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Deep learning-based detection of cessation of breathing in pre-term infants
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Deep learning-based detection of cessation of breathing in pre-term infants

Apnoea of prematurity is characterised by recurrent episodes of cessation of breathing and remains difficult to detect reliably using routinely monitored physio…

RS-Gen: A Multi-Stage Agentic Framework for Reasoning and Search-Augmented Image Generation
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RS-Gen: A Multi-Stage Agentic Framework for Reasoning and Search-Augmented Image Generation

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in image generation and editing, particularly regarding instruction following and visual fidelity. However, when…

PhysFlow: Frequency Decoupled with Dual-Field Rectified Flow for Remote Photoplethysmography
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PhysFlow: Frequency Decoupled with Dual-Field Rectified Flow for Remote Photoplethysmography

Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables contactless pulse estimation from facial videos, serving as a vital tool for health monitoring. However, current deep…

Transfer learning-based method for automated ewaste recycling in smart cities
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Transfer learning-based method for automated ewaste recycling in smart cities

Sorting a huge stream of waste accurately within a short period can be done with the support of digitalization, particularly Artificial Intelligence, instead of…

The Watermark Shortcut: How Provenance Marking Sabotages Audio Deepfake Detection
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The Watermark Shortcut: How Provenance Marking Sabotages Audio Deepfake Detection

Provenance watermarking is increasingly treated as a safeguard for synthetic speech, whether built directly into speech-generation models such as Chatterbox, pr…

Ultra-Peripheral Collisions as a Nuclear-Structure Interferometer with Interpretable Multitask Deep Learning
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Ultra-Peripheral Collisions as a Nuclear-Structure Interferometer with Interpretable Multitask Deep Learning

Precise knowledge of nuclear structure is essential across fundamental physics, yet probing these structures is notoriously difficult. To address this challenge…

TooBad: Backdoor Diffusion Models with Ultra-Low Poison Rate and Imperceptible Trigger
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TooBad: Backdoor Diffusion Models with Ultra-Low Poison Rate and Imperceptible Trigger

Diffusion models (DMs), despite their impressive capabilities across a wide range of generative tasks, have been shown to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks. How…

Polynomial Dice Loss for Medical Image Segmentation
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Polynomial Dice Loss for Medical Image Segmentation

Medical image segmentation is a fundamental task for medical image processing and computer-assisted intervention, yet data imbalance and small lesion detection …

UnBias-Plus: Detect, Explain, and Rewrite Bias
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UnBias-Plus: Detect, Explain, and Rewrite Bias

Bias in natural language remains a persistent challenge in both human-written and AI-generated content, affecting domains such as journalism, education, and AI …

AOHP: An Open-Source OS-Level Agent Harness for Personalized, Efficient and Secure Interaction
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AOHP: An Open-Source OS-Level Agent Harness for Personalized, Efficient and Secure Interaction

AI agents are driving a new software paradigm, with the ability to autonomously call tools, extract information, manage memory, and complete tasks that span app…

Sublinearly Structured Deep Neural Networks Achieve Feature Learning Consistency for Compositional Functions
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Sublinearly Structured Deep Neural Networks Achieve Feature Learning Consistency for Compositional Functions

Over the past decade, deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success on complex machine-learning tasks, yet the theoretical foundations of their p…

Concordia: JIT-Compiled Persistent-Kernel Checkpointing for Fault-Tolerant LLM Inference
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Concordia: JIT-Compiled Persistent-Kernel Checkpointing for Fault-Tolerant LLM Inference

Long-running LLM agents keep valuable state resident on GPUs: KV caches, request schedulers, communication state, and sometimes online adapters. Losing this sta…

A Generative Model for Closed-Loop Microsimulation of Signalized Intersections
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A Generative Model for Closed-Loop Microsimulation of Signalized Intersections

Traffic microsimulators rely on hand-crafted behavior models that reproduce aggregate flow but miss the heterogeneous interactions between vehicles at signalize…

Real-Time Multimodal Activity-Aware Error Detection in Robot-Assisted Surgery
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Real-Time Multimodal Activity-Aware Error Detection in Robot-Assisted Surgery

Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery improves surgical precision but introduces complexity, making technical error detection essential for ensuring patient…

Discovering Latent Groups for Robust Classification
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Discovering Latent Groups for Robust Classification

Machine learning models exploit spurious correlations, achieving high average accuracy but failing disproportionately on underrepresented subgroups. Existing me…

