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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 30

BrainRiem: Riemannian Prototype Learning for Source-Free Cross-Site Brain Network Diagnosis

arXiv:2606. 29200v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-site functional MRI (fMRI) studies are essential for robust neuropsychiatric diagnosis yet suffer severe domain shifts from scanner heterogeneity, demographics, and site-specific acquisition protocols.

By Kunyu Zhang, Tianxiang Xu

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 30

GLACIER: Rethinking Mass Spectrum Prediction as an Object Detection Problem

arXiv:2606. 29161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting tandem mass spectra (MS/MS) from molecular structures represents a central task in analytical chemistry with direct relevance to clinical metabolomics, systems biology, and adjacent disciplines.

By Rui-Xi Wang, Runzhong Wang, Connor W. Coley

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

KnowsTFM: Knowledge-Informed Fine-Tuning of Small Tabular Foundation Models

arXiv:2606. 30258v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tabular foundation models have advanced deep learning for tabular data by delivering strong default performance across many small and medium tasks.

By Boshko Koloski, Xiangjian Jiang, Senja Pollak, Bla\v{z} \v{S}krlj, Mateja Jamnik, Nikola Simidjievski

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Spanning the Visual Analogy Space with a Weight Basis of LoRAs

arXiv:2602. 15727v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual analogy learning enables image editing via demonstration rather than textual description, allowing users to specify complex transformations difficult to articulate in words.

By Hila Manor, Rinon Gal, Haggai Maron, Tomer Michaeli, Gal Chechik

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Demonstration-Free Robotic Control via LLM Agents

arXiv:2601. 20334v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic manipulation has increasingly adopted vision-language-action (VLA) models, which achieve strong performance but typically require task-specific demonstrations and fine-tuning, and often generalize poorly under domain shift.

By Brian Y. Tsui, Alan Y. Fang, Tiffany J. Hwu

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Edit in 2D, Verify in 3D: Reinforcement Learning for Multi-view Consistent Scene Editing

arXiv:2603. 03143v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Leveraging the priors of 2D diffusion models for 3D editing has emerged as a promising paradigm.

By Jiyuan Wang, Chunyu Lin, Lei Sun, Zhi Cao, Yuyang Yin, Lang Nie, Zhenlong Yuan, Xiangxiang Chu, Yunchao Wei, Kang Liao, Guosheng Lin

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Can Fine-Tuning Erase Your Edits? On the Fragile Coexistence of Knowledge Editing and Adaptation

arXiv:2511. 05852v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge editing (KE) offers a lightweight alternative to retraining for updating large language models (LLMs).

By Yinjie Cheng, Paul Youssef, Christin Seifert, J\"org Schl\"otterer, Zhixue Zhao

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Echoes of Human Malice in Agents: Benchmarking LLMs for Multi-Turn Online Harassment Attacks

arXiv:2510. 14207v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents are powering a growing share of interactive web applications, yet remain vulnerable to misuse and harm.

By Trilok Padhi, Pinxian Lu, Abdulkadir Erol, Tanmay Sutar, Gauri Sharma, Mina Sonmez, Munmun De Choudhury, Ugur Kursuncu

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Field Order Should Not Matter: Permutation-Invariant Embedding Model Fine-Tuning for Structured Metadata Retrieval

arXiv:2606. 30473v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study retrieval over catalogs of structured metadata, where each record is a small schema whose fields answer different kinds of query.

By Aivin V. Solatorio, Olivier Dupriez, Rafael Macalaba

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Neural Subspace Reallocation: Continual Learning as Retrieval-Based Subspace Memory Management

arXiv:2606. 30067v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Neural Subspace Reallocation (NSR), which reframes continual learning as memory management over parameter subspaces.

By Byeong Hoon Yoon

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Unlocking the Visual Record of Materials Science: A Large-Scale Multimodal Dataset from Scientific Literature

arXiv:2606. 29667v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The materials science literature encodes decades of experimental knowledge in figures, yet this visual record remains locked away and inaccessible to AI at scale.

