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The paper introduces EVE, a modular, training-free framework that enhances the test-time performance of frozen generative robotic policies by employing zero-shot VLM-based verifiers to propose action refinements and a classifier-guided incorporator to fuse this feedback, thereby improving success rates across diverse tasks without additional finetuning.
This paper proposes Latent Implicit Visual Reasoning (LIVR), a task-agnostic mechanism that enables Large Multimodal Models to autonomously discover and utilize latent visual reasoning tokens without explicit intermediate supervision, thereby outperforming existing text-centric and explicitly supervised visual reasoning methods across diverse vision-centric tasks.
This paper establishes that computing the Strahler number of a binary tree is complete for uniform when the tree is given as a term, while determining variants for pointer structures, DAGs, and tree straight-line programs, and proving that deciding if a context-free grammar produces a derivation tree with a Strahler number of at least is -complete (or -complete for acyclic trees).
This paper demonstrates that classical Hopfield networks can efficiently learn graph isomorphism classes from small random samples by leveraging an implicit bias toward norm-efficient solutions, which drives parameters toward a low-dimensional invariant subspace and enables approximate invariance under group-structured data.
The paper introduces CrossHA, a unified agentic model trained via a novel pipeline combining supervised fine-tuning and Multi-Turn Group Relative Policy Optimization to autonomously select and switch between heterogeneous action spaces, thereby achieving state-of-the-art performance and adaptability in dynamic, long-horizon tasks within the Minecraft environment.
This paper reveals that Masked Diffusion Language Models suffer from a strong locality bias and performance degradation caused by distracting mask tokens, proposing a mask-agnostic loss function to significantly improve their context comprehension and robustness.
GenTract introduces the first generative model for global tractography that directly maps diffusion MRI data to anatomically plausible streamlines, achieving significantly higher precision than state-of-the-art methods, particularly in challenging low-resolution and noisy conditions.
The paper introduces Facial-R1, a three-stage alignment framework that combines instruction fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and data synthesis to overcome hallucination and misalignment in Vision-Language Models, achieving state-of-the-art performance in Facial Emotion Analysis through explainable, fine-grained reasoning.
This paper introduces Selective Sinkhorn Routing (SSR), a lightweight mechanism that frames token-to-expert assignment as a constrained optimal transport problem to achieve balanced expert utilization and improved model performance without relying on auxiliary balancing losses or complex trainable components.
The paper introduces PHUMA, a 73-hour physically reliable humanoid locomotion dataset created through a two-stage pipeline that combines motion capture and internet videos to overcome physical artifacts and enable robust, real-world transferable motion imitation.
The paper proposes VOLD, a framework that enhances vision-language model reasoning by combining Group Relative Policy Optimization with on-policy distillation from text-only teacher models, demonstrating that initial supervised fine-tuning alignment is critical for effective knowledge transfer and achieving state-of-the-art performance on complex reasoning benchmarks.