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SpreadsheetBench 2: Evaluating Agents on End-to-End Business Spreadsheet Workflows
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SpreadsheetBench 2: Evaluating Agents on End-to-End Business Spreadsheet Workflows

Spreadsheets are widely used for business analysis, financial modeling, reporting, and decision-making. However, most existing spreadsheet benchmarks evaluate i…

Variance Reduction on the Camera Axis: Multi-View Score Distillation for 3D
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Variance Reduction on the Camera Axis: Multi-View Score Distillation for 3D

Score distillation turns a pretrained 2D diffusion model into a 3D generator, but the per-step gradient is estimated from a single randomly chosen view: it is h…

A multi-architecture study of specificity refinement and false-positive mechanism analysis in prostate MRI
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A multi-architecture study of specificity refinement and false-positive mechanism analysis in prostate MRI

Objectives: To characterize residual false positives in prostate MRI detection, and to evaluate a lightweight post-hoc refinement head for case-level specificit…

Rigel: Self-Distilled Score Adaptation for Image and Video Captioning Evaluation
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Rigel: Self-Distilled Score Adaptation for Image and Video Captioning Evaluation

Automatic evaluation of image and video captioning is essential for benchmarking multimodal systems, although standard evaluation metrics show limited alignment…

Parametric Skills
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Parametric Skills

Since intelligence fundamentally relies on efficient skill acquisition (Chollet, 2019), the ability to leverage skills is critical. For LLMs, skills, manually a…

Monte Carlo Energy Aggregation for Mobile 3D Gaussian Splatting
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Monte Carlo Energy Aggregation for Mobile 3D Gaussian Splatting

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting have demonstrated unprecedented success in novel view synthesis. However, the substantial inference and storage overhea…

OmniDance: Multimodal Driven Dance Video Generation with Large-scale Internet Data
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OmniDance: Multimodal Driven Dance Video Generation with Large-scale Internet Data

Music-driven dance video generation aims to synthesize expressive human motion that is temporally aligned with music while maintaining high visual fidelity. Des…

Data-Driven Energy-Based Learning via Gibbs Measures on Hierarchical Structures
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Data-Driven Energy-Based Learning via Gibbs Measures on Hierarchical Structures

We introduce a data-driven probabilistic framework for learning systems based on Gibbs measures on hierarchical structures. Unlike standard empirical risk minim…

Neural Subspace Reallocation: Continual Learning as Retrieval-Based Subspace Memory Management
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Neural Subspace Reallocation: Continual Learning as Retrieval-Based Subspace Memory Management

We introduce Neural Subspace Reallocation (NSR), which reframes continual learning as memory management over parameter subspaces. Instead of treating Low-Rank A…

Information Dynamics of Language Communication
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Information Dynamics of Language Communication

Quantifying how meaning propagates through communicative exchanges remains underdeveloped in computational linguistics. Here we introduce an information-theoret…

SciIR: A Large-scale Training Dataset and Benchmark for Scientific Image Reasoning Generation
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SciIR: A Large-scale Training Dataset and Benchmark for Scientific Image Reasoning Generation

While Text-to-Image (T2I) models have shown remarkable success in generating photorealistic visual content, they still struggle with the rigorous semantic align…

A Dual-domain Refinement Network with FBP-based Jacobian Learning for Sparse-view Dual-Energy CT Material Decomposition
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A Dual-domain Refinement Network with FBP-based Jacobian Learning for Sparse-view Dual-Energy CT Material Decomposition

Dual-energy CT (DECT) exploits attenuation differences across different X-ray spectra to provide richer material information and has been widely used in medical…

The Many-Body Problem of the Data Centre
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The Many-Body Problem of the Data Centre

Modern Artificial Intelligence is often framed as limited by its own disembodiment, as if giving it a body would unlock its true potential. We argue to the cont…

Grounding LLM Reasoning under Incomplete Graph Evidence
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Grounding LLM Reasoning under Incomplete Graph Evidence

Knowledge graphs can guide large language models (LLMs) reasoning, but the graph seen by a system is usually a retrieved, linked, temporally scoped, and incompl…

Curvature-Guided Sheaf Diffusion for Unsupervised Community Detection on Heterophilic Graphs
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Curvature-Guided Sheaf Diffusion for Unsupervised Community Detection on Heterophilic Graphs

Detecting communities in heterophilic graphs -- where connected nodes often belong to different classes -- is hard for unsupervised methods: classical modularit…

