Making Reconstruction FID Predictive of Diffusion Generation FID

This paper introduces interpolated FID (iFID), a novel metric that achieves a strong correlation with diffusion generation FID by interpolating latent representations between dataset samples and their nearest neighbors, thereby overcoming the limitations of traditional reconstruction FID in predicting generative model quality.

Tongda Xu, Mingwei He, Shady Abu-Hussein, Jose Miguel Hernandez-Lobato, Haotian Zhang, Kai Zhao, Chao Zhou, Ya-Qin Zhang, Yan Wang2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG

When Rubrics Fail: Error Enumeration as Reward in Reference-Free RL Post-Training for Virtual Try-On

This paper introduces Implicit Error Counting (IEC), a reference-free reinforcement learning post-training method that enumerates and weights errors to generate rewards, demonstrating superior performance over Rubrics as Rewards (RaR) in virtual try-on tasks where multiple valid outputs exist and ideal reference answers are unavailable.

Wisdom Ikezogwo, Mehmet Saygin Seyfioglu, Ranjay Krishna, Karim Bouyarmane2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

Parallelization Strategies for Dense LLM Deployment: Navigating Through Application-Specific Tradeoffs and Bottlenecks

This paper investigates parallelization strategies for deploying dense LLMs, demonstrating that while Tensor Parallelism optimizes latency and Pipeline Parallelism enhances throughput, a hybrid approach allows for effective control over the inherent latency-throughput tradeoff to meet specific application requirements.

Burak Topcu, Musa Oguzhan Cim, Poovaiah Palangappa, Meena Arunachalam, Mahmut Taylan Kandemir2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG

The Rise of AI in Weather and Climate Information and its Impact on Global Inequality

This paper argues that while AI promises to revolutionize climate information, its current reliance on Global North-dominated infrastructure and biased data risks exacerbating global inequality, necessitating a shift toward data-centric development, shared digital public infrastructure, and co-produced knowledge to ensure equitable outcomes.

Amirpasha Mozaffari, Amanda Duarte, Lina Teckentrup, Stefano Materia, Gina E. C. Charnley, Lluis Palma, Eulalia Baulenas Serra, Dragana Bojovic, Paula Checchia, Aude Carreric, Francisco Doblas-Reyes2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

MIRACL: A Diverse Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Objective Multi-Echelon Combinatorial Supply Chain Optimisation

The paper introduces MIRACL, a novel hierarchical Meta-MORL framework that enables few-shot generalization and efficient adaptation for multi-objective multi-echelon supply chain optimization by decomposing tasks into structured subproblems and employing a Pareto-based strategy to achieve superior performance over conventional baselines.

Rifny Rachman, Josh Tingey, Richard Allmendinger, Wei Pan, Pradyumn Shukla, Bahrul Ilmi Nasution2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG

Score-Guided Proximal Projection: A Unified Geometric Framework for Rectified Flow Editing

This paper introduces Score-Guided Proximal Projection (SGPP), a unified geometric framework that reformulates Rectified Flow editing as a proximal optimization problem to overcome the limitations of existing inversion and sampling methods by theoretically guaranteeing manifold convergence while enabling a continuous, training-free trade-off between identity preservation and generative flexibility.

Vansh Bansal, James G Scott2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG

Knowing without Acting: The Disentangled Geometry of Safety Mechanisms in Large Language Models

This paper proposes the Disentangled Safety Hypothesis (DSH), which reveals that large language models separate safety "recognition" and "refusal execution" into distinct geometric subspaces, enabling the development of the Refusal Erasure Attack (REA) to bypass safety mechanisms by surgically disabling the refusal axis while preserving harmful content generation.

Jinman Wu, Yi Xie, Shen Lin, Shiqian Zhao, Xiaofeng Chen2026-03-09🤖 cs.AI

First-Order Softmax Weighted Switching Gradient Method for Distributed Stochastic Minimax Optimization with Stochastic Constraints

This paper proposes a first-order Softmax-Weighted Switching Gradient method for distributed stochastic minimax optimization under stochastic constraints, achieving optimal oracle complexity and high-probability convergence guarantees in both full and partial client participation settings while avoiding the instability of traditional primal-dual approaches.

Zhankun Luo, Antesh Upadhyay, Sang Bin Moon, Abolfazl Hashemi2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG

The Coordination Gap: Alternation Metrics for Temporal Dynamics in Multi-Agent Battle of the Exes

This paper introduces temporally sensitive Alternation (ALT) metrics to reveal that conventional outcome-based evaluations can severely mischaracterize multi-agent coordination, as demonstrated by Q-learning agents in a Battle of the Exes variant that achieve high traditional fairness scores but perform significantly worse than random baselines in actual turn-taking dynamics.

Nikolaos Al. Papadopoulos, Konstantinos Psannis2026-03-09🤖 cs.LG