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Securing SIM-Assisted Wireless Networks via Quantum Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2602.13238v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) have recently emerged as a powerful wave-domain technology that enables multi-stage manipulation of el

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Self-Play Reinforcement Learning under Imperfect Information in Big 2

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arXiv:2605.28863v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Imperfect-information multiplayer games test whether agents can act under hidden information, sparse rewards, and non-stationary opponents. We study t

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SGMD: Score Gradient Matching Distillation for Few-Step Video Diffusion Distillation

arXiv:2605.30116v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) is a widely used paradigm for accelerating inference in few-step video diffusion models. However, DMD-style vid

Statistical Embeddings for Similarity, Retrieval, and Interpretable Alignment of Numeric Tabular Datasets

arXiv:2605.30289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Numeric tabular datasets are the dominant data format in scientific practice, yet large language models lack native mechanisms for representing numeric

Teaching Values to Machines: Simulating Human-Like Behavior in LLMs

arXiv:2605.30036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate a remarkable capacity to adopt different personas and roles; however, it remains unclear whether they can manif

The Best of the Two Worlds: Harmonizing Semantic and Hash IDs for Sequential Recommendation

arXiv:2512.10388v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Conventional Sequential Recommender Systems (SRS) typically assign unique hash IDs (HID) to construct item embeddings, which mainly capture co

The Confidence Shortcut: A Reasoning Failure Mode of Masked Diffusion Models

arXiv:2605.29123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Masked diffusion language models (MDMs) uniquely support any-order generation, with confidence-based decoding currently serving as the de facto standard

The Importance of Out-of-Band Metadata for Safe Autonomous Agents: The Redpanda Agentic Data Plane

arXiv:2605.29082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are increasingly expected to operate as digital employees: accessing enterprise data, making decisions, and taking actions autonomously. But a

The Sample Complexity of Multiclass and Sparse Contextual Bandits

arXiv:2605.29645v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study contextual bandits in the stochastic i.i.d. setting, where a learner observes contexts drawn from an unknown distribution, selects actions fr

Theoretical Foundations and Effective Algorithms for Policy-Aware Simulator Learning

arXiv:2605.29032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) agents typically learn world models by minimizing predictive loss. However, powerful RL optimizers inevitably

Think Fast, Talk Smart: Partitioning Deterministic and Neural Computation for Structured Health Text Generation

arXiv:2605.29652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to generate health text from structured records such as wearable time series, biomarkers, vital

Toward AI Systems That Understand Self and Others: A Multi-Phase Inference Framework for Human Cognitive Diversity and World-Model Alignment

arXiv:2605.29930v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mutual misunderstanding in contemporary society does not arise merely because people hold different opinions or values. Even under the same observations

Toward User Preference Alignment in LLM Recommendation via Explicit Context Feedback

arXiv:2605.29141v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional recommender systems (RecSys) primarily infer user preferences from implicit signals (such as clicks, watches, and purchases), often neglec

Towards Human-Like Interactive Speech Recognition With Agentic Correction and Semantic Evaluation

arXiv:2605.29430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a core component of human--computer interaction and an increasingly important front-end for LLM-based assistants a

TraceCodec: A Compiler-Backed Neural Codec for Stateful Multi-Flow Network Traffic Traces

arXiv:2605.29941v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Critical networking workflows require high-fidelity packet captures (PCAPs) for testing, security analysis, and protocol validation, not just statisti

TRACER: Persistent Regularization for Robust Multimodal Finetuning

arXiv:2605.29380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mainstream strategies for finetuning pretrained multimodal models often degrade out-of-distribution (OOD) robustness, a phenomenon known as catastroph

Train the Agent, Not the Expert: Learning to Harness Heterogeneous Experts for Multi-Turn Visual Reasoning

arXiv:2605.29894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress in computer vision has produced a wide range of powerful specialized models for detection, segmentation, counting, and other visual task

TriSearch: Learning to Optimize Triangulations via Bistellar Flips

arXiv:2605.30220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce TriSearch, a reinforcement learning framework for optimizing objectives over triangulations of a polytope via bistellar flips. The key idea

Uncertainty Estimation via Hyperspherical Confidence Mapping

arXiv:2605.05964v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Quantifying uncertainty in neural network predictions is essential for high-stakes domains such as autonomous driving, healthcare, and manufacturing

User-Aware Active Knowledge Acquisition for Emotional Support Dialogue

arXiv:2605.29715v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emotional support plays an important role in dialogue systems, and its success depends on adapting to a user's evolving and implicit needs across multi-

ValueFlow: Measuring the Propagation of Value Perturbations in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

arXiv:2602.08567v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-agent large language model (LLM) systems increasingly consist of agents that observe and respond to one another's outputs. While value a

VLA-Trace: Diagnosing Vision-Language-Action Models through Representation and Behavior Tracing

arXiv:2605.30117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding how Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models transform multimodal knowledge into embodied control remains an open challenge. We present VLA-Tra

When and How Human Curation Backfires: Preference Alignment under Multi-Model Self-Consuming Loop

arXiv:2605.29267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models are increasingly trained on synthetic data generated by prior model iterations rather than exclusively on real data. This self-consumi

xModel-KD: Cross-modal Knowledge Distillation for 3D Scene Perception using LiDAR

arXiv:2605.30111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Point cloud segmentation is a fundamental task in 3D scene understanding. Its progress is constrained by the high cost and time required for dense 3D

