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Scaling Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Models via Velocity Matching

arXiv:2608.23664v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward fine-tuning is becoming an important tool for adapting diffusion models to human preferences and task-specific objectives, but existing methods l

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Single-Subject Multi-View MRI Super-Resolution via Implicit Neural Representations

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arXiv:2603.22627v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Clinical MRI frequently acquires anisotropic volumes with high in-plane resolution and low through-plane resolution to reduce acquisition time

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SPO++: Stream-Aligned Policy Optimization for Asynchronous Agentic RL

arXiv:2608.24870v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group-relative reinforcement learning waits for sibling rollouts of the same prompt, which is costly for long and variable tool-use trajectories. Single

Stabilizing Temporal Difference Learning via Implicit Stochastic Recursion

arXiv:2505.01361v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Temporal difference (TD) learning is a foundational algorithm in reinforcement learning (RL). For nearly forty years, TD learning has served as a wo

The Blending Ratio Is Not Where the Performance Is: Diagnosing Prototype Blending for Few-Shot Adaptation of Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608.23634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many few-shot adaptation methods for vision-language models classify with a convex combination of the zero-shot text prototype and the mean of the K lab

The Invisible Editorial Layer: Formalizing Undisclosed Inference-Time Steering, Probability Placement, and the Attribution Problem in Deployed Language Models

arXiv:2608.24662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are commonly evaluated under the assumption that their observable behavior is primarily determined by model weights, traini

The Limits of Automatic Evaluation of Creativity in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.23705v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly capable of generating text that challenges human performance in domains requiring creativity, yet evalua

The RAT: A Unified Bayesian Model for RAG Evaluation

arXiv:2608.24753v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems requires assessing not only end-to-end correctness but also how individual components interact

The Shadow Price of Intelligence: Quality Degradation in LLM Inference as a Supply Chain Problem

arXiv:2608.23986v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model providers are compute constrained, and their universal response to congestion is to degrade service: route queries to smaller mod

Too much of a good thing -- when knowledge distillation promotes overfitting, and how to avoid it

arXiv:2608.23752v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing size of Convolutional Neural Networks has led to increasingly large and costly models. Knowledge Distillation (KD) addresses this by trans

Topology-Guided Modular Actor-Critic Learning for Continuous Systems under Temporal Objectives

arXiv:2304.10041v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This work investigates formal policy synthesis for continuous-state stochastic dynamic systems subject to high-level specifications expressed in lin

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trust us? LMAO. TIME’s new cover: In 2026, OpenAI has seen key departures, rogue AI agents, major lawsuits, and has seen increased competition in the AI race. “We clearly had some missteps as a compan

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VGGT-DP: Generalizable Robot Control via Vision Foundation Models

arXiv:2509.18778v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual imitation learning frameworks allow robots to learn manipulation skills from expert demonstrations. While existing approaches mainly fo

Voronoi-Assisted Optimization for Diffusing Unsigned Distance Fields from Unoriented Points

arXiv:2510.12524v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) provide a flexible representation for 3D shapes with arbitrary topology, including open and closed surfaces, orienta

WebMCP-Phalanx: Enforcing and Characterizing Trust Boundaries for Browser-Integrated LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.24017v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The emerging W3C WebMCP proposal enables LLM agents to invoke tools exposed by web pages. In multi-party web environments, however, integrating agent

What Reaches Expert Review? Representation, Structural Screening, and Candidate-Form Dependence in AI-Assisted Item Development

arXiv:2608.23766v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Between AI-assisted item generation and expert review sits a computational evaluator whose decisions are usually treated as technical preliminaries. Y

When May an Agent Stop? Evidence-Carrying Termination for Tool-Using LLMs

arXiv:2608.23623v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-using agents must decide when to stop. Existing systems already gate terminal success, certify execution traces, or enforce runtime polici es, bu

When 'Must' Becomes 'Maybe': Constraint Weakening in LLM Agent Workflows

arXiv:2608.24569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents coordinate complex tasks through multi-role and multi-stage workflows. Upstream state is repeatedly transformed into i

Where Entropy Is Measured Matters: Policy Geometry in Bounded Continuous-Control PPO

arXiv:2608.24488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many continuous-control policies are optimized as unbounded Gaussians and then mapped into bounded actions. We show that where entropy is measured chang

X-MULTI: VLM-based Imaging Factor Disentanglement for Factor-Aware Image Synthesis

arXiv:2608.24563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imaging factor disentanglement in text-to-image generation aims to independently control image acquisition properties such as types of camera lenses, se

A Commutator Framework for Selective Spectral Alignment in Deep Neural Networks

arXiv:2608.22910v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We develop a finite-width geometric framework describing how learned feature geometries are organized, transported, and selectively aligned in deep ne

A Cross-Architecture Audit of Direction-Based Inference-Time Defences in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2607.27910v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Inference time defences against vision language model jailbreaks often subtract a calibrated direction from the residual stream at a chosen decoder

A Latency-Aware Framework for Visuomotor Policy Learning on Industrial Robots

arXiv:2602.14255v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Industrial robots are increasingly deployed in construction and manufacturing tasks, where the deployment of end-to-end visuomotor policies is chall

A Physics-informed Neural Network Approach for Robust Buckling Load Prediction and Reliability-Based Design of Thin Truncated Conical Shells

arXiv:2608.21818v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Thin-walled truncated conical shells are widely used in aerospace, marine, offshore, and lightweight infrastructure systems due to their high strength-t

