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QABBA: Symbolic Time-Series Compression via Integer-Quantized Aggregation
arXiv:2411.15209v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The expansion of time-series data from sensors and monitoring systems has made compact representations increasingly important. Such representations should retain signal…
Recursive Computation of Path Homology for Stratified Digraphs
arXiv:2412.05684v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Stratified digraphs are popular models for feedforward neural networks. However, computation of their path homologies has been limited to low dimensional ones due to hi…
Automatic Item Generation for Personality Situational Judgment Tests with Large Language Models
arXiv:2412.12144v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Personality assessment through situational judgment tests (SJTs) offers unique advantages over traditional Likert-type self-report scales, yet their development remains…
A Dichotomy Theorem for Ordinal Ranks in MSO
arXiv:2501.05385v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We focus on formulae $\exists X.\, \varphi(\vec{Y}, X)$ of monadic second-order logic over the full binary tree, such that the witness $X$ is a well-founded set. The or…
Security Testing Framework for Web Applications: Benchmarking ZAP V2.12.0 and V2.13.0 by OWASP as an example
arXiv:2501.05907v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The Huge growth in the usage of web applications has raised concerns regarding their security vulnerabilities, which in turn pushes toward robust security testing tools…
DICE: Distilling Classifier-Free Guidance into Text Embeddings
arXiv:2502.03726v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models are capable of generating high-quality images, but suboptimal pre-trained text representations often result in these images failing to al…
X-SG$^2$S: Safe and Generalizable Gaussian Splatting with X-dimensional Watermarks
arXiv:2502.10475v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has been widely used in 3D reconstruction and 3D generation. However, the rapid adoption of 3D Gaussian Splatting raises growing concerns a…
The Popularity Hypothesis in Software Security: A Large-Scale Replication with PHP Packages
arXiv:2502.16670v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: There has been a long-standing hypothesis that a software's popularity is related to its security or insecurity in both research and popular discourse. There are also a…
GuidedBench: Measuring and Mitigating the Evaluation Discrepancies of In-the-wild LLM Jailbreak Methods
arXiv:2502.16903v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite the growing interest in jailbreaks as an effective red-teaming tool for building safe and responsible large language models (LLMs), flawed evaluation system des…
Multi-View Causal Discovery without Non-Gaussianity: Identifiability and Algorithms
arXiv:2502.20115v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Causal discovery is a difficult problem that typically relies on strong assumptions on the data-generating model, such as non-Gaussianity. In practice, many modern appl…
D4orm: Multi-Robot Trajectories with Dynamics-aware Diffusion Denoised Deformations
arXiv:2503.12204v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This work presents an optimization method for generating kinodynamically feasible and collision-free multi-robot trajectories that exploits an incremental denoising sch…
Semi-Supervised Biomedical Image Segmentation via Diffusion Models and Teacher-Student Co-Training
arXiv:2504.01547v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Supervised deep learning achieves strong performance in biomedical image segmentation but relies on costly pixel-wise annotations, motivating semi-supervised approaches…
Exploiting Stability-Plasticity Asymmetry in Pretrained Detectors for Incremental Object Detection
arXiv:2504.10214v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Pretrained model-based incremental object detection (PTMIOD) leverages the rich detection priors of pretrained detectors to learn new categories incrementally while pre…
Differential Privacy Meets Invariant Statistics: Some Conundrums in Quantifying Trade-Offs
arXiv:2504.15246v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This work was inspired by the question of whether data swapping, a popular form of statistical disclosure control used to protect many data products including three rec…
Hydra: Marker-Free RGB-D Hand-Eye Calibration
arXiv:2504.20584v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This work presents an RGB-D imaging-based approach to marker-free hand-eye calibration using a novel implementation of the iterative closest point (ICP) algorithm with …
SARTM: Segment Any RGB Thermal Model with Language aided Distillation
arXiv:2505.01950v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) demonstrates strong instance segmentation performance across various downstream tasks. However, SAM is trained solely on RGB dat…
A Token is Worth over 1,000 Tokens: Efficient Knowledge Distillation through Low-Rank Clone
arXiv:2505.12781v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Training high-performing Small Language Models (SLMs) remains costly, even with knowledge distillation and pruning from larger teacher models. Existing work often faces…
ViPlan: A Benchmark for Visual Planning with Symbolic Predicates and Vision-Language Models
arXiv:2505.13180v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Integrating Large Language Models with symbolic planners is a promising direction for obtaining verifiable and grounded plans, with recent works extending this idea to …
InComeS: Integrating Compression and Selection Mechanisms into LLMs for Efficient Model Editing
arXiv:2505.22156v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Although existing model editing methods perform well in recalling exact edit facts, they often struggle in complex scenarios that require deeper semantic understanding …
Efficient Learning of Balanced Signed Graphs via Sparse Linear Programming
arXiv:2506.01826v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Signed graphs are equipped with both positive and negative edge weights, encoding pairwise correlations as well as anti-correlations in data. A balanced signed graph is…