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arXiv:2607.14497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Egocentric Visual Question Answering (VQA) has attracted widespread attention as an important task for enabling Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to interact with the real world. However, existing MLLMs struggle to perform effective spatial reasoning in complex egocentric scenes due to their limited spatial perception capabilities. To this end, we introduce Ego Scene Augmentation (ESA), an egocentric spatial perception framework, which activ

arXiv:2607.14509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper describes DS@GT ARC's third-place solution to the PlantCLEF 2026 challenge on multi-species plant identification in vegetation quadrat images, where systems must predict every species present in high-resolution (~3000 x 3000 pixel) plot photographs while training only on single-label images of individual plants. The pipeline is built around a fine-tuned DINOv2 ViT-L/14 classifier applied over a multi-scale tile decomposition of each quad

arXiv:2607.14513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Techniques for modeling 3D scenes from image collections, such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), are capable of generating high-quality novel views by leveraging graphics primitives with view-dependent appearance. In 3DGS, spherical harmonic (SH) are employed to model view-dependent color, resulting in a large number of SH coefficients per primitive and large memory requirements. While compression approaches have been proposed to mitigate this probl

arXiv:2607.14514v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Object-goal navigation requires an embodied agent to locate and reach an instance of a specified object category in an indoor environment. Recent training-free approaches leverage vision-language models (VLMs) for open-vocabulary semantic reasoning, but are typically evaluated under an episodic protocol that resets all scene-specific state after each episode. We introduce Cross-Episode Object-Goal Navigation, in which an agent repeatedly operates i

arXiv:2607.14521v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual generative models inevitably absorb undesirable concepts from uncurated pretraining data, making concept erasure essential for safe deployment. Existing erasure methods, however, are often architecture-specific and struggle to remove target concepts while preserving non-target content and generative priors. We present Uni-AdaVD, a universal inference-time concept erasure framework for visual generation. Uni-AdaVD treats the value space of mu

arXiv:2607.14547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active visual agents solve fine-grained image tasks by interleaving reasoning with image-grounding actions across multiple turns. However, deployment-time rollout budgets are rarely fixed: some requests permit long rollouts, while others require the agent to act under a tight turn limit. Existing methods train the policy as if the rollout budget were hidden, so when the available budget is smaller than the trajectory the agent prefers, the interact

arXiv:2607.14548v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large multimodal models move from understanding content to operating on digital environments, mobile GUI has emerged as a challenging and consequential testbed for digital embodied intelligence. Mobile agents operate under three coupled constraints: precise perception of complex interfaces, scalable acquisition of high-quality interaction data, and robust long-horizon decision making under compounding execution errors. This report presents HyMob

arXiv:2607.14580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a novel system that integrates negative prompt optimization via a fine-tuned sequence-to-sequence LLM and latent-space classifier guidance to improve the quality of images generated by Stable Diffusion. Our approach automatically generates optimized negative prompts, and employs a CNN-RNN hybrid classifier to evaluate and guide diffusion steps, rolling back low-quality latent updates. Experimental results demonstrate that our dual-guidan

arXiv:2607.14595v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale video diffusion models (VDMs) deliver strong generation performance, but full fine-tuning for downstream tasks incurs prohibitive computational costs. Existing parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods have two critical flaws on billion-scale models: they still require substantial trainable parameters, and reward-based training suffers from noise-induced optimization instability in condition-guided tasks. We propose MagicPrompt, a

arXiv:2607.14631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inferring apparent personality from facial images is important in social scenarios for embodied agents in human-robot interaction. Unlike inferring intrinsic personality traits via conversation, this task models first-impression personality perception based solely on facial appearance before interaction begins. Existing studies mainly focus on the Big Five personality model and often rely on language or multimodal inputs. As a result, it remains un

arXiv:2607.14123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the proliferation of Explainable AI (XAI) techniques -- from feature attributions to sparse autoencoders -- explanations rarely influence real-world workflows. In practice, they are often generated and discarded without guiding meaningful action. This gap reflects foundational shortcomings: research has not yet established methodologies for integrating explanations into end-to-end, human-in-the-loop systems. This position paper argues that

arXiv:2607.14127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Representative clutter height (RCH) is a key parameter in radio propagation and interference analysis because it captures the dominant height of local obstructions that drive terminal clutter loss. Current practice often relies on fixed clutter heights assigned to land use classes in Recommendation ITU-R P.452-18, but this misses within class variation and can lead to conservative exclusion zones and poor site ranking for low Earth orbit ground sta

arXiv:2607.14171v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning has emerged as the dominant paradigm for training large language model (LLM) agents that interact with executable sandboxes. State-of-the-art algorithms such as PPO, RLOO, and GRPO inherit their rollout topology from RLHF: for each prompt, N independent trajectories are sampled from the initial state, and an advantage is computed by subtracting a group baseline. This design ignores a defining property of agent sandboxes. They

