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Smoothed Analysis of Learning from Positive Samples

arXiv:2504.10428v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Binary classification from positive-only samples is a variant of PAC learning where the learner receives i.i.d. positive samples and aims to l

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Smoothness Errors in Dynamics Models and How to Avoid Them

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DGX agent

arXiv:2602.05352v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern neural networks have shown promise for solving partial differential equations over surfaces, often by discretizing the surface as a mesh and

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SOAR: Regression-based LiDAR Relocalization for UAVs

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arXiv:2602.13267v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Regression-based LiDAR relocalization has recently emerged as a promising solution for high-precision positioning in GNSS-denied environments. Howev

SOAR: Scale Optimization for Accurate Reconstruction in NVFP4 Quantization

arXiv:2605.12245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: NVFP4 has recently emerged as an efficient 4-bit microscaling format for large language models (LLMs), offering superior numerical fidelity with native

Sobolev Regularized MMD Gradient Flow

arXiv:2605.11884v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose Sobolev-regularized Maximum Mean Discrepancy (SrMMD) gradient flow, a regularized variant of maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) gradient flow bas

SoK: Unlearnability and Unlearning for Model Dememorization

arXiv:2605.11592v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advanced model dememorization methods, including availability poisoning (unlearnability) and machine unlearning, are emerging as key safeguards against

Solve the Loop: Attractor Models for Language and Reasoning

arXiv:2605.12466v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Looped Transformers offer a promising alternative to purely feed-forward computation by iteratively refining latent representations, improving languag

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SOMA: Efficient Multi-turn LLM Serving via Small Language Model

arXiv:2605.11317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in multi-turn dialogue settings where preserving conversational context across turns is essential

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Space Syntax-guided Post-training for Residential Floor Plan Generation

arXiv:2602.22507v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Residential floor plan generation requires not only geometric fidelity but also spatial configurational logic: shared living spaces should be

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Sparse Attention Remapping with Clustering for Efficient LLM Decoding on PIM

arXiv:2505.05772v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transformer-based models are the foundation of modern machine learning, but their execution, particularly during autoregressive decoding in large la

Sparse Offline Reinforcement Learning with Corruption Robustness

arXiv:2512.24768v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We investigate robustness to strong data corruption in offline sparse reinforcement learning (RL). In our setting, an adversary may arbitraril

Sparsity and Out-of-Distribution Generalization

arXiv:2603.07388v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Explaining out-of-distribution generalization has been a central problem in epistemology since Goodman's 'grue' puzzle in 1946. Today it's a central

Sparsity-Constraint Optimization via Splicing Iteration

arXiv:2406.12017v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sparsity-constrained optimization underlies many problems in signal processing, statistics, and machine learning. State-of-the-art hard-thresh

Spatial Adapter: Structured Spatial Decomposition and Closed-Form Covariance for Frozen Predictors

arXiv:2605.11394v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present the Spatial Adapter, a parameter-efficient post-hoc layer that equips any frozen first-stage predictor with a structured spatial representa

SpatialForge: Bootstrapping 3D-Aware Spatial Reasoning from Open-World 2D Images

arXiv:2605.11462v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated exceptional semantic understanding, yet these models consistently struggle

Spectral-Adaptive Modulation Networks for Visual Perception

arXiv:2503.23947v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent studies have shown that 2D convolution and self-attention exhibit distinct spectral behaviors, and optimizing their spectral properties can e

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Spectral Vision Transformer for Efficient Tokenization with Limited Data

arXiv:2605.12026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a novel spectral vision transformer architecture for efficient tokenization in limited data, with an emphasis on medical imaging. We outline

Split the Differences, Pool the Rest: Provably Efficient Multi-Objective Imitation

arXiv:2605.12000v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work investigates multi-objective imitation learning: the problem of recovering policies that lie on the Pareto front given demonstrations from mul

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SplitFed-CL: A Split Federated Co-Learning Framework for Medical Image Segmentation with Inaccurate Labels

arXiv:2605.11060v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Split Federated Learning (SplitFed) combines federated and split learning to preserve privacy while reducing client-side computation. However, in medi

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Spurious Correlation Learning in Preference Optimization: Mechanisms, Consequences, and Mitigation via Tie Training

arXiv:2605.11134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Preference learning methods such as Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) are known to induce reliance on spurious correlations, leading to sycophancy an

SRG: Score-based Relaxation-guided Generation for Mixed Integer Linear Programming

arXiv:2603.24033v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose Score-based Relaxation-guided Generation (SRG), a generative framework based on an approximate formulation of relaxation-guided stochasti

STAGE: Tackling Semantic Drift in Multimodal Federated Graph Learning

arXiv:2605.11919v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated graph learning (FGL) enables collaborative training on graph data across multiple clients. As graph data increasingly contain multimodal node

STAPO: Stabilizing Reinforcement Learning for LLMs by Silencing Rare Spurious Tokens

arXiv:2602.15620v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has significantly improved large language model reasoning, but existing RL fine-tuning methods rely heavily on heuristic

Stationary MMD Points

arXiv:2505.20754v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Approximation of a target probability distribution using a finite set of points is a problem of fundamental importance in numerical integratio

Steerable Neural ODEs on Homogeneous Spaces

arXiv:2605.11133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce steerable neural ordinary differential equations on homogeneous spaces M=G/H. These models constitute a novel geometric extension of manifo

