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  • Compositional coverage and decision grounding in trajectory supervision1 paper raises it · 1 addresses it

    Current tool-use trajectories often lack multi-step dependencies and justified actions, limiting effective agent learning.

    • Trajectory2Gym: Decision-Grounded Compositional Interaction Synthesis for Tool-Use Agentsraises · addresses
  • Benchmarking agent harness reliability and failure attribution1 paper raises it · 1 addresses it

    Existing benchmarks focus on model capabilities, neglecting the evaluation of agent harnesses and their reliability.

    • Trial by Trace: Benchmarking AI Agent Harnesses for Reliability and Failure Attributionraises · addresses
  • Compositionality of RAG pipeline components1 paper raises it · 1 addresses it

    Isolated gains in RAG components do not necessarily compose, and optimizing one metric can hurt another.

    • Retrieval Augmented Generation Compositionalityraises · addresses
  • Token collapse in graph soft prompting1 paper raises it · 0 address it

    Graph-specific tokens in textual graph soft prompting become indistinguishable, failing to convey graph content.

    • On the Token Collapse Phenomenon in Textual Graph Soft Promptingraises
  • Label-free monitoring in self-supervised learning1 paper raises it · 0 address it

    Standard signals like loss and feature statistics fail to detect encoder degradation in self-supervised training.

    • Improving Signals, Declining Encoder: A Known-Answer Test of Label-Free Monitoring in Self-Supervised Learningraises

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  • AI tutors16+60.0%
  • Channel state information17+41.7%
  • Character recognition OCR12+20.0%
  • Multimodal emotion8+14.3%
  • Machine learned interatomic42−4.5%
  • Physics informed neural141−11.3%
  • AI agents522−18.2%

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  • arXiv cs.AIOct 9

    Looking Ahead and Back: Anticipatory Generative Modeling for Road-Network Trajectories

    Zhenhao Huang, Li Sun, Philip S. Yu

    Trajectory generation underpins urban applications such as traffic management and urban planning. Within road networks, vehicle movement along road segments is largely deterministic, whereas transitions at intersections are critical--multiple outgoing paths may appear equally plausible, yet they can lead to substantially different downstream routes. Existing generative methods such as diffusion models simulate location sequences and fail short of next transition selection, even producing trajectories that drift off the road network. To fill this gap, we advocate a fundamental shift: moving beyond location simulation toward behavior modeling on the road network. In this paper, we revisit trajectory generation through the lens of generative route planning, and introduce a new graph-constrained generative paradigm, Anticipatory Generative Modeling, which resolves next transition selection by incorporating the Anticipation of how the future route may unfold toward the destination. Concretely, we propose a novel generative model named Foresight that formulates a probabilistic model for an "anticipate--select--update--re-anticipate" loop that enables longer-term foresight while…

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  • arXiv stat.MLOct 9

    Fast Gradient-Based Approximation of Continuous Dynamic Time Warping

    Pierre Houedry, Romain Tavenard, Nicolas Courty, Romaric Gaudel

    Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is a common choice for measuring the discrepancy between time series. It proceeds by finding an optimal warping between timestamps through dynamic programming, which can be slow and is not differentiable. Consequently, several variants have been proposed. Among them, Soft-DTW proposes a smooth formulation of DTW, amenable to gradient computation, while Continuous-DTW (CDTW) introduces a continuous formulation through parametrizable warping functions. Yet, computational costs remain high for both methods and impractical for large datasets in modern machine learning pipelines. This paper revisits CDTW in several ways. After establishing its differentiability under mild conditions, we introduce FastCDTW, which is an efficient approximate solver with two different computational strategies: an exact closed-form scheme for piecewise-linear warping functions, and an unbiased Monte Carlo estimator for smooth ones, such as implicit neural networks. Both strategies provide gradients with respect to the warping function and the input time series, and the resulting algorithm is GPU-friendly. We demonstrate its benefits through its integration into more complex…

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  • arXiv cs.AIOct 9

    Locate, Judge, Read: Role-Specialized Tool Agents over a Knowledge-Point Index for Open-Domain Multimodal Document QA

