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Retrieval-Based Cross-Domain Generalization in Optical Networks via Global Features

arXiv:2608.00044v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a retrieval-based framework for crossdomain quality-of-transmission (QoT) estimation that leverages transferable feature representations wh

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Reusing Rollouts under Policy Lag: Prefix-Normalized Policy Optimization for LLM Reinforcement Learning

DGX agent

arXiv:2608.01418v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive rollout generation is a major computational cost in reinforcement learning for large language models. Reusing each rollout batch for ad

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

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Revisiting Generalization Across Difficulty Levels: It's Not So Easy

arXiv:2511.21692v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We investigate how well large language models (LLMs) generalize across different task difficulties, a key question for effective data curation and e

RF-HOI: Recognize Human-Object Interaction with Radio Frequency Signals

arXiv:2608.00289v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recognizing Human-Object Interactions (HOI) is essential for intelligent systems, underpinning applications in virtual and augmented reality, embodied

applicationsarxiv-cs-ro

Local Ai

RH-RAG: Trustworthy Long-Form Generation for Privacy-Constrained Settings

arXiv:2608.01311v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating long-form content from extensive internal reports remains challenging for organizations operating under strict privacy and security constrain

local-aiarxiv-cs-cl

RHEA: Reliability-Harmonized Reconstruction and Assignment for Robust Multimodal-Attributed Graph Clustering

arXiv:2608.00621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal-attributed graphs (MAGs), whose nodes carry heterogeneous attributes such as text and images over a relational structure, have become a funda

Rhythm of the Deep: Two-Tier Combinatorial Structure in Sperm Whale Codas Revealed by Acoustic Unit Induction

arXiv:2606.16084v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sperm-whale codas are conventionally described as recurring click-count and timing patterns. We show instead that their waveforms contain a tw

Riemannian Attention Mechanisms for Transformers: A Theoretical Framework and Architecture Design

arXiv:2608.01283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: All Transformer-based large language models compute attention via the Euclidean inner product, an architectural choice that Dong et al. (2021) proved ca

Right Answer, Wrong Method: Shortcut Hacking Misleads the Evaluation of LLM Reasoning on Frontier Science Benchmarks

arXiv:2608.02442v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific reasoning benchmarks typically evaluate large language models (LLMs) using final-answer accuracy. However, a correct answer does not necess

RING: Retrieval-Internalized Generation for Continual Large-Scale Knowledge Injection

arXiv:2608.01630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves factuality but adds latency and engineering overhead at serving time. We propose RING (Retrieval-Internali

RIT*: Riemannian Informed Trees for Cost-Adaptive Optimal Motion Planning

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ro

arXiv:2608.00822v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Riemannian Informed Trees (RIT*), a planning framework that replaces Euclidean primitives in batch-informed search with their Riemannian coun

RL Bootstrapping of OpenVLA-OFT for a Novel Robot Embodiment

arXiv:2608.01013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapting a pretrained vision-language-action (VLA) policy to a new robot usually assumes embodiment-specific demonstrations. This assumption is especial

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

RMSWeb: Reflection, Failure-Mode Mining, and Salvage-DS for Web Agent Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.00335v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Compact web agents can reduce deployment cost, but training them poses challenges in both data collection and post-SFT reinforcement learning (RL). Su

safetyarxiv-cs-cl

RobotDancing: Residual-Action Reinforcement Learning Enables Robust Long-Horizon Humanoid Motion Tracking

arXiv:2509.20717v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon, high-dynamic motion tracking on humanoids remains brittle: retargeted reference motions are typically kinematically plausible but dyna

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

Robust Bayesian Optimization via Tempered Posteriors

arXiv:2601.07094v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bayesian optimization (BO) iteratively fits a Gaussian process (GP) surrogate to accumulated evaluations and selects new queries via an acquis

Robust Watermarks Meet Backdoored Models: Evading Diffusion Semantic Watermarks via Stealthy Backdoor

arXiv:2608.00543v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although semantic watermarking is considered a promising safeguard for images generated by Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs), the reliance of the waterma

