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STABLEVAL: Disagreement-Aware and Stable Evaluation of AI Systems

arXiv:2605.02122v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human evaluation remains the primary standard for assessing modern AI systems, yet annotator disagreement, bias, and variability make system rankings fr

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SurgTEMP: Temporal-Aware Surgical Video Question Answering with Text-guided Visual Memory for Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

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arXiv:2603.29962v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Surgical procedures are inherently complex and risky, requiring extensive expertise and constant focus to navigate evolving intraoperative scenes. C

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SwiftPie: Lightning-fast Subject-driven Image Personalization via One step Diffusion

arXiv:2605.01510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in high-quality image synthesis, sparking interest in image-guided generation tasks such as subject-dr

SynPAIN: A Synthetic Dataset of Pain and Non-Pain Facial Expressions

arXiv:2507.19673v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate pain assessment in patients with limited ability to communicate, such as older adults with severe dementia, represents a critical healthcar

TAIL-Safe: Task-Agnostic Safety Monitoring for Imitation Learning Policies

arXiv:2605.01195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent imitation learning (IL) algorithms such as flow-matching and diffusion policies demonstrate remarkable performance in learning complex manipulati

Task-Related Token Compression in Multimodal Large Language Models from an Explainability Perspective

arXiv:2506.01097v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) process a large number of visual tokens, leading to significant computational costs and inefficien

Thank you @UN Secretary General @antonioguterres for an excellent discussion on the current state of AI capabilities, and the urgent need fo…

Thank you @UN Secretary General @antonioguterres for an excellent discussion on the current state of AI capabilities, and the urgent need for robust global governance. International collaboration is c

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The Case for ESM3 as a General-Purpose AI Model with Systemic Risk Under the EU AI Act

arXiv:2605.01611v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Due to ambiguity in the wording of the EU AI Act, we examine the question of to what extent frontier biological foundation models such as ESM3 are sub

The crux of the Musk-OpenAI trial so far is that Brockman keeps acting as if selling chatbots and API access for profit (which is what they …

The crux of the Musk-OpenAI trial so far is that Brockman keeps acting as if selling chatbots and API access for profit (which is what they do now) is exactly the same as the original mission (which w

The Geometric Inductive Bias of Grokking: Bypassing Phase Transitions via Architectural Topology

arXiv:2603.05228v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mechanistic interpretability typically relies on post-hoc analysis of trained networks. We instead adopt an interventional approach: testing hypothe

The Geometric Mechanics of Contrastive Representation Learning: Alignment Potentials, Entropic Dispersion, and Cross-modal Divergence

arXiv:2601.19597v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While InfoNCE underlies modern contrastive learning, its geometric mechanisms remain under-characterized beyond the canonical alignment--uniformity

The Model Knows, the Decoder Finds: Future Value Guided Particle Power Sampling

arXiv:2605.02427v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A recurring pattern in 'reasoning without training' is that base LLMs already assign non-trivial probability mass to correct multi-step solutions; the

The Partial Testimony of Logs: Evaluation of Language Model Generation under Confounded Model Choice

arXiv:2605.01311v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline evaluation of language models from usage logs is biased when model choice is confounded: the same user-side factors that influence which model i

The Pragmatic Frames of Spurious Correlations in Machine Learning: Interpreting How and Why They Matter

arXiv:2411.04696v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning correlations from data forms the foundation of today's machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence research. While contemporary metho

Thermal Imaging for Contactless Cardiorespiratory and Sudomotor Response Monitoring

arXiv:2602.12361v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human-machine interfaces in industrial automation need sensing modules that monitor operator actions and physiological state. This is important in f

To Do or Not to Do: Ensuring the Safety of Visuomotor Policies Learned from Demonstrations

arXiv:2605.01201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Task success has historically been the primary measure of policy performance in imitation learning (IL) research. This characteristics strictly limits t

Today, the CEO of @coinbase announced a 14% headcount reduction. Let's talk about why. He cites AI as a core reason for the shift, alongside…

Today, the CEO of @coinbase announced a 14% headcount reduction. Let's talk about why. He cites AI as a core reason for the shift, alongside market dynamics - though we don't know whether each of thos

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Too early to tell how the trial ends, but if Elon does win, the takeaway might be in part that Greg Brockman made two immense blunders: 1. W…

Too early to tell how the trial ends, but if Elon does win, the takeaway might be in part that Greg Brockman made two immense blunders: 1. Writing down all that stuff in his diary 2. Blowing off Elon’

Topological Neural Tangent Kernel

arXiv:2605.01110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph neural tangent kernels give a principled infinite-width theory for graph neural networks, but inherit a basic limitation of graph models: they see

Toward a Scientific Discovery Engine for Weather and Climate Data: A Visual Analytics Workbench for Embedding-Based Exploration

arXiv:2605.00972v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Earth system science is producing increasingly large, high-dimensional datasets from physics based Earth system models to AI-based weather and climate

Towards Efficient and Expressive Offline RL via Flow-Anchored Noise-conditioned Q-Learning

arXiv:2605.01663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose Flow-Anchored Noise-conditioned Q-Learning (FAN), a highly efficient and high-performing offline reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm. Recen

Towards Improving Speaker Distance Estimation through Generative Impulse Response Augmentation

arXiv:2605.00721v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Room Acoustics and Speaker Distance Estimation (SDE) Challenge at ICASSP 2025 explores the effectiveness of augmented room impulse response (RIR)

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Training-Free Adaptive 360-degree Video Streaming via Semantic Potential Fields

arXiv:2603.20999v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Adaptive 360{eg} video streaming for teleoperation faces two coupled challenges: viewport prediction under uncertain gaze patterns and bitrate

