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PEA-DPO: Perception-Enhanced Alignment Direct Preference Optimization for MLLMs Alignment

arXiv:2608.19598v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as an effective approach for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. However, i

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Phantom Gains: Auditing Self-Improvement Against a Measured Null

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arXiv:2608.20290v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whether a language model has improved itself is increasingly judged not by mean accuracy but by which individual problems it gains and loses. Tracking t

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PolicyGuide: From Guarding One Action to Guiding the Whole Workflow for Policy-Compliant LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.19861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Customer-service LLM agents must follow organizational policy when acting on a user's behalf. Compliance failures arise from either forbidden actions, s

Projector Is All You Train

arXiv:2608.19726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The typical training process of a multimodal large language model (MLLM) involves adapting both the language model backbone and the projector between th

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PVRA: A Pointwise Key-point Voting Framework for Robotic Assembly

arXiv:2608.19968v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern computer vision has enabled partial autonomy in robotic assembly manipulation. However, performing autonomous manipulation of a progressive ass

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Rationally Enriched Chebyshev Trunk Bases for DeepONet Surrogates of High Peclet Entrance Transport

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arXiv:2608.19658v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study demonstrates a rationally enriched Chebyshev (REC) trunk for deep operator network (DeepONet) surrogate models of singularly perturbed and hi

Reading Between the Pixels: An Inscriptive Jailbreak Attack on Text-to-Image Models

arXiv:2604.05853v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern text-to-image (T2I) models can now render legible, paragraph-length text, enabling a fundamentally new class of misuse. We identify and forma

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ReCache: Efficient KV Cache Reuse and Compression for Tool-Augmented LLM Agents

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arXiv:2608.19662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic language models repeatedly encode tool and skill schemas that recur across requests in different combinations and orders, preventing standard pr

RecPFN: Prior-Fitted Networks for In-Context-Based Recommendations

arXiv:2608.19735v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce RecPFN, a prior-fitted network that brings in-context learning to sequential recommendation. RecPFN is pretrained entirely on synthetic cli

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Reliable Financial Named Entity Recognition under Domain Shift

arXiv:2608.19558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial AI systems often train information extractors on one textual register and deploy them across filings, news, and user-generated content, while

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Represented but Ignored: A Causal Account of Prosodic Underuse in Audio-Language Models

arXiv:2608.19211v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human speech is richly expressive, with prosody carrying linguistic and emotional information beyond the lexical content. A capable large audio-langua

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RoMAN-Flow: Taming Autoregressive Normalizing Flows for Offline Reinforcement Learning in Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2608.20208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning improves robotic policies using previously collected data without further environment interaction. Yet prevalent diffusio

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Hardware

S^2GS: Structured Sparse Gaussian Streaming for Efficient Free-Viewpoint Video Reconstruction on Edge-IoT Devices

arXiv:2608.19639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Streaming reconstruction of Free-Viewpoint Videos (FVVs) supports immersive Internet of Things (IoT) services, such as telepresence and digital twin vis

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SAE-Xplainers: Rule-Based Feature Interpretation for Extreme Earth Events

arXiv:2608.20117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The emergence of large-scale Weather and Climate (W&C) datasets offers new opportunities for modeling extreme Earth events (ExEE) and their impacts usin

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SAGE-XGBoost: Spatially Augmented Graph Embeddings--Machine Learning Framework for Natural Hazards Susceptibility Mapping under Data Scarcity

arXiv:2608.19672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural hazard susceptibility mapping is often constrained by limited labeled data, reducing the generalizability of conventional machine learning and l

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Scientific Data Skills: Enabling Agent-Ready Scientific Data Services at Scale

arXiv:2608.19625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific data are increasingly used by AI agents, yet existing dataset representations provide limited support for autonomous discovery, interpretatio

StreamSoccer: Event-Driven Memory for Streaming Soccer Commentary

arXiv:2608.19723v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Streaming video understanding requires models to causally update state as video arrives and organize growing history into semantic units that can evol

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Swift-Image: Exploring the Performance Frontier of Compact Unified Image Generation Models

arXiv:2608.20334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Swift-Image, a compact unified model for text-to-image generation, single-image editing, and multi-image editing. Our goal is to explore how

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SwipeGen: Bridging the Execution Gap in GUI Agents via Human-like Swipe Synthesis

arXiv:2601.18305v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite numerous Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents claiming to automate user interaction tasks, to date, few achieve satisfactory interaction ca

Table2Image: Lightweight Tabular Learning with Generated Proxy Representations and Reliability Diagnostics

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arXiv:2412.06265v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep tabular models should ideally balance predictive performance, parameter efficiency, and robustness to imperfect learning signals---properties t

TCP_alpha: Margin-Controlled Confidence estimation for reliable Music Information Retrieval

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arXiv:2608.20326v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep neural networks are often overconfident, assigning high confidence even to incorrect predictions. Consequently, users lack a reliable signal for

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TESTNAV: Pareto-Guided Search for Compositional Robustness Testing

arXiv:2608.19882v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning models remain vulnerable to real-world input perturbations, especially when multiple corruptions co-occur in the same input (e.g., brightn

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TextRefine: Improving Textual Fidelity, Spatial Placement, and Glyph Rendering for Text Editing in Product Posters

arXiv:2608.19637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text editing in product posters entails inserting new text or replacing existing text while preserving product appearance, background content, and globa

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The Verification Gap in Networked Physical AI: A Post-Semantic Communication Framework

arXiv:2608.19593v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A task-effective proposal is not yet a justified physical action. In networked Physical AI, a proposal may be understood while valid, timely, proposal-b

