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Learning Robust Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation from Joint Sensors with Proprioceptive Transformer

arXiv:2605.21330v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-hand object manipulation is a fundamental yet challenging capability for dexterous robots. Despite significant progress in dexterous manipulation, ex

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Learning to Think in Physics: Breaking Shortcut Learning in Scientific Diffusion via Representation Alignment

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arXiv:2605.20780v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physics-informed diffusion models typically enforce PDE constraints only on final outputs, leaving intermediate representations unconstrained and pron

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Letting Trajectories Spread: Quality-Preserving Control for Diverse Flow Matching

arXiv:2510.09060v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Flow-based text-to-image models follow deterministic trajectories, making it costly to explore diverse modes under limited sampling budgets. E

Linear-DPO: Linear Direct Preference Optimization for Diffusion and Flow-Matching Generative Models

arXiv:2605.21123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) is successful for alignment in LLMs but still faces challenges in text-to-image generation. Existing studies are co

Listwise Policy Optimization: Group-based RLVR as Target-Projection on the LLM Response Simplex

arXiv:2605.06139v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a standard approach for large language models (LLMs) post-training to incentivize r

LLM Pretraining Shapes a Generalizable Manifold: Insights into Cross-Modal Transfer to Time Series

arXiv:2605.20449v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can language-pretrained transformers become effective time-series forecasters, and why? In this paper, we show that cross-modal transfer arises because

longer comment on yesterday’s stories

longer comment on yesterday’s stories the nuance between yesterday’s stories that X influencers won’t tell you: https://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/checking-the-math-behind-openai-and?r=8tdk6&u

Lost in Fog: Sensor Perturbations Expose Reasoning Fragility in Driving VLAs

arXiv:2605.21446v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interpretable autonomous driving planners depend not only on generating explanations, but also on those explanations remaining reliable under real-world

Mahjax: A GPU-Accelerated Mahjong Simulator for Reinforcement Learning in JAX

arXiv:2605.20577v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Riichi Mahjong is a multi-player, imperfect-information game characterized by stochasticity and high-dimensional state spaces. These attributes presen

Mechanistic Interpretability for Learning Assurance of a Vision-Based Landing System

arXiv:2605.20607v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: EASA's learning-assurance guidance requires data-driven aviation systems to build and monitor their own situation representation, yet for neural netwo

Mind the Sim-to-Real Gap & Think Like a Scientist

arXiv:2605.21458v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Suppose a planner has a pre-trained simulator of a sequential decision problem and the option to run real experiments in the field. The simulator is c

Mitigating Label Bias with Interpretable Rubric Embeddings

arXiv:2605.21455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Statistical decision algorithms are increasingly deployed in domains where ground-truth labels are hard to obtain, such as hiring, university admissions

Mobile UMI: Cross-View Diffusion Policy with Decoupled Kinematics for Mobile Manipulation

arXiv:2605.20894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile imitation learning on portable demonstration interfaces faces two coupled bottlenecks: locomotion-contaminated action labels and inference-induce

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Safe Autonomous Driving Under Pedestrian Behavioral Uncertainty

arXiv:2605.20255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation-based testing of self-driving cars (SDCs) typically relies on scripted or simplified pedestrian models that do not capture the heterogeneity

Multi-Head Attention as Ensemble Nadaraya-Watson Estimation: Variance Reduction, Decorrelation, and Optimal Head Diversity

arXiv:2605.20271v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We develop a rigorous statistical theory of multi-head attention (MHA) as an ensemble of Nadaraya-Watson (NW) kernel regression estimators. Building o

Multi-Step Likelihood-Ratio Correction for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

arXiv:2605.20865v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) plays a pivotal role in improving the reasoning ability of large language models. However, widely

Multimodal LLMs under Pairwise Modalities

arXiv:2605.21059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the impressive results achieved by multimodal large language models (MLLMs), their training typically relies on jointly curated multimodal data,

NaP-Control: Navigating Diffusion Prior for Versatile and Fast Character Control

arXiv:2605.20209v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Achieving precise, versatile whole-body character control in physics-based animation remains challenging. Recent diffusion-based policies generate ric

Neural Collapse by Design: Learning Class Prototypes on the Hypersphere

arXiv:2605.20302v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Supervised classification has a theoretical optimum, Neural Collapse (NC), yet neither of its two dominant paradigms reaches it in practice. Cross ent

nice measure of how insane SpaceX’s claims are

nice measure of how insane SpaceX’s claims are I don't offer investment advice, but when I see that SpaceX claims that their total addressable market is the size of the *complete* US economy (with eve

nor do we know how the (new) model works nor how it does on anything else nor how it was trained. scientists wait for facts; cheerleaders (o…

nor do we know how the (new) model works nor how it does on anything else nor how it was trained. scientists wait for facts; cheerleaders (over and over) rush to judgments that have often been wrong.

note that @jeffBezos is not betting on chatbots, but rather focusing on domain-specific tools for engineering, which is also something I wou…

note that @jeffBezos is not betting on chatbots, but rather focusing on domain-specific tools for engineering, which is also something I would encourage. the financial story for what he is doing may b

OcclusionFormer: Arranging Z-Order for Layout-Grounded Image Generation

arXiv:2605.21343v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent layout-to-image models have achieved remarkable progress in spatial controllability. However, they still struggle with inter-object occlusion. Wh

👀OpenAI Q1 operating margin was -122% even when excluding SBC and other items.

