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Inside the Latent Flow: Causal Deciphering of Attention Dynamics in Audio Separation Foundation Models
Jun 8, 2026Yuxuan Chen, Haoyuan Yu, Peize HeSpeech Separation Audio
Beyond Probabilistic Similarity: Structural, Temporal, and Causal Limitations of Retrieval-Augmented Generation in the Legal Domain
Jun 8, 2026Hudson de MartimLegal Domain Causal Reasoning
Does Normalization Choice Matter for Causal Large Time-Series Models?
Jun 8, 2026Samy-Melwan Vilhes, Gilles Gasso, Mokhtar Z AlayaNormalization Time Series
CACR:Reinforcing Temporal Answer Grounding in Instructional Video via Candidate-Aware Causal Reasoning
Jun 7, 2026Muge Qi, Rong Fu, Pengbin Feng +7Video Temporal Grounding Temporal Grounding
Beyond Additivity: Causal Discovery in Location-Scale Noise Models with Hidden Variables
Jun 6, 2026Mariyam Khan, Shohei Shimizu, Thong PhamCausal Foundation Models Identifiability
CausShield: Sample Reconstruction-Resilient Vertical FL via Causal Representation Learning
Jun 6, 2026Yongqi Jiang, Yansong Gao, Siguang Chen +1Privacy-Preserving Framework Causal Representation Learning
Human Adults and LLMs as Scientists: Who Benefits from Active Exploration?
Jun 4, 2026Mandana Samiei, Eunice Yiu, Anthony GX-Chen +5Abductive Reasoning Cognitive Science
Causal Atlases from Entropic Inference: Bayesian Networks beyond Optimal DAGs
Jun 4, 2026Hazhir Aliahmadi, Irina Babayan, Greg van AndersBayesian Networks Directed Acyclic Graph
Causal Scaffolding for Physical Reasoning: A Benchmark for Causally-Informed Physical World Understanding in VLMs
Jun 4, 2026Tianyi Tang, Zhuoyi Lin, Zeyu Feng +4Large Vision Language Models Causal Reasoning
Causal Longitudinal Prior-Fitted Networks for Counterfactual Outcome Prediction
Jun 4, 2026Amirhossein Zare, Amirhessam Zare, Herlock Rahimi +2Causal Inferences Counterfactual Reasoning
Causal Modeling of Selection in Evolution
Jun 4, 2026Haoyue Dai, Zeyu Tang, Peter Spirtes +1Selection Bias Evolution
From Prediction to Self: Developmental Conditions for Agency in Minimal Neural Systems
Jun 4, 2026Evan YeNext Activity Prediction Self-Organization
CausalPOI: Spatio-Temporal Graph-Based Causal Modeling for Cold-Start POI Check-in Forecasting
Jun 3, 2026Zhaoqi Zhang, Miao Xie, Yi Li +3Causal Graph Causal Reasoning
Caliper: Probing Lexical Anchors versus Causal Structure in LLMs
Jun 3, 2026Zhenyu Yu, Shuigeng ZhouCausal Reasoning Instruction-Tuned Models
Trivium: Temporal Regret as a First-Class Objective for Causal-Memory Controllers
Jun 3, 2026Edward Y. ChangStructural Causal Model Causal Reasoning
Motion-Guided Causal Disentanglement for Robust Multi-View Cine Cardiac MRI Diagnosis
Jun 3, 2026Chuankai Xu, Cristiane De Carvalho Singulane, Mohammad Abuannadi +10Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Whole-Heart Segmentation
Using Text-Based Causal Inference to Disentangle Factors Influencing Online Review Ratings
Jun 2, 2026Linsen Li, Aron Culotta, Nicholas MatteiSentiment Analysis Causal Inferences
Expert-Aware Causal Tracing of Factual Recall in Sparse MoE Language Models
Jun 2, 2026Yuetian Lu, Ali Modarressi, Yihong Liu +1Mixture-Of-Expert Language Models Mixture-of-Experts Models
Unveiling the Structure of Do-Calculus Reasoning via Derivation Graphs
Jun 2, 2026Clément Yvernes, Emilie Devijver, Marianne Clausel +1Causal Graph Causal Reasoning
Tailoring Strictly Proper Scoring Rules for Downstream Tasks: An Application to Causal Inference
Jun 2, 2026Roman Plaud, Alexandre Perez-Lebel, Antoine Saillenfest +4Causal Inferences Propensity
Token Predictors Are Not Planners: Building Physically Grounded Causal Reasoners
Jun 1, 2026Zheng Lu, Mingqi Gao, Qinlei Xie +8Classical Planning Embodied Agents
The Paradox of Outcome Optimization: A Causal Information-Theoretic Bound on Reasoning Shortcuts in LLMs
May 30, 2026Zihan Chen, Yiming Zhang, Wenxiang Geng +2Causal Reasoning Information-Theoretic Limits
