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Multi-Agent Goal Recognition with Team- and Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning and Factorized Branch-and-Bound
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Multi-Agent Goal Recognition with Team- and Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning and Factorized Branch-and-Bound

Multi-agent goal recognition asks an observer to jointly infer which agents act together and what each team is trying to achieve, so the hypothesis space grows …

The Tatoxa System for Text Detoxification in Low-Resource Languages: The Case of Tatar
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The Tatoxa System for Text Detoxification in Low-Resource Languages: The Case of Tatar

Text detoxification, the automated detection and mitigation of abusive and harmful content, is essential for ensuring the safety of online communities and prote…

Can Trustless Agents Be Trusted? An Empirical Study of the ERC-8004 Decentralized AI Agent Ecosystem
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Can Trustless Agents Be Trusted? An Empirical Study of the ERC-8004 Decentralized AI Agent Ecosystem

As autonomous AI agents increasingly transact across organizational boundaries, a fundamental trust challenge emerges: how can an agent assess whether an unknow…

How Robust is OCR-Reasoning? Evaluating OCR-Reasoning Robustness of Vision-Language Models under Visual Perturbations
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How Robust is OCR-Reasoning? Evaluating OCR-Reasoning Robustness of Vision-Language Models under Visual Perturbations

Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved strong performance on OCR-based benchmarks and increasingly focused on text-rich understanding, but their robustness…

Natural Ungrokking: Asymmetric Control of Which Rules Survive Pretraining
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Natural Ungrokking: Asymmetric Control of Which Rules Survive Pretraining

Midway through an ordinary pretraining run, a small language model learns the pronoun-gender rule: cued with a girl's name ("Sue cried because"), it resolves th…

When Does Synthetic Data Augmentation Improve Score-Based Imbalanced Classification?
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When Does Synthetic Data Augmentation Improve Score-Based Imbalanced Classification?

Synthetic data augmentation is widely used to mitigate class imbalance, but its theoretical effects on score-based classification remain poorly understood. This…

Same Evidence, Different Answer: Auditing Order Sensitivity in Multimodal Large Language Models
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Same Evidence, Different Answer: Auditing Order Sensitivity in Multimodal Large Language Models

Standard benchmarks for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) score each item on one canonical ordering and miss whether order-irrelevant shuffling changes t…

MVTrack4Gen: Multi-View Point Tracking as Geometric Supervision for 4D Video Generation
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MVTrack4Gen: Multi-View Point Tracking as Geometric Supervision for 4D Video Generation

Synthesizing a novel-view video from a monocular reference video along a target camera trajectory requires both geometric consistency and motion fidelity with r…

RevengeBench: Reverse Engineering Code-Space Policies from Behavioral Experiments
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RevengeBench: Reverse Engineering Code-Space Policies from Behavioral Experiments

For most of scientific history, researchers studying behavior could only infer hidden mechanisms from outward actions: an inverse problem that becomes more trac…

Talos: Scaling rare disease diagnosis with automated, iterative genomic reanalysis
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Talos: Scaling rare disease diagnosis with automated, iterative genomic reanalysis

Talos was built to help resolve a major bottleneck in genomic medicine: human review time. The open-source system recovered 90% of in-scope diagnoses while surf…

Information-Theoretic Classifier-Free Guidance with Adaptive Schedule Optimization
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Information-Theoretic Classifier-Free Guidance with Adaptive Schedule Optimization

Diffusion models have achieved strong performance in image, text-to-image, and video generation, where conditional generation is often controlled by classifier-…

EPEdit: Redefining Image Editing with Generative AI and User-Centric Design
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EPEdit: Redefining Image Editing with Generative AI and User-Centric Design

The demand for image manipulation has seen a significant increase recently. Traditional tools like Photoshop and Capture One, while powerful, require considerab…

VieSpeaker: A Large-Scale Vietnamese Speaker Recognition Dataset Beyond Visual Dependency
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VieSpeaker: A Large-Scale Vietnamese Speaker Recognition Dataset Beyond Visual Dependency

Speaker recognition has advanced rapidly with large-scale training datasets, yet Vietnamese remains under-resourced, with existing corpora limited in scale and …

DramaDirector: Geometry-Guided Short Drama Generation
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DramaDirector: Geometry-Guided Short Drama Generation

Short dramas, with their rapid shot rhythms, dialogue-driven focus shifts, and demanding cinematographic grounding, pose challenges that prompt-level or text-on…

OmniPath: A Multi-Modal Agentic Framework for Auditing Wheelchair Accessibility
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OmniPath: A Multi-Modal Agentic Framework for Auditing Wheelchair Accessibility

For a wheelchair user, a standard blue line on a map is often a broken promise. While platforms like OpenStreetMap (OSM) successfully capture where a path is, t…

