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Are We Really Doing Few-Shot Learning? A Critical Examination of Pre-Training Assumptions

arXiv:2609.10851v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Few-shot learning is commonly evaluated under protocols that pre-train a model on a large auxiliary set whose classes are disjoint from the target episo

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As far as I can tell Gavin Baker is just making stuff up. Few if any of the people who left OpenAI for similar reasons ever came back. Not @…

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As far as I can tell Gavin Baker is just making stuff up. Few if any of the people who left OpenAI for similar reasons ever came back. Not @DKokotajlo @sjgadler @Miles_Brundage @ilyasut @suchirbalaji,

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AUC Maximization from Biased Positive-unlabeled Data with Confidence

arXiv:2609.10928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Maximizing the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) is a standard approach to imbalanced binary classification. Although positiv

Beyond Noise Steering: Dual-Latent Space Reinforcement Learning for Generative Robot Policy

arXiv:2609.11270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained generative robot policies learn expressive action priors from demonstrations. However, existing reinforcement learning methods only steer the

Beyond Surface Imitation: Contrastive Modeling for Reasoning Path Alignment in Multimodal In-Context Learning

arXiv:2609.10177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-context learning (ICL) is widely used in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) and achieves strong performance across a wide range of multimodal t

BodyCam-VQA: Enhanced Body-Worn Camera Video Captioning via Multimodal Reasoning and Probe Question Generation

arXiv:2609.10815v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Police body-worn camera (BWC) footage has emerged as a critical aspect of law enforcement that ensures legal transparency, officer accountability, and

Brain-PACE: A Deep Siamese MRI Framework for Modelling Longitudinal Brain Acceleration

arXiv:2609.11378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Brain age estimation has become a popular research proxy for assessing brain health and disease, yet longitudinal trajectories of brain ageing are still

CAP: Continuously Adaptive Perception-Blind Humanoid Locomotion via Learned Denoising

arXiv:2609.11553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid locomotion across complex terrain demands forward-looking exteroception to anticipate obstacles, yet this signal is unreliable in real-world de

Chess, go, and math are highly constrained, purely cognitive that allow exact simulation for games (and formal verification for math), and n…

Chess, go, and math are highly constrained, purely cognitive that allow exact simulation for games (and formal verification for math), and not in the open-ended physical world. As I have been arguing

Context operations to architecture modelling output from large language models and evaluation criteria for their use in systems engineering design

arXiv:2609.10132v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The development of generative artificial intelligence resources enables opportunities of speeding up systems and engineering design work. This contrib

Distributed Optimization of Modular Production Systems using Model-based Reinforcement Learning with Inverse Models

arXiv:2609.11615v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach for data-driven self-learning control of highly flexible, modular manufacturing systems. Specifically, we employ

Do Agents Know When They Succeed? Calibrating Agent Confidence from Internal Representations

arXiv:2609.09448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As agentic systems getting adopted rapidly in safety critical applications, it is vital to measure the confidence associated with the agentic actions. I

Do Vision-Language Models Understand Visual Persuasiveness? A Diagnosis via Visual Persuasive Factors

arXiv:2511.17036v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual persuasion uses images to shape cognition, emotion, and behavior, with its effects depending on both visual attributes and semantic context.

Dynamic language model representations for multi-objective reaction optimisation

arXiv:2609.11790v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optimising chemical reactions across multiple objectives, such as yield, selectivity, and safety, is central to chemical synthesis, and model-driven app

Employees leaving Anthropic: I am terrified that 8 billion people are going to die, which is why I propose a light-touch regulatory approach…

In September 2026, Zack Korman tweeted that employees were leaving Anthropic while he voiced fear that unchecked AI could jeopardize the lives of “8 billion people.” He argued for a light‑touch regula

Evaluation of Vision-Language Models Across Diverse Coastal Environments

arXiv:2609.10855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) enable robotic per- ception by associating visual observations with natural-language concepts. Yet their performance in co

Evidence for Limited Metacognition in LLMs

arXiv:2509.21545v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The possibility of LLM self-awareness and even sentience is gaining increasing public attention and has major safety and policy implications, but th

Feeling sad about AI

My comment on Feeling sad about AI — Hacker News.I'm not sure how useful it is to say this, but I think a lot of people (myself included, a few years ago now) have been through this moment of existent

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Fisher-Rao Gradient Flows of Linear Programs and State-Action Natural Policy Gradients

arXiv:2403.19448v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Kakade's natural policy gradient method has been studied extensively in recent years, showing linear convergence with and without regularizati

From Connectivity to Rewards: Dense Reward Learning with Directed State Graphs

arXiv:2609.10781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of graphs with Goal-Conditioned Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (GCHRL) has received increasing attention, as graphs naturally encod

From Protocols to Evidence: Bounded Claims for AI in Service of the Common Good

arXiv:2609.11910v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial Intelligence does more than create a governance problem. It can also reveal where institutions have already failed to provide responsiveness,

@GaryMarcus @SethCronin Pynchon's 1984 warning from his pro-Luddite essay: 'If our world survives, the next great challenge to watch out for…

@GaryMarcus @SethCronin Pynchon's 1984 warning from his pro-Luddite essay: 'If our world survives, the next great challenge to watch out for will come – you heard it here first – when the curves of re

Harness Robotic OS: A Unified Embodied-Agent Runtime for Closed-Loop Quadruped Inspection

arXiv:2609.11225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous property inspection requires more than robust robot navigation: a deployable system must connect heterogeneous sensing, reusable autonomy cap

I don't agree with Gary very often, but that one's spot on. When you read what's available on the incident with a lens of security engineeri…

I don't agree with Gary very often, but that one's spot on. When you read what's available on the incident with a lens of security engineering, you should be absolutely *livid* over the exploit route.

