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OPMD: On-Policy Mechanism Distillation Beyond Output Supervision

arXiv:2610.14022v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) improves language-model by supervising a student on prefixes sampled from its own policy, but its supervision remains confi

Optimal Online Regret for Context-Lumpable Bandits

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arXiv:2610.18258v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study stochastic contextual bandits with an unknown context-lumpable structure. The S contexts are partitioned into r blocks, and every arm has the s

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PA-LOCO: Learning Perturbation-Adaptive Locomotion for Quadruped Robots

arXiv:2407.04224v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Numerous locomotion controllers have been designed based on Reinforcement Learning (RL) to facilitate blind quadrupedal locomotion traversing challe

PaceReasoner: Label-Free Learning to Answer Briefly from Long Reasoning

arXiv:2610.17900v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Extended chain-of-thought reasoning improves problem-solving performance but increases inference cost and latency, motivating more accurate answers wi

PACT: Posture-Aligned Co-Design Technique for Hand Configuration and Retargeting in Multi-Finger Imitation Learning

arXiv:2610.18443v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The fidelity of teleoperated demonstrations used for imitation learning is determined by how faithfully a robot hand can replicate the operator's postur

PathLift: Depth-Conditioned Metric Lifting for Visual-Navigation Priors

arXiv:2610.16103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalist visual-navigation policies tell a robot which direction to go but not how far. A separate lifting step is needed at deployment to convert the

Phase-Conditioned Affordance Fields for SE(3)-Equivariant Visuomotor Policies

arXiv:2610.17281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: SE(3)-equivariance provides a useful geometric inductive bias for visuomotor policies, encoding that actions covary with rigid transformations of the ob

Phase-Gated Constrained Reinforcement Learning for End-to-End Capture and Detumbling of Non-Cooperative Targets

arXiv:2610.15491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active debris removal requires a servicer spacecraft to approach a non-cooperative tumbling object, capture it, and arrest its rotation. This sequence i

Physics Foundation Models for Efficient Control of Fluid Flows

arXiv:2610.15173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate whether a physics foundation model (PFM) pretrained for PDE forecasting can be repurposed for closed-loop fluid-flow control. We constr

PixARG: Pixel-Asynchronous Retrieval-Augmented Diffusion for Fast and Realistic Image Generation

arXiv:2610.14713v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While diffusion models achieve impressive image generation capabilities, they suffer from high computational costs, implausible artifacts, and limited a

PointWalker: Mapless Quadruped Locomotion Directly From Raw LiDAR Point Clouds

arXiv:2610.15548v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quadruped robots deployed for inspection and field missions must cross heterogeneous terrain, from stairs, slopes, and gaps to high platforms, stepping

Poisoned into Action: Context Attacks on Typed Decision Workflows

arXiv:2610.15537v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Typed decision interfaces restrict models to predefined actions, yet schema-valid choices can still trigger policy-violating state changes. Evaluating

Posterior-Averaged Bellman Flow Matching for Distributional Critics

arXiv:2610.17788v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distributional critics model the full return distribution, providing richer signals for exploration and risk-sensitive control. Recent work has shown th

Predict in Chunks, Revise in Spans: History-conditioned Action Regeneration for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2610.14864v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action chunking improves temporal coherence in visuomotor imitation learning by jointly predicting sequences of future actions. However, many existing p

PreSO: Privileged Representation Isolation for On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2610.14001v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) uses a self-teacher conditioned on privileged information to turn the sparse outcome signal of reinforcement learning

PRISM: Precision Forcing for Generalist Vision-Language-Action Policies

arXiv:2610.14704v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coupling a pretrained vision-language model (VLM) with a diffusion or flow-matching action expert has become the mainstream vision-language-action (VLA)

Probing the Geometry of Color Representations in Multilingual Language Models

arXiv:2610.18331v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Do multilingual language models learn a universal internal geometry for color, and is it perceptually grounded or primarily linguistic? We decompose c

Process Rewards for Outcome-Guided Reasoning Steps in LLM Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2604.02341v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mathematical reasoning in large language models has improved substantially with reinforcement learning using verifiable rewards, where final answers

Prompt Interference in LLM Post-Training: Why Pass@k Optimization Can Degrade Pass@1

arXiv:2602.21189v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Pass@k is a widely used performance metric for verifiable large language model tasks, including mathematical reasoning, code generation, and short-a

PrT-Flow: Probability-Tractable Flow Matching for Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.17667v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models and Flow Matching can represent flexible distributions over robot actions, but many reinforcement learning algorithms also require the

PTGPO: Prefix Tree Group Policy Optimization

arXiv:2610.14737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training language agents on long-horizon interactive tasks is challenging because sparse terminal rewards provide weak credit signals for intermediate a

[Re] Boosting the Visual Interpretability of CLIP via Adversarial Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2610.14832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a reproducibility study of ``Boosting the Visual Interpretability of CLIP via Adversarial Fine-Tuning'', published at ICLR 2025, whi

ReAP: From Visual Failure Recognition to Action-Conditioned Risk Prediction for Runtime Failure Monitoring

arXiv:2610.16309v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite rapid progress, generalist robot policies remain brittle during execution. Reliable deployment therefore requires runtime monitoring that provid

Recovering Low-Bit Failures in Vision-Language-Action Policies via Quantization-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.15675v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantization lowers deployment costs of vision-language-action (VLA) policies but can compromise task completion. Across five VLA models and 4,050 rea

