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arxiv Score 35.8

LoongReflect: Boosting Long-Horizon Reflection in Search Agents via Global Perspective Distillation

2026-08-12 · Zhixin Zhang, Xinke Jiang, Zhibang Yang, Weixuan Xu, Guohong Qiu, Xu Chu, Junfeng Zhao, Yasha Wang

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Large language model agents increasingly rely on long-horizon reasoning to solve complex tasks involving planning, tool use, and memory. A critical capability in such settings is reflection: assessing trajectory progress, identifying missing evidence and unreliable intermediate states, and deciding whether to continue,…

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arxiv Score 26.8

StreamFlow: Dynamic Memory Flows for Streaming Video Understanding

2026-08-11 · Muxin Fu, Yifan Zhang, Wentao Zhang, Fangming Guo, Qian Chen, Guibin Zhang, Shuicheng Yan, Bo An

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Streaming video understanding requires multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to preserve relevant evidence from continuously evolving streams under strict causality and bounded memory. Yet existing paradigms remain limited: model-based methods require intrusive backbone updates, while memory-based methods expend sub…

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arxiv Score 23.8

DreamFly: Causal Memory and Receding-Horizon Diffusion Planning for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation

2026-08-12 · Yan Deng, Fei Xu

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Aerial vision-language navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to integrate visual evidence over time, plan future actions, and determine when it has reached a navigation goal under partial observability. Although recent VLA models offer a promising perception-to-action paradigm, adapting them to aerial navigation …

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huggingface Score 23.0

MBA: Multimodal Benchmark and Agents for Real-World Business Ideation

2026-08-12 · Hojun Choi, Jaeyo Shin, Suin Lee, Hyunjung Shim

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Agentic systems powered by large language models (LLMs) have opened new opportunities for business ideation. Yet existing approaches remain confined to a text-only paradigm, despite the inherently multimodal nature of real-world contexts. We thus introduce MBA-Bench, the first multimodal benchmark for training and eval…

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arxiv Score 20.8

Diagram-MMU: A Multi-Modal Benchmark for Scientific Diagrams

2026-08-12 · Weihao Bo, Shan Zhang, Yanpeng Sun, Jie Liu, Yongke Yao, Jinhao Du, Wei He, Kai Zou, Zechao Li, Jingdong Wang

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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have been growing the capability for scientific writing and collaboration. For example, OpenAI Prism is a free workspace for scientific writing and collaboration. One important feature in Prism is turning scientific diagrams directly into LaTeX TikZ code. In this paper, we build…

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arxiv Score 20.0

Drift and Dependence: Layer-wise Information-Theoretic Bounds for Replay-Based Continual Learning

2026-08-12 · Tieliang Gong, Zhongbo Zhang, Wen Wen, Yong-Jin Liu

Research Track A · General AI

Continual learning must absorb new tasks without erasing old ones, and replay---mixing a small buffer of past examples into current training---is among the most effective remedies for catastrophic forgetting. Yet its generalization behavior is shaped by two coupled effects that existing analyses fold into a single hypo…

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arxiv Score 19.8

The Sleeping Agent: What Gist-Based Context Compression Loses and Why

2026-08-12 · Nicholas E. Kyrkewood

Research Track A · General AI

Gist-based context compression---summarising older conversation history into compact representations---is a common approach in long-horizon language model agents, yet its effect on different types of memory retrieval is poorly understood. We use Salience-Weighted Consolidation (SWC), a biologically-inspired compression…

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arxiv Score 18.8

One Frozen Simulator Is Not Enough: Simulator Collapse in Multi-Agent RL

2026-08-12 · Simon Yu, Nicholas Tomlin, Marwa Abdulhai, Ximing Lu, Derek Chong, Abe Hou, Dilara Soylu, Sergey Levine, Christopher D. Manning, Weiyan Shi

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Multi-agent reinforcement learning for human-AI interaction typically relies on a single large language model to simulate user behavior. We show that this approach systematically fails to generalize, and trace the failure to simulator collapse: because the simulator LLM is mode-collapsed, an LLM policy trained against …

