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Artificial Intelligence research and applications

Learning to Trace Seiberg Dualities

Researchers have developed a machine learning approach to determine the duality of supersymmetric quiver gauge theories, a complex system in theoretical physics. The study uses network architectures, such as transformers and multi-layer perceptrons, to efficiently establish dualities, outperforming

arXiv • 7/30/2026

Efficient Vision-Language Models for Visual Retrieval

Researchers have developed ReToken, a single learnable embedding that can improve vision-language models for visual retrieval tasks. This approach addresses the challenges of processing long visual contexts and improves performance on various benchmarks. ReToken's lightweight design makes it suitabl

arXiv • 7/30/2026

Learning to Trace Seiberg Dualities

Researchers use machine learning methods to determine when two systems are dual, specifically for supersymmetric quiver gauge theories. By establishing mutations of quivers, they develop a practical tool for analyzing the computational complexity of different dualities. The study also explores how d

arXiv • 7/30/2026

ReToken: Improving Vision-Language Models with Efficient Retrieval

ReToken, a single learnable embedding, is trained as a retrieval target to select sparse sets of query-relevant visual tokens from a pre-filled visual KV cache. This approach improves vision-language models on various benchmarks, including Visual Haystacks and LVBench, with significant gains across

arXiv • 7/30/2026

ReToken: A Single Token to Improve Vision-Language Models

ReToken, a novel approach to vision-language models, addresses the challenge of processing long visual contexts. By selecting a sparse set of query-relevant visual tokens, ReToken improves performance on various benchmarks, including Visual Haystacks and LVBench. This breakthrough has significant im

arXiv • 7/30/2026

PAC-MAN: Perception-Aware CBF-RL for Whole-Body Safety in Humanoid Dodgeball

Researchers present a novel framework, PAC-MAN, that integrates control-barrier safety with realistic sensing for humanoid dodgeball. The framework combines the benefits of perception-aware and control-barrier safety, enabling robots to evade balls with high accuracy. By leveraging segmentation-mask

arXiv • 7/30/2026

PAC-MAN: Perception-Aware CBF-RL for Whole-Body Safety in Humanoid Dodgeball

Researchers have developed a new framework called PAC-MAN, which combines control-barrier safety with realistic onboard sensing for humanoid dodgeball. This framework uses a head-mounted camera to perceive the ball, while training-time guidance ensures clearance to every body link. The policy achiev

arXiv • 7/30/2026

AskChem: Chemistry Literature Synthesis

AskChem is a claim-centered infrastructure for cross-paper chemistry search, converting individual papers into atomic, typed claims grounded by source DOIs and verbatim quotes. It provides a stable faceted taxonomy for hierarchical retrieval, an evidence graph for linking claims through relations, a

arXiv • 7/30/2026

AskChem: Claim-Centered Infrastructure for Chemistry Literature Synthesis

AskChem is a novel approach to chemistry literature synthesis, transforming the way scientists and AI agents retrieve and assemble relevant information. Currently indexing 2.4M claims from 147K papers, AskChem uses a claim-centered infrastructure to ground findings in verbatim quotes or explicit evi

arXiv • 7/30/2026

AskChem: A Framework for Efficient Chemistry Literature Search

AskChem is a claim-centered infrastructure for cross-paper chemistry search, converting papers into atomic, typed claims grounded by source DOIs and verbatim quotes. This system allows for hierarchical retrieval and browsing, evidence graph linking claims through relations, and exploratory living ta

arXiv • 7/30/2026

Chimera: Efficient Hybrid Visual Diffusion Transformers

Researchers introduce Chimera, a hybrid visual diffusion backbone that combines text, image, and video tokens in one stream, reducing quadratic costs associated with full attention. Chimera achieves this by integrating Kimi Delta Attention, Multi-head Latent Attention, and modality-aware short convo

arXiv • 7/30/2026

Clinical Risk Model Fairness Auditing for Reproducibility

A new method called KAISEN is proposed to evaluate the fairness of clinical risk models, which can produce different error rates across patient subgroups. The method involves a five-phase audit pipeline that assesses subgroup stratification, disparity measurement, mechanism diagnostics, post-hoc mit

arXiv • 7/30/2026