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Posted in cs.AI · 2026-08-20 · Cheng Xu, Nan Yan, Liming Chen, M-Tahar Kechadi

Phantom Gains: Auditing Self-Improvement Against a Measured Null

Whether a language model has improved itself is increasingly judged not by mean accuracy but by which individual problems it gains and loses. Tracking these transitions means differencing two noisy estimates, leaving them vulnerable to measurement artifacts. Auditing three rounds of rank-$32$ LoRA self-training on Qwen3-8B against a...

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Posted in cs.IT · 2026-08-20 · William Gay, Fernando Granha Jeronimo, Lenny Liu

The Honeycomb Framework for Code Bounds

We introduce the honeycomb hierarchy, a representation-theoretic framework that gives new asymptotic upper bounds on $R_2(δ)$. Its first level is the two-row hyperoctahedral representation graph associated with type $S^{(n-k,k)}$. Retaining every two-row irreducible and every coordinate box-transfer channel, together with a...

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Posted in cs.LG · 2026-08-20 · Ranveer Singh, Saurabh Mathur, Pranuthi Tenali, Arun Badi, Sriraam Natarajan

Dynamic Structural Causal Modeling for Sleep

The causal dynamics of sleep-disordered breathing are complex and vary across patient populations, hindering the development of targeted interventions. We learn dynamic causal graphs of sleep-disordered breathing from Home Sleep Apnea Test (HSAT) recordings, revealing systematic differences in causal structure across sex and age...

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Posted in cs.CV · 2026-08-20 · Weiliang Huang, Huanrong Liu, Bob Zhang, Qi Dou, Zhen Chen, Yun Gu, Guy Rosman, Qingbiao Li

Towards Surgical World-Action Modeling: A Preliminary Joint Visual-Trajectory Forecasting for Surgical Motion Planning

Reliable surgical planning requires models to anticipate not only how instruments will move, but also how the operative visual state will evolve together with such motion. Existing approaches typically treat future scene generation and instrument trajectory prediction as two separate tasks. Scene-only models cannot directly evaluate...

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Posted in cs.DC · 2026-08-20 · João Pinelo, João Gonçalves, Denis Willett, Amit Ruhela, Derek Steinmoeller, Uriel Mendoza, Pelumi S. Alao, Ronald Soares Lopes, Rogerio Atem de Carvalho, Pedro Mattos

Design and Empirical Evaluation of a Network-Centric, On-Premises Architecture for Earth Observation Data Access

Earth observation (EO) programmes generate data at volumes that exceed the transfer and storage capacity of most institutional networks. Public cloud platforms address this for well-resourced organisations, but institutions across the Atlantic basin face constraints in connectivity, sovereignty and funding that make on-premises...

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Posted in cs.CL · 2026-08-20 · Qian Kou, Xiaofeng Shi, Xiaosong Qiu, Hua Zhou

Inject, Align, Recover: Staged Post-Training for Retrieval-Free Document Knowledge Internalization

Large language models often fail to answer questions about a bounded document collection when the source documents are not retrieved at inference time. We study this setting as document knowledge internalization: converting a fixed corpus into usable parametric knowledge for retrieval-free question answering. We propose IAR (Inject,...

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Posted in cs.LG · 2026-08-20 · Ingo Marquardt, Anthilia Alchanat, Priyanka Jain

Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG

Non-invasive decoding of inner speech faces a fundamental data problem: a corpus pairing brain activity with a person's spontaneous inner monologue cannot be collected, and the available proxy paradigms (cued repetitive and retrospectively reported generative inner speech) are slow to acquire, poorly time-locked, and subject...

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Posted in cs.CV · 2026-08-20 · Sidi Mohamed Sid'El Moctar, Nicolas Vitry, Hélène Bouvrais

Flow Matching Meets 3D Curvilinear Structure Segmentation in Medical Imaging

Segmentation of curvilinear anatomical structures in 3D medical images remains challenging due to complex topology, severe class imbalance, weak contrast, and large variations in structure morphology. While deep learning approaches for 3D curvilinear segmentation have been proposed, they are often tailored to specific anatomies or...

