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arXiv:2601.20753v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Preference-Conditioned Policy Learning (PCPL) in Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning (MORL) approximates diverse Pareto-optimal solutions by conditioning a single policy on user-specified preferences, enabling run-time adaptation to arbitrary trade-offs without retraining. However, existing PCPL benchmarks are largely restricted to toy tasks and fixed environments, limiting their realism and scalability. To address this gap, we introduce Gra

arXiv:2602.07400v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Gradient-based LUT- and logic-gate-based neural networks (LUTNet, LogicNets, DiffLogic, PolyLUT, NeuraLUT, WARP-LUT, DWN, LILogicNet, LightLUT) replace multiply-accumulate arithmetic with Boolean lookups. The same trained checkpoint deploys to GPU as bitwise ops on bit-packed activations, to FPGA as LUT primitives, and to ASIC as standard-cell gates, all from one code path. Yet each method ships its own training pipeline, encoder, connectivity

arXiv:2512.18542v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI coding assistants produce vulnerable code in 45\% of security-relevant scenarios~\cite{veracode2025}, yet no public training dataset teaches both traditional web security and AI/ML-specific defenses in a format suitable for instruction tuning. We present SecureCode, a production-grade dataset of 2,185 multi-turn security training examples spanning two domains: web application security (1,435 examples covering the OWASP Top 10 2021 acro

arXiv:2601.12494v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Audio large language models (LLMs) enable unified speech understanding and generation, but adapting them to linguistically complex and dialect-rich settings such as Arabic-English remains challenging. We present a controlled study of multi-task instruction tuning for an Arabic-centric audio LLM across generative tasks, including automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech and text summarization, as well as discriminative tasks, includin

arXiv:2603.15600v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate process supervision remains a critical challenge for long-horizon robotic manipulation. A primary bottleneck is that current video MLLMs, trained primarily under a Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) paradigm, function as passive "Observers" that recognize ongoing events rather than evaluating the current state relative to the final task goal. In this paper, we introduce PRIMO R1 (Process Reasoning Induced Monitoring), a 7B framework th

arXiv:2604.22851v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have advanced high-level reasoning in autonomous driving, their ability to ground this reasoning in the underlying physics of ego-motion remains poorly understood. We introduce EgoDyn-Bench [Project page: (https://tum-avs.github.io/EgoDyn-Bench-Website/), Code: (https://github.com/TUM-AVS/EgoDyn-Bench), Dataset: (https://huggingface.co/datasets/fnc1901/EgoDyn-Bench)], a diagnostic benchmark for evaluati

arXiv:2604.24222v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved strong performance on general code generation, but their effectiveness drops sharply in enterprise settings where software development relies on internal private libraries absent from public pre-training corpora. Existing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) methods provide a training-free solution by retrieving static API documentation, but our analysis shows that documentation mainly helps mode

arXiv:2606.09843v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) give stable answers to personality questionnaires, yet these self-reports fail to predict how the models behave. Is this gap an artifact of forcing human trait categories onto LLMs, or something deeper about LLM self-report? To find out, we built the first psychometric instrument whose dimensions are derived from LLM behavior rather than human psychology. Administering 300 items (240 Likert + 60 scenario) to 2

arXiv:2606.28815v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mathswitch is an open-source project that imports mathematical concept records from sources such as Wikidata, Wikipedia, MathWorld, Encyclopedia of Mathematics, nLab, ProofWiki, and Agda-Unimath, and links records that refer to the same concept. It does not reorganize or redefine the imported content; each source retains its own structure. The current focus is on importing concept data from Wikidata and the resources it links to, with pla

arXiv:2607.05888v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: i-EXAM is a planning-powered tool that helps system administrators to create security profiles of complex networks and perform what-if analyses to identify network hardening strategies. It leverages planning compilation that provides soundness and completeness guarantees to identify attack paths, evaluate security metrics, generate diverse hardening strategies, and explain these strategies in natural language using Large Language Models.

arXiv:2607.05958v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a distributed, vendor-agnostic multi-MCP architecture for SDN-based automation and autonomous control of multi-vendor, multi-layer IPoDWDM networks. The framework enables E2E service lifecycle automation, closed-loop cross-layer control using GNPy model and optical telemetry, and is experimentally validated on a IPoDWDM testbed.

