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Constrained Command-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning with Bandit Strategy Selection in Real-Time Strategy Games

arXiv:2610.11663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning agents reach strong performance in real-time strategy games but can be brittle against opponents outside their training dist

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Continuous Ground-Truth Construction and a Recovery Policy for Air--Water Robotic Tracking

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arXiv:2610.11096v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual tracking across the air-water interface is challenged by splashes, bubbles, refraction, reflections, and abrupt appearance changes that can tem

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ContourVLA: A Closed-Loop Perception-Action Contour Policy for Generalized Referring Expression Segmentation

arXiv:2610.12107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalized referring expression segmentation (GRES) requires dynamically balancing high-level semantics for identifying a variable number of language-s

Control-Ready Uncertainty for Trajectory Diffusion

arXiv:2610.12431v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models can represent complex, multimodal trajectory distributions, but extracting uncertainty from them typically requires costly Monte Carlo

Coverage-Aware Reasoning with Medical Tokens for Diagnosis Prediction

arXiv:2610.10641v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) offer promising potential for next-visit diagnosis prediction, owing to their ability to integrate longitudinal clinical

CSF: Contextual Safety Filtering for Motion Generators

arXiv:2610.12467v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-conditioned motion generators produce trackable whole-body motion, but they have no notion of scene-dependent safety: the same action may target

DaCe-DT: Data-Centric Offline Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning via Adaptive Prompts and Trajectory Correction for Heterogeneous Tasks

arXiv:2610.11085v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline multi-task reinforcement learning (Offline MTRL) heavily depends on the quality and distribution of pre-collected data. However, existing method

DAMP: Humanoid Locomotion via Denoised Belief Learning and Adversarial Motion Priors

arXiv:2610.11505v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots possess the structural capability to traverse complex terrains. However, achieving stable t raversal without relying on perceived inform

DEX: Digit-Level Early Exit for Energy-Efficient MSDF Neural Network Inference

arXiv:2610.11748v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: U-Net inference for brain-tumor segmentation requires billions of multiply-accumulate operations, motivating hardware that can reduce computation dyna

Dex-One2Many: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from a Single Human Demonstration

arXiv:2610.12470v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While learning dexterous manipulation from a single human video offers a promising alternative to costly robot demonstrations, many recent methods pre

Differentiable Systematic Resampling for Variational Sequential Monte Carlo

arXiv:2610.12094v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Particle filters are a standard tool for nonlinear state estimation, but their resampling step is discrete, preventing gradient-based learning in vari

Digital Twin for Pre-Deployment Validation of AI-Driven Safety-Critical Industrial Edge Control Loops

arXiv:2610.11934v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial environments are increasingly characterized by the tight interaction among physical processes, communication infrastructures, and intellige

Distillation for Incrimination and Distillation for Capabilities

arXiv:2610.11012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Powerful misaligned AI models might recognize alignment evaluations and strategically behave well on them, rendering direct audits uninformative. Howeve

Distilling Routed 3D Privilege for Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2610.12355v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatial reasoning remains a persistent weakness of vision-language models (VLMs), because RGB inputs do not directly provide geometric evidence. Exist

Does Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) Dominate Arabic Dialects in LLMs? A Representation-Level Analysis

arXiv:2610.11510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often default to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) when generating Arabic, even when prompted with dialectal Arabic. A natural e

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Does Target Alignment Mean Target Recovery? An Evidence-Ladder Study of Adversarial Claims on Contrastive Encoders

arXiv:2610.11938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adversarial attacks on vision-language models optimize an image toward a text target, then cite the attacked model's similarity score as evidence of suc

DreamTrue: Action-Faithful Robot World Model with Counterfactual Post-Training

arXiv:2610.12468v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present DreamTrue, a multi-view, cross-embodiment robot world model for action-faithful and physically plausible video prediction. Training such a

DVLA-RL++: Dual-Level Vision-Language Alignment with Reinforcement Learning Gating for Few-Shot Learning

arXiv:2610.12095v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Few-shot learning aims to recognize novel categories from limited labeled examples. Recent studies incorporate textual semantics to compensate for limit

EchoDiST: Self-distillation-based joint learning for diffusion-conditioned echocardiographic myocardial motion estimation

arXiv:2610.11431v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motion estimation in echocardiography is essential for quantitative assessment of cardiac function and myocardial mechanics, but remains challenging due

Embodied Turing Machines: Stateful Code for Robot Recursive Self-Improvement

arXiv:2610.12369v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most robot policies keep a model in the control loop: a VLA maps observations to actions, and an Agent Harness, such as Agent-as-Policy or Harness VLA

Enabling Preference-driven Unlearning in Few-step Distilled Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

arXiv:2610.10859v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models are increasingly distilled into few-step variants and being deployed to enable fast inference. However, their ability to

Environmental Feedback Modeling Matters: Rethinking Feedback Treatment in Agentic Hindsight Self-Distillation

arXiv:2610.11384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning is commonly used to train language agents in interactive environments, but cannot be directly applied when rewards are unavailabl

ExecVLA: Following Fine-Grained Execution Constraints in Vision-Language-Action Models with Bi-Level Action Representation

arXiv:2603.17524v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study fine-grained execution-constraint following in vision-language-action (VLA) models. Given an invariant task goal, the policy must fol

