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  • Comprehensive and reliable benchmarking for AI capabilities3 papers raise it · 3 address it

    Current benchmarks often lack the depth to fully characterize model capabilities, especially for complex, real-world, or long-horizon tasks.

    • SO-Arena: Benchmarking the Capability Spectrum and Reliability of System One Modelsraises · addresses
    • Infrathon: Benchmarking Language Agents for Real-World, Long-Horizon AI Infra Optimizationraises · addresses
    • One Table, Many Queries: Benchmarking Generalist Tabular Models Across Generation, Imputation, and Predictionraises · addresses
  • Effective AI agents in complex, dynamic real-world environments3 papers raise it · 3 address it

    AI agents struggle with real-world tasks requiring adaptation, learning from limited data, or debugging live systems, limiting practical deployment.

    • Where LLM Agents Get Stuck Debugging Databases: Access More Than Reasoningraises
    • World In-Context Learning for Agentic Robot Manipulationraises · addresses
    • Infrathon: Benchmarking Language Agents for Real-World, Long-Horizon AI Infra Optimizationraises · addresses
    • Sage-Taiyi: A Metacognitive Architecture for Scientific Discoveryaddresses
  • Efficient and scalable generation of complex data2 papers raise it · 2 address it

    Generating high-quality, complex data like streaming video or diverse tabular data efficiently and with fewer computational resources is crucial.

    • Few-Step Streaming Video Generation via Condition Shiftingraises · addresses
    • One Table, Many Queries: Benchmarking Generalist Tabular Models Across Generation, Imputation, and Predictionraises · addresses
  • Unified models for diverse data modalities and tasks2 papers raise it · 2 address it

    Creating single models that handle diverse tasks or data variations within a complex domain reduces complexity and improves generalization.

    • Prompt2Echo (P2Echo): Text-Prompted Multi-View Echocardiography Segmentation with One Modelraises · addresses
    • One Table, Many Queries: Benchmarking Generalist Tabular Models Across Generation, Imputation, and Predictionraises · addresses
  • Reducing computational cost of language model attribution1 paper raises it · 1 addresses it

    Understanding how prompt parts influence language model output is crucial for interpretability, but direct methods are computationally expensive.

    • Sketching Language Models for Context Attributionraises · addresses

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Rising research topics

  • Spiking neural networks11+175.0%
  • Quantum machine learning34+25.9%
  • Character recognition OCR44+25.7%
  • Speech emotion23+21.1%
  • Voice AI76+13.4%
  • Forecasting time133−2.9%
  • Robotics195−3.0%
  • Channel state information18−5.3%

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  • arXiv cs.CVSep 18

    Diffusion-Based Tumor Inpainting for Renal Segmentation under Clinical Data Scarcity

    Ekaterina Sedykh, Salme Ussanov, Dmytro Fedorenko, Dmytro Fishman

    Deep learning segmentation of renal tumors requires large annotated datasets, yet clinical deployments typically offer only a handful of tumor-positive cases from the target site. We propose a diffusion-based inpainting framework that synthesizes anatomically plausible renal tumors within healthy CT scans, requiring no additional annotation, and provide the first systematic comparison of 2D, 2.5D, and full 3D (MAISI) synthesis strategies for this task. Training the diffusion model on public data (KiTS23, KIRC) and evaluating nnU-Net segmentation on a internal cohort across three low-data regimes, we find that 2.5D and 3D augmentation substantially reduce false positives (from $\sim$18--20\% to $\sim$3--6\%) while maintaining Dice, whereas 2D provides no consistent benefit. Crucially, the proposed 2.5D method matches full 3D synthesis on every metric at substantially lower computational cost, indicating that local volumetric consistency alone is sufficient for effective augmentation in data- and resource-scarce clinical settings.

