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OpenAI partners with Malta's AI for All initiative to give citizens a free year of ChatGPT Plus if they complete a University of Malta AI literacy course (Cointelegraph)

Cointelegraph: OpenAI partners with Malta's AI for All initiative to give citizens a free year of ChatGPT Plus if they complete a University of Malta AI literacy course — Cointelegraph is committed to

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pleased to be in this and encourage everyone to read: Awesome new theme issue of Philosophical Transactions: ‘World models in natural and artificial intelligence’ Thank you @adamsafron! https://royals

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Real AGI would not do this. Even after a trillion dollars in LLMs still do.

Real AGI would not do this. Even after a trillion dollars in LLMs still do. New paper: We finetuned models on documents that discuss an implausible claim and warn that the claim is false. Models ended

tesla robotaxis going about as well you might expect.

Gary Marcus, a prominent AI researcher and critic, comments on Tesla's robotaxi development progress, likely offering skeptical or cautionary observations about the practical challenges and timeline o

Truly an all-star cast, on one of the most important questions in AI. Thrilled to see some many people finally willing to confront the hard …

Truly an all-star cast, on one of the most important questions in AI. Thrilled to see some many people finally willing to confront the hard questions of how we can move beyond LLMs, and into what worl

💯. Way too much focus on language models.

💯. Way too much focus on language models. Fei-Fei Li warns that AI may be staring too hard at language models. The world is not just text on a screen. It is physical, visual, spatial, and always chang

A cross-species neural foundation model for end-to-end speech decoding

arXiv:2511.21740v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Speech brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) aim to restore communication for people with paralysis by translating neural activity into text. Most

A Regret Perspective on Online Multiple Testing

arXiv:2605.13916v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Online Multiple Testing (OMT), a fundamental pillar of sequential statistical inference, traditionally evaluates the False Discovery Rate (FDR) and st

A Security Analysis of the OpenClaw AI Agent Framework

arXiv:2603.27517v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI agent frameworks connecting large language model (LLM) reasoning to host execution surfaces -- shell, filesystem, containers, and messaging

Achieving Approximate Symmetry Is Exponentially Easier than Exact Symmetry

arXiv:2512.11855v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Enforcing exact symmetry in machine learning models often yields significant gains in scientific applications, serving as a powerful inductive

Action-Conditioned Risk Gating for Safety-Critical Control under Partial Observability

arXiv:2605.14246v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many safety-critical control problems are modeled as risk-sensitive partially observable Markov decision processes, where the controller must make dec

Active Learners as Efficient PRP Rerankers

arXiv:2605.14236v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pairwise Ranking Prompting (PRP) elicits pairwise preference judgments from an LLM, which are then aggregated into a ranking, usually via classical so

ActivePusher: Active Learning and Planning with Residual Physics for Nonprehensile Manipulation

arXiv:2506.04646v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Planning with learned dynamics models offers a promising approach toward versatile real-world manipulation, particularly in nonprehensile sett

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Agentifying Patient Dynamics within LLMs through Interacting with Clinical World Model

arXiv:2605.14723v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sepsis management in the ICU requires sequential treatment decisions under rapidly evolving patient physiology. Although large language models (LLMs) en

AIS: Adaptive Importance Sampling for Quantized RL

arXiv:2605.13907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) for large language models (LLMs) is dominated by the cost of rollout generation, which has motivated the use of low-precis

Aligning Latent Geometry for Spherical Flow Matching in Image Generation

arXiv:2605.15193v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent flow matching for image generation usually transports Gaussian noise to variational autoencoder latents along linear paths. Both endpoints, howev

AMiD: Knowledge Distillation for LLMs with alpha-mixture Assistant Distribution

arXiv:2510.15982v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable improvement across many tasks but incur high computational and memory cos

Anti-Length Shift: Dynamic Outlier Truncation for Training Efficient Reasoning Models

arXiv:2601.03969v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large reasoning models enhanced by reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards have achieved significant performance gains by extending their cha

AQKA: Active Quantum Kernel Acquisition Under a Shot Budget

arXiv:2605.14672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Estimating an N imes N quantum kernel from circuit fidelities requires Theta(N^2 S) measurement shots, the dominant bottleneck for deployment on near-te

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ASH: Agents that Self-Hone via Embodied Learning

arXiv:2605.14211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon embodied tasks remain a fundamental challenge in AI, as current methods rely on hand-engineered rewards or action-labeled demonstrations, n

AutoMoT: A Unified Vision-Language-Action Model with Asynchronous Mixture-of-Transformers for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2603.14851v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Integrating vision-language models (VLMs) into end-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving (AD) systems has shown promise in improving scene understanding.

