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MIND: Microstructure INverse Design with Generative Hybrid Neural Representation

arXiv:2502.02607v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The inverse design of microstructures plays a pivotal role in optimizing metamaterials with specific, targeted physical properties. While traditiona

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Mind the Drift: Diagonal Linear Networks Under Large Learning Rates

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arXiv:2610.06120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large learning rates can qualitatively change the trajectory of neural network training, often pushing optimization into regimes far from classical grad

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Minority Collective Action for User-Side Fairness

arXiv:2508.15374v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine learning models often preserve biases present in training data, leading to unfair treatment of certain minority groups. Despite an array of

MoCAR: Motion-code Coordinate-aware AutoRegression for Continuous Trajectory Forecasting

arXiv:2610.06210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive generation is natural for language, where predicted tokens can be directly reused as the next prediction state, but trajectory forecastin

Monitorability Disposition in Large Reasoning Models

arXiv:2610.04914v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Monitoring the chain-of-thought (CoT) of large reasoning models (LRMs) is a common way to detect misbehavior in real-world practice. However, current

Mulligan: Performance-Guided Data Collection for Efficient On-Robot Learning

arXiv:2610.05882v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning from human demonstrations is a reliable way to teach robots new tasks, but the gains from each additional demonstration shrink as the policy

Neural Barriers: An Online Certifiable Learning-enhanced Adaptive High Order Safety Critical Control

arXiv:2610.05542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Control barrier functions are an effective model-based tool to formally certify the safety of a system. However, transferring their theoretical guarante

Occlusion-Aware Contingency Safety-Critical Planning for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2502.06359v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Ensuring safe driving while maintaining travel efficiency for autonomous vehicles in dynamic and occluded environments is a critical challenge. This

Off-Policy Merging Beats On-Policy Self-Distillation for Continual Learning

arXiv:2610.05872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A long-standing goal of AI is a model that can continually learn and improve itself. On post-trained models, supervised finetuning (SFT) on new data oft

On architectural choices for interpretability and thermodynamic consistency in Physically Recurrent Neural Networks in the low-data regime

arXiv:2610.04067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we unravel the effect of different decoder architectures on the interpretability of the latent space of the Physically Recurrent Neural N

On Semi-Markov Suboptimality in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.05338v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hierarchical reinforcement learning uses temporally extended subtasks for exploration, yet committing to their execution can restrict both deployment an

On the Geometry of Multimodal Saturation: Riemannian VICReg

arXiv:2610.06096v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In self-supervised learning, a third modality should improve, or at least preserve, performance. Across nine image-text-tabular datasets, we show that i

Optimizer Geometry Sets the Pace: Spectral Learning Dynamics in Matrix Factorization

arXiv:2610.04249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent successes of matrix- and curvature-based optimizers have renewed interest in how update geometry shapes learning. These methods normalize or prec

Orchestrating Level-K Policies Against Unknown Opponents in Partially-Observable Dynamic Games

arXiv:2610.04937v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Level-K reasoning generates a hierarchy of policies specialized to opponents with different reasoning levels. When an opponent's level is unknown, a c

Outcome-Guided On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2610.05070v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) provides denser token-level supervision and better computational efficiency than Reinforcement Learning with Verifiab

PatternDex: Learning Interaction Patterns to Guide Reinforcement Learning of Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation of Articulated Objects

arXiv:2610.04765v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we develop a method that enables bimanual dexterous hands to manipulate articulated objects with a high success rate without suffering fr

PB-STDG: A Prediction-Based Short-Term Decentralized Greedy Guidance Algorithm for a Drone Road System

arXiv:2610.05122v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones have been increasingly adopted in urban environments for applications such as parcel delivery

PDE-SSM: A Spectral State Space Approach to Spatial Mixing in Diffusion Transformers

arXiv:2603.13663v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The success of vision transformers-especially for generative modeling-is limited by the quadratic cost and weak spatial inductive bias of self-atten

PermVLA: Factorization Order as a Regularizer for VLA Learning

arXiv:2610.04659v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies commonly learn action chunks through a fixed left-to-right (LTR) factorization, although the same expert traject

PerturBot: Breaking Shortcut Priors in Vision-Language-Action Models with Perturbative Training

arXiv:2610.04616v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A vision--language--action (VLA) policy can complete complex tasks while ignoring the evidence that should determine its actions. An object held near

Pessimistic Minimax Learning for Public-Private Information Games under Unilateral Coverage

arXiv:2610.04997v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study offline learning in two-player zero-sum contextual games with public and private information, motivated by strategic settings such as auctions

Physics-Informed but Not Physics-Consistent: Error Geometry and Subspace Projection for Neural AC Power Flow

arXiv:2610.05959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent neural power-flow solvers, including emerging foundation models, achieve accurate voltage predictions, yet such accuracy does not necessarily imp

PIT-GCL: Protein Interaction using Topological Graph Contrastive Learning

arXiv:2610.04850v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Protein binding prediction is central to target identification, therapeutic binder design, and large scale screening, yet remains challenging because bi

Planning for Change: Reinforcement Learning Combined with Bounded Extremum Seeking for Robotic Control under Distribution Shift

arXiv:2604.01142v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning has shown strong performance in robotic manipulation, but learned policies often degrade in performance when test condi

