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Test-time reward-guided alignment of language models by importance sampling on pre-logit space

arXiv:2510.26219v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Test-time alignment of large language models (LLMs) attracts attention because fine-tuning of LLMs requires high computational costs. In this

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Testing Neural Networks via Bayesian-Guided Exploration of Decision Landscapes

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arXiv:2606.04314v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As neural networks are increasingly deployed in safety-critical domains, testing is essential to evaluate and improve their reliability. Existing testin

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The Accountability Horizon: An Impossibility Theorem for Governing Human-Agent Collectives

arXiv:2604.07778v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing accountability frameworks for AI systems, legal, ethical, and regulatory, rest on a shared assumption: for any consequential outcome, at le

The Digital Apprentice: A Framework for Human-Directed Agentic AI Development

arXiv:2606.04321v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI deployments face a recurring design tension: heavy human oversight limits scale, while broad autonomy outruns accountability. Neither posture

The Invisible Lottery: How Subtle Cues Steer Algorithm Choice in LLM Code Generation

arXiv:2606.04057v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) now generate substantial production code, often for tasks with multiple valid algorithmic solutions. Incidental prompt cu

The Loss Is Not Enough: Sampling Conditions and Inductive Bias in Contrastive Representation Learning

arXiv:2606.04280v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contrastive learning has become a leading paradigm for self-supervised representation learning, yet the conditions under which it recovers meaningful

The Right Measure for Physics-Constrained Generation: A Co-Area Correction for Posterior-Consistent PDE Inverse Problems

arXiv:2606.04804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative models -- diffusion and flow matching -- are increasingly used to solve partial differential equation (PDE) inverse problems, enforcing the g

Think Fast and Far: Long-Horizon Online POMDP Planning via Rapid State Sampling

arXiv:2606.04355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) are a general and principled framework for motion planning under uncertainty. Despite tremendous

THIS. I fully agree with @andrewyang, especially since GenAi leverages IP from a huge range of humans that were not adequately compensated.

THIS. I fully agree with @andrewyang, especially since GenAi leverages IP from a huge range of humans that were not adequately compensated. We should tax AI. https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/06/04/andr

Three Predictions: 1. Some form of AI, probably neurosymbolic in nature, will come that is far more economical and data- and energy-efficien…

Three Predictions: 1. Some form of AI, probably neurosymbolic in nature, will come that is far more economical and data- and energy-efficient than LLMs, and it will make an absolute fortune. 2. LLMs,

Toward Multi-Domain and Long-Tailed Quantization via Feature Alignment and Scaling

arXiv:2606.04920v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantizing deep neural networks is essential for efficient inference on resource-constrained devices. However, most existing methods are designed for

Towards Pretraining Text Encoders for TabPFN

arXiv:2606.04876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular foundation models, such as TabPFN, achieve strong performance on tabular datasets with numerical and categorical data, but do not natively handl

Trace-Mediated Peak Bias: Bridging Temporal Credit Assignment and Cognitive Heuristics in Deep Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606.04735v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Temporal credit assignment is central to both biological and artificial intelligence, yet its interaction with non-linear function approximation is po

Transferable Multi-Bit Watermarking Across Frozen Diffusion Models via Latent Consistency Bridges

arXiv:2603.20304v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As generative AI advances, global governance frameworks increasingly mandate verifiable content provenance. However, existing watermarking technique

TransTac: Visuo-Tactile Modality Transition via Ultraviolet-Encoded Transparent Elastomers

arXiv:2606.04477v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-based tactile sensors (VBTS) recover high-resolution contact geometry but typically rely on opaque elastomer layers that prevent visual transpare

Trump’s budget director Russ Vought is the most dangerous person you’ve never heard of. And he just proposed turning every federal grant int…

Trump’s budget director Russ Vought is the most dangerous person you’ve never heard of. And he just proposed turning every federal grant into a loyalty test. His plan would make funding for cancer res

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Two House lawmakers unveil bipartisan AI legislation that would override some state AI laws and require top AI developers to implement risk-management plans (Politico)

Politico: Two House lawmakers unveil bipartisan AI legislation that would override some state AI laws and require top AI developers to implement risk-management plans — But it's the proposal to preemp

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U-Net-Accelerated Quality-Diversity Optimization for Climate-Adaptive Urban Layouts

arXiv:2606.04658v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optimizing urban layouts for climate adaptation requires balancing building density with cold-air ventilation. Because physics-based climate simulatio

UniFair: A unified fair clustering approach based on separation and compactness

arXiv:2606.04777v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clustering is increasingly used to support high-impact decisions, yet standard objectives such as k-means can produce clusterings that treat demographic

Unlocking Proactivity in Task-Oriented Dialogue

arXiv:2605.22240v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Proactive task-oriented dialogue (TOD), such as outbound sales, demands a persuasive agent that actively probes the user's concerns and steers the c

Value Entanglement: Conflation Between Different Kinds of Good In (Some) Large Language Models

arXiv:2602.19101v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Value alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) requires us to empirically measure these models' actual, acquired representation of value. Amo

VentAgent: When LLMs Learn to Breathe -- Multi-Objective Arbitration for ARDS Ventilation

arXiv:2606.04632v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mechanical ventilation for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) requires balancing competing physiological goals, including oxygenation, lung pr

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veriFIRE: an Industrial Case Study in Verifying Consistency Properties for a DNN-Based Wildfire Detection System

arXiv:2606.04121v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present our ongoing work on the veriFIRE project: a collaboration between industry and academia, aimed at applying verification to increase the rel

vibe coding meme of the day, via @emanuelmaiberg @404mediaco

This post likely references a humorous or critical meme about 'vibe coding'—a colloquial term for writing code based on intuition rather than rigorous testing or established best practices. The post a

