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arXiv AI

Jun 8

Zero-Shot Embedding Drift Detection: A Lightweight Defense Against Prompt Injections in LLMs

arXiv:2601. 12359v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prompt injection attacks have become an increasing vulnerability for LLM applications, where adversarial prompts exploit indirect input channels such as emails or user-generated content to circumvent alignment safeguards and induce harmful or unintended outputs.

By Anirudh Sekar, Mrinal Agarwal, Rachel Sharma, Akitsugu Tanaka, Jasmine Zhang, Arjun Damerla, Kevin Zhu

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arXiv AI

Jun 8

IRAF: Interference-Resilient Adaptive Fusion for Noise-Robust End-to-End Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Systems

arXiv:2606. 06559v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Full-duplex spoken dialogue models allow voice agents to listen and speak concurrently, enabling natural interaction with real-time overlap.

By Tao Zhong, Jiajun Deng, Nikita Kuzmin, Yinke Zhu, Tianxiang Cao, Tristan Tsoi, Zhili Tan, Simon Lui, Xunying Liu

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arXiv AI

Jun 8

Understanding Generative Recommendation with Semantic IDs from a Model-scaling View

arXiv:2509. 25522v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advancements in generative models have allowed the emergence of a promising paradigm for recommender systems (RS), known as Generative Recommendation (GR), which tries to unify rich item semantics and collaborative filtering signals.

By Jingzhe Liu, Liam Collins, Jiliang Tang, Tong Zhao, Neil Shah, Clark Mingxuan Ju

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arXiv AI

Jun 8

$\mathrm{ECI}_{\mathrm{sem}}$: Semantic Residual Effective Contrastive Information for Evaluating Hard Negatives

arXiv:2603. 20990v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Hard-negative source selection for dense retrieval is usually decided only after fine-tuning and downstream evaluation.

By Aarush Sinha, Rahul Seetharaman, Aman Bansal

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arXiv AI

Jun 8

DyCon: Dynamic Reasoning Control via Evolving Difficulty Modeling

arXiv:2606. 07108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) demonstrate remarkable performance improvements by iteratively reflecting, exploring, and executing complex tasks, yet suffer from inefficiencies due to redundant reasoning, known as "overthinking".

By Tengyao Tu, Yulin Li, Hui-Ling Zhen, Libo Qin, Zhoujun Wei, Jinghua Piao, Zhuotao Tian, Yong Li, Min Zhang

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 8

ADAGE: Active Defenses Against GNN Extraction

arXiv:2503. 00065v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) achieve high performance in various real-world applications, such as drug discovery, traffic states prediction, and recommendation systems.

By Jing Xu, Franziska Boenisch, Adam Dziedzic

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 8

Enhancing Conformal Prediction via Class Similarity

arXiv:2511. 19359v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Conformal Prediction (CP) has emerged as a powerful statistical framework for high-stakes classification applications.

By Ariel Fargion, Lahav Dabah, Tom Tirer

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arXiv AI

Jun 8

CHDP: Cooperative Hybrid Diffusion Policies for Reinforcement Learning in Parameterized Action Space

arXiv:2601. 05675v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Hybrid action space, which combines discrete choices and continuous parameters, is prevalent in domains such as robot control and game AI.

By Bingyi Liu, Jinbo He, Haiyong Shi, Enshu Wang, Weizhen Han, Jingxiang Hao, Peixi Wang, Zhuangzhuang Zhang

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arXiv AI

Jun 8

MCERF: Advancing Multimodal LLM Evaluation of Engineering Documentation with Enhanced Retrieval

arXiv:2604. 09552v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Engineering rulebooks and technical standards contain multimodal information like dense text, tables, and illustrations that are challenging for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems.

By Kiarash Naghavi Khanghah, Hoang Anh Nguyen, Anna C. Doris, Amir Mohammad Vahedi, Daniele Grandi, Faez Ahmed, Hongyi Xu

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 8

TargetSEC: Plug-and-Play In-the-Wild Speech Emotion Conversion via Arousal-Conditioned Latent Style Diffusion

arXiv:2606. 07293v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech Emotion Conversion (SEC) aims to transform the emotion of a source utterance into a target emotion while preserving content and speaker identity.

By Constantin Alexander Auga

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 8

Advanced Flood Prediction with Physics-Guided Deep Learning: Combining UNet, FNO, and SAR/Optical Imagery

arXiv:2606. 06524v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate and scalable flood mapping remains challenging due to limited ground observations, heterogeneous terrain conditions, and the difficulty of enforcing hydrodynamic consistency within data-driven models.

