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Previous endeavors typically treat","authors":["Li, Jiatong","Liu, Yunqing","Liu, Wei","Le, Jingdi","Zhang, Di","Fan, Wenqi"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.14721","arxiv_id":"2411.14721","published":"2026-07-16"},{"title":"FairCoder: Probing LLM Bias in High-Stakes Decision Making via Coding Tasks","abstract":"Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in high-stakes decisions such as hiring and college admissions, making their social bias a critical concern. While LLMs are trained to refuse explicitly biased requests, bias can be leaked implicitly during LLM planning and reasoning process. As code becomes the primary medium for LLM internal logic-writing, we introduce FairCoder, a benchmark that frames decision-ma","authors":["Du, Yongkang","Huang, Jen-tse","Zhao, Jieyu","Lin, Lu"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05396","arxiv_id":"2501.05396","published":"2026-07-16"},{"title":"Doing More with Less: A Survey on Routing Strategies for Resource Optimisation in Large Language Model-Based Systems","abstract":"Large Language Model (LLM)-based systems, i.e. interconnected elements that include an LLM as a central component, such as conversational agents, are usually designed with monolithic, static architectures that rely on a single, general-purpose LLM to handle all user queries. However, these systems may be inefficient as different queries may require different levels of reasoning, domain knowledge or pre-processing. 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Meanwhile, different components of the model exhibit var","authors":["Tang, Shengkun","Sieberling, Oliver","Kurtic, Eldar","Shen, Zhiqiang","Alistarh, Dan"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07780","arxiv_id":"2502.07780","published":"2026-07-16"},{"title":"On the Sublinear Regret of Continuous K-Max Bandits","abstract":"The $K$-Max combinatorial multi-armed bandit problem arises in applications such as recommendation and distributed decision making, where the reward is determined by the maximum outcome among $K$ selected arms. When outcomes are continuous and only the maximum value together with the winner's index is observed, this problem introduces unprecedented difficulties including discretization errors, non-deterministic t","authors":["Chen, Yu","Wang, Siwei","Huang, Longbo","Chen, Wei"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13467","arxiv_id":"2502.13467","published":"2026-07-16"},{"title":"PersGuard: Preventing Malicious Personalization in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Model Backdoors","abstract":"Diffusion models (DMs) have advanced text-to-image (T2I) synthesis, yet their personalization capabilities raise serious privacy and copyright concerns. Malicious actors can misuse these models to generate unauthorized portraits or artistic style replicas. Existing proactive defenses primarily rely on applying adversarial perturbations to reference images to disrupt training. However, these approaches face limitation","authors":["Liu, Xinwei","Jia, Xiaojun","Xun, Yuan","Zhang, Hua","Cao, Xiaochun"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16167","arxiv_id":"2502.16167","published":"2026-07-16"},{"title":"Fully AI-Generated Image Detection: Definition, Recent Advances and Challenges","abstract":"Recent advances in visual generative models have enabled the creation of highly realistic, fully AI-generated images without relying on real source content. While beneficial for many applications, these models also pose significant societal risks, as they can be easily exploited to produce convincing Deepfakes. Detecting them represents a foundational yet challenging problem in AI media forensics, requiring detectors","authors":["Xu, Qijie","Wang, Can","Chen, Jiawei","Lyu, Siwei","Chen, Defang"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19716","arxiv_id":"2502.19716","published":"2026-07-16"},{"title":"Robust Palm-Vein Recognition Using the MMD Filter: Improving SIFT-Based Feature Matching","abstract":"A major challenge with palm vein images is that slight movements of the fingers and thumb, or variations in hand posture, can stretch the skin in different areas and alter the vein patterns. This can result in an infinite number of variations in palm vein images for a given individual. This paper introduces a novel filtering technique for SIFT-based feature matching, known as the Mean and Median Distance (MMD) Filter","authors":["Perera, Kaveen","Khelifi, Fouad","Belatreche, Ammar"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01612","arxiv_id":"2503.01612","published":"2026-07-16"},{"title":"New universal operator approximation theorem for encoder-decoder architectures","abstract":"Motivated by the rapidly growing field of mathematics for operator approximation with neural networks, we present a novel universal operator approximation theorem for broad classes of encoder-decoder architectures and a wide range of input and output spaces. In this study, we focus on the approximation of continuous operators between infinite-dimensional normed or metric spaces in the topology of uniform