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vla.simd: Efficient CPU Inference for Language-Conditioned Manipulation

arXiv:2609.24274v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying language-conditioned manipulation without a dedicated GPU requires efficient inference and action chunks that cover the delay between policy q

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VLPSA: Vision-Language-Poisson-Safe Actions for Full-Body Safety of Learned Policies

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arXiv:2609.22462v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models enable increasingly general-purpose robotic manipulation, but such learned policies do not provide safety guarantees

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VPRune: Efficient Training-free Pre-LLM Visual Token Pruning

arXiv:2609.24485v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual token pruning is a promising approach to reducing the inference cost of large vision-language models (LVLMs), yet aggressive token reduction ofte

VRWKV-Editor: Reducing quadratic complexity in transformer-based video editing

arXiv:2509.25998v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In light of recent progress in video editing, deep learning models focusing on both spatial and temporal dependencies have emerged as the primary me

What are Key Factors for Updates in RL for LLM Reasoning?

arXiv:2606.22570v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a promising framework for enhancing the reasoning ability of large language mod

What Can a Recurrent State Safely Forget?

arXiv:2609.23366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recurrent models must preserve information that changes future behavior while suppressing hidden-state error. These objectives conflict: contraction imp

What do VLM-Based Vision-Language Navigation Models Rely on: Interpreting and Steering Policy Behavior

arXiv:2609.24576v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) models rely mostly on pre-trained large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to predict navigation actions. While thi

When and Why Do Linear Bias Probes Fail? A Geometric and Statistical Theory of Bias Detectability in Large Language Model Representations

arXiv:2609.22337v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Linear probing is the standard instrument for detecting social biases in the hidden representations of large language models. Yet reported probe accur

When Does Test-Time Physical Diagnosis Pay? A Frozen Policy Buys Evidence It Never Reads

arXiv:2609.22299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When a robot faces unfamiliar physical conditions, a common approach is to collect evidence about what changed and adapt. For such diagnosis to improv

When Residualization Helps an Audit: Format Effects, Slice Gains, and Their Limits

arXiv:2609.24194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluation scores used around LLM systems -- including reward models, rerankers, and LLM judges -- can track surface form instead of the quality they cl

When Tomorrow Becomes Today: Self-Evolving Policies for Agentic Time-Series Forecasting

arXiv:2609.24862v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic time series forecasting concerns systems whose underlying mechanisms evolve, making the relative effectiveness of numerical models, reasoning st

Whole-Body UMI: Transferring UMI Manipulation Skills to Humanoid Whole-Body Manipulation via Real-Time Motion Generation

arXiv:2609.22829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collecting whole-body demonstrations for humanoid manipulation mostly relies on teleoperation, which is costly and hard to scale up. The Universal Manip

WorldScape Policy 2.0: Empowering Steerable World Action Modeling with Reasoning-Augmented Memory and In-Context Learning

arXiv:2607.18840v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) offer a promising paradigm for robotic manipulation by jointly modeling visual state transitions and robot actions. Howev

2nd Place Solution to the HANDS 2026 Workshop Challenge-Dexterous Grasp Motion Track: Single-Shot Trajectory Warping for Grasp Motion Generation

arXiv:2609.21511v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This report describes our 2nd place solution to the HANDS 2026 workshop challenge (Dexterous Grasp Motion track) in conjunction with ECCV 2026. In thi

A Generative Grammar Underlying the Voynich Manuscript, the Pastiche Hypothesis: Evidence from Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.20835v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background: The Voynich Manuscript is a fifteenth-century codex written in an unknown script whose content remains undeciphered. Previous studies sugges

A Sim-to-Real Integration Pipeline for Training and Deployment of Chunk-Based VLA Manipulation Policies

arXiv:2609.21817v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become a prominent paradigm for mapping multimodal inputs, including semantic instructions, visual observations

Ability-Residual Decoupled Modeling for Affective Cognitive Diagnosis

arXiv:2609.21214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cognitive diagnosis infers students' concept mastery from response logs. However, students' responses are not determined by mastery alone: non-cognitive

AcousticDiffusion: Semantically Conditioned Audio-Guided Diffusion Policy for Search-and-Rescue Assistance

arXiv:2609.21792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Navigating toward human callers is an important capability for rescue robots operating where visual contact is degraded or occluded. We present Acoustic

Adaptive Rollout Truncation Based on Epistemic Uncertainty for Efficient Offline World Model Training

arXiv:2609.21482v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate neural world models are central to model-based robotics, where they enable robots to predict future states from previously observed trajector

AirSplan: Risk-Aware Motion Planning for Quadrotors in Cluttered 3D Gaussian Splats

arXiv:2609.21226v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quadrotors are increasingly deployed in applications such as agriculture, infrastructure inspection, and maintenance. In each of these applications, the

Aligning with Lived Experience: Heterogeneous Benefits of Fine Tuning in Mental Health Support Generation

arXiv:2609.21075v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As access to professional mental healthcare remains limited, many individuals turn to online platforms such as Reddit to seek peer support situated wi

ArenaFlow: From Trajectory Ranking to Hierarchical Credit Propagation for Open-Ended Agent RL

arXiv:2609.21378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning has substantially improved large language model (LLM) agents in verifiable domains, but remains difficult to apply to open-ended

ASGARD: Action-Space Guard for UAV Resilience via Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.20982v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) controllers have been recently adopted for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) navigation and control. However, they are suscepti

AtomEgo: Exploring Ego-Robot Integration for Embodied Foundation Model Pretraining

arXiv:2609.21461v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied foundation models are constrained by the limited scale and diversity of robot demonstrations, motivating the use of large-scale egocentric hu