arXiv:2607.05970v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dataset search depends heavily on metadata, making LLM-generated metadata a consequential form of synthetic content in retrieval systems. We study six metadata-generation settings for RDF datasets, ranging from simple rewriting to profile-grounded and agentic graph-based generation, and evaluate them jointly for retrieval effectiveness and faithfulness. Unconstrained metadata rewriting delivers the strongest retrieval gains over the original meta

arXiv:2607.06074v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prompt engineering has emerged as a critical yet undertaught skill for software developers, one that traditional learning approaches are ill-equipped to support given its evolving, interactive, and context-dependent nature. In this paper, we introduce Prompt Coach (PC), an agentic tutor that helps developers learn how to craft high-quality code-generation prompts through Socratic guidance embedded in-flow within their IDE. PC evaluates prompt qua

arXiv:2607.06101v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI coding agents are rapidly reshaping how software is built, with developers increasingly delegating substantial coding tasks to autonomous agents in pursuit of higher productivity. While these gains are real, they come at the cost of incidental learning. Developers historically acquired informal knowledge through effortful problem-solving, and this has long shaped how software engineering expertise develops. However, with over-reliance on agent

arXiv:2607.06111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial prediction and soft sensing depend on credible input measurements. In field deployment, a predictor may receive biased, delayed, stale, or derived measurements that still look plausible. Prediction can then fail before the forecasting backbone becomes the main limitation, because the input window no longer represents the real process. Sensor reconstruction, data reconciliation, and fault-tolerant soft sensing reduce this risk, but they

arXiv:2607.06125v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural decompilation is increasingly studied as a code-generation problem, yet its evaluation methodology remains underdeveloped for modern languages. We present a systematic empirical study of fine-tuning effectiveness and metric validity for Dart Ahead-of-Time (AOT) neural decompilation. We evaluate six fine-tuned model variants across three base architectures (4B-8B parameters) using three metrics: CodeBLEU, compile@k, and pass@k on a new 154-

arXiv:2607.06179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: There are some datasets of varying scales for audio classification (AC) applied to different tasks. However, annotated data is limited for most scenarios, such as domestic environments. To address this challenge, we propose an $\textbf{A}$utomatic $\textbf{A}$udio $\textbf{A}$nnotation Pipeline--TriA Pipeline, which can efficiently convert audio from various scenarios into high-quality training data with audio event annotations. A TriA dataset wa

arXiv:2607.06202v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The deployment of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models on production high-bandwidth superpods, such as NVIDIA's NVL72/576 and Huawei's CloudMatrix384, introduces critical challenges beyond raw interconnect bandwidth. While these systems provide unified global address spaces and high-bandwidth fabrics, their full potential for sparse MoE communication is hindered by three fundamental bottlenecks: (1) Strict execution serialization imposed by coarse-gra

arXiv:2607.06296v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents the design and evaluation of a maintainable hybrid generative architecture for automated music harmony generation from melody. The proposed system combines quantum-inspired candidate exploration over overlapping melodic contexts with explicit rule-based optimization to balance generative flexibility and structural control. The architecture is evaluated using explicit and reproducible metrics covering structural coherence, func

arXiv:2607.06306v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated growing competence in web page generation. However, existing text-driven approaches rely on complex prompts that impose substantial demands on users and offer limited expressivity for page layout and cross-page visual coherence. Image-driven paradigms, which take UI screenshots as input, align more closely with real development workflows. However, current benchmarks focus primarily on visual fidelity

arXiv:2607.06341v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Formal verification offers the strongest guarantee of software correctness, but it does not scale: the proofs demanded by interactive theorem provers such as Coq require enormous expert effort. Large language models (LLMs) promise to generate these proofs automatically, yet existing approaches wire a fixed, human-designed proof strategy into the system and constrain the model to follow it (retrieving premises and predicting tactics one step at a

arXiv:2607.06344v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While personalisation is becoming a defining capability in human-robot interaction (HRI), the existing literature on responsible personalisation remains fragmented, offering isolated accounts of ethical risks without a structured understanding of how they emerge across interaction contexts. This gap is particularly critical in HRI, where robots' embodiment and social presence can amplify and reshape such risks or generate new types of risks. We p

arXiv:2607.06413v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model coding agents increasingly perform open-ended data modeling and analysis. These agents are stochastic and adaptive, and therefore their autonomous model discovery behavior cannot be adequately characterized by a single benchmark run. In this work, we propose an experimental design and analysis framework for systematically evaluating this discovery process, quantifying its variability, and identifying important factors. The pr

arXiv:2607.06432v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Concept unlearning in text-to-image diffusion models is critical for safe and practical deployment: with rising privacy concerns, copyright disputes, trademark constraints, and safety regulations, deployed systems must be able to suppress unwanted concepts after training. Existing methods often remove the target concept effectively, but practical unlearning also requires an equally fundamental property: the unlearned model should retain quality,

arXiv:2607.06445v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly utilized as the conditioning backbone for diffusion-based image editing due to their remarkable multimodal reasoning capabilities. While standalone VLMs demonstrate strong localization capabilities, editing pipelines frequently struggle to maintain this accuracy, particularly in complex, multi-entity scenes. In this work, we investigate this performance gap, hypothesizing that it stems from treating

arXiv:2607.06472v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Given that quantum computers are naturally suited to simulate the behavior of quantum many-body systems, an immediate question arises: can one formulate physically motivated quantum machine learning (QML) tasks that exhibit learning separations? We address this problem by studying the learnability of quantum many-body dynamics from the perspective of probably approximately correct (PAC)-learning. Concretely, we devise a supervised learning proble

