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Every paper checked in the week of 12–18 Oct 2026 · Multimodal models — nothing is hidden. Brief papers first.

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Learning Holistic Scene Layout against View Shifts in Cross-View Geo-Localization
Applies multi-directional spatial context modeling and high-frequency guidance for cross-view geographic localization.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Addresses visual geo-localization using image features, lacking multimodal integration.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Emotion Editing
Uses fMRI encoding representations to guide targeted emotional edits on images while preserving visual content.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on neural-guided image generation and editing rather than multimodal language-vision architectures.
Thyroid Nodule Segmentation in Ultrasound Images with Conformal Uncertainty Estimation
Combines deep segmentation networks with conformal prediction to estimate pixel-level uncertainty on thyroid ultrasound images.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Covers unimodal medical image segmentation, containing no multimodal integration.
CUBE: Class-conditioned Unknown Boundary Evidence for Open-Set Insect Species Recognition
Develops a class-conditioned boundary evidence method for open-set recognition of visually similar insect species.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on open-set visual classification rather than multimodal vision-language integration.
PhysForge: Material-Controllable 3D Reconstruction with Separable Components
Reconstructs physical 3D objects with controllable material properties and interaction dynamics via video diffusion models.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on physical 3D asset generation via video diffusion models rather than multimodal reasoning.
GLIMPSE: Global-Local Indexing with Multi-Precision Spectral Encoding for Explorable Video World Models
Designs a global-local memory interface with multi-precision spectral encoding for consistent video world models.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on video world model rendering and memory encoding rather than multimodal vision-language architectures.
State-Isolated Vision Mamba via Update-Tendency Routing for Underwater Image Enhancement
Introduces a state-isolation routing mechanism for Vision Mamba models to enhance spatially heterogeneous underwater images.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses solely on low-level image restoration with Vision Mamba, lacking cross-modal multimodal integration.
KVeil: First-Place Solution to ECCV 2026 LifeGenIP Challenge on Unlearnable Videos
Presents perturbation techniques to protect personal video data from unauthorized identity replication by generative models.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on adversarial perturbations against video generation models rather than multimodal understanding or reasoning.
Gaussian Splatting with Reflections Guided by What is Seen
Improves 2D Gaussian Splatting rendering of near-field reflections using observed image environment data.
Peer-reviewed
Multimodal models
via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses strictly on 3D novel view synthesis with 2D Gaussian Splatting, not multimodal models.
Neurons++: A Unified Visual-Stream Framework for Image and Video Reconstruction from fMRI with Neural-to-Visual Interpretability
Reconstructs images and videos from fMRI signals using cortex-inspired serial decoding and multimodal pre-training.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on brain fMRI-to-vision reconstruction rather than general multimodal language-vision architectures.
Shortcut Learning in Geospatial Foundation Model Embeddings for Cross-Disaster Damage Assessment
Evaluates shortcut learning and out-of-distribution failure in geospatial foundation models on cross-disaster damage assessment tasks.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on satellite imagery embeddings rather than multimodal text-image reasoning.
READ: Reading the Selective Scan for Faithful Video Attribution
Provides an attribution method for selective state-space video models by tracing accumulated recurrence in a single forward pass.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on video state-space model attribution rather than multimodal models.
Detection of extremely rare dead cells in fluorescence microscopy images
Benchmarks heuristic, machine learning, and deep learning methods for identifying rare dead cells in fluorescence microscopy.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Deals with biomedical image anomaly detection, not multimodal models.
SimVTA: Simulation-Grounded Video-Trajectory Alignment for Driving World Action Models
Proposes a simulation-grounded framework rendering real-world 3DGS scenes to supervise autonomous driving world action models.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on driving trajectory optimization with simulation, not multimodal language-vision integration.
Spanning Diffusion and Flow-based Posterior Sampling via Exact Gaussian Conditioning
Presents a unified plug-and-play posterior sampling framework combining diffusion and flow models via exact Gaussian conditioning.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Deals with sampling algorithms for diffusion models rather than multimodal reasoning.
Dream to Remember: Continual Steering of Generalist Robot Policies with World Models
Uses a frozen world model to continually steer generalist robot policies onto new tasks without catastrophic forgetting.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on robot control policy steering rather than multimodal understanding.
Event-based Action Recognition by Pre-Training on Multi-Frame Representations
Pre-trains vision transformers on multi-frame event camera data using masked auto-encoding for action recognition.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Applies masked autoencoding to event-camera video representations, not multimodal models.
Revisiting the Task of Building Damage Assessment by Satellite Imaging
Reviews satellite-based building damage assessment across data, evaluation protocols, and method formulations.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Examines satellite computer vision benchmarks rather than multimodal text-vision interaction.
Make It Flow: Animating Water in 3D Gaussian Splatting Scenes
Animates flowing water in static 3D Gaussian Splatting scenes using 2D optical flow lifted into a 3D Eulerian motion field.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Deals with graphics rendering and 3D visual animation rather than multimodal understanding.
