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The Origins of Stochasticity: Comprehensive Investigations on Uncertainty Quantification for Large Language Models
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The Origins of Stochasticity: Comprehensive Investigations on Uncertainty Quantification for Large Language Models

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled sophisticated reasoning and content generation, yet their inherent stochasticity poses signific…

Policy-as-Data: Learning Generalizable HOI Diffusion Models from Simulated Physics
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Policy-as-Data: Learning Generalizable HOI Diffusion Models from Simulated Physics

Synthesizing realistic Human-Object Interactions (HOI) is critical for creating embodied avatars and functional virtual environments. However, current data-driv…

KaLM-Reranker-V1: Fast but Not Late Interaction for Compressed Document Reranking
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KaLM-Reranker-V1: Fast but Not Late Interaction for Compressed Document Reranking

As retrieval systems scale, high-quality reranking becomes increasingly important. However, most existing rerankers, whether encoder-based or decoder-based, joi…

RaMem: Contextual Reinstatement for Long-term Agentic Memory
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RaMem: Contextual Reinstatement for Long-term Agentic Memory

Long-term memory has become increasingly important for LLM agents that operate across extended interactions and evolving task contexts. Recent memory systems ha…

AI Scientists as Engines of Discovery: A Case for Development within Reformed Institutions
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AI Scientists as Engines of Discovery: A Case for Development within Reformed Institutions

Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems are beginning to assist, accelerate, and partially automate scientific discovery, performing tasks that span litera…

VideoLatent: Video-Language Learning via Latent Self-Forcing
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VideoLatent: Video-Language Learning via Latent Self-Forcing

Recent advancements in chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning have shown promise in enhancing video understanding and reasoning capabilities of multimodal large langu…

SingGuard: A Policy-Adaptive Multimodal LLM Guardrail with Dynamic Reasoning
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SingGuard: A Policy-Adaptive Multimodal LLM Guardrail with Dynamic Reasoning

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed in consumer, medical, financial, and enterprise applications. This broad deployment expands the safety s…

InteractiveAvatar: Real-Time Streaming Video Generation for Consistent and Intent-Aware Avatars
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InteractiveAvatar: Real-Time Streaming Video Generation for Consistent and Intent-Aware Avatars

Recent diffusion-based models have enabled realistic audio-driven avatar generation in real-time streaming. However, existing approaches struggle to maintain vi…

Graph-Enhanced Large Language Models for Spatial Search
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Graph-Enhanced Large Language Models for Spatial Search

There have been many recent improvements in the ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform complex tasks and answer domain-specific questions through te…

EEG Benchmarking Needs a Task Specification Layer: NeuroDoc for Rulebook-Guided, Executable Benchmark Construction
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EEG Benchmarking Needs a Task Specification Layer: NeuroDoc for Rulebook-Guided, Executable Benchmark Construction

Electroencephalography (EEG) foundation models increasingly rely on multi-dataset training and evaluation, yet public EEG datasets still lack a shared task spec…

Hybrid Compression: Integrating Pruning and Quantization for Optimized Neural Networks
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Hybrid Compression: Integrating Pruning and Quantization for Optimized Neural Networks

Deep neural networks have witnessed remarkable advancements in recent years and have become integral to various applications. However, alongside these developme…

Provable Benefits of RLVR over SFT for Reasoning Models: Learning to Backtrack Efficiently
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Provable Benefits of RLVR over SFT for Reasoning Models: Learning to Backtrack Efficiently

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated that reinforcement fine-tuning of pretrained base models can lead to significant gains in reas…

Understanding Knowledge Distillation in Post-Training: When It Helps and When It Fails
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Understanding Knowledge Distillation in Post-Training: When It Helps and When It Fails

Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across many tasks, but their high computational cost limits deployment in resource-constrained environme…

Neural Operator Processes for Probabilistic Operator Learning under Partial Observations
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Neural Operator Processes for Probabilistic Operator Learning under Partial Observations

Neural operators learn mappings between function spaces, but are typically developed with dense input-output training fields and fully observed inputs at infere…

The Impact of VAE Design on Latent Pose Representations for Diffusion-based Sign Language Production
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The Impact of VAE Design on Latent Pose Representations for Diffusion-based Sign Language Production

Latent diffusion approaches to sign language production (SLP) rely on an initial stage that learns an encoding of sign pose sequences, enabling generative model…

Subject-Level Unknown-Identity Identification from Leap Motion Controller 2 Hand Landmarks
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Subject-Level Unknown-Identity Identification from Leap Motion Controller 2 Hand Landmarks

