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DSPO: Diversity-aware Subjective Policy Optimization for Robust Emotional Reasoning

arXiv:2609.36775v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning has significantly advanced the complex reasoning capabilities of MLLMs. However, prevailing RL algorithms suffer a severe failure

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Dual-Channel Robust Group-Relative Policy Optimization via Advantage and Sequence-Weight Estimation

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arXiv:2609.36944v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group-relative policy optimization relies on reward-derived advantages and sequence-level likelihood weights, both of which can be sensitive to localize

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Dyad: Extending Large Language Models with Native Typed Decision-Making

arXiv:2609.36116v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study how to build more capable general-purpose agents by extending large language models (LLMs) with native typed decision-making. We introduce Dyad

Dynamic Optimizations of LLM Ensembles with Two-Stage Reinforcement Learning Agents

arXiv:2502.04492v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The advancement of LLMs and their accessibility have triggered renewed interest in multi-agent reinforcement learning as robust and adaptive framewo

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EasyPPO: Stabilizing the Critic Is Key

arXiv:2609.36802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A key strength of Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) is its learned critic, which uses historical trajectories collected during reinforcement learning t

Efficient Offline Learning of Ranking Policies via Top-k Policy Decomposition

arXiv:2609.36740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many recommender systems such as for e-commerce and news platforms aim to provide users with rankings they are likely to interact with. Off-Policy Learn

EgoAlign: Bridging the Human-Humanoid Gap for Long-Range Loco-Manipulation

arXiv:2609.38046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Egocentric human demonstrations offer an accessible source of task experience, but differences in body scale and controller response, together with miss

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EgoHumanoid-V2: Human-to-Humanoid Transfer of Coordinated Whole-Body Skills for Loco-Manipulation

arXiv:2609.37181v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human demonstrations capture diverse scenes and rich whole-body skills without requiring robot teleoperation. Prior work on egocentric transfer has em

EGSD: Event-Grounded Self-Distillation for Streaming Video Understanding

arXiv:2609.36803v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time video understanding requires incrementally maintaining a memory of streaming content, and optimizing this requires dense process signals. On-P

Emergent Tonal Structure in Learned Chord Embeddings and Its Relation to Tonal Tension

arXiv:2609.36460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Several tonal pitch spaces and computational models have been proposed to analyze tonal structure in Western tonal music, many of them grounded in pri

Encore: Few-Shot Agentic Discovery of Manipulation Strategies

arXiv:2609.37359v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coding agents can now write, run, and debug programs with little human help. Robot tasks, however, are usually specified by a sentence that leaves out

End-to-End Self-Supervised RGB-T Tracking without Modality Misleading

arXiv:2609.37162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: RGB-T object tracking leverages the complementary characteristics of visible and thermal infrared modalities to improve robustness under adverse conditi

ER-JEPA: Experience Replay Improves Joint-Embedding Predictive Learning in Language Models

arXiv:2609.36952v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) excel at token-level generation but may learn undesirable abstract semantics and lack comprehensive perception. LLM-JEPA

Evaluating Alignment of Behavioral Dispositions in LLMs

arXiv:2602.11328v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As people turn to LLMs for social advice, understanding their behavior in such contexts becomes essential. In this work, we focus on behavioral disp

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Evaluating Bounded Autonomy in Regulated Agentic AI: A Diagnostic Harness with Constitutional Rewards, Escalation Labels, and Runtime Governance

arXiv:2609.37501v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose RegLLM, a diagnostic harness for bounded autonomy in regulated agentic workflows. It instruments six trustworthiness signals: citation vali

Event-based Scene Synthesis via Inter-Frame Residual Alignment

arXiv:2512.17323v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Event-based scene synthesis reconstructs target RGB frames from sparse image observations and asynchronous event streams, encompassing both video fr

Factorized Scheduling Principle: Learning Interpretable and Transferable Policies via Structured Additive Functions

arXiv:2609.36578v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scheduling problems arise from repeatedly selecting one item from a set of candidates based on their states. These problems often reduce to assigning

Fair Policy Optimization in Major-Minor Weakly Coupled Markov Decision Processes

arXiv:2609.36174v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We consider fair resource allocation in sequential decision-making environments modeled as major-minor weakly coupled Markov decision processes (M2WCMDP

FairDiff: Mitigating the Self-Reinforcing Matthew Effect in Diffusion Recommender Models

arXiv:2609.36671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While the 'Matthew Effect' and filter bubbles are widely recognized outcome-level biases in recommender systems, we reveal that Diffusion Recommender Mo

Feedback-Calibrated Protein Optimization with Batch-Aligned Tail Arbitration

arXiv:2609.37808v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Protein optimization aims to discover high-fitness sequences under a limited experimental budget. Existing machine-learning methods use task-specific pr

FineART: Fine-grained Annotated Robotic Trajectory Dataset and Vision-Language-Action Model for Bimanual Manipulation

arXiv:2609.36416v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots operating in real-world environments must execute complex, multi-step bimanual tasks over long horizons rather than single, isolated actions. C

FineSID: Scalable and Efficient Semantic Identifier Learning for Generative Recommendation

arXiv:2609.36670v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A critical prerequisite of generative recommendation is designing semantic identifiers (SIDs) that are both scalable to large item sets and efficiently

Finite-Sample Theory for Fitted Q-Iteration When Actions Are Functions

arXiv:2609.36390v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning seeks optimal decision rules from previously collected data. In some applications, a decision can be an entire function

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.

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

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

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

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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

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

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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