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arXiv:2610.12684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-prehensile manipulation with mobile robots has primarily targeted placement in coarse goal regions. Precision placement has been studied with manipu
arXiv:2610.13369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is a standard technique for improving conditional generation in diffusion models, yet its activation schedule is usually
arXiv:2610.13826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in automatic pronunciation assessment (APA) have driven a shift from scripted to free-form assessment. However, existing methods often
arXiv:2610.12558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots have many degrees of freedom and contact surfaces, yet most loco-manipulation research restricts manipulation to the hands and avoids ot
arXiv:2610.12885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated Direct Preference Optimization (FedDPO) enables privacy-preserving alignment of language models across distributed agents without centralizing
arXiv:2605.06212v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Attribution methods explain which input features drive a model's prediction, making them central to model debugging and mechanistic interpretability
arXiv:2610.13485v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic orchestration delegates tasks to sub-agents with independent contexts, providing a key path to extending the effective execution horizon of larg
arXiv:2610.13789v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Momentum methods such as STORM and second-order momentum track the gradient by adding a transport correction to momentum, at the cost of an extra oracle
arXiv:2610.13578v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pre-trained robot policies, such as Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, provide a strong foundation for generalist robotic manipulation, but adapting
arXiv:2610.13093v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive robot policies rely on action tokenizers to convert continuous action chunks into compact sequences of discrete prediction targets. Exist
arXiv:2606.18328v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Intelligent robots should not only recover from failures, but also acquire the abstract knowledge needed to avoid them in the future. While reinforc
arXiv:2610.13453v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) substantially improves planning performance in autonomous-driving Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. However, existing RL
arXiv:2610.12772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans effortlessly react to the world; they adeptly return a tennis shot, catch a falling cup, step aside from a passing cart, or pass a box tossed dur
arXiv:2610.12848v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In maximum entropy and behavior-constrained reinforcement learning (RL), the optimal policy is given by a Boltzmann distribution. Generating samples fro
arXiv:2610.12710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon manipulation requires robots to retain task-relevant history while revising conclusions no longer supported by physical evidence. Retaining
arXiv:2610.12781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning two independently pretrained unimodal encoders typically demands millions of paired examples. In this paper, we study the regime where only N s
arXiv:2610.13516v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Runtime failure monitors for robot policies are typically evaluated by how accurately they distinguish failed from successful executions. Yet an accur
arXiv:2610.13205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a target policy on its own rollouts using token-level supervision from a stronger teacher, but typically relies on t
arXiv:2610.12822v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent systems are increasingly used to solve coding tasks by coordinating agents that share code and plans. These agents are often optimized with
arXiv:2610.13438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a key paradigm for improving large language model (LLM) agents, enabling stronger reasoning, planning, and to
arXiv:2602.00183v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep neural networks are highly susceptible to backdoor attacks, yet most defense methods to date rely on balanced data, overlooking the perva
arXiv:2610.13912v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recursive self-improvement (RSI) aims to transform interaction experience into persistent improvements, yet external feedback is costly and world-model
arXiv:2610.13737v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cooperative multi-agent tasks often impose constraints on a shared objective or collective safety. A team level violation cost function can measure th
arXiv:2504.05727v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous mobile robots must operate smoothly in human-populated indoor environments, where onboard-only sensing suffers from limited perception ra
arXiv:2610.13207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fake news detection under low resource conditions is challenged by the scarcity of labeled data and the difficulty of capturing subtle deceptive pattern
arXiv:2610.13157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) for search agents often suffers from evidence fabrication, a failure mode where agents bypass external information (E_{ext})
Tony Diver / Telegraph: Sources: the US restores the UK AISI's access to the latest US models for safety testing, after ordering OpenAI and Anthropic to stop sharing models last month — US had blocked
arXiv:2610.13945v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A user who brings a generalist manipulation policy into their home or office wants it to pick up their objects from their shelves, counters, and tables.
