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ChildSafeAds Shared Task 2026: Commercial Content in Child-Facing YouTube Videos

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arXiv:2608.19165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: ChildSafeAds is a shared task on commercial content in YouTube videos likely to reach children and teenagers. It contains 3,360 videos from 939 channels

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Clinically Structured Surrogate Rewards for Post-SFT Medical Image Captioning

arXiv:2608.18654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical image captioning requires translating heterogeneous visual evidence into concise clinical descriptions, where errors in findings, assertion stat

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ClosureBench: A Constructive Benchmark for Compositional Graph Reasoning

arXiv:2608.18242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce ClosureBench, a constructive benchmark for compositional graph-relational reasoning with programmatically verified ground truth. Unlike fix

Comment-level Topic Drift Analysis in the Reddit Corpus

arXiv:2608.19133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a novel application of embedding-based dynamic topic modeling techniques to detect and quantify topic drift at the comment level in a massive

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Communications-Aware NMPC for Multi-Rotor Aerial Relay Networks Under Jamming Interference

arXiv:2603.28467v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles (MRAVs) are increasingly used in communication-dependent missions where connectivity loss directly compromises task exec

Competence, Not Accuracy: A Diagnostic for Reference-Free Judge Gates in Skill Optimization

arXiv:2608.18719v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-space skill optimization adapts a frozen agent by evolving a natural-language skill document, accepting each candidate through a validation gate. E

Compress and Forget: bitsandbytes Quantization Amplifies Proactive Interference in LLMs

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arXiv:2608.18578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Proactive interference (PI) is a documented failure mode in large language models in which retrieval of a repeatedly overwritten value degrades as prior

Computational Measurement of Team-Process Phase Dynamics in Collaborative Virtual Reality

arXiv:2608.18660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative virtual reality (VR) environments make team communication observable as it unfolds, but conventional transcript analyses often summarize e

Computational Orientalism: Measuring Structural Discourse Bias in Large Language Models Using the Middle East Cultural Sensitivity Score (MECSS)

arXiv:2608.18100v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI systems now shape how hundreds of millions of people learn about cultures other than their own. When someone asks one of these systems about the Mi

Counterfactual Contrastive Analysis

arXiv:2608.19032v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual Counterfactual Explanations (VCEs) aim to explain image classifiers by generating minimally edited and realistic versions of an input image tha

DA-WAM: Decision-Aligned Future Latents for Driving World Models

arXiv:2608.19085v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Anticipating how scenes evolve under ego actions is fundamental to safe autonomous driving, yet the full potential of world models for decision-making

DeepWeaver: Bridging the Evidence Synthesis Gap in Open-Ended Question Answering

arXiv:2608.18988v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieve-then-generate pipelines are commonly used to produce deep-research answers for open-ended questions, but retrieval alone is insufficient: LLM

DevGRU: Depth-guided Visual Navigation using a Collision-aware Recurrent Model

arXiv:2608.18470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing visual navigation models often aim to develop foundation models that can generalize robot navigation across diverse platforms. However, many of

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Dream2Reward: Transition-Alignment Reward Models from Positive Demonstrations for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2608.18787v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning robotic policies requires dense rewards that remain informative when behavior departs from successful demonstrations. Progress-based rewards es

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Dynamic SpectraFormer for Ultra-High-Definition Underwater Image Enhancement

arXiv:2608.18662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Underwater images suffer from color distortion, haze, and poor visibility due to light refraction and absorption in water. These challenges significantl

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Efficient Adaptation of LLMs for Hate Speech Detection in Low-Resource Languages: A Comparative Study on Roman Urdu

arXiv:2608.18142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: It is challenging to detect hate speech in Low Resource Languages (LRLs) because of the absence of annotated data, the informality of its language struc

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EfficientSync: Real-Time Lip Synchronization via Deformation-Based Reference Texture Mixing

arXiv:2608.18832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Audio-driven lip synchronization manipulates the mouth region of a talking-face video to match the driving audio while preserving head pose, identity, a

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Engineering Psychological Safety in Autonomous Vehicles: A Systems-Theoretic Framework for Psychological Safety in Autonomous Vehicles and its Validation in Real-World Scenarios

arXiv:2608.18778v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite rapid technological advances, the societal acceptability of autonomous vehicles (AVs) remains limited by psychological barriers that extend be

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EVADE: Evidence-Verified Agentic Diagnosis with Escape

arXiv:2608.18833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical vision-language models (VLMs) can achieve high accuracy but remain unreliable: they are systematically overconfident, benefit little from test-t

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FACET: Preserving Source Intent and Executable State in Terminal Task Synthesis

arXiv:2608.18580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training terminal agents requires scalable executable supervision, yet synthesizing high-quality terminal tasks remains challenging. Each task couples a

FD-CanKD: Frequency-Decoupled Cross-Attention Distillation as a Refinement Prior for Compact Object Detectors

arXiv:2608.18590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compact object detectors are suitable for resource-constrained visual perception, but their limited representation capacity creates an accuracy gap rela

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FiLoRA: Focus-and-Ignore LoRA for Controllable Feature Reliance

arXiv:2602.02060v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal foundation models integrate heterogeneous signals across modalities, yet it remains unclear whether their predictions can be contro

FinRCA-Bench: Benchmarking Evidence Retrieval and Reasoning for Financial AI Systems

arXiv:2608.18534v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used to support financial operations, but their apparent reasoning performance can depend on whether they receive