This work studies subject recognition from Leap Motion Controller 2 (LMC2) hand landmark data under a subject-level unknown-identity identification protocol on …

Generalized nonparametric regression in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces: Consistency and rates of convergence
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Generalized nonparametric regression in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces: Consistency and rates of convergence

We develop a comprehensive theory for regularized M-estimation in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. Under mild conditions on the loss we establish existence an…

From Point Estimates to Distributions: GMM Pooling for MIL in Preterm Birth Prediction
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From Point Estimates to Distributions: GMM Pooling for MIL in Preterm Birth Prediction

Preterm birth (PTB) prediction can enable targeted surveillance and timely intervention, yet most ultrasound-based models use a single selected transvaginal ult…

From numerical proportions to analogical proportions between probabilities
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From numerical proportions to analogical proportions between probabilities

Analogical proportions link four items a, b, c, d by a relation stating that ``a is to b as c is to d", a, b, c, d being the formal representation of real world…

Have You Ever Seen Them? Entity-level Membership Inference through Interrogating Large Language Models
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Have You Ever Seen Them? Entity-level Membership Inference through Interrogating Large Language Models

Large Language Models (LLMs) raise growing concerns about privacy leakage and copyright compliance. Membership inference is a key tool for assessing such risks,…

IPO Finance Agent: Evaluation of LLM Financial Analysts beyond Finance Agent v2, with Automated Rubric Generation -- the Case of the SpaceX (SPCX) IPO
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IPO Finance Agent: Evaluation of LLM Financial Analysts beyond Finance Agent v2, with Automated Rubric Generation -- the Case of the SpaceX (SPCX) IPO

Finance Agent v2 (by Vals AI) has emerged as the reference benchmark for evaluating both Anthropic Claude and OpenAI ChatGPT frontier language models on financi…

PeLAP-A: Adaptive Latent Pruning for Lightweight Latent Diffusion Models
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PeLAP-A: Adaptive Latent Pruning for Lightweight Latent Diffusion Models

Latent diffusion models achieve strong generative performance by operating in a compressed latent space produced by a variational autoencoder (VAE). However, it…

PIVOTSBench: Evaluating Fine-Grained Interpersonal Relationship Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models
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PIVOTSBench: Evaluating Fine-Grained Interpersonal Relationship Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models

Humans possess an innate ability to understand fine-grained interpersonal relationships, which is central to everyday social interactions. Although such reasoni…

Minimax Quantile Lower Bounds for Interactive Statistical Decision Making with Privacy
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Minimax Quantile Lower Bounds for Interactive Statistical Decision Making with Privacy

Minimax risk and regret are expectation-based criteria and do not capture rare but consequential failures. To address this concern, we develop a $δ$-explicit mi…

Self-Evolution for Multi-Turn Tool-Calling Agents via Divergence-Point Preference Learning
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Self-Evolution for Multi-Turn Tool-Calling Agents via Divergence-Point Preference Learning

Multi-turn tool-using agents must coordinate long-horizon tool sequences while tracking dialogue state and policy constraints. Existing approaches often separat…

LUMINA-26: Low-Light Understanding for Modeling and Interpreting Night-time Actions
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LUMINA-26: Low-Light Understanding for Modeling and Interpreting Night-time Actions

Low-light human action recognition remains a challenging problem due to poor illumination, amplified noise, motion ambiguity, and diverse real-world scenes. Exi…

MambaADv2: Evolving Duality-enhanced State Space Model for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
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MambaADv2: Evolving Duality-enhanced State Space Model for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

While recent advancements in anomaly detection have demonstrated the efficacy of CNN- and Transformer-based approaches, these architectures face inherent limita…

Expert Consensus on Criteria for the Automated Assessment of Laparoscopic Camera Navigation
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Expert Consensus on Criteria for the Automated Assessment of Laparoscopic Camera Navigation

Background: Laparoscopic camera navigation (LCN) is a critical skill, yet its current assessment typically relies on manual rating systems which are time-consum…

EML Trees Are Universal Approximators
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EML Trees Are Universal Approximators

The recently introduced EML (Exp-Minus-Log) function acts as continuous analogue of NAND gates, providing a compositional building block capable of representing…

StreamPPG: Low-Latency rPPG Estimation via Consistent Privileged Learning
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StreamPPG: Low-Latency rPPG Estimation via Consistent Privileged Learning

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) estimates the blood volume pulse (BVP) signal from facial videos, enabling contact-free health monitoring. Conventional clip-…