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Bridging Linguistic Structure and Mechanistic Interpretability for Conceptual Interpretation in Language Models

arXiv:2408.11827v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding how language models compose meaning from linguistic input remains a central problem in interpretability research. Mechanistic studies

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Buried in Textual Debt: Context Pruning with Visual Evidence Preservation for MLLM Agents

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arXiv:2608.22963v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly deployed as multi-step agents, where explicit reasoning supports task decomposition and tool c

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CAIA in Practice: Field Evaluation of an AI-Assisted Support System for Text-Based Online Counselling

arXiv:2608.22251v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rising global demand for mental health support creates significant service delivery challenges, with asynchronous email counselling serving as a cruci

Calibrating Perception Uncertainty for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2211.04340v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous driving systems must be capable of making quick decisions based on the perceived environment and specific driving conditions. Perception

CALIBURN: Self-Calibrated LLM Unlearning Alignment

arXiv:2602.02824v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM unlearning aims to remove the influence of undesirable knowledge from pretrained language models, which offers a practical mechanism for address

Can We Perform Online RL for Image Editing without Editing Rewards?

arXiv:2608.22780v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) enables direct preference optimization for image editing through editing-specific rewards, which remain less developed due t

CD-LoRA: Consistency-Driven Low-Rank Adaptation for Multi-Task Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2608.21909v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is essential for adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) to diverse domains, prevailing LoRA-based methods rely on complex

Channel-Token Attention for Reliable Dynamic Spectrum Access under Bursty Primary-User Traffic

arXiv:2608.22992v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic spectrum access must coordinate secondary users under bursty primary-user activity while preserving packet reliability and delay. We present T

ChatGPT Work can now use its computer and browser to sign in to websites on web and mobile, without ChatGPT ever seeing your username or pas…

ChatGPT Work can now use its computer and browser to sign in to websites on web and mobile, without ChatGPT ever seeing your username or password. That means you can ask it to: • Set up utilities for

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CIDER: Continual Interactive Distillation for Embodied Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.21899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-in-the-loop real-world reinforcement learning enables rapid acquisition of effective robotic manipulation policies for individual tasks, often wit

Consistency Is Not Coherence: Orientation Search for Certified Alignments Between 4D Defence Upper Ontologies

arXiv:2608.21914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We align three upper ontologies that sit under UK and NATO defence data infrastructure: the Information Exchange Standard (IES), the Higher Quality Data

Continual Uncertainty Learning for Robust Control of Nonlinear Systems with Multiple Heterogeneous Uncertainties

arXiv:2602.17174v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robust control of mechanical systems with multiple uncertainties remains a fundamental challenge, particularly when nonlinear dynamics and ope

CSymPlan: Certified Symbolic Planning and Control for High-DOF Manipulators

arXiv:2608.22983v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulators are commonly engineered around a decoupled motion-generation stack: a planner computes a collision-free path and a lower-level contro

DamageScope: Vision-Language Retrieval at Scale for Disaster Damage Assessment from Satellite Imagery

arXiv:2608.21529v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Timely and accurate assessment of property damage is critical following natural disasters. Traditional on-site inspections are labor-intensive, costly

DeepSAGE: Stage-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Structured CBT Counseling Dialogue

arXiv:2608.22615v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-based counseling agents can generate fluent and supportive responses, but they often lack the structured, goal-directed progr

DesignAgent3D: Interactive 3D Scene Editing via Designer-like Multimodal Reasoning

arXiv:2608.21438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text guided 3D scene editing provides an intuitive interface for modifying reconstructed environments, but remains difficult because natural language de

Determinants of Starting Salaries for Filipino Graduates: An Explainable Machine Learning Approach

arXiv:2608.21383v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Filipino graduates face a persistent disconnect between educational preparation and labor market outcomes, where starting salary is a key signal of en

DIAG: Diagnostic Iterative Alignment and Generation for Data-Efficient Mathematical Preference Distillation

arXiv:2608.22806v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Iterative preference optimization is essential for aligning Large Language Models on mathematical reasoning tasks, yet its efficiency is often throttled

Diagnosing Capability Preservation and Task Sensitivity in Memory Augmented Document Classifiers

arXiv:2512.06582v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: End task accuracy alone cannot determine whether a memory mechanism preserves an acquired capability, exposes sample-specific stored informati

DIGing--SGLD: Decentralized and Scalable Langevin Sampling over Time--Varying Networks

arXiv:2511.12836v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sampling from a target distribution induced by training data is central to Bayesian learning, with Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics (SGLD

Do Not Copy/Paste: Soft Barriers for Copying in AI-Assisted Programming

arXiv:2608.22638v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Copying a function from a chat window into an editor takes less than a second. For many uses of AI coding tools, that speed is the point; in settings

Do Spoken Language Models Hear Speech as They Read Text? Bridging Structural Gaps Between Speech and Text

arXiv:2608.22908v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spoken Language Models (SLMs) generate textual responses directly from speech, offering an alternative to cascaded systems. Despite recent advances, e

Does Rank Still Matter? Position Bias When AI Agents Shop on Our Behalf

arXiv:2608.22697v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search rankings are valuable because human attention is scarce and sequential. Higher-placed alternatives are easier to find, so they are examined and b

Don' t Box Me In: Dynamic Cultural Adaptation and Cognitive Tracking for Social Understanding

arXiv:2608.22411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social interaction increasingly takes place in multicultural settings, where individuals may draw on multiple cultural influences and adapt their commun

