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Alignment Makes Language Models Normative, Not Descriptive

arXiv:2603.17218v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Post-training alignment optimizes language models to match human preference signals, but this objective is not equivalent to modeling observed

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Alignment Tampering: How Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback Is Exploited to Optimize Misaligned Biases

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arXiv:2605.27355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is the standard method to align Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences. In this work, we

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Alignment Tuning for Large Language Models: A Data-Centric Lens on Alignment Data Pipelines

arXiv:2605.26442v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Much of the alignment tuning literature is organized around optimization objectives, while the construction of alignment data is often treated implici

Amortized Factor Inference Networks for Posterior Inference

arXiv:2605.26419v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Amortized inference promises fast test-time Bayesian inference, but existing methods are inherently tied to fixed models. Extending amortization to unse

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An End-to-End Learning Approach for Solving Capacitated Location-Routing Problems

arXiv:2511.02525v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The capacitated location-routing problems (CLRPs) are classical problems in combinatorial optimization, which require simultaneously making lo

An In-Vitro Study on Cross-Lingual Generalization in Language Models

arXiv:2605.26683v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-lingual transfer in language models is difficult to study in natural corpora because lexical overlap, morphology, data imbalance, and tokenizati

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Tutorials

An investigation of AI integration in sound designer workflows and experiences

arXiv:2605.27174v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence is increasingly being integrated into professional audio production workflows, yet a gap persists between the tools developers

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An uncertainty-aware Bayesian framework for machine learning classification models: A case study in land cover classification

arXiv:2503.21510v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Ensuring that predictions of machine learning (ML) classification models are accompanied by uncertainty estimates is one of the main pillars o

Anchor: Mitigating Artifact Drift in Agent Benchmark Generation

arXiv:2605.26321v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are beginning to complete valuable, long-horizon business operations tasks, but training and evaluation environments for enterprise work still

AnchorDiff: Training-Free Concept Grounding for MM-DiTs via Anchor-Based Graph Propagation

arXiv:2605.26460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformers (MM-DiTs) encode rich representations for training-free concept grounding, but existing attention-based methods oft

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Anchored Decoding: Provably Reducing Copyright Risk for Any Language Model

arXiv:2602.07120v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Language models (LMs) tend to memorize portions of their training data and emit verbatim spans. When the underlying sources are sensitive or copyrig

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Annotator Positionality as Signal: Psychometric Weighting for Anti-Autistic Ableism Detection

arXiv:2605.26397v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in decision-making tasks where they can amplify or suppress perspectives, raising concerns in high-

AnySurf: Any Surface Generation with Directed Edge

arXiv:2605.26149v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open surface components prevail in real industrial 3D content and support rendering, physical simulation and geometric editing. Garments serve as a ty

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Aperiodic and Low-Frequency Spectral Bias in Reconstruction based EEG Foundation Models

arXiv:2605.26434v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: EEG foundation models, pre-trained on large-scale unlabelled EEG data, have emerged as a promising direction towards learning generalizable EEG repres

APEX: Amplitude Anchors and Phase Priors for Target-Scarce Higher-Frequency Wave Prediction

arXiv:2605.26732v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning-based surrogates have become increasingly effective for wave-field prediction, and neural operators in particular have shown strong performance

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APEX-Searcher: Refining Credit Assignment with Subgoaling for Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2603.13853v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) connects large language models (LLMs) to external knowledge, but single-round retrieval is often insuffic

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Approximate Equivariance via Projection-based Regularisation

arXiv:2601.05028v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Equivariance is a powerful inductive bias in neural networks, improving generalisation and physical consistency. Recently, however, non-equivariant

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ARBITER: Reasoning Trajectory Basins and Majority Vote Failures in Test-Time Sampling

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arXiv:2605.26172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When language models use test-time sampling, they generate multiple reasoning trajectories and select an answer by majority vote. We show that these tra

Are Video Models Zero-Shot Learners and Reasoners in Education? EduVideoBench, A Knowledge-Skills-Attitude Benchmark for Educational Video Generation

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arXiv:2605.26918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video generation models (VGMs) are rapidly entering classrooms, yet existing benchmarks evaluate only perceptual quality, intrinsic faithfulness, generi

Assessing Per-Sample Membership Inference Vulnerability without Retraining

arXiv:2602.15919v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent work in the privacy literature shows that sample-targeted membership inference attacks (MIAs) significantly outperform untargeted appro

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AssetGen: Deployable 3D Asset Generation at Interactive Speed

arXiv:2605.26137v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While 3D generation is progressing rapidly, recent work has often focused on obtaining high-resolution assets, leaving user experience and deployabili

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Athena: Enhancing Multimodal Reasoning with Data-efficient Process Reward Models

arXiv:2506.09532v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Athena-PRM, a multimodal process reward model (PRM) designed to evaluate the reward score for each step in solving complex reasonin

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ATOM: Instantiating Budget-Controllable Multi-Agent Collaboration via Nucleus-Electron Hierarchy

arXiv:2605.26178v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems rely on optimized collaboration topologies to balance performance and communication costs. Howeve

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Attenuation-Resilient Alternating Optimization for Laparoscopic Liver Landmark Detection

arXiv:2605.26630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Liver surface landmark detection is a fundamental prerequisite for anatomical guidance in laparoscopic liver surgery. However, it remains unreliable in

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Attribute-Based Diagnosis of LLM Alignment with Hate Speech Annotations

