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Teaching Robot Policies to Humans Using Erroneous Examples

arXiv:2608.29023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-robot collaboration describes the process of humans and autonomous agents working together to accomplish common goals. This process is facilitated

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Temporal Forcing: 4D Representation Alignment for Vision-Language-Action Models

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arXiv:2608.30643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent vision-language-action (VLA) methods improve manipulation performance by aligning their representations with 3D scene geometry. However, these me

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The Policy Deficit in AI x Social-Emotional Learning Research

arXiv:2608.29950v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly integrated into social-emotional learning (SEL) initiatives, the need for evidence-based policy has be

To Retrieve or To Think? Cross-Boundary Context Evolution for Multi-hop Complex Reasoning

arXiv:2601.08747v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current context augmentation methods, such as retrieval-augmented generation, play a crucial role in bridging a model's internal knowledge bou

TopoCompress: Long Context Compression via Graph-Wired Semantic Trajectories

arXiv:2608.30811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context compression is essential for reducing the cost and latency of large language model inference. However, existing methods can fragment import

Toward a Cross-Lingual Romanization Ecosystem for Sinitic Languages: A Paired Mandarin-Cantonese Case Study

arXiv:2608.29170v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes the Sinitic Romanization Ecosystem, a cross-lingual Sinitic romanization design framework with supporting digital infrastructure and

Toward Cultural Alignment: Human-Centered Evaluation of Multimodal AI Stories Across Five African Communities

arXiv:2608.29209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we examine how well AI-generated multimodal stories align with the lived practices, relationships, language, values, and visual expectati

Towards Continual Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models in Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

arXiv:2608.29923v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) relies on vision-language alignment to recognize arbitrary text-defined categories, yet this alignment is f

TPR-Attention for Combinatorial Generalization

arXiv:2608.30124v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Systematic generalization remains a significant challenge in deep learning. In particular, combinatorial generalization - generalizing to new configur

TRACER: Per-Tool Context Retention for LLM Agents via Consequence-Attributed Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.29363v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise data agents answer business queries by chaining many tool calls over multiple reasoning steps, routinely accumulating hundreds of thousands o

Tracing the Latent Threads: A Mechanistic Study of How LLMs Represent and Operationalize Race and Ethnicity Cues

arXiv:2601.12868v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly operate in high-stakes settings where demographic attributes such as race and ethnicity may be explicitly

Training-Free Action Correction for VLA Model Failures via Language Feedback

arXiv:2608.29967v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models demonstrate strong semantic understanding yet exhibit systematic failures during deployment. The conditions under

TriPilot-FF: Coordinated Whole-Body Teleoperation with Force Feedback

arXiv:2602.09888v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mobile manipulators broaden the operational envelope for robot manipulation. However, the whole-body teleoperation of such robots remains a problem:

Type-Balanced Contextual Learning for Incremental Named Entity Recognition

arXiv:2608.31038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Incremental Named Entity Recognition (INER) stands as a pivotal task in information extraction, emphasizing the successive identification of new entity

Universal Redundancies in Time Series Foundation Models

arXiv:2602.01605v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Time Series Foundation Models (TSFMs) leverage extensive pretraining to accurately predict unseen time series during inference, without the need for

Unleashing the Potential of Mamba: Boosting a LiDAR 3D Sparse Detector by Using Cross-Model Knowledge Distillation

arXiv:2409.11018v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The LiDAR 3D object detector that balances accuracy and speed is crucial for achieving real-time perception in autonomous driving. However, many exi

Unsupervised Latent Space Alignment with Hyperspherical Geodesic Matching

arXiv:2608.28840v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Independently trained neural networks tend to encode the same data with similar latent geometries. These latent geometries are not directly compatible,

Unsupervised Multi-Scale Gromov-Wasserstein Hypergraph Alignment

arXiv:2608.29635v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study unsupervised hypergraph alignment, where the goal is to infer node correspondences between two hypergraphs using only structural information, w

VFR-Audit: Verdict-Level Reliability for Fairness Audits in Hospital Length-of-Stay Prediction

arXiv:2608.30846v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fairness audits in clinical Artificial Intelligence convert continuous fairness metrics into binary pass-or-fail verdicts against operational thresholds

VIBE: Video Instruction-aligned Background music gEneration

arXiv:2608.30125v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current video-to-music (V2M) models lack semantic control and fail to penalize instruction violations, largely due to their reliance on reconstruction

What Emerges and What Breaks in Self-Play Driving

arXiv:2608.30819v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training autonomous driving policies through pure self-play has recently shown promising results. Following Gigaflow and Puffer- Drive, we train driving

When Does Predictor-Based RL Align with Human Perception? A Study of Subjective Rewards in Codec-Based Speech Language Models

arXiv:2608.31035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Codec-based text-to-speech (TTS) models make language-model post-training applicable to speech generation, but it remains unclear when learned perceptua

When History Is Multimodal: Rethinking Context Management for Long-Horizon Agents

arXiv:2608.29897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agents need a context manager to compress growing interaction histories into a bounded working context, via passive strategies or active st

Where Do Multilingual Vision-Language Encoders Fail on Low-Resource Languages?

arXiv:2608.30725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent multilingual vision--language encoders cover hundreds of languages in a single model, yet on two state-of-the-art instances retrieval on low-reso