FlashAttention for Scalable Vector Architectures

arXiv:2608.18656v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inference with transformer models on CPUs is increasingly important, especially for Small Language Models (SLMs), where vector architectures are emergin

FRAGMENT: Factorized Graph Representations for Document Generation and Editing via Entity-Aware Transformations

arXiv:2608.18679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured documents such as invoices, forms, reports, and scientific articles derive meaning from the interplay between spatial layout, textual content

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From Storage to Access: Verifiable Activation of Parametric Knowledge in LLMs via Explicit Priming and Implicit Reasoning

arXiv:2608.18581v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although Large Language Models (LLMs) encode rich factual knowledge in their parameters, reliably recalling and verifying such knowledge remains a key

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From Threat Intelligence to Detection: Knowledge-driven Enrichment and Template-based Rule Grounding for Automated Sigma Rule Generation

arXiv:2608.19011v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mechanisms for dynamically converting cyber threat intelligence (CTI) into actionable detection capabilities are necessary due to the rapid evolution

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GAPL: Grounded Action-effect Policy Learning for LLM-Based Trajectory Planning

arXiv:2608.18254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trajectory planning for autonomous driving requires both high-level reasoning and precise low-level control. Large Language Models (LLMs) offer semantic

Geometric Data Perturbation with Noisy-Anchor Alignment for Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Learning

arXiv:2608.18749v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Geometric Data Perturbation (GDP) enables one-shot, privacy-preserving collaborative learning: each participant applies a distance-preserving transforma

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Geometric Iterative Retrieval for Neural Audio Codec Resynthesis

arXiv:2608.19141v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural audio codecs based on Residual Vector Quantization (RVQ) have become the dominant discrete representation for token-based general audio generat

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Agents

Harness Continual Learning: Continual Adaptation Beyond Model Parameters

arXiv:2608.19013v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual learning has largely been model-centric, treating model parameters as the state that changes with sequential experience. Modern agents can a

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Human-Centric Intelligence in the Era of Foundation Models: A Survey

arXiv:2608.18184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-centric intelligence is evolving in the foundation-model era, with growing emphasis on scale, transferability, and general-purpose modeling. Yet i

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Identifying Implicit Premises for Logical Reconstruction of Argument Graphs

arXiv:2608.18821v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The logical reconstruction of argument graphs from natural language text is challenging because of the prevalence of enthymemes (i.e., arguments with

Improving Natural-Language Combinatorial-Optimization Accuracy in Resource-Constrained Language Models via Formal Abstractions

arXiv:2608.18409v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Combinatorial scheduling poses a significant challenge for language models, requiring them to identify feasible solutions within exponentially large sea

Institutional Newspapers Pipeline: Deriving billions of high quality tokens from historical newspapers

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arXiv:2608.18972v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Historical newspapers are an abundant record of public life, but their dense, irregular and sometimes noisy layouts make computational access to these m

Interpretable AI predicts a 2026 summer dry anomaly in central China

arXiv:2608.19163v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Seasonal precipitation anomalies are largely regulated by atmospheric circulation, which dynamical models predict with greater reliability than precip

Large Language Model for Verilog Code Generation: Literature Review and the Road Ahead

arXiv:2512.00020v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Code generation has emerged as a critical research area at the intersection of Software Engineering (SE) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), att

Applications

Large Language Models in Mental Health: A Systematic Review of Applications, Innovations, and Ethical Challenges

arXiv:2608.18080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a review on the applications of large language models (LLMs) in health, e.g., social media analysis, clinical conversational agents, therapy

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Looped Language Models Improve Compositional Tool Calling

arXiv:2608.18171v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Looped language models have shown promising results on reasoning benchmarks, yet their potential for agentic tool use remains largely unexplored. We stu

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Lost in Aggregation: How Benchmarks Overlook Irreplaceable Model Strengths

arXiv:2608.18919v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular machine learning benchmarks typically summarize performance by averaging scores, ranks, or pairwise wins across datasets. Such aggregates are us

LT-Mem: Volatility-Aware Spatio-Temporal Memory for Lifelong Scene Understanding

arXiv:2608.19059v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term robot operation in evolving environments requires object-level understanding that persists across repeated revisits. Existing systems either

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Many Optimizers But Only One Training Path: Repeated Resampling for Adaptive Optimizer Selection

arXiv:2608.18810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An optimizer is usually chosen before training a deep neural network and then kept fixed. Treating optimizer choice as a hyperparameter could boost perf

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Million-scale multimodal pollen microscopy with expert-guided foundation models

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arXiv:2606.17809v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automated pollen identification from microscopy remains a bottleneck in aerobiology, palaeoecology and biodiversity monitoring, because scalable sys

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

MMD-Flagger: Leveraging Maximum Mean Discrepancy to Detect Hallucinations

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arXiv:2506.01367v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into agentic AI systems, yet their propensity to generate hallucinations remains a critical

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Moderna/Merck just ran a 1,137-patient Phase 3 trial where every single dose was unique to that patient's tumor. It worked. The pipeline: su…

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Moderna/Merck just ran a 1,137-patient Phase 3 trial where every single dose was unique to that patient's tumor. It worked. The pipeline: surgical resection → whole exome + RNA sequencing → ML neoanti

More Context, Same Budget: Dual-Bounded Relational Recall Beyond Top-K Retrieval

arXiv:2608.18448v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: More context does not require a larger retrieval budget. Under the same ceiling, a retrieval system can recover more of the evidence a question requir

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