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The Confidence Trap: Calibration Attacks for Graph Neural Networks

arXiv:2606.08467v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While confidence calibration is essential for trustworthy decision-making in safety-critical applications, the robustness of calibrated GNNs to advers

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The Cross-Architecture Substrate: A Domain-Transcendent, Calibration-Surviving Geometric Invariant of Modern Vision Encoders

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arXiv:2606.07882v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Different vision neural networks -- trained to classify, contrast, reconstruct, or match images to text -- should have correspondingly different inter

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The Easy, the Hard, and the Learnable: Confidence and Difficulty-Adaptive Policy Optimization for LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2606.07950v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: RL with verifiable rewards can substantially improve LLM reasoning, yet standard GRPO-style training often treats easy, hard, and learnable questions al

The Flexibility Trap: Rethinking the Value of Arbitrary Order in Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2601.15165v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) break the rigid left-to-right constraint of traditional LLMs, enabling token generation in arbitrary o

The Governance of Human-LLM Interaction: Safety Gating, Civility Steering, and Affective Default Lock-In

arXiv:2606.08172v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly mediate high-stakes interactions in finance, medicine, and mental-health support, yet users have limited con

The Hidden Bias of Process Reward Models:PRISM for Rewarding the Right Reasoning

arXiv:2606.09078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Process Reward Models (PRMs) improve credit assignment for reasoning by providing step-level feedback. However, we identify a hidden bias in PRMs caused

The Spectral Dynamics and Noise Geometry of Muon

arXiv:2606.08388v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Muon replaces a matrix gradient G=USigma V^op by its polar factor UV^op. This keeps the singular directions selected by the gradient, but makes the upda

Think Before You Act: Intention-Guided Reasoning for LLM-Based Location Prediction

arXiv:2606.08122v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting a user's next Point-of-Interest (POI) based on their historical check-in records is a fundamental task in location-based services. While rece

This is actually a pretty measured bet compared to spending of the U.S companies. OpenAI alone is about twice as much. If things falls apart…

This is actually a pretty measured bet compared to spending of the U.S companies. OpenAI alone is about twice as much. If things falls apart, the US will be hit harder. 🚨BREAKING: CHINA IS AGI-PILLED

This quote from OpenAI is telling. Translation: We have a rapidly closing window to get this IPO out the door before the bubble bursts, our …

This quote from OpenAI is telling. Translation: We have a rapidly closing window to get this IPO out the door before the bubble bursts, our CFO doesn't want to go through with it because our books are

TinyJudge: Unverifiable Constraint Alignment via Lightweight Specialist Ensembles

arXiv:2606.07520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Instruction Following (IF) is a core capability of LLMs, requiring strict adherence to diverse constraints, ranging from verifiable ones (e.g., output

TORL-VLA: Tactile Guided Online Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Manipulation

arXiv:2606.09337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become a powerful framework for robotic manipulation, and recent studies have introduced tactile or force feedb

Toward autocorrection of chemical process flowsheets using large language models

arXiv:2312.02873v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The process engineering domain widely uses Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs) and Process and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs) to represent process

Towards Accurate Emotion-Attributed Video Captioning via Fine-grained Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction

arXiv:2606.08566v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emotional Video Captioning (EVC) is a challenging task that aims to generate factually accurate and emotionally rich descriptions for videos. Existing E

Towards End to End Motion Planning and Execution for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Using Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606.08513v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) traditionally rely on complex, heavily engineered pipelines for perception, path planning, and motion control. T

Towards Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models by Refining Textual Embeddings

arXiv:2511.05017v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) remain a persistent challenge, often stemming from inadequate integration of visual informati

TRACER: Token ReAssignment for Concept ERasure in Generative Recommendation

arXiv:2606.07688v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative recommendation formulates next-item prediction as autoregressive generation over semantic ID (SID) sequences derived from users' historical

Training-Inference Kernel Contracts: Bounding Divergence in Post-Training and Deployment

arXiv:2606.07581v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A modern post-training pipeline often writes one symbol for its policy, pi_theta, while evaluating it through two different programs: a training kerne

Trait-space Monitoring for Emergent Misalignment During Supervised Finetuning

arXiv:2606.07631v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Emergent misalignment (EM) occurs when narrow finetuning causes a model to behave dangerously outside the finetuning task. Standard training signals c

Transforming Police-Car Swerving for Mitigating Isolated Stop-and-Go Traffic Waves: A Practice-Oriented Jam-Absorption Driving Strategy

arXiv:2602.10234v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Stop-and-go traffic waves, a major form of freeway congestion, impose severe and persistent adverse impacts, including reduced traffic efficie

TRUST-SCF: Transformer-based Risk Understanding and Scoring for Transactional Supply Chain Finance

arXiv:2606.08140v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Supply Chain Finance (SCF) and LendTech platforms need credit scoring systems that respond to evolving transaction behavior, repayment delays, and activ

Two Bridges, One Pathway: From VLMs to Generalizable VLAs with Embodied Trajectory-Coupled Data

arXiv:2606.08520v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are powerful general-purpose reasoners, yet converting them into robot control policies (VLAs) is surprisingly difficult.

