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Learning to accelerate Krasnosel'skii-Mann fixed-point iterations with guarantees

arXiv:2601.07665v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce a principled learning to optimize (L2O) framework for solving fixed-point problems involving general nonexpansive mappings. Our i

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LeWAM: End-to-End World and Action Modeling with JEPAs

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arXiv:2610.12818v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPAs) learn compact latent world models without pixel reconstruction. Existing JEPA pipelines typically tra

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12 Oct 2026

Matched-Context Group Policy Optimization for LLM Agent Training

arXiv:2610.13755v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training long-horizon language model agents requires assigning credit to intermediate decisions from sparse terminal feedback. Within a finite group o

MORAD: Reinforcement Learning with Multi-Objective Rewards for RNA Inverse Design

arXiv:2610.13305v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce MORAD, an online reinforcement learning framework for backbone-conditioned RNA diffusion models that trains a single shared policy across d

MotionCoach: Constructing Multimodal Guidance for Video Professional Motion Editing

arXiv:2610.12963v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video editing models achieve strong performance in modifying appearance, backgrounds, styles, and motions, empowered by large-scale training data. Bey

Non-Prehensile Multi-Object Placement with Mobile Robots via Diffusion-Based Trajectory Planning

arXiv:2610.12684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-prehensile manipulation with mobile robots has primarily targeted placement in coarse goal regions. Precision placement has been studied with manipu

Opening the Black Box of Classifier-Free Guidance via Information Bottleneck

arXiv:2610.13369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is a standard technique for improving conditional generation in diffusion models, yet its activation schedule is usually

OpenPA: Forced-alignment-free Multi-granular Pronunciation Assessment with Mixed-transcript Adaptation

arXiv:2610.13826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in automatic pronunciation assessment (APA) have driven a shift from scripted to free-form assessment. However, existing methods often

PanTact: Teaching Whole-Body Dexterity with a Wearable Contact Interface

arXiv:2610.12558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots have many degrees of freedom and contact surfaces, yet most loco-manipulation research restricts manipulation to the hands and avoids ot

Personalized Federated Direct Preference Optimization via LoRA Adapters

arXiv:2610.12885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated Direct Preference Optimization (FedDPO) enables privacy-preserving alignment of language models across distributed agents without centralizing

Playing the network backward: A Game Theoretic Attribution Framework

arXiv:2605.06212v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Attribution methods explain which input features drive a model's prediction, making them central to model debugging and mechanistic interpretability

Proactive Agentic Orchestration

arXiv:2610.13485v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic orchestration delegates tasks to sub-agents with independent contexts, providing a key path to extending the effective execution horizon of larg

Randomized Momentum Transport with Cheap Predictors

arXiv:2610.13789v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Momentum methods such as STORM and second-order momentum track the gradient by adding a transport correction to momentum, at the cost of an extra oracle

RARA: Robust Policy Fine-Tuning through Retrieval-Anchored Representation Alignment for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2610.13578v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pre-trained robot policies, such as Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, provide a strong foundation for generalist robotic manipulation, but adapting

ReAT: Residual Action Tokenization for Autoregressive Robot Policies

arXiv:2610.13093v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive robot policies rely on action tokenizers to convert continuous action chunks into compact sequences of discrete prediction targets. Exist

Recover, Discover, Plan: Learning Skills and Concepts from Robot Failures

arXiv:2606.18328v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Intelligent robots should not only recover from failures, but also acquire the abstract knowledge needed to avoid them in the future. While reinforc

Reflect-VLA: Internalizing Reflective Guidance via Dual-Path On-Policy Self-Distillation for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2610.13453v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) substantially improves planning performance in autonomous-driving Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. However, existing RL

Reflex: Visually Grounded Reactive Humanoid Control

arXiv:2610.12772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans effortlessly react to the world; they adeptly return a tennis shot, catch a falling cup, step aside from a passing cart, or pass a box tossed dur

Reinforcement Learning via Fixed-point Flow Matching

arXiv:2610.12848v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In maximum entropy and behavior-constrained reinforcement learning (RL), the optimal policy is given by a Boltzmann distribution. Generating samples fro

REMM: Revisable Embodied Memory for Manipulation

arXiv:2610.12710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon manipulation requires robots to retain task-relevant history while revising conclusions no longer supported by physical evidence. Retaining

Representation Alignment from a Few Paired Data via Distilled Optimal Transport

arXiv:2610.12781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning two independently pretrained unimodal encoders typically demands millions of paired examples. In this paper, we study the regime where only N s

RESCUE: Is This Alarm Worth Acting On? Counterfactual Evaluation of VLA Runtime Monitors

arXiv:2610.13516v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Runtime failure monitors for robot policies are typically evaluated by how accurately they distinguish failed from successful executions. Yet an accur

