arXiv:2608. 06411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance across diverse vision-language tasks, but their efficiency is limited by the cost of processing numerous visual tokens.
By Yuyao Sun, Tao Deng, Shuang Li, Deqing Wang, Hao Geng, Minjun Yu
arXiv:2511. 08577v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Improving the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), especially under parameter constraints, is crucial for real-world applications.
By Tianyu Fu, Yichen You, Zekai Chen, Guohao Dai, Huazhong Yang, Yu Wang
arXiv:2605. 18848v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper introduces Exact Linear Attention (ELA), a mechanism that achieves linear computational complexity for Transformer attention by exploiting the exact decomposition property of kernel functions, thereby eliminating approximation error.
By Weinuo Ou
arXiv:2606. 19317v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A longstanding goal of research on interpretable deep learning is to replace opaque neural computations with human-meaningful symbolic descriptions.
By Amiri Hayes, Belinda Li, Jacob Andreas
arXiv:2608. 16697v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) integrate visual perception, language instruction, and action generation into end-to-end policies across heterogeneous architectures.
By Aniri, Chen Yilin, Jinhe Bi, Junfei Guo, Donglai Ran, Xu Bian, Zengjie Jin, Yujun Wang, Yijun Tian, Volker Tresp, Fei Shen, Tat-Seng Chua, Yunpu Ma
arXiv:2607. 19358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in long chain-of-thought reasoning models such as DeepSeek-R1 have led to increasingly longer inference context lengths under the test-time scaling paradigm.
By Yu Zhao, Zekun Zhang, Fan Jiang, Bo Zeng, Linlong Xu, Shimin Shan, Yu Liu, Longyue Wang, Weihua Luo
arXiv:2604. 10098v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As the foundational architecture of modern machine learning, Transformers have driven remarkable progress across diverse AI domains.
By Zunhai Su, Hengyuan Zhang, Wei Wu, Yifan Zhang, Yaxiu Liu, He Xiao, Qingyao Yang, Yuxuan Sun, Rui Yang, Chao Zhang, Jing Xiong, Hui Shen, Keyu Fan, Weihao Ye, Chaofan Tao, Taiqiang Wu, Zhongwei Wan, Tiantian Zhang, Bowen Yan, Zhen Li, Yiming Zhang, Congkai Xie, Yulei Qian, Yuchen Xie, Yik-Chung Wu, Hongxia Yang, Ngai Wong
arXiv:2607. 00089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mechanistic interpretability has produced a rich inventory of component-level analyses that characterise what neural-network components encode and how they interact.
By Hussein Chouman, Wataru Sasaki, Tomokazu Matsui, Hirohiko Suwa, Keiichi Yasumoto
arXiv:2511. 15669v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Does Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning genuinely improve Vision Language Action (VLA) models, or does it merely add overhead?
By Cheng Yin, Yankai Lin, Wang Xu, Sikyuen Tam, Xiangrui Zeng, Zhiyuan Liu, Zhouping Yin
arXiv:2512. 06276v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Referring Expression Comprehension (REC) is a vision-language task that localizes a specific image region based on a textual description.
By Tianyi Gao, Hao Li, Han Fang, Xin Wei, Xiaodong Dong, Hongbo Sun, Ye Yuan, Zhongjiang He, Jinglin Xu, Jingmin Xin, Hao Sun
arXiv:2607. 20524v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mean cross-positional attention degradation is widely reported in transformer interpretability, yet whether it causally limits contextual retrieval remains untested.
By Sagar Dangal, Manoj Shakya
A longstanding goal of research on interpretable deep learning is to replace opaque neural computations with human-meaningful symbolic descriptions. In this paper, we propose an approach for approximating the behavior of components of deep networks with executable programs.