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Mechanistically Eliciting Latent Behaviors in Language Models

arXiv:2606.29604v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We aim to discover diverse, generalizable perturbations of LLM internals that can surface hidden behavioral modes. Such perturbations could help resha

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arXiv:2606.28399v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The structure of human visual representations underpins our capacity for adaptive behaviour. While pretrained neural networks model human visual represe

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Metric Aggregation Divergence: A Hidden Validity Threat in Agent-Based Policy Optimization and a Contractual Remedy

arXiv:2606.29038v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Metric aggregation divergence (MAD) is the silent inconsistency that arises when distinct pipeline stages in an agent-based model coupled with a multi

MIRI Newsletter #126

Announcing: AI StopWatch In our last update, we mentioned we had something new in the works: a dedicated channel for news and analysis about AI. Subscribe to AI StopWatch An experiment from the writer

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MIRROR: Aligning Semantic Relations from Language to Image via Gromov--Wasserstein

arXiv:2606.29462v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) inherit rich relational priors from their language backbones, yet often fail when asked to apply these relation

MIThinker: A Plug-and-Play Policy-Optimized Thinker For Motivational Interviewing Counseling

arXiv:2606.29265v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning large language models (LLMs) have recently made much progress in complex problem-solving, leveraging internal reasoning (or thought) to guide

Mitigating the Safety-utility Trade-off in LLM Alignment via Adaptive Safe Context Learning

arXiv:2602.13562v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While reasoning models have achieved remarkable success in complex reasoning tasks, their increasing power necessitates stringent safety measu

MM-Nav: Multi-View VLA Model for Robust Visual Navigation via Multi-Expert Learning

arXiv:2510.03142v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual navigation policy is widely regarded as a promising direction, as it mimics humans by using egocentric visual observations for navigati

MOAR Planner: Multi-Objective and Adaptive Risk-Aware Path Planning for Infrastructure Inspection with a UAV

arXiv:2606.30575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The problem of autonomous navigation for UAV inspection remains challenging as it requires effectively navigating in close proximity to obstacles, while

Modelling Human Values for Value-Aware Multi-Agent Systems

arXiv:2402.06359v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: One of today's most pressing societal challenges is building AI systems whose behaviour, or the behaviour it enables within communities of interacti

Modification-Considering Value Learning for Reward Hacking Mitigation in RL

arXiv:2606.28955v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning agents can exploit misspecified reward signals to achieve high apparent returns while failing on the intended objective, a fail

MOPD: Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation for Capability Integration in LLM Post-Training

arXiv:2606.30406v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern large language models (LLMs) rely on reinforcement learning during post-training to push specific capabilities, yet integrating multiple capabili

MOSAIC: Orchestrating Collaborative Knowledge Tracing with Hierarchical Semantic Alignment

arXiv:2606.29049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge Tracing (KT) is important for personalized education but traditionally suffers from two key limitations: a reliance on shallow ID-based repres

MR-IQA: A Unified Margin View of Regression and Ranking for Blind Image Quality Assessment

arXiv:2606.29760v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) is commonly built on two basic learning paradigms: regression and ranking. Regression calibrates absolute scores,

muFlow: Leveraging Average Images for Improving Generalisation of Deepfake Faces Detectors

arXiv:2606.30528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current generative models, including GANs and diffusion models, have reached an outstanding level of photorealism, posing significant risks to privacy a

Multi-Class Human/Object Detection on Robot Manipulators using Proprioceptive Sensing

arXiv:2508.02425v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In physical human-robot collaboration (pHRC) settings, humans and robots collaborate directly in shared environments. Robots must analyze inte

Multimodal Large Language Model driven Radiology Report Generation with Clinical Knowledge Enhancement

arXiv:2403.06728v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Radiology report generation (RRG) has attracted significant attention due to its potential to reduce the workload of radiologists. The performance o

Multimodal Representation Alignment for Cross-modal Information Retrieval

arXiv:2506.08774v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Different machine learning models can represent the same underlying concept in different ways. This variability is particularly valuable for i

Neuromorphic Energy-Aware Learning for Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation

arXiv:2606.28600v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neuromorphic and edge computing research has focused on reducing the inference cost of neural network controllers, yet in physical closed-loop systems

Node-to-Neighborhood Semantic Consistency: Text-Topology Alignment for TAGs Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2606.30009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph anomaly detection (GAD) on text-attributed graphs (TAGs) is vital for applications such as fraud detection and academic integrity verification. Ex

NoiseTilt: Noise-Tilted Reverse Kernels for Diffusion Reward Alignment

arXiv:2606.18066v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce the Noise-Tilted Reverse Kernel (NTRK), a reward-guided diffusion sampler that injects reward gradients through the noise term, leaving

Not Just How Much, But Where: Decomposing Epistemic Uncertainty into Per-Class Contributions

arXiv:2602.21160v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In safety-critical classification, the cost of failure is often asymmetric, yet Bayesian deep learning summarises epistemic uncertainty with a

Offline Reinforcement Learning of High-Quality Behaviors Under Robust Style Alignment

arXiv:2601.22823v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study offline reinforcement learning of style-conditioned policies using explicit style supervision via subtrajectory labeling functions. I

OGM-CBF: Occupancy Grid Map-based Control Barrier Function for Safe Mobile Robot Control with Memory of out of View Obstacles

arXiv:2405.10703v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Safe control in unknown environments is a key challenge in mobile robotics. Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) provide a principled framework for guar

