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Guided Reinforcement Learning for Omnidirectional 3D Jumping in Quadruped Robots

arXiv:2507.16481v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Jumping poses a significant challenge for quadruped robots, despite being crucial for many operational scenarios. While optimisation methods exist f

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Harper Carroll (@HarperSCarroll) on why AGI hype is a distraction:⁣ ⁣ 'All of the attention on AGI is kind of a missed opportunity.'⁣ ⁣ 'In …

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Harper Carroll (@HarperSCarroll) on why AGI hype is a distraction:⁣ ⁣ 'All of the attention on AGI is kind of a missed opportunity.'⁣ ⁣ 'In medical imaging, detecting cancer like five years early, sav

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HCLM: A Hierarchical Framework for Cooperative Loco-Manipulation with Dual Quadrupeds

arXiv:2605.17300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce HCLM, a hierarchical framework for general-purpose cooperative loco-manipulation with dual quadrupedal systems. Coordinating multi-robot co

Helpful to a Fault: Measuring Illicit Assistance in Multi-Turn, Multilingual LLM Agents

arXiv:2602.16346v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM-based agents execute real-world workflows via tools and memory. These affordances enable ill-intended adversaries to also use these agents to ca

Helping Customers in Distress: An LLM-powered Agent that Converses, Probes, and Routes

arXiv:2605.16268v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Banks receive millions of reports of fraud, scams, and disputed transactions every year, making it challenging to accurately direct customers to the a

Heterogeneous Tasks Offloading in Vehicular Edge Computing: A Federated Meta Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

arXiv:2605.18437v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vehicular edge computing (VEC) enables latency-sensitive vehicular applications by offloading computation-intensive tasks to nearby edge servers. Howeve

How Few-Shot Examples Add Up: A Causal Decomposition of Function Vectors in In-Context Learning

arXiv:2605.16591v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In-context learning (ICL) excels at new tasks from minimal examples, yet we still lack a mechanistic explanation of how few-shot prompts shape a model

How Loud Rumbles Hit Newsstands: A Data Analysis of Coverage and Spatial Bias in German News about Landslides Around the World

arXiv:2605.18105v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Landslides often hit newsstands due to their destructive and potentially fatal effects. News are a valuable source of information for creating or enrich

How Off-Policy Can GRPO Be? Mu-GRPO for Efficient LLM Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2605.17570v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has been a key driver of recent progress in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) for large

How to Instruct Your Robot: Dense Language Annotations Power Robot Policy Learning

arXiv:2605.17077v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scaling robot policy learning is bottlenecked by the cost of collecting demonstrations, while language annotations for existing demonstrations are com

How Wrong Can Your Counterfactual Be? Quantifying Confounding Bias for Continuous Treatments without a Control Group

arXiv:2603.07438v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Stress testing poses a causal question: how would portfolio credit losses change if the macroeconomy followed an adverse counterfactual path? Yet st

Identifying Latent Actions and Dynamics from Offline Data via Demonstrator Diversity

arXiv:2603.17577v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Can latent actions and environment dynamics be recovered from offline trajectories when actions are never observed? We study this question in

'I'm Not Mad, Just Focused'': Understanding Human Emotions in Human-Robot Collaboration

arXiv:2605.16816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-robot collaboration (HRC) can benefit from robots' abilities to interpret human emotional states. However, current emotion recognition (ER) models

Implicit Hierarchical GRPO: Decoupling Tool Invocation from Execution for Tool-Integrated Mathematical Reasoning

arXiv:2605.18500v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have increasingly leveraged tool invocation to enhance their reasoning capabilities. However, existing approaches typically

Improved Baselines with Representation Autoencoders

arXiv:2605.18324v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Representation Autoencoders (RAE) replace traditional VAE with pretrained vision encoders. In this paper, we systematically investigate several design

Improving MLLM Training Efficiency via Stage-Aware Sparsity

arXiv:2509.18150v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated outstanding performance across a variety of domains. However, training MLLMs is oft

Individual utilities of life satisfaction reveal inequality aversion unrelated to political alignment

arXiv:2509.07793v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: How should well-being be prioritised in society, and what trade-offs are people willing to make between fairness and personal well-being? We i

InFeR: Informed Failure Resilience in Learned Visual Navigation Control

arXiv:2510.24680v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While imitation learning (IL) has enabled successful visual navigation in many common environments, IL policies are prone to unpredictable failures

Interpretable epistemic uncertainty decomposition in sequential generative models via polynomial chaos surrogates

arXiv:2510.21523v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sequential generative models conditioned on uncertain rewards are central to AI-driven scientific discovery, yet the epistemic uncertainty they inhe

Is VLA Reasoning Faithful? Probing Safety of Chain-of-Causation

arXiv:2605.17268v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present the first systematic study of faithfulness in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) driving models, analyzing 300 Alpamayo-R1-10B inferences across 10

ISEP: Implicit Support Expansion for Offline Reinforcement Learning via Stochastic Policy Optimization

arXiv:2605.18320v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning methods typically enforce strict constraints to ensure safety; yet this rigidity often prevents the discovery of optima

it’s strange how many podcasters shy away from airing both sides of an argument that may totally shape our lives. https://x.com/benjamin_hor…

Gary Marcus critiques podcasters for avoiding balanced discussion of contentious issues that significantly impact society, suggesting there is an reluctance to present opposing viewpoints on important

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Keeping an Eye on AI: A Framework for Effective Human Oversight of AI Systems

arXiv:2605.16278v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in high-risk, decision-making scenarios presents technical, safety, and normative challenges; problems that ma

