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Less Noise, More Voice: Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning via Instruction Purification

arXiv:2601.21244v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has advanced LLM reasoning, but remains constrained by inefficient exploration under lim

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Leveraging Large Language Models for Sarcastic Speech Annotation in Sarcasm Detection

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arXiv:2506.00955v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sarcasm fundamentally alters meaning through tone and context, yet detecting it in speech remains a challenge due to data scarcity. In addition, exi

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Loneliness in older adults can often lead to memory impairment

A major European study tracking over 10,000 people aged 65-94 for seven years found that lonely older adults performed worse on initial memory tests, though their memory declined at the same rate as t

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LookasideVLN: Direction-Aware Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation

arXiv:2604.17190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation (Aerial VLN) enables unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to follow natural language instructions and navigate complex

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MeasHalu: Mitigation of Scientific Measurement Hallucinations for Large Language Models with Enhanced Reasoning

arXiv:2604.16929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The accurate extraction of scientific measurements from literature is a critical yet challenging task in AI4Science, enabling large-scale analysis and i

Meta is installing tracking software on US staffers' computers to capture mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes in work-related apps for use in AI training (Reuters)

Reuters: Meta is installing tracking software on US staffers' computers to capture mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes in work-related apps for use in AI training — Meta (META.O) is installing new

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Mind the Way You Select Negative Texts: Pursuing the Distance Consistency in OOD Detection with VLMs

arXiv:2603.02618v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection seeks to identify samples from unknown classes, a critical capability for deploying machine learning models in o

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MM-Hand: A 21-DOF Multi-modal Modular Dexterous Robotic Hand with Remote Actuation

arXiv:2604.17245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-DOF dexterous hands require compact actuation, rich sensing, and reliable thermal behavior, but conventional designs often occupy valuable in-hand

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// Multi-Agent Synthesis RAG // Nice paper on improving RAG systems with multiple agents. (bookmark it) The paper introduces MASS-RAG, a mul…

// Multi-Agent Synthesis RAG // Nice paper on improving RAG systems with multiple agents. (bookmark it) The paper introduces MASS-RAG, a multi-agent synthesis framework for retrieval-augmented generat

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Multilevel neural networks with dual-stage feature fusion for human activity recognition

arXiv:2604.16577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human activity recognition (HAR) refers to the process of identifying human actions and activities using data collected from sensors. Neural networks, s

Multimodal Policy Internalization for Conversational Agents

arXiv:2510.09474v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern conversational agents like ChatGPT and Alexa+ rely on predefined policies specifying metadata, response styles, and tool-usage rules. As thes

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NaviFormer: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Transformer-like Model to Holistically Solve the Navigation Problem

arXiv:2604.16967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Path planning is usually solved by addressing either the (high-level) route planning problem (waypoint sequencing to achieve the final goal) or the (low

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Navigating Distribution Shifts in Medical Image Analysis: A Survey

arXiv:2411.05824v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Medical Image Analysis (MedIA) has become indispensable in modern healthcare, enhancing clinical diagnostics and personalized treatment. Despi

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Neighbor Embedding for High-Dimensional Sparse Poisson Data

arXiv:2604.16932v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Across many scientific fields, measurements often represent the number of times an event occurs. For example, a document can be represented by word oc

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NTIRE 2026 Rip Current Detection and Segmentation (RipDetSeg) Challenge Report

arXiv:2604.17070v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This report presents the NTIRE 2026 Rip Current Detection and Segmentation (RipDetSeg) Challenge, which targets automatic rip current understanding in i

OPeRA: A Dataset of Observation, Persona, Rationale, and Action for Evaluating LLMs on Human Online Shopping Behavior Simulation

arXiv:2506.05606v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Can large language models (LLMs) accurately simulate the next web action of a specific user? While LLMs have shown promising capabilities in generat

Operationalizing Fairness in Text-to-Image Models: A Survey of Bias, Fairness Audits and Mitigation Strategies

arXiv:2604.16516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-Image (T2I) generation models have been widely adopted across various industries, yet are criticized for frequently exhibiting societal stereoty

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OptunaHub: A Platform for Black-Box Optimization

arXiv:2510.02798v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Black-box optimization (BBO) underpins advances in domains such as AutoML and Materials Informatics, yet implementations of algorithms and benchmark

PBSBench: A Multi-Level Vision-Language Framework and Benchmark for Hematopathology Whole Slide Image Interpretation

arXiv:2604.17570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Peripheral Blood Smear (PBS) is a critical microscopic examination in hematopathology that yields whole-slide imaging (WSI). Unlike solid tissue patholo

people compared GPT-5.4's solution of erdos #1196 to alphago's move 37 but i think a tighter analogy is to alphago's unusual (at the time) p…

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people compared GPT-5.4's solution of erdos #1196 to alphago's move 37 but i think a tighter analogy is to alphago's unusual (at the time) preferences for the 3-3 opening and early 3-3 invasion agains

PFDelta: A Benchmark Dataset for Power Flow under Load, Generation, and Topology Variations

arXiv:2510.22048v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Power flow (PF) calculations are the backbone of real-time grid operations, across workflows such as contingency analysis (where repeated PF evaluat

PlanViz: Evaluating Planning-Oriented Image Generation and Editing for Computer-Use Tasks

arXiv:2602.06663v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) have shown impressive capabilities in generating natural images and supporting multimodal reasoning. However, their

Plasticity Loss in Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Survey

arXiv:2411.04832v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Plasticity refers to a network's ability to adapt to changing data distributions, which is crucial for the successful training of deep reinfor

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PrefixMemory-Tuning: Modernizing Prefix-Tuning by Decoupling the Prefix from Attention

arXiv:2506.13674v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods have become crucial for rapidly adapting large language models (LLMs) to downstream tasks. Prefix-Tun

Pulse Shape Discrimination Algorithms: Survey and Benchmark

arXiv:2508.02750v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This review presents a comprehensive survey and benchmark of pulse shape discrimination (PSD) algorithms for radiation detection, classifying nearly

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PyEPO: A PyTorch-based End-to-End Predict-then-Optimize Library for Linear and Integer Programming

arXiv:2206.14234v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In deterministic optimization, it is typically assumed that all problem parameters are fixed and known. In practice, however, some parameters

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R3D2: Realistic 3D Asset Insertion via Diffusion for Autonomous Driving Simulation

arXiv:2506.07826v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Validating autonomous driving (AD) systems requires diverse and safety-critical testing, making photorealistic virtual environments essential. Tradi

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Really excited for this week! Next up, we've got something to show you at 12 pm PT today.

