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What Drives LLM Self-Reflection? A Controlled Ablation of Uncertainty Routing in Armed Conflict Forecasting

arXiv:2608.12322v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-reflection is widely assumed to improve LLM reasoning, yet which component drives the gain remains poorly understood. We present a controlled six

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What Makes a Peer? Valuation-Anchored Similarity in Private Markets

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arXiv:2608.12594v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As more investors contemplate private markets and contend with limited transparency, sparse disclosures, and infrequent transactions, identifying econ

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When Explanations Betray Backdoors: Black-Box Auditing for Language Model Classifiers

arXiv:2608.12623v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language model classifiers with explanations are used for moderation, routing, topic triage, and low-resource annotation. We study black-box auditing wh

When Is a Task Vector Enough? An Empirical Theory of Implicit Multimodal ICL

arXiv:2608.13385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Implicit multimodal in-context learning compresses demonstrations into internal interventions, ranging from static task vectors to query-conditioned tra

When Local Variance Optimality Is Not Enough: RoPE-Aligned Q/K Rotations for Dynamic 4-Bit Quantisation

arXiv:2608.13365v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rotation-based post-training quantisation commonly applies an orthogonal transform across an entire attention head to reduce outlier-induced error. RoPE

Which Site, and When: A Free-Satellite-Data Test of Himalayan Glacial Lake Bursts, Landslides, and Ice Floods

arXiv:2608.12422v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Two free satellite signals carry real information about glacial-lake outburst risk in the Nepal Himalaya: radar interferometry sees a moraine dam slowly

A 12-CNOT Double Qubit Excitation Gate

arXiv:2608.11733v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Effective implementation of high-level quantum gates is essential for practical quantum computing. To the best of our knowledge, we present the first

A Factor Graph Approach to Scalable Multi-Output Gaussian Process Regression

arXiv:2608.11917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-output Gaussian process regression scales cubically in the number of observations times outputs, and dense kernel-matrix methods need bespoke hand

A Framework for Designing Reward Functions: From Objectives to Features to Human-Aligned Reward Functions

arXiv:2608.12302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a formal process to enable non-experts to instantiate and iterate on human-aligned reward functions, i.e. reward functions that adhere to a g

A Generalized Theory of Load Distribution in Redundantly-actuated Robotic Systems

arXiv:2603.11431v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents a generalized theory which describes how applied loads are distributed within rigid bodies handled by redundantly-actuated robot

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A Geodesic Cut-Cell Prior for Neural Skinning

arXiv:2608.11272v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce cut-cell skinning, a geometric prior designed to augment data-driven skinning weight generation. While data-driven methods show promise i

A Hybrid Framework of Vision Transformer and Gated Recurrent Unit for Detection of Mosquito Diseases

arXiv:2608.11582v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Identifying dengue virus-infected mosquitoes from control mosquitoes is a major challenge in analyzing mosquito locomotion behavior due to the small s

A Quantum/Classical Example Oracle Separation for Making Things Up

arXiv:2608.11648v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the power of quantum examples, as compared to classical examples, in the PAC learning framework. Here, we have two learning algorithms, both

A Reality Check of Language Models as Formalizers on Constraint Satisfaction Problems

arXiv:2505.13252v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent work shows superior performance when using large language models (LLMs) as formalizers instead of as end-to-end solvers for symbolic reasonin

Accelerating Time Series Foundation Models with Speculative Decoding

arXiv:2511.18191v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Time series forecasting drives operational decisions under tight latency budgets, and autoregressive time series foundation models (TSFMs) increasin

Adaptive Bregman Proximal Stochastic Gradient with a Stabilized Barzilai--Borwein Step Size

arXiv:2608.12009v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bregman proximal stochastic gradient (BPSG) methods bring variance-reduced composite optimization to objectives whose geometry is poorly captured by E

Adversarial Resilience of Poisson-Process Submodular Maximization over Matroids: From Robust Offline Optimization to Full-Bandit Learning

arXiv:2608.12134v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study nonnegative submodular maximization subject to a general matroid when the offline algorithm is given an arbitrary controlled value oracle. Ou

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AgonAlpha: Autonomous Alpha Discovery via Prompt Economy and Scalable Agentic Search

arXiv:2608.11250v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models can propose many plausible trading factors, but an autonomous research system must also allocate its evaluation budget, verify its own e

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An Efficient Near-Optimal Algorithm for Adversarial m-Set Bandits

arXiv:2608.12231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study adversarial combinatorial bandits with m-set actions, where at each round the learner selects m out of d items and observes only the aggregate

APEX: Adaptive Expert Prefetching for Memory-Efficient Edge MoE Inference

arXiv:2608.11688v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models are attractive for edge deployment because they provide high model capacity while activating only a small subset of pa

Asymptotic Risk Calibration for Selective Question Answering

arXiv:2608.12008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) may generate fluent but incorrect answers, making uncertainty quantification important for reliable question answering. How

Automated Borehole Core Analysis with Report-Derived Weak Labels and Supervised Crack Segmentation

arXiv:2608.12252v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Borehole archives commonly contain core tray photographs and corresponding digital log reports, but no native pixel-level crack annotations. We investig

Backdoor Decontamination Dynamics in LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.11295v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-weight LLM agents are vulnerable to backdoors installed during fine-tuning, which may be undetectable if the trigger conditions are never met dur

Basin: Efficient and Extensible Numerical Optimization in Rust

arXiv:2608.11279v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Basin is a numerical optimization library for the Rust programming language. Numerical optimization is the task of finding the inputs that minimize a fu

