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The 2026 ACII Dyadic Conversations (DaiKon) Workshop & Challenge

arXiv:2605.02672v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The 2026 ACII Dyadic Conversations (ACII-DaiKon) Workshop & Challenge introduces a benchmark for modeling interpersonal affect and social dynamics in

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The Banach-Butterfly Invariant: Influence-Adaptive Walsh Geometry for Ternary Polynomial Threshold Functions

DGX agent

arXiv:2605.01637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce the Banach-Butterfly Invariant (BBT), an influence-adaptive Banach geometry on the Walsh-Hadamard butterfly factorization. For a Boolean fu

researcharxiv-cs-lg

5 May 2026

The Case for ESM3 as a General-Purpose AI Model with Systemic Risk Under the EU AI Act

arXiv:2605.01611v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Due to ambiguity in the wording of the EU AI Act, we examine the question of to what extent frontier biological foundation models such as ESM3 are sub

The Causal Description Gap: Information-Theoretic Separations Across Pearl's Hierarchy

arXiv:2605.02177v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pearl's causal hierarchy shows that observational, interventional, and counterfactual queries are qualitatively distinct. We ask a quantitative versio

The Company You Keep: How LLMs Respond to Dark Triad Traits

arXiv:2603.04299v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) often exhibit highly agreeable and reinforcing conversational styles, also known as AI-sycophancy. Although this behavi

The Compliance Gap: Why AI Systems Promise to Follow Process Instructions but Don't

arXiv:2605.01771v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An auditor instructs an AI assistant: 'open each file individually using the Read tool -- no scripts, no agents.' The AI replies 'Yes' -- then issues a

The Compliance Trap: How Structural Constraints Degrade Frontier AI Metacognition Under Adversarial Pressure

arXiv:2605.02398v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As frontier AI models are deployed in high-stakes decision pipelines, their ability to maintain metacognitive stability -- knowing what they do not kn

The Cylindrical Representation Hypothesis for Language Model Steering

arXiv:2605.01844v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Steering is a widely used technique for controlling large language models, yet its effects are often unstable and hard to predict. Existing theoretical

The elbow statistic: Multiscale clustering statistical significance

arXiv:2603.03235v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Selecting the number of clusters remains a fundamental challenge in unsupervised learning. Existing approaches typically focus on identifying

Hardware

The extit{Silicon Society} Cookbook: Design Space of LLM-based Social Simulations

arXiv:2605.00197v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Studies attempting to simulate human behavior with extit{Silicon Societies} grow in numbers while LLM-only social networks have started appearing outs

hardwarearxiv-cs-ai

The Geometric Inductive Bias of Grokking: Bypassing Phase Transitions via Architectural Topology

arXiv:2603.05228v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mechanistic interpretability typically relies on post-hoc analysis of trained networks. We instead adopt an interventional approach: testing hypothe

The Geometric Mechanics of Contrastive Representation Learning: Alignment Potentials, Entropic Dispersion, and Cross-modal Divergence

arXiv:2601.19597v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While InfoNCE underlies modern contrastive learning, its geometric mechanisms remain under-characterized beyond the canonical alignment--uniformity

The Good, the Bad, and the Sampled: a No-Regret Approach to Safe Online Classification

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2510.01020v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study sequential testing for a binary disease outcome when risk follows an unknown logistic model. At each round, the decision maker may either p

Applications

The grip of grammar on meaning uncertainty: cross-linguistic evidence, neural correlates, and clinical relevance

arXiv:2605.01537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Isolated word meanings are inherently uncertain. This uncertainty reduces when they are combined and anchored in context. We propose that grammar compre

applicationsarxiv-cs-cl

The (Marginal) Value of a Search Ad: An Online Causal Framework for Repeated Second-price Auctions

arXiv:2605.01756v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing auto-bidding algorithms in digital advertising often treat the value of an ad opportunity as the revenue obtained when an ad is shown and/or