    Wenlin Lin, Fanzhe Wei

    Question answering over large heterogeneous document collections requires first finding the right passages and then reading them, yet current retrieval-augmented agents give one model both kinds of tools and let it schedule itself. We present KnowForge, a pipeline separated by job: a hybrid-retrieval knowledge-point index; a Locator agent that can only search; a code-scheduled bridge judge that forces the missing second hop; a typed, size-bounded evidence pool that merges every search's ranking; a Deep Reader agent that can only read text, images and tables; and a synthesizer with a format checker. With a self-hosted Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (3B active), KnowForge reaches F1 47.5 on the full open-domain M3DocVQA (2,441 questions, 3,368 PDFs), +11.0 over the published M3DocRAG system and +7.1 over one-shot retrieve-and-answer on the same index and model, and 53.5 with DeepSeek-V4-Flash. On MultiHop-RAG it reaches 73.5 accuracy, above the strongest published RAG and GraphRAG results (71.2); on the single-document MMLongBench-Doc it lifts the same model from 34.8 to 47.0, level with GPT-4o reading page images (46.3). Per-job ablations on the full benchmarks attribute the gain: the Deep…

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  • arXiv stat.MLOct 9

    Why Heavy-Tailed Weight Spectra Predict Model Quality

    Joseph Wilson, Chris van der Heide, Liam Hodgkinson, Zhichao Wang, Fred Roosta +1

    A solid understanding of the predictive success of deep neural networks (DNNs) remains elusive. For example, while many data-dependent metrics exist that seek to predict model quality of DNNs, these metrics may be expensive to compute for large datasets and/or may be impossible to compute when training datasets are not released. A practical and effective predictor of model quality involves analyzing DNN weight matrices, as prior work has established that heavy-tailed spectral distributions in trained weight matrices can be strongly predictive of model quality. However, such metrics lack a rigorous statistical justification. In this work, we aim to understand why these metrics perform well, from a statistical perspective. To do so, we employ a probabilistic framework to derive the marginal likelihood for a DNN, evaluated using only the final layer weights. Across large-scale convolutional DNNs and LLMs, we find that this marginal likelihood predicts model quality. To understand the role heavy-tailed spectra play in predictive performance, we derive the limiting log-marginal likelihood for spectra that follow the (heavy-tailed) High-Temperature Marchenko-Pastur (HTMP) distribution.…

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  • arXiv cs.CVOct 9

    GuidedNav: Shaping Vision-Language Navigation Representations through Pre-action Attention and Spatial Guidance

    Jingyu Guo, Jiaxin Huang, Chengxing Lin, Xiaoyu Luo, Cheng Wen +4

    Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) requires an agent to track progress through an extended instruction, identify landmarks relevant to its current objective, and understand the surrounding spatial structure to act. End-to-end navigation policies typically rely on action supervision to implicitly learn these capabilities. Without explicit guidance on the evidence underlying each decision, however, policies can overfit to correlations predictive of training actions rather than learn the task-relevant grounding and geometry needed for generalization. Our insight is to guide the representations that connect instructions to actions: identifying what remains to be done determines which visual evidence matters, while understanding the geometry around that evidence informs how to move. We introduce GuidedNav, a unified framework that explicitly shapes these representations through training-time guidance. Subtask and landmark guidance steer native pre-action attention toward the active instruction segment and relevant visual regions, grounding action prediction in the current objective. Spatial guidance aligns the policy's internal representations with geometric features that capture…

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  • arXiv cs.CLOct 9

    BenCoDiC: A Large-Scale Contextual Cyberbullying Corpus for Bengali Political News Discourse FULL VERSION

    Md. Nesarul Hoque, Rudra Pratap Deb Nath, Umme Salma, Shima Chakraborty, Md. Hanif Seddiqui

    Cyberbullying is a growing concern in online communities, yet existing Bengali corpora remain limited in contextual information, annotation transparency, scale, accessibility, and support for multidimensional analysis, thereby hindering robust detection and comprehensive study of harasser behaviors and networks. To address these gaps, we introduce the Bengali Contextual and Diverse Cyberbullying (\textit{BenCoDiC}) corpus, a publicly available contextual cyberbullying resource for Bengali political news discourse comprising 50,250 textual instances collected from 100 YouTube videos and their associated discussions. The corpus preserves caption--comment--reply relationships and is organized through a nine-dimensional star schema covering users, videos, textual content, context, time, engagement, political parties, target identities, and language categories. Five AI chatbots were initially evaluated for annotation but did not meet the predefined reliability criterion. Consequently, a two-tier human annotation process with expert verification was adopted, achieving Fleiss' $κ=0.86$ and Krippendorff's $α=0.86$. Statistical analyses characterize the corpus, while transformer-based…

