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arXiv AI
Jul 23

Opto-ViT-v2: Noise-Resilient On-Chip Fine-Tuning for Photonic Near-Sensor Vision Transformer Accelerators

arXiv:2607. 19421v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Silicon-photonic (SiPh) accelerators have emerged as a promising platform for Vision Transformer (ViT) inference by performing matrix multiplications on microring-resonator (MRR) banks with high throughput and energy efficiency.

By Xuming Chen, Deniz Najafi, Mehrdad Morsali, Chengwei Zhou, Zahra Ghanaatianjobzari, Mahdi Nikdast, Shaahin Angizi, Gourav Datta
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 23

SwiftRepertoire: Few-Shot Immune-Signature Synthesis via Dynamic Kernel Codes

arXiv:2602. 01051v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Repertoire-level analysis of T cell receptors offers a biologically grounded signal for disease detection and immune monitoring, yet practical deployment is impeded by label sparsity, cohort heterogeneity, and the computational burden of adapting large encoders to new tasks.

By Rong Fu, Muge Qi, Yang Li, Yabin Jin, Jiekai Wu, Chunlei Meng, Juntao Gao, Li Bao, Qi Zhao, Wei Luo, Youjin Wang, Simon Fong
arXiv AI
Jul 23

SubQuad: Near-Quadratic-Free Structure Inference with Distribution-Balanced Objectives in Adaptive Receptor framework

arXiv:2602. 17330v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Comparative analysis of adaptive immune repertoires at population scale is hampered by two practical bottlenecks: the near-quadratic cost of pairwise affinity evaluations and dataset imbalances that obscure clinically important minority clonotypes.

By Rong Fu, Zijian Zhang, Kun Liu, Jiekai Wu, Xianda Li, Simon Fong
arXiv AI
Jul 23

Knowledge-Centric Self-Improvement

arXiv:2607. 19592v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-improving AI systems typically treat the agent as the object that improves, by optimizing prompts, workflows, harnesses, or even the agent's own code.

By Xuefei Julie Wang, Lauren Hyoseo Yoon, Chengrui Qu, Amanda Zichang Wang, Atharva Sehgal, Eric Mazumdar, Yisong Yue
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 23

HeadCast: Casting Attention Heads for Efficient Autoregressive Video Generation

arXiv:2607. 20125v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive (AR) video diffusion models have become a promising paradigm for long and streaming video synthesis, but the continuously growing Key-Value (KV) cache makes attention the dominant inference cost, especially at high resolution where each frame contributes many tokens.

By Jinliang Shen, Lianghao Su, Zheming Li, Kang He, ZiLiang Lai, Yanbing Jiang, Chengru Song
arXiv AI
Jul 23

In-Run Data Shapley for Adam Optimizer

arXiv:2602. 00329v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reliable data attribution is essential for mitigating bias and reducing computational waste in modern machine learning, with the Shapley value serving as the theoretical gold standard.

By Meng Ding, Zeqing Zhang, Di Wang, Lijie Hu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 23

CityGuard: Graph-Aware Private Descriptors for Bias-Resilient Identity Search Across Urban Cameras

arXiv:2602. 18047v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: City-scale person re-identification across distributed cameras must handle severe appearance changes from viewpoint, occlusion, and domain shift while complying with data protection rules that prevent sharing raw imagery.

By Rong Fu, Yibo Meng, Jia Yee Tan, Rui Lu, Jiekai Wu, Simon Fong
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 23

New Complexity-Theoretic Frontiers of Tractability for Neural Network Training

In spite of the fundamental role of neural networks in contemporary machine learning research, our understanding of the computational complexity of optimally training neural networks remains incomplete even when dealing with the simplest kinds of activation functions. Indeed, while there has been a number of very recent results that establish ever-tighter lower bounds for the problem under linear and ReLU activation functions, less progress has been made towards the identification of novel polynomial-time tractable network architectures.