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All-Quadrant Bounded Clipping GRPO: Closing the Unbounded Blind Spot for Stable and Generalizable Training

arXiv:2601.03895v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has emerged as a popular algorithm for reinforcement learning with large language models (LLMs). How

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Alternating Levenberg-Marquardt Training of Physics-Informed Neural Networks with Fourier-Enhanced Features

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arXiv:2608.05892v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) often fail to accurately resolve partial differential equations (PDEs) with high-frequency or multi-scale solut

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An Emerging Retail Portfolio Management Application: Personalized, Tax-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Natural Language Goals

arXiv:2608.05255v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retail investors lack access to the kind of personalized, tax-aware portfolio management that institutional clients take for granted -- existing robo-

AppDeltaWorld: Transition-Grounded Delta Code World Model for Mobile GUI Agents

arXiv:2608.05891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile GUI agents can operate apps through pixel perception and touch actions, making them a promising interface for collecting and improving long-horiz

ARGUS: Aligning Robot Scene Geometry Under Shifting Views with Large 3D Vision Models

arXiv:2608.05579v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale visuomotor policies have demonstrated impressive performance across a wide range of robot manipulation tasks. However, despite this success,

As You Wish: Mission Planning with Formal Verification using LLMs in Precision Agriculture

arXiv:2606.18519v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Though robotic systems are now being commercialized and deployed in various industries, many of these systems are highly specialized and often

ASAT: Adaptive Scoring and Thresholding with Human Feedback for Robust Out-of-Distribution Detection

arXiv:2505.02299v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine Learning (ML) models are trained on in-distribution (ID) data but often encounter out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs during deployment--

At Black Hat, OpenAI reconstructs the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident and examines its implications for AI security, cyber resilience, and alignment (Black Hat on YouTube)

Black Hat on YouTube: At Black Hat, OpenAI reconstructs the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident and examines its implications for AI security, cyber resilience, and alignment — The ‘Breaking’ News: The OpenA

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Autonomous Learning From Success and Failure: Goal-Conditioned Supervised Learning with Negative Feedback

arXiv:2509.03206v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning from reward functions and imitation learning of demonstrations are the two principal approaches for training autonomous systems that

Beyond Marginal Validity: Finite-Sample Guarantees for Localized Conformal Prediction

arXiv:2608.06206v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conformal prediction endows arbitrary black-box predictors with finite-sample, distribution-free marginal coverage, yet marginal validity can hide sev

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Beyond Sentiment: Comparing Traditional NLP and LLM-Based Multi-Dimensional Analysis for Political News Evaluation

arXiv:2608.05155v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional sentiment analysis (SA) models, while effective for polarity classification, provide limited insight into the rhetorical, ideological, and

Bias Analysis of L2 Speaking Assessment Systems Using Concept Activation Vectors

arXiv:2608.06300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic speaking assessment systems are increasingly deployed in high-stakes settings to mark second language (L2) learners' speaking tests, making it

Challenges in Evaluating Explanation Methods for Static and Evolving Data

arXiv:2608.06351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses the limitations of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) with respect to insufficient evaluation. They are illustrated through

CircuitSteer: Geometrically Aligned Multi-Layer Steering via Sparse Autoencoder Circuits

arXiv:2608.05732v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Controlling the behavior of large language models (LLMs) remains a critical challenge for AI alignment. Existing steering methods, such as Contrastive A

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Clinical Communication Processing with Models Trained on LLM-Generated Synthetic Data: A Structured Survey and Novel Application Case Studies

arXiv:2608.05993v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Much clinical value is conveyed not through structured records but through communication: exchanges in which patients describe symptoms, clinicians reas

Contextual Information Policy Optimization for Search Agents

arXiv:2608.06128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search agents extend large language models beyond static parametric memory by enabling them to acquire and use ex ternal evidence during multi-step reas

CoordRefer: Coordinate-Aware 3D Visual Grounding from Multiview Images

arXiv:2608.05569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multiview image-based 3D visual grounding predicts a coordinate frame to define a coordinate system and then regresses a 3D bounding box for localizatio

CourseGraph: Finding overlaps and differences in Computer Science courses across universities

arXiv:2608.05910v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Student mobility programs such as Erasmus+ enable students to take courses at other universities, broadening their academic and cultural horizons. Howev

DARAD: Dual Adapters and Ranking-Aware Distillation for Continual Remote Sensing Image-Text Retrieval

arXiv:2608.06059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid growth of Earth observation technologies, remote sensing archives are rapidly expanding, making remote sensing image-text retrieval (RS-I

Decolonizing Linguistic Policies in Automated Speech Recognition: A Framework for Cross-Culturally Competent Speech AI

arXiv:2608.06141v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper focuses on automatic speech recognition (ASR) and ASR-mediated voice interfaces that shape access to public services, healthcare, and educati

Deterministic World Models for Closed-loop Reachability Analysis of End-to-End Vision-based Control

arXiv:2512.08991v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: End-to-end image controllers that map raw camera frames directly to control actions are increasingly deployed in safety-critical systems. However, f

Different Perturbations, Different Mechanisms: Understanding Continued Pre-training for Zero-Shot Dialect Robustness

arXiv:2608.05510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dialectal variation remains a major challenge for multilingual language models. Perturbation-based continued pre-training (CPT) has emerged as a promisi

DistMedVL: Distributional Vision-Language Alignment for Uncertainty-Aware Medical Image Segmentation

arXiv:2608.05683v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-modal alignment of visual and textual representations is fundamental to multimodal medical image understanding, yet remains hindered by uncertai

