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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).

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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)

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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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8 Jun 2026

a lot of fools and a lot of money shall soon be parted.

Gary Marcus, a prominent AI researcher and critic, posted a commentary suggesting that foolish investors and those with excessive capital will soon experience significant financial losses, likely refe

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A pause continues to be utter and complete nonsense and it always will be. 1. Let's make planes safer by not making planes! 2. What exactly …

A pause continues to be utter and complete nonsense and it always will be. 1. Let's make planes safer by not making planes! 2. What exactly happens in a 'pause'? Do labs get to keep working and we all

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Accounting for Context: Shaping Moral Credences for Value Alignment

arXiv:2606.06972v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ensuring that agent behaviours are aligned with human moral values inevitably raises the problem of how to account for the plurality of moral perspectiv

Acoustic Cue Alignment in Audio Language Models for Speech Emotion Recognition

arXiv:2606.07309v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Instruction-following audio language models (ALMs) can be augmented with explicit acoustic cues, yet it remains unclear whether such cues are used in

ActionMap: Robot Policy Learning via Voxel Action Heatmap

arXiv:2606.06904v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have advanced rapidly across backbones, training recipes, and data scale, yet the action decoder, which converts t

AdaGRPO: A Capability-Aware Adaptive Enhancement for Flow-based GRPO

arXiv:2606.06828v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has demonstrated remarkable success in aligning text-to-image (T2I) flow models with human preferences. Howeve

AdaJudge: Adaptive Multi-Perspective Judging for Reward Modeling

arXiv:2601.08097v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reward modeling is essential for aligning large language models with human preferences, yet predominant architectures rely on a static pooling strat

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AdaTok: Self-Budgeting Image Tokenization with Quality-Preserving Dynamic Tokens

arXiv:2606.07185v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image tokenizers, from 2D grids to recent 1D sequences, typically encode every image with the same fixed number of tokens. Yet visual complexity is high

AEGIS: A Backup Reflex for Physical AI

arXiv:2606.06660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon robot manipulation tends to fail gradually: one bad step degrades the state, and the policy spirals into a basin from which it cannot recov

Affordance-Based Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Quadruped Pedipulation

arXiv:2606.07506v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The object manipulation capabilities of quadruped robots is an open research challenge. While previous studies have focused on low-level policy learning

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Agentic World Modeling for 6G: Near-Real-Time Generative State-Space Reasoning

arXiv:2511.02748v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We argue that sixth-generation (6G) intelligence is not fluent token prediction but the capacity to imagine and choose -- to simulate future s

Amortized Neural Optimization for Pre-Layout Signal Integrity Design Space Exploration using Differentiable Surrogates

arXiv:2606.07463v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pre-layout design space exploration (DSE) for high-speed signal integrity (SI) analysis is often limited by the computational cost of simulations and

An Abstract Architecture for Explainable Autonomy in Hazardous Environments

arXiv:2606.07211v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous robotic systems are being proposed for use in hazardous environments, often to reduce the risks to human workers. In the immediate future,

An entire industry is being propped up by math that is literally insane.

An entire industry is being propped up by math that is literally insane. SPCX: Well, even Jensen the Great Huang started having math problems, or caught some kind of virus when he traveled to China on

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Announcing major new donations, and recapping the 2025 fundraiser

This past December, we ran our first fundraiser in six years, setting an ambitious goal of 6M. We ended up receiving a total of 1.8M from small donors and 1.6M in matching from the Survival and Flouri

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Apple refines Liquid Glass design and expands child safety tools at WWDC

Apple Inc.’s WWDC 2026 keynote today focused on making its software platform feel more polished, more responsive and more tightly managed across the company’s device ecosystem with refinements to the

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Attack Selection in Agentic AI Control Evaluations Meaningfully Decreases Safety

arXiv:2606.06529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An attacker that strategically chooses when to attack is much harder to catch than one that attacks indiscriminately. AI control is a safety framework f

Automatic, Debiased, and Invariant Counterfactual Generation under General Interventions

arXiv:2606.07399v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative models for counterfactual outcomes have great potential to support decision-making under complex interventions, but existing approaches are

Beyond Post-hoc Explanation: Toward Glassbox AI via Probabilistic Mediation

arXiv:2606.07113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are rapidly becoming infrastructural components in high-stakes institutional settings, including public administration, legal reas

Beyond Skeletons: Learning Animation Directly from Driving Videos with Same2X Training Strategy

arXiv:2606.06903v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human image animation aims to generate a video from a static reference image, guided by pose information extracted from a driving video. Existing appr

Bias in Filter Feature Selection Evaluation: A Meta-Analysis of Datasets, Baselines, and Experimental Design Choices

arXiv:2606.07068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background: Since 1990 many feature selection methods have been proposed across heterogeneous applications. To validate the usefulness of a new method,

Bounded-Abstention Pairwise Learning to Rank

arXiv:2505.23437v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Ranking systems influence decision-making in high-stakes domains like health, education, and employment, where they can have substantial econo

Breaking the Lock-in: Diversifying Text-to-Image Generation via Representation Modulation

arXiv:2606.06813v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent text-to-image models built on large-scale Transformer backbones and flow-based objectives deliver strong text-image alignment and high visual q