The Measure of Deception: An Analysis of Data Forging in Machine Unlearning

arXiv:2509.05865v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Motivated by privacy regulations and the need to mitigate the effects of harmful data, machine unlearning seeks to modify trained models so that the

The Model Knows, the Decoder Finds: Future Value Guided Particle Power Sampling

arXiv:2605.02427v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A recurring pattern in 'reasoning without training' is that base LLMs already assign non-trivial probability mass to correct multi-step solutions; the

The Multi-View Paradigm Shift in MRI Radiomics: Predicting MGMT Methylation in Glioblastoma

arXiv:2512.22331v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Non-invasive inference of molecular tumor characteristics from medical imaging is a central goal of radiogenomics, particularly in glioblastoma (GBM

researcharxiv-cs-cv

The Norm-Separation Delay Law of Grokking: A First-Principles Theory of Delayed Generalization

arXiv:2603.13331v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Grokking -- the sudden generalisation that appears long after a model has perfectly memorised its training data -- has been widely observed bu

The Partial Testimony of Logs: Evaluation of Language Model Generation under Confounded Model Choice

arXiv:2605.01311v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline evaluation of language models from usage logs is biased when model choice is confounded: the same user-side factors that influence which model i

The Pragmatic Frames of Spurious Correlations in Machine Learning: Interpreting How and Why They Matter

arXiv:2411.04696v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning correlations from data forms the foundation of today's machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence research. While contemporary metho

The Pre-Training Study of Expanded-SPLADE Models on Web Document Titles

arXiv:2605.01407v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Masked Language Modeling (MLM) pre-training is one of the primary ways to initialize Neural Information Retrieval (IR) models prior to retrieval fine-

Hardware

The Quantization Trap: Breaking Linear Scaling Laws in Multi-Hop Reasoning

arXiv:2602.13595v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Neural scaling laws provide a predictable recipe for AI advancement: reducing numerical precision should linearly improve computational efficiency a

hardwarearxiv-cs-ai

Agents

The Reasoning Trap: An Information-Theoretic Bound on Closed-System Multi-Step LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2605.01704v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When copies of the same language model are prompted to debate, they produce diverse phrasings of one perspective rather than diverse perspectives. Multi

agentsarxiv-cs-cl

The Topology of Multimodal Fusion: Why Current Architectures Fail at Creative Cognition

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai

arXiv:2604.04465v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper identifies a structural limitation in current multimodal AI architectures that is topological rather than parametric. Contrastive alignme

Thermal Imaging for Contactless Cardiorespiratory and Sudomotor Response Monitoring

arXiv:2602.12361v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human-machine interfaces in industrial automation need sensing modules that monitor operator actions and physiological state. This is important in f

safetyarxiv-cs-cv

Think2SQL: Reinforce LLM Reasoning Capabilities for Text2SQL

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2504.15077v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) can translate natural language into SQL, but small models struggle with multi-table and complex queries in Zero-Shot Le

Tibetan-TTS:Low-Resource Tibetan Speech Synthesis with Large Model Adaptation

arXiv:2605.02496v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tibetan text-to-speech (TTS) has long been challenged by scarce speech resources, significant dialectal variation, and the complex mapping between wri

Applications

TIJERE: A Novel Threat Intelligence Joint Extraction Model Based on Analyst Expert Knowledge

arXiv:2605.02041v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The extraction of entities and relationships from threat intelligence reports into structured formats, such as cybersecurity knowledge graphs, is essent

applicationsarxiv-cs-lg

Tutorials

Time-series forecasting through the lens of dynamics

arXiv:2507.15774v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While deep learning is facing an homogenization across modalities led by Transformers, they are still challenged by shallow linear models in the tim

tutorialsarxiv-cs-lg

TIME: Temporally Intelligent Meta-reasoning Engine for Context-Triggered Explicit Reasoning

arXiv:2601.05300v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reasoning-oriented language models typically expose explicit reasoning as a long, front-loaded chain of 'thinking' tokens before the main outp

