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FFM-CP: Cross-Backbone Fusion of Vision-Language Foundation Models for Few-Shot Computational Pathology
Sep 23, 2026Anh-Tien Nguyen, Trung DQ. Dang, Nghiem Tuong Diep +9Pathology Foundation Models Computational Pathology
Institute for Predictive Deep Learning for Medicine and Healthcare, Giessen University, Germany · Department of Medical Informatics, University Medicine Gottingen, Germany · Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark +8
UMI-Bridge: Action-Anchored Latent Alignment across Human and Robot Manipulation Data
Sep 16, 2026Haiyi Liu, Jinming Ma, Ke Rui +12Human-To-Robot Transfer Scalable Robot Learning
Tsinghua University · Simple AI
Distribution-Consistent Inference for Dynamic Sparse Mixture-of-Experts
Sep 10, 2026Dohyeon Kim, Bedionita Soro, Sung Ju HwangMixture-Of-Expert Inference Mixture-Of-Experts
KAIST
Everything in Moderation: Per-Domain Coverage Optima and Alignment-Resistant Domain Gaps in Multi-Domain Mid-Training
Sep 8, 2026Yunpeng Xu, Kun ZhengDistributional Alignment Long-Run Coverage Guarantees
ALRA: Adaptive Local Relational Alignment for Logit-Based Pre-training Distillation of Autoregressive Language Models
Sep 3, 2026Quang Hoang Trung, Quang Huu Hieu, Nguyen Van Hoang Phuc +1Dataset Distillation Knowledge Distillation
VJ Technologies, Da Nang, Vietnam · AJ Technologies, Nagoya, Japan · Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam +1
Trust Your Guide Only When Certain: Uncertainty-Aware Sparse Alignment at Inference Time
Sep 1, 2026Zeen Zhu, Zhuo Li, Weiyang Guo +4Distributional Alignment Inference-Time Defense
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China · Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, China.
ACTD: Anchor-Based Cross-Tokenizer Distillation with Residual Regularization
Aug 30, 2026Huiyi Zhang, Zijian Li, Xiaocheng Feng +4Teacher-Student Distillation Knowledge Distillation
1Harbin Institute of Technology · 2Peng Cheng Laboratory
MI-Distillation: Selecting from Model-Interpolated Instruct-Reasoning Data Spectrum for Chain-of-Thought Distillation
Aug 30, 2026Yangsong Lan, Renkai Hu, HongKai Zheng +4Dataset Distillation Large Reasoning Models
College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China · 2The Key Laboratory of Brain-Machine Intelligence Technology, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China
LAB-Tab: LLM-Augmented Bayesian Network Adaptation for Few-Shot Tabular Generation
Aug 3, 2026Zijian Shen, Taijie Chen, Bin Zhou +2Synthetic Tabular Data Tabular Data
Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong
DistillAlign: Coordinating Mode Covering and Mode Seeking in Autoregressive Video Distillation
Jul 29, 2026Jiaxing Li, Kai Zou, Cindy Zhou +7Autoregressive Video Diffusion Models Distribution Matching Distillation
Riemann Dynamics · Nanyang Technological University · 1Riemann Dynamics, 2Nanyang Technological University +2
Fine-Grained Food Image Understanding via Target-Aware Data Alignment
Jul 28, 2026Jui-Feng Chi, Wei-Lun Chu, Bruce Coburn +2Fine-Grained Perception Vision-Language Alignment
Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Rashomon Alignment
Jul 28, 2026Moisés Santos, Peter van der Putten, Bernhard Pfahringer +1Similarity and Metrics Distributional Alignment
Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal · Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Lab (LIACC), Portugal · LIACS, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands +3
LeapBot-WA: World-Anchor Action Models via Predictive Latent Alignments
Jul 27, 2026Pei Liu, Nan Zheng, Lang Zhang +8Efficient World-Action Model Scalable Robot Learning
1The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · 2The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · 3Leapmotor +1
DiFA: Inference-Time Forward-Process Alignment for Diffusion Models
Jul 20, 2026Shigui Li, Delu ZengDiffusion Alignment Diffusion Models
School of Mathematics, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China · School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
Dataset Distillation by Influence Matching
Jul 18, 2026Haoru Tan, Wang Wang, Sitong Wu +5Diffusion-Based Dataset Distillation Dataset Distillation
1HKU · 2CUHK · 3Stanford
Scalable Optimal Transport Algorithm for Network Alignment
Jul 11, 2026Elaheh Hassani, Durga Mandarapu, Qi Yu +2Feature Alignment Distributional Alignment
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory CA, USA · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign IL, USA
Covert Trait Propagation Is Representation Alignment: Mechanistic Evidence from Hidden-Channel Distillation
Jul 5, 2026Kargi Chauhan, Aditya ShahTeacher-Student Distillation Distributional Alignment
University of California, Santa Cruz · 2Google
Beyond Random Sampling: Distribution-Aware Alignment for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
Jul 5, 2026Weihao Yan, Yeqiang Qian, Yi Dong +1Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation Distributional Alignment
School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Department of Ultrasound, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
Understanding Domain-Aware Distribution Alignment in Budgeted Entity Matching
Jun 25, 2026Nicholas Pulsone, Gregory Goren, Roee ShragaDistributional Alignment Entities
Worcester Polytechnic Institute · Worcester, MA · Israel
TALAS: Teacher-Anchored Layer Alignment with Adaptive Sharpness-Aware Minimization for Embedding Distillation
Jun 20, 2026Quoc Phong Dao, Hoang Son Nguyen, Pham Khanh Chi +4Knowledge Distillation Distributional Alignment
Hanoi University of Science and Technology · VNU University of Engineering and Technology · University of Oregon +1
Behavioral and Representational Evidence of Binomial Ordering Preferences in Large Language Models
Jun 19, 2026Zhiqing Yang, Yilun Liu, Yunpu Ma +2Large Language Model Bias Linguistics
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich · Munich Center for Machine Learning
FAST: A Framework for Aligned Sampling and Training in Parallel Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving
Jun 19, 2026Bonan Wang, Letian Tao, Bin Shuai +7Autonomous Driving Simulation Autonomous Driving
School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China · Didi Voyager Labs, DiDi Autonomous Driving · School of Vehicle and Mobility and the College of AI, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Learning from Your Own Mistakes: Constructing Learnable Micro-Reflective Trajectories for Self-Distillation
Jun 17, 2026Zhilin Huang, Hang Gao, Ziqiang Dong +6Iterative Self-Correction Reasoning Errors
Qwen Business Unit of Alibaba · Tsinghua University · Peking University
Perfect Demo Makes Poor Teacher: Learning Robust Alignment from Critical Motion Segments
