arXiv:2610.16977v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Visual in-context learning (ICL) enables vision-language models (VLMs) to adapt at test time via demonstration examples, but its effectiveness depend...
By Shu Zhao, Tan Yu
arXiv:2606. 29377v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) improves the factuality of large language models by grounding responses in external evidence, yet real-world deployments remain fragile.
By Soroush Hashemifar, Havva Alizadeh Noughabi, Fattane Zarrinkalam, Ali Dehghantanha
Edit-conditioned 3D scene retrieval pairs a reference 3D room with a natural-language modification and retrieves rooms from a corpus that satisfy the edit. Three lines of prior work each fall short on this task.
arXiv:2607. 16212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models hallucinate numbers and units when summarizing scientific text, a failure mode that can silently invert a scientific claim.
By Genpei Zhang
arXiv:2608. 15412v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Encoder-based code representation models remain widely deployed for discriminative tasks such as clone detection and code classification, where their small size and low inference cost are decisive.
By Yifeng He, Yundi Xu, Christopher Castro Gaw Gonzalo, Zili Wang, Hao Chen
arXiv:2606. 28620v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fayyazi et al.
By Oscar Mir\'o L\'opez-Feliu, Daimy van Loo, Xanthos Kekkos, Mikel Blom, Clara Rus
The paper identifies a new failure mode in neurosymbolic systems called Verdict‑Preserving‑Unfaithfulness (VPU), where incorrect formal encodings can still pass solver checks. It introduces Generative Verification (GenV), a method that uses a language model to produce a continuous reference‑equivalence score without relying on explicit localization. Experiments show GenV+HN achieves high AUROC, generalizes to unseen translators, and improves downstream agent performance by 11.3 points.
By Vikash Singh, Debargha Ganguly, Aman Goel, Ali Torkamani, Xiaoxue Han, Joseph Lilien, Ferhat Erata, Vipin Chaudhary
arXiv:2606. 01304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hard negative mining has become the dominant strategy for training retrievers, yet it faces intrinsic limitations: negatives are bounded by corpus availability, selected by retriever score rather than diagnostic value, and increasingly contaminated by false positives as the retriever improves.
By Zhicheng Zhang, Jiwei Tang, Kuicai Dong, Xiaopeng Li, Jieming Zhu, Jingyu Li, Qianhui Zhu, Fengyuan Lu, Wang Jiaheng, Gang Wang, Hai-Tao Zheng, Zhaocheng Du
The paper introduces CLEAR, a latent Flow Matching framework designed to generate visual counterfactual explanations (VCEs) that alter a classifier’s prediction while preserving realistic and decision‑irrelevant content. CLEAR addresses two main issues in latent‑space VCEs: opposing update directions between latent generation and classifier guidance, and unintended changes from VAE reconstruction. By decomposing classifier guidance into cooperative and conflicting components and selectively attenuating the conflicting part, CLEAR achieves counterfactual quality comparable to image‑space methods while being 2.5× faster.
By Yan Zeng, Changlu Guo, Oskar Kristoffersen, Anders Nymark Christensen, Morten Rieger Hannemose, Anders Bjorholm Dahl
Explainable Deepfake Detection with Feature-robust Augmentation and Evidence-grounded Explanation Optimization proposes a new framework that improves deepfake detection and interpretability. The approach introduces Feature-robust Augmentation—diversified degradation-aware strategies combined with supervised contrastive learning and a mean-teacher architecture—to maintain accuracy on low-quality images. For explanations, it employs evidence-grounded preference optimization, guiding the model to focus on genuine manipulation traces by learning from chosen-rejected explanation pairs that omit evidence or inject irrelevant details. The method achieved first place in the ACM Multimedia 2026 Explainable Deepfake Detection Challenge and is publicly available on GitHub.
By Zhu Xu, Jiaqi Tang, Pokai Chen, Yuxin Peng, Yang Liu
arXiv:2608.29996v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) achieve strong performance across many multimodal tasks; however, they often exploit spurious object-background...
By Aditi Sarker, Nazreen Shah, Rafi Ibn Sultan, Rhongho Jang, Dongxiao Zhu, Prashant Khanduri
arXiv:2606. 24716v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are increasingly used to extract interpretable concepts from vision and vision language models, yet existing evaluation methods largely rely on proxy metrics or qualitative inspection rather than measuring semantic correspondence.
By Jonas Klotz, Cassio F. Dantas, Pallavi Jain, Diego Marcos, Beg\"um Demir