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Text-attributed Graph Condensation via Text Selection and Attribute Matching
arXiv:2606.03839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-Attributed Graph (TAG) is an important type of graph structured data, where each node has a text description. TAG models usually train a Graph Neural Network (GNN) and language model jointly, which leads to high space and time consumption, especially on large datasets. To mitigate this, we propose TAGSAM, a condensation method that compresses TAGs while preserving training accuracy. TAGSAM comes with two key designs, i.e., subgraph text Selection and Attribute similarity Matching, which compress the text description and graph topology of TAG, respectively. For the texts, subgraph text selection selects and merges representative text chunks from multiple related text descriptions by maximizing mutual information. For the graph topology, popular condensation methods based on Matching Training Trajectories (MTT) suffer from high variance, which hinders accuracy. Our attribute similarity matching mitigates this issue by aligning stable similarity matrices. We evaluate TAGSAM against six state-of-the-art baselines, where it showcases superior performance. For the same compressed size, TAGSAM improves upon the best-performing baseline by an average of 4.9% in accuracy. Furthermore, it maintains competitive training accuracy even when the TAG is condensed to just 1% size. Our code is available at https://github.com/SundayVHan/TAGSAM
Spectral Asymptotics of Neural Network Loss Landscapes: An Exact Decomposition of the Curvature Exponent
arXiv:2606.02596v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The curvature exponent $\alpha$ in $h_k \propto \sigma_k^\alpha$ -- governing how Hessian eigenvalues scale with gradient singular values -- varies systematically across layer types ($\alpha \approx 2$ for convolutions, $\approx 1$ for transformer attention, $< 1$ for MLP up-projections). Why? We prove the Spectral Alignment Decomposition: $\alpha = 2 + d\log\Phi_k / d\log\sigma_k$, where $\Phi_k$ measures alignment between Kronecker factor eigenbases and gradient singular directions. This reduces "why does $\alpha$ vary?" to a geometric question we answer for LayerNorm, residual connections, and softmax heads. The decomposition implies a spectral transfer identity $s = \alpha\gamma$ linking curvature exponent, effective gradient rank-decay $\gamma$, and Hessian decay exponent $s$. The identity is algebraic; its empirical content is that $\alpha$ and $\gamma$, fit on independent data (HVPs vs. SVD), recover $s$ to ~2% median error across 93 layers, five architectures, and three datasets -- with no free parameters. A zeta-function bound on participation ratio shows curvature concentrates onto effectively one direction per layer. As a proof of concept, we derive the architecture-adaptive preconditioner $T(\sigma;\alpha)$ and show that Spectral Newton -- implementing $T$ in the gradient singular basis -- outperforms AdamW on vision benchmarks where $\alpha \approx 2$.
From Well-Posed Inversion to Learning Design: Physics- Informed Neural Estimation for Autonomic Regulation
arXiv:2606.03679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning-based and physics-informed methods are increasingly used for inverse estimation in controlled nonlinear dynamical systems. However, in many such approaches, the theoretic requirements that make unknown-input reconstruction meaningful, namely well-posedness in the sense of Hadamard, are often disregarded or weakly addressed through generic regularization terms with no explicit guarantees. In this work, we adopt a complementary viewpoint in which these control-theoretic and structural conditions inform the estimator design and constrain its training. We thus develop a physics-informed input-state neural estimator for joint unknown-input and state estimation in nonlinear controlled systems with partial measurements. In the present work, this general framework is instantiated on a model of autonomic cardiac regulation, provides a concrete study case. The estimator is formulated as an inverse neural map conditioned on time and measured outputs, and is trained under data fidelity and dynamical consistency constraints. To ensure it complies with the same structural requirements imposed in robust estimation, we derive left-invertibility conditions by differential-algebraic elimination and embed the resulting constraints directly into the training objective. We further analyze a priori the stability of the inverse mapping to output perturbations and derive a conservative Lipschitz bound that guides the tuning of cost functional hyper-parameters. The framework is evaluated on simulated data, where ground truth data is available, and on two distinct datasets of real cardiovascular recordings. The results show that incorporating control-theoretic solvability constraints into physics-informed learning improves the reliability of inverse inference beyond forward consistency alone.
