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On-Policy Self-Distillation without Any Supervision

arXiv:2608.06296v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy (Self-)Distillation (OPD / OPSD) has shown strong potential for post-training large language models (LLMs). However, existing methods still re

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On Same-Sample and Independent-Sample Stochastic Extragradient for Monotone Variational Inequalities

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arXiv:2608.06182v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study stochastic extragradient (SEG) methods for solving monotone variational inequality problems (VIPs) over a feasible set. Although extragradien

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On the Anisotropy of Score-Based Generative Models

arXiv:2510.22899v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We investigate the role of network architecture in shaping the inductive biases of modern score-based generative models. To this end, we introduce t

Once a Response, Always a Response: Detecting LLM-generated Text via Latent Prompt Restoration

arXiv:2608.05741v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can generate fluent and convincing text at scale, creating growing risks for misinformation dissemination, educational mi

One Leak Away: How Pretrained Model Exposure Amplifies Jailbreak Risks in Finetuned LLMs

arXiv:2512.14751v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Finetuning pretrained large language models (LLMs) has become the standard paradigm for developing downstream applications. However, its secur

One Qubit Can Beat One Bit: Quantum Advantage for Post-Training Quantization

arXiv:2608.05240v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: One-bit post-training quantization represents each weight using only its sign, requiring all deployment contexts to share the same binary weight matri

One Ranking, Any Budget: Matryoshka Evidence-to-Context Frame Selection for Long-Video Understanding

arXiv:2608.05707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frame selection is essential for applying Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) to long videos due to severe frame redundancy and limited context windows. Sinc

Online Reasoning Calibration: Test-Time Training Enables Generalizable Conformal LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2604.01170v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While test-time scaling has enabled large language models to solve highly difficult tasks, state-of-the-art results come at exorbitant compute

OPERA: Operator-residual feedback for reliable autonomous optical experiments with language-model agents

arXiv:2608.05990v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous agents choose actions using scores that may not reflect experimental success. We developed OPERA, an operator-residual framework for optical

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Operating Multi-Node Full Fine-Tuning on NVIDIA B300: A Field Report on Telemetry-Based Triage, Negative Results, and Operational Hardening

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arXiv:2608.05944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We report operational experience full-fine-tuning a 32.76B-parameter dense model (Qwen3-32B) on 16 x NVIDIA B300 (two nodes, FSDP / ZeRO-3) -- among t

Optimal or Greedy Decision Trees? Revisiting their Objectives, Tuning, and Performance

arXiv:2409.12788v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recently there has been a surge of interest in optimal decision tree (ODT) methods that globally optimize accuracy directly, in contrast to traditio

Optimal Rates for Learning with Monotone Adversaries

arXiv:2608.06337v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A monotone adversary observes an i.i.d. labeled sample and appends a finite number of further examples of its choice, every one of them labeled correc

OrchestraBench: Evaluating Multi-Agent Orchestration Failure Modes, Recovery, and Decomposition Quality

arXiv:2608.05263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent orchestration frameworks are moving from demos to production, yet benchmarks typically report task accuracy without diagnosing why a pipelin

Ordered Diffusion for 3D Human Registration

arXiv:2608.05804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D human registration has historically been treated as a regression task, assuming a unique ground-truth alignment exists between the template and an in

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OTLesMix: Wasserstein Barycenter and Optimal Transport Map for Synthetic Lesion Generation with Diverse Shapes and Locations

arXiv:2608.06264v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of deep learning over the past decade has revolutionized medical imaging segmentation, allowing the extraction of precise descriptors fr

Otter: A Time-Aware, History-Conditioned Human Chess AI

arXiv:2608.05206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Otter is a 15.3M-parameter human chess AI that predicts human move selection by modeling play as a time-aware, sequential process rather than treating e

Overcoming Attention Drift: Homogeneity-Heterogeneity Guided Feature Aggregation for Low-Light Remote Sensing Image Enhancement

arXiv:2608.05843v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Restoring high-fidelity remote sensing imagery from extreme low-light degradation is indispensable for reliable Earth observation and downstream machine

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PaCoNet: Deep Data Extraction for Parallel Coordinates

arXiv:2608.06030v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Extracting data from visualizations has long challenged computer vision, with current research focused on bar, line, and pie charts, among other low-dim

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PaDoc: Layout-Grounded Parallel Decoding for Document Parsing

arXiv:2608.06146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end document parsers provide a unified interface, but serialize page layouts and regional contents into one autoregressive sequence. This formula

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Parallel-in-Time Nonlinear Optimal Control via GPU-native Sequential Convex Programming

arXiv:2603.10711v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-time solution of nonlinear optimal control problems remains challenging on embedded robotic hardware, where conventional solvers often rely on

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Parameter-Efficient Semantic Augmentation for Enhancing Open-Vocabulary Object Detection

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arXiv:2604.04444v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) enables models to detect any object category, including unseen ones. Benefiting from large-scale pre-trainin

Path Planning of Cleaning Robot with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2208.08211v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recently, as the demand for cleaning robots has steadily increased, therefore household electricity consumption is also increasing. To solve t

PathCover: A Fast Convex Decomposition along a Path via Randomized Iterative Space Partitioning (RISP) on Point Clouds

arXiv:2608.05586v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous robot navigation requires the rapid generation of obstacle-free regions for trajectory planning. However, existing corridor generators strugg

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Patient Pose Assessment Using a CT-Based Framework for Synthetic Data Generation

arXiv:2608.06126v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An adequate diagnostic quality of radiographs is essential for reliable diagnoses and treatment planning. The patient's pose during radiography is one o

