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PRISM-RAG: Multimodal Hypergraph Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Tobacco Product and Legislative Policy Reasoning

arXiv:2609.23769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The disambiguation of semantically similar statutory text across jurisdictions is a retrieval problem that existing methods do not solve. This inter-con

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Probabilistic Scene Graphs: Hierarchical Representation and Real-time System

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arXiv:2609.23144v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D scene graphs provide semantically rich and hierarchical representations for robot perception. However, existing systems do not maintain uncertainty a

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PROSE: A Theory of Optimal Stopping with Perishable Evidence for Peer Selection in Intermittently Connected Decentralised Learning

arXiv:2609.23845v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decentralised federated learning removes the aggregation server but makes collaboration dependent on transient peer availability. In mobile and intermit

Rapidly-Iterating Grid-Based Near-Optimal Kinodynamic Motion Planning

arXiv:2609.22733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper develops the Rapidly-iterating kinoDynamic Grid (RDG) algorithm, an asymptotically near-optimal kinodynamic motion planning algorithm that pr

Receding-Horizon Pushing with Composable Object-Centric Policies

arXiv:2609.23439v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-prehensile manipulation is practical for relocating large, heavy, or geometrically ungraspable objects. Yet, long-horizon pushing of arbitrarily-sha

Reflective Policy Optimization

arXiv:2406.03678v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: On-policy reinforcement learning methods, like Trust Region Policy Optimization (TRPO) and Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), often demand extensiv

Reinforcement Learning under State and Outcome Uncertainty: A Foundational Distributional Perspective

arXiv:2609.24103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In many real-world planning tasks, agents must tackle uncertainty about the environment's state and variability in the outcomes of any chosen policy. We

Reinforcement learning with an expectile-based objective

arXiv:2602.09300v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We consider the policy evaluation and control in a finite horizon reinforcement learning (RL) setting under an expectile-based objective. First, we

ReSTI: A Source-Grounded Audit and Repair of STI-Bench

arXiv:2609.24727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial--temporal benchmarks are valid only when their questions, source annotations, and answer options identify the same physical quantity. We audit S

Rethinking Pivot Programming Languages in Code Language Models

arXiv:2609.22988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multilingual code language models transfer skills across programming languages (PLs), but whether any PL occupies a privileged pivot position remains co

ReVeal: A Reconstruction-Aware Real-to-Sim Framework for VLA Policy Evaluation

arXiv:2609.23910v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation-based evaluation provides a scalable and repeatable alternative to real-world evaluation of vision-language-action (VLA) policies. However, r

Riemannian Density-Driven Optimal Control: Tangent-Space LQR for Second-Order Multi-Agent Systems on Curved Manifolds

arXiv:2609.22678v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Density-Driven Optimal Control (D2OC) provides an effective framework for steering multi-agent systems toward prescribed spatial distributions. Howeve

RLVR^{2}: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rubric-based Ranking

arXiv:2609.23457v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) is expanding from tasks with well-defined correctness signals, such as mathematics and code, towar

Robot World Models Are Not Invariant to How the Actions Are Written

arXiv:2609.23252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A robot policy is trained with one of two action parameterizations: absolute joint targets, or deltas relative to the current state. The choice is a l

Robust Market Making with Hawkes Order Flow and Price Impact via Adversarial Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.22785v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Market-making strategies in real limit order book markets face substantial model uncertainty and regime-shift risk. Existing adversarial reinforcement l

RSPDBench: Benchmarking Vision Foundation Models on Earth Observation Tasks Under Physically Grounded Remote-Sensing Product Degradations

arXiv:2609.23427v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision foundation models targeting Earth observation (EO) tasks are commonly evaluated on clean downstream benchmarks, but operational EO products can a

Scale-Vector Alignment: A Scale-Aware Framework for Spatially Resolved Morphological Similarity in Astronomical Images

arXiv:2609.24304v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Astronomical maps made with different tracers are not expected to have identical morphology. Excitation, optical depth, chemistry, radiation, and ISM

Scaling Sim-to-Real VLA Reinforcement Learning with Generative 3D Worlds

arXiv:2603.18532v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The strong performance of large vision-language models (VLMs) trained with reinforcement learning (RL) has motivated similar approaches for fi

SCULPT-VLA: Learning Structured Control through Staged Action Grounding

arXiv:2609.23275v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies increasingly incorporate structured intermediate supervision beyond action labels. Yet specifying what an intermed

See Selectively, Act Adaptively: Dual-Level Structural Decomposition for Bimanual Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2606.13279v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In bimanual robotic manipulation, task-relevant visual information varies with the task stage and context, while the interaction of the two arms shi

Selective Commitment for Language-Guided Object Retrieval under Partial Observability

arXiv:2609.23131v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language-guided object retrieval under partial observability requires deciding whether to gather more evidence, interact with the scene, grasp a candida

SenCache: Accelerating Diffusion Model Inference via Sensitivity-Aware Caching

arXiv:2602.24208v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art video generation quality, but their inference remains expensive due to the large number of sequential deno

Shared Execution-Clock Drifting Policy for Dynamic Precision Manipulation

arXiv:2609.23305v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Manipulation under time constraints requires both accurate actions and an execution rhythm that matches the evolving scene. This becomes critical when a

Simultaneous Forward and Inverse Human-in-the-Loop Optimization

arXiv:2609.22630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Subjective user experience is important to human-robot interaction, but the outcomes users value, and how those preferences vary across individuals and

