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Spectrally Regularized Latent Flow Matching for Turbulence Generation

arXiv:2606.11691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent diffusion and flow matching have emerged as leading approaches for synthetic turbulence generation, yet they systematically under-represent dissi

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Steering Multirobot Behavior via Closed-Loop Affine Activation Editing

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arXiv:2606.11489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world robots need to adapt their behavior beyond the envelope of their pre-trained policy. Policy finetuning or retraining are options, but they ri

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SVoT: State-aware Visualization-of-Thought for Spatial Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606.11770v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial reasoning remains a challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), as it requires reliable multi-hop inference over both intermediate s

TacCoRL: Integrating Tactile Feedback into VLA via Simulation

arXiv:2606.11743v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models provide strong visual, language, and action priors for robot manipulation, but visual observations alone often mis

Task-Aware Structured Memory for Dynamic Multi-modal In-Context Learning

arXiv:2606.11853v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) depend on in-context learning (ICL) for rapid task adaptation, but their scalability is severely limited by

The Algorithm Is Not the Behavior: Learned Priors Override Look-Ahead in a Chess-Playing Neural Network

arXiv:2508.21380v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent mechanistic work has uncovered learned algorithms within neural networks, from modular arithmetic to search and planning in game-playin

The Art of Interrogation: Consistency Amplifies Factuality in Spatial Reasoning

arXiv:2606.11918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) exhibit remarkable general capabilities but significantly underperform in spatial reasoning tasks. Existing approa

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Discrete-Time Gaussian Process Mixtures for Robot Policy Learning

arXiv:2505.03296v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Mixture of Discrete-time Gaussian Processes (MiDiGap), a novel approach for flexible policy representation and imitation learning i

This was perhaps the most controversial aspect of the guardrails around Fable, now being rolled back.

This was perhaps the most controversial aspect of the guardrails around Fable, now being rolled back. Very pleased to hear Anthropic have walked back this policy https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/

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To Intervene or Not: Guiding Inference-time Alignment with Probabilistic Model Blending

arXiv:2606.11201v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The wide deployment of LLMs has made model alignment necessary to make newly trained models safely and effectively respond to user instructions. Among

Toward Preference-aligned Large Language Models via Residual-based Model Steering

arXiv:2509.23982v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Preference alignment is a critical step in making Large Language Models (LLMs) useful and aligned with (human) preferences. Existing approache

Towards a Bridge Layer Between Bibliographic and Formalized Mathematical Knowledge

arXiv:2606.11430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mathematical knowledge is split between bibliographic databases (e.g., MathSciNet, zbMATH Open) and formal proof libraries (e.g., Lean mathlib), preve

Towards Conditional Feature Alignment for Cross-Domain Counting

arXiv:2506.17137v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Object counting models often degrade under cross-domain deployment because density composition varies across domains and is itself task-relevant. St

Traceable Virtual Sea Trials in the Marine Robotics Unity Simulator for Manoeuvring Assessment of Unmanned Surface Vehicles

arXiv:2606.12349v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate identification of hydrodynamic derivatives is essential for control and navigation of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs), but high-fidelity manoe

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Traits Run Deeper: Trait-Specific Asymmetric Fusion for Personality Assessment

arXiv:2606.11269v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personality assessment aims to infer stable personality traits from dynamic behaviors across language, voice, and facial cues. Since different personali

UGV-Conditioned Multi-UAV Informative Planning on a Shared Exposure Belief

arXiv:2606.12306v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe ground navigation in large, threat-augmented environments requires aerial support that actively reduces the risks that a ground vehicle faces along

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UniIntervene: Agentic Intervention for Efficient Real-World Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606.12372v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning (HiL-RL) has emerged as an effective paradigm for real-world robotic manipulation, enabling online policy imp

UniReason-Med: A Shared Grounded Reasoning Interface for 2D-to-3D Transfer in Medical VQA

arXiv:2606.11740v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study whether grounded reasoning supervision from abundant 2D medical images can improve 3D medical VQA when both input types are aligned through a

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UR-BERT: Scaling Text Encoders for Massively Multilingual TTS Through Universal Romanization and Speech Token Prediction

arXiv:2606.11681v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose UR-BERT, a Romanized transcription-based text-to-speech (TTS) encoder for massively multilingual TTS systems. Conventional grapheme-to-phonem

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Urban Heat MiniCubes: An AI-Ready dataset for urban heat research

arXiv:2606.11534v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Urban heat is amplified by impermeable surfaces and heterogeneous built environments, yet street-level variability remains difficult to quantify becau

Very pleased to hear Anthropic have walked back this policy https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/anthropic-walks-back-policy/

Very pleased to hear Anthropic have walked back this policy https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/anthropic-walks-back-policy/ BREAKING NEWS: Anthropic's latest model will NOT help you if it thinks yo

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ViT-FREE: Efficient Face Recognition via Early Exiting and Synthetic Adaptation

arXiv:2606.12023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision Transformers (ViTs) have gained significant attention in computer vision and shown strong potential for face recognition (FR). However, their hig

VLGA: Vision-Language-Geometry-Action Models for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2606.12396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models can describe scenes and reason about them in language, yet still struggle to ground their actions in the dense 3D wo

What are smart people are saying about OpenAI's IPO filing? 🤔

Gary Marcus discusses expert commentary and analysis regarding OpenAI's initial public offering filing, likely examining implications for the AI industry, company valuation, and competitive landscape.

