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Researchers introduced ImIR, an image-instruction tuning method that adapts a single Qwen-Image-Edit model to six image restoration tasks using one low-rank adapter trained in about three hours on one GPU. ImIR replaces …
Researchers introduced the Directional Total Variation-Regularized Implicit Neural Representation (DTV-INR), a variational method that combines SIREN-architected coordinate networks with an anisotropic, structure-tensor-…
A study posted to arXiv (2609.25386v1) found that fine-tuned convolutional neural networks outperformed traditional feature-based classifiers for binary sex estimation from footwear outsole impressions, using a publicly …
Researchers introduced CNMTDL, a manifold topological deep learning framework that combines Hodge decomposition with a combinatorial attention mechanism for medical image analysis, according to a new arXiv paper (arXiv:2…
Researchers introduced Matryoshka Implicit Neural Distillation (MIND), a geographic implicit neural representation that distills embeddings from specialist pretrained geospatial models into a single generalist coordinate…
Researchers proposed SBMVTrack, a fully spiking neural network framework for energy-efficient UAV visual tracking that introduces Energy-Weighted Spike Budgeting (EWSB) to constrain energy-weighted firing rates and satur…
Researchers proposed Point Diffusion Mamba (PDM), a method that combines diffusion models with state-space modeling for single-view 3D reconstruction under data-scarce conditions, according to an arXiv paper (arXiv:2609.…
A new arXiv paper (2609.25482v1) proposes Terminal Shrinkage Averaging (TSA), a pretraining estimator that interpolates between the raw final iterate and the average of recent checkpoints to balance recent optimization p…
Researchers proposed DefaultGNN, a dual-perspective graph neural network framework that predicts corporate default from multiplex buyer-view and seller-view transaction networks built on six years of real-world electroni…
Researchers introduced Active Continuous-Score Occupancy Modeling (ACORN), a method that incorporates machine-learning predictions into ecological occupancy models and selects which samples experts should review based on…
Researchers proposed NSFT (Neural Sub-expert Fine-Tuning), a fine-grained parameter-efficient fine-tuning framework that refines Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) large language model adaptation from experts to sub-experts by dec…
A benchmark study of six Time Series Foundation Models (TSFMs) on energy, traffic, and financial datasets found that the models outperform statistical baselines and a supervised deep learning model but face a fundamental…
Researchers introduced TopoSIGN, a topology-guided graph pre-training and prompt learning framework for signed graphs, detailed in arXiv paper 2609.25722v1. TopoSIGN combines a structural encoder built on the magnetic si…
A new arXiv paper (2609.25876v1) evaluates SechKAN, a Kolmogorov-Arnold Network variant that uses hyperbolic secant (sech) basis functions with a 1D projection to cut parameters to a level comparable to MLPs. Tested on t…
A new arXiv paper (2609.25874v1) establishes a rigidity theorem showing that for continuous piecewise linear generators with a finite number of segments, any C^3 function representable as geometrically weighted sums of i…
Researchers proposed Cross-layer Activation-aware Sensitivity Allocation (CASA), a two-phase mixed-precision quantization method that replaces scalar sensitivity proxies with an activation-aware metric derived from the K…
A new arXiv paper (arXiv:2609.25962v1) reports that solver-level warmstarting can significantly reduce neural network verification time in most cases and enables successful verification of instances that could not be sol…
A study by Matthia Sabatelli, published on arXiv as 2609.26018v1, found that neural networks can partially acquire exceptions to a dominant regularity, then regress toward that regularity, and finally recover — a pattern…
Researchers proposed xWhyL, a formal framework that learns causal models from explanations, in a paper published as arXiv:2609.26037v1. The framework's mathematical theory translates explanations into a learning signal c…
Researchers introduced BOBA (Bayesian Optimization through Bayesian Active Inference), a new acquisition function for dynamic Bayesian optimization that minimizes predictive uncertainty about future states, according to …