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Weighted Rules under the Stable Model Semantics

arXiv:2605.09519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce the concept of weighted rules under the stable model semantics following the log-linear models of Markov Logic. This provides versatile met

What Cohort INRs Encode and Where to Freeze Them

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arXiv:2605.08298v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reusing the early layers of cohort-trained INRs as initialization for new signals has been shown to accelerate and improve signal fitting, yet it rema

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What Concepts Lie Within? Detecting and Suppressing Risky Content in Diffusion Transformers

arXiv:2605.10180v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rise of text-to-image (T2I) models has increasingly raised concerns regarding the generation of risky content, such as sexual, violent, and copyrigh

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What Does Flow Matching Bring To TD Learning?

arXiv:2603.04333v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent work shows that flow matching can be effective for scalar Q-value function estimation in reinforcement learning (RL), but it remains un

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What If We Let Forecasting Forget? A Sparse Bottleneck for Cross-Variable Dependencies

arXiv:2605.08289v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multivariate time series forecasting is critical in many real-world systems, and thus modeling cross-channel dependencies is essential. Although exist

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What should post-training optimize? A test-time scaling law perspective

arXiv:2605.10716v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed with test-time strategies: sample N responses, score them with a reward model or verifier, and return th

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What Software Engineering Looks Like to AI Agents? -- An Empirical Study of AI-Only Technical Discourse on MoltBook

arXiv:2605.08380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents are increasingly framed as software-engineering teammates, yet most research studies them inside human-centered workflows. Little is known a

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What Structural Inductive Bias Helps Transformers Reason Over Knowledge Graphs? A Study with Tabula RASA

arXiv:2602.02834v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: What structural inductive bias helps transformers reason over knowledge graphs? Through controlled ablations of a minimal transformer modifica

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What Time Is It? How Data Geometry Makes Time Conditioning Optional for Flow Matching

arXiv:2605.08344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work has shown that models flow matching models can be trained without explicit time conditioning, challenging the standard view that the interpo

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What Will Happen Next: Large Models-Driven Deduction for Emergency Instances

arXiv:2605.08599v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional simulation methods reproduce occurred emergency instances through presetting to assist people in risk assessment and emergency decision-maki

What's the plan? Metrics for implicit planning in LLMs and their application to rhyme generation and question answering

arXiv:2601.20164v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Prior work suggests that language models, while trained on next token prediction, show implicit planning behavior: they may select the next to

When a Robot is More Capable than a Human: Learning from Constrained Demonstrators

arXiv:2510.09096v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning from demonstrations enables experts to teach robots complex tasks using interfaces such as kinesthetic teaching, joystick control, an

When Adaptation Fails: A Gradient-Based Diagnosis of Collapsed Gating in Vision-Language Prompt Learning

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arXiv:2605.09549v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adaptive prompting mechanisms have been proposed to enhance vision-language models by dynamically tailoring prompts to inputs. However, in frozen few-sh

When Agents Overtrust Environmental Evidence: An Extensible Agentic Framework for Benchmarking Evidence-Grounding Defects in LLM Agents

arXiv:2605.08828v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents increasingly operate through environment-facing scaffolds that expose files, web pages, APIs, and logs. These observations i

When Agents Say One Thing and Do Another: Validating Elicited Beliefs from LLMs

arXiv:2602.06286v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-stakes settings where good decisions require forming beliefs over the probability of

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When AI Meets Science: Research Diversity, Interdisciplinarity, Visibility, and Retractions across Disciplines in a Global Surge

arXiv:2605.06033v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The extent to which Artificial Intelligence (AI) can trigger generalized paradigm shifts in science is unclear. Although some of these technol

When (and How) to Trust the Expert: Diagnosing Query-Time Expert-Guided Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2605.09109v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many continuous-control problems ship with a competent but suboptimal controller (a tuned PID, a hand-designed gait). A growing family of methods uses s

When and Why Grouping Attention Heads Accelerates Muon Optimization

arXiv:2605.08933v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Muon orthogonalizes matrix updates, but multi-head attention naturally operates at the level of heads. This granularity mismatch raises the question of

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When Attention Beats Fourier: Multi-Scale Transformers for PDE Solving on Irregular Domains

arXiv:2605.08318v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the problem of architecture selection for deep learning models trained to solve partial differential equations (PDEs), asking when transforme

When Can Digital Personas Reliably Approximate Human Survey Findings?

arXiv:2605.10659v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Digital personas powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly proposed as substitutes for human survey respondents, yet it remains unclear

When Can Human-AI Teams Outperform Individuals? Tight Bounds with Impossibility Guarantees

arXiv:2605.08710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-AI teams fail to outperform their best member in 70% of studies, yet no theory specifies when complementarity is achievable. We derive tight bound

When Child Inherits: Modeling and Exploiting Subagent Spawn in Multi-Agent Networks

arXiv:2605.08460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Since the official release of ChatGPT in 2022, large language models (LLMs) have rapidly evolved from chatbot-style interfaces into agentic systems th

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When Does Non-Uniform Replay Matter in Reinforcement Learning?

arXiv:2605.10236v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern off-policy reinforcement learning algorithms often rely on simple uniform replay sampling and it remains unclear when and why non-uniform repla

When Does Value-Aware KV Eviction Help? A Fixed-Contract Diagnostic for Non-Monotone Cache Compression

arXiv:2605.08234v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context LLM inference is bottlenecked by the memory and bandwidth cost of reading large KV caches during decoding. KV compression reduces this co

When Efficient Communication Explains Convexity

arXiv:2602.02821v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Much recent work has argued that the variation in the languages of the world can be explained from the perspective of efficient communication; in pa

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When Few Steps Are Enough: Training-Free Acceleration of Identity-Preserved Generation

arXiv:2605.09460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Identity-preserved image generation is typically built on many-step diffusion backbones, making personalized generation expensive at deployment time.

