Large Language Models Threaten Double-blind Review
arXiv:2608.05157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Double blind peer review serves as the scientific community primary defense against status and affiliation bias. Its effectiveness rests on the…
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Innocent Panels, Hateful Stories: Evaluating and Detecting Hateful Intent in Multi-Turn Visual Story Generation
arXiv:2608.05210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Picture books and comics have long been used to disseminate hateful narratives because they are easily understood even by children, as…
Adapting Vision Foundation Models with Cascaded Semantics
arXiv:2608.05393v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prompt tuning, a leading parameter-efficient adaptation paradigm in NLP, has recently been extended to computer vision. Visual prompt tuning (VPT) adapts…
Decoupling Perception from Description: Computation-Grounded Representation Alignment between Multivariate Time Series and Language
arXiv:2608.05238v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training multimodal models to align time series with language runs into a self-supervision trap. The usual recipe asks an LLM to…
Convergent Evolution in Neural Representation Space: Emergent Order in Deep Belief Networks
arXiv:2608.05996v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep Belief Networks (DBNs) learn hierarchical generative models without class supervision. Here, we ask whether this purely unsupervised process nevertheless organizes…
Deep Generalised Mixed Models: a Novel Neural Network Structure for Analysing Hierarchical Data
arXiv:2608.05930v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The experience sampling method (ESM) is a longitudinal research design where participants report their thoughts, emotional states and behaviours multiple times…
Toward Deployable Bangla Sign Language Recognition with Expert-Validated Data and a Lightweight Attention-Based Model
arXiv:2608.06252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deaf and hard-of-hearing people in Bangladesh communicate mainly through Bangla Sign Language (BdSL). Automatic BdSL recognition on personal devices could widen…
D-CLOT: Double Closed Loop Optimal Transport for Unsupervised Action Segmentation
arXiv:2608.05877v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optimal transport (OT) has emerged as an effective framework for unsupervised action segmentation. Yet, in existing OT-based methods, the latent action…
Beyond Sentiment: Comparing Traditional NLP and LLM-Based Multi-Dimensional Analysis for Political News Evaluation
arXiv:2608.05155v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional sentiment analysis (SA) models, while effective for polarity classification, provide limited insight into the rhetorical, ideological, and framing dimensions of…
PhysScene: A Scene Graph Dataset for Scientific Visual Reasoning in Physics Experiments
arXiv:2606.09368v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scene Graphs (SGs) provide structured representations of visual scenes by modeling objects and their pairwise relationships. Despite recent progress, existing datasets…
Beyond Simply Environment Scaling: Designing Effective Environment Distributions for Multimodal Agent Learning
arXiv:2608.03571v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent works train agents by constructing large-scale multimodal environment pools. However, we find that simply increasing the number of multimodal environments…
PPDL: LLM-Based Flows as Probabilistic Programs
arXiv:2608.05234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building reliable applications that leverage large language models (LLMs) remains a significant challenge. While LLMs offer impressive capabilities across diverse tasks,…
Effective pruning of task-trained recurrent neural networks using noisy fluctuations and connection rescaling
arXiv:2608.05464v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The pruning of network connections is key to brain function but, despite its importance, there exist few biologically-plausible pruning rules with…
Transformers with RL or SFT Provably Learn Sparse Boolean Functions, But Differently
arXiv:2511.17852v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transformers can acquire Chain-of-Thought (CoT) capabilities to solve reasoning tasks via fine-tuning. Reinforcement learning (RL) and supervised fine-tuning (SFT) are two…
CoCo: Code as CoT for Text-to-Image Preview and Rare Concept Generation
arXiv:2603.08652v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advancements in Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) have significantly advanced text-to-image (T2I) generation, particularly through the integration of Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning.…
Project2Task: Graph-Guided Project-Level Planning for Autonomous Research
arXiv:2608.05225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Research agents can increasingly search literature, propose hypotheses, generate code, run experiments, and draft manuscripts from a single topic. However, a…
RIG-RoPE: Relation- and Instance-Gated Rotary Positional Encoding with Duration-Aware Temporal Coordinates
arXiv:2608.05154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rotary positional encoding (RoPE) is a core component of modern language models and has been extended to multimodal LLMs through multidimensional…
Context Matters: Support Set Selection and Failure Detection for In-Context Medical Image Segmentation
arXiv:2608.05333v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-context learning (ICL) adapts medical image segmentation models to unseen structures and modalities without retraining by conditioning on a task-specific support…
Invisible Shortcuts: Why Vision Encoders Know Your Camera
arXiv:2608.05424v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep vision models exploit shortcuts, relying on cues that correlate with supervision signals. Prior work has focused on visible biases, such…
EuroExec: Frontier Language Models Fall Short of Expert Judgment on European Executive Decision Tasks
arXiv:2608.04549v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Frontier LLMs are increasingly put to use on open-ended complex questions, different in nature from the ones they are typically evaluated…
Quality Diversity for Reliable Data Driven Time-Use Optimization
arXiv:2608.05230v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The daily allocation of the finite 24-hour time budget is strongly associated with physical, mental, and cognitive health. While predictive models…
Scalable estimation of VARMA models
arXiv:2608.06340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vector autoregressive moving-average (VARMA) models have long been considered impractical beyond moderate dimensions: the likelihood is non-convex, the parametrization is identified…
HyTBE: Hyperbolic Target-Background Expert Model for Cross-Domain Infrared Small Target Detection
arXiv:2608.05771v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) has achieved substantial progress under domain-consistent evaluation, yet detector performance often degrades markedly when generalizing to…
Learning Globally Reusable Skills for Coding Agents
arXiv:2608.06153v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated skill evolution enables Large Language Model (LLM) agents to continuously improve without expensive retraining. However, existing approaches typically treat skill…