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Posted in cs.CL · 2026-01-19 · Sergio Servantez, Sarah B. Lawsky, Rajiv Jain, Daniel W. Linna, Kristian Hammond

OpenExempt: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Legal Reasoning and a Framework for Creating Custom Benchmarks on Demand

Reasoning benchmarks have played a crucial role in the progress of language models. Yet rigorous evaluation remains a significant challenge as static question-answer pairs provide only a snapshot of performance, compressing complex behavior into a single accuracy metric. This limitation is especially true in complex, rule-bound...

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Posted in cs.CL · 2026-01-19 · Joseph Gatto, Parker Seegmiller, Timothy Burdick, Philip Resnik, Roshnik Rahat, Sarah DeLozier, Sarah M. Preum

Medical Triage as Pairwise Ranking: A Benchmark for Urgency in Patient Portal Messages

Medical triage is the task of allocating medical resources and prioritizing patients based on medical need. This paper introduces the first large-scale public dataset for studying medical triage in the context of asynchronous outpatient portal messages. Our novel task formulation views patient message triage as a pairwise inference...

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Posted in cs.RO · 2026-01-19 · Behnam Moradkhani, Raghav Sankaranarayanan, Pejman Kheradmand, Harshith Jella, Nicholas Ahn, Ajmal Zemmar, Yash Chitalia

Helical Tendon-Driven Continuum Robot with Programmable Follow-the-Leader Operation

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is primarily utilized for pain management and has recently demonstrated efficacy in promoting functional recovery in patients with spinal cord injury. Effective stimulation of motor neurons ideally requires the placement of SCS leads in the ventral or lateral epidural space where the corticospinal and...

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Posted in cs.DL · 2026-01-19 · Madelaine Hare, Philippe Mongeon, Samuel Cassady, Catherine A. Johnson

Big Deal cancellations and scholarly publishing: Insights from faculty and graduate student interviews

Big Deal cancellations are increasingly undertaken by academic librarians faced with rising subscription costs and shrinking collections budgets. While past research has focused on librarians' decision-making processes and communication strategies, this study aims to understand the perspectives and experiences of faculty and graduate...

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Posted in cs.CV · 2026-01-19 · Pedro M. Gordaliza, Jaume Banus, Benoît Gérin, Maxence Wynen, Nataliia Molchanova, Jonas Richiardi, Meritxell Bach Cuadra

From 100,000+ images to winning the first brain MRI foundation model challenges: Sharing lessons and models

Developing Foundation Models for medical image analysis is essential to overcome the unique challenges of radiological tasks. The first challenges of this kind for 3D brain MRI, SSL3D and FOMO25, were held at MICCAI 2025. Our solution ranked first in tracks of both contests. It relies on a U-Net CNN architecture combined with...

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Posted in cs.CG · 2026-01-19 · Bradley McCoy, Binhai Zhu

Optimistic Imprecise Shortest Watchtower in 1.5D and 2.5D

A 1.5D imprecise terrain is an $x$-monotone polyline with fixed $x$-coordinates, the $y$-coordinate of each vertex is not fixed but is constrained to be in a given vertical interval. A 2.5D imprecise terrain is a triangulation with fixed $x$ and $y$-coordinates, but the $z$-coordinate of each vertex is constrained to a given vertical...

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Posted in cs.LG · 2026-01-19 · Ali Shafiee Sarvestani, Jason Schmidt, Arman Roohi

NeuroShield: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Adversarial Robustness

Adversarial vulnerability and lack of interpretability are critical limitations of deep neural networks, especially in safety-sensitive settings such as autonomous driving. We introduce \DesignII, a neuro-symbolic framework that integrates symbolic rule supervision into neural networks to enhance both adversarial robustness and...

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Posted in cs.LG · 2026-01-19 · Zhipeng Zhang, Zhenjie Yao, Kai Li, Lei Yang

Training instability in deep learning follows low-dimensional dynamical principles

Deep learning systems achieve remarkable empirical performance, yet the stability of the training process itself remains poorly understood. Training unfolds as a high-dimensional dynamical system in which small perturbations to optimization, data, parameters, or learning signals can induce abrupt and irreversible collapse, undermining...