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  • arXiv astro-ph.IMSep 18

    Bayesian classification of astronomical spectra with class uncertainties

    Simon Barton, Martin Sahlén, Andreas Korn, Christian Glaser

    Context: We developed a probabilistic machine learning method with the aim of performing the O(10)-way classification of low- and high-resolution spectra of stellar and extragalactic targets for the upcoming 4MOST survey. In fulfilment of the survey requirements, this method should be able to express uncertainty in the input data as well as uncertainty introduced in its prediction. Aims: Four different methods are explored: (1) convolutional neural networks (CNNs), (2) the Dirichlet distribution, (3) Monte Carlo dropout (MCD), (4) Bayesian neural Networks (BNNs) + variational inference (VI). Training and validation was performed using labelled spectra from the SDSS database and a custom 4MOST mock dataset. All the methods were compared in terms of the same metrics: accuracy, area under the curve (AUC), expected calibration error (ECE), Shannon entropy, negative log-likelihood (NLL), Brier score, training time, and inference time. Methods: A CNN with simple architecture and about 20,000 parameters was trained to achieve classification accuracies of 91.5% on SDSS data and 92.8% on 4MOST mock data. The direct Dirichlet prediction and VI models tested provide uncertainties on class…

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  • arXiv cs.LGSep 18

    Optimization Geometry of Equivalent Brownian RKHS Representations

    Mahdi Mohammadigohari, Gustau Camps-Valls

    Equivalent finite parameterizations can represent the same functions and intrinsic norm yet induce different optimization algorithms. We study this effect in a controlled finite Brownian RKHS with nodal, increment, and spectral coordinates. Classical finite-element, RKHS-interpolation, Brownian-covariance, and mixed-boundary DCT identities make the shared hypothesis class, Brownian energy, approximation operator, and coordinate maps explicit. Our main results concern the optimization geometry of this fixed model. With mapped initialization, identical scalar steps, and identical minibatches, nodal and spectral GD/SGD have exactly the same mapped trajectories. Increment GD is an explicit Euler step for the constant Brownian/Sobolev metric, with factor $1/h$. For Brownian-regularized least squares, $κ_2(\mathbf H_{\mathrm{inc}})\le1+A/ρ$, independently of grid resolution $G$ for fixed $A$, $ρ>0$, and the stated normalization. Under the stated standard-Adam convention, the universal orthogonal equivariance group is exactly the signed permutations; the block DCT-VIII transform is not one. Float64 tests over five grids numerically verify the finite identities, mapped one-layer and…

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  • arXiv cs.CRSep 18

    CIPL: A Channel-Aware Framework for Recoverable Privacy Leakage in LLM Agents

    Tao Huang, Guosen Wu, Guolong Zheng, Jiayang Meng, Chen Hou +3

    Privacy leakage in LLM agents is commonly evaluated within individual components such as memory, retrieval, or tool-use pipelines, which makes it difficult to distinguish internal exposure from information that an external observer can actually recover. We present CIPL (Channel Inversion for Privacy Leakage), a channel-aware evaluation framework for black-box privacy leakage in LLM agents. CIPL represents a target through sensitive source, selection, assembly, execution, observation, and extraction stages and evaluates the transition from selected sensitive units to attacker-recoverable output under a shared protocol. Experiments across memory-based, retrieval-mediated, and tool-mediated targets, together with a BrowserUse live-agent case study, show that storage labels alone do not determine recoverability. Memory targets form a near-saturated reference case, retrieval-mediated leakage is frequently partial, and tool-mediated and live-agent leakage varies strongly with observation surface, prompt-to-channel alignment, retrieval depth, and provider behavior. A stratified semantic audit further identifies attacker-useful disclosures that canonical exact matching misses. CIPL…

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  • arXiv cs.AISep 18

    Listen Before You Speak: Response Planning from Listener Facial Reactions for Conversational Speech Generation

    Yunji Chu

    Conversational speech depends on dialogue context and the listener's immediately preceding behavior. We propose ReACT-TTS, a two-stage framework that uses a one-second pre-response listener facial sequence to plan the next utterance's emotion and prosody before speech realization. On a strict dyadic MELD protocol, Temporal conditioning yields higher mean macro-F1 and VAD concordance than Text-only across ten seeds, while accuracy remains essentially unchanged. Ablations show that temporal modeling performs best among the visual variants and that an explicit early-to-late difference is unnecessary; correct listener reactions also outperform cyclic mismatches on average. In a contextual-appropriateness study with 20 speech researchers, 76% of judgments prefer Temporal, 9% Text-only, and 15% report no preference. We further connect the predicted response style to a Grad-TTS backbone for end-to-end speech realization. Overall, the results support pre-response listener dynamics as complementary cues for conversational response planning. The source code is available at https://github.com/CYJ1/ReACT-TTS_public.

