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Learning Behavioral Signals from Encrypted Smartphone Network Traffic

arXiv:2605.01616v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human behavior is challenging to measure continuously at scale, yet traces of daily routines and well-being may be reflected in interactions with personal devices. We investigate whether encrypted smartphone network traffic can serve as a…

Scalable Inference-Time Annealing with Surrogate Likelihood Estimators

arXiv:2605.31498v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A long standing challenge in computational chemistry and biophysics is efficiently sampling the Boltzmann distribution of molecules. Advances in generative modeling have been proposed to address the limitations of conventional sampling techniques by eliminating the…

Similarity-Distance-Magnitude Activations

arXiv:2509.12760v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce the Similarity-Distance-Magnitude (SDM) activation function, a more robust and interpretable formulation of the standard softmax activation function, adding Similarity (i.e., correctly predicted depth-matches into training) awareness and Distance-to-training-distribution awareness to the existing output…

Rethinking Local Learning: A Cheaper and Faster Recipe for LLM Post-Training

arXiv:2605.04913v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM post-training typically propagates task gradients through the full depth of the model. Although this end-to-end structure is simple and general, it couples task adaptation to full-depth activation storage, long-range backward dependencies and direct task-gradient…

From A to B to A: Palindromic Zero-Shot Voice Conversion with Non-Parallel Data

arXiv:2606.08843v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a voice conversion (VC) framework that utilizes K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) retrieval over WavLM representations to align non-parallel source and target speech, constructing synthetic training pairs for supervised learning. The retrieved segments serve as…

Post-Trained MoE Can Skip Half Experts via Self-Distillation

arXiv:2605.18643v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) scales language models efficiently through sparse expert activation, and its dynamic variant further reduces computation by adjusting the activated experts in an input-dependent manner. Existing dynamic MoE methods usually rely on pre-training from…