Teaser for Pathways of Visual Information Flow in Vision-Language Models
Israfel Salazar, Stella Frank, Dan Oneata, Desmond Elliott, Constanza Fierro
Under review Jul 2026
Links: arXiv Abstract We study how visual information is routed in vision-language models (VLMs). Using causal patching on controlled synthetic and …
Teaser for Anchoring the Unknown: Open-Set Model Attribution via Proxy-Anchor Learning
Cristian-Teodor Neamtu, Serban Mihalache, Stefan Smeu, Dan Oneata, Horia Cucu, Dragos Burileanu
Accepted at EUSIPCO 2026 Jun 2026
Links: arXiv Abstract The proliferation of text-to-speech (TTS) systems capable of generating realistic synthetic speech poses growing challenges for …
Teaser for idSCD: Identifying Training Datasets through Semantic Correlation Descriptors
Andrada Gobeaja, Ionut Hodoroaga, Elena Burceanu, Marius Leordeanu
Under review May 2026
Links: arXiv Abstract Can a dataset be recognized from the spurious correlations it induces during training? We argue that datasets leave …
Teaser for How the Optimizer Shapes Learned Solutions in Equivariant Neural Networks
Teodor-Mihai Stupariu, Andrei Manolache
Accepted at ICML 2026 Workshop on Weight-Space Symmetries May 2026
Links: arXiv Abstract Equivariant neural networks encode geometric symmetries by construction, yet they are often difficult to optimize and can …
Teaser for Protein Fold Classification at Scale: Benchmarking and Pretraining
Dexiong Chen, Andrei Manolache, Mathias Niepert, Karsten Borgwardt
Accepted at ICML 2026 (Oral) May 2026
Links: arXiv GitHub Abstract Classifying protein topology is essential for deciphering biological function, but progress is held back by the lack of …
May 2026
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Teaser for Revisiting Adam for Streaming Reinforcement Learning
Florin Gogianu, Adrian Catalin Lutu, Razvan Pascanu
Accepted at Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC) 2026 May 2026
Links: arXiv Abstract Learning from a sequence of interactions, as soon as observations are perceived and acted upon, without explicitly storing them, …
Teaser for Fine-Tuning Regimes Define Distinct Continual Learning Problems
Paul-Tiberiu Iordache, Elena Burceanu
Under review Apr 2026
Links: arXiv Abstract Continual learning (CL) studies how models acquire tasks sequentially while retaining previously learned knowledge. Despite …
Teaser for Temporal Taskification in Streaming Continual Learning: A Source of Evaluation Instability
Nicolae Filat, Ahmed Hussain, Konstantinos Kalogiannis, Elena Burceanu
Under review Apr 2026
Links: arXiv Abstract Streaming Continual Learning (CL) typically converts a continuous stream into a sequence of discrete tasks through temporal …
Teaser for JumpLoRA: Sparse Adapters for Continual Learning in Large Language Models
Alexandra Dragomir, Ioana Pintilie, Antonio Barbalau, Marius Dragoi, Florin Brad, Cristian Paduraru, Alexandru Tifrea, Elena Burceanu, Radu Ionescu
Under review Apr 2026
Links: arXiv Abstract Adapter-based methods have become a cost-effective approach to continual learning (CL) for Large Language Models (LLMs), by …