Steering Without Breaking: Mechanistically Informed Interventions for Discrete Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2605.10971v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Discrete diffusion language models (DLMs) generate text by iteratively denoising all positions in parallel, offering an alternative to autoregressive

StepCodeReasoner: Aligning Code Reasoning with Stepwise Execution Traces via Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2605.11922v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing code reasoning methods primarily supervise final code outputs, ignoring intermediate states, often leading to reward hacking where correct an

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Stochastic Minimum-Cost Reach-Avoid Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2605.11975v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study stochastic minimum-cost reach-avoid reinforcement learning, where an agent must satisfy a reach-avoid specification with probability at least p

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StoicLLM: Preference Optimization for Philosophical Alignment in Small Language Models

arXiv:2605.11483v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While large language models excel at factual adaptation, their ability to internalize nuanced philosophical frameworks under severe data constraints rem

Stop Marginalizing My Dreams: Model Inversion via Laplace Kernel for Continual Learning

arXiv:2605.11804v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data-free continual learning (DFCIL) relies on model inversion to synthesize pseudo-samples and mitigate catastrophic forgetting. However, existing in

Stopping Computation for Converged Tokens in Masked Diffusion-LM Decoding

arXiv:2602.06412v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Masked Diffusion Language Models generate sequences via iterative sampling that progressively unmasks tokens. However, they still recompute the atte

Stories in Space: In-Context Learning Trajectories in Conceptual Belief Space

arXiv:2605.12412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) update their behavior in context, which can be viewed as a form of Bayesian inference. However, the structure of the latent

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STRABLE: Benchmarking Tabular Machine Learning with Strings

arXiv:2605.12292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Benchmarking tabular learning has revealed the benefit of dedicated architectures, pushing the state of the art. But real-world tables often contain str

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Strategically Deceptive Model Deployment in Performative Prediction

arXiv:2506.09044v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine Learning systems are increasingly deployed in decision-making settings that shape user behavior and, in turn, the data on which future decis

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Streaming of rendered content with adaptive frame rate and resolution

arXiv:2605.10995v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Streaming rendered content is an attractive way to bring high-quality graphics to billions of mobile devices that do not have sufficient rendering pow

STRIDE: Training-Free Diversity Guidance via PCA-Directed Feature Perturbation in Single-Step Diffusion Models

arXiv:2605.11494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distilled one-step (T=1) or few-step (Tleq4) diffusion models enable real-time image generation but often exhibit reduced sample diversity compared to t

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Structural Interpretations of Protein Language Model Representations via Differentiable Graph Partitioning

arXiv:2605.10985v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Protein language models such as ESM-2 learn rich residue representations that achieve strong performance on protein function prediction, but their featu

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STRUM: A Spectral Transcription and Rhythm Understanding Model for End-to-End Generation of Playable Rhythm-Game Charts

arXiv:2605.12135v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present STRUM (Spectral Transcription and Rhythm Understanding Model), an audio-to-chart pipeline that converts raw recordings into playable Clone

Support-Proximity Augmented Diffusion Estimation for Offline Black-Box Optimization

arXiv:2605.11246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline black-box optimization aims to discover novel designs with high property scores using only a static dataset, a task fundamentally challenged by

SURGE: Surrogate Gradient Adaptation in Binary Neural Networks

arXiv:2605.10989v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The training of Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) is fundamentally based on gradient approximation for non-differentiable binarization operations (e.g., sig

SurvBench: A Standardised Preprocessing Pipeline for Multi-Modal Electronic Health Record Survival Analysis

arXiv:2511.11935v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep-learning survival models for electronic health record (EHR) data are hard to compare across papers because the upstream preprocessing step, whi

SyncDPO: Enhancing Temporal Synchronization in Video-Audio Joint Generation via Preference Learning

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arXiv:2605.12179v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements in video-audio joint generation have achieved remarkable success in semantic correspondence. However, achieving precise temporal syn

Synthetic Function Demonstrations Improve Generation in Low-Resource Programming Languages

arXiv:2503.18760v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A key consideration when training an LLM is whether the target language is more or less resourced, for example English compared to Welsh, or Python

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TabDLM: Free-Form Tabular Data Generation via Joint Numerical-Language Diffusion

arXiv:2602.22586v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Synthetic tabular data generation has attracted growing attention due to its importance for data augmentation, foundation models, and privacy.

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Tackling Fake Forgetting through Uncertainty Quantification

arXiv:2501.19403v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine unlearning seeks to remove the influence of specified data from a trained model. While the unlearning accuracy provides a widely used metric

Tacmap: Bridging the Tactile Sim-to-Real Gap via Geometry-Consistent Penetration Depth Map

arXiv:2602.21625v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Based Tactile Sensors (VBTS) are essential for achieving dexterous robotic manipulation, yet the tactile sim-to-real gap remains a fundamenta

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Taking the Road Less Scheduled with Adaptive Polyak Steps

arXiv:2511.07767v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Schedule-Free SGD, proposed in [Defazio et al., 2024], achieves optimal convergence rates without requiring the training horizon in advance, by repl

Taming Extreme Tokens: Covariance-Aware GRPO with Gaussian-Kernel Advantage Reweighting

arXiv:2605.11538v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has emerged as a promising approach for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models. However

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