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Energy-Aware Path Following: Comparative Analysis of Reinforcement Learning and NMPC for Electric Vehicles

arXiv:2610.08112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Path-following control strategies typically follow the bi-objective optimization dilemma: minimizing deviations from a reference path while maintainin

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ESP: Energy-Score Policy for One-Step Multimodal Action Generation

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arXiv:2610.07696v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative action models based on diffusion and flow matching have been increasingly adopted in vision-language-action (VLA) policies for their ability

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Evaluation of Active Feature Acquisition Policies with Tabular Foundation Models

arXiv:2610.07406v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active feature acquisition learns policies that sequentially acquire features to maximize information about a target variable. We study how to learn and

Event-Driven ML Pipeline Orchestration for Manufacturing: An AWS Industry Experience

arXiv:2610.06890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present an industry experience report on three years of operating an event-driven cloud infrastructure for continuous machine learning training in au

Explainable Failure Prediction and Prevention in Maritime

arXiv:2610.08363v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Maritime systems operate in highly dynamic environments where unexpected equipment failures can compromise safety, reliability, and operational efficien

FC-SWE: Failure-Conditioned RL for Long-Horizon Software Engineering Agents

arXiv:2610.07898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Repository-level software engineering (SWE) is a challenging long-horizon setting: agents must reason over extended interactions, use tools, and adapt t

FedCoT: Communication-Efficient Federated Reasoning Enhancement for Large Language Models

arXiv:2508.10020v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Enhancing LLM reasoning in federated settings is nontrivial due to stringent computational, communication, and privacy constraints, especially

Feeling Through the Load: Compliant Quadruped Locomotion under Payload Interactions

arXiv:2610.08637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quadruped robots are increasingly expected to carry objects while moving through human environments. But what happens when a person interacts directly w

Fluorescence-enhanced Whisker Array with Vision-based Deformation Analysis for Underwater Source Localization

arXiv:2610.07275v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep-water biological observation is essential for understanding marine organisms and their interactions with the environment. However, conventional opt

FreDF: Learning to Forecast in the Frequency Domain

arXiv:2402.02399v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Time series modeling presents unique challenges due to autocorrelation in both historical data and future sequences. While current research pr

From Laboratory to Road: Evaluating Wearable Gaze Accuracy for Driving

arXiv:2610.07783v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bird's-eye-view (BEV) representations have become a widely used interface between perception and planning in autonomous driving, but they encode what is

From Legs to Wheels: Embodiment-Aware Human Motion Retargeting for Mobile-Base Humanoids

arXiv:2610.08381v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human video offers a scalable source of robot demonstrations, yet most human-to-humanoid retargeting methods assume a legged robot with human-like kinem

From Local Evidence to Safety Verdicts: Causal Tracing in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2610.07514v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A vision-language model may need to combine an image with a prompt to recognize a safety risk that neither reveals alone. Where does this joint safety j

Geometry-Constrained Bidirectional Point Cloud Registration for Thin, Sheet-Like Heritage Artifacts

arXiv:2610.07793v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-contact three-dimensional reconstruction of thin, sheet-like heritage artifacts poses significant geometric and registration challenges. Due to thei

Graph-Based Recognition of Simulated Train-Driver States From Facial and Upper-Body Keypoints

arXiv:2610.07083v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Driver fatigue poses a significant challenge to railway safety, with traditional systems like the dead-man switch offering limited and basic alertness

Grounding What Shapes the Plan: Rethinking Groundedness for Physical Intelligence in Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2610.07521v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Driving models increasingly ground reasoning in causal relations, spatial structure, perceptual evidence, and predicted futures. These advances make rea

Hearing Like Humans? Sound Symbolism and Perceptual Alignment in Speech Language Models

arXiv:2607.10162v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sound symbolism, the human tendency to map speech sounds to perceptual qualities such as roundness or sharpness, arises primarily from the aco

HexaGripper: A Single-Actuator, Winch-Deployed Gripper for Autonomous Aerial Parcel Collection

arXiv:2610.08259v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous aerial parcel collection remains constrained by package-transfer operations that require manual loading, landing, or dedicated ground infrast

Holdout Best-of-N: Unbiased Evaluation and Its Cost

arXiv:2610.08719v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reusing the scores that select a Best-of-N winner can overstate its expected reward. We study evaluation from a fixed matrix of K independent scores per

How Much Do LLM-as-a-Judge Design Choices Matter? A Systematic Comparison of Prompt Designs, Rating Scales, and Models

arXiv:2610.05094v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Researchers increasingly use Large Language Models as judges (LLM-as-a-judge) to evaluate model outputs. Yet there are no standards for how to design

Identifiable World Models from Pretrained Diffusion Representations

arXiv:2610.07028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion-based world models can generate and predict trajectories in high-dimensional dynamical systems, but predictive accuracy does not imply that th

iGPC: Generative Motion Priors for Object-Aware Humanoid Interaction

arXiv:2610.08120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots operating in unstructured environments must combine robust whole-body control with the ability to perceive and physically interact with

Interleaved Projected Gradient Descent for Safe Imitation Learning

arXiv:2610.07167v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose an imitation-learning design for neural-network control policies under state and input constraints. Training alternates a standard imitatio

Internalizing Agent Experience into Diffusion Model Weights via On-Policy Context Distillation

arXiv:2610.07250v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wrapping an image generation model in an agentic harness can effectively boost Text-to-Image task performance: the harness can leverage memory, skills,

