arXiv:2606. 06943v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP achieve strong zero-shot recognition but remain highly fragile under adversarial perturbations.
By Sunoh Kim, Daeho Um
arXiv:2606. 07032v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval (ZS-CIR) aims to retrieve a target image based on a query composed of a reference image and a relative caption without training samples.
By Zhenyu Yang, Zemin Du, Shengsheng Qian, Changsheng Xu
arXiv:2603. 16689v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Next-token predictors often appear to develop internal representations of the latent world and its rules.
By Sasha Brenner, Thomas R. Kn\"osche, Nico Scherf
arXiv:2602. 02014v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent genomic foundation models largely adopt large language model architectures that treat DNA as a one-dimensional token sequence.
By Hongxin Xiang, Pengsen Ma, Yunkang Cao, Di Yu, Haowen Chen, Xinyu Yang, Xiangxiang Zeng
arXiv:2606. 06635v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Failures in language model reasoning emerge through distinct processes that leave identifiable signatures in the reasoning trace.
By Tanvi Thoria, Kiana Jafari, Marc R. Schlichting, Mykel J. Kochenderfer
arXiv:2606. 06519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-weight LLMs are increasingly fine-tuned into customized assistants, but downstream fine-tuning can weaken safety alignment and make models more vulnerable to malicious prompts, even when the training data is not intentionally harmful.
By Yanghan Wang, Zhiqiang Kou, Fu Feng, Jing Wang, Xin Geng
arXiv:2606. 07515v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate the probabilistic reasoning capabilities of large language models through a controlled benchmarking study on discrete probability problems.
By Luca Avena, Gianmarco Bet, Bernardo Busoni
arXiv:2606. 06735v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Linear activation steering has gained popularity as a simple and empirically effective way to control language model behavior.
By Georgii Aparin, Tatiana Gaintseva
arXiv:2606. 06787v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise as tool-using agents but remain limited in long-horizon tasks that require remembering, organizing, and reusing knowledge.
By Runzhe Wang, Huilin Lu, Shengjie Liu, Li Dong, Jason Zhu
arXiv:2606. 07116v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-bit quantization has been widely adopted to accelerate the inference of large language models (LLMs) by significantly reducing computational cost and memory usage.
By Haoqi Wang, Lorenz K. Mueller, Jiawei Zhuang, Mathieu Salzmann, Lukas Cavigelli
arXiv:2606. 06888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Classical scaling laws for language model pretraining balance model size against training dataset size under a fixed compute budget, assuming abundant data and a single pass over the corpus.
By Zhiwei Xu, Shihao Wu, Hanseul Cho, Wei Hu, Yixin Wang
arXiv:2606. 07015v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While song generation and singing voice conversion (SVC) have evolved significantly, they have long been developed isolated: the former lacks zero-shot speaker cloning, while the latter overlooks vocal-accompaniment synergy.
By Ziyu Zhang, Chunyu Qiang, Xiaopeng Wang, Yuxin Guo, Kang Yin, Wenjie Tian, Jingbin Hu, Tianlun Zuo, Zhao Guo, Teng Ma, Yuzhe Liang, Chen Zhang, Lei Xie
arXiv:2606. 06814v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The transformer's emergent ability to perform in-context learning (ICL) has sparked a wide range of studies designed to understand its underlying mechanisms.
By Soo Min Kwon, Alec S. Xu, Can Yaras, Dogyoon Song, Laura Balzano, Qing Qu
arXiv:2606. 06907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large audio language models (LALMs) extend large language models with an audio encoder and large-scale audio data.
By Seonuk Kim, Yonghyeon Jun, Ju Yeon Kang, Jimin Hong, Yoonhyeong Lee, Nam Soo Kim
arXiv:2604. 08168v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have advanced robot manipulation through large-scale pretraining, but real-world deployment remains challenging due to partial observability and delayed feedback.
By Jindi Lv, Hao Li, Jie Li, Fankun Kong, Yang Wang, Pengfei Yi, Yifei Nie, Xiaofeng Wang, Zheng Zhu, Chaojun Ni, Qiuping Deng, Hengtao Li, Jiancheng Lv, Guan Huang
arXiv:2606. 06673v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse rewards and heterogeneous task sequences remain persistent challenges in Reinforcement Learning (RL), often resulting in slow convergence, weak generalization, and inefficient exploration.
By Ujjwal Bhatta, Utsabi Dangol, Sumaly Bajracharya, Rodrigue Rizk, KC Santosh
arXiv:2509. 24935v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scalability has driven recent advances in generative modeling, yet its principles remain underexplored for adversarial learning.
By Sangeek Hyun, MinKyu Lee, Jae-Pil Heo
arXiv:2606. 07422v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used to answer culturally grounded questions across languages, yet it remains unclear whether local cultural knowledge is better accessed through English or the local language.
By Yang Zhang, Xiao Fei, Amr Mohamed, Sarah Almeida Carneiro, Mersin Konomi, Mingmeng Geng, Ahmed Asaad, Guokan Shang, Michalis Vazirgiannis
arXiv:2505. 05232v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The rapid expansion of chemistry literature poses significant challenges for researchers seeking to efficiently access domain-specific knowledge.
By Mahmoud Amiri, Thomas Bocklitz
arXiv:2512. 13278v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning has advanced large language models (LLMs) to reason through long chain-of-thought trajectories while interleaving external tool use.
By Jiaru Zou, Ling Yang, Yunzhe Qi, Sirui Chen, Mengting Ai, Ke Shen, Jingrui He, Mengdi Wang