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SpatialSpeak: QA-Native Reconstruction with Local and Global Context for Spatial Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

arXiv:2609.33616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) can benefit from geometric priors for multi-view spatial reasoning, yet answer-only training does not directly supervise t

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Uni-VLaT: Whole-Body Tactile Adaptation of VLA Policies for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

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arXiv:2609.35450v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical contact often determines how a humanoid should respond during loco-manipulation, yet vision and proprioception alone are often insufficient to

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Atelier: Learning Local Self-Supervised Features for CryoEM Volumes via Hypernetworks

arXiv:2609.30569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: CryoEM map interpretation requires features that are spatially localized, consistent across samples, and informative across spatial scales. Most deep le

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Aurora-X: Built for Extreme Time Series Forecasting

arXiv:2609.31038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time series foundation models (TSFMs) enable cross-domain forecasting, but their development as general-purpose forecasters remains constrained by under

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BreathGRU: A Novel Semi-Supervised Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit Framework for Speech and Breath Segmentation for Respiratory Audio

arXiv:2609.31165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech-breath segmentation is a fundamental preprocessing step in respiratory audio analysis, enabling applications such as respiratory acoustic bioma

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Decodable In-Context State and Model Output Across Training

arXiv:2609.31401v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prior work established that a probe can decode an in-context binding on model errors and that probe-guided steering can repair some of them. We follow p

Does Understanding Inform Generation in Unified Multimodal Models? From Analysis to Path Forward

arXiv:2511.20561v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent years have witnessed significant progress in Unified Multimodal Models, yet a fundamental question remains: Does understanding truly in

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Feeding BabyLMs Macaroni: Code-Switching Curricula Cause Cross-Lingual Convergence

arXiv:2609.30535v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Children in multilingual communities often code-switch, using multiple languages in a single utterance. Can we induce cross-lingual alignment in languag

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Latent Generative Solvers for Generalizable Long-Term Physics Simulation

arXiv:2602.11229v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reliable physics simulation demands two capabilities that today's neural PDE solvers do not deliver together: generalization across heterogeneous PD

Learning to Replace MCMC in Split-Gibbs Diffusion Posterior Sampling via Deep Unfolding

arXiv:2609.30539v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Split Gibbs sampling enables diffusion posterior inference for general nonlinear inverse problems by decoupling prior and likelihood computations, all

Samples, Sources, Space: Decomposing Data Scale in Spatially Structured Representation Learning of Human Brain Microarchitecture

arXiv:2609.31201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling studies typically represent training data by a single count of samples. For hierarchically and spatially structured data, however, the same numb

Spectral Feedback for Test-Time Alignment of Protein Diffusion Models

arXiv:2609.30456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward maximization alignment methods for discrete diffusion models have primarily focused on steering the reverse process, either by influencing token

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StarWM: Self-Supervised Trained Attention Routing for Robust World Models

arXiv:2609.30667v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A robust world model must strike the balance between faithfully capturing environmental dynamics and abstracting away from irrelevant content. While rec

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Structure-Guided Masked Autoencoders for Ultra-High Resolution Scientific Image Understanding

arXiv:2609.30682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-supervised pre-training with Vision Transformers, including Masked Autoencoders (MAE), is difficult to apply to gigapixel scientific images. Random

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Training Graph Foundation Models on The Web Graph

arXiv:2609.30894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Acacia, a graph foundation model, trained on the web graph. Acacia (i) supports arbitrary feature dimensionalities and semantics without ad

VFM-UDA++: Improving Network Architectures and Data Strategies for Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation

arXiv:2503.10685v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) enables strong generalization from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain, often with limited da

Bridging the Inter-Domain Gap through Low-Level Features for Cross-Modal Medical Image Segmentation

arXiv:2505.11909v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper addresses cross-modal medical image segmentation, focusing on MRI-CT transfer in a source-only domain generalization setting. Durin

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CoSWA-YOLOv12: Scale-Invariant Tiny Object Detection and Segmentation of Malaria Parasites

arXiv:2609.29527v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated microscopy could widen access to malaria diagnosis in low-resource settings, but the deadliest species, P. falciparum, presents in its early

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EndoFSA: Endoscopic Few-Shot Image Generation via Rank-Constrained Parameter Adaptation

arXiv:2609.29930v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: WCE produces large-scale gastrointestinal image data yet pathological findings remain significantly underrepresented limiting the generalization perform

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M3GD: Multi-Modal Multi-View Geometric Diffusion for Camera--LiDAR Novel View Synthesis

arXiv:2609.30056v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic novel view synthesis (NVS) must recover both visual appearance and metric 3D structure, yet most generative NVS methods rely only on images, o

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Res-HIL: Human-Guided Residual Reinforcement Learning for Sample-Efficient Dexterous Manipulation

arXiv:2609.30023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation learning enables robots to acquire manipulation skills from demonstrations, but the resulting policies can fail outside the training data, whi

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WildHSR: Metric Feed-Forward 4D People-Scene Reconstruction from a 3D Foundation Model

arXiv:2609.29106v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D foundation models recover video cameras and geometry in one forward pass, but some of the strongest are up to scale. Joint people-scene reconstruct

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CAST: Context- and Anomaly Structure-Conditioned Time Series Anomaly Generation

arXiv:2609.27825v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Anomalous time series play a critical role in safety-critical domains, yet they are inherently scarce, heterogeneous, and costly to obtain. Existing tim

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ChronoSteer: Bridging Large Language Model and Time Series Foundation Model via Synthetic Cross-Modal Alignment Dataset

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arXiv:2505.10083v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Conventional forecasting methods are trained end-to-end on unimodal time series, which limits their ability to exploit textual information and under