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arxiv Score 18.8

VAKRA: Evaluating Multi-Hop Reasoning Across APIs and Retrieval Under Tool-Use Policies

2026-08-12 · Ankita Rajaram Naik, Anupama Murthi, Benjamin Elder, Siyu Huo, Raavi Gupta, Abhinav Jain, Praveen Venkateswaran, Abdulhamid Adebayo, Danish Contractor

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Agents deployed in enterprise settings must reason across structured APIs and document collections, yet existing benchmarks evaluate these capabilities in isolation. We introduce VAKRA (e\textbf{V}aluating \textbf{A}PI and \textbf{K}nowledge \textbf{R}etrieval \textbf{A}gents), a benchmark of over $8{,}000$ executable …

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arxiv Score 18.0

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding

2026-08-11 · Kushal Chakrabarti

Research Track A · General AI

Agentic coding READMEs like CLAUDE.md grow without bound in real repositories, stopping only when the repository retires or someone rewrites the file wholesale. We trace this to imperfect recall: appending an instruction is always cheap, but once an instruction's rationale is gone, deleting it without risking a correct…

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arxiv Score 17.8

Beyond Trial-and-Error: Agentic Optimization for Image-to-Video Adherence

2026-08-12 · Aman Tyagi, Hemanth Boinpally, Jonathan Chen, Douglas Gebert, Steven Hickson

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Modern black-box Image-to-Video (I2V) models offer powerful capabilities in automated content creation, yet their lack of fine-grained control and reliability presents significant challenges in professional workflows. Their inherent stochasticity causes minor variations in textual prompts or hyperparameters to yield dr…

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arxiv Score 17.8

Context Blindness in DPO: Mitigating Object Hallucination in MLLMs via Context-Calibrated Preference Optimization

2026-08-12 · Byungoh Ko, Jinyoung Park, Jongha Kim, Jeehye Na, Jaewon Cho, Hyunwoo J. Kim

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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made rapid progress, yet they still exhibit object hallucination, generating plausible but incorrect descriptions that are inconsistent with the visual input. Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) mitigates this by training models to prefer non-hallucinated responses over ha…

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huggingface Score 17.4

AtlasVLA: Persistent World-Ego State Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Models

2026-08-07 · Guiyu Zhao, Longteng Guo, Yanghong Mei, Zilin Zhu, Yu Zhang, Bin Cao, Mingming Yu, Xingjian He, Jie Jiang, Jing Liu

Research Track A · General AI

While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have advanced embodied AI, their fundamentally reactive paradigm severely limits performance in partially observable and long-horizon tasks. When restricted to a single wrist-mounted camera, they inevitably suffer from perception forgetting as objects exit the field of view, an…

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arxiv Score 16.8

AVA-Encoder: Towards Agent-Native Video Representation Learning

2026-08-12 · Chuyue Li, Jinpeng Yu, Haozhe Wang, Tian Xueyun, Zhijing Zhang, Bingnan Li, Shuqi Gu, Kan Ren, Jiaming Liu, Ruihua Hua

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Creative agents still lack an effective way to learn from high-quality human films, limiting their ability to produce cinematic-grade videos. A key challenge is the absence of a structured video representation that is both faithful to film content and directly usable for agentic reasoning and manipulation. To address t…

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arxiv Score 15.8

Constructing Dynamic Master Logic Models as Knowledge Graphs for Complex System Diagnostics Using Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models

2026-08-12 · Saman Marandi, Yu-Shu Hu, Mohammad Modarres

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Dynamic Master Logic (DML) provides a hierarchical framework for representing system behavior by linking functional objectives to underlying structural elements. However, DML construction typically relies on expert interpretation of technical documentation, limiting scalability for complex systems. This study presents …

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arxiv Score 14.8

The SLT 2026 SmartGlasses Challenge: Benchmarking Egocentric Multi-Talker Speech Recognition and Understanding with Audio-Language Models

2026-08-12 · Dehui Gao, Zhixian Zhao, Zhennan Lin, Yujie Liao, Yuhang Dai, Yike Zhu, Longshuai Xiao, Hui Bu, Xin Xu, Xie Chen, Shuai Wang, Liumeng Xue, Zhonghua Fu, Jun Du, Eng-Siong Chng, Jun Zhou, Lei Xie

