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Agent Sandbox on GKE is now available for everyone, and a first look at Agent Substrate

In just a short time, we’ve seen AI transition from simple chat interfaces to autonomous agents capable of function calling, code execution, and persistent terminal use. But to orchestrate these capab

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ARC-RL: A Reinforcement Learning Playground Inspired by ARC Raiders

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arXiv:2605.19503v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning for legged locomotion has matured into a stack of multi-component reward functions and physics-engine benchmarks whose morpholo

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Atomistic Modeling of Chemical Disorder in Materials: Bridging Classical Methods and AI-Assisted Approaches

arXiv:2605.19124v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chemical disorder, originating from the mixed occupation of crystallographic sites by multiple elements, is widespread in alloys, ceramics, and compos

Attention-Guided Reward for Reinforcement Learning-based Jailbreak against Large Reasoning Models

arXiv:2605.19485v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in solving complex problems by generating structured, step-by-step reasoning con

Automatically Improving Simulation Physics for Articulated Objects

arXiv:2605.19136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation is a central tool for scalable robot learning, but its effectiveness depends on the quality of object assets. While modern 3D datasets provid

B-cos GNNs: Faithful Explanations through Dynamic Linearity

arXiv:2605.19778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce B-cos GNNs, an inherently explainable class of graph neural networks whose predictions decompose exactly into per-node, per-feature contrib

Backtracking When It Strays: Mitigating Dual Exposure Biases in LLM Reasoning Distillation

arXiv:2605.19433v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in complex reasoning tasks via long chain-of-thought (CoT), yet their immense computatio

Be Kind, Rewrite: Benign Projections via Rewriting Defend Against LLM Data Poisoning Attacks

arXiv:2605.19147v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are highly susceptible to backdoor attacks (BAs), wherein training samples are poisoned using trigger-based harmful conte

BERTO: Intent-Driven Network Time Series Forecasting via Natural Language Operator Preferences

arXiv:2512.05721v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Traditional cellular traffic forecasting models are optimized for minimizing symmetric errors, leaving them indifferent to shifting operational prio

Beyond Action Residuals: Real-World Robot Policy Steering via Bottleneck Latent Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2605.19919v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained imitation policies have become a strong foundation for robot manipulation, but they often require online improvement to overcome execution er

Beyond Extrapolation: Knowledge Utilization Paradigm with Bidirectional Inspiration for Time Series Forecasting

arXiv:2605.19249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time-series forecasting is critical in various scenarios, such as energy, transportation, and public health. However, most existing forecasters rely pri

Beyond Isotropy in JEPAs: Hamiltonian Geometry and Symplectic Prediction

arXiv:2605.20107v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: JEPAs often regularize one-view embeddings toward an isotropic Gaussian, implicitly baking Euclidean symmetry into the representation. We show that th

Beyond Mode Collapse: Distribution Matching for Diverse Reasoning

arXiv:2605.19461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy reinforcement learning methods like GRPO suffer from mode collapse: they exhibit reduced solution diversity, concentrating probability mass on

Boosting Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Core Token Attention-Based Seed Selection

arXiv:2605.19532v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models can synthesize high-quality images, yet the outcome is notoriously sensitive to the random seed: different initial seeds

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Brain alignment of reasoning and action representations from vision-language and action models during naturalistic gameplay

arXiv:2605.19352v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding how humans and artificial intelligence systems predict and plan by interacting with their environment is a fundamental challenge at the

⚠️👇 🚨Breaking ⚠️ If we can’t make AI agents follow rules, we are screwed. New study from METR reports that “when the agents were faced wit…

⚠️👇 🚨Breaking ⚠️ If we can’t make AI agents follow rules, we are screwed. New study from METR reports that “when the agents were faced with hard tasks, they routinely violated constraints” This—routin

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CADENet: Condition-Adaptive Asynchronous Dual-Stream Enhancement Network for Adverse Weather Perception in Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2605.19837v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adverse weather (rain, fog, sand, and snow) degrades camera-based object detection in autonomous vehicles. Existing enhancement-then-detect approaches

Can Large Language Models Revolutionize Survey Research? Experiments with Disaster Preparedness Responses

arXiv:2605.19229v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Survey research faces mounting structural challenges: declining response rates, sample bias, block-wise missingness among at-risk respondents, and AI-as

CEER: Compliant End-Effector and Root Control as a Unified Interface for Hierarchical Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

arXiv:2605.19981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots have achieved impressive locomotion performance, yet contact-rich and long-horizon manipulation remains a major bottleneck. Manipulation

CEPO: RLVR Self-Distillation using Contrastive Evidence Policy Optimization

arXiv:2605.19436v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When a model produces a correct solution under reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), every token receives the same reward signal rega

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Certifiable Alignment of GNSS and Local Frames via Lagrangian Duality

arXiv:2512.20931v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Estimating the absolute orientation of a local system relative to a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) reference often suffers from local min

Chessformer: A Unified Architecture for Chess Modeling

arXiv:2605.19091v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chess has long served as a canonical testbed for artificial intelligence, but modeling approaches for its central tasks have diverged. Maximizing playin

CoLD: Counterfactually-Guided Length Debiasing for Process Reward Models in Mathematical Reasoning

arXiv:2507.15698v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Process Reward Models (PRMs) play a central role in evaluating and guiding multi-step reasoning in large language models (LLMs), especially fo

Compliant Explicit Reference Governor for Contact Friendly Robotic Manipulators

arXiv:2504.09188v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper introduces the Compliant Explicit Reference Governor (CERG), a modular reference management system that enables robots to interact physic