Online Experiential Learning for Language Models

arXiv:2603.16856v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The prevailing paradigm for improving large language models relies on offline training with human annotations or simulated environments, leaving the

OWMDrive: Causality-Aware End-to-End Autonomous Driving via 4D Occupancy World Model

arXiv:2606.30421v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving systems are steadily moving toward end-to-end paradigms to mitigate the limited adaptability of rule-based pipelines in complex traff

Persona-Trained Monte Carlo: Estimating Market-Outcome Distributions via Swarms of Persona-Conditioned Neural Policy Bots in a Limit Order Book

arXiv:2606.29556v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose Persona-Trained Monte Carlo (PTMC), a method for estimating distributions of market-outcome statistics by repeatedly simulating limit-order-b

Pessimism's Paradox: Conservative Offline Training Amplifies Reward Hacking During Online Adaptation in Reasoning Models

arXiv:2606.30627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conservative offline training is widely advocated as a safe foundation for subsequent online adaptation: if a policy stays close to well-supported beh

PHF: Privileged Hidden Flow for On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2606.29340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) trains a reasoning model on rollouts sampled from its own policy by matching a privileged teacher that also sees veri

Phonological Perception of Sign Language Models

arXiv:2606.28667v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sign languages are compositional systems where meaning arises by combining sublexical phonological parameters, such as handshape, location, and movement

Physics Models for Sim-to-Real Transfer in Professional-Level Robot Table Tennis

arXiv:2606.28805v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: At competitive speeds and spins, a table tennis ball follows complex, counterintuitive trajectories that a robot must track and precisely counter within

PL-LIT: A LiDAR-Inertial-Thermal SLAM Using Point-Line Features and Thermographic Mapping

arXiv:2606.29259v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Thermal imaging is resilient to adverse conditions, such as intense illumination, low-light operation, and fog, and can therefore mitigate odometry degr

PolarAPP: Beyond Polarization Demosaicking for Polarimetric Applications

arXiv:2603.23071v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Polarimetric imaging enables advanced vision applications such as normal estimation and de-reflection by capturing unique surface-material interacti

Pondering the Way: Spatial-perceiving World Action Model for Embodied Navigation

arXiv:2606.29908v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing world model-based planners for visual navigation typically follow a verification-centric paradigm, decoupling goal intent from trajectory syn

Pose-Based Fall Detection System: Efficient Monitoring on Standard CPUs

arXiv:2503.19501v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Falls among elderly residents in assisted living homes pose significant health risks, often leading to injuries and a decreased quality of lif

Predictive Objectives Discard Exogenous Control-Relevant Features: A Controlled Mechanistic Study

arXiv:2606.30068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Joint-embedding predictive (JEPA-style) objectives learn representations by predicting future latents. In doing so they can discard features that are ex

Preserving Fairness and Safety in Quantized LLMs Through Critical Weight Protection

arXiv:2601.12033v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Quantization is widely adopted to reduce the computational cost of large language models (LLMs); however, its implications for fairness and safety,

Priced Motion Through Optimal Faces: A Normal-Fan Geometry for Non-Stationary Adversarial MDPs

arXiv:2606.29092v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In a changing decision problem, standard dynamic-regret analyses have often equated the cost of non-stationarity to how far loss moves. However, it is

Process Advantage Signal Shaping: A Paradigm-Agnostic Middleware for Process-Supervised RL in LLM Reasoners

arXiv:2606.29296v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) is a default recipe for process-supervised reinforcement learning of LLM reasoners, and dense process supervis

PromptGNN-sim: Deep Fusion and Alignment of GNN and LLMs for Text-Attributed Graph Learning

arXiv:2606.30291v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-Attributed Graphs (TAGs) combine textual semantics with graph structure and are central to many graph learning tasks. However, existing fusion meth

Proof-of-Guardrail in AI Agents and What (Not) to Trust from It

arXiv:2603.05786v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As AI agents become widely deployed as online services, users often rely on an agent developer's claim about how safety is enforced, which int

Propagation of~Interval Belief Structures and~Imprecise Copulas for~Neural Network Verification

arXiv:2606.30105v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantitative verification of neural networks requires reasoning about probabilities under substantial uncertainty in both input distributions and their

ProSpec RL: Plan Ahead, then Execute

arXiv:2407.21359v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Imagining potential outcomes of actions before execution helps agents make more informed decisions, a prospective thinking ability fundamental

PS-PPO: Prefix-Sampling PPO for Critic-Free RLHF

arXiv:2606.29758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) for Large Language Models increasingly relies on critic-free methods as a practical alternative to a

Rank-Aware Hyperbolic Alignment for Vision-Language Dataset Distillation

arXiv:2606.29464v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language dataset distillation (VLDD) compresses a large image-text paired dataset into a small set of synthetic pairs that can efficiently trai

ReactiveBFM: Reactive Closed-Loop Motion Planning Towards Universal Humanoid Whole-Body Control

arXiv:2606.30362v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While current Behavior Foundation Models (BFMs) provide robust control priors for humanoids, they only execute pre-defined reference motions. As a res

REAR: Test-time Preference Realignment through Reward Decomposition

arXiv:2606.30339v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning large language models (LLMs) with diverse user preferences is a critical yet challenging task. While post-training methods can adapt models to

Regime-Aware Peer Specialization for Robust RAG under Heterogeneous Knowledge Conflicts

arXiv:2606.30518v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves language models by grounding generation in external context. However, it can be fragile when the retrieved