PlatoLTL: Scaling LTL-Guided Multi-Task RL

arXiv:2601.22891v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Linear temporal logic (LTL) has emerged as a powerful formalism for specifying structured, temporally extended tasks in multi-task reinforcement lea

Policy as Data: Replay-Based Policy Dual Averaging via Advantage Regression

arXiv:2610.04638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Actor-critic methods reuse past experience to improve sample efficiency. However, historical data are typically regarded as off-policy samples for the c

Principled Top-k Selection for Language Models with Hybrid Gradients

arXiv:2610.04162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Selecting the best k items out of m candidates is a critical component of modern large language model systems, such as document selection in Retrieval-A

Prompt Dominance and Asymmetric Verifier Costs: Empirical Ablations of GRPO at 1B Scale on GSM8K

arXiv:2610.04928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies GRPO at 1B scale from both directions: what estimator choices do to the learning signal, and what a degraded reward signal does to wh

PWM: Personalized World Models with Online Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.04920v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained world models can generate diverse environments, yet users often want to explore a particular scene specified by their own video. This require

R^2-WAM: Repair-and-Reject Post-Training for World Action Models

arXiv:2610.04913v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) emerge as a promising foundation for policy refinement by predicting the consequences of sampled actions. However, visually p

Ramp Metering Control via Hybrid State Deep Reinforcement Learning in Partially Observable Connected Vehicle Environments

arXiv:2610.06266v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Freeway on-ramp merges are major sources of congestion, causing significant economic and environmental costs. While Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) of

Reachability-Aware Diffusion Policy Optimization

arXiv:2610.05969v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion policies provide expressive action distributions for continuous-control reinforcement learning. However, safety-aware online diffusion policy

Really nice paper on harness-aware distillation for small language model agents. (bookmark it) It's a super interesting distillation framewo…

Really nice paper on harness-aware distillation for small language model agents. (bookmark it) It's a super interesting distillation framework for small language model agents that are deployed with a

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Recon2Servo: Robotic Ultrasound Visual Servoing via Learned Image-to-Motion Inference

arXiv:2610.06010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ultrasound visual servoing is essential for autonomous robotic ultrasound, yet 6-DoF probe control from 2D B-mode images remains challenging due to limi

Recurrent Latent Visual Search for GUI Grounding

arXiv:2610.05185v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GUI grounding is a critical capability for GUI agents powered by vision-language models, helping them execute user instructions by locating the correspo

Recursive Self-Improvement of Visuomotor Policies through Local Recovery Supervision

arXiv:2610.05151v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visuomotor policies can execute familiar tasks yet lack the corrective behavior needed after their own mistakes. We present a framework for recursive se

Reflections and Fragments: Securing LLMs Against Sequential Mosaic Attacks

arXiv:2610.05346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-play red-teaming improves language-model safety by pitting attacker and defender roles against each other in a zero-sum game. However, real adversa

Relational Synthesis: Structure-Mediated Concatenative Synthesis for Foley and Retrieval-Augmented Audio Generation

arXiv:2610.05768v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We ask: given a retrieved source audio S and a separate reference audio R, can we synthesize novel audio Y out of this pair (S,R) such that Y remains

Representation Disentanglement for Fair Chest X-Ray Diagnosis

arXiv:2610.06041v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning has advanced chest X-ray (CXR) diagnosis, yet demographic biases in learned representations may contribute to performance disparities acro

Representation-Space MMD for Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2610.06648v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce a post-training method for diffusion language models (DLMs) that minimizes Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) between generated and reference

Request Order Matters: Cache-History Sensitivity in Selective KV-Cache Reuse for Rolling Agents

arXiv:2610.05833v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-running agents repeatedly call an LLM while retaining most of their document window, evicting old documents, and appending new ones. These rollin

ResOPD: Tail Residualization for Sparse On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2610.04882v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student model on self-generated trajectories, but transmitting dense teacher distributions across long reasoning t

Responsible AI governance: How AWS positions customers to align with ISO/IEC 42005:2025

AWS invests in tools that help customers align with international standards for responsible AI governance. In this post, we explore the AI system impact assessment: what it is, how it improves enterpr

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Rethinking Self-Distillation for Multi-Teacher Capability Merging

arXiv:2610.04272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Combining capabilities of multiple expert models trained starting from the same base checkpoint has become increasingly common in frontier language-mode

Return-to-Home Feasible Micro-Aerial Vehicle Exploration for 3D Gaussian Splatting Reconstruction

arXiv:2610.04013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) enable rapid indoor 3D reconstruction for inspection and time-critical situational awareness, but must operate under strict

Revealing After Overwriting: An Exponential POMDP OPE Lower Bound under History-Dependent Logging

arXiv:2610.05063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-step revealing can make off-policy evaluation tractable under memoryless logging. With history-dependent logging, state decodability and target-re

Reward-DAgger: Robot-Gated Interactive Imitation Learning with General-Purpose Progress-Based Reward Models

arXiv:2610.04054v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in robot learning have enabled generalist control policies capable of completing a wide range of tasks. However, their performance degra

RFG: Self-Improving Diffusion Large Language Models with Reward-Free Guidance

arXiv:2509.25604v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) have shown strong reasoning capabilities, yet further improving them typically requires costly post-tr