SmallSatSim: A GPU-Accelerated Microgravity Robotics Toolkit for Planning, Control, and Policy Learning

arXiv:2603.14598v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Microgravity rendezvous and close proximity operations (RPO) is a growing area of interest for applications spanning in-space assembly and manufactu

Smoothness as a Constraint for Stable Humanoid Locomotion

arXiv:2609.24552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied AI systems, particularly humanoid robots deployed in real world scenarios require whole-body control policies that are both task-responsive and

Some Dialects Are More Equal Than Others: Non-Prestigious Arabic Dialectal Bias in LLMs

arXiv:2609.23955v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Previous work on Egyptian Arabic in NLP has focused largely on the prestigious Cairene Egyptian Arabic (CEA) dialect, resulting in a lack of representat

SPACE: Semantic Projection and Alignment of CLIP Embeddings for Domain Adaptation

arXiv:2609.23248v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A fundamental challenge in deploying vision models is domain shift, which arises when training and test data follow different distributions, leading to

Spiking Neural Network Actor-Critic Proximal Policy Optimization Control for Autonomous UAV Navigation Through Constrained Openings in Civil Infrastructure and Buildings

arXiv:2609.23643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles in constrained three-dimensional environments has been a challenge in the robotics domain. The applica

Stable and Efficient Real-World Online VLA Post-Training via Asynchronous Replay-Anchored Policy Improvement

arXiv:2609.22888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online post-training of vision-language-action (VLA) models requires efficient use of robot interaction and reliable policy improvement from continually

StenoVLA-3D: 3D-Aware Reasoning VLA for Navigation Through Gastrointestinal Stenoses

arXiv:2609.24187v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous endoscopic navigation requires the policy model to predict actions from texture-poor monocular observations, make safe control decisions, a

Strategic Classification Has a Missing Lever: Audit Risk

arXiv:2609.22534v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Strategic classification studies how a decision maker should choose a classifier when the agents being classified can adjust their features in respons

STRIDER: Stepping-Enabled Multi-Gait Hierarchical 3D Loco-Manipulation Framework for Humanoid Robots

arXiv:2609.23483v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid loco-manipulation faces two prominent limitations: controllers using continuous velocity commands cannot precisely regulate individual foothold

Summarize, Judge, Refine: Decoupled Content Understanding and Policy Learning for Multimodal Content Moderation

arXiv:2609.22094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Content moderation systems traditionally entangle multimodal understanding with policy-specific classification, requiring full pipeline retraining for e

SupportCal: Label-Free Calibration of Post-Trained LLMs via Reference Support and Corroboration

arXiv:2609.24303v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training often improves task performance but can degrade confidence calibration, leaving post-trained language models (PoLMs) more overconfident

TAC-Time: Texts as Channels For Multimodal Time Series Forecasting

arXiv:2609.24156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most existing time series forecasting methods rely solely on numerical observations, overlooking rich contextual information from auxiliary texts. Recen

Tactile-JEPA: Topology-Aware Self-Supervised Representation Learning for Distributed Tactile Sensors

arXiv:2609.24385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile sensing is an essential modality for robots performing contact-rich, dexterous manipulation, particularly under visual occlusion. While pre-trai

Task aware Dynamic Movement Primitives for failure detection and recovery in contact rich manipulation

arXiv:2609.23151v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Assembly remains a challenging robotic manipulation task in presence of tight tolerances and complex contact interactions. While Learning from Demonst

Teacher Should Think Ahead: Adaptive Continuations for Reliable On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2609.22254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) is a promising approach for transferring knowledge between language models, where a student receives dense token-level supe

Testing the Construct Validity of a Functional Valence Axis in LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.22850v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contrastive activation directions are often interpreted from what they decode or how strongly they steer behavior. But what evidence is sufficient to id

The Answer-Basin Representation Hypothesis: We Are Not Probing or Steering Concepts

arXiv:2609.24821v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Linear Representation Hypothesis associates high-level concepts with directions in language models, but it remains unclear how these concept-related

The Bairong System for MLC-SLM 2026: Dynamic Question-Aware Evidence Routing for Multilingual Conversational Speech Understanding

arXiv:2609.22214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long multilingual conversational spoken question answering requires systems to balance long-range transcript semantics with sparse acoustic and speaker-

The Copy Ceiling: An Input-Exposure Control for Ontology-Grounded Generation over Curated Corpora

arXiv:2609.24885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a language model answers from a curated corpus via graph-based retrieval, a large grounding uplift does not establish reasoning over the retrieved

The Evidence Ladder for Reinforcement Learning in Healthcare: From Retrospective Policies to Trusted Interventions

arXiv:2609.23374v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) offers a natural language for healthcare decisions whose conse- quences unfold over time, yet most reported progress remains

Think Like a World Model, Act Like a VLA: Distilling World-Model Representations into Compact Robot Policies

arXiv:2609.24682v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models map observations to actions with no objective that accounts for how the world responds, so their robustness is bou

Touch2Robot: Robot Touch in the Human Demonstration Loop

arXiv:2609.24660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human demonstrations offer a scalable way to collect manipulation data, but their contacts may be unstable or infeasible when transferred to a robot han

Toward Fairness in Machine Learning Models for Predicting Treatment Retention and Premature Discontinuation in Medication for Opioid Use Disorder

arXiv:2609.22113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Persistent low retention and completion rates in medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) have driven the use of machine learning (ML) models to predi

Transductive Off-policy Proximal Policy Optimization

arXiv:2406.03894v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) is a popular model-free reinforcement learning algorithm, esteemed for its simplicity and efficacy. However, due