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Yang Liu, Yu-Gang Jiang, YuXuan Li · 18 May 2026
Large Audio Language Models exhibit significant trustworthiness challenges despite performance advances, requiring comprehensive frameworks addressing security vulnerabilities and defensive strategies.
17 May 2026
We apply the Weibull distribution -- a two-parameter family from extreme-value theory -- as a diagnostic framework for element-wise weight magnitude distributions in transformers. At initialization, i.i.d.
14 May 2026
In professional sports, a team has clinched the playoffs if they are guaranteed a postseason spot, regardless of the outcomes of any remaining games. As the season progresses, sports fans and other stakeholders are interested in precisely when, and under what conditions, their…
14 May 2026
In this work, we locate and analyze existing undergraduate Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs in the United States in Spring 2026, creating a historic record at a time of great change in this area.
Di Zhang, Kaixuan Fan, Xiang Liu · 12 May 2026
Large language models increasingly need to accumulate and reuse historical information in long-term assistants and agent systems. Simply expanding the context window is costly and often fails to ensure effective context utilization.
12 May 2026
Imbuing Large Language Models (LLMs) with specific personas is prevalent for tailoring interaction styles, yet the impact on underlying cognitive capabilities remains unexplored.
11 May 2026
Automated coaching for oral presentations sits at the intersection of computer-assisted pronunciation training (CAPT), prosody modeling, and speech synthesis, yet no prior work has systematically surveyed and compared existing systems along these dimensions.
Xiaobin Hu, Xinlei Yu, Xiang An · 7 May 2026
4DThinker enables vision-language models to perform dynamic spatial reasoning through 4D latent mental imagery, using scalable data generation and novel fine-tuning methods that outperform existing approaches.
7 May 2026
Autonomous agents based on Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being utilized in complex software systems. However, reliability remains a significant challenge due to unpredictable failures such as hallucinations, execution errors, and inconsistent reasoning.
7 May 2026
Structured state space models (SSMs) have recently emerged as a promising foundation for sequence modeling, with Mamba-based architectures demonstrating strong performance through input-dependent state transitions, albeit at considerable complexity.
6 May 2026
Recent research has revived and amplified interest in algorithms for undiscounted average reward reinforcement learning in infinite-horizon, non-episodic (continuing) tasks. Semi-Markov decision processes (SMDPs) are of particular interest.
Stefanos Pasios · 4 May 2026
A hybrid approach combining diffusion-based and image-to-image translation methods improves photorealism in synthetic datasets while maintaining semantic consistency.
1 May 2026
Recent advances in user modeling make it feasible to conduct open-ended inference over a person's everyday computer use. Despite longstanding visions of systems that deeply understand our actions and the purposes they serve in our lives, existing systems only capture what a…
1 May 2026
Scaling on-policy distillation (OPD) for large language models (LLMs) confronts a fundamental tension: asynchronous execution is necessary for system efficiency, but structurally deviates from the ideal on-policy objective.
1 May 2026
The Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT) is employed by hidden subgroup problem (HSP) algorithms, including Shor's algorithm for factoring. The circuit depth of the QFT remains challenging for near-term hardware.
1 May 2026
Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training has enabled newer capabilities in models, such as agentic tool-use for search. However, these models struggle primarily due to limitations with sparse outcome-based rewards and a lack of training data that encapsulates questions of…
1 May 2026
Concept Activation Vectors (CAV) and the Testing with CAVs (TCAV) method are fundamental tools for concept-based explainability in deep learning, yet their practical utility is limited by the variability across different samples of concept and non-concept examples.
1 May 2026
Autonomous systems that build structures from natural-language instructions need reliable spatial reasoning, yet large language models (LLMs) make systematic coordinate errors when generating three-dimensional block placements.
1 May 2026
Stability Selection resamples the observations but leaves the design untouched, so it cannot reject an irrelevant feature that is correlated with the relevant ones in a way that violates the irrepresentable condition.
1 May 2026
While 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS) has revolutionized high-fidelity dynamic reconstruction, safeguarding the intellectual property of these assets remains an open challenge.
1 May 2026
Reliable assessment of tropical cyclone risk is limited by the short and spatially uneven historical record, especially for rare, high-intensity landfalls that dominate insured loss.
1 May 2026
Early-stage Parkinson's disease (EarlyPD) detection from speech is clinically meaningful yet underexplored, and published results are hard to compare because studies differ in datasets, languages, tasks, evaluation protocols, and EarlyPD definitions.
1 May 2026
Continuous post-deployment compliance audits, mandated by emerging regulations such as the EU AI Act and Digital Services Act, create a class of strategic gaming distinct from the one-shot input/output gaming studied in prior work.
1 May 2026
Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is one of the leading causes of preventable blindness, and automated screening can help extend specialist capacity in resource-constrained clinical workflows.