Concept-Guided Noisy Negative Suppression for Zero-Shot Classification and Grounding of Chest X-Ray Findings

arXiv:2605.19374v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language alignment using chest X-rays and radiology reports has emerged as an advanced paradigm for zero-shot classification and grounding of c

Context-dependent manifold learning: A neuromodulated constrained autoencoder approach

arXiv:2603.11673v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many physical systems exhibit a low-dimensional structure that varies with external parameters: link lengths in a robot, forcing constants in a flui

ContextFlow: Hierarchical Task-State Alignment for Long-Horizon Embodied Agents

arXiv:2605.19314v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon embodied agents increasingly delegate navigation, search, approach, and manipulation to specialist executors. As these executors become s

CopT: Contrastive On-Policy Thinking with Continuous Spaces for General and Agentic Reasoning

arXiv:2605.20075v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) is a standard approach for eliciting reasoning capabilities from large language models (LLMs). However, the common CoT paradigm

‼️ Could large language models turn out to be the tech industry’s Vietnam? All In’s @jason notes below that today’s students are speaking ou…

‼️ Could large language models turn out to be the tech industry’s Vietnam? All In’s @jason notes below that today’s students are speaking out against AI, just as students in the 60s and 70s spoke out

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CriterAlign: Criterion-Centric Rationale Alignment for Code Preference Judging

arXiv:2605.19665v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pairwise human preference prediction is central to evaluating code-generation systems, where quality often depends on task-specific trade-offs beyond

Cross-modal Consistency Guidance for Robust Emotion Control in Auto-Regressive TTS Models

arXiv:2510.13293v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems enable emotional control via natural-language instructions, expressiveness, naturalness, and speech quality degra

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D-CLING: Prior-Preserving Depth-Conditioned Fine-Tuning for Navigation Foundation Models

arXiv:2605.19690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Navigation Foundation Models (NFMs) trained on large cross-embodied datasets have demonstrated powerful generalizability in various scenarios. Adopting

Data-driven Acceleration of MPC with Guarantees

arXiv:2511.13588v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a powerful framework for optimal control but can be too slow for low-latency applications. We present a data

DEFLECT: Delay-Robust Execution via Flow-matching Likelihood-Estimated Counterfactual Tuning for VLA Policies

arXiv:2605.19294v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies are typically deployed with asynchronous inference: the robot executes a previously predicted action chunk while

Dimensional Balance Improves Large Scale Spatiotemporal Prediction Performance

arXiv:2605.18793v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate spatiotemporal pattern analysis is critical in fields such as urban traffic, meteorology, and public health monitoring. However, existing met

Directed Acyclic Graph Convolutional Networks

arXiv:2506.12218v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are central to science and engineering applications including causal inference, scheduling, and neural architec

Distributional AGI Safety

arXiv:2512.16856v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI safety and alignment research has predominantly been focused on methods for safeguarding individual AI systems, resting on the assumption of an e

Domain-Adaptive Communication-Rate Optimization for Sim-to-Real Humanoid-Robot Wireless XR Teleoperation

arXiv:2605.19293v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wireless extended reality (XR) teleoperation provides embodied interaction capability for collecting humanoid robot demonstrations, but the large-scal

Don't Let Bandit Feedback Pull Continual LLM-Recommender Updates Off Target

arXiv:2605.18899v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative LLM-based recommenders (LLM-Rec) require continual post-deployment updates, yet deployment logs provide only policy-shaped contextual bandi

Dual-Gated Epistemic Time-Dilation: Autonomous Compute Modulation in Asynchronous MARL

arXiv:2603.23722v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) algorithms achieve unprecedented successes across complex continuous domains, their standard d

DynaSTy: A Framework for SpatioTemporal Node Attribute Prediction in Dynamic Graphs

arXiv:2601.05391v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate multistep forecasting of node-level attributes on dynamic graphs is critical for applications ranging from financial trust networks to biol

DynaTok: Temporally Adaptive and Positional Bias-Aware Token Compression for Video-LLMs

arXiv:2605.19322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have greatly expanded multimodal reasoning capabilities. However, the massive number of visu

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Efficient Transferable Optimal Transport via Min-Sliced Transport Plans

arXiv:2511.19741v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Optimal Transport (OT) offers a powerful framework for finding correspondences between distributions and addressing matching and alignment problems

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ESLD (External Surrogate Latent Defense): A Latent-Space Architecture for Faster, Stronger Prompt-Injection Defense

arXiv:2605.18918v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern AI assistants are agentic. To answer a single user request, the underlying language model pulls in information from many sources, such as web s

Exact Linear Attention

arXiv:2605.18848v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper introduces Exact Linear Attention (ELA), a mechanism that achieves linear computational complexity for Transformer attention by leveraging

Exploring and Developing a Pre-Model Safeguard with Draft Models

arXiv:2605.19321v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) alignment remains vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that elicit unsafe responses, motivating pre-model and post-model guards.

Extreme Self-Preference in Language Models

arXiv:2509.26464v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Self-preference is a fundamental feature of biological organisms. Since large language models (LLMs) lack sentience, they might be expected to avoid

Faster-GCG: Efficient Discrete Optimization Jailbreak Attacks against Aligned Large Language Models

arXiv:2410.15362v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Aligned Large Language Models (LLMs) have attracted significant attention for their safety, particularly in the context of jailbreak attacks t