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When Privacy Hurts Mergeability: Geometry-Aware Model Merging under Differential Privacy

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arXiv:2608.26655v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model merging promises to construct a single multi-task model from independently fine-tuned task models without accessing the original task data. This m

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4DGS-WAM: Bridging Past and Future with an Object-Centric World Action Model based on 4D Gaussian Splatting

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arXiv:2608.25956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current world action models (WAMs) typically operate on 2D visual data. These models can achieve exceptional visual quality, but they lack explicit spat

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27 Aug 2026

BRIDLE: Generalized Self-supervised Learning with Quantization

arXiv:2502.02118v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning has been a powerful approach for learning meaningful representations from unlabeled data across various domains, redu

CloSeR: Unified Relational Distillation from Closed-Set Teachers for Category Discovery

arXiv:2608.25692v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) is an intriguing open-world problem that has garnered increasing attention: given partially labelled data, the goal

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Improving Cross-Site Whole-Heart Segmentation

arXiv:2608.25109v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Whole-heart segmentation from CT and MRI is essential for quantitative cardiac image analysis, but remains challenging under multi-center and multi-mo

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LM-X: Explainable Action Modeling with Progress, Event, and Uncertainty Prediction for Generalist Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2608.25757v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalist vision--language--action (VLA) policies learn long-horizon behavior mainly through short-horizon action prediction and reveal little beyond

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MAMA-FLUX.2: Image-to-Image Synthesis of Post-Contrast Breast DCE-MRI for the MAMA-SYNTH Challenge

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arXiv:2608.25648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic contrast-enhanced breast MRI is central to cancer diagnosis and monitoring, but requires gadolinium-based contrast agents. In this work, we addr

MetaSieve: Faster Relational Deep Learning through SQL-Based Metapath Selection

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arXiv:2608.25903v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Relational Deep Learning (RDL) is an effective approach to machine learning over multi-table relational databases. In RDL, a database is modeled as a

Modality Contribution Score - A Per-Patient Framework for Quantifying the Relative Diagnostic Contribution of Structural MRI and Amyloid PET in Alzheimer's Disease

arXiv:2608.24931v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal neuroimaging combining structural MRI and positron emission tomography (PET) captures complementary structure-function relationships across

Visual General Intelligence: A White Paper

arXiv:2608.25924v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper reconsiders intelligence from a vision-centered perspective and examines whether intelligence emerging from visual experience and learning ma

Beyond Static Interpretability: Anticipating Post-SFT Mechanisms from Pre-SFT Parameters for Better Tuning

arXiv:2608.24482v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mechanistic Localization bridges mechanistic interpretability and post-training optimization by isolating critical parameters via interpretative appro

DDMS: Discriminative Distillation of Multi-view Foundational Features into Single-view Models

arXiv:2608.23850v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundational visual features such as DINO have played a critical role across modern computer vision, and have recently become key components in multi-vi

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Deep Feature Pyramid Convolutional Networks with In-Place Activated Batch Normalization for Automated Skin Lesion Boundary Segmentation

arXiv:1812.00877v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Segmentation of skin lesion boundaries in dermoscopic imaging is an important prerequisite step for computer-aided diagnosis of malignant melanoma,

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Interpretable Fundus Image Classification via Ring-Based Retinal Vasculature Features

arXiv:2608.24723v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retinal fundus photography is widely used for screening and monitoring ocular diseases, but many modern classification pipelines rely on deep latent rep

Learning to Act While Waiting: RL Finetuning of Generalist Robot Policies Under Inference Latency

arXiv:2608.23831v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While reinforcement learning (RL) allows generalist robot policies to continually improve during deployment, the large model size of modern generalist

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Representation Learning in Diffusion and Flow-based Model: An Application Aspect

arXiv:2608.24068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models and flow-based models have recently become the dominant paradigms in generative modeling, largely due to their ability to learn rich, m

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Steering Recurrent Reasoners at Inference Time with Readout Feedback

arXiv:2608.24136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recurrent models, which repeatedly update latent states with shared computation blocks, have emerged as powerful architectures for solving complex reaso

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VGGT-DP: Generalizable Robot Control via Vision Foundation Models

arXiv:2509.18778v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual imitation learning frameworks allow robots to learn manipulation skills from expert demonstrations. While existing approaches mainly fo

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ATHENA: Knowledge-guided agentic neural architecture search for AutoFormer-based electronic health record modeling

arXiv:2608.21712v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer-based models are widely used for clinical prediction from electronic health records (EHRs), yet their architectures still require substantia

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Few-Shot Cross-Dataset Adaptation for Tuberculosis Detection Using DenseNet

arXiv:2608.21427v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most common and dangerous bacterial ailments. Every year, it causes a large number of deaths worldwide. Although many de

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GeoWAM: Visual Geometry World Action Models for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2608.23486v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World action models (WAMs) have recently gained increasing attention as a framework for jointly modeling scene evolution and ego actions in autonomous d

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Scaling Electronic Health Record Foundation Models for Population Health Management

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arXiv:2506.00209v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Population health management requires scalable methods to identify individuals at risk of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular conditions a

The Imitator Game: Benchmarking Robot Imitative Ability Beyond Action Prediction

arXiv:2608.22301v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans imitate at the level of intent: given a demonstration, we infer its goal and carry it out with whatever tools, objects, and layouts are at hand

Consistency Models for Fast MRI Reconstruction Using Regularization by Denoising

arXiv:2608.20561v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion models (DMs) have emerged as powerful generative priors for MRI reconstruction with promising results. Yet DM-based methods require extensiv