Impedance Modeling and Stability Analysis of Droop-Controlled Inverter Under Unbalanced Power Grid Operating Conditions
arXiv:2606.03104v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the growing integration of renewable energy sources into power grids, the risks of oscillation caused by interactions between grid-tied inverters and the grids are becoming increasingly prominent. Although existing studies have made significant progress in inverter modeling and oscillatory stability analysis, most of them do not sufficiently consider complex mirror frequency coupling effects (MFCE) under unbalanced operating conditions, leading to unreliable models and erroneous stability analysis results. To address this inadequacy, this work develops a novel sequence impedance modeling scheme that can be widely applied to unbalanced operating conditions. In particular, taking a representative type of grid-forming inverter for instance, i.e., droop-controlled inverter (DCI), a single-input single-output sequence impedance modeling method based on harmonic linearization (HL) is proposed to comprehensively model both a given DCI and the connected grid. By accounting for multi-frequency interactions within the DCI, this method captures MFCE and unbalanced factors, leading to a more accurate impedance model. Further, the dominant factors influencing system stability are identified with a combination of normalized sensitivity analysis and proportional weighting. Finally, the detailed impacts of these dominant factors on system stability margin under three typical unbalanced operating conditions are analyzed through the Bode criterion. The effectiveness and reliability of the whole scheme proposed in this work are validated on the constructed grid-connected droop-controlled experimental platform.
TalkPlay-Tools: Conversational Music Recommendation with LLM Tool Calling
arXiv:2510.01698v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While the recent developments in large language models (LLMs) have successfully enabled generative recommenders with natural language interactions, their recommendation behavior is limited, leaving other simpler yet crucial components such as metadata or attribute filtering underutilized in the system. We propose an LLM-based music recommendation system with tool calling to serve as a unified retrieval-reranking pipeline. Our system positions an LLM as an end-to-end recommendation system that interprets user intent, plans tool invocations, and orchestrates specialized components: boolean filters (SQL), sparse retrieval (BM25), dense retrieval (embedding similarity), and generative retrieval (semantic IDs). Through tool planning, the system predicts which types of tools to use, their execution order, and the arguments needed to find music matching user preferences, supporting diverse modalities while seamlessly integrating multiple database filtering methods. We demonstrate that this unified tool-calling framework achieves competitive performance across diverse recommendation scenarios by selectively employing appropriate retrieval methods based on user queries, envisioning a new paradigm for conversational music recommendation systems.
Lagrangian-Eulerian learning of flow field and trajectories with TrajectoryFlowNet
arXiv:2507.09621v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Predicting particle transport in complex flows is traditionally achieved by solving the Navier-Stokes equations. While various numerical and experimental methods exist, they typically require deep physical insights and incur high computational costs. Machine learning offers an alternative by learning predictive patterns directly from data, avoiding explicit physical modeling. However, purely data-driven approaches often lack interpretability, physical consistency, and generalizability in sparse data regimes. To this end, we propose TrajectoryFlowNet, a Lagrangian-Eulerian physics-informed neural network architecture, for fluid flow velocimetry and imaging via learning to predict spatiotemporal flow fields and long-range particle trajectories. The salient features of our model include its ability to handle complex flow patterns with irregular boundaries, predict the full-field flows, image the long-range flow trajectory of any arbitrary particle, and ensure physical consistency in predictions based only on very scarce measurement of flow trajectories. We validate TrajectoryFlowNet via both numerical examples (e.g., lid-driven cavity flow and complex cylinder flow) and experimental test cases (e.g., aortic and ventricle blood flows) across diverse flow scenarios. The results demonstrate our model's effectiveness in capturing intricate particle-laden flow dynamics, enabling long-range tracking of particles and accurate construction of flow fields in real-world applications.
