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Sculpting NeRF Geometry: Human-Preference Fine-Tuning of a 3D-Aware Face GAN
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Sculpting NeRF Geometry: Human-Preference Fine-Tuning of a 3D-Aware Face GAN

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) for 3D generation is now established across a number of works, but most existing pipelines optimise explicit s…

Learning the ARTS of Search for Automated Discovery
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Learning the ARTS of Search for Automated Discovery

Scientific discovery can be formulated as an iterative search process over the space of hypotheses and experiments. Contemporary methods navigate this space usi…

Channel Location Constrains the Auditability of Subliminal Learning
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Channel Location Constrains the Auditability of Subliminal Learning

Subliminal learning lets a student inherit a teacher's hidden trait from distillation data that never names it. We ask when such transfer can be audited before …

BAC-JEPA: Label-Efficient Breast Arterial Calcification Segmentation via Synthetic Mammography-Guided Supervision
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BAC-JEPA: Label-Efficient Breast Arterial Calcification Segmentation via Synthetic Mammography-Guided Supervision

Breast arterial calcification (BAC) on screening mammograms is an emerging cardiovascular risk biomarker, but quantitative use requires reproducible segmentatio…

Residue-Level Attributions in Protein Language Models Do Not Recover Allergen Epitopes
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Residue-Level Attributions in Protein Language Models Do Not Recover Allergen Epitopes

Deep allergenicity classifiers are increasingly used in safety screening of novel foods, and recent protein language models have substantially improved protein-…

When Is Emergent Consensus Real? A Measured Coupling Gain and a Validity Diagnostic for LLM Agent Societies
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When Is Emergent Consensus Real? A Measured Coupling Gain and a Validity Diagnostic for LLM Agent Societies

LLM "agent societies" are studied via demonstrations of emergent consensus or polarization -- with no measurable control parameter, no theory of when each regim…

Variance-Tilted Diffusion Models for Diverse Sampling
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Variance-Tilted Diffusion Models for Diverse Sampling

Diffusion models are typically sampled independently, even when the downstream objective is to obtain a diverse set of candidates. We introduce a variance-weigh…

Null-Calibrated Conformal Selection via Target-Membership Scores
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Null-Calibrated Conformal Selection via Target-Membership Scores

Conformal selection aims to identify test candidates whose unknown responses fall in a target region while controlling the false discovery rate. Existing method…

Select-to-Act: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning via Adaptive Language Guidance
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Select-to-Act: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning via Adaptive Language Guidance

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been widely applied to sequential decision-making, yet it often suffers from poor sample efficiency due to costly interactions w…

ZeroGVC: Zero-Shot Generative Video Compression with Autoregressive Diffusion Priors
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ZeroGVC: Zero-Shot Generative Video Compression with Autoregressive Diffusion Priors

Recent generative video compression methods leverage powerful generative priors to achieve perceptually pleasing reconstructions. However, most existing approac…

Grounded Scaling: Why Agentic AI Needs Deterministic Environments
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Grounded Scaling: Why Agentic AI Needs Deterministic Environments

Long-chain agent execution fails exponentially in environments designed for human tolerance: with per-step determinism $δ< 1$, $k$-step chain success degrades a…

From CVE to CWE: Syscall-Based HIDS Generalisation
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From CVE to CWE: Syscall-Based HIDS Generalisation

Host intrusion detection systems (HIDS) based on system-call traces are typically trained and evaluated against individual Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures …

Sol Video Inference Engine: Agent-Native Full-Stack Acceleration Framework for Efficient Video Generation
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Sol Video Inference Engine: Agent-Native Full-Stack Acceleration Framework for Efficient Video Generation

Modern video diffusion models achieve higher generation quality through scaling, but this also increases inference cost. Although many acceleration methods have…

RLM-Cascade: Response-Level Speculative Decoding for Cost-Efficient LLM API Serving
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RLM-Cascade: Response-Level Speculative Decoding for Cost-Efficient LLM API Serving

We present RLM-Cascade, a proxy-layer system that applies speculative decoding at the response level to reduce LLM API costs without requiring model architectur…

IndicGuard: A Multilingual Safety Guard Model and Dataset for Indic Languages
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IndicGuard: A Multilingual Safety Guard Model and Dataset for Indic Languages

As Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve widespread integration across diverse linguistic landscapes, ensuring their safety and alignment with regional normative…

