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Multi-Tool Robotics Enables In-Situ Sample Manipulation for Time-Resolved Synchrotron Measurements

arXiv:2608.19280v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The high photon flux at synchrotron beamlines allows for the measurement of fast dynamical processes. However, beamline radiation-safety protocols pro

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Multimodal Trajectory Planning for Surface Vehicles using Turning Circle-based Control Barrier Functions

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arXiv:2608.19537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a guide path-free multimodal trajectory planning framework for autonomous surface vehicles operating in dynamic environments. The pr

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NEW from me in the Guardian -- I agree with the AI company employees who wrote, in their 'Pacing the Frontier' letter, that the government s…

NEW from me in the Guardian -- I agree with the AI company employees who wrote, in their 'Pacing the Frontier' letter, that the government should be stepping in. But companies could also be doing more

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On the Applicability of Safety Nets: A Safety-By-Design Solution for Certifying Neural Networks

arXiv:2608.20053v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in safety-critical aviation systems presents significant challenges for certification and deployment. Av

On the convergence of optimistic policy iteration for stochastic shortest path problem

arXiv:1808.08763v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, we prove some convergence results of a special case of optimistic policy iteration algorithm for stochastic shortest path problem. We

PEA-DPO: Perception-Enhanced Alignment Direct Preference Optimization for MLLMs Alignment

arXiv:2608.19598v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as an effective approach for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. However, i

Reading Between the Pixels: An Inscriptive Jailbreak Attack on Text-to-Image Models

arXiv:2604.05853v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern text-to-image (T2I) models can now render legible, paragraph-length text, enabling a fundamentally new class of misuse. We identify and forma

RoMAN-Flow: Taming Autoregressive Normalizing Flows for Offline Reinforcement Learning in Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2608.20208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning improves robotic policies using previously collected data without further environment interaction. Yet prevalent diffusio

SafeBranch: Branch-Pair Safety Alignment for Embodied Agents

arXiv:2608.19729v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-model-based embodied agents can complete instructed tasks but often violate safety constraints in the process, a problem recently framed

SAPO: Single-Rollout Autoregressive Policy Optimization for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.19842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) has become a critical stage in the post-training of large language models. Existing critic-free, group-relative meth

Scaffolding Minds: Optimizing Latent Visual Target Representations for Multimodal Reasoning

arXiv:2608.19669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent reasoning has advanced multimodal reasoning through a two-stage training paradigm: (1) a helper image is encoded into latent tokens to teach visu

Scale-Aware Pretraining of Time Series Foundation Models via Multi-Patch Token Alignment and Hybrid Masking

arXiv:2608.20005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretraining time series foundation models across heterogeneous datasets necessitates effective handling of varying sampling frequencies. Current methods

SCAPE: Scenario-Conditioned Simulation-Augmented Policy Evaluation

arXiv:2608.19425v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable performance evaluation is a central bottleneck for deploying robot-learning policies in real-world conditions. Real-world testing is faithful

SceneGTMM: A Conformal Mapping-based Scene-Aware Transferable GNN-Transformer Dual-Graph Interaction Framework for Map Matching

arXiv:2608.19298v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Map matching is a key technology connecting positioning data with high precision road networks, but it faces challenges in noise robustness, cross regio

Stopping and Routing LLM Judge Panels

arXiv:2608.19802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM evaluation pipelines often have many candidate judges: general LLM-as-a-judge prompts, reward models, safety classifiers, confidence variants, and t

Swift-Image: Exploring the Performance Frontier of Compact Unified Image Generation Models

arXiv:2608.20334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Swift-Image, a compact unified model for text-to-image generation, single-image editing, and multi-image editing. Our goal is to explore how

The Asymmetric Harms of LLM Compression

arXiv:2608.19670v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) compression reduces deployment costs, but standard aggregate metrics like perplexity and accuracy often mask underlying beh

Truncate Bad, Upweight Good: BoN-Style Distillation via Rank-Based Classification

arXiv:2608.19748v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inference-time selection methods, such as Best-of-N, improve generation by sampling a pool of candidates and selecting the top-ranked completion accor

Unregularized Convergence of Single-Loop, Entropy-Regularized Natural Actor-Critic

arXiv:2608.19587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While entropy regularization is widely used to stabilize and accelerate Natural Policy Gradient methods, its ability to yield faster convergence rates f

Video Evidence to Reasoning Efficient Video Understanding via Explicit Evidence Grounding

arXiv:2601.07761v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) face a fundamental dilemma in video reasoning: they are caught between the prohibitive computational costs of v

Video2DoorTraversal: Push Door Traversal via Simulated Door Twins

arXiv:2608.20251v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Door opening and traversal is a long-horizon loco-manipulation task that requires precise handle interaction and coordinated base-arm control. We presen

Virtual Sensing to Enable Real-Time Monitoring of Inaccessible Locations & Unmeasurable Parameters

arXiv:2412.00107v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-time monitoring of safety-critical interior states is an open problem across energy, environmental and industrial systems where direct in

VQC-ZTI: Variational Quantum Control for Zero Trust Protection of the Tactile Internet

arXiv:2608.18572v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tactile Internet services couple cyber events directly to physical actuation, so security decisions must improve risk discrimination without perturbin

what i have been saying endlessly (to those few who have listened carefully)

what i have been saying endlessly (to those few who have listened carefully) Turing Award winner Rich Sutton: 'LLMs are an amazing scientific breakthrough. but it's frustrating that instead of celebra

