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Training-Free Cultural Alignment of Large Language Models via Persona Disagreement

arXiv:2605.10843v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models increasingly mediate decisions that turn on moral judgement, yet a growing body of evidence shows that their implicit preference

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Training with Harnesses: On-Policy Harness Self-Distillation for Complex Reasoning

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arXiv:2605.08741v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inference-time harnesses substantially improve large language models on complex reasoning tasks. However, the intrinsic capabilities of the underlying m

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Trajectory-Consistent Flow Matching for Robust Visuomotor Policy Learning

arXiv:2605.08511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow matching policies learn continuous velocity fields that transport noise to actions, enabling fast deterministic inference for robot manipulation. H

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TrajTok: Learning Trajectory Tokens enables better Video Understanding

arXiv:2602.22779v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tokenization in video models, typically through patchification, generates an excessive and redundant number of tokens. This severely limits video ef

TripleWin: Fixed-Point Equilibrium Pricing for Data-Model Coupled Markets

arXiv:2511.03368v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The rise of the machine learning (ML) model economy has intertwined markets for training datasets and pre-trained models. However, most pricing appr

Trustworthy AI: Ensuring Reliability and Accountability from Models to Agents

arXiv:2605.08964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this thesis, we develop algorithms with theoretical guarantees for ensuring reliability and accountability of Machine Learning (ML) systems. As ML sy

UAV-Assisted Scan-to-Simulation for Landslides Using Physics-Informed Gaussian Splatting

arXiv:2605.10715v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Landslide monitoring and simulation play an important role in urban safety assessment and disaster prevention. Existing landslide simulation pipelines t

Uncertainty-Aware and Decoder-Aligned Learning for Video Summarization

arXiv:2605.09507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video summarization aims to produce a compact representation of a long video by selecting a subset of temporally important segments that best reflect hu

Uni-Hand: Universal Hand Motion Forecasting in Egocentric Views

arXiv:2511.12878v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Forecasting how human hands move in egocentric views is critical for applications like augmented reality and human-robot policy transfer. Recently,

Unified Noise Steering for Efficient Human-Guided VLA Adaptation

arXiv:2605.10821v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion-based vision-language-action (VLA) models have emerged as strong priors for robotic manipulation, yet adapting them to real-world distribution

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Uniform Inductive Spatio-Temporal Kriging

arXiv:2603.05301v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Inductive spatio-temporal kriging infers signals at unobserved locations from observed sensors, but real-world observations are often incomplete and

Unison: Harmonizing Motion, Speech, and Sound for Human-Centric Audio-Video Generation

arXiv:2605.08729v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motion, speech, and sound effects are fundamental elements of human-centric videos, yet their heterogeneous temporal characteristics make joint generati

Unlearners Can Lie: Evaluating and Improving Honesty in LLM Unlearning

arXiv:2605.08765v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unlearning in large language models (LLMs) aims to remove harmful training data while preserving overall utility. However, we find that existing metho

Unsupervised Process Reward Models

arXiv:2605.10158v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Process Reward Models (PRMs) are a powerful mechanism for steering large language model reasoning by providing fine-grained, step-level supervision. How

Upholding Epistemic Agency: A Brouwerian Assertibility Constraint for Responsible AI

arXiv:2603.03971v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative AI can convert uncertainty into hypersuasive, authoritative-seeming verdicts, displacing the justificatory work on which democratic

Users as Annotators: LLM Preference Learning from Comparison Mode

arXiv:2510.13830v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pairwise preference data have played an important role in the alignment of large language models (LLMs). Each sample of such data consists of

V-ABS: Action-Observer Driven Beam Search for Dynamic Visual Reasoning

arXiv:2605.10172v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable success in general perception, yet complex multi-step visual reasoning remains a per

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Value-Decomposed Reinforcement Learning Framework for Taxiway Routing with Hierarchical Conflict-Aware Observations

arXiv:2605.08754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Taxiway routing and on-surface conflict avoidance are coupled safety-critical decision problems in airport surface operations. Existing planning and opt

Variational Inference for Levy Process-Driven SDEs via Neural Tilting

arXiv:2605.10934v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modelling extreme events and heavy-tailed phenomena is central to building reliable predictive systems in domains such as finance, climate science, an

Verification Mirage: Mapping the Reliability Boundary of Self-Verification in Medical VQA

arXiv:2605.10850v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-verification, re-invoking the same vision language model (VLM) in a fresh context to check its own generated answer, is increasingly used as a defa

Verifier-Free RL for LLMs via Intrinsic Gradient-Norm Reward

arXiv:2605.09920v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has recently emerged as a promising post-training paradigm for Large Language Models (LLMs

VISTA: A Generative Egocentric Video Framework for Daily Assistance

arXiv:2605.10579v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training AI agents to proactively assist humans in daily activities, from routine household tasks to urgent safety situations, requires large-scale visu

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Wavelet Policy: Imitation Learning in the Scale Domain with World Prior Memory

arXiv:2504.04991v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Conventional visuomotor imitation learning usually predicts future robot actions directly in the time domain. Such formulations often have limited p

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'We're going to reach a point of diminishing returns from scaling. That's what actually happened. The industry knows this. But doesn't want …

'We're going to reach a point of diminishing returns from scaling. That's what actually happened. The industry knows this. But doesn't want to tell you.' @GaryMarcus, AI Expert, Scientist & Author at

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What should post-training optimize? A test-time scaling law perspective

arXiv:2605.10716v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed with test-time strategies: sample N responses, score them with a reward model or verifier, and return th

