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Current clustering or discrete attribute-based slice discovery methods face key limitations: 1) clustering results in incoherent slices, while assigning discrete attributes to slices leads to incomplete coverage of error patterns due to missing or insufficient attributes; 2) these methods lack complex reasoning, preventing them from fully explain","authors":["Ghosh, Shantanu","Syed, Rayan","Wang, Chenyu","Choudhary, Vaibhav","Li, Binxu","Poynton, Clare B."],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07832","arxiv_id":"2408.07832","published":"2026-08-07"},{"title":"Revisiting Black-Box Model Ownership Verification through Information Theory","abstract":"Modern machine learning models require substantial computational resources and data to train, making them valuable intellectual property. Model watermarking has emerged as a practical solution for black-box ownership verification, but existing methods suffer from a persistent trade-off between robustness and predictive utility. In this work, we analyze this limitation from an information-theoretic perspective and ide","authors":["Hu, Aoting","Chen, Yanzhi","Xie, Renjie","Zhang, Xinwei","Xu, Wei"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06130","arxiv_id":"2409.06130","published":"2026-08-07"},{"title":"Optimal or Greedy Decision Trees? Revisiting their Objectives, Tuning, and Performance","abstract":"Recently there has been a surge of interest in optimal decision tree (ODT) methods that globally optimize accuracy directly, in contrast to traditional approaches that locally optimize an impurity or information metric. However, the literature shows conflicting evidence on the value of ODTs, with some demonstrating superior out-of-sample performance of ODTs over greedy approaches, while others show the opposite. The ","authors":["van der Linden, Jacobus G. 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In this study, we systematically analyse similarities and differences betwee","authors":["Qiang, Zhangcheng","Taylor, Kerry","Wang, Weiqing"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.20302","arxiv_id":"2409.20302","published":"2026-08-07"},{"title":"Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) Attribution Using Deep Reinforcement Learning","abstract":"The development of the DRL model for malware attribution involved extensive research, iterative coding, and numerous adjustments based on the insights gathered from predecessor models and contemporary research papers. This preparatory work was essential to establish a robust foundation for the model, ensuring it could adapt and respond effectively to the dynamic nature of malware threats. Initially, the model struggl","authors":["Basnet, Animesh Singh","Ghanem, Mohamed Chahine","Dunsin, Dipo","Sowinski-Mydlarz, Wiktor"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11463","arxiv_id":"2410.11463","published":"2026-08-07"},{"title":"Leveraging LLM Embeddings for Cross Dataset Label Alignment and Zero Shot Music Emotion Prediction","abstract":"In this work, we present a novel method for music emotion recognition that leverages Large Language Model (LLM) embeddings for label alignment across multiple datasets and zero-shot prediction on novel categories. First, we compute LLM embeddings for emotion labels and apply non-parametric clustering to group similar labels, across multiple datasets containing disjoint labels. We use these cluster centers to map musi","authors":["Liu, Renhang","Roy, Abhinaba","Herremans, Dorien"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11522","arxiv_id":"2410.11522","published":"2026-08-07"},{"title":"Tree-NET: Enhancing 2D Medical Image Segmentation Through Efficient Low-Level Feature Training","abstract":"This paper introduces Tree-NET, a novel framework for medical image segmentation that leverages bottleneck supervision to enhance both segmentation accuracy and computational efficiency. While previous studies have applied bottleneck feature supervision to segmentation tasks, it has typically been limited to the training phase, offering no computational benefits during inference. To the best of our knowledge, this is","authors":["Demirci, Orhan","Yilmaz, Bulent"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.02140","arxiv_id":"2501.02140","published":"2026-08-07"},{"title":"Sparse Mixture-of-Experts for Non-Uniform Noise Reduction in MRI Images","abstract":"Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an essential diagnostic tool in clinical settings, but its utility is often hindered by noise artifacts introduced during the imaging process. Effective denoising is critical for enhancing image quality while preserving anatomical structures. However, traditional denoising methods, which often assume uniform noise distributions, struggle to handle the non-uniform noise commonly pre","authors":["Deng, Zeyun","Campbell, Joseph"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14198","arxiv_id":"2501.14198","published":"2026-08-07"},{"title":"Explanations of Large Language Models Explain Language Representations in the Brain","abstract":"Large Language Model (LLM) representations are known to align with brain activity during language processing, but it remains unclear what drives this alignment. We test whether explainable AI (XAI) can help answer this: using attribution methods, we quantify the contribution of each input word to an LLM's next-word predictions and use these explanations to predict fMRI data from participants listening to narrativ","authors":["Rahimi, Maryam","Daliri, Mohammad Reza","Yaghoobzadeh, Yadollah"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14671","arxiv_id":"2502.14671","published":"2026-08-07"},{"title":"Reward Shaping to Mitigate Reward Hacking in RLHF","abstract":"Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) is widely used to align large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. However, RLHF remains vulnerable to \\emph{reward hacking}, whereby a policy exploits imperfections in the reward function instead of learning the intended behavior, thereby undermining alignment. Although reward shaping can stabilize RLHF training and partially mitigate reward hacking, shapin","authors":["Fu, Jiayi","Zhao, Xuandong","Yao, Chengyuan","Wang, Heng","Han, Qi","Xiao, Yanghua"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18770","arxiv_id":"2502.18770","published":"2026-08-07"},{"title":"Afford-X: