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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

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On Color Alignment in VAE Latent Spaces and Its Applications

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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

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On-Policy Distillation with Negative-Policy Rollouts

arXiv:2610.07874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) has been widely studied as a post-training method in which a student model obtains token-level supervision from a stronger

On the Computational Tractability of Robust Bandits

arXiv:2610.08740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning when the environment does not belong to the learner's hypothesis class is typically handled using agnostic learning guarantees. However, for an

Optimal Transportation and Alignment Between Gaussian Measures

arXiv:2512.03579v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Optimal transport (OT) and Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) alignment provide interpretable geometric frameworks for comparing, transforming, and aggregating

Optimization Encoders: Rethinking Second-Order Meta-Learning for Neural Fields

arXiv:2610.08075v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conditional neural fields represent signals continuously, but their effectiveness depends on how the conditional latent representations are inferred f

PACE: Stage-Consistent Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation via Progress-Aligned Context for Execution

arXiv:2610.07917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Demonstration-conditioned policies provide a natural interface for specifying robot behavior, yet long-horizon manipulation remains difficult when visua

PEARS: Physical-Prior-Guided Efficient Adaptation via Failure Reasoning and Diffusion Steering for Tactile Manipulation

arXiv:2610.08784v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained robotic policies can suffer substantial performance degradation under out-of-distribution (OOD) conditions encountered during deployment, mot

Performative Prediction with Selective Labels

arXiv:2610.08272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many social applications of machine learning exhibit performative effects: population behavior changes in response to deployed models. Performative pred

Physical Twins: Accelerating and Enabling Robot Learning with Phantom Platforms

arXiv:2610.06929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Improvements in human-robot physical interaction (pHRI) can have major implications for physical therapy, search and rescue, and telemedicine. However,

PhysTacGen: Physics-Aware Visual-Tactile Sensor Image Generation

arXiv:2610.08068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Realistic physical interaction is a cornerstone of embodied intelligence, yet collecting paired visual--tactile data remains costly. Visual-to-tactile s

POLAR: Ontology-Guided Risk Prevention for Tool-Calling LLM Agents

arXiv:2610.08082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM tool-use agents operate in dynamic environments where many actions carry operational risk. However, most safety mechanisms react only after errors m

Prediction-powered inference for time series across space

arXiv:2610.08715v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The following motif is common in spatiotemporal settings: we have a sequence of covariate and label pairs observed for a relatively short, recent time

Pronunciation Editing for Finnish Speech using Phonetic Posteriorgrams

arXiv:2507.02115v3 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Synthesizing second-language (L2) speech is potentially highly valued for L2 language learning experience and feedback. However, due to the lack of L2

Pseudowords as probes: Large Language Models show little of the sublexical sensitivity that governs human pseudoword processing

arXiv:2610.07936v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Systematicity, the probabilistic mapping of form to meaning, permeates language at all levels, and sublexical cues have been shown to govern human pseud

PsyCIDRA: A Dual-Agent Framework for Psychiatric Interviewing and Diagnostic Reasoning

arXiv:2610.07473v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models show promise in clinical reasoning, but psychiatric interviewing requires guiding an evolving conversation. Their ability to carry

QF3: Fast Flow RL with Filtered Q-Gradients

arXiv:2610.08789v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flow policies have become a standard policy class for learning robot behaviors from demonstrations, but reinforcement learning is still critical for i

RACER: Residual-Adaptive Closed-Loop Estimation for Sampling-Based Planning in Wheeled-Quadruped Racing

arXiv:2610.07409v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present RACER, a hierarchical control framework for wheel-based quadruped racing that combines an MPPI planner with a learned residual dynamics model

RADC: Risk-Aware Dual Caching for Vision-Language Test-Time Adaptation

arXiv:2610.06932v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cache-based test-time adaptation (TTA) for vision-language models is often hindered by background bias in global representations and unreliable entropy-

Random Feature Gaussian Process Attention: Linear-Time Probabilistic Attention with Calibrated Uncertainty

arXiv:2610.08578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformers provide a state-of-the-art modeling framework, yet poor calibration limits their reliability in safety-critical applications. A promising d

Rationale-Guided Policy Optimization: Learning to Reason with Adaptive Rationale Scaffolding

arXiv:2610.07342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy reinforcement learning has become a central paradigm for improving the reasoning abilities of large language models. However, its effectivenes

RBMatch: Dual-Level Class Rebalancing for Semi-Supervised Building Footprint Extraction

arXiv:2610.07698v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate building footprint extraction from high-resolution remote sensing imagery is essential for urban planning, disaster response, and environmental

Recursive Game Creator: An Agentic Product-Level Experience-Oriented Game Harness

arXiv:2610.08621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent game design agents have made substantial progress in generating playable games. However, program correctness does not ensure an enjoyable experie

ReDex: Repairing Sim-to-Real Dexterous Policies by Finger-Level Compliant Interaction

arXiv:2610.07525v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous manipulation policies trained in simulation often fail to transfer to the real world because of errors in contact timing and force regulation.