Improving the Sensitivity of Gravitational Wave Detection with Weighted Conformal Prediction

arXiv:2609.11401v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In the last decade, kilometre-scale interferometric gravitational-wave detectors have observed hundreds of compact binary mergers, the majority of whi

Incentives to Offer Algorithmic Recourse

arXiv:2301.12884v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Algorithmic recourse promises to help applicants rejected by automated systems by explaining the changes needed to secure acceptance. What inc

INDRA: A New AI Tool for Exploring Tobacco, Fossil Fuel, and Chemical Industry Archives

arXiv:2609.11261v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Five decades of litigation have disgorged hundreds of millions of pages of formerly secret business records from the tobacco industry, along with docu

Language-Augmented Semantic Priors for B-Spline Surface Fitting

arXiv:2609.11708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The use of B-splines and Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines surfaces constitutes the mathematical foundation of contemporary computer-aided design (CAD) sys

Learning Agent-based Model Predictive Control for Holistic Vehicle Performance

arXiv:2609.11871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent-based model predictive control (AMPC) has recently been proposed as a distributed scheme that collaborates with all agents to achieve optimal holi

Learning Interaction between Image and Layout Priors for Joint Image-Layout Generation in Design Templates

arXiv:2609.11519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we address the problem of graphic design template creation, which generates a background image and a layout of foreground elements over t

LTLDiff: Finite Linear Temporal Logic-Guided Data Generation and Diffusion Policies for Multi-agent Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2609.11043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent robotic manipulation tasks require coordination among agents to satisfy task-level temporal, logical, and safety constraints. Recently, diff

Memory as Plans: World-Action Modeling with Memory-Grounded Planning

arXiv:2609.11561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mainstream robotic policies often adopt a Markovian formulation, but many complex real-world manipulation tasks are inherently non-Markovian, requiring

MOONWALK: Mediating Operations with Intent-Evidence-Action Alignment Across Junior-Supervisor Review Workflows in Animation/VFX Pre-Production

arXiv:2609.10385v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Animation and VFX pre-production review requires teams to translate loosely specified creative intent--briefs, evolving specifications, heterogeneous

more safety tips from OpenAI (free version perhaps?)

Gary Marcus posted a tweet about additional safety tips that may apply to the free version of OpenAI’s model. Responding user @bfgcracka noted that ChatGPT seemed to be “moving backwards” and asked if

Morphology-Aware Human Motion Retargeting for Wheeled-Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

arXiv:2609.11357v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-to-humanoid retargeting has largely been studied on legged platforms, while comparatively few wheeled-humanoid systems support coupled locomotion

MUtE: A Dual Framework for Concept Erasure and Counterfactual Interventions

arXiv:2609.11253v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Erasing concept-specific information from representations has been proven useful for mitigating bias or interpreting model decisions. The joint object

Near-optimal estimates for the ell^p-Lipschitz constants of deep random ReLU neural networks

arXiv:2506.19695v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper studies the ell^p-Lipschitz constants of ReLU neural networks Phi: R^d o R with random parameters for p in [1,infty]. The distribut

Negative Self-Distillation: Learning to Reason by Avoiding Flaws

arXiv:2609.11699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD) has emerged as a popular paradigm for large language model (LLM) self-improvement, allowing models to act as their ow

ObstaDiff: Generalizable Diffusion Policy Learning via Obstacle-aware Representations

arXiv:2609.10918v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Imitation learning has achieved impressive results in robotic manipulation, yet most existing approaches assume clean backgrounds and lack explicit me

On the Societal Impact of Machine Learning

arXiv:2510.23693v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This PhD thesis investigates the societal impact of machine learning (ML). ML increasingly informs consequential decisions and recommendations, sign

Order-Aware 2.5D Multiple Instance Learning for Preoperative MRI-Based Perineural Invasion Risk Assessment in Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma

arXiv:2609.11271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Perineural invasion (PNI) is an adverse histopathologic marker in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC), but it is usually confirmed only after resectio

PEARL: A Task-Aware Framework for Evaluating Differentially Private Synthetic Educational Data

arXiv:2609.10612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Personalized learning systems rely on real learner data, including performance, behavior, and demographic information, but these data are highly priva

Procedural Memory Under Change: Reuse and Interference in Controlled Web Tasks

arXiv:2609.09774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Procedural memory lets language agents reuse successful routines, but reuse presumes that a stored routine remains applicable. We study what happens whe

Quantifying Logical Consistency in Transformers via Query-Key Alignment

arXiv:2502.17017v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in various natural language processing tasks, yet their ability to perform multi

Reflex-Informed Neuromuscular Reinforcement Learning for Muscle-Driven Locomotion

arXiv:2609.11733v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Muscle-driven locomotion provides a physically grounded approach to generating realistic human movement. However, achieving both physiological plausib

Reinforcement Learning with Temporal-Logic-Based Causal Diagrams

arXiv:2306.13732v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study a class of reinforcement learning (RL) tasks where the objective of the agent is to accomplish temporally extended goals. In this setting,

Rethinking Radiomap Blind Prediction with Limited Environment and Configuration Representations

arXiv:2609.11255v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Radiomap blind prediction infers radiomaps from observable representations of the propagation environment and base station (BS) configuration without

“right now, AI companies are underinvesting in safety” might prove to be the understatement of the century.

“right now, AI companies are underinvesting in safety” might prove to be the understatement of the century. I left Anthropic's safety team two weeks ago. Now feels like a good moment to explain why. A