Defending Against Harmful Supervision Hidden in Benign Samples
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Defending Against Harmful Supervision Hidden in Benign Samples

Existing defenses are effective when harmful content is explicitly mixed into downstream fine-tuning data, but crafted samples can instead hide harmful supervis…

PromptGNN-sim: Deep Fusion and Alignment of GNN and LLMs for Text-Attributed Graph Learning
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PromptGNN-sim: Deep Fusion and Alignment of GNN and LLMs for Text-Attributed Graph Learning

Text-Attributed Graphs (TAGs) combine textual semantics with graph structure and are central to many graph learning tasks. However, existing fusion methods ofte…

Always-OnAgents:A Survey of Persistent Memory, State, and Governance in LLMAgents
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Always-OnAgents:A Survey of Persistent Memory, State, and Governance in LLMAgents

Always-on agents are systems whose future behavior depends on durable state accumulated across earlier interactions. We treat them as persistent-state systems: …

Toward an Energy-Optimized Operation of Data Centers Located in Wind Farms Using Reinforcement Learning
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Toward an Energy-Optimized Operation of Data Centers Located in Wind Farms Using Reinforcement Learning

This paper studies Reinforcement Learning as an online controller for curtailment-aware workload shifting in wind-turbine-integrated high-performance computing …

MCP Server Architecture Patterns for LLM-Integrated Applications
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MCP Server Architecture Patterns for LLM-Integrated Applications

The Model Context Protocol (MCP), introduced by Anthropic in November 2024, defines a standardized interface for connecting large language models (LLMs) to exte…

Optimizing Image Preparation and Compression for Face Recognition within 1024 Bytes
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Optimizing Image Preparation and Compression for Face Recognition within 1024 Bytes

ICAO-compliant machine readable travel documents enable automated biometric face verification. The biometric reference is stored on an RFID chip included in for…

UniGP: Taming Diffusion Transformer for Prior-Preserved Unified Generation and Perception
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UniGP: Taming Diffusion Transformer for Prior-Preserved Unified Generation and Perception

Recent advances in diffusion models have shown impressive performance in controllable image generation and dense prediction tasks. However, existing approaches …

FlexTab: A Flexible Encoder-Decoder Architecture for In-Context Learning Across Diverse Tabular Tasks
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FlexTab: A Flexible Encoder-Decoder Architecture for In-Context Learning Across Diverse Tabular Tasks

We introduce FlexTab, a flexible encoder-decoder architecture for in-context learning on tabular data that pairs a single, task-agnostic encoder with a suite of…

A Classifier-Agnostic Zero-Shot Adversarial Attack Detection via CLIP
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A Classifier-Agnostic Zero-Shot Adversarial Attack Detection via CLIP

Adversarial attacks pose a challenge to the reliability of deep learning models, motivating effective detection methods. Existing techniques often rely on attac…

Residual-Guided Expert Specialization for Incomplete Multimodal Learning
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Residual-Guided Expert Specialization for Incomplete Multimodal Learning

As real-world prediction systems often face missing modalities at inference, incomplete multimodal learning (IML) remains a practical challenge. While prior met…

Scalar Representations of Neural Network Training Dynamics
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Scalar Representations of Neural Network Training Dynamics

Training in artificial neural networks can be viewed as a trajectory evolving through a high-dimensional loss landscape. However, the large number of trainable …

SGD Provably Prioritizes a Shortcut Spurious Feature in the XOR Model
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SGD Provably Prioritizes a Shortcut Spurious Feature in the XOR Model

Neural networks are known to be susceptible to over-reliance on spurious correlations. However, the precise mechanism by which models exploit shortcut features …

Curvature-Weighted Gradient Diversity: A Noise Measure for Geometry-Adaptive SGD Schedules
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Curvature-Weighted Gradient Diversity: A Noise Measure for Geometry-Adaptive SGD Schedules

The standard convergence analysis of mini-batch stochastic gradient descent (SGD) models gradient noise using a single variance term that treats all parameter d…

StereoGS: Sparse-View 3D Gaussian Splatting via Stereo Priors
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StereoGS: Sparse-View 3D Gaussian Splatting via Stereo Priors

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has achieved remarkable success in real-time novel view synthesis, yet it suffers from severe overfitting under sparse-view setting…

The Fundamental Limits of Valid Transport Map Estimation
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The Fundamental Limits of Valid Transport Map Estimation

Many modern generative modeling methods, including diffusion models, normalizing flows, and flow matching, estimate transport maps or plans between distribution…