arXiv:2607.14174v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial sentiment extraction has largely relied on news text and supervised extraction against return labels alone, leaving 10-K filings -- and volatility, the target risk disclosure is arguably best suited to informing -- comparatively unexplored. We extend a supervised lexicon-learning approach to 10-K filings and their Item 1A risk-factor sections, training sentiment scores against both return and volatility labels at three levels of aggregati

arXiv:2607.14180v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models are widely used in offline reinforcement learning (RL) to improve sample efficiency and generate experience beyond a fixed dataset. However, they are vulnerable to model exploitation where data coverage is thin. Prior work addresses this either by collecting more expert demonstrations, which is often expensive, unsafe, or unavailable, or by conservative algorithms that avoid uncertain regions, which limits generalization. We propose in

arXiv:2607.14185v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Feedback-driven loops support iterative improvement in large language models, reinforcement learning, and autonomous discovery, yet their gains often diminish under repeated internal feedback. We study why closed-loop knowledge systems saturate and what external information can move them beyond their current attractors. We introduce a three-level operational framework in which knowledge states $x_t$ evolve through transition kernels $K_{\theta}$ in

arXiv:2607.14190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive and heterogeneous neurodegenerative disease in which predicting clinically meaningful milestones, such as assistive device use, remains challenging. We developed a time-to-event, digital-twin-inspired framework that integrates longitudinal ALS Functional Rating Scale-Revised (ALSFRS-R) trajectories with survival modeling to support individualized prediction of functional decline and assistive dev

arXiv:2607.14191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pediatric electronic health records capture developmentally structured clinical trajectories, yet their potential for generative healthcare foundation models remains largely unexplored. Here we present TEDDY (Temporal Event Decoder for Disease in Youth), a 1.84-million-parameter decoder transformer trained on approximately 73 million ICD-10 diagnoses from 1.6 million children at a single pediatric institution. TEDDY models longitudinal diagnosis tr

arXiv:2607.14200v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation learning is an appealing way to scale game-playing agents to complex 3D environments by training policies to map visual observations to actions from human demonstrations. However, these demonstrations are expensive to collect and modern game-playing is often done through streaming in which network delay and compression introduce spatiotemporally correlated visual artifacts that can cause a covariance shift at test time. To address these c

arXiv:2607.14205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables multi-institutional training on clinical text without sharing raw data, but gradient inversion can reconstruct sensitive information from shared model updates. The extent of this leakage for radiology reports, and the role of tokenizer design, remains unclear. We quantify gradient-based text reconstruction in FL and compare privacy risk across three tokenizers with the model architecture held fixed. Six FL clients tr

arXiv:2607.14233v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have had a broad research impact in modeling domains governed by partial differential equations (PDE). However, PINNs have been shown to perform poorly, sometimes even converging to trivial solutions, in challenging PDE domains, or when generalizing to unseen but related PDE domains. Previously proposed solutions detail hyperparameter tuning to reduce loss imbalance between data-driven and physics guided los

arXiv:2607.14249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile usage traces are critical for tasks such as user behavior prediction and app recommendation, yet their use is constrained by privacy restrictions and costly large-scale data collection. Although generative models perform well on general time series, their application to mobile usage data remains challenging because (i) limited user activity causes severe sparsity, (ii) heterogeneous variable types complicate joint modeling, and (iii) functio

arXiv:2607.14271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Feature-attribution methods are central to explainable artificial intelligence. Their assumptions are expressed in several mathematical languages: cooperative-game values, path integrals, gradient operators, perturbation distributions, and backpropagation rules. This survey proposes a common framework for local additive feature attribution. It organizes Shapley, path-based, gradient/backpropagation, perturbation, and CAM-style methods around five s

arXiv:2607.14272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow matching has emerged as an effective framework for learning complex data distributions, but adapting pretrained flow models to new tasks often requires computationally expensive retraining. Post-training guidance provides a more efficient alternative, but existing methods are largely heuristic and offer no explicit stability guarantees. We address this limitation by proposing LyaGuide, a unified Lyapunov-guided framework that formulates flow g

arXiv:2607.14314v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Seizure diagnosis from EEG signals is a critical yet persistently challenging task, due to the complicated neural dynamics and the spurious connections in inter-channel modeling. While spatial-temporal graph neural networks (STGNNs) have advanced EEG brain network representation learning, the resulting graph structures suffer from low clinical plausibility and limited interpretability due to their purely data-driven nature. To this end, we introduc

arXiv:2607.14315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we present a comprehensive framework for assessing the explainability of various XAI methods, such as LIME and SHAP, across multiple datasets and machine learning models, with the ultimate goal of creating a unified multidimensional explainability score. Our methodology focuses on three key aspects of explainability: fidelity, simplicity, and stability. We leverage benchmarking experiments to systematically evaluate these aspects and

