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Training-free image inversion for one-step diffusion models

arXiv:2606.01380v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we introduce a novel training-free inversion (TFinv) framework for one-step diffusion models,addressing key challenges in real image inver

Training-Free Imitation Learning with Closed-Form Diffusion Policies

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arXiv:2606.01238v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While diffusion-based policies have impressive performance and expressivity, their long offline training slows down the data collection and policy dep

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Trajectory Data Suffices for Statistically Efficient Policy Evaluation in Fixed-Horizon Offline RL with Linear q^pi-Realizability and Concentrability

arXiv:2510.03494v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study finite-horizon offline reinforcement learning (RL) with function approximation for both policy evaluation and policy optimization. Prior wo

TriAlign: Towards Universal Truth Consistency in Personalized LLM Alignment

arXiv:2606.01755v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized large language models adapt responses to users' preferences and social attributes, but can introduce substantial universal truth inconsiste

TROPHIES: Temporal Reconstruction of Places, Humans, and Cameras from Multi-view Videos

arXiv:2606.02350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconstructing humans and their surrounding environments in a globally consistent 4D space is essential for comprehensive perception. However, prior wor

Trust Region On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2606.01249v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-Policy Distillation (OPD) is a fundamental technique for efficient post-training of large language models (LLMs), with broad applications in agent

Turing Patterns for Multimedia: Reaction-Diffusion Multi-Modal Fusion for Language-Guided Video Moment Retrieval

arXiv:2606.01615v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video-language models are pivotal for tasks such as moment retrieval and highlight detection, yet they often struggle to capture the dynamic, non-linear

UF-AMA: A unified framework for cross-domain emotion recognition via adaptive multimodal alignment

arXiv:2606.00170v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In recent years, emotion recognition based on physiological signals such as electroencephalogram (EEG) has gained considerable attention, as internal

Ultra Diffusion Poser: Diffusion-Based Human Motion Tracking From Sparse Inertial Sensors and Ranging-Based Between-Sensor Distances

arXiv:2606.02153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Methods using inertial measurement units (IMUs) provide a wearable alternative to camera-based motion capture. To mitigate drift from inertial signals,

Until today I never once in my life thought about what the plural of backlash was.

Gary Marcus observes the unusual linguistic phenomenon of rarely contemplating the plural form of the word 'backlash,' highlighting how certain words are infrequently used in plural despite being gram

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Update-Free On-Policy Steering via Verifiers

arXiv:2603.10282v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In recent years, Behavior Cloning (BC) has become one of the most prevalent methods for learning manipulation from human demonstrations. Despite the

Update Opacity: Epistemic Accessibility and Governance Under AI System Change

arXiv:2606.00037v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning models embedded in deployed AI systems are routinely updated to maintain correct functioning over time. Yet such updates can generate

V-LynX: Token Interface Alignment for Video+X LLMs

arXiv:2606.00508v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study introduces an intriguing phenomenon in Video LLMs: rather than merely translating frames into textual embeddings, Video LLMs establish a co

Value-Free Policy Optimization via Reward Partitioning

arXiv:2506.13702v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Single-trajectory preference optimization methods learn from datasets of ((prompt, response, reward)) tuples, offering a practical alternative

VERA: Variational Inference Framework for Jailbreaking Large Language Models

arXiv:2506.22666v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rise of API-only access to state-of-the-art LLMs highlights the need for effective black-box jailbreak methods to identify model vulnerabi

Visual Persuasion: What Influences Decisions of Vision-Language Models?

arXiv:2602.15278v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The web is littered with images, once created for human consumption and now increasingly interpreted by agents using vision-language models (V

Visualizing definitional divergence in high-dimensional data by manifold alignment: Application to 3D right ventricular strain computations

arXiv:2501.12178v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Medical imaging studies often rely on a single sample per subject, assuming it is representative of their physiological traits. However, variations

VLM4VLA: Revisiting Vision-Language-Models in Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2601.03309v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, which integrate pretrained large Vision-Language Models (VLM) into their policy backbone, are gaining sig

Wavelet-Fusion Diffusion Model for Multimodal Brain MRI Synthesis with Modality and Metadata Conditioning

arXiv:2606.00689v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal MRI provides complementary information for neuroimaging analysis, where different imaging modalities capture distinct anatomical, tissue, and

Weak Critics Make Strong Learners: On-Policy Critique Distillation for Scalable Oversight

arXiv:2606.00424v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models become stronger, weak supervisors may fail to provide reliable labels, preferences, or final judgments for complex outputs, lim

What to Test Next: Interpretable Coverage Gap Discovery in Driving VLMs

arXiv:2606.01624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Driving vision-language models (VLMs) must accurately understand scenes across diverse conditions defined by Operational Design Domains (ODDs), yet veri

When Does Predictive Inverse Dynamics Outperform Behavior Cloning?

arXiv:2601.21718v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Behavior cloning (BC) is a practical offline imitation learning method, but it often fails when expert demonstrations are limited. Recent work

When Meaning Travels: A Granular Lens on Hybrid-MoE's Role in Idiomatic Understanding for Language Models

arXiv:2606.01671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the contemporary epoch of multilingual education, learning idioms provides a fascinating gateway towards creativity, cultural values, historical cont

Who Evaluates AI's Social Impacts? Mapping Coverage and Gaps in First and Third Party Evaluations

arXiv:2511.05613v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Foundation models are increasingly central to high-stakes AI systems, and governance frameworks now depend on evaluations to assess their risk

Why things will eventually fall apart: 1. Everybody, even Google, seems to be treating AI as if it were some kind of winner take all competi…

Why things will eventually fall apart: 1. Everybody, even Google, seems to be treating AI as if it were some kind of winner take all competition like web search was, in which Google taking over 95% 2.

