arXiv:2606. 31599v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) combining reinforcement learning (RL) ignite remarkable progress in multimodal reasoning, yet still struggle with medical images, which typically exhibit extremely sparse visual evidence to inform clinical decision-making.
By Kaitao Chen, Weiqian Zhao, Jiamin Wu, Qihao Zheng, Shangquan Sun, Chunfeng Song, Xiaosong Wang, Mu Zhou, Mianxin Liu
arXiv:2606. 31984v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial recommendation systems serve billions of users through a multi-stage funnel -- retrieval, early-stage ranking, and re-ranking -- where the final re-ranking step disproportionately shapes user engagement and downstream performance, particularly for carousel and grid display formats.
By Yufei Li (Yongkang), Zaiwei Zhang (Yongkang), Mingfu Liang (Yongkang), Kavosh Asadi (Yongkang), Jay Xu (Yongkang), Jimmy Kim (Yongkang), Chongyang Bai (Yongkang), Jieyi Zhang (Yongkang), Hongye Xie (Yongkang), Prachi Agrawal (Yongkang), Dian Yu (Yongkang), Tianyi Chen (Yongkang), Jean-Pascal Billaud (Yongkang), Garret Buell (Yongkang), YK (Yongkang), Zhu (Yang), Sachin Patil (Yang), Brooke Bian (Yang), Zhou Fang (Yang), Kevin Huang (Yang), Shiva Sudanagunta (Yang), Yuzhen Huang (Yang), Emma Lu (Yang), Chris O'Brien (Yang), Yang Song (Yang), Lihong Li (Yang), Jacob Tao (Yang), Zhicheng Zhu (Yang), Chao Li (Yang), Gaoxiang Liu (Yang), Neil Wu (Yang), Zhongyin Hu (Yang), Li Han (Yang), Loki Chen (Yang), Ming Lei (Yang), Greg Rehm (Yang), Siyuan Song (Yang), Tianwei Zhang (Yang), Li Li (Yang), Ketan Singh (Yang), Yavuz Yetim (Yang), Ilyas Atishev (Yang), Satendra Gera (Yang), Ashkan Sadeghi (Yang), Rachel Yan (Yang), Nikko Mizutani (Yang), Shuaiwen Wang (Yang), Song Yang (Yang), Zhijing Li (Yang), Jiang Liu (Yang), Mengying Sun (Yang), Fei Tian (Yang), Xiaohan Wei (Yang), Chonglin Sun (Yang), Parish Aggarwal (Yang), Kaushik Rangadurai (Yang), Zhi Hua (Yang), Frank Shyu (Yang), Ruchit Sharma (Yang), Liyuan Li (Yang), Shike Mei (Yang), Wenlin Chen (Yang), Santanu Kolay (Yang), Ben Schulte (Yang), Deepak Chandra (Yang), Adam (Yang), Song, Sandeep Pandey, Xi Liu, Hamed Firooz, Luke Simon
arXiv:2606. 30704v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) excel across a wide range of tasks, yet their instance-specific solutions often lack the structural consistency needed for reliable deployment.
By Gan Luo, Zihan Qin, Bin Dong, Wotao Yin
arXiv:2606. 31745v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Remote sensing change detection (CD) traditionally focuses on pixel-level binary segmentation, which identifies where changes occur but neither what nor why.
By Ziyuan Liu, Ruifei Zhu, Ouqiao Ma, Yuantao Gu
arXiv:2606. 30656v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to be transformative for development, but Africa is currently facing a fragmented and challenging "AI divide".
By Abayomi O. Agbeyangi, Jose M. Lukose
arXiv:2606. 31800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite recent progress, the reasoning capabilities of large multimodal language models (MLLMs) remain fundamentally constrained by static supervision, where fixed prompts, rules, or reward models provide non-adaptive guidance throughout training.
By Xianda Zheng, Huan Gao, Meng-Fen Chiang, Michael Witbrock, Kaiqi Zhao, Shangyang Li
arXiv:2606. 31325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present HistoriQA-ThirdRepublic: a French-language dataset of multi-hop historical questions derived from parliamentary debates and newspapers of the French Third Republic.
