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Bunraku: Turning a Single Illustration into an Editable Live2D Character

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arXiv:2607.27348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Live2D is the dominant 2D character-animation format for anime characters and virtual avatars, representing each character as a stack of RGBA layers dri

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Calibrate Before Reason: Robust Visual Token Reduction against Semantic Drift in VLMs

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arXiv:2607.27700v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) suffer from prohibitive inference overhead due to long sequences of visual tokens. However, existing visual token re

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Can Agents Deceive? Evaluating Reasoning and Deception in ParliamentBench using a Social Deduction Game

arXiv:2607.28146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are deployed as agents in high-stakes settings, such as medical and legal systems, understanding their deceptive capabil

Hardware

Complementary Matrix-Gated QKAN Fast-Weight Programmers for Quantum Dynamics Forecasting

arXiv:2607.27945v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sequence models must decide what to write into memory and what to retain. In quantum and quantum-inspired sequence learning, nonlinear recurrent updat

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Continual Learning with Vision-Language Models via Semantic-Geometry Preservation

arXiv:2603.12055v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continual learning of pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) is prone to catastrophic forgetting, yet current approaches adapt to new tasks withou

Contrastive Reinforced Policy Optimization via Privileged Self-Distillation

arXiv:2607.28026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly rely on Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) or On-Policy Se

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DeepSeek v4 Flash for DS4 (DwarfStar) GGUF w/ DSpark MTP Head

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I'm an avid user of Deepseek v4 Flash via antirez's DS4 DwarfStar inference engine, and so when the new checkpoint dropped, the first thing I did was rent a cloud box and spin up a quantization for us

Deepseek V4 Flash is now ~#2 open weight model to Kimi K3 and >50x cheaper

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https://preview.redd.it/h7zv5tb3tmgh1.png?width=2854&format=png&auto=webp&s=507380e8f862c18f10f7c5c84da9e8d1c59139b0 Deepseek's new flash model is unexpectedly cheap and high-performing across useful

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DIPHINE: Diffusion-based Phi-ID Neural Estimator

arXiv:2606.18997v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Uncovering the true informational architecture of real-world complex systems requires disentangling how their components uniquely store, redundantly

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Divergence Decoding: Training-Free Capability Fusion

arXiv:2607.27248v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While large language models excel in reasoning, these generalists often lack knowledge for specialized scientific domains. Conversely, domain models~(

Dynamic Spectral Filtering for Temporal Graph Learning: Learning Evolving Propagation Operators

arXiv:2607.27891v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Temporal graph learning is commonly organized around the evolution of node states or the encoding of interaction histories. We study an underexplored,

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Echoverse: Deep, Evolving Environments for Training Computer-Use Agents at Scale

arXiv:2607.28074v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computer-use agents learn from what their actions change, so training one needs applications it can act on, break and reset. The applications that mat

EgoGVAE: Ego-body Mesh Reconstruction via Guided Variational Autoencoder

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arXiv:2607.27755v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We address the problem of recovering the full-body mesh from only the head pose. This task has become essential for various applications based on head-m

Energy-Driven Adaptive Visual Token Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2603.05950v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual token reduction is critical for accelerating Vision-Language Models (VLMs), since visual inputs are represented as token sequences that intro

eta-OPSD: Deriving with Policy Optimization, Training with Self-Distillation

arXiv:2607.28582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) is a promising approach to improve reasoning language models, but it remains brittle in practice: making it work reli

EvoCause: LLM-Guided Evolution of Causal Graphs for Root Cause Analysis

arXiv:2607.27290v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern telecommunication, cloud, and microservice systems emit correlated alarm cascades when components fail. Root cause analysis (RCA) aims to identif

Exploring Structures in Physics Problems: Can AI Agents Discover Statistical Mechanical Mappings?

arXiv:2607.26367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An important skill in theoretical physics is to recognize when a new problem can be transformed into a known model. We study this skill as an AI-agent t

Fairness Pruning: Locating Demographic Bias in GLU-MLP Layers via Differential Activations

arXiv:2607.28319v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work presents Fairness Pruning, a lightweight structural intervention method designed for the management and future mitigation of demographic bias

Agents

FaithEyes: Towards Faithful Tool Use via Multi-Agent Process-Image Verification

arXiv:2607.28225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic vision-language models (VLMs), which interleave textual reasoning with explicit tool calls such as cropping and code-based image manipulation, h

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Fantastic Adaptive Taxonomies and How to Use Them

arXiv:2607.16387v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: An agent system's execution traces record how it fails, and procedures that improve such a system without changing model weights (trajectory s

Tutorials

Finding Change in Satellite Archives from Text: How to Combine Before-and-After Images Efficiently

arXiv:2607.28571v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Operational Earth observation increasingly calls for answering queries such as ``find the image pairs where a new building appeared.'' This means search

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FPEdit: Robust LLM Fingerprinting through Localized Parameter Editing

arXiv:2508.02092v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models represent significant investments in computation, data, and engineering expertise, making them extraordinarily valuable

Generalization and Trade-off in Adversarial Training: An RKHS Perspective via Kernel Integral Operators

arXiv:2607.27995v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adversarial training has emerged as a powerful approach for protecting models against adversarial attacks in a broad range of real-world applications.

