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Open-World Semantic Segmentation with Sensitivity Modeling
arXiv:2608.08308v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern vision systems must operate in "open-world" settings, where models must recognize known categories and detect unseen or anomalous content. Conventional semantic …
Three Necessary Principles for Self-Supervised Visual Representation Learning
arXiv:2608.08309v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We argue that learning visual representations without labels requires a training signal jointly complete across three non-overlapping objectives: semantic invariance ac…
Not Worth Another Token: Marginal Value Estimation for Efficient Deep Research Agents
arXiv:2608.08389v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon research agents solve open-ended tasks through iterative retrieval, aggregation, and synthesis, but context grows rapidly while the marginal value of addit…
OccAnyScene: Towards Unified Indoor-Outdoor 3D Occupancy Prediction
arXiv:2608.08696v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 3D occupancy prediction is fundamental to scene understanding, yet existing 3D semantic occupancy methods are typically specialized to fixed scene types and occupancy p…
Self-Geometry: GT-Free and Plug-and-Play Test-Time Adaptation for Geometrically Consistent 3D Vision Foundation Models
arXiv:2608.10708v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) predict depth, camera pose, and pointmap in a single forward pass without per-scene optimization, achieving strong generalization…
Uniform discrete Poincar\'e inequalities for Hybrid High-Order differential forms on polyhedral meshes
arXiv:2608.10713v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce a Hybrid High-Order framework for differential forms on general polyhedral meshes and characterise stability-admissible face spaces in terms of the traces …
REAP: Relation-Aware Elicitation and Parsing for Closed-Book Knowledge Base Construction from LLMs
arXiv:2608.10963v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present the REAP system for the AKBC Shared Task 2026 on constructing knowledge bases from language models in a closed-book setting, subject to a budget of at most 3…
The Minimum-Weight Mixed Dominating Set on Threshold Graphs
arXiv:2608.11057v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study the minimum-weight mixed dominating set problem on threshold graphs. In this problem, vertices and edges have weights, and the goal is to find a mixed set of m…
Agentic Configuration Management (ACM): A Reference Configuration Model for Governed Agentic Systems
arXiv:2608.11166v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic systems are increasingly composed of heterogeneous agents, prompts, tools, models, skills, composite subsystems, policies, and execution workflows whose configu…
Preference Tree Optimization: Enhancing Goal-Oriented Dialogue with Look-Ahead Simulations
arXiv:2608.12062v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Developing dialogue systems capable of engaging in multi-turn, goal-oriented conversations remains a significant challenge, especially in specialized domains with limit…
TransfHAR: Self-Supervised Wrist Representations for On-Demand Activity Recognition
arXiv:2608.15861v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fine-grained wrist activity recognition can support applications such as procedural step guidance and context-aware assistance, yet acquiring labeled data for every new…
OVIP-SG: Open-Vocabulary Instance-Preserving Scene Graphs for Mapping and Retrieval of Small, Fine-Grained Objects
arXiv:2608.17633v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Integrating open-vocabulary perception into object-level 3D scene graphs is a double-edged sword. While vision-language detectors recover long-tail categories and small…
LoRA-GA$^2$: Low Rank Adaptation with Multi-step Gradient Adaptive Alignment
arXiv:2608.19800v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) is a prominent fine-tuning method for large models, achieving competitive performance with reduced memory overhead. However, a persistent per…
FlavourBench: Executable Culinary Reward Maps for Language Model Evaluation and Post-Training
arXiv:2608.20574v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce FlavorBench: a benchmark for Compiling Dense Deterministic Answer Maps from a Versioned Culinary Embeddings Model. We test 27 frontier large language model…
Agentic Scaffolding Amplifies Sycophantic Behavior in Large Language Models
arXiv:2608.21377v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sycophancy in large language models, the tendency to prioritize user agreement over truthful responses, has been documented extensively but studied primarily in single-…
ToSCA: Leveraging Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning on Temporal and Strategic Abstractions of Conversational Agents
arXiv:2608.21969v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humans naturally exhibit multiple forms of abstraction in reasoning and interaction, including temporal abstraction across decision timescales and strategic abstraction…
Whitewashing Hate, Smearing Harmless Content: Annotator-Style Rebuttal Attacks on LLM-Based Moderation
arXiv:2608.22230v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for hate speech moderation, often within human--AI workflows in which reviewers provide feedback before a final decis…
Poetic Heritage for Culturally Grounded Emotional Support: An Interaction Design Framework and Its Multimodal Agentic Instantiation
arXiv:2608.22639v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Digital systems increasingly mediate emotional support, yet their interactions often remain culturally generic. Accordingly, we examine how a poetic tradition can be op…
Mol-JEPA: A multimodal Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture for Molecules
arXiv:2608.22642v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite recent advances in molecular foundation models, several limitations remain, such as chemically invalid augmentations, modality collapse, and incomplete represen…
The Axiomatic Trader: Latent Regularity, Information Budgets, and the Canonical Form of a Quantitative Investment System
arXiv:2608.23416v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Systematic trading rests on one article of faith: that regularities found in the past persist. This paper does three things. First, it states that faith as five axioms,…