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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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Workforce economics emerges as AI reshapes the C-suite

The economics of enterprise transformation are pushing finance and human resources into much closer alignment as companies decide where artificial intelligence fits, where people create the most value

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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

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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

Adaptive Forgetting for Nonstationary Optimization: Towards Robust EEG Decoding

arXiv:2609.24233v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) provides non-invasive monitoring of brain activity and is widely used in emotion recognition, motor imagery and sleep stagi

AlignMorph: Tuning-Free Diffusion Image Morphing via Explicit Semantic Transport

arXiv:2609.24330v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image morphing aims to produce a smooth and semantically consistent transition between two input images. Existing diffusion-based morphing methods eithe

An Evolutionary Agentic Approach for Open-ended Image Quality Perception

arXiv:2609.22942v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative models are rapidly expanding image quality assessment (IQA) beyond traditional fidelity factors to emerging dimensions such as physical plaus

An LLM-Assisted AutoML Framework for Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks

arXiv:2609.23097v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Internet of Things (IoT) systems are increasingly deployed in smart homes, transportation, energy systems, and critical infrastructure. This broad con

Anatomy of a Closed-Loop Collapse: A Causal Case Study of a Compressed VLA Policy

arXiv:2609.23048v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Compressed manipulation policies can pass offline evaluation while failing in closed-loop execution; this dissociation is established in prior work an

AquaWorld: Structure-Consistent Underwater World Generation for Robot Simulation

arXiv:2609.22670v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Underwater robot simulation requires diverse environments in which terrain, scene composition, tasks, and currents remain mutually consistent. We presen

ARM: Attention with Routed-Memory for Learnable Sparse Control

arXiv:2609.24417v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite advances in long-context inference, large language models (LLMs) remain fundamentally limited by the key-value (KV) caching mechanisms that are

ARSTAG: An Agentic Real2Sim2Real System for Task-Specific Robot Data Generation

arXiv:2609.24563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapting visuomotor policies to new manipulation tasks often requires substantial manual engineering or teleoperated data collection. Simulation can pro

Attack-Resistant Uniform Fairness for Linear and Smooth Contextual Bandits

arXiv:2602.04125v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern digital platforms use contextual bandits to allocate valuable exposure and opportunities among competing participants. Fair treatment i

Auditing Bayesian Graph Alignment: Diagnostic Comparisons and Reference Failure

arXiv:2609.23232v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bayesian graph alignment estimates correspondence probabilities, but convergence of an alignment-score trace need not imply accurate correspondence ma

BEACON: Belief-Enabled Adaptive CONtrol for Imitation Learning under Uncertainty

arXiv:2609.22730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulation tasks often involve hidden state information that cannot be directly observed and must be inferred through sequential physical intera

Beetle: A Bilingual Model Suite for Modelling Second-Language Processing

arXiv:2609.22633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bilingual language models (LMs) offer a controlled setting for studying how training conditions shape second-language (L2) behaviour, but prior work typ

Beyond Emotion Prompts: Fine-Grained Text-to-Image Generation Driven by Valence-Arousal-Dominance

arXiv:2609.24215v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although text-to-image models can accurately depict subjects and scenes, creators still struggle to specify the fine-grained emotions an image should co

BiRoAD: Learning Shared and Role-Adaptive Representations for Bimanual Manipulation

arXiv:2609.23445v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bimanual manipulation requires policies that coordinate two arms while adapting their functional roles to scene geometry, object configuration, and task

Block-Sparse Attention with Semantic-Geometric Decoupled Routing

arXiv:2609.22884v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context inference has become a defining capability of large language models, but exact dense attention remains costly due to its quadratic scaling

Calibrating Lightweight Sparse Autoencoder Feature Steering

arXiv:2506.12576v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) can enable inference-time topic steering by modifying latent feature activations, but existing steering methods often fai

Calpric: Inclusive and Fine-grain Labeling of Privacy Policies with Crowdsourcing and Active Learning

arXiv:2401.08038v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A significant challenge to training accurate deep learning models on privacy policies is the cost and difficulty of obtaining a large and comprehens

Classifier-Free Guidance in Flow Matching: Non-Autonomous Potentials, Overshoot, and Posterior-Mean Control

arXiv:2609.24287v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Classifier-free guidance (CFG) improves conditional generation in Flow Matching, but strong guidance can distort the generated distribution and reduce d

CLIP-Powered Domain Generalization and Domain Adaptation: A Comprehensive Survey

arXiv:2504.14280v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As machine learning evolves, domain generalization (DG) and domain adaptation (DA) have become crucial for improving model robustness across diverse

CLOOPD: Closing the Learner Loop in On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2609.24141v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) pays twice for each fresh batch: the student generates trajectories and a stronger teacher scores them. Existing methods im

Closing the Speech-Text Gap with Limited Audio for Effective Domain Adaptation in LLM-Based ASR

arXiv:2604.06487v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Conventional end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems rely on paired speech-text data for domain adaptation. Recent LLM-based ASR archi

Cognition to Control - Multi-Agent Learning for Human-Humanoid Collaborative Transport

arXiv:2603.03768v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Full-stack human-robot collaboration (HRC) can become brittle when replacing a planner, partner model, coordination policy, or controller changes th

Comparing Latent Concept Formation in State Space Models and Transformers via Sparse Autoencoders

arXiv:2609.24440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The quadratic scaling of Transformer self-attention has driven the adoption of sub-quadratic Selective State Space Models (SSMs) like Mamba, which compr

ContactDP: Contact-Guided Diffusion Policy for Tight Insertion Tasks

arXiv:2609.23800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-precision connector insertion remains challenging for robotic systems due to tight mechanical tolerances, partial observability during contact, and

Cool paper showing how effective tuning a system prompt for an agent can be. Recommended paper if you tune agent harnesses. This paper prese…

Cool paper showing how effective tuning a system prompt for an agent can be. Recommended paper if you tune agent harnesses. This paper presents EvolveTrade, which treats a trading agent's system promp

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Critical-State RL: Diagnosing Trainable States for Multi-Turn Tool Use

arXiv:2609.24985v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-turn tool-use failures can hinge on a single model call, yet reward variation alone does not reveal which call would benefit from training. When

D-IMPL: A Diffusion-based Solver for Parameterized BBOs

arXiv:2609.22752v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models have demonstrated strong power in generative modeling tasks across multiple domains, exhibiting a remarkable capability of learning com

Decomposing Error and Style in Automated Clinical Coding

arXiv:2609.24877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In automated clinical coding, where the label space spans tens of thousands of diagnosis and procedure codes, models are currently evaluated against a s

DeepInstructor: An Agentic AI Instructor for Experience-Driven Idea Evaluation

arXiv:2609.22104v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As automated scientific discovery advances, Large Language Models (LLMs) can now generate research ideas at an unprecedented scale, shifting the bottlen

Dexterous Robot Manipulation from Human Demonstrations via Contact-Anchored Retargeting and Residual Policy Learning

arXiv:2609.24093v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning dexterous manipulation from demonstrations is bottlenecked by data: the contact forces that determine whether a grasp succeeds are absent from