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Cross-Head Attention Uplift Network with Inverse Propensity Score under Unobserved Confounding
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Cross-Head Attention Uplift Network with Inverse Propensity Score under Unobserved Confounding

Uplift modeling, crucial for estimating individual treatment effects (ITE), faces dual challenges: flexibly leveraging inter-group similarity to enhance discrim…

RecallRisk-BERT: A Multi-Task Framework for Post-Report Medical Device Recall Triage
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RecallRisk-BERT: A Multi-Task Framework for Post-Report Medical Device Recall Triage

Medical device recalls are a critical regulatory mechanism for protecting patient safety. The growing volume of FDA recall records presents challenges in post-r…

HarmVideoBench: Benchmarking Harmful Video Understanding in Large Multimodal Models
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HarmVideoBench: Benchmarking Harmful Video Understanding in Large Multimodal Models

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have recently shown immense potential in automated content moderation, sparking growing interest in developing harmful-vide…

CORTEX: A Structured Reasoning Benchmark for Trustworthy 3D Chest CT MLLMs
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CORTEX: A Structured Reasoning Benchmark for Trustworthy 3D Chest CT MLLMs

Reasoning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has shown strong promise in medical imaging. However, this reasoning is usually free-form text judged only…

Don't Settle at the Mode! Mitigating Diversity Collapse in Pretrained Flow Models via Feature Self-Guidance
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Don't Settle at the Mode! Mitigating Diversity Collapse in Pretrained Flow Models via Feature Self-Guidance

State-of-the-art flow models generate stunning images from text or image prompts. However, they suffer from diversity collapse when generating multiple samples …

Utilizing Cognitive Signals Generated during Human Reading to Enhance Keyphrase Extraction from Microblogs
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Utilizing Cognitive Signals Generated during Human Reading to Enhance Keyphrase Extraction from Microblogs

Microblogging platforms generate massive amounts of short, noisy, and dispersed user content, making automatic keyphrase extraction (AKE) an important but chall…

Nemotron-TwoTower: Diffusion Language Modeling with Pretrained Autoregressive Context
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Nemotron-TwoTower: Diffusion Language Modeling with Pretrained Autoregressive Context

Diffusion language models offer a promising alternative to autoregressive models due to their potential for parallel and iterative generation. However, existing…

Humans Disengage, Reasoning Models Persist: Separating Difficulty Registration from Deliberation Allocation
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Humans Disengage, Reasoning Models Persist: Separating Difficulty Registration from Deliberation Allocation

Large reasoning models (LRMs) take longer on harder problems, just as humans do. This surface similarity hides an opposite pattern within items. When an LRM get…

DanceDuo: Bridging Human Movement and AI Choreography
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DanceDuo: Bridging Human Movement and AI Choreography

In recent years, advancements in deep learning and generative models have revolutionized music-driven dance generation. This paper introduces a novel platform, …

NeuraDock Visual Cognitive Load Agent Tutorial: A Quality-Gated Open-Source EEG Workflow for Alpha Dynamics and Real-Time Applications
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NeuraDock Visual Cognitive Load Agent Tutorial: A Quality-Gated Open-Source EEG Workflow for Alpha Dynamics and Real-Time Applications

This tutorial paper provides a step-by-step, reproducible walkthrough of NeuraDock Agent, an open-source EEG agent focused on Alpha dynamics and visual cognitiv…

Assessing Post-Reform Changes in Risk Disclosure Quality with a Multidimensional Text Analysis Approach
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Assessing Post-Reform Changes in Risk Disclosure Quality with a Multidimensional Text Analysis Approach

While corporate narrative disclosures provide crucial information to capital markets, comprehensively evaluating their qualitative changes over time remains cha…

Coarse-to-Fine: A Hybrid Self-Supervised Method for Non-rigid 3D Shape Matching
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Coarse-to-Fine: A Hybrid Self-Supervised Method for Non-rigid 3D Shape Matching

Non-rigid 3D shape matching is a fundamental task in computer vision and graphics. In this paper, we propose a hybrid self-supervised method based on a coarse-t…

Explainable Ensemble-Based Machine Learning Models for Detecting the Presence of Cirrhosis in Hepatitis C Patients
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Explainable Ensemble-Based Machine Learning Models for Detecting the Presence of Cirrhosis in Hepatitis C Patients

Hepatitis C is a liver infection caused by a virus, which results in mild to severe inflammation of the liver. Over many years, hepatitis C gradually damages th…

Temporally Consistent Label Interpolation for Robust Surgical Multi-Task Learning under Challenging Conditions
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Temporally Consistent Label Interpolation for Robust Surgical Multi-Task Learning under Challenging Conditions

Effective multi-task learning for surgical scene understanding is fundamentally hindered by annotation granularity mismatch; temporal workflow tasks such as pha…

FracEvent: Event-Camera Simulation via Fractional-Relaxation Pixel Dynamics
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FracEvent: Event-Camera Simulation via Fractional-Relaxation Pixel Dynamics