Invasive and Non-Invasive Neural Decoding of Motor Performance in Parkinson's Disease for Personalized Deep Brain Stimulation
arXiv:2603.27750v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Decoding motor performance from brain signals offers promising avenues for adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS) for Parkinson's disease (PD). In a two-center cohort of 19 PD patients executing a drawing task, we decoded motor performance from electroencephalography (n=15) and, critically for clinical translation, electrocorticography (n=4). Within each session, patients performed the task under DBS on and DBS off. A total of 35 sessions were recorded. Instead of relying on single frequency bands, we derived patient-specific biomarkers using a filterbank-based machine-learning approach. DBS modulated kinematics significantly in 23 sessions. Significant neural decoding of kinematics was possible in 28 of the 35 sessions (average Pearson's $\text{r}= 0.37$). Our results further demonstrate modulation of speed-accuracy trade-offs, with increased drawing speed but reduced accuracy under DBS. Joint evaluation of behavioral and neural decoding outcomes revealed six prototypical scenarios, for which we provide guidance for future aDBS strategies.
Crystal: Characterizing Relative Impact of Scholarly Publications
arXiv:2603.26791v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Assessing a cited paper's impact is typically done by analyzing its citation context in isolation within the citing paper. While this focuses on the most directly relevant text, it prevents relative comparisons across all the works a paper cites. We propose Crystal, which instead jointly ranks all cited papers within a citing paper using large language models (LLMs). To mitigate LLMs' positional bias, we rank each list three times in a randomized order and aggregate the impact labels through majority voting. This joint approach leverages the full citation context, rather than evaluating citations independently, to more reliably distinguish impactful references. Crystal outperforms a prior state-of-the-art impact classifier by +9.5% accuracy and +8.3% F1 on a dataset of human-annotated citations. Crystal further gains efficiency through fewer LLM calls and outperforms prior baselines using an open-weight model, enabling scalable, cost-effective citation impact analysis. In a case study of ACL Test-of-Time award-winning papers, we find that Crystal's impact characterizations align closely with long-term scientific recognition. We release Crystal-Bank, a 46.8k-paper dataset with rankings and impact labels, along with code.
Multiple reentrant topological windows induced by generalized Bernoulli disorder
arXiv:2512.06851v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We investigate reentrant topological transitions in a one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain with generalized Bernoulli disorder in the intradimer hopping amplitudes. Owing to its independently tunable values and probabilities, the multivalued disorder distribution provides a direct way to control the topological phase diagram. We show that increasing the disorder strength can split the nontrivial regime into multiple disconnected topological windows, whose number, widths, and locations are determined by the distribution parameters. The phase boundaries are derived analytically from the zero-mode inverse localization length and are governed by a weighted geometric mean of the disordered hopping amplitudes, in agreement with numerical results from the reflection-matrix topological quantum number and the real-space winding number. We also show that the mean chiral displacement dynamically identifies these reentrant windows. These results demonstrate how multivalued random disorder can organize and tune reentrant topological behavior in one-dimensional chiral lattices.
OrthoPhys: Physically Plausible Video Generation with Orthogonal-View Geometry Guidance
arXiv:2603.18639v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent progress in video generation has led to substantial improvements in visual fidelity, yet ensuring physically consistent motion remains a fundamental challenge. Intuitively, this limitation can be attributed to the fact that real-world object motion unfolds in three-dimensional space, while video observations provide only partial, view-dependent projections of such dynamics. To address these issues, we propose OrthoPhys, a two-stage framework that leverages orthogonal-view geometry guidance to enforce physical plausibility. Instead of directly generating unstructured 2D videos, our first stage generates synchronized, four-view orthogonal videos of the foreground dynamics. By incorporating a geometry-enhanced attention mechanism across these orthogonal views, this stage effectively enforces 3D spatial coherence and implicitly grounds the motion in physical attributes. In the second stage, these physically consistent orthogonal foregrounds serve as rigid guidance to synthesize the final complete video, seamlessly learning the interaction between foreground dynamics and the background context. To support this orthogonal-view training paradigm, we construct PhysMV, a dataset containing 40K scenes, each consisting of four orthogonal viewpoints, resulting in a total of 160K video sequences. Extensive experiments demonstrate that OrthoPhys significantly improves physical realism and spatial-temporal coherence over existing video generation methods. Project page: https://anonymous.4open.science/w/Phys4D/.
