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arXiv:2607.00398v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Simulating two-dimensional frustrated quantum matter is a grand challenge due to the sign problem and exponential Hilbert space complexity. In this work, we introduce the Holographic Quantum Transformer (HQT), a physics-inspired generative architecture that leverages global self-attention to resolve non-local entanglement patterns. We validate HQT on the square lattice $J_1-J_2$ Heisenberg model. On the heavily frustrated $8 \times 8$ lattice at

arXiv:2607.00402v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety alignment of text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models aims to suppress harmful generations while preserving utility on benign prompts. Recent methods often appear to deliver high safety with high utility, but this conclusion rests largely on coarse global utility metrics (e.g., FID, CLIPScore) that are insensitive to fine-grained semantic correctness, creating an illusion of high utility. We show that when utility is measured with structured e

arXiv:2607.00417v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In the era of satellite constellations, multi-view optical satellite imagery is pivotal for Earth Observation (EO) and high-quality Digital Surface Model (DSM) reconstruction. Although feed-forward 3D foundation models have transformed computer vision, their deployment in satellite remote sensing is inherently constrained by the structural discrepancy between implicit perspective assumptions and explicit orbital pushbroom geometry. This geometric

arXiv:2607.00444v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatiotemporal motion planning, especially in multi-robot settings, requires robots to reason about collision-free regions that change over time, which is challenging in continuous spaces when feasible regions are transient and geometrically constrained. We present an algorithmic framework based on graphs of space-time convex sets (ST-GCSs), where collision-free regions are represented as convex sets in space-time and trajectories correspond to p

arXiv:2607.00448v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The two-tower model has been widely used for large-scale recommendation systems, particularly in the retrieval stage. Industry standards for training two-tower models typically involve in-batch and/or out-of-batch negative sampling. However, these methods often produce easy negatives that models can quickly learn, failing to sufficiently challenge the model. To address this issue, a novel self-supervised hard negative sampling technique is propos

arXiv:2607.00460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting complex spatiotemporal dynamics in physical processes often demands computationally expensive numerical methods or data-driven neural networks that suffer from high training costs, error accumulation, and limited generalizability to unseen parameters. An effective approach to address these challenges is leveraging physics priors in training neural networks, known as physics-informed deep learning (PiDL). In this work, we introduce the

arXiv:2607.00472v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cardiovascular disease is still one of the main causes of death around the world. Acute myocardial infarction (MI), or heart attack, claims millions of lives each year. MI happens when blood flow to the coronary arteries is blocked or reduced, which causes permanent damage to the heart muscle. Without treatment, this can lead to cardiac arrest, where the heart stops pumping blood to the organs, resulting in organ failure and death. Even survivors

arXiv:2607.00481v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Jailbreak attacks remain a critical threat to the safe deployment of large language models (LLMs). While prior work has primarily studied attacks and defenses at the prompt level, we show that this prompt-centric paradigm overlooks a structural vulnerability in stateful, function-calling environments. In such applications, developer-defined schemas, structured arguments, and untrusted tool outputs are interleaved into a single shared model contex

arXiv:2607.00486v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion models are highly effective at modeling complex data distributions, including images and text. However, in applications like personalized recommender systems, the objective often shifts to modeling specific regions of the distribution that maximize user preferences-initially unknown but gradually uncovered through interactive feedback. This can naturally be framed as a reinforcement learning problem, where the goal is to fine-tune a dif

arXiv:2607.00501v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present BaseRT, a native Metal inference runtime for large language models (LLMs) on Apple Silicon, and report the highest inference throughput on this hardware to date. Existing runtimes, including llama.cpp and MLX-based frameworks, incur overhead from abstractions not designed for Metal's execution model or Apple Silicon's unified memory topology. By building natively on Metal with chip-specific kernel fusion, unified memory-aware optimisat

arXiv:2607.00514v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic understanding of dynamic 4D point clouds, the 3D-point sequences captured over time by depth sensors and LiDAR, is central to robotics and embodied perception. Yet annotating them densely is expensive, making self-supervised pretraining the natural route to transferable representations. Existing pretext tasks, however, are almost entirely intra-modal, and the few methods that transfer knowledge from 2D foundation models rely on a single

arXiv:2607.00948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The visual quality of AI-generated videos has improved drastically in recent years, making it increasingly difficult for humans to distinguish between real and synthetic media. In this work, we evaluate the robustness and applicability of four state-of-the-art motion-based AI-generated video detectors. We identify significant preprocessing and sampling biases in these methods and demonstrate that they account for a substantial portion of their repo

arXiv:2607.00965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Light Field Super-Resolution (LFSR) necessitates accurate modeling of spatial-angular correlations while preserving intrinsic 4D ray coherence. However, maintaining such high-dimensional consistency remains challenging, primarily due to two inherent limitations in prevailing modeling paradigms. First, spatial and angular dimensions are often modeled in a decoupled manner, restricting early cross-dimensional interaction and leading to geometric inco

