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Position: Anthropomorphic Misalignment Research Needs Stronger Evidence

arXiv:2606.07612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We argue that many Anthropomorphic Misalignment Research (AMR) studies need stronger evidence to ensure that they can provide a robust foundation for

PriFT: Prior-Support Guided Supervised Fine-Tuning

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arXiv:2606.09396v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is an efficient approach for downstream task adaptation and often serves as the initialization stage for reinforcement le

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Prisma-World: Camera-Controllable Multi-Agent Video World Model

arXiv:2606.09507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video world models have made rapid progress in generating controllable visual experiences, but most of them still simulate the world from a single obser

PROBE-Web: An Interactive System for Probing Evaluation Landscapes of Knowledge Graph Completion Models

arXiv:2606.08926v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge graph completion (KGC) models are commonly evaluated using rank-based metrics such as MRR and Hits@K, despite different users often requiring

Property-Informed Diffusion-Based Text-to-Microstructure Generation

arXiv:2606.08150v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Designing 3D metamaterial microstructures that meet the intended functions remains a major challenge, as it typically requires domain expertise, iterati

Proxy Reward Internalization and Mechanistic Exploitation: A Learned Precursor to Reward Hacking and Its Generalization

arXiv:2606.09711v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward hacking is usually studied after it becomes visible, once a model earns high proxy reward while failing the intended task. We instead study what

PRPO: Perception-Reinforced Policy Optimization via Token-Level Dynamic Advantage Reshaping

arXiv:2606.08708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become an effective paradigm for improving the reasoning capability of Large Vision-Language M

PTDL:Multi-Terrain Fall Recovery via Phase-Terrain Decoupled Learning

arXiv:2606.08922v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots can fall on slopes, gravel, and uneven ground in unstructured environments. We target integrated fall recovery and locomotion: rebuildin

Q-VGM: Q-Guided Value-Gradient Matching for Flow-Matching VLA Policies

arXiv:2606.08015v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose Q-Guided Value-Gradient Matching (Q-VGM), an off-policy reinforcement learning (RL) method that tackles a long-standing challenge in fine-tun

QDS-SNN: Energy-efficient Quantum Deeply-Supervised Spiking Neural Network Algorithm for Traffic Sign Recognition

arXiv:2606.07657v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traffic sign recognition is crucial for intelligent transportation and autonomous driving, as it can improve driving efficiency and ensure road safety

QnRL: Quantum-Native Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606.08276v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum reinforcement learning (QRL) is a promising approach to learn effective decision strategies across several applications with stochastic enviro

Quantifying Uncertainty in Space Debris Capture with Active Tether-Net Systems Caused by Noisy Observations

arXiv:2606.07580v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As Low Earth Orbit has grown more crowded with space debris, the need for reliable and efficient debris removal solutions becomes more urgent. An acti

Quantitative Promise Theory: Intentionality and Inference in Autonomous Agents

arXiv:2606.08552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: I discuss some quantitative representations of Promise Theory for processes involving autonomous agents. Agent models are common in software systems, ma

ReCoVLA: VLM-Guided Reward Compilation for Failure Recovery in Vision-Language-Action Policies

arXiv:2606.09630v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies provide strong priors for language-conditioned manipulation, but remain brittle in off-nominal states requiring

ReGIL: Retrieval-Guided Imitation Learning from a Single Demonstration

arXiv:2606.09381v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning robot manipulation policies with deep neural networks from a single demonstration remains highly challenging, as even small deviations from the

Region-Wise Correspondence Prediction between Manga Line Art Images

arXiv:2509.09501v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding region-wise correspondences between manga line art images is fundamental for high-level manga processing, supporting downstream tasks

Reinforcement Learning for Flow-Matching Policies with Density Transport

arXiv:2606.08602v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present an online reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm for fine-tuning flow-matching policies in continuous-control problems. Our key insight is t

Reinforcement learning in linear embedding space unlocks generalizable control across soft robot configurations

arXiv:2606.08104v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft-bodied organisms such as octopuses and elephant trunks exhibit remarkable morphological adaptability, dynamically reconfiguring body shape and stif

Reinforcing Temporal Answer Grounding in Instructional Video via Candidate-Aware Causal Reasoning

arXiv:2606.08436v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The task of temporal answer grounding in instructional video (TAGV), which aims to locate precise video segments that respond to natural language querie

Reliable to Expressive: A Curriculum for Rubric-Following Safety Judges

arXiv:2606.09165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety judges are increasingly deployed to evaluate model outputs against evolving criteria, yet recent meta-evaluation work shows they remain brittle u

Repair Before Veto, When Repair Is Hidden: Quantum-Accessible Features for Repair-Augmented Constraint Learning

arXiv:2606.08020v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hard-constraint decision systems usually veto infeasible candidates. This is too rigid when the system can act: if a known affordable repair would mak

Rethinking the Divergence Regularization in LLM RL

arXiv:2606.09821v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a key component of post-training large language models (LLMs). In practice, LLM RL is often off-policy because of

Revisiting Articulated Parts Perception in Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2606.08103v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We are surrounded by various objects with movable, articulated parts, e.g., box, handle, door. An accurate and generalizable perception of articulated

Revisiting the shutdown problem

arXiv:2606.08296v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A key premise in leading arguments for existential risk from artificial intelligence is that malfunctioning artificial agents could not be easily shut d