Hypergraph based Multi-Party Payment Channel
arXiv:2512.11775v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Public blockchains inherently offer low throughput and high latency, motivating off-chain scalability solutions such as Payment Channel Networks (PCNs). However, existing PCNs suffer from liquidity fragmentation-funds locked in one channel cannot be reused elsewhere-and channel depletion, both of which limit routing efficiency and reduce transaction success rates. Multi-party channel (MPC) constructions mitigate these issues, but they typically rely on leaders or coordinators, creating single points of failure and providing only limited flexibility for inter-channel payments. We introduce Hypergraph-based Multi-Party Payment Channels (COALESCE), a new off-chain construction that replaces bilateral channels with collectively funded hyperedges. These hyperedges enable fully concurrent, leaderless intra- and inter-hyperedge payments through verifiable, proposer-ordered DAG updates, offering significantly greater flexibility and concurrency than prior designs. Hence our, design eliminates routing dependencies, avoids directional liquidity lock-up, and does not require central monitoring services such as watchtowers. Our implementation on a 150-node intra-hyperedge achieves a transaction success rate of approximately 94% under heavy load (larger payment sizes), while full hyperedge evaluation over a 15,000-node network sustains success rates in the range of 85% to 95%, without HTLC expiry or routing failures, highlighting the robustness of COALESCE.
DTop-p MoE: Sparsity-Controlled Dynamic Top-p MoE for Foundation Model Pre-training
arXiv:2512.13996v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sparse Mixture-of-Experts architectures are essential for scaling model capacity efficiently, yet the standard Top-$k$ routing imposes a rigid sparsity pattern that ignores the intrinsic variance in token difficulty and layer-specific computational needs. Top-$p$ routing is more adaptive because it selects experts until their cumulative routing probability reaches a threshold, allowing confident tokens to use fewer experts and ambiguous tokens to recruit more. However, we demonstrate that existing naive Top-$p$ implementations with fixed global probability thresholds provide only marginal gains over Top-$k$, suffer from hyperparameter sensitivity, and result in uncontrolled computational costs. In this paper, we propose **DTop-$p$**, a sparsity-controllable dynamic routing mechanism that learns the Top-$p$ probability threshold with a Proportional-Integral controller and uses dynamic routing normalization to support layer-wise expert selection under a global sparsity constraint. Extensive experiments on Large Language Models and Diffusion Transformers demonstrate that **DTop-$p$** consistently outperforms both Top-$k$ and fixed Top-$p$ baselines while matching the average FLOPs of Top-$k$ MoE. Our analysis confirms that **DTop-$p$** exhibits strong scaling properties across expert granularity, total expert capacity, model size, and dataset size, offering a robust and efficient MoE framework for foundation model pre-training.
OMP: One-step Meanflow Policy with Directional Alignment
arXiv:2512.19347v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robot manipulation has increasingly adopted data-driven generative policy frameworks, yet the field faces a persistent trade-off: diffusion models suffer from high inference latency, while flow-based methods often require complex architectural constraints. Although in image generation domain, the MeanFlow paradigm offers a path to single-step inference, its direct application to robotics is impeded by critical theoretical pathologies, specifically spectral bias and gradient starvation in low-velocity regimes. To overcome these limitations, we propose the One-step MeanFlow Policy (OMP), a novel framework designed for high-fidelity, real-time manipulation. We introduce a lightweight directional alignment mechanism to explicitly synchronize predicted velocities with true mean velocities. Furthermore, we implement a Differential Derivation Equation (DDE) to approximate the Jacobian-Vector Product (JVP) operator, which decouples forward and backward passes to significantly reduce memory complexity. Extensive experiments on the Adroit and Meta-World benchmarks demonstrate that OMP outperforms state-of-the-art methods in success rate and trajectory accuracy, particularly in high-precision tasks, while retaining the efficiency of single-step generation.
SEEM: Exploiting Black-Box Text Attacks to Manipulate Tool Selection
arXiv:2504.04809v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tool learning has emerged as a powerful auxiliary mechanism that extends the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), enabling them to address complex tasks that demand real-time relevance or high-precision operations. However, beneath this strength lie significant security risks. Prior studies have primarily concentrated on corrupting the outputs of invoked tools, while largely overlooking the vulnerability of the tool selection process itself. To bridge this gap, we introduce a black-box, text-based attack that substantially increases the likelihood of a target tool being selected. We propose SEEM, a two-level coarse-to-fine perturbation method that operates at both the word and character levels. Through comprehensive experiments, we show that merely perturbing the textual information of tools can markedly raise the probability of the target tool being prioritized and ranked higher among candidates. Our findings expose critical weaknesses in the tool selection mechanism and lay the groundwork for developing defenses to secure this essential process.
