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If OpenAI fails, will you be sad?

Gary Marcus poses a philosophical question about emotional attachment to AI companies, likely exploring whether people have genuine emotional stakes in the success or failure of specific AI organizati

Illumination-Robust Camera-Based Heart-Rate Estimation for Physiological Sensing in Robots

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arXiv:2606.12378v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physiological awareness is important for service, social, and assistive robots that interact with humans in everyday environments. Remote photoplethys

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Implicit Neural Representations of Individual Behavior

arXiv:2606.12200v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study policy representation learning from unlabeled multi-policy behavioral data. Each episode is generated by a fixed policy, but policy labels ar

Improving Generalization and Data Efficiency with Diffusion in Offline Multi-agent RL

arXiv:2307.01472v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a novel Diffusion Offline Multi-agent Model (DOM2) for offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). Different from existing algorit

IntElicit: Eliciting and Assessing Contextualized Creativity via Dialogue Policy Optimization

arXiv:2606.12086v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contextualized assessment offers high ecological validity for evaluating creativity but introduces a critical challenge: observed performance may be con

Intermittent time series forecasting: local vs global models

arXiv:2601.14031v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Forecasting intermittent time series, which contain zeros, is a crucial challenge in supply chains as inventory policies require probabilistic

InternVideo3: Agentify Foundation Models with Multimodal Contextual Reasoning

arXiv:2606.12195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress in foundation models has shifted toward agentic behavior involving multi-step reasoning and tool use. However, open-source efforts large

is that more or less times than Elon said robotaxis would be ubiquitous within a year?

This post by AI researcher Gary Marcus likely compares a prediction or timeline claim about robotaxi deployment to Elon Musk's previous statements about achieving ubiquitous robotaxis within a year, q

ISAP-3D: Identity-Slot Aligned Part-Aware 3D Generation

arXiv:2606.12099v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Part-aware 3D generation aims to synthesize structured objects with semantically meaningful components, yet often suffers from structural ambiguity due

JailbreakOPT: Tool-Assisted Iterative Jailbreak Prompt Optimization

arXiv:2606.11425v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Jailbreak attacks expose persistent safety weaknesses in large language models (LLMs), but existing stateless single-turn methods face a trade-off: ha

KinematicRL: A Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning Framework For Social Navigation With Kinodynamic Feasibility

arXiv:2606.12042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has shown promise for social navigation, yet its real-world deployment remains hindered by a persistent sim-to-real ga

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LAST: Bridging Vision-Language and Action Manifolds via Gromov-Wasserstein Alignment

arXiv:2606.11221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We take a Gromov-Wasserstein perspective on Vision-Language-Action (VLA) learning, where the goal is to make the relational geometry of action represent

Latent World Recovery for Multimodal Learning with Missing Modalities

arXiv:2606.12362v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study multimodal learning under missing modalities, with particular motivation from bioscience applications in which heterogeneous modalities are o

Learning Instance-Adaptive Low-Rank Orthogonal Subspaces for Clothes-Changing Person Re-Identification

arXiv:2606.11661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clothes-changing person re-identification (CC-ReID) aims to recognize individuals despite drastic appearance changes caused by clothing variation. While

Learning to Inject: Automated Prompt Injection via Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2602.05746v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Prompt injection is a critical vulnerability in LLM agents, yet the strongest methods still rely on human red-teamers and hand-crafted prompts

Learning What to Say to Your VLA: Mostly Harmless Vision Language Action Model Steering

arXiv:2606.12299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models provide a natural language interface to robot control, but the mapping from language to behavior is often brittle

LUCID: Learning Embodiment-Agnostic Intent Models from Unstructured Human Videos for Scalable Dexterous Robot Skill Acquisition

arXiv:2606.11628v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The most widely-adopted robot learning pipelines today learn skills from robot demonstrations or structured human data, which are expensive to collect

Mahalanobis-Guided Latent OOD Detection for Hybrid ES-DRL Control in Time-Varying Systems

arXiv:2606.11474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we study Mahalanobis-guided latent out-of-distribution (OOD) detection for test-time RL controller switching in nonlinear time-varying sy

MASK: Multi-Agent Semantic K-Scheduling for Risk-Sensitive 6G Robotics

arXiv:2606.11249v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Realizing the vision of 6G connected robotics requires reconciling high-performance collaborative control with the rigid spectral limitations of physi

Maybe Section 230 doesn’t shield AI companies after all. That would be huge. https://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/maybe-section-230-do…

Maybe Section 230 doesn’t shield AI companies after all. That would be huge. https://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/maybe-section-230-doesnt-shield-ai?r=8tdk6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&show

Measuring Semantic Progress in Multi-turn Dialogue via Information Gain

arXiv:2606.12332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating multi-turn dialogue is challenging because quality emerges across turns rather than within individual responses. We focus on a key dimension

Mirror Descent Beyond Euclidean Stability: An Exponential Separation in Initialization Sensitivity

arXiv:2606.11431v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mirror Descent (MD) extends Gradient Descent (GD) beyond Euclidean geometry and has recently reappeared as a lens for KL-regularized policy optimization

Mitigating Disparate Impact of Differentially Private Learning through Bounded Adaptive Clipping

arXiv:2506.01396v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Differential privacy (DP) has become an essential framework for privacy-preserving machine learning. Existing DP learning methods, however, often ha

