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PACT: From Credit Assignment to Critic Alignment

arXiv:2609.26355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning has become a central component of large language model (LLM) post-training, yet token-level credit lacks a generally accepted mat

PAKT: Physically-Aligned Kinesthetic Teaching for Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2609.25630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world reinforcement learning (RL) systems still struggle with the demands of contact-rich industrial manipulation, including micrometer-level preci

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PhyVisGen: Physically and Visually High-Fidelity Robotic Manipulation Data Generation

arXiv:2609.25653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale manipulation demonstrations are essential for learning robust visuomotor policies, yet real-world data collection is expensive and difficult

PLAT: Sparse Timed Keyframe Motion Tracking for Humanoid Control via Privileged Latent Transition Learning

arXiv:2609.25754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid motion tracking policies rely on dense frame-by-frame references, limiting their use as high-level motion controllers for planning and interact

Polynomial Scaling is Possible For Neural Operator Approximations of Structured Families of BSDEs

arXiv:2410.14788v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Neural operator (NO) architectures learn nonlinear maps between infinite-dimensional function spaces and are widely used to accelerate simulat

Predict Before You Step: Auditable Occupancy Forecasting for Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance under Sparse Guidance

arXiv:2609.25969v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Legged robots under sparse waypoint guidance must avoid moving obstacles using partial, rapidly changing LiDAR observations. We present LOOP (Latent-rec

ProcessLight: Process Supervision for Large Language Model Based Traffic Signal Control

arXiv:2609.22746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently been introduced into traffic signal control (TSC) as decision agents due to their strengths in human-readable

Prompt Breadth and Rollout Refresh Interact in On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2609.25048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How many prompts does on-policy distillation (OPD) need, and how does the answer depend on the student policies that generate its training responses? We

Recording Hand-Held Laparoscopic Instrument Motion in the Operating Room: Magnetometer-Free Fusion of Inertial, Range and Visual Sensing

arXiv:2609.25577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most minimally invasive procedures are still performed with hand-held laparoscopic instruments, yet only the endoscopic video is retained; the instrumen

Recursive self-improvement of AI research agents

arXiv:2609.26457v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents are beginning to automate research and development across the AI stack, from improving training efficiency to optimizing inference. A natura

Rethinking Length-Based Training: Batch Composition and Loss Normalization in Speech Token Language Models

arXiv:2609.25890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Short-to-long training is a simple curriculum for speech models, but its gains can be difficult to interpret. In speech token language models, length-ba

RoboMP-DINOv2: Prompts, Not Filters for Robust Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2609.25506v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulation policies must generalize across visual shifts while preserving scene context relevant to action. General-purpose vision encoders are

RouteRLT: Learning When and Which RL Specialist Should Control a Vision-Language-Action Policy

arXiv:2609.26467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models provide broad manipulation competence, but often struggle during the precision-critical stages that dominate contact

Sample, Simulate, Select: Physics-in-the-Loop Text-to-Motion for Humanoids Without Training

arXiv:2609.26420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-motion models generate plausible human motion but do not model a robot's dynamics; whole-body tracking controllers execute robot references reli

SG-CPG: Severity-Gated Central Pattern Generators for Adaptive Quadruped Locomotion under Continuous Actuator Degradation

arXiv:2609.25687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An animal with a weakened limb does not necessarily switch its gait, instead it unloads the affected limb, re-coordinates the remaining limbs, and scale

Skytopia: Monocular Drone Navigation with Action-Conditioned Latent World Models

arXiv:2609.26007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Monocular drone navigation requires reaching a goal in an unseen environment from a single forward-facing camera, which offers few cues for depth and sc

StepTrigger: Contact-State-Triggered Backdoor Attacks on VLM-Powered Legged Robots

arXiv:2609.26131v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models and vision-language models are increasingly used as high-level planners in robotic systems, using task goals and sensor summaries

Structured Decomposition for Reliable LLM-Generated Access Control Policies

arXiv:2609.24036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an LLM-based system that translates natural-language access control policies (NLACPs) into executable Rego code for Open Policy Agen

Target alignment, dilution and forecast selection when cross-sectional forecasts share a common target

arXiv:2609.26303v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Forecasters often score the same units per date against one standardized realized outcome. We show that every standardized forecast splits exactly int

Teaching Reinforcement Learning and Humanoid Robotics to High-School Students: An Expert-Validated Curriculum Design on a Low-Cost Open Platform

arXiv:2609.25674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lower cost open source robots and reinforcement learning (RL) simulation tools create new opportunities for precollege students to engage with contempor

Test-time Reinforcement Learning for Anomalous Video Understanding

arXiv:2609.26099v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Anomalous video understanding aims to identify abnormal events in videos and interpret their semantic meanings beyond simple anomaly detection. Recent v

Text-only adaptation in LLM-based ASR through text denoising

arXiv:2601.20900v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Adapting large language model (LLM)-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems to new domains using text-only data is a significant yet

The Law of Stop: Interruptibility, Injunctions, and the Governance of Agentic AI

arXiv:2609.22882v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On June 12, 2026, the U.S. government ordered Anthropic to bar foreign nationals from two of its most capable models within ninety minutes. Unable to

The Self Driving Portfolio: Agentic Architecture for Institutional Asset Management

arXiv:2604.02279v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic AI shifts the investor's role from analytical execution to oversight. We present an agentic strategic asset allocation pipeline in which 44

Theory for groupoid equivariant neural networks: an approach for steerable CNNs on bounded domains

arXiv:2609.25987v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Equivariant convolutional neural networks are usually built from a group acting globally on the space of signals. This hypothesis is inappropriate for m