PD-GS: Phoneme-Driven 3DGS for Audio-Driven Talking Heads

arXiv:2608.05218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables fast, photorealistic talking-head rendering, yet accurate lip articulation remains elusive: mouth motion is often o

Perfect reconstruction of sparse signals using nonconvexity control and one-step RSB message passing

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arXiv:2512.17426v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We consider sparse signal reconstruction via minimization of the smoothly clipped absolute deviation (SCAD) penalty, and develop one-step repl

Applications

Persona-Pruner: Sculpting Lightweight Models for Role-Playing

arXiv:2606.14695v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Language Models (LMs) have shown remarkable potential as role-playing chatbots, delivering consistent, stylized interactions when given a spec

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Personalized Deep Research Query Refinement with Graph-Scaffolded Evidence Grounding

arXiv:2608.05876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: User requests serve as research specifications for deep research agents, shaping what evidence to seek and how to synthesize it. In personalized deep re

Perturbation Sensitivity at Convergence: A Simple Signal for Identifying Spuriously Correlated Samples

arXiv:2608.05419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Models trained by empirical risk minimization on data containing spurious correlations achieve high average accuracy while failing on subpopulations w

PhaseCoder: Microphone Geometry-Agnostic Spatial Audio Understanding for Multimodal LLMs

arXiv:2601.21124v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current multimodal LLMs process audio as a mono stream, ignoring the rich spatial information essential for embodied AI. Existing spatial audi

PhyLatent: Learning Dynamics-Relevant Representations for JEPA World Models

arXiv:2608.05720v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose PhyLatent, a dynamics-relevant training objective for JointEmbedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) world models. Our key observation is that

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Physics-Based Molecular Fingerprints from Spectral Graph Theory Provide Efficient Geometry-Aware Measures of Chemical Similarity

arXiv:2608.05336v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Molecular representations are essential for the evaluation of molecular similarity and the development of structure-property relationships. Despite th

Pixel-TTS: Image based Text Rendering for Robust Text-to-Speech

arXiv:2606.14750v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in pixel-based text modeling show that representing text as images enables models to exploit visual cues for language understa

Plausible Patients, Impossible Populations: Auditing Epidemiological Fidelity in Large Language Model Mental Health Simulations

arXiv:2604.17359v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Language models asked to simulate psychiatric patients produce cases that survive inspection one at a time and populations that match no real

Poli-Bias: Understanding and Measuring Large Language Model Biases in International Political Conflicts

arXiv:2608.06123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Measuring political bias in large language models (LLMs) remains challenging as it can manifest through subtle differences in framing, argumentation, an

PolyAlign: Conditional Human-Distribution Alignment

arXiv:2606.13227v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Post-training methods such as supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and preference optimization typically align language models toward a single global assist

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PoolBench: A Benchmark for Pooling Strategies in Concept Representation Evaluation for Decoder-Only LLMs

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arXiv:2608.05162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pooling is a consequential but under-examined design choice in decoder-only concept representation work: practitioners must collapse token-level hidden

Position: It's Time to Optimize LLMs for Self-Consistency

arXiv:2608.05188v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite ever-increasing sophistication in language model (LM) pre- and post-training pipelines, many important failures persist: models overcondition

Applications

Positive-Unlabeled Preference Optimization For Chest X-ray Report Generation

arXiv:2608.05341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for radiology report generation are typically trained on retrospective clinical reports, which suffer from omission noise:

applicationsarxiv-cs-cv

Post-Hoc Trajectory-Risk Certification for Modular LLM-Based Security Agents

arXiv:2608.05199v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous security agents operate as staged pipelines, such as classifying network traffic and then attributing attacks to a specific technique. Spli

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Posture and Sustainment Optimization Under Adversarial Uncertainty

arXiv:2608.05256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pre-commitment posture, the assignment of military assets to theater locations before conflict scenarios resolve, is a critical and formally unsolved pr

Potential Matching Optimal Transport: Continuous Normalizing Flows for Exact p-Wasserstein Dynamics

arXiv:2608.05666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Potential Matching Optimal Transport (PMOT), a potential-flow framework for general p-cost optimal transport with c_p(x,y)=|x-y|^p. PMOT pa

PPDL: LLM-Based Flows as Probabilistic Programs

arXiv:2608.05234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building reliable applications that leverage large language models (LLMs) remains a significant challenge. While LLMs offer impressive capabilities acro

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Predicting Social Media User Actions: A Hybrid Approach for Common and Rare Behavior Prediction on Bluesky

arXiv:2511.17241v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding and predicting user behavior on social media platforms is crucial for content recommendation and platform design. While existing appro

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Predicting Task Difficulty Without Rollouts

arXiv:2608.05797v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Task difficulty dictates an agent's likelihood of success, and estimating it without rollouts means forecasting this directly from a task description

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Local Ai

Prior-SG: Task and Prior Driven Region Segmentation for Scene Graphs in Arbitrarily-Structured Environments

arXiv:2608.06170v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hierarchical 3D scene graphs are a promising representation for high-level spatial reasoning in autonomous mobile platforms. However, existing extract

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Local Ai

PRISM: Distribution-Gated Flow Matching for Controllable Unpaired Image Translation

arXiv:2608.06240v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unpaired image-to-image translation must decide, per image, what to change and what to preserve without paired supervision. Many diffusion-based unpai

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PRISM: Priority-aware Rubric Internalization via Structured Multimodal Data Synthesis

arXiv:2608.05249v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world multimodal instructions often bundle multiple requirements with unequal importance, yet most multimodal training data still reduce instruct

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