arXiv:2607. 21137v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Independent sidewalk mobility is essential for blind and visually impaired pedestrians (BVIPs), yet smartphone-based assistive navigation requires perception models that distinguish walkable sidewalks from adjacent unsafe regions.
By Hakan Calim, Anamaria Dumitrescu, Adarsh Bhandary Panambur, Huzaifa Asif, Andreas Maier
arXiv:2607. 20596v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse autoencoder (SAE) features are used to interpret and steer large language models, yet whether a feature's causal role is stable across SAE families remains untested.
By Seonglae Cho, Zekun Wu, Kleyton Da Costa, Rishi Kalra, Ilham Wicaksono, Adriano Koshiyama
arXiv:2607. 20587v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern power systems increasingly require probabilistic forecasts amid interacting uncertainties from renewable intermittency, flexible demand, market volatility, and weather-dependent generation.
By Hang Ye, Xinyan Jiang, Yuedong Shi, Yangxin Zhu, Jianming Wei, Tian Zheng, Xiaoying Zheng, Yongxin Zhu
arXiv:2607. 20505v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Surrogate safety measures (SSMs) enable proactive traffic safety assessment, but many existing methods evaluate pairwise interactions independently or flatten multi-agent scenes into fixed feature vectors, limiting their ability to represent heterogeneous interaction structure and evolving scene-level risk.
By Md Monzurul Islam, Subasish Das
arXiv:2607. 20730v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models increasingly use search tools to retrieve up-to-date information, introducing a new attack surface in which retrieved documents can be manipulated.
By Zhaoqi Wang, Zijian Zhang, Xiaomei Yuan, Pengtao Kou, Jiamou Liu, Zhen Li, Liehuang Zhu
arXiv:2607. 20694v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personal and organizational planning systems maintain two records that drift apart: what was planned (a task's effort budget) and what was done (a logged action's duration and description).
By Salavat Ishbulatov
arXiv:2607. 20558v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI Assistants are increasingly deployed in high-stakes settings, such as healthcare or government services.
By Emma Kondrup, Zachary Yang, Anne Imouza, Reihaneh Rabbany
arXiv:2607. 21173v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While automated research systems promise to accelerate empirical analysis, they are prone to silent failures: instances in which analysis code executes successfully yet relies on invalid causal assumptions.
By Irena Girshovitz, Dan Zeltzer, Ran Gilad-Bachrach
arXiv:2607. 21069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The original ALPHA benchmark introduced a taxonomy-aware penalty for evaluating CWE-level vulnerability prediction in Python and proposed that the penalty could theoretically also serve as a training signal.
By Muntasir Adnan, Manile Srun, Carlos C. N. Kuhn
arXiv:2607. 20914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) enables communication-efficient adaptation of large pretrained models on decentralized edge data, but it remains fragile under non-IID client heterogeneity.
By Shiva Raj Pokhrel, Dipsan Bhattarai, Anwar Walid
arXiv:2607. 20778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Weather forecasting foundation models (FMs) are increasingly fine-tuned to predict air quality, offering fast global pollution forecasts at lower computational cost than conventional chemical transport models.
By Jason Y. Hu, Ivan Higuera-Mendieta, Patrick Obin Sturm, Makoto M. Kelp
arXiv:2607. 20737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph Neural Networks trained on heterogenous bipartite graphs form a common basis in recommendation systems.
By Parul Maheshwari, Amulya Paruchuri, Yiqing Zou, Alireza Sahami Shirazi, Farhad Farahani, Prakhar Mehrotra
arXiv:2607. 20517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over heterogeneous PDF collections remains challenging due to multimodal content, domain-specific terminology, and the need for multi-hop reasoning across dispersed evidence.
By Takato Yasuno
arXiv:2607. 09328v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Answering complex questions over long documents frequently requires integrating evidence that the source itself disperses naturally across distant passages.
By Zixin Chen, Peng Liu, Haobo Li, Rui Sheng, Jianhong Tu, Xiaodong Deng, Fei Huang, Kashun Shum, Dayiheng Liu, Huamin Qu
arXiv:2605. 09504v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present swarm-attack, an open-source adversarial testing framework in which multiple lightweight LLM agents coordinate through shared memory, parallel exploration, and evolutionary optimization.
By Michael A. Riegler, Inga Str\"umke
arXiv:2604. 11666v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) become the engine behind conversational systems, their ability to reason about the intentions and states of their dialogue partners (i.
By Hanqi Xiao, Vaidehi Patil, Zaid Khan, Hyunji Lee, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Mohit Bansal
arXiv:2607. 20547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe Advanced Air Mobility operations require aircraft to maintain separation when surveillance information is noisy, delayed, incomplete, or temporarily unavailable.
By Esrat Farhana Dulia, Syed Arbab Mohd Shihab, Caleb Adams, Ruben Del Rosario
arXiv:2601. 21284v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative tools for modeling complex data distributions, yet their purely data-driven nature limits applicability in engineering and scientific problems where physical laws must be respected.
By Tianyi Zeng, Tianyi Wang, Jiaru Zhang, Zimo Zeng, Feiyang Zhang, Yiming Xu, Sikai Chen, Junfeng Jiao, Christian Claudel, Xinbo Chen
arXiv:2601. 17647v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Quantifying the causal relationship between sea ice thickness and sea surface height (SSH) is essential for understanding the mechanisms driving polar climate dynamics.
By Akila Sampath, Vandana Janeja, Jianwu Wang
arXiv:2601. 07556v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Electroencephalogram (EEG)-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) face significant deployment challenges due to inter-subject variability, signal non-stationarity, and computational constraints.
By Siyang Li, Jiayi Ouyang, Zhenyao Cui, Ziwei Wang, Tianwang Jia, Feng Wan, Dongrui Wu