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The GENEA Challenge 2026: A Large-Scale Disentangled Evaluation of Speech-Driven Gesture Generation on the Seamless Interaction Dataset

arXiv:2608.10839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This preprint presents the results of the fourth GENEA Challenge, a large-scale human evaluation of five speech-driven gesture-generation systems traine

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The Hidden Puppet Master: Predicting Human Belief Change in Manipulative LLM Dialogues

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arXiv:2603.20907v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As users increasingly turn to LLMs for practical and personal advice, they become vulnerable to subtle steering toward hidden incentives misaligned

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The Impact of Operational-Data Fidelity when Assessing Safety-Critical Autonomous-Vehicle Software

arXiv:2608.10025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For safety-critical software, data from the software's operational past (e.g. a sequence of success and failure events experienced by the software) can

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The Parser Already Knows: Lightweight Bias Correction in Constrained Decoding

arXiv:2608.10137v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Grammar Constrained Decoding (GCD) forces Language Models (LMs) to produce syntactically valid outputs by masking out non-conforming tokens at each step

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Threat-guided Policy-aware Scene Perturbation for Safe Autonomous Driving with Online Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.10403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promising performance in autonomous driving, yet ensuring the safety of online RL policies remains challenging due

Topological Feasibility Guarantees for Differentiable Predictive Control

arXiv:2608.10332v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Differentiable predictive control (DPC), a self-supervised learning approach for approximating explicit model predictive control (MPC) policies, offer

Toward a Theory of Value in AI Alignment

arXiv:2608.10327v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can AI systems be aligned to human values? The popularization of large language models (LLMs) and multi-modal foundation models has seen a rise in harms

Towards Color-Faithful Low-Light Image Enhancement via Adaptive Color Debiasing and Saturation Rectification

arXiv:2608.10512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-light imaging often introduces color bias caused by the low signal-to-noise ratio and the image formation process. Although recent low-light image e

TRACE-GS: On-Policy Trajectory Distillation with Privileged Geometric Conditioning for Sparse-View 3DGS Restoration

arXiv:2608.10286v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present TRACE-GS, an on-policy trajectory distillation framework that leverages privileged geometric conditioning at training time, thereby adapting

UniMod: Enhancing Multi-Modal Medical Diagnosis through Cross-Modality and Within-Modality Alignment

arXiv:2608.10316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-modal learning combining medical images and clinical text is promising for disease diagnosis. However, standard multi-modal training leads to shor

UPAIR: Diagnosing Reasoning States via Uncertainty-Progress Alignment for Selective Intervention

arXiv:2607.17188v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While test-time scaling improves the problem-solving ability of large reasoning models (LRMs) through additional inference-time computation, it can

VIDS-Seg: Towards Reliable Uncertainty Quantification in Pediatric Cardiac Ultrasound Segmentation

arXiv:2608.10903v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable clinical deployment of machine learning requires models that know when they are likely to fail, particularly for subgroups underrepresented in

Watching Synthetic Videos: Aligning Cross-modal Representations with Visual Synthesis for Zero-shot Video Captioning

arXiv:2608.11013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-only training is a popular paradigm in zero-shot video captioning, where the video distribution is not available to the model during training, lead

What DINO saw: ALiBi positional encoding reduces positional bias in Vision Transformers

arXiv:2603.16840v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision transformers (ViTs) - especially feature foundation models like DINOv2 - learn rich representations useful for many downstream tasks. However

What We Know about Responsible AI Practices in Industry: A Half Decade of Empirical Research

arXiv:2608.10431v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Responsible AI (RAI) has become a central concern for technology companies, regulators, and the public. How industry practitioners interpret, implemen

When should you start post-training your own models? @FireworksAI_HQ CEO @lqiao’s answer: after product-market fit. Not because it's hard...…

When should you start post-training your own models? @FireworksAI_HQ CEO @lqiao’s answer: after product-market fit. Not because it's hard... but because only after PMF is the data coming off your prod

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XCoT-VLA: Executable Chain-of-Thought for Vision-Language-Action Driving

arXiv:2608.10976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models can connect scene understanding, semantic reasoning, and trajectory generation for autonomous driving. However, verb

Your LLM, Your Style: Behavioral Mode Axes for LLM Behavioral Control

arXiv:2608.10703v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly act in interactive settings where their behavioral styles affect user experience, safety, and downstream dec

A Distribution Mapping Approach to Counterfactually Fair Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.08743v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) seeks to optimize sequential decisions to maximize population-level benefits over time. However, when deployed in high-sta

A Dynamic-Semantics Framework for Grounding Human Referring Expressions in Visual Perceptual Data

arXiv:2608.08663v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans converge on shared names for novel, hard-to-describe objects through repeated interaction, a process psycholinguists call lexical entrainment.