Generalizable and Slim Affordance Reasoning for Task-oriented Manipulation","abstract":"Object affordance reasoning, the ability to infer object functionalities based on physical properties, is fundamental for task-oriented planning and activities in both humans and Artificial Intelligence (AI). This capability, required for planning and executing daily activities in a task-oriented manner, relies on commonsense knowledge of object physics and functionalities, extending beyond simple object recognition.","authors":["Zhu, Xiaomeng","Li, Yuyang","Cui, Leiyao","Li, Pengfei","Gao, Huan-ang","Zhu, Yixin"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03556","arxiv_id":"2503.03556","published":"2026-08-07"},{"title":"A Study of LLMs' Preferences for Libraries and Programming Languages","abstract":"Despite the rapid progress of large language models (LLMs) in code generation, existing evaluations focus on functional correctness or syntactic validity, overlooking how LLMs make critical design choices such as which library or programming language to use. To fill this gap, we perform the first empirical study of LLMs' preferences for libraries and programming languages when generating code, covering eight dive","authors":["Twist, Lukas","Harman, Mark","Syme, Don","Noppen, Joost","Yannakoudakis, Helen","Nauck, Detlef"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17181","arxiv_id":"2503.17181","published":"2026-08-07"},{"title":"Visual Intention Grounding for Egocentric Assistants","abstract":"Visual grounding associates textual descriptions with objects in an image. Conventional methods target third-person image inputs and named object queries. In applications such as AI assistants, the perspective shifts -- inputs are egocentric, and objects may be referred to implicitly through needs and intentions. To bridge this gap, we introduce EgoIntention, the first dataset for egocentric visual intention groundin","authors":["Sun, Pengzhan","Xiao, Junbin","Tse, Tze Ho Elden","Li, Yicong","Akula, Arjun","Yao, Angela"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13621","arxiv_id":"2504.13621","published":"2026-08-07"},{"title":"Estimation of discrete distributions in relative entropy, and the deviations of the missing mass","abstract":"We study the problem of estimating a distribution over a finite alphabet from an i.i.d. sample, with accuracy measured in relative entropy (Kullback-Leibler divergence). While optimal bounds on the expected risk are known, high-probability guarantees remain less well-understood. First, we analyze the classical Laplace (add-one) estimator, obtaining matching upper and lower bounds on its performance and establishing i","authors":["Mourtada, Jaouad"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21787","arxiv_id":"2504.21787","published":"2026-08-07"},{"title":"ASAT: Adaptive Scoring and Thresholding with Human Feedback for Robust Out-of-Distribution Detection","abstract":"Machine Learning (ML) models are trained on in-distribution (ID) data but often encounter out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs during deployment---posing serious risks in safety-critical domains. Recent works have focused on designing scoring functions to quantify OOD uncertainty, with score thresholds typically set based solely on ID data to achieve a target true positive rate (TPR), since OOD data is limited before dep","authors":["Yamada, Daisuke","Vishwakarma, Harit","Vinayak, Ramya Korlakai"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02299","arxiv_id":"2505.02299","published":"2026-08-07"},{"title":"A Reverse-BSDE Diffusion Sampler","abstract":"Diffusion-based generative models have renewed interest in stochastic differential equation methods for sampling from complex distributions. We study a setting in which the target density is known only up to a normalizing constant and reformulate the reverse-time diffusion sampler as a forward-backward stochastic differential equation (FBSDE). This formulation replaces the separate pre-estimation of the time-dependen","authors":["Batista, Jairon H. N.","Gonçalves, Flávio B.","Saporito, Yuri F.","Targino, Rodrigo S."],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06800","arxiv_id":"2505.06800","published":"2026-08-07"},{"title":"MoCA: Multi-modal Cross-masked Autoencoder for Time Series in Digital Health","abstract":"Wearable devices enable continuous multi-modal physiological and behavioral monitoring, yet analysis of these data streams faces fundamental challenges including the lack of gold-standard labels and incomplete sensor data. While self-supervised learning approaches have shown promise for addressing these issues, existing multi-modal extensions present opportunities to better leverage the rich temporal and cross-modal ","authors":["Ryu, Howon","Chen, Yuliang","Wang, Yacun","LaCroix, Andrea Z.","Di, Chongzhi","Natarajan, Loki"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02260","arxiv_id":"2506.02260","published":"2026-08-07"},{"title":"Zero-Shot Multi-Disease Labeling of Chest, Abdomen, and Pelvis CT Reports Using Open-Weight Large Language Models: The Effect of Labeling Conventions","abstract":"Purpose: To compare five lightweight open-weight large language models (LLMs) with a rule-based algorithm (RBA) and fine-tuned RadBERT for zero-shot labeling of chest-abdomen-pelvis (CAP) CT reports, and to examine how labeling conventions affect measured performance. Materials and Methods: In this retrospective study, 40,833 CAP CT reports from 29,540 patients examined between 2012 and 2017 were analyzed; age and se","authors":["Garcia-Alcoser, Michael E.","Ghojoghnejad, Mobina","Tushar, Fakrul Islam","Kim, David","Lafata, Kyle J.","Rubin, Geoffrey D."],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03259","arxiv_id":"2506.03259","published":"2026-08-07"}],"history":{"events":[{"year":2020,"text":"Air India Express Flight 1344 overshot the runway at Calicut International Airport in Kerala, India, and crashed, killing 21 of the 190 people on board.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Express_Flight_1344"},{"year":1998,"text":"Car bombs exploded simultaneously at the American embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, killing more than 200 people and injuring more than 4,000 others.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_United_States_embassy_bombings"},{"year":1987,"text":"Lynne Cox became the 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