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  • arXiv cs.AISep 18

    GUARD: Natural Forgetting in Large Reasoning Models via Guided Answer-Reasoning Distillation

    Zeyu Yan, Guanghao Zhou, Minghui Qiu, Ming Gao, Cen Chen

    Recent advances in large reasoning models (LRMs) have made machine unlearning more challenging, as protected facts or unsafe rationales may surface in intermediate chain-of-thought (CoT) traces before the final answer is produced. Existing unlearning objectives typically suppress the target content or redirect internal representations, but they never specify how the post-forgetting trajectory should continue, which can lead to hallucinated substitutes, malformed boundaries, or repetitive outputs. We argue that LRM unlearning should instead learn a natural forgetting trajectory: a coherent non-disclosing CoT followed by a stable refusal-style answer that replace the original disclosure. To this end, we propose Guided Answer-Reasoning Distillation (GUARD), which converts model-generated unsafe disclosures into safe-exit trajectories, aligns a frozen LRM via guidance tokens, and distills the guided behavior into model parameters. To address the lack of metrics for replacement quality beyond leakage, we further introduce Natural Forgetting Reasoning Score (NFRS), which captures structural stability, fluency, and unsupported substitutes in forgotten outputs. Extensive experiments on…

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  • arXiv eess.ASSep 18

    The Spoken Wikipedia Presentation Corpus

    Thomas Ranzenberger, Steffen Freisinger, Tobias Bocklet, Korbinian Riedhammer

    We present the Spoken Wikipedia Presentation Corpus, an extension of the Spoken Wikipedia Corpora featuring LLM-generated slide decks for multimodal ASR. Slides are created from LLM-segmented sections using a hybrid pipeline that combines LLM-based content planning with rule-based design decisions. For each section, an LLM generates a slide title, bullet points, a takeaway message, and a visual description that is used to create an illustration. Rule-based matching then selects layouts, themes, and styles to produce the final slides. A vision LLM extracts slide text as Markdown. We evaluate multiple ASR and spoken language models (SLMs). The best model achieves an average micro-WER of 10.23% and an average micro-CER of 6.48% on audio-only inputs. English yields the lowest error rates, followed by German and Dutch, while performance declines across lower-resource languages. Although audio-only baselines are strong, multimodal zero-shot prompting of omni models remains challenging. The aligned slide, text, and audio data show a strong potential to improve recognition through cross-modal context.

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  • arXiv cs.CVSep 18

    DRT: Dense Reasoning Trace for Efficient and Grounded Multimodal Reasoning

    Wan Xu, Yuanfan Guo, Kevin Han, LaLa Chen, Wangmeng Zuo

    Despite the remarkable progress in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), prevailing Chain-of-Thought (CoT) paradigms remain confined to the natural-language expression space. Consequently, they inherently incur excessive linguistic overhead, leading to information dilution and weak visual grounding. To address this challenge, we propose Dense Reasoning Trace (DRT), a paradigm that departs from natural-language-centered CoT by expressing reasoning as compact structured traces, which include concise intermediate states with symbolic connectors and disentangle visual observations from logical deductions. First, we introduce the Dense Trace Initialization to internalize the DRT reasoning mode into the model, substantially improving token efficiency while preserving visual evidence. To further enable the model to faithfully capture the logical relations within traces, we propose the Trace-Grounded Reinforcement Learning framework, which builds reference traces through a tri-perspective verification pipeline and employs Trace-Grounded GRPO with structured rewards, encouraging the model to generate concise DRT-style traces with reduced hallucination and stronger logical grounding.…

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  • arXiv cs.CLSep 18

    PRISM-BN: A Controlled Corpus and Benchmark for Text-to-Parameterized Bayesian Network Extraction