Tracking the Invisible: Self-Supervised Wheel Track Detection with Thermal-RGB Fusion
Uses self-supervised thermal-RGB fusion to detect drivable wheel tracks on snow-covered roads for autonomous vehicles.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Deals with RGB-thermal fusion for tracking, not broad multimodal vision-language reasoning.
Beyond the Snowflakes: Disentangling Weather Effects from Confounding Meta-Factors in LiDAR Object Detection
Analyzes LiDAR object detection in snow to separate atmospheric noise from performance gains caused by increased point reflections.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Analyzes LiDAR object detection robustness rather than multimodal vision-language integration.
Where to Look Matters: Rethinking Sub-Volume Sampling in 3D Medical Self-supervised Learning
Replaces random crop sampling in 3D medical self-supervised learning with a guided probe bank based on anatomical priors.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Investigates medical image volume sampling rather than multimodal cross-domain models.
Chronos Policy: Learning Robot Policies on Physical Time
Formulates robot action diffusion policies that condition directly on physical timestamps using time-aware rotary positional embeddings.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on robot temporal policy learning rather than multimodal vision-language reasoning.
Images Talk Back: Guiding MMDiTs by Suppressing Image-to-Text Feedback
Improves multimodal diffusion transformer generation by suppressing image-to-text feedback loops during iterative denoising.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Investigates internal image-to-text feedback in text-to-image generative models, not multimodal tasks.
InstantFusion: A Shared Latent Interface for Heterogeneous Image Generators
Introduces a shared latent interface enabling handoff and translation of denoising trajectories across heterogeneous image diffusion models.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on image generation latent spaces rather than multimodal cross-domain understanding.
Towards Physically Grounded Articulated 3D Assets: A Multi-Agent Pipeline and Benchmark
Presents a multi-agent generation pipeline and benchmark for creating physically grounded, articulated 3D digital assets.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Deals with 3D articulated object generation rather than multimodal vision-language reasoning.
WaveMark: Robust Wavelet-Domain Image Watermarking for Diffusion Models
The paper proposes embedding multi-scale wavelet-domain watermarks into initial diffusion noise to enable robust provenance tracking under image removal attacks.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on watermarking generative image outputs rather than multimodal reasoning or cross-modal models.
Space Over Statistic, Retraining Over Ranking: Auditing Training Labels Under Label-Only Backdoors
The paper evaluates label-only backdoor defenses and demonstrates that inspecting representations in unpoisoned feature spaces improves poison detection accuracy.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on vision classifier auditing rather than multimodal vision-language architectures.
LETHE: Defending against Unauthorized Image-to-Video Generation via Value Diversity Collapse
The paper presents an adversarial perturbation defense that disrupts the value vector diversity in image-to-video diffusion models to prevent unauthorized generation.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Focuses on adversarial perturbations against image-to-video generative models rather than multimodal reasoning or understanding.
ECGWmark: Deep Watermarking for Electrocardiogram Signals
The paper proposes a deep convolutional, quantization-free watermarking framework to embed metadata into electrocardiogram signals without hurting diagnostic details.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Addresses 1D medical time-series signals rather than multimodal vision-language or cross-modal models.
Structured Sentiment Analysis Using Sequence Labeling as Dependency Graph Parsing
The paper models structured sentiment analysis as dependency graph parsing implemented through sequence labeling across five languages.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Studies text sentiment analysis without visual or multimodal modalities.
4-Tensor Attention Model for Semantic Physical Reality
The paper proposes a four-tensor attention architecture that jointly normalizes attention over semantic and temporal fibers for scene prediction.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Tests semantic states on text stories rather than multimodal vision-language models.
Thinking Inertia: LLMs Keep Thinking When Told Not To
The paper defines evaluation metrics to show that language models continue generating reasoning traces even when instructed not to think.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Analyzes text-only reasoning traces without multimodal capabilities.
DPPM: Dual-Path Parametric Memory for Personalized Language Models
The paper introduces a dual-path parametric memory method that combines pooled history representations with sequential adapter updates.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Addresses text-based conversation histories without multimodal integration.
Easy to anticipate, hard to compute: boundary dependence finds the computed outputs that entropy patching misses
The paper demonstrates that entropy-based byte patching misses predictable calculation points and proposes a boundary-dependence signal to fix it.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Investigates byte-level text models without multimodal or vision-language data.
Detecting Spin in Clinical Trials with Large Language Models
The paper develops an LLM-based pipeline to automatically detect outcome switching and presentation spin in clinical trial reports.
Peer-reviewed
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Analyzes clinical trial text without multimodal or visual components.
Can Decision Models Understand Stance? Evaluating Jev Against General-Purpose LLMs
The paper benchmarks a specialized decision model against general-purpose LLMs on English and Chinese stance detection tasks.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Evaluates text-only datasets without multimodal inputs.
Not Every Change Is Necessary: Recoverable Drift in Large Language Model Unlearning
The paper introduces a method to unlearn target knowledge while recovering collateral capability loss in non-target tasks.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Evaluates text-based language model unlearning without multimodal elements.
Event-Centric Memory with Query-Aware Graph Augmentation for Long-Term Conversational Agents
The paper proposes an event-centric memory framework that converts dialogue history into query-relevant graph working memory for conversational agents.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Evaluates text dialogue memory without addressing image, audio, or video modalities.
