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Scene Retargeting: Learning Object Placement with Analogical Transfer

arXiv:2609.36801v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interactive simulations of embodied AI or spatial computing applications build on realistic 3D scenes that support daily activities. However, sparse, ir

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Scouting the Dynamics Gap: Test-Time Policy Adaptation via Action-Outcome Feedback

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arXiv:2609.36107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While pretrained robotic policies exhibit impressive capabilities in controlled environments, unobserved physical properties and dynamics require these

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Seeing Is Not Addressing: Auditing Linguistic Access to Frozen Visual Geometry

arXiv:2609.37230v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual distinctions are often finer than those reflected in linguistic conceptualization. Vision-language models exhibit a similar asymmetry: a distinct

Seek Before You Move: Evidence Seeking for Progress Grounding in Vision-Language Navigation

arXiv:2609.37353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to continuously ground task progress from long-horizon instructions and partial egocentric observations

Seg3DParts: Segmentation-Grounded Controllable Part-Level 3D Generation

arXiv:2609.36918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Part-level 3D assets are essential for editing, reassembly, and interaction, yet recovering such structure from a single image remains challenging due t

Self-Aligned Forcing: Streaming Video Diffusion with Differentiable Noisy History

arXiv:2609.38114v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive video diffusion enables interactive streaming generation, but suffers from error accumulation over long rollouts. Self-rollout training r

SERA: Scale-Equalized Rollout Allocation for Maximum Likelihood Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.36552v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Maximum Likelihood Reinforcement Learning (MaxRL) targets prompt-wise log-success and has shown strong performance on reasoning tasks. Under finite ro

Signatures of semantic search in the activations of large language models

arXiv:2609.35599v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: When recalling lists of concepts (e.g., animals) during the semantic fluency task (SFT), both humans and large language models (LLMs) organise their

Similar Choices, Different Attention: Cross-Modal Associations in Humans and Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.36475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-modal associations are systematic pairings of features across modalities, such as the association of 'bouba' with round shapes and 'kiki' with s

Simultaneous Neural Optimal Transport

arXiv:2609.37424v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optimal Transport (OT) provides a principled framework for learning transformations between probability distributions from unpaired samples. In many a

Single-turn emergency psychiatric triage across 15 frontier AI chatbots

arXiv:2604.25415v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: People increasingly turn to general-purpose AI chatbots for advice about emotional and mental health problems, but the ability of these system

SIPO: Unifying Reinforcement Learning with On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2609.36742v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a standard paradigm for improving large language models (LLMs) on various tasks, yet it

Skill-Space Shooting for Autonomous Robot Policy Improvement

arXiv:2609.38178v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots deployed in the physical world must be able to improve beyond their initial training as they encounter new situations and failures. For this im

Solving Without Stopping: On-Policy Distillation at Small Scale

arXiv:2609.37326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation, where a student learns from a stronger teacher's feedback on its own outputs, is a common way to pass reasoning to smaller model

Sparse-View Interpretable 3D Animal Behavior Representations for Neural Encoding and Decoding

arXiv:2609.36217v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A deeper understanding of brain function requires a precise, structured characterization of behavior.Yet, extracting behavioral representations from vid

Staircase Policy: Streaming Inference for World-Action Models with Large Action Chunks

arXiv:2609.36471v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World-Action Models (WAMs) improve robotic manipulation by conditioning action generation on predicted future observations, but future prediction adds

STAR-GRPO: Canonical Anchoring and Reliability-First Advantages against Representation-Dependent Reward Hacking

arXiv:2609.36900v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward hacking occurs when policy optimization exploits a brittle reward interface or an overly permissive proxy objective, improving the training score

State Trace Rationale As Auxiliary Task in Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.36867v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose STRAT, an auxiliary task that trains deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents to predict a short textual trace of their own state. Inspired by

STRIDE: Automated Evaluation of Text-to-Trajectory Alignment across Diverse Contexts

arXiv:2609.34799v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Language-conditioned trajectory generation is here, but its evaluation has not kept pace. Existing pedestrian trajectory metrics compare trajectorie

Tail-Influence Sampling for CVaR Policy Evaluation

arXiv:2609.38096v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Policies with similar mean returns can differ sharply in rare failures, yet estimating lower-tail conditional value-at-risk (CVaR) accurately can requir

Technical note on: Zero-Training Feature-Space Alignment via Information Geometry

arXiv:2609.37302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep vision models often degrade under distribution shift. Test-time adaptation can improve robustness but typically requires iterative optimization, hy

The Geometry of Inference in Transformer Residual Streams

arXiv:2609.37824v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer language models build predictions through successive residual updates, but how their representations become specific to an eventual outcome

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The Layer Mystery of VLA: An Information-Theoretical Analysis of VLA Latent Interface

arXiv:2609.36118v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies connect a pretrained vision-language backbone to an action head through a latent interface, but which backbone lay

The Rashomon Wikipedia: A Data-Perspectivist Analysis of Divergent Historical Narratives

arXiv:2609.37498v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wikipedia aims to provide a unified, neutral record of history, yet its independent language editions often function as distinct epistemic communities,

