cs.AI 2608.05086

Item Response Theory for AI Safety

This paper applies multidimensional Item Response Theory (IRT) to analyze 192 language models across 8 safety benchmarks, revealing three core latent abilities and enabling cost-effective evaluation and auditing.

Joshua Fonseca Rivera, Neil Shah, David Demitri Africa et al.

2026-08-06 130
cs.CV 2608.04995

Promptable Animal Pose Tracking Across Species

Leveraging foundation vision models for cross-species animal pose tracking, achieving high accuracy with limited labels.

Le Li, Daniela Ivanova, Nicolas Pugeault

2026-08-06 40
cs.LG 2608.04882

Variational Bounds for Perceptron Learning from Structured Data

Introduces variational bounds for the finite-temperature perceptron trained on Gaussian mixtures, deriving upper and lower bounds via interpolation and log-concavity, with fixed point equations for energy and error estimates.

Francesco Camilli, Pierluigi Contucci, Federica Gerace et al.

2026-08-05 105
cs.SD 2608.04624

Masked diffusion enables coherent beat tracking

Masked Diffusion model improves beat tracking by modeling multiple plausible outputs, reducing incoherence and enhancing stability.

Francesco Foscarin, Filip Korzeniowski, Richard Vogl

2026-08-05 65
cs.IR 2608.04609

Characterizing the Evolving Landscape of Modern Information Seeking

Sun develops the ISMIE framework, combining crowdsourcing surveys, neurophysiological signals, and preference modeling to analyze GenAI's impact on modern information seeking, revealing preference shifts and cognitive load dynamics.

Shuoqi Sun

2026-08-05 173