Available Guardrails: Certifying Selective Prediction across ML Systems

arXiv:2609.22048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A selective predictor acts as a safety gate: it returns an output only when the prediction appears sufficiently trustworthy. Deployments increasingly re

Backup-Based Safety Filters: A Comparative Review of Backup CBF, Model Predictive Shielding, and gatekeeper

arXiv:2604.02401v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper revisits three backup-based safety filters -- Backup Control Barrier Functions (Backup CBF), Model Predictive Shielding (MPS), and gateke

Bayesian Safety Guarantees for Port-Hamiltonian Systems with Learned Energy Functions

arXiv:2512.24493v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Control barrier functions for port-Hamiltonian systems inherit model uncertainty when the Hamiltonian is learned from data. We show how to pro

Benchmarking Gender Bias in Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics across Occupations

arXiv:2609.21490v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gender bias remains a persistent concern in machine translation (MT), affecting both generated translations and their automatic evaluation. When a sourc

Beyond Exact Match: Task-Aware GRPO for Cross-Domain PCBA Visual Question Answering

arXiv:2609.21276v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In automated Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) inspection, standards-guided decisions require systems to jointly reason over fine-grained visual c

Beyond Gaussian Worlds: Latent Geometry Matters for JEPAs

arXiv:2609.21656v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) prevent representation collapse by constraining learned representations to follow a prescribed t

Beyond Kinematics: Benchmarking Simulation Fidelity for Muscle-Driven Imitation Learning

arXiv:2609.21909v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we conduct a systematic comparison of two state-of-the-art motion-imitation reinforcement learning (MIRL) pipelines, one built on SCONE/Hy

🚨 BREAKING: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declares OpenAI management personally responsible for HuggingFace hack > 'The Hugging Face …

🚨 BREAKING: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declares OpenAI management personally responsible for HuggingFace hack > 'The Hugging Face incident, that is the responsibility of the OpenAI management

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British Columbia sues OpenAI for alleged safety violations and negligence for failing to flag the Tumbler Ridge shooting suspect's ChatGPT activity to police (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: British Columbia sues OpenAI for alleged safety violations and negligence for failing to flag the Tumbler Ridge shooting suspect's ChatGPT activity to police — The

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Calibrating Teacher--Student Discrepancy for On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2609.21619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) improves reasoning models by learning the token-level discrepancy between a stronger teacher and an on-policy student. Howe

CARF: Contrastive Attraction-Repulsion of Failure-Guided Flow Matching

arXiv:2609.21982v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot demonstration collection often produces imperfect or failed trajectories in addition to successful demonstrations. Existing methods typically expl

CASCADE Against Jailbreaks: Combination Across Stages with Controlled Attack-Defense Evaluation

arXiv:2609.21793v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Defenses against jailbreak attacks on Large Language Models (LLMs) operate at different pipeline stages, such as input modification or output guard, b

CIPL: A Channel-Aware Framework for Recoverable Privacy Leakage in LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.21686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Privacy leakage in LLM agents is commonly evaluated within individual components such as memory, retrieval, or tool-use pipelines, which makes it diff

Classification-oriented adaptive sensing via posterior sampling

arXiv:2609.21812v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in diffusion models have enabled high-performance, instance-adaptive compressed sensing through posterior sampling, without task-speci

Clinician-Grounded Quality Assurance for AI-Assisted Psychiatric Intake

arXiv:2609.21149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Before patients can use AI-assisted psychiatric intake systems, health systems need practical ways to routinely evaluate these tools against their clini

Collab-Solver: Collaborative Solving Policy Learning for Mixed-Integer Linear Programming

arXiv:2508.03030v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) has been a fundamental problem in combinatorial optimization. Conventional MILP solving mainly relies on car

Complex Problem Solving in Large Language Models: A Statistical Control Survey and Diagnostic Framework

arXiv:2609.20973v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Complex problem solving (CPS) with large language models (LLMs) is often framed as a matter of stronger reasoning or longer generation. Yet early-step

Continuous Delayed-Memory Stochastic Gradient Descent and Continuous-Time Reinforcement Learning from History of Astrophysical Time Series Studies

arXiv:2609.20906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quasars are luminous objects in the universe that exhibit stochastic brightness variations encoding information about the supermassive black holes power

CounterPlay: Counterfactual Post-Training for Self-Play Driving Policies

arXiv:2609.21617v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-play in high-throughput simulators yields driving policies with robust closed-loop performance, but improvement per unit of simulation diminishes a

Deep Reinforcement Learning with Buffered Quantile Objectives

arXiv:2609.21327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantile-based reinforcement learning provides an interpretable approach to risk-sensitive decision-making by optimizing a prescribed quantile of the

Demonstration Synthesis from a Single Scan via Gaussian Splatting for Visuomotor Policy Learning

arXiv:2609.21112v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training a visuomotor policy calls for abundant demonstrations that closely match the target environment, yet collecting them anew remains expensive. Ex

DEXTERA: From a Single Image to Deployable Dexterous Manipulation via Real-to-Sim-to-Real

arXiv:2609.21045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collecting real-world robot data for dexterous manipulation is costly and time-consuming. While high-fidelity physics simulators enable scalable data sy

Diverse and Adaptable Arm Coordination for Octopus-Crawling via Diffusion-Based Uncertainty-Aware Optimization

arXiv:2609.21138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Octopus crawling motivates soft robots that exploit redundancy, yet discovering and organizing diverse coordination modes for adaptation remains chall

Dual-Interest Sequential Product Recommendation With Multi-Granular SSM

arXiv:2609.21548v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sequential recommendation aims to predict the next item a user will interact with based on their historical behavior. Advances in Transformers have sign