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Researchers have developed a token-level cross-modal transformer with contrastive multi-task learning that jointly performs breast cancer subtype classification and survival prediction by enabling fine-grained interactio…

Researchers introduce Alignment-Aware Bridge Matching (A²BM), a bridge matching method that leverages image pair alignment during training to improve image-to-image translation fidelity with weakly aligned data. A²BM con…

Researchers propose DocOCR-Eval, an annotation-free framework for automatically evaluating and selecting OCR tools without ground-truth labels. The framework uses a three-stage correction and ranking strategy that aggreg…

A new calibration method for mixed-precision tolerance in tensor kernels, tested on the 26-entry gpuemu corpus with 8,076 result rows, achieves up to 2,184× tighter absolute tolerances than hand-picked values. For seven …

Researchers developed a lightweight 1D CNN for affective touch classification in soft plush companions, achieving 75% test accuracy and 85% leave-one-subject-out cross-validation accuracy with a 13.2k-parameter model. Th…

Researchers have introduced Shapley Context Pruning (SCP), a novel framework for context reranking in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems that applies cooperative game theory to attribute importance at the sente…

Researchers from arXiv identify a structured confound in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) where pairwise preference labels may reflect the rater's state during annotation rather than just output quality,…

Researchers propose a reinforcement learning-guided NSGA-II enhanced with gray relational coefficients (RL-NSGA-II-GRC) for multi-objective optimization, achieving convergence improvements of about 5.8% and 4.4% over sta…

Researchers propose Supermartingale-based Label Transition (SLT), an anchor-free loss correction framework for robust quantum neural network (QNN)-based medical image classification under noisy labels. SLT models entropy…

Researchers have released MFGNet-Gear, a synthetic 3D dataset of 24,000 paired polygon meshes and point clouds across 12 gear designs and 4 quality classes, to support deep learning for manufacturing quality inspection. …

Researchers introduce the Diffusion-corrected Auto-Regressive Fourier Neural Operator (DiffARFNO), a two-stage framework combining an autoregressive Fourier-MIONet with a conditional Denoising Diffusion Implicit Model (D…

Researchers show that the frozen predictor from Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) can be transferred across encoder families to improve occluded feature completion. In experiments, pairing CLIP with the I-…

A new arXiv preprint introduces ColGraphRAG, a late-interaction evidence retrieval method for multimodal GraphRAG that replaces single-vector bi-encoder similarity with MaxSim-style multi-vector scoring for graph-linked …

Team DACTYL's MCGrad model achieved a mean score of 0.974 on the PAN 2026 test set, ranking second on the leaderboard for AI-generated text detection. The researchers fine-tuned BERT-tiny models with Bayesian classificat…

Researchers have developed a Generalist Controller, a learning-based controller that uses attention mechanisms and a mixture-of-experts architecture to control systems of varying orders and dynamics without system-specif…

Researchers propose Multi-level Context Fusion MOE (MCF-MOE), a framework that improves expert selection consistency in Mixture-of-Experts Transformer models by integrating cross-layer semantic aggregation and local toke…

A new study from arXiv (2607.16790v1) directly compares cascaded and joint multi-task modeling for hierarchical offensive language detection, finding that a cascaded system achieves macro-F1 scores of 0.795, 0.716, and 0…

Researchers propose W2SPO, an off-policy reinforcement learning method that uses short auxiliary segments from a weaker model to improve reasoning in large language models, achieving a Pass@1 improvement from 62.3% to 64…

A retrospective pilot study of AI_LectureNote, a post-ASR workflow for Korean-English medical lectures, found that while the system improved English-script rendering rates from 0.39 to 0.71 on whisper-1 and from 0.26 to …

A new study shows that 4-bit quantization causes catastrophic accuracy collapse in recursive reasoning models, dropping Sudoku exact-solution accuracy from 84.1% to 0.0%, but per-block scaling using MXInt4 completely res…