Project Greenhouse: Progress Toward Fully Open and Sovereign Agentic Search
The paper describes training a competitive decoder-only search reranker from scratch using modest computational resources and common datasets.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on text search and reranking without multimodal capabilities.
Specialized Decision Models vs. General-Purpose LLMs: Benchmarking Jev Across Knowledge, Reasoning, and Multilingual Tasks
The paper benchmarks a specialized multiple-choice decision model against 19 general-purpose LLMs across knowledge, reasoning, and multilingual tasks.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Evaluates text-based multiple-choice benchmarks without visual or multimodal inputs.
Natural Language to First-Order Logic LLM-based Autoformalization
The paper reviews LLM-based first-order logic autoformalization, distinguishing ontology extraction from logical translation and outlining key benchmarking challenges.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Deals with natural language and formal logic representations without multimodal data.
ILM: An AI-Powered Storytelling Educational Tool
The paper introduces an educational tool combining Arabic knowledge graphs and passage retrieval to generate narrative-based questions.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on text narratives and knowledge graphs without multimodal model components.
A persistent accuracy ceiling in automated verbal deception detection
The paper meta-analyzes 25 years of automated verbal deception detection models and identifies a persistent accuracy ceiling around 70 to 75 percent.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Analyzes verbal deception text models without multimodal integration.
Rehearse Everything, Remember Nothing: Attic-KV Rehearses What Will Be Read
The paper shows that whole-context KV cache rehearsal harms compression under tight budgets, proposing targeted rehearsal to preserve answer-relevant entries.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on text LLM KV cache management without multimodal inputs.
Language-Specific Effects of Tokenizer Choice in Multilingual Language Models
The paper trains 123 models across 54 tokenizers to show tokenizer choice matters more for languages with less training data.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Analyzes text tokenizers across languages without multimodal data.
When KL Regularization Misfires in Group Policy Optimization
Analyzes interaction failures between KL regularization and rewards in group policy optimization and proposes a calibrated surrogate objective.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Deals with language model policy optimization without multimodal inputs.
SciTBERT: A family of chronologically consistent language models for scientific and technological language processing
Releases BERT models pre-trained with yearly chronological cutoffs to reduce lookahead bias in scientific and patent text mining.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Deals with scientific and patent text without multimodal data.
Language Models as AI Research World Models
Evaluates whether language models can act as world models to predict empirical experimental outcomes across AI research workflows.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on predicting training experiment results without multimodal integration.
TokenRouter: Efficient Serving System for Token-Level LLM Routing
Designs an inference serving system optimized for dynamic, token-level routing across multiple language models.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on LLM serving infrastructure without multimodal components.
NativeScope: Relation-Localized Retrieval over Native Topology with a Correct Anchor
Proposes a scope-then-rank retrieval method using document topology and relational structure rather than pure semantic similarity.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
Not relevant
Applies to text retrieval over document structure without multimodal data.
HarnessSQL: Harness-Native Training for SQL Agents in Realistic Database Environments
Introduces a post-training framework that trains text-to-SQL agents directly inside interactive database execution environments.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Deals exclusively with text and SQL code without multimodal processing.
SparseDecoding: Decoding-Aware Pruning for Accurate and Efficient LLM Inference
Identifies distribution shift during autoregressive decoding and proposes a decoding-aware pruning method to accelerate model inference.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Optimizes language model inference without multimodal inputs.
VFold: Symmetry-Aware Cross-Layer Value Cache Compression
Presents a symmetry-aware value cache merging method to compress key-value memory during long-context decoding without architectural changes.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on transformer memory architecture without multimodal data.
Which Skill to Distill? SGUID: Selecting a Compact Skill Bank for Model-Skill Co-Evolution
Proposes a method to select a compact subset of procedural skills that provide effective training signals during model distillation.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on language model distillation without multimodal modalities.
Latent Core Tokenizer: Compress, but Meaningfully
Introduces a multilingual tokenizer that uses structural discovery and linguistic constraints to improve downstream model representations.
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses strictly on multilingual text tokenization without multimodal components.
Long Text to Predictive Features: LLM-Guided Blockwise Feature Engineering via Executable Program Search
Presents a framework that uses language models offline to generate executable feature-engineering code for tabular risk models.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Focuses on text processing and program generation without multimodal inputs.
SWE-Duel: Towards a Self-Scaling Arena for Coding Agents
Presents an arena benchmark where pairs of coding agents dynamically generate, test, and debug code against each other.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Operates on source code repositories and text rather than multimodal inputs.
Contextual Correction of Parallel Draftsfor Speculative Decoding
Introduces a lightweight correction mechanism to restore token dependencies during parallel draft generation in speculative decoding.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Applies to autoregressive text generation without multimodal inputs.
CLUE: A Contrastive Learning Framework for Unsupervised Event Type Induction and Annotation
Proposes an unsupervised framework using contrastive learning and clustering to induce, name, and annotate event types from text.
Preprint
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via arxiv · 12 Oct, 16:28
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Processes text inputs exclusively for event induction.
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