Role Steering of Language Models for Social Simulations

arXiv:2608.00023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social simulations built from language-model agents need role-conditioned behavior that can be checked before agents are placed into a simulated populat

Rolling Shutter Camera Self-Calibration

arXiv:2608.01509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rolling shutter (RS) cameras are widely used in consumer devices, but their row-wise exposure causes distortions under motion, making geometric 3D visio

Romanized Arabic Across Dialects: Views, Usage Patterns, and Linguistic Variation

arXiv:2608.02555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Arabizi refers to Arabic written in Latin script. Although previous studies have shown that the prevalence and usage of Arabizi vary by factors such as

safetyarxiv-cs-cl

Agents

RoMeRL: Balancing Feedback Coverage and the Memory-Reward Trap in Self-Evolving Agent Memory via Reduced-Order Utility States

arXiv:2608.02508v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning-based memory systems for self-evolving LLM agents face two tightly coupled challenges. First, trajectory-indexed utilities grow with the inte

agentsarxiv-cs-cl

Local Ai

Roomer: Reflective Object-Grounded Model Editing and Repair for 3D Indoor Layout Synthesis

arXiv:2608.01973v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing indoor layout generators produce globally plausible layouts yet may retain local violations such as collisions, out-of-bounds placements, obs

local-aiarxiv-cs-cv

Round-Trip Consistency: Bidirectional Diffusion Models Can Predict Their Own Rollout Errors

arXiv:2608.00675v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive models accumulate error over long rollouts, yet at deployment there is no ground truth to measure it against. We train a single conditi

RPL-UIE: Reliable Prior Learning for Underwater Image Enhancement

arXiv:2608.00137v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Underwater image enhancement (UIE) aims to recover clear images from observations affected by wavelength-dependent absorption, scattering, and spatial

applicationsarxiv-cs-cv

RSC-GestureNet: Reliability-Aware Selective Causal Recognition of Chinese Traffic Police Gestures

arXiv:2608.02200v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic police gestures are safety-critical perception cues for autonomous driving. A deployable recognizer must infer commands causally from continuous

RSRA: Training-Free Probing of Representation Sensitivity for Efficient LoRA Rank Allocation

arXiv:2607.09757v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning enables large language models to adapt to downstream tasks with substantially lower computational and storage cost,

RSVideo: Are Your Vision-Language Models Ready for Remote Sensing Videos?

arXiv:2608.02039v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Remote-sensing videos enable real-time observation of changes in target attributes, short-term activities, and scene evolution. They record motion, acti

Agents

RubricReviewer: From Direct Critique to Objective and Comprehensive Rubric-Driven Peer Review

arXiv:2608.00005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Peer review at major venues is under unprecedented submission pressure, motivating the use of large language models (LLMs) as review assistants. Existin

agentsarxiv-cs-cl

S^4R: Selective Sampling, Subspaces, and Sparse Reconstruction for Compressed Long-Context KV Caching

arXiv:2608.00528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The growth of context window lengths in Large Language Models (LLMs) significantly enhances their long-context capabilities but incurs prohibitive memor

SAFE-Merge: Data-Free Continual Model Merging with General Knowledge Preservation

arXiv:2608.01184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data-free continual model merging must incorporate a stream of specialized models while retaining both pretrained general knowledge and previously acqui

SafeBuild-Bench: A Temporal-Robust Construction Safety Benchmark with Graph-Enhanced Data Mining

arXiv:2608.00068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Construction-safety models must handle concrete deployment risks, such as a worker standing near a scaffold edge without guardrails, rather than only re

Same Semantics, Different Paths: Self-Improving Alignment for Vision-Text Compression

arXiv:2608.02109v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Text Compression (VTC) renders long texts into images and encodes them through the vision encoder (ViT), compressing thousands of text tokens int

safetyarxiv-cs-cv

Same violence, different answer: how AI responds to coercive control against women across languages

arXiv:2608.01436v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Women experiencing coercive control, a form of intimate partner violence increasingly conducted through digital devices, are turning to conversational

