arXiv:2608. 11738v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM)-based UAV aerial image understanding and reasoning is essential for aerial intelligence yet poses distinct challenges arising from extreme scale variation, arbitrary camera orientations, and high object density.
By Haoyu Zhang, Shuoxun Zhang, Peng Ye, Lin Zhang, Jiakang Yuan, Shenghong Yi, Yuening Wang, Tao Chen
arXiv:2608. 11891v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Governments increasingly fund indigenous foundation models to strengthen national AI capability, digital sovereignty, and multilingual computing.
By Avinash Agarwal, Vridhi Jain
arXiv:2608. 11884v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum generative adversarial networks (QGANs) have attracted increasing attention for image generation using parameterized quantum circuits.
By Xue Yang, Rigui Zhou, ShiZheng Jia, Dax Enshan Koh, Siong Thye Goh, Young-Wook Cho, YaoChong Li, Xuezhi Ma, Hongyu Chen, Xin Wang
arXiv:2608. 11860v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data-driven inverse design enables efficient generation of nanophotonic structures with prescribed optical responses, but spectrum-to-geometry mapping remains challenging due to non-uniqueness and fine geometric features.
By Waleed Waseer, Muhammad Shahid Jabbar, Muhammad Sohail Ibrahim, Shujaat Khan
arXiv:2608. 11980v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic-ID generative recommenders represent each item as a short sequence of discrete semantic tokens and predict the next item by autoregressively generating this token sequence.
By Kangning Zhang, Haotian Fang, Xukun Luo, Hao Yin, Yang Gao, Peng Yan, Weiwen Liu, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
arXiv:2608. 12083v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) achieve strong predictive performance on graph-structured data across domains such as chemistry, biology, and network analysis, yet they provide no intrinsic explanation of their predictions.
By David Bechtoldt, Sidney Bender
arXiv:2608. 12196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Purpose: Deep learning-based medical image segmentation has achieved remarkable success, yet purely data-driven approaches often fail to exploit the rich mathematical structure inherent in medical images.
By Jing Zhu, Ye Wang, Fumin Wang
arXiv:2608. 12246v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluating security vulnerability detection tools requires benchmark datasets with vulnerability-inducing commits (VICs) - the commits that first introduce vulnerabilities into codebases.
By Jin Lu, Xuening Han, Yang Zhong, Lin Tan, Kevin Luo, Andrew Gacek, Neha Rungta
arXiv:2608. 12299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Class activation mapping (CAM) is one of the most widely used visual explanation families in explainable artificial intelligence.
By AmirHossein Eshghi, Hamid Saadatfar, Seyyed Ali Hoseini, AmirMohsen Eshghi, Siavash Arjomand Bigdel
arXiv:2608. 12290v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern black-box Image-to-Video (I2V) models offer powerful capabilities in automated content creation, yet their lack of fine-grained control and reliability presents significant challenges in professional workflows.
By Aman Tyagi, Hemanth Boinpally, Jonathan Chen, Douglas Gebert, Steven Hickson
arXiv:2608. 12278v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence tools for education and language support are increasingly framed as scalable responses to access gaps in under-resourced communities.
By Avijit Roy, Proma Roy
arXiv:2509. 13450v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce SteeringSafety, a benchmark for evaluating representation steering methods across nine safety perspectives spanning 18 datasets.
By Vincent Siu, Nicholas Crispino, David Park, Nathan W. Henry, Zhun Wang, Yang Liu, Dawn Song, Chenguang Wang
arXiv:2601. 16083v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Computing the conditional mode of a distribution, better known as the maximum a posteriori (MAP) assignment, is a fundamental task in probabilistic inference.
By Matthew Shorvon, Frederik Mallmann-Trenn, David S. Watson
arXiv:2506. 17332v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: By 2050, people aged 65 and over are projected to make up 16% of the global population.
By Haitian Wang, Yiren Wang, Xinyu Wang, Yumeng Miao, Yuliang Zhang, Yu Zhang, Atif Mansoor
arXiv:2511. 20597v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) agents into web browsers introduces security challenges that go beyond traditional web application threat models.
By Kaiyuan Zhang, Mark Tenenholtz, Kyle Polley, Jerry Ma, Denis Yarats, Ninghui Li
arXiv:2608. 11342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a standard approach for adapting LLMs to a target distribution, but in settings such as personalization, where each author requires separate weight access, optimization, storage, and retraining, its costs become prohibitive.
By Bohan Zhang, Anqi Ni, Yixin Wang, Paramveer S. Dhillon
arXiv:2608. 11423v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust comparisons of federated aggregation methods require joint consideration of predictive performance, threat definitions, metric semantics, and execution provenance.
By Soumya Mazumdar, Vineet Kumar Rakesh, Tapas Samanta
arXiv:2608. 11567v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In real-world scenarios, the training data usually contains redundant features, label noise and feature noise, which provide severe challenges for the efficiency of machine learning methods.
By Kai Qi, Xinji Huang, Hongchun Wang
arXiv:2608. 11690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning must absorb new tasks without erasing old ones, and replay---mixing a small buffer of past examples into current training---is among the most effective remedies for catastrophic forgetting.
By Tieliang Gong, Zhongbo Zhang, Wen Wen, Yong-Jin Liu
arXiv:2608. 11839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Poor air quality in urban areas is driven by a complex chain of processes and presents a significant public health concern.
By Alexander Kostadinov, Petar O. Hristov, Dessislava Petrova-Antonova