arXiv:2606. 04434v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal In-Context Learning (ICL) has emerged as a practical inference paradigm for Multimodal Large Language Models, where a small set of interleaved image-text In-Context Demonstrations (ICDs) conditions the model to solve new tasks.
By Niloufar Alipour Talemi, Hossein Kashiani, Fatemeh Afghah
arXiv:2606. 04317v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep neural networks are increasingly deployed across heterogeneous and partially untrusted environments, where models are distributed through cloud storage, CI/CD pipelines, containerized services, and edge execution platforms.
By Bin Duan, Zeyu Bai, Guowei Yang
arXiv:2606. 04980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures scale model capacity through sparse expert activation, but their deployment remains memory-bound because all expert weights must reside in memory.
By Wanqi Yang, Yuexiao Ma, Alexander Conzelmann, Xiawu Zheng, Michael W. Mahoney, T. Konstantin Rusch, Shiwei Liu
arXiv:2603. 16867v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) with chain-of-thought reasoning achieve state-of-the-art performance across complex problem-solving tasks, but their verbose reasoning traces and large context requirements make them impractical for edge deployment.
By Yelysei Bondarenko, Thomas Hehn, Rob Hesselink, Romain Lepert, Fabio Valerio Massoli, Evgeny Mironov, Leyla Mirvakhabova, Tribhuvanesh Orekondy, Spyridon Stasis, Andrey Kuzmin, Anna Kuzina, Markus Nagel, Ankita Nayak, Corrado Rainone, Ork de Rooij, Paul N Whatmough, Arash Behboodi, Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi
arXiv:2606. 04513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lane-level maps are critical infrastructure for autonomous driving and lane-level navigation, yet constructing and maintaining standardized lane networks for hundreds of cities remains highly labor-intensive.
By Deguo Xia, Zihan Li, Haochen Zhao, Dong Xie, Yuyao Kong, Xiyan Liu, Jizhou Huang, Mengmeng Yang, Diange Yang
arXiv:2606. 04492v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) frequently suffers from severe reward sparsity and exploration bottlenecks.
By Zicheng Zhao, Yu Lan, Chengzhengxu Li, Zhaohan Zhang, Xiaoming Liu
arXiv:2606. 04310v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly being deployed in security-critical and safety-sensitive applications, which makes rigorous testing essential to identify and mitigate model weaknesses.
By Bin Duan, Matthew B. Dwyer, Guowei Yang
arXiv:2605. 30120v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-vector retrieval (MVR) models, exemplified by ColBERT, have established new benchmarks in retrieval accuracy by preserving fine-grained token-level interactions.
By Lixuan Guo, Yifei Wang, Tiansheng Wen, Aosong Feng, Stefanie Jegelka, Chenyu You
arXiv:2606. 05152v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning models have advanced rapidly, but the dominant reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) recipe remains surprisingly narrow: sample many responses and reward each with a single bit indicating whether the final answer is correct.
By Rishabh Agrawal, Jacob Fein-Ashley, Paria Rashidinejad
arXiv:2602. 02405v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) typically relies either on the model's ability to sample a correct solution to be reinforced or the existence of a stronger model able to solve the problem.
By Ethan Mendes, Jungsoo Park, Alan Ritter
arXiv:2606. 04115v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantizing large language models (LLMs) to low-precision floating-point representations is central to efficient deployment, yet applying a single bit-width uniformly across all layers is sub-optimal in terms of both performance and accuracy.
By Giuseppe Franco, Ian Colbert, Pablo Monteagudo-Lago, Felix Marty, Nicholas Fraser
arXiv:2605. 01910v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive decoding becomes bandwidth-limited at long contexts, as generating each token requires reading all $n_k$ key and value vectors from KV cache.
By Kyle Lee, Corentin Delacour, Kevin Callahan-Coray, Kyle Jiang, Can Yaras, Samet Oymak, Tathagata Srimani, Kerem Y. Camsari
arXiv:2509. 10247v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This letter introduces DiffAero, a lightweight, GPU-accelerated, and fully differentiable simulation framework designed for efficient quadrotor control policy learning.
By Xinhong Zhang, Runqing Wang, Yunfan Ren, Jian Sun, Hao Fang, Jie Chen, Gang Wang
arXiv:2601. 09719v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pre-Layer Normalization (Pre-LN) is the de facto choice for large language models (LLMs) and is crucial for stable pretraining and effective transfer learning.
By Hoyoon Byun, Youngjun Choi, Taero Kim, Sungrae Park, Kyungwoo Song
arXiv:2506. 10912v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Toxicity remains a leading cause of early-stage drug development failure.
By Fei Lin, Ziyang Gong, Cong Wang, Tengchao Zhang, Yonglin Tian, Yining Jiang, Ji Dai, Chao Guo, Xiaotong Yu, Xue Yang, Gen Luo, Fei-Yue Wang
arXiv:2606. 05025v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) suffer from shortcut learning: they systematically fail on out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs whose semantic surface differs from training data, even when the logical structure is identical.
By Zehua Cheng, Wei Dai, Jiahao Sun
arXiv:2606. 04922v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current prompt-based and adapter-based tuning of vision-language models (VLMs) is attractive for medical imaging, where clinical data sensitivity favors frozen backbones and annotations are limited.
By Tran Dinh Tien, Zhiqiang Shen
arXiv:2606. 04522v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search has become a core primitive in information retrieval and modern machine learning tasks, from classification to retrieval-augmented generation.
By Dimitris Dimitropoulos, Nikos Mamoulis
arXiv:2606. 04438v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) and looped architectures scale models along two orthogonal axes, namely parameter capacity and effective depth.
By Wenkai Chen, Tianshu Li, Wenyong Huang, Yichun Yin, Lifeng Shang, Chengwei Qin
arXiv:2606. 04419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: MRI provides excellent soft-tissue contrast without ionizing radiation, but long acquisition times increase patient discomfort while also raising exam costs and limiting scanner throughput.
By Arda Atal{\i}k, Sumit Chopra, Daniel K. Sodickson