By Tewodros Syum Gebre, Jagrati Talreja, Leila Hashemi-Beni

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 8

LRMIL: Efficient Low-Resolution Multiple Instance Learning via High-Resolution Knowledge Distillation for Whole Slide Image Classification

arXiv:2606. 06864v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multiple instance learning (MIL) has become a standard paradigm for whole slide image (WSI) analysis in digital pathology, as it enables slide-level prediction without dense annotations.

By Yonghan Shin, Won-Ki Jeong

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arXiv AI

Jun 8

Didact: A Cross-Domain Capability Discovery System for Defence

arXiv:2606. 06942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Policymakers in defence and defence-aligned sectors must monitor rapidly evolving research alongside sector priorities relevant to operational and strategic needs.

By Aarya Bodhankar, Aditya Joshi, Bao Gia Doan, Thomas Marchant, Oscar Leslie, Flora Salim

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arXiv AI

Jun 8

TokaMind: A Multi-Modal Transformer Foundation Model for Tokamak Plasma Dynamics

arXiv:2602. 15084v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present TokaMind, to our knowledge the first open-source foundation model for tokamak plasma dynamics, based on a Multi-Modal Transformer (MMT) and pretrained on heterogeneous diagnostics from the publicly available MAST dataset.

By Tobia Boschi, Andrea Loreti, Nicola C. Amorisco, Rodrigo H. Ordonez-Hurtado, C\'ecile Rousseau, George K. Holt, Eszter Sz\'ekely, Alexander Whittle, Samuel Jackson, Adriano Agnello, Stanislas Pamela, Alessandra Pascale, Robert Akers, Juan Bernabe Moreno, Vassil Alexandrov, Mykhaylo Zayats

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arXiv AI

Jun 8

Modality Gap-Driven Subspace Alignment Training Paradigm For Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2602. 07026v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite the success of multimodal contrastive learning in aligning visual and linguistic representations, a persistent geometric anomaly, the Modality Gap, remains: embeddings of distinct modalities expressing identical semantics occupy systematically offset regions.

By Xiaomin Yu, Yi Xin, Yuhui Zhang, Wenjie Zhang, Chonghan Liu, Hanzhen Zhao, Chen Liu, Xiaoxing Hu, Ziyue Qiao, Hao Tang, Xiaobin Hu, Chengwei Qin, Hui Xiong, Yu Qiao, Shuicheng Yan

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arXiv AI

Jun 8

MoDA: Modulation Adapter for Fine-Grained Visual Grounding in Instructional MLLMs

arXiv:2506. 01850v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable success in instruction-following tasks by integrating pretrained visual encoders with large language models (LLMs).

By Wayner Barrios, Andr\'es Villa, Juan Le\'on Alc\'azar, SouYoung Jin, Bernard Ghanem

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arXiv AI

Jun 8

LuMamba: Latent Unified Mamba for Electrode Topology-Invariant and Efficient EEG Modeling

arXiv:2603. 19100v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) enables non-invasive monitoring of brain activity across clinical and neurotechnology applications, yet building foundation models for EEG remains challenging due to differing electrode topologies and computational scalability, as Transformer architectures incur quadratic sequence complexity.

By Dana\'e Broustail, Anna Tegon, Thorir Mar Ingolfsson, Yawei Li, Luca Benini

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arXiv AI

Jun 8

TEVI: Text-Conditioned Editing of Visual Representations via Sparse Autoencoders for Improved Vision-Language Alignment

arXiv:2606. 07451v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models such as CLIP are highly useful for diverse tasks due to their shared image-text embedding space.

By Sweta Mahajan, Sukrut Rao, Jiahao Xie, Alexander Koller, Bernt Schiele

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arXiv AI

Jun 8

VALUEFLOW: Toward Pluralistic and Steerable Value-based Alignment in Large Language Models

arXiv:2602. 03160v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with the diverse spectrum of human values remains a central challenge: preference-based methods often fail to capture deeper motivational principles.

By Woojin Kim, Sieun Hyeon, Jusang Oh, Jaeyoung Do

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arXiv AI

Jun 8

A Temporal Spatial Minimax Rate for Smoothly-Varying Distributions in Wasserstein Space

arXiv:2606. 07325v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the minimax rate of estimating a future value $\mu_{t_n+h}$ of a curve $t\mapsto\mu_t$ in the $2$-Wasserstein space $\mathcal{P}_2(\mathbb{R}^d)$ from finitely many noisy snapshots of its past, under an adiabatic bound $\|\nabla_t^k v\|\le\varepsilon$ on the $k$-th covariant derivative of the velocity field.

By Munsik Kim

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