arXiv:2610.23033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study distinguishability and recovery of a sparse rank-one signal in a spiked Wigner model with independently sparse noise through a variety of algorithms and parameter regimes. The signal and noise have separate sparsity parameters, while the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) remains of constant order as the matrix size grows. For sub-Gaussian noise and spikes whose nonzero coordinates are bounded away from zero, a leave-one-out quadratic thresholding procedure (a generalization of Ding et al., 2024) identifies the support. Sign synchronization yields exact recovery for a Rademacher spike, and spectral refinement yields strong recovery. The quadratic thresholding search parameter gives an explicit tradeoff between signal sparsity, noise sparsity, and computational cost. We also study extensions to sub-Gaussian spike priors through diagonal and quadratic thresholding. For Rademacher spikes with continuous nonzero noise, we develop an identical search algorithm that exploits unblurred signal entries, the existence of which permits distinguishability; connectivity of the graph they reveal provides a sufficient condition for exact recovery. These guarantees do not require moment assumptions on the continuous noise distribution. Together with our previous PCA results (Dumitriu et al., 2026), our analysis covers almost the entire space of parameters and regimes for distinguishing and recovering in our doubly sparse spiked Wigner model.
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arXiv:2610.22511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating language models and agents requires combining benchmark accuracy, judge-based assessment, runtime performance, tool-use behavior, and retrieval quality. Differences in interfaces, metric semantics, and trace formats complicate these comparisons and can hide failures in agentic workflows. We present AuditKIT, a source-available evaluation library that records these measurements in one result representation, with direction-aware metric contracts, configuration fingerprints, and extensible metrics and backends. For agents, it provides turn-aware tool-call matching, separates parallel from sequential execution, and distinguishes verified task outcomes from trajectory-level diagnostics. Missing or unobservable evidence is marked unscored rather than counted as failure. For retrieval-augmented generation, it combines ranked retrieval metrics, judged grounding, and deterministic evidence checks. Seven case studies spanning model comparison, serving runtimes, retrieval, tool calling, and interoperability show how answer extraction, runtime behavior, and metric selection change evaluation outcomes.
arXiv:2610.22444v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (STVG) aims to jointly localize a target in space and time given a natural-language query. Despite continued advances, existing STVG benchmarks remain largely centered on localizing targets through instance-specific descriptions, leaving them largely decoupled from long-form reasoning increasingly emphasized in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). In this paper, we introduce Event-STVG, a task that shifts STVG from locating what is described toward event-level reasoning by unifying long-form context, repeated-event reasoning, event localization, role inference, and multi-target grounding. To facilitate research on Event-STVG, we construct a large-scale benchmark comprising 4,016 annotated event occurrences across soccer and seven additional domains. Experiments with state-of-the-art MLLMs reveal substantial difficulty, with the strongest model achieving only 5.4% m-vIoU at the 10-minute horizon. Across domains, we consistently observe confusion among repeated same-type events, spatial grounding bottlenecks, and rare success in jointly grounding all required roles. Event-STVG establishes a new challenge for visual understanding in MLLMs, calling for future models that can jointly reason about complex events across space and time. Code and annotations are available at https://github.com/THU-KEG/EventSTVG
arXiv:2610.22428v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In a small language model the vocabulary is the single largest part. In Gemma 3 270M the embedding table holds 168M of 268M parameters, and because quantisation methods leave the embedding in 16-bit, it is also most of the file once the rest of the model is compressed. We ask what that table actually buys. We replace it with one frozen table of 512-bit codes, 16 MB, with no trainable parameters, derived once from a pretrained embedding by principal-component projection and sign binarisation, and we train the same Gemma-shaped body from scratch on the same 2.05B tokens with and without it. The learned table buys 0.20 nats of validation loss for 2.6 times the trainable parameters, but on LAMBADA, HellaSwag and PIQA the frozen-table model is better or tied; only ARC-Easy favours the learned table. With a ternary BitNet b1.58 body the whole model is a 46 MB file, still ties the float model on LAMBADA and PIQA, and on a laptop CPU generates 615 to 740 tokens per second in 62 MB of memory, five to six times the speed of the float model's 8-bit GGUF in llama.cpp at a seventh of the memory. The frozen table wins by 1.7 to 2.3 nats on rare words, accepts 10,000 new words after training with a 3% cost where the learned table collapses by 43%, and all of it is released with the weights, the data and every evaluation answer.
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