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Structure Before Collapse: Transient semantic geometry in next-token prediction
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Structure Before Collapse: Transient semantic geometry in next-token prediction

Neural Collapse predicts that balanced one-hot classification pushes model representations to be equally far from each other; a symmetric configuration that dep…

Anatomy-Guided Residual Motion Diffusion for Controllable 4D Cardiac MRI Synthesis
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Anatomy-Guided Residual Motion Diffusion for Controllable 4D Cardiac MRI Synthesis

Developing robust artificial intelligence models for 4D (3D + time) medical imaging is constrained by limited annotated data, inter-device domain shifts, and pr…

ResilPhase: Plug-and-Play Phase Mapping and Noise-Resilient Macro-Trajectory Extrapolation for Diffusion Acceleration
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ResilPhase: Plug-and-Play Phase Mapping and Noise-Resilient Macro-Trajectory Extrapolation for Diffusion Acceleration

The adoption of powerful diffusion models is hindered by their significant inference latency. Recent ``cache-then-forecast'' schemes alleviate this issue by acc…

Multi-modality Image Fusion under Adverse Weather: Mask-Guided Feature Restoration and Interaction
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Multi-modality Image Fusion under Adverse Weather: Mask-Guided Feature Restoration and Interaction

Multi-modality image fusion (MMIF) enhances scene representation by exploiting complementary cues from different modalities. Adverse weather, however, causes si…

Identifying the Unknown: Prompt-Free Open Vocabulary Anomaly Recognition for Robot-Object Interaction
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Identifying the Unknown: Prompt-Free Open Vocabulary Anomaly Recognition for Robot-Object Interaction

Robots operating in real-world environments must in general be able to recognize previously unseen objects. As robotic systems move toward open-world autonomy, …

LCAi: Life Cycle Assessment with big data fusion and retrieval-augmented generation-assisted interpretation
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LCAi: Life Cycle Assessment with big data fusion and retrieval-augmented generation-assisted interpretation

The interpretation phase of life cycle assessment often lacks structured mechanisms for translating quantified improvement opportunities addressing environmenta…

Cascaded Multi-Granularity Pruning for On-Device LLM Inference in Industrial IoT
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Cascaded Multi-Granularity Pruning for On-Device LLM Inference in Industrial IoT

Deploying large language models (LLMs) on Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) edge devices demands extreme compression, yet existing structured pruning methods…

A Pipeline for Generating Longitudinal Synthetic Clinical Notes Using Large Language Models
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A Pipeline for Generating Longitudinal Synthetic Clinical Notes Using Large Language Models

Synthetic data is increasingly used to enable the development and evaluation of AI systems in domains where access to real-world data is restricted. In healthca…

Generative Retrieval via Diffusion Transformer with Metric-Ordered Sequence Training and Hybrid-Policy Preference Optimization
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Generative Retrieval via Diffusion Transformer with Metric-Ordered Sequence Training and Hybrid-Policy Preference Optimization

Embedding-based retrieval ranks items by their similarity to a query in a shared vector space and usually aims to return the highest-scoring items. In many prod…

Learning to Recover Task Experts from a Multi-Task Merged Model
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Learning to Recover Task Experts from a Multi-Task Merged Model

Multi-task model merging aims to consolidate several task-specific experts into a unified model, yet static merging consistently suffers from parameter interfer…

Qwen-Image-Agent: Bridging the Context Gap in Real-World Image Generation
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Qwen-Image-Agent: Bridging the Context Gap in Real-World Image Generation

While text-to-image (T2I) models have achieved remarkable progress, they struggle with real-world requests that are often underspecified, implicit, or dependent…

TraMP-LLaMA: Generative Interpretability with Decoupled Instruction Tuning for Facial Expression Quality Assessment
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TraMP-LLaMA: Generative Interpretability with Decoupled Instruction Tuning for Facial Expression Quality Assessment

Existing facial expression quality assessment (FEQA) methods typically produce only a severity score, without explicitly communicating the observable facial mot…

XMSE-Aware Adaptive Empirical Bayes Estimation
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XMSE-Aware Adaptive Empirical Bayes Estimation

Empirical Bayes (EB) estimators can match the first-order asymptotic risk of maximum likelihood (ML) while behaving very differently at second order: recent exc…

Enabling self-supervised learned primal dual with Noise2Inverse
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Enabling self-supervised learned primal dual with Noise2Inverse

X-ray computed tomography reconstruction is an ill-posed inverse problem, particularly in low-dose and sparse-angle settings where measurements are noisy and in…

Parametric Open Source Games
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Parametric Open Source Games

Open-source game theory studies agents whose behavior may depend on one another's decision procedures, but most existing models use discrete or symbolic program…

