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Researchers propose Progressive Pixel-Neighborhood Deformable Cross-Attention (PNAFusion) for multispectral object detection, achieving state-of-the-art results on FLIR, M3FD, and DroneVehicle datasets while reducing GPU…
A new study on arXiv systematically examines the order of preprocessing techniques for sentiment analysis on Twitter datasets, finding that tokenisation is the most impactful technique while spelling correction is the le…
Researchers introduced the degeneracy distillery, a method that automatically detects and resolves degenerate parameter combinations in physical models by estimating and flattening the Fisher information matrix. The appr…
Researchers developed a hybrid machine learning approach combining EfficientNetB0 feature extraction with Random Forest classification to achieve 94.58% accuracy and sub-millisecond inference for real-time melt pool moni…
Researchers introduced Sesame, a diffusion-based molecular generation model that conditions on partial molecular structure and protein pockets via spatial density maps, enabling both de novo drug design and fragment-base…
Researchers introduced the apothem measure for computing robustness certifications in neural networks, achieving optimal certifications with linear oracle calls. They proved volume-optimal oracle-based algorithms are int…
Researchers formalized a new challenge called Member vs Generated Inference (MGI) to distinguish whether a sample is from a model's training set or generated by the model itself. They found existing methods fail and prop…
Researchers introduce ARIA, a framework that adaptively allocates training effort across regions of the conditioning space to improve distillation of conditional diffusion models. By focusing updates where teacher-studen…
Researchers argue that vanilla conditional diffusion models are fundamentally incapable of compositional generation when target distributions are out-of-distribution, as score estimation errors cause catastrophic perform…
Researchers propose a hierarchical multi-agent reinforcement learning framework that enforces hard safety constraints via a constraint manifold, providing theoretical safety guarantees and stable training. The method ach…
Researchers introduced a multi-objective reinforcement learning framework for recommender systems that uses a Pareto-DQN agent with semantic embeddings to optimize engagement, diversity, and fairness as separate reward s…
Researchers developed a hybrid machine learning model combining ensemble feature selection and Harris Hawks optimization to predict depression in female sex workers with 95.78% accuracy. The model identified post-traumat…
Researchers propose Strategy-Guided Policy Optimization (SGPO), a method that replaces trajectory-level imitation with reusable strategy distillation to improve LLM reasoning. SGPO extracts structured strategies from str…
Researchers constructed large-scale algorithm co-occurrence networks in natural language processing based on full-text academic papers, analyzing their structural characteristics and centrality measures. The study found …
Researchers introduced OmniPath, a multi-modal agentic framework that audits wheelchair accessibility by fusing OpenStreetMap data with aerial LiDAR to create high-fidelity 3D models. The system analyzes pedestrian surfa…
A new paper reveals that diffusion models and flow matching models are unified under the geometry of Wasserstein space, where diffusion follows a gradient flow of free energy and flow matching follows a geodesic, explain…
Researchers introduced causal reinforcement learning (CRL), a framework unifying causal inference and reinforcement learning by modeling environments as structural causal models. CRL enables new learning paradigms includ…
A new study from arXiv shows that multilingual encoder initialization benefits streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) only at low target-language data scales, with the advantage decaying as data increases. Across e…
Researchers propose NaviGen, a system that encodes user behavior history into executable instructions for personalized image and video generation, overcoming misalignment between AIGC pipelines and user intent. Using a d…
Researchers propose FlowR2A, a generative model that unifies scoring-based and anchor-based driving planning by learning reward-conditioned action distributions from dense trajectory-reward pairs. The method achieves sta…