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Posted in cs.CL · 2026-01-19 · Zimeng Wu, Donghao Wang, Chaozhe Jin, Jiaxin Chen, Yunhong Wang

Probe and Skip: Self-Predictive Token Skipping for Efficient Long-Context LLM Inference

Long-context inference enhances the reasoning capability of Large Language Models (LLMs), but incurs significant computational overhead. Token-oriented methods, such as pruning and skipping, have shown great promise in reducing inference latency, yet still suffer from inherently insufficient structure optimization, outdated selection...

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Posted in cs.LG · 2026-01-19 · Takato Yasuno

Distributional Reinforcement Learning for Condition-Based Maintenance of Multi-Pump Equipment

Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) signifies a paradigm shift from reactive to proactive equipment management strategies in modern industrial systems. Conventional time-based maintenance schedules frequently engender superfluous expenditures and unanticipated equipment failures. In contrast, CBM utilizes real-time equipment condition...

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Posted in cs.CV · 2026-01-19 · Richard Shaw, Youngkyoon Jang, Athanasios Papaioannou, Arthur Moreau, Helisa Dhamo, Zhensong Zhang, Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

ICo3D: An Interactive Conversational 3D Virtual Human

This work presents Interactive Conversational 3D Virtual Human (ICo3D), a method for generating an interactive, conversational, and photorealistic 3D human avatar. Based on multi-view captures of a subject, we create an animatable 3D face model and a dynamic 3D body model, both rendered by splatting Gaussian primitives. Once merged...

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Posted in cs.DC · 2026-01-19 · Nicolas Nicolaou, Kishori M. Konwar, Moritz Grundei, Aleksandr Bezobchuk, Muriel Médard, Sriram Vishwanath

OPTIMUM-DERAM: Highly Consistent, Scalable, and Secure Multi-Object Memory using RLNC

This paper introduces OPTIMUM-DERAM, a highly consistent, scalable, secure, and decentralized shared memory solution. Traditional distributed shared memory implementations offer multi-object support by multi-threading a single object memory instance over the same set of data hosts. While theoretically sound, the amount of resources...

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Posted in cs.LG · 2026-01-19 · Chaeyoung Jung, Youngjoon Jang, Seungwoo Lee, Joon Son Chung

FastAV: Efficient Token Pruning for Audio-Visual Large Language Model Inference

In this work, we present FastAV, the first token pruning framework tailored for audio-visual large language models (AV-LLMs). While token pruning has been actively explored in standard large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (LVLMs), its application to AV-LLMs has received little attention, even though multimodal...

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Posted in cs.CV · 2026-01-19 · Zhantao Ma, Quanfeng Lu, Shuai Zhong, Dahai Yu, Ping Luo, Michael K. Ng

TVWorld: Foundations for Remote-Control TV Agents

Recent large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated strong potential for device control. However, existing research has primarily focused on point-and-click (PnC) interaction, while remote-control (RC) interaction commonly encountered in everyday TV usage remains largely underexplored. To fill this gap, we introduce...

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Posted in cs.SE · 2026-01-19 · Alessandro Midolo, Emiliano Tramontana, Massimiliano Di Penta

From Human to Machine Refactoring: Assessing GPT-4's Impact on Python Class Quality and Readability

Refactoring is a software engineering practice that aims to improve code quality without altering program behavior. Although automated refactoring tools have been extensively studied, their practical applicability remains limited. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have introduced new opportunities for automated code...

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Posted in cs.CL · 2026-01-19 · Yuan Gao, Zhigang Liu, Xinyu Yao, Bo Chen, Xiaobing Zhao

Adversarial Alignment: Ensuring Value Consistency in Large Language Models for Sensitive Domains

With the wide application of large language models (LLMs), the problems of bias and value inconsistency in sensitive domains have gradually emerged, especially in terms of race, society and politics. In this paper, we propose an adversarial alignment framework, which enhances the value consistency of the model in sensitive domains...

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Posted in cs.SE · 2026-01-19 · Heng Fang, Adam J. Stewart, Isaac Corley, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Hossein Azizpour

Earth Embeddings as Products: Taxonomy, Ecosystem, and Standardized Access

Geospatial Foundation Models (GFMs) provide powerful representations, but high compute costs hinder their widespread use. Pre-computed embedding data products offer a practical "frozen" alternative, yet they currently exist in a fragmented ecosystem of incompatible formats and resolutions. This lack of standardization creates an...

