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Orthogonality in a LoRA factor does not by itself specify what the composed update protects: the answer depends on the task-start state, the parameterization, and the realized optimizer displacement. We formalize this question through Bilinear Optimization Divergence (BOD), an…

End-to-end document parsers increasingly offer an optional reasoning mode for complex pages. On a 180-page entropy-stratified discovery sample with one frozen 4B checkpoint, complexity is the wrong decision variable. Reasoning lowers mean quality by 2.21 Overall at 1.54x…

Battery energy storage system (BESS) dispatch must preserve operational feasibility while declining price spreads reduce the margin available to pay for cycling. We study a proximal policy optimization (PPO) controller whose pre-selection physical action mask and emergency…

Large audio-language models (LALMs) are increasingly used for a broader range of audio reasoning tasks. These models typically incorporate audio representations into a large language model (LLM) backbone to enable multimodal reasoning. Recent test-time reinforcement learning…