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When Do Frozen VLMs Respond to Image-Free Object-Token Edits? An Answer-Key-Free Protocol and What It Reveals

arXiv:2609.03429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Answering what-if queries about a scene with a VLM usually means injecting the assumption as text or repainting the scene with a generative model. We in

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When Models Edit Too Much: On the Fidelity of Minimal Code Edits

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arXiv:2609.04061v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to edit existing code, but correctness alone is not enough: useful repairs should also be minimal,

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When Optimization Becomes Manipulation: Defending Generative Search against Malicious Generative Engine Optimization

arXiv:2609.02964v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper focuses on defending generative search engines against malicious Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), which rewrites web documents to matc

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When Retrieval Helps: Selective Retrieval for Single-Turn Mental-Health QA

arXiv:2609.03454v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) can improve the specificity and grounding of large language model responses, but its effect is not uniformly benefi

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When Users Don't Ask: Benchmarking Context-Driven Memory Retrieval in Conversational Agents

arXiv:2609.03467v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increas- ingly deployed as long-horizon conversational agents, motivating growing interest in mem- ory systems. Howev

When Vision Meets Graphs: A Survey on Graph Reasoning and Learning

arXiv:2609.03816v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graphs are a fundamental data structure underlying many problems in the natural and social sciences. Over the past decade, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs

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Where Does Harness-Optimization Value Live? Localized Gains and the Budget-Splitting Trap in Self-Evolving LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.02889v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A growing body of work improves frozen large language models (LLMs) as agents by evolving their harness: the textual scaffolding around the model, inclu

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Who Speaks for the Pruned? Visual Token Pruning as Coverage Optimization

arXiv:2609.03158v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual token pruning reduces the inference cost of vision-language models (VLMs), but most methods only ask which tokens to keep. This retained-token

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Why Gated DeltaNet Survives 4-Bit Quantization: NVFP4 W4A4 for the Recurrent Half of a Hybrid 27B LLM

arXiv:2609.04098v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hybrid LLMs pair softmax attention with linear-attention layers such as Gated DeltaNet (GDN), whose recurrent state summarizes the context in fixed size

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WIDE: Wildcard Inference with Dynamic Expansion for Cross-Modal Generative Retrieval

arXiv:2609.03554v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative retrieval has demonstrated significant success by unifying representation learning and search into a single sequence-to-sequence generation

WireSeg-32K: A Physics-Grounded Synthetic Dataset for Wire Instance Segmentation

arXiv:2609.03102v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deformable linear objects such as wires and cables are difficult to segment because they are thin, highly deformable, and frequently self-occluded, whil

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WISE: World-model-guided Imagination Scheduling for Efficient Post-training of Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2609.03681v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training VLA policies typically rely on supervised fine-tuning with costly expert demonstrations or reinforcement learning with expensive and poten

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Witnesses Explain Anomalies

arXiv:2609.03826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unsupervised anomaly detection scores each point of an unlabelled, contaminated sample in a single pass, and increasingly must also explain why a poin

WorldReward: Reward Modeling for Camera-Conditioned World Models

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arXiv:2609.03952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Camera-conditioned world models generate interactive videos in which commanded actions should induce the expected scene changes while appearance, geomet

X-Translator: A Real-Time Multilingual Speaker-Aware Speech-to-Speech Translation System

arXiv:2607.17544v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) systems must balance translation quality, latency, speech naturalness, and speaker consistency. Publicly

Xiaomi-TabLDM: A Tabular Foundation Model Technical Report

arXiv:2609.03880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Xiaomi-TabLDM, a tabular large data foundation model for classification and regression via in-context learning, which delivers superior pre

Y’all gonna get mad if I said I told you so …

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Y’all gonna get mad if I said I told you so … Researchers argues OpenAI and Anthropic will never get us to AGI. 21 top researchers from Stanford, Oxford, DeepMind, CMU & Meta released a paper saying L

You can now run a 90M conversational LLM on the Sony PSP (hardware from 2004). Doesn't get more local than this.

Github link: https://github.com/thatblend/LLMPSP I wanted to see what the PSP can theoretically handle and I got my answer - a 90M model is about the max it can do without atrocious inference speeds.

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You Can't Escape Your Own Activations : Evaluation Awareness and Multi-Agent Monitoring

arXiv:2609.03035v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly deployed in multi-agent systems, where they can collude while keeping their actions benign. Output monitors designed to de

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Zero-Shot Novel Depth Synthesis Using 3D Foundation Models Scene Representations

arXiv:2609.04174v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Foundation Models (3DFMs) such as VGGT have recently pushed the boundaries of 3D vision by predicting rich unified representations with feed-foward t

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6 months ago, I started building an internal customer insights tool at Together AI. It pulls in our sales calls, slack channels, & support t…

6 months ago, I started building an internal customer insights tool at Together AI. It pulls in our sales calls, slack channels, & support tickets and turns them into searchable customer insights. Tod

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A Common Measure of Communication for Speech Brain-Computer Interfaces

arXiv:2609.02887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speech brain-computer interfaces (speech BCIs) translate neural activity into language, offering a path towards restoring speech for people with paralys

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A Comparative Study of Graph Representations for GNN-Based Power Grid Control in L2RPN

arXiv:2609.02538v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph construction is a critical but underexamined design choice in deep reinforcement learning for power grid control. We present a controlled experime

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A computational approach to maximum likelihood thresholds for colored Gaussian graphical models

arXiv:2609.02382v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Gaussian graphical models (GGMs) are essential tools for interpretable structure learning. However, in high-dimensional, small-sample regimes, the ava