Towards Explainable Adjudicative Variance: Quantifying Judicial Discretion via Gated Multi-Task Learning
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Towards Explainable Adjudicative Variance: Quantifying Judicial Discretion via Gated Multi-Task Learning

Legal outcome prediction must disentangle objective case facts from adjudicative context. Merit-based rulings rely on factual evidence while technical disposals…

SubdivAR: Autoregressive Next-Scale Prediction for Neural Mesh Subdivision
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SubdivAR: Autoregressive Next-Scale Prediction for Neural Mesh Subdivision

Mesh subdivision is a fundamental operation for converting coarse, editable meshes into high-resolution surfaces, with broad applications in digital asset creat…

Kolmogorov Arnold networks (KAN) for aerodynamic prediction: a comparison with MLPs and GNNs
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Kolmogorov Arnold networks (KAN) for aerodynamic prediction: a comparison with MLPs and GNNs

Kolmogorov Arnold networks (KAN) have recently been introduced as a (deep) neural network architecture whose trainable parameters adapt the activation functions…

fTNN: a tensor neural network for fractional PDEs
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fTNN: a tensor neural network for fractional PDEs

We develop the fTNN, a deterministic tensor neural network subspace method for problems involving the fractional Laplacian on bounded domains, taking the fracti…

Safe Autoregressive Image Generation with Iterative Self-Improving Codebooks
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Safe Autoregressive Image Generation with Iterative Self-Improving Codebooks

Unlike diffusion-based models that operate in continuous latent spaces, autoregressive unified multimodal models produce images by sequentially predicting discr…

OpenRCA 2.0: From Outcome Labels to Causal Process Supervision
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OpenRCA 2.0: From Outcome Labels to Causal Process Supervision

Root cause analysis (RCA) poses a holistic test of LLM agentic capabilities, such as long-context understanding, multi-step reasoning, and tool use. However, ex…

A Process Harness for Uplifting Legacy Workflows to Agentic BPM: Design and Realization in CUGA FLO
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A Process Harness for Uplifting Legacy Workflows to Agentic BPM: Design and Realization in CUGA FLO

We introduce the process harness, a new mechanism for uplifting legacy workflows into Agentic Business Process Management (Agentic BPM) without replacing the un…

Ask, Don't Judge: Binary Questions for Interpretable LLM Evaluation and Self-Improvement
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Ask, Don't Judge: Binary Questions for Interpretable LLM Evaluation and Self-Improvement

Evaluating LLM outputs remains a major bottleneck in NLP: human evaluation is expensive and slow, lexical metrics correlate poorly with human judgments on open-…

Compositionality and the lexicon in evolutionary semantics
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Compositionality and the lexicon in evolutionary semantics

Formal semantics has shown that sentence meanings arise by recursively composing lexical meanings, yet much of the literature on semantic universals models eith…

How Good Can Linear Models Be for Time-Series Forecasting?
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How Good Can Linear Models Be for Time-Series Forecasting?

Time-series forecasting research has been moving steadily toward larger architectures, from specialized transformers to general-purpose foundation models, on th…

Recovering Governing Equations from Solution Data: Identifiability Bounds for Linear and Nonlinear ODEs
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Recovering Governing Equations from Solution Data: Identifiability Bounds for Linear and Nonlinear ODEs

Learning governing equations from observed solution data is a fundamental challenge in scientific machine learning \cite{bruntonDiscoveringGoverningEquations201…

Designing Reward Signals for Portable Query Generation: A Case Study in Industrial Semantic Job Search
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Designing Reward Signals for Portable Query Generation: A Case Study in Industrial Semantic Job Search

Job-search platforms rely on low-bandwidth query interfaces that often fail to capture the high-dimensional complexity of candidate profiles. We present an end-…

A Multi-Fidelity Convolutional Autoencoder-Transfer Learning Framework for Guided-Wave-Based Damage Diagnosis Using Large Simulated and Limited Experimental Datasets
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A Multi-Fidelity Convolutional Autoencoder-Transfer Learning Framework for Guided-Wave-Based Damage Diagnosis Using Large Simulated and Limited Experimental Datasets

Guided wave-based structural health monitoring (GWSHM) with onboard transducers offers significant potential for the early diagnosis of damage in engineering st…

Multilingual Reasoning Cascades Need More Context
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Multilingual Reasoning Cascades Need More Context

Translation cascades for reasoning translate the query from another language to English, reason in English, and translate the answer back to the original langua…

LLM-Based Examination of Eligibility Criteria from Securities Prospectuses at the German Central Bank
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LLM-Based Examination of Eligibility Criteria from Securities Prospectuses at the German Central Bank

Verifying the eligibility of securities as collateral is a key responsibility of the German Central Bank. However, manually verifying these assets against legal…