When Context Returns: Toward Robust Internalization in On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2606.11627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work has shown that on-policy distillation can internalize privileged context, such as system prompts or task hints, into a student model so th

When Researchers Say Mental Model/Theory of Mind of AI, What Are They Really Talking About?

arXiv:2510.02660v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: When researchers claim AI systems possess ToM or mental models, they are fundamentally discussing behavioral predictions and bias corrections

Which Speech Representation Better Matches Text-Native Reasoning? A Study of Speech-Text Alignment on Frame Rate and Representation

arXiv:2606.12199v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spoken dialogue models typically start from text LLM backbones, yet reasoning often degrades when conditioning on speech instead of text. We attribute

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Wrong horse and too early. Gary nailed it. Time will show this.

Wrong horse and too early. Gary nailed it. Time will show this. Masa can hype AI all he likes, but apparently he can’t even get a loan on his OpenAI shares. 🤔 But I actually half agree—and it might su

100%, hallucinations are baked in (as I have been saying since 2001) and that is why basically no LLM company afford to operate in Germany n…

100%, hallucinations are baked in (as I have been saying since 2001) and that is why basically no LLM company afford to operate in Germany now. We need a better technology. @GaryMarcus Lol, and Google

3SPO: State-Score-Supervised Policy Optimization for LLM Agents

arXiv:2606.09961v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training large language models (LLMs) as autonomous agents via reinforcement learning (RL) has enabled frontier models to achieve superhuman performan

A Comprehensive Survey of Direct Preference Optimization: Datasets, Theories, Variants, and Applications

arXiv:2410.15595v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), aligning policy models with human preferences has become increasingly critical. Direct P

A fine-grained attention and geometric correspondence model for musculoskeletal risk classification in athletes using multimodal visual and skeletal features

arXiv:2509.05913v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Musculoskeletal disorders pose significant risks to athletes, and early risk assessment is essential for prevention. However, most existing methods

A Practical Recipe Towards Improving Sim-and-Real Correlation for VLA Evaluation

arXiv:2606.10366v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Simulation has become an essential tool for evaluating and improving vision-language-action (VLA) policies, offering scalable, reproducible, and contr

A Reliable Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Belief Rule Base Consider Robustness Analysis

arXiv:2606.10500v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In equipment operation, the implementation of fault diagnosis is essential to ensure the continuity and safety of production equipment, improve operatio

A Source Domain is All You Need: Source-Only Cross-OS Transfer Learning for APT Anomaly Detection via Semantic Alignment and Optimal Transport

arXiv:2606.10216v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are stealthy, multi-stage cyberattacks whose detection is difficult due to scarce labeled traces, severe class imba

A Unified Multi-Modal Framework for Intelligent Financial Systems: Integrating Reinforcement Learning, High-Frequency Trading, and Game-Theoretic Approaches with Cross-Modal Sentiment Analysis

arXiv:2606.10412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid evolution of financial technology demands sophisticated artificial intelligence systems capable of handling diverse challenges across multiple

Act on What You See: Unlocking Safe Social Navigation in Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2606.10495v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe social navigation requires robots to distinguish people from ordinary obstacles and to react before danger becomes imminent. We show that pretraine

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Adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence in the German Software Engineering Industry: An Empirical Study

arXiv:2601.16700v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools have seen rapid adoption among software developers. While adoption rates in the industry are

AI oligarchs are trying to buy elections (again)

AI oligarchs are trying to buy elections (again) AI titans are spending 1.3M to shape Utah primaries. Defending Our Values, run by Chris Stewart, spent 880K to support Rep. Celeste Maloy. DOV operates

Alignment Defends LLMs from Property Inference Attacks

arXiv:2606.10217v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly fine-tuned on domain-specific datasets that may contain sensitive, dataset-level properties. Recent work h

Alongside it, Anthropic is releasing a proposal for how governments can address the risks posed by frontier AI and a policy framework for jo…

Alongside it, Anthropic is releasing a proposal for how governments can address the risks posed by frontier AI and a policy framework for job displacement, for which we intend to provide substantial f

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An essay on policy responses to AI's exponential progress across regulation and public safety, macroeconomics and taxes, science, civil liberties, geopolitics (Dario Amodei)

Dario Amodei: An essay on policy responses to AI's exponential progress across regulation and public safety, macroeconomics and taxes, science, civil liberties, geopolitics — In one of the side plots

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An LLM-Native Psychometric Instrument Does Not Predict LLM Behavior: Evidence Across 25 Models

arXiv:2606.09843v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) produce stable self-reports on personality inventories, but these self-reports do not predict observed behavior. Whether

and see for deeper analysis https://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/breaking-news-and-how-the-end-might?r=8tdk6&utm_medium=ios

Gary Marcus discusses breaking news and potential existential risks or significant developments related to AI systems, likely examining how current AI capabilities and limitations might lead to critic

AnimaSpark: A Feed-Forward Method for Animating Arbitrary 3D Objects

arXiv:2606.10988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While recent advancements in generative AI have substantially accelerated static 3D model creation workflows, the synthesis of category-agnostic 3D anim

Anthropic and OpenAI did not call for a pause. Read the wording: 'good for the world to have the option', 'possible' to slow down 'when need…

Anthropic and OpenAI did not call for a pause. Read the wording: 'good for the world to have the option', 'possible' to slow down 'when needed'. This is how they signal safety to one audience, acceler

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Anthropic has long advocated for transparency requirements for frontier AI, because the risks weren't yet clear enough to regulate precisely…

Anthropic's leadership, through CEO Dario Amodei, has advocated for transparency requirements in frontier AI development as a regulatory approach, arguing that the risks were insufficiently understood

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Anthropic, if they really believe what they say, should show some leadership:

Anthropic, if they really believe what they say, should show some leadership: 🔔 IF Anthropic is for real about safety, the should pause, for one month, and show leadership. If they won’t pause, even b