Local Ai

TIQA: Human-Aligned Perceptual Text Quality Assessment in Generated Images

arXiv:2603.07119v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent text-to-image models have improved global realism, but text rendering remains a persistent failure mode: images may look convincing overall,

local-aiarxiv-cs-cv

Agents

To Call or Not to Call: A Framework to Assess and Optimize LLM Tool Calling

arXiv:2605.00737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI architectures augment LLMs with external tools, unlocking strong capabilities. However, tool use is not always beneficial; some calls may be

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

To Do or Not to Do: Ensuring the Safety of Visuomotor Policies Learned from Demonstrations

arXiv:2605.01201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Task success has historically been the primary measure of policy performance in imitation learning (IL) research. This characteristics strictly limits t

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

TOC-SR: Task-Optimal Compact diffusion for Image Super Resolution

arXiv:2605.02767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models have recently demonstrated strong performance for image restoration tasks, including super-resolution. However, their large model size

Token-Efficient Change Detection in LLM APIs

arXiv:2602.11083v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Remote change detection in LLMs is a difficult problem. Existing methods are either too expensive for deployment at scale, or require initial white-

TokenTiming: A Dynamic Alignment Method for Universal Speculative Decoding Model Pairs

arXiv:2510.15545v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accelerating the inference of large language models (LLMs) has been a critical challenge in generative AI. Speculative decoding (SD) substantially i

Topological Neural Tangent Kernel

arXiv:2605.01110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph neural tangent kernels give a principled infinite-width theory for graph neural networks, but inherit a basic limitation of graph models: they see

Toward a foundational thermal model for residential buildings

arXiv:2605.01364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The building energy community lacks a foundational thermal model, i.e., a single pretrained model capable of generalizing across diverse buildings, clim

Toward a Scientific Discovery Engine for Weather and Climate Data: A Visual Analytics Workbench for Embedding-Based Exploration

arXiv:2605.00972v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Earth system science is producing increasingly large, high-dimensional datasets from physics based Earth system models to AI-based weather and climate

safetyarxiv-cs-cv

Toward Culturally Grounded Natural Language Processing

arXiv:2603.26013v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multilingual NLP is often treated as a route to global inclusion, but linguistic coverage and cultural competence frequently diverge. This paper syn

Toward Fine-Grained Speech Inpainting Forensics:A Dataset, Method, and Metric for Multi-Region Tampering Localization

arXiv:2605.02223v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in voice cloning and text-to-speech synthesis have made partial speech manipulation - where an adversary replaces a few words within a

Toward Resilient 5G Networks: Comparative Analysis of Federated and Centralized Learning for RF Jamming Detection

arXiv:2605.01705v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Jamming attacks are proliferating and pose a significant threat to the security of 5G and beyond networks. These attacks target 5G radio frequency (RF

Towards Efficient and Expressive Offline RL via Flow-Anchored Noise-conditioned Q-Learning

arXiv:2605.01663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose Flow-Anchored Noise-conditioned Q-Learning (FAN), a highly efficient and high-performing offline reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm. Recen

Towards High Fidelity Face Swapping: A Comprehensive Survey and New Benchmark

arXiv:2605.00883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Face swapping has witnessed significant progress in recent years, largely driven by advances in deep generative models such as GANs and diffusion models

Towards Improving Speaker Distance Estimation through Generative Impulse Response Augmentation

arXiv:2605.00721v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Room Acoustics and Speaker Distance Estimation (SDE) Challenge at ICASSP 2025 explores the effectiveness of augmented room impulse response (RIR)

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

Towards Lightest Low-Light Image Enhancement Architecture for Mobile Devices

arXiv:2507.04277v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-time low-light image enhancement on mobile and embedded devices requires models that balance visual quality and computational efficiency. Exist

Towards Systematic Generalization for Power Grid Optimization Problems

arXiv:2605.02026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AC Optimal Power Flow (ACOPF) and Security-Constrained Unit Commitment (SCUC) are fundamental optimization problems in power system operations. ACOPF se