Training Non-Differentiable Networks via Optimal Transport

arXiv:2605.01928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural networks increasingly embed non-differentiable components (spiking neurons, quantized layers, discrete routing, blackbox simulators, etc.) where

TrajShield: Trajectory-Level Safety Mediation for Defending Text-to-Video Models Against Jailbreak Attacks

arXiv:2605.01761v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-Video (T2V) models have demonstrated remarkable capability in generating temporally coherent videos from natural language prompts, yet they also

TRAP: Tail-aware Ranking Attack for World-Model Planning

arXiv:2605.01950v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models enable long-horizon planning by internally generating and evaluating imagined trajectories, making them a promising foundation for generali

TUR-DPO: Topology- and Uncertainty-Aware Direct Preference Optimization

arXiv:2605.00224v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences is commonly done via reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) with Proximal Policy

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UCATSC: Uncertainty-Aware Constrained Traffic Signal Control Under Vision-Based Partial Observability

arXiv:2602.07784v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Camera-based adaptive traffic signal control is inherently partially observable: detections can be missed, vehicle speeds and distances can be noisy

Ultrasound Vision-Language Alignment via Contrastive Learning

arXiv:2605.02126v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ultrasound foundation models have achieved strong performance on structured prediction tasks but remain exclusively vision-based, limiting zero-shot and

Understanding Adversarial Imitation Learning in Small Sample Regime: A Stage-coupled Analysis

arXiv:2208.01899v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Imitation learning learns a policy from expert trajectories. While the expert data is believed to be crucial for imitation quality, it was found tha

Unified Map Prior Encoder for Mapping and Planning

arXiv:2605.02762v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online mapping and end-to-end (E2E) planning in autonomous driving remain largely sensor-centric, leaving rich map priors, including HD/SD vector maps,

Unsupervised Machine Learning for Detecting Structural Anomalies in European Regional Statistics

arXiv:2605.02884v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ensuring the coherence of regional socio-economic statistics is a central task for national statistical institutes. Traditional validation tools, such a

US labor experts and economists warn US unemployment benefits are unlikely to protect against AI job losses, and the GOP-led Congress is doing little to prepare (New York Times)

New York Times: US labor experts and economists warn US unemployment benefits are unlikely to protect against AI job losses, and the GOP-led Congress is doing little to prepare — Economists aren't sur

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Value Functions for Temporal Logic: Optimal Policies and Safety Filters

arXiv:2605.01051v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Bellman equations for basic reach, avoid, and reach-avoid problems are well studied, the relationship between value optimality and policy optima

VideoGPA: Distilling Geometry Priors for 3D-Consistent Video Generation

arXiv:2601.23286v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While recent video diffusion models (VDMs) produce visually impressive results, they fundamentally struggle to maintain 3D structural consistency, o

Virtual Speech Therapist: A Clinician-in-the-Loop AI Speech Therapy Agent for Personalized and Supervised Therapy

arXiv:2605.01101v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper develops Virtual Speech Therapist (VST), an intelligent agent-based platform that streamlines stuttering assessment and delivers customized

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Visibility-Aware Mobile Grasping in Dynamic Environments

arXiv:2605.02487v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of mobile grasping in dynamic, unknown environments where a robot must operate under a limited field-of-view. The funda

VOFA: Visual Object Goal Pushing with Force-Adaptive Control for Humanoids

arXiv:2605.01518v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ability to push large objects in a goal-directed manner using onboard egocentric perception is an essential skill for humanoid robots to perform com

We wanted the singularity; we got the circularity.

Gary Marcus critiques the gap between AI aspirations and current reality, suggesting that instead of achieving transformative 'singularity' breakthroughs, AI development has become cyclical—repeating

When Attention Collapses: Residual Evidence Modeling for Compositional Inference

arXiv:2605.02323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compositional inference - the decomposition of observations into an unknown number of latent components - is central to perception and scientific data a

When Embedding-Based Defenses Fail: Rethinking Safety in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

arXiv:2605.01133v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-powered multi-agent systems (MAS) enable agents to communicate and share information, achieving strong performance on compl

While AI leaders warn superintelligent AI could cause human extinction, governments are asleep at the wheel. The companies building superint…

While AI leaders warn superintelligent AI could cause human extinction, governments are asleep at the wheel. The companies building superintelligence admit the danger, yet expect to create the tech wi

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Who Decides What Is Harmful? Content Moderation Policy Through A Multi-Agent Personalised Inference Framework

arXiv:2605.01416v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The increasing scale and complexity of online platforms raises critical policy questions around harmful content, digital well-being, and user autonomy

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Zero-Shot Adaptation of Behavioral Foundation Models to Unseen Dynamics

arXiv:2505.13150v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Behavioral Foundation Models (BFMs) proved successful in producing policies for arbitrary tasks in a zero-shot manner, requiring no test-time traini

Zero-Shot, Safe and Time-Efficient UAV Navigation via Potential-Based Reward Shaping, Control Lyapunov and Barrier Functions

arXiv:2605.01787v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance remain a core challenge of modern Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). While traditional control methods stru

A Deep Learning-Based CCTV System for Automatic Smoking Detection in Fire Exit Zones

arXiv:2508.11696v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A deep learning real-time smoking detection system for CCTV surveillance of fire exit areas is proposed due to critical safety requirements. The dat

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A Policy-Driven DRL Framework for System-Level Tradeoff Control in NR-U/Wi-Fi Coexistence

arXiv:2605.00457v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The coexistence of NR-U and Wi-Fi in unlicensed spectrum introduces a system-level resource coordination problem, where heterogeneous channel access m

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a question that suddenly feels relevant: what happens if OpenAI loses?

Gary Marcus explores hypothetical scenarios and consequences if OpenAI were to fail or lose its competitive position in the AI industry. The post likely examines implications for AI development, the b