arXiv:2608. 09519v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a reproducibility study of XFeat, a lightweight local feature extractor and matcher designed to identify corresponding points across images efficiently on resource-constrained hardware.
By Lazar {\DJ}okovi\'c, Aimee Lin
arXiv:2608. 07581v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Group-based reinforcement learning methods for multimodal large language models typically rely on trajectory-level credit assignment that applies a single advantage to all tokens in a response.
By Shuai Lyu, Yuning Gong, Ruiling Gao, Xiaoran Shang, Zhonghong Ou, Ping Zong, Yifan Zhu, Yuan Sun, Yang Qin, Peng Hu
arXiv:2608. 09104v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scanning probe microscopy provides nanoscale access to structural, electrical, electromechanical, magnetic, and mechanical properties of materials.
By Aditya Raghavan, Yu Liu, Ian Mercer, JP Maria, Sergei Kalinin
arXiv:2608. 09880v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Financial prediction typically relies on task-specific regression, ranking, or policy heads, separating the language model from the numerical object ultimately evaluated.
By Xu Ouyang, Moontae Lee
arXiv:2608. 09266v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical world models commonly learn from multimodal recordings synchronized onto a fixed-rate grid.
By Yarin Udi, Tom Sharon-Shahak, Roee Masad, Dan Pri-Tal
arXiv:2512. 08462v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Decoding brain states from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data is vital for advancing neuroscience and clinical applications.
By Danial Jafarzadeh Jazi, Maryam Hajiesmaeili
arXiv:2608. 09572v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hyperbolic geometry has recently emerged as a powerful representation space for multimodal learning, as it naturally captures hierarchical semantic structure across modalities.
By Jiahong Liu, Ming Shen, Xiaohao Liu, Rex Ying, Menglin Yang, Tat-Seng Chua, Irwin King
arXiv:2608. 09288v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio-visual speech enhancement under real-world conditions remains challenging due to unreliable visual inputs and the lack of large-scale training data with realistic acoustic conditions.
By Wei Zhou, Wanyi Ning, Yinshang Guo, Qianxiao Fang, Haitao Qian, Yingpeng Li
arXiv:2608. 08307v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires aligning subtle visual evidence, including lesion texture, boundary sharpness, and diffuse density changes, with clinical language.
By Yusra Tariq, Rakesh Chandra Joshi
arXiv:2608. 08469v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing streaming multimodal models process observations incrementally but still follow a turn-based prefill-then-decode pattern, making them non-duplex: new observations cannot naturally enter an active generation stream.
By Kaichen Zhang, Wei Huang, Keming Wu, Bo Li, Xiaojuan Qi
arXiv:2608. 09100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Millions of chemical structures appear in patents and papers only as drawings, and using that information at scale requires reading the drawings.
By Yani Guan, Dengpan Dong, Zi Wei, Shuang Luo, Dan Hannah, Yumin Zhang, Kang Xu
arXiv:2608. 07533v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An embodied agent is an intelligent entity that interacts with its environment through a physical body.
By Gengyang Xu, Dongwei Xiao, Yiteng Peng, Shuai Wang
arXiv:2608. 07917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chinese historical documents preserve valuable cultural heritage, but many collections remain accessible only as scanned page images, preventing full-text retrieval, collation, and computational analysis.
By Zhongheng Zhou, Yi Sun, Huiguo He, Yuyi Zhang, Peirong Zhang, Yulin Fang, Dezhi Peng, Minghui Liao, Lianwen Jin
arXiv:2511. 05550v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large audio language models (LALMs) leverage multimodal representations to generate open-ended answers to natural language queries about audio.
By Daniel Chenyu Lin, Michael Freeman, John Thickstun
arXiv:2604. 08005v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Advancements in multimodal foundation models have enabled the development of Computer Use Agents (CUAs) capable of autonomously interacting with GUI environments.
By Dominik Seip, Matthias Hein
arXiv:2608. 09830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Body-focused repetitive behaviors, such as hair pulling and skin picking, are compulsive motor actions commonly associated with obsessive-compulsive and anxiety disorders.
By Samaneh Rezaeimanesh, Mohsen Behradfar, Mohammad Fili, Guiping Hu
arXiv:2608. 08926v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neuroimaging and genetic testing are two important clinical references for nervous system diseases, offering complementary diagnostic information.
By Tianli Tao, Ziyang Wang, Emma Robinson, Rachel Sparks, Le Zhang
arXiv:2608. 08612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recently, retrieval-augmented and memory-augmented methods have emerged as two promising paradigms for long-video question answering.
By Caijun Yan, Yang Zhou, Meixing Shi, Haoran Sun, Yichen Li, Yuxiang Cai, Yankai Jiang
arXiv:2608. 08896v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imaging device downtime is a major barrier to healthcare delivery in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), often driven by limited access to specialized biomedical engineering support.
By Bernes Lorier Atabonfack, Zion Kongbi Nfo, Ahmed Tahiru Issah, Tolulope Olusuyi, Clemence Ingabire, Mohammed Hardi Abdul Baaki, Mawuli Deku, Abdulrazaq Zubair, Alyasaa Anas, Raymond Confidence, Maruf Adewole, Udunna C. Anazodo
arXiv:2608. 08709v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The reliability of AI generative models is typically measured by output correctness, yet in practice it depends on the effort required to verify those outputs.
By Viviana Crescitelli, Generoso Immediato, Fabio Persia, Stefania Costantini