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Posted in cs.CV · 2026-01-19 · Mingshuang Luo, Ruibing Hou, Bo Chao, Hong Chang, Zimo Liu, Yaowei Wang, Shiguang Shan

CLIP-Guided Adaptable Self-Supervised Learning for Human-Centric Visual Tasks

Human-centric visual analysis plays a pivotal role in diverse applications, including surveillance, healthcare, and human-computer interaction. With the emergence of large-scale unlabeled human image datasets, there is an increasing need for a general unsupervised pre-training model capable of supporting diverse human-centric...

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Posted in cs.CV · 2026-01-19 · Kim Yu-Ji, Dahye Lee, Kim Jun-Seong, Nam Hyeon-Woo, GeonU Kim, Yongjin Kwon, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Jaesung Choe, Tae-Hyun Oh

SplatReasoner: Enhancing Embodied Reasoning and Grounding by Novel View Synthesis

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong reasoning capabilities over images and videos, yet their application to embodied scene understanding often constrained by the fixed viewpoints stored in episodic RGB-D memories. These observations may fail to capture query-relevant evidence due to occlusions, object truncation,...

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Posted in cs.CV · 2026-01-19 · Sung Ju Lee, Nam Ik Cho

PhaseMark: A Post-hoc, Optimization-Free Watermarking of AI-generated Images in the Latent Frequency Domain

The proliferation of hyper-realistic images from Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) demands robust watermarking, yet existing post-hoc methods are prohibitively slow due to iterative optimization or inversion processes. We introduce PhaseMark, a single-shot, optimization-free framework that directly modulates the phase in the VAE latent...

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Posted in cs.CV · 2026-01-19 · Mattia D'Urso, Emanuele Santellani, Christian Sormann, Mattia Rossi, Andreas Kuhn, Friedrich Fraundorfer

A Streamlined Attention-Based Network for Descriptor Extraction

We introduce SANDesc, a Streamlined Attention-Based Network for Descriptor extraction that aims to improve on existing architectures for keypoint description. Our descriptor network learns to compute descriptors that improve matching without modifying the underlying keypoint detector. We employ a revised U-Net-like architecture...

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Posted in cs.AI · 2026-01-19 · Gourab K Patro, Himanshi Agrawal, Himanshu Gharat, Supriya Panigrahi, Nim Sherpa, Vishal Vaddina, Dagnachew Birru

Responsible AI for General-Purpose Systems: Overview, Challenges, and A Path Forward

Modern general-purpose AI systems made using large language and vision models, are capable of performing a range of tasks like writing text articles, generating and debugging codes, querying databases, and translating from one language to another, which has made them quite popular across industries. However, there are risks like...

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Posted in cs.SE · 2026-01-19 · Alessandro Midolo, Alessandro Giagnorio, Fiorella Zampetti, Rosalia Tufano, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta

Guidelines to Prompt Large Language Models for Code Generation: An Empirical Characterization

Large Language Models (LLMs) are nowadays extensively used for various types of software engineering tasks, primarily code generation. Previous research has shown how suitable prompt engineering could help developers in improving their code generation prompts. However, so far, there do not exist specific guidelines driving developers...

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Posted in cs.DB · 2026-01-19 · Mihail Stoian, Tiemo Bang, Hangdong Zhao, Jesús Camacho-Rodríguez, Yuanyuan Tian, Andreas Kipf

The Case for Cardinality Lower Bounds

Despite decades of research, cardinality estimation remains the optimizer's Achilles heel, with industrial-strength systems exhibiting a systemic tendency toward underestimation. At cloud scale, this is a severe production vulnerability: in Microsoft's Fabric Data Warehouse (DW), a mere 0.05% of extreme underestimates account for 95%...

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Posted in cs.CL · 2026-01-19 · Fengran Mo, Yifan Gao, Sha Li, Hansi Zeng, Xin Liu, Zhaoxuan Tan, Xian Li, Jianshu Chen, Dakuo Wang, Meng Jiang

Agentic Conversational Search with Contextualized Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become a popular interface for human-AI interaction, supporting information seeking and task assistance through natural, multi-turn dialogue. To respond to users within multi-turn dialogues, the context-dependent user intent evolves across interactions, requiring contextual interpretation, query...

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