When Independent Sampling Outperforms Agentic Reasoning

arXiv:2605.08478v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study how to allocate inference-time compute for competitive programming under fixed budgets. Evaluating 216 Codeforces problems across Divisions 1-3

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When Language Overwrites Vision: Over-Alignment and Geometric Debiasing in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2605.08245v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) increasingly power high-stakes applications, from medical imaging to autonomous systems, yet they routinely hallucinate,

When Large Vision-Language Models Meet Person Re-Identification

arXiv:2411.18111v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) that incorporate visual models and large language models have achieved impressive results across cross-modal un

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When Less is More: The LLM Scaling Paradox in Context Compression

arXiv:2602.09789v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scaling up model parameters has long been a prevalent training paradigm driven by the assumption that larger models yield superior generation capabi

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When More Parameters Hurt: Foundation Model Priors Amplify Worst-Client Disparity Under Extreme Federated Heterogeneity

arXiv:2605.08992v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) is increasingly used to fine-tune foundation models (FMs) on distributed private data. The community largely assumes that large-

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When Normality Shifts: Risk-Aware Test-Time Adaptation for Unsupervised Tabular Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2605.10242v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unsupervised tabular anomaly detection methods typically learn feature patterns from normal samples during training and subsequently identify samples

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When Prompts Become Payloads: A Framework for Mitigating SQL Injection Attacks in Large Language Model-Driven Applications

arXiv:2605.10176v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Natural language interfaces to structured databases are becoming increasingly common, largely due to advances in large language models (LLMs) that ena

When Reviews Disagree: Fine-Grained Contradiction Analysis in Scientific Peer Reviews

arXiv:2605.10171v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific peer reviews frequently contain conflicting expert judgments, and the increasing scale of conference submissions makes it challenging for A

When Style Similarity Scores Fail: Diagnosing Raw CSD Cosine in Artist-Style Evaluation

arXiv:2605.09030v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Raw cosine in the 768-dimensional output space of the Contrastive Style Descriptor (CSD) is now widely read as an absolute, calibrated style-fidelity sc

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When Tables Leak: Attacking String Memorization in LLM-Based Tabular Data Generation

arXiv:2512.08875v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in generating high-quality tabular synthetic data. In practice,

When to Re-Commit: Temporal Abstraction Discovery for Long-Horizon Vision-Language Reasoning

arXiv:2605.09860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon reasoning requires deciding not only what actions to take, but how deeply to commit before the next observation. We formalize this as commi

When to Trust Imagination: Adaptive Action Execution for World Action Models

arXiv:2605.06222v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for robotic manipulation by jointly predicting future visual observat

Where do aspectual variants of light verb constructions belong?

arXiv:2605.10605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Expressions with an aspectual variant of a light verb, e.g. 'take on debt' vs. 'have debt', are frequent in texts but often difficult to classify betwee

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Where Do Flow Semantics Reside? A Protocol-Native Tabular Pretraining Paradigm for Encrypted Traffic Classification

arXiv:2603.10051v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-supervised masked modeling shows promise for encrypted traffic classification by masking and reconstructing raw bytes. Yet recent work re

Where Do Reasoning Models Refuse?

arXiv:2507.03167v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chat models without chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning must decide whether to refuse a harmful request before generating their first response to

Where Does Long-Context Supervision Actually Go? Effective-Context Exposure Balancing

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arXiv:2605.10544v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context adaptation is often viewed as window scaling, but this misses a token-level supervision mismatch: in packed training with document masking,

Where Reliability Lives in Vision-Language Models: A Mechanistic Study of Attention, Hidden States, and Causal Circuits

arXiv:2605.08200v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A pervasive intuition holds that vision-language models (VLMs) are most trustworthy when their attention maps look sharp: concentrated attention on the

Why Adam Works Better with eta_1 = eta_2: The Missing Gradient Scale Invariance Principle

arXiv:2601.21739v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Adam has been at the core of large-scale training for almost a decade, yet a simple empirical fact remains unaccounted for: both validation sc

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Why Do Aligned LLMs Remain Jailbreakable: Refusal-Escape Directions, Operator-Level Sources, and Safety-Utility Trade-off

arXiv:2605.08878v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Aligned large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks. Recent mechanistic studies have identified latent features and representa

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Why Do DiT Editors Drift? Plug-and-Play Low Frequency Alignment in VAE Latent Space

arXiv:2605.08250v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in diffusion transformers (DiTs) have enabled promising single-turn image editing capabilities. However, multi-turn editing often lead

Why Invariance is Not Enough for Biomedical Domain Generalization and How to Fix It

arXiv:2604.02564v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present MaskGen, a theoretically grounded and deliberately simple approach for domain generalization in 3D biomedical image segmentation. M

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Why is prompting hard? Understanding prompts on binary sequence predictors

arXiv:2502.10760v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Frontier models can be prompted or conditioned to do many tasks, but finding good prompts is not always easy, nor is understanding some performant p

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