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Rethinking the Information Bottleneck: Structured Decomposition under Label-Induced Partitions

arXiv:2610.01175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard information bottleneck (IB) regularization constrains representations via a single scalar I(Z;X), implicitlytreating all information as homogen

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Reusing Past Samples in Proximal Policy Optimization: When and How Does It Help?

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arXiv:2610.01399v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Among on-policy deep reinforcement learning methods, Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) has become the de facto standard, due to its consistently strong

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Revision-Aware Independent Agent Graphs for Dynamic Reasoning

arXiv:2610.01249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional reasoning protocols present a fixed, preselected task, so they cannot test whether an agent propagates relevant updates, preserves unaffect

Reward as Observation: Learning Reward-Based Policies for Rapid Adaptation

arXiv:2610.00729v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper explores a reward-based policy to achieve zero-shot transfer between source and target environments with completely different observation spa

Robust Nash Alignment under Preference Uncertainty

arXiv:2610.00715v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Preference-based alignment methods typically optimize against a single preference model, and can therefore be brittle when pairwise preferences are unce

Safety in Self-Evolving Agents: A Survey

arXiv:2610.00093v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong general capabilities, yet their parameters typically remain fixed after deployment, limiting learning from

Same Scene, Different Task: Skill Alignment for Compositional Generalization in VLAs

arXiv:2610.00524v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models often struggle to generalize to skill combinations absent from their fine-tuning demonstrations, even when every c

Sapien: A Stateful Policy Engine for Autonomous AI Agents

arXiv:2610.00797v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contextual security defenses prevent AI agents from taking rogue actions by synthesizing a task-specific policy and enforcing it on the agent's tool cal

Scalable Multi-Task Inverse Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.00758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: By learning transferable rewards, inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) enables counterfactual evaluation of agents under modified environments. Such tra

Scalable, Transferable Meta-network for Data Selection Requires a Different Loss (and Why the Obvious Choice is Problematic)

arXiv:2610.02092v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data selection is critical for training large language models on massive and heterogeneous corpora. Meta-learning for Training-data Selection offers a

SemanTok: Predictable Semantic Tokens for Efficient Autoregressive Video Generation

arXiv:2610.00686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent video-based world models pair the scalability of autoregressive (AR) prediction with the visual quality of diffusion models. The choice of scene

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Sharpen Before You Adapt: Data-Free Entry-State Sharpening for Test-Time Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.00903v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time reinforcement learning (TTRL) adapts language models on unlabeled test problems using supervision derived from their own samples. This makes t

SHARPO: Segment-Level Credit Assignment for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.00838v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) trains a large language model (LLM) to act over long, multi-step interactions. However, a single localized error c

Signed Lexical Confidence for Risk-Calibrated Intent Routing

arXiv:2610.00262v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Selective intent routing allows an assistant to act on reliable predictions while deferring uncertain requests. Standard confidence scores primarily r

Stochastic Optimal Control for Continuous-Time fMRI Representation Learning

arXiv:2502.04892v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning robust representations from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is fundamentally challenged by the temporal irregularity and noise

Symmetry Discovery in Quantum Learning: Observable-Level and Task-Level Inference from Finite Measurements

arXiv:2610.00157v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Symmetry reduces the capacity of a quantum learning model, but the imposed group must match both the measured information and the label transformation

T2SPO: Trajectory-to-Step Policy Optimization for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.00388v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning enables large language model (LLM) agents to learn multi-step behaviors through interaction with their environments. However, r

Terence Tao on today's AI: 'you look at how it's done and it doesn't feel like intelligence, like its some trick, you just cobble together t…

Terence Tao on today's AI: 'you look at how it's done and it doesn't feel like intelligence, like its some trick, you just cobble together these neural networks and we ran some algorithm and we were l

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The Cognitive Continuity Test: Verifying Governed State Transitions in Persistent AI Agents

arXiv:2610.00132v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Persistent AI agents revise beliefs, consolidate memory, and replace execution substrates. Similar successor states can accompany differently authoriz

The Weakest Link: Distilling LLM Reasoning with Worst-Case Constrained Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.00332v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Distilling the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) into smaller students is a central challenge for efficient deployment. Current a

TOAST: Stochastic Robot Action Tokenization for Autoregressive Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2610.00899v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive Vision-Language-Action models often represent continuous robot actions as discrete token sequences, enabling action prediction with sta

Token Communication-Assisted Collaborative Embodied Artificial Intelligence: Concepts, Framework, and Opportunities

arXiv:2610.01826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Collaborative embodied artificial intelligence (CEAI) enables multiple physical agents to perceive, reason, and act cooperatively in dynamic environme

Token-World: World Modeling in Vision-Language Model Token Space for Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2610.00575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A common approach to world-model simulation for vision-language-action (VLA) systems is to predict future RGB observations and then re-encode them into

Tolerance-Based Fairness Auditing: Violation Certification and Sensitivity Screening

arXiv:2610.01005v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As artificial intelligence is increasingly deployed, algorithmic unfairness has raised growing concerns and intensified demands for transparent fairne

Towards a General Humanoid Loco-Manipulation Model via Egocentric Whole-Body Human Data Pretraining

arXiv:2610.00438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid whole-body manipulation has advanced rapidly, enabling policies to coordinate locomotion, posture, bimanual interaction, and dexterous hand mov

