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Synthesizing Post-Acetazolamide Cerebral Blood Flow Maps from Baseline MRI in Moyamoya Using 3D Generative AI

arXiv:2608.14758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For patients with Moyamoya disease, impaired cerebrovascular reserve (CVR) is an important hemodynamic criterion for recommending extracranial-to-intr

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Tactile Sim2Real without Tactile Simulation via Bottlenecked Latent Reconstruction

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arXiv:2608.15897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot sensor designs, particularly tactile sensors, are highly diverse and evolve rapidly. Modeling each sensor in simulation demands substantial domain

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Tail-Aware Top-k On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2608.14728v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) has emerged as an effective paradigm for transferring knowledge between language models, where a student is trained to al

TaoLive Digital Avatar Agent Technical Report: Training Agents to Evolve with Their Harness

arXiv:2608.15763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-powered digital-avatar streamers in live e-commerce must answer product questions, engage viewers, and execute changing business strategies in real t

TEA: Text Encoder Alignment for Robust Concept Erasure in Text-to-Image Models

arXiv:2608.15341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models can be misused to generate harmful content through adversarial or paraphrased prompts that bypass built-in safety mechani

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Temporal Logic Guided Universal Task Representations for Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.15509v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Task guided agents demonstrate strong performance in a wide range of complex tasks. However, most existing task representation algorithms are tailored

The Ethical Decision Head: Operationalizing Normative Ethics in Autonomous Vehicles via Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

arXiv:2608.16710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As autonomous vehicles (AVs) approach Level 4 and Level 5 operational capability [SAE International, 2018], their on- board decision systems must handle

The Fake Friend Dilemma: Relational Trust and the Political Economy of Conversational AI

arXiv:2601.03222v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As conversational AI systems become a larger part of the media landscape, they raise questions about whose interests they serve and the risks

The Fragility of Strategic Thinking in Large Language Models

arXiv:2510.10813v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to domains that require reasoning about other agents' behavior, such as negotiation, policy de

The Note-Chord-Voice Framework: Structured Source Separation and Causal Inference for EV Charging Data

arXiv:2608.14756v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world EV charging data exhibit three interlocking pathologies: hardware fragmentation (network timeouts and billing resets split sessions), physi

The Political Ideology of Large Language Models: Measurement, Inconsistency, and Persuasive Influence

arXiv:2505.04171v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are a transformational technology, fundamentally changing how people obtain information and interact with the wor

The Trade-off Between Covariate Dependence and Latent Structure in Representation Learning

arXiv:2608.16245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Disentangled representation learning seeks latent representations whose indicidual dimensions each align with a distinct covariate. Unsupervised approac

Think Inside the Chunk: RegulaRAG for Regulation-Compliant Scenario Generation using LLMs: A Case Study of UN Regulation No. 152

arXiv:2608.16394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating regulation-compliant test scenarios is essential for validating safety-critical automotive systems, yet Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle

Throwing a Tight Spiral American Football by a Humanoid Robot

arXiv:2608.16642v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate throwing of the American football requires precise regulation of release conditions, where coupled linear and angular momentum determine flight

Toward Safe LLM Agents: A Survey of Specification, Verification, and Enforcement

arXiv:2608.14590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly perform irreversible real-world actions, including database updates, API calls, file operations, and autonomous use of tools. Ho

Towards a theory of inference-time alignment with unknown rewards

arXiv:2608.15402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative model alignment has received broad interest, and significant progress has been made in supervised fine-tuning and inference-time computation.

Towards a Unified Understanding of Robot Manipulation: A Comprehensive Survey

arXiv:2510.10903v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Embodied intelligence has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, driven by advances in computer vision, natural language processing, and the

Trajectory-Level Automatic Curriculum Learning for Legged Locomotion on Unstructured Terrain

arXiv:2608.16164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training locomotion policies for complex unstructured terrain requires a curriculum to avoid early exploration failures. However, since unstructured ter

TRCA: Transition-wise Rubric Credit Assignment for Long-horizon LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.16156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon large language model (LLM) agents are typically optimized with sparse terminal outcomes, making fine-grained credit assignment across multi

Trust Is Not Enough: Influence Calibration for On-Policy Self-Distillation in Agentic RL

arXiv:2608.14945v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) gives language agents dense token-level supervision from a privileged self-teacher on the policy's own trajectories.

TwinGridShield: Consequence-Aware Runtime Authorization for LLM Grid-Agent Actions

arXiv:2608.15391v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-assisted energy-management tools can translate natural-language context into structured grid commands, but syntactic validity

UAV Video Deblurring via Motion-Aware Diffusion: A Path to Robust Target Detection

arXiv:2608.15259v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play a crucial role in various scenarios ranging from disaster response to traffic surveillance. However, aerial video

UC-PSRO: Utility-Conditioned Policy-Space Response Oracles with a Communication-Dropout Curriculum for Game-Theoretic Course-of-Action Generation in Adversarial Swarms

arXiv:2608.15372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study generating game-theoretically optimized Courses of Action (COAs) for a Blue UAS swarm against an adaptive Red adversary in a communication-degr

UrbanWorld2.0: A Multimodal Agentic Framework for Reality-Aligned 3D World Generation at City-Scale

arXiv:2511.18005v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The automated generation of high-fidelity, city-scale 3D environments remains a formidable challenge with profound academic and industrial implicati

