arXiv AI

Speed Reading Tool Powered by Artificial Intelligence for Students with ADHD, Dyslexia, and Short Attention Span

arXiv:2307. 14544v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper presents an artificial intelligence tool designed to assist students with dyslexia, ADHD, and short attention spans in processing text-based information more efficiently.

arXiv AI
Jun 6

Towards Generalization of Block Attention via Automatic Segmentation and Block Distillation

arXiv:2605. 15913v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Block attention, which processes the input as separate blocks that cannot attend to one another, offers significant potential to improve KV cache reuse in long-context scenarios such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).

By Shuaiyi Li, Zhisong Zhang, Yan Wang, Lei Zhu, Dongyang Ma, Chenlong Deng, Yang Deng, Wai Lam
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Dr. DocBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Expert-Level and Difficult Document Parsing

arXiv:2606. 01393v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Document parsing and recognition are fundamental capabilities for vision-language models (VLMs) and document processing systems.

By Minglai Yang, Xinyan Velocity Yu, Pengyuan Li, Xinyu Guo, Zhenting Qi, Konwoo Kim, Longtian Ye, Xiaolong Luo, Jinhe Bi, Henry Zhang, Haris Riaz, Xuan Zhang, Yunze Xiao, Bangya Liu, Tom Tang, Yunfei Zhao, Qunshu Lin, Zihan Wang, Minghao Liu, Michael Lingzhi Li, Yilun Du, Jesse Thomason, Rogerio Feris, Alex Pentland, Zexue He
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

ProtoAda: Prototype-Guided Adaptive Adapter Expansion and Geometric Consolidation for Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning

arXiv:2606. 02576v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance through instruction tuning, but real-world deployment requires them to continually acquire new vision-language capabilities, making Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning (MCIT) essential.

By Yu-Cheng Shi, Zhen-Hao Xie, Jun-Tao Tang, Da-Wei Zhou
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

How Can We Synthesize High-Quality Pretraining Data? A Systematic Study of Prompt Design, Generator Model, and Source Data

arXiv:2604. 13977v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Synthetic data is a standard component in training large language models, yet systematic comparisons across design dimensions, including rephrasing strategy, generator model, and source data, remain absent.

By Joel Niklaus, Atsuki Yamaguchi, Michal \v{S}tef\'anik, Guilherme Penedo, Hynek Kydl\'i\v{c}ek, Elie Bakouch, Lewis Tunstall, Edward Emanuel Beeching, Thibaud Frere, Colin Raffel, Leandro von Werra, Thomas Wolf