Rethinking Prototype-based Similarity Learning for Few-Shot Object Detection
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Rethinking Prototype-based Similarity Learning for Few-Shot Object Detection

Few-shot object detection aims to detect novel object categories from only a few labeled examples, avoiding costly large-scale annotation. Recent prototype-base…

Abstract representational geometry supports inference in large language models
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Abstract representational geometry supports inference in large language models

A defining feature of human intelligence is the ability to adapt to changing environments by inferring latent task structure from sparse observations. Neuroscie…

Distribution-Aware Diffusion-LLM for Robust Ultra-Long-Term Time Series Forecasting
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Distribution-Aware Diffusion-LLM for Robust Ultra-Long-Term Time Series Forecasting

Time series forecasting is a fundamental machine learning task. Recent work has explored Large Language Models (LLMs) for this purpose due to their strong gener…

Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks for Groundwater Heat Plume Prediction: A Surrogate Modeling Approach
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Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks for Groundwater Heat Plume Prediction: A Surrogate Modeling Approach

Quantum machine learning methods are increasingly explored for modeling complex environmental systems, including groundwater heat plume dynamics. In this work, …

Self-Compacting Language Model Agents
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Self-Compacting Language Model Agents

Long agent traces composed of chains of thought and tool calls accumulate stale content that anchor subsequent generations, and eventually outgrow the context w…

E-MRL: Cross-view Aligned Evidence-driven Multimodal Reinforcement Learning for Reliable 3D Tumor Analysis
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E-MRL: Cross-view Aligned Evidence-driven Multimodal Reinforcement Learning for Reliable 3D Tumor Analysis

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show great promise in volumetric medical report generation, they frequently suffer from visual hallucinations and a lack of …

CAVEWOMAN: How Large Language Models Behave Under Linguistic Input and Output Compression
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CAVEWOMAN: How Large Language Models Behave Under Linguistic Input and Output Compression

"Talk short. Drop grammar. Save token." This caveman style is widely promoted as a way to cut inference cost, but whether it actually saves anything depends on …

Zero-Shot Test-Time Canonicalization using Out-of-Distribution Scoring
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Zero-Shot Test-Time Canonicalization using Out-of-Distribution Scoring

Pretrained vision models often misclassify inputs that are rotated, scaled, or sheared, even though these affine transformations leave the object class unchange…

Supervised Reinforcement Learning for the Coordination of Distributed Energy Resources
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Supervised Reinforcement Learning for the Coordination of Distributed Energy Resources

The increasing integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) is crucial for power system decarbonization, yet unlocking DERs' flexibility is challenged by …

MEMPROBE: Probing Long-Term Agent Memory via Hidden User-State Recovery
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MEMPROBE: Probing Long-Term Agent Memory via Hidden User-State Recovery

Long-term memory promises LLM agents that grow more capable across sessions, maintaining an accurate, evolving understanding of the user that interaction forms.…

SER: Learning to Ground Video Reasoning with Semantic Evidence Rewards
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SER: Learning to Ground Video Reasoning with Semantic Evidence Rewards

Video MLLMs often struggle with fine-grained spatio-temporal reasoning, sometimes generating correct answers based on irrelevant frames or objects. Although out…

Forget to Improve: On-Device LLM-Agent Continual Learning via Budget-Curated Memory
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Forget to Improve: On-Device LLM-Agent Continual Learning via Budget-Curated Memory

On-device language-model agents improve by accumulating experience in retrieved memory rather than by updating weights. This memory is hard-bounded and exposed:…

Variational Inference via Entropic Transport Descent
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Variational Inference via Entropic Transport Descent

Particle-based variational inference (ParVI) methods approximate an intractable target distribution by evolving an ensemble of interacting samples. Existing app…

KidRisk: Benchmark Dataset for Children Dangerous Action Recognition
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KidRisk: Benchmark Dataset for Children Dangerous Action Recognition

Children are naturally energetic, and during their spontaneous activities, they often encounter potentially dangerous situations, especially when lacking parent…

Supervised Post-training of Speech Foundation Models for Robust Adaptation in Speech Deepfake Detection
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Supervised Post-training of Speech Foundation Models for Robust Adaptation in Speech Deepfake Detection

Large speech foundation models have shown strong potential for speech deepfake detection, but direct fine-tuning is limited by a mismatch between self-supervise…