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Researchers introduced TaskSense, a task-centric world modeling framework that uses differentiable stochastic spatial attention conditioned on the previous latent state to focus on control-relevant regions, augmented wit…
A new arXiv paper (2608.06668v1) reports that deep reinforcement learning-based vehicle routing optimization achieved over 10% total cost reduction compared to baseline results in three industrial logistics use cases inv…
Researchers at arXiv (2608.06469v1) introduced Fairis, a server-side reweighting scheme for collaborative machine learning that provably contains fairness poisoning attacks by malicious clients. Fairis guarantees every c…
Researchers introduced Wisp, Wisp+, and Whisper, a family of difference-informed pruning methods that preserve output differences in large language models, improving sparsity performance over existing baselines. Across L…
Researchers introduced ArchEGraph, a large-scale benchmark dataset representing 5,481 buildings as heterogeneous graphs with aligned geometry, topology, weather, and zone-level thermal loads, including 49,326 validated b…
Researchers from an unspecified institution proved that artificial neural networks (ANNs) trained on diverse tasks can have their inference logic reformulated as sparse symbolic interactions, with two mathematical criter…
Researchers present a meta-learning method that models gradient descent training as a dynamical system using latent ordinary differential equations (ODEs) to predict optimal learning rate schedules. The method outperform…
Researchers introduced CubicQuant, a parametric non-uniform scalar format for large-language-model weight quantization that preserves dense integer code streams while adapting reconstruction levels within each weight gro…
A new arXiv paper (2608.06809v1) unifies existing embedding diagnostics by showing they derive from a single geometric object induced by differentiable embeddings, providing differential and integral views that explain l…
Researchers propose Target-Oriented Feature Decoupling (TOFD), a unified framework that detects and mitigates poisoning attacks in Split Federated Learning (SFL) through three stages: Target Inference, Sample Purificatio…
Researchers introduced a dataset of 29,870 walkability ratings from 1,196 respondents and proposed the first user-conditioned multimodal deep learning framework for walkability perception, which fuses sidewalk-view image…
A new arXiv paper (2608.07228v1) shows that in a partially observed linear-quadratic control problem, a standard actor-critic reinforcement learning algorithm converges to a policy 35% worse than the best representable p…
A new study from arXiv (arXiv:2510.09904v2) provides a theoretical framework for understanding the stability of Transformers under different layer normalization placements, deriving explicit bounds on hidden state growth…
Researchers from an unnamed institution propose Temporal Correlation Volatility (TCV), a metric to quantify how pairwise correlations in multivariate time series evolve, and show that popular models including Transformer…
Researchers propose ELMZip, a novel framework using Extreme Learning Machines (ELM) and domain decomposition for onboard satellite image compression, which reduces downlink payload by transmitting only compact output wei…
Researchers introduced ED-CSP, a machine learning framework that predicts 3D crystal structures from chemical composition, atom count, and electron diffraction spot sets, achieving a 57.49% structural match rate (MR@5) o…
A new arXiv study (2608.06532v1) evaluating seven confidence estimators across five open-weight LVLMs on three financial visual question-answering benchmarks finds that only trained internal probes produce thresholdable …
A new study from arXiv (2608.06718v1) introduces counterfactual audits for paralinguistic response evaluation, finding that audio-language models (ALMs) such as Gemini, GPT, and open audio models often fail to use parali…
A new arXiv preprint (arXiv:2608.06428v1) extends Topological DeepONets to use continuous linear functionals from the continuous dual of Hausdorff locally convex spaces, enabling fixed and adaptive functional measurement…
A new thesis from arXiv (2608.06563v1) introduces ProxSkip and six other algorithmic frameworks that provide theoretical foundations for communication-efficient, robust, and practical distributed and federated optimizati…