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Self-Supervised Visual On-Policy Distillation

Visual on-policy distillation relies heavily on an informative teacher-student asymmetry, through either a larger, stronger teacher or privileged supervision, such as reference answers or ground-truth regions of interest. This raises a fundamental question: where can informative asymmetry come from when nothing privileged is available? We answer this by inverting where the asymmetry comes from. Ra...

Aug 14 2026 2608.14144v1

Removing Temporal Note Redundancy Improves Multimodal Reinforcement Learning for Medicine

Mechanical ventilation is a critical life-support intervention, requiring dynamic adjustments to ventilator settings as a patient's condition evolves. While reinforcement learning (RL) offers a promising framework for optimizing these sequential decisions, standard approaches rely primarily on structured electronic health record (EHR) data, missing crucial clinical context recorded in free-text no...

Aug 14 2026 2608.14157v1
From Local Mismatch to Global Impact: Optimizing Cache Reuse Policy for Efficient Diffusion

Diffusion models have achieved dominant performance in visual generation but suffer from substantial inference overhead. While cache-based acceleratio...

Aug 13 2026 2608.13043v1
HPSD: Hybrid-Policy Self-Distillation for Text-Image-to-Video Diffusion Models

Text-Image-to-Video (TI2V) models are an emerging unified architecture, where a single model simultaneously supports text-to-video (T2V) and image-to-...

Aug 13 2026 2608.13205v1
Chance-constrained selection of sequential intervention strategies from counterfactual estimates

Many operational decisions are sequences of interventions under a cumulative resource limit, such as a maintenance schedule within a crew-hour budget....

Aug 13 2026 2608.13209v1
Reconstructing Historical Manuscripts through MSI: The Potential of Contrast in Assessing Image Quality and Legibility

Digital restoration of historical manuscript images aims to improve readability while preserving the authenticity of cultural heritage documents. Howe...

Aug 13 2026 2608.13381v1
Rubric Dropout: A Simple Way to Mitigate Reward Hacking in Rubric-as-Reward RL

Reinforcement learning against rubrics, lists of criteria graded by an LLM judge, has become a standard way to post-train language models on tasks wit...

Aug 12 2026 2608.11669v1
AVA-Encoder: Towards Agent-Native Video Representation Learning

Creative agents still lack an effective way to learn from high-quality human films, limiting their ability to produce cinematic-grade videos. A key ch...

Aug 12 2026 2608.12313v1
StateFlow: Building, Evolving, and Accessing 3D World States for Previsualization

Previsualization is an intermediate layer between ideas and production in film, games, architecture, and urban design. It lets creators iteratively re...

Aug 12 2026 2608.12314v1
MoE Proxy Models for Low-Cost Failure Reproduction and Diagnosis in LLM RL Post-Training

Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training of large language models (LLMs) is computationally intensive and involves complex system pipelines with subs...

Aug 11 2026 2608.10823v1
Not All Visual Tokens Are Equally Safe to Remove:Consequence-Sensitive Visual Token Compression

Visual token compression for vision--language models (VLMs) has largely relied on criteria such as attention, redundancy, and uncertainty to maximize ...

Aug 10 2026 2608.09176v1
ADOPD: Reference-Privileged On-Policy Distillation for MLLM-Based Industrial Anomaly Detection

Industrial anomaly detection (IAD) requires identifying fine-grained deviations from normal visual patterns. Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) ...

Aug 10 2026 2608.09789v1
A Distribution Mapping Approach to Counterfactually Fair Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement learning (RL) seeks to optimize sequential decisions to maximize population-level benefits over time. However, when deployed in high-sta...

Aug 9 2026 2608.08743v1
The Judgment-Consequence Gap: LLM Moral Reasoning in Healthcare Decisions

As large language models (LLMs) enter high-stakes domains such as healthcare, understanding their moral reasoning becomes essential. Decisions about s...

Aug 6 2026 2608.05583v1
From Siloed Algorithms to Compliance-First Agentic Platforms: A Multi-Layered Architecture for Hospital AI Systems

Hospitals are rapidly adopting artificial intelligence for triage, imaging, scheduling etc., yet most deployments remain isolated point solutions lock...

Aug 6 2026 2608.06112v1
TLNM: Externally Validated Tooth Detection, Numbering and Segmentation from Smartphone Photographs Using Mask R-CNN

Oral health issues affect billions globally, but the cost and limited access to professional dental care hinder preventive oral healthcare. Research r...

Aug 6 2026 2608.06275v1
OPD-V: Visual On-Policy Self-Distillation with Modality Balance

On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD) has become a standard post-training approach for improving visual reasoning in multimodal large language models (ML...

Aug 5 2026 2608.05131v2
ToolArtist: Tool-Using Unified Multimodal Models for Agentic Image Generation

Text-to-image (T2I) models can produce visually compelling images, yet they remain limited on open-world tasks that require complex semantic understan...

Aug 5 2026 2608.04436v1
OPD-V: Visual On-Policy Self-Distillation with Modality Balance

On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD) has become a standard post-training approach for improving visual reasoning in multimodal large language models (ML...

Aug 5 2026 2608.05131v1
How Many Labels Are Enough? ALDA: Active Learning Deployment Advisor for Medical Image Classification

Active learning (AL) promises to reduce the cost of medical imaging projects by lowering the number of clinical labels required. However, practical de...

Aug 4 2026 2608.03511v1
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