6 Jul 2026
Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) frequently suffer from posterior collapse, a failure mode in which the approximate posterior converges to the prior, rendering the latent code uninformative.
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6 Jul 2026
Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) frequently suffer from posterior collapse, a failure mode in which the approximate posterior converges to the prior, rendering the latent code uninformative.
6 Jul 2026
Activation steering via sparse autoencoders (SAEs) enables behavioral control of large language models without task-specific fine-tuning, but standard methods apply the steering signal at every generated token, incurring constant per-token perturbation that risks degrading…
6 Jul 2026
For LLM agents, supervised fine-tuning is not only about teacher labels' quality, but also about which interaction contexts those labels condition on. Pure behavioral cloning uses full teacher demonstrations, creating a mismatch between teacher-induced contexts seen in training…
6 Jul 2026
Expert surveys are widely used in security research to study practitioner workows and decision-making, yet recruiting domain experts - especially in Security Operations Centres (SOCs), where analysts face high workload, burnout and confidentiality constraints - is difficult and…
6 Jul 2026
Grain growth is governed by the reduction in grain boundary energy and exhibits well-established statistical scaling laws. Developing data-driven surrogates that preserve these physical invariants while remaining computationally scalable remains challenging, especially in 3D.
6 Jul 2026
Fog severely degrades the visibility of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in skydominant, long-range imagery, reducing the reliability of downstream detection and tracking.
6 Jul 2026
Defining the reasoning boundaries and ensuring the reliability of Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) remains a critical challenge. Current benchmarks primarily rely on static datasets susceptible to data contamination or synthetic tasks lacking fine-grained difficulty control.
6 Jul 2026
This position paper argues that the dominant paradigm of AI evaluation (which focuses on superhuman autonomous performance and so implicitly targets the goal of replacing humans) is guiding AI development in the wrong direction.
5 Jul 2026
This work establishes that trigger-word data poisoning of vision language action models is practical, while at the same time the open-source robotics ecosystem holds trust assumptions about community contributions.
5 Jul 2026
Market manipulation is the dubious practice of manipulating stock prices in order to make a quick profit, which truly degrades confidence on trading platforms. We implemented an unsupervised fraud-detection toolkit that begins with K-Means++ clustering to address this issue.
5 Jul 2026
Integral codes like the Accident Source Term Evaluation Code (ASTEC) are powerful tools to study the physics of Severe Accidents (SAs) in nuclear reactors. Real time SA simulators can also be helpful in training operators of nuclear plants to react correctly to malfunctions.
5 Jul 2026
Natural language requirements (NLRs) are essential for bridging communication gaps among diverse stakeholders in software development. However, the inherent ambiguity in NLRs can pose significant challenges.
5 Jul 2026
In-context learning (ICL) has emerged as a central capability of pretrained language models, yet its theoretical analysis has focused primarily on causal language models trained by left-to-right autoregressive prediction, such as GPT-style models.
5 Jul 2026
General-purpose manipulation requires both semantic reasoning over task constraints and reliable execution of contact-rich actions. We present ACE, an agentic manipulation harness that composes a high-level language agent with a reusable mask-conditioned visuomotor policy.
4 Jul 2026
We release a benchmark and failure-mode-aware evaluation framework for grounded QA under coordinated retrieval poisoning. The framework partitions reader outputs into four mutually exclusive categories (\emph{gold}, \emph{hijack}, \emph{abstention}, \emph{drift}), with…
4 Jul 2026
Relational databases (RDBs) are the primary data infrastructure in many enterprises, yet recent deep learning methods designed for RDBs have been evaluated under inconsistent experimental protocols, making fair comparison difficult.
4 Jul 2026
Minimum maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) estimation has emerged as a robust and likelihood-free alternative to maximum likelihood estimation for parameter estimation. Yet, despite its practical success, the associated optimization problem remains poorly understood, with…
4 Jul 2026
Modern supply chains span diverse operational environments, ranging from e-commerce distribution networks to customized production-to-order manufacturing lines. Across these settings, operational efficiency depends on coordinating two highly interdependent stages: order…
4 Jul 2026
For compact convex sets $L,K \subset \mathbb{R}^n$, denote by $λ_K(L)$ the smallest size of a homothet of $K$ that contains $L$. We define a measure of symmetry based on the $n$-simplex $Δ= Δ^n \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ as the ratio \[ ρ_Δ(L):=\frac{λ_{-Δ}(L)}{λ_Δ(L)}.
4 Jul 2026
The Gaussian Error Linear Unit is usually motivated as the expected output of an input-dependent Bernoulli gate. This work gives an alternative interpretation: GELU is the expected output of a hard linear gate with a Gaussian random threshold.
4 Jul 2026
We propose a unified algebraic framework for classification performance evaluation covering binary, multiclass, multilabel, ordinal, hierarchical, cost-sensitive, and soft-label settings.
4 Jul 2026
The Strong Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (SLTH) asserts that sufficiently overparameterized, randomly initialized neural networks contain sparse subnetworks that, even without any training, can match the performance of a small trained network on a given dataset.
3 Jul 2026
Scenario-based transportation analysis specifies future assumptions through aggregate population targets, whereas generative population synthesis models produce detailed individual-level realizations.
3 Jul 2026
Foundation models for Earth systems have so far been trained primarily on physical climate and weather data, with limited representation of the human systems that both drive and respond to environmental change.