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Re-ranking and Late Interaction Drive Retrieval Quality: A Controlled Comparison of RAG Strategies for Scientific Question Answering

arXiv:2609.38473v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is now the standard way to ground Large Language Models (LLMs) in external knowledge, yet the design space of ret

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Ready2Blend: From Natural-Language Instructions to Composable Alignment Prompts

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arXiv:2609.39365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual alignment requires LLMs to adapt to new requirements without forgetting previously acquired behaviors. Natural-language instructions are fle

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Restoring without Forgetting: Filter-Level Continual Image Restoration via Parameter-Space Integrated Gradients

arXiv:2609.38591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapting image restoration models to a stream of new tasks without revisiting past data remains challenging due to catastrophic forgetting. In this work

Rethinking Generative Image Compression at Extremely Low Bitrates

arXiv:2609.39315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative image compression produces visually plausible reconstructions at low bitrates, yet their behavior as the rate approaches zero remains largely

Safety

Revisiting On-policy Adversarial Black-Box Distillation: Calibrating Groupwise Reward Geometry for Effective Advantage Construction

arXiv:2609.39757v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Black-box distillation is a practical route for transferring capabilities from API-accessible large language models that expose only text outputs into

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Right Answer, Wrong Mechanism: Detecting Pernicious Divergence in Causal Interventions

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arXiv:2609.39243v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Causal interventions such as activation patching and distributed alignment search (DAS) are the main tool for making mechanistic claims about neural net

Tutorials

Seeing as Humans Do: Learning from Motion to Segment Anything Without Supervision

arXiv:2609.39785v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Segment Anything Model (SAM) relies heavily on massive manual annotations, creating a fundamental bottleneck for model scaling. While unsupervised m

tutorialsarxiv-cs-cv

Self-Spec Verifiable Code Generation

arXiv:2609.39568v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) may generate unreliable code on corner cases missed by testing, while formal verification can provide machine-checkable g

TALK-Dem: Benchmarking Embodied Task Planning under Dementia-Associated Communication Patterns

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2609.38371v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing LLM-driven robot task planners rely on a taken-for-granted assumption of an ideal user whose instructions are clear, complete, and task-focus

The Backdrop Exposes What the World Around an Agent Costs It

arXiv:2609.38469v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent benchmarks test agents in worlds that stay still. Deployed agents work in worlds that other people also change. Someone texts the agent to send

The Invisible Language Tax: Token Premiums of French and Regional Languages in 2026 LLM Tokenizers, and a French-Optimized Prototype

arXiv:2609.39001v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM services are billed per token and context windows are measured in tokens, yet the number of tokens needed for the same content varies across langu

Towards Better Exploration in Sequential Test-Time Scaling

arXiv:2609.39632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time scaling improves language model reasoning by spending additional compute at inference. However, both classes of existing methods often fail to

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Typographic Attack Against VLM-based AI-generated Image Detection

arXiv:2609.39662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used for AI-generated image (AIGI) detection, providing natural-language explanations for authenticity ju

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VirusCascade: Hijacking Collaborative Reflection in LLM-Powered Recommender Agents

arXiv:2609.38270v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advancing beyond traditional static scoring models, LLM-powered agentic recommender systems (LLM-ARS) instantiate users and items as autonomous agents

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What Was Said, Not What Was 'Thought': Type-6 Logic for CoT Verification

arXiv:2609.38420v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Type-6 logic, a variant of dynamic epistemic logic augmented with two operators (uncertainty and recurrence), designed to model the infer

When the Right Answer Is Missing: An Arithmetic-Dependent Rejection Bottleneck in Jev

arXiv:2609.39496v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Typed decision models such as Jev offer an efficient alternative to generative LLMs in decision-making workflows by selecting directly from predefined

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A Skill-augmented Agentic Framework and Benchmark for Multi-Video Understanding

arXiv:2603.14733v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models have achieved strong performance in single-video understanding, yet their ability to reason across multiple videos

Accessible, but Not Adopted: Increasing LLM Adoption among First-generation, Low-income (FGLI) College Students beyond Expanding Access

arXiv:2609.36129v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly positioned as a force to empower underserved communities, and significant efforts are being made to expa

AdaptArena: Evaluating Test-Time Personalization of Web Agents

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arXiv:2609.36488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents have demonstrated strong performance on complex web navigation tasks, yet they remain brittle in real-world settings w

Adaptive Consistency Graph for Long-Horizon Agents

arXiv:2609.32754v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model agents can often make reasonable local decisions on short tasks, yet their performance degrades when success requires long sequ

Agentic AI for Scalable and Robust Optical Systems Control

arXiv:2602.20144v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present AgentOptics, an agentic AI framework for high-fidelity, autonomous optical system control built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP)

ARC-KV: Amortizing Anchor Search for Reconstruction-Based KV Cache Compaction

arXiv:2609.36835v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context large language model inference is bottlenecked by KV caches that grow linearly with sequence length. This burden is especially severe for l

Hardware

BASE: Batch-Aware Selection of Experts Using Predicted Removal Error for Efficient MoE Decoding

arXiv:2609.36222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly expensive to serve. In large-scale serving systems, autoregressive decoding is often bottlenecked by transferring

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Benchmarking Automatic Speech Recognition Tools for Iberian Languages

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2609.36920v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Comprehensive evaluations of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for Iberian languages remain limited, and low-resource languages, biases, and efficiency

Beyond Binary Preferences: Graded Preference Optimization for Limb-Motion Captioning

arXiv:2609.36628v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) can generate rich video captions, yet often misidentify which person performs an action or which limb is involved, particu

