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FRSICL: LLM-Enabled In-Context Learning Flight Resource Allocation for Fresh Data Collection in UAV-Assisted Wildfire Monitoring
Artificial IntelligenceAlgorithms & TheoryRobotics

FRSICL: LLM-Enabled In-Context Learning Flight Resource Allocation for Fresh Data Collection in UAV-Assisted Wildfire Monitoring

Researchers developed a system to improve data collection by UAVs monitoring wildfires, which could help detect and respond to wildfires faster, reducing environmental damage.

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Text Before Vision: Staged Knowledge Injection Matters for Agentic RLVR in Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Understanding
Artificial IntelligenceReinforcement LearningComputer VisionIn Focus

Text Before Vision: Staged Knowledge Injection Matters for Agentic RLVR in Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Understanding

A new AI system can better understand complex satellite images by first learning relevant information through text, before analyzing the visual data. This could improve how we use satellite imagery to study the environment and plan infrastructure.

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From Subtle to Significant: Prompt-Driven Self-Improving Optimization in Test-Time Graph OOD Detection
Artificial IntelligenceAlgorithms & TheoryGenerative AI

From Subtle to Significant: Prompt-Driven Self-Improving Optimization in Test-Time Graph OOD Detection

Researchers developed a way to detect when a graph model is being used on data it wasn't trained on, helping ensure the reliability of graph AI systems in real-world applications.

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Just KIDDIN: Knowledge Infusion and Distillation for Detection of INdecent Memes
Artificial IntelligenceCybersecurityGenerative AI

Just KIDDIN: Knowledge Infusion and Distillation for Detection of INdecent Memes

Researchers developed a framework to better detect toxic content online by combining text and images, which could help make social media platforms safer for users.

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Conv-FinRe: A Conversational and Longitudinal Benchmark for Utility-Grounded Financial Recommendation
Artificial IntelligenceAlgorithms & TheoryNatural Language Processing

Conv-FinRe: A Conversational and Longitudinal Benchmark for Utility-Grounded Financial Recommendation

Researchers developed a benchmark to evaluate AI systems that give financial advice, focusing on long-term utility rather than just imitating user behavior, which can be short-sighted in volatile markets.

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Position-Aware Scene-Appearance Disentanglement for Bidirectional Photoacoustic Microscopy Registration
Artificial IntelligenceComputer VisionOptics & Photonics

Position-Aware Scene-Appearance Disentanglement for Bidirectional Photoacoustic Microscopy Registration

Researchers developed a technique to align microscope images taken from opposite scan directions, which could improve the speed and accuracy of photoacoustic imaging used for medical diagnosis and research.

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CLEF HIPE-2026: Evaluating Accurate and Efficient Person-Place Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Texts
Artificial IntelligenceNatural Language ProcessingAlgorithms & Theory

CLEF HIPE-2026: Evaluating Accurate and Efficient Person-Place Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Texts

A new CLEF evaluation lab will test how well AI systems can extract information about people and places from old texts written in different languages. This could help historians and journalists better understand the connections between historical figures and locations.

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PETS: A Principled Framework Towards Optimal Trajectory Allocation for Efficient Test-Time Self-Consistency
Artificial IntelligenceAlgorithms & TheoryComputer Vision

PETS: A Principled Framework Towards Optimal Trajectory Allocation for Efficient Test-Time Self-Consistency

A new framework called PETS helps AI models perform more consistently during testing, which could lead to more reliable and effective AI systems in real-world applications.

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Conditional Flow Matching for Continuous Anomaly Detection in Autonomous Driving on a Manifold-Aware Spectral Space
Artificial IntelligenceComputer VisionRobotics

Conditional Flow Matching for Continuous Anomaly Detection in Autonomous Driving on a Manifold-Aware Spectral Space

Researchers developed a new method to help self-driving cars continuously detect and avoid rare, risky situations, improving safety for autonomous vehicles.

