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Marginal Calibration Does Not Compose: Hidden Dependence in Modular Robot Navigation

arXiv:2609.23731v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic systems are typically composed of multiple independently developed modules that work together to perceive, predict, and act in the environment

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Measuring Behavioural Signatures of Large Language Models through Psychometric Profiling

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arXiv:2609.22934v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly mediate human decisions and communication, yet their behavioural regularities remain difficult to characterize

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MIRA: Real-Time Full-Duplex Human-Robot Interaction for Embodied Companions

arXiv:2609.24547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time embodied companion interaction requires a robot to infer user intent from streaming speech, generate timely responses, and execute expressive,

Mira-Scene: Pixel-Aligned Layouts for Generative 3D Scene

arXiv:2609.23796v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Single-image 3D object generation can now produce high-fidelity assets, yet accurately placing them into a coherent scene layout remains an open challen

MixiMotion: One-Step Text-to-Motion Generation via Asymmetric Set Distillation

arXiv:2609.23010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Iterative text-to-motion generation delivers high-quality and semantically aligned motions but requires multiple network evaluations, resulting in subst

MotionJEPA: Preventing Temporal Feature Collapse by Capturing Visual Changes in Latent Space

arXiv:2609.23881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) are a promising paradigm for learning task-agnostic latent world models without visual reconstruction.

Multi-Agent Transportation of Free-Flyers in Microgravity Via Pushing Interaction Under Human-in-the-Loop Control

arXiv:2609.24376v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a safety-critical framework for the cooperative transportation of passive targets in microgravity, where a team of chaser robots acts through

Multilingual Safety Signals Are Multi-Layered: Filtering Safety-Degrading Data for Safer LLMs

arXiv:2609.22144v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Preserving safety alignment during large language models fine-tuning is critical, however, recent studies have demonstrated that even benign fine-tuning

Multiple latent orderings better predict language model preferences

arXiv:2609.22170v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models are frequently employed in settings where they are asked to make value judgments and choices. These observed choices often exhibit int

🚨NEW: @JTLonsdale & @SquawkCNBC clash on AI and wealth inequality. Joe Lonsdale: 2030s is the disinflation decade... we're all going to be …

🚨NEW: @JTLonsdale & @SquawkCNBC clash on AI and wealth inequality. Joe Lonsdale: 2030s is the disinflation decade... we're all going to be really wealthy if we don't break this. Joe Kernen: Everybody'

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Object-Centric Conditioning for Visuomotor Flow Matching

arXiv:2609.24155v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot visuomotor policies are commonly formulated as autoregressive, diffusion-based, or more recently, flow matching models. Among them, Action-to-Acti

Observing and Controlling Features in Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2603.05487v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) have shown remarkable progress towards embodied intelligence. While their architecture partially resembles that

On Policy Stochasticity in Mutual Information Optimal Control of Linear Systems

arXiv:2507.21543v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mutual information regularization has recently been studied in reinforcement learning (RL) as an extension of entropy regularization, in which

On the Efficiency-Safety Dilemma in Large Reasoning Models

arXiv:2609.23587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large reasoning models (LRMs) incur high inference costs, often mitigated by efficiency techniques like quantization and pruning. However, the impact of

One to More, More to One: Category-Aware Iterative Expert Training for Software Engineering Agents

arXiv:2609.23377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Repository-level software engineering (SWE) comprises heterogeneous task categories, whose progress under pooled agentic reinforcement learning can be

OpenAI says it plans to let third-party groups conduct technical safety evaluations of its AI models during the training, evaluation, and deployment phases (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI says it plans to let third-party groups conduct technical safety evaluations of its AI models during the training, evaluation, and deployment phases — OpenAI plans to l

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Opt2VLA: Force-Aware Vision-Language-Action for Contact-Rich Humanoid Whole-Body Manipulation

arXiv:2609.23968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots are expected to perform diverse human-level tasks in daily environments, many of which require precise regulation of interaction forces.

Optimal No-Regret Learning for Repeated Prophet Inequality

arXiv:2609.23265v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study repeated prophet inequalities under prefix feedback. In each of T rounds, a learner encounters fresh values drawn independently from n boxes wi

Optimal Sample Complexity of Stable Discounted Markov Decision Processes

arXiv:2302.07477v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study the optimal sample complexity of tabular reinforcement learning for infinite-horizon discounted Markov decision processes. The unrestricted

Overlay_dx - Automating forecasting evaluation

arXiv:2609.24586v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional evaluation metrics provides numerical values but often lack comprehensibility, hindering effective differentiation of model performances. Ou

PADiff: Predictive and Adaptive Diffusion Policies for Ad Hoc Teamwork

arXiv:2511.07260v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Ad hoc teamwork (AHT) requires agents to collaborate with previously unseen teammates, which is crucial for many real-world applications. The

Performance-Preserving Online Adaptation in Social Navigation via Diffusion Steering

arXiv:2609.24317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In social navigation, modeling the complex interactions between humans and robots is difficult, and deep reinforcement learning has therefore been activ

Perplexity Cost Understates What Activation Quantisation Breaks

arXiv:2609.23125v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation quantisation is usually evaluated with an aggregate metric, perplexity, averaged over every token a model predicts. We ask whether that avera

Personalized Federated Reinforcement Learning via Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning: Convergence of Exact and Hessian-Free Meta-Policy Gradients

arXiv:2609.22833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study personalized federated reinforcement learning, in which n agents, each acting in its own Markov decision process, collaborate through a server

