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OnTrack: Real-Time Monitoring and Intervention in LLM Agent Trajectories via Streaming Structure-Aware Optimal Transport

arXiv:2610.12375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agents are deployed in applications from trip planners and stock trading to IT incident triage. In most cases, LLM agents work autonomously with minimal

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OpenAI doubles down on decision to fire three AI safety researchers

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OpenAI is standing firm on its decision to fire three safety researchers after an investigation found they committed 'a significant breach of trust.' In a post on X on Friday, the company said Jasmine

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Opera: A Verbal Critic Framework for Long-horizon Coding Agents

arXiv:2609.33987v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon coding agents need timely corrections, yet feedback can be ineffective or even harmful when it misjudges ongoing work or fails to addre

PearlVLA: Progressive Embodied Action-Plan Refinement in Latent Space

arXiv:2606.17924v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models face a trade-off between efficient action generation and explicit deliberation. Directly decoding

PIER: An Evidence-Gated Execution Interface for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2610.12123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating a plausible robot action does not establish that current observations justify its execution. Motivated by exploratory observations of high-co

PIVOT: Perplexity-Informed KD-to-RL Transition Scheduling for Vertical-Domain Few-Shot Distillation

arXiv:2610.11167v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vertical-domain few-shot classification remains challenging for small language models, as limited supervision makes it difficult to acquire domain-spe

PLaW-VLA: Predictive Latent World Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Policies

arXiv:2610.12285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning to predict how the world evolves can provide vision-language-action (VLA) policies with predictive context for long-horizon control, but its ef

Policy Learning with a Language Bottleneck

arXiv:2405.04118v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern AI systems such as self-driving cars and game-playing agents can achieve superhuman performance, but often lack human-like generalizati

Predicting Cable Dynamics with Physical Attention Bias

arXiv:2610.11975v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learned simulators for deformable linear objects (DLOs) such as cables have to predict the motion of cables they were not trained on and stay stable ove

Prediction-Powered Data Fusion for Treatment Effect Estimation

arXiv:2610.12332v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) identify treatment effects without confounding but are often small, whereas observational studies (OBS) are large

Prior or Feedback? What an LLM Uses When Adapting Neural Operators

arXiv:2610.12325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Do LLM scientific agents rely only on their initial task context, or do they adapt their decisions in response to experimental feedback? We study this q

Probabilistic Sensing, Deterministic Authority: Admitting Model-Produced Observations into Sufficiency-Checked Governance Contracts

arXiv:2610.10978v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When a field that an authority contract needs exists only in unstructured evidence, a model can sense it. We admit the model's output only as an obser

Probability-Signature Dynamics: Unpacking Modular Addition Learning Within Two-Layer Networks

arXiv:2610.11833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural networks trained on modular addition tasks often develop Fourier-structured representations that support exact generalization. While prior work h

Proof-of-Use: Mitigating Tool-Call Hacking in Deep Research Agents

arXiv:2510.10931v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While reinforcement learning (RL) enhances their ability to plan and reason across retrieval steps, we identify a critical failure mode in this sett

PSI-SINDy: Post-Selection Inference for Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics

arXiv:2610.11486v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) is a data-driven framework for discovering governing dynamics from time-series data by identifying

PXtal: Learning to Align Powder X-Ray Diffraction and Crystal Structures under Information Asymmetry across Modalities

arXiv:2610.10653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific multimodal learning commonly assumes that paired views are comparably informative. Powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) makes this mismatch explic

Q-Shaped Options for Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.12135v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning to tackle long-horizon, goal-conditioned tasks requires an agent to reason over extended timescales and act across a broad range of states. In

RAGNAROK: Radar-Aided Gravity-Normalized Alignment for Robust Open Keyframe-based Radar-Visual-Kinematic-Inertial SLAM

arXiv:2610.11531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Legged robots offer superior mobility in unstructured environments, but reliable operation in such conditions requires robust state estimation. To addre

Randomized Transport Maps for Model-Free Policy-Gradient Mean-Field Control

arXiv:2610.11619v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We develop a model-free policy gradient method for discrete-time mean-field control (MFC). In MFC, the policy affects the objective both through the c

Reading the Room: Foundations, Design, and Challenges of Normative Competence in LLMs

arXiv:2610.10906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human communities are governed by normative systems: shared standards that produce extit{norms} dictating acceptable behavior, enforced through communit

ReCal: Calibrating Structured Pruning for On-Policy Distillation Recovery

arXiv:2610.11332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured pruning reduces the deployment cost of reasoning language models, but the resulting capability degradation can hinder subsequent on-policy di

Recompose and Refine Latent Reasoning Flows for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2610.12090v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent reasoning enables vision-language-action (VLA) models to transform multimodal observations into task-relevant internal states before generating c

Region-Aware CLS Token Augmentation for Fine-Grained Image Retrieval

arXiv:2610.10991v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image retrieval methods often rely on a single global semantic descriptor extracted from an image, e.g., the [CLS] token in vision transformers. However

Relative Patch Response Learning for Generalizable AI-Generated Image Detection

arXiv:2610.11876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative models can now synthesize highly realistic images, simultaneously increasing the risks of misinformation and visual forgery. Therefore, detec

Reliability-Aware Future Conditioning for Temporally Robust Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2610.11956v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A generated video of a task the robot is about to perform is useful guidance only if it depicts the phase the robot is actually in. We show that tempo

