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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…

Harnessing the "Reactive Falling Effect" for rehabilitation and performance boosting
Paul-Emmanuel Sornette, Didier Sornette
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13959

Harnessing the "Reactive Falling Effect" for rehabilitation and performance boosting
We present Logic Workout, a novel training method based on radical dynamic instability combining rolling, deformation and spring instability on small fitballs. By exploiting the "reactive falling effect", it re-engages innate balance mechanisms and forces real-time motor corrections, leading to better joint control, coordination, and movement precision. Preliminary results from a cohort of 18 participants show complete resolution of chronic pain, enhanced functional mobility, and surprising imp…

Calamus 28 When I peruse the conquered fame of heroes
My surface reading is this is a celebration of the common man, perhaps soldiers, over the more famous generals and presidents. But this commentary encourages me to dig deeper.
First, to highlight the gay text...
the brotherhood of lovers ... Through youth, and through middle and old age, how unfaltering, how affectionate and faithful they were
Very homoromantic language! Male lovers who stay together through their whole lives, affectionate.
The last fillip here is Whitman's own stance: "pensive... filled with the bitterest envy". Whitman admires these lovers and envies them. That's a striking feeling to disclose!

Balancing Preservation and Modification: A Region and Semantic Aware Metric for Instruction-Based Image Editing
Zhuoying Li, Zhu Xu, Yuxin Peng, Yang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13827

Balancing Preservation and Modification: A Region and Semantic Aware Metric for Instruction-Based Image Editing
Instruction-based image editing, which aims to modify the image faithfully according to the instruction while preserving irrelevant content unchanged, has made significant progress. However, there still lacks a comprehensive metric for assessing the editing quality. Existing metrics either require high human evaluation costs, which hinder large-scale evaluation, or are adapted from other tasks and lose task-specific concerns, failing to comprehensively evaluate both instruction-based modificati…