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Simultaneous Latent Budget Trees for Stratified Classification
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Simultaneous Latent Budget Trees for Stratified Classification

In the era of Explainable Artificial Intelligence, there is a renewed focus on single trees for their ease of interpretation. This paper introduces Simultaneous…

DuET: Dual Expert Trajectories for Diffusion Image Editing
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DuET: Dual Expert Trajectories for Diffusion Image Editing

Recent diffusion editors perform diverse instruction-based edits while conditioning on the source image at every denoising step. Yet persistent source-image con…

OR-Action: Multi-Role Video Understanding with Fine-Grained Actions
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OR-Action: Multi-Role Video Understanding with Fine-Grained Actions

Fine-grained understanding of operating room (OR) activity could enable workflow-aware assistance, yet remains difficult due to clutter, occlusions, and limited…

From Passive Generation to Investigation: A Proactive Scientific Peer Review Agent
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From Passive Generation to Investigation: A Proactive Scientific Peer Review Agent

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in automating scientific peer review. However, existing approaches often struggle to generate in-depth reviews s…

IterCAD: An Iterative Multimodal Agent for Visually-Grounded CAD Generation and Editing
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IterCAD: An Iterative Multimodal Agent for Visually-Grounded CAD Generation and Editing

Computer-Aided Design is pivotal in modern manufacturing, yet existing automated methods predominantly rely on open-loop, one-shot generation, creating a mismat…

MoVerse: Real-Time Video World Modeling with Panoramic Gaussian Scaffold
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MoVerse: Real-Time Video World Modeling with Panoramic Gaussian Scaffold

We present MoVerse, a real-time video world model that creates an interactively navigable scene from a single narrow-field-of-view image. This setting is challe…

SmartFont: Dynamic Condition Allocation for Few-Shot Font Generation
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SmartFont: Dynamic Condition Allocation for Few-Shot Font Generation

Few-shot font generation simultaneously requires global structural completeness and fine-grained local style fidelity. Existing methods usually either rely on g…

Person Identification from Contextual Motion
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Person Identification from Contextual Motion

We consider the problem of identifying people based on their motion styles. We present a generative model describing the action instance creation process and de…

Accelerating Speculative Diffusions via Block Verification
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Accelerating Speculative Diffusions via Block Verification

Speculative decoding speeds up LLM inference by using a draft model to generate tokens, with an acceptance-rejection scheme that ensures that the output matches…

Uncertainty Estimation for Molecular Diffusion Models
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Uncertainty Estimation for Molecular Diffusion Models

Diffusion models have seen wide adoption for 3D molecular generation, yet they offer no principled signal of when a generated molecule is likely to be of low qu…

Adaptive Turn-Taking for Real-time Multi-Party Voice Agents
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Adaptive Turn-Taking for Real-time Multi-Party Voice Agents

Turn-taking in multi-party spoken conversations remains a fundamental challenge for voice-based agents, particularly under dynamic floor competition and varying…

ArogyaSutra: A Multi-Agent Framework for Multimodal Medical Reasoning in Indic Languages
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ArogyaSutra: A Multi-Agent Framework for Multimodal Medical Reasoning in Indic Languages

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown promising reasoning capabilities in general domains, yet their performance remains limited in specialized se…

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning from Delayed Marketplace Feedback for Objective-Weight Adaptation in Three-Sided Dispatch
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Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning from Delayed Marketplace Feedback for Objective-Weight Adaptation in Three-Sided Dispatch

Dispatch in three-sided marketplaces provides a natural setting for reinforcement learning from world feedback: decisions are evaluated by delayed operational o…

Distribution-Agnostic Robust Trajectory Optimization via Chance-Constrained Reinforcement Learning
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Distribution-Agnostic Robust Trajectory Optimization via Chance-Constrained Reinforcement Learning

This paper presents a distribution-agnostic robust trajectory-optimization framework based on chance-constrained reinforcement learning. The uncertainty is repr…

Reasoning as Pattern Matching: Shared Mechanisms in Human and LLM Everyday Reasoning
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Reasoning as Pattern Matching: Shared Mechanisms in Human and LLM Everyday Reasoning

When large language models (LLMs) fail to generalize or make haphazard errors in reasoning, it is often taken as evidence that LLMs are not truly reasoning, but…