Rendering-Free Lookahead for Question-Guided Active Vision

arXiv:2610.11039v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active robot vision requires controlling the camera to reveal task-relevant information that is hidden from the current viewpoint. For example, determin

RESETTLE: Robotic Recovery through Disagreement-Triggered Retrieval and Efficient Corrective Control

arXiv:2610.12185v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable robotic manipulation requires timely intervention to correct emerging deviations and restore progress after execution errors. However, recovery

Residual Advantage: Student-Relative Teacher Guidance for RL with Verifiable Rewards

arXiv:2610.11519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) and on-policy distillation (OPD) have become two main paradigms for post-training reasoning models

Residual Modeling Closes the Regression and Generative Policy Gap in Robot Learning

arXiv:2610.12231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from demonstration has enabled impressive robot behaviors. A common choice for policy learning is to use diffusion or flow matching (Flow-Polic

ReTeach: Building a Self-Teacher through Multi-Round Reflection and Retry

arXiv:2610.11529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-distillation can improve reasoning without a separately trained, more capable teacher, but its effectiveness depends on how the self-teacher gains

Revisiting Identity and Spectra Dispersion in Media-Bridged Time Series Forecasting: Linking Multivariate Signals and Narrative Flows

arXiv:2610.11924v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Media-bridged time series forecasting is expanding to encompass traditional 'multivariate' and emerging 'multimodal' (e.g., through textual assistance).

Right Screen, Wrong Transition: World Models as Verifiers for GUI Agents

arXiv:2610.11942v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A login screen that appears after a tap on Sign in is expected; the same screen after a tap on View order is an attack. For GUI agents, safety is theref

RoboAware: Learning to Coordinate Embodied Skills from Counterfactual Outcomes

arXiv:2610.11480v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied coding agents can combine modular robot skills with frozen end-to-end policies, yet effective composition requires anticipating which policy

SACQ: Structured Decoding with Memory-Conditioned Refinement for Long-Horizon Forecasting

arXiv:2610.11170v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term time series forecasting (LTSF) models predominantly employ patch-based encoders terminated by a flatten readout head that maps the entire enco

SAGE: Sink-Aware Guided Emphasis for Visual Grounding in Vision-Language Decoders

arXiv:2610.11469v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent large vision-language models (VLMs) pair a visual encoder with a large language model (LLM) and perform well on diverse image-text tasks, yet t

SAIL: Scientific Agentic Intelligence via a Science-Aware Loop

arXiv:2610.11451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce SAIL, an open model with 35B total and 3B active parameters for literature research, scientific coding, and multi-step research workflows.

Same Outcome, Different Evidence: Intent Recovery in LLM Safety Evaluation

arXiv:2610.11766v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety evaluations of large language models commonly summarize harmful-output behavior with attack success rate (ASR). Yet the same non-harmful outcom

Seek-and-View Reasoning for Multi-View Spatial Understanding

arXiv:2610.11810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing approaches to multi-view spatial reasoning operate largely on sparse input views. Vision-language models (VLMs) are thus restricted to understa

SimVLA: Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real VLA Learning for Mobile Manipulation

arXiv:2610.11248v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale, diverse datasets have driven the success of LLMs and VLMs. But VLAs for robotics remain limited by the cost and complexity of real-world da

SkillWeave: Weaving Heterogeneous Demonstrations into Long-Horizon Manipulation Skills

arXiv:2610.12046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous manipulation requires both large-scale task progression and precise contact-rich interaction, making it challenging to collect demonstrations

Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's decision to launch Muse despite safety concerns, after seeing that AI startup Instinct's similar agent product gained traction (Eli Tan/New York Times)

Eli Tan / New York Times: Sources detail Mark Zuckerberg's decision to launch Muse despite safety concerns, after seeing that AI startup Instinct's similar agent product gained traction — Meta had del

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Spatial-Frequency-Aware Implicit Neural Representation of Multidimensional Signals via MLP-KAN Fusion

arXiv:2610.11296v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have emerged as a compelling paradigm for modeling multidimensional signals by mapping continuous coordinates to

SpatialHarness: Test-Time Spatial Scaffolding for Fine Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2610.12457v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier multimodal foundation models (e.g., GPT-6 Astra) have recently shown strong potential for direct robotic control, yet their performance on fine

SpatialOPSD: Self-Distilling Spatial Intelligence from Verified Coding Agent Traces

arXiv:2610.11366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial coding agents significantly improve spatial reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) by using external tools to generate verified e

SPLIT-RL: Staged Perception-Language Reasoning Training with Claim-Level Advantages

arXiv:2610.10889v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language (VL) reasoning requires a model to both extract relevant and accurate information from an image (visual reasoning, VR), and to infer the

SynCo: Data Synthesis Co-Training for Self-Evolving LLMs via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.11345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-evolving LLM agents promise to improve autonomously through continual interaction and learning, reducing their dependence on manually curated super

Synthesis Through Simulation: Generating Coherent Enterprise Data via Scalable Agent-System Interaction

arXiv:2610.10549v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-calling agents have become central to enterprise AI, yet training and evaluating them at scale remains severely constrained due to business and leg

TacHair: Tactile Contact-Distribution Guided Online Correction for Robotic Hair Stroking and Perception

arXiv:2610.10637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hair stroking is common in daily grooming and personal care, and is also widely used in hair-product evaluation, motivating robots with similar physical