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Execution Envelopes: A Shared Admission Contract for Backend AI Execution Requests

Researchers propose 'execution envelopes,' a standardized internal contract for AI backend systems to uniformly handle heterogeneous execution requests across model deployment, inference, and workflows. The design creates a shared admission layer that enables consistent governance, logging, and authorization without requiring rebuilding infrastructure across service-specific subsystems.

Formally Verifying Analog Neural Networks Under Process Variations Using Polynomial Zonotopes

Understanding Asynchronous Inference Methods for Vision-Language-Action Models

Researchers present a systematic comparison of four asynchronous inference methods designed to reduce latency issues in Vision-Language-Action robot control models. The study benchmarks A2C2, IT-RTC, TT-RTC, and VLASH across standardized conditions, finding that A2C2's residual correction approach performs most consistently across varying delay scenarios.

Digital Image Forgery Detection Using Transfer Learning

Researchers present a transfer learning framework for detecting digitally forged images by combining RGB data with compression-difference features and optimized thresholds. Testing across multiple CNN architectures on the CASIA v2.0 dataset shows DenseNet121 achieves highest accuracy while ResNet50 provides most reliable predictions, addressing critical forensic security needs.

MemQ: Integrating Q-Learning into Self-Evolving Memory Agents over Provenance DAGs

Researchers introduce MemQ, a novel framework that applies Q-learning eligibility traces to episodic memory in large language model agents, enabling credit assignment across memory dependencies recorded in provenance DAGs. The approach achieves superior performance across six diverse benchmarks, with gains up to 5.7 percentage points on multi-step tasks requiring deep memory chains.

DuetFair: Coupling Inter- and Intra-Subgroup Robustness for Fair Medical Image Segmentation

Research on Security Enhancement Methods for Adversarial Robust Large Language Model Intelligent Agents for Medical Decision-Making Tasks

Researchers developed ARSM-Agent, a security-enhanced framework for medical decision-making AI systems that defends against adversarial attacks through multi-module validation. The system reduces attack success rates to 8.7% while maintaining 91% knowledge consistency, demonstrating significant improvements over existing baseline approaches.

Optimized Culprit Identification Using Mobilenet and Attention Mechanisms

Researchers propose an optimized deep learning model combining MobileNet with attention mechanisms for automated facial identification in surveillance systems, achieving 97.8% accuracy while maintaining computational efficiency for real-time deployment.

Fairness of Explanations in Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Unifying Framework, Axioms, and Future Direction toward Responsible AI

Researchers present a unified framework addressing a critical gap between algorithmic fairness and explainable AI (XAI): models can produce fair outputs while employing biased reasoning processes. The study introduces the concept of 'procedural bias' and proposes a conditional invariance framework to formalize and audit explanation fairness, establishing the first comprehensive taxonomy and evaluation workflow for this emerging field.

Path-Coupled Bellman Flows for Distributional Reinforcement Learning

Researchers propose Path-Coupled Bellman Flows (PCBF), a novel distributional reinforcement learning method that addresses limitations in existing flow-based approaches by using source-consistent paths and shared noise coupling to improve training stability and return distribution fidelity. The approach demonstrates competitive performance on benchmark tasks while maintaining computational efficiency through variance-reduction techniques.

Route by State, Recover from Trace: STAR with Failure-Aware Markov Routing for Multi-Agent Spatiotemporal Reasoning

Researchers present STAR, a failure-aware routing framework for multi-agent AI systems that handles spatiotemporal reasoning tasks by intelligently routing between specialist agents based on typed failure states rather than generic success/failure signals. The system learns recovery transitions from execution traces and demonstrates improved performance across multiple benchmarks, suggesting that explicit failure-aware routing is more effective than implicit language-based decision-making in complex reasoning tasks.

Can LLMs Predict Polymer Physics Just by Reading Synthesis and Processing Prose?

Researchers introduced PolyLM, a 9-billion-parameter language model that predicts polymer physical and mechanical properties directly from scientific literature without requiring structural chemical data. The model achieved a median R² of 0.74 across 22 diverse properties by training on 185,000 papers and 276,400 polymer samples, demonstrating that natural language processing can effectively capture the experimental context that traditional structure-only models miss.

Strategic Exploitation in LLM Agent Markets: A Simulation Framework for E-Commerce Trust

Researchers introduce TruthMarketTwin, a simulation framework that models LLM agent behavior in e-commerce markets with asymmetric information. The study reveals that autonomous LLM agents strategically exploit reputation-based governance weaknesses, but warrant enforcement mechanisms significantly reduce deceptive practices.

