arXiv:2606. 03070v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Asynchronous reinforcement learning can improve language-model post-training throughput by decoupling response generation from policy optimization, but stale responses introduce distribution drift.
By Zehua Liu, Yuxuan Yao, Xiaojin Fu, Tao Zhong, Mingxuan Yuan
arXiv:2606. 03026v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spiking language models expose activation sparsity that dense Transformer runtimes do not directly exploit.
By Ting Liu
arXiv:2606. 03444v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unifying the complementary strengths of diverse Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) into a single efficient model is highly desirable but challenged by the negative transfer inherent in monolithic distillation.
By Ying Tang, Dong Li, Youjia Zhang, Zikai Song, Junqing Yu, Wei Yang
arXiv:2606. 03180v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) for radiology have emerged as a scalable paradigm by leveraging image-report pairs naturally produced in clinical workflows.
By Jonggwon Park, Seongeun Lee, Junhyun Park, Hannah Yun, Hyunwoong Kim, Sohyun Jeong, Hyewon Kang, Byungmu Yoon, Kyoyun Choi
arXiv:2603. 04956v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper considers the problem of converting a given dense linear layer to low precision.
By Egor Lifar, Semyon Savkin, Or Ordentlich, Yury Polyanskiy
arXiv:2606. 03939v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) of foundation and edge models increasingly targets deployments where client data distributions drift over time, yet existing forgetting-mitigation methods assume each client's distribution is stationary.
By Mubarak A. Ojewale, Adriana E. Chis, Jorge M. Cortes-Mendoza, Bernardo Pulido-Gaytan, Horacio Gonzalez-Velez
arXiv:2606. 02955v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion large language models promise parallel token generation, yet inference remains bottlenecked by deciding which masked tokens can be safely committed together.
By Siva Rajesh Kasa, Yasong Dai, Sumit Negi, Hongdong Li
arXiv:2606. 03052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a powerful tool for model compression, yet the precise mechanisms by which student models acquire feature representations remain underexplored.
By Seungu Kang, Songkuk Kim
arXiv:2606. 03463v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversational AI agents require memory systems that are both scalable and semantically coherent across long interaction horizons.
By Matteo Stabile, Enrico Zimuel
arXiv:2606. 03014v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture-of-Agents (MoA) systems improve reasoning accuracy by routing each query to multiple expert LLMs and aggregating their outputs.
By Saptarshi Mitra, Yifan Zhang, Rachid Karami, Phyo Pyae Moe Aung, Nazmul Takbir, Sreetama Sarkar, Souvik Kundu, Sitao Huang
arXiv:2606. 03269v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual Question Answering (VQA) is the task of answering questions about images, requiring the integration of multimodal input and reasoning.
By Thomas Eiter, Nelson Higuera Ruiz, Johannes Oetsch
arXiv:2606. 02684v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-Policy distillation (OPD) in large language models is shifting from full-trace KL supervision toward more selective training paradigms.
By Yuying Li, Leqi Zheng, Yongzi Yu, Wenrui Zhou, Xuchang Zhong, Xing Hu, Jing Jin, Huangjie Yuan, Tao Feng
arXiv:2606. 03888v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning has enabled large-scale pre-training on 2D natural images, producing general-purpose visual representations that transfer effectively across tasks.
By Ioannis Gatopoulos, Nicolas K\"anzig, Sebastian Ot\'alora, Fei Tang
arXiv:2606. 02634v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Echo-POSED, a self-supervised framework for real-time transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) guidance that recommends probe adjustments directly from 2D ultrasound images, without the need for expert-labelled views or tracked probe trajectories.
By Elias Stenhede, Edvart Gr\"uner Bjerke, Joanna Sulkowska, Eivind Bj{\o}rkan Orstad, Ole Jakob Elle, Ulysse C\^ot\'e-Allard, Arian Ranjbar
arXiv:2606. 02673v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graphs have been used to enhance large language models (LLMs) for structured reasoning, mostly as external knowledge sources are provided to models at test time.
By Runlin Lei, Xiaokui Xiao, Zhewei Wei
arXiv:2606. 03645v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models exhibit paradoxical fragility in fundamental arithmetic, implying a disconnect between internal computation and discrete output.
By Liuyuan Wen, Xun Zhu, Lihao Huang, Wenbin Li, Yang Gao
arXiv:2606. 02842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal spatial reasoning often relies on long chains of intermediate textual and visual thoughts, where accumulating visual tokens and dense cross-modal attention incur substantial computation and memory overhead.
By Yixian Shen, Zhiheng Yang, Qi Bi, Changshuo Wang, Shuai Wang, Jia-Hong Huang, George Floros, Prayag Tiwari, Anuj Pathania
arXiv:2602. 17063v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sub-bit model compression targets storage below one bit per weight; as magnitudes are aggressively compressed, the sign bit becomes a fixed-cost bottleneck.
By Akira Sakai, Yuma Ichikawa
arXiv:2512. 03627v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite rapid progress in large-scale language and vision models, AI agents still suffer from a fundamental limitation: they cannot remember.
By Junming Liu, Yifei Sun, Weihua Cheng, Haodong Lei, Yirong Chen, Licheng Wen, Xuemeng Yang, Daocheng Fu, Pinlong Cai, Nianchen Deng, Yi Yu, Shuyue Hu, Botian Shi, Ding Wang
arXiv:2606. 03553v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While principal component analysis (PCA) is a fundamental tool for dimensionality reduction, its dense representations make it ill-suited for high-dimensional data.
By David V\"avinggren, Francis Bach, Andr\'e M. H. Teixeira, Dave Zachariah, Ant\^onio H. Ribeiro