CoRe-WAM: Correspondence-Aligned Temporal Residuals for World Action Models

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arXiv:2609.27314v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Comparing current and past observations helps robots understand scene changes and select subsequent actions during manipulation. However, comparing visu

FFM-CP: Cross-Backbone Fusion of Vision-Language Foundation Models for Few-Shot Computational Pathology

arXiv:2609.27710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pathology vision-language foundation models vary in performance across diseases and tasks, with no single model consistently performing best. The high c

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Geometry-Conditioned Visual Place Recognition in Natural Environments

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arXiv:2609.27370v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual Place Recognition (VPR) in natural environments remains challenging due to repetitive vegetation, sparse distinctive landmarks, and substantial

Memory That Changes Action Is Not Memory That Guides It: Counterfactual Auditing of History-Conditioned Robot Policies

arXiv:2609.27247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A robot returning a block to its origin tray may encounter two task-consistent pasts that reconverge to the same current input but warrant different act

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Multimodal Voice Activity Projection for Social Robot Mediation: Expected Behavior and Deployment Constraints

arXiv:2609.28317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Turn-taking prediction is especially relevant for social robots that act as mediators in human-human interaction, where the expected action is often not

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nnFoundation: 3D Foundation Models for Radiology

arXiv:2609.26924v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Radiological artificial intelligence has advanced rapidly, yet most systems remain narrowly task-specific, data-intensive, and fragile under domain shif

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The Gaussian Is Enough: Flow-Matching Priors Do Not Help When Fine-Tuning Large Behavior Models

arXiv:2609.27070v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern robot imitation learning increasingly relies on generative policies based on diffusion or flow-matching models, which generate actions by trans

PreGS: A Parameter-Transfer-Based Multi-Expert Graph Neural Network for Node Classification

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arXiv:2609.26310v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph neural networks have achieved strong performance in node classification by aggregating information from graph neighborhoods. However, a single agg

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TRACE: Transparent Retrieval for Abstract Concept Evaluation

arXiv:2609.26168v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work reports that vision--language models (VLMs) struggle to establish and maintain stable reference in repeated reference games. Rather than a

23 Sept 2026

Beetle: A Bilingual Model Suite for Modelling Second-Language Processing

arXiv:2609.22633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bilingual language models (LMs) offer a controlled setting for studying how training conditions shape second-language (L2) behaviour, but prior work typ

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Common Cause, Not Cross-Attention: Blocking Visual Shortcuts in Audio-Video Generation

arXiv:2609.22361v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Joint audio--video generators are trained on data in which what an event looks like and what it sounds like are strongly, often spuriously, correlated:

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Comparative Analysis of State-of-the-Art Foundation Models for Sleep Analysis Under Channel Reduction

arXiv:2609.22105v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic sleep staging from polysomnography (PSG) is a well-studied task, but PSG itself is expensive, clinic-based, and burdensome to manually score

Comparative Performance and Parameter-Efficient Adaptation of DINOv2 for Active Trachoma Classification

arXiv:2609.23832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated grading of conjunctival photographs could reduce the cost and variability of trachoma prevalence surveys, but the relative value of modern pre

D-JEPA: A Decision-Aligned Latent World Model

arXiv:2609.24749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent world models predict the consequences of actions, but accurate prediction does not guarantee that latent distance reflects which candidate will

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'Dear LLaVA, Please Drive': A Depth-Aware Vision-Language Agent for Closed-Loop Robotic Control

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arXiv:2609.22925v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) provide a compelling foundation for reasoning-driven mobile navigation, offering rich contextual understanding and strong

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G6D: Geometric Learning-Free RGB-D 6D Pose Solver for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2609.23566v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 6D object pose estimation is fundamental to robotic manipulation and automation. Recent zero-shot methods have significantly improved generalization to

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Generating Chest X-Ray Counterfactuals by Specialising Foundation Image Models

arXiv:2609.24879v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Counterfactual image generation answers questions about how a subject would have looked under retrospective, hypothetical scenarios. Recent methods have

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MUSE: Dependency-Aware Adaptation of a Frozen Vision Backbone for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting

arXiv:2609.24441v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multivariate time-series forecasting is essential to many real-world applications. Recent large vision models (LVMs) offer a promising paradigm by trans

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Optimizers for Diffusion Models: A Controlled Benchmark

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arXiv:2609.23055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discrete diffusion models now match autoregressive language models on several benchmarks, while the question of how best to train them has received far

Replicating the Geometry of Emotion Representations in a Base Open-Weights Model

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arXiv:2609.22208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sofroniew et al. (2026) report that emotion concepts in Claude Sonnet 4.5 are represented as vectors whose geometry mirrors human affect psychology. We

Scaling Sim-to-Real VLA Reinforcement Learning with Generative 3D Worlds

arXiv:2603.18532v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The strong performance of large vision-language models (VLMs) trained with reinforcement learning (RL) has motivated similar approaches for fi

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ToneCL: Contrastive Learning for Few-Shot Syllable-Level Tone Classification

arXiv:2609.24903v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tone languages constitute over 50-70% of the world's languages, but the vast majority are low-resource, lacking the large transcribed corpora needed for

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Towards robust multimodal 3D object detection via visual foundation models

arXiv:2609.23541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal 3D object detection is fundamental to robust perception in autonomous driving because it integrates complementary information from LiDAR and

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MOSAIC-SR: Transformer-Guided Symbolic Regression for Scientific Equation Recovery

arXiv:2609.20997v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Symbolic regression aims to recover closed-form equations from observations, providing interpretable models for scientific discovery. Existing approache