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Distillation of Foundation Models for Time-dependent PDEs

Aug 12, 2026

While large foundation models demonstrate strong performance in solving time-dependent partial differential equations, their high computational cost limits their practicality as replacements for efficient numerical solvers. This work proposes the Teacher Rollout Extension (TREX) framework, which leverages knowledge distillation to transfer capabilities from a pretrained teacher model to a lightweight student model. By using long-horizon synthetic trajectories generated by the teacher to augment limited downstream data, TREX enables sampling of rollout trajectories without requiring prior knowledge of the initial condition distribution. This exposes the student model to both long-term dynamics and local recovery behaviors, while allowing integration of task-specific inductive biases—such as equivariance. Combined with noise injection and an equivariant network architecture, the resulting student model achieves several orders of magnitude fewer parameters, over tenfold faster inference, and accuracy comparable to or exceeding that of the teacher.

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Foundation Models are Implicit Deepfake Detectors

Aug 10, 2026

This work investigates the intrinsic mechanisms by which foundation models detect deepfakes, addressing why pretrained representations effectively distinguish authentic from synthetic media. The study reveals that forged samples consistently elicit lower-magnitude feature responses across diverse foundation models and systematically demonstrates— for the first time—that this amplitude discrepancy serves as a key signal for authenticity verification, rooted in semantic shift. Building on this insight, the authors reformulate deepfake detection as an anomaly detection task, showing that simple statistics of feature magnitudes alone enable efficient zero-shot detection. The proposed approach achieves performance on par with complex specialized models across both image and video modalities, with detection capability scaling favorably with model size, thereby confirming that large-scale foundation models inherently possess strong zero-shot potential for forgery identification.

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TailLoR: Protecting Principal Components in Parameter-Efficient Continual Learning

Jun 04, 2026

This work addresses catastrophic forgetting in parameter-efficient continual learning by proposing TailLoR, a method that constructs a fixed reference frame based on the singular vectors of pre-trained weights and applies low-rank updates to the singular value matrix. TailLoR introduces a soft spectral penalty to steer adaptation away from dominant singular directions, thereby channeling parameter updates toward the long-tail spectral coordinates. This approach is the first to explicitly preserve principal components within a spectral decomposition framework while leveraging the long-tail spectrum for flexible adaptation, effectively balancing model stability and plasticity. Experimental results demonstrate that TailLoR substantially reduces interference across tasks, significantly improves continual learning performance, and achieves these gains with an extremely small number of trainable parameters.

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Distillation of Foundation Models for Time-dependent PDEs

Aug 12, 2026

While large foundation models demonstrate strong performance in solving time-dependent partial differential equations, their high computational cost limits their practicality as replacements for efficient numerical solvers. This work proposes the Teacher Rollout Extension (TREX) framework, which leverages knowledge distillation to transfer capabilities from a pretrained teacher model to a lightweight student model. By using long-horizon synthetic trajectories generated by the teacher to augment limited downstream data, TREX enables sampling of rollout trajectories without requiring prior knowledge of the initial condition distribution. This exposes the student model to both long-term dynamics and local recovery behaviors, while allowing integration of task-specific inductive biases—such as equivariance. Combined with noise injection and an equivariant network architecture, the resulting student model achieves several orders of magnitude fewer parameters, over tenfold faster inference, and accuracy comparable to or exceeding that of the teacher.

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Foundation Models are Implicit Deepfake Detectors

Aug 10, 2026

This work investigates the intrinsic mechanisms by which foundation models detect deepfakes, addressing why pretrained representations effectively distinguish authentic from synthetic media. The study reveals that forged samples consistently elicit lower-magnitude feature responses across diverse foundation models and systematically demonstrates— for the first time—that this amplitude discrepancy serves as a key signal for authenticity verification, rooted in semantic shift. Building on this insight, the authors reformulate deepfake detection as an anomaly detection task, showing that simple statistics of feature magnitudes alone enable efficient zero-shot detection. The proposed approach achieves performance on par with complex specialized models across both image and video modalities, with detection capability scaling favorably with model size, thereby confirming that large-scale foundation models inherently possess strong zero-shot potential for forgery identification.

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TailLoR: Protecting Principal Components in Parameter-Efficient Continual Learning

Jun 04, 2026

This work addresses catastrophic forgetting in parameter-efficient continual learning by proposing TailLoR, a method that constructs a fixed reference frame based on the singular vectors of pre-trained weights and applies low-rank updates to the singular value matrix. TailLoR introduces a soft spectral penalty to steer adaptation away from dominant singular directions, thereby channeling parameter updates toward the long-tail spectral coordinates. This approach is the first to explicitly preserve principal components within a spectral decomposition framework while leveraging the long-tail spectrum for flexible adaptation, effectively balancing model stability and plasticity. Experimental results demonstrate that TailLoR substantially reduces interference across tasks, significantly improves continual learning performance, and achieves these gains with an extremely small number of trainable parameters.

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