arXiv:2601.00204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D morphing remains challenging due to the difficulty of generating semantically consistent and temporally smooth deformations, especially across categories. We present MorphAny3D, a training-free framework that leverages Structured Latent (SLAT) representations for high-quality 3D morphing. Our key insight is that intelligently blending source and target SLAT features within the attention mechanisms of 3D generators naturally produces plausible morphing sequences. To this end, we introduce Morphing Cross-Attention (MCA), which fuses source and target information […]

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Switzerland is using this year’s Winter Olympic Games in northern Italy to pitch its expertise in wearables, training tools, and equipment designed to elevate performance. Meanwhile, elite athletes are turning to Swiss innovations for a competitive edge, fueling the country’s rise as a hub for sport tech entrepreneurs; researchers and startups already count an Olympic medalist in Alpine skiing and national ice hockey players among those who’ve benefited from their developments. Supporters argue the country is uniquely positioned to lead the growing […]

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arXiv:2601.14424v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Conflict-Driven Cylindrical Algebraic Covering algorithm has proven well suited for performing theory validation checks in the satisfiability modulo theories paradigm for non-linear real arithmetic. CDCAC repurposes the theory underpinning classical cylindrical algebraic decomposition for SMT solving and is implemented in the SMT solvers cvc5 and SMT-RAT, as well as the computer algebra system Maple. It was previously observed that when using cylindrical algebraic decomposition for an SMT theory call, the output can […]

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Nvidia-backed Asia AI data center provider Firmus has now raised $1.35 billion in six months.

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arXiv:2604.05087v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Document expansion is a classical technique for improving retrieval quality, and is attractive since it shifts computation offline, avoiding additional query-time processing. However, when applied to modern retrievers, it has been shown to degrade performance, often introducing noise that obfuscates the discriminative signal. We recast document expansion as a document optimization problem: a language model or a vision language model is fine-tuned to transform documents into representations that better align with the expected […]

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arXiv:2601.07850v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose MLLM-VADStory, a novel domain knowledge-guided multimodal large language models (MLLM) framework to systematically quantify and generate insights for video ad storyline understanding at scale. The framework is centered on the core idea that ad narratives are structured by functional intent, with each scene unit performing a distinct communicative function, delivering product and brand-oriented information within seconds. MLLM-VADStory segments ads into functional units, classifies each unit’s functionality using a novel advertising-specific functional […]

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I built my screen-analysis tool for one reason: I wanted something brutally practical that can look at a screen recording, infer what happened as a workflow, and then turn that understanding into automation artifacts (n8n flows, step lists, structured summaries, the whole pipeline). The expensive part isn’t generating JSON or rendering a report. It’s the multimodal understanding step—every extra frame you send to a model is real money. Screen recordings are the worst-case input distribution for fixed-rate sampling: […]

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We compare liquid neural networks with mixture density heads against diffusion policies on Push-T, RoboMimic Can, and PointMaze under a shared-backbone comparison protocol that isolates policy-head effects under matched inputs, training budgets, and evaluation settings. Across tasks, liquid policies use roughly half the parameters (4.3M vs. 8.6M), achieve 2.4x lower offline prediction error, and run 1.8 faster at inference. In sample-efficiency experiments spanning 1% to 46.42% of training data, liquid models remain consistently more robust, with especially large […]

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arXiv:2604.02377v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adversaries continuously evolve their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to achieve their objectives while evading detection, requiring defenders to continually update their understanding of adversary behavior. Prior research has proposed automated extraction of TTP-related intelligence from unstructured text and mapping it to structured knowledge bases, such as MITRE ATT&CK. However, existing work varies widely in extraction objectives, datasets, modeling approaches, and evaluation practices, making it difficult to understand the research landscape. The goal […]

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arXiv:2603.20217v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward models are a standard tool to score responses from LLMs. Reward models are built to rank responses to a fixed prompt sampled from a single model, for example to choose the best of n sampled responses. In this paper, we study whether scores from response-level reward models lifted to score a model’s suitability for a prompt, prior to seeing responses from that model. Specifically, we show that it is straightforward to predict […]

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