A Time-Reparameterized Cumulative Intensity Extrapolation Sampler for Discrete Flow Matching
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A Time-Reparameterized Cumulative Intensity Extrapolation Sampler for Discrete Flow Matching

Discrete flow matching (DFM) provides a principled framework for generative modeling on discrete state spaces via continuous-time Markov chain dynamics. In prac…

MedBench v5: A Dynamic, Process-Oriented, and Hallucination-Aware Benchmark for Clinical Multimodal Models
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MedBench v5: A Dynamic, Process-Oriented, and Hallucination-Aware Benchmark for Clinical Multimodal Models

Existing medical AI benchmarks lack process visibility, atomic skill evaluation, and integrated hallucination detection. We introduce MedBench v5, a redesigned …

An Introduction to Causal Reinforcement Learning
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An Introduction to Causal Reinforcement Learning

Causal inference provides a set of principles and tools that allow one to combine data and knowledge about an environment to reason with questions of counterfac…

CORE-BREW: LLR-Based Soft Decoding for Robust Multi-Bit LLM Watermarking
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CORE-BREW: LLR-Based Soft Decoding for Robust Multi-Bit LLM Watermarking

Reliable provenance for LLM outputs requires multi-bit watermarks that remain robust under editing while maintaining strict false-positive control. Existing ECC…

Deep Learning Approaches for 3D Medical Scene Completion: From Geometric Modeling to Generative Paradigms
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Deep Learning Approaches for 3D Medical Scene Completion: From Geometric Modeling to Generative Paradigms

Three-dimensional scene completion has evolved as a major problem in computer vision and robotics, and its applications are diverse, including autonomous naviga…

Project Ariadne: Prompt-Conditioned Route Generation for Synthesis Planning
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Project Ariadne: Prompt-Conditioned Route Generation for Synthesis Planning

Retrosynthetic planning seeks to connect a target molecule to commercially available starting materials through a multistep route. Classical planners construct …

Exploring the relationship between human-centric AI and firm idiosyncratic risks
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Exploring the relationship between human-centric AI and firm idiosyncratic risks

Despite the extensive discussions of human-centric AI (HCAI) in Industry 5.0, its effects on firms' idiosyncratic risks (IR) remains underexplored. This is an i…

Neural Network-Based Parametric Model Reduction for Predicting Turbulent Flow for Different Vehicle Geometries
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Neural Network-Based Parametric Model Reduction for Predicting Turbulent Flow for Different Vehicle Geometries

Numerical simulations in industrial applications often require performing numerous high-precision computations parameterized by specific experimental conditions…

Deep numerical schemes for systems of Ergodic BSDEs with applications to regime-switching forward utilities
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Deep numerical schemes for systems of Ergodic BSDEs with applications to regime-switching forward utilities

In this paper, we introduce two neural-network-based numerical schemes for solving systems of coupled ergodic Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (eBSDEs…

Tractable Reasoning and Conjunctive Query Answering for Defeasible DL-Lite under Rational Closure
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Tractable Reasoning and Conjunctive Query Answering for Defeasible DL-Lite under Rational Closure

In Description Logics (DLs), reasoning under Rational Closure (RC) is a well-known and widely accepted non-monotonic formalism to handle defeasible knowledge. I…

Training-free Cross-domain Few-shot Segmentation via Robust Semantic Representation and Matching
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Training-free Cross-domain Few-shot Segmentation via Robust Semantic Representation and Matching

Cross-domain Few-shot Segmentation (CD-FSS) aims to transfer knowledge learned from source domain to distinct target domains, segmenting unseen target classes w…

Prob-BBDM: a Probabilistic Brownian Bridge Diffusion Model for MRI sequence image-to-image translation
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Prob-BBDM: a Probabilistic Brownian Bridge Diffusion Model for MRI sequence image-to-image translation

AI-driven image-to-image synthesis is rapidly advancing, with growing applications in medical imaging. Multi-modal image analysis plays a crucial role in optimi…

ZONOS2 Technical Report
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ZONOS2 Technical Report

We present ZONOS2 8B, our latest TTS model, which achieves state-of-the-art naturalness, prosody, and voice cloning fidelity. We improve upon Zonos-v0.1 across …

TIGER: Taming Identity, Geometry, and Generative Priors for High-Quality Face Video Restoration
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TIGER: Taming Identity, Geometry, and Generative Priors for High-Quality Face Video Restoration

Face Video Restoration (FVR) aims to recover high-fidelity facial videos from degraded input while preserving identity and semantic consistency across frames. E…

Managing Task Execution for Unknown Workloads in Batteryless IoT: A Hardware-Agnostic Evaluation
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Managing Task Execution for Unknown Workloads in Batteryless IoT: A Hardware-Agnostic Evaluation

In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm has been shifting toward batteryless, energy-harvesting architectures. Sustaining reliable operation in t…