arXiv:2607.14345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: People use language models for practical questions whose answers are difficult to verify. We show that models exhibit covert value leakage: the information they provide is influenced by their own values, without this influence being disclosed to the user. In one of our evaluations, the user is considering investing in an AI company and wants to know how likely the AI bubble is to pop. Claude Opus 4.8 gives a lower probability when the company under

arXiv:2607.14367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated fine-tuning of large pre-trained models increasingly relies on Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) to reduce communication and computation, but heterogeneous clients can make adapter aggregation unstable. We identify the data-parameter interference as a geometric source of this instability. This interference is controlled by the alignment between LoRA update subspaces and client activations, suggesting that federated LoRA aggregation should be vie

arXiv:2607.14371v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized AI services, but a critical tension emerges: while personalization improves model performance, it consumes scarce computational resources that users must share. When should a user invest in expensive Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) versus lightweight In-Context Learning (ICL)? How does congestion from other users' personalization choices reshape these incentives? And what strategies should platforms ado

arXiv:2607.14373v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a noise-robust elicit-to-optimize framework that integrates inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) and reinforcement learning (RL) for eliciting agents' risk preferences and optimizing policies under a broad class of risk objectives characterized by distortion riskmetrics. On the elicitation side, we propose an adaptive Bayesian IRL method that infers agents' latent risk objectives from their noisy observed decisions, explicitly allowing a

arXiv:2607.14099v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in real-world settings requires not only strong visual reasoning but also stability under sustained conversational pressure. We introduce Just Keep Prompting (JKP), a multi-turn evaluation framework that measures VLM epistemic stability when users repeatedly challenge, question, or contradict a model's answer. JKP probes models for up to 10 follow-up turns using three strategies: Adversarial Negation (repeate

arXiv:2607.14100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present the first application of pregroup grammar-based quantum compositional natural language processing (QNLP) to Arabic; a morphologically rich, free-word-order language whose structural complexity provides a uniquely demanding testbed for theories of meaning composition in quantum circuits. Our system converts Arabic sentences into quantum circuits whose topology mirrors grammatical structure: subjects, verbs, and objects become quantum gate

arXiv:2607.14101v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating high-quality adversarial texts with low query budgets remains a challenging problem in the hard-label scenario. Most existing approaches rely on greedy algorithms, where one position in the text is selected for substitution, followed by the substitutions of other positions. This local search approach may fail to discover high-quality adversarial examples and often leads to excessive query costs. Ideally, an optimal adversarial sample wou

arXiv:2607.14103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent systems (MAS) are utilized in many contexts and many professions. Those MAS rely on inter-agent communication, usually implemented by clear-text message passing. We hypothesize that Large Language Models may have a world model at their disposal that exceeds expressibility in text when complex concepts need to be communicated. Our aim is to approach a proof of this hypothesis with structured experiments. In this work, we show that LLM ag

arXiv:2607.14104v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an educational system architecture that enables learners to practice the Uzbek language through game-playing. The architecture integrates UzWordnet and the largest currently available orthographic dictionary for Uzbek as core lexical resources, together with generative AI as a fundamental component for learning support. We design four educational games to facilitate Uzbek language learning and propose a game-based methodology fo

arXiv:2607.14105v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For Large Language Models to reliably answer user queries, users must clearly specify requirements, context, and constraints. In practice, however, user queries are often underspecified, forcing models to infer unstated assumptions that may misalign with the actual user intent. Existing prompt engineering guidelines aim to mitigate this issue, they are typically generic and task-agnostic, limiting their practical utility. Additionally, existing gui

arXiv:2607.14106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper we introduce token time continuous diffusion (TTCD), a new diffusion language model which (a) operates in continuous space, deterministically mapping Gaussian noise to a final token canvas with no further sampling, and crucially (b) incorporates a new notion of per-token times, with some tokens proceeding from noise to token at a faster rate than others. Continuous space modeling helps TTCD avoid the parallel sampling of multiple toke

arXiv:2607.14107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The inference efficiency of diffusion large language models (dLLMs) is constrained by two challenges: bidirectional attention precludes efficient KV-cache reuse, while increasing decoding parallelism with static confidence thresholds can compromise generation quality. We observe that both challenges arise from a shared phenomenon: as tokens are decoded, their contextual integration through bidirectional attention causes token representations to dri

arXiv:2607.14108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces tool efficiency, a new quantitative metric to evaluate the rate of useful tool calls in an LLM agent trajectory. To ensure that tool efficiency is well-defined, we also introduce marginal tool utility, a new quantitative metric defined per tool call indicating whether a tool is useful or whether it can be safely removed from the tool suite without affecting accuracy while increasing tool efficiency; in this paper, we determine

arXiv:2607.14109v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Probing the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) and building robust solutions for Multiple-Choice Question Answering (MCQA) remain central challenges in natural language understanding. Furthermore, the rapid proliferation of LLMs has created the implicit assumption that more sophisticated prompting techniques yield better performance. Several studies claim better performance with more sophisticated prompting techniques, but do not provide