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From Single Chatbots to Governed Agent Ecosystems: An Agentic AI Pattern Catalogue and Orchestration Framework for Mission-Critical Hospital Information Management Systems

DGX agent

arXiv:2608.07627v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hospitals are racing to embed AI, while coping with the surge in adaptation of the technology in other industries, into the triage management, documenta

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Generalized Convexity and Smoothness via Conjugate Duality: Optimization Theory for Deep Neural Networks

arXiv:2608.09523v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep neural network (DNN) training with stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and its variants achieves strong empirical performance, yet classical optimiza

Generalizing deep reinforcement learning across cable-driven parallel robot configurations with actuator-level policies

arXiv:2608.07546v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cable-driven parallel robots (CDPRs) present diverse configurations and complex control challenges, which can be addressed by deep reinforcement learn

GRACE: LLM-Grounded Semantic Metric Spaces for Scalable Mixed-Data Clustering

arXiv:2608.07881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clustering mixed tabular data requires a unified metric space to bridge the inherent heterogeneity between continuous numerical measurements and discret

Graph-Guided Safe Diffuser: Topological Graph Guidance for Safe Diffusion Planning

arXiv:2608.09484v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many diffusion-based planners enforce safety through inference-time guidance, but such interleaved trajectory deformations often degrade kinematic feasi

Hierarchical Topology-Aware Planning and Control of Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems in Confined Environments

arXiv:2608.08871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses autonomous intervention with an underwater vehicle--manipulator system (UVMS) in confined, cluttered, and partially known environme

High-Capacity Generalized Hopfield Networks

arXiv:2608.08226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalized Hopfield networks are introduced where memories and neurons are continuous variables that lie on a Riemannian manifold. We explicitly focu

HoloAegis: Frozen Representation, Topological Inference: Minimally Parametric Safety Manifolds for Zero-Shot LLM Guardrails

arXiv:2608.08485v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current LLM safety guardrails face a fundamental tension: fine-tuning distorts pre-trained representations while generative judges incur prohibitive inf

HonestFace: Towards Honest Face Restoration with One-Step Diffusion Model

arXiv:2505.18469v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Face restoration has achieved significant advancements through the years of development. However, maintaining high fidelity and authenticity while a

Illusion of Alignment: Detecting Hidden Disagreement in Collaborative Dialogue

arXiv:2608.08210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative dialogue can end with apparent agreement while participants still differ on goals, assumptions, or execution plans, creating an extbf{illu

Impact of Dataset Composition on Embedded Real-Time UAV Wildfire Detection Using Compact YOLO Models

arXiv:2608.07554v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of vision-based wildfire detection systems for unmanned aerial vehicles is constrained by the limited availability of diverse real-world

Improving Generalization Robustness of Multimodal RLVR

arXiv:2608.08802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) makes Multimodal Large Language Models more accurate, but the gains are brittle: simply paraphrasi

In-Loop Model Adaptation with Coupled Latent-Noise Guidance for High-Fidelity Subject-Driven Text-to-Image Generation

arXiv:2608.09244v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-quality images from a given text prompt. Subject-driven generation ai

Integrating RCTs, RWD, AI/ML and Statistics: Next-Generation Evidence Synthesis

arXiv:2511.19735v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs)have been the cornerstone of clinical evidence; however, their cost, duration, and restrictive eligibility

Intent Speaks Louder: Controllable User Simulation Beyond Response Imitation

arXiv:2608.09420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: User simulators are widely used as scalable environments for training and evaluating interactive assistants. Generating the next user turn is inherently

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Interpreting Video Representations with Spatio-Temporal Sparse Autoencoders

arXiv:2604.03919v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present the first systematic study of Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) on video representations. Standard SAEs decompose video into interpretable

Investigating Multimodal Informativity under Different Partner Visibility Conditions in Video-Mediated Dialogue

arXiv:2608.08915v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Situated language use is multimodal and embodied. For example, gestures can carry information that is absent or underspecified in the speech signal, yet

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Is CLIP Cross-Eyed? Revealing and Mitigating Center Bias in the CLIP Family

arXiv:2604.05971v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent research has shown that contrastive vision-language models such as CLIP often lack fine-grained understanding of visual content. While

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JEPA-WAM: Learning Vision-Language-Action Policies with Joint-Embedding World Modeling

arXiv:2608.09381v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust robot control benefits from explicitly modeling state transitions, but video-generation world action models (WAMs) introduce substantial deployme

JustLLMGRPO: Radiographic Control for Chest X-Ray Generation

arXiv:2608.08046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-conditioned chest X-ray generation aims to synthesize realistic radiographs that faithfully depict specified findings. Existing work has primarily

KGCache: Amortized Subgraph Retrieval for KG Reasoning with LLMs

arXiv:2608.07954v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models can answer knowledge-intensive questions more reliably when they are grounded with knowledge graphs, but systems such as Think-on-

Knowing When to Ask: Resolving Uncertainty in Human-Robot Joint Planning via Explicit Dialogue and Implicit Intent Cues

arXiv:2603.07822v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Effective human-robot collaboration in open-world environments requires joint planning under uncertainty about the task, the environment, and the hu

Knowledge-Distilled End-to-End Reinforcement Learning for Smooth 6-DOF Thrust Control and Rapid Adaptation to Ocean Currents in Remotely Operated Vehicles

arXiv:2608.08598v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the continuous improvement of computational capabilities, end-to-end reinforcement learning has been rapidly developed for remotely operated vehicl

