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VisionSelector: End-to-End Learnable Visual Token Compression for Efficient Multimodal LLMs

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arXiv:2510.16598v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) encounter significant computational and memory bottlenecks from the massive number of visual tokens generat

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VLZip: Unified Visual and Textual Compression for Interleaved Long-Context Modeling

arXiv:2608.08630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision Language Models (VLMs) face significant challenges with ultra-long, interleaved image-text sequences due to the quadratic complexity of self-atte

VoxZip: Semantic-Anchored Temporal KV Cache Compression for Long-Context Audio Inference

arXiv:2608.08569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements in Speech Large Language Models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in understanding complex audio tasks. Despite this progres

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Walking through Discussions: A Mobile Visual Analytics System for In-Situ Group Discussion Analysis

arXiv:2608.08617v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group discussion-based teaching is widely used to foster collaborative learning, yet teachers in physical classrooms often struggle to simultaneously mo

What to Edit Next: Visually Aligned Image-Editing Follow-Up Suggestions in Conversational Systems

arXiv:2608.07565v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational assistants increasingly recommend follow-up edits to help users continue a task. Existing systems primarily target text-only interactio

When Do Task Vectors Interfere? Mapping the Validity Boundaries of Weight-Space Composition

arXiv:2608.09490v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Task arithmetic treats fine-tuning displacements as composable directions in weight space, yet it remains unclear when parameter addition reflects predi

When should we trust the annotation? Selective prediction for molecular structure retrieval from mass spectra

arXiv:2603.10950v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine learning methods for identifying molecular structures from tandem mass spectra (MS/MS) have advanced rapidly, yet current approaches still e

When Skills Meet Safety: Benchmarking and Characterizing the Adaptive Jailbreak Robustness of Skill-Merged LLMs

arXiv:2608.08542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model merging has become the default way to give an aligned language model new skills without retraining: a practitioner folds task vectors from math, c

Wisdom in Unity: The Role of Multilingual Training in Figurative Language Identification in Proverbs

arXiv:2608.08090v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although multilingual approaches to figurative language identification are not new, the shift beyond language homogeneous training data requires a clear

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XEns-CKD: An Explainable Ensemble-Based Approach for Chronic Kidney Disease Stage Detection

arXiv:2608.07561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a silent disease. Its progression may not significantly hamper a person's daily routine. Human kidney function can be cl

You Don't Need To Stay in The Loop: An Agentic Robotics Loop for Robot-Policy Improvement

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arXiv:2608.07555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex close the software loop: a main agent manages the loop, subagents analyze and execute, tools do the work. We

Your VLM Already Knows When: Training-Free Temporal Grounding by Asking Yes or No

arXiv:2608.08315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal LLMs that recognise events reliably still fail to say when they happen. Prompted for timestamps, strong VLMs reach as little as 3.8% R@0.5 on

Zero-Shot Traffic Accident Detection via a Coarse-to-Fine VLM-Tracking Pipeline

arXiv:2608.08867v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic surveillance cameras capture accidents continuously, yet converting raw CCTV footage into structured event records that pinpoint when, where, an

ZhuLong: Execution-Grounded LLM Agent for EDA Scripting with Offline API Self-Exploration

arXiv:2608.07925v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: EDA scripting with tool-specific, often undocumented APIs remains a long-tail bottleneck that existing LLMs fail to address. This paper presents ZhuLong

A Transferable Autologistic Model for Predicting Rare Failures in Heterogeneous Equipment

arXiv:2608.06695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting failures before they occur remains a major challenge in predictive maintenance, particularly when failures are rare, when equipment of the sa

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Addressable Memory for Video World Models

arXiv:2608.07408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study visual persistence in interactive video world models. These models rely on a Key-Value (KV) cache as a growing visual memory to carry forward p

AfriNLLB: Efficient Translation Models for African Languages

arXiv:2602.09373v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this work, we present AfriNLLB, a series of lightweight models for efficient translation from and into African languages. AfriNLLB supports 15 la

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Agent Memory Distillation: Empowering Small LLM Agents with Hierarchical Teacher Memory

arXiv:2608.07169v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memory systems have shown promise for improving agent performance, but their potential remains largely unexplored for small language models, which strug

AnyTrack: Unifying Visual Object Tracking with Any Modalities

arXiv:2608.06773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual object tracking aims to continuously locate specific targets within sequential frames, evolving from single-modal methods to multi-modal ones. Ho

AtlasVLA: Persistent World-Ego State Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2608.06729v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have advanced embodied AI, their fundamentally reactive paradigm severely limits performance in partially ob

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Autonomous discovery of accelerator commissioning algorithms

arXiv:2608.07138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Simulated commissioning has become essential for de-risking modern light-source design and commissioning, but the procedures being simulated are still

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Beyond 'AI Language': The case for the idiolectal nature of LLM output

arXiv:2608.06589v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While large language model outputs are frequently analysed as a collective super variety termed 'AI language,' this chapter argues that this perspecti

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Beyond Myopic World Models: Long-Horizon End-to-End Training for Direct Future Prediction

arXiv:2608.07420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models are expected to support imagination over extended temporal horizons, yet most are still trained through local few-step prediction objective

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Beyond Routing Weights: Faithful Response-Level Interpretation of Mixture-of-Experts Reward Models via Contribution Contrast

arXiv:2608.06400v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward models are central to learning from human preferences, yet identifying what drives their predictions remains challenging. Recent sparse Mixture-o

