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BridgeCast: Bridging Ocean Wave Forecasts to Reanalysis via Flow Matching with Exogenous Variables

arXiv:2610.03759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ocean wave forecasting is essential for maritime safety, offshore operations, and coastal resilience, yet remains challenging due to systematic biases

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Build a voice travel concierge with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Managed Knowledge Base and Nova Sonic

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Add a voice travel concierge to an airline app with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon Nova Sonic for real-time speech, and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases for policy answers. Travelers change seats, che

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CACFG: Curvature-Aware Classifier-Free Guidance and Optimal Control

arXiv:2610.05845v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models generate samples by learning to reverse a fixed corruption process, and classifier-free guidance (CFG) is the standard mechanism for co

Causally Fair Generation with Large Language Models

arXiv:2610.04444v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate, complete, and transform information in settings where their outputs can shape conseque

CEENs: Causality-enforced evolutional networks for solving time-dependent partial differential equations

arXiv:2610.04405v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the growing popularity of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), their applicability in the long-time integration of partial differential equ

ClasSAE: Class-Aligned Sparse Autoencoders via Differentiable Feature-Class Affinity

arXiv:2610.04020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) began as an unsupervised tool for decomposing neural representations into sparse, interpretable features, and are increasingl

Climate Surrogates for Scalable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: A Case Study with CICERO-SCM

arXiv:2510.07971v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Climate policy analysis requires models that capture multi-gas climate effects, but such models are too slow to embed in reinforcement learning loop

Collaborative Personalized Preference Alignment for LLMs under Data Deficiency

arXiv:2610.05898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world users often exhibit highly heterogeneous preferences over multiple objectives for LLM responses. A lightweight aligner can tailor these respo

Conditional Trajectory Peaks: Single-Pass Multimodal Policies over Action Chunks

arXiv:2610.06104v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal imitation learning requires diverse executable futures under the same observation and consistent behavior across replanning cycles. We presen

ConEx: Human-Interpretable Saliency Maps via Concept-Aware Attribution

arXiv:2610.04605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many visual explanation methods in computer vision highlight pixel importance but struggle to link these low-level cues to semantically meaningful conce

Conformal Prediction with Paraphrase-Aware Scoring for LLM Uncertainty Quantification

arXiv:2610.04239v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Uncertainty quantification (UQ) for large language models (LLMs) aims to provide reliable measures of predictive confidence, yet current methods are o

Considering Context: When World Models Need Context Encoders

arXiv:2610.06651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Methods for generalization in model-based reinforcement learning typically assume that an agent cannot recover the latent context governing the environm

Continual Humanoid Motion Learning

arXiv:2610.04231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid whole-body controllers can now track a diverse set of dynamic motions, but they are typically trained offline and then frozen, so teaching such

Contrastive Time Series Forecasting with Anomalies

arXiv:2512.11526v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Time series forecasting predicts future values from past data. In real-world settings, some anomalous events have lasting effects and influence the

Cross-Time Directional Selection in Diffusion Sampling

arXiv:2610.05199v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How strongly do the remaining diffusion-sampling steps amplify a perturbation at a late latent state? Standard measurements answer this question with ne

CURIO: Curiosity-Driven Test-Time Learning for Open-Ended Discovery

arXiv:2610.04851v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-ended discovery requires learning from repeated attempts while continuing to explore directions whose value is not yet apparent. Search with a froz

Dataset-Free Compliant Humanoid Loco-Manipulation with Dynamic Online Posture

arXiv:2610.05678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most humanoid loco-manipulation controllers require human motion data to learn whole-body coordination and posture, leaving policies reliant on external

Decouple, Purify and Unite: Semantic-Structural Prototype Learning for Federated Medical Segmentation

arXiv:2610.04700v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning enables medical institutions to train a global model without sharing data, yet feature heterogeneity from diverse scanners or protoco

Deep Fair Learning: Task-Aware Fair Representations via Joint Distance-Covariance Regularization

arXiv:2504.06470v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Ensuring fairness is essential as machine learning increasingly informs consequential decisions. However, many fairness-aware methods focus on

DeepStock: Reinforcement Learning with Policy Regularizations for Inventory Management

arXiv:2603.19621v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) provides a general-purpose methodology for training inventory policies that can leverage big data and compute. How

Demonstration-Calibrated Port-Hamiltonian Retuning for Manipulation Policies

arXiv:2610.05755v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion and VLA policies for manipulation are often deployed through downstream impedance controllers. The stiffness and damping gains of these contro

DeNoise: Learning Robust Graph Representations for Unsupervised Graph-Level Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2511.04086v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the rapid growth of graph-structured data in critical domains, unsupervised graph-level anomaly detection (UGAD) has become a pivotal task. UGA

Dependable AI-Assisted Engineering: A Formal Framework for AI Participation and Assurance in Safety-Critical Workflows

arXiv:2610.04084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative AI can produce engineering artefacts, but generation alone does not determine whether or how those artefacts should enter safety-critical wor

Direction-Conditioned Policies for Online Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.05087v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contrastive Reinforcement Learning (CRL) learns representations that estimate goal reachability, yet its policy remains conditioned on raw goals and the

