arXiv:2608. 06111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Positional embeddings (PE) in Transformers encode token distance and order but are largely agnostic to \textit{syntactic structure}.
By Haris Riaz, Hyungji Kim, Mihai Surdeanu
arXiv:2608. 06115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting how a population will answer a new question is a long-standing goal.
By Pranav Dahiya
arXiv:2608. 06301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLMs are increasingly deployed within agentic systems, their capabilities depend not only on the model weights but also on the harness: the prompts, tools, control flow, memory, and orchestration code surrounding them.
By Varun Ursekar, Apaar Shanker, Yash Maurya, Shehab Yasser, Vijay S. Kalmath, Veronica Chatrath, Yuan Xue
arXiv:2608. 03228v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing low rank KV cache methods preserve either model weights or key variance, neither of which directly reflects the attention scores used during inference.
By Lin Zhang
arXiv:2608. 05228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The "decompose-then-verify" paradigm for LLM factuality evaluation faces a fundamental trade-off: atomic facts, i.
By Jin Liu, Steffen Thoma, Achim Rettinger
arXiv:2605. 20247v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Catastrophic forgetting remains a major obstacle to continual learning in large language models (LLMs) and vision--language models (VLMs).
By Yang Liu, Toan Nguyen, Flora D. Salim
arXiv:2608. 05732v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Controlling the behavior of large language models (LLMs) remains a critical challenge for AI alignment.
By Mehrshad Saadatinia, Parsa Razmara, Ardalan Aryashad, Ali Abbasi, Seyedarmin Azizi
arXiv:2608. 05729v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As capabilities rapidly increase, AI agents can move from running inside one app to acting across a user's devices over time.
By Xinshuang Liu, Runfa Blark Li, Shaoxiu Wei, Xin Lin, Truong Nguyen
arXiv:2608. 05472v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-head attention combines an input-dependent softmax routing with an input-independent linear value projection, so the per-sample operator mapping aggregated values to outputs is the same for every input set.
By Zhen Zhang, Amr Alanwar
arXiv:2608. 05157v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Double blind peer review serves as the scientific community primary defense against status and affiliation bias.
By Bulambo Mwendelwa Gloire, Prasenjit Mitra
arXiv:2608. 05705v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning is a new way for machinery fault diagnosis but requires extensive labeled data, a scarce resource in industrial settings.
By Victor Gialis, Maxime Metz, David Esteve, Abdenour Soualhi
arXiv:2608. 05172v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The task-based framework in economics models occupations as bundles of tasks.
By Stephane Hatgis-Kessell, Tom\'as Aguirre, Alexander Wan, Rishi Bommasani
arXiv:2608. 05604v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly act as agents whose procedural knowledge is stored in reusable skill packages and loaded at inference time.
By Xingyu Tan, Xiaoyang Wang, Qing Liu, Xiwei Xu, Xin Yuan, Liming Zhu, Wenjie Zhang
arXiv:2608. 05668v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With increasingly diverse and heterogeneous information sources, effectively leveraging multimodal data is becoming pivotal for high-quality financial trading.
By Changshuo Liu, Yanzheng Jin, Shangfeng Cai, Peng Fang, Xiaokui Xiao, Beng Chin Ooi
arXiv:2608. 02616v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present what is, to our knowledge, the first systematic evaluation of OpenAI's Privacy Filter (OPF), a 1.
By Rohith Uppala
arXiv:2608. 05266v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents are increasingly being developed to control a wide range of scientific characterization tools including microscopes and synchrotron beamlines.
By Nathan S Johnson, Ian Abshire
arXiv:2608. 00641v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Bayesian optimization (BO) relies on a surrogate model and an acquisition function, yet the most suitable choices vary across tasks and optimization stages.
By Changquan Zhao, Yuxiang Sun, Ruihao Zhu, Cheng Hua, Yulian He
arXiv:2605. 04970v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern LLMs show mastery over an ever-growing range of skills, as well as the ability to compose them flexibly.
By Antonin Berthon, Nicolas Astorga, Mihaela van der Schaar
arXiv:2608. 06246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training adaptation has become central to modern machine learning practice and includes techniques such as retraining, fine-tuning, parameter-efficient adaptation, alignment, retrieval augmentation, model editing, unlearning, calibration, and Multimodal Instruction Tuning.
By Fardin Afdideh, Fernando Seoane, Farhad Abtahi
arXiv:2608. 05375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical machine learning (ML) has the potential to support high-stakes medical decision-making, but reliable deployment is often constrained by scarce, heterogeneous, and temporal complexity.
By Ruilin Wang, Bo-Hong Wang, Elizabeth Kourbatski, Jun Bai, Hegang Chen, Ziyang Song, Gilles Boire, Marie Hudson, Yue Li