downstream m

Universal NP-Hardness of Clustering under General Utilities

arXiv:2603.00210v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Clustering is a central primitive in unsupervised learning, yet practice is dominated by heuristics whose outputs can be unstable and highly s

Unleash LLMs Potential for Sequential Recommendation by Coordinating Dual Dynamic Index Mechanism

arXiv:2409.09253v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Owing to the unprecedented capability in semantic understanding and logical reasoning, large language models (LLMs) have shown fantastic poten

Using OCR Heads to Verbalize Image Semantics

arXiv:2609.18823v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How do VLMs map from pixels to semantics? To understand this general question, we focus on a narrow one: studying how VLMs perform optical character r

UWA360CAM: A 360^{irc} 24/7 Real-Time Streaming Camera System for Underwater Applications

arXiv:2309.12668v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Omnidirectional camera is a cost-effective and information-rich sensor highly suitable for many marine applications and the ocean scientific communi

researcharxiv-cs-ro

Variational Approach for Job Shop Scheduling

arXiv:2602.00408v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper proposes a novel Variational Graph-to-Scheduler (VG2S) framework for solving the Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP), a critical tas