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arXiv:2605.27025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hate speech annotation is costly, subjective, and prone to annotator disagreement, making large-scale dataset construction challenging. We systematicall

Auditing and Fixing Economic Validity in Tabular Foundation Models for Discrete Choice

arXiv:2605.26559v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tabular foundation models achieve strong accuracy on choice prediction tasks, but their predictions often violate the economic logic those tasks requi

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Augment Engineering: A Methodology for Multi-Tool AI Orchestration Across Professional Domains

arXiv:2605.26146v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Organizations increasingly deploy separate purpose-built AI tools across professional domains, often hiring domain specialists for each, recreating th

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AutoDFT: A Closed-Loop Multi-Agent Framework for Autonomous DFT Calculations

arXiv:2605.26179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Density functional theory (DFT) serves as the basis for computational discovery in materials science and chemistry, yet each calculation demands exten

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Automatic Layer Selection for Hallucination Detection

arXiv:2605.26366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent studies on hallucination detection have shown that hallucination-related signals are more strongly encoded in intermediate layers than in the fin

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Axial-Centric Cross-Plane Attention for 3D Medical Image Classification

arXiv:2602.21636v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Abridged: Clinicians commonly interpret 3D medical images by examining multiple anatomical planes rather than relying on volumetric views. In clinic

BAIT: Boundary-Guided Disclosure Escalation via Self-Conditioned Reasoning

arXiv:2605.27110v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this work, we propose BAIT (Boundary-Aware Iterative Trap), a three-step jailbreak framework that approaches malicious goals through internal discl

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Balancing Plasticity and Stability with Fast and Slow Successor Features

arXiv:2605.26357v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A hallmark of intelligence is the ability to adapt in non-stationary environments, yet deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents often struggle in such se

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BASIS: Batchwise Advantage Estimation from Single-Rollout Information Sharing for LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2605.27293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards has become a standard recipe for improving the reasoning abilities of large language models. Existing alg

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Local Ai

BatteryMFormer: Multi-level Learning for Battery Degradation Trajectory Forecasting

arXiv:2605.27044v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Early battery degradation trajectory forecasting (BDTF), which predicts the full-life state-of-health trajectory from early operational data, is critica

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BEAT: Rhythm-Elastic Alignment for Agentic Music-guided Movie Trailer Generation

arXiv:2605.27067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic movie trailer generation must select shots from a full-length film and synchronize them with background music. Existing methods either relegat

Belief-Sim: Towards Belief-Driven Simulation of Demographic Misinformation Susceptibility

arXiv:2603.03585v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Misinformation is a growing societal threat, and susceptibility to misinformative claims varies across demographic groups due to differences i

Benchmark Leakage Trap: Can We Trust LLM-based Recommendation?

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arXiv:2602.13626v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The expanding integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into recommender systems poses critical challenges to evaluation reliability. This paper i

Benchmarking Convolutional, Transformer, Hybrid, and Vision Language Models for Multi Disease Retinal Screening

arXiv:2605.26283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern deep learning offers powerful tools for automated retinal screening, but it remains unclear how different visual model families compare in realis

BESPOKE: Benchmark for Search-Augmented Large Language Model Personalization via Diagnostic Feedback

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arXiv:2509.21106v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Search-augmented large language models (LLMs) have advanced information-seeking tasks by integrating retrieval into generation, reducing users' cogn

Beyond a Single Direction: Chain-of-Thought Disrupts Simple Steering of Refusal

arXiv:2605.26772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large reasoning models (LRMs) generate chain-of-thought (CoT) traces before producing final outputs, introducing a dynamic internal state that may compl

Beyond Binary: Speech Representations Across the Cognitive Score Hierarchy

arXiv:2605.27189v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study examines the relationship between speech representations and the hierarchical structure of cognitive assessment in mild cognitive impairment.

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Beyond Binary: Turning Partial Success into Dense Verifiable Rewards for Reinforcement Learning in Code Generation

arXiv:2601.03525v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Effective reward design is a central challenge in Reinforcement Learning (RL) for code generation. Mainstream test-suite-level outcome rewards

Beyond Differences: Doubly Robust Meta-Learners for Ratio-Based Treatment Effects

arXiv:2605.26288v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When treatment effects are naturally expressed as ratios -- as in medicine, pricing, and marketing -- the ratio-based CATE au(x) = E[Y|W=1,X=x] / E[Y|

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Beyond Fixed Benchmarks and Worst-Case Attacks: Dynamic Boundary Evaluation for Language Models

arXiv:2605.06213v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Evaluating large language models (LLMs) today rests on fixed benchmarks that apply the same set of items to any model, producing ceiling and floor e

Beyond Holistic Models: Systematic Component-level Benchmarking of Deep Multivariate Time-Series Forecasting

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arXiv:2605.26562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While previous research in multivariate time series forecasting has focused on developing complex holistic models, this work advocates for a shift towar

Beyond Pairwise Preferences: Listwise Reward-Aware Alignment for Diffusion Models

arXiv:2605.26491v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Preference optimization has emerged as an efficient alternative to online reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) for aligning text-to-image

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Beyond Questions: Evaluating What Large Language Models (Actually) Know

arXiv:2605.26937v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Parametric knowledge in large language models (LLMs) is a cornerstone of their success, yet remains poorly understood. Existing knowledge benchmarks t

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Beyond Self-Talk: A Communication-Centric Survey of LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

arXiv:2502.14321v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model-based multi-agent systems have recently gained significant attention due to their potential for complex, collaborative, a

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