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Text-to-3D Policy: Fine-Grained Language-Behavior Alignment for Unseen Specification Generalization

arXiv:2609.39599v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D visuomotor policies provide a strong foundation for spatially precise manipulation, yet current text-to-3D policies struggle to follow unseen fine-

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The Missing Coefficients: Bayesian Pairwise Merging for Model Personalization

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arXiv:2609.39055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How can we personalize a shared expert library from a user's pairwise choices? Prior work can realize different reward trade-offs by merging reward-spec

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The Planning Limits of Latent World Models

arXiv:2609.39235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models offer a promising way to help robots understand how the physical world evolves and plan complex behaviours through imagination. Yet exist

Tool-Policy Co-Design for Powder Weighing in Laboratory Automation

arXiv:2609.39797v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous powder weighing is one of many bottlenecks in laboratory automation due to the complex, non-linear dynamics of heterogeneous materials. Robot

Towards Optimal Inventory Control under Censored Demand: A Biased Sample-Average Approximation Approach

arXiv:2609.39397v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study data-driven multi-period lost-sales inventory control under censored demand, where a stockout reveals only that demand exceeded the stocking

Towards Universal Wasserstein Barycenters through Flow Matching

arXiv:2609.38547v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Defining a weighted mean over probability measures under probability metrics is a central tool in probabilistic machine learning. Under the Wasserstei

Training-Free Affinity Fusion of Neural and Embedding-Based Speaker Diarization

arXiv:2609.39162v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speaker diarization systems based on speaker embeddings and neural diarization exploit complementary forms of speaker information, but their intermedi

Understanding Off- vs On-Policy Distillation: A Tale of Distinct Training Objectives

arXiv:2609.38666v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) learns from teacher feedback on student-generated responses and has shown promise in reducing forgetting relative to supe

Unveiling the Value of Motion for Cinematic Camera Trajectories

arXiv:2609.38683v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cinematic camera motion is a fundamental storytelling tool, defined not only by where the camera is positioned in the scene, but also by how it moves

VERA: Verifiable Feasibility Representations with Counterfactual Credit for Constrained Multi-Agent Control

arXiv:2609.38889v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Constrained multi-agent control requires more than predicting rewarding actions: an action can cease to be executable as contact windows, shared capacit

WEIRDO: WEak resIdual Regularized DOob's h-transform diffusion alignment

arXiv:2609.39531v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the problem of estimating the guidance that steers the distribution learned by a diffusion generative model toward a tilted target q_0 propto

What to Attend, What to Keep: Skill-Conditioned Visuotactile Representation with Progress-Guided Event Memory

arXiv:2609.38494v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic manipulation integrates vision, touch, and language, whose importance shifts across stages: vision guides reaching, while touch, through its e

When Clipping Reverses Correction: Failure Dynamics of Pointwise Forward-KL On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2609.38995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) trains a student on its own generated responses using feedback from the same model conditioned on privileged informat

When Instructions Retrieve Trajectories: Diagnosing and Mitigating Generalization Failures in VLA Models

arXiv:2609.39971v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models can exceed 90% success on in-distribution tasks and withstand nuisance changes that preserve the required action,

When Order Matters: First-Speaker Bias and Mitigation through Personality in Sequential Multi-Agent Debate

arXiv:2609.38964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent debate (MAD) is often used to improve large language model (LLM) reasoning, but sequential debate is rarely a neutral aggregator of agents'

Whose Voice Survives the Summary? A Voice-Retention Audit of LLM Employee Listening

arXiv:2609.38818v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Organizations increasingly route employee feedback to leaders through large language model (LLM) summaries, an unaudited layer that silences already-spo

World-as-Graph: Relational World Modeling Through Latent Space Graphs

arXiv:2609.38927v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models aim to learn representations of real-world environments and predict their future evolution. Recent object-centric world models have made

Zero-Compute Cross-Lingual Transferability Estimation Using Typological Feature Proxies

arXiv:2609.39640v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-lingual transfer describes how knowledge in a source language benefits a target language. Measuring it quantitatively requires broad multilingua

A Comprehensive View of Fairness through Distributional Stability

arXiv:2609.37061v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We view fairness as a property of distributional stability. Rather than assessing a predictor under a fixed data distribution, we study how its predic

A Spectral Theory of Distortion in LLM Graph Reconstruction: Sharp Bounds and Empirical Characterization

arXiv:2609.38161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluations of graph reconstruction by language models typically report a single aggregate distance between the original and the reconstructed graph. We

ABC: Advantage-Based Control Variates for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

arXiv:2609.36058v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has highlighted the effectiveness of simple critic-free policy-gradient methods

Achieving an O(1/N) Optimality Gap in Average-Reward Weakly-Coupled MDPs

arXiv:2609.38132v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study average-reward weakly-coupled Markov decision processes (WCMDPs), where a WCMDP consists of N smaller MDPs, called arms, that share multiple pe

Action Chunking Proximal Policy Optimization with Feedback Correction

arXiv:2609.36250v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Action chunking provides temporal abstraction in reinforcement learning by selecting short action sequences instead of individual actions, but many ex

AdaTutoRank: Learning to Rerank Document Sets via Adaptive Tutoring Optimization for RAG and Deep Research

arXiv:2609.32472v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Document rerankers determine what evidence reaches the downstream model in RAG and deep research, yet mainstream rerankers select by relevance match

