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  1. Sharpen Before You Adapt: Data-Free Entry-State Sharpening for Test-Time Reinforcement Learning

    Oct 1, 2026Zhanming Zhang, Vinoth SelvendranIntermediate CheckpointsSharpness-Aware Minimization

    Independent Researcher New York, NY · Independent Researcher Palo Alto, CA

  2. Gap-Free Streaming PCA Beyond Rank-One Updates: Near-Optimal Rates and Applications to Differential Privacy

    Sep 22, 2026Anming Gu, Syamantak Kumar, Kevin Tian +1Principal Component AnalysisOptimal Sample Complexity

    University of Texas at Austin

  3. Towards Interaction Regulation from Human Feedback via Free Energy Minimization

    Sep 16, 2026Maria Paula Diaz Monfort, Cinzia Tomaselli, Michael Richardson +1Human-Robot InteractionReinforcement Learning From Human Feedback

    Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Napoli, Italy · Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia · University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

  4. Can AI systems have free will?

    Sep 14, 2026Christian ListEthicsArtificial Intelligence Systems

    Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

  5. One Loop, Two Gains: Can Active Learning win the Lottery for Free?

    Sep 9, 2026Benedikt Tscheschner, Eduardo Veas, Marc MasanaPool-Based Active LearningActive Learning

    University of Technology Graz Know-Center Research GmbH Austria · Institute of Visual Computing University of Technology Graz Austria

  6. Better Decomposition, Free Aggregation: A Synthesizer-Folding Framework for Multilingual Multi-Hop Question Answering

    Aug 13, 2026Yilin Wang, Yuchun Fan, Weidong Bao +5Cross-Lingual ConsistencyTranslation Quality

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China · Yunnan Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China

  7. Self-Geometry: GT-Free and Plug-and-Play Test-Time Adaptation for Geometrically Consistent 3D Vision Foundation Models

    Aug 11, 2026Seokhyun Youn, Dahyeon Kye, Sung-Ho Bae +1Robust Geometric Model Estimation3D Foundation Models

    1CMLab, Chung-Ang University · 2Kyung Hee University

  8. Monotonicity-Guided Bottom-Up Petri Net Discovery: The SPECpp Framework

    Aug 10, 2026Leah Tacke genannt Unterberg, Lisa L. Mannel, Wil M. P. van der AalstIntegrated C++ DevelopmentFree

    Process And Data Science (PADS) RWTH Aachen University D-52074 Aachen, Germany

  9. Preserving Item Semantics for Free: Rethinking Token Initialization in LLM-Based Generative Recommendation

    Aug 7, 2026Donald Loveland, Liam Collins, Bhuvesh Kumar +2Sequential RecommendationPrior Knowledge Integration

    Snap Inc. Bellevue, WA, USA · University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI, USA

  10. When Semantics Saturate or Emerge: Adaptation-Conditional Semantic Utility in Source-Free Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning

    Aug 7, 2026Wei Liu, Xing Deng, Haijian ShaoFew-Shot LearningVision-Language Model Adaptation

    College of Computer Science, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212003, China

  11. PRISM: Distribution-Gated Flow Matching for Controllable Unpaired Image Translation

    Aug 6, 2026Elad Yoshai, Natan T. ShakedUnpaired Image-To-Image TranslationContrastive Flow Matching

    aSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel

  12. Topology-Aware Neighborhood Learning for Source-Free Cross-Scene Hyperspectral Image Classification

    Aug 6, 2026Qingmei Li, Juepeng Zheng, Jiarui Zhang +2Hyperspectral ImageDomain Adaptation

    Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai, China · Faculty of Geosciences and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China +4

  13. SCOPE: Entanglement Frontier Escape for Source-Free Class Unlearning

    Aug 3, 2026Junhao Cai, Dohun Kim, Sung Il Choi +4Exact UnlearningConcept Erasure

    Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  14. SAFE-Merge: Data-Free Continual Model Merging with General Knowledge Preservation

    Aug 2, 2026Zihuan Qiu, Zhiyang Liao, Chiyuan He +5Continual Model MergingReplay-Based Continual Learning

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China · Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China

  15. Fishing Out Free Riders: Shapley-Based Reward Attribution for Parallel Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 21, 2026Wentao Zhang, Haoyu Zhang, Xinke Jiang +7LLM Reasoning StrategiesLarge Language Model Reinforcement Learning

    ShanghaiTech University · City University of Hong Kong · Peking University +2

  16. From Draft to Draft-Free: One-Step Video Object Removal via Privileged Distillation and Fast Planting

    Jul 16, 2026Zizhao Chen, Ping Wei, Guang Dai +2Video Object RemovalDrafts

    State Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence, Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University · SGIT AI Lab, State Grid Corporation of China · Baidu +1

  17. Unicode TAG-Block Concealment of Tool-Metadata Payloads in the Model Context Protocol: An Approval-View Fidelity Gap Across Three Independent Server Implementations

    Jul 7, 2026Mohammadreza RashidiModel Context ProtocolMetadata

    Department of Computer Science AI and Media Analysis Lab Berlin, Germany

  18. Falsification, Not Exposure: An Internally Preregistered Placebo-Controlled Decomposition of Self-Repair Feedback in Frozen Small Code Models

