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Do Better Visual Representations Always Lead to Better End-to-End Autonomous Driving?

arXiv:2610.09695v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual foundation models (VFMs) are increasingly integrated into end-to-end autonomous driving for their powerful representations, yet it remains uncl

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Do Generative Priors Align with Human Naturalness Perception?

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arXiv:2610.09928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual generative models are trained to capture the probability distributions of natural images, yet whether their native priors reflect the regularitie

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Efficient Best-of-N policy evaluation for inference-time alignment

arXiv:2610.09250v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Best-of-N (BoN) is a common inference-time alignment method that selects the highest-scoring response among N samples from a reference model. Evaluating

Efficient Dense Crowd Trajectory Prediction Via Dynamic Clustering

arXiv:2603.18166v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Crowd trajectory prediction plays a crucial role in public safety and management, where it can help prevent disasters such as stampedes. Recent works

Energy-Efficient Gait Adaptation via Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Quadrupedal Locomotion Across Diverse Terrains

arXiv:2610.10297v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While energy efficiency is a critical objective for legged-robot locomotion control, achieving low energy consumption while maintaining robust perform

Estimating Uncoded Crash Factors with Tabular Foundation and System One Models: Kumo Tabular and Jev

arXiv:2610.10321v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Road safety programs count the coded fields of police crash records, while the officer's narrative, which often records factors the fields omit, is ra

Factorized Tactile Representation and Control for Sim-to-Real Manipulation

arXiv:2610.10510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile sim-to-real learning must bridge simulated contact and device-specific sensor responses while preserving information needed for control. We prop

FedSSMCoOp: SSM Encoders for light-weight Federated Prompt Learning for Few-shot Classification

arXiv:2610.09907v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown strong performance across a wide range of downstream vision tasks, thanks to the complementary information cont

FlashNeRD: Performance-First Contact-Rich Neural Robot Dynamics

arXiv:2610.09130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compared with analytical physics, learned dynamics models promise robot simulation that is faster, inherently differentiable, and easily adaptable to re

FoldBack: Self-Correcting Masked Generative Policy for Long-Horizon Garment Folding

arXiv:2610.10462v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present FoldBack, a self-correcting masked generative policy for long-horizon garment folding. Existing long-trajectory policies may continue after a

From Digital Human Interactions to Physics-Based Humanoid Skills: Physics-Grounded Post-Training of Interaction Generators

arXiv:2610.10322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent methods have made promising progress in generating interactions between two humanoids, largely relying on physics-based tracking policies to conv

From Pareto to Preference: Personalized Test-Time Scaling via Amortized Agentic Policy Discovery

arXiv:2610.09684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time scaling (TTS) improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models by allocating additional inference computation. Existing approaches

From Wearable Interfaces to Dexterous Policies: Contact Shifts and Tactile Representations

arXiv:2610.08870v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unlike conventional teleoperation, wearable interfaces allow operators to collect dexterous demonstrations through their own hand motions while directly

Gauss-Newton Accuracy and Indefinite Hessians: Uniform Coexistence in Low-Cost Sets

arXiv:2610.09675v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the accuracy of Gauss-Newton curvature in ridge-regularized nonlinear least squares. Under local regularity and persistence of level-set curvat

Generative AI for Autonomous Driving: Frontiers and Opportunities

arXiv:2505.08854v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) constitutes a transformative technological wave that reconfigures industries through its unparalleled cap

Geometry-Supervised Visual Representation Learning for Multi-Phenotype Lesion Interpretation in Medical VLMs

arXiv:2610.10238v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical vision-language models (VLMs) have shown increasing potential for clinical image interpretation. However, these models still struggle to interpr

Global Average Precision for Representation Learning

arXiv:2610.09863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard information retrieval metrics, such as mean Average Precision (mAP), assess performance one query at a time, based on how the similarities betw

HULK: Learning Whole-Body Forceful Loco-Manipulation for Humanoids

arXiv:2610.08970v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humanoid loco-manipulation of large, heavy objects demands forceful interaction across the entire body. However, such payloads shift a humanoid's cent