Towards Hierarchical Cyber Defense with Large Language Models: From Planning to Execution

arXiv:2610.00590v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An autonomous cyber defender trained with reinforcement learning (RL) is typically tied to the network on which it was trained, limiting its ability t

Towards Optimal Policy Improvement

arXiv:2610.01566v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Practical Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms learn to solve Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) through iterative policy improvement in the presence of

Towards Reliable Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2610.01531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language models (VLMs) are increasingly being explored in autonomous driving for tasks such as scene understanding, driving reasoning, decision-m

TRACE: Trajectory Return Attribution and Contrastive Erasure for Multi-Turn Safety

arXiv:2610.01323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety-aligned large language models (LLMs) often refuse a harmful request but comply once the same goal is spread over several turns. Preference object

Trustworthy Data- and ML-Ops for Intelligent Transportation Systems and Logistics

arXiv:2610.01282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid evolution of Intelligent Transportation Systems and Logistics (ITS&L) has become a cornerstone of the modern social economy, relying heavily o

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Enhanced Radiometer Image Precipitation Estimation using Conditional Flow Matching

arXiv:2610.01890v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep generative networks have recently achieved unprecedented performance in precise image and video editing using sophisticated textual prompts. Howe

UrbanVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Urban Micromobility

arXiv:2510.23576v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Urban micromobility applications, such as delivery robots, demand reliable navigation across large-scale urban environments while following lo

US authorities arrest a California man suspected of smuggling $300M+ worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips to China via Malaysia and Singapore from 2023 to 2024 (Michael Shepard/Bloomberg)

Michael Shepard / Bloomberg: US authorities arrest a California man suspected of smuggling $300M+ worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips to China via Malaysia and Singapore from 2023 to 2024 — By continu

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vFedProtoQNAS: Prototype-Guided Personalized Quantum Neural Architecture Search for Virtual Federated Learning

arXiv:2610.01718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantum federated learning (QFL) has emerged as a promising approach for collaboratively training compact quantum neural networks (QNNs) over distribute

Video Generation Models: A Survey of Post-Training and Alignment

arXiv:2610.00812v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video generation has rapidly progressed from short, low-quality clips to high-resolution, long-duration sequences with complex spatiotemporal dynamics

VISPA: Pluralistic Alignment via Automatic Value Selection and Activation

arXiv:2601.12758v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As large language models are increasingly used in high-stakes domains, it is essential that their outputs reflect not average} human preferenc

When a Data Artifact Isn't a Shortcut: Causal Auditing of Synthetic RLVR Corpora

arXiv:2610.00202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Several recent pipelines build RLVR training data by masking a span of real corpus text and asking a language model to invent plausible wrong answers

When Harnesses Lose the Signal: Causal Evaluation of Recovery in LLM Agents

arXiv:2610.00372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents rely on external harnesses to pass information between the model and its environment and to recover from execution errors. Y

When Is Deletion Ordering Tractable? From Update Dynamics to Permutation Structure

arXiv:2610.01149v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Given a fixed set of pending deletion requests, retraining from scratch after each request is prohibitive, so a prescribed request-wise policy process

When Reasoning Helps Action: Monitoring and Steering Chain-of-Thought in Vision-Language-Action Policies

arXiv:2610.00601v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning-enabled VLA policies expose chain-of-thought (CoT) traces that appear to explain and guide their actions, creating a potential interface for

Where-OPD: Spatially Guided On-Policy Self-Distillation of MLLMs with Synthetic Scenes

arXiv:2610.02117v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy self-distillation has recently emerged as an effective approach for improving language-model reasoning by supervising students with a frozen

Whole-Body Aerial Grasping and Lifting via Partial Visual Observations

arXiv:2610.00404v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerial grasp-and-lift tasks require whole-body coordination across approach, acquisition, and lifting under partial target observations. Early approach

Why GRPO Needs Normalization: A Local-Curvature Perspective on Adaptive Gradients

arXiv:2601.23135v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a key driver of language model reasoning. Among RL algorithms, Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) is t

World Motion Models: Flexible Sequence Modeling of SE(3) Trajectories

arXiv:2610.01742v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Equipping artificial agents with spatial intelligence requires a comprehensive generative prior over the dynamic 3D world. We propose World Motion Mod

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Wrivinder: Towards Spatial Intelligence for Geo-locating Ground Images onto Satellite Imagery

arXiv:2602.14929v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Aligning ground-level imagery with geo-registered satellite maps is crucial for mapping, navigation, and situational awareness, yet remains challeng

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YouRA: A Persistent-State Architecture for Evidence-Traceable Autonomous Research Agents

arXiv:2610.01097v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end research agents can now produce complete scientific papers, yet manuscript claims often diverge from executed experiments. This gap is struct

Zero-shot generalization of transformer neural operators to larger domains

arXiv:2606.14597v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transformer-based neural operators have shown remarkable performance for approximating solution operators of partial differential equations on compl

A Biophysically Detailed C. elegans Circuit as a Task-Agnostic Dynamical Core for Visually Robust Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2609.39322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot policies are usually trained for one task, one body and one visual environment, and generalize poorly beyond these conditions. Whether a nervous s