A Benchmark Study of Neural Network Compression Methods for Hyperspectral Image Classification

This paper presents a systematic benchmark study evaluating the effectiveness of pruning, quantization, and knowledge distillation in compressing neural networks for hyperspectral image classification, demonstrating that these methods can significantly reduce model size and computational costs while maintaining competitive accuracy for resource-constrained remote sensing applications.

Sai Shi2026-03-06💻 cs

Evaluating GPT-5 as a Multimodal Clinical Reasoner: A Landscape Commentary

This landscape commentary evaluates the GPT-5 family against GPT-4o, revealing substantial improvements in expert-level textual reasoning and multimodal synthesis that approach state-of-the-art performance in tasks like mammography, while highlighting that generalist models still lag behind specialized systems in perception-critical domains such as neuroradiology.

Alexandru Florea, Shansong Wang, Mingzhe Hu + 5 more2026-03-06💻 cs

Distributional Reinforcement Learning with Information Bottleneck for Uncertainty-Aware DRAM Equalization

This paper proposes a distributional risk-sensitive reinforcement learning framework that integrates Information Bottleneck representations and Conditional Value-at-Risk optimization to achieve certified worst-case DRAM equalizer performance with significant speedups and uncertainty quantification, outperforming existing methods by up to 89.1% on real-world memory data.

Muhammad Usama, Dong Eui Chang2026-03-06💻 cs

Distributional Equivalence in Linear Non-Gaussian Latent-Variable Cyclic Causal Models: Characterization and Learning

This paper presents the first structural-assumption-free causal discovery method for linear non-Gaussian latent-variable cyclic models by establishing a graphical criterion for distributional equivalence, introducing edge rank constraints, and providing an algorithm to recover models up to this equivalence class.

Haoyue Dai, Immanuel Albrecht, Peter Spirtes + 1 more2026-03-06💻 cs

Guiding Diffusion-based Reconstruction with Contrastive Signals for Balanced Visual Representation

This paper proposes Diffusion Contrastive Reconstruction (DCR), a method that injects contrastive signals derived from reconstructed images into the diffusion process to resolve gradient conflicts and jointly optimize both discriminative and detail-perceptive abilities, thereby overcoming the limitations of CLIP's visual encoder for balanced visual representation.

Boyu Han, Qianqian Xu, Shilong Bao + 4 more2026-03-06💻 cs

The Inductive Bias of Convolutional Neural Networks: Locality and Weight Sharing Reshape Implicit Regularization

This paper demonstrates that the architectural inductive biases of locality and weight sharing in convolutional neural networks fundamentally alter implicit regularization by coupling learned filters to low-dimensional patch manifolds, thereby enabling generalization on high-dimensional spherical data where fully connected networks provably fail.

Tongtong Liang, Esha Singh, Rahul Parhi + 2 more2026-03-06💻 cs

Quadratic polarity and polar Fenchel-Young divergences from the canonical Legendre polarity

This paper establishes a unified framework linking quadratic polarities to deformed Legendre transformations via linear algebra on homogeneous coordinates, defines polar divergences that generalize Fenchel-Young and Bregman divergences, and elucidates the reference duality in information geometry through total polar Fenchel-Young divergences.

Frank Nielsen, Basile Plus-Gourdon, Mahito Sugiyama2026-03-06💻 cs

On the Strengths and Weaknesses of Data for Open-set Embodied Assistance

This paper investigates the generalization capabilities of a multimodal foundation model fine-tuned on diverse synthetic interactive data for the novel task of Open-Set Corrective Assistance, demonstrating that effective open-set assistive intelligence requires datasets encompassing multimodal grounding, defect inference, and exposure to varied scenarios.

Pradyumna Tambwekar, Andrew Silva, Deepak Gopinath + 3 more2026-03-06🤖 cs.AI