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Learning Manipulation-Sufficient Representations via Outcome Bottlenecks

arXiv:2609.13235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Networked manipulation endpoints couple perception to actuation across compute- and bandwidth-limited links, yet commonly exchange dense geometric sta

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Learning Multimodal One-step Flow Policy via Value-weighted Optimal Transport

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arXiv:2609.15883v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning aims to learn a policy solely from fixed datasets, which often contain multimodal action distributions. Flow policies c

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Learning Source Acquisition Policies by Offline Planning

arXiv:2609.14299v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting under an acquisition budget requires choosing feature groups whose value can depend on later queries. O-MPAC transfers finite-horizon risk-co

Learning Steerable Clarification Policies with Collaborative Self-play

arXiv:2512.04068v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: To handle underspecified or ambiguous queries, AI assistants need a policy for managing their uncertainty to determine (a) when to guess the user in

Learning to Exploit Passive Dynamics for Energy-Efficient Target Hopping of a Spring-Legged Quadcopter

arXiv:2609.15447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Combining aerial thrust with spring-loaded hopping makes monopedal quadcopters promising for locomotion over complex terrain, but heuristic proportional

Learning to Refer from Estimated Listener Gaze

arXiv:2609.14207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose to finetune vision-language models to generate more pragmatically optimal referring expressions by transforming observations of incremental l

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Learning to Solve Stochastic Controls with Unknown Drifts and Running Rewards: Theory, Algorithms and Convergence

arXiv:2609.14972v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study continuous-time and possibly high-dimensional stochastic control problems where drift coefficients and running reward functions are unknown. Du

Legislating World-Model-Based Planning with Legal Reasoning

arXiv:2609.15113v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As robotic systems grow more general, legal norms are needed to integrate them into society. This paper extends the isomorphism problem of aligning le

LePlanner: An Iterative Amortized Controller For World Models

arXiv:2609.13845v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models trained with joint-embedding predictive architectures learn compact, structured latent representations from physical interaction, yet pla

LieSpline-DP: Lie-Group B-Spline Diffusion Policy for Smooth Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2609.15162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion Policy (DP) is a powerful Learning from Demonstration (LfD) method for robotic manipulation, yet it suffers from discontinuous and non-smooth

LIMBO: Lifelong Inference-Time Memory and Budget Optimization for LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.14138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As LLM agents become integrated into increasingly complex workflows, they must continually acquire new capabilities while retaining competence on prev

Machine Unlearning for Speech Question Answering in Large Audio-Language Models

arXiv:2609.13195v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have recently shown strong capabilities in speech understanding and question answering (QA), but they also inherit

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Mask, Sample, Revise: A Revisable CTMC Inference Stack for Guided Discrete Flow Matching Text-to-Speech

arXiv:2606.13989v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent alignment-free non-autoregressive (NAR) text-to-speech (TTS) models formulate synthesis as a conditional infilling task, bypassing expl

NeuroProlog: Multi-Task Fine-Tuning for Neurosymbolic Mathematical Reasoning via the Cocktail Effect

arXiv:2603.02504v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong performance on natural language tasks but remain unreliable in mathematical reasoning, frequently genera

New Conditions for Philosophers to Catch the Wave of Citizen Deliberation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence in advance

arXiv:2609.15707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Powerful technologies labeled ``AI''-without sufficient epistemic caution-are already reshaping political and private life, bringing both new dangers an

Non-Asymptotic Global Convergence of PPO-Clip

arXiv:2512.16565v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning has gained attention for modern Large Language Model post-training. The actor-only variants of Proximal Policy Optimiza

Nonparametric Variance-Penalized Actor-Critic: Statistical Inference for Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.14327v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Variance penalization is a principled approach to risk-sensitive reinforcement learning (RL) that explicitly trades expected return for policy stability

Not All Prompts Are Equal: Exploration-Guided Prompt Scaffolding for Multimodal Reinforcement Post-Training

arXiv:2609.15051v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training prompts in online reinforcement learning (RL) differ substantially in how informative they are for the current policy: some are already satur

Physical Kernel: Structured Visual Latents for Dark Manipulation

arXiv:2609.13244v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study dark manipulation: after a brief lit Write encodes z0 = Enc(rgb), a policy pi(z) and open-loop dynamics f(z,a) complete contact-rich skills w

PredTac: Learning Contact-Rich Manipulation with Predicted Touch

arXiv:2609.15198v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-rich manipulation benefits from tactile feedback, yet physical tactile sensors introduce hardware, calibration, synchronization, and maintenance

Prelimit Coupling and Steady-State Convergence of Constant-stepsize Nonsmooth Contractive SA

arXiv:2404.06023v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Motivated by Q-learning, we study nonsmooth contractive stochastic approximation (SA) with constant stepsize. We focus on two important classe

PRI-Net: A Lightweight Multimodal Framework for 3D UAV Localization

arXiv:2609.14469v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate 3D localization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) remains challenging for existing multimodal approaches due to sparse LiDAR geometry, modalit

Primitive-Informed Sampling-Based MPC for Multi-Fingered Dexterous Manipulation

arXiv:2609.14868v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a primitive-informed sampling-based model predictive control (MPC) framework for multi-fingered dexterous manipulation. Sampling-based MPC av

