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Rethinking Structural Anomaly Detection: From Decision Boundaries to Projection Operators

arXiv:2606.15280v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Most existing anomaly detection methods rely on estimating a probability density or learning an enclosing decision boundary, implicitly assuming tha

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RoBoSR: Structured Scene Representations for Embodied Robotic Reasoning

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arXiv:2606.24338v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite rapid progress, embodied reasoning under real-world variability remains challenging. Existing approaches rely on demonstration-driven sequential

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RTFF: Random-to-Target Fabric Flattening Policy using Dual-Arm Manipulator

arXiv:2510.00814v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic fabric manipulation remains challenging due to fabric deformability and occlusions from wrinkles and the manipulator. This paper defines Ran

Safe and Generalizable Hierarchical Multi-Agent RL via Constraint Manifold Control

arXiv:2606.24010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent systems are widely used in safety-critical applications that require coordinated behavior under strict safety constraints. Existing approach

SC3-Eval: Evaluating Robot Foundation Models via Self-Consistent Video Generation

arXiv:2606.18610v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Evaluating generalist robot manipulation policies in the real world is expensive, slow, and difficult to scale. Action-conditioned video world

ScaleToT: Generalizing Structured LLM Reasoning for Billion-Scale Low-Activity User Modeling

arXiv:2606.24605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate user modeling often depends on rich interaction histories, which are unavailable for billions of low-activity users. Large Language Models (LLM

SEAL: Searching Expandable Architectures for Incremental Learning

arXiv:2505.10457v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Incremental learning is a machine learning paradigm where a model learns from a sequential stream of tasks. This setting poses a key challenge

Selective Capability Unlearning in End-to-End Spoken Language Understanding

arXiv:2606.24063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern spoken language understanding (SLU) systems are increasingly deployed in real-world settings, where specific functionalities may need to be rem

Similarity of Neural Network Representations in Superposition

arXiv:2604.00208v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Comparing internal representations is a central goal in neuroscience and machine learning, but standard linear alignment metrics (Representational S

Social Structure Matters in 3D Human-Human Interaction Generation

arXiv:2606.24255v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although text-to-motion generation has achieved strong progress in synthesizing realistic single-person motions from language, extending it to text-dr

Societal Alignment Frameworks Can Improve LLM Alignment

arXiv:2503.00069v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) has focused on producing responses that meet human expectations and align with shared values -

SPACE: Enabling Learning from Cross-Robot Data Toward Generalist Policies

arXiv:2606.24049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In robot learning, scaling training datasets across diverse embodiments and environments has become a dominant paradigm for learning generalizable robot

Spectral Evolution-Guided Token Pruning in Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2606.24165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reducing visual token redundancy is critical for accelerating Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) without degrading cross-modal reasoning performan

Statistical Foundations of LLM-based A/B Testing: A Surrogacy Framework for Human Causal Inference

arXiv:2606.17165v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Organizations and researchers show increasing interest in using large language models (LLMs) in place of human participants in A/B tests, in t

TACTFUL: Tactile-Driven Exploration For Object Localization and Identification in Confined Environments

arXiv:2606.24712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans effortlessly locate and identify objects by touch alone, even without vision. In contrast, robotic systems rely heavily on vision and struggle

“The Al bubble is by far the biggest stock-market bubble that mankind has ever seen - both in scale and scope, in terms of the leverage that…

“The Al bubble is by far the biggest stock-market bubble that mankind has ever seen - both in scale and scope, in terms of the leverage that's in there and in terms of the sheer excessive exuberance t

The problem we face with AI today is not a technical problem, it is a political problem. Of who gets to decide. What level of risk the publi…

The problem we face with AI today is not a technical problem, it is a political problem. Of who gets to decide. What level of risk the public is exposed to, what future we build towards or avert. It's

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The world of computing is and will remain far larger, more impactful, and far more vibrant than the narrow subdomain of genAI.

Gary Marcus argues that generative AI, while significant, represents only a narrow subset of the broader computing field and should not overshadow the diverse and impactful work occurring across other

Themis: An explainable AI-enabled framework for Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback

arXiv:2606.24622v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training safe Reinforcement Learning (RL) systems is inherently challenging, with no guarantee of avoiding unwanted behaviors. The most effective defens

Today I present you a curated collection of @tszzl saying that Fukuyama is always right

Today I present you a curated collection of @tszzl saying that Fukuyama is always right We Need an International Treaty to Ban Superintelligence https://open.substack.com/pub/persuasion1/p/time-for-a-

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Token-to-Token Alignment of Text Embeddings for Semantic Blending

arXiv:2606.24021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In modern generative models, images are specified and controlled through text prompts. In practice, images are generated from sequences of tokens derive

TruncProof: A Guardrail for LLM-based JSON Generation under Token-Length Constraints

arXiv:2605.13076v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The LLM-based generation of machine-readable outputs such as JSON has attracted significant attention for integration with external systems. However

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UniTranslator: A Unified Multi-modal Framework for End-to-end In-Image Machine Translation

arXiv:2606.24333v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-Image Machine Translation (IIMT) aims to translate scene text in an image and render the translated text back into the original regions while preserv

UOL@IDEM at BEA 2026 Shared Task 1: Neural Fusion and Feature-Rich Modeling for L1-Aware Vocabulary Difficulty Prediction

arXiv:2606.24501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper describes UOL@IDEM's closed-track submission to the BEA 2026 shared task on L1-aware vocabulary difficulty prediction. We model the task as r