arXiv:2607.00987v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models have significantly advanced video super-resolution (VSR) but remain largely constrained to fixed upsampling scales. Conversely, while coordinate-based arbitrary-scale VSR methods offer scale flexibility, they inherently suffer from severe over-smoothing at large scaling factors. Integrating generative priors with continuous decoding is promising but currently hindered by severe temporal flickering caused by the stochasticity of dif

arXiv:2607.01001v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Radiomics is the established approach for CT-based lung cancer phenotyping, yet comparisons with foundation models rarely isolate contributions of feature extractor, classification head, and segmentation choice, or test cross-cohort robustness. We benchmark five feature extractors (Curia, Curia-2, DINOv3, Radiomics2D, Radiomics3D), seven classification heads (TabPFN, TabICL, XGBoost, CatBoost, Random Forest, logistic regression, Ridge), and three s

arXiv:2607.01050v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong cross-modal understanding and coordinate generation abilities in visual grounding. However, transferring these abilities to remote sensing visual grounding (RSVG) remains challenging. High-resolution remote sensing images usually cover large-scale scenes, where targets are often extremely small and surrounded by numerous visually similar distractors. Meanwhile, queries often contain

arXiv:2607.01100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Color-polarization imaging using a color-polarization filter array (CPFA) sensor captures both texture (color intensity) and physical (polarization) information of the scene in a single shot, enabling various applications in computer vision. However, the raw mosaic output from a CPFA sensor often suffers from severe noise and resolution loss, especially under low-light conditions. Existing methods generally focus on either denoising or demosaicking

arXiv:2607.01117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) have shown strong progress in video understanding, yet they still suffer from hallucinations that are inconsistent with visual evidence. Existing benchmarks mainly focus on object hallucination or coarse action perception, leaving a key video-specific problem underexplored: motion hallucination, in which models infer human motions that are absent from the video. We present MoHallBench, a benchmark for diagnos

arXiv:2607.01133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate trajectory forecasting of surrounding traffic participants is a core capability for autonomous driving, enabling vehicles to anticipate behavior and plan safe maneuvers. We observe that current state-of-the-art forecasting models on Argoverse 2 and the Waymo Open Motion Dataset tailor their training objectives to the different benchmark metrics. Because these metrics encourage conflicting behavior, we propose a paradigm change for trajecto

arXiv:2607.01147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models power everyday creative tasks, but they still reproduce the demographic biases in their training data. On common prompts such as ``a photo of a nurse,'' ``a photo of a CEO'', they skew their outputs toward one gender, driven by the statistics of training data rather than anything in the text. Existing debiasing methods show promise in narrow settings but require retraining, batch-level control, or prompt-specific tuni

arXiv:2607.01176v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reconstruction under realistic acquisition conditions can be fundamentally viewed as estimating the underlying k-space distribution from incomplete and noise-corrupted measurements. While diffusion models have recently shown strong potential as generative prior for inverse problems,existingapproachesstruggletohandlenoisyreconstruction settings, especially when operating directly in k-space domain. In this work, we p

arXiv:2607.01205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Linkify, a framework for learning from interface-augmented assembly graphs to enable context-aware part retrieval in mechanical assemblies. While recent generative AI methods for CAD have focused largely on isolated parts or monolithic assemblies, the rich geometric information at the interfaces between parts, where function is realized, remains underexplored. We address this gap by recomputing high-fidelity interface geometry for the Fu

arXiv:2607.01222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent 3D generative models can synthesize high-quality geometry but often struggle to reproduce intricate textures from reference images, largely due to the scarcity of large-scale 3D training data with rich surface appearance. In contrast, visual generative models are trained on datasets several orders of magnitude larger and excel at modeling complex visual patterns. Motivated by this gap, we introduce Ink3D, a framework that bridges 3D generati

arXiv:2507.15692v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) provide new opportunities for blind and low vision (BLV) people to access visual information in their daily lives. However, these models often produce errors that are difficult to detect without sight, posing safety and social risks in scenarios from medication identification to outfit selection. While BLV MLLM users use creative workarounds such as cross-checking between tools and consulting sighted indiv

arXiv:2607.00047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vertigo Vertigo is a scene-for-scene AI reconstruction of Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), generated from only 2.78% of the original film's frames. Using this sparse set of keyframe anchors, we perform first-last frame interpolation via a large video diffusion model to predict the intervening sequences. Vertigo is itself a film about the obsessive reconstruction of an artificial ideal; Vertigo Vertigo extends this logic to the material of the film, tr

arXiv:2607.00148v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning predictive models of the world enables robotic control through planning, potentially allowing robots to improvise solutions on new tasks. However, large video-based dynamics models lack explicit 3D spatial structure and suffer from geometrically inconsistent long-term rollouts with compounding errors. Emerging 3D dynamics models based on partial point clouds improve geometric consistency but remain sensitive to occlusions and accumulated