Reward Shaping for (Inference-Time) Alignment: A Stackelberg Game Perspective

arXiv:2602.02572v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing alignment methods directly use the reward model learned from user preference data to optimize an LLM policy, subject to KL regulariza

ridiculous oversimplification, from a prominent OpenAI employee no less. does this capture your impression of how the two companies have beh…

ridiculous oversimplification, from a prominent OpenAI employee no less. does this capture your impression of how the two companies have behaved? The OAI / Anthropic values difference is deeply misund

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RLVE: Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Language Models with Adaptive Verifiable Environments

arXiv:2511.07317v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce Reinforcement Learning (RL) with Adaptive Verifiable Environments (RLVE), an approach using verifiable environments that procedur

Robot-DIFT: Correspondence-Sensitive Diffusion Features for Contact-Rich Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2602.11934v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robot manipulation often fails in the final millimeters: a policy may recognize the right object yet miss the pose offsets, boundaries, or pre-conta

RPO-PDT: Demonstrating Role-Play-Based Knowledge Adaptation for Student Support Dialogue (Demonstration System)

arXiv:2606.09255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present RPO-PDT: a retrieval-grounded, role-play-based dialogue system for adaptive student support in higher education. RPO-PDT is: (1) able to prov

SAD-Flower: Flow Matching for Safe, Admissible, and Dynamically Consistent Planning

arXiv:2511.05355v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Flow matching (FM) has shown promising results in data-driven planning. However, it inherently lacks formal guarantees for ensuring state and action

Safe, Fluent and Acceptable Motion Generation and Execution for Human--Robot Interaction in Manufacturing Environments

arXiv:2606.08741v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots operating in human environments must not only ensure physical safety but also exhibit behaviors that are understandable, fluent, and acceptable t

Safety is Contextual, LLM-Judges Are Not: Navigating the Rigid Priors of Evaluators

arXiv:2606.07874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs-as-judges are the only way to evaluate safety at scale. Despite their importance, LLM-judges themselves are rarely evaluated beyond human agreement

Sample-Efficient Post-Training for LEGO Spatial-Physics Reasoning

arXiv:2606.07602v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based LEGO assembly generation requires both semantic grounding and physical feasibility. We identify a data-induced failure mode, PhysHack, in wh

SAW: Stage-Aware Dynamic Weighting for Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning in Large Language Models

arXiv:2606.07705v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) is central to aligning large language models with complex human preferences, the prevailing pra

Scaling Neural Network Verification with Tensor Parallelism and Fully Sharded Data Parallelism

arXiv:2606.09377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Formal neural network verification -- proving that a network satisfies safety properties for all inputs in a specified domain -- is bounded in practic

SciTrace: Trajectory-Aware Safety Reasoning for Scientific Discovery Agents

arXiv:2606.08234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based scientific agents have shown strong capacity for autonomous research, yet their safety layers remain structurally divorced from core reasoning

SecureClaw: Clawing Back Control of LLM Agents

arXiv:2606.09549v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-using large language model (LLM) agents face two distinct security failures: unauthorized external actions and exposure of sensitive plaintext in

See More, Match Better: Multi-Source Feature Fusion for Two-View Correspondence Learning

arXiv:2606.09262v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Two-view correspondence learning aims to distinguish true correspondences (inliers) from false ones (outliers) in image pairs by leveraging their underl

SEF-CLGC at SemEval-2026 Task 11: Logical Notation Impact on Language Model Performance

arXiv:2606.09157v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper revisits our pipeline called Syllogistic Evaluation Framework-Common Logic Grammar Construction (SEF-CLGC). We combine formal logical notat

Self-Evolving Scientific Agent Discovers Generalizable Physically-Reasoned Fluid Control

arXiv:2606.08405v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While data-intensive deep reinforcement learning can optimize complex control policies, scientific discovery in physical systems fundamentally requires

Self-Supervised Learning with a Multi-Task Latent Space Objective

arXiv:2602.05845v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose a multi-task formulation of self-predictive Siamese SSL in which each spatial transformation defines a distinct latent-space alignment ta

Semantic Quorum Assurance: Collective Certification for Non-Deterministic AI Infrastructure

arXiv:2606.08021v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language model (LLM) agents are integrated into autonomous cloud operations, distributed systems face a semantic reliability problem: propose

SemDINO: A DINOv3-Driven Network for Cross-Temporal Semantic Alignment in Change Detection

arXiv:2606.09772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semantic change detection (SCD) aims to simultaneously locate land-cover changes and identify semantic categories before and after transition. However,

Sequential statistical inference for Large Language Models: Representation, validity, and monitoring

arXiv:2606.07624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This discussion argues that sequential statistical inference can naturally contribute to LLM trustworthiness. In deployment, LLM systems are queried rep

SG-OPD: Sign-Gated On-Policy Distillation via Sign-Consistency Gating and Phased Teacher Sampling

arXiv:2606.09304v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own trajectories with dense per-token supervision from a stronger teacher, and often outperforms

sGPO: Trading Inference FLOPs for Training Efficiency in RLVR

arXiv:2606.08854v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) training allocates a fixed rollout budget to every query, without regard for what each

SMI: Efficient Self-Supervised Learning via Mutual-Information-Inspired Dependency Optimization

arXiv:2606.08332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved remarkable representation learning performance, but many existing methods rely on large batch sizes, memory

'So There's a Catch-22 Here': How Early Adopters Who Build Multi-Agent LLM Systems Conceptualize Transparency

arXiv:2606.08323v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent large language model (LLM) systems are rapidly emerging, yet transparency, a cornerstone of responsible AI, remains under-defined in these