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Manifold-Aligned Generative Transport

arXiv:2602.19600v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Many high-dimensional datasets concentrate near a low-dimensional structure embedded in the ambient space. Generative models for such data mus

Mapping the Emerging Social Science of Large Language Models

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arXiv:2609.07598v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly shape communication, learning, work, creativity, and decision-making, yet social-science research on these d

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10 Sept 2026

May, damn it, not six weeks. Senior, not entry level.

May, damn it, not six weeks. Senior, not entry level. Jacob was a senior researcher who joined Anthropic in May. My Anthropic colleagues and I had been trying to recruit him for ~2 years, because we k

Meta-LinEXP3: Online-within-Online Learning for Adversarial Linear Contextual Bandits

arXiv:2609.09907v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Meta-learning has emerged as an effective paradigm for transferring knowledge across sequential bandit tasks. While substantial progress has been made f

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous UAV Exploration in Wildfire Response

arXiv:2609.10433v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study develops a deep reinforcement learning framework for training Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) agents to navigate and monitor simulated wildfi

Multi-dimensional Preference Alignment by Conditioning Reward Itself

arXiv:2512.10237v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback has emerged as a standard for aligning diffusion models. However, we identify a fundamental limitation in

Noesis: Deterministic-First Retrieval with Two-Tier Context Hydration for Factuality-Critical Queries on Small Local Models

arXiv:2609.07663v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A wrong number is worse than no answer. Across factuality-critical domains -- audience metrics, scheduling and rights in media; dosages and lab values

not counting Sam himself who is frequently in DC

not counting Sam himself who is frequently in DC OpenAI employs FIVE lobbying firms and has over 100 staffers in their Washington, DC office. They must push for AI legislation to justify their existen

Odometer-Agnostic Drift Correction Using OpenStreetMap Lane Geometry

arXiv:2609.10336v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite significant progress in odometry estimation, long-term drift remains a fundamental limitation of incremental pose integration, especially in lar

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On-Policy Distillation for Vision-Language Model Adaptation, an Effective Paradigm on Low-Quality Multimodal Data

arXiv:2609.10321v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge distillation offers an efficient route to transfer a task-adapted vision-language teacher to a compact student. The training target in current

OpenAI hid the details of the wiki incident from the investigators of the later HuggingFace hack. When caught, they responded only with corp…

OpenAI hid the details of the wiki incident from the investigators of the later HuggingFace hack. When caught, they responded only with corporate BS. This cover-up of unprecedentedly misaligned behavi

Optimal Value Inference for Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.09981v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study offline inference for the optimal value in reinforcement learning. Two new nuisances are derived as fixed points of a self-induced Bellman eq

Personalized Execution Time Optimization for Billion-Scale Scheduled Jobs

arXiv:2203.06158v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scheduled batch jobs are widely used on asynchronous computing platforms to execute enterprise applications such as promotional notifications and ca

Politics of Feelings: Emotional Expression and Legislative Effectiveness in the U.S. Congress

arXiv:2609.10198v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emotions are a pervasive feature of political communication, yet existing research has focused primarily on describing patterns of emotional expression

PopResume: Causal Fairness Evaluation of LLM/VLM Resume Screeners with Population-Representative Dataset

arXiv:2603.22714v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present PopResume, a population-representative resume dataset for causal fairness auditing of LLM- and VLM-based resume screening systems.

Q&A with AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who quit Anthropic, on the need for industry-wide, international coordination to limit recursive self-improvement, and more (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Q&A with AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who quit Anthropic, on the need for industry-wide, international coordination to limit recursive self-improvement, and more — Jacob Coxon talk

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Quantization Amplifies Determinism, Not Bias: Scale-Dependent Behavioral Effects of Serving-Time Weight Compression

arXiv:2609.07901v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Weight quantization largely determines the economics of serving open-weight LLMs. Its costs are usually assessed with capability benchmarks, on which 4-

RoboDrop: Curating VLA Post-Training Data via Local Gradient Compatibility

arXiv:2609.10021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision--language--action (VLA) models acquire broad generalization through large-scale pretraining, yet adapting them to a new task and robot embodiment

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SkillAlign: Aligning Skill Interfaces for LLM-based Agents

arXiv:2609.07255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language-model agents increasingly rely on skills: reusable procedural knowledge for reasoning, tool use, and interaction. Existing work studies how ski

Spillover-Aware Multi-Value Steering for Pluralistic LLM Alignment

arXiv:2609.05800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation steering controls LLM behavior at inference time by adding learned directions to hidden states, but existing methods handle one concept at a

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SRD-GUARD: A Defense Framework of LLMs via Semantic Rewriting and Joint Multi-Model Scoring for Latent Intent Exposure

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arXiv:2609.06540v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in safety-critical applications, yet jailbreak attacks can conceal harmful intent through role-

SRPO: Setwise Relative Policy Optimization for Multi-Agent LLMs

arXiv:2609.08452v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent large language models solve complex tasks by coordinating several policies in a shared environment. However, existing reinforcement learning

Strangers to Themselves: What Language Models Say About Themselves Is Generic

arXiv:2609.09899v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models can fluently describe how they would behave: whether they would cave to pushback, misuse a tool, or lie under pressure. Is that descri

StreamAlign: Streaming Text-Aligned Speech Tokenization

arXiv:2609.09719v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-aligned speech tokenization methods have emerged to better align speech tokens with LLM token spaces, enabling more effective utilization of pretra