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Artificial IntelligenceNatural Language ProcessingAlgorithms & Theory

The Cascade Equivalence Hypothesis: When Do Speech LLMs Behave Like ASR$\rightarrow$LLM Pipelines?

Current speech language models can perform as well as combining speech recognition with language models, without explicit speech recognition. This means these speech models can produce accurate text output from audio inputs more efficiently.

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Artificial IntelligenceNatural Language Processing

When Semantic Overlap Is Not Enough: Cross-Lingual Euphemism Transfer Between Turkish and English

Researchers found that translating culturally-sensitive phrases between languages is challenging, as meaning can be lost when words with similar definitions don't convey the same social context.

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ALPS: A Diagnostic Challenge Set for Arabic Linguistic & Pragmatic Reasoning
Artificial IntelligenceNatural Language ProcessingDiagnostics & Imaging

ALPS: A Diagnostic Challenge Set for Arabic Linguistic & Pragmatic Reasoning

Researchers created a new Arabic language test called ALPS to check if AI language models truly understand complex linguistic and pragmatic aspects of the Arabic language, beyond just literal translations.

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LORA-CRAFT: Cross-layer Rank Adaptation via Frozen Tucker Decomposition of Pre-trained Attention Weights
Artificial IntelligenceAlgorithms & TheoryNatural Language Processing

LORA-CRAFT: Cross-layer Rank Adaptation via Frozen Tucker Decomposition of Pre-trained Attention Weights

Researchers developed a way to make AI language models more efficient by decomposing attention weights, which could lead to faster and cheaper AI systems.

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SpectralGCD: Spectral Concept Selection and Cross-modal Representation Learning for Generalized Category Discovery
Artificial IntelligenceAlgorithms & TheoryComputer Vision

SpectralGCD: Spectral Concept Selection and Cross-modal Representation Learning for Generalized Category Discovery

Researchers developed a new AI algorithm that can automatically discover and categorize unknown types of data, potentially enabling better organization and discovery of digital content. This could lead to improved search, recommendation, and content organization systems.

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Intent Laundering: AI Safety Datasets Are Not What They Seem
Artificial IntelligenceAlgorithms & TheoryCybersecurity

Intent Laundering: AI Safety Datasets Are Not What They Seem

A new study finds that popular AI safety datasets used to train models may not accurately reflect real-world attacks, raising concerns about the reliability of AI safety systems.

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From Subtle to Significant: Prompt-Driven Self-Improving Optimization in Test-Time Graph OOD Detection
Artificial IntelligenceAlgorithms & TheoryGenerative AI

From Subtle to Significant: Prompt-Driven Self-Improving Optimization in Test-Time Graph OOD Detection

Researchers developed a way to detect when a graph model is being used on data it wasn't trained on, helping ensure the reliability of graph AI systems in real-world applications.

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Conv-FinRe: A Conversational and Longitudinal Benchmark for Utility-Grounded Financial Recommendation
Artificial IntelligenceAlgorithms & TheoryEconomics

Conv-FinRe: A Conversational and Longitudinal Benchmark for Utility-Grounded Financial Recommendation

Researchers developed a benchmark to evaluate AI systems that give financial advice, focusing on long-term utility rather than just imitating user behavior, which can be short-sighted in volatile markets.

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CLEF HIPE-2026: Evaluating Accurate and Efficient Person-Place Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Texts
Artificial IntelligenceNatural Language ProcessingAlgorithms & Theory

CLEF HIPE-2026: Evaluating Accurate and Efficient Person-Place Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Texts

A new CLEF evaluation lab will test how well AI systems can extract information about people and places from old texts written in different languages. This could help historians and journalists better understand the connections between historical figures and locations.

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PETS: A Principled Framework Towards Optimal Trajectory Allocation for Efficient Test-Time Self-Consistency
Artificial IntelligenceAlgorithms & TheoryComputer Vision

PETS: A Principled Framework Towards Optimal Trajectory Allocation for Efficient Test-Time Self-Consistency

A new framework called PETS helps AI models perform more consistently during testing, which could lead to more reliable and effective AI systems in real-world applications.

