arXiv:2606. 16112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Residual architectures are ubiquitous in deep learning, but they suffer from a subtle structural limitation: the norm of the residual stream can grow rapidly with depth.
arXiv:2603. 20895v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing routers rely on semantic query features or handcrafted features, which often fail to capture model-specific failures or intrinsic task difficulty.
arXiv:2506. 14126v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern deep learning is increasingly characterized by the use of open-weight foundation models that can be fine-tuned on specialized datasets.
arXiv:2609.23830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Comparing audio-visual deepfake detectors requires coordinating dataset adaptation, temporal input representation, model interfaces and experimental co...
arXiv:2607. 21291v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong generation and reasoning performance, but the Transformer architecture incurs high inference cost.
arXiv:2602. 08306v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Textual Gradient-style optimizers (TextGrad) enable gradient-like feedback propagation through compound AI systems.
arXiv:2606. 19164v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Model merging aims to enable multi-task learning by integrating the capabilities of multiple models fine-tuned from the same pre-trained checkpoint into a single model.
arXiv:2606. 09430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Online task-free continual learning (TFCL) requires intelligent agents to sequentially accumulate knowledge from an unbounded, non-stationary data stream under strict single-pass constraints and without any explicit task identifiers.
Multi-task model merging aims to consolidate several task-specific experts into a unified model, yet static merging consistently suffers from parameter interference. While dynamic merging models aim to bridge this gap, many works rely on the costly storage and loading of redundant expert components at inference.
AdaKerNet is a task‑adaptive neural kernel decoder that operates on frozen multimodal representations from large foundation models, without requiring access to the models’ parameters. It learns Lipschitz‑controlled multimodal features, a reference kernel providing a soft structural prior, and a lightweight nonlinear predictor that deforms this structure. Experiments on four multimodal large language models and diverse input modalities show consistent improvements over baseline decoders, achieving up to 41% error reduction in scarce‑label settings.
arXiv:2602. 07026v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite the success of multimodal contrastive learning in aligning visual and linguistic representations, a persistent geometric anomaly, the Modality Gap, remains: embeddings of distinct modalities expressing identical semantics occupy systematically offset regions.
Deep Repurposing (DR) is a post‑hoc framework that adapts deep neural networks when parts of their output space become obsolete after deployment. DR estimates the latent geometry of obsolete and retained regions, removes components that support obsolete outputs, and reallocates retained-compatible evidence through an analytic repair map without gradient updates. The method yields repaired predictions and representations that eliminate obsolete outputs while preserving or improving retained accuracy, and it adapts up to 60× faster than competing unlearning methods.