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The Teacher Is a Direction, Not a Destination: Extrapolating RL-Induced Representation Residuals in On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2609.36484v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student to match the teacher's next-token distributions on the student's own trajectories and has yielded substant

Think Before You Score: Thinking Reward Model for Visual Generation

arXiv:2609.37372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual reward models are essential for evaluating and improving visual generation models, yet existing approaches typically map task conditions and cand

Towards Better Training Signal: Advantage Clipped Policy Optimization

arXiv:2609.36816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a cornerstone for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), but the need for on-polic

Tracing mechanisms of sycophantic agreement in language models

arXiv:2609.35822v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sycophantic agreement in language models refers to the tendency to overly affirm a user's stated beliefs or preferences, often at the expense of factual

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Track-and-Complete: Learning Humanoid Skills from a Single Failed Human Video

arXiv:2609.36924v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning humanoid skills from videos typically requires a successful human demonstration, which often demands custom data collection. Although failure

Train Ahead, Distill Back: Bootstrapping On-Policy Self-Distillation for Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.37132v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) improves large language models by letting a self-teacher with privileged information provide dense token-level superv

Understanding Decision-Making Mechanisms in Neural Routing Solvers

arXiv:2609.36063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural Combinatorial Optimization (NCO) has achieved strong empirical success, yet the internal mechanisms driving model decisions remain largely unex

Unlocking the Critic: Reward-Free Policy Optimization for LLM Post-Training

arXiv:2609.37119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent approaches to reinforcement learning (RL) post-training for large language models increasingly remove the critic to reduce training instability

V-JEPA Policy: Building Effective World-Action Models on Predictive Visual Latents

arXiv:2609.37250v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World-action models (WAMs) couple future visual-state prediction with action generation. By adapting video generators or image-editing models pretrain

VAA-CSEC: Vote-guided Advantage Allocation for Chinese Semantic Error Correction

arXiv:2609.36804v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chinese Semantic Error Correction (CSEC) targets semantic errors in Chinese text, which are typically more subtle and complex than spelling and gramma

VidAct: Learning Manipulation from In-the-Wild Videos with Object-Centric 3D Awareness

arXiv:2609.36870v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video demonstrations offer a scalable alternative to costly robot data for learning manipulation, yet existing reconstruction-based approaches often rel

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VISTA: Internalizing Collective Visual Experience via On-Policy Distillation for Active Multimodal Agents

arXiv:2609.38086v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active multimodal agents use visual tools to acquire task-relevant evidence while reasoning. Although reinforcement learning samples multiple interactio

VStress: Correlation-Aware Auditing and Adaptive Budget Allocation for Repeated Verifiers

arXiv:2609.36958v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Repeated verifier calls are useful only when they contribute conditional information. We introduce VStress, an auditable replay contract, and VStress-

WayFinder: Hierarchical Visual-Language-Action for Zero-Shot Waypoint Generation and Low-Level Kinematic Control

arXiv:2609.37922v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual Language Action (VLA) models offer unprecedented generalization for autonomous robots; however, their real-world deployment is frequently bottlen

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What if automating AI R&D triggers an intelligence explosion?

arXiv:2609.36054v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In contrast to even a year ago, AI systems now write most of the code inside the companies that build them. As more of the AI research and development

When Should Agents Check External State? Budgeting Observations for Stored Intentions

arXiv:2609.37125v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prospective memory allows an agent to retain an intention tied to a future condition, but the stored intention does not reveal whether that condition cu

Where Predictive Supervision Goes Shapes What VLA Policies Learn

arXiv:2609.36645v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Future prediction is increasingly used to improve vision-language-action (VLA) policies, based on the premise that anticipating scene evolution encour

Where the Model Changes Its Mind: Hindsight-Divergence Localization for Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

arXiv:2609.36864v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group-relative methods for reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) learn from differences in rollout outcomes. Independently sampling comp

Which Attention Heads are like the Human Head? Not the Ones that Compute

arXiv:2609.37991v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Brain-AI alignment is often interpreted as a sign that model and brain perform similar computations. Whether the aligned units are causally involved in

Why Adaptive Optimizers Underestimate Rare Tokens

arXiv:2609.37535v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the softmax output layer, a rare token receives a small positive logit gradient on most steps and a much larger negative gradient on the few steps wh

WorldLine: Action-Driven Visual Simulation for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2609.38059v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world robot learning is constrained by the cost of collecting experience and evaluating candidate behaviors. Video generation models offer a scal

Wrench-ACT: Enhancing Robot Policies for Contact Rich Behavior Using Direct Wrench Control

arXiv:2609.37552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While contact-rich manipulation requires deliberate regulation of interaction forces, recent approaches to robot manipulation learning predominantly rep

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You Cannot Pick a Provider From the Price List: Market-Aware Routing for Open-Weight LLM Inference

arXiv:2609.37902v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing LLM routers choose among models using static per-model costs. We show that open-weight inference markets introduce a second, largely ignored de

3-D Emissions Mapping and Social Cost Estimation for US Domestic Aviation at West Coast Hubs

arXiv:2609.31686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing aviation emissions inventories lack accurate trajectory data for high-resolution social cost and health impact assessment. This paper develops