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SKILLC: Learning Autonomous Skill Internalization in LLM Agents via Contrastive Credit Assignment

arXiv:2605.27899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured skill prompts improve exploration in long-horizon agentic reinforcement learning (RL). Skill-augmented RL methods retain external skills at i

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Smaller, Younger, and More Impactful: How AI-Assisted Writing Transforms Research Teams

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arXiv:2605.27404v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The era of Big Science has long been defined by increasingly large and specialized research teams pushing the frontiers of knowledge. However, recent

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Soft-SVeRL: Self-Verified Reinforcement Learning with Soft Rewards

arXiv:2605.28561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has improved language models in domains such as mathematics and code, where correctness can be che

SPAR: Support-Preserving Action Rectification

arXiv:2605.27877v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Offline policy improvement faces an inherent conflict between maximizing value and fitting the data distribution. While in-sample weighted regression

SPRINT: Efficient Spectral Priors for Humanoid Athletic Sprints

arXiv:2605.28549v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The pursuit of humanoid athletic sprints is hindered by a scarcity of humanoid-viable kinematic reference data and the inability of existing framework

STARS: Spike Tail-Aware Relational Synthesis for ANN-to-SNN Data-Free Knowledge Distillation

arXiv:2605.27409v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: SNNs promise energy-efficient and low-latency inference, but their performance still trails that of ANNs. ANN-to-SNN knowledge distillation helps narr

Structure-Guided Visual Perturbation Neutralization for LVLMs

arXiv:2605.27927v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image inputs enable Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) to perceive fine-grained visual information, but also introduce a pixel-level attack surface th

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Structured Agent Distillation for Large Language Model

arXiv:2505.13820v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong capabilities as decision-making agents by interleaving reasoning and actions, as seen in ReAct-sty

Supervised Distributional Reduction via Optimal Transport and Dependence Maximization

arXiv:2605.27619v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning representations that capture both intrinsic data geometry and target-relevant structure remains a fundamental challenge, particularly in sett

Supervised Semantic Differential for Cross-Cultural Concept Analysis: A Case Study of Human Affect

arXiv:2605.28225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-cultural comparison of psychological meaning requires methods that go beyond word-level translation and examine how semantic dimensions are organi

SYNAPSE: Neuro-Symbolic Visual Thought-to-Text Decoding via Topological Semantic Denoising

arXiv:2605.27790v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in large language models have accelerated open-vocabulary EEG-to-imagined-text decoding, where non-invasive neural activity recorded dur

Teacher-Student Representational Alignment for Reinforcement Learning-Driven Imitation Learning

arXiv:2605.28372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation learning (IL) from a state-based reinforcement learning (RL) policy is a common approach to overcome the curse of dimensionality in complex an

Tensor Memory: Fixed-Size Recurrent State for Long-Horizon Transformers

arXiv:2605.27686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformers process images and videos by flattening space and time into long token sequences. While attention and KV caching preserve past features,

Test-Time Collective Action: Proxy-Based Perturbations for Correcting Algorithmic Harms

arXiv:2605.27689v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When machine learning systems under-perform for particular subgroups, affected users typically have no way to correct these disparities without relying

The Attentional White Bear Effect in Transformer Language Models

arXiv:2605.28639v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Instruction-based suppression is widely used to prevent language models from generating prohibited content, yet it remains unclear whether suppression

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The Fragility of Chain-of-Thought Monitoring Across Typologically Diverse Languages

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arXiv:2605.27901v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitoring has been proposed as a promising safety mechanism for detecting misaligned behavior in large language models. Howeve

The Illusion of Opting in AI-Mediated Consequential Decisions

arXiv:2605.28210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Drawing on Ullmann-Margalit's concept of opting (transformative, irrevocable, and shadowed by foreclosed alternatives), we show that current AI systems

The Obfuscation Atlas: Mapping Where Honesty Emerges in RLVR with Deception Probes

arXiv:2602.15515v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training against white-box deception detectors has been proposed as a way to make AI systems honest. However, such training risks models learn

Toward Robust Semi-supervised Regression via Dual-stream Knowledge Distillation

arXiv:2508.14082v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Semi-supervised regression (SSR), which aims to predict continuous scores for samples while reducing the reliance on large-scale labeled data, has r

Towards automated data analysis: A guided framework for LLM-based risk estimation

arXiv:2603.04631v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into critical decision-making pipelines, a trend that raises the demand for robust and auto

Trust Me, I'm an Expert: Decoding and Steering Authority Bias in Large Language Models

arXiv:2601.13433v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Prior research demonstrates that performance of language models on reasoning tasks can be influenced by suggestions, hints and endorsements. However

Turning Video Models into Generalist Robot Policies

arXiv:2605.27817v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video generative models have emerged as a promising robotics backbone, capable of generating videos that depict the completion of complex tasks across

Unlocking Fine-Grained and Within-Utterance Speaking Style Control in Prompt-Based Text-to-Speech Models

arXiv:2605.27376v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While prompt-based text-to-speech (TTS) models enable natural language-driven speaking style control, they often provide limited fine-grained control

Unsupervised Identification and Removal of Spurious Correlations During Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2605.27676v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-tuning a pretrained language model on a curated dataset can produce spurious correlations between the fine-tuning task and unintended latent fact

Utility-Aware Multimodal Contrastive Learning for Product Image Generation

arXiv:2605.28733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Product images strongly influence consumer decision-making in online marketplaces. Empowered by multimodal contrastive learning, generative AI can outpu