convergence ","authors":["Gödeke, Janek","Fernsel, Pascal"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.24092","arxiv_id":"2503.24092","published":"2026-07-16"},{"title":"ORBIT-2: Scaling Exascale Vision Foundation Models for Weather and Climate Downscaling","abstract":"Sparse observations and coarse-resolution climate models limit effective regional decision-making, underscoring the need for robust downscaling. However, existing AI methods struggle with generalization across variables and geographies and are constrained by the quadratic complexity of Vision Transformer (ViT) self-attention. We introduce ORBIT-2, a scalable foundation model for global, hyper-resolution climate downs","authors":["Wang, Xiao","Choi, Jong-Youl","Kurihaya, Takuya","Lyngaas, Isaac","Yoon, Hong-Jun","Xiao, Xi"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04802","arxiv_id":"2505.04802","published":"2026-07-16"},{"title":"Efficient LiDAR Reflectance Compression via Scanning Serialization","abstract":"Reflectance attributes in LiDAR point clouds provide essential information for downstream tasks but remain underexplored in neural compression methods. To address this, we introduce SerLiC, a serialization-based neural compression framework to fully exploit the intrinsic characteristics of LiDAR reflectance. SerLiC first transforms 3D LiDAR point clouds into 1D sequences via scan-order serialization, offering a devic","authors":["Zhu, Jiahao","You, Kang","Ding, Dandan","Ma, Zhan"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09433","arxiv_id":"2505.09433","published":"2026-07-16"},{"title":"Optimizing Binary and Ternary Neural Network Inference on RRAM Crossbars using CIM-Explorer","abstract":"Using Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) crossbars in Computing-in-Memory (CIM) architectures offers a promising solution to overcome the von Neumann bottleneck. Due to non-idealities like cell variability, RRAM crossbars are often operated in binary mode, utilizing only two states: Low Resistive State (LRS) and High Resistive State (HRS). Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) and Ternary Neural Networks (TNNs) are well-s","authors":["Pelke, Rebecca","Cubero-Cascante, José","Bosbach, Nils","Degener, Niklas","Idrizi, Florian","Reimann, Lennart M."],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14303","arxiv_id":"2505.14303","published":"2026-07-16"},{"title":"NSNQuant: A Double Normalization Approach for Calibration-Free Low-Bit Vector Quantization of KV Cache","abstract":"Large Language Model (LLM) inference is typically memory-intensive, especially when processing large batch sizes and long sequences, due to the large size of key-value (KV) cache. Vector Quantization (VQ) is recently adopted to alleviate this issue, but we find that the existing approach is susceptible to distribution shift due to its reliance on calibration datasets. To address this limitation, we introduce NSNQuant","authors":["Son, Donghyun","Choi, Euntae","Yoo, Sungjoo"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18231","arxiv_id":"2505.18231","published":"2026-07-16"},{"title":"Global and Local Contrastive Learning for Joint Representations from Cardiac MRI and ECG","abstract":"An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a widely used, cost-effective tool for detecting electrical abnormalities in the heart. However, it cannot directly measure functional parameters, such as ventricular volumes and ejection fraction, which are crucial for assessing cardiac function. Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is the gold standard for these measurements, providing detailed structural and functional insights, but is ex","authors":["Selivanov, Alexander","Müller, Philip","Turgut, Özgün","Stolt-Ansó, Nil","Rückert, Daniel"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20683","arxiv_id":"2506.20683","published":"2026-07-16"},{"title":"Uniform Approximation of Functions with Asymmetric Growth and Decay by Deep Weighted Polynomials","abstract":"Functions that grow without bound on one side of the real line and decay to zero on the other cannot be approximated uniformly by ordinary polynomials on unbounded domains. Motivated by classical weighted polynomial approximation, we introduce a class of one-sided weighted \\emph{deep} (composite) polynomial approximants for such asymmetric targets. The weight suppresses polynomial growth on the decaying side, while t","authors":["Yeon, Kingsley","Damelin, Steven B."],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21306","arxiv_id":"2506.21306","published":"2026-07-16"},{"title":"Physics-informed network paradigm with data generation and background noise removal for diverse distributed acoustic sensing applications","abstract":"Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) has attracted considerable attention across various fields and artificial intelligence (AI) technology plays an important role in DAS applications to realize event recognition and denoising. Existing AI models require real-world data (RWD), whether labeled or not, for training, which is contradictory to the fact of limited available event data in real-world scenarios. Here, a