Optimal Pruning for Neural Architectures using Fisher Information Distances
arXiv:2609.16129v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A new scheme for parameter pruning is introduced, derived from the differential-geometric distance in model…
A Conservative OCR-Enabled Workflow for R214 Sodium Screening of South African Packaged Foods
arXiv:2609.15427v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Using food package images to monitor sodium and salt content against South Africa’s R214 sodium…
What Breaks Local Watermarks? A Robustness Benchmark for Local Invisible Image Watermarking
arXiv:2609.16832v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Local image watermarking embeds an invisible signal into selected image regions rather than spreading it…
StackTok: Accelerating VLMs Inference with Budget-Adaptive Visual Token Selection
arXiv:2609.16841v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Increasing image resolution produces ever-longer visual-token sequences in vision-language models (VLMs), substantially raising their inference…
ActSafeGuard: Differentiable and Training-Aligned Constraint Enforcement for Flow-Matching Policies
arXiv:2609.11697v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) and World-Action Models (WAMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in general-purpose robotic manipulation, yet…
LiftGCN: Efficient Energy-Preserving Graph Learning via Joukowski Spectral Lifting for Finite Element Stress Prediction
arXiv:2609.14977v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Finite element stress fields often exhibit strong local non-smoothness, where stress concentrations near holes, notches,…
ActGuard: Pre-execution Action Auditing against Indirect Prompt Injection in LLM Agents
arXiv:2609.14987v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents interact with external environments through tool invocation, but tool outputs…
Evaluating Context Segmentation in Locally Deployable SLMs for Cybersecurity CTF Tasks
arXiv:2609.12839v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The proliferation of highly capable open-weight Small Language Models (SLMs) democratizes access to advanced cybersecurity…
ZGCM-1: A Fully Open and Extremely Efficient Foundation Model for Math and Agentic Search
arXiv:2609.13356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we present ZGCM-1, a fully open 7B dense foundation model trained from…
Publisher Correction: Quantum neural operators with implicit quadratic frame and expressivity advantages
Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 14 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01314-9 Publisher Correction: Quantum neural operators with implicit quadratic frame and expressivity…