VCap: Hypergeometric Rewards for Weak-to-Strong Visual Captioning

arXiv:2605.28023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual captioning requires models to capture visual content faithfully while minimizing both omission and hallucination. As the dominant paradigm for

Verified Misguidance: Measuring Structural Citation Failures in Search-Augmented LLMs

arXiv:2605.28565v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Users of search-augmented LLMs rely on citations as evidence that responses are grounded in real sources, and rarely verify the cited pages themselves

Visualizing Latent Phase Structures in Locomotion Policies: A Multi-Environment Study with Temporal Feature Extension

arXiv:2605.28186v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been shown to achieve high performance on locomotion control tasks in MuJoCo benchmarks such as HalfCheetah, Ant

VLMs May Not Globally Enhance Human Alignment over LLMs During Natural Reading

arXiv:2605.28818v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly useful computational models of human language processing, but it remains unclear whether vision-la

What Are We Measuring in NLG? A Meta-Analysis of Evaluation Trends 2020-2025

arXiv:2601.07648v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As Natural Language Generation (NLG) dominates modern NLP, scalable evaluation remains a critical bottleneck. Consequently, LLM-as-a-judge (LaaJ) ad

What Frozen VLAs Already Know About Success: A Probing Study of Value-Like Structure in Foundation Robot Policies

arXiv:2605.28527v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision--language--action (VLA) policies are trained to imitate actions; their loss never asks them to estimate reward, progress, or future success. Thei

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When pre-training hurts LoRA fine-tuning: a dynamical analysis via single-index models

arXiv:2602.02855v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Pre-training on a source task is usually expected to facilitate fine-tuning on similar downstream problems. In this work, we mathematically show tha

Where Rollouts Begin: Low-Load, High-Leverage First-Token Diversification for RLVR

arXiv:2605.28295v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) trains reasoning models without labeled trajectories, relying on grouped rollouts to expose the po

Who Uses AI? Platform Selection and the Measurement of Occupational AI Exposure

arXiv:2605.21743v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Conversation logs from AI platforms are increasingly used to measure occupational exposure to artificial intelligence, but the users observed in the

xKV: Cross-Layer KV-Cache Compression via Aligned Singular Vector Extraction

arXiv:2503.18893v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-context Large Language Models (LLMs) enable powerful applications but incur high memory costs due to the key-value states (KV-Cache). Recent st

A Universal Cliff and a Design Fingerprint: Cross-Section Defect Detection Under LLM Orchestration

arXiv:2605.26174v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Production language-model systems answer a request by partitioning it across an invisible orchestration of worker agents that recompose one integrated

Adversarial Dual On-Policy Distillation from Expressive Flow-based Teacher

arXiv:2605.27095v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from demonstrations in embodied control is often cast as behavioral cloning, and recent diffusion or flow-matching policies improve this paradi

AI-Driven Contribution Evaluation and Conflict Resolution: A Framework & Design for Group Workload Investigation

arXiv:2511.07667v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The equitable assessment of individual contribution in teams remains a persistent challenge, where conflict and disparity in workload can result in

AI-T2I: Aggregating-and-Isolating Cross-Attention to Diffusion Models for Text-to-Image Synthesis

arXiv:2605.25763v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Text-to-image synthesis has made significant progress, benefiting from the strong generative capabilities of diffusion models. However, these models

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AirCast-SR: A Foundation Model for Kilometer-Scale Atmospheric Super-Resolution via Latent Consistency Diffusion

arXiv:2605.26130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Operational weather prediction at kilometer scales remains computationally prohibitive for traditional numerical weather prediction (NWP) models, limiti

Align & Invert: Solving Inverse Problems with Diffusion and Flow-based Models via Representation Alignment

arXiv:2511.16870v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Enforcing alignment between the internal representations of diffusion or flow-based generative models and those of pretrained self-supervised encode

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AlignEvoSkill: Towards Knowledge-Aware and Task-Aligned Agent Skill Evolution

arXiv:2506.23149v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reusable skills play a key role in improving LLM-based agents, but existing skill-evolution methods often fail to ensure that evolved skills both co

Aligning Few-Step Generative Models by Amortizing Sample-based Variational Inference

arXiv:2605.26552v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Aligning a few-step generative model is challenging, since existing alignment frameworks typically rely on restrictive assumptions: a tractable likeli

Alignment Makes Language Models Normative, Not Descriptive

arXiv:2603.17218v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Post-training alignment optimizes language models to match human preference signals, but this objective is not equivalent to modeling observed

Alignment Tampering: How Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback Is Exploited to Optimize Misaligned Biases

arXiv:2605.27355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is the standard method to align Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences. In this work, we

Alignment Tuning for Large Language Models: A Data-Centric Lens on Alignment Data Pipelines

arXiv:2605.26442v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Much of the alignment tuning literature is organized around optimization objectives, while the construction of alignment data is often treated implici

Annotator Positionality as Signal: Psychometric Weighting for Anti-Autistic Ableism Detection

arXiv:2605.26397v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in decision-making tasks where they can amplify or suppress perspectives, raising concerns in high-

Aperiodic and Low-Frequency Spectral Bias in Reconstruction based EEG Foundation Models

arXiv:2605.26434v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: EEG foundation models, pre-trained on large-scale unlabelled EEG data, have emerged as a promising direction towards learning generalizable EEG repres