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Mitigating Accent-Language Confusion in Self-Supervised Speech Representations for Language Identification

arXiv:2610.09486v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spoken language identification (LID) aims to recognize the target language regardless of accent. In practice, however, LID models fine-tuned from self

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MOTIP2: Spatial Priors for End-to-End Multi-Object Tracking

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arXiv:2610.10391v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end multi-object trackers have narrowed the gap with classical tracking-by-detection on association-difficult benchmarks. Yet they still make spa

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Multi-Objective Aligned Small Language Model Framework for SUD Patient Dialogue Generation

arXiv:2610.09209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Substance Use Disorder (SUD) counseling requires patient responses that reflect underlying cognitive states such as beliefs, coping strategies, and read

MUNITE: Unified Multimodal Latent Inference for Any-to-Any Multimodal Generation

arXiv:2610.09866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce MUNITE, a latent-variable framework for flexible any-to-any multimodal generation that treats encoding and latent generation as the same in

On KL-Regularized Policy Optimization

arXiv:2610.08963v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Asynchronous reinforcement learning (RL) for large language model (LLM) agents trains one policy on trajectories generated by another: rollouts come f

On-Policy Distillation Teaches New Skills but Not New Knowledge

arXiv:2610.09639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) strengthens language-model reasoning, yet whether students acquire new factual knowledge or compositional skill for multi-s

One-Slide Calibration of Pathology Foundation Models

arXiv:2610.08944v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scanner variation changes how pathology foundation models represent the same tissue. We introduce SlideRuler, which uses regions within a slide as inter

OnlineQAT: On-Policy Distillation for Ultra-Low-Bit Large Language Models

arXiv:2610.09346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantization-aware training (QAT) can recover much of the accuracy lost when large language models are compressed below four bits. Existing re- covery s

ORCA: Hunting Compositional Failures in Text-to-Image Diffusion

arXiv:2610.09841v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models fail predictably on compositional prompts: attributes bind to the wrong objects, spatial relations invert, and multi-obje

Pathwise Information Certificates for Decentralized Adaptive Sensing

arXiv:2610.10362v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study decentralized adaptive sensing, where multiple agents choose measurements from evolving local beliefs while exchanging information over a com

Persistence Paradox in Dynamic Science: Evidence from the Deep Learning Revolution

arXiv:2506.22729v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Persistence is often regarded as a virtue in science. In this paper, however, we challenge this conventional view by highlighting its contextu

Personalize at Test Time: Learning User Preferences for Image Generation

arXiv:2610.09015v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models can generate high-quality images, yet aligning their outputs with individual user preferences remains challenging. A key bottleneck is

PhysEvo: Astra Can Act, Let It

arXiv:2610.08995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Astra can act, yet reliable manipulation depends on the system through which it observes and controls the world. We introduce PhysEvo, a framework for p

Point It, Strike It: Direction-Conditioned Dynamic Manipulation of Deformable Linear Objects

arXiv:2610.09573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Goal-conditioned dynamic manipulation of deformable linear objects has mainly specified goals as positions for a rope tip to reach. Many tasks, however,

Policy Learning with Weak Signals

arXiv:2610.10167v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Policy learning in digital experimentation faces three challenges: weak signal-to-noise ratios, rich covariate spaces, and massive data volumes. We fo

Predicted Futures Are Not Enough: Learning Executable Goals for Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2610.09309v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative world models provide rich predictions of how manipulation scenes may evolve toward task objectives, yet those futures do not directly expose

Purifying Backdoored Large Vision-Language Models by Removing Hijacked Directions

arXiv:2610.09941v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large vision-language models (LVLMs) are increasingly deployed in safety-critical applications, yet they remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Defendin

Q-Learning with Scalar Adjoint Matching

arXiv:2610.10437v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow policies capture rich and diverse action distributions, and fine-tuning them with off-policy RL to improve beyond the demonstrations has drawn grow

RELATE: An Evaluation Framework for measuring Relational Orientation of Large Language Models

arXiv:2610.09569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for emotional support, raising concern that sustained use may draw users away from their real-world r

Rephrase Before You Act: Characterizing and Mitigating Language Sensitivity in Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2610.10526v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs) are strikingly sensitive to instruction phrasing and do not inherit the language robustness of the vision-languag

Revisiting Explainable AI through Model-Independent Concept Dictionaries

arXiv:2610.10301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern applications of AI rely on increasingly complex models. Explainable AI (XAI) has emerged as a set of techniques aimed at improving model transpar

RFPO: Rectified Flow Policy Optimization for Embodied Control

arXiv:2610.10453v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow-based policies provide an expressive framework for continuous robot control, but their iterative ODE integration incurs substantial inference cost.

