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CASPER in the Machine: Insights into Character Variety in LLM-Generated Stories

arXiv:2606.22454v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As LLM-generated text is increasingly used, especially in fictional domains, we explore how much LLM-generated stories differ from human-written sto

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CAVE-NAV: VLM-Based Autonomous 3D Navigation in Underwater Cave Environments

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arXiv:2608.27793v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous navigation in underwater cave environments is essential for search-and-rescue operations, scientific exploration, and emergency egress. Tradi

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CEDAR: Automata as Verifiable Interfaces for Language-Guided Embodied Action

arXiv:2608.27797v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Natural-language tasking of embodied agents is rarely just goal specification: users also impose constraints that must persist while the world changes

agentsarxiv-cs-cl

CF-YOLO: Context-Aware Feature Refinement for Camouflaged Industrial Micro-Defect Detection

arXiv:2608.28070v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated detection of surface micro-defects on industrial components, such as copper tubes, is critically important for quality assurance but remains c

ChainSplat: A Physics-Inspired Screw-Theoretic Model for Learning Deformable Linear Object Dynamics from Multi-View RGB Videos

arXiv:2608.28570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Identifying the underlying dynamics and 3D geometry of deformable linear objects (DLOs), such as cables, ropes, and hoses, is essential for accurate rob

applicationsarxiv-cs-ro

Characterization of Request and Token Energy Costs for LLM Inference Workloads on GPU Platforms

arXiv:2608.28044v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) inference serving is priced by tokens, but GPU energy is consumed over inference windows. This accounting mismatch makes to

CheXtriev: Anatomy-Centered Representation for Case-Based Retrieval of Chest Radiographs

arXiv:2608.28137v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present CheXtriev, a graph-based, anatomy-aware framework for chest radiograph retrieval. Unlike prior methods focussed on global features, our met

Class Incremental Continual Learning with Self-Organizing Maps and Synthetic Replay

arXiv:2508.21240v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This work introduces a novel generative continual learning framework based on self-organizing maps (SOMs), a brain-inspired natural computing model,

Climate Physics Dynamic Matching

arXiv:2608.26907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep generative models such as flow matching and diffusion models have shown potential for learning complex dynamical systems, but typically act as bl

CNeo-Bench: Diagnosing Large Language Models on Chinese Neologisms

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2608.28053v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chinese neologisms exploit diverse and unique linguistic mechanisms, such as phonetic substitution (e.g., 886 for ``bye-bye'') and visual character deco

CoCoBench: A Cooperative Coordination Benchmark for Embodied Multi-Agent Task Planning

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ro

arXiv:2608.28266v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent systems powered by multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced rapidly in recent years, yet existing embodied-agent benchmarks still la

Code as Worlds: Agentic Discovery of Executable World Representations for Physical Reasoning

arXiv:2608.27549v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical understanding and reasoning depend on forming compact and generalizable representations of the world. While modern vision-language models can r

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CommerceVibe: Learning to Design E-Commerce Creatives as Executable Visual Code via Dual-Feedback Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.27893v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-quality e-commerce creatives are essential for presenting products and conveying marketing messages. Recent diffusion models enable scalable creati

CompareBench: A Benchmark for Visual Comparison Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2509.22737v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual comparison reasoning is a fundamental capability of vision-language models (VLMs), covering judgments of object quantity, geometric dimension

Comparing Classical and Quantum Machine Learning for Regression in High Energy Physics Collision Data

arXiv:2608.28084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The classification and regression of particle collision events constitute a persistent computational challenge in experimental high energy physics, wher

Compositional Failure in Audio-Visual LLMs: Late-Layer Prior Dominance Under Cross-modal Conflict

arXiv:2608.27785v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study audio-visual conflict as a compositional generalization test for AV-LLMs: the model must combine synchronized but semantically incompatible aud

safetyarxiv-cs-cl

Comprehensive Evaluation and Analysis for NSFW Concept Erasure in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

arXiv:2505.15450v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models have gained widespread application across various domains, demonstrating remarkable creative potential. However, the

Conditional Diffusion Models for Energy-Efficient Driving

arXiv:2608.28142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electrification of commercial delivery fleets is shifting fleet routing from distance- and time-based optimization toward energy-aware decision-making.

applicationsarxiv-cs-lg

Conditional Visual Evidence Utility: State-Dependent Rank Reversals in Frozen Vision-Language Encoders

arXiv:2608.28316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Static importance scores compress visual evidence into a single ranking, but the value of remaining evidence can change after one cue has been observed.

Conformal Risk-Averse Decision Making with Optimized Certainty Equivalent Risk Control

arXiv:2608.28179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study risk-averse decision making, in which an agent selects actions while being uncertain about the true system state. The risk is measured via op

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Contact-Guided Exploration for Non-Prehensile Locomanipulation with Multi-Critic RL

arXiv:2608.28140v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-prehensile manipulation offers versatile skills for moving and rearranging heavy or bulky objects, particularly when combined with a mobile manipula

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

ContextPilot: Teaching Agents for Proactive Context Management via Fine-grained RL

arXiv:2608.28476v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agentic tasks require large language models (LLMs) to iteratively retrieve, integrate, and maintain dispersed information across multi-turn

agentsarxiv-cs-cl

Cooperative Risk-Aware Exploration in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems Using Algorithmic Altruism

arXiv:2608.28409v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot systems are well-positioned for exploration in hazardous environments, but effective deployment requires deciding not only where robots shou

agentsarxiv-cs-ro

Coordinated Motion Planning for Multi-Arm Systems via Iterative LQ Games

arXiv:2608.27726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent motion planning for high-degree-of-freedom robotics manipulators in shared workspaces remains a fundamental yet challenging problem. Central

