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Reinforcing Temporal Answer Grounding in Instructional Video via Candidate-Aware Causal Reasoning

arXiv:2606.08436v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The task of temporal answer grounding in instructional video (TAGV), which aims to locate precise video segments that respond to natural language querie

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Reliable to Expressive: A Curriculum for Rubric-Following Safety Judges

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arXiv:2606.09165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety judges are increasingly deployed to evaluate model outputs against evolving criteria, yet recent meta-evaluation work shows they remain brittle u

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Repair Before Veto, When Repair Is Hidden: Quantum-Accessible Features for Repair-Augmented Constraint Learning

arXiv:2606.08020v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hard-constraint decision systems usually veto infeasible candidates. This is too rigid when the system can act: if a known affordable repair would mak

Rethinking the Divergence Regularization in LLM RL

arXiv:2606.09821v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a key component of post-training large language models (LLMs). In practice, LLM RL is often off-policy because of

Revisiting Articulated Parts Perception in Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2606.08103v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We are surrounded by various objects with movable, articulated parts, e.g., box, handle, door. An accurate and generalizable perception of articulated

Revisiting the shutdown problem

arXiv:2606.08296v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A key premise in leading arguments for existential risk from artificial intelligence is that malfunctioning artificial agents could not be easily shut d

Reward Shaping for (Inference-Time) Alignment: A Stackelberg Game Perspective

arXiv:2602.02572v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing alignment methods directly use the reward model learned from user preference data to optimize an LLM policy, subject to KL regulariza

ridiculous oversimplification, from a prominent OpenAI employee no less. does this capture your impression of how the two companies have beh…

ridiculous oversimplification, from a prominent OpenAI employee no less. does this capture your impression of how the two companies have behaved? The OAI / Anthropic values difference is deeply misund

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RLVE: Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Language Models with Adaptive Verifiable Environments

arXiv:2511.07317v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce Reinforcement Learning (RL) with Adaptive Verifiable Environments (RLVE), an approach using verifiable environments that procedur

Robot-DIFT: Correspondence-Sensitive Diffusion Features for Contact-Rich Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2602.11934v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robot manipulation often fails in the final millimeters: a policy may recognize the right object yet miss the pose offsets, boundaries, or pre-conta

RPO-PDT: Demonstrating Role-Play-Based Knowledge Adaptation for Student Support Dialogue (Demonstration System)

arXiv:2606.09255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present RPO-PDT: a retrieval-grounded, role-play-based dialogue system for adaptive student support in higher education. RPO-PDT is: (1) able to prov

SAD-Flower: Flow Matching for Safe, Admissible, and Dynamically Consistent Planning

arXiv:2511.05355v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Flow matching (FM) has shown promising results in data-driven planning. However, it inherently lacks formal guarantees for ensuring state and action

Safe, Fluent and Acceptable Motion Generation and Execution for Human--Robot Interaction in Manufacturing Environments

arXiv:2606.08741v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots operating in human environments must not only ensure physical safety but also exhibit behaviors that are understandable, fluent, and acceptable t

Safety is Contextual, LLM-Judges Are Not: Navigating the Rigid Priors of Evaluators

arXiv:2606.07874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs-as-judges are the only way to evaluate safety at scale. Despite their importance, LLM-judges themselves are rarely evaluated beyond human agreement

Sample-Efficient Post-Training for LEGO Spatial-Physics Reasoning

arXiv:2606.07602v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based LEGO assembly generation requires both semantic grounding and physical feasibility. We identify a data-induced failure mode, PhysHack, in wh

SAW: Stage-Aware Dynamic Weighting for Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning in Large Language Models

arXiv:2606.07705v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) is central to aligning large language models with complex human preferences, the prevailing pra

Scaling Neural Network Verification with Tensor Parallelism and Fully Sharded Data Parallelism

arXiv:2606.09377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Formal neural network verification -- proving that a network satisfies safety properties for all inputs in a specified domain -- is bounded in practic

SciTrace: Trajectory-Aware Safety Reasoning for Scientific Discovery Agents

arXiv:2606.08234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based scientific agents have shown strong capacity for autonomous research, yet their safety layers remain structurally divorced from core reasoning

SecureClaw: Clawing Back Control of LLM Agents

arXiv:2606.09549v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-using large language model (LLM) agents face two distinct security failures: unauthorized external actions and exposure of sensitive plaintext in

See More, Match Better: Multi-Source Feature Fusion for Two-View Correspondence Learning

arXiv:2606.09262v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Two-view correspondence learning aims to distinguish true correspondences (inliers) from false ones (outliers) in image pairs by leveraging their underl

SEF-CLGC at SemEval-2026 Task 11: Logical Notation Impact on Language Model Performance

arXiv:2606.09157v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper revisits our pipeline called Syllogistic Evaluation Framework-Common Logic Grammar Construction (SEF-CLGC). We combine formal logical notat

Self-Evolving Scientific Agent Discovers Generalizable Physically-Reasoned Fluid Control

arXiv:2606.08405v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While data-intensive deep reinforcement learning can optimize complex control policies, scientific discovery in physical systems fundamentally requires

Self-Supervised Learning with a Multi-Task Latent Space Objective

arXiv:2602.05845v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose a multi-task formulation of self-predictive Siamese SSL in which each spatial transformation defines a distinct latent-space alignment ta

Semantic Quorum Assurance: Collective Certification for Non-Deterministic AI Infrastructure

arXiv:2606.08021v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language model (LLM) agents are integrated into autonomous cloud operations, distributed systems face a semantic reliability problem: propose

