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HERO: Learning Humanoid End-Effector Control for Visual Whole-Body Open-Vocabulary Object Grasping

arXiv:2602.16705v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual loco-manipulation of arbitrary in-the-wild objects requires accurate end-effector (EE) control and a generalizable understanding of the

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Human Adults and LLMs as Scientists: Who Benefits from Active Exploration?

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arXiv:2606.06464v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A long-standing finding in the causal learning literature is that adults struggle to identify conjunctive causal rules, where an effect requires the sim

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IDEAL: Leveraging Infinite and Dynamic Characterizations of Large Language Models for Query-focused Summarization

arXiv:2407.10486v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Query-focused summarization (QFS) aims to produce summaries that answer particular questions of interest, enabling greater user control and pe

Inverse Design of Realizable Metasurface based Absorbers using Improved Conditioning and Diversity Enhanced Progressively Growing GANs

arXiv:2606.05849v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Metasurfaces enable precise manipulation of electromagnetic waves for applications such as beam steering, sensing, and stealth technology. However, in

Inverse Manipulation through Symbolic Planning and Residual Operator Learning

arXiv:2606.05248v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inverting a robotic task requires more than reversing symbolic state transitions or rewinding motor trajectories. In robot manipulation tasks, symbolic

Is Diversity All You Need for Scalable Robotic Manipulation?

arXiv:2507.06219v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Data scaling has driven remarkable success in foundation models for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV), yet the principles o

It was a pleasure to discuss all of these topics on @NxThompson's podcast, The Most Interesting Thing in AI. Thanks for having me on! https:…

Yoshua Bengio appeared as a guest on 'The Most Interesting Thing in AI' podcast hosted by N.X. Thompson, where he discussed various topics related to artificial intelligence. The appearance was shared

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⚠️ Keep your eye on the ball, and don’t panic over Anthropic’s new blog. Here’s why: Anthropic is trying to strike terror into everyone’s he…

⚠️ Keep your eye on the ball, and don’t panic over Anthropic’s new blog. Here’s why: Anthropic is trying to strike terror into everyone’s hearts – “full recursive self-improvement also might increase

L-SDPPO: Policy Optimization of Spiking Diffusion Policy for Intra-vehicular Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2606.06049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intra-vehicular robots in spacecraft help reduce astronaut workload and improve mission efficiency. Recent research focuses on using deep learning metho

LadderMan: Learning Humanoid Perceptive Ladder Climbing

arXiv:2606.05873v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humanoid robots hold great promise for operating in human-centered environments, yet ladder climbing remains one of the most challenging tasks due to

Large Language Models are Perplexed by some Political Parties

arXiv:2606.05937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used, including in political applications, but their political fairness has been little studied. We assess

Latent Reasoning with Normalizing Flows

arXiv:2606.06447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models often improve reasoning by generating explicit chain-of-thought (CoT), demonstrating the importance of intermediate computation. H

Learning of Robot Safety Policies via Adversarial Synthetic Scenarios

arXiv:2606.05952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we propose an agentic gamification framework for hazard-informed learning of robot safety policies through synthetic scenarios. We model s

Learning Visual Spatial Planning from Symbolic State via Modality-Gap-Aware Self-Distillation

arXiv:2606.06076v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While vision-language models excel at general multimodal understanding, they still struggle with visual spatial planning. We attribute this to a perce

Let It Be Simple: One-Step Action Generation for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2606.05737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion-based vision-language-action (VLA) models often inherit the image-generation view: actions are generated by iterative denoising. We argue that

Literally the only reason to bailout OpenAI.

Gary Marcus argues for a specific rationale supporting a potential OpenAI bailout, though the exact reasoning is not detailed in the available information. Given Marcus's background as an AI researche

Membrane: A Self-Evolving Contrastive Safety Memory for LLM Agent Defense

arXiv:2606.05743v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite advances in safety alignment, large language models remain vulnerable to continuously evolving jailbreaks. Existing fine-tuned safety classifi

MoDex: A Diffusion Policy for Sequential Multi-Object Dexterous Grasping

arXiv:2606.05407v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work addresses sequentially grasping multiple objects with a single dexterous hand without releasing those already held. Most dexterous grasping me

Multi-Resolution Tactile Imitation Learning for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2606.06281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Touch sensing is beneficial for solving a wide variety of manipulation tasks. While there exists a wide range of tactile sensors with different properti

Not just foreseeable, but foreseen and called out. We ran a campaign to get them out of the first ever AI Safety Summit. We won that one. Ye…

Not just foreseeable, but foreseen and called out. We ran a campaign to get them out of the first ever AI Safety Summit. We won that one. Yet most of the field kept licking the boot of the companies a

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not scientific, but doesn’t bode well for OpenAI. if the IPO goes badly, their luck may run out.

Gary Marcus expresses concerns that OpenAI's potential IPO performance could signal broader challenges for the company, suggesting their recent success may not be sustainable if market conditions turn

On Advantage Estimates for Max@K Policy Gradients

arXiv:2606.06080v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards is widely used for post-training reasoning models, but sparse outcome rewards make exploration difficul

OrderGrad: Optimizing Beyond the Mean with Order-Statistic Policy Gradient Estimation

arXiv:2606.06096v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Policy-gradient methods usually optimize expected return, but many real world applications care about distributional properties of returns: tail risk,

Ousiometrics: The essence of meaning aligns with a power-danger-structure framework instead of valence-arousal-dominance

arXiv:2110.06847v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: From work emerging through the middle of the 20th century, the essence of meaning has become widely accepted as being described by the three orthogo

PC-Talk: Precise Facial Animation Control for Audio-Driven Talking Face Generation

arXiv:2503.14295v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advancements in audio-driven talking face generation have made great progress in lip synchronization. However, current methods often lack suf