A Structural Dynamics Graph World Model: Unified Modeling, Constrained Rollout, and Interpretable Calibration

arXiv:2608.08689v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The state evolution of a complex system arises jointly from object laws, relational propagation, domain conservation, and unmodeled error. Forcing all s

A Unified Framework for Dynamic Reward Shaping in Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.08158v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse, delayed, and weakly informative rewards remain central obstacles to efficient reinforcement learning. Reward shaping addresses these limitations

Action- and Language-Conditioned Video Assessment for Embodied Control

arXiv:2608.08273v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-based embodied agents executing multi-step natural language instructions require feedback mechanisms that assess task progress over complete tr

Adaptive Sequential Test Planning for Multi-Mechanism Reliability Qualification via Bayesian Monte Carlo Tree Search

arXiv:2608.09622v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliability qualification of advanced semiconductor devices requires sequential stress decisions that balance characterization objectives against multip

Adaptive Supervised Anchoring for On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2608.07935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) adapts a language model by distilling guidance from a frozen teacher on trajectories sampled from the student. Its ef

Agentic Harnesses: LLM-Driven Verification Layers for Robot Autonomy

arXiv:2608.09857v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advances in advanced artificial intelligence tools have sparked research in robot autonomy, but the development of such systems has largely focused on

Agentic Visual Reasoning in Whole-Slide Pathology Images via Active Perception

arXiv:2608.08648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whole-slide visual reasoning requires identifying sparse diagnostic evidence in gigapixel pathology slides and integrating observations across spatial s

An Agentic Generative Large Language Model for Treatment Planning of Colorectal Cancer

arXiv:2608.09142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Treatment planning in precision oncology requires synthesizing heterogeneous patient information with rapidly evolving clinical guidelines to ensure gui

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An Explainable GNN Framework for Component-Level Anomaly Diagnosis

arXiv:2608.09246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial processes are complex systems composed of multiple interacting sensors that generate multivariate time series (MTS). Detecting anomalies in s

ArchAgent v2: A Case Study with the Data Prefetching Championship

arXiv:2608.09874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic artificial intelligence has shown great promise in automating algorithm design, but scaling similar techniques to computer microarchitecture dis

Artificial Leviathan: Exploring Social Evolution of LLM Agents Through the Lens of Hobbesian Social Contract Theory

arXiv:2406.14373v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) and advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) offer an opportunity for computational social science

Auditing Instruction-Trajectory Mismatches in Multimodal Robot Demonstrations

arXiv:2608.07895v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot demonstration datasets used to train vision-language-action policies can contain a subtle but harmful failure mode: trajectories that are behavi

Autonomous Driving with Priority-Ordered STL Specifications Under Multimodal Uncertainty

arXiv:2606.20336v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous vehicles must plan trajectories that satisfy multiple requirements, such as safety, traffic-rule compliance, and passenger comfort. Howev

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Autonomy Reshapes How Personalization Affects Privacy Concerns and Trust in LLM Agents

arXiv:2510.04465v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM agents require personal information for personalization in order to effectively act on users' behalf, but this raises privacy concerns tha

Beyond Aggregate Calibration: Decomposing Income-Conditional Recall Disparities in Automated Credit Default Prediction

arXiv:2608.08202v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data-centric curation pipelines frequently rely on model confidence scores to flag and filter noisy or mislabeled training instances. Evaluating this fi

Beyond Binary: Continuous State Optimization with Graph-Structured Objectives

arXiv:2608.09366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale learning systems often face the challenge of balancing multiple, potentially competing objectives, such as fairness, accuracy, and latency.

Beyond cognacy

arXiv:2507.03005v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Computational phylogenetics has become an established tool in historical linguistics, with many language families now analyzed using likelihood-base

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Beyond 'I Can't Help With That': How Child Safety Experts Evaluate AI Chatbot Safety

arXiv:2608.07902v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Youth increasingly turn to AI chatbots for social and emotional support, raising concerns about how these systems respond, especially in high-stakes s

Beyond Solvability: Task Learnability as a Static Prior for LLM RL Post-Training

arXiv:2608.09217v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a central post-training paradigm for eliciting reasoning capabilities in large language models, yet uniform tas

Causal Falsification of Digital Twins

arXiv:2301.07210v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Digital twins are simulation-based models designed to predict how a real-world process will evolve in response to interventions. This modellin

CDGC-Net: 3D Medical Image Segmentation with Cooperative Dual-Scale Self-Attention and Grouped Channel Modeling

arXiv:2608.08575v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate 3D medical image segmentation requires the integration of long-range anatomical context with fine boundary detail. Existing methods often mod

CIFA: Contextual-Intersectional Fairness Auditing for Hidden Subgroup Discovery in Face Analysis

arXiv:2608.09669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fairness evaluation in computer vision commonly relies on aggregate accuracy and demographic subgroup analysis. However, visual models are also sensitiv

City Sentinel: A Unified AI-Based Smart Surveillance Framework for Real-Time Multi-Threat Detection Using Deep Learning

arXiv:2608.08887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rapid urbanization has increased the need for surveillance systems that can monitor multiple public safety risks at the same time. Traditional systems o

CLAM: Causal Spatial Disaggregation to Infer Local Effects From Coarse Data

arXiv:2608.08064v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning fine-grained spatial patterns from coarse-resolution data is challenging, especially in causal settings where high-resolution effects must be i

Coarse-to-Fine Registration of Jawbone CT and Intraoral Scan Data Using GeDi and ICP with Pseudo-IOS Ground Truth

arXiv:2608.07564v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In digital dentistry and oral surgery, the registration of jawbone CT and intraoral scanner (IOS) data is essential for integrating internal bone stru

Concept-Guided Spatial Regularization for World Models in Atari Pong

arXiv:2607.15142v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: World models are usually evaluated as components of model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) systems, leaving their standalone reliability understu

Confusion-Geometry Rebalancing for Long-Tailed Adversarial Training

arXiv:2608.09688v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adversarial training under long tailed distributions suffers from a dual imbalance: the class imbalance skews the training objective toward head class

Context Is Not Authority: Structured Runtime Governance for Financial Market Agents

arXiv:2608.09025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial agents can turn correct context into an unauthorized effect: a customer-facing commitment, trade, or deployed policy. We present SAGE-Fin, a f