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FLOORA: A Human-Aligned Domain-Specific Language Model for Architectural Design

arXiv:2609.36064v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models are powerful generators, but many engineering domains require structured representations that general-purpose systems handle poorly.

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FlowMap-OPD: Rollout--Kernel Separation for On-Policy Distillation of Few-Step Flow-Map Generators

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arXiv:2609.37851v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Few-step flow-map generators, including MeanFlow and consistency models, enable efficient sampling through long-range transport, yet their on-policy dis

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FOCUS: Training-Free Decision-Preserving Context Compression for LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.37590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents accumulate interaction histories that grow linearly with task length, causing quadratic inference cost scaling and performance degradation fr

Foundation Neural-Network Quantum States for Molecular Potential Energy Surfaces in Second Quantization

arXiv:2609.37733v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Second-quantized neural-network quantum states have achieved accurate molecular energies, but extending them across molecular geometries requires a sh

FP2: Equipping Robotic Foundation Models with Force Control

arXiv:2609.37433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic foundation models (RFMs) are increasingly capable of general-purpose manipulation, yet reliable physical interaction remains challenging in cont

From Judgment Quality to Downstream Utility: Rethinking LLM-as-a-Judge for Open-Ended Tasks

arXiv:2609.37145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-as-a-Judge is increasingly used to evaluate policy responses on open-ended tasks that lack ground-truth answers. Existing work often directly conver

From Sharp Eyes to Expert Mind: Internalizing Expert Knowledge in MLLMs for Tampered Text Detection

arXiv:2609.36145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tampered Text Detection (TTD) is essential for safeguarding document authenticity in security-critical workflows. Existing expert models are effective a

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From Sketch Prior to Trajectories: A Mission-Oriented Coordinated Navigation Framework for Indoor UAV Swarm

arXiv:2607.11386v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: UAV swarm for applications, such as indoor inspection, security patrol, and logistics delivery, are often mission-oriented rather than exploration-o

From Static Policies to Adaptive Priors in Offline Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.35880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning (RL) has traditionally focused on learning policies for direct deployment under conservative objectives, where uncertaint

GARDiff: Graph-Aligned Residual Diffusion for Probabilistic Multivariate Time-Series Forecasting

arXiv:2609.37694v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion models have recently shown strong potential for probabilistic multivariate time-series forecasting by modeling complex conditional distribut

Generative Interactions: Weaving Multiparty Human Motion with Bilevel Latent Dynamics

arXiv:2609.37708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human social behaviour is not a collection of independent motions, but a jointly organised process in which group dynamics and individual variation cont

GenoTrace: Inheritable Watermarks for Genome Foundation Model Distillation

arXiv:2609.35881v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Can a genome model retain a detectable record of the synthetic sequences used to train it? We study watermark inheritance through distillation with Ge

Graph-Conditioned On-Policy Agent Distillation from Off-the-Shelf Teachers

arXiv:2609.37522v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains compact language agents with teacher feedback on student-generated trajectories. In multi-turn tasks, compounding er

Group-Marginalized Self-Rewarding RL Drives Zero-Label Self-Evolving

arXiv:2609.36750v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-rewarding reinforcement learning (RL) enables large language models (LLMs) to self-evolve without human labels. Existing ensemble-based methods c

Guide, Then Let Go: Gap-Adaptive Teacher Scheduling for Sparse-Reward Agentic RL

arXiv:2609.37898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning for long-horizon agents typically relies on sparse outcome-based rewards. This leads to a severe cold-start problem, as early-sta

High-Dimensional Partial Least Squares: Spectral Analysis and Fundamental Limitations

arXiv:2512.15684v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Partial Least Squares (PLS) is a widely used method for data integration, designed to extract latent components shared across paired high-dime

High-Probability Convergence of Clipped SGD under Heavy-Tailed Noise and (L_0,L_1)-Smoothness

arXiv:2505.20817v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Gradient clipping is widely used in language-model training to control heavy-tailed gradient noise and can improve convergence guarantees over

HiRAE: Hierarchical Representation Autoencoding with Residual Budgets

arXiv:2609.37775v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrained visual representations support image generation, but may not fully preserve the fine-grained details needed for faithful reconstruction. Me

How Local Mixing Encodes Relative Position in Global NoPE Attention

arXiv:2609.38109v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The attention operation is naively position invariant. However, positional information is fundamental to natural language, and therefore a variety of

How to Run Statistics over LLM Judges and Trust the Results: Calibrated Inference for Small-Sample AI Evaluation with evalstats

arXiv:2609.35815v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Researchers across academia increasingly base significance claims on LLM judge scores and small-sample AI evaluations. Yet without well-calibrated con

Improving scalable oversight with co-trained monitors

arXiv:2609.36049v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Worker-monitor setups are a promising approach to AI oversight, but training workers against fixed monitors can incentivize monitor evasion. We study

Interacting particle guidance for sampling reward-tilted generative priors

arXiv:2609.37227v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inference-time steering adapts pretrained diffusion and flow-based models to new tasks, e.g., to generate samples from a conditional distribution or sam

Interpolated Policy Distillation: A Controllable Continuum Between Off-Policy and On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2609.37170v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Off-policy and on-policy distillation have traditionally been formulated as separate paradigms, each favoring a different property of distillation tra

