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This introduces the TopoPrimer framework, which improves forecasting accuracy by leveraging the global topological structure of time-series data as an input.
Path-Constrained Mixture-of-Experts
We propose PathMoE, which constrains the expert paths that tokens traverse to improve the efficiency and performance of MoE models.
Revisiting ASR Error Correction via Dedicated Models
This work proposes a method that improves the efficiency and accuracy of ASR error correction by leveraging a seq2seq model lighter than an LLM.
Scaling Properties of Continuous Diffusion-Based Speech Language Models
A Continuous Diffusion-based speech model was shown to follow scaling laws while demonstrating potential for efficient inference.
Anti-Causal Domain Generalization: Leveraging Unlabeled Data
This work proposes an Anti-Causal Domain Generalization approach that learns robust predictive models for new environments by leveraging unlabeled data.
Conformal Thinking: Risk Control for Reasoning within a Compute Budget
Proposes a risk control framework that optimizes token usage during LLM inference while keeping the error rate below a certain level.
Residual Context Diffusion Language Models
By recycling information from discarded tokens through RCD technology, the accuracy and inference speed of diffusion language models have been dramatically improved.
Learning Unmasking Policies for Diffusion Language Models
This work proposes a new policy learning method that maximizes the efficiency of token selection (unmasking) in Diffusion LLMs through reinforcement learning.
Learning Structural Reasoning through Tractable Trajectory Control
Apple researchers have proposed the Ctrl-R framework to help LLMs effectively learn the diverse reasoning patterns needed for complex problem solving.
MemoryLLM: A Plug-and-Play Interpretable Feed-Forward Memory for Transformers
MemoryLLM proposes separating the FFN from Self-Attention in Transformers and using it as a context-free, token-level neural retrieval memory.
On the Robustness and Chain-of-Thought Consistency of RL-Finetuned VLMs
RL-finetuned VLMs show improved visual reasoning performance, but exhibit vulnerability to textual perturbations.
Amortizing MIPS Computation Cost with Learned Support Functions
This proposes Amortized MIPS, which dramatically reduces search computation cost by directly predicting MIPS solutions via neural networks.
VideoFlexTok: Flexible-Length Coarse-to-Fine Video Tokenization
VideoFlexTok dramatically improves training efficiency and generation length by representing video in stages, from abstract information to fine details.
Why multi-agent teams undermine expert capability
This study examines the synergy effects of multi-agent systems that collaborate autonomously without a fixed workflow.
9 Judges, Really 2: Correlated Errors Undermine LLM Evaluation Panels
A study found that because models in LLM evaluation panels repeat similar errors, adding multiple models to the vote provides very little actual information value.
Metric-Dependent Annotation Saturation for Label Distribution Learning
The number of annotators needed varies depending on the model's evaluation metric, so data collection strategies must be tailored to the target metric.
PickApple Introduces Third-Generation Foundation Models
Apple has unveiled its third-generation Apple Foundation Models (AFM) series for next-generation Apple Intelligence, featuring enhanced privacy protection.
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026
Apple will participate in CVPR 2026 to present its latest research, including generative AI and multimodal LLMs.
VSAS-Bench: Real-Time Evaluation of Visual Streaming Assistant Models
**VSAS-Bench**, a new framework for evaluating the performance of real-time visual streaming assistant models, has been released.
Large-Scale High-Quality 3D Gaussian Head Reconstruction from Multi-View Captures
HeadsUp reconstructs 3D Gaussian heads without test-time optimization using data at a scale of over 10,000 people.