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Researchers from an undisclosed institution introduced Convolutional Nearest Neighbors (ConvNN), a unified framework that shows convolution and self-attention are special cases of k-nearest neighbor aggregation. ConvNN c…
Researchers introduced FairGen, a fairness-aware diffusion framework that synthesizes demographically balanced medical images while preserving pathology-relevant features. Applied to dermatology, radiology, and neuroimag…
Researchers introduced a hierarchical model for ball action anticipation in football broadcast video, achieving 17.91% mAP on the SoccerNet benchmark. The system uses a GRU and Transformer decoder with input-conditioned …
Researchers propose Steady-Forcing, a memory and training framework for autoregressive video diffusion models that balances spatial persistence and motion continuity in long-horizon nature video generation. The method im…
Researchers introduced UtVAA, an ultra-tiny Vision Transformer architecture with a novel Affix Attention block for mobile image classification. The smallest variant has 204.67K parameters and 53.95M FLOPs, achieving comp…
Researchers propose Style-CCL, a multi-stage curriculum continual learning framework for content-preserving style transfer using Diffusion Transformers. The method trains a dual-branch SC-DiT from semantic to texture sty…
Researchers introduced MMLongEmbed, the first comprehensive benchmark for evaluating multimodal embedding models in long-context scenarios. The benchmark includes four retrieval tasks across text, document, and video mod…
Researchers introduced the Membership Inference Test (MINT) Demo 2, a framework to detect whether specific data were used in training machine learning models, achieving up to 90% accuracy in tests on face recognition mod…
Researchers developed a high-throughput 3D behavioral phenotyping framework integrating deep learning object detection with binocular stereo vision for real-time monitoring of juvenile tilapia. The system automates body …
Researchers introduced X-Tokenizer, a multimodal action tokenizer for vision-language-action pretraining that uses Semantic Residual Quantization and Masked Action Modeling to create a discrete action language capturing …
Researchers propose sub-semantic image segmentation, a new category that partitions images into stable appearance patterns described by language rather than naming whole objects. They introduce DETECTURE, a system that o…
Researchers introduced DR-DCI, a retriever-steered Direct Corpus Interaction framework that dynamically expands a local workspace for agentic search over large corpora. On Browsecomp-Plus, DR-DCI achieved 71.2% accuracy,…
Researchers introduced relational structural causal models (RSCMs) to enable AI to reason causally about environments with varying objects and relations. They defined relational causal graphs and derived symbolic identif…
Researchers propose SERAF, a semantics-enhanced retrieval-augmented time series forecasting framework that retrieves both historical time series segments and their self-generated textual descriptions to improve predictio…
Researchers introduced a geometric framework to identify 'AI engrams'—identifiable memory traces in deep neural networks analogous to biological memory units. The method enables surgical manipulation of learned knowledge…
Researchers developed Metric Match, a subset selection method that estimates LLM judge reliability from limited human annotations. The method achieved a win-rate of 0.838 against random selection across 15 datasets, redu…
Researchers introduced a foundation model-driven framework for cross-modal representation alignment between CT imaging and longitudinal EHR data, improving time-to-event prediction across tasks and institutions. Fusion s…
Researchers introduced IRTS-ToolBench, a benchmark of 1,700 questions across 10 task types and 13 domains, to evaluate large language models and AI agents on irregular time series question answering. The benchmark addres…
Researchers propose CogGuard, a proactive-warning framework for edge intelligent services that uses LLMs for offline profile construction and SLMs for online score prediction. The framework reduces profile construction t…
Researchers introduced PhoneHarness, a mixed-action benchmark and execution harness for phone-use agents that combines GUI, CLI, and tool actions. The system achieved a 75.0% pass rate on verifiable mobile workflows, out…