Certainty-Validity: A Diagnostic Framework for Discrete Commitment Systems

This paper introduces the Certainty-Validity (CVS) Framework, a diagnostic tool for discrete commitment systems that exposes the critical flaw of standard accuracy metrics by distinguishing between appropriate uncertainty and harmful confident hallucinations, ultimately arguing that effective training for reasoning systems should prioritize maximizing the CVS score to prevent models from overcommitting to ambiguous data.

Datorien L. Anderson2026-03-03🤖 cs.LG

Multimodal Modular Chain of Thoughts in Energy Performance Certificate Assessment

This paper introduces Multimodal Modular Chain of Thoughts (MMCoT), a cost-efficient framework utilizing Vision-Language models to improve automated Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) pre-assessment by decomposing the estimation into structured reasoning stages, which demonstrated statistically significant accuracy gains over standard prompting on a UK residential dataset.

Zhen Peng, Peter J. Bentley2026-03-03🤖 cs.AI

VoxelDiffusionCut: Non-destructive Internal-part Extraction via Iterative Cutting and Structure Estimation

This paper proposes VoxelDiffusionCut, a novel method that leverages a diffusion model to iteratively estimate internal 3D structures from observed cutting surfaces and plan non-destructive cuts, thereby enabling the safe extraction of target components like batteries and motors from complex products by effectively capturing predictive uncertainty to avoid erroneous damage.

Takumi Hachimine, Yuhwan Kwon, Cheng-Yu Kuo + 2 more2026-03-03💻 cs

QuickGrasp: Responsive Video-Language Querying Service via Accelerated Tokenization and Edge-Augmented Inference

QuickGrasp is a responsive, QoS-aware system that bridges the accuracy-latency trade-off in video-language querying by employing a local-first architecture with on-demand edge augmentation, shared vision representations, and adaptive tokenization to match large model performance while significantly reducing response delays.

Miao Zhang, Ruixiao Zhang, Jianxin Shi + 3 more2026-03-03⚡ eess

Predicting Local Climate Zones using Urban Morphometrics and Satellite Imagery

This study evaluates the efficacy of using urban morphometrics, alone and fused with satellite imagery, to predict Local Climate Zones across five sites, finding that while morphometrics capture a broader range of urban form properties, the predictive relationship is site-dependent and inconsistent, suggesting the LCZ framework should be used with caution in morphological studies.

Hugo Majer, Martin Fleischmann2026-03-03💻 cs

You Don't Need All That Attention: Surgical Memorization Mitigation in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

This paper introduces GUARD, a novel inference-time framework that mitigates memorization in text-to-image diffusion models by dynamically adjusting the denoising process through statistical identification and attenuation of cross-attention, effectively preventing the reproduction of training data while maintaining high image quality and prompt alignment.

Kairan Zhao, Eleni Triantafillou, Peter Triantafillou2026-03-03🤖 cs.AI

From Scale to Speed: Adaptive Test-Time Scaling for Image Editing

This paper proposes ADE-CoT, an adaptive test-time scaling framework that enhances image editing efficiency and performance by dynamically allocating resources based on edit difficulty, employing edit-specific early verification, and utilizing depth-first opportunistic stopping to achieve superior results with significantly reduced sampling budgets compared to existing methods.

Xiangyan Qu, Zhenlong Yuan, Jing Tang + 9 more2026-03-03⚡ eess

GrapHist: Graph Self-Supervised Learning for Histopathology

GrapHist is a novel, parameter-efficient graph-based self-supervised learning framework that models histopathology images as cell graphs to capture biological heterogeneity, achieving competitive performance across multiple downstream tasks while outperforming fully-supervised graph models and establishing the first large-scale graph benchmark in digital pathology.

Sevda Öğüt, Cédric Vincent-Cuaz, Natalia Dubljevic + 4 more2026-03-03🤖 cs.LG