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Researchers introduced Retroactive Advantage Correction (RAC), a method for reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) that handles delayed reward signals. RAC reduces policy bias by up to 47.9x in tabular MDPs co…
Researchers introduced Grounded Iterative Language Planning (GILP), a hybrid method combining a small parameterized world model with LLM-based agent reasoning, reducing hallucinated-state rates from 0.176 to 0.035 on gra…
Researchers propose EntMTP, a training-free scheduler that dynamically adjusts multi-token prediction depth based on local entropy, achieving up to 1.36x speedup over Medusa baselines in LLM inference without quality los…
Researchers have developed OverFlowLight, a real-time framework that uses multi-modal sensing from cameras and radars to detect and prevent queue overflow at urban intersections. Deployed across 43 intersections in three…
A study evaluating boundary-condition fidelity for bottom-hole pressure and CO2 plume prediction in geological carbon storage found that conserving corner pore volume is critical for accurate truncated-domain simulations…
Researchers propose SD-GPS, a solver-driven framework for geometry problem solving that integrates autoformalization and theorem proposing. The framework uses a symbolic solver as an execution oracle to improve formaliza…
Researchers introduced SelectAnyTree, a promptable instance segmentation model for 3D forest LiDAR point clouds that delineates individual trees from a few clicks. The model achieves 78.2% Intersection over Union (IoU) f…
Researchers introduced QDiffusion-TS, the first quantum generative diffusion model for time series synthesis, validated on the IQM quantum processor. The model reduces trainable parameters by nearly three orders of magni…
Team HSA_CORAL submitted to the FinCausal 2026 shared task on extracting cause-effect relations from financial narratives via extractive question answering in English and Spanish. Their best system, GPT-4.1 Mini fine-tun…
Researchers introduced DMV-Bench, the first interactive benchmark for multimodal-agent visual memory, testing agents' ability to recall visual cues from product images in a simulated e-commerce environment. Their propose…
Researchers used a developmental approach to study how neural language models learn statistical patterns, finding that Transformers first acquire abstract global statistics before local dependencies, with early over-gene…
Researchers introduced the context-ready transformer, a recurrent neural network architecture that pre-contextualizes tokens before they enter a transformer block, achieving faster inference and competitive performance. …
A new position paper argues that the term 'machine unlearning' is overused in large language model research and should be reserved for dataset-defined deletion. The authors contend that many tasks labeled as unlearning, …
Researchers propose automation-in-design (AiD) using deep learning and generative AI to automate high-tech system design, demonstrated through e-drive and spatial dimensioning case studies. The framework aims to shift en…
Researchers propose LaViD, a framework that transfers semantic knowledge from a large language model to a vision-only student model using multiple-choice questions, outperforming existing distillation methods on fine-gra…
Researchers propose Transformation-Aware Decoupling (TAD), a framework for 3D scene graph generation that improves robustness to viewpoint changes by decoupling relation reasoning into stable and directional components. …
Researchers developed a distribution-based deep multiple instance learning method for tumor proportion scoring in non-small cell lung cancer, using only slide-level labels to predict zero-inflated beta parameters. The ap…
Researchers propose CoIn, a novel framework for 3D scene inpainting that bridges 2D inpainting models and Gaussian Splatting through a multi-stage consistency pipeline. The method handles both object removal and insertio…
Researchers introduced Masked Language Flow Models (MLFMs), combining masked diffusion and flow-based methods for efficient language generation. MLFMs enable conditional generation via continuous flows and support multi-…
Researchers found that explicit reasoning does not always improve multimodal emotion recognition accuracy, with fast thinking often outperforming slow thinking. They propose MER-R1, a reinforcement learning framework tha…