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arXiv AI
Jul 14

Listen to the Features: Voice Anonymization Driven by Content Embedding Matching over Signal Reconstruction

arXiv:2607. 09767v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The paper presents a voice anonymization model focusing on preserving content rather than producing realistic speech.

By Adrien Schneider (M-PSI), Kacper Zabkowski (M-PSI), Anderson Augusma (M-PSI), Fr\'ed\'erique Letu\'e (SAM, SVH), Maria Camila Pinzon (M-PSI), Dominique Vaufreydaz (M-PSI)
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

Towards Efficient Convolutional Neural Network for Embedded Hardware via Multi-Dimensional Pruning

arXiv:2607. 11473v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we propose TECO, a multi-dimensional pruning framework to collaboratively prune the three dimensions (depth, width, and resolution) of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for better execution efficiency on embedded hardware.

By Hao Kong, Di Liu, Xiangzhong Luo, Shuo Huai, Ravi Subramaniam, Christian Makaya, Qian Lin, Weichen Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

From Direction to Magnitude: How Multimodal Instruction-Tuning Reorganizes the Geometric Encoding of Identity-Specifying Prompts in Transformer Hidden States

arXiv:2607. 09842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate whether identity-specifying system prompts produce statistically distinguishable geometric fingerprints in the hidden-state trajectories of four open-weight transformer language models spanning four post-training regimes: no training (Gemma-4-E4B base), multimodal RLHF (Gemma-4-E4B-it), RL distillation (DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B), and SFT (Qwen2.

By Jorge A. Castillo, Marco Torres Y\'evenes, Juan Carlos Lanas
arXiv AI
Jul 14

Lifelong Representations: A Survey on Continual Self-Supervised Learning for Vision Models

arXiv:2607. 09785v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditionally, continual learning has assumed access to labeled data, yet many real-world applications -- such as lifelong robotics -- require models to adapt continuously from unlabeled streams.

By Sergi Masip, Alicja Dobrzeniecka, Jonathan Swinnen, Joachim Collin, Bart{\l}omiej Twardowski, Szymon {\L}ukasik, Tinne Tuytelaars
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

FastTPS: An Optimized Method for LLM Token Phase for AI accelerators

arXiv:2607. 11211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The popularity of large language models (LLMs) escalates an ongoing demand for effective inference.

By Wenzong Yang, Danyang Zhang, Kun Cao, Tejus Siddagangaiah, Rajeev Patwari, Zhanxing Pu, Siyin Kong, Zijiang Yang, Hao Zhu, Varun Sharma, Yue Gao, Tianping Li, Fan Yang, Jicheng Chen, Yushan Chen, Fennian Zhao, Aaron Ng, Elliott Delaye, Ashish Sirasao, Sudip Nag
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

BARD: Bridging AutoRegressive and Diffusion Vision-Language Models Via Highly Efficient Progressive Block Merging and Stage-Wise Distillation

arXiv:2604. 16514v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive vision-language models (VLMs) deliver strong multimodal capability, but their token-by-token decoding imposes a fundamental inference bottleneck.

By Baoyou Chen, Hanchen Xia, Peng Tu, Haojun Shi, Liwei Zhang, Yuxuan Yao, Weihao Yuan, Siyu Zhu
arXiv AI
Jul 14

An LLM-powered Agentic Recommendation System for Connected TV Content Discovery

arXiv:2607. 09988v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recommendation systems, from traditional multi-stage to recent unified generative architectures, face challenges in incorporating diverse contextual signals, such as trending topics, breaking news, cultural events, and cross-surface user activities, into their ranking pipelines.

By Lei Shi, Di Wang, Harry Tran, Helsing Xu, Yuchen Lu, Dhara Ghodasara, Wilson Chaney, Xueting Liao, Jerry Yu, Huayu Ding, Mingze Gao, Shike Mei, Shuo Tang, Zhe Zhang, Jianming He, Abhishek Kumar, Haotian Wu, Hamed Firooz, Li Li
arXiv AI
Jul 14

Mitigating Early Training Collapse in CTR Models

arXiv:2607. 09696v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep neural models for click-through rate prediction often exhibit a sharp decline in validation performance immediately after the first training epoch despite continued improvement in training loss.

By Ergun Bi\c{c}ici, Erkan \c{C}etinyama\c{c}