Toward an Unbiased Collective Memory for Efficient LLM-Based Agentic 6G Cross-Domain Management

arXiv:2509.26200v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agentic artificial intelligence is a candidate enabler of Level-4 autonomy in sixth-generation (6G) networks, but agents reasoning over a shar

Train Where the Quantized Model Goes: On-Policy Distillation for Low-Bit Reasoning

arXiv:2609.26708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantization-aware distillation (QAD) restores much of the short-form question-answering performance lost to sub-3-bit quantization, yet leaves mathemat

Transcribe, Translate, and Optimize: Joint Reward Learning for Speech Translation

arXiv:2609.26536v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In LLM-based speech translation, transcription-based chain-of-thought (CoT) suffers from a mismatch between reference transcripts used in supervised fin

Understanding Reliability in LLM-based Human Behavior Simulation

arXiv:2609.25066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate human survey responses and behavioral reactions, yet unreliable simulations can mislead s

What Does Chain-of-Thought Entropy Measure? A Channel Audit of Scaffolding, Routing, and Content

arXiv:2609.25039v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Entropy over chain-of-thought tokens decides which tokens receive the policy gradient, which get pruned, and whether a run has collapsed, yet each suc

What Drives Hierarchy-Aware Image Retrieval? Taxonomy Alignment, Objective Choice, and Geometry

arXiv:2609.25638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation vision models provide strong generic representations, yet high class-level retrieval accuracy does not necessarily imply that an embedding re

What is the Better Curriculum: Controller-Shaped Grasping Behavior for Contact Force-Sensitive Manipulation

arXiv:2609.25887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How should a robot learn to manipulate objects so fragile that sub-Newton contact forces can cause irreversible damage? Existing visuo-tactile policy le

What Should a Self-Teacher See? Privileged Context Design for On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2609.25623v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: More privileged information does not always make a better teacher. We study this tension in on-policy self-distillation (OPSD), where a frozen copy of t

When Agentic Trust Crosses Organizational Boundaries: Structural Externalization and a Reference Model for Trust Evidence

arXiv:2609.22961v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic systems increasingly invoke tools, services, data, and other agents across organizational boundaries, yet a relying party cannot assess a dele

When More Evidence Hurts: Publication-Bias Drift and Principled Stopping for Biomedical Causal Search

arXiv:2609.24101v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated biomedical evidence synthesis depends on retrieving published studies, but the biomedical literature is systematically skewed toward positive

World In Your Hands: A Large-Scale and Open-Source Ecosystem for Learning Human-Centric Manipulation in the Wild

arXiv:2512.24310v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce World In Your Hands (WIYH), a large-scale open-source ecosystem comprising over 1,000 hours of human manipulation data collected in-the

World State Generator

arXiv:2609.24744v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language agents solve complex tasks through plans and actions. A single step the world refuses puts the goal out of reach, and what the agent does next

Zephyron: Integrated Design and Analytical Evaluation of a Solar-Assisted Mobile Manipulator for Multimodal Environmental Reconnaissance and Distributed Visual Inference

arXiv:2609.25709v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Environmental reconnaissance needs mobile platforms that carry sensors, preserve measurement context, and return interpretable evidence under limited en

1% of Tokens Can Be Enough: On Gradient Estimation in On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2609.24432v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse on-policy distillation (OPD) allocates teacher supervision to a small subset of tokens in student-generated trajectories. However, useful teach

A Course Intelligence Platform for Higher Education: Lessons from AI-Assisted Course Evaluation

arXiv:2411.02455v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The rapid adoption of generative AI has created new opportunities for teaching, learning, and quality assurance. Existing applications, however, rem

A Mathematical Framework and a Suite of Learning Techniques for Neural-Symbolic Systems

arXiv:2407.09693v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The field of Neural-Symbolic (NeSy) systems is growing rapidly. Proposed approaches show great promise in achieving symbiotic unions of neural and s

A paired synthetic construction-site image dataset for robust computer vision under adverse conditions

arXiv:2609.24075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-vision systems used for construction monitoring can degrade under adverse environmental and visual conditions, yet such conditions remain under

A Reconfigurable Dual-Opposition Architecture for Single-Hand Assembly and Manipulation

arXiv:2609.22871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-hand assembly is constrained by the need to maintain grasps on two separate parts while controlling their relative motion within a single hand. To en

A Red-Team Study of Anthropic Fable 5 & Opus 4.8 Models

arXiv:2606.18193v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We evaluate the adversarial robustness of three frontier large language models (LLMs) developed by Anthropic, Opus 4.8, Fable 5 and its succes

Action-Slot: Structured Action-Centric Representation Learning for Multi-Agent Atomic Activity Understanding

arXiv:2609.24127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Atomic activity understanding aims to recognize and localize structured traffic behaviors that jointly encode motion patterns and their grounding in roa

Ada3Drift: Adaptive Training-Time Drifting for One-Step 3D Visuomotor Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2603.11984v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion-based visuomotor policies model complex action distributions through iterative denoising, but repeated inference adds latency to robotic c

AdaMame: A Training Recipe for Adaptive Multilingual Reasoning

arXiv:2606.15080v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) show strong performance in English, they often fail to reason in the language of the query, a phenomenon known a

Adaptive Cortically Constrained EEG-Vision Alignment for Zero-Shot Brain-to-Image Retrieval

arXiv:2609.24109v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zero-shot brain-to-image retrieval requires robust alignment between noisy EEG responses and visual representations. Existing EEG-vision alignment metho