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Real2Sim: A Physics-driven and Editable Gaussian Splatting Framework for Autonomous Driving Scenes

arXiv:2605.13591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable autonomous driving relies on large-scale, well-labeled data and robust models. However, manual data collection is resource-intensive, and tradi

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Respecting Self-Uncertainty in On-Policy Self-Distillation for Efficient LLM Reasoning

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arXiv:2605.13255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation trains a reasoning model on its own rollouts while a teacher, often the same model conditioned on privileged context, provid

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Revealing Interpretable Failure Modes of VLMs

arXiv:2605.12674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly used in safety-critical applications because of their broad reasoning capabilities and ability to general

Revealing the Gap in Human and VLM Scene Perception through Counterfactual Semantic Saliency

arXiv:2605.13047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluating whether large vision-language models (VLMs) align with human perception for high-level semantic scene comprehension remains a challenge. Tr

Revisiting DAgger in the Era of LLM-Agents

arXiv:2605.12913v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon LM agents learn from multi-turn interaction, where a single early mistake can alter the subsequent state distribution and derail the whole

Reward-Weighted On-Policy Distillation with an Open Property-Equivalence Verifier for NL-to-SVA Generation

arXiv:2605.13501v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based generation of SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) is often reported as nearing saturation, with the strongest specialized model reaching {sim}76%

RoboEvolve: Co-Evolving Planner-Simulator for Robotic Manipulation with Limited Data

arXiv:2605.13775v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The scalability of robotic manipulation is fundamentally bottlenecked by the scarcity of task-aligned physical interaction data. While vision-language

Robot Squid Game: Quadrupedal Locomotion for Traversing Narrow Tunnels

arXiv:2605.13665v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quadruped robots demonstrate exceptional potential for navigating complex terrain in critical applications such as search and rescue missions and infras

Robust and Safe Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Communication for Autonomous Vehicles: From Simulation to Hardware

arXiv:2506.00982v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has been demonstrated effectively in simulations for multi-robot problems. For autonomous vehicles, t

Runtime Monitoring of Perception-Based Autonomous Systems via Embedding Temporal Logic

arXiv:2605.12651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Runtime monitoring of autonomous systems traditionally relies on mapping continuous sensor observations to discrete logical propositions defined over lo

ScioMind: Cognitively Grounded Multi-Agent Social Simulation with Anchoring-Based Belief Dynamics and Dynamic Profiles

arXiv:2605.13725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent simulation offers a powerful testbed for studying social opinion dynamics. Yet current approaches often ado

SECOND-Grasp: Semantic Contact-guided Dexterous Grasping

arXiv:2605.13117v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Achieving reliable robotic manipulation, such as dexterous grasping, requires a synergy between physically stable interactions and semantic task guida

Selective Off-Policy Reference Tuning with Plan Guidance

arXiv:2605.11505v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards helps reasoning, but GRPO-style methods stall on hard prompts where all sampled rollouts fail. SORT a

Self-Supervised On-Policy Reinforcement Learning via Contrastive Proximal Policy Optimisation

arXiv:2605.13554v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contrastive reinforcement learning (CRL) learns goal-conditioned Q-values through a contrastive objective over state-action and goal representations,

Sharpness-Guided Group Relative Policy Optimization via Probability Shaping

arXiv:2511.00066v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a practical route to improve large language model reasoning, and Group Relative Pol

SID: Sliding into Distribution for Robust Few-Demonstration Manipulation

arXiv:2605.13428v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalizing robotic manipulation across object poses, viewpoints, and dynamic disturbances is difficult, especially with only a few demonstrations. End

SP-GCRL: Influence Maximization on Incomplete Social Graphs

arXiv:2605.12513v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Influence maximization (IM) in real platforms is challenged by incomplete, noisy social graphs and non-stationary diffusion dynamics. We propose SP-GC

Spatiotemporal downscaling and nowcasting of urban land surface temperatures with deep neural networks

arXiv:2605.13566v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Land Surface Temperature (LST) is a key variable for various applications, such as urban climate and ecology studies. Yet, existing satellite-derived LS

Spectral Energy Centroid: a Metric for Improving Performance and Analyzing Spectral Bias in Implicit Neural Representations

arXiv:2605.12709v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) model continuous signals using multilayer perceptrons (MLPs), enabling compact, differentiable, and high-fidelity

SPOT: Selective Prompt Projection via Total Variation for Inference-Only Safe Text-to-Image Generation

arXiv:2602.00616v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models enable high quality open ended synthesis, but practical use requires suppressing unsafe generations while prese

STAR: Semantic-Temporal Adaptive Representation Learning for Few-Shot Action Recognition

arXiv:2605.13202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Few-shot action recognition (FSAR) requires models to generalize to novel action categories from only a handful of annotated samples. Despite progress

Structural Diversity Drives Disruptive Scientific Innovation

arXiv:2605.12514v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific innovation increasingly depends on collaboration, yet the organizational structure that fosters breakthrough ideas remains poorly understoo

Sustaining AI safety: Control-theoretic external impossibility, intrinsic necessity, and structural requirements

arXiv:2605.12963v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI systems become increasingly capable, safety strategies must be evaluated not only by how much they reduce present risk, but by whether they could

Switching Successor Measures for Hierarchical Zero-shot Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2605.13207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hierarchical reinforcement learning can improve generalization by decomposing long-horizon decision-making into simpler subproblems. However, existing a

