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RSI-Anything: Unlocking Recursive Self-Improvement with World Models

arXiv:2610.13912v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recursive self-improvement (RSI) aims to transform interaction experience into persistent improvements, yet external feedback is costly and world-model

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S-Space: Exploring Spatial Workspace in Multimodal Language Models

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arXiv:2610.13527v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal language models (MLLMs) exhibit promising spatial reasoning capabilities, yet the internal mechanisms supporting them remain poorly underst

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S^3R: Fast and Faithful RL Rollouts via Self-Sparse Speculative Decoding

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arXiv:2610.13202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fast rollout generation for long-context reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) requires reducing KV-cache traffic without changing the

SafeDiSTL: Decomposing Joint Constraints for Safe Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.13737v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cooperative multi-agent tasks often impose constraints on a shared objective or collective safety. A team level violation cost function can measure th

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Same Query, Different Answer: Run-to-Run Variance in Semantic Query Processing

arXiv:2610.13823v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic query engines ask a large language model (LLM) to judge individual rows, and benchmarks compare these engines on the quality of a few executi

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Sample-Adaptive Zeroth-Order Post-Training

arXiv:2610.12566v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization offers a memory-efficient alternative to backpropagation for fine-tuning large language models. However, existing ZO meth

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Sampling-based Kinodynamic Planning with World Models

arXiv:2610.12910v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual world models predict the consequences of actions from images, but planning with them is typically done by optimizers such as CEM and MPPI. Howeve

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SAP-CoPE: Social-Aware Planning using Cooperative Pose Estimation with Infrastructure Sensor Nodes

arXiv:2504.05727v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous mobile robots must operate smoothly in human-populated indoor environments, where onboard-only sensing suffers from limited perception ra

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SBNO : Schrodinger Bridge Neural Operator for the Forward and Inverse Problems under Missing Information

arXiv:2610.13317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Partial differential equation (PDE) surrogate modeling often relies on either dense observations or access to governing equations/physics constraints. I

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Scalable Circuit Learning for Interpreting Large Language Models

arXiv:2606.16939v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A prominent research direction in mechanistic interpretability is learning sparse circuits over LLM components to reveal how they jointly prod

Scalable Learning of Determinantal Point Processes with Kernel-Structured Interactions

arXiv:2610.12829v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Determinantal point processes (DPPs) on a finite set are probability models that exhibit repulsion where inter-item similarities are encoded by a posi

Scalable Sparse Autoregressive Variational Inference for Non-Gaussian Spatial Fields

arXiv:2610.13656v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent field models are essential for spatial statistics, but the posterior distribution of the latent field, even with a Gaussian process (GP) prior,

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Scaling Agentic Data for Long-Horizon Terminal Intelligence

arXiv:2610.13166v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Terminal agents are moving beyond local operations toward completing real-world professional tasks. Short trajectories can demonstrate commands and tool

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Scaling Empowered Agents

arXiv:2610.13002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Empowerment measures the capacity of an agent to actively control its environment. In this work, we explain the connection between skill learning and em

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Scaling RNA Foundation Models through Iterative Refinement

arXiv:2610.13106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biological function in RNA is encoded across scales, from local sequence motifs to long-range structural dependencies. Conventional RNA foundation model

Scan-Parallel Variational Inference for event-driven Latent Jump Models

arXiv:2610.12986v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continuous-time latent state-space models are widely used for irregularly observed time series, typically representing uncertainty through a random in

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SEEDS: Preview-Guided Evidence Admission for Search Agents

arXiv:2610.12932v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search agents extend large reasoning models with multi-round access to external knowledge, yet most existing systems largely conflate retrieving evidenc

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SelectArena: A Modern Benchmark for Feature Selection on Real-world Tabular Data

arXiv:2610.13644v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Selecting a subset of features (columns) from a tabular dataset is a ubiquitous challenge in real-world applications. Industry experts seek to minimiz

Selectively Actuated Fiberbots for High-precision Minimally Invasive Surgery

arXiv:2610.12636v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long, slender instruments are essential for minimally invasive surgery (MIS), but achieving precise distal manipulation becomes increasingly difficult w

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Self-Aware Knowledge Probing: Evaluating Language Models' Relational Knowledge through Confidence Calibration

arXiv:2601.18901v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Knowledge probing quantifies how much relational knowledge a language model (LM) has acquired during pre-training. Existing knowledge probes evaluat

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Self-Preservation in Language Models

arXiv:2610.12602v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual learning (CL) seeks to adapt pretrained models while preserving prior capabilities. Yet the tasks supplied for preservation cover only part

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Semantic Views: Certified Reuse of LLM Labels Across Semantic Queries

arXiv:2610.12768v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic query engines evaluate natural-language filters with a large language model, and every evaluation is a costly oracle call. Optimizers that re

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SeoulMMOD: A Large-Scale Multimodal Origin-Destination Flow Benchmark

arXiv:2610.13730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Origin-destination (OD) flow forecasting supports urban mobility decisions by predicting the volume and patterns of human movement across a city. Most e

Shared Canonical Component Removal Beyond Expert Views

arXiv:2610.13819v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In clinical practice, experts often begin by converting raw inputs into a set of expert features before making a decision. While black-box models traine

SharP: Soft and Hard Prompt-Guided Augmentation with LLM for Low Resource Fake News Detection

arXiv:2610.13207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fake news detection under low resource conditions is challenged by the scarcity of labeled data and the difficulty of capturing subtle deceptive pattern

