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arXiv preprints from January 1, 2026 through September 22, 2026 — 05:16:41 EST

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Posted in cs.CR · 2026-01-20 · Cosmin-Iulian Irimia

Decentralized Infrastructure for Digital Notarizing, Signing and Sharing Files using Blockchain

Traditional paper-based document management has long posed challenges related to security, authenticity, and efficiency. Despite advances in digitalization, official documents remain vulnerable to forgery, loss, and unauthorized access. This thesis proposes a decentralized infrastructure for digital notarization, signing, and sharing...

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Posted in cs.LG · 2026-01-20 · Hao Deng, Zhang Guo, Shuiping Gou, Bo Liu

SPGCL: Simple yet Powerful Graph Contrastive Learning via SVD-Guided Structural Perturbation

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are sensitive to structural noise from adversarial attacks or imperfections. Existing graph contrastive learning (GCL) methods typically rely on either random perturbations (e.g., edge dropping) for diversity or spectral augmentations (e.g., SVD) to preserve structural priors. However, random perturbations...

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Posted in cs.SE · 2026-01-20 · Xingcheng Chen, Oliver Weissl, Andrea Stocco

Feature-Aware Test Generation for Deep Learning Models

As deep learning models are widely used in software systems, test generation plays a crucial role in assessing the quality of such models before deployment. To date, the most advanced test generators rely on generative AI to synthesize inputs; however, these approaches remain limited in providing semantic insight into the causes of...

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Posted in cs.CV · 2026-01-20 · Paul Walker, James A. D. Gardner, Andreea Ardelean, William A. P. Smith, Bernhard Egger

VENI: Variational Encoder for Natural Illumination

Inverse rendering is an ill-posed problem, but priors such as illumination priors can help simplify it. Existing work either disregards the spherical and rotation-equivariant nature of illumination environments or does not provide a well-behaved latent space. We propose a rotation-equivariant variational autoencoder that models...

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Posted in cs.FL · 2026-01-20 · Mathieu Lehaut, Anca Muscholl, Nir Piterman

From Trees to Tree-Like: Distribution and Synthesis for Asynchronous Automata

We revisit constructions for distribution and synthesis of Zielonka's asynchronous automata in restricted settings. We show first a simple, quadratic, distribution construction for asynchronous automata, where the process architecture is tree-like. An architecture is tree-like if there is an underlying spanning tree of the...

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Posted in cs.IT · 2026-01-20 · Sahan Liyanaarachchi, Sennur Ulukus, Nail Akar

Utilizing the Perceived Age to Maximize Freshness in Query-Based Update Systems

Query-based sampling has become an increasingly popular technique for monitoring Markov sources in pull-based update systems. However, most of the contemporary literature on this assumes an exponential distribution for query delay and often relies on the assumption that the feedback or replies to the queries are instantaneous. In this...

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Posted in cs.CV · 2026-01-20 · Nattapong Kurpukdee, Adrian G. Bors

Unsupervised Video Class-Incremental Learning via Deep Embedded Clustering Management

Unsupervised video class incremental learning (uVCIL) represents an important learning paradigm for learning video information without forgetting, and without considering any data labels. Prior approaches have focused on supervised class-incremental learning, relying on using the knowledge of labels and task boundaries, which is...

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Posted in cs.LO · 2026-01-20 · Philippe Heim, Rayna Dimitrova

Modular Attractor Acceleration in Infinite-State Games (Full Version)

Infinite-state games provide a framework for the synthesis of reactive systems with unbounded data domains. Solving such games typically relies on computing symbolic fixpoints, particularly symbolic attractors. However, these computations may not terminate, and while recent acceleration techniques have been proposed to address this...

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Posted in cs.CV · 2026-01-20 · Hendrik Möller, Hanna Schoen, Robert Graf, Matan Atad, Nathan Molinier, Anjany Sekuboyina, Bettina K. Budai, Fabian Bamberg, Steffen Ringhof, Christopher Schlett, Tobias Pischon, Thoralf Niendorf, Josua A. Decker, Marc-André Weber, Bjoern Menze, Daniel Rueckert, Jan S. Kirschke

VERIDAH: Solving Enumeration Anomaly Aware Vertebra Labeling across Imaging Sequences

The human spine commonly consists of seven cervical, twelve thoracic, and five lumbar vertebrae. However, enumeration anomalies may result in individuals having eleven or thirteen thoracic vertebrae and four or six lumbar vertebrae. Although the identification of enumeration anomalies has potential clinical implications for chronic...