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Posted in cs.AI · 2026-08-20 · Zijiao Chen, Nicholas Lu, Xinhui Li, Jocelyn A. Ricard, Ce Ju, Huan H. Wang, Christian Kindermann, Jeanette A. Mumford, Steven Dillmann, James Kent, Alejandro de la Vega, Sanmi Koyejo, Vince D. Calhoun, Joshua W. Buckholtz, Juan Helen Zhou, Steffen Bollmann, Russell A. Poldrack

Bringing analytic rigor to agentic AI for science: The Brain Researcher platform for neuroimaging data analysis

AI agents can execute scientific analyses, but an analytic output becomes a defensible claim only after alternatives are weighed and the claim is limited to what the evidence supports. Agents may reproduce failures including selective analysis, premature declarations of success and optimization of imperfect criteria. We present Brain...

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Posted in cs.LG · 2026-08-19 · Yingying Zhang, Kun Zhao, Guodong Liu, Qi Huang, Pengfei Gu, Dongchul Kim, Erik Enriquez, Alex D. Leow, Paul M. Thompson, Heng Huang, Hongchang Gao, Liang Zhan, Haoteng Tang

Longitudinal Bayesian Learning of Continuous Disease Position across the Alzheimer's Disease Continuum

Alzheimer's disease (AD) progresses as a continuous biological process, whereas most existing neuroimaging-based artificial intelligence methods remain limited to discrete diagnosis or clinical score prediction from cross-sectional imaging. In this work, we propose Disease Continuum Positioning (DCP), a longitudinal Bayesian Learning...

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Posted in cs.LG · 2026-08-19 · Hamed Javidi, Alex Zajichek, Hakan Doga, Laxmi Parida, Filippo Utro, Peter J. Mazzone

Quantum Kernel Estimation for the Discovery of Early Lung Cancer Detection

Lung cancer screening with low-dose chest computed tomography reduces mortality, but its impact is limited by uptake, adherence, and management challenges. Blood-based cell-free DNA (cfDNA) biomarkers offer a complementary approach, although early detection remains difficult because of lung cancer heterogeneity and high-dimensional,...

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Posted in cs.AR · 2026-08-20 · Qier Ma, Richard George, Stefan Scholze, Jehn Constantin, Tobias Reichenbach, Christian Mayr

A Resource-Efficient CNN-Based EEG Auditory Attention Decoding ASIC

Following a target speaker in a noisy environment, commonly known as the cocktail party problem, remains particularly challenging for cochlear implant (CI) users. Recent studies have explored EEG-based auditory attention decoding (AAD) using neural networks to enhance hearing assistance. This paper presents a resource-efficient ASIC...

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Posted in cs.LG · 2026-08-20 · Julian Oelhaf, Georg Kordowich, Paula Andrea Pérez-Toro, Christian Bergler, Johann Jäger, Andreas Maier, Siming Bayer

A Standardized Framework for Machine Learning in Power System Protection

Studies of machine-learning-based power-system protection increasingly report near-perfect scores, yet the meaning of those scores depends strongly on the evaluation setting. Protection task, physical scope, measurements, timing, targets, preprocessing, and validation often vary jointly and remain incompletely specified. This paper...

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Posted in cs.CR · 2026-08-20 · Milan Šalko, Anton Firc, Kamil Malinka, Vojtěch Staněk, Martin Perešini, Filip Pleško, Jakub Reš

Tracking the Trend in How Speech Synthesizers Deceive People

Advances in speech synthesis have made deepfake audio highly realistic. Earlier studies reported 70-80% human detection accuracy, but relied primarily on older synthesizers. We compare human detection for three selected voice synthesis tools released in 2019, 2022, and 2024 with 82 IT professionals, and benchmark humans against six...

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Posted in cs.AI · 2026-08-20 · Sepideh Adamiat, Hongye Wang, Wouter M. Kouw, Bert de Vries

Spike-based Belief Propagation in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

This paper presents a Bayesian control framework that integrates spike-based dynamics with probabilistic inference for adaptive control. Bayesian inference is widely regarded as a core computational principle of brain function, providing a normative framework for perception, decision-making, and learning under uncertainty. By...

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Posted in cs.CL · 2026-08-20 · Sahil Kale, Ian Harris

ConceptGuard: Benchmarking Context-Sensitive Unlearning in Large Language Models

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly require selective removal of harmful or sensitive knowledge, called unlearning, yet existing methods and benchmarks fail to evaluate this capability completely. Current approaches rely on disjoint forget and retain sets composed of independent facts, and measure success using simple and direct...