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Cross-Spectral Dense Correspondence for Multimodal Spectral Medical Imaging

arXiv:2608.28341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Precise dense correspondence is a fundamental prerequisite for multimodal spectral imaging systems that fuse disparate wavelength ranges for subsequent

CultureConverse: A Multilingual Multi-turn Simulation Harness for Culturally Grounded Assistance in East and Southeast Asia

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2608.28405v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current cultural evaluations for large language models (LLMs) often reduce culture to single-turn factual recall via MCQs, failing to capture a common u

CURA: Certified Runtime Alarms for Computer-Use Agents

arXiv:2608.27808v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-report is the cheapest oversight channel a deployer has, and on capable computer-use agents (CUAs) it fails precisely where oversight matters. On

Curvature-Aware Radius Shrinkage for Adaptive Nearest Neighbor Classification

arXiv:2608.27634v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Nearest neighbor classification relies fundamentally on how locality is defined, yet conventional k-NN imposes the same neighborhood cardinality throu

applicationsarxiv-cs-cv

Curvature-Conditioned Multiscale Momentum with Sphere Constraints for LLM Pretraining

arXiv:2608.28442v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretraining accounts for a large fraction of the total computational cost in LLM training. However, noise-dominant gradients and the highly ill-conditio

Cut-ViT: Task-Specific Model Pruning via Gram Anchoring Subspace Consistency

arXiv:2608.28205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pruning visual foundation models has attracted considerable attention. However, existing methods focus on rigid point-to-point token alignment on a sing

Cyc3D: Evaluating Cyclic Structural Stability and Asset Usability in Image-to-3D Generation

arXiv:2608.28080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image-conditioned 3D generation has advanced rapidly, yet existing evaluation protocols largely judge rendered-view plausibility and semantic alignment,

D-TAIA: Domain-Aware LLM Adaptation for Multi-Task Predictive Process Monitoring

arXiv:2608.28236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predictive Process Monitoring (PPM) enables organizations to forecast future process behavior, such as the next activity and remaining time of ongoing c

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DAMP: Decay-Aware Mixed-Precision Recurrent-State Quantization

arXiv:2608.27513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Softmax attention stores key and value vectors for every preceding token, causing inference memory to grow with sequence length. Recent language models

hardwarearxiv-cs-lg

Dandelion: A Spherical Flower for Neural Simulation of Planetary Dynamics

arXiv:2608.27521v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many dynamical processes unfold on the sphere but the default scientific machine learning architectures are Euclidean. Applying these architectures on a

DART-FL: Burst-Aware Multitask Federated Learning under Dynamic Inference Demand at the Edge

arXiv:2608.27713v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Edge intelligence systems increasingly require model training and online inference to coexist on resource-constrained devices, while inference demand ca

DARTS: Decoder-Aware Representation Tuning via Surgery for Model Merging

arXiv:2608.28547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model merging combines multiple task-specific fine-tuned LLMs into a single multi-task model without additional training. However, merged models are kno

Deflation-PINNs: Learning Multiple Solutions for PDEs and Landau-de Gennes

arXiv:2603.27936v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) are ubiquitous in mathematical physics and engineering. Although Physics-Informed Neural Netwo

Deflickering Vision-Based Occupancy Networks through Lightweight Spatio-Temporal Correlation

arXiv:2502.15438v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-based occupancy networks (VONs) provide an end-to-end solution for reconstructing 3D environments in autonomous driving. However, existing me

DeicticVLA: Unifying Instruction Modes Based on Language and Deictic Gestures in a Single VLA

arXiv:2608.28108v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) allow users to specify manipulation tasks in natural language, but distinguishing a target or placement goal amon

Denoising-Aware Temporal Point Cloud Completion for 3D Crop Architecture Recovery and Phenotypic Trait Extraction

arXiv:2608.28343v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-throughput phenotyping depends on accurate 3D reconstruction of plants across growth stages, yet the development and evaluation of temporal complet

DensityKV: Density-Guided KV Cache Compression for Long Video Generation

arXiv:2608.27922v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive video diffusion models enable streaming generation through sliding-window attention, but each generated block is conditioned on previousl

Depth-Aware Pothole Detection Using YOLO and RT-DETR at the Edge

arXiv:2608.27633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pothole detection and its severity measurement is still an important challenges in urban infrastructure management, where late maintenance directly cont

Deriving Scaling Laws for OpenEuroLLM Models: Learning Rate, Batch Size and Loss

arXiv:2608.28308v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the scaling behavior of learning rate and batch size in pretraining dense large language models on English-prevalent corpora. Beyond scaling ex

Destroy Me: Automatic Artifact Generation for Histopathology Images

arXiv:2608.27516v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning's diagnostic utility in pathology is constrained by model vulnerability to real-world data imperfections. While current strategies favor

applicationsarxiv-cs-cv

Differentiable Dynamics and Fast Simulation of Continuous Elastic Robotic Fish

arXiv:2509.16145v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Body flexibility plays a critical role in fish-like swimming, as the spatial distribution of stiffness governs body deformation, hydrodynamic loadin

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Diffusion Distillation for Efficient Weather Ensembles

arXiv:2608.27728v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models generate skillful weather ensembles but require costly iterative sampling. We introduce a supervised energy-distance distillation metho

Diffusion models as plug-and-play priors

arXiv:2206.09012v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We consider the problem of inferring high-dimensional data mathbf{x} in a model that consists of a prior p(mathbf{x}) and an auxiliary differe

DisCTI: Who Needs to Know Timely? Automated Sector-Aware Cyber Threat Intelligence Dissemination

arXiv:2608.27967v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The timely dissemination of cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is critical for organizations to mount swift and effective incident response. When valid C

applicationsarxiv-cs-cl