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#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Moving the Mean Toward the Known Good, Not Beyond It: What Inference-Time Interventions and Weight Consolidation Buy in Open-Ended Generation

The inference-time ledger that led here: a model-written schematic recap buys judged document integration and nothing buys development; a verifier written into the stream is imitated, 16.4 fabricated verdict lines per notebook.

Roberto I. Ono · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

MWIR-4-Plastic: The Identification of Complex End-of-Life Industrial Plastic using Mid-wave Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging and Machine Learning

The automated sorting of shredded black plastics from end-of-life (EOF) industrial waste presents a significant challenge in recycling facilities, primarily due to the limitations of current sensing and analytical approaches. Existing studies predominantly rely on single-point contact-based mid-infrared spectroscopy or laboratory hyperspectral imaging (HSI) setups, which fail to provide the spatially resolved analysis necessary for fast, bulk processing. Moreover, available datasets are laboratory-controlled and focus on intact rather than shredded plastics, hindering further recycling refinement. Black industrial plastics, in particular, are underrepresented, while most classification pipelines depend on manual region selection and rule-based spectral matching, neglecting spatial information and modern deep learning (DL) methods. To address these gaps, we introduce the first publicly available HSI dataset of shredded black plastics from EOF vehicle, comprising four industrial polymers across 13 co-registered RGB, VNIR, SWIR, and MWIR scenes and their segmentation pipeline. We developed a multi-modal spectral-spatial framework that integrates foreground isolation, pixel-wise classification, and object-level majority voting. By adapting advanced hyperspectral transformers from earth observation and incorporating chemometric band selection, we achieve accurate classification of complex black plastics. The study establishes the first comprehensive benchmark using nine processing methods, including chemometric, machine learning, and DL architectures. To ensure reproducibility, the complete dataset and methodologies are publicly released, establishing a benchmark for a hyperspectral object-analysis pipeline in industrial inspection.

Elias Arbash, Andréa de Lima Ribeiro, Filipa Simões et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Generative Translation Priors: Bayesian Imaging with Cross-Modality Image Translation

This work introduces Generative Translation Priors--a Bayesian framework that transforms diffusion-based image-to-image translation models into cross-modality image priors for ill-posed imaging inverse problems, and derives two discretized GTP algorithms based on gradient and proximal likelihood guidance.

Evan Bell, Jiaming Liu, Yifan Chen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Uncertainty-Aware Multi-Task Learning for Joint Modulation Recognition and SINR Estimation

An uncertainty-aware multi-task model that transforms each short normalized in-phase/quadrature window into 36 deterministic, label-free statistics, learns a shared representation, and uses task-specific adapters for modulation classification and heteroscedastic SINR regression is proposed.

Kosar Nourolahi, Vahid Ghasemi · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

A rigor-matched audit of periodic-step layer skipping for efficient llm inference: conflayers versus swift, with a supplemental analysis of trained routing alternatives

A rigor-matched, three-seed audit of two periodic-step, search-based methods that make this decision online at inference time and re-evaluate it every few generation steps: a confidence-gated early-exit baseline (ConfLayers) and genuine self-speculative decoding (SWIFT, Xia et al. 2024).

Prateek Kumar Sikdar, Arpan Ghosh · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Toward Postural State Classification in Immersive VR with Multimodal Data and Explainability Analysis

Comparing machine learning and deep learning models for classifying postural states in VR under visual perturbations suggests that multimodal sensing, temporal deep learning, and explainable AI can support reliable classification of balance-related instability in VR.

N. Anjum, M. Pavel, Robert Gonzalez et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Representation Learning with Quantum Signal Processing

This work establishes quantum signal processing (QSP) as a solvable quantum model of the representation-learning regime, and proves a sparse-data guarantee for the full nonlinear gradient flow without freezing or ensemble-averaging the kernel.

Jun-Qin Wang, Jun-Yu Liu · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Quantitative Target Convergence and Uniform-in-Time Propagation of Chaos for Langevin-Regularized SVGD

We establish quantitative convergence to the target and uniform-in-time propagation of chaos for Langevin-regularized Stein variational gradient descent. The Stein interaction need not be small relative to the confining Langevin drift and does not generally yield a contractive particle coupling. At the mean-field level, the Stein and Langevin components dissipate the same relative entropy in the kernel-induced Stein and $2$-Wasserstein geometries, producing the squared kernel Stein discrepancy and relative Fisher information. Under a log-Sobolev inequality for the target, this yields exponential last-iterate convergence. We also derive a finite-particle entropy identity relative to the product target, giving exponential-in-time convergence of the empirical measure up to polynomial sampling errors. For propagation of chaos, we develop two complementary finite-time approaches. A synchronous coupling, combined with exponential moment estimates for the nonlinear mean-field diffusion, yields explicit single-exponential bounds in Wasserstein distance and kernel Stein discrepancy (KSD). Moving-product entropy gives joint-law relative entropy control relative to the evolving mean-field product law and, through entropy superadditivity and concentration, fixed-marginal relative entropy and total variation bounds and empirical KSD estimates. Under an additional $T_2$ inequality for the initial law, it also yields Wasserstein bounds. Combining these finite-time estimates with target convergence at a logarithmic cutoff time gives polynomial uniform-in-time propagation of chaos rates in expectation for empirical KSD and $W_2^2$, and for fixed-marginal total variation and $W_2^2$. All bounds control the last iterate in physical time. We also compare the two finite-time mechanisms and identify regimes in which each gives the sharper polynomial exponent.

Sayan Banerjee, Dohyeon Kim · 1 citation · ⚡1
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Separable Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Using Powered Ratio-of-Norms Regularization

This work develops efficient algorithms based on the difference-of-convex function algorithm (DCA) and the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) to enhance sparsity and identifiability of the learned factors in separable nonnegative matrix factorization.

Matthew McCarver, Jing Qin · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

ASTRA - Agentic System for Ticket Resolution and Analysis

ASTRA, an agentic system for ticket resolution in which a central orchestrator coordinates three specialist information-gathering agents and drives a judge-orchestrator refinement loop to produce evidence-backed troubleshooting reports, is proposed.

Shashidhar Reddy Javaji, Mohamed Trabelsi, Jin Cao et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Adversarial Calibration Attack on Autonomous Vehicles

Adversarial Calibration Attack (ACA), the first physical attack against camera-LiDAR online calibration, is presented and demonstrated that online calibration is a practical and safety-critical attack surface for AVs.

Liang-Kai Liu, Qingzhao Zhang, Kang G. Shin · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Generation of High-Level Concepts in 3D Scene Graphs via Autoregressive Diffusion

This work proposes a unified autoregressive diffusion-based graph generative model that jointly learns structure and features, constructing complete 3DSGs bottom-up from observed vertical planes across arbitrary hierarchy depths, and proposes an adaptation of the Fused Gromov--Wasserstein distance for principled graph-level evaluation of generated 3DSGs against ground truth.

J. A. Millan-Romera, Samuel Cognolato, Holger Voos et al. · 0 citations

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GPT-Lab Sep 3, 2026

Adaptive AI Agents in Construction Workflows

Adaptive AI agents can help make BIM data more machine-readable by navigating IFC models, interpreting inconsistent information, and mapping it to defined standards. In this blog, Alok Rawat shares findings from a real-world pilot in construction workflows. The post Adaptive AI Agents in Construction Workflows appeared first on GPT-Lab.

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