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Persuaded, Not Informed: Incentive-Misaligned Witnesses Defeat In-Context Grounding

arXiv:2609.28854v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language-model agents increasingly answer questions over customer-relationship management (CRM) records, such as whether to qualify a sales lead. We i

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arXiv:2609.30226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models are post-trained with reinforcement learning (RL) to maximize specific rewards, such as human alignment, correctness, or instruction

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Policy Complexity, Reaction Time, and Bounded Rationality in Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.28737v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Biological agents do not learn under conditions of unlimited computation. For humans, learning and choice are shaped by constraints on perception, att

Polite but Misaligned: Evaluating LLM Politeness Judgments Against Human Pragmatic Norms

arXiv:2609.29001v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite strong performance on standard benchmarks, it remains unclear whether large language models (LLMs) evaluate social pragmatics in ways that align

PolyUMI: Accessible Visual-Tactile-Audio Data Collection for Object Inference and Manipulation

arXiv:2609.29760v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans typically rely on vision, touch, hearing, and proprioception to perceive contact and adapt their actions during manipulation. Providing robots wi

Precise Convergence Speed of Clipped SGD

arXiv:2609.29458v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a tightened convergence analysis of clipped gradient descent on (L_0, L_1)-smooth functions, with quantitative constants. Building on the ide

Predicting Symptoms of Amotivation and Anhedonia among University Students with a Novel Oversampling Method

arXiv:2609.29690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: University students experience disproportionately high rates of common mental health conditions, such as depression, which can impair learning, social f

Res-HIL: Human-Guided Residual Reinforcement Learning for Sample-Efficient Dexterous Manipulation

arXiv:2609.30023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation learning enables robots to acquire manipulation skills from demonstrations, but the resulting policies can fail outside the training data, whi

Reward-Tilted On-Policy Distillation for Acoustic Grounding in Audio-Language Models

arXiv:2609.28778v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio-language models (ALMs) can exploit textual shortcuts to answer questions while overlooking acoustic evidence, weakening audio understanding. On-

Search-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Component Query Understanding in Roblox Game Search

arXiv:2609.30177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Query understanding (QU) plays a critical role in production search systems, translating raw user queries into search execution plans that drive downstr

Selective Inference for Deep Clustering in Latent Spaces

arXiv:2609.28756v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep clustering is a powerful approach for discovering meaningful structures in high-dimensional data by learning a low-dimensional latent representat

Self-Adaptive VLA for Robust Robot Deployment

arXiv:2609.30092v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models demonstrate impressive capabilities in robotic manipulation, their memoryless nature renders them brittle to

Self-Supervised Anchoring of Fingertip Sensing to Proprioception and Proactive Actions for Robot Imitation Learning

arXiv:2609.29822v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic imitation learning often relies on external cameras, yet local interaction cues such as object proximity, contact onset, and grasp state are dif

SemMSA: Latent Semantic-Aided Robust Multimodal Sentiment Analysis with Incomplete Data

arXiv:2609.30238v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent research on Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) has focused on learning from language, visual, and acoustic modalities with incomplete data to in

SGA: Uncertainty Quantification for Multi-Step Forecasting in Time Series Foundation Models

arXiv:2609.28582v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The recent emergence of Time Series Foundation Models (TSFMs) has significantly advanced multi-step forecasting performance, enabling accurate predict

Sim-to-Real Aware End-to-End Learning Environment for Micromobility

arXiv:2609.28969v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While end-to-end autonomous driving systems show promise, their application to micromobility vehicles is hindered by simulators failing to capture speci

Simple Torque-Observation Alignment for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Grasping with a Direct-Drive Gripper

arXiv:2609.29031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Torque observations in reinforcement learning remain challenging because simulated and measured torque differ in scale, offset, and noise. In this paper

SLCA-GRPO: Resolving Cross-Segment Credit Misattribution in Tool-Calling RL

arXiv:2609.29050v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-calling agents produce heterogeneous outputs, interleaving structured tool invocations with user-facing natural language summaries. This output het

Spaceborne differential photogrammetry for control-free measurement of large-gradient deformation with structural immunity and a predictable accuracy envelope

arXiv:2609.29550v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optical satellite image correlation measures wide-area deformation in regimes where coherent interferometric synthetic aperture radar fails because disp

Spectral Graph Neural Networks with Hermite Polynomials: A Comprehensive Study

arXiv:2609.28979v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study spectral graph neural networks built from Hermite polynomials and propose HermNet, a simple model that combines a nodewise predictor with norma

Stacked SVD or SVD stacked? A Random Matrix Theory perspective on data integration

arXiv:2507.22170v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern data analysis increasingly requires identifying shared latent structure across multiple high-dimensional datasets. A commonly used mode

TactileStep: Sole Tactile Learning for Regulating Foot-Terrain Interaction in Humanoid Locomotion

arXiv:2609.28959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid parkour policies can traverse various terrains, but task completion may mask challenges of harsh landings, edge contacts, and unstable stance c

Tag-Aware Structured Text Translation: Towards a Systematic Understanding

arXiv:2609.29131v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Internet texts are replete with format tags that carry structural, semantic, and functional meaning. Current large language model (LLM)-based translat

Temporal Taxation Compounds Under Post-Training Compression of Whisper Models

arXiv:2609.28739v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic speech recognition models are audited for demographic fairness at full precision, yet the models that ship to production have been quantized,