A Survey on Human-AI Collaboration with Large Foundation Models

arXiv:2403.04931v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) continue to expand rapidly, Human-AI (HAI) Collaboration, combining human intellect and AI syste

A Unified Neural-Aided Alignment and Calibration Method for AUVs

arXiv:2608.22496v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) rely on the fusion of inertial navigation systems (INS) and Doppler velocity logs (DVL) for accurate navigation. B

Active Interaction-Aware Model Predictive Path Integral via Ego-Conditioned Generative Predictions

arXiv:2608.21400v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dense traffic is inherently interactive. The ego vehicle and surrounding agents continuously influence each other's reactions, making 'what-if' reasonin

Adaptive Multilevel Twisted Sequential Monte Carlo for Rare Events Estimation in Language Models

arXiv:2608.21736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rare unsafe behaviors in large language models can remain practically significant even when their probability is extremely small, particularly at deploy

Agent-G^2: Gaussian Guidance for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.23318v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hint-based reinforcement learning addresses reward sparsity in long-horizon agentic tasks by retaining a prefix of an expert trajectory before each roll

Agentic AI for Safety-critical Multi-drone Systems: Challenges and Opportunities

arXiv:2608.21444v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-drone systems are increasingly positioned for safety-critical missions such as search and rescue (SAR) and critical infrastructure monitoring. Yet

Agentic-Kube: A Graph-Enhanced Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Framework for Multi-Objective Kubernetes Scheduling

arXiv:2603.12031v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Cloud-native container orchestration requires resource schedulers capable of balancing infrastructure expenditure, fault resilience, and node

Aggregation-Aware Synthetic Text Generation Against Authorship Re-Identification

arXiv:2608.22161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online users often release multiple texts under the same identity, giving attackers an author profile that can reveal more than any single text. Existin

AI University: An LLM-Powered Learning Assistant for Engineering---A Finite Element Method Case Study

arXiv:2504.08846v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce AI University (AI-U), a flexible framework for AI-driven course content delivery that adapts to a course's instructional style. A

AirAlign: Geometry-Aware Relative Pose Alignment for UAV Last-Meter Navigation

arXiv:2608.21926v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation in modern low-altitude environments requires more accurate pose alignment in the final approach stage for targe

AIREP: A Protocol for Per-Decision Evidence in AI Runtime Governance

arXiv:2608.21363v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A protocol is presented for recording the governance decisions of automated AI runtimes. When a runtime releases, blocks, defers, redacts, or escalates

Align, Unify, Suppress, Route: A Coherentist View of Transformer Computation

arXiv:2608.22034v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mechanistic interpretability has identified transformer circuits, but lacks a shared vocabulary for describing how their functions compose across tasks

Aligned Alone, Misaligned Together: Forecasting Adversarial Capture in LLM Agent Populations

arXiv:2608.22444v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The unit of AI safety evaluation is still the individual model, yet language-model agents are increasingly deployed in interacting populations that read

Aligning Biomedical Texts and Knowledge Graphs: A Systematic Comparison of Lightweight Alignment Strategies

arXiv:2608.23214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biomedical knowledge exists in two complementary but distinct forms: unstructured scientific literature and structured knowledge graphs (KGs). Aligning

An Empirical Study on Preference Tuning Generalization and Diversity Under Domain Shift

arXiv:2601.05882v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Preference tuning aligns base language models to human judgments of quality, helpfulness, or safety by optimizing over explicit preference sig

Artificial Empathy: Towards a Framework for Unsupervised Agency Detection and Policy Reconstruction

arXiv:2608.23030v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study how an AI system can identify and model other agents in its environment from observation alone, which is a capability necessary for cooperative

Balancing Safety and Optimality in Robot Path Planning: Algorithm and Metric

arXiv:2505.23197v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Path planning for autonomous robots faces a fundamental trade-off between path length and obstacle clearance. While existing algorithms typica

BehaviorWorldGen: Closing the Loop between Action Models and World Simulators via Controllable Behavior-Aware Structured World Generation

arXiv:2608.22187v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern driving action models are increasingly improved in a self-improvement loop, where a learned world simulator imagines future observations and th

Beyond Point Predictions: Uncertainty-Aware Satellite Poverty Mapping for Public Policy

arXiv:2608.23322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite their critical importance for policy and research, high-resolution poverty data remain limited across much of Africa. Machine learning (ML) with

Beyond Success and Failure: Length-Aware Contrastive Learning for GUI Agents

arXiv:2608.21830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents powered by Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential for automating tasks across divers

Beyond Surface Cues: Disentangling Sociocultural Signals in Multilingual LLMs

arXiv:2608.23026v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual LLM outputs can vary across sociocultural contexts. However, evidence of cultural grounding can be misleading: identity labels may be inf

Beyond the Stability-Exploration Dilemma: Environmental Regularization for LLM Policy Optimization

arXiv:2608.23311v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Policy optimization (PO) for Large Language Models faces a stability--exploration trade-off, currently mediated by an action-side Policy-KL regularizer.

Beyond Viewpoint Generalization: What Multi-View Demonstrations Offer and How to Synthesize Them for Robot Manipulation?

arXiv:2603.26757v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Does multi-view demonstration truly improve robot manipulation, or merely enhance cross-view robustness? We present a systematic study quantifying t

Beyond Visual Similarity: Entity-Aligned Retrieval for Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering

arXiv:2608.21450v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) relies on retrieving external information to answer queries involving long-tail entities. However, ex