The paper introduces Self‑Play Pretraining with Zero Data, a proof‑of‑concept method that lets a model generate its own training data by searching over all computable processes using a universal Turing machine. Two models— a generator that proposes byte‑sequence programs and a learner that predicts those sequences—train together, with the generator rewarded for producing data at the learner’s frontier, creating an adaptive curriculum. Experiments show that zero‑shot performance on natural datasets scales predictably with compute, and the models exhibit in‑context learning and discover mathematical sequences during training.
By Aditya Cowsik, Kfir Dolev, Michael Y. Li, G. Bruno De Luca, Nourya Cohen, Noah D. Goodman, Yoav Levine
arXiv:2608.29395v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision-language models such as CLIP and SigLIP provide strong zero-shot recognition, but their predictions can degrade when deployed on target data tha...
By Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, Run Wang, Mert D. Pes\'e
arXiv:2607. 18958v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), represented by LLaVA and GPT-4V, have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, their visual inputs remain vulnerable to adversarial attacks, posing significant security risks.
By Sibo Wang, Jie Zhang, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, Wen Gao
arXiv:2605. 24417v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Supervised classification on tabular data remains a central machine learning task, but its dependence on large labeled datasets limits its applicability in data-scarce settings.
By Daria Grushina, Kseniia Kuvshinova, Alina Kostromina, Aziz Temirkhanov, Mile Mitrovic, Dmitry Simakov
arXiv:2608. 04190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying pre-trained perception models in novel environments degrades their accuracy under distributional shift, and assembling them alone does not recover it: combiners such as majority voting trade recall for precision and are brittle to coordinated failures.
By Mario Leiva, Yue Ma, Qinru Qiu, Gerardo Simari, Paulo Shakarian
arXiv:2607. 09450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as CLIP achieve strong zero-shot generalization, but their performance degrades sharply under adversarial perturbations.
By Xingyu Zhu, Huanshen Wu, Shuo Wang, Beier Zhu, Jiannan Ge, Jiaheng Zhang, Long Chen