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Posted in cs.CL · 2026-01-20 · Mohsinul Kabir, Tasnim Ahmed, Md Mezbaur Rahman, Shaoxiong Ji, Hassan Alhuzali, Yuechen Jiang, Jimin Huang, Sophia Ananiadou

XCR-Bench: Benchmarking Cross-Cultural Reasoning in LLMs via Culture-Specific Items and Hall's Triad

Cross-cultural competence in large language models (LLMs) requires understanding and adapting Culture-Specific Items (CSIs) across varying cultural contexts. However, progress in evaluating this capability remains limited by the lack of high-quality CSI-annotated corpora with parallel cross-cultural sentence pairs. We introduce...

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Posted in cs.CR · 2026-01-20 · William Pan, Guiran Liu, Binrong Zhu, Qun Wang, Yingzhou Lu, Beiyu Lin, Rose Qingyang Hu

Rethinking On-Device LLM Reasoning: Why Analogical Mapping Outperforms Abstract Thinking for IoT DDoS Detection

The rapid expansion of IoT deployments has intensified cybersecurity threats, notably Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, characterized by increasingly sophisticated patterns. Leveraging Generative AI through On-Device Large Language Models (ODLLMs) provides a viable solution for real-time threat detection at the network...

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Posted in cs.LG · 2026-01-20 · Vincent Gurgul, Ying Chen, Stefan Lessmann

Variational Quantum Circuit-Based Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Portfolio Optimization

This paper presents a Quantum Reinforcement Learning (QRL) solution to the dynamic portfolio optimization problem based on Variational Quantum Circuits. The implemented QRL approaches are quantum analogues of the classical neural-network-based Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient and Deep Q-Network algorithms. Through an empirical...

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Posted in cs.CV · 2026-01-20 · Yongcong Ye, Kai Zhang, Yanghai Zhang, Enhong Chen, Longfei Li, Jun Zhou

Fine-Grained Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval with Complementary Visual-Semantic Integration

Zero-shot composed image retrieval (ZS-CIR) is a rapidly growing area with significant practical applications, allowing users to retrieve a target image by providing a reference image and a relative caption describing the desired modifications. Existing ZS-CIR methods often struggle to capture fine-grained changes and integrate visual...

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Posted in cs.PL · 2026-01-20 · Andrea Gilot, Axel Bergström, Eva Darulova

Verifying Floating-Point Programs in Stainless

We extend the Stainless deductive verifier with floating-point support, providing the first automated verification support for floating-point numbers for a subset of Scala that includes polymorphism, recursion and higher-order functions. We follow the recent approach in the KeY verifier to axiomatise reasoning about mathematical...

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Posted in cs.CV · 2026-01-20 · Andrea Rigo, Luca Stornaiuolo, Weijie Wang, Mauro Martino, Bruno Lepri, Nicu Sebe

POCI-Diff: Position Objects Consistently and Interactively with 3D-Layout Guided Diffusion

We propose a diffusion-based approach for Text-to-Image (T2I) generation with consistent and interactive 3D layout control and editing. While prior methods improve spatial adherence using 2D cues or iterative copy-warp-paste strategies, they often distort object geometry and fail to preserve consistency across edits. To address these...

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Posted in cs.CV · 2026-01-20 · Andrea Protani, Marc Molina Van Den Bosch, Lorenzo Giusti, Heloisa Barbosa Da Silva, Paolo Cacace, Albert Sund Aillet, Miguel Angel Gonzalez Ballester, Friedhelm Hummel, Luigi Serio

Decoder-Free Supervoxel GNN for Accurate Brain-Tumor Localization in Multi-Modal MRI

Modern vision backbones for 3D medical imaging typically process dense voxel grids through parameter-heavy encoder-decoder structures, a design that allocates a significant portion of its parameters to spatial reconstruction rather than feature learning. Our approach introduces SVGFormer, a decoder-free pipeline built upon a...

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Posted in cs.CR · 2026-01-20 · Zhihao Dou, Dongfei Cui, Weida Wang, Anjun Gao, Yueyang Quan, Mengyao Ma, Viet Vo, Guangdong Bai, Zhuqing Liu, Minghong Fang

SecureSplit: Mitigating Backdoor Attacks in Split Learning

Split Learning (SL) offers a framework for collaborative model training that respects data privacy by allowing participants to share the same dataset while maintaining distinct feature sets. However, SL is susceptible to backdoor attacks, in which malicious clients subtly alter their embeddings to insert hidden triggers that...