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  • arXiv cs.CVOct 9

    Replaying the Movie in Your Mind Decoding Dynamic Visual Perception and Recall from EEG

    Zikai Fang, Tian-Yi Zhou, Xuan-Hao Liu, Yixi Li, Xiaoyu Xing +3

    Decoding dynamic visual content from EEG has advanced rapidly for visual perception, yet it remains unclear which aspects of neural representations are preserved when people internally replay dynamic scenes. We introduce PAIR, an EEG benchmark collected from 20 participants using an interleaved, clip-wise paradigm that pairs naturalistic video viewing with immediate visual recall. This design enables a comparison between externally driven perception and internally generated recall for the same stimulus content within a fixed trial sequence. We benchmark multiple decoding models on hierarchical semantic classification at both fine-grained and coarse-grained levels, meta-feature decoding tasks covering motion, color, object number, face, and human presence, and a state-decoding task that discriminates perception from recall. Within-subject validation results show numerically similar performance for several model--task combinations, alongside higher perception accuracy in two coarse-grained comparisons after multiple-comparison correction. In contrast, perception and recall are highly separable at the state level under the present validation protocol. State accuracy remains high…

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  • arXiv cs.AIOct 9

    DRYLAB-Bench: Benchmarking the Biosecurity Risk of Agentic LLM Mutation Design

    Yuzhen Wang, Chunxiao Li, Baichen Le, Lewen Yan, Jie Zhang +4

    As large language models (LLMs) acquire advanced biological design capabilities, they offer substantial research benefits but simultaneously introduce severe dual-use risks, such as engineering enhanced pathogens or drug-resistant bacteria. While biosecurity frameworks recognize these threats, the actual risk of LLMs executing dangerous biological modifications remains unquantified, particularly when augmented with specialized biological design tools (BDTs). Existing evaluations primarily assess hazardous knowledge possession rather than practical application, overlook risk amplification from BDTs, and rely on unreliable, expensive, or hazardous validation methods. To address these gaps, we introduce DRYLAB-Bench (Design Risk Yielded by LLM Agent in Biodesign), the first comprehensive benchmark evaluating the high-risk biological mutation design capabilities of LLM agents. Moving beyond basic question-answering, DRYLAB-Bench tasks agents with 30 genuinely hazardous mutation-design scenarios distilled from biosecurity guidelines. It evaluates models in a multi-round, tool-augmented environment where LLMs orchestrate BDTs to iteratively refine candidates. Crucially, it scores…

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  • arXiv cs.LGOct 9▲ 45

    Continually Post-training Small Models via Synthetic Self-distillation

    Woosung Koh, Hyunsoo Lee, Kyungjae Lee, Haeju Park, Dahyun Lee +2

    Continual post-training faces a dual challenge of acquisition and retention: models must learn new capabilities while preserving prior knowledge. While Self-Distillation Fine-Tuning (SDFT) mitigates this using self-supervision with in-context demonstrations, it relies on strong in-context learning and instruction-following abilities. Consequently, SDFT fails on smaller models critical for low-latency, on-device use. To enable continual learning at smaller scales, we first identify the root cause of failure. We show that poor acquisition and forgetting correlate linearly with the post-trained model's distribution shift, revealing the necessity of in-distribution learning. We thus introduce Synthetic Self-Distillation (SynthSelf), imitating SDFT's in-distribution rewrite by outsourcing the task to a minimally larger, same-family aligner. Coupled with off-policy supervision and rejection sampling, this provides the high-quality supervision small models require without breaking their original distribution. Evaluations spanning 4 acquisition datasets (including a mixture) and 14 retention benchmarks show SynthSelf consistently outperforms 6 methods (including off- and on-policy…

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  • arXiv cs.AIOct 9

    Does Location Matter? A Black-Box Causal Audit Reveals Model-Dependent Audio Grounding in LALM Hallucination

