arXiv:2608. 15124v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In contextual optimization, the decision-maker seeks optimal decisions to minimize a cost function, that varies based on observed features.
By Gar Goei Loke, Qinshen Tang, Yangge Xiao, Xun Zhang
arXiv:2608. 15492v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Finding representative waveforms in long time series has scientific and practical value in many domains, as it enables summarization and visualization of large time series datasets, and downstream tasks like classification and forecasting.
By Carlos H. Mendoza-Cardenas, Rogers F. Silva, Austin J. Brockmeier
arXiv:2608. 15425v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve strong performance on high-level multimodal tasks, yet numerosity perception, a cognitive ability that emerges in human infants before language acquisition, remains poorly understood in current models, as existing counting benchmarks entangle numerosity with correlated visual factors.
By Yiming Fu, Fangjun Li, Xiujin Liu, Ruidong Ma, Hang Yu, Zhichen Lu, Kanwei He, Alessandro Di Nuovo, Angelo Cangelosi, Zhegong Shangguan
arXiv:2608. 15790v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Crevasse mapping from uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery matters for glaciological research and for field safety in glaciated terrain.
By Steven Wallace, William D Harcourt, Richard Hann, Aiden Durrant, Somayajulu Sripada, Georgios Leontidis
arXiv:2608. 16201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) aims to predict sentiment polarity and intensity from heterogeneous inputs such as text, audio, and vision.
By Shanshan Lin, Yuesheng Wu, Chao Chen, Yizhe Yang, Zhihao Chen, Zexian Yang, Xiangwen Liao
arXiv:2608. 16210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aggregate accuracy hides where models succeed and fail.
By Zhi Zhang, Lingfeng Lyu, Yue Kang, Doudou Zhou
arXiv:2604. 10496v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Outliers have emerged as a fundamental bottleneck in preserving accuracy for low-precision large models, particularly within Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures that are increasingly central to large-scale language modeling.
By Xiangyang Yin, Xingyu Liu, Tianhua Xia, Bo Bao, Vithursan Thangarasa, Valavan Manohararajah, Eric Sather, Sai Qian Zhang
arXiv:2608. 14944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Natural-language interfaces can lower the barrier to programming robots, but existing systems struggle when users request complex tasks.
By John Woods, Hasti Seifi
arXiv:2608. 15760v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decoding is an essential component of quantum error correction (QEC), translating stabilizer measurement outcomes into corrective actions that suppress logical errors and preserve logical quantum information.
By Changwon Lee, Tak Hur, Jeongwoo Jae, Daniel K. Park
arXiv:2608. 15889v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Currency arbitrage (CA) involves trading currencies in cycles to exploit discrepancies in market valuations.
By Eric A. F. Reinhardt, Adam J. Hauser
arXiv:2603. 07977v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials (MLIPs) enable accurate large-scale atomistic simulations, yet improving their expressive capacity efficiently remains challenging.
By Yuzhi Liu, Duo Zhang, Anyang Peng, Weinan E, Linfeng Zhang, Han Wang
arXiv:2608. 16541v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Objective assessment of learning remains a fundamental challenge in education.
By Isuru Nanayakkara, Thilina Halloluwa
arXiv:2510. 12453v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models excel in noise-to-data generation tasks, providing a mapping from a Gaussian distribution to a more complex data distribution.
By Viacheslav Vasilev, Arseny Ivanov, Nikita Gushchin, Maria Kovaleva, Alexander Korotin
arXiv:2601. 06404v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated Clustering (FC) faces a critical bottleneck in real-world scenarios, i.
By Shenghong Cai, Zihua Yang, Yang Lu, Mengke Li, Yuzhu Ji, Yiqun Zhang, Yiu-Ming Cheung
arXiv:2608. 15101v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Policy evaluation often estimates direct benefits and costs while treating the institutional environment as fixed.
By Wesley Shu
arXiv:2603. 17216v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the advent of AI agents, automated scientific discovery is becoming an increasingly plausible goal.
By Ziyang Cai, Amir Saeidi, Harkirat Behl
arXiv:2608. 16211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agents are beginning to automate complete workflows that produce code, reports, and research artifacts.
By Junqi Liu, Yufan He, Yexiao He, Pengfei Guo, Dong Yang, Andriy Myronenko, Can Zhao, Hanrong Ye, Tianhao Qi, Yuyin Zhou, Daguang Xu, Yucheng Tang
arXiv:2608. 14881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI co-scientists that generate hypotheses, retrieve related work, design experiments, execute code, and draft full papers are beginning to change how research is carried out.
By Bo Ni, Franck Dernoncourt, Hongjie Chen, Yu Wang, Nesreen K. Ahmed, Zhengzhong Tu, Tyler Derr, Ryan A. Rossi
arXiv:2608. 14953v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have opened opportunities to apply high-level code transformations to the field of code optimization, and it has since emerged as one of the most fundamental tasks for LLMs to perform; however, at present, LLMs struggle to apply wide-ranging code optimization tasks due to both the complexity of the code and the inability to independently verify the correctness of the transformations.
By Zahra Fazel, Sunanda Gamage, Shayan Shirahmad Gale Bagi, Amir H. Ashouri, Tomasz S. Czajkowski, Bryan Chan, Reza Azimi, Yaoqing Gao
arXiv:2608. 16425v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parallel reasoning improves the accuracy and robustness of large reasoning models by exploring multiple solution paths, but its computational cost grows with reasoning depth and branch count.
By Xuteng Zhang, Wenhao Zeng, Xiaodong Gu, Chao Hu, Haotian Lin, Yuling Shi, Min Wang, Beijun Shen