LACE: Latent Visual Representation for Cross-Embodiment Learning

arXiv:2605.16743v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-embodiment learning from human demonstrations is hindered by the visual gap between human and robot embodiments. While self-supervised learning (S

Lance: Unified Multimodal Modeling by Multi-Task Synergy

arXiv:2605.18678v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present Lance, a lightweight native unified model supporting multimodal understanding, generation, and editing for both images and videos. Rather t

Latent Action Control for Reasoning-Guided Unified Image Generation

arXiv:2605.16961v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unified multimodal models can encode visual understanding and image generation within a shared backbone, yet understanding does not automatically tran

LatentUMM: Dual Latent Alignment for Unified Multimodal Models

arXiv:2605.17766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) achieve strong performance in both understanding and generation by learning a shared latent space, yet they often exhib

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Learning-Based Adaptive Control for Surgical Robotic Exposure Task on Deformable Tissues

arXiv:2605.17927v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In various surgical procedures, regions of interest (ROIs) such as organs or lesions are often occluded by overlying tissues, requiring surgeons to achi

Learning Fill-in Reduction Ordering via Graph Policy Optimization for Sparse Matrices

arXiv:2605.17362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Matrix reordering in large sparse solvers seeks a permutation that minimizes factorization fill-in to reduce memory and computation. Because the minimum

Learning Multi-Timescale Abstractions for Hierarchical Combinatorial Planning

arXiv:2605.17058v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The combination of exponentially large action spaces, stochastic dynamics, and long-horizon decision-making under limited resources makes Sequential Sto

Learning Native Continuation for Action Chunking Flow Policies

arXiv:2602.12978v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Action chunking enables Vision Language Action (VLA) models to run in real time, but naive chunked execution often exhibits discontinuities at

Learning Relative Representations for Fine-Grained Multimodal Alignment with Limited Data

arXiv:2605.16834v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal pre-training demonstrates strong generalization performance, but this paradigm is often impractical in domains where paired data are scarce

Learning to Reason without External Rewards

arXiv:2505.19590v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training large language models (LLMs) for complex reasoning via Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) is effective but limited

Learning Transferable Topology Priors for Multi-Agent LLM Collaboration Across Domains

arXiv:2605.17359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems have shown strong potential for complex reasoning by coordinating specialized agents through struct

Learning under Distributional Drift: Prequential Reproducibility as an Intrinsic Statistical Resource

arXiv:2512.13506v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Statistical learning under distributional drift remains poorly characterized, especially in closed-loop settings where learning alters the data-gene

LegalCheck: Retrieval- and Context-Augmented Generation for Drafting Municipal Legal Advice Letters

arXiv:2605.12012v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Public-sector legal departments in the Netherlands face acute staff shortages, increased case volumes, and increased pressure to meet regulatory com

Linguistic Uncertainty and Reply Engagement on X: A Cross-Domain Replication of the Uncertainty-Reply Asymmetry

arXiv:2605.16289v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Linguistic uncertainty is common in social media, but its relationship with engagement remains unclear across languages and topics. Using 2,258 Englis

LISTEN to Your Preferences: An LLM Framework for Multi-Objective Selection

arXiv:2510.25799v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human experts often struggle to select the best option from a large set of items with multiple competing objectives, a process bottlenecked by the d

LLM-Safety Evaluations Lack Robustness

arXiv:2503.02574v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we argue that current safety alignment research efforts for large language models are hindered by many intertwined sources of n

LPG: Balancing Efficiency and Policy Reasoning in Latent Policy Guardrails

arXiv:2605.17329v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Guardrails are a critical safety layer for modern AI systems, but their operating regime is changing. As LLMs are deployed as customized assistants, s

Mamba-VGGT: Persistent Long-Sequence Video Geometry Grounded Transformer via External Sliding Window Mamba Memory

arXiv:2605.17478v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual Geometry Grounded Transformers (VGGT) have set new benchmarks in high-fidelity 3D scene reconstruction. However, as the sequence length increases

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MARR: Module-Adaptive Residual Reconstruction for Low-Bit Post-Training Quantization

arXiv:2605.17997v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recently, residual reconstruction-based model quantization methods have achieved promising performance in low-bit post-training quantization (PTQ) by

Masking Causality and Conditional Dependence

arXiv:2603.06984v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Many regulatory and analytic problems require that a prohibited variable influence a decision only through a designated allowable channel -- a

Measuring Changes in Instructor Class Design and Student Learning After the Release of Large Language Models (LLMs)

arXiv:2605.16284v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Student use of Generative AI (GenAI) products in completing their classwork, with or without their professors' knowledge and/or approval, has resulted

Medical Context Distorts Decisions in Clinical Vision Language Models

arXiv:2605.17436v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly proposed for clinical decision support, yet their reliability in real-world scenarios that require inte

Meltdown: Circuits and Bifurcations in Point-Cloud-Conditioned 3D Diffusion Transformers

arXiv:2602.11130v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sparse point clouds are a common input modality for 3D surface reconstruction, including in safety-critical settings such as surgical navigati

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Minor First, Major Last: A Depth-Induced Implicit Bias of Sharpness-Aware Minimization

arXiv:2603.08290v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the implicit bias of Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) when training L-layer linear diagonal networks on linearly separable binary c

Mitigating Conversational Inertia in Multi-Turn Agents

arXiv:2602.03664v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models excel as few-shot learners when provided with appropriate demonstrations, yet this strength becomes problematic in multiturn a