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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Match the Canvas, Not Just the Answer: Predictability-Aware SFT for Diffusion Language Models

Diffusion language models (DLMs) enable flexible parallel generation by resolving tokens according to the model's evolving predictability rather than a fixed left-to-right order. This flexibility, however, introduces training choices absent from standard autoregressive teacher forcing: which reference tokens are visibl...

Miao Li, Han-Yang Jiang, Heng-Yu Fu et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Saliency-Guided Replay for Continual Learning in Deep Spiking Neural Networks

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are promising for energy-efficient neuromorphic computing, but they still suffer from catastrophic forgetting when learning tasks sequentially. This work investigates the integration of Experience Packing and Replay (EPR) as a memory-efficient continual learning strategy for deep SNNs und...

Francesco Panetta, Federico Di Valerio, Michela Proietti · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

BELT : BEhavior-Aligned Low-Rank KV Cache Compression with Learned Top-k Rank Allocation

Long-context inference makes the key-value (KV) cache a major memory bottleneck for large language models. We propose BELT, a low-rank KV cache compression framework. Its key-side objective targets attention distributions rather than raw keys or pre-softmax logits, yielding a quadratic surrogate with a closed-form low-...

Yaoyang Liu, Shuwei Shen, Jincheng Tang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Better Capturing Interactions Between Products in~Retail: Revisited Negative Sampling for~Basket Choice Modeling

Brick-and-mortar retailers face many different challenges that involve understanding thoroughly its products catalog and customer preferences. In particular, assortment optimization - proposing the ideal mix of products - and promotion planning hold a pivotal role in their strategy. By leveraging sales data, retailers...

Jules D\'esir, Vincent Auriau, Martin Mo\v{z}ina et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

HaloBlock: Faster and Better Decoding for Diffusion Large Language Models

Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) have attracted increasing research attention due to their bidirectional attention and arbitrary order decoding. However, there are two issues in dLLMs inference: the decoding difficulty is dominated by the tokens on the right side of the block, and the block-wise decoding inheren...

Zhaohui Zheng, Chenhang He, Jinrui Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Evaluating the Causal Faithfulness of SHAP as a Candidate Attribution Method for SAE Features

Sparse autoencoders decompose language model representations into interpretable features, but feature interpretation in this literature remains predominantly correlational. Attribution methods offer more direct estimates of feature influence, yet their faithfulness to actual causal effects has not been systematically e...

Samuel Xie, N. Al Moubayed · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Interaction-as-a-Judge

Coding agents are tasked with producing sophisticated interactive applications such as websites, desktop applications, and games. While humans assess these applications interactively, current automated LLM evaluations primarily focus on code analysis and unit tests. This mismatch can cause LLM judges to miss failures t...

Wayne Chi, I-Hung Hsu, Li Chen et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

RT-J: Large-Scale Pretraining of Relational Transformers for Context-Efficient Predictions

This work introduces RT-J, an 86M-parameter relational foundation model (RFM) that makes accurate predictions even with hundreds of in-context examples or fewer, and highlights the importance of real-world semantics, context engineering and large-scale pretraining for RFMs.

Rishabh Ranjan, Vignesh Kothapalli, Harsh Agarwal et al. · 1 citation · ⚡1
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

TStruct: Learning Shared Temporal Structures for Long-Term Time Series Forecasting

Long-term time series forecasting requires learning temporal dependencies that remain stable and generalizable under temporal distribution shifts. However, real-world time series are often noisy, non-stationary, and heterogeneous, making deep learning models prone to overfitting incidental temporal interactions in the...

Yang-Ze Li, Zhen-Qiang Zhou, Qi-He Huang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

MMTA: Benchmarking Multimodal Temporal Analysis with Time Series, Text, and Vision

Time-series analysis is increasingly studied in multimodal settings, yet most benchmarks pair temporal signals with text or with visualizations derived from the same signal. This leaves open whether multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can integrate time series with real-world visual evidence. We introduce MMTA (mu...

Zi-Yang Zhang, Shen-Yi Li, Yi-Lin Wang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

FASHION-RQ: Mining Hierarchical Semantic Structure for Automated Evaluation of Fashion Retrieval

Evaluating fashion retrieval systems remains challenging due to the limited availability of benchmarks that capture the fine-grained, open-ended queries encountered in real-world search and recommendation. Existing benchmarks often rely on manual curation, predefined taxonomies, or synthetic prompts, limiting scalabili...

Tripti Shukla, Shwetha Somasundaram, Akshat Gupta et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Oct 2026

A Tutorial on Quantum Amplitude Embedding with Data Re-Uploading

This tutorial addresses the problem of explaining what data re-uploading adds to an amplitude-embedded model and how large the gain is and expresses sequential re-uploading and parallel re-uploading with two copies in one notation and shows that each upload raises the reachable polynomial order by two.

Hyojun Ahn, Joongheon Kim · 0 citations

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