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Why AI Detection Fails for Academic Integrity

arXiv:2608.11256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Institutions use commercial AI detectors for academic integrity, yet detectors cannot distinguish AI editing from full LLM drafts and may treat both as

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A Convolutional Layer Activation Dimensionality Reduction for Out-of-Distribution and Adversarial Attack Detection Methods

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arXiv:2608.10203v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the success of convolutional neural networks in image classification tasks and their general application in multi-modal models, their susceptibi

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A Joint-Distribution Route to Fair Representations with Continuous Sensitive Attributes

arXiv:2608.10470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fair representation learning with a continuous sensitive attribute S requires a representation Z that is statistically independent of S. Existing criter

A Neural Network Based Teleoperation for Remote Controlled Vehicles

arXiv:2608.10367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Direct teleoperation of vehicles faces critical technical bottlenecks: communication latency and the operator's inability to physically perceive unmodel

Actions Speak Louder than Words: Measuring Cross-Lingual Policy Retention in Tool-Using Agents

arXiv:2608.11110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a tool-using agent is given the same task in a different language, does it still take the same steps? Multilingual evaluation rarely asks: it compa

// Actions Speak Louder Than Words // Multilingual agent evaluation compares final answers and throws the trajectory away. The trajectory fi…

// Actions Speak Louder Than Words // Multilingual agent evaluation compares final answers and throws the trajectory away. The trajectory fixes cost, latency, failure mode, and auditability. New resea

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AdvFD: Boosting Visual Generation via Adversarial Fr'echet Distance Loss

arXiv:2608.11205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frechet distance has recently emerged as an effective distribution-level objective for generator post-training, complementing the conventional sample-le

APCReg: Anatomical-Prior-Guided Coarse-to-Fine CBCT--IOS Registration via Multi-View Projection and Reliability-Controlled Residual Correction

arXiv:2608.09993v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Registration between cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) and intraoral scans (IOS) is essential for patient-specific surgical planning. However, disp

Automated Data Enrichment using Confidence-Aware Fine-Grained Debate among Open-Source LLMs for Mental Health and Online Safety

arXiv:2512.06227v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-world indicators play an important role in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, such as life events for mental health analysis

Beyond Forecasting: Recasting Volatility Control as a Routing Problem

arXiv:2608.10375v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Volatility control converts risk estimates into portfolio exposure, yet existing approaches often rely on a fixed volatility estimator or a pre-define

Big Tech's reliance on OpenAI and Anthropic for growth is systemically pervasive. Both companies are massively unprofitable — and much of wh…

Big Tech's reliance on OpenAI and Anthropic for growth is systemically pervasive. Both companies are massively unprofitable — and much of what they spend is Big Tech's own money, counted right back as

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BooST: Bridging Semantics and Motions for Efficient Skill Transfer

arXiv:2608.10600v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Skill abstraction---the process of learning reusable and temporally extended behaviors---has emerged as a key paradigm for improving sample efficiency

CARE: Confidence-Aware Reasoning for Reliable Medical VQA

arXiv:2608.10964v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) has enabled medical Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to produce Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning for visual qu

Carefully Considering Culture: Analyzing LLM Alignment in Single- and Multi-Cultural Settings using Cultural Consensus Theory

arXiv:2608.09937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work in NLP has probed large language models for their understanding of cultural norms across countries. However, this work typically considers d

ConfTriage: A Calibration-Aware LLM Triage Framework for Pulmonary Nodule Malignancy with Selective Specialist Deferral

arXiv:2608.10885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pulmonary nodule malignancy prediction typically depends on image-trained specialist deep learning (DL) models that require substantial annotated imagin

ConRub-Med: Reinforcement Learning with Consensus Rubrics for Open-Ended Medical Question Answering

arXiv:2608.10996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards has been especially effective in mathematics and coding, where answers can be checked automatically. Many

Convergence of Sign-based Random Reshuffling Algorithms for Nonconvex Optimization

arXiv:2310.15976v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: signSGD is attractive in nonconvex optimization because it communicates sign-valued rather than full-precision gradients. Several standard analyses

CRHT: A Continuous Regression Hybrid Transformer for Vessel Trajectory Prediction with Online Cluster Sampling

arXiv:2608.10256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate vessel trajectory prediction is critical for maritime safety and anomaly detection, yet existing models often struggle with geographic bias and

Critic-Free Pretraining for Efficient Online Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2608.10473v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Offline-to-online (O2O) reinforcement learning aims to leverage policies pretrained on static datasets while improving them through online interaction

Data Attribution of Emergent Misalignment with Persona Features

arXiv:2608.11025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emergent misalignment (EM) is the phenomenon where fine-tuning a language model on a narrow task leads to harmful behavior in unrelated domains. A leadi

Detecting an Effect Is Not Learning to Act on It: A Reward-SNR Floor for LLM Acquisition Agents

arXiv:2608.10441v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many pipelines can pay a per-example cost to acquire an auxiliary, model-derived observation -- an LLM's structured reasoning, a slow oracle, an expen

DIMOS: Disentangling Instance-level Moving Object Segmentation

arXiv:2606.12826v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Moving instance segmentation (MIS) attracts increasing attention due to its broad applications in traffic surveillance, autonomous driving, an

Do AI weather models miss extremes?

arXiv:2608.09972v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: First-generation AI weather models are often reported to underperform at extremes, mostly in reanalysis-based evaluations of deterministic regression