Polynomial Invariant Generation for Floating-Point Programs
arXiv:2507.15017v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In numeric-intensive computations, it is well known that the execution of floating-point programs is imprecise as floating-point arithmetic incurs round-off errors. Although round-off errors are small for a single floating-point operation, the aggregation of such errors may be dramatic and cause catastrophic program failures. Therefore, to ensure the correctness of floating-point programs, round-off error needs to be carefully taken into account. In this work, we consider polynomial invariant generation for floating-point programs, aiming at generating tight invariants under the perturbation of round-off errors. Our contribution is a novel framework for applying polynomial constraint solving to address the invariant generation problem, which is also the first polynomial constraint solving based approach that handles floating-point errors to our best knowledge. In our framework, we propose a novel combination of round-off error analysis and polynomial constraint solving, aiming to circumvent the cost of handling a large number of error variables in the floating-point model. Experimental results over a variety of challenging benchmarks show that our framework outperforms SOTA approaches in both time efficiency and the precision of generated invariants.
Memory Retrieval for Changing Preferences
arXiv:2606.02976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context dialogue systems must decide both when to access memory and which parts of the interaction history are relevant. Existing approaches typically rely on heuristic retrieval signals or always-on memory usage, failing to account for the changing and potentially inconsistent nature of user preferences. In this work, we propose a unified framework for memory access and selection based on changing preferences. We formulate personalized memory retrieval as identifying which historical turns provide evidence about a user's latent preference state, rather than relying on surface-level semantic similarity. To this end, we quantify the utility of each memory turn using a Bayes factor, defined as the improvement in the model's likelihood of the reference response when the turn is included in context. This provides a principled measure of evidence strength and a unified signal for both memory access and selection. By framing memory retrieval as utility estimation, the model learns to identify salient turns and regulate memory usage based on expected utility. Experiments on four heterogeneous memory benchmarks show that our approach outperforms existing embedding-based retrieval on long-context, preference-intensive tasks where modeling changing preferences is essential, while remaining competitive in low-density regimes where semantic similarity suffices.
Generative Spectrum Cartography: Unified Reconstruction and Active Sensing via Diffusion Models
arXiv:2512.20108v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-fidelity spectrum cartography is important for spectrum monitoring and wireless situational awareness, especially in satellite-based wide-area sensing scenarios where measurements are sparse, noisy, and often low-bit quantized. In such settings, two coupled challenges arise: accurate reconstruction from severely incomplete measurements and efficient allocation of additional sensing resources under a limited sensing budget. Existing methods usually address these problems separately, and, for reconstruction, they often rely on priors that are insufficiently expressive under sparse and quantized measurements. This paper proposes Generative Spectrum Cartography (GSC), a diffusion-based posterior inference framework for spectrum cartography with uncertainty-aware active sensing. Specifically, spectrum map recovery is formulated as a Bayesian inverse problem under a learned diffusion model prior, and closed-form posterior mean updates are derived for both linear and quantized measurement models. By embedding these updates into the reverse diffusion process, GSC enables gradient-free and measurement-consistent posterior sampling without relying on computationally costly likelihood-gradient guidance. The resulting posterior samples are further used to estimate spatial uncertainty and to guide diversity-aware selection of additional measurement locations for active sensing. Experiments on simulated electromagnetic maps and a high-fidelity simulated satellite monitoring scenario show that GSC achieves higher PSNR, lower LPIPS, and more efficient sensing than representative baseline methods under sparse, noisy, and low-bit quantized measurements.