PropLLM: Propagation-Aware Scene Reconstruction for Network Fault Diagnosis
May 30, 2026Zongzong Wu, Ming Zhao, Fengxiao Tang +1Large Language Model Reasoning Causal Reasoning
On the Recoverability of Causal Relations from Bulk Gene Expression Data
May 30, 2026Gongxu Luo, Boyang Sun, Kun ZhangGene-Regulatory Networks Spatial Transcriptomics
Trading Complexity for Expressivity Through Structured Generalized Linear Token Mixing
May 29, 2026Erwan Fagnou, Paul Caillon, Blaise Delattre +1Expressivity Long-Range Temporal Dependencies
Formalizing and falsifying causal pathways of rare events
May 29, 2026Anahita Haghighat, Dominik JanzingStructural Causal Model Causal Reasoning
TabCausal: Pretraining Across Causal Environments for Tabular Causal Discovery
May 29, 2026Zi-Rong Li, Si-Yang Liu, Tian-Zuo Wang +1Causal Foundation Models Causal Reasoning
DisasterLex: An Expert Concept-to-Schema Knowledge Graph for Geospatial Reasoning in Disaster Analytics
May 28, 2026Yiming Xiao, Ankit Basu, Kai Yin +3Disasters Knowledge Graphs
MAAT: Multi-phase Adapter-Aware Targeted Unlearning
May 28, 2026Suryash Yagnik, Shubham Gaur, Saksham Thakur +3Causal Reasoning Reasoning Benchmark
YoCausal: How Far is Video Generation from World Model? A Causality Perspective
May 28, 2026You-Zhe Xie, Yu-Hsuan Li, Jie-Ying Lee +3Causal Reasoning World Models
minWM: A Full-Stack Open-Source Framework for Real-Time Interactive Video World Models
May 28, 2026Min Zhao, Hongzhou Zhu, Bokai Yan +9Video World Models Real-Time Systems
Causal Intelligence for Constraint-Aware Intervention Design to Induce State Transitions
May 27, 2026Zixuan Song, Uwe Mueller, Dimitris V. ManatakisSubspace Intervention Framework Causal Reasoning
CaMBRAIN: Real-time, Continuous EEG Inference with Causal State Space Models
May 27, 2026Abhilash Durgam, Nyle Siddiqui, Jeffrey A. Chan-Santiago +3Electroencephalography Spatial Super-Resolution State Space Models
The Abstraction Gap in Vision-Language Causal Reasoning
May 27, 2026Chinh Hoang, Mohammad Rashedul HasanCausal Reasoning Linguistics
PubMedCausal: A Span-Level Annotated Corpus for Causal Relation Extraction in Biomedical Text
May 27, 2026Ifeoluwa Kunle-John, Josiah Paul, Oluwatosin Agbaakin +3Biomedical Text Causal Reasoning
From Fact Overwriting to Knowledge Evolution: Causal Editing via On-Policy Self-Distillation
May 27, 2026Shuaike Li, Kai Zhang, Xianquan Wang +2Multimodal Knowledge Editing Knowledge Distillation
Counterfactually Fair Regression via Optimal Transport
May 27, 2026M. Generali Lince, S. Gaucher, J-J. Vie +1Causal Reasoning Optimal Transport
What-If World: A Causal Benchmark for General World Models in Embodied Scenarios
May 26, 2026Kunlin Cai, Rui Song, Jinghuai Zhang +7Video World Models World Models
Kan Extension Transformers: A Categorical Unification of Attention, Diffusion, and Predict-Detach Self-Conditioning
May 26, 2026Sridhar MahadevanCausal Reasoning
The Role of Causal Features in Strategic Classification for Robustness and Alignment
May 26, 2026Antonio Gois, Sophia Gunluk, Nir Rosenfeld +3Causal Reasoning Credit Risk Prediction
Function-Valued Causal Influence in Nonlinear Time Series
May 26, 2026Valentina V. Kuskova, Dmitry Zaytsev, Michael CoppedgeCausal Reasoning Influence
Causal methods for LLM development and evaluation
May 25, 2026Dennis Frauen, Marie Brockschmidt, Konstantin Hess +10Large Language Model Evaluation Large Language
Causal Tongue-Tie: LLMs Can Encode Causal Direction, But Their Yes/No Outputs Fail to Express
May 25, 2026Ziyi Ding, Xiao-Ping ZhangCausal Reasoning Liar
Is Inference Mediated by Distinct Semantic Structures in LLMs? A Mechanistic Interpretation
May 25, 2026Nura Aljaafari, Marco Valentino, André FreitasNatural Language Inference Causal Reasoning
Priors Persist Through Suppression: A Stroop Paradigm for Lexical Override
May 25, 2026Han-yu WangPriming Distractor
CausalFlow: Causal Attribution and Counterfactual Repair for LLM Agent Failures