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Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) have created new opportunities for wearable speech interfaces, with smart glasses providing an egocentric platform for continuous audio sensing and assistance. However, speech recognition and understanding in this setting remain challenging bec…

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arxiv Score 14.0

Consolidator: Learning Persistent Routed Memory Across Context Boundaries

2026-08-12 · Sungwoo Goo, Hwi-yeol Yun, Sangkeun Jung

Research Track A · General AI

Copying short-term memory (STM) into a slower store can preserve state across a context boundary, but persistence alone does not ensure that the retained state influences subsequent memory access. We test this distinction in a Phasor Memory Network (PMNet) using Consolidator, a shared slot-local operator that transform…

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arxiv Score 13.8

AI4AI at Test-Time: Strong-to-Weak Capability Transfer via Harnesses

2026-08-12 · Cheng Qian, Wenting Zhao, Liangwei Yang, Heng Wang, Jielin Qiu, Heng Ji, Silvio Savarese, Huan Wang, Shelby Heinecke

General AI

Recent work on distillation transfers the capabilities of large models to smaller ones often by updating the latter's parameters, through teacher forcing, on-policy distillation, and related training-time methods. In this paper, we ask whether such transfer can instead occur at test time. We study strong-to-weak scaffo…

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arxiv Score 13.8

Generation as Auxiliary Supervision: Enhancing Visual Understanding at Zero Inference Overhead via Decoupled Embedding Prediction

2026-08-12 · Zhongbin Guo, Jiahao Xie, Dongling Xiao, Qianle Wang, Ruiqi Lu, Xiaomin He, Wanxuan Sun, Cheng Yang

General AI

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress, visual understanding and generation are typically treated as divergent objectives. Existing unified frameworks often rely on discrete visual tokenization or diffusion objectives whose generative targets differ from the continuous represen…

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huggingface Score 13.4

Can LLM Agents Stick to the Script? A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Consistency in Interactive Narratives

2026-08-08 · Yingpeng Ma, Jianhao Yan, Bei Shi, Ka Hou Kam, Runnan Wang, Xuebo Liu, Yulong Chen, Yue Zhang, Derek F. Wong

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The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) is revolutionizing AI for Games by enabling open-ended and fluid interactive storytelling. However, existing research has largely overlooked the critical challenge of maintaining long-horizon logical consistency and narrative integrity against unconstrained user int…

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huggingface Score 13.4

NeuPAT: Neuron-aware Plasticity Allocation Tuning for Language-Preserving MLLMs

2026-08-08 · Jiayue Jin, Jingwei Zhang, Chen Wang, Jing Liu, Longteng Guo

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Multimodal expansion of large language models (LLMs) enables new perceptual capabilities but often compromises the language intelligence acquired during pretraining. In this work, we investigate this phenomenon from the perspective of internal adaptation dynamics and discover that neurons in pretrained LLMs exhibit het…

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huggingface Score 13.0

Poor Man's Agentic Modeling: Simulating Large LLM-Agent Societies on a Laptop

2026-07-19 · Igor Itkin

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Simulating societies of many large language model (LLM) agents is expensive, yet the questions asked of such simulations are usually macroscopic: phase behaviour, stylised facts, and scaling with the number of agents N, not the cognition of any single agent. We turn a statistical-physics observation into a method: repl…

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arxiv Score 12.8

GraphAlignCoder: Aligning Program and Proof Graphs for Code Generation

2026-08-11 · Yueke Zhang, Zihan Fang, Kevin Leach, Yu Huang

Research Track A · General AI

Code large language models (LLMs) can generate syntactically plausible programs that nevertheless violate hidden semantic constraints. Existing execution-feedback training methods identify whether a completed program fails, but provide limited supervision about how a correct solution should be organized. We introduce G…

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arxiv Score 12.8

GUIDE: Governed Unified Intelligence for Document-to-Artifact Generation in Enterprise Settings

2026-08-12 · Shivali Dalmia, Sumukha Thoppanahalli, Mohammadreza Sediqin, Abhishek Mukherji