VT-3DAD: Cross-Category 3D Anomaly Detection via Visual-Text Normal Space Alignment

arXiv:2606.04369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Few-shot cross-category 3D anomaly detection aims to determine whether an unknown point cloud belongs to a target normal category using only a few norma

WAM-Nav: Asymmetric Latent World-Action Modeling for Unified Visual Navigation

arXiv:2606.04907v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual navigation requires generating smooth and collision-free trajectories under complex geometric and physical constraints. Existing reactive policie

Watch the goal post shift unfold in real time: AGI used to be doing anything a person, including an expert, could do, and by the end of the …

Watch the goal post shift unfold in real time: AGI used to be doing anything a person, including an expert, could do, and by the end of the interview it’s not. I call this the AI bait and switch. As I

We are saying no to a data centre in Île-des-Chênes because there are big threats to the environment and not much benefit to the economy. Ou…

We are saying no to a data centre in Île-des-Chênes because there are big threats to the environment and not much benefit to the economy. Our message to any tech company out there… if you want to buil

What Can Eye Gaze Teach Us About Real-World Cycling? Insights From the Oxford RobotCycle Project

arXiv:2606.04989v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although much is known about the physical danger of cycling situations, less is understood about the perceived danger of cycling. Furthermore, percept

What Type of Inference is Active Inference?

arXiv:2606.04935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active inference casts decision-making as inference, with the Expected Free Energy (EFE) unifying goal-directed and information-seeking behavior. Recent

When Autoregressive Consistency Hurts Safety Alignment

arXiv:2606.04168v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety alignment in large language models (LLMs) is fragile in part because it is often shallow: fine-tuning mainly reshapes the model's behavior near t

When Both Layers Learn: Training Dynamics of Representing Linear Models via ReLU Networks

arXiv:2606.04476v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we study the gradient descent dynamics for jointly training both layers of a one-hidden-layer ReLU network to fit a linear target functio

X4Val: Learning Neural Surrogates for Variance-Reduced Policy Evaluation

arXiv:2606.05159v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rigorous evaluation of learning-based robotic systems is an essential prerequisite for deployment. However, real-world test data is expensive to gather;

You know this is about Sam from line 1, even before you get to the picture.

You know this is about Sam from line 1, even before you get to the picture. TL;DR: He’s going to keep bullshitting his way to IPO. This entire industry is based on an illusion. It deliberately mistake

ZeroWBC: Learning Natural Whole-Body Humanoid Interaction from Human Egocentric Data

arXiv:2603.09170v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Achieving versatile and natural whole-body humanoid interaction control remains challenging due to the high cost of whole-body teleoperation d

A blueprint for democratic governance of frontier AI

This OpenAI publication outlines a proposed framework for establishing democratic oversight and governance structures for advanced AI systems, addressing how frontier AI development should be regulate

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A Cartesian-3j Framework for Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials

arXiv:2512.16882v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have brought substantial gains in the extrapolation capability in computational chemistry. How

A Negative Result on Cross-Model Activation Transfer in a Pythia Multi-Hop Setting

arXiv:2606.03280v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work shows that language models can transmit behavioural traits through hidden signals in generated data during training. We ask whether a more d

A Pocket Offline Model for Simultaneous Speech Translation as CUNI Submission to IWSLT 2026

arXiv:2606.03948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We implement simultaneous translation capability with the offline direct speech-to-text translation model Canary, using the state-of-the-art policy Alig

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“a train wreck’ - @edels0n Not worth half of what you will be paying – Morningstar At most, worth half of what you will be paying – Martin P…

“a train wreck’ - @edels0n Not worth half of what you will be paying – Morningstar At most, worth half of what you will be paying – Martin Peers, The Information “financial terrorism” - @egrefen Get y

Adaptive Causal Alignment for High-Confidence Adversarial Training

arXiv:2606.03925v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inverse adversarial training leverages high-confidence predictions to stabilize robust learning, yet we uncover a critical paradox: high confidence ofte

AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms

arXiv:2606.03811v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A computer worm is malware that spreads on a network by replicating itself from one machine to another. Traditional worms, like WannaCry, exploited pr

AirDreamer: Generalist Drone Navigation with World Models

arXiv:2606.03252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Navigating a drone in unseen and cluttered environments requires reliable generalization to unseen scene layouts and understanding of environmental st

Aletheia: What Makes RLVR For Code Verifiers Tick?

arXiv:2601.12186v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-domain thinking verifiers trained via Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) are a cornerstone of modern post-training. H

Align-KD: Distilling Cross-Modal Alignment Knowledge for Mobile Vision-Language Model Enhancement

arXiv:2412.01282v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) bring powerful understanding and reasoning capabilities to multimodal tasks. Meanwhile, the great need for capab

Aligning Data-Driven Predictors with Allocation: A Decision-Focused Approach to Survival Analysis

arXiv:2606.02671v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning predictors have become essential tools for guiding automated decision making. However, a major misalignment persists: predictive mode

Alignment-Aware Decoding

arXiv:2509.26169v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Alignment of large language models remains a central challenge in natural language processing. Preference optimization has emerged as a popular and

an astonishing statistic, consistent with the claim I made the other day that Elon’s best days may be behind him:

Gary Marcus shared a statistic on X that he claims supports his earlier assertion that Elon Musk's most successful period may be in the past. The post likely presents data related to Musk's business p