MIT researchers teach AI models to interpret charts
The new ChartNet training dataset could improve the accuracy of vision-language models that help analyze business trends or interpret scientific figures.
Archives AI News
Forecasting Conceptual Diffusion in Science: The Case of Quantum Computing
arXiv:2606.03919v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding and anticipating scientific change requires models that distinguish between endogenous consolidation and exogenous diffusion of scientific concepts. Using the quantum computing subtree of concepts in OpenAlex, we construct a temporally resolved concept co-occurrence network…
RogueMerge: Robust and Unified Attacks against LLM Model Merging
arXiv:2606.03344v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Model merging composes specialized capabilities into a single LLM by aggregating task vectors sourced from unverified public platforms, exposing a critical supply-chain attack surface: Because any malicious behavior can be encoded into a task vector,…
Resource-Constrained Adaptive Inference for Sequential Pricing
arXiv:2606.03736v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Resource-constrained pricing controllers can make fixed-price inference impossible: the controller’s resource state may remove the target price neighborhood from the feasible set, even when every realized action has a known positive density. We formalize this…
Assistax: A Multi-Agent Hardware-Accelerated Reinforcement Learning Benchmark for Assistive Robotics
arXiv:2507.21638v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The development of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms has been largely driven by ambitious challenge tasks and benchmarks. Games have dominated RL benchmarks because they present relevant challenges, are inexpensive to run and easy to understand.…
VeRO: A Harness for Agents to Optimize Agents
arXiv:2602.22480v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: An important emerging application of coding agents is agent harness optimization: the iterative improvement of a target agent by editing and evaluating its code. Despite its relevance, the community lacks a systematic understanding of coding…
Lethe: Adapter-Augmented Dual-Stream Update for Persistent Knowledge Erasure in Federated Unlearning
arXiv:2601.22601v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated unlearning (FU) aims to erase designated client-level, class-level, or sample-level knowledge from a global model. Existing studies commonly assume that the collaboration ends with the unlearning operation, overlooking the follow-up situation where federated training…
Backdooring Masked Diffusion Language Models
arXiv:2605.19262v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Masked diffusion language models (MDLMs) are emerging as a compelling new paradigm for text generation, but their training-time security remains largely unexplored. Existing backdoor attacks on Gaussian diffusion models or autoregressive language models do not…
Cross-Modal Contrastive Learning of ECG and Angiography Representations for Severe Stenosis Classification
arXiv:2606.02605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coronary artery stenosis is a common cardiovascular disease, with severe, untreated cases posing significant risks of heart attack. Although coronary (X-ray) angiograms remain the standard for stenosis diagnosis, they are invasive, time- and resource-intensive, and…
ReLoRA: Knowledge-Reusing Adaptation for Fast Rollout of Evolving LLM Services
arXiv:2606.02606v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as continuously evolving services, where frequent base-model updates may invalidate previously deployed task-specific Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) adapters. For service providers managing numerous downstream model services, retraining each LoRA…