What Structural Inductive Bias Helps Transformers Reason Over Knowledge Graphs? A Study with Tabula RASA

arXiv:2602.02834v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: What structural inductive bias helps transformers reason over knowledge graphs? Through controlled ablations of a minimal transformer modifica

When a Robot is More Capable than a Human: Learning from Constrained Demonstrators

arXiv:2510.09096v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning from demonstrations enables experts to teach robots complex tasks using interfaces such as kinesthetic teaching, joystick control, an

When Agents Overtrust Environmental Evidence: An Extensible Agentic Framework for Benchmarking Evidence-Grounding Defects in LLM Agents

arXiv:2605.08828v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents increasingly operate through environment-facing scaffolds that expose files, web pages, APIs, and logs. These observations i

When Can Digital Personas Reliably Approximate Human Survey Findings?

arXiv:2605.10659v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Digital personas powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly proposed as substitutes for human survey respondents, yet it remains unclear

When Language Overwrites Vision: Over-Alignment and Geometric Debiasing in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2605.08245v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) increasingly power high-stakes applications, from medical imaging to autonomous systems, yet they routinely hallucinate,

When More Parameters Hurt: Foundation Model Priors Amplify Worst-Client Disparity Under Extreme Federated Heterogeneity

arXiv:2605.08992v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) is increasingly used to fine-tune foundation models (FMs) on distributed private data. The community largely assumes that large-

Where Do Flow Semantics Reside? A Protocol-Native Tabular Pretraining Paradigm for Encrypted Traffic Classification

arXiv:2603.10051v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-supervised masked modeling shows promise for encrypted traffic classification by masking and reconstructing raw bytes. Yet recent work re

White Circle raises $11M to help companies secure and monitor AI model behavior

Artificial intelligence guardrail and monitoring startup Pumpkin Intelligence Inc., which operates as White Circle, announced today it raised 11 million in seed funding from a who’s who of AI leadersh

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Why Adam Works Better with eta_1 = eta_2: The Missing Gradient Scale Invariance Principle

arXiv:2601.21739v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Adam has been at the core of large-scale training for almost a decade, yet a simple empirical fact remains unaccounted for: both validation sc

Why Do DiT Editors Drift? Plug-and-Play Low Frequency Alignment in VAE Latent Space

arXiv:2605.08250v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in diffusion transformers (DiTs) have enabled promising single-turn image editing capabilities. However, multi-turn editing often lead

WISTERIA: Learning Clinical Representations from Noisy Supervision via Multi-View Consistency in Electronic Health Records

arXiv:2605.09765v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Representation learning in electronic health records (EHR) has largely followed paradigms inherited from natural language processing, relying on seque

wow! “It is the [House] Committee’s understanding that the new board of directors at OpenAI tried to address these problems upon your return…

wow! “It is the [House] Committee’s understanding that the new board of directors at OpenAI tried to address these problems upon your return by creating an “audit committee to review potential conflic

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X-Voice: Enabling Everyone to Speak 30 Languages via Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Voice Cloning

arXiv:2605.05611v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we present X-Voice, a 0.4B multilingual zero-shot voice cloning model that clones arbitrary voices and enables everyone to spea

XQCfD: Accelerating Fast Actor-Critic Algorithms with Prior Data and Prior Policies

arXiv:2605.10734v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For reinforcement learning in the real world online exploration is expensive A common practice in robotic reinforcement learning is to incorporate addit

Z-Erase: Enabling Concept Erasure in Single-Stream Diffusion Transformers

arXiv:2603.25074v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Concept erasure serves as a vital safety mechanism for removing unwanted concepts from text-to-image (T2I) models. While extensively studied in U-Ne

A Finite-Iteration Theory for Asynchronous Categorical Distributional Temporal-Difference Learning

arXiv:2605.06866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent non-asymptotic analyses have substantially advanced the theory of distributional policy evaluation, but they largely concern synchronous full-sta

A Generalized Singular Value Theory for Neural Networks

arXiv:2605.06938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Building on the abstract Generalized Singular Value Decomposition (GSVD) theory of Brown et al. [2025], we prove that most modern neural architectures

A Geometric Taxonomy of Hallucinations in LLMs

arXiv:2602.13224v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Hallucinations in deployed language models can have real consequences for downstream decisions in domains such as healthcare, legal, and financial s

A Large-Scale Dataset for Molecular Structure-Language Description via a Rule-Regularized Method

arXiv:2602.02320v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Molecular function is largely determined by structure. Accurately aligning molecular structure with natural language is therefore essential fo

A Statistical Framework for Algorithmic Collective Action with Multiple Collectives

arXiv:2605.06749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As learning systems increasingly shape everyday decisions, Algorithmic Collective Action (ACA), i.e., users coordinating changes to shared data to ste

A Systematic Investigation of The RL-Jailbreaker in LLMs

arXiv:2605.07032v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The evolution of generative models from next-token predictors to autonomous engines of complex systems necessitates rigorous safety hardening. Adversa

Accurate and Efficient Statistical Testing for Word Semantic Breadth

arXiv:2605.08048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Measuring the breadth of a word's meaning, or its spread across contexts, has become feasible with contextualized token embeddings. A word type can be r

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Activation Differences Reveal Backdoors: A Comparison of SAE Architectures

arXiv:2605.07324v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Backdoor attacks on language models pose a significant threat to AI safety, where models behave normally on most inputs but exhibit harmful behavior w