A Factory-Floor Deployment Case Study of VLA Pipelines for Industrial Packaging Task: Workflow, Failures, and Lessons

arXiv:2605.27461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies have shown promising manipulation capabilities, yet their practical impact is often limited by the reliability dem

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A Structural Theory of Position Bias in Transformers

arXiv:2602.16837v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transformer models systematically favor certain token positions, yet the architectural origins of this position bias remain poorly understood. This

AdaMemento: Adaptive Memory-Assisted Policy Optimization for Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2410.04498v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In sparse reward scenarios of reinforcement learning (RL), the memory mechanism provides promising shortcuts to policy optimization by reflecting on

ADWIN: Adaptive Windows for Horizon-Aware On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2605.28396v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) transfers reasoning behavior by training a student on teacher feedback along student-generated trajectories, but standard

Affective Music Recommendation: A Rollout-Based World Model for Offline Preference Optimization

arXiv:2605.28810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Functional music applications, from consumer focus and sleep aids to clinical interventions, share a distinctive recommendation problem: success is defi

AgensFlow: A Coordination-Policy Substrate for Multi-Agent Systems

arXiv:2605.27466v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent systems built on large language models (LLMs) require many coordination choices that are difficult to fix a priori: which skill protocol t

Agent Explorative Policy Optimization for Multimodal Agentic Reasoning

arXiv:2605.28774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models with extended reasoning succeed on complex problems, but many real-world problems require external tools that internal reasoning

Agents that Matter: Optimizing Multi-Agent LLMs via Removal-Based Attribution

arXiv:2605.27621v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As multi-agent systems (MAS) become increasingly complex, identifying the contributions of individual agents is critical for system optimization. Howe

AI, Take the Wheel: What Drives Delegation and Trust in Human-Computer Cooperative Question Answering?

arXiv:2605.28255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems are fallible, and humans can make mistakes in deciding whether to trust AI over their own judgment. Thus, improving human-AI collaboration re

AREA: Attribute Extraction and Aggregation for CLIP-Based Class-Incremental Learning

arXiv:2605.28809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) is important in building real-world learning systems. In CLIP-based CIL, the model performs classification by comparing

Artemis: Structured Visual Reasoning for Perception Policy Learning

arXiv:2512.01988v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent reinforcement-learning frameworks for visual perception policy usually incorporate intermediate reasoning chains expressed in natural languag

Auditable Decision Models with Learned Abstention and Real-Time Steering

arXiv:2605.27768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Production AI systems often operate with incomplete, conflicting, or insufficient evidence. Forced classifiers collapse such cases into action labels, w

Auditing Stance Asymmetry in Generative Explanations

arXiv:2605.27988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bias evaluation for language models has made substantial progress on bounded comparisons, such as overt derogation, stereotype association, or label-sen

Automated Estimation of Impact Time, Impact Location, and Shuttlecock Speed in Badminton Smashes Using Event Cameras

arXiv:2605.28011v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantifying impact phenomena in badminton smashes is important for evaluating both athletic performance and equipment; however, conventional measurement

Behavioural Analysis of Alignment Faking

arXiv:2605.27681v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Alignment faking (AF) refers to a model strategically complying with a training objective to avoid behavioural modification while preserving its deploym

Beyond Binary: Sim-to-Real Dexterous Manipulation with Physics-Grounded Contact Representation

arXiv:2605.28812v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A primary bottleneck in contact-rich manipulation is the difficulty of collecting real-world data. Sim-to-real reinforcement learning offers a scalabl

BiasEdit: A Training-Free Bias-Detect-and-Edit Framework for Learning Fair Visual Classifiers

arXiv:2605.28450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual data from the Web power image classifiers, which often underpin many web services, such as recommendation and content moderation. However, the

Blind PRNG Hijacking: An Undetectable Integrity-Preserving Attack Against LLM Watermarking

arXiv:2605.28632v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cryptographic watermarking is a leading defense for attributing text generated by large language models (LLMs). Existing schemes, including KGW, Unigr

Boundary Suppression Asymmetry in Post-trained Assistants: Over-expansion as a Controllability Cost

arXiv:2605.27969v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-trained language-model assistants are often optimized to avoid under-answering, encouraging complete, helpful, cautious, and proactive responses. W

BPPO: Binary Prefix Policy Optimization for Efficient GRPO-Style Reasoning RL with Concise Responses

arXiv:2605.28028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) is widely used for training reasoning models, but updating all sampled completions in each group incurs substa

Breaking the Script Barrier: Enabling Automatic Alignment for PoS-based ASR Error Analysis in Non-Latin Scripts

arXiv:2605.28438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are commonly evaluated using aggregate metrics such as Word Error Rate (WER), which do not capture the lingui

Bridging the Detection-to-Abstention Gap in Reasoning Models under Insufficient Information

arXiv:2605.28070v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We highlight a failure mode of large reasoning models on questions with insufficient information: models may recognize that a problem is under-specified

Calibrated Inference for the Conditional Average Treatment Effect in the Few-Placebo Regime via Gaussian Processes

arXiv:2605.27473v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Estimating how much an intervention helps a given individual the conditional average treatment effect (CATE) is increasingly central to decision-makin

CANDOR: Counterfactual ANnotated DOubly Robust Off-Policy Evaluation

arXiv:2412.08052v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Off-policy evaluation (OPE) is critical for applying contextual bandit algorithms to high-stakes decision-making settings such as healthcare, where