    Amartya Bhattacharya, Nikhil Singh, Neeti Pokhriyal, Soroush Vosoughi

    Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs), especially Bayesian Networks (BNs), expose directed structure and probabilistic parameters, making them natural symbolic targets for neurosymbolic AI. Yet training text-to-parameterized-BN systems requires paired text-to-BN resources unavailable at scale. We introduce PRISM-BN, a controlled corpus of 5054 BN-grounded descriptions paired with discrete reference BNs containing variables, states, directed edges, root priors, and full multi-parent CPDs across five domains. The instances are derived from 50 Wikipedia-seeded backbones, and their probabilities are internally constructed benchmark targets rather than externally validated causal estimates. PRISM-BN is built with PRISM, a marginal-first pipeline that elicits marginal and local joint distributions, analytically recovers normalized CPDs, and constructs locally reparameterized subgraphs. We define a benchmark with semantic node and state alignment, conditional structural scoring, and strict full-CPD evaluation. Across six LLM extractors, Node F1 ranges from 0.56 to 0.83, conditional Edge F1 from 0.90 to 0.97, and CPD-KL from 1.11 to 3.14. Conditional state and edge recovery remain…

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  • arXiv cs.AISep 18

    Accelerating Dense LLMs via L0-regularized Mixture-of-Experts

    Zhenyu Zhang, Jiudong Yang, Zhaowen Tao, Meng Chen

    Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance but suffer from slow and costly inference. Existing acceleration methods often lead to noticeable performance degradation, while Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models require extensive computational resources. In this paper, we propose L0-MoE, a lightweight MoE approach using L0-regularization to accelerate dense LLMs nearly without performance loss. Our method introduces a cluster confusion matrix for domain-aware dataset curation and applies dynamic batching for efficient training. Experiments show that L0-MoE achieves up to 2.5x speedup over dense models while maintaining competitive performance, outperforming existing LLM acceleration baselines.

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  • arXiv cs.DLSep 18

    From Code Archival to Knowledge Graph: Bridging Software Heritage, COAR Notify and Wikidata

    Camillo Carlo Pellizzari di San Girolamo, Francesco Tosoni

    Software is a first-class scientific object, yet validated links between source code and the scholarly record remain largely absent from the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud, isolating archived artefacts from semantic discovery. This paper presents an end-to-end reconciliation pipeline that harvests, validates, and models publication-to-repository pairs from sources where the link between a paper and its source code is explicit and editorially verified: the software-centric journals JOSS, SoftwareX, and IPOL, together with the reproducibility reports of the SIGMOD Availability and Reproducibility Initiative (ARI). This yields a curated corpus of 4,397 $\langle$DOI, repository-URL$\rangle$ pairs. We design two distinct application profiles grounded in Wikidata classes (one for scholarly articles, one for software instances) aligned with the schema.org and CodeMeta vocabularies. This architectural separation enables rule-based reconciliation at two granularities: lightweight, inline publication references or standalone, first-class Wikidata software nodes equipped with SWHIDs, Software Heritage's content-addressed identifiers. A read-only lookup against Wikidata shows that only 82 of…

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  • arXiv eess.ASSep 18

    Samsone: A Family of Open Small Audio Language Models for On-Device Inference

    Piotr Masztalski, Michał K. Grzeszczyk, Olaf Sikorski

    The success of Large Audio Language Models has driven the development of massive multimodal networks exceeding billions of parameters. However, the demand for privacy-preserving, low-latency processing has shifted focus toward Small Audio Language Models (SALMs) capable of on-device execution. In this paper, we introduce Samsone, a family of SALMs designed for edge computing. Our core model, Samsone-134M, establishes a new state-of-the-art for its size class across multiple benchmarks. We further explore the scaling laws of SALMs by introducing Samsone-99M and Samsone-356M. Despite their compact footprint, the Samsone family delivers performance competitive with models orders of magnitude larger. To foster open research and reproducibility, we train Samsone on publicly available data. We release the training code, model weights, mobile-optimized checkpoints and provide an open-source Android application to demonstrate real-time on-device inference of Samsone.

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  • arXiv cs.LGSep 18

    Multi-Domain Clustering via Measure Quantization

    Rafael Pereira Eufrazio, Eduardo Fernandes Montesuma, Charles Casimiro Cavalcante

    Clustering is a fundamental task in data analysis, typically addressed through centroid-based methods such as K-means. In this work, we present a general framework for multi-domain clustering via measure quantization: given samples from multiple domains, we learn a shared set of cluster prototypes by minimizing a probability metric, such as the Sinkhorn divergence or the Maximum Mean Discrepancy, between each domain's probability measure and the measure of prototypes. Data points are then assigned to clusters either via nearest centroid, or via optimal transport, a collaborative strategy that couples all samples within a domain. A mini-batch optimization strategy makes both fitting and assignment scalable, reducing memory and computational cost while preserving clustering performance. Experimental results on 5 multi-domain benchmarks spanning image, audio and sensor data show that our Sinkhorn-based method consistently outperforms classical and multi-domain clustering baselines, and that this advantage persists when scaling to hundreds of thousands of samples.

