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On Advantage Estimates for Max@K Policy Gradients

arXiv:2606.06080v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards is widely used for post-training reasoning models, but sparse outcome rewards make exploration difficul

OrderGrad: Optimizing Beyond the Mean with Order-Statistic Policy Gradient Estimation

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DGX agent

arXiv:2606.06096v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Policy-gradient methods usually optimize expected return, but many real world applications care about distributional properties of returns: tail risk,

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5 Jun 2026

Ousiometrics: The essence of meaning aligns with a power-danger-structure framework instead of valence-arousal-dominance

arXiv:2110.06847v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: From work emerging through the middle of the 20th century, the essence of meaning has become widely accepted as being described by the three orthogo

PC-Talk: Precise Facial Animation Control for Audio-Driven Talking Face Generation

arXiv:2503.14295v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advancements in audio-driven talking face generation have made great progress in lip synchronization. However, current methods often lack suf

PiL-World: A Chunk-Wise World Model for VLA Policy-in-the-Loop Evaluation

arXiv:2606.05773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies operate in a closed loop in real-world robot tasks: a robot observes the scene, executes an action chunk, and cond

Pitfalls of Evaluating Language Models with Open Benchmarks

arXiv:2507.00460v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Open Large Language Model (LLM) benchmarks, such as HELM and BIG-Bench, provide standardized and transparent evaluation protocols that support compa

Political appointees vetting science funding? Trump is doing to science what the Right accused previous administrations of doing. But in pre…

Political appointees vetting science funding? Trump is doing to science what the Right accused previous administrations of doing. But in previous administrations, there was no political control of res

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QueryAgent-R1: Bridging Query Generation and Product Retrieval for E-Commerce Query Recommendation

arXiv:2606.05671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Query recommendation in e-commerce search aims to proactively suggest queries that match users' potential interests. However, existing methods mainly op

Real-Time Threat Detection from Surveillance Cameras using Machine Learning

arXiv:2606.05708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ensuring public safety in densely populated urban environments remains a critical challenge, necessitating the deployment of intelligent and automated v

ReCache: Learning Budget-Aware Caching Schedules for Diffusion Models via REINFORCE

arXiv:2606.06060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern diffusion models generate high-quality images and videos, but their iterative denoising process makes inference expensive. Feature caching accele

Recovering Physically Plausible Human-Object Interactions from Monocular Videos

arXiv:2606.05359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we propose RePHO, a method to reconstruct physically plausible human-object interactions (HOI) from monocular videos. While existing kine

ReSAGE-PAR: Representational Similarity Assessment for Generative Expansion in Pedestrian Attribute Recognition

arXiv:2606.06020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To address the limited diversity and data scarcity in Pedestrian Attribute Recognition (PAR), we explore image synthesis using diffusion models guided b

Revisiting Lexicon Evaluation in Unsupervised Word Discovery

arXiv:2606.06183v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Building a lexicon from discovered word-like units is a central goal in zero-resource speech processing. But do our evaluations provide a trustworthy

RiskFlow: Fast and Faithful Safety-Critical Traffic Scenario Generation

arXiv:2606.06423v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety-critical traffic scenario generation is essential for evaluating autonomous driving systems under rare but high-risk interactions. Existing diffu

Robust Scene Transfer for PointGoal Navigation via Privileged Sensor Guided Contrastive Learning

arXiv:2606.05506v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a sensor-guided adaptive contrastive learning framework for visual representation learning in PointGoal navigation. During training, privileg

Safety officials finally have a good idea of what a big rocket explosion can do

Safety officials gained detailed data on the impact of large rocket explosions when Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket experienced an anomaly during a hot-fire test at Cape Canaveral on May 28, causing a

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Seeking Counsel: Ongoing Targeted Campaign Against US Law Firms

Written by: Chad Reams, Tufail Ahmed, Keith Knapp, Ashley Frazer, Tyler McLellan Introduction From January through May 2026, Mandiant identified a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign e

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sorry @geoffreyhinton and @RichardDawkins

sorry @geoffreyhinton and @RichardDawkins Ted Chiang is right: claiming that LLMs are conscious is just ridiculous. One simple example. If you ask GPT to imitate a conversation between Julius Caesar a

Sources and docs detail defense tech startup Shield AI's struggles to overcome years of technical hitches and safety concerns with its V-BAT autonomous drone (David Jeans/Reuters)

David Jeans / Reuters: Sources and docs detail defense tech startup Shield AI's struggles to overcome years of technical hitches and safety concerns with its V-BAT autonomous drone — A year ago, Ryan

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Symb-xMIL: Symbolic Explanations for Multiple Instance Learning in Digital Pathology

arXiv:2606.06224v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Explanations of multiple instance learning (MIL) models are widely used for validation and discovery in digital histopathology. Existing methods primari

TAM: Torque Adaptation Module for Robust Motion Transfer in Manipulation

arXiv:2606.06218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A policy tuned for one robot often behaves differently on another, whether due to the sim-to-real gap, unknown payloads, or the differing dynamics of tw

Tech stocks are sliding. Maybe S&P’s decision to make mega IPOs stand on their two feet is giving speculators pause? 🤔

S&P's decision to require mega IPOs to meet higher independence standards may be contributing to recent tech stock declines, as it could reduce speculative buying pressure on newly public companies. G

TempoVLA: Learning Speed-Controllable Vision-Language-Action Policies

arXiv:2606.06491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulation alternates between low-risk transit phases that call for fast execution and high-risk contact stages that demand slow, precise motion

Texture-preserving implicit neural representation for Cone beam CT truncated reconstruction

arXiv:2606.06039v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) frequently suffers from data truncation, which introduces severe artifacts and limits the effective field of view (