    Mohammad Khalooei, Mohammad Sabokrou

    Large audio-language models (LALMs) frequently exhibit object hallucination, affirming absent sounds. The dominant mitigation, Audio-Aware Decoding (AAD), contrasts logits under real audio against an all-zero "blank" waveform, flagged by prior review as out-of-distribution. We introduce a black-box causal test that isolates the claimed evidence itself: localize a claim's evidence region via CLAP similarity, remove it by spectral gating, and compare against a random-window control across a 2x2x2 grid on three LALMs. On Qwen2-Audio-7B, localized ablation's raw AUROC trails blank's (0.613 vs. 0.721); this is a duration confound, not a localization failure, since blank removes the entire clip versus the grid's 2-4 s. Holding duration fixed, localization beats random removal at every cell on both models. Raw detection value remains model-dependent, especially on Audio Flamingo 3. The same evidence corrects decoding: contrastive decoding combining blank and language-prior contrasts, gated and ensembled, raises Qwen2-Audio accuracy from 57.1% to 71.9%, beating AAD alone. A unified causal-grounding profile does not transfer between models, indicating different grounding regimes. The…

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  • arXiv cs.CVOct 9

    What Do Visual-Head Discovery Scores Actually Find? Attention Source, Necessity, and Random-Control Pitfalls in Vision-Language Models

    Md Abdul Kadir, Daniel Sonntag

    Attention heads that attend to image regions relevant to a question are increasingly used to steer, ground and interpret vision-language models (VLMs) and to reduce their hallucinations. They are mostly found by ranking heads with an attention- pattern score and validated by steering or masking them. We ask how the choices inside such a discovery score shape the heads it returns, and which of the two validations identifies them. On Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct we vary the query type, the discovery corpus and the token positions whose attention is read (the attention source) in a full 2 x 3 x 2 design, and test all 12 head-sets for steerability (CERS: Contrastive Evidence-Region Steering score) and necessity (NCS: Necessity Con- trast Score) against layer-matched random head-sets. (1) The attention source and the query type reshape the selected heads far more than the corpus: changing the source keeps a median of 49 of the top-100 heads, the query 55 and the cor- pus 84, while two halves of the same data share 96-99. (2) Necessity follows the attention source: head-sets discovered from query-span attention are more nec- essary than last-token ones (difference 0.083, p=6 x 10^-10), and the…

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  • arXiv cs.LGOct 9

    Scaling RNA Foundation Models through Iterative Refinement

    Pengan Chen, Liang Hong, Xinyuan Liu, Han Huang, Ziqian Lin +4

    Biological function in RNA is encoded across scales, from local sequence motifs to long-range structural dependencies. Conventional RNA foundation models couple parameter capacity and inference depth within a fixed architecture, prescribing a fixed computation graph for each inference. Here we present Eco-RNA, an 80M-parameter RNA foundation model that makes inference depth adjustable through learned iterative refinement. Its shared, input-conditioned Transformer core refines sequence representations through repeated application. The iteration count is selected after training and controls effective depth at fixed model parameters. We train across recurrent depths with masked reconstruction, state regularization, and a one-sided loss that anchors deeper reconstruction to a shallow reference. On the 70-assay RNAGym fitness benchmark, increasing refinement from one to four iterations raises aggregate absolute Spearman correlation from 0.242 to 0.286, with the gain retained through eight iterations. At four iterations, Eco-RNA surpasses the current SOTA Evo 2 40B on all three aggregate fitness metrics despite 500x fewer parameters. Its iteration configurations advance the…

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  • arXiv cs.LGOct 9

    Can Failed Trajectories Reveal Where Agents Go Wrong? Agentic Failure Attribution Without Step-Level Labels

    Do Nguyen-Thanh, Junlin Fang, Bing Li, Zhen Fang, Sean Du

    Failure attribution for LLM agents aims to identify decisive steps responsible for task failure, which is critical for debugging and improving agentic systems. Existing methods rely on costly LLM prompting, step-level error annotations, or verified successful trajectories that lack failure signals for assistance. In this paper, we study failure attribution from step-unlabeled failure trajectories, where each trajectory is known to have failed but its decisive step is unknown. We propose SOAP (Spectral scOring with Attention-guided Propagation), an effective framework requiring neither step-level training labels nor a separate success-only reference set. SOAP first constructs a spectral reference space from LLM representations and assigns each step a base error score according to its projection behavior. Importantly, later steps may exhibit stronger failure signals because they inherit an earlier mistake, causing independent scorers to favor downstream consequences over the decisive error. To address this downstream contamination, SOAP derives soft step dependencies from attention patterns and propagates downstream error evidence toward its likely upstream sources. Extensive…

