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Feedback-Modulated Harmonic Policies for Quadruped Locomotion

arXiv:2609.17946v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learned quadruped locomotion policies commonly map observations directly to joint-level actions, leaving the periodic structure of locomotion implicit i

Fetch My Beer: Synthetic-to-real Hierarchical Policy for Smooth Pick-and-place

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arXiv:2609.18119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many real-world robotic applications require dynamically sensitive manipulation, where success depends not only on reaching a target state but on mainta

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ForceDelta-VLA: Distilling Force-Conditioned ActionCorrections for Contact-Rich Manipulation

arXiv:2609.18242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Force-aware Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies improve contact-rich manipulation, but typically combine task-level motion and contact-dependent adjus

From a River in Gilead to the Inference Distributions of Large Language Models: Covert Dialect Bias and Linguistic Profiling at Scale

arXiv:2609.18068v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains such as housing screening. While alignment techniques mitigate explicit

Function-Preserving Data Generation for Zero-Shot Real-to-Sim-to-Real Manipulation

arXiv:2609.18293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic data generation is a promising paradigm for scaling robot learning without collecting large-scale real-world data. However, generating geometric

G-Mamba: Sparse Graph-Guided Mamba for Audio-Visual Speech Enhancement

arXiv:2609.18009v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lightweight audio-visual speech enhancement (AVSE) models face a critical trade-off between computational efficiency and cross-modal alignment accurac

@GaryMarcus @0xkkai The current AI agency architecture based on looping on an LLM core by piling on the same LLM context is a deeply flawed …

Romeo Lupascu has criticized the prevailing AI agency framework, which relies on repeatedly looping an LLM core with identical context. He calls this strategy “deeply flawed” and argues that it should

Gated Residual Body-Hand Coordination for Whole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation

arXiv:2609.18763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whole-body humanoid teleoperation commonly combines a motion-tracking policy with a separate dexterous-hand retargeter. However, independently generated

Gradient Descent with Stochastic Subspaces via Persistence of Memory

arXiv:2609.18416v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stochastic subspace methods have gained popularity as gradient descent based techniques for large scale optimisation problems, especially in distribut

How Calibration Content Shapes Attention-Based Reranking

arXiv:2609.17764v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Attention-based rerankers score documents by aggregating query-to-document attention and subtracting a null-query calibration pass to remove positional

How Many Labels Does Model Choice Need? Certificates and Budgets for Selective Prediction

arXiv:2609.18622v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Classifiers can make identical predictions yet require labels to compare their selective performance: confidence ranks weight the same errors differentl

“HUMANZS LAUNCHED THE JOB” Ok, I don’t like the spelling here, but the gist of this Mozilla cybersecurity researcher rings true. The six new…

“HUMANZS LAUNCHED THE JOB” Ok, I don’t like the spelling here, but the gist of this Mozilla cybersecurity researcher rings true. The six new incidents aren’t about the second coming of Skynet, they ar

In-Context Robot Learning with VLM Agents

arXiv:2609.19138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enabling robots to adapt to unfamiliar environments as readily as humans remains a moonshot goal of embodied AI. No finite collection of demonstration

KINO: A Keyframe Interface for VLM Planning and Whole-Body Control in Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

arXiv:2609.18869v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid loco-manipulation requires robots to interpret task instructions and scene semantics while executing coordinated whole-body motions. We propose

Learning Heterogeneous Preferences

arXiv:2609.17847v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from human feedback has become a central paradigm for training modern AI systems, where models of human utility are used as reward models in po

Learning Holistic Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation with a Bipedal Mobile Manipulator

arXiv:2609.18930v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bipedal loco-manipulation enables robots to interact with objects beyond the nominal workspace of their arms by coordinating locomotion and manipulation

Learning Magnetic Order Classification from Large-Scale Materials Databases

arXiv:2509.05909v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The reliable identification of magnetic ground states remains a major challenge in high-throughput materials databases, where density function

Learning to Stack: Cube-Stacking Imitation Learning from Virtual Reality Demonstrations

arXiv:2609.19040v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation learning is attractive for robot manipulation, but collecting demonstrations remains a bottleneck for multi-stage tasks requiring repeated sce

Lexara-RF: Reference-Free Metrics for Evaluating Conversational Visual Analytics Agents

arXiv:2609.17842v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational visual analytics (CVA) agents powered by large language models generate visualizations and natural-language explanations from open-ende

Look Less, Hear Better: Jointly Rewarded GRPO for Streaming ASR

arXiv:2609.18333v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) must be judged jointly on what it transcribes and on how quickly it commits each word. Delayed streams mo

{M}^2Tok: Multi-head Multi-codebook Discrete Action Tokenization for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2609.18259v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advancements have successfully adapted autoregressive language models to process multimodal signals, such as images and actions. Since raw acti

Machine Translation between English and Syriac (East Syriac Dialect) using Statistical Machine Learning

arXiv:2609.18529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: UNESCO considers the Assyrian (Syriac) language an endangered language. Although Assyrians speak the language worldwide, the speaking population is unce

METALICA: METAdynamics and repLICA exchange for enhanced diffusion sampling

arXiv:2609.17823v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many proteins function through transitions between conformational states, yet rare states are rarely sampled by diffusion models trained on an equilib

Missing Bridges: Composition-Aware Active Imitation Learning

arXiv:2609.18004v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active imitation learning reduces expert effort by allowing a learner to request the demonstrations it needs. Existing methods typically select these re

Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Differentiable Predictive Control for Underground Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Systems

arXiv:2609.17964v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper extends Mixed-Integer Differentiable Predictive Control (MI-DPC) to multi-modal discrete decisions and nonconvex polynomial dynamics arisin

