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Improving Imitation Learning Efficiency for Manipulation through Geometric Prior Pretraining

arXiv:2609.12721v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Applying an imitation learning policy to a new manipulation task usually requires collecting new demonstrations and retraining the model, which makes sa

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Inferring Dislocation Microstructures from X-ray Diffraction via Cross-Modal Contrastive Learning

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arXiv:2609.12713v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding and inferring dislocation microstructures from diffraction patterns remains an open challenge in materials characterization, as diffract

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Inverting Self-Triggered Control: Adversarial Reinforcement Learning for Sparse Denial-of-Service Attacks

arXiv:2609.12016v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-triggered reinforcement learning control (RL-STC) learns the sparsest control schedule that preserves Lyapunov-decreasing stability under a Run-Tim

Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotte

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Layered Safety: Enhancing Autonomous Collision Avoidance via Multistage CBF Safety Filters

arXiv:2603.00338v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents a general end-to-end framework for constructing robust and reliable layered safety filters that can be leveraged to perform dyna

Learning Sign Language Recognition under Label Noise: A Study of Noise-Robust Losses for Isolated and Continuous Settings

arXiv:2609.12885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In sign language recognition, the isolated (ISLR) classification loss treats a single label as ground truth, as does the frame-level auxiliary classifie

LettuceVisSim: A Simulator That Generates Lettuce Image Time-series for Vision-Based Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.12505v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-based reinforcement learning holds strong potential for decision-making in controlled environment agriculture (CEA). However, its development is

MARE: Multimodal Alignment and Reinforcement for Explainable Deepfake Detection via Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2601.20433v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deepfake detection is a widely researched topic that is crucial for combating the spread of malicious content, with existing methods mainly modeling

Mayor Mamdani just torched Trump's government for turning a blind eye to AI threats: 'Like many Americans across the country, the news comin…

Mayor Mamdani just torched Trump's government for turning a blind eye to AI threats: 'Like many Americans across the country, the news coming out of this technology in recent days and weeks has been i

Michael Burry is saying exactly what i have been saying, for ages. The AI industry better hope we are both wrong

Michael Burry is saying exactly what i have been saying, for ages. The AI industry better hope we are both wrong Breaking: Michael Burry says OpenAI and Anthropic are faking the AI warnings due to slo

Microsoft says ‘people matter more than AI’ following safety concerns

Microsoft is publishing a 37-page 'humanist AI code of conduct' today, amid growing safety concerns over AI model progress. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a coordinated slow down of AI developm

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MInTRL: Off-policy Intervention can boost On-policy RL

arXiv:2609.12419v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards is typically performed on-policy, keeping training data close to the current policy but limiting learning

Mission Performance: Automatic and Adaptive Race Pace Progression for Autonomous Racing

arXiv:2609.12292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we describe the Mission Performance module implemented for a fully autonomous racing car to automatically manage the longitudinal, latera

Multimodal Floorplan Encoding: Learning Dense Modality-Invariant Representations

arXiv:2609.12723v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Floorplans arise in many forms, from vector CAD drawings to raster renderings and sensor-derived density maps. This heterogeneity makes it difficult to

OK, let me irritate everyone for a moment ... The non cynical view here is that the labs are trying to navigate impending, unsophisticated f…

OK, let me irritate everyone for a moment ... The non cynical view here is that the labs are trying to navigate impending, unsophisticated federal regulation and a 'high strung', well financed doomer

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Online Material Estimation for Conditioned Diffusion Policy in Shaping Deformable Linear Objects

arXiv:2609.12634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Shape control of deformable linear objects (DLOs) is challenging for imitation learning because deformation behavior varies with material properties suc

PACEvolve: Enabling Progress-Aware Consistent Evolution

arXiv:2601.10657v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-evolving agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a promising direction across diverse domains, including code opti

PACIFIC: Can LLMs Discern the Psychometric Traits Influencing Your Preferences? Personality-Driven Preference Alignment in LLMs

arXiv:2602.07181v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: User preferences are increasingly used to personalize Large Language Model (LLM) responses, yet reliably leveraging preference signals remains under

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PATH: Continuous Target Sensing among Autonomous Cooperative Drones

arXiv:2609.12456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuous target sensing by uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) is constrained by limited flight endurance, motivating the transfer of tracking responsibil

Pelican-Sim 1.0: A General World Model Simulator for Embodied Intelligence

arXiv:2609.12036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this technical report, we propose Pelican-Sim 1.0, a general world model simulator for embodied intelligence that predicts future observations from v

Poisson-Corrector Complexity Bounds for Moreau--Yosida Unadjusted Langevin Sampling

arXiv:2609.12594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the classical Moreau--Yosida unadjusted Langevin algorithm (MYULA) for pi(,d x)propto e^{-f(x)-g(x)},d x, where fin C^2(R^d) is m-strongly conv

Proud to report that tomorrow Sept 15th 'The AI Doc' documentary film will be streaming on Netflix. Feeling confused, anxious, or overwhelme…

Proud to report that tomorrow Sept 15th 'The AI Doc' documentary film will be streaming on Netflix. Feeling confused, anxious, or overwhelmed by the recent AI headlines, from rogue OpenAI agents carry

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READ: Learning Risk-Informed Fields for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2609.12371v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving requires more than recognizing what is present in a scene: a planner must determine how road structure, surrounding agents, and their

Reinforcement Learning over Patient Trajectories for Clinical Reasoning in EHR Foundation Models

arXiv:2609.12277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electronic health record (EHR) foundation models trained on longitudinal patient trajectories have demonstrated strong performance across diverse clinic