RoboPace: Contact-Aware Time-Optimal Retiming for Action-Chunk Policies

arXiv:2610.09696v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulation data collection has been shifting from teleoperation toward robot-free demonstrations, through interfaces such as the Universal Manip

RoboPrompt: Intuitive Robot Policy Steering with Sparse Human Input

arXiv:2610.10534v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end robot policies trained through imitation learning remain constrained by limited data diversity, making reliable zero-shot deployment in real-

RoboRender: Robot-Oriented Video Generation for Visual Sim-to-Real Transfer

arXiv:2610.09254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation enables large-scale, low-cost robot data generation, but policies trained in simulation often fail to transfer to the real world due to the s

RollVerify: Bridging Efficiency and Accuracy in Long-Tail Rollout Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.09914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning is crucial for improving large language models' reasoning and generalization. It relies on massive rollouts whose lengths become

Rubix: Global Correspondence-Free Point Set Alignment through Assignment Geometry

arXiv:2610.10408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Procrustes-Wasserstein alignment jointly estimates a matching and rotation without supplied correspondences, but alternating minimization can stop at su

Safe Meta-Policy Design with Risk Control

arXiv:2610.10393v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Models can be retrained as new data arrive, but deploying every new version risks replacing a good policy with a worse one. We study how to plan polic

Safe on Average, Unsafe in the Tail: When Is the Episodic-Cost Tail Controllable?

arXiv:2610.09508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe reinforcement learning seeks policies that maximize return while satisfying constraints on cumulative cost. Most methods impose these constraints o

SAPD: Step-Aligned Privileged Distillation

arXiv:2610.09665v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy post-training can improve large language models by learning from their own trajectories, but requires costly rollout generation. We ask whethe

SAPS: Shared Autonomy for Policy Steering by Blending Teleoperation with a Pretrained VLA

arXiv:2606.15568v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models perform well in generalist robot manipulation but remain brittle to out-of-distribution perturbations, while ful

Scalable Logistic Gaussian Process Density Regression with Kinetic Langevin Sampling

arXiv:2610.09591v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conditional density estimation targets the full distribution of a response given covariates, as required, for example, for per-galaxy photometric reds

SearchWorld: Spatial Value-Grounded Imagination for UAV Object Search via World Models

arXiv:2610.09335v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) object search involves a closed loop of perception, decision-making, and action under partial observability.

SeOPD: Self-Evolving LLMs via Online Policy Distillation from Self-Generated Chain-of-Thought

arXiv:2609.33181v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in online policy self-distillation (OPSD) have demonstrated that large language models (LLMs) can improve their capabilities b

SGF+: Decoupling Gradient Flows for Autoregressive Video Generation

arXiv:2610.10429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive video generation requires denoising the current frames while writing their key-value representations as context for future predictions. H

Share GPU clusters across teams with isolation and fairness using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

A reference architecture for securely sharing one Amazon SageMaker HyperPod EKS cluster across multiple teams, using AWS IAM Identity Center for authentication, per-team SageMaker Domains and Kubernet

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Shared Gaussianization: What Gaussian Regularizers Certify About Contrastive Learning, and What They Miss

arXiv:2610.10299v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: What can a distribution-matching regularizer such as SIGReg in LeJEPA certify about contrastive learning? We study shared Gaussianization (SG), a charac

Shared Geometry As A Rosetta Stone: Cross-Modal Alignment Without Paired Data

arXiv:2610.09411v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal representations enable zero-shot classification and retrieval, but aligning independently trained models usually requires large amounts of

Shared-Roadmap Generation and Evaluator for Multi-Agent Path Planning Using Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network

arXiv:2610.09034v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent path planning (MAPP) in continuous environments often relies on roadmaps to balance safety and search efficiency. However, traditional roa

SkillCycle: Co-Evolving Agent Policies and Skill Banks

arXiv:2610.09430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Internalizing external skills changes a language agent's capabilities and, with them, the value of its remaining guidance: rules can become redundant, m

SkillRL: Evolving Agents via Recursive Skill-Augmented Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2602.08234v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents have shown stunning results in complex tasks, yet they often operate in isolation, failing to learn from past expe

SOTA: Stock Options Trading Agents Guided by Option-Implied Return Distributions

arXiv:2610.10407v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As option markets grow and AI advances, agentic systems for option trading are gaining increasing attention. Language-model-based agents can reason ov

Sparse Feature Policy Unlearning Mitigates State Hallucination in Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2610.09496v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong generalization in robotic manipulation by leveraging rich representations from pretrained vision

Spatial Induction Heads: In-Context Learning of Multidimensional Cellular Automata

arXiv:2610.09124v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Induction heads provide a mechanistic account of in-context learning in sequential data, but existing theory largely assumes that the context relevant t

Stationary Bias and Extrapolation in Nonlinear Two-Timescale Stochastic Approximation

arXiv:2610.10246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Constant-step stochastic approximation generally has a nonzero stationary mean error that persists under time averaging. This paper studies that error f

Symmetry-Informed Causal Partial Identification

arXiv:2610.09230v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Partial identification (PI) entails estimating bounds on causal effects by encoding different assumptions on data generation as a constrained optimizati

Taming an End-to-End Autonomous Driving Policy for Urban Navigation of Quadruped Robots

arXiv:2610.08812v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Go2-DrivoR, a goal-conditioned adaptation of the end-to-end autonomous driving trajectory planning framework DrivoR for urban navigation with

TAP: Efficient Long-Horizon Agent Pruning via Trajectory-Anchored Recovery

arXiv:2610.09074v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emerging long-horizon agentic tasks require repeated model calls, worsening the inference cost of already-costly language models. While narrow agentic t