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Team RAS in 11th ABAW Competition: Multimodal Ambivalence Recognition Approach
arXiv:2607.14702v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic recognition of ambivalence and hesitancy is challenging because these states may be expressed through inconsistent linguistic, acoustic, facial, and contextual pa…
Pretraining Multiple Instance Learning Networks with Multi-Teacher Distillation from Pathology Slide Foundation Models
arXiv:2607.14703v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multiple instance learning (MIL) has become the main paradigm for whole-slide image (WSI) analysis in computational pathology. However, existing MIL aggregators are still t…
Grad2Fair: A Gradient-driven Approach for Graph Fairness without Demographics
arXiv:2607.14705v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph neural networks (GNNs) frequently encounter group fairness issues, often yielding biased predictions against specific demographic groups defined by sensitive attribut…
MESHA: Mechanism-Enforced Sequential Halving for Strategic Linear Bandits
arXiv:2607.14706v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We design and analyze \underline{M}echanism-\underline{E}nforced \underline{S}equential \underline{HA}lving (MESHA), an algorithm for Best Arm Identification (BAI) in strat…
Harnessing LLMs for Reliable Academic Supervision: A Comparative Study
arXiv:2607.14707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models routinely produce fluent answers to single-shot prompts, yet deploying them as reliable components of a domain decision system is substantially harder…
Reinforcement Learning for the Full Strawberry Harvesting Process: Obstacle Separation, Detachment, and Placement
arXiv:2607.14708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Severe occlusions and deformable plant structures introduce complex contact dynamics that challenge robotic strawberry harvesting. A policy-driven reinforcement learning (R…
Gold-Guided Programmatic Distillation for Financial Reasoning over Hybrid Tables and Text
arXiv:2607.14709v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial question answering over hybrid tabular and textual data may require multi-source reasoning and precise numerical computation. While large language models (LLMs) c…
Variational Inference for Bird's Eye View Segmentation in Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.14710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The bird's eye view (BEV) has emerged as a pivotal approach for environmental perception in autonomous driving, providing a unified spatial representation for vehicles. Nev…
VideoSEMA: a scalable and efficient Mamba-like attention for video understanding
arXiv:2607.14711v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present for video understanding (classification) a split space-time attention model, VideoSEMA, consisting of a scalable and efficient Mamba-like attention (SEMA) block …
Counterfactuals for Feature-Weighted Clustering
arXiv:2607.14719v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Counterfactual explanations provide local, interpretable insight by identifying changes to an input that would alter its assigned outcome. Although well established in supe…
Causal-Adversarial Probing of Clinical Covariates for Prostate MRI Grading
arXiv:2607.14720v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning models for prostate MRI-based cancer grading may encode clinical covariates that either reflect useful disease-related signal or non-generalising shortcut inf…
Multimodality as Supervision: Self-Supervised Specialization to the Test Environment via Multimodality
arXiv:2607.14721v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-modal learning, i.e., learning to predict one modality from another, is a fundamental mechanism for self-supervision via leveraging multimodality. Many practical appl…
BridgeFlow: Fast and Robust SE(2)-Equivariant Motion Planning with Flow Matching
arXiv:2607.14725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In robotic motion planning, equivariance to rigid body transformations is crucial for robust spatial generalization. However, current learning-based planners face a critica…
AE-UAV: An Air-to-Air Event-Based UAV Tracking Benchmark and a Real-Time Frequency-Domain Tracker
arXiv:2607.14726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Air-to-air (A2A) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking is fundamental to airborne remote sensing of low-altitude aerial targets. However, the deployment of continuous, rea…
WorkDrive: Roadwork Chain of Causation for Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.14727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving vision-language models (VLMs) struggle in roadwork zones, where familiar visual cues such as lane markings and permanent signs are altered or absent, and…
VQ-Touch: A Data-Efficient Tactile Generation Framework Across Sensors and Scenarios
arXiv:2607.14728v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile image generation significantly reduces the dependency on expensive and wear-prone sensors by synthesizing high-fidelity tactile data, offering an efficient solution…
The Misclassification of Autistic Writing as AI-Generated
arXiv:2607.14729v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent findings suggest that detection models for artificial intelligence (AI) cannot accurately identify AI-generated text and may exhibit bias against certain minority gr…
Hybrid Rigid-Soft Robotic Gripper with Shape Adaptation, Uniform Force Distribution, and Self-Locking Capabilities
arXiv:2607.14730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional robotic grippers face a significant challenge in agricultural automation: the trade-off between compliant, adaptive grasping, pressure balancing among all join…
What's in a Smoothness Constant? Tighter Rates for Local SGD with Bounded Second-order Heterogeneity
arXiv:2607.14731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Local SGD, also known as Federated Averaging, is a widely used distributed optimization algorithm. Although Local SGD often outperforms alternatives such as Mini-batch SGD …
GAttNHP: Group Attention Neural Hawkes Process for Extrapolation Reasoning in Temporal Knowledge Graphs
arXiv:2607.14733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGs) record how facts evolve over time, but forecasting future events on a TKG remains difficult for three reasons: (i) long-range temporal depe…