Beyond Runtime Enforcement: Shield Synthesis as Defensibility Analysis for Adversarial Networks
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Beyond Runtime Enforcement: Shield Synthesis as Defensibility Analysis for Adversarial Networks

Shielded reinforcement learning is typically presented as a runtime safety mechanism that compiles temporal-logic specifications into automata restricting an ag…

Generative Modeling of Bach-Style Symbolic Music: A Comparative Study of Autoregressive, Latent-Variable, and Adversarial Approaches
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Generative Modeling of Bach-Style Symbolic Music: A Comparative Study of Autoregressive, Latent-Variable, and Adversarial Approaches

We study generative modeling of Bach-style symbolic piano music using a shared MIDI corpus and three model families: autoregressive LSTMs with attention, latent…

Surflo: Consistent 3D Surface Flow Model with Global State
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Surflo: Consistent 3D Surface Flow Model with Global State

Geometry is invariant to viewpoint, which makes any collection of images a redundant encoding of a single 3D state. Existing feed-forward reconstruction models …

Understanding Truncated Positional Encodings for Graph Neural Networks
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Understanding Truncated Positional Encodings for Graph Neural Networks

Positional encodings (PEs) enhance the power of graph neural networks (GNNs), both theoretically and empirically. Two of the most popular families of PEs - spec…

Modality Forcing for Scalable Spatial Generation
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Modality Forcing for Scalable Spatial Generation

Text-to-image (T2I) models contain rich spatial priors. Synthesizing photorealistic, cluttered scenes requires an understanding of geometry, including perspecti…

InterleaveThinker: Reinforcing Agentic Interleaved Generation
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InterleaveThinker: Reinforcing Agentic Interleaved Generation

Recent image generators have demonstrated impressive photorealism and instruction-following capabilities in single-image generation and editing. However, constr…

EvoArena: Tracking Memory Evolution for Robust LLM Agents in Dynamic Environments
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EvoArena: Tracking Memory Evolution for Robust LLM Agents in Dynamic Environments

Large language model (LLM) agents have achieved strong performance on a wide range of benchmarks, yet most evaluations assume static environments. In contrast, …

13 hands-on demos to build on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
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13 hands-on demos to build on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

Earlier this year, we introduced Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, where you can build, scale, govern, and optimize agents. Today, we’re sharing 13 demos that w…

How Smartsheet built a remote MCP server on AWS
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How Smartsheet built a remote MCP server on AWS

In this post, we cover a high-level view of the Smartsheet remote MCP architecture, with a focus on the AWS infrastructure behind it. This includes security, go…

NVIDIA Vera Rubin Maximizes Intelligence per Dollar for Post-Training Workloads – a Key Metric for Agentic AI
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NVIDIA Vera Rubin Maximizes Intelligence per Dollar for Post-Training Workloads – a Key Metric for Agentic AI

Lowest cost per token from extreme codesign maximizes intelligence per dollar for post-training in the agentic era.…

Google is a Leader and positioned furthest in Vision and highest in Execution in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms
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Google is a Leader and positioned furthest in Vision and highest in Execution in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms

For the second consecutive year, Google has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Conversational AI Platforms. Google received the furthest an…

What the 2026 World Cup reveals about the next generation of sports fans
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What the 2026 World Cup reveals about the next generation of sports fans

This year’s tournament offers a window into consumers’ changing behaviors, desire for community, and focus on identity—especially among Latino fans. Are busines…

NVIDIA Introduces New Jetson Thor Computers to Advance Mainstream Robotics and Edge AI
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NVIDIA Introduces New Jetson Thor Computers to Advance Mainstream Robotics and Edge AI

General-purpose robots and autonomous machines are moving from research labs to real-world mass-market deployment, creating demand for compact, power-efficient …

GPT-Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness
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GPT-Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness

Explore GPT-Red, OpenAI’s automated red teaming system that uses self-play to improve AI safety, alignment, and prompt injection robustness.…

Measuring Balance of Payments Deficits
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Measuring Balance of Payments Deficits

Balance-of-payments (BOP) deficits have occupied the attention of policymakers and economists for decades, and recent developments have brought renewed interest…