Causal-EVC: Breaking Emotional Spurious Causality via Spatiotemporal Grounding and Counterfactual Intervention

arXiv:2609.36776v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emotional Video Captioning aims to generate factually accurate and emotionally empathetic descriptions. While recent methods have recognized the importa

CF-LoRA: Decoupled Factor Aggregation and Adaptation-Aware Client Clustering for Federated LoRA Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2609.36986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated LoRA fine-tuning enables parameter-efficient adaptation of pre-trained models without sharing private data, but suffers from two fundamental m

Closed-Form Cartesian Forward Kinetostatics for Spatial Multi-Segment Tendon-Driven Continuum Robots

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arXiv:2609.36495v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forward kinetostatics of spatial tendon-driven continuum robots typically requires a nonlinear equilibrium solve for each actuation input. This paper de

Concealing LLM-Based Multi-Agent Topology via Phantom Structure Injection

arXiv:2609.37567v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Driven by the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for collabora

Correct, Don't Delete: Mitigating Emergent Misalignment with Corrective Supervision

arXiv:2609.37624v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-tuning a language model on a narrow set of harmful demonstrations, such as bad medical advice, can make it broadly misaligned on unrelated questi

Local Ai

Data-Efficient Time-Dependent PDE Surrogates: Graph Neural Simulators vs. Neural Operators

arXiv:2509.06154v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Developing accurate, data-efficient surrogate models is central to advancing AI for Science. Neural operators (NOs), which approximate mappings betw

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Decompose Radicals, Then Reward: Fine-Grained Inspection for Accurate Chinese Text Rendering

arXiv:2609.37569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rendering accurate Chinese text remains challenging for text-to-image models. Existing OCR-based reinforcement-learning rewards compare decoded transcri

DecoyTrace: Toxic Decoys for Active Defense in Decentralized Federated Learning

arXiv:2609.36330v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) eliminates the central aggregation server, reducing the single point of observation that traditional defenses a

Local Ai

Distill Locally, Schedule Globally: Flow Maps for Few-Step Text-to-Speech

arXiv:2609.36324v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flow-matching text-to-speech (TTS) models achieve high synthesis quality but require many neural function evaluations (NFEs) to integrate their genera

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Safety

Distinguish or Homogenize: Last-Chance Policy Identification and Risk-Budgeted Recovery under Irreversible Resource Depletion

arXiv:2609.36741v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Under irreversible resource depletion, an agent can spend resources to distinguish among latent fault models, or to change the system state so that the

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

Does Local Video Understanding Transfer Across Encounters? The EgoGears Benchmark

arXiv:2609.37938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied systems must make knowledge acquired during one encounter usable in another despite changes in viewpoint, motion, and illumination. Yet aggre

DScale: Scaling Block-Diffusion Speculative Decoding with Adaptive Verification

arXiv:2609.37532v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Growing large language model applications demand efficient inference. At high concurrency, block-diffusion speculative decoding suffers from verificat

Elastic ODYN: Differentiable Optimization for Infeasible Control and Learning in Robotics

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ro

arXiv:2606.16564v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic systems routinely encounter conflicting objectives, modeling errors, and degenerate contact conditions that render quadratic programs (QPs)

Tutorials

EnJoi: Ensemble Joint Score Filter for Generative Data Assimilation

arXiv:2609.35944v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data Assimilation (DA) aims to recover the full state of a dynamical system that is only partially observed. A solution is to use Score-based models to

tutorialsarxiv-cs-lg

Evidence-Guided Schema Normalization for Temporal Tabular Reasoning

arXiv:2512.00329v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Temporal reasoning over evolving semi-structured tables poses a challenge to current QA systems. We propose an approach that recasts the task

FACT: Fidelity-Aware Construction of Articulated Twins

arXiv:2609.37067v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visually plausible articulated assets may still fail during contact interactions or exhibit inaccurate motion. We present FACT (Fidelity-Aware Constru

Flattening the Connectome Spectrum: A Spectral Filter for FC Induces a Pretraining Target for fMRI Encoders

arXiv:2609.37642v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-supervised pretraining reshaped prediction in language and vision, and brain foundation models (BFMs) inherited its promise. Representations learne

Safety

From Sharp Eyes to Expert Mind: Internalizing Expert Knowledge in MLLMs for Tampered Text Detection

arXiv:2609.36145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tampered Text Detection (TTD) is essential for safeguarding document authenticity in security-critical workflows. Existing expert models are effective a

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Agents

Godel Forest: Balancing Search Depth and Breadth for Data-Centric Recursive Self-Improvement

arXiv:2609.36675v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recursive self-improvement (RSI) aims to achieve compounding gains by having models improve themselves. While most existing RSI systems optimize externa

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Applications

How Much Prompt Is Enough? A Blackbox Minimization of Few-Shots in LLMs

arXiv:2609.36289v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prompts are the primary mechanism for directing the behavior of large language models (LLMs). Yet the internal structure and causal hierarchy of promp

applicationsarxiv-cs-ai

HyDI: A hybrid Deep Learning-Inductive Logic Programming ensemble for multi-label classification

arXiv:2609.37740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While attaining remarkable results for many applications, Deep Learning models are notoriously difficult to explain. This work introduces HyDI, a hybrid

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Improving Function Space Flow Matching with Kernel Optimal Transport

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arXiv:2609.38049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative models for function-valued data, such as time series and solutions of partial differential equations, must learn distributions over infinite-

It's Not What the Image Shows: Irrelevant Context Destabilises VLM Judges Without Informing Them

arXiv:2609.37863v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used in place of human annotators, making it important that substitutability tests reflect the model ra