Recursive self-improvement is one of the most discussed ideas in AI right now. RSI-Anything measures it in code repair, GUI agents, lab plan…

Recursive self-improvement is one of the most discussed ideas in AI right now. RSI-Anything measures it in code repair, GUI agents, lab planning, and chemistry. They find that the lab-planning score m

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Red-Teaming of Vision-Language-Action Models via Quality Diversity Environment Generation

arXiv:2610.14415v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A long-standing goal in robotics is to develop generalist robots that can perform tasks across a wide range of settings, flexibly specified with images

Redesigning Regularization for Effective Policy Smoothing

arXiv:2606.13169v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper proposes a novel regularization design to effectively smooth policy functions in reinforcement learning. While regularization that enhanc

REEL: Learning to Retrieve, Evaluate, and Evolve Visual Memory for Any Long-Horizon Multi-Shot Video Generation

arXiv:2610.16632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memory-based long-video generation aims to combine user control with long-range visual consistency. We organize this process into three functional compo

REFLEX: A Learned On-Board Reflex for Robust Autonomous Collision Recovery of Soft Quadrotors

arXiv:2610.15867v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collision-resilient airframes allow quadrotors to survive impacts, but do not ensure autonomous post-collision recovery. Innovation gating in stock onbo

Registration is a Representation Problem: Solving Whole-Body PET/CT Registration

arXiv:2610.18804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Raw image intensities are a poor surrogate for similarity across images in correspondence problems. Further, while auxiliary segmentation labels can pro

Reinforcement Learning Based Heterogeneous Task Allocation Under Spatio-Temporal Environmental Uncertainty for Multi-Robot Teams

arXiv:2610.15237v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs) have been increasingly deployed to perform different kinds of maritime tasks in recent years, which motivates the nee

Reinforcement Learning for Large-Scale Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding with Shared Spatial Fields

arXiv:2610.18186v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale applications of lifelong multi-agent path finding (LMAPF) call for computationally inexpensive movement decisions under changing traffic con

Reinforcement Learning from Real-Robot Interaction without High-Quality State Estimates

arXiv:2610.14042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A longstanding goal for robot reinforcement learning (RL) is that robots learn from their own physical experience, as humans and animals do. A key obsta

Reinforcement Learning with Hawkes-Structured Networks for Market Making

arXiv:2610.16524v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Market making under realistic order-flow dynamics is challenging due to the clustered, self-exciting nature of order arrivals, which are naturally model

Reliable Scale-Free Bandits via Empirical Likelihood

arXiv:2610.18055v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study stochastic bandits without knowledge of reward scales or tail parameters. Almost-sure regret guarantees describe eventual learning but do not

Representation Geometry and Inductive Biases in Quantum Classifiers across Classical Visual Benchmarks

arXiv:2610.17722v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum Machine Learning (QML) has a theoretical advantage over classical algorithms for specific synthetic data that is computationally hard. However

RePrior: Measurement-Reconciled Prior Correction for Sparse-View CBCT Reconstruction

arXiv:2610.14102v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse-view cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is severely under-constrained by limited X-ray projections. Learned reconstruction can provide comple

Residual Compliant Policy: Learning Compliant Policies from Few Demonstrations

arXiv:2610.14035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-rich manipulation requires a robot to be precise in free space to establish the intended contacts, and compliant once in contact to avoid excess

RESTA: Time-Scaling Augmentation for Data-Efficient Robot Imitation Learning

arXiv:2610.18163v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulation policies trained through imitation learning commonly rely on costly demonstrations recorded in one task direction and at one temporal

Rethinking Activation Functions: Reducing Bias Can Improve Learning

arXiv:2610.14500v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many widely used activation functions, including ReLU, GELU, Swish, and Sigmoid, produce predominantly positive outputs, resulting in a nonzero post-act

Rethinking Human Intent-to-CAD: Parametric CAD Model Generation via Cooperative Multi-Task Alignment and Spatial-Aware Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.15681v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parametric Computer-Aided-Design (CAD) modeling from human intent remains challenging, particularly during the conceptual design stage, where design goa

Rethinking Projector Training in Multimodal LLMs

arXiv:2610.18598v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal LLMs are typically trained by first aligning a vision encoder with a language model via projector training on large image-caption datasets, f

Revisiting Natural Language Prompts from Large Language Models for Open-Vocabulary Video Recognition

arXiv:2610.16666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have shown great success in image tasks, however, applying CLIP to open-vocabulary video recognition poses chall

Reward-Aligned Distillation

arXiv:2610.14572v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models, but remains computationally expensive and s

Risk-Averse Inference-Time Diffusion Model Alignment with Finite-Sample Guarantees

arXiv:2610.17579v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inference-time alignment steers diffusion models toward downstream objectives without costly fine-tuning, but existing methods typically optimize expe

RoboFQE: Rollout-Free Evaluation of Visual Robot Policies from Offline Trajectories

arXiv:2610.18699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating robot policies before deployment typically requires producing new trajectories through real-world execution, simulators, or learned world mod

SARATHI: Decoupled Data-Free Probing and Adaptive Reconstruction for Structured LLM Pruning

arXiv:2610.15514v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured pruning reduces the inference cost of large language models (LLMs) by permanently removing neurons and weight rows, yielding dense, hardware-

Scalable Multi-Human Cooperative Manipulation via Commander-Executor Coordination

arXiv:2610.14911v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-human cooperative object manipulation is a highly challenging topic in humanoid control. While existing methods can handle simple collaborative