KumbhDoot: A Scale-Ready, LLM-Bounded Architecture for Mass-Gathering Public-Service Assistants

arXiv:2608.07520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mass religious gatherings such as the Kumbh Mela concentrate tens of millions of people into a single region over a few weeks, producing intense, repe

LASA: Language-and-Source-Anchored Alignment for Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation

arXiv:2608.08805v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Domain Generalization Semantic Segmentation (DGSS) focuses on generalizing knowledge from labeled source domains to unseen target domains where data is

Learning aligned EEG representations with subject-specific encoders

arXiv:2606.16462v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Cross-subject EEG decoding promises more training data, but it also exposes neural networks to strong inter-subject distribution shifts. We st

Learning an Interior Layout Policy in a Domain Specific Language Action Space

arXiv:2608.07547v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Indoor scene layout generation is a challenging task in interior design. Existing methods often oversimplify the task by reducing room conditions to c

Learning Deep Modality-Shared Self-Expressiveness for Image Clustering with Textual Information

arXiv:2608.08418v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Leveraging textual information for image clustering has emerged as a promising direction, largely owing to the powerful representations learned by Visio

Learning from Consensus and Disagreement: Unsupervised On-Policy Self-Distillation with Minority-Trajectory Contrast

arXiv:2608.08764v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy self-distillation improves language-model reasoning by querying a teacher on states actually visited by the student. Recent methods create a

Learning Multi-Timescale Interventions under Safety and Resource Constraints

arXiv:2508.03875v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many sequential decision problems offer qualitatively different ways of influencing the environment: some interventions act immediately, whereas oth

Learning Preference Adaptation for Large Language Model Personalization via Verbal Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.09507v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Natural language user preferences provide an interpretable interface for LLM personalization. However, universal preference summaries often contain in

Learning to Coordinate Symbolic Tools: LLM Agents for Verified Sum-of-Squares Certificates

arXiv:2608.00326v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tool calling allows large language models (LLMs) to invoke external computation during problem solving, a useful capability in various fields includ

Learning to Modulate, Not to Cycle: Soft Actor---Critic Recovers Inverter-Style Heat-Pump Control

arXiv:2608.09453v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On--off cycling is the main cause of compressor wear in residential heat pumps, yet reinforcement learning (RL) controllers for buildings typically op

Learning When to See and When to Feel: Adaptive Vision-Torque Fusion for Contact-Aware Manipulation

arXiv:2604.01414v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-based policies have achieved a good performance in robotic manipulation due to the accessibility and richness of visual observations. However

Legal Responsibilities Using Autonomous Agents For Artificial Intelligence

arXiv:2608.08022v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent incidents involving Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents, which were reported escaping their containment `unintentionally' to gain unauthorized ac

LF{}^{2}AR: Accounting for Layerwise Dynamics to Improve Multimodal Adaptation of Language Models

arXiv:2503.06211v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-pretrained language models (LMs) encode rich world knowledge, but adapting them to process and generate perceptual modalities such as aud

Linguistically-Aligned and Visually-Grounded Preference Optimization for Clinically-Augmented Medical Report Generation

arXiv:2608.08494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite significant advances in Medical Report Generation (MRG), the reliability remains constrained by the prevalence of factual errors. While Direct P

LLM Reasoning for Subjective Tasks: Failure Modes, Mitigation, and Dynamic Reasoning Routing

arXiv:2608.08889v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recommendation systems thrive on personalization, where ''correctness'' is rarely a binary truth but a matter of subjective human preference. As Large L

LLMs Remember First, Forget Last: Dual-Process Interference in Large Language Models

arXiv:2603.00270v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models can process millions of tokens, yet how they handle conflicting information within context remains poorly understood. Fr

LUCID: Latent-Skill Unified Control via Imagined Dynamics for Long-Horizon Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

arXiv:2608.07746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon humanoid loco-manipulation requires composing versatile whole-body skills and reliable high-level decision making. Existing methods often c

Machine Learning and Data Analysis Using Posets: A Survey

arXiv:2404.03082v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Partially ordered sets (posets) are discrete mathematical structures that formalize the notion of comparison without forcing every pair of objects t

Machine-Learning-Based Diagnostic Framework for Passive Ultrasonic Detection of Railway Wheel Defects

arXiv:2608.08301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable identification of railway wheel defects is important for safety and maintenance. This study develops a machine-learning-based diagnostic framew

MAGIC-SSCIL: Manifold Anchoring and Geometric Incremental Calibration for Semi-Supervised Class Incremental Learning

arXiv:2608.07586v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semi-supervised Class Incremental Learning (SSCIL) is a severe challenge for neural networks, and it is hardest in the exemplar-free setting where no pa

MARA: Flow-Matching-Guided Multi-Agent Resource Allocation for Computational Resource Efficient Learning

arXiv:2608.09130v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Allocating limited computation among concurrent learning tasks is difficult when each task must reach a target loss before a deadline but its required

Matching Supervision to the Student's Learning Capacity: A Unified Framework for On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2608.08176v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) improves the reasoning abilities of LLMs by internalizing privileged context into model parameters through self-disti

MedCalc-R1: Knowledge-Guided Reward Framework for Medical Mathematical Reasoning

arXiv:2608.08623v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) frameworks for mathematical reasoning tasks, floating-point results are typically evaluated usi

Metanormative Theory for RL-Based Moral Agents

arXiv:2608.08220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The overlapping disciplines of machine ethics and value alignment are concerned with designing artificial agents that are aligned with human values and