Building Pakistan Notice Helper: A Small AI Tool for a Very Local Safety Problem

Building Pakistan Notice Helper is a small AI tool designed to address a localized safety issue in Pakistan by helping users understand and process building-related notices. Developed as a hackathon p

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Built to benefit everyone: our plan

OpenAI outlines its mission and strategic approach to developing artificial intelligence technologies designed to benefit humanity broadly. The plan likely covers OpenAI's commitments to safety resear

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CAF-Gen: A Multi-Agent System for Enriching Argumentation Structures

arXiv:2606.06646v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Formalizing complex reasoning from natural text is one of the central challenges in computational linguistics. It requires systems to understand not j

CARVE-Q: Quantum-Proposed, Classically Certified Interactive Driving Repair

arXiv:2606.06531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The critical question after a correct driving veto is not only whether a maneuver is unsafe, but whether the blocked interaction admits a lawful, audita

CHDP: Cooperative Hybrid Diffusion Policies for Reinforcement Learning in Parameterized Action Space

arXiv:2601.05675v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Hybrid action space, which combines discrete choices and continuous parameters, is prevalent in domains such as robot control and game AI. However,

check out Marcus on AI

Gary Marcus, a prominent AI researcher and critic, shared a post on X directing followers to learn more about his perspectives on artificial intelligence. The post likely promotes his work, writings,

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Chunking the Critic: A Transformer-based Soft Actor-Critic with N-Step Returns

arXiv:2503.03660v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce a sequence-conditioned critic for Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) that models trajectory context with a lightweight Transformer and trains on a

Coarse-to-Control: Action-Token Planning for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2606.07107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most vision-language-action (VLA) models map observations directly to actions without explicit intermediate planning, which limits performance on long-h

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Consistent-Inversion: Reverse Consistency Guidance for Structure-Preserving Visual Editing

arXiv:2606.07145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-guided diffusion models have become effective tools for real-image visual editing, where the edited image must follow a target instruction while pr

Covariance Shrinkage via Stochastic Interpolation

arXiv:2606.07382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We recast classical shrinkage of high-dimensional covariance estimators as empirical risk minimization over a parametric stochastic interpolant between

Data-Efficient Autoregressive-to-Diffusion Language Models via On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2606.06712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the transformation of autoregressive models (ARLMs) into diffusion language models (DLMs). Rather than pretraining from scratch, prior work r

DEFINED: A Data-Efficient Computational Framework for Fine-Grained Creativity Assessment in Debate Scenarios

arXiv:2606.07226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human creativity has emerged as a critical competency in the era of large language models. Assessing creativity in complex, open-ended environments is

Depth over Fidelity in Fixed-Budget Noisy Evolution Strategies

arXiv:2606.06555v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Noisy evolution strategies under fixed evaluation budgets face a depth-fidelity trade-off: spending evaluations to denoise intra-generation rankings r

Detecting and Mitigating Bias by Treating Fairness as a Symmetry Operation

arXiv:2606.06514v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning systems deployed in high stakes socioeconomic settings routinely display bias. We formalize bias as a symmetry breaking operation: a cl

Didact: A Cross-Domain Capability Discovery System for Defence

arXiv:2606.06942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Policymakers in defence and defence-aligned sectors must monitor rapidly evolving research alongside sector priorities relevant to operational and str

DOPPLER: Dual-Policy Learning for Device Assignment in Asynchronous Dataflow Graphs

arXiv:2505.23131v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study the problem of assigning operations in a dataflow graph to devices to minimize execution time in a work-conserving system, with emphasis on

Elmes*: Automated Construction of Fine-Grained Evaluation Rubrics for Large Language Models in Long-Tail Educational Scenarios

arXiv:2606.06546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating large language models (LLMs) for education requires measuring how models teach, not only what they know. Existing benchmarks emphasize domain

Empirical Transfer Operators and Finite-Sample Change Detection for Noisy Expanding Interval Maps

arXiv:2606.06785v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study finite-sample change detection for one-dimensional noisy dynamical systems using partition-based empirical approximations of stationary behav

EVA: Evolving Semantic Adversaries for Red-Teaming GUI Agents Against Environmental Injection Attacks

arXiv:2505.14289v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents powered by Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly deployed yet vulnerable to Environmental

Evaluating AI-based Scientific Knowledge Synthesis with Epidemiological Systematic Reviews

arXiv:2603.22327v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Systematic literature reviews (SLRs) are a demanding and high-stakes form of scientific knowledge synthesis that remains underspecified as an

Evidence-Grounded Ensemble Diagnosis of 802.11 Packet Captures: A Multi-Stage Pipeline with Deterministic Reliability Scoring

arXiv:2606.06871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diagnosing 802.11 packet captures requires expert protocol knowledge, is slow, inconsistent across engineers, and unscalable. LLM-based approaches sound

Explicit Evidence Grounding via Structured Inline Citation Generation

arXiv:2606.07130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI systems become more widely adopted, the demand for factual and faithful generation grows. Properly attributing information through citations becom

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Extending Responsibility-Sensitive Safety for the Assessment of Offloaded Autonomous Driving Services

arXiv:2606.07067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety is a fundamental requirement in the development of autonomous driving (AD) systems. While function offloading has demonstrated significant benefi

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