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  • arXiv cs.CLSep 18

    Rethinking Human-Aligned Evaluation: An Analysis of Semantic Metrics Beyond WER

    Hritika Sharma, Thibault Bañeras-Roux, Alessandra Pinto, Petr Motlicek, Hyunggu Jung +2

    Word Error Rate (WER), the most commonly used metric for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), treats every lexical deviation from the reference as equally costly, regardless of whether it changes meaning. This raises the question: does WER actually track how humans judge ASR transcript quality? We introduce HATS-en, an English dataset for human-centered ASR evaluation. Using this dataset, we benchmark lexical metrics against several configurations of BERTScore and SemDist, varying the language model, layer, and pooling strategy. We find that WER agrees least with human judgment among all metrics tested, that the best-performing SemDist configurations achieve the highest overall agreement, ahead of CER and BERTScore, and that no single model is best across settings. CER, despite its simplicity and low cost, remains remarkably close to these best configurations. In line with prior recommendations, our results support shifting ASR evaluation toward CER both for English and for morphosyllabic writing systems as it is a more interpretable and low-cost metric for what evaluation should actually capture, and using SemDist as a complementary evaluation.

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  • arXiv cs.CLSep 18

    When Steering Fails in Latent Reasoning: A Latent-to-Language Transition Gap

    Gaoxiang Huang, Lei Qi

    Activation steering has become a widely used approach for controlling language models during explicit chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, motivating its extension to latent CoT. However, we find that steering continuous thoughts produces substantially weaker effects on subsequent language generation than steering explicit CoT, even when the hidden representations are moved by comparable amounts. We first show that task information remains identifiable in continuous thoughts. Hence, we hypothesize a \textbf{latent-to-language transition gap}, in which an intervention effect in latent space fails to transfer to language generation. Two further results support this hypothesis: the output distribution changes abruptly at the transition boundary, and task-related directions exert much weaker bidirectional control in latent CoT than in explicit CoT. These findings identify the transition interface as a central target for evaluating and designing future latent-steering methods.

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  • arXiv cs.ROSep 18

    Outcome-Conditioned End-Effector Geometry Across Vision-Language-Action Policies

    Xingyu Lin, Zhuang Li, Zhongrun Wu, Shouquan Zhou, Dehui Du

    Vision-language-action (VLA) policies solve the same manipulation task through different action interfaces, but task success alone does not establish whether their physical executions agree. We study cross-policy end-effector geometry in 15,000 closed-loop LIBERO rollouts from four policies. The primary clean-condition analysis forms 3,600 configuration-matched, and therefore dependent, policy pairs. Both-success pairs have a median normalized dynamic time warping distance of 0.0120 m versus 0.0380 m when exactly one policy succeeds. This ordering holds in every task, every policy pair, and nine sampling and band-limited representations; however, the ratio varies severalfold across representations, so we report the direction rather than a fixed multiple. Both-failure pairs are more separated again but rest on thin, uneven support, so we report them as exploratory. Within successful executions, partner replacements separate more across tasks than across initial states. A matched baseline still reveals measurable, heterogeneous residual policy differences, so a low cross-policy distance does not imply interchangeability. Successful executions sit about as far from same-task…