Does Latent Context Help? A Controlled Evaluation of Inverse Reinforcement Learning in Arctic Shipping

arXiv:2608.06105v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted navigation can help Arctic shipping adapt to rapidly changing sea-ice conditions, but reliable deployment requir

DreamGuard: Efficient Runtime Guardrail for LLM Agents via Risk-Aware World Model

arXiv:2608.05695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language model (LLM) agents increasingly invoke external tools and interact with real-world systems, unsafe actions may cause irreversible cons

DyPES-VLA: Learning Shared Dynamics Priors and Embodiment-Specific Control for Cross-Embodiment Manipulation

arXiv:2608.06374v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become a powerful paradigm for robot manipulation, but training a single generalist policy for heterogeneous ro

EmoWorld: A Decoupled Affective Field for Controllable Emotional Video Generation

arXiv:2608.06231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emotion shapes how viewers interpret a scene, yet existing video generators entangle global atmosphere, affect-bearing semantic cues, and temporal progr

EnvACE: Internalizing Environment Dynamics via World Rehearsal for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.06197v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training large language model agents for long-horizon tool use typically relies on interactions with real or synthesized executable environments, whose

Epistemic Trustworthiness in Generative AI: A Normative Framework for Warranted Reliance in High-Stakes Workflows

arXiv:2608.05602v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative AI systems are increasingly deployed in high-stakes professional contexts, where their outputs shape what users believe, how they reason, and

Estimating time spent on work tasks

arXiv:2608.05172v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The task-based framework in economics models occupations as bundles of tasks. It is the standard lens for understanding how technology affects work: a

Evidence-Driven Dynamic Visual Selector for Efficient Long Video Understanding

arXiv:2608.05780v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements in MLLM-based long-form video understanding have mitigated inference-time computational cost and limited context lengths by selectin

EvoHarness-RL: Learning Self-Evolving Runtime Harness for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.05446v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon LLM agents increasingly rely on external execution support to maintain state, track progress, invoke tools, verify outcomes, and reuse ex

Explanations of Large Language Models Explain Language Representations in the Brain

arXiv:2502.14671v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) representations are known to align with brain activity during language processing, but it remains unclear what driv

Failing Gracefully: Mitigating Impact of Inevitable Robot Failures

arXiv:2608.05313v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Service robots operate in household environments shared with humans, pets, and everyday objects, where they are highly susceptible to failures such as

FashionPose: Unified Text-Driven Fashion Synthesis with Joint Geometric and Photometric Control

arXiv:2507.13311v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Realistic and controllable garment synthesis is essential for fashion e-commerce, yet it demands precise coordination between human pose geometry an

Faster and Better Alignment for Flow Matching Models via Step-aware Advantages

arXiv:2602.01591v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in flow matching models, particularly with reinforcement learning (RL), have significantly enhanced human preference alignment in fe

FI-TW: An Open Train-Weather Dataset for Railway Delay Analysis in Finland

arXiv:2601.16592v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Train delays result from complex interactions between operational, technical, and environmental factors. While weather impacts railway reliabi

From Economic Agents to Agentic Economies: A Systems Blueprint for Economic World Models

arXiv:2608.06020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Economic World Models (EWMs) are generative economic models that simulate how economies evolve from within by modeling heterogeneous agents, their belie

From Siloed Algorithms to Compliance-First Agentic Platforms: A Multi-Layered Architecture for Hospital AI Systems

arXiv:2608.06112v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hospitals are rapidly adopting artificial intelligence for triage, imaging, scheduling etc., yet most deployments remain isolated point solutions locked

GenGA: Editable and Data-Grounded Graphical Abstract Generation for Academic Papers

arXiv:2608.05478v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graphical Abstracts (GAs) visually summarize the key findings of academic papers, playing a crucial role in facilitating the understanding of research

GeniWorld: A Generalizable Interactive World Model for Robotic Manipulation via Visual Actions

arXiv:2608.06332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalist robot policies exhibit strong capabilities, but their robustness in complex and unseen environments remains limited. Scaling robot learning a

GSBF: Gaussian Splatting for Environment-Aware Beamforming

arXiv:2608.05896v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Beamforming plays a key role in multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems. However, conventional beamforming design normally requires

How Cohere Health digitizes clinical policies using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

In this post, you learn how Cohere Health built a multi-tenant agentic architecture on AgentCore using AgentCore Runtime’s secure MicroVM isolation, unified tool access through AgentCore Gateway, Agen

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Hypothesis Testing with Conditional Queries: Learnability and the Value of Interaction

arXiv:2608.06262v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model evaluations may fix all tests before observing any responses or select later tests using earlier responses. We study this choice in a conditional-

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Improving Interoperability among Defence and National Security Ontologies: Analysis and Evaluation Tasks

arXiv:2608.05867v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The use of ontologies and knowledge graphs is becoming increasingly widespread in the defence and national security domain. Numerous ontologies have bee

In-Context VLA: Endowing Vision-Language-Action Models with Language via In-Context Post-Training and Agentic Tool Use

arXiv:2608.05738v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become the dominant recipe for generalist manipulation, yet they are almost universally trained by behavior clo

Inspecting Training Dynamics of Similarity Development in Supervised Vision Networks

arXiv:2505.21338v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: For trustworthy and human-aware artificial intelligence, models should be evaluated beyond accuracy, among others through error predictability and s

JTA: Joint Testability Architecture for Scenario-Based Validation of Safety-Critical Software

arXiv:2608.05594v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Validation adequacy in safety-critical software depends on more than the system under test. Critical scenarios must be constructed under controlled co