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Curated daily papers, lab research blogs and national AI research programs across the US, China, EU, UK, Japan and beyond.
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30 storiesCommunicability-Inspired Positional Encoding (CIPE)
Positional encodings (PEs) are essential for Transformers. Yet designing effective PEs for non-Euclidean graphs remains challenging. Such encodings should ideal…
Sarashina2.2-TTS: Tackling Kanji Polyphony in Japanese Speech Generation via Data Scaling and Targeted Data Synthesis
While large language model (LLM)-based text-to-speech (TTS) systems have achieved high-quality speech synthesis, most existing systems focus on English and Chin…
Conformal Recovery-Deadline Certificates for Runtime Assurance of Adapting Controllers
Runtime assurance (RTA) protects a safety-critical system by switching from an advanced controller to a verified safe controller when a monitored condition is v…
DFMU: Data-Frugal Machine Unlearning
Machine unlearning is an emerging domain that ensures the safe removal of elements (includes concepts, attributes, entity and class) from the trained model alon…
PolicyAlign: Direct Policy-Based Safety Alignment for Large Language Models
Safety alignment of large language models (LLMs) typically depends on high-quality supervision data, such as safe demonstrations or preference pairs. However, i…
Does Translation-Enhanced Speech Encoder Pre-training Affect Speech LLMs?
Connecting a pre-trained speech encoder to a Large Language Model (LLM) is the standard architecture for building Speech LLMs. However, a structural misalignmen…
Overview of HIPE-2026: Person-Place Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Texts
Was this person ever at that place, and if so, when? Answering such questions from noisy, multilingual historical documents is the central challenge of HIPE-202…
Otter Weather: Skillful and Computationally Efficient Medium-Range Weather Forecasting
State-of-the-art medium-range AI weather models can outperform traditional Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) but require massive training budgets. This restric…
From Hallucination to Grounding: Diagnosing Visual Spatial Intelligence via CRISP
Current VLM evaluations often conflate language priors with genuine spatial reasoning. To address this, we introduce CRISP, a novel structural-diagnostic evalua…
Extracting Neural Materials from Multi-view Images
Neural materials can represent complex specular reflections and scattering effects in a compact, universal basis. However, acquiring and authoring such material…
Native space based pipelines outperform template space based pipeline in subcortical segmentation
Accurate segmentation of subcortical regions is critical for neurosurgical planning and functional research. Most automated methods rely on template space coreg…
Adversarial Domain Prompt Tuning and Generation for Single Domain Generalization
Single domain generalization (SDG) aims to learn a robust model, which could perform well on many unseen domains while there is only one single domain available…
Training the Orchestrator: A Supervised Approach to End-to-End PDDL Planning with LLM Agents
Translating natural-language planning intent into verified plans is a longstanding challenge: people communicate goals in language, while classical planners req…
Reliability-Guided Adaptive Ensembling for Robust Test-Time Adaptation
Test-time adaptation (TTA) can mitigate domain shift without source data, but it is highly brittle under adversarially contaminated test streams, where corrupte…
Enhancing Road Safety: An IoT-Based Accident Detection and Prevention Mechanism
Road traffic accidents remain a critical global crisis, consistently serving as a primary driver of preventable mortality and severe injury. These incidents are…
Curvature-Adaptive Consistency Flow Matching: Autonomous Trajectory Optimization via Reinforcement Learning
Consistency distillation has significantly accelerated the inference of diffusion models. In this work, we reveal an intriguing asymmetry: while Logit-Normal sa…
Code Isn't Memory: A Structural Codebase Index Inside a Coding Agent
Coding agents now interleave LLMs with retrieval over the working repository, and retrieval implementations vary widely across deployed harnesses. Inside a fixe…
Curvature-aware 3D length estimation of greenhouse cucumbers using RGB-D imaging and cubic spline arc-length integration
Commercial greenhouse cucumber production is graded by fruit length, which drives harvest scheduling, labour allocation, and logistics. Manual measurement with …
Projection-Volume Fidelity Divergence: Diagnosing and Controlling Optimization Drift in Sparse-View 3D Gaussian Tomography
Sparse-view computed tomography is a severely ill-posed inverse problem, where recent 3D Gaussian Splatting methods offer an efficient explicit representation f…
Automated sign detection across the Electronic Babylonian Library: A large-scale dataset and end-to-end cuneiform OCR pipeline
Learning to read cuneiform tablets is an extremely demanding task; consequently, of the roughly half million excavated tablets, only a small fraction has been a…
Federated Learning for Global Carbon Emission Forecasting: A Hybrid Time-Series Approach with Statistical and Neural Models
Climate change, primarily driven by carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, requires accurate forecasting tools to support effective mitigation policies and sustainable…
4DVLT: Dynamic Scene Understanding with Worldline-Centered Vision-Language Tracking
4D dynamic scene understanding requires grounding language to a persistent worldline that binds identity, metric 3D motion, and synchronized multi-view 2D proje…
Physiology-Aware CNN and Zero-Shot Multimodal LLMs for ECG Image Classification: A Comparative Study
Multimodal large language models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted to interpret 12-lead ECG images, though the interpretations often lack validation. However, ECG…
Scene-agnostic ALS boresight self-calibration
ALS boresight calibration has relied for two decades on dedicated flight patterns over structured scenes containing planar surfaces of varied aspect and slope. …
Autonomous Subsea Cable Search and Tracking with Graph-Optimised Priors and Visual Tracking
Global communications rely on subsea cable infrastructure that remains vulnerable to damage from natural hazards and human activity. Autonomous underwater vehic…
AI Exposure Scores: what they measure, what they miss, and what comes next
A set of exposure scores calculated in 2023 has become a central empirical input to the future of work debate. Produced by Eloundou et al. (2023) and referred t…
Semantic Browsing: Controllable Diversity for Image Generation
Modern text-to-image models excel in visual fidelity and prompt adherence. However, this strict adherence comes at the cost of diversity: generated samples tend…
Breaking the Filter Bubble: A Semantic Pareto-DQN Framework for Multi-Objective Recommendation
Recommender systems often induce filter bubbles and semantic homogenization by monolithically optimizing for immediate user engagement. Standard single-objectiv…
Selective Capability Unlearning in End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding
Modern spoken language understanding (SLU) systems are increasingly deployed in real-world settings, where specific functionalities may need to be removed due t…
Universal Guideline-Driven Image Clustering via a Hybrid LLM Agent
Unifying image clustering across different clustering scenarios remains challenging due to fundamental gaps among tasks. We introduce a Guideline-Driven Image C…