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The Gold in Bias: Maturing the AI Design Process through Verification

arXiv:2609.29730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bias in AI systems is typically framed as a flaw to be minimized, yet it also serves as a critical indicator of underlying weaknesses in data, modeling

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The Impossible Trinity of Time-Series Validation: A Conservation Law among Training Sufficiency, Test Coverage, and Temporal Causality

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arXiv:2609.29530v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Validating a model on a time series asks for three things at once: each training run should use most of the sample (sufficiency), the test sets should t

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The Sequential Price of Continual Learning

arXiv:2609.29674v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sequential task updates are fundamental to continual learning, but their recency bias can impose a lasting performance cost. We study this cost in an

To Think or Not to Think: Allocating Reasoning Where It Helps

arXiv:2609.29664v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has proven effective in enhancing the reasoning performance of large language models (LLMs), particularly in complex mathema

TRACE: Interactive Bi-Directional Tracing of Monochrome Cables Amid Clutter

arXiv:2609.29103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate state estimation (tracing) of Deformable Linear Objects (DLOs) such as cables is a critical challenge for data centers, manufacturing, construc

Training-free Behavior Cloning

arXiv:2609.30134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural behavior cloning compresses demonstrations into large models, making individual actions difficult to trace and policy updates costly. Retrieval p

Transcript-Supervised Post-Training of Generative Speech Enhancement on Real Recordings via Reinforce Adjoint Matching

arXiv:2609.29405v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We adapt Reinforce Adjoint Matching (RAM), a reward-based post-training method, to generative speech enhancement (SE). Starting from a pretrained SE m

TTLab at AlexandriaX-2026: A Fine-Tuned Surface Tagger for Arabic Machine-Translation Error-Span Detection and Classification

arXiv:2609.29633v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present TTLab's submission to the AlexandriaX-2026 Subtask~3 on Arabic MT error span detection and classification. Our system frames the task as to

Unlock 3x QPS and microsecond latency with Memorystore for Valkey 9.1

At Google Cloud, we are committed to delivering the best managed experience backed by open source software. Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Memorystore for Valkey 9.1, which achiev

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UpDown-SC: Gravity-Canonicalized Dual-Envelope Scan Context for Indoor LiDAR Place Recognition

arXiv:2609.29118v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LiDAR place recognition is a key front end for loop closure and global relocalization, yet indoor retrieval remains difficult when attitude or sensor mo

Vector Bellman Theory for Multichain Robust Average-Reward Markov Decision Processes

arXiv:2609.28792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust average-reward Markov decision processes provide a fundamental framework for long-term performance optimization under uncertainty, and can have o

When Agents Act Unwatched: The Reduced-Supervision Paradox in Agentic AI

arXiv:2609.29547v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic AI is sold on a simple promise: the system keeps acting when the user stops watching. That promise creates an accountability inversion. As ste

When Honesty is Not Enough in AI Debate

arXiv:2609.29189v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scalable oversight aims to verify the behaviour of agents whose capabilities exceed those of their overseers. AI debate has been proposed as an oversigh

When Misalignment Becomes Supervision: Structured Label Noise in Supervised Synthetic CT Generation

arXiv:2609.29387v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Supervised synthetic CT (sCT) generation is commonly trained and evaluated as voxel-wise regression against registered reference CT images. In practice,

Where Does Exactly-Once Live? Model, Harness, and Tool-Contract Effects on Duplicate Side Effects in LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.29095v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When a tool-using agent's write times out or returns a server error, the action may already have taken effect. Retrying blindly duplicates it -- a sec

World Action Agent: Harnessing VLMs for Robot Manipulation via World Action Rehearsal

arXiv:2609.29964v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General-purpose vision-language models (VLMs) bring broad knowledge and spatial reasoning to robot manipulation, yet existing systems either use them

WTAF - in literally the last hour, three new distinct insane OpenAI stories just broke: 1. OpenAI said they notified 'dozens of third partie…

WTAF - in literally the last hour, three new distinct insane OpenAI stories just broke: 1. OpenAI said they notified 'dozens of third parties' in safety and security incidents (likely similar to what

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1. fully agree w @JeffLadish that AI companies aren’t ready to handle superintelligent AI. 2. OpenAI hasn’t even handled the current breed o…

1. fully agree w @JeffLadish that AI companies aren’t ready to handle superintelligent AI. 2. OpenAI hasn’t even handled the current breed of agents (far from superintelligent) well. 3. the US governm

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AeRSoM: An Aerial Rigid-Soft Integrated Manipulator for Contact-Rich Manipulation

arXiv:2609.28044v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-rich aerial manipulation remains fundamentally challenging because interaction forces are directly transmitted to the aerial platform, often lea

AI-Driven Neural Surrogates for In Silico Design of Cognitive-Affective Neuromodulation Targets

arXiv:2609.27729v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In neuropsychiatry, the primary goal is often not only to decode brain activity but to change it, for example to lessen a negative affective bias or a

'AI Is Turning Too Human': How Teenagers Experience and Negotiate AI in Everyday Life

arXiv:2609.27824v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative AI is rapidly entering adolescents' everyday lives during a critical period of cognitive, social and emotional development. Yet its adoption

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Alignment of LRMs via Counter-Aligned Few-Shot Conversation Exposure

arXiv:2609.27763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) rely on explicit chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning and large context windows to achieve strong performance on complex tasks

AlloyDB delivers PostgreSQL for agents: Real-time data at agent scale, with full workload isolation

Enterprises rely on mission-critical operational databases where performance slowdowns simply aren’t an option. Yet when even a few agents execute dense reasoning loops, the unpredictable surge in que

