arXiv 2026-07-14
Rajdeep Pathak, Archi Roy, Tanujit Chakraborty
Circular data, representing angles or directions, are frequently encountered in computer vision, biology, geology, and meteorology. Traditional regression targets the conditional mean, which is often geometrically misle…
arXiv 2026-07-22
Jason Y. Hu, Ivan Higuera-Mendieta, Patrick Obin Sturm, Makoto M. Kelp
Weather forecasting foundation models (FMs) are increasingly fine-tuned to predict air quality, offering fast global pollution forecasts at lower computational cost than conventional chemical transport models. These FMs…
arXiv 2026-07-23
Cande Lian, Wentao Zeng, Jiabin Wu, Yiming Bie, Wei Zhou
Reliable electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure is a cornerstone of sustainable, low-carbon cities, yet urban climate stress such as extreme heat, heavy precipitation, and humidity increasingly raises equipment f…
arXiv 2026-07-23
Fares Fourati, Hinrich SchĂĽtze, Eyke HĂĽllermeier, Iryna Gurevych
The rapid progress of AI has intensified the long-standing pursuit of automation: replacing human participation with algorithms wherever possible. Implicit in this pursuit is the assumption that humans remain in the loo…
arXiv 2026-07-23
Mohammed Suhail B Nadaf
Fine-tuning an aligned language model on a narrow stream of bad advice can make it broadly misaligned on questions unrelated to the training data, a phenomenon called emergent misalignment. We ask why the narrow lesson …
arXiv 2026-07-22
Farah Elnakhal, Alberto Marchisio, Nouhaila Innan, Gabriel Falcao, Muhammad Shafique
Physical noise in near-term quantum hardware is usually treated as a nuisance to suppress. We ask whether it can instead act as a hardware-native regularizer for photonic hybrid quantum-classical neural networks (PHQCNN…
arXiv 2026-07-23
Aaron Feller, Kris Deibler, Maxim Secor
Molecular property prediction from structure often uses a single representative conformation, even though many molecules exist as conformational ensembles in solution. We introduce EnsembleEGNN, a molecular ensemble fou…
arXiv 2026-07-23
Wenhao Li, Xueying Jiang, Quanhao Qian, Deli Zhao, Ran Xu, Shijian Lu, Gongjie Zhang
Despite rapid progress, most existing vision-language models (VLMs) built from 2D visual inputs often struggle when handling various 3D tasks that require fine-grained spatial understanding and reasoning. To bridge this…
arXiv 2026-07-23
Dawei Li, Xiaotian Jiang, Mingyi Hong
Barzilai--Borwein (BB) method has shown strong practical performance in continuous optimization, yet its convergence dynamics remains poorly understood. In particular, a central unresolved question is whether BB converg…
arXiv 2026-07-23
Korota Arsène Coulibaly, Mohamed Hamlich, Khalid Hmali, Andrea Trombin
Quality control in printing, particularly in rotogravure printing, still depends on slow, costly, and subjective manual inspection. Automated surface defect detection is critical for maintaining high-quality standards i…
arXiv 2026-07-23
Hongnan Ma, Yiwei Shi, Mengyue Yang, Weiru Liu
Faithful explanations of time-series classifiers should identify subsequences that are not only sufficient to preserve a black-box model's prediction, but also necessary for maintaining it. However, existing sufficiency…
arXiv 2026-07-23
Yakun Wang, Leyang Wang, Song Liu, Taiji Suzuki
We propose a new approach to two-sample testing for deciding whether two sets of samples are drawn from the same distribution. The test is built on a statistical discrepancy based on the zero-flow criterion, termed zero…