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User-Aware Active Knowledge Acquisition for Emotional Support Dialogue

arXiv:2605.29715v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emotional support plays an important role in dialogue systems, and its success depends on adapting to a user's evolving and implicit needs across multi-

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VE2VF: Vision-Enabled to Vision-Free Distillation via Real-world Reinforcement Learning for Robust Contact-Rich Manipulation

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arXiv:2605.29564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When using reinforcement learning (RL) for contact-rich robotic manipulation, vision can provide task-relevant information that accelerates learning bey

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Agents

VikingMem: A Memory Base Management System for Stateful LLM-based Applications

arXiv:2605.29640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models have revolutionized interactive applications; however, their finite context windows pose a critical data management challenge for

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VitalAgent: A Tool-Augmented Agent for Reactive and Proactive Physiological Monitoring over Wearable Health Data

arXiv:2605.29483v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wearable devices enable continuous monitoring of physiological signals such as ECG and PPG, but existing mHealth systems are largely limited to task-spe

VLAConf: Calibrated Task-Success Confidence for Vision-Language-Action Models

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arXiv:2605.29605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Confidence estimation for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models is essential for robots to perform manipulation tasks in the open world, providing crucial

VPG: Visual Prefix Guidance for Autoregressive Image and Video Generation

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arXiv:2605.30317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive image and video generators are trained with teacher-forced histories but must sample from their own generated prefixes at inference time,

WASHH: An Anchor-Aware Whale-Guided Selection Hyper-Heuristic for Continuous Optimization and SVC Configuration

arXiv:2605.28844v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning-assisted algorithm design often has to make reliable search decisions under small evaluation budgets, where committing to a single metaheuris

When LLM Reward Design Fails: Diagnostic-Driven Refinement for Sparse Structured RL

arXiv:2605.28918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For sparse, structured reinforcement-learning tasks with semantic reward-function interfaces, LLM-generated reward shaping is better framed as debugging

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When Models Learn to Ask Why: Adaptive Causal Reasoning for Trustworthy Medical Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2603.23085v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have enabled interpretable medical diagnosis by integrating visual perception with linguistic reasoning. Yet, existing

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When Should a Robot Think? Resource-Aware Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning for Embodied Robotic Decision-Making

arXiv:2603.16673v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Embodied robotic systems increasingly rely on large language model (LLM)-based agents to support high-level reasoning, planning, and decision-

When Should Models Change Their Minds? Contextual Belief Management in Large Language Models

arXiv:2605.30219v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon interactions require language models to manage accumulating information: when to update their state, when to preserve their state, and what

Who can we trust? LLM-as-a-jury for Comparative Assessment

arXiv:2602.16610v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied as automatic evaluators for natural language generation assessment often using pairwise

World Models in Words: Auditing Physical State-Transition Commitments in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2605.29585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used to answer questions about physical scenes, yet most evaluations reduce performance to a final answer

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WorldMemArena: Evaluating Multimodal Agent Memory Through Action-World Interaction

arXiv:2605.29341v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models are increasingly deployed as long-horizon agents, where memory must do more than recall: it must track an evolving wo

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X-GS: An Extensible Framework for Perceiving and Thinking via 3D Gaussian Splatting

arXiv:2603.09632v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a powerful technique for novel view synthesis, subsequently extending into numerous spatial AI app

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Xetrieval: Mechanistically Explaining Dense Retrieval

arXiv:2605.29507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Explaining why dense retrievers assign high relevance scores remains challenging because retrieval decisions are made through opaque high-dimensional em

A Bayesian Nonparametric Perspective on Mahalanobis Distance for Out of Distribution Detection

arXiv:2502.08695v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bayesian nonparametric methods are naturally suited to the problem of out-of-distribution (OOD) detection. However, these techniques have larg

A Broader View of Thompson Sampling

arXiv:2510.07208v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Thompson Sampling is one of the most widely used and studied bandit algorithms, known for its simple structure, low regret performance, and solid th

A Fixed-Budget, Cluster-Aware Standard for LLM-as-a-Judge Evaluation: A Multi-Hop RAG Stress Test

arXiv:2605.27789v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems are often compared by asking a large language model (LLM) judge which answer is better. For multi-hop RAG,

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A Generalized Tikhonov Layer for Interpretable-by-design Graph Neural Networks

arXiv:2605.28578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose the Tikhonov layer, a graph neural network layer that is interpretable by design: once trained, its learned parameters directly reveal which

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ABot-OCR Technical Report

arXiv:2605.27978v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce ABot-OCR, an end-to-end vision-language model that transcribes a page image directly into clean Markdown in a single forward pass. By doing

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Adversarial Fine-tuning of Compressed Neural Networks for Joint Improvement of Robustness and Efficiency

arXiv:2403.09441v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As deep learning (DL) models are increasingly being integrated into our everyday lives, ensuring their safety by making them robust against adversar

AdvJudge-Zero: Binary Decision Flips in LLM-as-a-Judge via Adversarial Control Tokens

arXiv:2512.17375v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM-as-a-Judge systems supply the reward signal in modern RLHF and RLVR pipelines, but their binary verdict reduces to a single linear readout

ADWIN: Adaptive Windows for Horizon-Aware On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2605.28396v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) transfers reasoning behavior by training a student on teacher feedback along student-generated trajectories, but standard

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Agent Explorative Policy Optimization for Multimodal Agentic Reasoning

arXiv:2605.28774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models with extended reasoning succeed on complex problems, but many real-world problems require external tools that internal reasoning