Uncertainty-Aware Hierarchical Re-Localization in OpenStreetMap via Semantic Alignment

arXiv:2603.01613v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Monocular re-localization enables robots to estimate camera poses from visual observations. However, many existing methods rely on dense maps or lar

Unifying Object-Centric World Models and Diffusion Policy: A Hierarchical Framework for Multi-Stage Robotic Tasks

arXiv:2606.08775v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual world models have shown great potential in learning complex system dynamics. Recent advancements leverage these models as transition functions

VAIC: Vision-Guided Humanoid Agile Object Interaction Control via Decoupled Commands

arXiv:2606.09286v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots hold immense potential for real-world assistance, yet agile interaction with objects in unstructured environments demands tightly couple

Vessel Traffic Flow Prediction on Sparse Data via Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks with a Learnable Tweedie Head

arXiv:2606.07694v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate vessel traffic flow prediction is crucial for smart port operations and navigational safety. However, maritime traffic flow data are often high

VESTA: A Fully Automated Scenario Generation and Safety Evaluation Framework for LLM Agents

arXiv:2606.08531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly evolving from simple text-based interaction systems into LLM agents that can maintain memory, use tools, a

Video Understanding by Design: How Datasets Shape Video Models

arXiv:2509.09151v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Research in video understanding has advanced rapidly, driven by increasingly diverse datasets and more powerful model architectures. While exi

Video2Sim2Real: Full-Stack Autonomous Dexterous Skill Acquisition from a Single Human Video

arXiv:2606.08828v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human manipulation videos are a convenient and intuitive source for robot learning. However, directly transferring human dexterity to robots remains cha

Vision-Language Asymmetry in Bistable Image Captioning

arXiv:2606.08031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wittgenstein's duck-rabbit poses a question for vision-language models: when a model captions an ambiguous image, where in the model is the commitment t

Vision-Language Work Zone Intelligence for Safety-Critical Speed Regulation of Mixed-Autonomy Vehicles in Dynamic Environments

arXiv:2606.08860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Temporary work-zone speed limits are communicated through visually inconsistent signage and are often missing from digital maps, creating safety risks f

Visual Para-Thinker++: A Single-Policy Multi-Agent Framework for Visual Reasoning

arXiv:2606.09290v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual reasoning requires integrating evidence distributed across regions, attributes, and relations, making single-chain reasoning prone to early perce

wait til you see what happens with SpaceX.

Gary Marcus, a prominent AI researcher and critic, posted a teaser statement on X about upcoming SpaceX developments, likely referring to significant announcements or milestones in the company's space

WaveDiT: Distribution-Aware Wavelet Flow Matching for Efficient 3D Brain MRI Synthesis

arXiv:2606.08670v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large and demographically balanced datasets are essential for reliable neuroimaging biomarkers. Full-resolution 3D brain MRI synthesis can support data

Web Agents Should Use Typed Actions Instead of Click-Based Browsing

arXiv:2602.17245v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This position paper argues that building a reliable agentic Web requires shifting from low-level interaction primitives to typed actions supported b

what constitutes reasoning in AI is a critical debate. i hope that @dwarkesh_sp will respond.

what constitutes reasoning in AI is a critical debate. i hope that @dwarkesh_sp will respond. what does this even mean, @dwarkesh_sp, “the real deal”? is it even a falsifiable conjecture? what’s the e

what does this even mean, @dwarkesh_sp, “the real deal”? is it even a falsifiable conjecture? what’s the evidence? and if you can agree that…

what does this even mean, @dwarkesh_sp, “the real deal”? is it even a falsifiable conjecture? what’s the evidence? and if you can agree that “If you ask an LLM a question it can't answer, sometimes it

What Makes a Desired Graph for Relational Deep Learning?

arXiv:2606.08491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Relational deep learning (RDL) converts relational databases (RDBs) into heterogeneous graphs, but graphs derived directly from database schemas are oft

WhiFlash: Accelerating Speculative Decoding with Token-Level Cross-Paradigm Routing

arXiv:2606.07710v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The autoregressive nature of large language models (LLMs) remains a significant bottleneck for inference, particularly in complex agentic workloads. W

Why are governments in the dark about the threat posed by superintelligent AI? Because the industry is spending to keep them there. In ABC's…

Why are governments in the dark about the threat posed by superintelligent AI? Because the industry is spending to keep them there. In ABC's new Four Corners documentary, ControlAI's US Director Conno

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X-OP: Cross-Morphology Whole-Body Teleoperation via MPC Retargeting

arXiv:2606.07934v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whole-body teleoperation is essential for scalable robot data collection in loco-manipulation tasks, yet existing approaches relying on exoskeleton suit

you gotta love these juxtapositions.

Gary Marcus highlights interesting contrasts or contradictions, likely related to AI, technology, or cognitive science based on his expertise in these areas. The post format suggests he's pointing out

Your Self-Play Algorithm is Secretly an Adversarial Imitator: Understanding LLM Self-Play through the Lens of Imitation Learning

arXiv:2602.01357v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Self-play post-training methods has emerged as an effective approach for finetuning large language models and turn the weak language model into stro

A Causal Probabilistic Framework for Perception-Informed Closed-Loop Simulation of Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2606.07186v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Software-in-the-loop (SIL) simulation is a cornerstone for the validation of modern automotive safety functions. However, many current frameworks utiliz

A federal judge blocks President Trump's policy imposing a $100,000 fee for employer H-1B visa applications (CNBC)

CNBC: A federal judge blocks President Trump's policy imposing a $100,000 fee for employer H-1B visa applications — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most

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A Geometric Account of Activation Steering through Angle-Norm Decomposition

arXiv:2606.06735v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Linear activation steering has gained popularity as a simple and empirically effective way to control language model behavior. More recently, spherical

A Geometric View for Understanding Concept Learning and Neuron Interpretation in Sparse Autoencoders

arXiv:2606.07007v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a unified mathematical framework for a geometric understanding of concept learning and neuron interpretation in sparse autoencoders (SAEs).

A look at Ireland's Bring Your Own Power policy, which requires new data centers to have their own power plants on site or sources of energy produced nearby (Yusuf Khan/Wall Street Journal)

Yusuf Khan / Wall Street Journal: A look at Ireland's Bring Your Own Power policy, which requires new data centers to have their own power plants on site or sources of energy produced nearby — The tin

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