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  1. Beyond Parallel Tracking: Interactive Multi-Feature Fusion Drives Semantic Reconstruction from Non-invasive Brain Recordings

    Jul 13, 2026Boda Xiao, Xiran Xu, Songyi Li +4Neural RecordingsDirect Feature Fusion

    Center for BioMed-X Research, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies,Peking University, Beijing, China · Speech and Hearing Research Center, School of Intelligence Science and Technology,Peking University, Beijing, China · State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, Beijing, China +1

  2. Calibrated e-CUSUM Decoding for Quantized Reasoning Models: Why Token Log-Probability Is the Wrong Observable for Decoding Monitors

    Jul 13, 2026El Hassane Ettifouri, Ayoub Belfatmi, Mahaman Sanoussi Yahaya Alassan +1DecodingToken-Level Uncertainty

    Novelis Research, Paris, France

  3. TIGER: Text-Conditioned Visual Gated Routing with Acceptance Alignment for Multimodal Speculative Decoding

    Jul 13, 2026Quynh Vo, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Ponhvoan Srey +2Speculative DecodingUnimodal Encoders

    National University of Singapore · Nanyang Technological University · Center of AI Research, VinUniversity

  4. Fast Whole-Brain, Geometry-Aware Functional Alignment for Cross-Subject Decoding

    Jul 12, 2026Pierre-Louis Barbarant, Florent Meyniel, Bertrand ThirionFunctional Magnetic Resonance ImagingHuman Visual Cortex

    Université Paris-Saclay, Inria, CEA, Palaiseau 91120, France · Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux énergies alternatives, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France · Institut de neuromodulation, GHU Paris, psychiatrie et neurosciences, centre hospitalier Sainte-Anne, pôle hospitalo-universitaire 15, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France

  5. GRID: Grammar-Railed Decoding for Enterprise SQL Generation

    Jul 11, 2026Mohsen ArjmandiSqlText-To-Sql

    evolutionID GmbH

  6. Functional and Secure Code Generation with Task Vectors

    Jul 8, 2026Felix Wang, Anudeep Das, Mei Nagappan +1Code GenerationLarge Language Model Safety

    University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada · KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  7. x-Prediction Is All You Need:Training-Free Accelerated Generation via Endpoint Decodability

    Jul 7, 2026Xin Peng, Ang GaoAccelerated SamplingDecoding

    School of Physical Science and Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

  8. Boosting with List-Decodable Codes

    Jul 7, 2026Addison Prairie, Li-Yang TanBoostingLearnability

    Stanford

  9. Rethinking Brain Decoding with CLIP: The Role of Adversarial Robustness

    Jul 3, 2026Byeongseo Bok, Futa Waseda, Jun Liu +1Functional Magnetic Resonance ImagingDecoding

    The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Kanagawa, Japan · National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan · The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  10. Lynx: Progressive Speculative Quantization for accelerating KV Transfer in Long-Context Inference

    Jul 2, 2026Wenchen Han, Gingfung Matthew Yeung, Marco Barletta +3Key-Value Cache QuantizationKey-Value Cache

    University College London · Huawei

  11. Set Diffusion: Interpolating Token Orderings Between Autoregression and Diffusion for Fast and Flexible Decoding

    Jul 2, 2026Marianne Arriola, Volodymyr KuleshovDiffusion Language ModelsDiffusion Models

    Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.

  12. Discrete Diffusion Language Models for Interactive Radiology Report Drafting

    Jul 1, 2026Max Van Puyvelde, Halil Ibrahim Gulluk, Wim Van Criekinge +1Radiology Report GenerationDiffusion Language Models

    Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine · Department of Mathematical Modelling, Statistics & Bioinformatics, Ghent University · Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

  13. Device Passport: Enabling Spatio-Temporal Pretrained Models to Generalize Across Input Layouts

    Jun 30, 2026Geeling Chau, Ran Liu, Juri Minxha +5Electrocardiogram Foundation ModelsElectroencephalography

    California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA · Apple, Cupertino, CA, USA

  14. Decodable Is Not Grounded: A Vision-Ablation Arbiter for VLM Spatial Reasoning

    Jun 30, 2026Chih-Ting Liao, Fei Shen, Xin Cao +1Spatial ReasoningDecoding

    University of New South Wales · National University of Singapore

  15. Speculative Pre-Positioning: Decoding Stateful Sessions to the Next Decision Point Off the Critical Path

    Jun 28, 2026Victor NorgrenPrefillSelf-Speculative

    LayerScale, Inc.