The Alignment Illusion in Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.30210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Layer-wise visual-text similarity in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) is widely interpreted as evidence that the language model progressively in

The Gold in Bias: Maturing the AI Design Process through Verification

arXiv:2609.29730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bias in AI systems is typically framed as a flaw to be minimized, yet it also serves as a critical indicator of underlying weaknesses in data, modeling

The Impossible Trinity of Time-Series Validation: A Conservation Law among Training Sufficiency, Test Coverage, and Temporal Causality

arXiv:2609.29530v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Validating a model on a time series asks for three things at once: each training run should use most of the sample (sufficiency), the test sets should t

The Sequential Price of Continual Learning

arXiv:2609.29674v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sequential task updates are fundamental to continual learning, but their recency bias can impose a lasting performance cost. We study this cost in an

To Think or Not to Think: Allocating Reasoning Where It Helps

arXiv:2609.29664v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has proven effective in enhancing the reasoning performance of large language models (LLMs), particularly in complex mathema

Training-free Behavior Cloning

arXiv:2609.30134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural behavior cloning compresses demonstrations into large models, making individual actions difficult to trace and policy updates costly. Retrieval p

Transcript-Supervised Post-Training of Generative Speech Enhancement on Real Recordings via Reinforce Adjoint Matching

arXiv:2609.29405v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We adapt Reinforce Adjoint Matching (RAM), a reward-based post-training method, to generative speech enhancement (SE). Starting from a pretrained SE m

TTLab at AlexandriaX-2026: A Fine-Tuned Surface Tagger for Arabic Machine-Translation Error-Span Detection and Classification

arXiv:2609.29633v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present TTLab's submission to the AlexandriaX-2026 Subtask~3 on Arabic MT error span detection and classification. Our system frames the task as to

UpDown-SC: Gravity-Canonicalized Dual-Envelope Scan Context for Indoor LiDAR Place Recognition

arXiv:2609.29118v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LiDAR place recognition is a key front end for loop closure and global relocalization, yet indoor retrieval remains difficult when attitude or sensor mo

Vector Bellman Theory for Multichain Robust Average-Reward Markov Decision Processes

arXiv:2609.28792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust average-reward Markov decision processes provide a fundamental framework for long-term performance optimization under uncertainty, and can have o

When Agents Act Unwatched: The Reduced-Supervision Paradox in Agentic AI

arXiv:2609.29547v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic AI is sold on a simple promise: the system keeps acting when the user stops watching. That promise creates an accountability inversion. As ste

When Honesty is Not Enough in AI Debate

arXiv:2609.29189v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scalable oversight aims to verify the behaviour of agents whose capabilities exceed those of their overseers. AI debate has been proposed as an oversigh

When Misalignment Becomes Supervision: Structured Label Noise in Supervised Synthetic CT Generation

arXiv:2609.29387v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Supervised synthetic CT (sCT) generation is commonly trained and evaluated as voxel-wise regression against registered reference CT images. In practice,

Where Does Exactly-Once Live? Model, Harness, and Tool-Contract Effects on Duplicate Side Effects in LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.29095v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When a tool-using agent's write times out or returns a server error, the action may already have taken effect. Retrying blindly duplicates it -- a sec

World Action Agent: Harnessing VLMs for Robot Manipulation via World Action Rehearsal

arXiv:2609.29964v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General-purpose vision-language models (VLMs) bring broad knowledge and spatial reasoning to robot manipulation, yet existing systems either use them

AI-Driven Neural Surrogates for In Silico Design of Cognitive-Affective Neuromodulation Targets

arXiv:2609.27729v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In neuropsychiatry, the primary goal is often not only to decode brain activity but to change it, for example to lessen a negative affective bias or a

Artificial intelligence surrogates for treatment effect estimation with before-and-after data

arXiv:2609.27180v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Estimating the causal effects of medical treatments is difficult when clinically important outcomes are costly to measure or require long follow-up. S

AWM-VLA: AlignedWorld Modeling for Efficient and Explainable Vision-Language-Action Policies

arXiv:2609.27753v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have become a powerful paradigm for generalist robotic manipulation, yet they are often reactive: the policy maps th

Banana Kick: Response-Informed Skill Evolution for Humanoid Soccer

arXiv:2609.27269v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid kicking requires coordinated whole-body motion and precise contact, while a banana kick demands contact mechanics that generate ball spin and a

BEE: Intervention-Adaptive Real-World Reinforcement Learning with Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2609.27450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models handle long-horizon manipulation, yet success hinges on a few precision-critical phases where millimeter-scale err

Behavior-Aligned Action Tokenization for Robot Policy Learning

arXiv:2609.27513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive robot policies learn continuous control by predicting discrete action tokens from observations. Different tasks often share local motions

Beyond Information Seeking: Severity-Aware Question Supervision for Proactive Medical Dialogue

arXiv:2608.24521v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Proactive medical dialogue requires an agent to decide what to ask from incomplete patient information. Existing information-seeking approaches comm

BrickCraft-Duo: Efficient Dual-Arm Skill Learning and Refinement for Compositional Long-Horizon Assembly

arXiv:2609.28281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interlocking brick assembly provides a representative testbed for evaluating real-world robotic manipulation capabilities, where diverse structural desi

Compliant AI Infrastructure for Regulated Finance: A tiered multi-agent framework with DLT audit trails for financial operations in DACH

arXiv:2609.27632v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a compliance-first architecture for AI in regulated finance that treats regulation as an orientation layer rather than a deterministic rule