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Dual-Stage Value-Guided Inference with Margin-Based Reward Adjustment for Fast and Faithful VLM Captioning
Ankan Deria, Adinath Madhavrao Dukre, Feilong Tang, Sara Atito, Sudipta Roy, Muhammad Awais, Muhammad Haris Khan, Imran Razzak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15649

Dual-Stage Value-Guided Inference with Margin-Based Reward Adjustment for Fast and Faithful VLM Captioning
Despite significant advances in inference-time search for vision-language models (VLMs), existing approaches remain both computationally expensive and prone to unpenalized, low-confidence generations which often lead to persistent hallucinations. We introduce \textbf{Value-guided Inference with Margin-based Reward (ViMaR)}, a two-stage inference framework that improves both efficiency and output fidelity by combining a temporal-difference value model with a margin-aware reward adjustment. In th…

Former Dallas Cowboys 2nd-round pick arrested following fatal crash https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/former-dallas-cowboys-2nd-round-pick-arrested-following-fatal-crash

Ex-DB 'Pacman' Jones pleads not guilty after arrest https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45495954/former-nfl-db-adam-pacman-jones-pleads-not-guilty-multiple-charges-recent-kentucky-arrest

Former ABC News correspondent and anchor Terry Moran launches a Substack channel following his ouster from the news network (Glenn Garner/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/terry-moran-launches-substack-abc-news-dismissal-1236431503/…

Terry Moran Launches Substack Channel To Continue “Important Work” After ABC News Dismissal
Following Terry Moran's unceremonious ousting from ABC News, the Emmy-winning anchor and reporter has already moved onto his next platform.

Variational Inference with Mixtures of Isotropic Gaussians
Marguerite Petit-Talamon, Marc Lambert, Anna Korba
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13613 https://

Variational Inference with Mixtures of Isotropic Gaussians
Variational inference (VI) is a popular approach in Bayesian inference, that looks for the best approximation of the posterior distribution within a parametric family, minimizing a loss that is typically the (reverse) Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence. In this paper, we focus on the following parametric family: mixtures of isotropic Gaussians (i.e., with diagonal covariance matrices proportional to the identity) and uniform weights. We develop a variational framework and provide efficient algori…

Near-Field Sensing Enabled Predictive Beamforming: Fundamentals, Framework, and Opportunities
Hao Jiang, Zhaolin Wang, Yue Liu, Hyundong Shin, Arumugam Nallanathan, Yuanwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09225

Near-Field Sensing Enabled Predictive Beamforming: Fundamentals, Framework, and Opportunities
The article proposes a novel near-field predictive beamforming framework for high-mobility wireless networks. Specifically, due to the spherical waves and non-uniform Doppler frequencies brought by the near-field region, the new ability of full-dimensional location and velocity sensing is characterized. Building on this foundation, the near-field predictive beamforming framework is proposed to proactively design beamformers for mobility users following arbitrary trajectories. Compared to the co…

Cowboys to work out UFL star, former 4th-round pick familiar with new DL coach https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-work-out-ufl-star-former-4th-round-pick-perrion-winfrey-familiar-new-dl-coac…

Ex-Cowboys star released on bond following arrest conencted to fatal crash https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/ex-dallas-cowboys-star-released-bond-following-arrest-conencted-fatal-crash

Aaron Rodgers' Steelers deal draws 'worst-case scenario' reaction, comments from around NFL, former players

https://www.cbssports.com/n…

Former Dallas Cowboys star's attorney speaks out on recent arrest https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/former-dallas-cowboys-star-attorney-speaks-out-on-recent-arrest