Intersectional Fairness via Mixed-Integer Optimization

arXiv:2601.19595v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The deployment of Artificial Intelligence in high-risk domains, such as finance and healthcare, necessitates models that are both fair and tra

IronMan: Information-Constrained Video-Action Learning for Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2610.07961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video Action Models (VAMs) couple visual dynamics modeling with action generation for robot manipulation. However, video representations are not natural

Latent space bias directions in LLMs capture confidence, not fairness

arXiv:2610.08559v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Activation steering has gained popularity as a lightweight inference-time debiasing technique for large language models. However, prior work reports t

LBA-CBF: Rapidly Adaptive Safety Filters via Parallel Dynamics Inference

arXiv:2610.08765v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Control barrier functions (CBFs) certify commands through an assumed dynamics model, so an abrupt, unmeasured regime change can undermine the certificat

Learning Force-Regulated Robotic Manipulation with a Low-Cost Tactile-Force-Controlled Gripper

arXiv:2602.10013v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Successfully manipulating many everyday objects, such as potato chips, requires precise force regulation. Failure to modulate force can lead to task

Learning from Hindsight for VLA Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607.09042v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning is increasingly used to fine-tune vision-language-action (VLA) models, but robot interaction is expensive and learning become

Learning Grasp Targeting from Point Clouds for Log Pile Clearing on a Hydraulic Crane

arXiv:2610.07613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In mill yards, log loaders clear dense piles by a sequence of bundle grasps: hundreds of logs rest in contact, and each removal changes the pile avail

Learning in Dreams, Winning in Reality: A Continuous Dyna Loop for a Ten-Hero MOBA

arXiv:2610.08033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models are usually judged from the inside: by prediction loss, by the return a policy earns in imagination, or by how convincing their frames look

Learning Modular Policy for Multi-Floor Object Navigation:A Factorized Framework for Diagnostic Study

arXiv:2610.06958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Object-goal navigation (ObjectNav) in multi-floor scenarios presents a challenge due to sparse rewards caused by long-horizon decision-making. In this p

Learning to Curate What You Generate for Generalizable Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning

arXiv:2610.07008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to learn novel classes from limited annotations while preserving prior knowledge. Existing methods typi

Learning to Simulate Individuals from Macro Social Signals

arXiv:2610.07062v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used to simulate how individuals respond to new situations, yet the behavioral reasoning behind these responses

Learning What to Distill: Bilevel Top-K Token Selection for Self-Distillation in Large Language Models

arXiv:2610.07247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models have shown strong reasoning capabilities, but their high inference costs make knowledge distillation an important approach for tra

Lineage-Aware Memory Governance: A Derivation-Gated Framework for Privacy-Preserving Column-Level Access Control in Enterprise AI Agents

arXiv:2610.07258v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enterprise AI agents that share a memory store face two unaddressed risks: sensitive data can leak through legitimately computed results the requester

Linear Bandits under Exact Sliding-Window Constraints

arXiv:2610.08745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study linear bandits under exact sliding-window constraints, where every consecutive block of actions must belong to a prescribed feasible set. In th

Making COMET Comparable Across Scripts: Diagnosis and Correction of Tokeniser-Induced Script Bias in Indic MT Evaluation

arXiv:2610.08159v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: COMET reports translation quality as a single number, and that number is routinely compared across target languages written in different scripts. Such a

Micro Neural Policies for Safe Real-Time Robotic Control

arXiv:2610.08541v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the synthesis of Micro Neural Policies (MNP) to enable safe and robust real-time robotic control on computationally cons

Minimal Witness Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.07226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: ``What are the irreducible conditions that are sufficient to produce an outcome?'' is one of the most common questions that recur across computation a

Modeling Latent Disturbances for Robust Decision-Making in World Models

arXiv:2610.07599v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we study robust decision-making in the latent space of world models (WMs). Robust optimization is a mathematical framework where, given

MS-ECG-FM: Towards a More Universal Electrocardiogram Foundation Model for Health Monitoring using Multi-source Contrastive Learning

arXiv:2610.07662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electrocardiography (ECG) records the electrical activity of the heart, aiding diagnosis by detecting abnormalities in cardiac function. ECG foundation

Multi-Robot Multi-Goal Motion Planning with Stochastic Skills

arXiv:2610.07784v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As robots are increasingly deployed in groups and share workspaces to execute real-world tasks, planning their concurrent motions around complex manipul

Nash Social Welfare for Multi Armed Bandits: Trajectory-wise Expected and High Probability Regret

arXiv:2610.07737v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study fair multi-armed bandits under the Nash Social Welfare (NSW) objective, which measures performance via the geometric mean of accumulated rewa

Neural Algorithmic Reasoning for Graph Saddle Point Problems

arXiv:2610.07255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural algorithmic reasoning, or aligning a neural network with an algorithmic paradigm, has emerged as an approach to solving polynomial-time-solvable

Not What a Child Expressed: Auditing the Sign-to-Text Safety Interface in Child-Facing AI

arXiv:2610.07519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic sign language translation (SLT) has entered consumer products, turning American Sign Language into English text for dictation, messaging, and

On Color Alignment in VAE Latent Spaces and Its Applications

arXiv:2610.07072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are a key part of modern text-to-image models, which generate images within their latent space. VAEs are known to disent