arXiv:2604.06058v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Safety-critical control of uncertain, adaptive systems often relies on conservative, worst-case uncertainty bounds that limit closed-loop perf
arXiv:2610.13238v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-Policy Distillation (OPD) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for transferring reasoning capabilities from frontier models to smaller models, while ex
arXiv:2610.12734v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stereo vision is increasingly used for robotic manipulation, with a growing body of work incorporating it into Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. Ho
Sure does look like @GavinSBaker is “suggesting that public companies are materially inflating their remaining performance obligations”. yet another way the Ai industry is trying to con retail investo
arXiv:2610.12939v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decoder hidden states from different layers of large language models (LLMs) often encode complementary information. However, existing speculative deco
arXiv:2610.12877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agile and reliable navigation is a core capability for embodied robots navigating complex spatial constraints and dynamic interactions. However, a singl
arXiv:2510.13154v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: What happens inside a language model when alignment training conflicts with a cultural value it encodes? Across 16 MENA countries, 26 models, and 1.
arXiv:2610.13237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPAs) learn by predicting teacher representations of masked regions from visible context. Point prediction
arXiv:2610.13711v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) learn policies that sample discrete objects in proportion to a positive reward. They are trained by minimizing bala
arXiv:2610.13810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are now a standard source of query expansion terms but they hallucinate. They inject non existent entities and off-topic
arXiv:2610.13872v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate detection of drivable area is essential for autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems. While state-of-the-art methods focus o
arXiv:2506.02955v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative models have become increasingly powerful tools for robot motion generation, enabling flexible and multimodal trajectory generation
arXiv:2610.12851v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work studies an entropy-based estimator of Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence constructed from normalized importance weights. We prove a universal
arXiv:2610.13692v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard Policy Gradient (PG) algorithms suffer from high estimation variance because they rely on Monte Carlo updates. While off-policy variance redu
arXiv:2610.12813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly operate over sensitive resources, such as private documents and mutable system states, which can create serious safety and secur
arXiv:2610.13252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Can a vision model learn what words mean from pixels alone? We show that the two largest DINOv3 vision transformers organize words rendered in images
arXiv:2610.12733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Indoor navigation to task-relevant targets remains difficult when the target is small, occluded, or visually indistinct. Meanwhile, smart appliances, mo
arXiv:2610.12832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) already exhibit strong visual, spatial and reasoning capabilities relevant to robotic manipulation. The key cha
We need a name for the kind of people that conflate 2022 pure LLMs that were in fact a tiny bit like stochastic parrots (not my phrase, and not one I ever endorsed) with 2026 systems that couple those
arXiv:2610.13247v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open audio-language models are used as judges of generated music: given a clip and its text prompt, the model rates the clip, and the judge is validat
arXiv:2610.12995v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) remains a widely used approach for post-training large language models, because fixed demonstrations can directly introdu
arXiv:2610.13465v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal LLMs can fail to read text embedded in an image's coarse structure (text a human recovers by squinting) and report that no text is present.
arXiv:2610.13404v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Linear models can predict well in complex domains even when underlying mechanisms are nonlinear. We argue that this can occur because the complexity of
arXiv:2610.13687v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio-visual dataset distillation aims to synthesize a small dataset from a large paired audio-visual dataset, while nearly preserving the training ut
arXiv:2610.13786v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Discrete graph diffusion models (GDMs) corrupt the graph structure by adding noise independently to nodes and edges under a Markovian noise model. In
Introducing Multi-Agent Self-Supervision (MASS): Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence Blog: https://pub.sakana.ai/mass/ As AI systems tackle increasingly open-ended research prob
CBS News: A look at a 1,700-member Slack run by Medicare agency CMS where Microsoft, OpenAI, and other companies help shape policy on AI apps and medical records access — A cadre of elite techies, fin
Reasoning From Scratch: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) round 2. Covering clipped policy ratios, KL loss term, format rewards, and other GRPO tips & tricks. 00:00 Introduction an
arXiv:2610.12465v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General-purpose robots must perform a wide range of tasks from agile locomotion to dexterous manipulation. While sim-to-real reinforcement learning (R
arXiv:2610.12113v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Off-policy actor--critic methods control overestimation bias by taking the minimum of two critics. This uses the same aggregation rule everywhere, reg
arXiv:2610.12404v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Close-proximity multi-arm manipulation requires collision models that are both geometrically accurate and differentiable enough for real-time optimizati
arXiv:2610.12420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning in safety-critical domains requires maximizing task performance while strictly adhering to safety constraints. Existing safe rein