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  • arXiv cs.CVOct 9

    Robust Vision-Language Navigation with Awareness of Instruction-Execution Progress

    Jiagan Huang, Zikun Zhou, Hongpeng Wang, Guangming Lu, Jun Yu +1

    In Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks involving multi-step instructions as guidance, an agent must associate its observations with the relevant instruction content at each decision point. Most graph-based methods commonly match candidate trajectories with the entire instruction, allowing already executed content to interfere with subsequent decisions. Although instruction-execution progress provides a direct cue for separating executed and pending content, existing progress estimation approaches often rely on explicit progress supervision, sophisticated progress-learning stages, or costly online reasoning with LLMs. In this paper, we propose a robust VLN framework with Awareness of Instruction-Execution Progress (VLN-AIEP), which couples progress estimation with navigation decision-making. VLN-AIEP associates the visited trajectory with the instruction to suppress embeddings corresponding to executed content, and then matches candidate locations with the pending content. This coupling makes correct navigation decisions depend on accurate progress estimation, allowing the progress estimator to learn directly from navigation decision labels without explicit progress…

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  • arXiv cs.CLOct 9

    From 2.1M Hours of Raw Broadcast Audio to Finnish Speech SSL: Confidence Filtering and Architectural Analysis at Scale

    Yaroslav Getman, Tamás Grósz, Tommi Lehtonen, Mikko Kurimo

    Broadcast archives offer scale and diversity for self-supervised learning (SSL) but contain substantial noisy, non-speech, and multilingual content. Prior work typically relies on voice activity detection or language identification (LID) to extract speech, ensuring presence rather than quality. Whether and how to filter unlabeled speech by quality for SSL, particularly from noisy broadcasts, remains underexplored. We present a large-scale Finnish SSL study starting from 2.1M hours of unconstrained broadcast audio. We propose automatic speech recognition (ASR) confidence as a proxy for pretraining data quality and show 3-7% relative WER improvements over LID-based filtering despite a smaller training set. We further address the lack of controlled architectural comparisons in speech SSL by evaluating Transformer, Macaron-Net, Conformer, and E-Branchformer at matched parameter budgets. Our models improve upon prior Finnish SSL baselines, particularly at Base scale and out-of-domain.

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  • arXiv cs.AIOct 9

    VETR: Execution-Grounded Self-Improving Agent for Symbolic Graphics Reasoning

    Yingbo Ma, Kuangshi Ai, Gordon Dai, Chenglong Yu, Chaoli Wang +1

    Visual agents for symbolic graphics reasoning depend on executable world representations, yet continued improvement remains bottlenecked by ambiguous supervision from final renders. Recent agentic systems refine scenes through repeated interaction, but they lack mechanisms to recursively extract actionable evidence from execution traces, overlooking which proposed symbolic edits survived, disappeared, or interfered during program execution. To address this, we propose VETR (Verified Execution Trajectories for Refinement), a framework that enables agentic recursive self-improvement over executable world representations for symbolic graphics reasoning. Within each task, VETR retains aligned program/render records with bounded runtime observations and introduces an execution refiner that compiles observed writes and state changes into constrained alternative programs. The refiner validates their endpoints and preservation conditions against captured runtime state; the ordinary visual verifier then assesses goal relevance. Repair construction makes no additional language-model calls, but can require additional executions. Evaluations on BlenderGym (280 tasks) and BlenderBench (27…

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  • arXiv eess.IVOct 9

    Stochastic Finite-Transition Learning and Exploration for Accelerated MRI Reconstruction