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  • arXiv cs.LGSep 18

    Beyond Gaussian Worlds: Latent Geometry Matters for JEPAs

    Léo Nicollier, Enric Meinhardt-Llopis, Marc Pic, Pablo Musé, Gabriele Facciolo

    Recent Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) prevent representation collapse by constraining learned representations to follow a prescribed target distribution, such as an isotropic Gaussian or the uniform distribution on a hypersphere. Klindt et al. (2026) showed that, under their Euclidean assumptions, matching a Gaussian target can recover Gaussian latent variables up to a linear transformation, and that the Gaussian is the unique distribution with this guarantee. We extend their analysis to latent variables supported on embedded Riemannian manifolds and derive conditions on the latent geometry and positive-pair dynamics under which alignment and exact distribution matching guarantee linear recovery. In particular, when the latent variables are uniformly distributed on a sphere and the representations are matched to the same spherical distribution, every optimal representation recovers the latent state up to an orthogonal transformation. This shows that Gaussian uniqueness is not a universal property of distribution-matched JEPAs: non-Euclidean latent geometries can admit other linearly recoverable distributions. We further derive an approximate-recovery bound that…

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  • arXiv cs.CLSep 18

    Analysing the Linearity of Linguistic Relations in Language Model Embedding Spaces

    Vasudevan Nedumpozhimana, Fathima Thekkekara, John Kelleher

    We propose a framework to analyse how strongly different linguistic relations are linearly encoded in language model embedding spaces. We formalise linear encoding via a constrained linear approximation over related and unrelated word pairs and apply this to an extended BATS dataset covering inflectional, derivational, lexicographic, and encyclopedic relations in GloVe, RoBERTa, and ModernBERT. Our experiments show near-perfect linear encodings for inflectional and derivational relations, but substantially higher errors for lexicographic and encyclopedic relations, especially for one-to-many and many-to-many associations. We also find that RoBERTa and ModernBERT generally encode relations more linearly than GloVe. These results indicate that our framework can reveal which relational structures are most linearly accessible in embeddings, offering a compact tool for probing and comparing relational geometry across models.

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  • arXiv cs.CVComputer visionSep 18

    Configurable Multi-Stage Vision Pipeline for Crop Disease and Pest Diagnosis

    Naga Ganesh, Chandrashekar M S, Lakshmi Pedapudi, Aakash Singh, Vineet Singh

    FarmerChat is Digital Green's farm advisory service for smallholder farmers. When something looks wrong with a crop, the farmer takes a photograph and sends it, and that photograph is the whole question: no symptom described, no crop named, often no text at all. The service has to determine whether the picture can be used, what crop it shows, and what is wrong with it, from images taken on cheap phones in a field, in poor light and with a moving camera. The system doing this today cannot be adjusted. It has no adjustable thresholds for photograph rejection, crops and problems cannot be added, and there is no confidence cut-off to set. We study about 1.16 million photographs sent to FarmerChat from Ethiopia, India, Kenya and Nigeria. The production quality gate rejected 46.8% of the images it judged, over a quarter of those reaching diagnosis returned no crop name, and 35.8% of the labelled problems filed under "disease" are pests, identifiable without the crop. We therefore split the work into three stages: a quality gate (M0), a crop detector (M1), and a disease or pest detector (M2). Route A fills all three with one fine-tuned vision-language model (Qwen3-VL-4B) answering in a…

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  • arXiv cs.ROSep 18

    SynthDemo-RL: Breaking the Zero-Reward Barrier in VLA Adaptation with LLM-Guided Synthetic Demonstrations

    Hiroaki Kingetsu, Hiroaki Kurihara, Kaoru Yokoo, Kenji Fukumizu, Manohar Kaul

    Fine-tuning Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models commonly relies on human teleoperation demonstrations, while reinforcement learning (RL) with sparse binary rewards faces an exploration challenge when successful trajectories are rarely sampled. We propose SynthDemo-RL, a teacher-student framework in which an automated teacher converts simulator-privileged state into successful manipulation trajectories, a VLA student is distilled from them by supervised fine-tuning (SFT), and PPO with binary task-success rewards refines the student. We study reward coverage, the fraction of tasks for which at least one success is observed under the fixed evaluation protocol, as a complement to the average success rate. On LIBERO-PRO, a public benchmark of perturbed LIBERO tasks for which no demonstrations exist, 27 of 57 scored tasks are at exactly 0% success for a pi_0.5 policy fine-tuned on the original LIBERO tasks. Direct PPO from this policy, under the same PPO recipe and the same RL compute as SynthDemo-RL's refinement stage, rescues 10 of these 27 tasks and leaves 17 at 0%. SynthDemo-RL, with 50 synthesized trajectories per task and no new human demonstrations, rescues all 27 and reaches…

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