  16. FADE: Mitigating Hallucinations by Reducing Language-Prior Dominance in Large Vision-Language Models

    Jun 28, 2026Yichen Guo, Kai Tang, Fenglai Lin +5Recent Vision-Language ModelsDecoding

    1Nanyang Technological University · 2State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University · 3Tsinghua University

  17. Applicability of memorization indicators for early spotting of overfitting while recalibrating sEMG-decoders on low sample sizes

    Jun 26, 2026Stephan J. Lehmler, Tobias Glasmachers, Ioannis IossifidisSurface ElectromyographyMemorization

    German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute for AI Safety and Security, Ulm, Germany · Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany · Institute for Neural Computation, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany +1

  18. PersistentKV: Page-Aware Decode Scheduling for Long-Context LLM Serving on Commodity GPUs

    Jun 25, 2026Muhammad AhmedKv-Cache ManagementLarge Language Model Serving

  19. Does the Same Token Mean the Same State? MoE Routing as Signal for Reasoning Control

    Jun 22, 2026Kang Chen, Minshen Yu, Junjie Nian +3Large Language Model RoutingDecoding

    Fudan University · Shanghai Innovation Institute

  20. Deeper is Not Always Better: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Confident Layer Decoding

    Jun 20, 2026Xuanming Zhang, Sining Zhoubian, Yuxuan Chen +8LLM Reasoning StrategiesDecoding

    Qwen Team, Alibaba Inc. · Tsinghua University · Nanyang Technological University

  21. Decodable but Not Faithful: Coupling Natural-Language Rationales to Programmatic Verifiers

    Jun 19, 2026Vatsal Ananthula, Adarsh KumarappanFree-Form Textual RationalesDecoding

    University of California, Berkeley · 2California Institute of Technology

  22. The Alignment Problem in Constrained Code Generation

    Jun 19, 2026Matteo Biagiola, Jahrim Gabriele Cesario, Luca Di Grazia +2Code GenerationLarge Language Models Fail

    University of St. Gallen and Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) St. Gallen and Lugano, SG and TI Switzerland · University of St. Gallen St. Gallen, SG, Switzerland

  23. VoidPadding: Let [VOID] Handle Padding in Masked Diffusion Language Models so that [EOS] Can Focus on Semantic Termination

    Jun 16, 2026Chunyu Liu, Zhengyang Fan, Kaisen Yang +1Masked Diffusion Language ModelsDecoding

    Tsinghua University

  24. Non-negative Elastic Net Decoding for Information Retrieval

    Jun 16, 2026Koki Okajima, Yasutoshi Ida, Tsukasa Yoshida +1Retrieval LayerDecoding

    NTT, Inc.

  25. LiveStarPro: Proactive Streaming Video Understanding with Hierarchical Memory for Long-Horizon Streams

    Jun 16, 2026Zhenyu Yang, Kairui Zhang, Bing Wang +2Streaming Video UnderstandingStreaming Video

  26. Data-Driven Decoding of Russell's Circumplex Model of Affect

    Jun 15, 2026Amdjed Belaref, Samir Sadok, Zineb Noumir +1Latent SpaceDecoding

    Alten, France · CentraleSup´elec IETR UMR CNRS 6164, France

  27. Mean-Field Parallel Decoding for Discrete Diffusion Language Models

    Jun 14, 2026Tamim Zoabi, Ameen Ali, Liran Ringel +1Diffusion Language ModelsConstrained Decoding

    School of Electrical & Computer Engineering Tel Aviv University, Israel · School of Computer Science and AI Tel Aviv University, Israel · Department of Computer Science Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

  28. Adaptive Inference-Time Scaling via Early-Step Latent Verification for Image Editing

    Jun 13, 2026Yue Yu, Yang Jiao, Jiayu Wang +2Image EditingInference-Time

    College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China · Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing 100080, China · Institute of Trustworthy Embodied AI, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China

  29. Neither Parallel Nor Sequential: How DiffusionGemma Actually Commits Tokens

    Jun 12, 2026Ali Asaria, Tony Salomone, Deep GandhiDiffusion Language ModelsDecoding