Reinforcement Learning for Hierarchical Reasoning Rewards: Minimax-Optimal Rates with Transformers

arXiv:2610.08561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a standard tool for post-training language models on reasoning tasks, where the policy is updated by reward feedb

REPA-G: Test-Time Conditioning with Representation-Aligned Visual Features

arXiv:2602.03753v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While representation alignment with self-supervised models has been shown to improve diffusion model training, its potential for enhancing inference

Representation Bias, Correction Transfer, and Resolution Sensitivity in Three-Dimensional Mitochondrial Morphometry

arXiv:2610.07582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantitative imaging pipelines can produce precise but systematically different measurements of the same object. We present an empirical reliability ass

Responsible Institutional Analytics: Interpreting Bias with AI Support

arXiv:2610.07205v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Institutional Analytics (IA) dashboards inform decision-making in higher education, yet data limitations, constraints in analytical techniques, and mi

Rethinking Cross-Tokenizer On-Policy Distillation: From Alignment Coverage to Supervision Reliability

arXiv:2610.08448v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-Policy Distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own generations using teacher feedback. With different tokenizers, comparing teacher and student

Retrieval Is Not Enough: Refreshing Memory for Frozen Time-Series Forecasters

arXiv:2610.07834v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented time-series forecasting uses the continuations of historical segments similar to the current context as references for a forecaster.

Revar3r: gauge-aware perturbation uncertainty for feed-forward 3d reconstruction

arXiv:2610.07883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A correctly reconstructed distant point appears uncertain even when a frozen 3D model processes equivalent inputs because its output frame rotates fract

Revisiting Numerical Forecasting Models for Language-Based Trajectory Prediction

arXiv:2610.07954v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language-based trajectory predictors represent coordinates as discrete tokens and learn auxiliary tasks such as destination and group reasoning. This fo

Revisiting Temporal Regularization for Smooth Control in Deep Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.07910v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep Reinforcement Learning policies can produce nonsmooth action oscillations that hinder deployment on physical robots. Existing architectural and pen

Risk-Sensitive Crowd Navigation with Adaptive Ellipsoidal Conformal Prediction

arXiv:2610.07474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe crowd navigation under distribution shift requires uncertainty representations that capture structured human-motion prediction errors and safety ob

Safeguarding LLMs via Model-Agnostic Latent Safety Signals from Dark Knowledge

arXiv:2610.07532v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs have advanced rapidly, raising growing concerns about their safety. Recent work has proposed approaches to detect and defend against attacks incl

SAFESHIELD: A Decision-Organization Framework for Deployment-Time Safety of Small Language Models

arXiv:2610.07276v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deployment-time safety of language models is commonly implemented through runtime guardrails such as input moderation, routing, retrieval verification

Sample-Optimal Estimation of the Frechet Inception Distance

arXiv:2610.07114v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Frechet Inception Distance (FID) is widely used to evaluate generative models, but its empirical plug-in estimator suffers from finite-sample bias

SanSi: A Looped Typed Decision Model for System 1.5 Thinking

arXiv:2610.07730v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Typed decision models answer a declared question without generating text: a decision head returns a probability for each of the declared options in a

SC3BF: Shifted Collision Cone Control Barrier Function for Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance

arXiv:2610.08332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The collision cone used by velocity-space control barrier functions is conservative: it rejects every relative velocity aimed into an obstacle, however

Secure Speculative Decoding for Large Language Models

arXiv:2610.08678v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates inference for a large language model (LLM), referred to as the target model, by first using a smaller model, referred

Seeing the Invisible: Physics-Guided Visual Prompting for Temperature- and Radiation-Aware VLA Navigation

arXiv:2610.07558v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become a major paradigm for Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN). However, in safety-critical facilities, inv

Self-Referenced Social Preferences: Cooperation without Observing Others Rewards

arXiv:2610.07881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social preferences can promote cooperation in multi-agent reinforcement learning, but existing approaches often require agents to observe the rewards of

Self-Retrospection Distillation: Turning Post-hoc Experiences into Prior Foresight

arXiv:2610.08077v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) turns agent experience into learning signals primarily through scalar outcome rewards after intera

Sensitivity Shaping for Latent Modeling

arXiv:2606.14585v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative dynamics models enable planning in challenging systems, but safe deployment requires detecting policy-induced out-of-distribution (

Sensor-Layout-Agnostic Navigation via Geometric Observation Canonicalization

arXiv:2610.08306v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing visual navigation policies are inherently bound to fixed camera configurations, creating a fundamental barrier to zero-shot deployment across h

SharedKV-BT: Node-Local Typed Decisions for Behavior-Tree Agents

arXiv:2610.07327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent tasks require sequences of interdependent decisions. Autoregressive models support more flexible decision interfaces than conventional classifie

SIGMA: Self-Improving Alignment Generalization from a Model Spec

arXiv:2610.07935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly capable of executing complex tasks and of recursively improving themselves on easy-to-verify objectives such as software eng

Silicon Language: A Robot-Native Knowledge Exchange Framework for Heterogeneous Robots

arXiv:2610.07650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reusing a capability across heterogeneous robots still requires substantial human adaptation and verification: transferring a skill often means re-engin