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Posted in cs.CV · 2026-08-20 · Yudong Jin, Tao Xie, Qihang Zhang, Zehong Shen, Zhen Xu, Yujun Shen, Hujun Bao, Xiaowei Zhou, Yinghao Xu

4DAnyone: Create Anyone in 4D from a Casual Monocular Video

We present 4DAnyone, a framework for reconstructing 4D humans from an uncalibrated monocular video by generating reconstruction-grade multiview-consistent videos and lifting them into 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS). Existing camera-controlled video diffusion models synthesize plausible novel-view videos but fail to maintain consistency...

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Posted in cs.CV · 2026-08-20 · Hengyuan Xu, Qixun Wang, Yiji Cheng, Miles Yang, Zhao Zhong, Wei Cheng, Xingjun Ma, Yu-gang Jiang

WithEveryone: Unified Planning and Identity Grounding for Group Image Generation

Identity-preserving image generation becomes increasingly unreliable when a scene must contain many specified people. Beyond retaining each identity, the model must bind every reference to a distinct person and location, while training-time identity losses must establish correspondence among several noisy predicted faces. We introduce...

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Posted in cs.CV · 2026-08-20 · Taihang Hu, Zhao Wang, Zuan Gao, Tao Liu, Hao Yan, Zhengze Xu, Yuhang Yu, Yongchao Du, Xingjian Wang, Jun Zheng, Qinye Zhou, Zhengrui Chen, Chao Lin, Yefeng Shen, Zhengtao Wu, Ge Wu, Xiaoli Xu, Denghui Yang, Huayu Zhang, Mingzhou Zhang, Mengting Chen

Swift-Image: Exploring the Performance Frontier of Compact Unified Image Generation Models

We present Swift-Image, a compact unified model for text-to-image generation, single-image editing, and multi-image editing. Our goal is to explore how far a relatively small visual generator can be pushed through systematic training engineering under a constrained computational budget. Swift-Image adopts an efficient 6B single-stream...

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Posted in cs.CL · 2026-08-20 · Shiao Xie, Siyu Chen, Jianwei Lv, Bo Yuan, Yujin Wang, Xiandong Li

G-CARL: Grounded Checklist-Aligned Reward Learning for Patient-Oriented Medical Report Interpretation

Personalized interpretation of medical reports has emerged as an increasingly important need among patients. Addressing this need requires both evidence-grounded medical factuality and context-dependent patient communication, yet existing medical vision-language tasks do not adequately capture these dual requirements. To bridge this...

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Posted in cs.LG · 2026-08-20 · Anton Lambrecht, Reda El Hail, Xianjun Jiao, Pieter Crombez, Dominique Schreurs, Peter Karsmakers, Adnan Shahid, Eli De Poorter

A comparison between ceiling-mounted FMCW, IR-UWB and Wi-Fi radar for in-bedroom human activity monitoring and sleep interruption detection

Despite their growing importance for contact-free radio frequency (RF) based healthcare monitoring, different radio technologies such as frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar, impulse radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB), and Wi-Fi sensing are rarely compared under identical deployment conditions, as existing studies typically...

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Posted in cs.AI · 2026-08-20 · Narges Ahmadi, Yubo Jiao, Jônatas Augusto Manzolli, Jiangbo Yu, Luis Miranda-Moreno

An Agentic Approach for Active Data Collection, Travel Behavior Modeling, and Weather-Sensitive Demand Prediction

Travel behavior research increasingly combines digital data collection with predictive modeling, yet these stages are often developed and evaluated separately. This study proposes a three-agent workflow integrating conversational data collection, structured data processing, and behavioral prediction. A chatbot-administered,...

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Posted in cs.CL · 2026-08-20 · Yucheng Jiang, Zora Zhiruo Wang, Ruishi Chen, Diyi Yang

Inducing Task Models from Computer-Use Traces

Naturalistic computer-use traces, passively recorded screenshots and mouse or keyboard actions, are a valuable resource for deriving symbolic, auditable, and reusable models of how everyday work is done. Such models matter as computer-use agents enter real work, where agents need to learn how tasks are actually performed, and...

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Posted in cs.AI · 2026-08-20 · Yizhe Chi, Wenyi Li, Deyao Hong, Xiaoqiu Wang, Mingju Gao, Kaisen Yang, Bingxiang He, Youjie Zheng, Calvin Xiao, Qinhuai Na

AI4AI-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agents in Algorithmic Design for Recursive Self-Improvement

Recursive self-improvement (RSI) asks whether an AI system can improve the process that produces AI systems, so that the next system inherits the improvement. That process is the training algorithm: a better objective or update rule improves the compute\mbox{-}capability exchange rate for every subsequent run, including the one that...

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