Bregman meets L\'evy: Stochastic mirror descent with heavy-tailed noise in continuous and discrete time
arXiv:2606.03769v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the robustness of stochastic mirror descent (SMD) under heavy-tailed noise, focusing on whether the method retains its convergence guarantees when run with infinite-variance stochastic gradient input. To address this question in a principled manner, we begin by introducing a continuous-time model of SMD as a stochastic differential equation (SDE) driven by a centered L\'evy noise process with finite $p$-th order moments, $1 < p \leq 2$. This scheme -- which we call the L\'evy mirror flow (LMF) -- arises naturally as the scaling limit of SMD in the presence of heavy-tailed noise. In particular, when $p < 2$ -- the heavy noise regime -- the trajectories of LMF generically exhibit jump discontinuities of arbitrary magnitude which, if frequent enough, lead to infinite variance. Nonetheless, despite this highly singular behavior, we show that LMF attains $\epsilon$-optimality within $\mathcal{O}(\epsilon^{-p/(p-1)})$ time in the convex case, and within $\mathcal{\tilde O}(\epsilon^{-1/(p-1)})$ time for (relatively) strongly convex objectives. These guarantees provide a transparent characterization of the impact of frequent long jumps on the convergence of the process, and percolate to a series of matching discrete-time guarantees for several variants of SMD under heavy-tailed noise.
Multi-Modal Graph Neural Network with Transformer-Guided Adaptive Diffusion for Preclinical Alzheimer Classification
arXiv:2606.03322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The graphical representation of the brain offers critical insights into diagnosing and prognosing neurodegenerative disease via relationships between regions of interest (ROIs). Despite recent emergence of various Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to effectively capture the relational information, there remain inherent limitations in interpreting the brain networks. Specifically, convolutional approaches ineffectively aggregate information from distant neighborhoods, while attention-based methods exhibit deficiencies in capturing node-centric information, particularly in retaining critical characteristics from pivotal nodes. These shortcomings reveal challenges for identifying disease-specific variation from diverse features from different modalities. In this regard, we propose an integrated framework guiding diffusion process at each node by a downstream transformer where both short- and long-range properties of graphs are aggregated via diffusion-kernel and multi-head attention respectively. We demonstrate the superiority of our model by improving performance of pre-clinical Alzheimer's disease (AD) classification with various modalities. Also, our model adeptly identifies key ROIs that are closely associated with the preclinical stages of AD, marking a significant potential for early diagnosis and prevision of the disease.
Hybrid Autoregressive-Diffusion Model for Real-Time Sign Language Production
arXiv:2507.09105v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Earlier Sign Language Production (SLP) models typically relied on autoregressive decoding, which naturally preserves temporal causality but suffers from error accumulation at inference time. More recent diffusion-based approaches improve generation quality through iterative denoising, yet their sequence-level refinement process introduces substantial latency. To address this trade-off, we propose HybridSign, a hybrid autoregressive-diffusion model for low-latency sign language production that combines causal frame generation with flow-based diffusion refinement. A Multi-Scale Pose Representation module captures fine-grained articulator features, while a Confidence-Aware Causal Attention mechanism leverages joint-level confidence scores to improve robustness under noisy 2D pose observations. Experiments on PHOENIX14T and How2Sign show that HybridSign consistently achieves the best quality--efficiency trade-off among the compared baselines. On the How2Sign test split, it reaches BLEU-1/4 scores of 30.12/6.48 and DTW of 3.89, while reducing time-to-first-frame to 5.90s and increasing throughput to 10.17 FPS under a 60-frame evaluation protocol.
Hybrid Dynamics Modeling for a Flexible 2-DoF Robotic Arm
arXiv:2606.02969v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper examines three approaches for modeling the dynamics of a flexible-link 2-DoF robotic arm to address unmodeled dynamics not captured by rigid-body models. Two physics informed models combine rigid-body dynamics (RBD) formulations with a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) to capture residual model errors and linkage flexibility. A kinematics-based regression model serves as a purely data-driven baseline. Using an open-source dataset, torque predictions are first estimated using Ridge regression on kinematic features, while the physicsbased baseline is constructed from published specifications, and ordinary least-squares regression is subsequently used to estimate the same parameter set directly from data. Results show that the physics-based parameters yield the poorest accuracy, while regularized and least-squares estimators align more closely with measured torques. Residual analysis and error metrics highlight the limitations of purely parametric models for flexible-link systems and underscore the value of regularization and data-driven identification, supporting developments of semi-parametric residual learning methods.
