arXiv:2609.00411v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Modern face recognition (FR) owes much of its success to deep neural networks that learn to extract compact identity embeddings from face images. These...
By Fizza Rubab, Yiying Tong, Arun Ross
arXiv:2502.03726v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models are capable of generating high-quality images, but suboptimal pre-trained text representations often result in these...
By Zhenyu Zhou, Defang Chen, Can Wang, Chun Chen, Siwei Lyu
arXiv:2605.28456v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Existing Visual Speech Recognition (VSR) systems commonly rely on left-to-right autoregressive decoding, which can force premature decisions on vis...
By Jeong Hun Yeo, Chae Won Kim, Hyeongseop Rha, Yong Man Ro
arXiv:2505.12781v5 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Training high-performing Small Language Models (SLMs) remains costly, even with knowledge distillation and pruning from larger teacher models...
By Jitai Hao, Qiang Huang, Hao Liu, Xinyan Xiao, Zhaochun Ren, Jun Yu
arXiv:2601.01972v5 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: State space models (SSMs) like Mamba offer efficient alternatives to Transformer-based language models, with linear time complexity. Yet, the...
By Alexandre Le Mercier, Chris Develder, Thomas Demeester
arXiv:2609.00361v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Toxic language in digital workplaces such as pejoratives, sarcasm, condescension, and subtle incivility can erode trust, morale, and collaboration. E...
By Hossein Arshadi Soufiani, Henry M. Kim, Hjalmar Turesson, Syed Mohammad Arham Noman, Anav Setia
arXiv:2508.04698v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: LLM-powered conversational assistants are often deployed in a one-size-fits-all manner, which fails to accommodate individual user preferences. Rec...
By Thibaut Thonet, Germ\'an Kruszewski, Jos Rozen, Pierre Erbacher, Marc Dymetman
arXiv:2609.00189v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Goal-directed optimization is essential for steering molecular generators to propose candidates with desired properties. However, it is often implement...
By Shiyun Wa, Yifei Wang, Anna G. Green, Simone Sciabola, Ye Wang
arXiv:2609.00518v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Antibody-specific language models pretrained via masked language modeling (MLM) learn representations that are critical for downstream sequence design...
By Ayan Goel, Thomas A. Walton, Amirali Aghazadeh
arXiv:2609.01343v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Looped Transformers increase effective depth by iterating a shared block of layers, but most evaluations compare at fixed model size, conflating archit...
By Shaowen Wang, Ge Zhang, Kairong Luo, Yuhao Wu, Shaofan Liu, Jiaheng Liu, Wenhao Huang, Shen Yan, Jian Li
arXiv:2609.01129v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We identify a recurrent algebraic regularity in Transformer attention: a sparse subset of effective OV operators $T=OV^\top$ nearly closes under compos...
By Jiming Feng, Junliang Li
arXiv:2609.00002v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: World models enable language-model agents to predict environment dynamics and plan before acting. In text environments, the model must learn symbolic a...
By Yun-Jian Zhang, Chen-Wei Liang, Tian-Yi Zhang, Jian Ding, Yi-Lun Wu, Ao-Bo Li, Wei-Cong Su, Saifullah, Hong-Yu An, Mu-Jiang-Shan Wang
arXiv:2609.00015v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: AI agents powered by large language models are evolving from isolated assistants into heterogeneous systems in which multiple agents, planners, control...
By Dongsheng Chen, Xiangyu Zhao, Xin Yao, Xuetao Wei
arXiv:2609.00071v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Prediction error is widely used to evaluate nuisance-function estimators in causal inference, but its relationship with causal estimator performance ma...
By Cong Cao
arXiv:2609.00100v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Psychometric questionnaires contain rich item-level information, yet it remains unclear whether different representation learning objectives recover th...
By Cong Cao, Tassos C. Kyriakides, Pambos Vrasidas
arXiv:2609.00304v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Models express values and welfare-relevant self-reports, but it is unclear whether these outputs reflect stable preferences or a stable self. We thus i...
By Mert Yazan
arXiv:2609.00513v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mitigates large language models (LLMs) hallucinations, yet conventional dense retrieval struggles with the complex...
By Siyuan Zhang, Hanchen Wang, Dong Wen, Ying Zhang, Wenjie Zhang
arXiv:2609.00578v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) can solve complex problems, but their misuse in high-risk domains can lead to severe consequences. Model providers therefo...
By Rui Yang, Yang Hong, Yichao Xu, Zhengyu Liu, Ziyang Li, Yinzhi Cao
arXiv:2609.00014v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Persona-driven techniques increasingly adapt large language models (LLMs) to diverse contexts. However, existing methods predominantly rely on rigid,...
By Yuxuan Li, Victor Zhong, Ehsan Kamalloo
arXiv:2609.00051v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Despite extensive alignment efforts, Large Language Models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to generating unsafe content under adversarial prompting, yet the...
By Kuan-Lin Chu, Chung-En Sun, Tsui-Wei Weng