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Segmentation Pre-training for Label-Efficient Lumbar Spine Degeneration Grading

arXiv:2608.04810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated assessment of degenerative pathology in the lumbar spine on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) requires access to large-scale datasets of expert

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arXiv:2507.05173v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generating intermediate video content of varying lengths based on given first and last frames, along with text prompt information, offers significan

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Sequential Kernel-based Conditional Independence Testing via Adaptive Betting

arXiv:2606.18993v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Testing conditional independence is fundamental yet intrinsically difficult: without additional assumptions, Type I error control is impossibl

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SHIELD: A Segmented Hierarchical Memory Architecture for Energy-Efficient LLM Inference on Edge NPUs

arXiv:2604.07396v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) inference on edge Neural Processing Units (NPUs) is fundamentally constrained by limited on-chip memory capacity. A

Short-term load forecasting under EU-AI Act Requirements in Safety-Critical Environments: Results from a 41-day live challenge on the aggregated German transmission-grid load

arXiv:2608.05018v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Short-term load forecasting (STLF) play a vital role in the electric power industry. It serves infrastructure that European and German law designate as

SIGNPOST-Bench: Benchmarking Text-Vision Conflict Resolution in Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.04244v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) make grounded predictions in real-world scenes by combining visual and textual cues, yet existing benchmarks

SiMDex: Mining Similar Egocentric Videos for Cross-Embodiment Dexterous Manipulation

arXiv:2608.04196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent years have witnessed an explosive trend of scaling ego-centric human videos for robot manipulation, yet it remains unclear which data actually

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Simile Understanding in Text-to-Image Models: An Evaluation Framework

arXiv:2608.04750v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Similes provide a compact and expressive way to describe visual characteristics in text prompts. Recent text-to-image models (t2i models) can produce

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SimMOF: AI agent for Automated MOF Simulations

arXiv:2603.29152v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) offer a vast design space, and as such, computational simulations play a critical role in predicting their structura

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Simultaneous estimation of multiple discrete unimodal distributions under stochastic order constraints

arXiv:2603.11532v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the problem of estimating multiple discrete unimodal distributions, motivated by search behavior analysis on a real-world platform. T

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SJEPA: Learning Elegant Latent Dynamics with Hybrid Symbolic-Neural Predictors

arXiv:2608.04060v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Joint-embedding predictive architectures learn abstract states by predicting target embeddings from context embeddings, but their transition models ar

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Skill-Use: Can LLMs Actually Use Skills in Agentic Harnesses?

arXiv:2608.04828v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on skills, structured documents that specify when to act, which procedure to follow, and which tools

SmartMage: Dynamic Modality Orchestration for 3D Scene Understanding

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arXiv:2608.05137v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding 3D scenes is fundamental to embodied intelligence, requiring joint reasoning over heterogeneous information from multiple modalities, incl

Social Pressure Breaks Majority Voting in LLM Safety Panels

arXiv:2608.04415v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to detect unsafe content. A common approach is to combine judgments from a panel of models to correct

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SparseDitto: Customizing GPU Kernels for Different Sparsity Patterns with LLM-Based Agentic System

arXiv:2608.05033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse matrix kernels are fundamental to scientific computing, graph analytics, and machine learning. Their GPU performance depends strongly on the in

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Spatiotemporal Graph Transformer for Traffic Intelligence in Edge Computing

arXiv:2608.04075v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate traffic forecasting is essential for proactive resource management in edge computing, where service demand evolves dynamically across both sp

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SpecDrop: Parameter-Free Category-Conditioned Routing for Modular Specialization

arXiv:2608.04084v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixture-of-experts (MoE) networks pursue specialization through learned routers, gates, and load-balancing losses, yet at matched total-parameter budg

SpecRoll: Fast-Slow Verifier-Feedback Adaptation for Speculative Reinforcement Learning Rollouts

arXiv:2608.04962v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models, but autoregressive rollout generation remains

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Spend Bits Where Queries Look: KV Cache Vector Quantization with Attention-Preserving Transforms

arXiv:2608.04074v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context LLM decoding reads the key-value (KV) cache at every step. Loading it takes longer than computing attention over it, so throughput is ban

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SpikingNav: Robust Embodied Navigation with Spiking Neural Policies

arXiv:2608.05078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied navigation requires an agent to make sequential decisions from egocentric observations in a physical environment. Existing Artificial Neural Ne

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Splat-Based Metal Artifact Reduction in Cone-Beam CT via Compact Attenuation Modeling

arXiv:2608.04764v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: X-ray computed tomography (CT) suffers from severe metal artifacts when high-attenuation objects such as dental fillings or orthopedic implants are pres

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Agents

Spoken Function Calling: A New Perspective on Spoken Language Understanding for Large Audio Language Models

arXiv:2608.05126v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is the core component of task-oriented dialogue systems and a pivotal link in achieving seamless human-agent interac

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SPOT: Sparse Probing and Outcome Calibration for On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2608.04419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) provides dense teacher supervision on student-generated trajectories, but standard reverse-KL training can assign insuffi

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SSC: A Verifiable Structured Representation for Bimanual Manipulation Labelling

arXiv:2608.04425v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Subtask labels decompose a long-horizon manipulation demonstration into shorter semantic segments for policy training and evaluation. Natural language d

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SSTQ:Privacy-Preserving Vector Quantization via Subsampled Stochastic TurboQuant

arXiv:2608.05127v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Achieving local differential privacy in distributed optimization while maintaining low communication cost remains challenging. Existing vector quantiz