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Delay-corrected Bellman operator + causal attribution for constrained RL contraction proof under unknown stochastic delay [R]

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Standard constrained RL assumes consequences are immediate and attributable to the current action. This breaks down whenever violations are delayed and stochastic, which is most real-world settings yo

Learning Prostate Anatomy at Test Time for Cancer Detection in Micro-Ultrasound

arXiv:2608.20557v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Domain shift across clinical centers using different imaging hardware or acquisition protocols remains a fundamental barrier to deploying deep learning

Lift, Associate, and Fuse: A Decision-Centric Framework for 2D-to-3D Foundation Model Transfer

arXiv:2608.20659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Methods that transfer predictions from two-dimensional foundation models into three-dimensional segmentation are commonly grouped by task or representat

MV2GF: Multi-view Pedestrian Detection with a Visual Geometric Foundation Model

arXiv:2608.20639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-View Pedestrian Detection (MVPD) aims to detect pedestrians in the form of a bird's eye view map from multi-view images. Recent MVPD methods adopt

Rigorous Evaluation of Large Language Models for Malaria Drug Discovery: Trade-offs in Performance, Scale, and Resource Utility

arXiv:2608.20418v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Malaria-Instruct, a curated instruction-following dataset derived from the ChEMBL Legacy Malaria corpus for Malaria virtual screening, an

RISE: Adaptive Imagination for World Action Models

arXiv:2608.20430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) improve planning by incorporating future world evolution into action generation, yet existing methods allocate a fixed imagin

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UpgradeBench: A Decision-Centric Benchmark for Upgrading Fine-Tuned LLM Specialists

arXiv:2608.20918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Organizations maintain task-specific adapters for open-weight language models, and each new base-model release forces a migration decision: retain exist

A Standardized Framework for Machine Learning in Power System Protection

arXiv:2608.20181v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Studies of machine-learning-based power-system protection increasingly report near-perfect scores, yet the meaning of those scores depends strongly on

Tutorials

Exploiting Completeness Perception with Diffusion Transformer for Unified 3D MRI Synthesis

arXiv:2602.18400v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Missing data problems, such as missing modalities in multi-modal brain MRI and missing slices in cardiac MRI, pose significant challenges in c

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Improved Confidence Estimates for Black-Box Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.19323v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential for the safe deployment of large language models (LLMs). Existing methods, from verbalized confidence to

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Learn for Variation: Efficient AAV Trajectory Learning through a Differentiable Wireless World Model

arXiv:2603.18853v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous aerial vehicles (AAVs) enable data collection for sixth-generation Internet-of-Things networks, but their trajectories couple nonli

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Learning Hierarchical Skill Policies with Offline Quality-Diversity Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.19684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent studies investigate how to leverage pre-collected datasets to improve the policy performance and sample efficiency of RL. One promising approach

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LoRA-GA^2: Low Rank Adaptation with Multi-step Gradient Adaptive Alignment

arXiv:2608.19800v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is a prominent fine-tuning method for large models, achieving competitive performance with reduced memory overhead. However

PO-PDDL: Learning Symbolic POMDPs from Visual Demonstrations for Robot Planning Under Uncertainty

arXiv:2606.15654v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-world robot task planning must operate under both stochastic action execution and partial observability, yet constructing Partially Obser

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Robust Cross-Modal Foundation Model Perception for Underwater Robots under Degraded Visual Conditions

arXiv:2608.19710v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable underwater robotic perception remains difficult because optical imagery degrades under turbidity, wavelength-dependent attenuation, low illum

Silhouette-based Gait Foundation Model

arXiv:2512.00691v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Gait patterns play a critical role in human identification and healthcare analytics, yet current progress remains constrained by small, narrowly des

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The sense of touch is the most criminally under-explored modality in robotics. Imagine doing sleight of hand wearing thick oven mitts. That'…

The sense of touch is the most criminally under-explored modality in robotics. Imagine doing sleight of hand wearing thick oven mitts. That's exactly how a robot feels today if it were alive. A magnet

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Allocating Recurrent Compute in Looped Language Models

arXiv:2608.18230v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Looped language models improve reasoning and knowledge manipulation by applying shared computation repeatedly. Existing systems usually repeat an entire

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Mise-en-Scene: Implicit Layout Emergence in Diffusion Transformers for Human-AI Design Co-Creation

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arXiv:2608.19000v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automating graphic design synthesis from user-provided elements requires both a coherent overall composition and the exact preservation of each asset. E

SPK: Eliciting Structured Prior Knowledge for Interpretable Out-of-Distribution Detection in Real-Time Object Detection

arXiv:2608.19080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Object detectors often produce over-confident predictions for objects outside their training categories, leading to so-called out-of-distribution (OoD)

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Teeth2Point: A Two-Stage Dental CBCT ROI-to-Point Segmentation Framework

arXiv:2608.18667v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern deep learning architectures have demonstrated strong performance in dental CBCT segmentation. One remaining crucial challenge is accurate tooth l

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Uncertainty-Aware Art-Historical Dating with Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608.18984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Museum and archival datasets do not mirror historical artistic production, but materialize the contingent histories of collecting, preservation, catalog

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EATR-Stereo: Embodiment-Aware Routing of Paired Stereo Evidence for Humanoid Vision-Language-Action Control

arXiv:2608.17453v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon humanoid vision--language--action (VLA) control with head-mounted stereo cameras requires visual interfaces that can exploit complementary

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19 Aug 2026

Encoded but Not Actionable: Auditing the Decode-Generate-Steer Gap in Frozen LLMs for Geometric Constraints