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Agents

Toward Greater Autonomy in Materials Discovery Agents: Unifying Planning, Physics, and Scientists

arXiv:2506.05616v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We aim at designing language agents with greater autonomy for crystal materials discovery. While most of existing studies restrict the agents to per

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Towards Audio Token Compression in Large Audio Language Models

arXiv:2511.20973v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) deliver strong performance across speech and audio tasks, but their audio encoders generate high-rate toke

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Towards Clinically Faithful Medical Image Captioning via Enhanced Vision-Language Alignment

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arXiv:2608.19825v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical image captioning is a technique that accelerates early-stage diagnostic workflows and enhances the interpretability of medical diagnostic AI s

Towards Efficient Pareto Set Approximation via Mixture of Experts Based Model Fusion

arXiv:2406.09770v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Solving multi-objective optimization problems for large deep neural networks is a challenging task due to the complexity of the loss landscape

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Transformer Models for Text Summarization: A Comparative Study of BART, BERT, and RoBERTa

arXiv:2608.19200v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text summarization refers to the task of condensing a document into a shorter version while preserving its key information. Automatic text summarizati

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UAV-Based Infrastructure Inspections: A Literature Review and Proposed Framework for AEC+FM

arXiv:2601.11665v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are transforming infrastructure inspections in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Facility Management

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Unsupervised Anomaly Detection Using Flow Matching on Tabular Data

arXiv:2608.19801v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial anomaly detection often relies on large unlabeled transaction logs, where anomalous samples may already be present during training. Such train

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Unwarping the Lens: A Physics-Grounded Approach to Video Glasses Removal

arXiv:2608.20212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-fidelity removal of eyeglasses from video is a major challenge in facial attribute editing, as the underlying facial geometry is often obscured by

Virtual Sensing to Enable Real-Time Monitoring of Inaccessible Locations & Unmeasurable Parameters

arXiv:2412.00107v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-time monitoring of safety-critical interior states is an open problem across energy, environmental and industrial systems where direct in

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VQC-ZTI: Variational Quantum Control for Zero Trust Protection of the Tactile Internet

arXiv:2608.18572v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tactile Internet services couple cyber events directly to physical actuation, so security decisions must improve risk discrimination without perturbin

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Applications

When Machines Speak: A Unified Generative Framework for Integrating Machine-Native Symbols into Pretrained Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.19529v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many real-world AI systems represent entities, behaviors, and structured information using discrete machine-native symbols rather than natural languag

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When to Retrain: An Empirical Study of Retraining Policies for Streaming ML Under Concept Drift, Budget, and Latency Constraints

arXiv:2608.19488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Production machine learning systems degrade under concept drift, yet practitioners have little principled guidance on when to retrain. Retraining is cos

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Where Grounding Accuracy Lives on the IoU Curve: Label-Free Inference-Time Boundary Refinement

arXiv:2608.19553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision--language models can identify the correct referent while returning an imprecise bounding box. We study whether a frozen direct-answer model can u

Why Can't I See My Clusters? A Precision-Recall Approach to Dimensionality Reduction Validation

arXiv:2509.04222v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Dimensionality Reduction (DR) is widely used for visualizing high-dimensional data, often with the goal of revealing expected cluster structure. How

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World-Model-Grounded LLM Planning for AUV and ASV Navigation Near Offshore Wind Farms

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arXiv:2608.19661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models can turn a natural-language mission into a sequence of robot actions, but they do not have a sense of physics: they cannot judge h

XDen-1K: A Density Field Dataset of Real-World Objects

arXiv:2512.10668v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A deep understanding of the physical world is essential for robotic manipulation and physically realistic simulation. While current methods, includi

Your Turn: At Home Turning Angle Estimation for Parkinson's Disease Severity Assessment

arXiv:2408.08182v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: People with Parkinson's Disease (PD) often experience progressively worsening gait, including changes in how they turn around, as the disease

A Configurable Privacy-Preserving MRI Processing Workflow Using Deep Learning-Based Brain Extraction and Adaptive Anatomical Preservation

arXiv:2608.18316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is widely used in neuroimaging research and clinical practice, but structural MRI volumes may retain facial

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A Critical Synthesis of Uncertainty Quantification and Foundation Models for Semantic Segmentation

arXiv:2608.18709v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models are increasingly breaking what seemed to be impossible not long ago by enabling unprecedented accuracy and cross-domain generalizati

A Few Cases Are All You Need: An Empirical Study of Annotation-Efficient LoRA Fine-Tuning of MedSAM3

arXiv:2608.18731v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical image segmentation is essential for clinical workflows such as treatment planning and disease assessment. While specialist tools like TotalSeg

A Framework and Prototype for a Navigable Map of Datasets in Engineering Design and Systems Engineering

arXiv:2603.15722v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The proliferation of data across the system lifecycle presents both a significant opportunity and a challenge for Engineering Design and Syste

A single design choice determines whether machine learning models of materials make physically impossible predictions

arXiv:2608.18714v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine-learned models are replacing first-principles calculations across materials discovery, and physical symmetry is the central guarantee built in

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A Task-Agnostic Control Strategy for Dynamic Assistance with Pneumatically Actuated Soft Exosuits

arXiv:2608.18364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pneumatic artificial muscles have provided new opportunities to develop upper-extremity soft exosuits for reha- bilitation, augmentation, and assisted d

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Agents

Adaptive Memory and Reflection Multi-Agent System for Medical Question Answering

arXiv:2608.19029v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate and responsible medical question answering (QA) is important in healthcare, where complex cases require factual knowledge and nuanced reasoning

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