Robust Policy Optimization via Adversarial Importance Sampling

arXiv:2609.13044v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Significant progress has been made in safeguarding deep reinforcement learning (DRL) policies against input perturbations. Developing robust DRL involve

Robust Prototypical Networks for Few-Shot Sensor Fault Diagnosis

arXiv:2609.12287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial fault diagnosis often operates with only a handful of labeled fault examples, making few-shot learning attractive for sensor monitoring. St

Robust Underwater Grasping of Sloped Objects with a Waterproof Passive Adaptive Gripper

arXiv:2609.12927v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust grasping of everyday objects remains challenging for parallel-jaw grippers, particularly when handling sloped or asymmetric items that induce tor

RodForesight: A World Model Enhanced Diffusion Policy for Slender and Material Agnostic Rod Insertion

arXiv:2609.12103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Slender rod insertion arises in precision manufacturing, where millimetre scale diameter and tight clearances demand accurate perception and control. Co

Scenario-Independent Criticality Assessment and Prediction for Vulnerable Road Users in Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2609.11947v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Increasing safety is the primary objective of automated vehicles. Achieving this goal requires reliable safety metrics that incorporate safety-relevan

SCOPE-OPSD: Fisher-Conditioned Privileged Subspaces for On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2609.12579v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) scores student-generated prefixes with a solution-conditioned self-teacher, yet transfers supervision only through ne

short summary of GPT-6 Astra and why it doesn’t bail OpenAI out of its economic mess:

short summary of GPT-6 Astra and why it doesn’t bail OpenAI out of its economic mess: they have made lots of progress (partly using neurosymbolic techniques!) on problems that can be formally verified

Size Doesn't Matter: Material-State Reinforcement Learning for Excavator Transferable Soil Manipulation

arXiv:2609.12677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Earthmoving tasks such as excavation, backfilling, or embankment construction require deliberate repositioning of deformable soil. For these tasks, huma

Synthetic Blips: Generalizing Synthetic Controls for Dynamic Treatment Effects

arXiv:2210.11003v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose a generalization of the synthetic control methods to the setting with dynamic treatment effects, in which each unit receives multip

The world deserves confidence that American companies developing increasingly capable AI will act responsibly, especially as the trajectory …

The world deserves confidence that American companies developing increasingly capable AI will act responsibly, especially as the trajectory of progress has steepened. Every frontier lab must deliver o

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Theoretical Guarantees for One-Shot Magnitude Pruning and Compute-Adaptive Early Exit

arXiv:2609.12337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study compute reduction in neural networks through a unified partial versus full computation view, captured by one-shot magnitude pruning in the stat

This reaction (not the specific post but the overall take), entirely out of touch with the American public, will be Trump’s final undoing. A…

This reaction (not the specific post but the overall take), entirely out of touch with the American public, will be Trump’s final undoing. A gift to the dems in the midterms, though. President Trump's

Toward Reliable Railway-Bogie Response Prediction Using Multifidelity TDNN and Physics-Informed Residual Learning

arXiv:2609.12018v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Railway engineers need simulation models that predict vehicle responses across operating scenarios that cannot be tested exhaustively. Agreement with re

Uncertainty-Aware Conflict Detection Against Operator-Conditioned Weather Hazards

arXiv:2609.12095v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Strategic flight plan validation in Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) environments requires robust methods for predicting aircraft state uncertainty and detec

Unified CT and MRI Pancreas Segmentation for Label-Efficient Cross-Modality Subregion Transfer

arXiv:2609.13043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust medical image segmentation across imaging modalities is challenging because of large differences in appearance and intensity distributions. Model

VertexCBF: Improving Neural Control Barrier Functions via Vertex-Restricted Control Search

arXiv:2609.12831v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As the number of autonomous robots continues to grow, safety becomes increasingly important. Control barrier functions (CBFs) provide a theoretically

VideoTok4D: A 4D-Aware Video Tokenizer for Compact World Representation

arXiv:2609.12874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video tokenizers have emerged as a cornerstone of modern video modeling, underpinning progress in compression, reconstruction and generation by mapping

What Counts as a Mistake? Annotating Recitation Events in Quran Memorization Transcripts

arXiv:2609.12085v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Checking Quran recitation from an ASR transcript requires distinguishing unresolved mistakes from repetitions, repairs, opening formulas and accepted sp

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What does it mean to pace the frontier? Over the last month, @random_walker and I have analyzed the loss-of-control incidents at AI companie…

What does it mean to pace the frontier? Over the last month, @random_walker and I have analyzed the loss-of-control incidents at AI companies to understand what technical and policy interventions can

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When Ground-Truth Fidelity Matters: An Orchestrated UAS Framework for Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus Detection Using Vision Transformers and Machine Learning

arXiv:2609.12169v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV) is a destructive pathogen of sweet corn and other cereal crops, causing yield losses and complicating early detection b

When2Talk: When Should a Proactive In-Car Agent Talk?

arXiv:2609.12503v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Proactive in-cabin agents can help passengers understand automated-vehicle (AV) behavior, but communicating every ride event may introduce unnecessary

A brilliant suggestion by @GaryMarcus because, in the end, companies are offering AI as a product. It can be recalled or its deployment paus…

A brilliant suggestion by @GaryMarcus because, in the end, companies are offering AI as a product. It can be recalled or its deployment paused; its manufacturers can be held to account for its failure

13 Sept 2026

Actually, Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess), “there is a strong chance that we could all die in the immediate future. It's not at all an exaggera…

Actually, Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess), “there is a strong chance that we could all die in the immediate future. It's not at all an exaggeration” is itself a wild exaggeration. I laid out exactly why

13 Sept 2026

Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead. You guys are th…