    Muhammad Usama Mirza, Esin Öztürk Işık, Tolga Çukur

    Generative MRI reconstruction maps an initial source distribution to the target image distribution along a learned recovery trajectory. Common generative methods, such as diffusion and flow, typically learn fine-grained local dynamics whose integration defines this global mapping, hence requiring many network evaluations at inference. Existing few-step sampling approaches can lower computational burden by approximating large transformations from local dynamics, albeit at the expense of reconstruction fidelity. FLEX-MRI instead partitions recovery into a small number of finite intervals between retained states defined by progressive changes in k-space support, and directly learns the reconstruction change across each interval. Because such finite transitions can admit multiple plausible outcomes, FLEX-MRI combines support-relaxed finite-transition learning with stochastic exploration. During training, randomized k-space sampling masks define finite-transition targets with varying support, while the prediction loss remains unrestricted by each individual mask. At inference, FLEX-MRI perturbs a random subset of currently estimated k-space coefficients, allowing the learned predictor…

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  • arXiv cs.AIOct 9

    When Faster Decisions Do Not Make Better Agents: An Empirical Study of Jev in Agent Workflows

    Yuchen Ling, Shengcheng Yu, Zhenyu Chen, Chunrong Fang

    AI agents depend on repeated decisions to accomplish tasks, with large language models (LLMs) commonly serving as their core decision makers. The recent emergence of Jev offers an opportunity to make these decisions faster and at lower cost. However, it remains unclear whether such local savings can be translated into efficient and reliable task completion. In this paper, we investigate this efficiency transfer across five agents in two representative application settings, embodied tasks in ALFWorld and mobile app use in AndroidWorld. Across 4,500 task executions, we jointly evaluate task effectiveness, decision-level and task-level resource use, and execution behavior. Experimental results show that Jev integration substantially reduces decision cost and latency across all five agents, with task-level gains varying by workflow. Task success remains close to baseline levels on ALFWorld and declines more substantially in two mobile agents. Auxiliary reasoning and additional interactions absorb decision savings, while failed recovery and premature completion limit successful delivery. Mean cost per successful outcome increases in one agent even as spending per attempt falls. These…

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  • arXiv cs.CVOct 9

    Volume Rendering with Metric--Phase Fields for Thin Structures and Sign-Ambiguous Geometry

    Junkai Deng, Jiayi Kong, Xuhui Chen, Guanli Hou, Fei Hou +3

    Neural implicit surface methods that couple volume rendering with signed distance functions (SDFs), such as VolSDF and NeuS, achieve high-quality multi-view reconstruction for watertight objects. However, these approaches rely on a globally consistent inside-outside partition of space. This assumption becomes fragile for thin structures (e.g., sheets, tubes, and thin walls) and can break down for sign-ambiguous geometry (e.g., surfaces with boundary, non-manifold junctions, and closely spaced surface components), often resulting in spurious closures or loss of fine structures. Unsigned distance field (UDF) formulations relax the global sign requirement and better support non-watertight geometry, but are substantially harder to optimize. We propose PhaseSurf, a neural volume rendering framework built on Metric-Phase Fields (MPFs). MPFs decompose geometry into a nonnegative metric field capturing unsigned proximity and a continuous phase field providing a soft sign cue. By coupling the two through residual phase injection, MPFs yield a signed composite implicit function with stable near-surface gradients while retaining UDF-like robustness in sign-ambiguous regions. This design…

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  • arXiv cs.CROct 9

    The Limits of Query Monitoring against Distributed Model Extraction

    Snigdha Chandan Khilar

    Model providers now face distillation campaigns run through thousands of accounts, each of which looks like an ordinary user. When network and payment metadata cannot link those accounts, the only evidence left is what they ask. We study what a provider can and cannot learn from those queries alone, using one million real chat turns for development and 17 later weeks that no design choice touched for a single frozen evaluation. The answer is set less by anything specific to extraction than by benign coordination: a campaign is visible only if it is more distinctive than the most distinctive group of ordinary users in the same week. We make this precise, show that a small but positive difference between campaign and users buys a detection time rather than detectability, and identify the campaign that is hardest to detect. Empirically, a calibrated monitor catches naive distributed extraction that per-account monitors miss (0.86-1.00 of weeks), and one variant - selecting accounts that move together after discounting how topical each one is - still catches campaigns padded with natural text (0.50-0.96 of weeks) where the other two spectral detectors catch none. Distilling each…

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