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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…
Researchers propose WebGrader, a self-evolving programmatic grader that trains large language models for web development by autonomously deriving interaction flows as executable Flow Contracts and using their execution o…
Researchers from an unnamed institution propose AgentPatch, a training-free coarse-to-fine repair framework that merges agentic multimodal large language models (MLLMs) into a single generalist checkpoint, addressing asy…
Researchers at arXiv introduced new minimax-optimal sample complexity bounds for learning epsilon-optimal robust policies in average-reward Markov decision processes under total-variation uncertainty. The study, publishe…
A new model called the Accounting Graph Transformer (AGT) outperforms existing baselines in forecasting 13 key performance indicators (KPIs) for small businesses with limited accounting history, achieving a mean absolute…
Researchers introduced CrystalGRPO, a reinforcement-learning post-training framework for flow-based crystal structure prediction that jointly optimizes coordinates and lattice parameters. In tests on MP-20 and MPTS-52 da…
Researchers introduced the first adversarial attack that directly optimizes an encoder-attention objective in detection transformers, reducing DETR-R50 mAP on COCO from 42.1 to 0.97, a ~4x reduction over the strongest ex…
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…
Researchers from an undisclosed institution present an unsupervised method that extracts linguistic metaphors from a corpus and uses structured clustering to identify conceptual metaphors, revealing framing differences a…
Researchers propose Stage-Guided Per-Step Optimization (SGPO) for diffusion models, which assigns stage-specific objectives during denoising to address reward sparsity and temporal objective mismatch in reinforcement lea…
Researchers propose LUCID, an LLM-guided, interpretable, training-free, and unsupervised community detection method that achieves state-of-the-art performance on real-world datasets, outperforming leading unsupervised an…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…