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Themis: An explainable AI-enabled framework for Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback
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Themis: An explainable AI-enabled framework for Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback

Training safe Reinforcement Learning (RL) systems is inherently challenging, with no guarantee of avoiding unwanted behaviors. The most effective defenses again…

The Warrant Gap: Claim-Conditioned Re-scoring for Fact-Checking
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The Warrant Gap: Claim-Conditioned Re-scoring for Fact-Checking

Fact-checking systems built on LLMs achieve high verdict accuracy on standard benchmarks, yet routinely output Supports labels whose cited evidence does not lic…

Extended pseudo-spectral physics-informed neural networks for phase-field models
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Extended pseudo-spectral physics-informed neural networks for phase-field models

Phase-field models play a central role in the continuum description of phase separation, in which the bulk free-energy density and the interfacial thickness par…

CN-NewsTTS Bench: a target-level automatic benchmark for raw-input Chinese news TTS pronunciation
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CN-NewsTTS Bench: a target-level automatic benchmark for raw-input Chinese news TTS pronunciation

Chinese news text contains dense written forms such as scores, hyphenated model names, ranges, unit symbols, percentages, English abbreviations, and mixed Chine…

UniDrive: A Unified Vision-Language and Grounding Framework for Interpretable Risk Understanding in Autonomous Driving
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UniDrive: A Unified Vision-Language and Grounding Framework for Interpretable Risk Understanding in Autonomous Driving

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential for autonomous driving scene understanding, yet existing methods still face a fundam…

Revealing Training Data Exposure in Vision Language Large Models via Parameter Gradients
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Revealing Training Data Exposure in Vision Language Large Models via Parameter Gradients

Vision-Language Large Models (VLLMs) trained on massive crawled corpora raise pressing copyright and data-provenance concerns. These concerns are particularly a…

Grad Detect: Gradient-Based Hallucination Detection in LLMs
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Grad Detect: Gradient-Based Hallucination Detection in LLMs

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse tasks, yet they remain prone to generating hallucinations. Detecting these…

Less is More: Quality-Aware Training Data Selection for Scientific Summarization
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Less is More: Quality-Aware Training Data Selection for Scientific Summarization

Scientific long-document summarization datasets commonly treat author-written abstracts as gold reference summaries, although their quality and alignment with t…

DiffusionBench: On Holistic Evaluation of Diffusion Transformers
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DiffusionBench: On Holistic Evaluation of Diffusion Transformers

Diffusion transformer (DiT) research on image generation has converged to a single evaluation setup: class-conditional generation on ImageNet. While methods imp…

GroundEval: A Deterministic Replacement for LLM-as-Judge in Stateful Agent Evaluation
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GroundEval: A Deterministic Replacement for LLM-as-Judge in Stateful Agent Evaluation

Before letting an agent operate over real context, can you prove it used the right evidence? GroundEval turns that question into a deterministic test of what th…

Error Highways: Scaling Predictive Coding to Very Deep Networks
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Error Highways: Scaling Predictive Coding to Very Deep Networks

Predictive coding networks (PCNs) offer a biologically-plausible, local-learning alternative to back-propagation of errors (backprop). Nevertheless, they have r…

Learning Moral Diversity: Modelling Individual Perspectives in Moral Classification of Texts
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Learning Moral Diversity: Modelling Individual Perspectives in Moral Classification of Texts

Understanding moral values in social media text offers insight into moral judgement formation, and supervised NLP models trained on crowdsourced data have achie…

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…