By Subham Ghosh, Shubham Tiwari, Mohammad Ibrahim, Abhishek Tewari

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

ReMAP-PET: Beyond Visual Understanding -- Learning Region-Guided Metabolic Alignment Semantics from Brain PET

arXiv:2606. 29577v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Positron Emission Tomography (PET) reveals brain metabolism and is clinically central to neurodegenerative disease assessment, yet existing 3D brain foundation models treat PET as generic volumetric data, missing the structured regional metabolic information that distinguishes it from structural neuroimaging.

By Dasen Dai, Yanteng Zhang, Shuoqi Li, Yuxiang Wei, Hongjie Yu, Qingxin Zhang, Qizhen Lan, Jagath C. Rajapakse, Vince D. Calhoun

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Symbolic Mechanistic Data Attribution: Tracing Training Influence to Learned Behavioral Policies

arXiv:2606. 29171v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While existing data attribution methods can identify which training examples build specific mechanistic circuits, they cannot explain how training data shapes the high-level behavioral decisions a model learns to make.

By Reza Habibi, Darian Lee, Magy Seif El-Nasr

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Evidence-Based Text-Conditioned 3D CT Synthesis for Ovarian Cancer

arXiv:2606. 28980v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ovarian cancer is frequently diagnosed at an advanced stage, making preoperative contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) central to staging and surgical planning; yet the scarcity of annotated imaging data, compounded by privacy regulations, limits the development of generalizable computational models in this domain.

By Francesca Pia Panaccione, Eugenio Lomurno, Francesca Fati, Carlotta Pecchiari, Marina Rosanu, Luigi De Vitis, Lucia Ribero, Gabriella Schivardi, Giovanni Damiano Aletti, Nicoletta Colombo, Maria Francesca Spadea, Francesco Multinu, Matteo Matteucci, Elena De Momi

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

ReasonRec: A Reasoning-Augmented Multimodal Agent for Unified Recommendation

arXiv:2606. 28357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in multimodal recommenders excel at feature fusion but remain opaque and inefficient decision-makers, lacking explicit reasoning and self-awareness of uncertainty.

By Yihua Zhang, Mingfu Liang, Jiyan Yang, Rong Jin, Wen-Yen Chen, Yiping Han, Huayu Li, Buyun Zhang, Liang Luo, Frank Shyu, Luke Simon, Sijia Liu, Tianlong Chen, Xi Liu

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Toward Secure and Reliable PDDL Formalization of Large Language Models with Planner-in-the-Loop Feedback

arXiv:2606. 29700v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Planning often requires symbolic specifications that are both executable and verifiable.

By Jiamei Jiang, Jiajing Zhang, Feifei Mo, Linjing Li, Daniel Zeng

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

To Reason or to Fabricate: Reasoning Without Shortcuts via Hint-Anchored Pairwise Aggregation

arXiv:2606. 29481v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While reinforcement learning (RL) significantly enhances LLM reasoning, its efficacy is severely undermined by Pre-RL data overlap, where RL datasets overlap with pretraining or SFT corpora, causing models to exploit shortcuts by memorizing correct answers and fabricating post-hoc reasoning.

By Jiuheng Lin, Chen Zhang, Yansong Feng

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Attribution Graphs and Causal Probing for Mechanistic Discovery and Bias Repair in Multimodal Generative Learning

arXiv:2510. 12957v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We treat the internals of generative models as mechanistic objects rather than black boxes.

By Noor Islam S. Mohammad, Ulu\u{g} Bayaz{\i}t

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

ScAle: Attention Head Scaling as a Minimal Adapter for Spatial Reasoning in Vision Language Models

arXiv:2606. 29579v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatial reasoning remains a persistent challenge for many vision language models (VLMs), and improving it typically requires fine-tuning with substantial additional parameters.

By Rahul Chowdhury, Timothy A Rupprecht, Xuan Shen, Pu Zhao, Yanzhi Wang

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Vividh-ASR: A Complexity-Tiered Benchmark and Optimization Dynamics for Robust Indic Speech Recognition

arXiv:2605. 13087v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Fine-tuning multilingual ASR models like Whisper for low-resource languages often improves read speech but degrades spontaneous audio performance.

By Kush Juvekar, Kavya Manohar, Aditya Srinivas Menon, Arghya Bhattacharya, Kumarmanas Nethil

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