Event cameras asynchronously report brightness changes with microsecond-level temporal resolution, but real event data remain difficult to collect at scale beca…

CAT-Q: Cost-efficient and Accurate Ternary Quantization for LLMs
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CAT-Q: Cost-efficient and Accurate Ternary Quantization for LLMs

In this paper, we present CAT-Q, Cost-efficient and Accurate Ternary Quantization, for compressing and accelerating LLMs. Unlike existing state-of-the-art terna…

PersistentKV: Page-Aware Decode Scheduling for Long-Context LLM Serving on Commodity GPUs
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PersistentKV: Page-Aware Decode Scheduling for Long-Context LLM Serving on Commodity GPUs

Autoregressive large language model (LLM) serving is increasingly limited by key-value (KV) cache movement rather than dense matrix multiplication. Modern paged…

SKILL-DISCO: Distilling and Compiling Agent Traces into Reusable Procedural Skills
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SKILL-DISCO: Distilling and Compiling Agent Traces into Reusable Procedural Skills

Agents often repeatedly solve similar task instances from scratch, leading to unnecessary reasoning cost and long execution traces. Prior work has explored work…

Structure Before Collapse: Transient semantic geometry in next-token prediction
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Structure Before Collapse: Transient semantic geometry in next-token prediction

Neural Collapse predicts that balanced one-hot classification pushes model representations to be equally far from each other; a symmetric configuration that dep…

Anatomy-Guided Residual Motion Diffusion for Controllable 4D Cardiac MRI Synthesis
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Anatomy-Guided Residual Motion Diffusion for Controllable 4D Cardiac MRI Synthesis

Developing robust artificial intelligence models for 4D (3D + time) medical imaging is constrained by limited annotated data, inter-device domain shifts, and pr…

ResilPhase: Plug-and-Play Phase Mapping and Noise-Resilient Macro-Trajectory Extrapolation for Diffusion Acceleration
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ResilPhase: Plug-and-Play Phase Mapping and Noise-Resilient Macro-Trajectory Extrapolation for Diffusion Acceleration

The adoption of powerful diffusion models is hindered by their significant inference latency. Recent ``cache-then-forecast'' schemes alleviate this issue by acc…

Multi-modality Image Fusion under Adverse Weather: Mask-Guided Feature Restoration and Interaction
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Multi-modality Image Fusion under Adverse Weather: Mask-Guided Feature Restoration and Interaction

Multi-modality image fusion (MMIF) enhances scene representation by exploiting complementary cues from different modalities. Adverse weather, however, causes si…

Identifying the Unknown: Prompt-Free Open Vocabulary Anomaly Recognition for Robot-Object Interaction
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Identifying the Unknown: Prompt-Free Open Vocabulary Anomaly Recognition for Robot-Object Interaction

Robots operating in real-world environments must in general be able to recognize previously unseen objects. As robotic systems move toward open-world autonomy, …

LCAi: Life Cycle Assessment with big data fusion and retrieval-augmented generation-assisted interpretation
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LCAi: Life Cycle Assessment with big data fusion and retrieval-augmented generation-assisted interpretation

The interpretation phase of life cycle assessment often lacks structured mechanisms for translating quantified improvement opportunities addressing environmenta…

Cascaded Multi-Granularity Pruning for On-Device LLM Inference in Industrial IoT
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Cascaded Multi-Granularity Pruning for On-Device LLM Inference in Industrial IoT

Deploying large language models (LLMs) on Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) edge devices demands extreme compression, yet existing structured pruning methods…

A Pipeline for Generating Longitudinal Synthetic Clinical Notes Using Large Language Models
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A Pipeline for Generating Longitudinal Synthetic Clinical Notes Using Large Language Models

Synthetic data is increasingly used to enable the development and evaluation of AI systems in domains where access to real-world data is restricted. In healthca…

Generative Retrieval via Diffusion Transformer with Metric-Ordered Sequence Training and Hybrid-Policy Preference Optimization
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Generative Retrieval via Diffusion Transformer with Metric-Ordered Sequence Training and Hybrid-Policy Preference Optimization

Embedding-based retrieval ranks items by their similarity to a query in a shared vector space and usually aims to return the highest-scoring items. In many prod…

Learning to Recover Task Experts from a Multi-Task Merged Model
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Learning to Recover Task Experts from a Multi-Task Merged Model

Multi-task model merging aims to consolidate several task-specific experts into a unified model, yet static merging consistently suffers from parameter interfer…

Qwen-Image-Agent: Bridging the Context Gap in Real-World Image Generation
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Qwen-Image-Agent: Bridging the Context Gap in Real-World Image Generation

While text-to-image (T2I) models have achieved remarkable progress, they struggle with real-world requests that are often underspecified, implicit, or dependent…

TraMP-LLaMA: Generative Interpretability with Decoupled Instruction Tuning for Facial Expression Quality Assessment
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TraMP-LLaMA: Generative Interpretability with Decoupled Instruction Tuning for Facial Expression Quality Assessment

Existing facial expression quality assessment (FEQA) methods typically produce only a severity score, without explicitly communicating the observable facial mot…