DendroNN: Dendrocentric Neural Networks for Energy-Efficient Classification of Event-Based Data

This paper introduces DendroNN, a novel dendrocentric neural network that leverages non-differentiable sequence detection and a rewiring phase to efficiently classify event-based spatiotemporal data, achieving competitive accuracy with up to 4x higher energy efficiency than state-of-the-art neuromorphic hardware through a dedicated asynchronous digital architecture.

Jann Krausse, Zhe Su, Kyrus Mama, Maryada, Klaus Knobloch, Giacomo Indiveri, Jürgen BeckerWed, 11 Ma🤖 cs.AI

Multi-model approach for autonomous driving: A comprehensive study on traffic sign-, vehicle- and lane detection and behavioral cloning

This study presents a comprehensive multi-model deep learning approach that integrates pre-trained and custom neural networks with advanced data augmentation and transfer learning techniques to enhance autonomous driving capabilities by effectively addressing traffic sign classification, vehicle and lane detection, and behavioral cloning across diverse datasets.

Kanishkha Jaisankar, Pranav M. Pawar, Diana Susane Joseph, Raja Muthalagu, Mithun MukherjeeWed, 11 Ma🤖 cs.AI

Latent-DARM: Bridging Discrete Diffusion And Autoregressive Models For Reasoning

Latent-DARM is a novel latent-space communication framework that bridges Discrete Diffusion Language Models for global planning and Autoregressive Models for fluent execution, significantly improving reasoning accuracy on benchmarks like DART-5 and AIME2024 while drastically reducing token usage compared to state-of-the-art reasoning models.

Lina Berrayana, Ahmed Heakl, Abdullah Sohail, Thomas Hofmann, Salman Khan, Wei ChenWed, 11 Ma🤖 cs.AI

RubiCap: Rubric-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Dense Image Captioning

RubiCap introduces a novel reinforcement learning framework that leverages LLM-generated rubrics to create structured, multi-faceted reward signals for dense image captioning, thereby overcoming the limitations of supervised distillation and deterministic checkers to achieve state-of-the-art performance and superior word efficiency across various benchmarks.

Tzu-Heng Huang, Sirajul Salekin, Javier Movellan, Frederic Sala, Manjot BilkhuWed, 11 Ma🤖 cs.AI

Causally Sufficient and Necessary Feature Expansion for Class-Incremental Learning

This paper proposes a Probability of Necessity and Sufficiency (PNS)-based regularization method for Class-Incremental Learning that utilizes a dual-scope counterfactual generator to mitigate feature collisions caused by intra-task shortcut reliance and inter-task semantic confusion, thereby ensuring both the causal completeness and separability of task-specific representations.

Zhen Zhang, Jielei Chu, Tianrui LiWed, 11 Ma🤖 cs.AI

QUSR: Quality-Aware and Uncertainty-Guided Image Super-Resolution Diffusion Model

The paper proposes QUSR, a novel diffusion-based image super-resolution model that combines an Uncertainty-Guided Noise Generation module to adaptively perturb high-uncertainty regions and a Quality-Aware Prior leveraging Multimodal Large Language Models to guide restoration, thereby achieving high-fidelity results in real-world scenarios with unknown and non-uniform degradations.

Junjie Yin, Jiaju Li, Hanfa XingWed, 11 Ma🤖 cs.AI

DexHiL: A Human-in-the-Loop Framework for Vision-Language-Action Model Post-Training in Dexterous Manipulation

DexHiL is the first integrated human-in-the-loop framework for dexterous Vision-Language-Action models that combines coordinated arm-hand teleoperation with intervention-aware data sampling to significantly improve post-training performance and reliability in complex manipulation tasks.

Yifan Han, Zhongxi Chen, Yuxuan Zhao, Congsheng Xu, Yanming Shao, Yichuan Peng, Yao Mu, Wenzhao LianWed, 11 Ma🤖 cs.AI

PM-Nav: Priori-Map Guided Embodied Navigation in Functional Buildings

The paper introduces PM-Nav, a novel framework that leverages priori-semantic maps and hierarchical chain-of-thought prompting to overcome the challenges of language-driven navigation in functional buildings with highly similar features, achieving substantial performance improvements over existing methods in both simulation and real-world environments.

Jiang Gao, Xiangyu Dong, Haozhou Li, Haoran Zhao, Yaoming Zhou, Xiaoguang MaWed, 11 Ma🤖 cs.AI

VIVID-Med: LLM-Supervised Structured Pretraining for Deployable Medical ViTs

VIVID-Med introduces a novel framework that leverages a frozen large language model as a structured semantic teacher to pretrain lightweight, deployable medical Vision Transformers via a Unified Medical Schema and Structured Prediction Decomposition, achieving state-of-the-art performance across diverse medical imaging tasks with significantly reduced data requirements compared to existing vision-language models.

Xiyao Wang, Xiaoyu Tan, Yang Dai, Yuxuan Fu, Shuo Li, Xihe QiuWed, 11 Ma🤖 cs.AI