DreamMimic: Learning Visuomotor Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation via World Model

arXiv:2608.22278v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-based whole-body loco-manipulation on humanoid robots is challenging due to partial observability, contact-rich dynamics, and the difficulty of l

Dynamic Topic Modeling for Cross-Corpus Temporal Analysis

arXiv:2608.23284v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic Embedded Topic Models (D-ETM) provide an interpretable framework for modeling temporal semantic evolution, but cross-corpus comparison remains d

EDGE: Experience-Distillation for Guided Exploration in Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.21946v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with outcome-based objectives such as GRPO enables LLM-based agents to solve complex, long-horizon tasks, yet the reusable expl

Evaluation Awareness in Language Models: Representation, Verbalization, and Control

arXiv:2608.21766v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Both capability and safety benchmarks rest upon the assumption that the behavior of language models undergoing a test is informative about their behav

ExploreAI: Agentic Exploration Knowledge Bases for Reproducible Observable-Regression Testing of Black-Box VR and 3D Applications

arXiv:2608.21628v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Black-box VR and 3D applications are difficult to regression test because observable failures depend on where a tester moves, what objects are visible

Exploring Long-period Architectures: Four New Planet Candidates from Kepler with Periods >342 days

arXiv:2608.23425v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Kepler detection pipeline, as well as the transit method, has a bias towards shorter periods, leaving a dearth of detections at longer orbital per

Fairness-Aware Mixture-of-Experts via Subgroup Reweighting and Gate Regularization

arXiv:2608.22820v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning models often produce performance disparities across demographic groups, due to the training data imbalance with respect to sensitive att

FIRM-Video: Check Before You Score for Reliable Text-to-Video Reward Modeling

arXiv:2608.21839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable reward models are essential for text-to-video evaluation and alignment. However, the trade-off between evaluation accuracy and inference effici

Force/Torque-Based Kinematic Adaptation for Robotic Manipulation Tasks

arXiv:2608.21592v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-rich robotic manipulation requires an accurate model of the kinematic relationship between a robot's joints and the task features it senses. Thi

From Multimodal Observation to Interpretable Suggestions: Counterfactual Time-Expanded Relational Modeling of Surgical Teams

arXiv:2608.23254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In surgery, patient safety is threatened not only by technical issues but also by poor teamwork. However, existing surgical AI-based solutions focus mai

From Recognition to Reasoning: Advancing Multimodal Harmful Meme Detection via Chain-of-Thought Alignment

arXiv:2506.18919v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As a multimodal communication medium that integrates images and text, memes often convey implicit harmful content through metaphors, satire, a

Generative Gap Filling

arXiv:2608.21401v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most contract litigation turns on contracts that imperfectly record parties' bargains. When the parties' dispute can't be solved by interpreting the t

Geometry-Driven Opti-Acoustic Co-Registration and View-Invariant Reflectivity Mapping for Side-Scan Sonar

arXiv:2608.23479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Side-Scan Sonar (SSS) is a primary modality for large-scale underwater mapping, yet automated perception and cross-modal alignment are severely bottlene

GeoRisk-RAG: A Hierarchy-Aware Risk Framework for Improving RAG Reliability through Selective Answering

arXiv:2608.22634v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current work on improving reliability in large language model (LLM)- generated answers has primarily leveraged Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), k

Grounding Free-Form Instructions for Fashion Complementary Image Generation

arXiv:2608.23302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fashion complementary image generation (CIG) aims to create garments that stylistically match a seed item based on user intent, making it a natural mult

GTA-RAG: Graph-Trajectory-Augmented Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Turn Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning

arXiv:2608.22479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables LLMs to access external knowledge for answering knowledge-intensive questions. For complex multi-hop questi

Guardian: Detecting Robotic Planning and Execution Errors with Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2512.01946v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robust robotic manipulation requires reliable failure detection and recovery. Although recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show promise in ro

GuardPaint:SpeculativeSafetyDecodingforText-to-ImageGeneration

arXiv:2608.21869v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models offer powerful visual generation, but their controllability creates a critical safety challenge: adversarial prom

Hidden in the Request: Explaining Unethical LLM Compliance through Token Relevance

arXiv:2608.23264v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although Large Language Models (LLMs) are aligned to optimize for both helpfulness and harmlessness, these dual objectives may conflict, inevitably lead

HiDiffTIR: Hierarchical Difficulty-Aware Policy Optimization for Multi-Turn Tool-Integrated Reasoning

arXiv:2608.21863v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) is a fundamental capability for LLM agents to solve complex tasks by interacting with external tools iteratively. Rein

Hints, Critics, and Teachers: Prior Injection for Sparse-Reward RL in Vision-Language Math Reasoning

arXiv:2608.21811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning for vision-language math reasoning starves under sparse reward: on a pool of 20,830 visual-math problems where Qwen2-VL-2B answer

HiViS: Hiding Visual Tokens from the Drafter for Speculative Decoding in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2509.23928v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Speculative decoding has proven effective for accelerating inference in Large Language Models (LLMs), yet its extension to Vision-Language Mod

How Agents Represent Humans: Human-Directed Stereotypes in an Open Agent Social Network

arXiv:2608.22192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based agents are increasingly deployed in persistent social environments, where generated claims can be posted, replied to, remembered, and reused.

How to Train a Critic Stably and Efficiently

arXiv:2608.23566v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Group-based reinforcement learning methods such as GRPO for large language models avoid training a critic by sampling multiple responses for each prom