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Posted in cs.LG · 2026-01-20 · Badri N. Patro, Vijay S. Agneeswaran

LLMOrbit: A Circular Taxonomy of Large Language Models -From Scaling Walls to Agentic AI Systems

The field of artificial intelligence has undergone a revolution from foundational Transformer architectures to reasoning-capable systems approaching human-level performance. We present LLMOrbit, a comprehensive circular taxonomy navigating the landscape of large language models spanning 2019-2025. This survey examines over 50 models...

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Posted in cs.CV · 2026-01-20 · Haoran Xu, Yanlin Liu, Zizhao Tong, Jiaze Li, Kexue Fu, Yuyang Zhang, Longxiang Gao, Shuaiguang Li, Xingyu Li, Yanran Xu, Changwei Wang

Vision Also You Need: Navigating Out-of-Distribution Detection with Multimodal Large Language Model

Out-of-Distribution (OOD) detection is a critical task that has garnered significant attention. The emergence of CLIP has spurred extensive research into zero-shot OOD detection, often employing a training-free approach. Current methods leverage expert knowledge from large language models (LLMs) to identify potential outliers....

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Posted in cs.CL · 2026-01-20 · Peter Devine, Mardhiyah Sanni, Farid Adilazuarda, Julieta Gil Loizaga, Barry Haddow

Kakugo: Distillation of Low-Resource Languages into Small Language Models

We present Kakugo, a novel and cost-effective pipeline designed to train general-purpose Small Language Models (SLMs) for low-resource languages using only the language name as input. By using a large teacher model to generate synthetic prompts and translate instruction datasets, we produced training data and SLMs for 54 low-resource...

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Posted in cs.RO · 2026-01-20 · André Helgert, Carolin Straßmann, Sabrina C. Eimler

A Decade of Human-Robot Interaction Through Immersive Lenses: Reviewing Extended Reality as a Research Instrument in Social Robotics

Over the past decade, Extended Reality (XR), including Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality, gained attention as a research instrument in human-robot interaction studies, but remains underexplored in empirical investigations of social robotics. To map the field, we systematically reviewed empirical studies from 2015 to 2025. Of 6,527...

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Posted in cs.CL · 2026-01-20 · Yuxin Chen, Zhengzhou Cai, Xiangtian Ji, Weixiang Zhao, An Zhang, Xiang Wang, Tat-Seng Chua

Understanding Multilingualism in Mixture-of-Experts LLMs: Routing Mechanism, Expert Specialization, and Layerwise Steering

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures have shown strong multilingual capabilities, yet the internal mechanisms underlying performance gains and cross-language differences remain insufficiently understood. In this work, we conduct a systematic analysis of MoE models, examining routing behavior and expert specialization across...

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Posted in cs.GT · 2026-01-20 · Alexey V. Osipov, Nikolay N. Osipov

Collective intelligence in science: direct elicitation of diverse information from experts with unknown information structure

Suppose we need a deep collective analysis of an open scientific problem: there is a complex scientific hypothesis and a large online group of mutually unrelated experts with relevant private information of a diverse and unpredictable nature. This information may be results of experts' individual experiments, original reasoning of...

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Posted in cs.CL · 2026-01-20 · Shikhar Bharadwaj, Chin-Jou Li, Yoonjae Kim, Kwanghee Choi, Eunjung Yeo, Ryan Soh-Eun Shim, Hanyu Zhou, Brendon Boldt, Karen Rosero Jacome, Kalvin Chang, Darsh Agrawal, Keer Xu, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Jian Zhu, Shinji Watanabe, David R. Mortensen

PRiSM: Benchmarking Phone Realization in Speech Models

Phone recognition (PR) serves as the atomic interface for language-agnostic modeling for cross-lingual speech processing and phonetic analysis. Despite prolonged efforts in developing PR systems, current evaluations only measure surface-level transcription accuracy. We introduce PRiSM, the first open-source benchmark designed to...

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Posted in cs.CV · 2026-01-20 · Kaiyu Wu, Pucheng Han, Hualong Zhang, Naigeng Wu, Keze Wang

Weather-R1: Logically Consistent Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Multimodal Reasoning in Meteorology

While Vision Language Models (VLMs) show advancing reasoning capabilities, their application in meteorology is constrained by a domain gap and a reasoning faithfulness gap. Specifically, mainstream Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) can induce Self-Contradictory Reasoning (Self-Contra), where the model's reasoning contradicts its final...

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