Agents

Sampling-Based Visibility Task Planning

arXiv:2608.01027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) algorithms enable autonomous operation by incorporating the specific functions and constraints of end-effector too

agentsarxiv-cs-ro

Local Ai

SARe: Structure-Aware Generative 3D Fragment Reassembly

arXiv:2603.21611v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 3D fragment reassembly estimates the rigid pose of each fragment to recover a complete object from unordered point clouds or meshes. The task become

local-aiarxiv-cs-cv

SCALP: Semi-Supervised Statistical Shape Modeling from Imperfect 3D Photogrammetry via Landmark-Anchored Spectral Warp

arXiv:2608.00187v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Correspondence-based statistical shape modeling (SSM) is vital for population-level morphometric analysis, but conventional pipelines assume clean, full

applicationsarxiv-cs-cv

Scene2Sound: Auditory-Grounded Soundscape Generation for 3D Gaussian Worlds

arXiv:2608.00463v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) turns captured or generated imagery into photorealistic 3D world simulations that users can freely explore, yet these world

applicationsarxiv-cs-cv

SCHEDBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Constraint Faithfulness in Natural-Language Combinatorial Scheduling

arXiv:2608.00991v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper introduces SCHEDBench, a natural-language benchmark for evaluating combinatorial scheduling constraint faithfulness under surface-form vari

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Scikit-fingerprints: Python library for scikit-learn compatible molecular fingerprints and chemoinformatics

arXiv:2608.02027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present scikit-fingerprints, a comprehensive, fully scikit-learn compatible library for molecular machine learning in Python, based on RDKit. Molecul

tutorialsarxiv-cs-lg

SCOPE: Entanglement Frontier Escape for Source-Free Class Unlearning

arXiv:2608.02058v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Source-free class unlearning erases whole classes using only the forget data, judged at the representation level, where features can leak a class the he

Score-Based Turbo Message Passing for Plug-and-Play Compressive Imaging

arXiv:2512.14435v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Message-passing algorithms have been adapted for compressive imaging by incorporating various off-the-shelf image denoisers. However, these denoiser

Scoring Rules! Statistical and Strategic Alignment for Text Evaluation Metrics

arXiv:2608.01423v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reference-based text evaluation metrics, which are widely used to assess natural language generation systems, score a candidate response by comparing

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

ScrambleToolBench: Agents Search Exhaustively Even When Their Own Map Points to the Next Step

arXiv:2608.02358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To operate robustly in open-world environments, autonomous agents should be able to infer the behavior of unfamiliar systems through interaction alone,

Searching for Quantum Effects in the Brain: A Bell-Type Test for Nonclassical Latent Representations in Autoencoders

arXiv:2601.10588v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Whether neural information processing is entirely classical or involves quantum-mechanical elements remains an open question. Here we propose

SecondOpinion: Anatomy-Aware Gated Reasoning for Efficient Medical Image Analysis

arXiv:2608.01808v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning models for medical image analysis typically apply a fixed amount of computation to every input, regardless of case difficulty. Anatomy-gui

Secrets Everywhere: Auditing Memorization in Mobility Prediction Models

arXiv:2608.02052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human mobility prediction models, which forecast the next location in a user's trajectory, are increasingly deployed in urban analytics, navigation, and

SeDeM: Selective Decompression of Hidden-State Memories for Long-Context Question Answering

arXiv:2608.00311v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context inference with large language models (LLMs) is costly: self-attention during prefill scales quadratically with sequence length, and the key

Seeing the Unseen: Towards Training-Free Inspection for Wind Turbine Blades Using Knowledge-Augmented Vision Language Models

arXiv:2510.22868v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Wind turbine blades operate in harsh environments, making timely damage detection essential for preventing failures and optimizing maintenance. Dron

Select-And-Extract: A Lightweight Plugin for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2608.00658v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for language model (LM) systems fundamentally has two failure modes: retrieval failure and reading failure. The for