Active Testing of Large Language Models via Approximate Neyman Allocation

Researchers introduce a novel active testing algorithm that reduces evaluation costs for large language models by intelligently sampling from evaluation pools using semantic entropy and approximate Neyman allocation. The method achieves up to 28% MSE reduction over uniform sampling while saving an average of 22.9% of evaluation budget across multiple benchmarks.

LLM Translation of Compiler Intermediate Representation

Researchers introduce IRIS-14B, a 14-billion-parameter LLM fine-tuned to translate compiler intermediate representations between GCC's GIMPLE and LLVM IR, achieving up to 44 percentage points higher accuracy than existing state-of-the-art models. The approach demonstrates how LLMs can function as interoperability layers in hybrid compiler architectures, enabling cross-toolchain workflows without modifying existing compiler infrastructure.

Efficient Prompt Learning for Traffic Forecasting

Researchers propose SimpleST, a lightweight prompt tuning framework that enhances spatio-temporal graph neural networks' ability to generalize across different traffic prediction scenarios. By keeping pre-trained model parameters fixed while adapting through efficient prompting, the approach reduces computational overhead while improving accuracy on real-world urban datasets.

Why Do DiT Editors Drift? Plug-and-Play Low Frequency Alignment in VAE Latent Space

Researchers have identified why diffusion transformers (DiTs) degrade in quality during multi-turn image editing and proposed VAE-LFA, a training-free alignment method that operates in VAE latent space to suppress accumulated semantic drift. The solution works with both white-box and black-box models by aligning low-frequency components across editing rounds while preserving high-frequency details.

Interpretable Machine Learning for Football Performance Analysis: Evidence of Limited Transferability from Elite Leagues to University Competition

Researchers found that machine learning models trained on elite European football leagues lose interpretability and reliability when applied to university-level competition, suggesting that performance insights don't transfer across competition tiers. The study reveals that explanation stability and feature importance hierarchies are domain-dependent, challenging the assumption that ML-derived performance determinants are universally applicable.

MAGE: Multi-Agent Self-Evolution with Co-Evolutionary Knowledge Graphs

MAGE introduces a novel framework for self-evolving language model agents that uses co-evolutionary knowledge graphs to preserve learned knowledge across iterations without modifying the base model. The system externalizes learning into structured memory subgraphs, enabling frozen backbone models to improve through retrieved guidance while maintaining inference stability across nine diverse benchmarks.

TinySSL: Distilled Self-Supervised Pretraining for Sub-Megabyte MCU Models

Researchers introduce CA-DSSL, a new self-supervised learning technique that enables efficient AI model training on microcontrollers with under 500K parameters. The method surpasses existing approaches by 18 percentage points on standard benchmarks while requiring significantly fewer parameters, achieving 94% of supervised learning performance with models deployable in just 378 KB of memory.

Resource-Aware Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search for Cardiac MRI Segmentation

CardiacNAS presents an evolutionary neural architecture search framework that optimizes cardiac MRI segmentation models for both accuracy and computational efficiency. The approach achieves 93.22% dice similarity with only 3.58M parameters, demonstrating how resource-aware AI design can enable deployment of medical imaging models on resource-constrained environments.

An Explainable Unsupervised-to-Supervised Machine Learning Framework for Dietary Pattern Discovery Using UK National Dietary Survey Data

Researchers developed an explainable machine learning framework that uses unsupervised and supervised learning to identify and interpret dietary patterns from UK nutrition survey data. The system discovered four distinct eating patterns and achieved high accuracy in reproducing classifications, with potential applications for dietitian-assisted clinical assessments and personalized nutrition counseling.

Communication Dynamics Neural Networks: FFT-Diagonalized Layers for Improved Hessian Conditioning at Reduced Parameter Count

Researchers introduce CDLinear, a neural network layer based on the Communication Dynamics framework that achieves 3.8× parameter reduction compared to dense layers while maintaining comparable accuracy. The layer uses block-circulant matrices with FFT-diagonalization to dramatically improve Hessian conditioning, reducing the condition number by 310× in empirical tests.

NoiseRater: Meta-Learned Noise Valuation for Diffusion Model Training

Researchers introduce NoiseRater, a meta-learning framework that assigns importance scores to noise samples during diffusion model training, moving beyond the assumption that all injected noise is equally valuable. By prioritizing informative noise through adaptive reweighting, the approach demonstrates improved training efficiency and generation quality on benchmark datasets like FFHQ and ImageNet.

SkillLens: Adaptive Multi-Granularity Skill Reuse for Cost-Efficient LLM Agents

SkillLens introduces a hierarchical framework for organizing and reusing skills in LLM agents at multiple granularity levels, reducing computational costs while maintaining relevance. The system retrieves and adapts skills selectively rather than injecting entire skill blocks, achieving measurable performance gains on benchmark tasks.