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Artificial intelligence surrogates for treatment effect estimation with before-and-after data

arXiv:2609.27180v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Estimating the causal effects of medical treatments is difficult when clinically important outcomes are costly to measure or require long follow-up. S

AWM-VLA: AlignedWorld Modeling for Efficient and Explainable Vision-Language-Action Policies

arXiv:2609.27753v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have become a powerful paradigm for generalist robotic manipulation, yet they are often reactive: the policy maps th

Banana Kick: Response-Informed Skill Evolution for Humanoid Soccer

arXiv:2609.27269v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid kicking requires coordinated whole-body motion and precise contact, while a banana kick demands contact mechanics that generate ball spin and a

BEE: Intervention-Adaptive Real-World Reinforcement Learning with Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2609.27450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models handle long-horizon manipulation, yet success hinges on a few precision-critical phases where millimeter-scale err

Behavior-Aligned Action Tokenization for Robot Policy Learning

arXiv:2609.27513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive robot policies learn continuous control by predicting discrete action tokens from observations. Different tasks often share local motions

Beyond Information Seeking: Severity-Aware Question Supervision for Proactive Medical Dialogue

arXiv:2608.24521v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Proactive medical dialogue requires an agent to decide what to ask from incomplete patient information. Existing information-seeking approaches comm

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Beyond Unsafe Detection: Counterfactually Anchored Evidence Attribution for Multi-Turn LLM Safety Failures

arXiv:2609.27773v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) move from conversational assistants to advanced agentic systems, guardrail failures can convert adversarial intents in

BrickCraft-Duo: Efficient Dual-Arm Skill Learning and Refinement for Compositional Long-Horizon Assembly

arXiv:2609.28281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interlocking brick assembly provides a representative testbed for evaluating real-world robotic manipulation capabilities, where diverse structural desi

CasCVS-Net: A Staged Multi-Task Cascade for Critical View of Safety Assessment

arXiv:2609.27681v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated assessment of the Critical View of Safety (CVS) in laparoscopic cholecystectomy requires both recognition of the three CVS criteria and anatom

CAST: Context- and Anomaly Structure-Conditioned Time Series Anomaly Generation

arXiv:2609.27825v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Anomalous time series play a critical role in safety-critical domains, yet they are inherently scarce, heterogeneous, and costly to obtain. Existing tim

Cigarette companies approach Marlboro Man to create internal standards (to avoid the imposition of government standards).

Cigarette companies approach Marlboro Man to create internal standards (to avoid the imposition of government standards). Andddd we're back to it. The new standards body Google, OpenAI & Anthropic are

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Compliant AI Infrastructure for Regulated Finance: A tiered multi-agent framework with DLT audit trails for financial operations in DACH

arXiv:2609.27632v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a compliance-first architecture for AI in regulated finance that treats regulation as an orientation layer rather than a deterministic rule

Consequential Behaviour and Representational Fairness in the Validation of Synthetic Research

arXiv:2609.27690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Researchers in industry and academia use synthetic survey respondents powered by large language models as substitutes for human samples. These synthetic

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Controlled Attribute-Specific Summarization of Interrogative Dialogues

arXiv:2609.28004v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Effective summarization of interrogative dialogues is a critical task in forensic and investigative settings, requiring high factual accuracy, coheren

COPE: Continual Personalization of LLMs under Sparse User Feedback via User Embeddings and Self-Evaluation

arXiv:2609.26853v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable results across various benchmarks, their alignment with normative values often results in

CRISP: Compositional Relations as Invariant Structural Priors for Domain Generalization

arXiv:2605.06043v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Domain generalization requires identifying stable representations that support reliable classification across domains. Domains may differ in low-lev

Cross-Modal Contrastive Learning from Histopathology and CT for Automated Renal Cell Carcinoma Grading

arXiv:2609.26920v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) exhibits substantial clinical heterogeneity, and accurate grade assessment is essential for risk s

CS-WCP: Robust Conformal Sets for LLM-Judge Traffic Shifts with Uncertain Group Proportions

arXiv:2609.27955v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prediction sets built from an LLM judge can undercover when deployment traffic changes the prevalence of task or policy groups. Weighted conformal predi

Curriculum Learning with GNN-based Reinforcement Learning for Job Shop Scheduling

arXiv:2609.28085v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The job shop scheduling problem is a challenging combinatorial optimization problem, and recent reinforcement learning approaches using graph neural n

DAVIS: A Depth-Only End-to-End Active-Vision Framework for Humanoid Soccer Skills

arXiv:2609.28175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid soccer contact skills require more than producing high-impact foot-ball contacts: the robot must close the loop over perception, approach, alig

DCRL: Decoupling and Coupling Reinforcement Learning via Policy-Reward Manifold Alignment

arXiv:2609.27572v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a key paradigm for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, existing

Diff-RF: Mutually Reinforced Image Registration and Fusion via Degradation-Aware Learning

arXiv:2609.28235v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image registration and fusion aim to establish spatial correspondences from misaligned multi-modal source images, and integrate complementary informatio

Discrete optimal transport is a strong audio adversarial attack

arXiv:2509.14959v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we investigate discrete optimal transport (DOT) as a black-box attack against modern automatic speaker verification (ASV) and a

Dissecting Advantage-Guided Post-Training for Vision-Language-Action Policies

arXiv:2609.28161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advantage-guided reinforcement learning provides a practical way to post-train vision-language-action (VLA) policies using limited robot data. However,

Distillation for Efficient Multitask Manipulation Policies via Conditional Flow Matching

arXiv:2609.28107v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advances in generative modeling have recently been extensively employed in robotics for policy learning. In particular, Conditional Flow Matching (CFM