Jun 14, 2026Mingyu Liu, Zeju Li, Jiuhe Shu +4Distributional Alignment Motion
Zhejiang University · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (GZ) · Shanghai Innovation Institute
PolyAlign: Conditional Human-Distribution Alignment
Jun 11, 2026L. D. M. S. Sai Teja, Ufaq Khan, Sathira Silva +2Large Language Model Alignment Distributional Alignment
NIT Silchar, India · MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE
ECA: Efficient Continual Alignment for Open-Ended Image-to-Text Generation
Jun 10, 2026Jiangtao Kong, Peijun Zhao, Chun-Fu Chen +4Distributional Alignment Class-Incremental Learning
Department of Computer Science, William & Mary, Virginia, USA · Global Technology Applied Research, JPMorgan-Chase, USA · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Masdar City, Abu Dhabi
STELLAR: Spatio-Temporal Environmental Learning with Latent Alignment and Refinement for Long-Tailed Species Distribution Modeling
Jun 7, 2026Shufeng Kong, Tao Yu, Yuanyuan Wei +6Spatiotemporal Representations Distributional Alignment
School of Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China · School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Foshan University, Foshan, China · Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA +2
GRASP: Geometry-aware Residual Alignment for Scalable Pretraining Data Attribution
Jun 5, 2026Yue Min, Ruining Chen, Yujun LiPretraining Retraining
Wizard Quant · University of Science and Technology of China
Parameter Alignment Mitigates Catastrophic Forgetting in Multilingual Expert Language Models
May 29, 2026Sanchit Ahuja, Terra BlevinsMultilingual Language Models Catastrophic Forgetting
Northeastern University
FAST-GOAL: Fast and Efficient Global-local Object Alignment Learning
May 26, 2026Hyungyu Choi, Young Kyun Jang, Chanho EomDistributional Alignment
Department of Virtual Convergence, Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Films (GSAIM), Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea
When In-Distribution Gains Fail: Evaluating Weak-to-Strong Reward Models under Preference Shift
May 25, 2026Khoi Le, Tri Cao, Phong Nguyen +5Preference Learning Preference Alignment Learning
National University of Singapore · VinUniversity · Nanyang Technological University
AvAtar: Learning to Align via Active Optimal Transport
May 23, 2026Qi Yu, Ruizhong Qiu, Zhichen Zeng +3Distributional Alignment Pluralistic Alignment
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · University of Florida · 3Arizona State University
SegCompass: Exploring Interpretable Alignment with Sparse Autoencoders for Enhanced Reasoning Segmentation
May 21, 2026Zhenyu Lu, Liupeng Li, Jinpeng Wang +4Distributional Alignment Political Compass Test
Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Peng Cheng Laboratory · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences +3
Distributional Alignment as a Criterion for Designing Task Vectors in In-Context Learning
May 20, 2026Jihoon Kwon, Jiwon Choi, Jy-yong SohnIn-Context Learning Distributional Alignment
Seoul National University · Yonsei University
LER-YOLO: Reliability-Aware Expert Routing for Misaligned RGB-Infrared UAV Detection
May 20, 2026Liming Hou, Yueping Peng, Hexiang Hao +6Drone Detection Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection
Engineering University of PAP, Xi’an 710086, China · Unit Command Department, Officers College of PAP, Chengdu 610213, China
UniAlign: A Model-Agnostic Framework for Robust Network Traffic Classification under Distribution Shifts
May 17, 2026Tongze Wang, Xiaohui Xie, Wenduo Wang +2Distribution Shifts Distributional Alignment
Institute for Network Sciences and Cyberspace, Tsinghua University · Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University
Adversarial Attacks Against MLLMs via Progressive Resolution Processing and Adaptive Feature Alignment
May 11, 2026Haobo Wang, Xiaorong Ma, Weiqi Luo +2Multimodal Large Language Models Latent Representation Alignment
Sun Yat-sen University, China · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, China
Let the Target Select for Itself: Data Selection via Target-Aligned Paths
May 10, 2026Huitao Yang, Hengzhi He, Tung Sum Thomas Kwok +1Alignment-Aware Selection Adaptive Sampling
University of California, Los Angeles
Inference-Time Attribute Distribution Alignment for Unconditional Diffusion
May 8, 2026Hao Luan, See-Kiong Ng, Chun Kai LingDiffusion Alignment Diffusion Models
School of Computing, National University of Singapore · Institute of Data Science, National University of Singapore
Bridging Passive and Active: Enhancing Conversation Starter Recommendation via Active Expression Modeling
May 7, 2026Yiqing Wu, Haoming Li, Guanyu Jiang +4Recommendation Passive
Bytedance Beijing, China
Discovering Sparse Counterfactual Factors via Latent Adjustment for Survey-based Community Intervention
May 6, 2026Fatima Ashraf, Muhammad Ayub Sabir, Junbiao Pang +2Latent Feature Interventions Survey
Generalized Distributional Alignment Games for Unbiased Answer-Level Fine-Tuning
May 4, 2026Mehryar Mohri, Jon Schneider, Yutao ZhongDistributional Alignment Kullback-Leibler Divergence
Google Research & CIMS · New York, NY 10011 · Google Research
Distributional Alignment Games for Answer-Level Fine-Tuning
Apr 29, 2026Mehryar Mohri, Jon Schneider, Yifan WuDistributional Alignment Model Fine-Tuning
Google Research · Microsoft Research
SemiGDA: Generative Dual-distribution Alignment for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation
Apr 25, 2026Kaiwen Huang, Yi Zhou, Yizhe Zhang +2Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation Distributional Alignment
Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China · Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Seeing the imagined: latent functional alignment in visual imagery decoding from fMRI data
Apr 15, 2026Fabrizio Spera, Tommaso Boccato, Michal Olak +2Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Visual Perception
Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy · Tether Evo · A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
Early Estimation of Language to Latent Alignment in Diffusion Models
Dec 9, 2025Vasco Ramos, Regev Cohen, Idan Szpektor +1Diffusion Models Latent Representation Alignment
NOVALINCS, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal · Google Research
Redemption Score: A Multi-Modal Evaluation Framework for Image Captioning via Distributional, Perceptual, and Linguistic Signal Triangulation
May 22, 2025Ashim Dahal, Ankit Ghimire, Saydul Akbar Murad +1Multimodal Evaluation Image Difference Captioning
University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA · School of Business & Technology, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS, USA