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Stabilizing Multi-Attack Adversarial Training via Bandit Optimization

arXiv:2511.12265v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) remain vulnerable to diverse adversarial perturbations, motivating multi-attack adversarial training (AT) for impr

Stable Density Ridges: Consistency and Convergence of Subspace Constrained Mean Shift

arXiv:2608.05112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Subspace Constrained Mean Shift (SCMS) algorithm is a popular nonparametric method for extracting density ridges, which serve as a low-dimensional

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State2State: Environment-Derived Mid-Training for LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.04934v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training LLM agents commonly relies on supervised fine-tuning from expert trajectories or online reinforcement learning over human-specified tasks with

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Static Timing Orchestration for Tree-Structured Robot Control Firmware

arXiv:2608.04600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As robotic systems become increasingly complex, generating control firmware from structural description files has emerged as a promising paradigm for re

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Hardware

StaticSegFormer: An Efficient High-Performance Semantic Segmentation Based on Static Structured Pruning

arXiv:2608.04811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured pruning enhances the efficiency of deep neural networks (DNNs) by eliminating groups of parameters during inference. Previous methods mostly

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Statistical learning theory and Occam's razor: Regularization

arXiv:2608.04049v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The principle of Occam's razor, which instructs us to prefer simplicity in inductive inference, has attracted much scrutiny both in the philosophy of

STEP-OPD: Rethinking Output Targets and Internal Dynamics in On-Policy Distillation for Diffusion Models

arXiv:2608.04887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) has become an effective approach for consolidating multiple task-specialized image generation models into a single student.

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Stochastic Emulation using Generalized Stratified Sampling for Performance-Based Risk Optimization of Structures

arXiv:2608.05006v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Metamodels are instrumental in reducing the computational burden associated with nested reliability analyses and optimization loops in Performance-Based

Strategic Evaluation of Planning Strategies for LLM Agents in Cyber-Physical Systems

arXiv:2608.04265v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluations of LLM planning agents largely ask whether a task succeeds or a declared plan is followed. In strategic cyber-physical systems, a stronger

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stratum: A System Infrastructure for Massive Agent-Centric ML Workloads

arXiv:2603.03589v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) transform how machine learning (ML) pipelines are developed and evaluated. LLMs enable a new t

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Strengthening Target-Language Features: SAE-Based Steering for Multilingual Inference

arXiv:2608.04904v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multilingual large language models exhibit substantial performance differences across languages, while existing adaptation methods often require paramet

STRIVE: Probing Reasoning Limits in Graded Plausibility Generation and Evaluation

arXiv:2608.04567v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Event knowledge concerns who does what to whom. Psycholinguists use event-plausibility judgments to examine how this knowledge supports human language p

Structured LLM Reasoning for Zero-Shot Human--Robot Coordination Under Hidden Goals

arXiv:2608.04309v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a structured large-language-model (LLM) architecture for zero-shot human--robot coordination in a cooperative construction task with private

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Sublogarithmic Swap Regret in Multiplayer General-Sum Games via Hybrid Regularization

arXiv:2608.04149v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Swap regret governs the rate at which uncoupled learning dynamics converge to correlated equilibria in multiplayer general-sum games. Under full-infor

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Suppression Sticks, Locality Is Fragile: A Closed-Loop Target-and-Control Audit of Task-Vector Negation in VLA Policies

arXiv:2608.04692v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Task-vector arithmetic offers a closed-form way to modify a model, yet its behavioral locality remains unclear in closed-loop robot control. We presen

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Tutorials

SurgNarrator: A Generative Retrieval Framework for Surgical Video Understanding

arXiv:2608.04676v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surgical procedures unfold as structured and recurring clinical events, whose real-time understanding via intraoperative surgical videos is critical for

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SVI-DAG: A Structured Variational Inference Approach to Bayesian Causal Discovery

arXiv:2608.04930v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bayesian causal discovery seeks to determine the posterior distribution of causal theories, which are interpreted as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) th

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Tactus: Open-Vocabulary Object Recognition from Low-Cost Pressure Arrays

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arXiv:2608.04043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Resistive pressure arrays are the cheapest and most widely shipped tactile sensors, yet tactile representation learning has concentrated on optical sens

Talk2Sensors: 3D Visual Grounding in Autonomous Driving via Sensor-Adaptive Physical Cue Matching

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arXiv:2608.04568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As a key capability for embodied intelligence, 3D visual grounding (3DVG) has been predominantly studied in indoor scenes with RGB-D or point-cloud inpu

Teaching Foundation Models to Read mmWave: Pose-Guided Kinematic Representation for Human Behavior Understanding

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arXiv:2608.04127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents need to perceive human behavior in physical environments. Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar provides a privacy-friendly and con

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Teaching MLLMs to Say No: Generalized Referring Expression Comprehension via Refusal Calibrated GRPO

arXiv:2608.04698v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We tackle the challenging yet underexplored task of Generalized Referring Expression Comprehension (GREC), which requires a model to localize the obje

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Teaching Nemotron Greek: Mining a Corpus, Adapting Retrieval, and Grounding Generation for Modern Greek across Specialist Domains

arXiv:2608.05138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern Greek is absent from NVIDIA's Nemotron retrieval models and from major multilingual retrieval benchmarks, despite being important for retrieval

Temporal Context Awareness: A Defense Framework Against Multi-turn Manipulation Attacks on Large Language Models

arXiv:2503.15560v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated multi-turn manipulation attacks, where adversaries strategically build conte

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