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Training a robot to grasp an object means learning from many attempts, viewpoints and situations. One robot with three cameras at 20 fps produces 216,000 images per hour. Now that robotics is scaling,

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Training on the Future: A Delay-Aware Audit of Test-Time Adaptation for Time-Series Forecasting

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arXiv:2610.12232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time adaptation (TTA) methods for time-series forecasting update a deployed model, or a small adapter around it, from incoming ground truth. But th

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Trajectory-Guided Fault Localization for Agent Skill Evolution

arXiv:2610.11858v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent skills provide reusable guidance for code agents, but incomplete or unsuitable guidance can impair task execution. To reduce the manual effort o

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Transferability of Learned States in Neural PDE Solvers

arXiv:2610.10972v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Assessing useful reuse in neural PDE solvers is challenging: final accuracy can reflect source learning and target-time computation. Our reuse contract

Transformed Samplers with Variance Reduction

arXiv:2610.10870v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are the standard tool for computing expectations under complex probability distributions. Control variates red

Transforming Image Editors into Video Editors

arXiv:2610.11037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent image editing systems have achieved impressive semantic understanding, visual fidelity, and instruction-following ability, while video editing re

Transmission Neural Networks: Inhibitory and Excitatory Connections

arXiv:2604.04246v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper extends the Transmission Neural Network model proposed by Gao and Caines in [1]-[3] to incorporate inhibitory connections and neuro

TRL v1.15 is out, and it’s an absolute banger of a release for memory-efficient post-training. The main change: SFT, DPO, KTO, GRPO, RLOO an…

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TRL v1.15 is out, and it’s an absolute banger of a release for memory-efficient post-training. The main change: SFT, DPO, KTO, GRPO, RLOO and Distillation now use a fused LM head by default. Instead o

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Trust, Don't Trust, or Flip: Robust Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning with Multi-Expert Feedback

arXiv:2601.18751v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Preference-based reinforcement learning (PBRL) offers a promising alternative to explicit reward engineering by learning from pairwise traject

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ttok 1.0

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Release: ttok 1.0 I released ttok 0.4, ran uv tool upgrade ttok, piped a file into the new version... and realized that it was defaulting to the GPT-4 tokenizer when it should very clearly default to

Type-Checking for Pattern-Based Tree Transformations

arXiv:2610.11337v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce and study pattern-based tree transformations. As an illustrating example, consider a source pattern (x dot y) + (x dot z) and a target pa

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TypedBench: A Benchmark for Calibration, Framing Sensitivity, and Cost in System One Decision Models

arXiv:2610.11392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: System One models output calibrated probabilities over typed answers such as categorical choices, ordinal levels, or binary outcomes, via a non-generati

UltraLight Luma: A Novel Edge-Deployable Perception Network for Crop-Row Segmentation in Agricultural Robotics

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arXiv:2610.11764v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable crop-row perception is essential for autonomous agricultural robots, but low-cost deployment is constrained by computation, memory, power, and

Uncertainty-Aware Optimization for Physics-Aware Highway Trajectory Prediction

arXiv:2610.11580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate trajectory forecasting and well-defined predictive uncertainty are crucial for reliable, safety-critical applications such as autonomous drivin

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Uncovering and Fixing Collider Bias in Bayesian PINNs

arXiv:2610.11737v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bayesian physics-informed neural networks (B-PINNs) are a popular framework for parameter and state inference from sparse or noisy observations. They

Understanding Latent-Dimension Scaling in Dynamical-System Learning through Spectral Reliability

arXiv:2610.11866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In deep learning, approximation theory motivates increasing representation size. We ask whether this benefit extends to dynamics learning through autore

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UniData: Universal Multimodal Instruction Generation Pipeline

arXiv:2610.11363v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly being applied in a wider range of real-world scenarios. However, due to the substantial labor

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Unifying Policy Learning and State Prediction through Spatial Language Modeling

arXiv:2610.12172v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning how actions change scene geometry can provide complementary supervision for goal-directed manipulation. We introduce Spatial Language Modelin

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UNITAS: A 3D-Native World Action Model for Embodied Manipulation

arXiv:2610.12099v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World action models (WAMs) aim to answer a coupled physical question: given a task instruction, what motion should the robot execute, and how will that

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Universal Textual Teaching for LLMs

arXiv:2610.12114v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from stronger Teacher models to weaker Student models, but most methods require training the Student par

Agents

Unlocking the Regulatory Genome by ARGUS: An Evidence-Constrained Agentic Framework for Interpreting Single Nucleotide Variants

arXiv:2610.12281v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Over 90% of disease-associated variants from genome-wide association studies fall in noncoding regulatory regions, yet their functional interpretation

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Tutorials

USDCraft: Geometrically Grounded Programmatic Modeling of Articulated 3D Assets for Simulation

arXiv:2610.11322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Geometrically faithful and functional articulated 3D assets are essential for real-to-sim robot manipulation, where policies trained in simulation must

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Use and Disuse: Intent-Structured Experience Consolidation for Memory and Learning in LLM Agents

arXiv:2610.12124v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The evolution of Large Language Model agents from single-task execution to long-term autonomous operation highlights the critical challenge of transform

Using LMs to Model the Effects of Context and Coreference during Sentence Comprehension

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arXiv:2609.32119v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Language models (LMs) are often used as a tool to model human language processing. Recent studies suggest that severely restricting LMs' context win