Beyond Starry Night: Shortcut-Aware Control-State Planning for Artist-Grounded Text to Image Generation

arXiv:2608.06751v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artist-grounded image generation requires more than appending an artist name to a prompt. Image models often respond to artist names through canonical

Beyond the Black Box: Interpretable Models of Human Randomisation Failures

arXiv:2608.07220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixed strategy equilibrium predicts i.i.d play: past actions should not help predict future decisions. Human players, however, systematically depart fro

Bridging the Gap Between Hyperdimensional Computing and Kernel Methods via the Nystrom Method

arXiv:2608.06860v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is an approach from the cognitive science literature for solving information processing tasks using data represented

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C2Dex: Contact-Consistent Reconstruction and Retargeting for Dexterous Manipulation from Monocular Video

arXiv:2608.07045v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-quality demonstrations for dexterous robot manipulation are costly and difficult to collect, whereas monocular human videos provide a scalable so

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CAi Copilot: Reducing Operational Workload in Molecular Design through Intent-Driven Agentic Workflows

arXiv:2608.06961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Early-stage molecular design is an iterative process, not just a task of generating molecules. Researchers turn broad goals into design strategies, refi

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CAS2UML: A Handwritten Sketch-to-PlantUML Dataset for Class and Activity Diagrams

arXiv:2608.07036v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated UML generation from sketches and images is gaining renewed attention with the rise of large language models and multimodal AI. However, repr

CertBind from Multimodal Connectivity to Certifiable Retrieval Decisions

arXiv:2608.06516v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lightweight connectors make frozen multimodal encoders composable at the representation level. Deployment exposes a second problem at the level of tas

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CHIME: A Case for Efficient Long-Context Attention-FC Disaggregated Inference with DIMM-PIM

arXiv:2504.17584v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Attention-FC Disaggregated (AFD) LLM inference systems offload memory-bound Attention operations to memory-rich accelerators (e.g., CPUs, HBM-

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CoinRAG: Contextualized Information Nugget KV Cache Reuse for Long-Context RAG

arXiv:2608.07458v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent optimization studies on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) have exploited chunk-level KV cache reuse to avoid processing long retrieved conte

CreativeInstruct: Scalably Teaching LLMs to Balance Quality, Creativity, and Diversity

arXiv:2608.07460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While post-training improves the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), it generally lowers their output diversity and creativity, negatively i

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Cross-View Action Consistency for Camera-Robust Vision-Language-Action Policies

arXiv:2608.06965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies fine-tuned from a fixed scene camera can fail when the camera is moved, even when the task, objects, language, and

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Hardware

CubicQuant: Parametric Non-Uniform Codebooks for High-Throughput LLM Inference with 1-8-Bit Weights

arXiv:2608.06763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Weight quantization for large-language-model inference must balance adaptive reconstruction levels with representations regular enough for efficient GPU

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Curriculum as Code: An AI-Assisted Architecture for Instructional Design in STEM Education

arXiv:2608.07364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contribution: This paper presents a six-phase AI-assisted instructional design architecture based on the Curriculum as Code paradigm, integrating Genera

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DAEP: Difficulty-Aware Evidence Planning for Medical Video Corpus Temporal Answer Grounding

arXiv:2608.06869v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We describe DAEP, team BIGC's submission to NLPCC 2026 Shared Task 1 Track 3: Difficulty-Aware Temporal Answer Grounding in Video Corpus (DA-TAGVC). T

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Density-aware Hierarchical Clustering Based on Element-Categorized Connection Subgraphs

arXiv:2608.06990v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clustering is a fundamental data mining technique for pattern recognition through unsupervised learning. Among various clustering methods, hierarchica

Direct Visual Grounding by Directing Attention of Visual Tokens

arXiv:2511.12738v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision Language Models (VLMs) mix visual tokens and text tokens. A puzzling issue is the fact that visual tokens most related to the query receive l

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Divergent Response Modes in Frontier Language Models Under Steering Pressure

arXiv:2608.06578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier language models are trained using distinct data, objectives, and safety pipelines. Whether these differences produce measurably different behav

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Don't `Well, Actually' Me Unless You Know What You're Talking About: Weak Presupposition Verification Degrades General QA Performance

arXiv:2608.06539v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: False-presupposition QA (FPQA) tests LLMs on their ability to identify false presuppositions in questions and abstain or correct them rather than reinfo

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DREAMS: Diverse Reactions of Engagement and Attention Mind States Dataset

arXiv:2608.06382v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Active attention and engagement are important in improving users' learning experiences. Engagement refers to the level of involvement and interest ind

Dual-Space Modality Consistency Learning for Universal Cross-Modal Re-Identification

arXiv:2608.06943v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-modal Re-Identification (ReID) aims to retrieve the same identity across heterogeneous imaging modalities and has been widely studied in visible-i

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EpiFlow: A framework for improving the utility of wastewater signals for disease forecasting

arXiv:2608.06671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wastewater-based surveillance is an effective tool for disease monitoring and can provide early warning of outbreaks. Although wastewater viral loads (W

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Fairis: Fairness-Aware Aggregation with Provable Influence Containment against Fairness Poisoning Attacks in Collaborative Machine Learning

arXiv:2608.06469v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Collaborative machine learning among financial institutions must be both group-fair and robust against deliberate adversarial manipulation. Existing f

Fast and Accurate: An Adaptive VLA Inference Framework through Environment-aware Model Selection

arXiv:2608.06434v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied intelligence demands both long-horizon reasoning and real-time closed-loop responsiveness. Recent dual-system Vision-Language-Action (VLA) ar