Disambiguate Gripper State in Grasp-Based Tasks: Pseudo-Tactile as Feedback Enables Pure Simulation Learning

arXiv:2503.23835v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Grasp-based manipulation tasks are fundamental to robots interacting with their environments, yet gripper state ambiguity significantly reduces the

Dissecting Quantization Error: A Concentration-Alignment Perspective

arXiv:2603.04359v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Quantization can drastically increase the efficiency of large language and vision models, but typically incurs an accuracy drop. Recently, function-

Distributionally Robust Deep Q-Learning

arXiv:2505.19058v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose a novel distributionally robust Q-learning algorithm for the non-tabular case accounting for continuous state spaces where the state tran

Do VLAs Understand and Adapt to the Objects They Handle, or Simply Replay Learned Behaviors?

arXiv:2610.06078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper asks whether VLA generalization is grounded in a global understanding of objects' physical properties that enables policies to adapt their mo

Dual Variational Autoencoders for Efficient Sim-to-Real Transfer in Low-Cost Robotic Navigation

arXiv:2610.06327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-based autonomous navigation for low-cost robots remains a fundamental challenge, primarily due to the significant gap between simulated trainin

E^2-OPSD: Taming Entropy Overshoot in On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2610.05048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) provides dense token-level supervision without a second model: one network acts as teacher with the reference solutio

EasyClassifier: Honest, Reproducible Machine-Learning Classification for Researchers Who Do Not Program

arXiv:2610.04758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine-learning classification is now used across medicine, the social sciences, economics, education and engineering, very often by researchers who do

EduAlign: Aligning Educational LLMs for Helpfulness, Personalization, and Creativity

arXiv:2507.20335v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Educational language models should pursue three complementary objectives: helpfulness through responsible guidance, personalization to learner needs

EgoSteer: An Open-Source Full-Stack System Towards Steerable Dexterous Manipulation from Egocentric Videos

arXiv:2607.09701v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The enduring vision of general-purpose robots serving humanity hinges fundamentally on policy steerability. However, prevailing paradigms of learnin

Encoded but Not in Control: Revealing the Grounding Gap in Vision-Language Robot Policies

arXiv:2610.06235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Instruction following is central to language-conditioned robot policies: language should determine what to do when the same scene permits multiple val

End-to-End Safe Social Navigation via Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning and Probabilistic Perception

arXiv:2610.05733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous social navigation requires balancing efficiency, physical safety, and social compliance. Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods provide a viable

Erased, Rerouted, or Rescaled? Post-Training and the Causal Quotient of a Language Model's Belief State

arXiv:2610.05292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: What happens to information a pretrained model already encodes when post-training no longer rewards using it? The common language of representation comp

Evolving in Thought Space: Training a Small Model at Test Time Unlocks Better Discoveries

arXiv:2610.06269v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-ended scientific discovery often requires repeatedly proposing and evaluating candidate solutions. LLM-based systems can support this process by

Evolving LLM-Generated Features for Interpretable Classification

arXiv:2610.03951v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as classifiers, yet they operate as opaque systems whose decisions are difficult to interpret, which

ExpertMuon-Compass: Alignment-Guided Step Sizes for Mixture-of-Experts Training

arXiv:2610.04140v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture-of-experts (MoE) language models send each token to a few experts, so each expert is trained on a different part of the data, and this part chan

ExStereo: Lifting 2D Vision-Language-Action Models to 3D with Explicit Stereo Representations

arXiv:2610.04805v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Three-dimensional perception is critical for robotic manipulation, particularly for high-precision tasks, as recovering metric depth and precise 3D ob

FairProp: Fair Node Representation Learning via Differentiable Propagation Layers

arXiv:2610.06484v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph neural networks (GNNs) are the standard tool for node representation learning and are increasingly used in high-stakes settings. Their message-pas

Fast Last-Iterate Convergence in Zero-Sum Markov Games with Bandit Feedback

arXiv:2610.05968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study last-iterate convergence in unknown two-player zero-sum discounted Markov games with bandit feedback. The players learn independently along a s

Fine-Grained Caching for Diffusion Transformers with Few Calibration Conditions

arXiv:2512.05134v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion transformers require repeated denoiser evaluations, making image and video generation computationally expensive. We propose a training-fre

Finite-Sample Distribution Theory and Efficient Large-Scale Inference for Online Quantile Regression

arXiv:2610.05869v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper studies online quantile regression for large-scale and streaming data using Stochastic SubGradient Descent (SSGD) with constant learning ra

First-Order Steering: Translating Weight Adaptation into Activation Steering

arXiv:2610.04283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation steering exploits interpretable directions in the residual stream to enable inference-time manipulation of model behavior. Composing steering

Flash-OPD: Fast On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2610.06105v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) provides dense teacher supervision on student-generated trajectories, but generating and evaluating long rollouts incurs su

FLEX-WAM: Flexible Block-Causal World-Action Models for Long-Horizon Imagination and Planning

arXiv:2610.05483v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World--action models (WAMs) promise a unified model that predicts action-conditioned futures, generates feasible actions, and supports planning in imagi

Flip-Flop Consistency: Unsupervised Training for Robustness to Prompt Perturbations in LLMs

arXiv:2510.14242v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce inconsistent answers when faced with different phrasings of the same prompt. In this paper, we prop