Sam Altman announced on X that OpenAI had something to reveal at 12 pm PT on a specific day, generating anticipation about an upcoming product announcement or demonstration. The post suggests a schedu

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ReasonEmbed: Enhanced Text Embeddings for Reasoning-Intensive Document Retrieval

arXiv:2510.08252v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we introduce ReasonEmbed, a novel text embedding model developed for reasoning-intensive document retrieval. Our work includes

Rethinking Meeting Effectiveness: A Benchmark and Framework for Temporal Fine-grained Automatic Meeting Effectiveness Evaluation

arXiv:2604.17260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating meeting effectiveness is crucial for improving organizational productivity. Current approaches rely on post-hoc surveys that yield a single c

ReTrack: Evidence-Driven Dual-Stream Directional Anchor Calibration Network for Composed Video Retrieval

arXiv:2604.17898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid growth of video data, Composed Video Retrieval (CVR) has emerged as a novel paradigm in video retrieval and is receiving increasing atten

R&F-Inventory: A Large-Scale Dataset for Monotonic Inventory Estimation in Reach and Frequency Advertising

arXiv:2604.16821v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reach and Frequency (R&F) contract advertising is an important form of widely used brand advertising. Unlike performance advertising, R&F contracts emph

Same Claim, Different Judgment: Benchmarking Scenario-Induced Bias in Multilingual Financial Misinformation Detection

arXiv:2601.05403v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have been widely applied across various domains of finance. Since their training data are largely derived from human-au

SciDraw-6K: A Multilingual Scientific Illustration Dataset Generated by Google Gemini

arXiv:2604.17206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present SciDraw-6K, a curated dataset of 6,291 scientific illustrations synthesized by Google Gemini image-generation models, each paired with prompt

StealthGraph: Exposing Domain-Specific Risks in LLMs through Knowledge-Graph-Guided Harmful Prompt Generation

arXiv:2601.04740v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied in specialized domains such as finance and healthcare, where they introduce unique safety risk

Structure-Aware Diversity Pursuit as an AI Safety Strategy against Homogenization

arXiv:2601.06116v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative AI models reproduce the biases in the training data and can further amplify them through mode collapse. We refer to the resulting h

The Impact of Off-Policy Training Data on Probe Generalisation

arXiv:2511.17408v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Probing has emerged as a promising method for monitoring large language models (LLMs), enabling cheap inference-time detection of concerning b

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The Landscape of Agentic Reinforcement Learning for LLMs: A Survey

arXiv:2509.02547v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The emergence of agentic reinforcement learning (Agentic RL) marks a paradigm shift from conventional reinforcement learning applied to large

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Thinking… Generating… Livestreaming… https://openai.com/live/

OpenAI announced a live event showcasing new capabilities or features, likely including extended thinking, content generation, and livestreaming functionalities. The event demonstrated how these featu

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Toward Reusability of AI Models Using Dynamic Updates of AI Documentation

arXiv:2604.17626v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work addresses the challenge of disseminating reusable artificial intelligence (AI) models accompanied by AI documentation (a.k.a., AI model card

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Towards a Foundation-Model Paradigm for Aerodynamic Prediction in Three-dimensional Design

arXiv:2604.18062v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate machine-learning models for aerodynamic prediction are essential for accelerating shape optimization, yet remain challenging to develop for com

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Towards Real-World Document Parsing via Realistic Scene Synthesis and Document-Aware Training

arXiv:2603.23885v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Document parsing has recently advanced with multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that directly map document images to structured outputs. Tradit

TransXion: A High-Fidelity Graph Benchmark for Realistic Anti-Money Laundering

arXiv:2604.17420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Money laundering poses severe risks to global financial systems, driving the widespread adoption of machine learning for transaction monitoring. However

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UniDomain: Pretraining a Unified PDDL Domain from Real-World Demonstrations for Generalizable Robot Task Planning

arXiv:2507.21545v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic task planning in real-world environments requires reasoning over implicit constraints from language and vision. While LLMs and VLMs offer st

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VIDS: A Verified Imaging Dataset Standard for Medical AI

arXiv:2604.17525v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical imaging AI development is fundamentally dependent on annotated datasets, yet no existing standard provides machine-enforceable validation acro

We are entering an extremely exciting era for open-weight models. Kimi K2.6 now feels like a top agentic model. I took it for a spin via @Fi…

We are entering an extremely exciting era for open-weight models. Kimi K2.6 now feels like a top agentic model. I took it for a spin via @FireworksAI_HQ fast inference APIs. Kimi K2.6 has impressive a

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WeatherArchive-Bench: Benchmarking Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for Historical Weather Archives

arXiv:2510.05336v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Historical archives on weather events are collections of enduring primary source records that offer rich, untapped narratives of how societies have

When Pretty Isn't Useful: Investigating Why Modern Text-to-Image Models Fail as Reliable Training Data Generators

arXiv:2602.19946v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models produce visually stunning images and demonstrate excellent prompt following. But do they perform well as