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TED: Training-Free Experience Distillation for Multimodal Reasoning

arXiv:2603.26778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge distillation is typically realized by transferring a teacher model’s knowledge into a student’s parameters through supervised or reinforcement-based optimization. While effective, such approaches require repeated parameter updates and large-scale training data, limiting their applicability…

Learning to Select Visual In-Context Demonstrations

arXiv:2603.26775v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) adapt to visual tasks via in-context learning (ICL), which relies heavily on demonstration quality. The dominant demonstration selection strategy is unsupervised k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN) search. While simple, this similarity-first approach…

Intelligent Road Condition Monitoring using 3D In-Air SONAR Sensing

arXiv:2603.28141v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the capabilities of in-air 3D SONAR sensors for the monitoring of road surface conditions. Concretely, we consider two applications: Road material classification and Road damage detection and classification. While such…

Empirical Likelihood for Nonsmooth Functionals

arXiv:2603.27743v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Empirical likelihood is an attractive inferential framework that respects natural parameter boundaries, but existing approaches typically require smoothness of the functional and miscalibrate substantially when these assumptions are violated. For the optimal-value functional central to…

On the Hardness of Reinforcement Learning with Transition Look-Ahead

arXiv:2510.19372v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study reinforcement learning (RL) with transition look-ahead, where the agent may observe which states would be visited upon playing any sequence of $ell$ actions before deciding its course of action. While such predictive information…

Noise in Photonic Quantum Machine Learning: Models, Impacts, and Mitigation Strategies

arXiv:2603.09645v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Photonic Quantum Machine Learning (PQML) is an emerging method to implement scalable, energy-efficient quantum information processing by combining photonic quantum computing technologies with machine learning techniques. The features of photonic technologies offer several benefits: room-temperature…