By Aur\'elien Pellet (LRE), Julien Perez (EPITA, LRE), Marie Puren (LRE, CJM)
arXiv:2606. 32012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Uncertainty estimation has been a long-standing challenge in AI models; it amounts to "knowing what you don't know," and metacognition is notoriously difficult even for humans (cf.
By Sanghyuk Chun, William Yang, Amaya Dharmasiri, Olga Russakovsky
arXiv:2603. 05353v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for long-context question answering is bottlenecked by inference-time prefilling over large retrieved contexts.
By Xin Teng, Canyu Zhang, Shaoyi Zheng, Danyang Zhuo, Tianyi Zhou, Shenji Wan
arXiv:2606. 31564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing complexity of agentic tasks has led to rapidly growing trajectory lengths, which poses significant challenges for large language model (LLM) based agents with fixed context windows.
By Ning Liao, Zihao Long, Xiaoxing Wang, Xue Yang, Yaoming Wang, Ziyuan Zhuang, Xunliang Cai, Rongxiang Weng, Junchi Yan
arXiv:2606. 30887v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models show promise for mental health support, yet therapeutic quality improves only when evaluation functions as an actionable control signal rather than a passive metric.
By Mizanur Rahman, Abeer Badawi, Elahe Rahimi, Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari, Frank Rudzicz, Enamul Hoque, Elham Dolatabadi
arXiv:2606. 23375v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While the wider applicability of LLMs in the legal field is currently debated due to their reliability and the gravity of any errors, narrow uses with well-understood and mitigated risks have emerged.
By Arthur Wuhrmann, Gaetan Stein, Daniel Brunner, Andrei Kucharavy
arXiv:2606. 31171v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Acquiring comprehensive cross-domain biomedical profiles is often costly and time-consuming, resulting in severe data scarcity in medical research.
By Mengying Zhou, Yongjie Yin, Haoyan Xin, Guoping Liu, Yang Chen
arXiv:2602. 15029v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The internal representations learned by language models consistently exhibit striking geometric structure: calendar months organize into a circle, historical years form a smooth one-dimensional manifold, and cities' latitudes and longitudes can be decoded using a linear probe.
By Dhruva Karkada, Daniel J. Korchinski, Andres Nava, Matthieu Wyart, Yasaman Bahri
arXiv:2502. 15637v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While foundation models have revolutionized various domains, their application to time series classification remains rather under-explored, with existing literature predominantly focused on forecasting.
By Vasilii Feofanov, Songkang Wen, Shifeng Xie, Simon Roschmann, Marius Alonso, Hongbo Guo, Romain Ilbert, Malik Tiomoko, Quentin Bouniot, Zeynep Akata, Lujia Pan, Jianfeng Zhang, Ievgen Redko
arXiv:2606. 30682v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in language--audio retrieval have been largely driven by contrastive dual-encoder architectures that align audio and text in a shared embedding space.
By Fengjie Lu, Chenang Jiang, Jiarui Hai, Helin Wang, Aaron Yee
arXiv:2511. 17442v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Foundation Models (FMs) are increasingly integrated into remote sensing (RS) pipelines.
By Binger Chen, Tacettin Emre B\"ok, Behnood Rasti, Volker Markl, Beg\"um Demir
arXiv:2606. 31825v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent multimodal large language models have shown great promise in clinical image reasoning, but existing post-training pipelines remain predominantly outcome-centric, relying on final answer correctness or sequence-level preferences.
By Junha Jung, Minbyul Jeong, Suhyeon Lim, Sungwook Jung, Jaehoon Yun, Taeyun Roh, Mujeen Sung, Jaewoo Kang
arXiv:2512. 10359v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video Question Answering (VideoQA) task serves as a critical playground for evaluating whether foundation models can effectively perceive, understand, and reason about dynamic real-world scenarios.
By Sunqi Fan, Jiashuo Cui, Meng-Hao Guo, Shuojin Yang
arXiv:2606. 30294v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Live product demonstrations are a recurring, high-cost activity in software organizations: a human presenter must select features, dispatch the corresponding interactions on a running application, narrate them coherently, and answer questions in real time.
By Rahul Khedar, Mayank Malhotra, Avinash Karn, Mouli V, Prakhar Mehrotra