    Transformer Lab

  30. Recipe-Controlled Decoder Audit for Structural Knowledge-Graph Completion

    Jun 12, 2026Xihang Shan, Ye LuoKnowledge Graph CompletionDecoding

    School of Mathematical Sciences Xiamen University Fujian, China · School of Informatics Xiamen University Fujian, China

  31. Accelerating Speculative Diffusions via Block Verification

    Jun 11, 2026Alexander Soen, Hisham Husain, Valentin De Bortoli +1Block-Diffusion DrafterDiffusion Language Models

    KTH · Google Research† · Google DeepMind‡

  32. A Controlled Study of Decoding-Time Truthfulness Methods on Instruction-Tuned LLMs

    Jun 10, 2026Ao SunInstruction-Tuned ModelsTruth

    Independent Researcher

  33. Grammar-Constrained Decoding Can Jailbreak LLMs into Generating Malicious Code

    Jun 10, 2026Yitong Zhang, Shiteng Lu, Jia LiLarge Language Model JailbreaksJailbreak Attacks

    College of AI Tsinghua University Beijing, China · Yingcai Honors College University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu, China

  34. READER: Robust Evidence-based Authorship Decoding via Extracted Representations

    Jun 9, 2026Jiaxu Liu, Sunnan Mu, Dong Huang +3AuthorshipDecoding

    1National University of Singapore · 4Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · 2Xidian University +1

  35. Unified Energy for Invariant and Independent Decoding in Diffusion Language Models

    Jun 8, 2026Yuchen Yan, Minkai Xu, Zaiquan Yang +1Diffusion Language ModelsDiffusion Models

    Department of Computer Science National University of Singapore · Department of Computer Science Stanford University · Department of Computer Science City University of Hong Kong

  36. Decoding Pedestrian Crossing Intention from Egocentric Vision via Vision Language Models

    Jun 8, 2026Danya Li, Xiang Su, Yan Feng +1PedestrianEgocentric Vision

    Department of Technology, Management, and Economics, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark · Department of Computer Science and Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland · Department of Transport and Planning, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

  37. Steganography Without Modification: Hidden Communication via LLM Seeds

    Jun 8, 2026Felix Mächtle, Jonas Sander, Sebastian Berndt +3SteganographyLarge Language Model Watermarks

    Institute for IT Security, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany · Technische Hochschule Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

  38. Cosine Misleads: Auxiliary Losses Reshape Vision Language Models, Not Their Latents

    Jun 4, 2026XiuYu Zhang, Junfeng Fang, Zhenkai LiangRecent Vision-Language ModelsVisual Reasoning

    National University of Singapore

  39. SAID: Accelerating Diffusion-Based Language Models via Scaffold-Aware Iterative Decoding

    Jun 3, 2026Na Li, Chengda Wang, Mingju Gao +1Diffusion Language ModelsAutoregressive Generation

    School of Computer Science, Peking University

  40. SemBlock: Semantic Boundary Dynamic Blocks for Diffusion LLMs

    Jun 3, 2026Xinrui Song, Zhuoran Wang, Mingju Gao +1Diffusion Language ModelsDecoding

    School of Computer Science, Peking University

  41. Hybrid Verified Decoding: Learning to Allocate Verification in Speculative Decoding

    May 31, 2026Xin Su, Dawid Majchrowski, Fangyuan Yu +5Speculative DecodingDecoding

    Thoughtworks · Nvidia

  42. Decoding in Order-Agnostic Language Models: Chain-Rule Deviation and Uniform Spreading

    May 31, 2026Lin YaoDecodingTraceability

    School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China · Zhongguancun Academy, Beijing, 100097, China

  43. Hallucination Is Linearly Decodable from Mid-Layer Hidden States in Quantized LLMs

    May 30, 2026Aizierjiang AiersilanHidden StatesLarge Language Model Quantization

    University of Macau

  44. Grounded Decoding: Retrieval-Anchored Probability Fusion for Faithful RAG

    May 29, 2026Ibne Farabi Shihab, Fariya Afrin, Sanjeda Akter +1Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation SystemsSearch-Augmented Reasoning

    Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University · Department of Computer Science, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology · Department of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University