PhysReflect: Geometry and Perception Guided Diffusion for Physically-Plausible Mirror Reflections

arXiv:2609.23442v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models generate high-quality images, yet often violate the physical laws governing mirror reflections. Reflections often suffer from geometric

PredActor: Predictive Action Diffusion for Steerable Onboard Humanoid Control

arXiv:2609.24840v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion models offer flexible motion generation, but translating this flexibility into feedback-responsive humanoid control remains challenging. Hie

Predictors and Orchestrators: Parsimonious Machine Learning within an Agentic AI Harness for Multi-Horizon Karst Aquifer Forecasting

arXiv:2609.22251v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forecasting karst aquifer dynamics is difficult because recharge responses are nonlinear, event-driven, and governed by strongly heterogeneous flow path

Prescriptive SVD-Inspired Attention via Spectral Energy Retention

arXiv:2609.24370v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-attention is central to modern Transformer architectures, but its dense dot-product formulation makes it difficult to identify which internal dir

PRIMO: Prior-Informed Odometry from Human-Motion Tracking for Humanoid Robots

arXiv:2609.23610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation-trained humanoid proprioceptive odometry faces two transfer challenges: training trajectories generated by specific robot control policies in

Prioritized Rollouts for Efficient World Model-based Vision-Language-Action Policy Optimization

arXiv:2609.22879v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for embodied intelligence, but fine-tuning them with reinforcement learning (RL)

PRISM-RAG: Multimodal Hypergraph Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Tobacco Product and Legislative Policy Reasoning

arXiv:2609.23769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The disambiguation of semantically similar statutory text across jurisdictions is a retrieval problem that existing methods do not solve. This inter-con

Probabilistic Scene Graphs: Hierarchical Representation and Real-time System

arXiv:2609.23144v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D scene graphs provide semantically rich and hierarchical representations for robot perception. However, existing systems do not maintain uncertainty a

PROSE: A Theory of Optimal Stopping with Perishable Evidence for Peer Selection in Intermittently Connected Decentralised Learning

arXiv:2609.23845v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decentralised federated learning removes the aggregation server but makes collaboration dependent on transient peer availability. In mobile and intermit

Rapidly-Iterating Grid-Based Near-Optimal Kinodynamic Motion Planning

arXiv:2609.22733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper develops the Rapidly-iterating kinoDynamic Grid (RDG) algorithm, an asymptotically near-optimal kinodynamic motion planning algorithm that pr

Receding-Horizon Pushing with Composable Object-Centric Policies

arXiv:2609.23439v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-prehensile manipulation is practical for relocating large, heavy, or geometrically ungraspable objects. Yet, long-horizon pushing of arbitrarily-sha

Reflective Policy Optimization

arXiv:2406.03678v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: On-policy reinforcement learning methods, like Trust Region Policy Optimization (TRPO) and Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), often demand extensiv

Reinforcement Learning Inspired Black-box Adversarial Attacks for Computer Vision

arXiv:2609.24249v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural networks, both convolution or transformer based, are essential for modern computer vision systems. However, they are vulnerable to small pertur

Reinforcement Learning under State and Outcome Uncertainty: A Foundational Distributional Perspective

arXiv:2609.24103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In many real-world planning tasks, agents must tackle uncertainty about the environment's state and variability in the outcomes of any chosen policy. We

Reinforcement learning with an expectile-based objective

arXiv:2602.09300v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We consider the policy evaluation and control in a finite horizon reinforcement learning (RL) setting under an expectile-based objective. First, we

ReSTI: A Source-Grounded Audit and Repair of STI-Bench

arXiv:2609.24727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial--temporal benchmarks are valid only when their questions, source annotations, and answer options identify the same physical quantity. We audit S

Rethinking Pivot Programming Languages in Code Language Models

arXiv:2609.22988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multilingual code language models transfer skills across programming languages (PLs), but whether any PL occupies a privileged pivot position remains co

ReVeal: A Reconstruction-Aware Real-to-Sim Framework for VLA Policy Evaluation

arXiv:2609.23910v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation-based evaluation provides a scalable and repeatable alternative to real-world evaluation of vision-language-action (VLA) policies. However, r

Riemannian Density-Driven Optimal Control: Tangent-Space LQR for Second-Order Multi-Agent Systems on Curved Manifolds

arXiv:2609.22678v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Density-Driven Optimal Control (D2OC) provides an effective framework for steering multi-agent systems toward prescribed spatial distributions. Howeve

RLVR^{2}: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rubric-based Ranking

arXiv:2609.23457v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) is expanding from tasks with well-defined correctness signals, such as mathematics and code, towar

Robot World Models Are Not Invariant to How the Actions Are Written

arXiv:2609.23252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A robot policy is trained with one of two action parameterizations: absolute joint targets, or deltas relative to the current state. The choice is a l

Robust Market Making with Hawkes Order Flow and Price Impact via Adversarial Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.22785v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Market-making strategies in real limit order book markets face substantial model uncertainty and regime-shift risk. Existing adversarial reinforcement l

RSPDBench: Benchmarking Vision Foundation Models on Earth Observation Tasks Under Physically Grounded Remote-Sensing Product Degradations

arXiv:2609.23427v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision foundation models targeting Earth observation (EO) tasks are commonly evaluated on clean downstream benchmarks, but operational EO products can a

Safe Learning for Contact-Rich Robot Tasks: A Survey from Classical Learning-Based Methods to Safe Foundation Models

arXiv:2512.11908v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Contact-rich tasks pose significant challenges for robotic systems due to inherent uncertainty, complex dynamics, and the high risk of damage during