Linguistic Productivity in Large Language Models: Models Coerce, but do not Preempt
arXiv:2606.02953v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Usage-based theories of grammars posit that creative productivity of the structures of language is both bolstered and constrained by two distinct frequency signals: entrenchment, stemming from high frequency usage, and preemption, stemming from having never observed a particular linguistic structure in a context where one might expect that structure to appear. Large Language Models are also usage-based, in the sense that the structures of language are learned through exposure to vast amounts of text. Here, we test whether or not the opposing statistical forces of entrenchment and preemption also encourage and constrain linguistic productivity in LLMs. We demonstrate across model architectures that larger models recognize and can reproduce with nonce words constructional productivity (entrenchment) in cases of coercion, wherein the broader constructional context coerces an atypical interpretation of a lexical item. However, we also show that even the largest models do not extend negative evidence to novel language, and statistical preemption does not enable models to avoid overgeneralization of patterns that are semantically felicitous, but never observed in data.
COD10K-C: Benchmarking Robustness of Camouflaged Object Detection Under Natural Image Corruptions
arXiv:2606.02603v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Camouflaged object detection has improved substantially, but most standard benchmarks evaluate models only on clean images. This is not realistic because real cameras often capture blur, sensor noise, weather effects, and compression artifacts. We present COD10K-C, a corruption robustness benchmark based on COD10K. It includes 8 corruption types and 5 severity levels, giving 40 conditions and 81,040 evaluation pairs in total. We evaluate three popular camouflaged object detection models, SINet-v2, PFNet, and ZoomNet, as well as a lightweight model called RobustCODLite. All models show clear performance drops on corrupted images. Motion blur and Gaussian blur cause the largest drops, with SINet-v2 losing 18.5 Dice points under motion blur. Brightness and fog are less harmful. RobustCODLite uses corruption augmentation, a frequency-prior branch, and an uncertainty-consistency loss. It retains 92.3% of its clean Dice score under corruption, compared with 87.7% for SINet-v2, 84.8% for ZoomNet, and 84.1% for PFNet. On the hardest corruptions, RobustCODLite matches or outperforms models that perform better on clean data. We will release the COD10K-C GitHub repository to support future research in robust camouflaged object detection.
Selective Token-Level Cryptographic Redaction for Privacy-Preserving Clinical Deployment of Large Language Models
arXiv:2606.03399v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for clinical applications, many existing pipelines require sending raw sensitive health information to remote servers for processing, which heightens the risk of privacy leakage. A natural approach to mitigate this risk is to encrypt the data before transmission. However, straightforward solutions such as encrypting the entire dataset introduce prohibitive computational, alignment, and communication overheads, rendering large-scale practical deployment infeasible. To preserve privacy while maintaining usability, we present Healthcare Encryption & Redaction via Adaptive Linguistic Decomposition (HERALD), a token-level cryptographic redaction framework designed to achieve this balance by encrypting only sensitive tokens while preserving the surrounding context for downstream model utility. HERALD combines medical named-entity recognizer (NER) with part-of-speech (POS) driven policies to select candidate tokens, performs targeted lemmatization to stabilize surface forms, and substitutes each protected token with a deterministic ciphertext wrapped in explicit delimiters. Notably, HERALD is model-agnostic and operates entirely on the client side, ensuring that sensitive content remains encrypted throughout storage, transmission, and processing without requiring changes to downstream models. We evaluated HERALD on both classification and medical question answering (MQA) tasks on public datasets. Across different tasks, experiments illustrate that fully secured baselines suffer significant utility loss, whereas HERALD consistently recovers performance close to plaintext. Overall, HERALD provides a novel utilization pipeline.
Fractional calculus via variable-transform-based spectral approximations
arXiv:2604.25417v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a novel and unifying framework for constructing spectral approximations to fractional integral operators. These spectral approximations are based on transplanted Chebyshev polynomials, which are obtained by composing Chebyshev polynomials with a variable transform. When an algebraic transform is used, the framework produces spectral approximations based on Jacobi fractional polynomials. When an exponential transform is used, it yields a versatile spectral approximation that is applicable to a much broader class of fractional calculus problems. The construction of such spectral approximations is both numerically stable and optimal in terms of complexity. These spectral approximations lead to stable and fast spectral methods for fractional calculus. The spectral approximation based on the double-exponential transform is demonstrated through extensive numerical examples that are intractable for existing spectral methods.