GLM-RAG: Graph Language Models for Graph-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2607.28397v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over knowledge graphs requires retrievers that can effectively capture both graph structure and semantic informat

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Hardware

GoGoTB: Agentic RTL Verification with Specification-Grounded Coverage Closure

arXiv:2607.26181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Functional verification dominates integrated circuit (IC) front-end engineering effort, and a single missed bug that escapes to silicon can trigger a co

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Gradient-free Task-Conditioned Retrieval for On-Device In-Context Learning

arXiv:2607.27766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-device in-context learning (ICL) relies on pre-inference retrieval to select demonstrations for useful context before downstream model inference. Thi

Graph Neural Multilevel Preconditioners for Iterative Solvers

arXiv:2607.28456v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Solving large, sparse linear systems is a core task in scientific computing, and efficient iterative solvers rely critically on effective and robust p

Graph Neural Network Force Fields for Spin Dynamics in Metallic Magnets

arXiv:2607.28537v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Metallic magnets exhibit complex spin dynamics governed by electronically generated interactions. Predictive simulations of such dynamics typically re

GuideSkill: Evolving Executable LLM Agent Skills for Guideline-Grounded Clinical Reasoning

arXiv:2607.26160v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) encode diagnostic criteria, but LLM systems typically retrieve guideline text or absorb it through training rather t

Hand-Object Interaction in the Age of Large Foundation Models:Reconstruction, Generation, and Embodied Transfer

arXiv:2607.28394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hand-object interaction (HOI) modeling remains challenging because it requires joint reasoning about hand articulation, object geometry, contact, semant

HARGO: Heterogeneity-Aware Reward-Guided Optimization for RL Post-Training of LLMs on HPC Tasks

arXiv:2607.28301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) can equip large language models (LLMs) with domain knowledge for high-performance computing (HPC) tasks such as data race d

Harness-G: A Graph-Structured Harness for Search Agents

arXiv:2607.27652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) search agents commonly model retrieval as free-form natural-language query generation and optimize multi-turn interactions u

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HSS-Synth: Humanities and Social Sciences Data Synthesis for LLMs

arXiv:2607.27379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-quality, diverse data are vital for large language models (LLMs) but remain scarce and costly. Data synthesis is a viable alternative and succeeds

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Improving Mental Health Screening and Early Risk Detection in Spanish

arXiv:2607.28476v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Early detection of mental health disorders is often limited by the lack of specialized resources in Spanish and the difficulty of analyzing long histori

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'Intelligence too cheap to meter' battle is on! Given that DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Preview is already great for agentic tasks, there is no doubt t…

'Intelligence too cheap to meter' battle is on! Given that DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Preview is already great for agentic tasks, there is no doubt this new checkpoint must be an absolute beast. 20+ point jump

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KAISEN: Reproducible Subgroup Fairness Auditing for Clinical Risk Models

arXiv:2607.28608v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical risk models routinely achieve strong aggregate performance while producing materially different error rates across patient subgroups. Audit pip

LAST: The Last Query Token Guides Visual Token Pruning for Edge-Cloud Collaborative MLLM Inference

arXiv:2607.27952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal foundation models are reshaping edge-cloud visual intelligence from task-specific feature pipelines into token-based interfaces, where edge d

Latent-Kernel Discrete Flow Maps for Few-Step Generation

arXiv:2607.27529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discrete diffusion and flow-matching models denoise a sequence over many steps, but to keep each step cheap, they factorize the transition across positi

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Learning-Augmented and Randomized Algorithms for Line Aggregation with Delays

arXiv:2607.27807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies learning-augmented and randomized online aggregation with delays on a line metric. We consider advice given as online suggested servi

Learning to Trace Seiberg Dualities

arXiv:2607.28628v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dualities play an important role in establishing both microscopic and emergent phenomena in a wide range of physical systems. In practice, though, it

Agents

LEDGERMIND: Provenance-Constrained Multimodal Agentic Reasoning with a Structured Evidence Ledger

arXiv:2607.28374v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal agents for visual question answering increasingly operate as multi-step trajectories that interleave perception, retrieval, and reasoning, ye

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Lightning OPD 2.0: Mitigating Style Bias in Cross-Teacher On-Policy Distillation for Large Reasoning Models

arXiv:2607.28449v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) provides dense token-level supervision from a teacher, but its effectiveness can depend on teacher consistency, meaning tha

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LightRot: A Light-Weighted Rotation Scheme and Architecture for Accurate Low-Bit Large Language Model Inference

arXiv:2607.27704v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) continue to demonstrate exceptional capabilities across various domains, the challenge of achieving energy-efficient a

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LLM2Vec-Gen: Generative Embeddings from Large Language Models

arXiv:2603.10913v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fine-tuning LLM-based text embedders via contrastive learning maps inputs and outputs into a new representational space, discarding the LLM's output

LM-GRASP: Instance-Specific Language Models for Combinatorial Construction via Online Imitation Learning

arXiv:2607.28135v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning for combinatorial optimization typically relies on neural constructors trained via reinforcement learning on large offline datasets for

LoRA Scaffolded Policy Optimization (LSPO): A Sampling-Time Low-Rank Scaffold for Recovering Reinforcement-Learning Gradient on Zero-Reward Cliff Prompts

arXiv:2607.27787v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) for mathematical reasoning suffers from a structural blind spot: on 'cliff' prompts-those on which

MagicSelector: Joint Optimization for Agent Tool Selection via Counterfactual Decomposition and Progressive Reranking

arXiv:2607.17751v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present MagicSelector, a joint optimization framework integrating Counterfactual task decomposition, Progressive reranking, and Dynamic Top-K, desi

MatCreatioNN: Machine learning-guided computational discovery of photocatalysts for environmental applications

arXiv:2607.27295v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rational design of photocatalysts for environmental remediation and CO2 conversion remains limited by the high computational cost and sparse exper