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Researchers propose R²PO, a method that decouples rollout and inference policies for LLM reasoning, achieving accuracy gains of 3.4% on MATH-500 and 1.3% on APPS. The approach attaches a lightweight Residual Rollout-Head…
Researchers at a university found that selectively applying monocular depth priors from Depth Anything V2 improves sparse-view neural reconstruction in driving scenes, with Splatfacto gaining 1.029 PSNR and reducing RMSE…
Researchers proposed an uncertainty-aware reinforcement learning framework for algorithmic trading that integrates distributional, epistemic, and aleatoric uncertainty estimations using SHAP-weighted reconstruction, MC D…
Researchers used interpretable machine learning to predict Parkinson's disease motor severity from QSM and fMRI features, achieving 45.4% variance explained and 75% of predictions within 5 points of clinical scores. The …
Researchers introduced VulcanVoxel, a spatial affordance model that learns 3D blade insertion feasibility in cluttered stowing environments using a masked autoencoder over occupancy fields. Trained on 10,000 real warehou…
Researchers proposed DMKGC, a conditional diffusion-guided knowledge transfer framework for multi-domain knowledge graph completion, achieving a 4.3% average MRR improvement over state-of-the-art methods. The framework t…
Researchers propose TR-RAG, a teacher-regularized reinforcement learning method for cross-lingual retrieval-augmented generation that addresses language drift and unreliable evidence use. The method combines reward optim…
Researchers developed a multilingual, multimodal NLP framework for early detection of fake news and violence-driven mob activity, achieving 98% accuracy on a fused dataset of 138,256 Bangla and English samples. The syste…
Researchers at leadership computing facilities developed REDI, an open-source framework that automates the transformation of large-scale scientific datasets into AI-ready training data through a five-stage pipeline. Eval…
Researchers introduced Raven-Agent, the first autonomous trading agent for prediction markets, which achieved the only positive return and positive risk-adjusted return among tested policies in controlled replays over ar…
Researchers propose ALORE, a scalable and domain-robust estimator for the size of the largest overlap between tables, addressing limitations of the state-of-the-art Armadillo. ALORE reduces mean absolute error by up to 5…
Researchers studied online adaptation of discrete diffusion models for molecular optimization, finding that combining acquisition, reward shaping, debiasing, replay, and validity control outperforms offline fine-tuning a…
Researchers introduced SkillOpt-Lite, a minimal skill optimization pipeline for autonomous agents that accelerates convergence and improves performance, achieving +8.8 points on LiveMath with GPT-5.5 and +25.4 points wit…
Researchers identified five failure modes in perturbation-based construct-validity audits of AI safety benchmarks, demonstrating that implementation details can silently invalidate audit conclusions. In a case study of t…
Researchers propose FlashBlock, a cached block-external attention mechanism that reduces attention computation and KV cache access in block diffusion models for long-context generation. The method achieves up to 1.44× hi…
Researchers propose EmCom-Diffusion, a framework that measures visual reflection in emergent languages by reconstructing images from emergent messages using a finetuned diffusion model and comparing them to originals. Va…
Researchers propose a sliding-window-based reinforcement learning (SWRL) framework for dynamic assembly flow shop scheduling with multi-product delivery, addressing challenges from dynamic order arrivals and kitting cons…
Researchers introduced GRAFT, a per-word pronunciation conditioning mechanism for zero-shot text-to-speech that uses a short spoken sample to control pronunciation of specific words. In a blind English listening study, G…
Researchers introduced Sparse-Reslim, a plug-in routing module that reduces computational cost in ViT-based weather forecasting by processing only 25% of spatial tokens through expensive transformer blocks while maintain…
Researchers evaluated uncertainty-aware last-layer adaptation methods for referable diabetic retinopathy screening using RETFound, a self-supervised vision-transformer foundation model, on the APTOS 2019 and DDR datasets…