arXiv Machine Learning

Function-Vector Heads Are Two Populations: Writers and Cancellers in In-Context Learning

arXiv:2606. 07560v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Function-vector (FV) heads (Todd et al.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 24

Feed the Panel Dimensions, Not Verdicts: Rubric-Decomposed Fusion of Vision-Language Aesthetic Judges

The paper investigates whether panels of vision‑language models (VLMs) can reliably judge image aesthetics. It shows that a panel of holistic judges rarely outperforms its best member, but when each model scores images on five rubric‑defined dimensions and these dimension scores are fused across model families, the panel consistently beats the best single VLM on two datasets (EVA and PARA). The study demonstrates that the value of a panel depends on the type of input it receives, and that dimension‑based fusion yields measurable gains at the cost of additional labeling and API usage.

By Amit Jadhav, Shaurya Beriwala, Beomjin Kim
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 28

TwinKV: A Composable Repair Pass for KV Cache Eviction via Pairwise Key Redundancy

TwinKV is a training‑free, attention‑free repair pass that identifies and swaps orphaned and redundant tokens in a KV cache, improving long‑context inference for small models. It works by detecting near‑duplicate keys and can be composed with existing eviction policies without altering their scoring rules. Experiments on Qwen3‑4B and Llama‑3.2‑1B across LongBench, LooGLE, RULER, and MMLU‑Pro show that TwinKV consistently improves performance for most configurations, especially at tighter compression ratios.

By Hong Chen, Yudong Zeng, Yongwei Huang, Zuhao Ouyang, Junyan Zhang, Xuming Hu
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 24

When does fusing hand-crafted knowledge with learned representations pay? A cost-normalized benchmark of stacking, substitution, and interference

arXiv:2608.21098v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fusing prior knowledge with data-driven learning is attractive where data is scarce, yet no controlled account says when it helps, is redundant, or har...

By Ahmad AlMughrabi, Albert Clop, Benjamin Busam, Ricardo Marques, Petia Radeva