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Pointing-VLA: Typed Spatial Grounding Interfaces for Vision-Language-Action Manipulation

arXiv:2608.23138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models often expose spatial grounding through autoregressive text coordinates or opaque action tokens, creating brittle i

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Poisson Subspace Clustering: Focusing on the Essentials in Count Data

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arXiv:2608.23287v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Count data represented as a matrix of non-negative integer values, such as contingency tables, are prevalent across diverse domains. When clustering suc

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PolyChirp: Multi-Species Birdsong Classification Using TinyML on Low-Power Acoustic Sensors

arXiv:2608.23101v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent progress in the field of TinyML has demonstrated that low-power hardware based on microcontrollers can achieve bird species monitoring in real

Polynomial-Time Mistake-Bounded Language Generation

arXiv:2606.16077v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a polynomial-time version of the mistake-bounded language generation (MBLG) framework due to Kleinberg, Peale, and

POOL: Propagated Uncertainty Over Lookalikes

arXiv:2608.23086v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Black-box large language models need confidence scores that can separate likely-correct from likely-incorrect outputs, enabling systems to prioritize hu

Position: Robot Privacy as Embodied Boundary Work. Connecting Capabilities, Contexts, and Design Responses in Everyday Robotics

arXiv:2608.21410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots are increasingly entering everyday environments where privacy is shaped not only by data practices, but also by spatial, bodily, social, and rela

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Posterior Information Dynamics of Diffusion Models for Linear Inverse Problems

arXiv:2608.21709v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models are widely used as priors for linear inverse problems, yet endpoint quality does not reveal when measurement information enters reverse

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Power-Performance Characterization of TinyML Systems

arXiv:2608.21646v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: TinyML systems are enabling machine learning (ML) inference at the edge. However, there is little quantitative analysis of such systems. This paper pr

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Practical Principles for AI Cost and Compute Accounting

arXiv:2502.15873v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Policymakers increasingly use development cost and compute as proxies for AI capabilities and risks. Recent laws have introduced regulatory requirem

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Pre-Decoding Acoustic Triage for Budgeted Vision-Language Captioning of Untrimmed Egocentric Video

arXiv:2608.22359v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatically analyzing hours-long egocentric video is increasingly essential for progress monitoring, quality control, and safety in logistics, const

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Precision-Aware Variable Bit Processing Elements for Hardware-Efficient Systolic Array Designs

arXiv:2608.22378v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Systolic arrays (SAs) have emerged as prominent hardware accelerators for matrix operations in deep learning, while floating point number formats enab

Predicting Early Functional Decline from Longitudinal Laboratory and Vital Sign Trajectories: A Large-Scale Study Using the All of Us Research Program

arXiv:2608.21589v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Functional decline in older adults is typically recognized only after falls or observable gait impairment, closing the window for prevention. We investi

Predicting Multiple Clinical Outcomes Related to Functional Recovery and Social Isolation Among Older Adults After Lower-Limb Fracture or Hip Replacement

arXiv:2608.23531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Older adults recovering after lower-limb fracture or hip replacement may experience complex recovery trajectories. Most of the time, these clinical aspe

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presto: Efficient, Training-free, and Open-world Object Placement via Imaginary Search

arXiv:2608.21543v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Object placement is critical in image composition, requiring spatially and semantically coherent positioning of objects within diverse scenes. Existin

Pretreatment DCE-MRI Resolves Response Quality Within Pathologic Endpoints in Neoadjuvant Breast Cancer

arXiv:2608.22097v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pathologic complete response (pCR) is a strong neoadjuvant endpoint, yet 5-15% of complete responders recur and clinical/genomic variables do not reli

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Primal--Dual Alternating Neural Learning for Timely Classification with Performance Guarantees

arXiv:2608.23480v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Timely risk classification is essential in many clinical monitoring settings, where decisions must balance the benefit of classifying patients early f

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Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Harness

arXiv:2608.23552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models are sequential processors, but long-horizon agency requires external information and computation beyond model weights and active context

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Privileged Critic Training Enables Sensor-Free Thruster Fault Adaptation in End-to-End RL

arXiv:2608.22976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fault-tolerant navigation for thruster-actuated robots requires online adaptation to failures that are neither binary nor fully observable: thrusters ma

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ProBel: Propaganda Detection with Techniques, Spans, and Explanations

arXiv:2608.22388v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Propaganda detection includes several related prediction levels, ranging from sentence-level decisions to technique classification and span identifica

Procedural Knowledge Extraction from Industrial Troubleshooting Guides Using Vision Language Models

arXiv:2601.22754v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Industrial troubleshooting guides encode diagnostic procedures in flowchart-like diagrams where spatial layout and technical language jointly

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Programmable k-local Ising interactions and shallow optical Kolmogorov--Arnold networks through repeated data encounters

arXiv:2508.17440v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Photonic processors are naturally suited to linear transformations, but independently programmable higher-order interactions usually require n

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Progressively Learning Heterogeneous Skills in a Unified Latent Space

arXiv:2608.23258v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose HetSkills, a novel framework designed to progressively learn heterogeneous skills within a unified latent space for physics-based character c

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PropUQ-MAS: Propagation-Aware Uncertainty Quantification for LLM Multi-Agent Systems

arXiv:2608.22130v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) solve complex tasks through communication among role-specialized agents. However, inter-agent dependencies introdu

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Provably adaptive sampling with uniform and remasking discrete diffusion models

arXiv:2608.23554v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discrete diffusion models offer a promising alternative to autoregressive generation by enabling parallel updates, but their sampling efficiency can dep