Introducing the CZAR Loss: A Tailored Objective Function for Financial Log-Return Predictions

arXiv:2609.36061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In quantitative finance, standard regression losses are misaligned with the economics of return prediction. As the conditional mean of financial log-ret

Know Thyself, Teach Thyself: Internal Information Flow for Selective Self-Distillation

arXiv:2609.36695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-distillation turns knowledge distillation into a closed learning loop and offers a path toward recursive self-improvement. Without an external teac

KPI: A Promptable Kernel for Physical Interaction on Humanoids

arXiv:2609.36151v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoids now walk, balance and reach with remarkable generality: one whole-body tracking policy follows references from a human, or from an end-to-end

KUPAS MASTER: Distilling the Tacit Expertise of Master Practitioners into Agent-Ready Experience Corpora

arXiv:2609.37673v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Experienced professionals know more than just facts and conclusions. They know which cues matter, why a judgment is reasonable, and which action to take

Language as the Interface: Foundation-Model Contrastive Learning Links Transcriptomes and Electrophysiology

arXiv:2609.37024v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Integrating transcriptomic and electrophysiological data is essential for building multimodal foundation models for neuroscience. Patch-seq provides pai

Large-scale factor analysis shows machine intelligence is only partially interpretable

arXiv:2609.36515v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A common assumption in language model development is that cognitive abilities are organized around a general, domain-free intelligence factor, like fl

LatentSift: Policy-State Filtering for Token-Efficient Verification of Software Engineering Agents

arXiv:2609.36371v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Test-time scaling improves software engineering agents by generating multiple candidate trajectories and selecting the best one. Verifying and selecti

Learn from the Gap: Differential-Aware Advantage Pruning with Adaptive Rollout Sampling for GRPO

arXiv:2609.36932v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) and its variants have been developed for policy optimization and demonstrated notable performance ga

Learned Reporting Preferences in RLVR Can Conflict with the Current Request

arXiv:2609.36587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a prominent approach for improving language-model performance on reasoning tasks using

Learning Beyond What You Sample: Off-Policy-Aware Cross-Model Trajectory Exchange for RLVR

arXiv:2609.37868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) methods such as GRPO rely on successful self-generated trajectories, but finite rollout budgets

Learning Expressive and Compositional Motion Representation via Spectral Skills

arXiv:2609.37677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic foundation models offer a promising path toward general-purpose humanoid robot control, often through hierarchical architectures. However, their

Learning from Think-Mode Advantage via On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2609.37044v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Explicit intermediate reasoning gives large language models (LLMs) a stronger problem-solving mode. We study learning from this think-mode advantage via

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Learning from Viable Failure Prefixes: Milestone Viability Potential Policy Optimization for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.37111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon LLM agents require reinforcement learning methods that can assign credit to intermediate decisions under sparse and delayed rewards. Existi

Learning What to Remember: Long-horizon Counterfactual Memory Optimization

arXiv:2609.37930v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Persistent textual memory allows language models to carry information across long interactions, but learning what to remember is fundamentally a credit-

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LIFT: Layout-In-Future Video Generation under Large Viewpoint Change via On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2609.38146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce LIFT, a unified image-to-video generation framework that complements camera control with Layout-In-FuTure control, enabling users to specif

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Looped Actor: Depth-Recurrent Reasoning Models for Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.37432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Looped reasoning models repeatedly apply a shared set of parameters, enabling more computation without increasing the model size. These models also supp

Lucid Dreaming for World Models: Learning to Doubt Imagination and Decide by Trust

arXiv:2609.37156v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models enable agents to learn and plan in imagination, but predictions beyond their experience can become unreliable and mislead decisions. Exis

Markovian Nonconvex ADMM for Reinforcement Learning: Bellman-Resolvent Stability Beyond Smooth Blocks

arXiv:2609.36859v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We identify and study a structural mechanism for Markovian nonconvex ADMM in reinforcement learning. Using finite discounted MDPs as a canonical proving

MeanFlowAdvantage: Stable Reward Fine-Tuning for Few-Step Average-Velocity Generators

arXiv:2609.37670v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: MeanFlow enables efficient few-step generation by predicting interval-average velocities, but this representation creates a mismatch for reward fine-tun

Mixture of Self-Improving Branches For Agent Harness Optimization

arXiv:2609.37834v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Harness optimization provides a practical setting for recursive self-improvement (RSI), where agent-generated modifications inform subsequent changes th

MotionInsight: Diagnosing Object Motion Deficiencies in Generated Videos

arXiv:2609.37030v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite rapid progress in video generation models, they still exhibit obvious motion deficiencies, often manifested as incorrect object motion. Howeve

MotorMind: Scaffolding General Vision Language Models for Zero-Shot Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2609.38078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have advanced robotic manipulation, but their zero-shot generalization in new tasks and environments remains limited

Multi-Granularity Language-Guided Imitation Learning via Instruction Decomposition

arXiv:2609.37135v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Using language instructions as conditions to guide robot policy learning has recently become an important research domain. However, existing language-gu

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NesTok: Nested Self-Aligned 1D Tokenizer for Autoregressive Image Generation

arXiv:2609.36756v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: One-dimensional (1D) variable-length visual tokenizers enable adaptive compression by varying the number of tokens, allowing downstream autoregressive

Non-Myopic Active Feature Acquisition via Pathwise Policy Gradients

arXiv:2605.05511v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Active feature acquisition (AFA) considers prediction problems in which features are costly to obtain and the learner adaptively decides which featu