physic","authors":["Wan, Yangyang","Wang, Haotian","Yu, Xuhui","Chen, Jiageng","Fan, Xinyu","He, Zuyuan"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21952","arxiv_id":"2506.21952","published":"2026-07-16"},{"title":"Efficiency, Feasibility, and Incentive-Awareness in Constrained Online Resource Allocation","abstract":"We study the dynamic allocation of indivisible resources to strategic agents under long-term constraints, where the planner aims to maximize social welfare, satisfy multiple constraints, and elicit near-truthful reports. We find standard primal-dual methods fragile in this setting: agents easily manipulate their reports to distort dual variables, sacrificing social efficiency for individual utility. To address this, ","authors":["Dai, Yan","Golrezaei, Negin","Jaillet, Patrick"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09473","arxiv_id":"2507.09473","published":"2026-07-16"},{"title":"Post-Disaster Affected Area Segmentation with a Vision Transformer (ViT)-based EVAP Model using Sentinel-2 and Formosat-5 Imagery","abstract":"We propose a vision transformer (ViT)-based deep learning framework to refine disaster-affected area segmentation from remote sensing imagery, aiming to support and enhance the Emergent Value Added Product (EVAP) developed by the Taiwan Space Agency (TASA). The process starts with a small set of manually annotated regions. We then apply principal component analysis (PCA)-based feature space analysis and construct a c","authors":["Chu, Yi-Shan","Wei, Hsuan-Cheng"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16849","arxiv_id":"2507.16849","published":"2026-07-16"},{"title":"A Survey on Hypergame Theory: Modelling Misaligned Perceptions and Nested Beliefs for Multi-Agent Systems","abstract":"Classical game-theoretic models typically assume rational agents, complete information, and common knowledge of payoffs - assumptions that are often violated in real-world MAS characterized by uncertainty, misaligned perceptions, and nested beliefs. To overcome these limitations, researchers have proposed extensions that incorporate models of cognitive constraints, subjective beliefs, and heterogeneous reasoning. Amo","authors":["Trencsenyi, Vince","Mensfelt, Agnieszka","Stathis, Kostas"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19593","arxiv_id":"2507.19593","published":"2026-07-16"},{"title":"Hierarchical Scoring for Machine Learning Classifier Error Impact Evaluation","abstract":"A common use of machine learning (ML) models is predicting the class of a sample. Object detection is an extension of classification that includes localization of the object via a bounding box within the sample. Classification, and by extension object detection, is typically evaluated by counting a prediction as incorrect if the predicted label does not match the ground truth label. This pass/fail scoring treats all ","authors":["Lanus, Erin","Wolodkin, Daniel","Freeman, Laura J."],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04489","arxiv_id":"2508.04489","published":"2026-07-16"}],"history":{"events":[{"year":2013,"text":"At least 23 students died and dozens more fell ill at a primary school in the Indian state of Bihar after consuming a Midday Meal that was contaminated with pesticide.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bihar"},{"year":2008,"text":"A tainted milk powder scandal broke in China which ultimately involved an estimated 300,000 victims, the vast majority infants, with 54,000 hospitalized with kidney problems and six deaths.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal"},{"year":2007,"text":"A magnitude-6.6 earthquake struck off the coast of Niigata Prefecture, Japan, causing a leak of radioactive gases from the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Ch%C5%ABetsu_offshore_earthquake"},{"year":2004,"text":"Millennium Park, a public park in Chicago, Illinois, and one of the world's largest rooftop gardens, opened to the public.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Park"},{"year":1994,"text":"Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 began colliding with the planet Jupiter , with the first impact causing a fireball that reached a peak temperature of 24,000 kelvin.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9"},{"year":1990,"text":"A 7.8 MS earthquake struck the densely populated Philippine island of Luzon, killing an estimated 1,621 people.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-wave_magnitude"},{"year":1983,"text":"A Sikorsky S-61 helicopter operated by British Airways crashed in thick fog in the Celtic Sea, killing 20 of the 26 people on board.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_S-61"},{"year":1965,"text":"South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo (pictured)—an undetected communist spy—was reported dead due to injuries sustained during his capture, but it is generally assumed he was killed on the orders of military officials.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_the_Republic_of_Vietnam"},{"year":1951,"text":"The Catcher in the Rye (cover pictured), an American coming-of-age novel by J. 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