  45. Speculative Pipeline Decoding: Higher-Accruacy and Zero-Bubble Speculation via Pipeline Parallelism

    May 29, 2026Yijiong Yu, Huazheng Wang, Shuai Yuan +2Speculative DecodingSelf-Speculative

    aOregon State University · bDeepSolution

  46. MarginGate: Sparse Margin-Triggered Verification for Batch-Invariant LLM Inference

    May 28, 2026Kexin Chu, Yang Zhou, Wei ZhangLLM Inference OptimizationDecoding

    University of Connecticut · UC Davis

  47. Projectional Decoding: Towards Semantic-Aware LLM Generation

    May 28, 2026Boqi Chen, José Antonio Hernández López, Aren A. BabikianLarge Language Model GenerationDecoding

    University of Ottawa · University of Murcia · University of Toronto

  48. Accelerating Constrained Decoding with Token Space Compression

    May 28, 2026Michael Sullivan, Alexander KollerToken CompressionContext-Free Grammars

    Department of Language Science and Technology Saarland Informatics Campus Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

  49. Decoding Strategies for Diffusion-Based ASR: A Systematic Evaluation of Confidence-Based Thresholding

    May 28, 2026Jeong Hun Yeo, Minsu Kim, Hyeongseop Rha +1Automatic Speech RecognitionAutoregressive Decoding

    KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea · Google DeepMind, Tokyo, Japan

  50. When Confidence Misleads: Suffix Anchoring and Anchor-Proximity Confidence Modulation for Diffusion Language Models

    May 27, 2026Jungwon Park, Jimyeong Kim, Jungmin Ko +2Diffusion Language ModelsDecoding

    1RICS · 2AIIS · 3IPAI +2

  51. The Missing Piece in Pre-trained Model Evaluation: Reward-Guided Decoding Unlocks Task-Oriented Behavior Without Parameter Updates

    May 27, 2026Shaobo Wang, Guo Chen, Ziyue Wang +5PretrainingDecoding

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Qwen Team, Alibaba Group · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

  52. DeCoDrift: Stabilizing Decoder Coupling in Closed-Loop Foundation Segmentation

    May 25, 2026H. M. Shadman Tabib, Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid, M Sohel RahmanSegment Anything ModelDecoding

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  53. Tool-Call Dependency Structure is Linearly Decodable in LLM Agent Residual Streams

    May 25, 2026Tianda Sun, Dimitar KazakovDependency GraphLarge Language Model Agents

    University of York Department of Computer Science Heslington, York YO10 5DD

  54. FlexDraft: Flexible Speculative Decoding via Attention Tuning and Bonus-Guided Calibration

    May 19, 2026Yaojie Zhang, Jianuo Huang, Junlong Ke +5Speculative DecodingBlock-Diffusion Drafter

    EPIC Lab, SJTU · School of Software Engineering, HUST · UESTC +3

  55. Rotation-Aligned Key Channel Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language Model Inference

    May 19, 2026Beomseok Kang, Dongwon Jo, Jiwon Song +2Visual Token PruningFine-Grained Perception

    Seoul National University

  56. FrequencyBooster: Full-Frequency Modeling for High-Fidelity Pixel Diffusion

    May 18, 2026Lichen Ma, Zipeng Guo, Yu He +5Diffusion TransformersDecoding

  57. RAG-based EEG-to-Text Translation Using Deep Learning and LLMs

    May 17, 2026Enrico Collautti, Xiaopeng Mao, Luca Tonin +2ElectroencephalographyDecoding

    IAS-LAB, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, 35122 Padova (PD), Italy · Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark · Padova Neuroscience Center, 35131 Padova (PD), Italy.

  58. Selective Safety Steering via Value-Filtered Decoding

    May 14, 2026Bat-Sheva Einbinder, Hen Davidov, Yee Whye Teh +2Large Language Model SafetyInference-Time Defense

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technion IIT, Israel · Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK · OATML, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK +1

  59. SPHERICAL KV: Angle-Domain Attention and Rate-Distortion Retention for Efficient Long-Context Inference

    May 13, 2026Anay Chauhan, Gurucharan Marthi Krishna Kumar, Arion Das +4Key-Value CacheKeys And Value

    1Synopsys, India · 2McGill University, Canada · 3IIIT Ranchi, India +4

  60. Mistletoe: Stealthy Acceleration-Collapse Attacks on Speculative Decoding

    May 13, 2026Shuoyang Sun, Chang Dai, Hao Fang +6Speculative DecodingDecoding

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen · South China University of Technology · Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University +1