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ECML-PKDD 20262026Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) break down on zero-degree nodes, as message passing requires neighbors. Without interaction history, unseen entities are sub-optimally embedded, leaving them weakly anchored in the latent space, creating a cold-start bottleneck in retrieval. To address this, we propose GRAFT, a factorized architecture that unifies structural and feature transformations into a shared weight space
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ECML-PKDD 20262026Accurate demand forecasting is vital for retail supply chain efficiency, yet a persistent trust-capacity gap limits industrial production to low-capacity interpretable models that fail to capture complex market dynamics. We propose Anchored FLoE, a dual-model framework that bridges this gap by fusing high-capacity deep learning with rigorous business guardrails. The framework integrates: (1) FLoE, an ensemble
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2026Recent progress in multi-turn reinforcement learning (RL) has significantly improved reasoning LLMs' performances on complex interactive tasks. Despite advances in stabilization techniques such as fine-grained credit assignment and trajectory filtering, instability remains pervasive and often leads to training collapse. We argue that this instability stems from inefficient exploration in multi-turn settings
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KDD 20262026Vision language models face a fundamental geometry trade-off: Euclidean representations excel at instance-level discrimination, while hyperbolic representations naturally encode semantic hierarchies. Hybrid training is challenging because one geometry may dominate early, leaving the other under-trained failure mode we term geometry dominance. We introduce Adaptive Geometry Routing (AGR), a framework that
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Interspeech 20262026Audio encoders are critical to modern audio applications as large language models (LLMs) increasingly rely on a single encoder for diverse inputs. While self-supervised learning (SSL) has yielded strong domain-specific encoders like speech or music experts, multi-domain approaches like USAD and SPEAR remain limited in coverage and evaluation. Recent studies also suggest supervised encoders align better
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