Before the Body Moves: Learning Anticipatory Joint Intent for Language-Conditioned Humanoid Control

arXiv:2605.14417v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Natural language is an intuitive interface for humanoid robots, yet streaming whole-body control requires control representations that are executable

Behavioral Data-Driven Optimal Trajectory Generation for Rotary Cranes

arXiv:2605.14944v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the growth of the construction industry and the global shortage of skilled labor, the automation of crane control has become increasingly important

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Bellman Value Decomposition for Task Logic in Safe Optimal Control

arXiv:2602.19532v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-world tasks involve nuanced combinations of goal and safety specifications. In high dimensions, the challenge is exacerbated: formal automata b

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Beyond Instance-Level Self-Supervision in 3D Multi-Modal Medical Imaging

arXiv:2605.14654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-supervised pre-training methods in medical imaging typically treat each individual as an isolated instance, learning representations through augmen

Big move from arXiv: a one-year ban for authors who submit AI-generated content without proper checking. This is not about banning AI from a…

Big move from arXiv: a one-year ban for authors who submit AI-generated content without proper checking. This is not about banning AI from academia. AI can be extremely useful. It can help us write be

BiSpikCLM: A Spiking Language Model integrating Softmax-Free Spiking Attention and Spike-Aware Alignment Distillation

arXiv:2605.13859v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer promising energy-efficient alternatives to large language models (LLMs) due to their event-driven nature and ultr

Boosting Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards via Randomly Selected Few-Shot Guidance

arXiv:2605.15012v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has achieved great success in developing Large Language Models (LLMs) with chain-of-thought roll

Break-the-Beat! Controllable MIDI-to-Drum Audio Synthesis

arXiv:2605.14555v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current methods for creating drum loop audio in digital music production, such as using one-shot samples or resampling, often demand non-trivial effor

CHASM: Cross-frequency Harmonized Axis-Separable Mixing for Spectral Token Operators

arXiv:2605.14727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spectral token mixers based on Fourier transforms provide an efficient way to model global interactions in visual feature maps. Existing designs often e

COAL: Counterfactual and Observation-Enhanced Alignment Learning for Discriminative Referring Multi-Object Tracking

arXiv:2605.14795v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Referring Multi-Object Tracking (RMOT) faces a fundamental structural contradiction between the high-discriminability demand and the sparse semantic sup

Collaborative Yet Personalized Policy Training: Single-Timescale Federated Actor-Critic

arXiv:2605.14423v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite the popularity of the actor-critic method and the practical needs of collaborative policy training, existing works typically either overlook e

company that steals IP urges US government not to allow others to steal their IP

company that steals IP urges US government not to allow others to steal their IP Anthropic drops a paper on the US-China AI race They believe the US and its allies may be able to lock in a 12-24 month

Comparing Developer and LLM Biases in Code Evaluation

arXiv:2603.24586v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As LLMs are increasingly used as judges in code applications, they should be evaluated in realistic interactive settings that capture partial

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Complacent, Not Sycophantic: Reframing Large Language Models and Designing AI Literacy for Complacent Machines

arXiv:2605.14544v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are often described as sycophantic, in the sense that they appear to flatter users or mirror their beliefs. We argue that this lab

Compositional Sparsity as an Inductive Bias for Neural Architecture Design

arXiv:2605.14764v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Identifying the structural priors that enable Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to overcome the curse of dimensionality is a fundamental challenge in machin

CrystalReasoner: Reasoning and RL for Property-Conditioned Crystal Structure Generation

arXiv:2605.14344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative modeling has emerged as a promising approach for crystal structure discovery. However, existing LLM-based generative models struggle with low

CuSearch: Curriculum Rollout Sampling via Search Depth for Agentic RAG

arXiv:2605.11611v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a promising paradigm for training agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)

DAPL: Integration of Positive and Negative Descriptions in Text-Based Person Search

arXiv:2405.07459v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Text-based person search (TBPS) aims to retrieve specific images of individuals from large datasets using textual descriptions. Existing TBPS method

Deciphering Neural Reparameterized Full-Waveform Inversion with Neural Sensitivity Kernel and Wave Tangent Kernel

arXiv:2605.14370v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Full-waveform inversion (FWI) estimates unknown parameters in the wave equation from limited boundary measurements. Recent advances in neural reparame

Deepchecks: Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

arXiv:2605.14488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) augmented with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques are revolutionizing applications across multiple domains, su

Delta Forcing: Trust Region Steering for Interactive Autoregressive Video Generation

arXiv:2605.14382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interactive real-time autoregressive video generation is essential for applications such as content creation and world modeling, where visual content mu

Diagnosing Training Inference Mismatch in LLM Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2605.14220v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern LLM RL systems separate rollout generation from policy optimization. These two stages are expected to produce token probabilities that match ex

did you know that Queen Elizabeth II wrote a Python graduate textbook?

did you know that Queen Elizabeth II wrote a Python graduate textbook? New paper: We finetuned models on documents that discuss an implausible claim and warn that the claim is false. Models ended up b

DiffusionOPD: A Unified Perspective of On-Policy Distillation in Diffusion Models

arXiv:2605.15055v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning has emerged as a powerful tool for improving diffusion-based text-to-image models, but existing methods are largely limited to

Dimension-Level Intent Fidelity Evaluation for Large Language Models: Evidence from Structured Prompt Ablation

arXiv:2605.14517v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Holistic evaluation scores capture overall output quality but do not distinguish whether a model reproduced the structural form of a user's request fr

Distance-Matrix Wasserstein Statistics for Scalable Gromov--Wasserstein Learning

arXiv:2605.14981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gromov--Wasserstein (GW) distances compare graphs, shapes, and point clouds through internal distances, without requiring a common coordinate system. Th

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Distribution Corrected Offline Data Distillation for Large Language Models

arXiv:2605.14071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distilling reasoning traces from strong large language models into smaller ones is a promising route to improve intelligence in resource-constrained set

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