General AI

Enterprise guideline documents are heterogeneous and multimodal, combining narrative text, complex tables, and embedded images. Existing LLM and VLM systems face hallucinated content, table structure degradation, and lack governed workflows extending beyond extraction to validation and artifact generation. This leaves …

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arxiv Score 12.2

Locally Deployable Small Language Models for Emergency Department Decision Support: A Systematic Benchmark of Fine-Tuning Strategies

2026-08-10 · Qingfeng Zhang, Yuanxiong Guo, Yanmin Gong

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Deploying large language models (LLMs) for decision support in emergency departments (EDs) faces two major challenges: privacy risks of transmitting patient data to closed-source commercial LLMs and the lack of systematic evaluation of fine-tuning strategies for locally deployable open-source small language models (SLM…

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huggingface Score 12.0

Self-Evolving Embodied Agents via Skill-Harness Evolution

2026-08-11 · Peidong Wang, Zhiming Ma, Ying Chang, Xufang Luo, Xiaocui Yang, Shi Feng, Yuqing Yang, Dongsheng Li

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Embodied agents are increasingly built as systems around foundation models, where performance depends not only on model weights but also on the skills, context, action interfaces, and execution harness surrounding the model. While supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning can adapt agents to new environments, t…

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arxiv Score 11.8

Actionable Hallucination Detection: Translating Latent Uncertainty into Agentic Critique

2026-08-11 · Sanidhya Vijayvargiya, Rahul Lokesh

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Large Language Models (LLMs) deployed as AI agents frequently exhibit user specification-grounding failures, executing hallucinated, undesired actions to force a resolution rather than expressing uncertainty. Existing detection methods fail to provide actionable, real-time correction as they either do not localize the …

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arxiv Score 11.8

Retrieval-Augmented Vision Foundation Models for Robust Leukemia Cell Classification across Multiple Microscopy Datasets

2026-08-11 · Carlos Zamora, Hiram Zuniga, Ulises Orozco-Rosas, Kenia Picos

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Leukemia cell image classification is challenged by real-world domain shifts from acquisition, staining, illumination, and site protocols, causing single-dataset models to generalize poorly in real clinical scenarios. This work presents a robust framework for leukemia classification across multiple heterogeneous datase…

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arxiv Score 11.8

Convergent Detour Hijacking: Task-Preserving Resource Amplification in Skill-Based LLM Agents

2026-08-12 · Junliang Liu, Ruoyu Li, Wenxin Tang, Jingyu Xiao, Zhenyu Liu, Jingheng Xu, Laizhong Cui

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LLM agents increasingly rely on third-party skills, using natural-language descriptions for selection and instruction bodies for planning. This progressive-disclosure design exposes two sequential control points to untrusted publishers: a static skill may steer an otherwise correct task onto an unnecessarily costly tra…

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arxiv Score 11.8

Teaching a Large Language Model Tutor to Withhold the Answer: A Supervisor Architecture and an Evidence-Driven Method for Tuning Socratic Behavior

2026-08-12 · Yusuf Pisan

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An effective large language model (LLM) tutor must often decline to give an answer it could easily produce. In a randomized study, students who used an unguarded chatbot scored higher while practicing but lower on a later test taken without it, whereas a Socratically guarded version of the same model kept the practice …

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huggingface Score 11.0

AutoWorldModel-Bench: A State-Centric Benchmark for Automated World-Model Research

2026-07-20 · Marjan Moodi, Xuankang Zhu, Fernando De Mesentier Silva, Harold Chaput, Mohammad Reza Taesiri

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World modeling is an unsettled field: architectures, training objectives, and state representations interact in complex ways, and no single recipe dominates across environments. This makes it an ideal testbed for AI coding agents acting as autonomous researchers--a setting in which the improvement direction is not spec…

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huggingface Score 11.0

OpenART: Scaling Agent Red Teaming via Open-Ended Environment Evolution

2026-08-01 · Yunhao Chen, Xin Wang, Yixu Wang, Yi Liu, Jie Li, Yan Teng, Xingjun Ma, Xia Hu, Yu-Gang Jiang