arXiv:2607.06481v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present PACR-Video, a parameter-efficient framework for multi-shot long video extrapolation that preserves recurring entities, scene structure, visual style, and causal progression without full generator fine-tuning. PACR-Video keeps a text-to-video diffusion transformer frozen and augments it with low-rank temporal adapters conditioned by learned shot-role prompt tokens. To maintain long-horizon coherence, it builds a recursive prompt bank th

arXiv:2607.06505v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GitHub hosts hundreds of millions of public repositories, but the platform exposes no native mapping from repositories to standardized industry sectors. This gap limits empirical work on the geography of innovation, the industrial composition of open-source production, and the diffusion of new technologies across economic sectors. We present NAICS-GH, a publicly released corpus of 6,588 GitHub repositories drawn from source pools covering the Uni

arXiv:2607.06546v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Denoising graphs is a fundamental problem in graph learning and the core operation of graph diffusion models. Attention-based architectures like graph transformers have recently shown promise in denoising graphs. However, our principled understanding of attention-based graph denoising remains limited, making it unclear whether standard attention is the right mechanism for this task. Here we show that, under a denoising objective, linear attention

arXiv:2607.06565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unified 3D foundation models aspire to generate 3D assets and reason about them in language within a single backbone, but their text-3D interaction remains largely implicit. Existing methods concatenate text and 3D tokens into a flat sequence and rely on self-attention, collapsing coarse structural cues and fine geometric details into one undifferentiated representation. We introduce ELSA3D, a unified 3D model that addresses this with elastic seman

arXiv:2408.00001v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual diffusion models have revolutionized the field of creative AI, producing high-quality and diverse content. However, they inevitably memorize training images or videos, subsequently replicating their concepts, content, or styles during inference. This phenomenon raises significant concerns about privacy, security, and copyright within generated outputs. In this survey, we provide the first comprehensive review of replication in visual dif

arXiv:2509.25723v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual Place Recognition (VPR) requires robust retrieval of geotagged images despite large appearance, viewpoint, and environmental variation. Prior methods focus on descriptor fine-tuning or fixed sampling strategies yet neglect the dynamic interplay between spatial context and visual similarity during training. We present SAGE (Spatial-visual Adaptive Graph Exploration), a unified training pipeline that enhances granular spatial-visual discri

arXiv:2510.04628v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep learning-based methods have achieved significant success in remote sensing Earth observation data analysis. Numerous feature fusion techniques address multimodal remote sensing image classification by integrating global and local features. However, these techniques often struggle to extract structural and detail features from heterogeneous and redundant multimodal images. With the goal of introducing frequency domain learning to model key

arXiv:2510.13808v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Vision Language Models (VLMs) excel at general visual reasoning but experience significant performance degradation when deployed in novel domains that exhibit substantial distribution shifts from their pretraining data. Existing domain adaptation methods rely on finetuning standard VLM components; however, depending on which components are updated, these approaches either limit the model's ability to learn domain-specific representations

arXiv:2511.13431v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce a novel neural representation for maps between 3D shapes based on flow-matching models, which is computationally efficient and supports cross-representation shape matching without large-scale training or data-driven procedures. 3D shapes are represented as the probability distribution induced by a continuous and invertible flow mapping from a fixed anchor distribution. Given a source and a target shape, the composition of the inver

arXiv:2511.16137v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing studies on quality enhancement for compressed video (QECV) predominantly rely on known quantization parameters (QPs), training separate enhancement models for each QP setting, which are referred to as non-blind methods. However, in practical scenarios such as transcoding and transmission, QPs may be partially or entirely unavailable, which limits the applicability of these methods and motivates the development of blind QECV techniques.

arXiv:2511.17649v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tangible control interfaces (TCIs), such as appliance panels, remotes, elevators, and embedded GUIs, are a fundamental component of everyday human-built environments. Interacting with these interfaces requires agents not only to ground language in visual observations,but also to execute actions, track temporally evolving state changes, and verify whether intended outcomes have been achieved. However, existing benchmarks predominantly evaluate o

arXiv:2511.21245v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Monocular 3D face reconstruction estimates a 3D morphable model (3DMM) representation from a single image, providing geometry-aware expression codes that are useful for facial expression analysis and affect understanding. Despite strong progress, most pipelines are trained with image-level self-supervision and evaluated primarily by geometric fidelity, which does not necessarily maximize the affective utility of the learned expression represent

arXiv:2601.05249v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Nighttime color constancy still remains a challenging problem in computational photography due to low-light noise and complex illumination conditions. We present RL-AWB, a novel framework combining statistical methods with deep reinforcement learning for nighttime white balance. Our method begins with a statistical algorithm tailored for nighttime scenes, integrating salient gray pixel detection with novel illuminant estimation. Building on thi

arXiv:2601.15275v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study positional encodings for multi-view transformers that process tokens from a set of posed input images, and seek a mechanism that encodes patches uniquely, allows SE(3)-invariant attention with multi-frequency similarity, and can adapt to the geometry of the underlying 3D scene. We find that prior (absolute or relative) encoding schemes for multi-view attention do not meet these desiderata, and present RayRoPE to address this gap. RayRo