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Researchers introduced a novel automata-based approach for reinforcement learning from Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications, constructing a timed alternating automaton to provide efficient memory and Markovian rewa…
Researchers introduced the Lorentzian Fourier Neural Operator (L-FNO), a stochastic neural operator combining an FNO-style covariate path, Lorentzian spectral kernels, and likelihood-based training, to model rare, bursty…
Researchers propose the kernel risk-sensitive mean p-power based random vector functional link (KRPRVFL) model, which integrates the KRP criterion to replace the standard least-squares objective, improving robustness aga…
Researchers introduced ORCA, a two-stage framework using supervised contrastive learning and autoencoders for interpretable anomaly detection at collider experiments, achieving significant sensitivity gains on a simulate…
Researchers introduced EEG-PRISM, a post-hoc attribution method that maps predictions from EEG foundation models into physiologically relevant frequency and source domains without retraining, achieving near-perfect spect…
Researchers introduced SAGE, an uncertainty-modulated surrogate-gradient mechanism for Transformer-based spiking neural networks (SNNs), which adapts the surrogate-gradient slope during training using normalized self-att…
A new arXiv study (2608.13721v1) finds that the effectiveness of likelihood-based data selection for reasoning fine-tuning depends on model capacity and training duration, with high-likelihood data offering faster early …
A new arXiv preprint (2608.13756v1) reports that swapping only the INT8 linear kernel (CUTLASS versus Triton) inside vLLM causes the two arms to agree on no sequence in any end-to-end comparison (0/8, 0/16, and 0/64) des…
Researchers propose CutClean, a privacy-aware neural network pruning method that reduces private attribute leakage while increasing sparsity, according to a new arXiv preprint (2608.13773v1). The method uses auxiliary li…
PPAPlace, a timing-driven differentiable surrogate developed by researchers, improves chip placement by predicting post-route power, performance, and area (PPA) from macro and standard-cell placements, achieving average …
A comprehensive review of recent deep learning methods for drug-target binding affinity prediction, published on arXiv (2608.13797v1), finds that while many approaches report strong performance on standard benchmarks, th…
A new arXiv paper (2608.13799v1) presents an event-driven learning and benchmarking framework for the Dynamic Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem, comparing masked MLP and Transformer policies trained via behavior clonin…
Researchers introduced FS-TPS and LaS-TPS, two stochastic control policies for transition path sampling that improve robustness and success in generating rare molecular transition trajectories. In multi-seed experiments …
Researchers propose HI-MeshGraphNets (HI-MGN), a hierarchical multi-scale graph neural network that improves mesh-based physics simulation accuracy and efficiency. In benchmarks on three structural and fluid problems, HI…
A new survey from arXiv (2608.13844v1) reviews federated prompt learning (FPL), a method that combines federated learning with large language models to enable privacy-preserving training without sharing raw data. The sur…
Researchers introduced Self-Explainable Latent Reasoning (SELR), a unified framework that trains a single model to perform latent reasoning while decoding its own latent representations into human-readable steps, elimina…
Researchers introduced BCMT (Blockwise Causal Memory Transformer), a new architecture for long-context language modeling that decouples local token interactions from global context propagation, achieving validation perfo…
A large-scale empirical study from arXiv (2608.13698v1) finds that training language models to reason in their native language via Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) leaves only a small gap to English reasoning, w…
The University of Florida Gators submitted a BM25-augmented many-shot translation system to the WMT26 Low-Resource Indic Language Translation shared task, translating between English and eleven North-Eastern Indian langu…
Researchers introduced CLAIR-Fin, a nine-agent framework for claim-level verification in cross-modal financial question answering, which improved faithfulness to 0.889 from a 0.780 baseline on the BB-FinQA-X dataset whil…