Using Weisfeiler-Leman Features for Algorithm Selection in Constraint Optimisation

arXiv:2610.12119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Algorithm Selection is essential for efficient Constraint Programming. Over the years, many algorithm selectors based on machine learning methods have

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UXBench Pro: Benchmarking Personalized User Experience in Multi-Turn Dialogue Interactions

arXiv:2610.11638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating user experience (UX) with automated computational methods has gained increasing attention, supported by empirical evidence from UXBench. Howe

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V-CoLA: Vision Token Compression with Linear Attention

arXiv:2610.11251v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities but suffer from substantial computational overhead, as vision tokens dominate th

V-ECE: Estimating General Expected Calibration Errors

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arXiv:2602.24230v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In probabilistic classification, calibration error (CE) measures the average divergence of predicted probabilities f(X) from P(Y|f(X)), the tr

VAMR: Multi-Question Agentic Reasoning for Efficient Long-Form Video Understanding

arXiv:2610.11171v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-form video understanding often involves multiple questions about different aspects of the same recording. Yet existing video agents typically pro

VEDJE: Video-Efficient Discriminative Joint Encoder for Scalable Video-Text Retrieval

arXiv:2610.11850v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Finding the right video often requires distinguishing similar scenes in which different events occur. Joint matching improves retrieval, but processing

Velocity Scaling in Flow Matching

arXiv:2610.10823v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling a learned flow-matching velocity field v_heta by a gain gamma(t) was recently shown to greatly improve generation quality. Prior work argued tha

Verdict Without the Rule: Diagnosing and Auditing Regulatory Rule Sensitivity in LLM Compliance Systems

arXiv:2610.12313v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model compliance systems are deployed on the assumption that a verdict depends on the regulatory rule it is given. We test this directly

Verification and Self-Improvement in Agentic AI: Foundations and Limits

arXiv:2610.10611v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI systems can improve by searching longer, receiving additional support, or modifying how they propose and verify outputs. A performance score

Verification with Transfer: Exact Information Frontiers and Their Price in Calls

arXiv:2610.12211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A verifier that accepts or rejects whole answers reveals little: under a flat prior over k-bit answers, zero error needs 2^k-1 verifications. The usual

VersaCamVLA: Camera-Configurable VLA Policies for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2610.12451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as powerful foundations for robotic manipulation, but their reliance on fixed camera configurations dur

VesselSDF: Distance Field Priors for Vascular Network Reconstruction

arXiv:2506.16556v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate segmentation of vascular networks from sparse CT scan slices remains a significant challenge in medical imaging, particularly due to

VESSI - VLM-Enhanced Support for Surveillance and Investigations

arXiv:2610.11674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated video surveillance analysis has become a critical component of intelligence infrastructures and Law Enforcement agencies. Traditional systems

VFold: Symmetry-Aware Cross-Layer Value Cache Compression

arXiv:2610.12338v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While caching key-value (KV) states accelerates Large Language Model (LLM) decoding, this cache can dominate memory usage at long context lengths. One s

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Agents

VGGTWorld-VLA: Intent-Conditioned 3D World Evolution for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2610.11161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: VGGT provides a strong foundation for geometry-centric world models by recovering unified 3D scene geometry from visual observations. Although recent ex

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VibeEdit: Image Editing with Canvas Instructions

arXiv:2610.12229v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In text-guided image editing, describing the desired change is often straightforward, but identifying the intended object or region can be cumbersome,

VICO: Visual Environments Co-Evolving for Vision-Language Model Reasoning

arXiv:2610.10782v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a standard recipe for post-training vision-language models (VLMs), but it typically a

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VINCIE-NExT: Unlocking Video Editing from Images via In-Context Modeling

arXiv:2610.12104v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Building a capable video editor remains significantly harder than a video generator: editing requires (source, instruction, edited) triplets that are

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VioLA: Learning Generalist Humanoid Control Policies from Human Data

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arXiv:2610.12435v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Teaching a humanoid to follow instructions with its whole body runs into two obstacles. Its action space is large and tightly coupled: legs, arms, and

Visible Reasoning Is Not a Universal Optimizer: Persona- and Thinking-Dependent Effects in Analytics Code Generation

arXiv:2610.10639v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visible Chain-of-Thought (CoT) is often treated as a broadly useful reasoning instruction, yet analytics code generation combines natural-language amb

ViSkill: Reinforcing VLM Agents with Evolving Visual-Native Skills

arXiv:2610.12403v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Skill-augmented agents improve sample efficiency by distilling successful trajectories into reusable strategies. Yet most existing approaches remain t

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Walking on Roofs: Exploring the Potential of Walking Robots for Construction Work on Roofs

arXiv:2610.12272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper investigates the feasibility of deploying quadruped walking robots for the automation of work in roof environments. While quadrupeds have dem

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WAM-Cache: Staleness-Bounded KV Reuse for Efficient World Action Models

arXiv:2610.11401v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) enable generalist robot manipulation by conditioning an action expert on representations from a pretrained video Diffusion

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WAND: Learning Robust Navigation under Complex Wind Disturbances and Dense Obstacles for Quadrotors

arXiv:2610.11809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust navigation in cluttered environments remains a fundamental challenge for quadrotors, particularly when strong wind disturbances arise, which pert

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