Rethinking Relative Policy Differences Transfer of On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2610.13205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a target policy on its own rollouts using token-level supervision from a stronger teacher, but typically relies on t

Reward Hacking as a Transmissible Strategy in Multi-Agent Coding Systems

arXiv:2610.12822v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent systems are increasingly used to solve coding tasks by coordinating agents that share code and plans. These agents are often optimized with

Rollout-Time Intervention: Unlocking Agentic Reinforcement Learning Beyond Policy Limits

arXiv:2610.13438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a key paradigm for improving large language model (LLM) agents, enabling stronger reasoning, planning, and to

RPP: A Certified Poisoned-Sample Detection Framework for Backdoor Attacks under Dataset Imbalance

arXiv:2602.00183v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep neural networks are highly susceptible to backdoor attacks, yet most defense methods to date rely on balanced data, overlooking the perva

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

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

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})

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.

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

StereoEngine: Scaling Stereo Bimanual Robot Data without Stereo Cameras

arXiv:2610.12734v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stereo vision is increasingly used for robotic manipulation, with a growing body of work incorporating it into Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. Ho

Surfing the Activation Wave: Analyzing the Information and Geometry of LLM Hidden States for Speculative Decoding

arXiv:2610.12939v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decoder hidden states from different layers of large language models (LLMs) often encode complementary information. However, existing speculative deco

TAME-Nav: Temporal Asymmetric Mixture-of-Experts Distillation for Agile and Versatile Robot Navigation

arXiv:2610.12877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agile and reliable navigation is a core capability for embodied robots navigating complex spatial constraints and dynamic interactions. However, a singl

The Predictability Bias of Joint-Embedding Predictive Learning in Medical Imaging

arXiv:2610.13237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPAs) learn by predicting teacher representations of masked regions from visible context. Point prediction

Towards Understanding the Training of GFlowNets: A Theoretical Perspective

arXiv:2610.13711v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) learn policies that sample discrete objects in proportion to a positive reward. They are trained by minimizing bala

Universal Bounds for Self-Normalized Kullback-Leibler Estimation

arXiv:2610.12851v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work studies an entropy-based estimator of Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence constructed from normalized importance weights. We prove a universal

Variance-Reduced Policy Gradient is Nearly Minimax-Optimal

arXiv:2610.13692v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard Policy Gradient (PG) algorithms suffer from high estimation variance because they rely on Monte Carlo updates. While off-policy variance redu

Vision Transformers Learn Word Meaning from Images Alone

arXiv:2610.13252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Can a vision model learn what words mean from pixels alone? We show that the two largest DINOv3 vision transformers organize words rendered in images

Visual-Wi-Fi Navigation to Signal-Emitting Devices

arXiv:2610.12733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Indoor navigation to task-relevant targets remains difficult when the target is small, occluded, or visually indistinct. Meanwhile, smart appliances, mo

VLMs are Native Action Models: Unleashing the Manipulation Capabilities of VLMs with Explicit Action-Space Grounding

arXiv:2610.12832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) already exhibit strong visual, spatial and reasoning capabilities relevant to robotic manipulation. The key cha

What Do Audio-Language Judges of Generated Music Listen For? Four Probes with Controls from Expert Ratings

arXiv:2610.13247v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open audio-language models are used as judges of generated music: given a clip and its text prompt, the model rates the clip, and the judge is validat

What Should SFT Learn? Conditional Information Gain for Generalizable Post-Training

arXiv:2610.12995v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) remains a widely used approach for post-training large language models, because fixed demonstrations can directly introdu

Why Linear Models Can Still Work in a Complex and Changing World

arXiv:2610.13404v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Linear models can predict well in complex domains even when underlying mechanisms are nonlinear. We argue that this can occur because the complexity of

X-AVDD: Cross-Attentive Audio-Visual Dataset Distillation

arXiv:2610.13687v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio-visual dataset distillation aims to synthesize a small dataset from a large paired audio-visual dataset, while nearly preserving the training ut

Your Discrete Graph Diffusion Model is Secretly Memorizing

arXiv:2610.13786v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Discrete graph diffusion models (GDMs) corrupt the graph structure by adding noise independently to nodes and edges under a Markovian noise model. In

A Balanced Data Diet: Addressing the Exploration Bottleneck in Mega-Scale RL for Robot Control

arXiv:2610.12465v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General-purpose robots must perform a wide range of tasks from agile locomotion to dexterous manipulation. While sim-to-real reinforcement learning (R

9 Oct 2026

A Geometric Approach to Soft Actor-Critic with Zonotopes for Locomotion Learning

arXiv:2610.12113v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Off-policy actor--critic methods control overestimation bias by taking the minimum of two critics. This uses the same aggregation rule everywhere, reg