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World Models: A Comprehensive Survey of Architectures, Methodologies, Reasoning Paradigms, and Applications

arXiv:2606.00133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models, internal simulators that learn the structure and dynamics of an environment, have emerged as a central paradigm in the pursuit of artifici

World Models for Robotic Manipulation: A Survey

arXiv:2606.00113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic manipulation depends on the ability to anticipate how actions reshape objects, contacts, and scene geometry before execution. Learned world mode

World-Task Factorization for Robot Learning

arXiv:2606.02027v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot learning must produce policies that generalize to new combinations of constraints, teammates, and environments. To achieve this, we must structu

X-Foresight: A Joint Vision-Action Causal Forecasting Network via Predictive World Modeling

arXiv:2605.24892v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Physical world knowledge resides mainly in videos. Equipping Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models with such knowledge is fundamental for safe and gen

A hitchhiker's guide to Poisson gradient estimation

arXiv:2602.03896v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Poisson-distributed latent variable models are widely used in computational neuroscience, but differentiating through discrete stochastic samp

A Lecture Note on Offline RL and IRL, Part II: Foundations of Inverse Reinforcement Learning and Dynamic Discrete Choice Models

arXiv:2605.30843v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the forward reinforcement-learning problem, the reward is fixed and known; the learner is asked to find a good policy or value function. Here we turn

A Persona-Based Evaluation Framework for Pluralistic Alignment in Generative AI

arXiv:2605.31021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current alignment paradigms for generative artificial intelligence rely predominantly on monolithic benchmarking frameworks that reduce the plurality of

A study on a Real-Time VR-Based Teleoperation Framework for Manipulator in Dynamic Environment

arXiv:2605.30989v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot teleoperation enables safe, non-contact task execution in hazardous environments where direct human access is difficult, and its application has e

A Unified Framework for Gradient Aggregation in Multi-Objective Optimization

arXiv:2605.30452v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many machine learning problems involve multiple inherent trade-offs that are best addressed by gradient-based multi-objective optimization (MOO) algor

Active Timepoint Selection for Learning Measure-Valued Trajectories

arXiv:2605.30625v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inferring continuous probability paths from sparse snapshots is a fundamental challenge in domains like single-cell biology, where high-fidelity data

Adaptive Artificial Time-Delay Control with Barrier Lyapunov Constraints for Euler-Lagrange Robots

arXiv:2605.31405v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses the challenge of simultaneously compensating for state-dependent uncertainties and enforcing time-varying state constraints in Eule

AI Loss of Control Incident Management: Response & Resilience

arXiv:2605.30406v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent research demonstrating AI systems exhibiting deception and shutdown resistance suggests that AI loss of control (LOC) is an urgent policy conce

Annealed Softmax Greedy in Many-Armed Bayesian Bandits

arXiv:2605.31034v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) and group-based policy optimization methods such as GRPO update a stochastic policy by sampling

Annotations Are Not All You Need: A Cross-modal Knowledge Transfer Network for Unsupervised Temporal Sentence Grounding

arXiv:2605.30742v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses the task of temporal sentence grounding (TSG). Although many respectable works have made decent achievements in this important topi

Are Full Rollouts Necessary for On-Policy Distillation?

arXiv:2605.31490v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) provides dense teacher feedback along rollouts generated by the student and has emerged as a promising post-training paradi

Benchmarking Machine Learning Uncertainty Quantification Methodologies for Predicting Turbine Gas Temperature Degradation

arXiv:2605.30585v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Effective prognostics and health management of modern engines relies on accurate turbine gas temperature predictions and robust uncertainty quantifica

BIAS-ID: A Framework for Analyzing Transformation Biases in AI-Generated Image Detectors

arXiv:2605.31153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Given the surge of harmful AI-generated imagery online, reliably distinguishing authentic images from generated ones has become an urgent research topic

Biases in the Blind Spot: Detecting What LLMs Fail to Mention

arXiv:2602.10117v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) often provide chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning traces that appear plausible, but may hide internal biases. We cal

BiSegMamba: Efficient Bidirectional Tri-Oriented Mamba for 3D Medical Image Segmentation

arXiv:2605.30972v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate 3D medical image segmentation requires both long-range volumetric context and fine boundary preservation. CNN-based methods have limited global

Boundary-Guided Policy Optimization for Memory-efficient RL of Diffusion Large Language Models

arXiv:2510.11683v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A key challenge in applying reinforcement learning (RL) to diffusion large language models (dLLMs) is the intractability of their likelihood f

Breaking Information Cocoons: A Hyperbolic Framework for Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Recommender Systems

arXiv:2411.13865v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern recommender systems often create information cocoons, restricting users' exposure to diverse content. The central challenge is to balan

Building Generalization Into Behavior Generation Via Adaptive Compositions of Regularities

arXiv:2605.31110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalization in robotics requires prior knowledge about how the world is structured, yet this structure changes from one situation to the next. This p

Calibrated Uncertainty for Trustworthy Clinical Gait Analysis Using Probabilistic Multiview Markerless Motion Capture

arXiv:2601.22412v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Video-based human movement analysis holds potential for movement assessment in clinical practice and research. However, the clinical implementation