Beyond Local Power: Functional Connectivity Analysis for Subject-Independent Learning Style Recognition

arXiv:2608.12000v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Identifying individual learning styles optimizes pedagogical efficacy. While traditional questionnaires are structured, behavioral tracking methods re

Boundary-Continuous Cross-Camera RGB Mapping via Hue-Split Model Trees

arXiv:2608.11548v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a hue-split model-tree method for boundary-continuous cross-camera RGB mapping. Cross-camera RGB mapping aims to produce consistent color r

Boundary-Enhanced Segmentation of Pig Point Clouds in Commercial Housing Environments

arXiv:2608.11697v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In real pigsty environments, pig point clouds often come into close contact with background structures, resulting in blurred target boundaries, local ad

CAM-Guided Saliency Cutout and Image-Based Malware Classification

arXiv:2608.11634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dropout regularization is commonly used to reduce overfitting by removing parts of a neural network during training. For Convolutional Neural Networks (

Can Vision Models Read the Radar Display? On the Feasibility of Radar Imagery for Air Traffic Complexity Estimation

arXiv:2608.11810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Air traffic controllers perceive traffic complexity through the radar display, suggesting that a computer vision model operating on the same imagery may

Certifying What Helps Customer-Return Timing: A Screen-and-Confirm Test for Conditioning Signals, and Why Decay Is Nearly Enough

arXiv:2608.11555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Practitioners enrich customer-return models with ever more signals (lifetime value, category, recency/frequency, calendar, geography), and the temporal-

Chain-of-Thought Shows the Path to a Tree: Realizing Branching Complexity

arXiv:2608.11716v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain of Thought (CoT) lifts the expressive ceiling of bounded-depth Transformers, with characterizations tying the number of CoT steps to circuit compl

Chemically Meaningful Textualization Enables Explainable Validation of Metal-Organic Frameworks by Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.11283v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computation-ready metal-organic framework (MOF) databases are essential for high-throughput screening, yet many reported crystal structures remain che

Claim-Level Reliability Assessment for Efficient Test-Time Reasoning

arXiv:2608.11994v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose claim-level falsification as a principle for test-time scaling and instantiate it through Claim-Level Reliability Assessment (CLR), a trainin

CLEAR: Class-wise Expert Aggregation with Structured Sampling for Long-Tailed Classification

arXiv:2608.11287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-tailed classification poses a reliability challenge because models trained on imbalanced data are unevenly reliable across frequent and underrepr

Computational Algebra with Attention: Transformer Oracles for Border Basis Algorithms

arXiv:2505.23696v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Solving systems of polynomial equations, particularly those with finitely many solutions, is a crucial challenge across many scientific fields. Trad

Context Blindness in DPO: Mitigating Object Hallucination in MLLMs via Context-Calibrated Preference Optimization

arXiv:2608.12158v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made rapid progress, yet they still exhibit object hallucination, generating plausible but incorrect descr

CORA-Diff: Confidence-Oriented Residual Acceptance for Efficient Diffusion Language Model Inference

arXiv:2608.11235v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) update many tokens in parallel, yet practical decoders often use a fixed denoising horizon. Many predictions stabilize

CosMAP: Contrastive Manifold Approximation and Projection for Dimensionality Reduction of Omics and Genealogical Data

arXiv:2608.11269v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Omics datasets, particularly single-cell RNA sequencing data, are high-dimensional, sparse, noisy, and dominated by zero values, making faithful low-d

Decodable but Not Accessible: Auditing Distance-Based Reliability Estimation on Disentangled Skin-Lesion Representations

arXiv:2608.11267v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Distance-based reliability estimation assumes that a representation's geometry reflects its trustworthiness, yet this assumption is rarely tested unde

Decoupled Quadratic Kalman Filter for Elliptical Extended Object Tracking with Log-normal Axis Modeling

arXiv:2512.14426v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Extended object tracking involves estimating both the physical extent and kinematic parameters of a target object, where typically multiple me

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Deep Learning Based Relative Transfer Matrix Estimation for Multiple Sources and Multiple Microphones

arXiv:2608.11627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Relative Transfer Matrix (ReTM), recently introduced as a generalization of the relative transfer function for multiple receivers and sources, sho

Dialogue-Aware Video-to-Music Generation Using Public Domain Film Collections

arXiv:2608.11576v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video-to-music generation has drawn growing interest for its role in conveying the emotion of visual media, including film. Progress in the field, how

Dion3: Full-Stack Orthogonal Updates

arXiv:2608.11612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Muon optimizer incurs a significant overhead cost due to its cubic-time Newton-Schulz orthogonalization step. When weights are sharded, communicat

Direct Acceleration of Stochastic Root-Finding Without Variance Reduction and Regularization

arXiv:2608.12043v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Acceleration for deterministic root-finding problems has been extensively studied in recent years; specifically, the anchor-based, or Halpern-type met

Do Influence Tactics Matter? Investigating Prompt Framing Effects in LLM Code Generation

arXiv:2608.11513v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into software engineering workflows, helping developers write, debug, test, and maintain code

Do LLMs Take Care of Their Own? Similarity Signals Can Induce Cooperation

arXiv:2608.12125v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As LLM-based agents with user-instructed goals are becoming widely deployed, they increasingly encounter each other in strategic interactions, and fac

DonorRank: Donor Language Selection for Low-Resource Cross-Lingual Speech Recognition

arXiv:2608.11441v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-resource automatic speech recognition (ASR) commonly relies on cross-lingual transfer, where models are adapted from higher-resource donor languages

Draw This First

arXiv:2608.12064v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We invert the typical formulation of sketch generation: instead of drawing strokes in order, we predict a 2D field that defines the order in which strok