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Conditional Flow Matching for Continuous Anomaly Detection in Autonomous Driving on a Manifold-Aware Spectral Space
Artificial IntelligenceComputer VisionReinforcement Learning

Conditional Flow Matching for Continuous Anomaly Detection in Autonomous Driving on a Manifold-Aware Spectral Space

Researchers developed a new method to help self-driving cars continuously detect and avoid rare, risky situations, improving safety for autonomous vehicles.

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Artificial IntelligenceNatural Language ProcessingAlgorithms & Theory

The Cascade Equivalence Hypothesis: When Do Speech LLMs Behave Like ASR$\rightarrow$LLM Pipelines?

Current speech language models can perform as well as combining speech recognition with language models, without explicit speech recognition. This means these speech models can produce accurate text output from audio inputs more efficiently.

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Artificial IntelligenceNatural Language Processing

When Semantic Overlap Is Not Enough: Cross-Lingual Euphemism Transfer Between Turkish and English

Researchers found that translating culturally-sensitive phrases between languages is challenging, as meaning can be lost when words with similar definitions don't convey the same social context.

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ALPS: A Diagnostic Challenge Set for Arabic Linguistic & Pragmatic Reasoning
Artificial IntelligenceNatural Language ProcessingDiagnostics & Imaging

ALPS: A Diagnostic Challenge Set for Arabic Linguistic & Pragmatic Reasoning

Researchers created a new Arabic language test called ALPS to check if AI language models truly understand complex linguistic and pragmatic aspects of the Arabic language, beyond just literal translations.

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LORA-CRAFT: Cross-layer Rank Adaptation via Frozen Tucker Decomposition of Pre-trained Attention Weights
Artificial IntelligenceAlgorithms & TheoryNatural Language Processing

LORA-CRAFT: Cross-layer Rank Adaptation via Frozen Tucker Decomposition of Pre-trained Attention Weights

Researchers developed a way to make AI language models more efficient by decomposing attention weights, which could lead to faster and cheaper AI systems.

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SpectralGCD: Spectral Concept Selection and Cross-modal Representation Learning for Generalized Category Discovery
Artificial IntelligenceAlgorithms & TheoryComputer Vision

SpectralGCD: Spectral Concept Selection and Cross-modal Representation Learning for Generalized Category Discovery

Researchers developed a new AI algorithm that can automatically discover and categorize unknown types of data, potentially enabling better organization and discovery of digital content. This could lead to improved search, recommendation, and content organization systems.

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Intent Laundering: AI Safety Datasets Are Not What They Seem
Artificial IntelligenceAlgorithms & TheoryCybersecurity

Intent Laundering: AI Safety Datasets Are Not What They Seem

A new study finds that popular AI safety datasets used to train models may not accurately reflect real-world attacks, raising concerns about the reliability of AI safety systems.

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Federated Latent Space Alignment for Multi-user Semantic Communications
Artificial IntelligenceAlgorithms & TheoryComputer Vision

Federated Latent Space Alignment for Multi-user Semantic Communications

Researchers developed a way for AI devices to better understand each other by aligning their internal representations of language and concepts, which could improve communication and collaboration between intelligent systems.

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Persona2Web: Benchmarking Personalized Web Agents for Contextual Reasoning with User History
Artificial IntelligenceAlgorithms & TheoryNatural Language Processing

Persona2Web: Benchmarking Personalized Web Agents for Contextual Reasoning with User History

Researchers developed a new kind of web agent that can interpret ambiguous user queries by analyzing their browsing history, which could make online searches more personalized and contextual.

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Enhancing Large Language Models (LLMs) for Telecom using Dynamic Knowledge Graphs and Explainable Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AINatural Language Processing

Enhancing Large Language Models (LLMs) for Telecom using Dynamic Knowledge Graphs and Explainable Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Researchers developed new ways to make AI language models more useful for telecom companies, by improving the models' understanding of industry-specific knowledge and making their outputs more explainable.

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