MLT-Dedup: Efficient Large-Scale Online Video Deduplication via Multi-Level Representations and Spatial-Temporal Matching

arXiv:2606.12215v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The explosive growth of user-generated video content on online platforms is accompanied by the emergence of numerous near-duplicate videos--videos that

Noise-Guided Transport for Imitation Learning

arXiv:2509.26294v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We consider imitation learning in the low-data regime, where only a limited number of expert demonstrations are available. In this setting, me

Offline Diffusion Policy for Multi-User Delay-Constrained Scheduling

arXiv:2501.12942v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Effective multi-user delay-constrained scheduling is crucial in various real-world applications, including embodied AI, instant messaging, live stre

One Jailbreak, Many Tongues: Learning Language-Insensitive Intention Representations for Multilingual Jailbreak Detection

arXiv:2606.11202v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in applications for global multilingual users, yet safety training remains concentrated in domina

Open Materials Generation with Inference-Time Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2602.00424v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continuous-time generative models for crystalline materials enable inverse materials design by learning to predict stable crystal structures, but in

🚨 OpenAI pondering big price cuts, per WSJ scoop:

OpenAI is reportedly considering significant price reductions for its AI services, according to a Wall Street Journal report shared by AI researcher Gary Marcus. The move would likely reflect competit

PAWS: Preference Learning with Advantage-Weighted Segments

arXiv:2606.11982v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Preference-based reinforcement learning (PbRL) learns policies from human trajectory-level comparisons, avoiding explicit reward design and expert demon

Performance Analysis of YOLOv11 and YOLOv8 for Mixed Traffic Object Detection under Adverse Weather Conditions in Developing Countries

arXiv:2606.12066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In modern vehicular systems, robust performance under harsh conditions has become a critical problem of autonomous driving. Our study delivers a compreh

Plan-and-Verify Video Reward Reasoning with Spatio-Temporal Scene Graph Grounding

arXiv:2606.11838v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward models for text-to-video (T2V) generation guide post-training but often fail at fine-grained semantic alignment. We trace this to two structural

ProcessThinker: Enhancing Multi-modal Large Language Models Reasoning via Rollout-based Process Reward

arXiv:2606.11209v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual question answering increasingly requires multi-step reasoning. Recent post-training with reinforcement learning under verifiable rewards (RLVR)

Redesign Mixture-of-Experts Routers with Manifold Power Iteration

arXiv:2606.12397v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Router is the cornerstone component to the Mixture-of-Experts models. Serving as expert proxies, the rows of the router matrix compute their similarit

Reinforcement Learning Disrupts Gradient-Based Adversarial Optimization

arXiv:2606.12251v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Gradient-based adversarial attacks remain a dominant threat to deep neural networks (DNNs), as they exploit gradient information to efficiently optimi

Reinforcement Learning with Action-Triggered Observations

arXiv:2510.02149v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce Action-Triggered Sporadically Traceable Markov Decision Processes (ATST-MDPs), a reinforcement learning framework for partial observabi

Reverse Flow Matching: A Unified Framework for Online Reinforcement Learning with Diffusion and Flow Policies

arXiv:2601.08136v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion and flow policies are gaining prominence in online reinforcement learning (RL) due to their expressive power, yet training them efficientl

Risk Under Pressure: Compute-Aware Evaluation of Adversarial Robustness in Language Models

arXiv:2606.11409v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adversarial robustness evaluations of large language models (LLMs) typically report attack success rate (ASR) under fixed query budgets, implicitly tr

RLCSD: Reinforcement Learning with Contrastive On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2606.11709v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) provides dense, token-level supervision for reasoning models by aligning a model's own distribution with the distri

Runtime Enforcement of Hybrid System Properties

arXiv:2606.12022v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Runtime enforcement has emerged as a promising approach for ensuring the safety of autonomous and cyber-physical systems operating in uncertain and dy

SAFER-Nav: Enhancing Safety for Visual Robot Navigation via Segmentation-Aware Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2606.11636v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-based navigation models, particularly foundation models, generate viable trajectories from RGB observations alone. However, even state-of-the-art

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SAGE: Answer-Conditioned Uncertainty Targets for Verbal Uncertainty Alignment

arXiv:2606.11512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models increasingly express uncertainty through natural-language statements, yet these expressions often fail to reflect the model's samp

Sample-Efficient Hypergradient Estimation for Decentralized Bi-Level Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2603.14867v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Many strategic decision-making problems, such as environment design for warehouse robots, can be naturally formulated as bi-level reinforcemen

Scenario-based Probing and Steering Cultural Values in Large Language Models--Extended Version

arXiv:2606.11399v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are deployed across cultural contexts but often reflect homogenized values inherited from training data. Evaluations of cul

Schutzen: Evaluating LLM Safety in Bulgarian and German Contexts

arXiv:2606.11316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed across professional domains, bringing hard-to-predict risks, including the generation of harmful or disr

Seeing Before Colliding: Anticipatory Safe RL with Frozen Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606.11266v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The cost signal that constrained-RL algorithms optimize against is almost always reactive: the simulator emits a non-zero cost only after a collision ha

Semantically-Aware Diver Activity Recognition Framework for Effective Underwater Multi-Human-Robot Collaboration

arXiv:2606.12374v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Effective multi-human-robot collaboration is essential for expanding human-led operations in the challenging and high-risk underwater environment. For

Signed Compression Progress on a Sealed Audit is Goodhart-Resistant

arXiv:2606.11417v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Compression progress is a long-standing proposal for intrinsic motivation: reward an agent when its world model becomes better at predicting or compre