CoorDex: Coordinating Body and Hand Priors for Continuous Dexterous Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
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CoorDex: Coordinating Body and Hand Priors for Continuous Dexterous Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

Humanoid loco-manipulation is often simplified into a stop-and-go process: walking to an object, stopping to manipulate it, and then resuming locomotion. It als…

Keep The Essentials: Efficient Reference Conditioned Generation via Token Dropping
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Keep The Essentials: Efficient Reference Conditioned Generation via Token Dropping

Reference-based diffusion models enable highly controllable image generation by leveraging elements from input images to guide prompt-driven synthesis. However,…

GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents
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GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents

A capability threshold I've been carefully monitoring.…

Physics-Driven Zero-Shot MRI Reconstruction with Non-local Image Priors
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Physics-Driven Zero-Shot MRI Reconstruction with Non-local Image Priors

Zero-Shot Self-Supervised Learning (ZS-SSL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for accelerated Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) reconstruction, eliminating the…

Teacher-Student Structure for Domain Adaptation in Ensemble Audio-Visual Video Deepfake Detection
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Teacher-Student Structure for Domain Adaptation in Ensemble Audio-Visual Video Deepfake Detection

The rapid advancement of generative AI models is leading to more realistic deepfake media, encompassing the manipulation of audio, video, or both. This raises s…

CODA-BENCH: Can Code Agents Handle Data-Intensive Tasks?
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CODA-BENCH: Can Code Agents Handle Data-Intensive Tasks?

Advanced agents are increasingly demonstrating the potential to operate as autonomous engineers, creating a growing demand for evaluation benchmarks that captur…

Discovering Lattice Reduction Strategies via Self-Play
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Discovering Lattice Reduction Strategies via Self-Play

The Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovász (LLL) algorithm is a seminal contribution to computer science used for lattice basis reduction, yet its polynomial-time outputs produ…

Repeated Bilateral Trade: The Quest for Fairness
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Repeated Bilateral Trade: The Quest for Fairness

We study repeated bilateral trade from a fairness perspective. At each round, a fresh seller-buyer pair arrives, and the platform posts a price before observing…

Defending against Adaptive Prompt Injection Attacks via Reasoning-enabled Task Alignment
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Defending against Adaptive Prompt Injection Attacks via Reasoning-enabled Task Alignment

Indirect prompt injection attacks hijack LLM-based agents by embedding malicious instructions in third-party data that the agent retrieves during task execution…

Localizing Credit at the Divergence: Path-Conditioned Self-Distillation for LLM Reasoning
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Localizing Credit at the Divergence: Path-Conditioned Self-Distillation for LLM Reasoning

Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards assigns a single scalar to each rollout, leaving token-level credit assignment underspecified in long reasoning t…

Mutual Distillation of Dual-Foundation Models for Semi-Supervised PET/CT Segmentation
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Mutual Distillation of Dual-Foundation Models for Semi-Supervised PET/CT Segmentation

Organ segmentation from PET/CT is critical for quantitative analysis and radiotherapy planning in oncology. To ease the high annotation cost of PET/CT segmentat…

Mitigating Visual Hallucinations in Multimodal Systems through Retrieval-Augmented Reliability-Aware Inference
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Mitigating Visual Hallucinations in Multimodal Systems through Retrieval-Augmented Reliability-Aware Inference

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in vision-language understanding and natural-language response generation. Howeve…

Bayesian Networks with Latent Time Embedding for Stage-Aware Causal Modeling of Alzheimer's Disease Progression
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Bayesian Networks with Latent Time Embedding for Stage-Aware Causal Modeling of Alzheimer's Disease Progression

Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression is often described through the amyloid-tau-neurodegeneration, or AT(N), cascade. However, most longitudinal models represen…

Auditing Machine Unlearning: A Systematic Research on Whether Models Truly Forget
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Auditing Machine Unlearning: A Systematic Research on Whether Models Truly Forget

Machine unlearning has been extensively studied in response to growing privacy concerns and regulatory requirements. However, auditing whether unlearning algori…

Who Should Lead Decoding Now? Tracking Reliable Trajectories for Ensembling Masked Diffusion Language Models
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Who Should Lead Decoding Now? Tracking Reliable Trajectories for Ensembling Masked Diffusion Language Models

Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLMs) have emerged as a distinct paradigm for sequence generation. As MDLMs become diverse in capabilities and knowledge cove…