PiL-World: A Chunk-Wise World Model for VLA Policy-in-the-Loop Evaluation

arXiv:2606.05773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies operate in a closed loop in real-world robot tasks: a robot observes the scene, executes an action chunk, and cond

Pitfalls of Evaluating Language Models with Open Benchmarks

arXiv:2507.00460v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Open Large Language Model (LLM) benchmarks, such as HELM and BIG-Bench, provide standardized and transparent evaluation protocols that support compa

Political appointees vetting science funding? Trump is doing to science what the Right accused previous administrations of doing. But in pre…

Political appointees vetting science funding? Trump is doing to science what the Right accused previous administrations of doing. But in previous administrations, there was no political control of res

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QueryAgent-R1: Bridging Query Generation and Product Retrieval for E-Commerce Query Recommendation

arXiv:2606.05671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Query recommendation in e-commerce search aims to proactively suggest queries that match users' potential interests. However, existing methods mainly op

Real-Time Threat Detection from Surveillance Cameras using Machine Learning

arXiv:2606.05708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ensuring public safety in densely populated urban environments remains a critical challenge, necessitating the deployment of intelligent and automated v

ReCache: Learning Budget-Aware Caching Schedules for Diffusion Models via REINFORCE

arXiv:2606.06060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern diffusion models generate high-quality images and videos, but their iterative denoising process makes inference expensive. Feature caching accele

Recovering Physically Plausible Human-Object Interactions from Monocular Videos

arXiv:2606.05359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we propose RePHO, a method to reconstruct physically plausible human-object interactions (HOI) from monocular videos. While existing kine

ReSAGE-PAR: Representational Similarity Assessment for Generative Expansion in Pedestrian Attribute Recognition

arXiv:2606.06020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To address the limited diversity and data scarcity in Pedestrian Attribute Recognition (PAR), we explore image synthesis using diffusion models guided b

Revisiting Lexicon Evaluation in Unsupervised Word Discovery

arXiv:2606.06183v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Building a lexicon from discovered word-like units is a central goal in zero-resource speech processing. But do our evaluations provide a trustworthy

RiskFlow: Fast and Faithful Safety-Critical Traffic Scenario Generation

arXiv:2606.06423v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety-critical traffic scenario generation is essential for evaluating autonomous driving systems under rare but high-risk interactions. Existing diffu

Robust Scene Transfer for PointGoal Navigation via Privileged Sensor Guided Contrastive Learning

arXiv:2606.05506v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a sensor-guided adaptive contrastive learning framework for visual representation learning in PointGoal navigation. During training, privileg

Safety officials finally have a good idea of what a big rocket explosion can do

Safety officials gained detailed data on the impact of large rocket explosions when Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket experienced an anomaly during a hot-fire test at Cape Canaveral on May 28, causing a

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Seeking Counsel: Ongoing Targeted Campaign Against US Law Firms

Written by: Chad Reams, Tufail Ahmed, Keith Knapp, Ashley Frazer, Tyler McLellan Introduction From January through May 2026, Mandiant identified a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign e

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sorry @geoffreyhinton and @RichardDawkins

sorry @geoffreyhinton and @RichardDawkins Ted Chiang is right: claiming that LLMs are conscious is just ridiculous. One simple example. If you ask GPT to imitate a conversation between Julius Caesar a

Sources and docs detail defense tech startup Shield AI's struggles to overcome years of technical hitches and safety concerns with its V-BAT autonomous drone (David Jeans/Reuters)

David Jeans / Reuters: Sources and docs detail defense tech startup Shield AI's struggles to overcome years of technical hitches and safety concerns with its V-BAT autonomous drone — A year ago, Ryan

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Symb-xMIL: Symbolic Explanations for Multiple Instance Learning in Digital Pathology

arXiv:2606.06224v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Explanations of multiple instance learning (MIL) models are widely used for validation and discovery in digital histopathology. Existing methods primari

TAM: Torque Adaptation Module for Robust Motion Transfer in Manipulation

arXiv:2606.06218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A policy tuned for one robot often behaves differently on another, whether due to the sim-to-real gap, unknown payloads, or the differing dynamics of tw

Tech stocks are sliding. Maybe S&P’s decision to make mega IPOs stand on their two feet is giving speculators pause? 🤔

S&P's decision to require mega IPOs to meet higher independence standards may be contributing to recent tech stock declines, as it could reduce speculative buying pressure on newly public companies. G

TempoVLA: Learning Speed-Controllable Vision-Language-Action Policies

arXiv:2606.06491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulation alternates between low-risk transit phases that call for fast execution and high-risk contact stages that demand slow, precise motion

Texture-preserving implicit neural representation for Cone beam CT truncated reconstruction

arXiv:2606.06039v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) frequently suffers from data truncation, which introduces severe artifacts and limits the effective field of view (

Thanks, this was great!!!! @GaryMarcus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFYF_e1GSGI

Gary Marcus shared positive feedback about a YouTube video, likely featuring discussion or content related to his work in cognitive science, AI, or related technical topics. The enthusiastic tone sugg

⚠️ The American public may be about to be fleeced. ⚠️ OpenAI, a deeply unethical company that was built on a series of lies, does not have a…

⚠️ The American public may be about to be fleeced. ⚠️ OpenAI, a deeply unethical company that was built on a series of lies, does not have a realistic road to profitability. And they reportedly want t

The creator of Linux just publicly called out the AI hype. Word for word. Linus Torvalds took the stage at Open Source Summit 2026 and said …

The creator of Linux just publicly called out the AI hype. Word for word. Linus Torvalds took the stage at Open Source Summit 2026 and said this: 'When I see people saying 99% of our code is written b