arXiv:2608. 10172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mechanistic interpretability explains models by identifying circuits inside them, but has no way to tell whether a circuit is a property of the model or an artifact of the method that found it.
By Ashim Dhor, Pin-Yu Chen
arXiv:2607. 01799v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) decompose internal activations of neural networks into sparse linear combinations of learned features by fitting an overcomplete dictionary $\mathbf{W}\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$ with $m<n$, and inferring a sparse code $\mathbf{x}\in\mathbb{R}^n$ from $\mathbf{h}\approx\mathbf{W}\mathbf{x}$.
By Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith
arXiv:2607. 24797v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In the literate human brain, reading and writing are two doubly-dissociable systems: a ventral decoding route (impaired in pure alexia) and a fronto-parietal encoding route (impaired in pure agraphia), sharing a partial orthographic core.
By Diego Salda\~na Ulloa
arXiv:2607. 04113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion and flow-matching samplers integrate a learned probability-flow ODE from a large noise scale down to a small terminal floor $\sigma_{\min}$, at which the score is stiff and the flow develops a boundary layer.
By Shiheng Zhang
arXiv:2605. 25889v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models reach high success rates on clean inputs but collapse under small adversarial perturbations: a $16/255$ PGD attack drops OpenVLA-7B's LIBERO success from $95\%$ to under $5\%$.
By Jianwei Tai
arXiv:2608. 05687v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Masked diffusion language models (dLLMs) can commit tokens in any order -- a freedom marketed as their core advantage over autoregressive decoding.
By Jewon Yeom, Jaewon Sok, Seonghyeon Park, Jeongjae Park, Hwiyeong Lee, Taesup Kim
arXiv:2608. 10869v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Worst-case multiclass bounds do not become smaller when the best classifier is already nearly correct: what is missing is an optimistic rate, a guarantee whose fluctuation scales with the oracle risk itself.
By Xiaoyu Li, Andi Han, Jiaojiao Jiang, Junbin Gao
arXiv:2605. 01928v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We optimize losses that jump: spiking thresholds, quantized layers, and discrete routing put jumps in the forward pass, where backpropagation does not apply.
By An T. Le
arXiv:2606. 08810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Gaussian-corrupted sentence embeddings have no direct linguistic interpretation, yet continuous diffusion language models can generate fluent text from them.
By Zhicheng Du, Lan Ma
arXiv:2607. 05531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 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.
By Girum Demisse
arXiv:2607. 24741v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Positive two-marginal entropic optimal transport is solved by a nonlinear, positive, order-preserving, homogeneous Sinkhorn map.
By Xinyang Wen
arXiv:2607. 03436v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Routing among large language models (LLMs) promises better quality at lower cost, motivated by the reported gap between learned routers and a per-instance oracle.
By Teng-Ruei Chen