Do Time-Series Forecasters Use the Right History: Recoverability, Recovery, and Functional Use of Temporal Delays

arXiv:2608.10433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forecast accuracy does not tell us which past inputs produced a prediction. We separate three questions for time-series models with known delay structur

Dreamer-SAC: Off-Policy Learning in Latent World Models for Sample-Efficient Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2608.10386v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sample-efficient reinforcement learning for autonomous driving is often limited by the trade-off between data efficiency and model bias. While world mod

Dual-Loop Self-Evolution via Verifiable Emotion Feedback for Multi-Turn Empathetic Dialogue

arXiv:2608.10626v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models have demonstrated conversational capabilities, yet empathetic competence remains challenging. Empathetic support is inherently mul

Dual Space Preconditioning for Gradient Descent in the Overparameterized Regime

arXiv:2603.10485v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this work, we study the convergence properties of the Dual Space Preconditioned Gradient Descent, encompassing optimizers such as Normalize

Dual Stress: Runtime Safety Monitoring for Safety-Constrained MPC Navigation

arXiv:2608.10791v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Runtime hazard monitors for autonomous naviga- tion are conventionally built from geometric quantities: predicted clearance, time to collision, and requ

Efficient Hypergradient Descent for Inverse Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.11052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) aims to recover a reward function under which the resulting policy reproduces the behavior observed in expert demon

ELMER: Evolutionary Language Model that Explores and Refines

arXiv:2608.10196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Program evolution can measure whether a mutation helped, but it rarely controls how far the mutation moves in behavior space. Syntactic edit size is a

Enhancing Automated Essay Scoring With Three Techniques: Two-Stage Fine-Tuning, Score Alignment, and Self-Training

arXiv:2602.01747v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automated Essay Scoring (AES) plays a crucial role in education by providing scalable and efficient assessment tools. However, in real-world setting

Evaluation-Conditioned Training: Teaching Models to Generalize to Stronger Oversight Regimes

arXiv:2608.10209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Feedback signals used to train Large Language Models (LLMs) are the primary driver of their behavior and our main lever for instilling alignment with hu

Every Token Counts: Exact Likert-Scale Distributions for Measuring LLM Attitudes and Biases

arXiv:2608.10503v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents, accurately evaluating their latent values and biases is critical. The NL

Expert-Guided g-computation with Large Language Models for Estimating Causal Effects on Timings: Applications to Hospital Quality Improvement

arXiv:2608.10339v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hospital quality improvement (QI) programs routinely face multiple candidate interventions to optimize hospital flow, but existing methods struggle to

FedCGR: Federated Cross-Domain Generative Recommendation

arXiv:2608.10929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) transfers preference knowledge across related domains, but federated deployment makes cross-domain alignment difficult

FoR-SALE: Frame of Reference-guided Spatial Adjustment in LLM-based Diffusion Editing

arXiv:2509.23452v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current text-to-image generation models, even state-of-the-art models, exhibit a significant performance gap when spatial expressions are desc

From Interpretability to Control: Insights from Six Years of the TrustNLP Workshop

arXiv:2608.11171v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Workshop on Trustworthy Natural Language Processing (TrustNLP), co-located with major ACL conferences since 2021, has grown from 8 proceedings pap

From Prediction to Incrementality: Causal Optimization for Large-Scale Targeting and Recommendation

arXiv:2608.10182v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale targeting and recommendation systems are typically built around predictive scores fed into heuristic or local allocation. When the busines

Generation-Step-Aware Framework for Cross-Modal Representation and Control in Multilingual Speech-Text Models

arXiv:2601.17387v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multilingual speech-text models rely on cross-modal language alignment to transfer knowledge between speech and text, but it remains unclear whether

Hidden in Plain Sight: Diffusion-Based Unrestricted Robotic Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2608.10393v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong capabilities in controlling robots across diverse manipulation tasks. However, their adversarial r

Hierarchical Empirical-Bayes Naive Bayes: Minimax Smoothing and Calibration with AODE Extension

arXiv:2608.11162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Naive Bayes (NB) classifier remains a standard choice for categorical data, yet its widely used smoothing rules, such as Laplace, Lidstone, Krichevs

Hip Energized Monopedal Hopping

arXiv:2608.10387v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a novel stepping strategy for pitch unlocked planar monopeds where the reaction torques from stabilizing pitch with a conventional PD + feedf

How to Verify Consistency of Probabilistic Claims

arXiv:2608.11181v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When a probabilistic predictor answers many conditional-probability queries, are its answers self-consistent, and can this be verified in polynomial t

IADD-TR: Intervention-Aware Dynamics Decoupling with Targeted Regularization for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.10634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL), which learns environment dynamics to generate synthetic experience, is a promising approach to sample-efficie

Injecting Hallucinations in Autonomous Vehicles: A Component-Agnostic Safety Evaluation Framework

arXiv:2510.07749v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Perception failures in autonomous vehicles (AV) remain a major safety concern because they are the basis for many accidents. To study how these fail

INSIDE the Student's Mind: Jointly Modeling Latent Reasoning and Action in LLM Student Simulators

arXiv:2608.10492v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-based simulators often reproduce observable actions but fail to capture the underlying reasoning behind them. In education, w

IO Factory: Simulating AI-Enabled Influence Campaigns at Scale

arXiv:2608.10920v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce IO Factory, an AI-driven framework for simulating information and influence campaigns as fully integrated, traceable processes. The threat

Learning in ImaginationLand: Omnidirectional Policies through 3D Generative Models (OP-Gen)

arXiv:2509.06191v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent 3D generative models, which are capable of generating full object shapes from just a few images, now open up new opportunities in robot