    Jun 30, 2026Mehmet IscanFalsehoodControlled Study

    PythaLab, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

  19. PatternGSL: A Structured Specification Language for Template-Free and Simulation-Ready 3D Garments

    Jun 23, 2026Zhenyang Li, Lutao Jiang, Yizhou Zhao +4GarmentsSewing

    The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China · Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA +2

  20. Direct Raw Audio Signal Processing via Reservoir Computing: An Investigation into 'Feature-Free' Architectures

    Jun 19, 2026Rinku Sebastian, Simon O Keefe, Martin A TrefzerReservoir ComputingAudio Understanding

  21. ViT-FREE: Efficient Face Recognition via Early Exiting and Synthetic Adaptation

    Jun 10, 2026Tahar Chettaoui, Guray Ozgur, Eduarda Caldeira +2Face Recognition ModelVision Transformer

    Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD, Germany · Department of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt, Germany

  22. Corpus Augmentation for Sign Language Translation via LLM-Guided Video Stitching

    Jun 10, 2026Zsolt Robotka, Ádám Rák, Jalal Al-Afandi +2Gloss-Free Sign Language TranslationSign Language Translation

    Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics, Budapest, Hungary · DeepSign Technologies Ltd., Budapest, Hungary

  23. Towards Data-free and Training-free Compression for Speech Foundation Models Using Parameter Clustering

    Jun 10, 2026Haoning Xu, Zhaoqing Li, Huimeng Wang +4Task-Aware CompressionUnstructured Pruning

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · National Research Council Canada, Canada

  24. Expected Free Energy-based Planning as Variational Inference

    Jun 9, 2026Wouter W. L. Nuijten, Thijs van de Laar, Bert de VriesVariational InferenceClassical Planning

    Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands · Lazy Dynamics B.V., the Netherlands

  25. JacQuant: STE-Free Quantization-Aware Training via Learned Jacobian Surrogates

    May 25, 2026Kai Yi, Vignesh Vivekraja, Harshit Khaitan +1Quantization-Aware TrainingGradient Quantization

    Meta AI

  26. DP-KFC: Data-Free Preconditioning for Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning

    May 13, 2026Marc Molina Van den Bosch, Riccardo Taiello, Albert Sund Aillet +3Spectral PreconditioningFisher Information Matrix

    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland · BCN MedTech, Department of Engineering, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain · ICREA, Barcelona, Spain

  27. PixelFlowCast: Latent-Free Precipitation Nowcasting via Pixel Mean Flows

    May 11, 2026Yufeng Zhu, Chunlei Shi, Yongchao Feng +1Precipitation NowcastingRainfall

  28. Fre-Res: Frequency-Residual Video Token Compression for Efficient Video MLLMs

    May 10, 2026Yigui Feng, Qinglin Wang, Yang Liu +1Token CompressionVideo Compression

    The College of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China · College of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology, Deya Road 109, Changsha, Hunan 410073, China · The Shien-Ming Wu School of Intelligent Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China +1

  29. Simultaneous Monitoring of Shape and Surface Color via 4D Point Clouds: A Registration-free Approach

    May 9, 2026Mariafrancesca Patalano, Giovanna Capizzi, Kamran PaynabarPoint CloudsIndustrial Automation

    Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua · School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

  30. Cumulative-Goodness Free-Riding in Forward-Forward Networks: Real, Repairable, but Not Accuracy-Dominant

    May 7, 2026Amirhossein YousefiramandiForward PropagationImagenet

  31. Improving Calibration in Test-Time Prompt Tuning for Vision-Language Models via Data-Free Flatness-Aware Prompt Pretraining

    Apr 30, 2026Hyeonseo Jang, Jaebyeong Jeon, Joong-Won Hwang +1Soft Prompt TuningVision-Language Model Adaptation

    1Yonsei University · 2ETRI

  32. Exploiting LLM-as-a-Judge Disposition on Free Text Legal QA via Prompt Optimization

    Apr 22, 2026Mohamed Hesham Elganayni, Runsheng Chen, Sebastian Nagl +1Llm-As-A-JudgePrompt Optimization

    Technical University of Munich Germany

  33. Curvature-aware Expected Free Energy as an Acquisition Function for Bayesian Optimization

    Mar 27, 2026Ajith Anil Meera, Wouter KouwBayesian OptimizationFree Energy Principle

    Faculty of Electrical Engineering, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  34. AdaptiveCDM: Source-Free Few-Shot Domain Adaptation for Cell Detection in Microscopic Images

    Mar 5, 2025Nimra Dilawar, Sara Nadeem, Javed Iqbal +2Domain AdaptationFew-Shot Segmentation

    Intelligent Machines Lab, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology University, Pakistan

  35. Infrequent Resolving Algorithm for Online Linear Programming

    Aug 1, 2024Guokai Li, Zizhuo Wang, Jingwei ZhangLinear Programming\Widetilde{\Mathcal{O}}(\Sqrt{T})$ Regret

    School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518172, P.R. China

  36. Almost Free State Prediction Separation

    Date pendingJohn Langford, Nathan Godey, Giovanni Monea +5Next-Token PredictionFree

    Microsoft · Cornell University