Multi-Session Multimodal Underwater Mapping with Acoustic and Optical Imaging

arXiv:2609.17929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate seafloor mapping is essential for marine science, archaeology, and environmental monitoring. However, integrating data from different sensors,

Multitask Reinforcement Learning for Assisting Choice Model Specification

arXiv:2609.18441v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Discrete choice model specification is a time-consuming task in which modellers often specify and estimate multiple models while balancing goodness-of

new unredacted filings in the publishers (including my employer) vs OpenAI and Microsoft lawsuit Microsoft's Director of applied science cal…

new unredacted filings in the publishers (including my employer) vs OpenAI and Microsoft lawsuit Microsoft's Director of applied science calls LLM training 'an astonishing theft of unprecedented propo

Newer Is Not Fairer: Gender Stereotyping in Text-to-Image AI Across Model Generations

arXiv:2609.18007v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-image generative models are widely used in professional and creative settings, yet how they represent gender across occupations -- and whether

NormLift: From Lifted Features To Semantic Reliability In 3D Gaussian Splatting

arXiv:2609.18898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training-free weighted aggregation is widely used to lift 2D semantic features onto 3D Gaussians for open-vocabulary scene understanding, yet its theore

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NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an 'existential threat' and a Microsoft executive called AI training 'an astonishing theft' (Financial Times)

Financial Times: NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an “existential threat” and a Microsoft executive called AI training “an astonishing theft” — Lawyers say AI co-founder Gre

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OpenDexGrasp: Open-vocabulary Task-Oriented Dexterous Grasping

arXiv:2609.18117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous grasp synthesis has advanced rapidly in generating stable and physically plausible hand poses, but real-world manipulation requires grasps tha

Over 2 years ago @sayashk and I wrote a detailed deconstruction of p(doom) and argued that its primary function is to launder vague, evidenc…

Over 2 years ago @sayashk and I wrote a detailed deconstruction of p(doom) and argued that its primary function is to launder vague, evidence-free intuitions and fears through a facade of quantificati

Patch the Distribution Mismatch: RL Rewriting Agent for Stable Off-Policy SFT

arXiv:2602.11220v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models are commonly adapted to downstream tasks through supervised fine-tuning (SFT), but substantial distribution mismatch bet

PESTO: Formally Correct Registration of LiDAR Point Clouds with Limited Overlap

arXiv:2609.18082v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper we tackle the problem of aligning LiDAR point clouds also known as the point cloud registration problem. We propose a new algorithm, PES

Prior Evolution and Task Alignment for Aerial Grasping

arXiv:2609.18153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerial grasping is a remarkable capability exhibited by predatory birds, allowing them to capture prey through highly coordinated maneuvers in flight. I

PRISM: Predictive Representation of Interaction Style and Motion for Social Robot Navigation

arXiv:2609.18125v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans often observe others before interacting and adjust their behavior accordingly. Robot navigation in crowds, however, often represents pedestrian

QMSR: Query-Conditioned Mask-wise Expert Routing for Robust Open-Vocabulary Underwater Object Retrieval

arXiv:2609.18752v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-vocabulary object retrieval remains challenging in complex underwater environments. Although underwater image enhancement (UIE) can improve visual

RAFAIL: Relationship-Aware Failure Detection for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2609.18324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Detecting failures during execution is essential for reliable robotic manipulation. Vision-language models (VLMs) can assess task outcomes semantically

Re2A: Situated Conversational Recommendation via Rubric-based Preference Reasoning and Alignment

arXiv:2609.18249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world recommendation scenarios are commonly grounded in shared physical environments during user-recommender interactions. This motivates situated

Real-Time Maneuver Planning for Fixed-Wing UAVs in Unsteady Flows Using a GPU-Accelerated Vortex Particle Model

arXiv:2509.16079v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unsteady aerodynamic effects can have a profound impact on aerial vehicle flight performance, especially during agile maneuvers and in complex aerod

RecMorph: Topology-Guided Spatial Recurrence for Generalized Morphology Control

arXiv:2609.18359v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalized morphology control requires a single policy to transform information across limbs with different physical roles, coordinate whole-body mot

Rethinking Critic Learning in PPO: Understanding and Mitigating Value Flattening

arXiv:2609.18708v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In reinforcement learning for large language models, Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) commonly uses a critic to estimate state values and reduce the

Revisiting Distributed Sign-Based Variance Reduction

arXiv:2609.18656v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sign-based methods reduce communication costs in distributed environments, but aggregating local signs can introduce bias when data are heterogeneous. A

rMuscle: Robotic Muscle Memory for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model Inference

arXiv:2609.19104v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Factory work is a promising early scenario for embodied AI: assigning repetitive manual jobs to robots has clear economic payoff, and a structured sta

SEAM: Submap-Anchored Evidence for Lifelong LiDAR Mapping under Trajectory Deformation

arXiv:2609.18819v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose SEAM, a LiDAR-based lifelong mapping framework. Instead of relying on a single anchor spanning the entire session, SEAM generates evidence ba

Social Laws for Multi-agent Coordination in Stochastic Environments

arXiv:2609.18929v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In multi-agent environments, coordinating agents to prevent interference and ensure robust individual performance is a critical challenge. Previous re

Stealthy in Semantics, Antagonistic in Space: Attacking Visible-Infrared Object Detectors via Object-Level Misalignment

arXiv:2609.18133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visible-infrared object detectors are used for robust perception under challenging illumination and weather conditions. Current physical attacks apply c

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