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Ventor-QTest: Threat-Model-Driven Verification of Vendor-Hosted LLM APIs

arXiv:2608.16391v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models become increasingly widespread, third-party providers that deploy open-weight models have become an important part of the eco

VGGT-Align: Bridging Local Reconstruction and Global Consistency for Long-Sequence 3D Reconstruction

arXiv:2608.15260v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Maintaining global geometric consistency is a central challenge in long-sequence 3D reconstruction, with scale drift being the most critical failure m

ViHaTeleop: A Low-Cost, Lightweight Visual-Haptic Teleoperation System for Dexterous Manipulation Learning

arXiv:2608.16572v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from demonstration is a promising approach for dexterous manipulation, but collecting high-quality contact-critical demonstrations remains diff

VirnyFlow: Optimizing ML Pipelines for Accuracy, Fairness, and Stability at Scale

arXiv:2506.01584v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Developing machine learning (ML) systems for real-world deployment requires navigating context-dependent trade-offs among accuracy, fairness,

Visible Reasoning and Indirect Prompt-Injection Monitorability Across English, Tamil, and Tanglish

arXiv:2608.15392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-thought monitoring is a potentially useful safety signal, but its reliability across languages and behavioral settings remains uncertain. In a

Visualizing Uncertainty-to-Action Composition for Human Oversight

arXiv:2608.16428v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence systems often disclose uncertainty, yet they rarely make clear what response that uncertainty should trigger. Most uncertainty

We have paused some frontier RL training to ensure that we can meet the appropriate alignment, security and monitoring standards for the new…

We have paused some frontier RL training to ensure that we can meet the appropriate alignment, security and monitoring standards for the new level of capabilities in front of us. Model progress is now

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We’re sharing the concrete changes we’re making to strengthen monitoring, security, and alignment as capabilities advance. We’ve introduced …

We’re sharing the concrete changes we’re making to strengthen monitoring, security, and alignment as capabilities advance. We’ve introduced stronger workload and network isolation, continuous security

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When Agents Coordinate: Measuring Coordination in Multi-Agent AI Coding

arXiv:2608.16801v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study how teams of AI coding agents coordinate while solving programming tasks. Current evaluations usually report whether the agents complete the ta

When AI Rewrites, Classifiers Relax: Uncertainty-Aware Sentiment Analysis on Sarcastic and AI-Paraphrased Social Text

arXiv:2608.15338v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sentiment classifiers are increasingly applied to social media content that is either sarcastic or AI-generated --- two distributional regimes where s

When Context Misleads: Intent-Guided Decoding for Robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2608.16515v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves large language models by grounding generation in external evidence, but it also introduces a source trus

When Do Concepts Become Functionally Sufficient During Language-Model Training?

arXiv:2608.15323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding a model and its learning mechanisms in depth requires identifying when its internal structures become useful, rather than simply looking a

When Do Explanations Help In-Context Learning? A Comparative Study of Natural Language Explanation Types and Faithfulness

arXiv:2608.16627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Natural language explanations (NLEs) are increasingly used as inputs, for example, as few-shot rationales that influence model behavior in in-context

When State Becomes an Attack Surface: State-Semantic Injection in LLM-Driven Embodied Agents

arXiv:2608.16806v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated capabilities in in-context learning, task decomposition, step-by-step reasoning, and code generation, d

Where Does Retrieval Fail? Evaluating RAG Architectures for Agricultural Advisory

arXiv:2608.14886v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval quality in RAG systems is commonly reported as a single aggregate score, which can hide large differences across query types and language cond

Why Summaries Turn Neutral: Policy Attribution for Sentiment Drift in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

arXiv:2608.15530v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) aligns LLMs with human preferences, improving summarization fluency and safety, but causes sentiment d

Why Vision Fails as a Universal Bridge: Rectifying Modality Asynchrony in Multilingual MLLMs

arXiv:2608.15085v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit substantial performance degradation in non-English visual reasoning, despite the strong multilingual co

Wiktionary as a Crowdsourced Lexicon for English Dialects

arXiv:2608.15641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper evaluates Wiktionary as an ethically crowdsourced lexicon for English dialects. We took a two-phase approach, providing an in-depth descripti

Zero-Shot Instruction Following in RL via Structured LTL Representations

arXiv:2602.14344v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study instruction following in multi-task reinforcement learning, where an agent must zero-shot execute novel tasks not seen during trainin

Zetta zeta: An Efficient Closed-Loop Embodied Harness for Self-Evolving Physical Intelligence

arXiv:2608.16590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied agents are increasingly used to close the gap left by end-to-end policy models. Yet the agentic path has not realized closed-loop learning in p

A Systematic Comparison of Training Objectives for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Image Classification

arXiv:2603.07571v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is critical in safety-sensitive applications. While this challenge has been addressed from various perspec

A Temporal Barrier Framework for Collision Avoidance in Multi-Agent Autonomous Aerial Vehicles

arXiv:2608.14239v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Operating teams of autonomous aircraft in dynamic, uncertain, and potentially adversarial environments requires safety protocols that are reliable yet

Adversarial Learning of Classifier-Free Guidance Schedules

arXiv:2608.14038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern text-to-image diffusion models rely on classifier-free guidance (CFG) to achieve high image fidelity and text alignment. However, CFG typically a

AgilePE: Autonomous UAV Pursuit-Evasion via Self-Play Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.14135v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous pursuit-evasion is a fundamental challenge for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), requiring rapid decision-making under tightly coupled dynam