SemDINO: A DINOv3-Driven Network for Cross-Temporal Semantic Alignment in Change Detection

arXiv:2606.09772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semantic change detection (SCD) aims to simultaneously locate land-cover changes and identify semantic categories before and after transition. However,

Sequential statistical inference for Large Language Models: Representation, validity, and monitoring

arXiv:2606.07624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This discussion argues that sequential statistical inference can naturally contribute to LLM trustworthiness. In deployment, LLM systems are queried rep

SG-OPD: Sign-Gated On-Policy Distillation via Sign-Consistency Gating and Phased Teacher Sampling

arXiv:2606.09304v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own trajectories with dense per-token supervision from a stronger teacher, and often outperforms

sGPO: Trading Inference FLOPs for Training Efficiency in RLVR

arXiv:2606.08854v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) training allocates a fixed rollout budget to every query, without regard for what each

SMI: Efficient Self-Supervised Learning via Mutual-Information-Inspired Dependency Optimization

arXiv:2606.08332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) has achieved remarkable representation learning performance, but many existing methods rely on large batch sizes, memory

'So There's a Catch-22 Here': How Early Adopters Who Build Multi-Agent LLM Systems Conceptualize Transparency

arXiv:2606.08323v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent large language model (LLM) systems are rapidly emerging, yet transparency, a cornerstone of responsible AI, remains under-defined in these

some news: it turns out 34,000 Instagram accounts got hit by a Meta AI exploit the other day, per internal company docs hackers also used a …

some news: it turns out 34,000 Instagram accounts got hit by a Meta AI exploit the other day, per internal company docs hackers also used a senior 'Space Force' official's account to post anti-Iran wa

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SpaceVLN: A Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation Agent with Online Spatial Cognitive Memory and Reasoning

arXiv:2606.08992v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation in continuous environments requires agents to understand the spatial structure of previously unseen environments in ord

Sparrow: Sparse Rollout for Stable and Efficient Long-context RL of Large Language Models

arXiv:2606.08446v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite being powerful, reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) induces extremely long COT, making it computationally expensive. Since R

Speaker-Invariant Representation Learning for Spoofing Detection via Gradient Reversal and A Variational Information Bottleneck

arXiv:2606.08678v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sophisticated generative speech technology can undermined the reliability of voice biometrics. While spoofing detection systems excel when assessed un

SPIN: Decentralized Swarm Control via Tensorized Policy Coordination

arXiv:2606.07557v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decentralized multi-agent swarm coordination on resource-constrained edge platforms remains fundamentally bottlenecked by the exponential scaling of joi

Stage-1 Controls the Entropy Regime, Not the Outcome

arXiv:2606.09059v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Two-stage post-training -- a Stage-1 warm-start (supervised fine-tuning, SFT, or on-policy distillation, OPD) followed by Stage-2 reinforcement learni

Stain-Aware Wavelet Regularization for Instant Adversarial Purification in Histopathology

arXiv:2606.08745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning has become prevalent in computational pathology pipelines that support tasks such as cancer screening and digital pathology analysis. Howe

STARIXNet: Multivariate and Multi-attribute Deep Learning Approach to Real-Time Resource Allocation in Cloud Platforms

arXiv:2606.07565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intelligent scaling of microservices in cloud platforms is crucial for mitigating escalating compute costs while avoiding service disruptions. Current s

State Backdoor: Towards Stealthy Real-world Poisoning Attack on Vision-Language-Action Model in State Space

arXiv:2601.04266v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are widely deployed in safety-critical embodied AI applications such as robotics. However, their complex m

Steganography Without Modification: Hidden Communication via LLM Seeds

arXiv:2606.09135v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We demonstrate that widely deployed Large Language Model (LLM) inference stacks harbor a steganographic channel that requires no modification to model

STELLAR: Spatio-Temporal Environmental Learning with Latent Alignment and Refinement for Long-Tailed Species Distribution Modeling

arXiv:2606.08484v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Joint Species Distribution Modeling (JSDM) is a key enabler for biodiversity monitoring and conservation planning. However, accurate JSDM faces two co

Structure-Conditioned Actor-Critic Branches for Quality-Diversity Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606.08735v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quality-diversity reinforcement learning (QD-RL) aims to construct policy repertoires that contain both high-performing and behaviorally diverse policie

Summarization is Not Dead Yet

arXiv:2606.08000v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The progress of large language models (LLMs) has fueled claims that model-generated summaries rival or even surpass human-written references, raising

Sycophancy as a Multilingual Alignment Failure: How Safety Degrades Across Languages, Topics, and Models

arXiv:2606.08451v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety-aligned large language models often exhibit sycophancy, which is the tendency to affirm users' opinions regardless of factual accuracy. Althoug

Symbolic Reasoning Frameworks Modulate LLM Risk Aversion in Multi-Agent Strategic Settings

arXiv:2606.07552v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models exhibit innate behavioral tendencies when deployed as strategic agents -- notably a risk-averse 'turtle' bias toward defensive p

SynthICL: Scalable In-context Imitation Learning with Synthetic Data

arXiv:2606.08154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-context imitation learning (ICIL) enables robots to learn new tasks from a small number of demonstrations by conditioning a pre-trained policy on tas

Systems-Level Planning and Coordination of Truck-Drone Collaborative Delivery Networks

arXiv:2606.08738v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Urban last-mile parcel delivery increasingly relies on heterogeneous fleets whose performance depends on timely coordination, reliable communication,

Targeting World Models to Compromise Robot Learning Pipelines

arXiv:2606.09499v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models have recently seen a rapid growth in both their popularity and capability as more data efficient tools for generating robot training data