OpenAI reported a negative 122% operating margin in Q1, indicating the company spent significantly more on operations than it generated in revenue, even after excluding stock-based compensation and ot

our company, which lost money last quarter, is going to take a big slice of $28.5 trillion market that we project will exist, primarily in a…

our company, which lost money last quarter, is going to take a big slice of 28.5 trillion market that we project will exist, primarily in a field in which we have almost no current presence, which is

Parallel LLM Reasoning for Bias-Resilient, Robust Conceptual Abstraction

arXiv:2605.20194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have been increasingly used to analyze text. However, they are often plagued with contextual reasoning limitations when ana

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Pareto-Enhanced Portrait Generation: Vision-Aligned Text Supervision for Alignment, Realism, and Aesthetics

arXiv:2605.20640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models often face a severe trilemma in human portrait generation: text-image alignment, photorealism, and human-perceived aesthe

PointACT: Vision-Language-Action Models with Multi-Scale Point-Action Interaction

arXiv:2605.21414v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong potential for general-purpose robotic manipulation by leveraging large pretrained vision-languag

Preference-aware Influence-function-based Data Selection Method for Efficient Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2605.21422v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLMs continue to scale, improving training efficiency increasingly depends on using data more effectively. Data selection addresses this problem by a

PREFINE: Preference-Based Implicit Reward and Cost Fine-Tuning for Safety Alignment

arXiv:2605.21225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We address the problem of making a pre-trained reinforcement learning (RL) policy safety-aware by incorporating cost constraints without retraining it f

Pretty profound for an ipo filing: “For the entirety of its existence, human civilization has lived on a single celestial body: Earth. The c…

Pretty profound for an ipo filing: “For the entirety of its existence, human civilization has lived on a single celestial body: Earth. The current paradigm, in which human civilization is confined to

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Principled RL for Flow Matching Emerges from the Chunk-level Policy Optimization

arXiv:2510.21583v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent Progress in post-training flow matching for text-to-image (T2I) generation with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has demonstrated st

Proximal State Nudging: Reducing Skill Atrophy from AI Assistance

arXiv:2605.20355v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Skill atrophy, the gradual decline of human capability under AI assistance, poses a safety risk in shared-control of semi-autonomous systems, where op

Q-SpiRL: Quantum Spiking Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Robot Navigation

arXiv:2605.20801v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adaptive robot navigation in dynamic environments requires policies that can reach the target reliably while producing efficient and stable trajectories

Quadratic Characterizations for Reachability Analysis of Neural Networks

arXiv:2605.20482v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quadratic constraints (QCs) are widely used to characterize nonlinearities and uncertainties, but generic analytical characterizations can be conservati

Quantum End-to-End Learning for Contextual Combinatorial Optimization

arXiv:2605.20222v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contextual combinatorial optimization (CCO) plays a critical role in decision-making under uncertainty, yet remains a significant challenge. We presen

REFLECTOR: Internalizing Step-wise Reflection against Indirect Jailbreak

arXiv:2605.20654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities, they remain susceptible to sophisticated, multi-step jailbreak attacks that circ

Regulating Anatomy-Aware Rewards via Trajectory-Integral Feedback for Volumetric Computed Tomography Analysis

arXiv:2605.20277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical vision-language models (VLMs) have rapidly advanced as general-purpose multimodal assistants, yet their deployment in 3D Computed Tomography (CT

Reinforcement Learning for Risk Adaptation via Differentiable CVaR Barrier Functions

arXiv:2605.21257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Planning through crowded environments under uncertain obstacle motions remains difficult, as stochastic interactions often induce overly conservative be

Reinforcement Learning with Discrete Diffusion Policies for Combinatorial Action Spaces

arXiv:2509.22963v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) struggles to scale to large, combinatorial action spaces common in many real-world problems. This paper introduces a nov

rePIRL: Learn PRM with Inverse RL for LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2602.07832v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Process rewards have been widely used in deep reinforcement learning to improve training efficiency, reduce variance, and prevent reward hacking. In

Rethinking Cross-Layer Information Routing in Diffusion Transformers

arXiv:2605.20708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have become a de facto backbone of modern visual generation, and nearly every major axis of their design -- tokenization,

Robust Recommendation from Noisy Implicit Feedback: A GMM-Weighted Bayes-label Transition Matrix Framework

arXiv:2605.20721v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from implicit feedback in recommender systems is fundamentally challenged by pervasive label noise. While conventional denoising approaches oft

SAM-Sode: Towards Faithful Explanations for Tiny Bacteria Detection

arXiv:2605.21186v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interpretability in object detection provides crucial confidence support for clinical auxiliary diagnosis. However, in tiny bacteria detection, traditio

SCRIBE: Diagnostic Evaluation and Rich Transcription Models for Indic ASR

arXiv:2605.20712v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic speech recognition replaces typing only when correction costs less than manual entry, a threshold determined by error types, not counts: fixin

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Secure, Verifiable, and Scalable Multi-Client Data Sharing via Consensus-Based Privacy-Preserving Data Distribution

arXiv:2601.00418v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose the Consensus-Based Privacy-Preserving Data Distribution (CPPDD) framework, a lightweight and post-setup autonomous protocol for se

Self-Refining Video Sampling

arXiv:2601.18577v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern video generators still struggle with complex physical dynamics, often falling short of physical realism. Existing approaches address this usi

Shiny Stories, Hidden Struggles: Investigating the Representation of Disability Through the Lens of LLMs

arXiv:2605.20191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently attracted much attention for their ability to simulate human behavior and generate text that reflects

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