arXiv:2608. 20271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid proliferation of memecoins on blockchain platforms has increased the risk of fraudulent activities, particularly rug pulls.
By Jianghai Li, Pavel Kuznetsov, Yury Yanovich, Konstantin Nott-Whaley, Igor Vodolazov
arXiv:2608. 19408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) has emerged as an effective framework for post-training language models by pairing student-generated trajectories with dense token-level supervision from a teacher.
By Chen Yang, Haiyuan Wan, Rengrong Xiong, Yize Chen, Danny H. K. Tsang
arXiv:2403. 15509v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) has been widely used to improve lightweight AI models by transferring soft-label knowledge from a large teacher model to a student model.
By Phai Vu Dinh, Diep N. Nguyen, Dinh Thai Hoang, Marwan Krunz, Quang Uy Nguyen, Son Pham Bao, Eryk Dutkiewicz
arXiv:2608. 20334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Swift-Image, a compact unified model for text-to-image generation, single-image editing, and multi-image editing.
By Taihang Hu, Zhao Wang, Zuan Gao, Tao Liu, Hao Yan, Zhengze Xu, Yuhang Yu, Yongchao Du, Xingjian Wang, Jun Zheng, Qinye Zhou, Zhengrui Chen, Chao Lin, Yefeng Shen, Zhengtao Wu, Ge Wu, Xiaoli Xu, Denghui Yang, Huayu Zhang, Mingzhou Zhang, Mengting Chen
arXiv:2608. 20172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Attention directly derives normalized information flow from pairwise scores.
By Yuting Ge, Pengju Yang, Mingkai Nie
arXiv:2608. 20212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-fidelity removal of eyeglasses from video is a major challenge in facial attribute editing, as the underlying facial geometry is often obscured by complex refractive distortions and view-dependent specular reflections.
By Radim Spetlik, David Futschik, Radek Danecek, Feitong Tan, Ziqian Bai, Rohit Pandey, Yinda Zhang
arXiv:2602. 13710v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models enable instruction-following embodied control, but their large compute and memory footprints hinder deployment on resource-constrained robots and edge platforms.
By Xin Yan, Zhenglin Wan, Feiyang Ye, Xingrui Yu, Hangyu Du, Yang You, Ivor Tsang
arXiv:2608. 20208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning improves robotic policies using previously collected data without further environment interaction.
By Shaoxuan Wang, Guangting Zheng, Rui Huang, Zhipeng Tang, Sha Zhang, Jiajun Deng, Yanyong Zhang
arXiv:2608. 19201v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bioinformatics software and databases are essential components of modern life science research, yet their mentions in the scientific literature are often inconsistent and difficult to systematically identify at scale.
By Hao Xuan, Rithvij Pasupuleti, Ben Liu, Haishuo Sun, Jun Zhang, Zijun Yao, Cuncong Zhong
arXiv:2512. 18046v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, commonly known as, drones pose increasing risks in civilian and defense settings, demanding accurate and real-time drone detection systems.
By Ami Pandat, Punna Rajasekhar, Gopika Vinod, Rohit Shukla
arXiv:2608. 19914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Network topology inference from graph signals is central to graph signal processing with applications in neuroscience, sensor, and social networks.
By Chuansen Peng, Yifan Xia, Jinshan Zhong, Xiaojing Shen
arXiv:2608. 20122v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large multimodal models (LMMs) have demonstrated strong OCR recognition capabilities, yet remain vulnerable to adversarial visual text that is readable to humans but challenging for models to localize and recognize.
By Linhan Cao, Siyuan Li, Jun Lan, Liangbo He, Guannan Li, Xiaolei Huang, Jun Jia, Shuheng Zhou, Huijia Zhu, Weiqiang Wang, Wei Sun
arXiv:2608. 19535v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves language-model responses by grounding generation in external passages, which comes with overhead: retrieved context lengthens the prompt, increasing prefill work, KV-cache footprint, memory traffic, latency, and energy.
By Zlatan Feric, Amir Taherin, Yanzhi Wang, David Kaeli
arXiv:2608. 19920v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A lot of prior work addressed key-value (KV) cache selection and compression by sparse attention to enable long-context inference for transformer language models without excessive hardware budgets.
By Matthias Seeger, Zeyu Zhang, Vihang Patil, Konstantinos Benidis, Sebastian Schelter
arXiv:2608. 19285v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent Visual-Language Models (VLMs) have enhanced the capabilities of pre-trained LLMs by adding vision tokens alongside text, with approaches like LLaVA showing impressive results.
By Baptiste Rossigneux, Inna Kucher, Vincent Lorrain, Emmanuel Casseau
arXiv:2608. 19536v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning-based global point cloud registration has achieved remarkable progress, yet its reliance on geometric representations makes existing methods sensitive to variations in point density, scan pattern, viewpoint, and sensor characteristics.
By Eunsoo Im, Junghun Suh, Gyeonggwan Lee, Seunghwan Hong
arXiv:2605. 06094v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training VideoLLMs for complex reasoning remains challenging due to sparse sequence level rewards and the lack of fine grained credit assignment over long, temporally grounded reasoning trajectories.
By Hao Lin, Kunyang Lv, Xu Jiang, Jingqi Tian, Zhongjing Du, Jiayu Ding, Qiaoman Zhang, Hongbo Jin
arXiv:2608. 20231v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The standard objection to full automation is demand-side: if humans earn nothing, who buys the output?
By Sahil Sharma
arXiv:2608. 19662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic language models repeatedly encode tool and skill schemas that recur across requests in different combinations and orders, preventing standard prefix caching from reusing their key--value (KV) states.
By Yichu Fang, Sitong Wei, Haozhe Hu, Xiaoyu Shen
arXiv:2608. 19639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Streaming reconstruction of Free-Viewpoint Videos (FVVs) supports immersive Internet of Things (IoT) services, such as telepresence and digital twin visualization.
By Yiwei Li, Jiannong Cao, Weixun Gao, Rui Cao, Songye Zhu, Yinfeng Cao, Mingjin Zhang