Principal-timestep Restricted Init via Sparse Matrix-decomposition in Flow-matching

arXiv:2609.15643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow-matching diffusion models have recently emerged as a strong paradigm for high-fidelity visual generation. However, their prohibitively high fine-tu

Privileged observations enable rapid and reliable policy discovery directly in the physical world

arXiv:2512.08463v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study how privileged information about a physical system affects the discovery of high-performing policies when training a reinforcement learning

Real-World Reinforcement Learning with MPC Scaffolding for Dexterous Manipulation

arXiv:2609.14878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world reinforcement learning (RL) offers a promising route to dexterous manipulation policies that can adapt directly from physical interaction, bu

Reason What Matters: Retrieval-Grounded Reasoning for Universal Multimodal Embeddings

arXiv:2609.15296v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Universal multimodal embedding (UME) learns unified representations across modalities, enabling a single model to support diverse retrieval tasks. Recen

ReCAST: Reward Credit Assignment across Timesteps for Online Diffusion Reinforcement

arXiv:2609.13425v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training diffusion models with multiple rewards requires distinguishing user preference from reward informativeness. User preference determines how mu

Recoverability as a System Primitive for Long-Horizon AI Agents

arXiv:2609.13672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents can be interrupted while editing files, calling tools, or carrying out multi-step tasks. Restarting repeats completed work, but continuing fro

Reducing the Output-Mode Gap in Speech Language Models via Joint-Output On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2609.15313v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive generation of interleaved text and acoustic tokens is a common approach to spoken-response generation in speech large language models.

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Refinement-based Flow Policy Optimization

arXiv:2609.15123v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flow-based policies offer an expressive representation for online reinforcement learning, but conventional flow matching requires samples drawn from t

Restore What Matters: Lessons from Joint Restoration and Recognition

arXiv:2609.13791v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recognition pipelines typically adopt a restore-then-recognize workflow, yet decades of experience show that generating visually pleasing images seldom

Retrieval-Guided Fine-Tuning as Noisy Estimation: Risk bounds and Architectural Analysis

arXiv:2609.14485v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Guided Fine-Tuning (RAG-FT) incorporates retrieved data directly into the training objective, but the statistical consequences of noisy retrie

REVOLVE: An Automated Closed-Loop Framework for Evolving Robot Manipulation with Minimal Human Intervention

arXiv:2609.14633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in data-driven robot manipulation policies have substantially improved task execution and generalization. However, real-world deployment

ReWeight: Leveraging Human Data for VLA Post-Training via Demonstration Retrieval and Sample Weighting

arXiv:2609.13851v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training vision-language-action (VLA) models for specific robots and tasks requires in-domain demonstrations, yet collecting diverse robot data i

Rotation-Based Subspace Tracking for Robust Kernel PCA on Streaming Data

arXiv:2609.15488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning models process large amounts of data, and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a widely used technique to reduce the dimensionality of

Runtime-Incremental Transformer for Reinforcement-Learning-Based Adaptive Control

arXiv:2609.13545v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning-based adaptive control of robotic manipulators with non-observable friction memory has been addressed by attention- based meta-controllers wh

SAM3D-Part: Interactive Part Selection and Generation from 3D Objects

arXiv:2609.15639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Part-level control is essential for modern 3D asset creation, where objects are frequently edited, reused, animated, or fabricated through their individ

SGWIB:Sliced Gromov-Wasserstein Information Bottleneck for Video Highlight Detection

arXiv:2609.13966v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video highlight detection aims to identify temporally important segments that capture the most informative or engaging events in a video. Reliable pre

Shapley Value Estimation for Multi-Site Data with Blockwise-Missing Features

arXiv:2609.14902v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Shapley value (SV)-based methods are the prevailing framework for feature attribution in machine learning, yet existing population-level Shapley estim

Sharp Rates and a One-Line Correction for Spectral Representation Learning

arXiv:2609.15825v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A self-supervised encoder is trained once, frozen, and reused through lightweight probes on tasks nobody named at training time; the practitioner's ques

Should All Noises Be Treated Equally: Impact of Input Noise Variability on Neural Network Robustness

arXiv:2609.14504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Geophysical data collected from active field sites are often contaminated by complex and heterogeneous noise, obscuring weak seismic events, and complic

Signatures of Steerability in Activation Space of Language Models

arXiv:2609.14151v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Steering language models using a set of contrastive representations has been a canonical and computationally efficient method for controlling model be

Skill Composition for Legged Robot Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.14647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots, and humanoid robots in particular, are increasingly competent at individual behaviors, each obtained by training a specialized controller. A s

Steady-State Convergence of Stochastic Approximation

arXiv:2609.14922v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For constant-stepsize stochastic approximation (SA), the iterates converge in distribution to a stationary law that depends on the stepsize alpha. Ste

StereoPatch: Patch-Aligned RGB-Depth Fusion for Spatial Perception in Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2609.15509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in robot imitation learning have produced visuomotor policies that predict actions directly from visual observations. Yet visually simil

Task-Based CT Protocol Optimization Using Reinforcement Learning and Virtual Imaging Trials

arXiv:2609.13309v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Protocol optimization in computed tomography (CT) aims to improve diagnostic image quality while reducing radiation dose, but the interdependence of a

Tele360: Real-Time Feed-Forward Human Reconstruction from Sparse Unposed Cameras

arXiv:2609.15032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Live free-viewpoint visualization of real humans is critical for immersive communication and interactive digital experiences. Existing methods either re