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Verifiable Foundation Models for Robot Safety

arXiv:2606.23754v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying foundation models for robot control raises a central challenge: the expressive power that enables rich, multimodal perception also makes the

Welcome to the GenerativeAI Fizzle™

This post likely references Gary Marcus's critical commentary on limitations or failures in generative AI systems, using 'Fizzle' as a metaphorical or literal descriptor for underperformance or unmet

What Do Flow-Based Inverse Solvers Approximate? A Posterior-Transport View

arXiv:2606.24516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A growing family of training-free solvers -- FlowDPS, FLOWER, PnP-Flow and their diffusion ancestors (DPS, DAPS) -- repurpose a pretrained flow-matching

When AI Meets Finance (StockAgent): Large Language Model-based Stock Trading in Simulated Real-world Environments

arXiv:2407.18957v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Can AI Agents simulate real-world trading environments to investigate the impact of external factors on stock trading activities (e.g., macroe

When CQs Go Wrong: Challenges in CQ Verification with OE-Assist

arXiv:2606.24619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Competency Questions (CQs) are the central component of CQ-verification, an established process in which an ontology is evaluated against a set of natur

When Preferences Fail to Become Incentives: A Utility-Behavior Gap in Large Language Models

arXiv:2606.22974v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent work on preference elicitation in large language models (LLMs) has demonstrated that, when given a series of choices between two outcomes, LL

Wow even @MicahLasher thinks the OpenAI-Andreessen-Palantir money spent to oppose @AlexBores backfired --

Wow even @MicahLasher thinks the OpenAI-Andreessen-Palantir money spent to oppose @AlexBores backfired -- NY-12 retrospective in the NYT from Teddy Schleifer. Hard to imagine this was the headline tha

360Anything: Geometry-Free Lifting of Images and Videos to 360{eg}

arXiv:2601.16192v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Lifting perspective images and videos to 360{eg} panoramas enables immersive 3D world generation. Existing approaches often rely on explicit geometr

A Controlled Study of CLIP-Based Body-Scene Fusion for Emotion Recognition in Context

arXiv:2606.22072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Apparent emotion in natural images is often not visible from the face alone. The face may be small, hidden, or neutral, while posture and scene context

A Generative Model for Closed-Loop Microsimulation of Signalized Intersections

arXiv:2606.23588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic microsimulators rely on hand-crafted behavior models that reproduce aggregate flow but miss the heterogeneous interactions between vehicles at s

A Markov Chain Approach to Preference Alignment

arXiv:2606.22652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose Markov Chain from Human Feedback (MCHF), an elementary approach for aligning generative models from pairwise human preferences. Unlike Reinfo

A Neuromorphic Reinforcement Learning Framework for Efficient Pathfinding in Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems

arXiv:2606.20031v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Dynamic environmental changes, confined workspaces, and stringent real-time constraints make pathfinding in Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems (RMFS

A Stitch in Time Saves Nine: Preserving Policy Compatibility Under Perception Updates in End-to-End Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2606.21509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving systems tightly couple perception and decision-making through latent representations. Consequently, updates to perception

A Taxonomy of Conceptual Alignment in Human-Robot Dialogue

arXiv:2606.22360v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Successful conversations require speakers to align on the meaning of concepts, a challenging but crucial task for human-robot interaction. Understanding

A UAV-Based Multi-Modal Vision System for Automated Sideslope Deformation Monitoring and Hazard Detection

arXiv:2606.20681v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Slope hazards constitute a major safety threat to expressway infrastructure, and their evolution is typically manifested as slow surface deformation. Co

A Watermark for Vision-Language-Action and World Action Models

arXiv:2606.23574v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models and world-action models (WAM) are the generative models now driving general-purpose robot control, turning raw cam

Action-BED: Task-Driven Bayesian Experimental Design with Singly Intractable Objectives

arXiv:2606.23662v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bayesian experimental design (BED) has traditionally been based on maximising expected uncertainty reductions from prior to posterior. A major shortfa

Active Causal Experimentalist (ACE): Learning Intervention Strategies via Direct Preference Optimization

arXiv:2602.02451v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Discovering causal relationships requires controlled experiments, but experimentalists face a sequential decision problem: each intervention reveals

Adversarial observations in probabilistic State-Space Models for robust Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606.20880v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decision-making under partial or adversarial observability requires accurate inference of the environment's latent state and its associated uncertaint

Again: data never stays secure and mass surveillance and data harvesting will always be a liability

Gary Marcus argues that data security is fundamentally fragile and that mass surveillance and data harvesting practices create persistent security vulnerabilities that cannot be eliminated. The post e

Agentic Time Machine as an Infrastructure for Future-Event Forecasting

arXiv:2606.21013v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Forecasting future events is a critical challenge for large language model (LLM) agents, spanning domains from elections and monetary policy to financ

AI Capex pushback from GS: 'If frontier intelligence can increasingly be developed in the East at a fraction of the cost incurred in the Wes…

AI Capex pushback from GS: 'If frontier intelligence can increasingly be developed in the East at a fraction of the cost incurred in the West … then the largest capital allocators are also the ones mo

AI data centres are hungry for land, water & power. I’m calling on every major AI company to publicly disclose the full environmental impact…

AI data centres are hungry for land, water & power. I’m calling on every major AI company to publicly disclose the full environmental impact of its systems – as a matter of transparency No more hidden

ALOE: Action-Level Off-Policy Evaluation for Vision-Language-Action Model Post-Training

arXiv:2602.12691v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study how to improve large foundation vision-language-action (VLA) systems through human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning (RL) in real-world en