FAITH: Feasibility-Aware Safety-Filtered RL for High-Dimensional Systems

arXiv:2610.12432v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safe reinforcement learning commonly places safety and task performance in the same policy objective, where they can introduce competing updates. Safe

Fast Pose Tracking of Rigid Objects with Compact Pose Graph Optimization

arXiv:2610.11815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tracking a novel object's 6D pose over long horizons currently requires either expensive onboarding or a reconstruction maintained throughout the sequen

FOCUS: From Privileged States to RGB-D with Controlled Modality Switching and Representation Alignment

arXiv:2610.11119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-based reinforcement learning for robotic manipulation is sample-inefficient because RGB-D observations are high-dimensional and noisy. Privileged

From Geometry to Generalization: Why Row Normalization Can Beat Adam and Muon

arXiv:2610.11309v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Different optimizers can fit the same training data while selecting classifiers with substantially different geometries, but whether this difference p

From Solo to Ensemble: A Hierarchical Framework for Composable Multi-Agent Human-Object Interaction

arXiv:2610.11722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics-based human-object interaction has achieved robust single-agent manipulation skills, yet extending them to multi-agent cooperative tasks remains

Gen-PINNs: Generative Adversarial Physics Informed Neural Networks for solving partial differential equations

arXiv:2610.10897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) are a widely used data-free method for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) using machine learning. Wi

Generative Neural Retargeting for Human-to-Robot Dexterous Manipulation

arXiv:2610.12440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human demonstrations are a scalable data source for learning dexterous manipulation, but the embodiment gap prevents human motion from being executed di

GenIA: Generative Reconstruction with Test-Time Input Alignment

arXiv:2610.12388v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconstructing complete 3D object assets from monocular or sparse multi-view observations remains challenging. Generative 3D foundation models can compl

GeoReform: Reflective Formalization Evolution for Multimodal Geometry Problem Solving

arXiv:2610.12391v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often struggle to identify and use geometric relations in diagrams. Recent methods address this challenge by co

GRPODropout: Less is More for Online Reinforcement Learning Rollouts

arXiv:2610.11854v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) methods such as GRPO substantially improve large language model reasoning but often suffer from policy entropy collapse: t

HAND: A Biologically-Inspired Activation Function that Improves Generalisation and Sample Efficiency in Image Classification

arXiv:2610.11534v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: DNNs exhibit robustness and generalisation issues not seen in humans. They are also far less data-efficient learners, requiring considerably more traini

Higher-Order Action Supervision Makes A Strong Policy Class

arXiv:2610.11175v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern data-driven decision-making methods, such as imitation learning (IL) and reinforcement learning (RL), have achieved great success in solving ma

Higher-Order Morphology Priors for Quadruped Reinforcement Learning Under Actuator Degradation

arXiv:2610.10934v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Actuator degradation turns quadruped locomotion into a coordination problem requiring joints to compensate for lost actuation. Prior work suggests tha

How to post-train on a surrogate: Envelope sampling mitigates reward hacking

arXiv:2610.11281v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are commonly post-trained against LLM judges and other cheap surrogates because the true reward, such as human preference

Humanoid World Action Model With Joint State--Action Generation

arXiv:2610.12026v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humanoid robots are a promising platform for general-purpose manipulation. Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies learn actions directly from mu

i wrote approximately 2000 tweets and articles (like Deep Learning is Hitting A Wall) about the importance of supplementing deep learning/ L…

i wrote approximately 2000 tweets and articles (like Deep Learning is Hitting A Wall) about the importance of supplementing deep learning/ LLMs with neurosymbolic AI over a span of 25 years and the te

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I’m super excited this paper is finally out! It’s an epic 210 page analysis of whether a durable pause on frontier AI training is feasible. …

I’m super excited this paper is finally out! It’s an epic 210 page analysis of whether a durable pause on frontier AI training is feasible. I think this will be the best plan by most people’s lights (

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Image Recognition with Vision and Language Embeddings of VLMs

arXiv:2509.09311v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled strong zero-shot classification through image-text alignment. Yet, their purely visual inference capabili

Imperative Interference: Social Register Shapes Instruction Topology in Large Language Models

arXiv:2603.25015v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: System prompt instructions that cooperate in English compete in Spanish, with the same semantic content, but opposite interaction topology. We

It's Always 10:10: Reference Images Break a Bias That Prompts Only Dent

arXiv:2610.11320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image models appear to reproduce the habits of the photographs they learned from. Analog clocks are an extreme case: in advertising, watches alm

JevForest: Path Voting for Budgeted Feature Acquisition

arXiv:2610.10615v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Choosing which information to observe is central to prediction under limited observation budgets. We study JevForest, a feature acquisition policy tha

Lamarck's Driving School: Discovering Autonomous Driving Training Strategies through Evolutionary Competition

arXiv:2610.11662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving capabilities depend strongly on the distribution of scenarios encountered during training. Existing methods commonly construct or dyn

Learning from Own Solutions: Self-Conditioned Credit Assignment for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

arXiv:2606.18810v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has driven substantial progress in training LLMs for reasoning tasks, but representative

Learning How to Search for Plans with Exponentially Less Space

arXiv:2610.10954v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Heuristic search for a plan can store exponentially many states, even when its heuristic is almost perfect. We instead learn search control, one specifi

Learning structured linear dynamical systems from missing observations

arXiv:2610.11869v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We consider the problem of learning structured linear dynamical systems over convex sets K, where only a small subset of the observations are availabl