arXiv:2608. 00859v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks (KANs) replace scalar edge weights with learnable univariate functions parameterized by multiple basis coefficients.
By Kazi Ahmed Asif Fuad, Lizhong Chen
arXiv:2608. 02588v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In [AS21], Axiotis and Sviridenko conjectured that the linear dependence on the restricted condition number in sparse convex optimization cannot be improved by a polynomial-time algorithm.
By Honghao Lin, Vahab Mirrokni, David P. Woodruff
arXiv:2608. 01400v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular foundation models, driven by in-context learning, have rapidly grown in quality and popularity.
By Rasa Hosseinzadeh, Alex Labach, Zexin Xue, Shuyi Han, Valentin Thomas, Anthony L. Caterini
arXiv:2608. 00118v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cybersecurity is a fundamental requirement for protecting wearable devices used in healthcare Internet of Things (H-IoT) systems.
By Mirza Akhi
arXiv:2608. 02222v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: One-shot federated learning (OSFL) has emerged as a promising collaborative model learning framework with only a single round of communication, offering significant advantages in communication efficiency and privacy preservation.
By Zijian Jiang, Chaoli Sun, Handing Wang, Xilu Wang
arXiv:2608. 02365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) couple robot action prediction with video world models.
By Liheng Ma, Rui Heng Yang, Zhanguang Zhang, Mateo Clemente, Ziwen Hu, Tongtong Cao, Yingxue Zhang
arXiv:2607. 18082v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Rubric-based RL has recently shown promise in improving LLMs on open-ended tasks.
By Mingxuan Xia, Yuhang Yang, Chao Ye, Shuai Zhu, Shenzhi Yang, Guangcheng Zhu, Yuhang Zhang, Cheng Peng, Haobo Wang, Siqing Wang
arXiv:2608. 01285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The continued development of LLMs toward persistent and adaptive intelligence increasingly requires long-term memory mechanisms that preserve and reuse information across interactions.
By Yidan Lin, Kaixiang Wang, Jiong Lou, Jie Li
arXiv:2606. 21633v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The KV cache dominates GPU memory in long-context LLM serving, crowding out batch capacity and leaving GPU compute idle.
By Omin Kwon, Doyeon Kim, Jongseok Park, Seung Yul Lee, Ion Stoica, Jae W. Lee
arXiv:2608. 01247v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Query-agnostic KV cache eviction compresses a context once and reuses the resulting cache for arbitrary future queries, but performance can collapse under tight budgets.
By Changwoo Baek, Seungjun Shin, Kyeongbo Kong
arXiv:2608. 00220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We show that on-policy reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) can improve the current objective while making successful behaviors for later objectives too rare to sample and reinforce.
By Shaohang Wei, Zikun Su, Feifan Song, Wen Luo, Wei Li, Guangyue Peng, Houfeng Wang
arXiv:2608. 02087v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) with Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become an important tool for improving model capabilities, but the LLM action-space structure introduces challenges distinct from classical RL, with implications for inducing exploration.
By Jim Dilkes, Vahid Yazdanpanah, Sebastian Stein
arXiv:2608. 01185v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent 3D vision-language models (3D VLMs) construct geometry aware tokens by projecting 2D visual features into world coordinates, enabling spatial reasoning for tasks such as 3D question answering.
By Changwoo Baek, Kyeongbo Kong
arXiv:2410. 06814v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Over-parameterized models are typically vulnerable to membership inference attacks, which aim to determine whether a specific sample is included in the training of a given model.
By Hengxiang Zhang, Qiang Hu, Hongxin Wei
arXiv:2608. 00052v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS)-assisted communication is regarded as a key enabling technology for future 6G networks.
By Wenkai Liu, Nan Ma, Jianqiao Chen, Hongtao Zhang, Ping Zhang
arXiv:2608. 00837v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) is widely used for subword tokenization, but standard BPE exposes every learned merge token to the downstream model, including tokens that mainly serve as intermediate construction units and rarely appear in the final encoded corpus.
By Kenny Shao
arXiv:2502. 17055v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Training instability in modern deep learning systems is frequently triggered by rare but extreme gradient-norm spikes, which can induce oversized parameter updates, corrupt optimizer state, and lead to slow recovery or divergence.
By Tianjin Huang, Zhangyang Wang, Haotian Hu, Zhenyu Zhang, Gaojie Jin, Xiang Li, Li Shen, Jiaxing Shang, Tianlong Chen, Ke Li, Lu Liu, Qingsong Wen, Shiwei Liu
arXiv:2608. 01745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Maximizing throughput under proportional fairness in dense wireless networks requires jointly managing user association, scheduling, base station (BS) activation, and handover control under hard finite-horizon energy and handover budgets, which induces a fundamental tension between BS-side energy management and user-side handover regulation.
By Yeonseo Jeong, Wonhyeok Ko, Sungweon Hong, Songnam Hong
arXiv:2608. 01460v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conformal prediction (CP) is a distribution-free framework for uncertainty quantification that has recently been adapted to large language models (LLMs), providing prediction sets with finite-sample coverage guarantees under exchangeability.
By Yuqicheng Zhu, Jialin Yu, Lin Li, Gengyuan Zhang, Zhen Yang, Steffen Staab, Puneet Dokania, Philip Torr, Jie Tang, Evgeny Kharlamov
arXiv:2608. 01821v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion vision-language models (dVLMs) iteratively denoise masked responses while conditioning each denoising step on visual evidence, making visual conditioning a substantial recurring inference cost.
By Yongkang Zhou, Xiang Xia, Cheng Yan, Fan Xu, Wuyang Zhang