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AI agents operate in persistent environments where early state changes can influence decisions far into the future. Unlike conventional language-model interactions, agent behavior is mediated through a shared state that is repeatedly modified and reused across long-horizon workflows. Current safety benchmarks often fai…

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From Synthesis to Removal: Physics-Grounded Reflection Simulation and Diffusion-Based Video Dereflection

2026-08-12 · Zepeng Wang, Jiagao Hu, Fuhao Li, Yuxuan Chen, Fei Wang, Daiguo Zhou

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Videos captured through glass often contain reflections that degrade visual quality and interfere with downstream vision tasks. Although single-image reflection removal has been extensively studied, video reflection removal remains largely underexplored due to the lack of paired video data, temporally coherent removal …

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arxiv Score 10.5

AECNav: Active Evidence Consolidation for Efficient Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary Object Navigation

2026-08-11 · Guanlin Liu, Shaobin Ling, Renyuan Liu, Zeying Gong, Junjie Hu

Research Track A · General AI

Zero-shot object-goal navigation (ZSON) in open-vocabulary scenarios is challenging, as it requires a robot to locate an arbitrarily specified object in an unseen environment without task-specific training. Currently, the task still suffers from high latency and limited accuracy due to redundant perception pipelines an…

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arxiv Score 9.8

The Role Specialization Model (RSM): Coordinating LLM-Based Tools in Agentic Software Development - An Exploratory Case Study

2026-08-12 · Carlos Alberto Fernández-y-Fernández, Jorge R. Aguilar-Cisneros

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The integration of large language models (LLMs) into software development workflows has given rise to a paradigm known as Agentic Software Engineering (SE 3.0), in which autonomous agents manage full development life cycles under human supervision. This paper presents an exploratory case study in which three LLM-based …

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huggingface Score 9.0

Persistent Recursive Worlds Enable Autonomous Software Evolution

2026-08-12 · Beichen Huang, Zhenyu Liang, Bowen Zheng, Ran Cheng

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Complex software systems develop over timescales that exceed the lifespan of any individual coding agent. Most agentic software systems preserve continuity through persistent sessions, memories, managers or shared context. We introduce EvoX Genesis (hereafter, Genesis), which instead makes the software project persiste…

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arxiv Score 8.8

Large Language Model-Driven Small-Capitalization Trading: Integrating Financial News Sentiment, Macroeconomic Indicators, and Technical Signals

2026-08-12 · Alireza Kargarzadeh, Nariman Khaledian, Navid Parvini, Arman Khaledian

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Large language models can extract richer signals from financial news than fixed sentiment lexicons, and recent work has explored feeding such signals into portfolio construction. We study an uncertainty-aware construction that feeds model-predicted risk -- decomposed into aleatoric and epistemic components -- directly …

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arxiv Score 8.8

PatternFormer: Learning Multiple Solution Patterns in Reaction--Diffusion Systems

2026-08-12 · Zhipeng Chang, Wenpeng Yin, Wenrui Hao

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Many nonlinear models across physics, chemistry, and biology exhibit multiple solutions for the same parameters, and capturing this entire solution set is essential for understanding pattern-forming systems. Yet existing learned surrogates are fundamentally single-valued: neural operators map each parameter to a single…

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arxiv Score 8.8

Poly-Dialectal Neural Machine Translation System for Bangla Regional Dialects

2026-08-12 · Rakib Ullah, Ruhul Islam Rahul, Tanbir Ahmed

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Regional dialectal variation poses a fundamental challenge to natural language processing (NLP) in Bangla, where over 240 million speakers communicate across diverse regional variants that diverge significantly from Standard Colloquial Bangla (SCB) in phonology, morphology, and lexicon. Contemporary neural machine tran…

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arxiv Score 8.8

Synchronized AMG and EMG Dataset of Lower-limb Muscle Activities in Everyday Training

2026-08-12 · Dongxu Tang, Shih Ying-Lei, Zhuoyi Ren, Jianting Liao, Yitian Shao

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Understanding how lower-limb muscle groups coordinate is important for studying movement impairment, rehabilitation, and physical performance. Reproducible analysis of this coordination requires multimodal recordings that relate local muscle-related signals with body-level kinematics. Complementing neural-level electri…