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A Computational Comparison of Fourier Spectral Differentiation and Spatial Automatic Differentiation in Periodic Physics-Informed Neural Networks

arXiv:2609.02110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) commonly evaluate the spatial derivatives appearing in partial differential equation residuals using automatic

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A Data-Driven Multimodal Method for Early Detection of Coordinated Abnormal Behaviors in Live-Streaming Platforms

arXiv:2609.01649v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the rapid growth of live-streaming e-commerce and digital marketing, abnormal marketing behaviors have become increasingly concealed and coordina

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A Layered Taxonomy for Chinese Learner Grammatical Error Annotation

arXiv:2609.02153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Grammatical error annotation in Chinese learner writing requires labels that are both consistent and linguistically meaningful. This paper proposes a la

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A Physics-Consistent Benchmark for Contact-Rich Human-Robot Interaction in Assistive Care

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arXiv:2609.02402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional task-level evaluation asks whether a robot policy completes a specified action, but can miss failures that emerge only during physical huma

A Power Law in Logarithm's Clothing: On the Scalability of Graph-Based Vector Search

arXiv:2609.02143v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most vector databases rely on graph-based indexes, notably HNSW and Vamana, for approximate nearest neighbor search. With embedding models widely adop

A Study of Conditional Diffusion Models for Open-Loop Control under Dry Friction and Stiction

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arXiv:2609.01756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models have recently emerged as expressive generative priors for planning and control. This paper studies Action Diffusion, an action-sequence

A Survey of Transformer-based Language Models with Focus on Efficiency

arXiv:2406.16893v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The emergence of Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) has substantially augmented the capabilities of Natural Language Processing (N

A Survey on Self-Improving Test-Time Intelligence: Feedback-Driven Adapting, Learning, and Scaling at Inference

arXiv:2609.01679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ability of AI systems to improve their behavior during deployment is becoming increasingly important. As inference moves beyond the static execution

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A Top-Down Framework for Metric-Scale Athlete Localization from Single Broadcast Frames

arXiv:2609.02705v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate world-coordinate localization of athletes from single-frame broadcast footage is inherently challenging due to extreme scale disparities in ult

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A Tri-Agent Framework for Evaluating and Aligning Question Clarification Capabilities of Large Language Models

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arXiv:2609.02054v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in interactive systems where understanding user intent precisely is paramount. A key capability f

A Unified Particle Filter LSTM for Data-Driven Process Simulation

arXiv:2609.01967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data-driven process simulation aims to generate realistic case trajectories from historical event logs without requiring an explicitly specified model o

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A Unified Rate-Distortion Perspective on Vector, Product, and Scalar Quantization

arXiv:2609.02107v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Discrete visual tokenization, predominantly driven by vector, scalar, and product quantization, lacks a unified conceptual framework for understanding

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A Universal Vibe? Finding and Controlling Language-Agnostic Informal Register with SAEs

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arXiv:2603.26236v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While multilingual language models successfully transfer factual and syntactic knowledge across languages, it remains unclear whether they process c

Access to Astra is rolling out over the coming days. Starting today, enterprise customers in OpenAI's Daybreak Program can get access to Ast…

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Access to Astra is rolling out over the coming days. Starting today, enterprise customers in OpenAI's Daybreak Program can get access to Astra. Read more on our blog: https://devin.ai/blog/gpt-6-astra

Accurate in space, unreliable in time: how LLMs represent national cultural change

arXiv:2609.01902v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Assessments of cultural alignment have become an important part of the development and improvement of large language models (LLMs). However, the major

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Achieving More with Less: A Tensor-Optimization-Powered Ensemble Method

arXiv:2408.02936v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Ensemble learning is a method that leverages weak learners to produce a strong learner. However, obtaining a large number of base learners requires

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Achieving Olympiad-Level Geometry Large Language Model Agent via Complexity Boosting Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2512.10534v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents exhibit strong mathematical problem-solving abilities and can even solve International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO)

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Act More, Decide Less: Skill-Guided Adaptive Action Chunking for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.02042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents for long-horizon interactive tasks typically follow a ReAct-style protocol, issuing one primitive action per LLM round

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Action abstractions for amortized sampling

arXiv:2410.15184v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As trajectories sampled by policies used by reinforcement learning (RL) and generative flow networks (GFlowNets) grow longer, credit assignmen

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Actor as Its Own Critic: Unifying Region Understanding and Localization via CycleGRPO

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arXiv:2607.11581v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper introduces Actor as Its Own Critic, a unified reinforcement learning framework, Cycle Group Relative Policy Optimization (CycleGRPO), tha

AdaMem: Learning What to Remember with Adaptive Memory Policies for Personalized Agents

arXiv:2606.21144v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Long-term memory systems allow LLM agents to preserve information beyond a single context window, but most systems focus on storing and retrie

Adapting a Foundation Model for Lunar Surface Height Estimation

arXiv:2609.02448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Digital elevation models (DEMs) can provide accurate height information, making it invaluable for analyzing the lunar surface. As the European Space Age

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Addressing Trust in AI Systems through Education: A Didactic Perspective

arXiv:2609.02453v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning (ML) education faces two persistent and connected obstacles: many educational tools present ML as an opaque black box, which leaves l

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Advancing Accessible Underwater Robotics: The Mini-Girona I-AUV at RAMI 2025

arXiv:2609.02605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Mini-Girona Intervention Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (I-AUV) represents an advancement in accessible underwater robotics, designed to bridge the g

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