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Thinking With Tools, Not With Pixels: Tool Calls as Text Scaffolds for Visual Reasoning

arXiv:2608.09682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented vision-language models increasingly 'think with images': they call crop, zoom, or code tools and reason over the returned pixels. However

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Towards Collaborative Joint Perception and Prediction: Framework, Baseline Evaluation, and Deployment Perspectives

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arXiv:2608.09541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) increasingly exploit Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication to exchange multi-source sensor information, enablin

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Yesterday's Shield, Today's Spear: A Self-Evolving Safety Guardrail in Production

arXiv:2608.08471v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deployed LLM safety guardrails are predominantly static: trained once and frozen at release, while new jailbreak techniques and previously un-addressed

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CloudDiffusion: Diffusion-Based Scene Completion in the Point Cloud Domain

arXiv:2606.16048v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reconstructing dense 3D scenes from sparse LiDAR point clouds (LiDAR scene completion) is a fundamental challenge in autonomous driving, where diffu

Detection and Ranging of Transient Extrinsic Contacts Based on 6D Dynamic Tactile Sensing

arXiv:2608.07075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Delicate manipulation often involves transient and subtle collisions between a grasped object and the environment. While the human hand localizes these

EchoVLA: Robotic Vision-Language-Action Model with Synergistic Declarative Memory for Mobile Manipulation

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ro

arXiv:2511.18112v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent progress in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models has enabled embodied agents to interpret multimodal instructions and perform complex tasks. H

FedVAR: Prototype-Aligned Federated Framework for Video Anomaly Recognition

arXiv:2608.06876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In the era of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Federated Learning (FL) offers a promising decentralized intellig

Mind the Gap: A Dual Knowledge Graph Framework for Unified Multi-task User Intent Inference

arXiv:2608.06752v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes DKG-MTI, a dual knowledge graph framework for unified multi-task user intent inference from online travel reviews. Existing approach

Rigid-Covert GNSS Spoofing of UAV Swarms: A Structural Blind Spot, Its Detection Limit, and Absolute-Anchor Defenses

arXiv:2608.06885v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cooperative UAV-swarm defenses commonly cross-check GNSS positions against measured inter-drone geometry. We show that this relative-geometry channel

SimWAM: A Simple World Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2608.07468v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World-Action Models (WAMs) improve end-to-end autonomous driving by transferring video dynamics priors to action prediction, but existing methods requir

WebRider: Persona-Conditioned Intent Controllers for Live-Web Assistance

arXiv:2608.06704v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Delegating a web task involves more than asking a question; it requires transferring a policy: what to verify, how to handle uncertainty, which preferen

Acoustic-driven millimetric helical robot: ultrasonic synergistic manipulation in confined fluidic environment

arXiv:2608.05746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Acoustic field-driven manipulation provides a non-contact and non-invasive strategy for controlling microscale and nanoscale objects, yet its extension

Autonomous Learning From Success and Failure: Goal-Conditioned Supervised Learning with Negative Feedback

arXiv:2509.03206v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning from reward functions and imitation learning of demonstrations are the two principal approaches for training autonomous systems that

Design and Evaluation of a Touchscreen-Based Teleoperation Interface for Robotic Manipulators

arXiv:2608.06219v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intuitive teleoperation interfaces are crucial for the safe and effective operation of robotic manipulators in challenging environments. In the nuclear

Disentangling 3D Modeling from Spatial Reasoning

arXiv:2608.05242v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this work, we explore an alternative paradigm for spatial reasoning by explicitly disentangling 3D perception from reasoning, rather than jointly a

Nonvisual Classification of Ground-Condition by Artificial Proprioception in an Amoeba-Inspired Autonomous Walking Robot

arXiv:2608.05684v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Nonvisual classification of ground condition based on a multimodal sensing approach was investigated for an amoeba-inspired autonomous walking robot.

PathCover: A Fast Convex Decomposition along a Path via Randomized Iterative Space Partitioning (RISP) on Point Clouds

arXiv:2608.05586v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous robot navigation requires the rapid generation of obstacle-free regions for trajectory planning. However, existing corridor generators strugg

Personalized Deep Research Query Refinement with Graph-Scaffolded Evidence Grounding

arXiv:2608.05876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: User requests serve as research specifications for deep research agents, shaping what evidence to seek and how to synthesize it. In personalized deep re

Research

ProDVI: Programmatic Dynamics Priors for Value Network Initialization

arXiv:2608.06015v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) is notoriously sample inefficient. One contributing factor is that RL agents are typically initialized from scratch,

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Seeing Is Not Deciding: Can Multimodal LLMs Act as Effective CEOs?

arXiv:2608.05864v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly applied as autonomous decision-making agents. However, in executive business decisions, existing benchmarks are l

The Bitter Lesson of Tool Calling

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arXiv:2608.06370v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool use transforms LLMs into agents that act beyond their training data, and for code-capable models, programmatic tool calling extends this further by

A Vision-based Control Framework for Real-time Autonomous UUV Operations

arXiv:2608.04723v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a fully integrated vision-based framework for real-time and robust localization, autonomous navigation, and mapping for unmanned und

Active Learning Guided Design Space Refinement for Scalable Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization in Materials Discovery

arXiv:2608.04651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advanced materials discovery increasingly relies on machine learning and Bayesian optimization to explore large discrete design spaces under limited eva

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ContextWeave: A Real-World Workflow Benchmark

arXiv:2608.04830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memory is essential as language agents move from isolated tasks to long-horizon, stateful workflows, yet existing evaluations often reduce it to retriev