Which LLM for Which Work? Budgeted Model Allocation under Uncertain Evaluation

arXiv:2608.29560v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A company with a fixed artificial intelligence (AI) budget must decide which large language model (LLM) handles each recurring workload. What it lacks i

Zero-shot Generalizable Graph Anomaly Detection with Mixture of Riemannian Experts

arXiv:2602.06859v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) aims to identify irregular patterns in graph data, and recent works have explored zero-shot generalist GAD to en

Zeva: In-Context Causal Learning for Generalizable Embodied Manipulation

arXiv:2608.30880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalizable embodied manipulation remains difficult to achieve through pretraining alone, due to unseen physical conditions in the real world. We argu

A Survey on Rubric-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Language Models

arXiv:2608.27505v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has become the dominant paradigm for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. How

A Unified Framework to Elicit Structured Feedback for Interpretable Multi-Trait Essay Scoring

arXiv:2608.28407v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-trait Automated Essay Scoring (AES) requires rubric-grounded reasoning across interdependent traits, rather than isolated score prediction. Existi

AI Alignment through a Game-theoretic Lens: A Survey

arXiv:2608.27910v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models and increasingly capable AI agents are deployed in high-risk settings, aligning them with complex human values has become a c

Aligning Agentic World Models via Knowledgeable Experience Learning

arXiv:2601.13247v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit a critical modal disconnect: they possess vast semantic knowledge but lack the procedural grounding to

Beyond Pixels: Visual Metaphor Transfer via Schema-Driven Agentic Reasoning

arXiv:2602.01335v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A visual metaphor constitutes a high-order form of human creativity, employing cross-domain semantic fusion to transform abstract concepts into impa

Biases in Expected Goals Models Confound Finishing Ability

arXiv:2401.09940v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Expected Goals (xG) has emerged as a popular tool for evaluating finishing skill in soccer analytics. It involves comparing a player's cumulative xG

Compositional Failure in Audio-Visual LLMs: Late-Layer Prior Dominance Under Cross-modal Conflict

arXiv:2608.27785v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study audio-visual conflict as a compositional generalization test for AV-LLMs: the model must combine synchronized but semantically incompatible aud

Conformal Risk-Averse Decision Making with Optimized Certainty Equivalent Risk Control

arXiv:2608.28179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study risk-averse decision making, in which an agent selects actions while being uncertain about the true system state. The risk is measured via op

Contact-Guided Exploration for Non-Prehensile Locomanipulation with Multi-Critic RL

arXiv:2608.28140v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-prehensile manipulation offers versatile skills for moving and rearranging heavy or bulky objects, particularly when combined with a mobile manipula

Cut-ViT: Task-Specific Model Pruning via Gram Anchoring Subspace Consistency

arXiv:2608.28205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pruning visual foundation models has attracted considerable attention. However, existing methods focus on rigid point-to-point token alignment on a sing

DeicticVLA: Unifying Instruction Modes Based on Language and Deictic Gestures in a Single VLA

arXiv:2608.28108v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) allow users to specify manipulation tasks in natural language, but distinguishing a target or placement goal amon

Depth-Aware Pothole Detection Using YOLO and RT-DETR at the Edge

arXiv:2608.27633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pothole detection and its severity measurement is still an important challenges in urban infrastructure management, where late maintenance directly cont

Dynamic Alignment Compensation for Hallucination Mitigation in Large Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608.28058v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) remain prone to hallucinations, producing responses that are irrelevant or inconsistent with the multimodal input.

Embedding Models for Stance-Aware Argument Retrieval

arXiv:2608.28283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In computational argumentation, obtaining arguments that explicitly support or attack given claims is a critical precursor to downstream reasoning tasks

FENCE: A Financial and Multimodal Jailbreak Detection Dataset

arXiv:2602.18154v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Jailbreaking poses a significant risk to the deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision Language Models (VLMs). VLMs are particularly vul

From Perspective to Fisheye Depth Estimation and Open-Vocabulary Segmentation

arXiv:2608.27860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision foundation models are capable of generalizing across 3-dimensional (3D) scenes with high-fidelity estimates; their empirical success can be attri

HARTS: Efficient Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Hybrid-Attention Models over Arbitrary Rollout Trees

arXiv:2608.28158v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) often produces irregular rollout trees with shared histories. Training root-to-leaf trajectories independently recom

How Proper Scoring Rules Shape LLM Forecasting

arXiv:2608.28482v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper evaluates how reward function choice shapes the performance and behavior of LLM forecasters. We compare five proper scoring rules as training

Informational Antilocality and the Locality Bias in LLMs

arXiv:2608.27760v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We consider the ability of transformer-based language models (LLMs) to learn what we call k-antilocal languages, i.e., languages that have no mutual inf

INSPIRE: An Internalize-Then-Improve Approach for Example-Driven Mathematical Reasoning

arXiv:2608.27501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mathematical reasoning has seen rapid progress in large language models (LLMs), yet existing methods optimize predominantly for final-answer correctness

Iron: Intent-Aligned and Retrospective Dual Learning Framework for Enhancing Generalist Virtual Agents

arXiv:2608.27866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving virtual agents capable of automating tasks across diverse digital environments remains a pivotal challenge in Embodied AI. While Multimodal La