arXiv:2607.00250v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Maltese has decent text corpora and pretrained language models, but, like many languages outside the handful with large OCR benchmarks, only a single known real labelled PDF corpus for OCR training, 57 page, far below what paragraph-level training needs: low-resource for OCR specifically. With no real corpus to train on at scale, we built a synthetic training pipeline and a 5-stream Tesseract LV-ROVER ensemble, and report results on a 422-paragra

arXiv:2607.00379v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unsupervised cross-modal hashing enables efficient retrieval of semantically related instances across different modalities without requiring manual semantic annotation. However, existing unsupervised methods rely heavily on large-scale image-text pairs. Collecting such data can be costly, particularly in scenarios where well-aligned pairs are scarce due to privacy and specialized constraints. More critically, existing methods tend to overfit to s

arXiv:2607.00500v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Image-guided therapies, including radiotherapy, biopsy and deep brain stimulation, rely on real-time targeting of anatomical structures. However, in the presence of motion, imaging latencies create a temporal misalignment between observed and true anatomy, compromising treatment accuracy. Artificial intelligence-based frameworks have increasingly been presented to close this latency gap, but leading personalised models can fail due to a lack of s

arXiv:2607.00666v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models often fail to perform the same learned tasks under environmental shifts, such as changes in camera pose and shifts to a different but similar robot (e.g., from Panda to UR5e). Adapting these models to the shifted environment (i.e., target domain) often requires training on multiple demonstrations for each task, which are costly to collect. To reduce the burden of data curation and training, we propose an analog

arXiv:2607.01067v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As an essential modality for dexterous and contact-rich tasks, tactile sensing provides precise force feedback that cannot be reliably inferred from vision. However, limited by hardware and data collection systems, existing datasets with tactility remain small in scale and narrow in contact coverage. Meanwhile, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models with tactile modality are constrained on dynamics-agnostic post-training, which limits the performanc

arXiv:2607.00834v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Near-Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has emerged as a promising alternative to traditional soil analysis methods, offering advantages such as speed, low cost, and non-destructive testing. This work proposes a machine learning (ML) approach to calibrate predictive models for carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) content in Oxisols and Inceptisols, utilizing NIR spectral data acquired with a portable MyNIR device. Various preprocessing methods were evaluated, with

arXiv:2607.00763v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Digital forensic investigations of network intrusions require analytical outputs that are traceable, reproducible, and court-defensible - requirements existing machine learning pipelines do not satisfy, since they treat original evidence as training data and produce opaque classifications without instance-level justification. This paper presents a forensic-oriented intrusion detection framework resolving both problems simultaneously, integrating

arXiv:2607.00856v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In recent years, large language models have achieved remarkable success and have seen growing adoption in financial applications. At the same time, explainability remains critical in finance, a domain characterized by high stakes and strict regulatory requirements. Although numerous methods have been proposed to explain black box machine learning models, the majority of these approaches are designed for general purpose tasks and do not incorporat

arXiv:2607.00876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Private continual counting is a fundamental problem in differential privacy: given a binary stream of length $n$, where each $1$ corresponds to the contribution of one individual, the goal is to release all running counts while protecting the privacy of each individual. The standard algorithm is the binary tree mechanism, whose Gaussian-noise variant achieves expected $\ell_\infty$ error proportional to $\log^{3/2} n$ for approximate differential

arXiv:2607.00961v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Realizing quantum neural networks (QNNs) in industry requires knowing which quantum computing paradigm suits which task. Motivated by AI accelerators and high-bandwidth memory, where die stacking makes wafer-level defect screening central to yield, we study WM-811K wafer-map defect classification (eight classes), comparing the dominant paradigms, continuous-variable (CV) and discrete-variable (DV), under controlled conditions. To isolate the quan

arXiv:2607.00969v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual analytics (VA) plays an increasingly important role in supporting machine learning (ML) workflows. In the field of visualization, such approaches and techniques are referred to as VIS4ML. While ML models are mostly learned automatically, the corresponding ML workflows receive a variety of human inputs, such as data labelling, feature engineering, model architecture designing, hyper-parameter tuning, and so on. In this work, we surveyed ove

arXiv:2607.01010v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The success of deep learning models in classification and regression is widely attributed to the low-dimensional structure that real-world data tend to exhibit, despite their high-dimensional representation. This work attempts to provide a mathematical framework for binary classification on low-dimensional data, building on Cover's (1965) function-counting theory. With our framework, we aim to address the question of how the low-dimensional struc

arXiv:2607.01077v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While inference-time scaling has improved the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs), the need to generate long chains-of-thought (CoTs) is a computational bottleneck. Thus, in contrast to sequential scaling methods like CoT, recent parallel scaling techniques instead use fork and join (FJ) primitives to divide work across multiple LLM threads. However, in the fork-join paradigm, threads are typically transient and do not communicate

arXiv:2312.15427v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Stochastic optimization is a widely used approach for optimization under uncertainty, where uncertain input parameters are modeled by random variables. Exact or approximation algorithms have been obtained for several fundamental problems in this area. However, a significant limitation of this approach is that it requires full knowledge of the underlying probability distributions. Can we still get good (approximation) algorithms if these distrib