Thanks, this was great!!!! @GaryMarcus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFYF_e1GSGI

Gary Marcus shared positive feedback about a YouTube video, likely featuring discussion or content related to his work in cognitive science, AI, or related technical topics. The enthusiastic tone sugg

⚠️ The American public may be about to be fleeced. ⚠️ OpenAI, a deeply unethical company that was built on a series of lies, does not have a…

⚠️ The American public may be about to be fleeced. ⚠️ OpenAI, a deeply unethical company that was built on a series of lies, does not have a realistic road to profitability. And they reportedly want t

The creator of Linux just publicly called out the AI hype. Word for word. Linus Torvalds took the stage at Open Source Summit 2026 and said …

The creator of Linux just publicly called out the AI hype. Word for word. Linus Torvalds took the stage at Open Source Summit 2026 and said this: 'When I see people saying 99% of our code is written b

The NY State legislature passes a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, the first statewide ban of its kind if Governor Kathy Hochul signs it into law (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

Lauren Feiner / The Verge: The NY State legislature passes a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, the first statewide ban of its kind if Governor Kathy Hochul signs it into law — It could b

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Toward Culturally Aligned LLMs through Ontology-Guided Multi-Agent Reasoning

arXiv:2601.21700v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly support culturally sensitive decision making, yet often exhibit misalignment due to skewed pretraining dat

Towards a Data Flywheel for Embodied Intelligence in Logistics

arXiv:2606.05960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied intelligence is moving from laboratory demonstrations toward industrial deployment, with the logistics industry serving as a key application sc

Two-Way Is Better Than One: Bidirectional Alignment with Cycle Consistency for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental Learning

arXiv:2606.05675v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual learning (CL) seeks models that acquire new skills without erasing prior knowledge. In exemplar-free class-incremental learning (EFCIL), thi

UNIVID: Unified Vision-Language Model for Video Moderation

arXiv:2606.05748v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Global-scale video moderation faces a dual challenge: the need for fine-grained multi-modal reasoning and the demand for interpretable outputs to supp

Unpaired RGB-Thermal Gaussian-Splatting Using Visual Geometric Transformers

arXiv:2606.05491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-modal novel view synthesis (NVS) combining RGB and thermal imagery enables precise 3D scene reconstruction with visual and thermal information. Ho

Unveiling the Unknown: Open Vocabulary Object Detection with Scene Graphs

arXiv:2606.05916v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-vocabulary object detection seeks to identify novel object categories that were not part of the training data. Many knowledge distillation-based ap

Using street view images and visual LLMs to predict heritage values for governance support: Risks, ethics, and policy implications

arXiv:2601.06056v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: During 2025 and 2026, the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive is being implemented in the European Union member states, requiring all me

Value-and-Structure Alignment for Routing-Consistent Quantization of Mixture-of-Experts Models

arXiv:2606.05688v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models scale foundation models efficiently by activating only a subset of experts for each token, but their large number of exp

ViCuR: Visual Cues as Recoverable Privilege for Multimodal On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2606.05718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) improves reasoning by training a student on trajectories sampled from its own policy under supervision from a teacher. In m

VOLD: Reasoning Transfer from LLMs to Vision-Language Models via On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2510.23497v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Training vision-language models (VLMs) for complex reasoning remains a challenging task, i.a. due to the scarcity of high-quality image-text reasoni

VOLT: Vision and Language Trajectory Segmentation for Faster-than-Demonstration Policies

arXiv:2606.06323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans often take longer to demonstrate a task than a robot would need to execute it. Rather than learning to replicate the demonstration at the same pa

What's in a Name? Morphological Shortcuts by LLMs in Pharmacology

arXiv:2606.05616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The morphological form of a word can often give cues to its meaning, but purely relying on these mappings can lead to overgeneralization in high-stakes

When AI Says It Feels

arXiv:2606.05734v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are generally constrained from expressing feelings through human-preference alignment in post-training processes. This po

When Evidence is Sparse: Weakly Supervised Early Failure Alerting in Dialogs and LLM-Agent Trajectories

arXiv:2606.05414v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Early failure alerting requires deciding, while a dialog or agent trajectory is still unfolding, whether to flag it as likely to fail. This is challengi

worth 2 trillion, easily. maybe more!

Gary Marcus posted on X/Twitter expressing his assessment that something (likely an AI system, company, or technology) could be worth $2 trillion or more, suggesting significant potential value. Witho

WOW!!!! 👏 Great news for anyone who didn’t want to be fast-tracked into this madness. SpaceX now needs to stand on its own two feet.

WOW!!!! 👏 Great news for anyone who didn’t want to be fast-tracked into this madness. SpaceX now needs to stand on its own two feet. Wow, the S&P Dow Jones Indices has just officially announced that t

Wow…this is a tell people. There is no path to profitability. They need to socialize losses.

Wow…this is a tell people. There is no path to profitability. They need to socialize losses. Trump administration, OpenAI discussing possible government stake in the AI startup https://www.cnbc.com/20

3PoinTr: 3D Point Tracks for Learning Manipulation from Unconstrained Human Videos

arXiv:2603.08485v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning manipulation policies from human videos could greatly reduce the need for expensive robot demonstrations, but existing approaches typically

4 Jun 2026

A brief history of claims about AI and employment 2016: Hinton said radiologists would soon be replaced; they weren’t. He was hyping his tec…

A brief history of claims about AI and employment 2016: Hinton said radiologists would soon be replaced; they weren’t. He was hyping his tech, not basing it on careful analysis of the industry. 2026:

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A Goal-Set Characterization of Task Composition in the Boolean Task Algebra