arXiv:2606. 14120v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Auditory attention decoding (AAD) aims to infer the attended speaker from neural responses in multi-speaker acoustic environments and is a key problem for neuro-steered hearing systems.
By Ziwei Wang, Xingyi He, Tianwang Jia, Hongbin Wang, Dongrui Wu
arXiv:2606. 13739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper examines trade-offs between AI safety and well-being relative to (i) one of the most promising methods for finetuning super-capable AIs, 'Constitutional AI', and (ii) one of the most influential approaches to understanding complex ethical decision making and the conditions for the well-being of rational agents, 'Virtue Ethics'.
By Guillermo Del Pinal, Youngchan Lee, Min Ohn
arXiv:2606. 14215v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has inspired the vision of generating bespoke crystal materials directly from natural-language instructions, enabling users to design materials through intuitive, conversational interaction.
By Yusei Ito, Yuta Suzuki, Tomoya Murata, Masaki Adachi
arXiv:2606. 13934v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans cannot always intuit what scenarios are most challenging to LLMs.
By Jennifer Meng Lu, Ruochen Zhang, Isabelle Lee, David Alvarez-Melis, Ellie Pavlick, Naomi Saphra
arXiv:2606. 13221v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Evaluating new large language models typically requires costly human annotation campaigns at scale.
By Bora Kargi, David Salinas
arXiv:2606. 14010v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for end-to-end autonomous driving by jointly modeling visual perception, language reasoning, explainability and action prediction.
By Xiangyu Huang, Zhenlin Hua, Han Zhou, Shounak Sural, Ragunathan Rajkumar
arXiv:2603. 15481v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Data-free knowledge distillation enables model compression without original training data, critical for privacy-sensitive tabular domains.
By Shovon Niverd Pereira, Krishna Khadka, Yu Lei
arXiv:2606. 14697v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Building trustworthy medical multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is critical for reliable clinical decision support.
By Sicheng Yang, Hangjie Yuan, Wenjun Zhang, Jinwang Wang, Yichen Qian, Weihua Chen, Fan Wang, Lei Zhu
arXiv:2606. 14188v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present CORD-SLS, a real-time control method for safe deformable object manipulation, with a focus on ropes and cloth.
By Wei-Chen Li, Jeffrey Fang, Sasanka Polisetti, Yuexi Song, Glen Chou
arXiv:2606. 14388v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interventions designed to modify a particular behavior in LLMs, such as refusal or sycophancy, often produce unintended changes in other behaviors.
By Angira Sharma, Christian Schroeder de Witt, Philip Torr, Anisoara Calinescu, Jialin Yu
arXiv:2603. 10444v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: FP4 training promises substantial memory and compute savings for large language models, but remains fragile because blockwise quantization is dictated by extreme activation magnitudes, which inflate dynamic range and compress long-tail signals.
By Hengjie Cao, Zhendong Huang, Mengyi Chen, Yifeng Yang, Fang Dong, Anrui Chen, Ruijun Huang, Xin Zhang, Mingzhi Dong, Yujiang Wang, Jinlong Hou, Qin Lv, Robert P. Dick, Yuan Cheng, Tun Lu, Fan Yang, Yixuan Chen, Li Shang
arXiv:2606. 14159v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Protein-ligand binding affinity (PLA) prediction is critical in drug discovery.
By Shuai Li, Chuan-Xian Ren, Yuhao Li, Ziqi Huang, Yue Pan, Mingzhe Tang, Hong Yan
arXiv:2606. 14391v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite advances in large-scale Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), disfluent speech remains challenging, as state-of-the-art systems are often optimized to omit disfluencies, leading to information loss and hallucinations.
By Henri-Leon Kordt, Theresa Pekarek Rosin, Jae Hee Lee, Stefan Wermter
arXiv:2606. 14210v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in privacy-sensitive domains, where users must balance the risk of data exposure through external APIs against the high computational cost of local deployment.
By Zixuan Gu, Xiaojun Ye, Yang Liu
arXiv:2606. 14156v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning systems based on IF-THEN rule representations readily offer interpretability, making them a crucial focus in contemporary AI research.
By Mariamma Antony, Raman Sankaran, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, Uma Satya Ranjan
arXiv:2606. 13989v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent alignment-free non-autoregressive (NAR) text-to-speech (TTS) models formulate synthesis as a conditional infilling task, bypassing explicit duration predictors and external aligners.
By Alef Iury Siqueira Ferreira, Lucas Rafael Stefanel Gris, Luiz Fernando de Ara\'ujo Vidal, Frederico Santos de Oliveira, Christopher Dane Shulby, Anderson da Silva Soares, Arlindo Rodrigues Galv\~ao Filho
arXiv:2606. 14078v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing studies reveal that current backdoor defenses exhibit limited robustness and often fail against specific types of attacks.
By Zhenqian Zhu, Yamin Hu, Yujiang Liu, Luping Wei, Wenbo Hou, Bin Li, Haodong Li, Wenjian Luo
arXiv:2606. 13704v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This position paper argues that contemporary AI paradigms are insufficient for supporting complex global goals and introduces Planet-Centered AI (PCAI) as a design philosophy and research agenda that reorients AI toward planetary-scale socio-ecological systems and their long-term trajectories.
By Maria Perez-Ortiz
arXiv:2606. 13839v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) transformers achieve low heart-rate error on benchmarks, yet their decisions remain opaque--a growing concern as rPPG moves toward clinical heart rate estimation.
By Louis Chen, Torbj\"orn E. M. Nordling
arXiv:2606. 14658v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly used to automate a variety of real-world computer vision (CV) applications, such as autonomous vehicle control, facial recognition, and security cameras.
By Nicole Villavicencio-Gardu\~no, Maksim Ekin Eren, Milo Prisbrey, Ben Migliori, Michael Teti