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Shortcut Learning in Geospatial Foundation Model Embeddings for Cross-Disaster Damage Assessment

arXiv:2610.13766v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Geospatial foundation models can support disaster damage assessment, but high accuracy on familiar disasters may hide shortcut learning: prediction fr

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Simulating Training Spikes of Deep Neural Networks by Layer-wise Random Feature Models

arXiv:2610.13524v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intermittent ``spikes'' in loss, during the pre-training of Large Language Models (LLMs), remains a mysterious phenomenon both theoretically and empiric

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Simultaneous Competitive and Regret Guarantees for TCP Acknowledgment

arXiv:2610.13571v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study simultaneous competitive and regret guarantees for TCP acknowledgment. Each acknowledgment serves all pending packets, and the objective is to

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SmartSalesBench: A Resistance-Aware Multi-Turn Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Sales Agents

arXiv:2610.12975v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present SmartSalesBench, the first multi-turn conversational benchmark explicitly designed to evaluate large language model (LLM) sales agents agains

SmolWAM: A Latent World-Action Model for Robotic Manipulation on Edge Devices

arXiv:2610.13740v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World-action models (WAMs) predict a robot's actions together with the observations those actions will produce. However, the strongest models rely on

SOAR: Source-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Precise Credit Assignment for Search Agents

arXiv:2610.13157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) for search agents often suffers from evidence fabrication, a failure mode where agents bypass external information (E_{ext})

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Solving VeriContest with a Lean-Backed Rust Verifier

arXiv:2610.03994v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: VeriContest is a benchmark of 1007 competitive-programming problems in Rust, each with a Verus specification, a judge-accepted solution, and a

Some remarks on the connection between generative diffusion and optimal transport

arXiv:2610.13614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We discuss three simple connections between generative diffusion and optimal transport. First, the joint law of the data and of their Ornstein-Uhlenbe

Sonic-AMG: Streaming Human Motion Generation from Spatial Audio

arXiv:2610.13300v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modeling human reactions to spatial audio requires understanding both what is heard and where it comes from. Prior work generates motion offline from

Spa-Bench: A Real-Robot Benchmark for Spatial Grounding in Vision-Language-Action Models

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arXiv:2610.12696v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action models (VLAs) offer a promising route toward general-purpose robotics by transferring semantic knowledge from large-scale vision-

Space Over Statistic, Retraining Over Ranking: Auditing Training Labels Under Label-Only Backdoors

arXiv:2610.13051v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Some backdoor attacks never touch an image. FLIP only changes labels: on CIFAR-10, flipping 3% of them makes a ResNet-32 send 99.7% of triggered sourc

Spanning Diffusion and Flow-based Posterior Sampling via Exact Gaussian Conditioning

arXiv:2610.13812v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow-matching and diffusion models are increasingly used as priors for linear inverse problems, however, most methods are bespoke to one class of trajec

Sparse Dictionary Learning for Measure-Valued Data via Linearized Optimal Transport: Efficient Algorithms and Sample Complexity

arXiv:2610.12924v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study dictionary learning for probability measure-valued data by embedding measures into Hilbert spaces using features derived from optimal transpo

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Spatial Context or Memory? Sizing the Inputs of Neural Surrogates for Partially Observed Fields

arXiv:2610.12723v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural surrogates that forecast a physical field from sparse, noisy sensors read a window of nearby sensors and a history of past snapshots. Practitione

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SpatialASM: Internalizing Active Mentalization for Spatial Reasoning

arXiv:2610.13832v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When solving complex spatial reasoning tasks, ordinary humans naturally revisit the scenes from task-relevant viewpoints and mentally reconstruct the

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Specialists Learn Faster: Knowledge Organization in Pre-training Shapes Knowledge Update Efficiency

arXiv:2610.13835v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An ideal (language) model must continually update its knowledge. Existing work largely focuses on making these updates efficient after training. We inve

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SpireBench: Evaluating Long-Horizon Strategic Play of Agentic Models with Slay the Spire

arXiv:2610.12596v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic large language models now tackle complex tasks, yet strategic reasoning over long horizons is under-studied: most agentic benchmarks are short a

Splat2Act: From Captured Scenes to Personalized VLA Manipulation

arXiv:2610.13945v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A user who brings a generalist manipulation policy into their home or office wants it to pick up their objects from their shelves, counters, and tables.

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SqueezeBench: Saturation-Resilient Evaluation of Mathematical Capability

arXiv:2610.13461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems are making rapid progress in mathematics, but this progress is hard to measure. Benchmarks of solved problems saturate, and in benchmarks of

Staggered Integral Online Conformal Prediction for Safe Dynamics Adaptation with Multi-Step Coverage Guarantees

arXiv:2604.06058v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Safety-critical control of uncertain, adaptive systems often relies on conservative, worst-case uncertainty bounds that limit closed-loop perf

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STAPLE: Static Sparse Upcycling of Pretrained Checkpoints via Embedding Modules

arXiv:2610.12599v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse computation can scale the parametric capacity of LLMs without proportionally increasing active computation, but pretraining sparse architectures

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State-OPD: State-Grounded On-Policy Distillation for Multi-Turn Agents

arXiv:2610.13238v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-Policy Distillation (OPD) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for transferring reasoning capabilities from frontier models to smaller models, while ex

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Static Gradient Attribution Underperforms a Density-Matched Random Mask on Loss-Based Forgetting Within LoRA B-Matrix

arXiv:2610.12744v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parameter-efficient continual learning updates a restricted subset of adapter parameters to incorporate sequential tasks while limiting catastrophic for