HuMBLE: Human Motion-Driven Behavior Learning for Embodied Locomotion

arXiv:2610.10489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite recent advances in humanoid locomotion, controllers optimized for command tracking and robustness tend to produce mechanical gaits, whereas cont

HydroSphere: A Framework for Governed, Self-Healing Wastewater Infrastructure

arXiv:2610.08819v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rapid industrialization and urban growth are increasing pressure on water quality and wastewater treatment systems, while conventional treatment plants

Immiscible Diffusion Policy: Preserving Multimodal Robot Actions through Label-Free Noise Assignment

arXiv:2610.09369v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When diffusion policies were first introduced, they were expected to recover multi-modal action distributions. However, we find this expectation does

InterView-C: A Synchronized Multimodal Corpus of VR Avatar-Mediated Survey Interviews

arXiv:2610.10145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present InterView-C, a German multimodal corpus of 27 survey interviews conducted entirely in virtual reality, with both interlocutors represented by

Is Word Error Rate Enough? Rethinking Privacy Evaluation in Speech with Entity-Aware Metrics

arXiv:2610.08831v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As the use of smart devices continues to increase, their potential to capture sensitive speech content raises growing privacy concerns. It is therefor

It Is Not Seeing the Hazard: A Frozen Vision-Language Safety Score Measures Its Caption Bank

arXiv:2610.09517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frozen vision-language models increasingly provide safety signals for reinforcement learning. Their use assumes that similarity to language describing d

Juno: Taming Predictive Latents for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2610.09940v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPAs) predict masked or future observations in representation space, offering a natural source of predictiv

Kernel Autoresearch for Open-Ended Model Discovery

arXiv:2610.10394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Kernels encode the inductive bias of a wide range of machine learning models, yet automated kernel design faces a fundamental dilemma. A fixed grammar o

LACE-CRAFT: Robot Co-Design with Actor Inheritance and Blackboard Collaboration

arXiv:2610.09283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot co-design couples morphology search with policy learning, yet training every new design from scratch discards acquired control experience. We pres

LASER: Latent Space Adjoint Matching for Support-Constrained Entropy-Regularized Offline RL

arXiv:2610.08989v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While offline reinforcement learning (RL) enables policy optimization from static datasets without costly online interaction, it remains bottlenecked by

Last week I was called into a meeting with OpenAI’s head of safety and told they no longer trust me. A security guard took my badge and walk…

Last week I was called into a meeting with OpenAI’s head of safety and told they no longer trust me. A security guard took my badge and walked me out of the building. Then I learned my colleagues @bal

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Learning in the Recurrent State: Gradient Descent with Linear Recurrent Networks

arXiv:2410.11687v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In-context learning lets a sequence model adapt to a new task from examples in its input. A prominent line of work shows how self-attention can be c

Many Ways to Succeed: Diversity-Driven RL Fine-Tuning for VLA Generalization

arXiv:2610.09943v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) fine-tuning improves vision-language-action (VLA) policies through closed-loop experience, yet generalization beyond the f

Marrying Pricing and Advertising with LLMs

arXiv:2610.09985v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study a sequential pricing problem in which a seller jointly posts a price and an advertisement generated by a large language model (LLM). The sell

MCFR: A Mask-Guided Coarse-to-Fine Regression Framework for Robust Multi-Variant Board-to-Board Connector Assembly

arXiv:2610.09327v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated insertion of board-to-board (BTB) connectors in 3C manufacturing requires both high visual accuracy and strong deployment robustness. This pro

MimicX: Policy-in-the-Loop Supervision Refinement for Video-Driven Humanoid Motion Tracking

arXiv:2610.09055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human videos provide rich motion targets for humanoid learning, yet visually plausible references can still produce persistent failures under physics-ba

MIRROR: From Imitation to Internalization in LLM Personalization

arXiv:2610.09795v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The demand for personalized LLMs is shifting from style imitation toward content quality. We investigate whether self-distillation can bridge this gap i

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

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

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

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