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Agents that Matter: Optimizing Multi-Agent LLMs via Removal-Based Attribution

arXiv:2605.27621v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As multi-agent systems (MAS) become increasingly complex, identifying the contributions of individual agents is critical for system optimization. Howe

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AlphaTransit: Learning to Design City-scale Transit Routes

arXiv:2605.28730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Designing a transit network requires many sequential route extension decisions, but their quality is often visible only after the full network is assemb

An Enhanced Large Neighborhood Search Approach for the Capacitated Facility Location Problem with Incompatible Customers

arXiv:2605.28337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A new variant of the classic capacitated facility location problem, which considers incompatibilities between customers, has recently been introduced in

Announcing the newest cohort of the Google for Startups Accelerator: Middle East, North Africa & Turkey

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Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible. In high-growth, technically ambitious markets like the Middle East, North Africa, and Türkiye (MENA-T), we f

Anomaly as Non-Conformity via Training-Free Graph Laplacian Energy Minimization

arXiv:2605.28428v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Detecting subtle visual anomalies in images remains challenging, particularly when only normal samples are available a priori. Such unsupervised anoma

AOE: Exhaustive Out-of-Distribution Detection via Recalibrating Outlier Labels

arXiv:2605.28021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is essential for deploying machine learning models in open-world and safety-critical scenarios, where test inputs ma

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Are Large Pre-trained Vision Language Models Effective Construction Safety Inspectors?

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arXiv:2508.11011v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Construction safety inspections typically involve a human inspector identifying safety concerns on-site. With the rise of powerful Vision Language M

Ariel-ML: Computing Parallelization with Embedded Rust for Neural Networks on Heterogeneous Multi-core Microcontrollers

arXiv:2512.09800v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Low-power microcontroller (MCU) hardware is currently evolving from single-core architectures to predominantly multi-core architectures. In parallel

Asking Is Not Enough: Protocol Sensitivity in LLM Confidence Calibration

arXiv:2605.27752v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM confidence calibration is often evaluated by comparing two signals: token-probability scores and verbalized confidence. These signals are sometimes

Asynchronous Remote Sensing Time-Series Fusion for Cloud Removal and Anytime Reconstruction

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arXiv:2605.27726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frequent cloud cover severely limits the usability of Sentinel-2 (S2) optical time series for Earth surface monitoring. Sentinel-1 (S1) SAR provides all

AsyncTool: Evaluating the Asynchronous Function Calling Capability under Multi-Task Scenarios

arXiv:2605.27995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based agents have shown strong capabilities in using external tools to solve complex tasks. However, existing evaluations oft

ATLAS: All-round Testing of Long-context Abilities across Scales

arXiv:2605.28079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context language models now advertise context windows up to millions of tokens, yet evaluations typically report a single length or a narrow task f

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Automatic Pruning Discovery for Large Language Models

arXiv:2511.15390v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance on a wide range of tasks, hindering real-world deployment due to their massive siz

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BEAR: Budgeted Evidence Allocation for Multi-Document Reasoning

arXiv:2601.18116v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We argue that multi-document reasoning is constrained not only by how much text a model can read, but also by how limited query-time evidence budget

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Better Accuracies, Worse Reasoning: A Step-Level Audit of Medical Chain-of-Thought Distillation

arXiv:2605.28301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) distillation trains a smaller model to imitate a teacher's reasoning trace, but it is typically evaluated by final-answer metrics

Beyond Binary Moral Judgment: Modeling Ethical Pluralism in AI

arXiv:2605.28707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Critical decision-making in socially consequential spaces is increasingly involving AI systems at varying capacities. Yet, despite the ubiquity of auton

Beyond Chunk-Local Extraction: Cross-Chunk Graph Augmentation for GraphRAG

arXiv:2605.28004v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GraphRAG extends retrieval-augmented generation by organizing corpora as explicit knowledge graphs, enabling graph-based retrieval for complex question

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Beyond One Path: Evaluating and Enhancing Divergent Thinking in Interactive LLM Agents

arXiv:2605.28465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Divergent thinking is a core dimension of creativity, yet existing evaluations of Large Language Models (LLMs) treat them as single-turn text generation

Beyond Surrogate Gradients: Fully Differentiable Token Pruning for Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2605.28051v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual token pruning reduces the computational cost of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) by removing redundant visual tokens. Existing methods typically rel

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Bilinear Coordinate Alignment for Training-Free Task-Vector Transfer

arXiv:2605.28444v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning large-scale pre-trained models is a recent prevalent paradigm for adapting general representations to specialized tasks. However, when a new

Bio-Inspired Self-Supervised Learning for Wrist-worn Accelerometer Data

arXiv:2603.10961v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Wearable accelerometers enable large-scale health monitoring, yet learning robust human-activity representations has been constrained by scarce labe

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BioELX: Cross-lingual Biomedical Entity Linking via Alias-based Retrieval and LLM Ranking

arXiv:2605.27380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-lingual biomedical entity linking (BEL) maps mentions in any language to unique identifiers in a biomedical knowledge base (KB), supporting clin

BIRDNet: Mining and Encoding Boolean Implication Knowledge Graphs as Interpretable Deep Neural Networks

arXiv:2605.28739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tabular data in knowledge-rich domains often carries a latent prior in the form of Boolean implication relationships (BIRs) between pairs of features.