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FFM-CP: Cross-Backbone Fusion of Vision-Language Foundation Models for Few-Shot Computational Pathology

Anh-Tien Nguyen, Trung DQ. Dang, Nghiem Tuong Diep, Bui Ngoc Han Nguyen+8

Institute for Predictive Deep Learning for Medicine and Healthcare, Giessen University, Germany · Department of Medical Informatics, University Medicine Gottingen, Germany · Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark+8

Pathology Foundation Models Computational Pathology Medical Vision-Language Models Vision-Language Alignment Multiple Instance Learning Wireless Foundation Models+3

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Pathology vision-language foundation models vary in performance across diseases and tasks, with no single model consistently performing best. The high cost of expert pathology annotation can also limit the labeled data available for task-specific adaptation. Combining complementary pretrained representations is a potential approach to these limitations, yet learning an effective fusion from few labeled examples remains challenging. We introduce Few-shot Fusion Foundation Models of Computational Pathology (FFM-CP), which is a framework that combines multiple pathology vision-language models in the few-shot learning setting. The framework first aligns heterogeneous representations using a closed-form Orthogonal Procrustes transformation estimated from corresponding support images. This alignment preserves within-model feature geometry without training an additional alignment network. Within the aligned space, a unified graph enables information exchange across backbones by jointly refining support-image features and visual and textual class prototypes. These refined representations support complementary text-prototype and case-retrieval branches that capture semantic class knowledge and within-class visual variation, respectively. Each branch learns to combine predictions from all ordered backbone pairs, allowing queries encoded by one model to draw on evidence represented by another. We evaluate three backbone combinations on six histopathology datasets at 4, 8, and 16 shots per class. FFM-CP achieves higher mean macro-F1 than the strongest individually adapted member of each fused set in 50 of 54 comparisons. These findings suggest that combining complementary pretrained representations can improve histopathological classification when annotations are limited.

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