Proxy reliance in large language model decisions is uncalibrated to predictive evidence

arXiv:2608.22887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are entering decisions in triage and lending, where task-relevant inference must be distinguished from impermissible proxy

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ProxyFormer: A Dual-Stream Proxy Architecture for Ultra-Long Context and High-Resolution Generation

arXiv:2608.23463v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The quadratic growth of attention computation and key-value (KV) cache with respect to sequence length is a central bottleneck for ultra-long-context la

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Pruned Traffic Trees: Native Semantic Compression with a Protocol-Structured Model Family for Encrypted Traffic Classification

arXiv:2608.21874v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning has achieved strong performance in encrypted traffic classification (ETC), yet its computational cost limits deployment on resource-cons

PsychJail: Exploring Psychological Jailbreaks via Multi-Turn Persuasion of LLM Policies

arXiv:2608.23028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in education, healthcare, policy advising, and other interactive settings, where users engage the

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PUMA: A Polish Benchmark for Culturally Grounded Multimodal Understanding

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arXiv:2608.21853v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly moving beyond text processing, adding support for other modalities such as images and audio. While text understan

Q-Learning with Stable Infinite-Dimensional Linear Function Approximation

arXiv:2608.22636v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Q-learning with linear function approximation can be unstable because an arbitrary approximation architecture need not preserve the Bellman contraction.

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QIRL: Optimized Question-Image Relation Learning for Bias-Robust Visual Question Answering

arXiv:2504.03337v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing bias mitigation methods for Visual Question Answering (VQA), a typical Artificial intelligence application, endure two main limitations. Fi

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Quality Inspection of Printed Circuit Board Pin Insertion via Semantic Segmentation and Board-Level Feature Extraction

arXiv:2608.22937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quality control during printed circuit board (PCB) assembly is a critical step in ensuring reliable electronic products. Detecting misaligned pins durin

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QuantFormer: Learning to Quantize for Neural Activity Forecasting in Mouse Visual Cortex

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arXiv:2412.07264v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding complex animal behaviors hinges on deciphering the neural activity patterns within brain circuits, making the ability to forecas

Quantifying geographic domain shift to decouple the geospatial transferability of human mobility flow generation models

arXiv:2608.21567v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human mobility serves as an essential proxy for understanding social, economic, and environmental dynamics in urban systems. Geospatial transferability,

Quantum-Inspired Hybrid Neural Networks for Neural Decoding: A Controlled Ablation Study of Learnable Quantum Sidecar Integration

arXiv:2608.22475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs) integrated as residual sidecar modules within a ResNet-50 backbone for 31-class neural population decodin

Quantum Reservoir Computing with Physics-Informed Correction for Reduced-Order PDE Forecasting

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arXiv:2608.23119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study a hybrid proposal--correction architecture for reduced-order PDE forecasting in which a pure-state quantum reservoir computer (QRC) predicts

Query-Driven Multimodal Information Extraction from Long Documents

arXiv:2608.22214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In domain-specific multimodal long documents, images and text jointly convey complex knowledge that cannot be fully captured by plain text alone. Howeve

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RACO: Reliability-Aware Coarse-Goal Optimization for Inspection-Oriented UAV Vision-Language Navigation

arXiv:2608.22678v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: UAV vision-language navigation (UAV-VLN) is commonly evaluated as goal reaching, but inspection-oriented deployment requires the agent to stop within

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RAD: Rule-Augmented Relational Anomaly Detection

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arXiv:2608.23468v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Anomaly detection is often applied to data stored in relational databases, yet most existing methods require flattening multiple tables into a single fe

RAG Collapse: LLM Responses Collapse When Retrieved Documents Are Self-Authored

arXiv:2608.22118v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM responses are based on the internet (via training or RAG), and AI is now used to generate a significant amount of content online (Paredes et al., 20

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Random Hazard Forests

arXiv:2608.21597v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clinical data sources such as electronic health records and wearable sensors record patient status repeatedly over follow-up, often at irregular times

Rank Reversal in Multilingual LLM Judges: A Label-Free Double-Centering Calibrator

arXiv:2608.22432v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual LLM judges produce different evaluator-backbone rankings depending on the prompt language: on an eight-language Agent-as-a-Judge benchmar

Reaching the Tail: Calibration Diversity Drives Conformal Coverage under Data Scarcity

arXiv:2608.21591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-horizon rare-event forecasting is hard under long macroeconomic series' data constraints: labeled events are scarce, and standard uncertainty quan

Read Less, Solve More: Token-Efficient Sparse Reading for AI Agents

arXiv:2608.22237v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agents increasingly rely on repeated access to external artifacts, yet current reading interfaces often expose entire objects even when onl

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Read, Write, Relax: Why Neural PDE Surrogates Need Both Global and Local Processing

arXiv:2608.21677v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent mesh-based simulation advances have, in no small part, relied on neural surrogates of two distinct families: global models that route informati

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Reading the Room: Implicit Confusion Encoding in Recurrent World Model States

arXiv:2608.21582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models built on the RSSM architecture, such as DreamerV3, keep a recurrent hidden state h_t trained only to reduce prediction error. We show this

Real-TurnTurk: A Multimodal Turkish Corpus for Turn-Taking Prediction

arXiv:2608.22071v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Turn-taking is a basic organizational feature of human conversation and remains difficult to model in natural, synchronous dialog systems. While exist

ReART: Reference-Guided Retrieval and Refinement for Emotion-Aware Art Generation

arXiv:2608.22329v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Emotion-aware artistic image generation requires a model to satisfy semantic content, artistic style, and target emotion simultaneously. The key chall

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