Teacher-Guided Policy Optimization for LLM Distillation

arXiv:2605.13230v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The convergence of reinforcement learning and imitation learning has positioned Reverse KL (RKL) as a promising paradigm for on-policy LLM distillatio

TeleGate: Whole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation via Gated Expert Selection with Motion Prior

arXiv:2602.09628v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-time whole-body teleoperation is a critical method for humanoid robots to perform complex tasks in unstructured environments. However, developi

Temper and Tilt Lead to SLOP: Reward Hacking Mitigation with Inference-Time Alignment

arXiv:2605.13537v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inference-time alignment techniques offer a lightweight alternative or complement to costly reinforcement learning, while enabling continual adaptatio

Test-time Offline Reinforcement Learning on Goal-related Experience

arXiv:2507.18809v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Foundation models compress a large amount of information in a single, large neural network, which can then be queried for individual tasks. There ar

Test-time Sparsity for Extreme Fast Action Diffusion

arXiv:2605.13316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action diffusion excels at high-fidelity action generation but incurs heavy computational costs owing to its iterative denoising nature. Despite current

The End Justifies the Mean: A Linear Ranking Rule for Proportional Sequential Decisions

arXiv:2605.12717v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI alignment and participatory design motivate a new democratic design problem: how to collectively choose a decision rule to use repeatedly. We study

The Horizon Threshold in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reward-Free Exploration

arXiv:2602.01453v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning in the setting of reward-free exploration, where multiple agents jointly explore an unknown

The Unified Autonomy Stack: Toward a Blueprint for Generalizable Robot Autonomy

arXiv:2605.12735v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce and open-source the Unified Autonomy Stack, a system-level solution that enables resilient autonomy across diverse aerial and ground robot

Think Twice, Act Once: Verifier-Guided Action Selection For Embodied Agents

arXiv:2605.12620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building generalist embodied agents capable of solving complex real-world tasks remains a fundamental challenge in AI. Multimodal Large Language Models

Tight Sample Complexity Bounds for Entropic Best Policy Identification

arXiv:2605.13717v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study best-policy identification for finite-horizon risk-sensitive reinforcement learning under the entropic risk measure. Recent work established a

Topology-Preserving Neural Operator Learning via Hodge Decomposition

arXiv:2605.13834v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we study solution operators of physical field equations on geometric meshes from a function-space perspective. We reveal that Hodge ort

Towards a holistic understanding of Selection Bias for Causal Effect Identification

arXiv:2605.13430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Selection bias is pervasive in observational studies. For example, large scale biobanks data can exhibit ``healthy volunteer bias'' when respondents a

Towards Generalizable Reasoning: Group Causal Counterfactual Policy Optimization for LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2602.06475v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) excel at complex tasks with advances in reasoning capabilities. However, existing reward mechanisms remain tightly coup

Tracing Persona Vectors Through LLM Pretraining

arXiv:2605.13329v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How large language models internally represent high-level behaviors is a core interpretability question with direct relevance to AI safety: it determi

TrackCraft3R: Repurposing Video Diffusion Transformers for Dense 3D Tracking

arXiv:2605.12587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dense 3D tracking from monocular video is fundamental to dynamic scene understanding. While recent 3D foundation models provide reliable per-frame geome

Trajectory-Level Data Augmentation for Offline Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2605.13401v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a data augmentation method for offline reinforcement learning, motivated by active positioning problems. Particularly, our approach enables t

Uncertainty-aware Spatial-Frequency Registration and Fusion for Infrared and Visible Images

arXiv:2605.13049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Infrared and Visible Image Fusion (IVIF) has shown promise in visual tasks under challenging environments, but fusion under unregistered conditions face

Unifying Entropy Regularization in Optimal Control: From and Back to Classical Objectives via Iterated Soft Policies and Path Integral Solutions

arXiv:2512.06109v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper develops a unified perspective on several optimal control formulations through the lens of Kullback-Leibler (KL) regularization. We

UniJEPA: Enhancing Robot Policy via Unified Continuous and Discrete Representation Learning

arXiv:2510.10642v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Building generalist robot policies that can handle diverse tasks in open-ended environments is a central challenge in robotics. To leverage kn

Unweighted ranking for value-based decision making with uncertainty

arXiv:2605.13601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As intelligent systems are increasingly implemented in our society to make autonomous decisions, their commitment to human values raises serious concern

VERA-MH: Validation of Ethical and Responsible AI in Mental Health

arXiv:2605.13318v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chatbot usage has increased, including in fields for which they were never developed for--notably mental health support. To that end, we introduce Valid

VideoSEAL: Mitigating Evidence Misalignment in Agentic Long Video Understanding by Decoupling Answer Authority

arXiv:2605.12571v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long video question answering requires locating sparse, time-scattered visual evidence within highly redundant content. Although current MLLMs perform

wading through bots and LLM-written replies here is getting more tedious by the day. retweet if you agree.

Gary Marcus expresses frustration about the increasing prevalence of bot-generated and LLM-written responses on social media platforms, noting that filtering through such content has become increasing

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Watermarking Should Be Treated as a Monitoring Primitive

arXiv:2605.13095v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Watermarking is widely proposed for provenance, attribution, and safety monitoring in generative models, yet is typically evaluated only under adversa