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huggingface Score 8.0

Simplex Relaxation for Discrete Diffusion

2026-08-11 · Jinya Sakurai, Patrick Pynadath, Satoshi Hayakawa, Jaehong Yoon, Xulei Yang, Nancy F. Chen, Xun Xu

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Discrete diffusion models for categorical generation are defined by a corruption kernel, which determines the intermediate state space and the associated reverse prediction problem. We study uniform discrete diffusion and ask whether its training objective and reverse transitions can be enriched without changing the un…

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arxiv Score 7.8

Comparative Analysis of Low-Rank Adaptation in Large Language Models versus Dense Embedding Regression for Headline Click-Through Rate Prediction

2026-08-12 · Samarth Sirsat, Anirudha Shinde, Amit Sethi, Aman Verma

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Optimizing digital content headlines for click-through rate (CTR) is an important problem in online media and recommendation systems. While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong generative capabilities, their effectiveness for discriminative ranking tasks, such as selecting the highest-performing headli…

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Agent Safety Should Be a Runtime Contract

2026-08-11 · Albus W. Ng, Yi Han, Jusheng Zhang, Wenhao Wang

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The dominant paradigm treats AI safety as a property to be instilled during model training via RLHF, DPO, or Constitutional AI. We argue this is structurally insufficient for autonomous agents that execute code, mutate files, send messages, and modify databases. Agent safety should be a runtime contract enforced by the…

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huggingface Score 6.0

Self-Geometry: GT-Free and Plug-and-Play Test-Time Adaptation for Geometrically Consistent 3D Vision Foundation Models

2026-08-11 · Seokhyun Youn, Dahyeon Kye, Sung-Ho Bae, Jihyong Oh

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Recent Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) predict depth, camera pose, and pointmap in a single forward pass without per-scene optimization, achieving strong generalization. However, enforcing explicit multi-view geometric consistency, e.g., through bundle adjustment, is computationally costly and is thus not imposed durin…

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Class Activation Mapping in Explainable Computer Vision: A Method-Centered Review of CNN, Transformer, and Foundation-Model-Era Visual Explanations

2026-08-12 · AmirHossein Eshghi, Hamid Saadatfar, Seyyed Ali Hoseini, AmirMohsen Eshghi, Siavash Arjomand Bigdel

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Class activation mapping (CAM) is one of the most widely used visual explanation families in explainable artificial intelligence. Its purpose is intuitive: it converts internal model evidence into a heatmap that highlights the image regions, convolutional channels, tokens, or patches that support a target class or conc…

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arxiv Score 5.8

PACE-SIMS: Checkpoint-Gated Autonomous SIMS Characterization with AI-Agent Quality Control

2026-08-12 · Anton V Ievlev, Heather Hare, Yiyang Li, Sergei V Kalinin

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Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) is widely used for local chemical investigations across a broad range of materials and systems. However, its operation is expensive in expert time: a trained researcher must supervise acquisition throughout, dynamically tuning parameters throughout the experimen…

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arxiv Score 5.8

Random close packing at extreme size ratios with an Adam-based inflation protocol

2026-08-12 · Kenneth Desmond

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We present \texttt{rcpgenerator}, an openly available code for generating $d$-dimensional dense, disordered, non-overlapping close packings from an arbitrary prescribed list of particle diameters. The method adapts the Clarke--Wiley inflation protocol, but instead uses the Adam optimizer to relax the particle configura…

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arxiv Score 5.8

StateFlow: Building, Evolving, and Accessing 3D World States for Previsualization

2026-08-12 · Yuyang Yin, Zixiang Li, Longxuan Deng, Hongkai Li, Shifang Zhao, Junnan Liu, Weirong Huang, Mengyu Wang, Tianxiao Fu, Yikai Wang, Peng-Shuai Wang, Xiaojie Jin, Yao Zhao, Yunchao Wei

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Previsualization is an intermediate layer between ideas and production in film, games, architecture, and urban design. It lets creators iteratively refine scenes, actions, cameras, and spatial-temporal dynamics. Yet existing generative methods rely on simple prompts to jointly control all of these factors through one-s…

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