Adversarial Training for Pixel Diffusion

arXiv:2609.38170v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pixel diffusion models generate RGB images directly, avoiding the bottleneck of an autoencoder, yet their outputs still systematically underrepresent fi

All You Need Is Low Fidelity: Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real of Learned Robotic Fish Control

arXiv:2609.36993v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Complex tasks for underwater robots remain limited by the capabilities of their controllers. Learning a better one for a soft, underactuated robotic fis

Altered Thoughts, Altered Actions: Reasoning Chain as Control Surface for a Vision-Language-Action Policy

arXiv:2603.12717v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language-action policies map camera images and natural-language instructions to a robot's motor actions. Some of these policies are des

An Empirical Study and Assessment of EU AI Act Compliance Checkers

arXiv:2609.36228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The EU AI Act introduces extensive compliance requirements for organizations that develop, deploy, or integrate AI systems. Many of these requirements a

Asymptotic Universal Alignment: A New Alignment Framework via Test-Time Scaling

arXiv:2601.08777v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Aligning large language models (LLMs) to serve users with heterogeneous and potentially conflicting preferences is a central challenge for per

Audience-Bound Persistent Memory: Authorization Across the Memory Lifecycle

arXiv:2609.36373v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A personal language agent that acts for its owner across private and shared conversations can learn a fact from one audience and later place it in the

Authority Bias in Language Models: Source Deference and User Agreement Are Not Interchangeable

arXiv:2609.37616v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models tend to agree with whatever a user asserts, and post-training increasingly targets this sycophancy so that models evaluate claims on t

Back2Struct: Making Structured Images Editable Again

arXiv:2609.37016v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured images, such as diagrams, charts, and flowcharts, are inherently symbolic and can be compactly represented in an editable format, yet in prac

BaLEEN: Biasing with Latent Encoded Entities for Context-Aware ASR

arXiv:2609.36913v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transcribing domain-specific entities and rare proper nouns remains a major challenge in automatic speech recognition (ASR). In this paper, we propose

Bathtubs, Boundaries, and Sandboxes: AI Regulatory Learning under Legal Uncertainty

arXiv:2601.04094v4 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Effective regulation of AI is a defining policy challenge, driven by their integration into all aspects of society. To remain responsive to their rapi

Battery-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Aggressive Quadrotor Flight

arXiv:2609.37316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agile flight tasks such as drone racing and pursuit-evasion require strong acceleration and precise turns, but the available thrust changes as the batte

BCNav: Bearing-Conditioned Depth Policies for Sound Source Navigation

arXiv:2609.37084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ability to navigate toward sound sources extends a robot's reach beyond its visual field, enabling response to auditory events in unknown environmen

Beyond Keywords: Leveraging Generative LLMs and Label Aggregation to Classify Economic Policy Uncertainty in News Articles

arXiv:2609.35856v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This research describes the adaptation of Large Language Models (LLMs) for economic monitoring in the public sector to automatically determine whether

Beyond Semantics: How Temporal Biases Shape Retrieval in Transformer and State-Space Models

arXiv:2510.22752v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In-context learning is governed by both temporal and semantic relationships, shaping how Large Language Models (LLMs) retrieve contextual info

Bias-variance decompositions: the exclusive privilege of Bregman divergences

arXiv:2501.18581v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Bias-variance decompositions are widely used to understand the generalization performance of machine learning models. While the squared error loss p

Binarization Flattens the Score Space

arXiv:2609.35797v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) judges are often used as rewards to train policies on objectives that deterministic verifiers cannot capture. However, thes

BlenDAgger: Blended Shared Control for Interactive Imitation Learning

arXiv:2609.37599v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot policies are frequently trained from human corrections, yet teleoperating a robot to provide corrections is burdensome, and human demonstrators ar

Boids of a Feather Flock Together - Evolving Prey Behaviours Under Different Predator Attack Strategies

arXiv:2609.37885v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flocking and schooling are thought to have evolved partly as defences against predation, but how prey should balance social and escape tendencies may

BRIDGE: Bilevel Retrieval-Credit-Aware Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.36505v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning (ARL) with verifiable rewards improves the ability of large language models (LLMs) to tackle knowledge-intensive tasks by

Bridging Semantic Gaps in RAG through Generated Context Knowledge Fusion

arXiv:2609.37171v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation has established itself as a fundamental framework in natural language processing, seamlessly integrating information retr

CAMEO: A Class-Activation-Mapped Equitable Overlay Framework for Fair and Robust Deep Learning-based Skin Condition Diagnosis

arXiv:2609.36400v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning classifiers for dermoscopic skin lesions often reach high in-distribution accuracy while quietly relying on spurious background cues suc

Can Representation Learning Decouple from Loss Minimization? Polar Updates Have an Answer

arXiv:2609.36240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Does representation learning stop when the training loss stops improving? We study this question for matrix Muon, whose polar-normalised updates have a

CHAIN: Calibrated LLM Forecasting via Causal-Temporal Hypergraph Inference

arXiv:2609.36689v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models have achieved significant progress in event forecasting, yet their probability outputs exhibit systematic calibration bias that

CHOQOLATE: Organizing Concept Bottleneck Latent Spaces with Choquet Integrals

arXiv:2609.37786v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) built on vision-language models such as CLIP represent a latent space as human-understandable concepts. These represent