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What Matters for Latent Actions in Robot Learning

arXiv:2608.19613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent Action Models (LAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling robot learning to leverage large-scale unlabeled videos through latent a

Whatever you may think of Generative AI, the Capex craze is absolutely bonkers: “we are potentially talking about AI needing to generate $10…

Whatever you may think of Generative AI, the Capex craze is absolutely bonkers: “we are potentially talking about AI needing to generate 10 trillion in annual sales to justify all the capex being thro

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When Automata Meet Streams: Temporal Logic Compilation for Stream-Based Robotics Task and Motion Planning

arXiv:2608.19453v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stream-based robotics Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) integrates discrete symbolic planning with dynamically generated continuous geometric parameters,

When Irrelevant Text Matters: Affine Margin Shifts in Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.19208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are frequently exposed to auxiliary textual context, the impact of which on visually grounded tasks remains und

When to Retrain: An Empirical Study of Retraining Policies for Streaming ML Under Concept Drift, Budget, and Latency Constraints

arXiv:2608.19488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Production machine learning systems degrade under concept drift, yet practitioners have little principled guidance on when to retrain. Retraining is cos

Which Eviction Policy Should an LLM Cache Use? A Systematic Study Across Workloads, Capacities, and Encoders

arXiv:2608.20280v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic caches reuse an LLM response when the incoming query embedding lies near a cached query, but proposed eviction policies have rarely been comp

Winning at all costs

Hardmaru and Breaking911 posted a video (14 hours ago) of a humanoid robot training for the “Robot Olympics” in Beijing. In the footage, the robot accelerated too fast, failed to brake, collided with

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A Metamorphic Artificial Age Score Decision-Support Prototype for Flight-Log-Based Drone Propeller Health Monitoring

arXiv:2608.18088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Drone propeller faults can create safety and reliability risks when their effects are distributed across multiple flight-log channels rather than appear

Accelerating Visual On-Policy Distillation with Batched Speculative Jacobi Rollouts

arXiv:2608.18183v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual on-policy distillation (OPD) improves the training of compact visual autoregressive models by learning from trajectories generated by the current

ADEPT: Accelerating Dexterity via Pre-Training and Post-Training using Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.19182v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Accelerating Dexterity via Pre-Training (ADEPT), a large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) framework for learning sim-to-real transferabl

Alignment Is All You Need: Instruction-Free Training for General Audio-Language Models

arXiv:2608.18132v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are typically built through a multi-stage pipeline consisting of cross-modal alignment, supervised fine-tuning

Authoring Dogwood policies from natural language in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AI agents can take actions that do not match your organization's policies. Policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore lets teams enforce controls across agents, now including time-based constraints. This post

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Beyond Placement and Articulation: Usage-Driven Code Scenes for Embodied Interaction

arXiv:2608.18840v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Indoor scene synthesis provides essential environments for embodied AI, robotic manipulation, and simulation-based policy learning. Recent code-based

Beyond Predictive Fairness: Quantifying Attribution Consistency Across Demographic Groups in Diabetic Retinopathy Screening

arXiv:2608.18759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fairness in medical imaging is commonly evaluated through subgroup performance metrics, yet it remains unclear whether models rely on consistent visua

Beyond Trial Averaging: Anchoring Neural and Visual Representations for Few-Repetition Brain-to-Image Retrieval

arXiv:2608.19128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decoding visual information from brain signals probes neural representations and enables neuro-rehabilitation and dream decoding. Recent brain-to-image

Bidirectional representational alignment between biological and artificial neural networks

arXiv:2608.18244v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work has shown that representational alignment between biological and artificial neural networks is asymmetric: model representations predict n

Clinically Structured Surrogate Rewards for Post-SFT Medical Image Captioning

arXiv:2608.18654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical image captioning requires translating heterogeneous visual evidence into concise clinical descriptions, where errors in findings, assertion stat

Communications-Aware NMPC for Multi-Rotor Aerial Relay Networks Under Jamming Interference

arXiv:2603.28467v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles (MRAVs) are increasingly used in communication-dependent missions where connectivity loss directly compromises task exec

ConspirED: A Dataset for Cognitive Traits of Conspiracy Theories and Large Language Model Safety

arXiv:2508.20468v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Conspiracy theories erode public trust in science and institutions while resisting debunking by evolving and absorbing counter-evidence. As AI-gener

Continual Reasoning Gym: Diagnosing and Harnessing Shared Reasoning in Continual RLVR

arXiv:2608.18574v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) commonly post-trains reasoning models on multiple tasks, while rerunning multitask RLVR (MTRL) as

Continuous-Time Reinforcement Learning for Controlled Hawkes Jump-Diffusions

arXiv:2608.19151v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study stochastic control of multivariate Hawkes-driven stochastic differential equations with machine learning algorithms in a non-Markovian setting.

Counterfactual Behavior Cloning: Offline Imitation Learning from Imperfect Human Demonstrations

arXiv:2505.10760v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning from humans is challenging because people are imperfect teachers. When everyday humans show the robot a new task they want it to perform, h

DA-WAM: Decision-Aligned Future Latents for Driving World Models

arXiv:2608.19085v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Anticipating how scenes evolve under ego actions is fundamental to safe autonomous driving, yet the full potential of world models for decision-making

DART-SD: Diamond-topology Aware Retrieval and Tuning for Self-Distillation of Multi-Turn Tool-Calling Agents

arXiv:2608.18524v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Equipping Large Language Models (LLMs) with multi-turn tool-calling capabilities is essential for building autonomous agents. However, progress is fun