arXiv:2609.39306v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Iterative self-distillation enables LLM agents to learn from successive deployments, offering a path toward recursive self-improvement (RSI). Yet our...
By Shengjie Jin, Hengbo Xu, Zelong Sun, YuJie Guo, Zhiwu Lu
arXiv:2609.39383v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based automatic heuristic design (AHD) iteratively proposes and refines heuristics, pairing design rationales with executa...
By Yilun Yuan, Tianyu Zhou, Zhenzhou Tang
arXiv:2609.39453v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Speech emotion recognition (SER) is the task of assigning emotion labels to utterances. Early systems relied on acoustic features, whereas recent app...
By Hezhao Zhang, Thomas Hain
arXiv:2609.39568v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) may generate unreliable code on corner cases missed by testing, while formal verification can provide machine-checkable...
By Jiaru Qian, Yihong Dong, Yongmin Li, Hao Zhu, Bin Gu, Ge Li
arXiv:2609.39902v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large language models have achieved remarkable capabilities across diverse domains, yet their safety alignment remains vulnerable to jailbreak attack...
By Zhen Liang, Hai Huang, Wentao Chen
arXiv:2609.39924v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Vision-language models face a fundamental scaling bottleneck: the number of visual tokens grows with both temporal duration and spatial resolution, m...
By Yulong Liu, Xiaotian Han, Junyuan Shang, Yuchen Ding, Zhenyu Zhang, Shuohuan Wang, Guibo Zhu, Sirui Han, Dianhai Yu
arXiv:2609.40079v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: While recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown promise in affective computing, their reasoning capabilities are largely confined to...
By Shuo Zhang, Yifan Zhou, Han Wang, Jinsong Zhang, Jingyu Li, Hongbing Li, Zhejun Zhang, Chengyi Zhao, Yuquan Hao, Yitong Liu, Jiyin Li, Ruiqi Tang, Zixuan Lin, Yi Luo, Xurui Zhang, Ronghao Chen, Huacan Wang, Lei Li
arXiv:2605.08693v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Skills provide an effective mechanism for improving LLM agents on complex tasks, yet in existing agent frameworks, their creation, refinement, and...
By Min Yang, Jinghua Piao, Xu Xia, Xiaochong Lan, Jiaju Chen, Yongshun Gong, Yong Li
arXiv:2605.25893v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Despite the emergence of diffusion large language models (D-LLMs) as an alternative to autoregressive large language models (AR-LLMs), safety monit...
By Aoxi Liu, Yupeng Chen, James Oldfield, Guanzhe Hong, Junchi Yu, Baoyuan Wu, Philip Torr, Adel Bibi
arXiv:2609.35356v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Supervised fine-tuning can teach language models undesired behaviours alongside desired ones. Inoculation prompting (IP) aims to limit unwanted gen...
By Kajetan Dymkiewicz, Tim Farrelly, Adam Prada, Ishaan Panigrahi, Srishti Gureja, Helen Yannakoudakis, Robert Mullins, Victor Gillioz, Daniel Tan, Maxime Rich\'e
arXiv:2609.35618v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The question of AI consciousness is one of the most urgent pre-emptive problems in philosophy and computer science, yet progress is hampered by a c...
By Shamil Chandaria, Arvo Mu\~noz Mor\'an, Fernando Rosas, Anil Seth, Henry Shevlin, Marcus Hutter, Thore Graepel, Adam Bales, Iulia Comsa, Murray Shanahan, Ruben Laukkonen, Morten Kringelbach, Chris Frith, Shane Legg
arXiv:2509.23235v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Model inversion is a widely adopted technique in data-free learning that reconstructs synthetic inputs from a pretrained model through iterat...
By Seongsoo Heo, Dong-Wan Choi
arXiv:2511.22232v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly capable in medical imaging, yet most focus on single-image settings. Clinical inter...
By Zhen Chen, Yihang Fu, Rong Zhou, Serina Applebaum, Min Kyu Kim, Aidan Gilson, Morten Lee, Salahudeen Mirza, Gabriel Madera, Mauro Giuffre, Yuanting Pan, Roy Jiang, Hyunjae Kim, Hua Xu, Qingyu Chen
arXiv:2603.06350v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly adopt Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures to scale efficiently under stringent resource constrai...
By Hanfei Yu, Bei Ouyang, Shwai He, Ang Li, Hao Wang
arXiv:2604.09531v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) still struggle with visual perception tasks such as spatial understanding and viewpoint recognition, largely be...
By Guanyu Zhou, Yida Yin, Wenhao Chai, Shengbang Tong, Xingyu Fu, Zhuang Liu
arXiv:2609.38222v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) can ground large language models in external evidence, but retrieved context does not guarantee that generated cla...
By Muhammad Aimal Rehman, Chi-Kuang Yeh
arXiv:2609.40295v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Web text makes up the majority of pretraining data and is increasingly AI-generated. After applying FineWeb quality filtering, we find that 27.5% of to...
By Jenna Russell, Ben Glickenhaus, Katherine Thai, John Wieting, Mohit Iyyer, Max Spero, Bradley Emi
arXiv:2609.40103v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as automated judges for AI-generated content, yet a single judge is unreliable and even a panel...
By Mufeng Yang, Junwei Yu, Yepeng Ding
arXiv:2609.38232v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Streaming spoken agents may take an external action before the available speech supports it, yet final-turn scores do not reveal whether each observe...
By Mengzhe Geng
arXiv:2609.38325v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce modal kinetic typography, which animates a vector glyph to express a semantic concept while keeping it legible. Our key idea is to build m...
By Maham Tanveer, Jiyeon Han, Nanxuan Zhao, Hao Zhang