Design and Flight of an Ion-propelled Micro Hovercraft Leveraging Ground Proximity Effects

arXiv:2608.04343v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroaerodynamic propulsion is compelling for use in micro air vehicles due to its silent and solid-state nature, but its limited efficiency has thus

Eigenius: A Typed Knowledge-Graph DBMS with Epistemic Stratification and Institution-Mediated Reasoning

arXiv:2608.04457v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As 'AI Scientists' emerge to drive research via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), systems relying on ephemeral scripts will fail. The sheer scale of s

TwinIR: Coordinated Invisible Dual-Point Attacks on Online HD Map Construction

arXiv:2608.04453v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Online HD map construction is critical to prediction and planning in autonomous driving. We find that existing physical attacks against online map con

A Unified Framework for Human AI Collaboration in Security Operations Centers with Trusted Autonomy

arXiv:2505.23397v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This article presents a structured framework for Human-AI collaboration in Security Operations Centers (SOCs), integrating AI autonomy, trust calibr

BulkPR-Bench: Benchmarking Queue-Level Governance of Interacting Pull Requests

arXiv:2608.02685v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coding-agent benchmarks increasingly cover long-horizon, end-to-end, and interactive development, but typically retain one requested outcome or a fixe

Contact-Driven Localization in a Freeform Robotic Self-Assembled Structure

arXiv:2608.02895v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate localization remains a key challenge in swarm robotics, particularly for self-reconfigurable systems that must identify relative positions to f

Design and Evaluation of an AI-Enabled Cloud-Edge Architecture for Connected Precision Agriculture Farms

arXiv:2608.03816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Plant diseases cause significant yield losses worldwide, with tomato crops particularly susceptible to early blight, late blight, and leaf mold. Manual

GenOS: Compositional Certificates for Semantic Robustness in AI Code Generation

arXiv:2608.03588v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI coding agents are stochastic workflows: prompts are interpreted, artifacts are sampled, validators produce observations, and orchestrators commit o

Improved Quantum Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning Under a Generative Model

arXiv:2608.02826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning is a subfield of machine learning that studies how an agent interacts with an environment in order to extract as large a reward

Applications

ISEE: Interactive Semantic Enrichment for Database Fields

arXiv:2608.02604v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based agents are increasingly being deployed for data-related tasks, including data sense-making, exploration, and retrieval. However, their perform

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On the missing benchmarks layer and a potential solution

arXiv:2608.02996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latin America is missing a foundational layer for native AI development: the benchmark layer. The benchmark layer does two things no other layer can - i

Passively Safe Convex Guidance for Cislunar Rendezvous and Proximity Operations

arXiv:2608.03060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents purely convex programs for passively safe impulsive rendezvous and proximity operations in cislunar orbits. Approach, arrival, and a

POMDPs for Autonomous Science Exploration

arXiv:2608.03155v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous exploration missions require decision-making under sensor uncertainty and computational constraints, yet integrating scientific representatio

Principles of Robot Autonomy

arXiv:2608.03496v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous robots are moving rapidly from research labs into everyday life - on roads, in the air, in warehouses, and in space. Robot autonomy is no l

ReCamDriving: LiDAR-Free Camera-Controlled Video Synthesis for Novel Trajectories

arXiv:2512.03621v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Synthesizing multi-pass videos is important for autonomous driving. While current repair-based methods often struggle with out-of-distribution artif

SocietyBench: Forecasting Counterfactual Social-World Evolution

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2608.04009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs), and the agents built on top of them, are now benchmarked heavily on whether they can finish a task -- fix a bug, drive a b

SpatialCLI: Learning to Reason With Spatial Tools, Then Without Them

arXiv:2607.27703v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used in embodied agents to interpret visual inputs, reason about spatial relationships, and make task

VLC Fusion: Vision-Language Conditioned Sensor Fusion for Robust Object Detection

arXiv:2505.12715v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Although fusing multiple sensor modalities can enhance object detection performance, existing fusion approaches often overlook subtle variations in

When Memory Becomes Authority: Benchmarking Authority Collapse at the Memory Consolidation Boundary

arXiv:2608.01679v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Persistent memory allows (self-evolving) LLM agents to adapt across tasks by consolidating heterogeneous interaction histories into reusable facts,

A Constitution-Grid Instrument for Data-Efficient RL Alignment (C-Guard)

arXiv:2608.00180v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conflicting objectives are general in RL alignment, and training on them data-efficiently is hard. Training a safety guard with RL means optimizing two

safetyarxiv-cs-cl

AIMold: An Autonomous AI-based Pipeline for Complex Mold Design

arXiv:2608.00800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Injection molding is the cornerstone of mass-producing plastic components. While current algorithms can automate mold design for basic geometries using

Beckmann Transport Models: From Autonomous Flows to One-Step Maps

arXiv:2608.01692v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose an instantiation of flow matching that relies on a time-independent velocity field (an autonomous flow) to exactly map between two distributi

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Bicycle Acrobatics with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.00880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bicycle robots are fast and energy efficient, but their simple mechanical design and their underactuated and non-holonomic dynamics make highly agile ma

CoNav-UAV: Cooperative Dual-Altitude Aerial Navigation via Stackelberg Learning

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ro

arXiv:2608.01802v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Target-oriented vision-and-language navigation (VLN) on aerial platforms is attracting growing attention for missions such as disaster rescue, infrast