May 25, 2026Akash Bonagiri, Devang Borkar, Gerard Janno Anderias +2Causal Intervention Causal Reasoning
Evolving Causal Regulatory Networks (ECR-Net)
May 24, 2026Govind Vallabhasseri Binish, Abdhul Ahadh, Rano Roy Kavanal +1Causal Foundation Models Gene-Regulatory Networks
They Are Not the Same: Direct Causes Are Not Grounded Emotion Explanations
May 24, 2026Zhuangzhuang Pan, Yan Xia, Chee Seng ChanEmotion Contextual Cues
Universal Boosts, Specific Suppressors: Sparse Autoencoder Steering of Medical Vision-Language Models
May 24, 2026Farhad Nooralahzadeh, Benjamin Gundersen, Nicolas Deperrois +7Medical Vision-Language Models Steering
Towards a Universal Causal Reasoner
May 24, 2026Qirun Dai, Xiao Liu, Jiawei Zhang +3Large Language Model Reasoning Causal Reasoning
Hypothesis Generation and Inductive Inference in Children and Language Models
May 23, 2026Jeffrey Qin, Wasu Top Piriyakulkij, Zhuangfei Gao +4Inferring Hypothesis Generation
Leveraging Foundation Models for Causal Generative Modeling
May 22, 2026Aneesh Komanduri, Xintao WuCausal Foundation Models Causal Reasoning
Causality as the Statistical Conscience of Artificial Intelligence: From Pearl's Ladder to Trustworthy Machines
May 22, 2026Ernest FokouéCausal Inferences Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
CaST-Bench: Benchmarking Causal Chain-Grounded Spatio-Temporal Reasoning for Video Question Answering
May 22, 2026Mingfang Zhang, Jingjing Pan, Ashutosh Kumar +7Video Temporal Grounding Visual Evidence
Fast-dDrive: Efficient Block-Diffusion VLM for Autonomous Driving
May 22, 2026Kewei Zhang, Jin Wang, Sensen Gao +9Autonomous Driving Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models
Represented Is Not Computed: A Causal Test of Candidate Algorithmic Intermediates in a Transformer
May 21, 2026Ishita Darade, Sushrut ThoratArithmetic Intermediate Representations
From Correlation to Cause: A Five-Stage Methodology for Feature Analysis in Transformer Language Models
May 21, 2026Caleb MunigetyCausal Reasoning
Learning Causal Orderings for In-Context Tabular Prediction
May 21, 2026Sascha Xu, Sarah Mameche, Jilles VreekenCausal Foundation Models Tabular Learning
CausalGuard: Conformal Inference under Graph Uncertainty
May 21, 2026Vikash Singh, Weicong Chen, Debargha Ganguly +12Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Conformal Inference
A Dialogue between Causal and Traditional Representation Learning: Toward Mutual Benefits in a Unified Formulation
May 20, 2026Yan Li, Yuewen Sun, Shaoan Xie +4Causal Representation Learning Representation Learning

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Inside the Latent Flow: Causal Deciphering of Attention Dynamics in Audio Separation Foundation Models

Yuxuan Chen, Haoyuan Yu, Peize He

Jilin University · Hunan University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Flow-matching transformers achieve strong audio separation, yet their attention dynamics are opaque. We adapt established causal-intervention principles into a deterministic, inference-time probing protocol for SAM Audio. Orthogonal probing uncovers a dual-pathway text-conditioning mechanism: additive injections control semantic identity, while cross-attention refines acoustic structure. We observe an asynchronous layerwise convergence: stable layers build temporal scaffolds early, whereas fast layers continue resolving artifacts during sampling. The model also attenuates temporal segmentation cues to maintain continuous-flow stability. Using these insights, we propose Layer-Selective Attention Caching (LSAC), a training-free acceleration method that caches attention in stable layers. Across acoustic complexities, LSAC cuts self-attention computation by about ~25% with negligible quality loss and yields up to 6.7x higher quality retention than naive step reduction.

Speech Separation Audio Generative Flow Networks Segment Anything Model Causal Intervention Causal Reasoning

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