StreetDiff: Multi-view Street Scenes Generation via Cross-view Consistent Multi-view Stable Diffusion with Structure Prompts

arXiv:2609.09890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-view diffusion models have shown strong performance in scenes with strong geometric priors and sparse semantics, such as indoor rooms or simple ou

The Emergence of Social Science of Large Language Models

arXiv:2509.24877v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The social science of large language models (LLMs) examines how these systems evoke mind attributions, interact with one another, and transform huma

The Emerging AI Paper-Review Arms Race: Adversarial Co-Evolution in Scholarly Publishing

arXiv:2609.07713v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative and agentic AI are reshaping both the production and evaluation of scientific research. These developments are often studied separately, as q

The Semantic Bottleneck: Leveraging Semantic Representations for Non-Invasive Speech Decoding

arXiv:2609.10296v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-invasive speech decoding remains constrained by the low signal-to-noise ratio of neural recordings, which makes fine-grained reconstruction of phone

this was wild amounts of disinformation / fear mongering / the stupidest interview ive ever seen: 1) ai did NOT hack huggingface on its own …

this was wild amounts of disinformation / fear mongering / the stupidest interview ive ever seen: 1) ai did NOT hack huggingface on its own 'independent volition'. it wasnt sitting there thinking hmm

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Time-Frequency Geometric Cross-Attention for Chunked Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2609.09925v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern vision-language-action (VLA) policies predict a whole chunk of actions: one to two seconds of coordinated motion emitted in a single forward pa

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Tomorrow I will rip Jacob Coxon’s CNN appearance. But let’s cut with the six weeks/entry level bullshit and the character assassination. My …

Tomorrow I will rip Jacob Coxon’s CNN appearance. But let’s cut with the six weeks/entry level bullshit and the character assassination. My best source (and one I have a lot of faith) in is that he st

Unbiased and Biased Variance-Reduced Forward-Reflected-Backward Splitting Methods for Stochastic Composite Inclusions

arXiv:2603.15576v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper develops new variance-reduction techniques for the forward-reflected-backward splitting (FRBS) method to solve a class of possibly nonmon

Unsound Search with Policy and Value Networks in Legends of Code and Magic

arXiv:2609.06816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decision-time search in perfect and imperfect information games with enumerable belief states are effective methods for game AI. Collectible card games

UOT-Gap: A Variational Principle for the Modality Gap in Vision-Language Models via Unbalanced Optimal Transport

arXiv:2609.10224v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models such as CLIP embed images and text in a shared space, where modality-specific distributions often remain separated. Existing acco

Video-MOPD: Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation for Video Understanding

arXiv:2609.09300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video understanding demands a convergence of complementary capabilities across perception, temporal understanding, and complex reasoning, which are diff

VideoTIR: Accurate Understanding for Long Videos with Efficient Tool-Integrated Reasoning

arXiv:2603.25021v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often suffer from hallucinations in long video understanding (LVU), primarily due to the imbalance

WAPP: Safe Learning of Positive Security WAF Policies from Live Traffic

arXiv:2609.06840v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) mainly rely on signatures to detect known attacks, which can leave gaps against modified or previously unseen payload

When Fusion Fails: Corruption-Aware Rebalanced Fusion for Multi-Modal Medical Image Segmentation

arXiv:2609.10261v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-modal medical image segmentation leverages complementary diagnostic information, yet fusion can underperform single-modality baselines when spatia

Where Does the Sound Go? Tracing Acoustic Information Loss in Audio-Conditioned LLMs

arXiv:2609.05871v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio-conditioned language models often underuse acoustic cues such as prosody, emotion, and non-speech sounds, raising the question of whether ASR-su

Why Do LLM Agents Fail in Exploring New Environments? A World-Modeling Perspective

arXiv:2510.15047v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) as agents often fail to improve in new environments. We identify and characterize a failure mode we call explorat

Why the public needs to step up. I talk with @CBCNews about why a (temporary) boycott of generative AI, as unlikely as it is, ought to be on…

Why the public needs to step up. I talk with @CBCNews about why a (temporary) boycott of generative AI, as unlikely as it is, ought to be on the table. https://youtu.be/3BBp-tCvsOM?si=88KxNluVZnuzRw3L

X2-NativeCursor: Native-Token Text Progress Tracking for Incremental-Text Streaming Codec TTS

arXiv:2609.09677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Incremental-text streaming text-to-speech (TTS) needs online text progress tracking for synchronized highlighting, interruption handling, and dialogue-h

X2Streaming-ASR: wait when uncertain, emit when ready for streaming ASR

arXiv:2609.08672v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) for real-time voice agents and full-duplex dialogue must provide accurate partial transcripts with low co

XAI-Refine: An Automated Explanation-Knowledge Loop for Brain-Age Prediction

arXiv:2609.09388v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Brain-age prediction models are commonly evaluated by predictive accuracy, yet accurate predictions alone do not establish that a model relies on reprod

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xDailyBench: Benchmarking LLMs on Professional Consultation for Real-Life Problems

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arXiv:2609.07784v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for everyday assistance, yet existing benchmarks only partially reflect the requests users naturally

zScore-N: A Neural Network for On-Chain Wallet Reputation Scoring

arXiv:2609.08247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wallet reputation scores decide who receives an airdrop, who can borrow, and who enters an allowlist across decentralised finance. They almost always be

A Better Spur Should Start From Each Objective

arXiv:2609.08211v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning (MORL) often suffers from sparse rewards, reward conflicts, and late-stage reward tug-of-war, causin

9 Sept 2026

A Closed-Form Estimator and Diagnostic Battery for Anchor-Judge Error Correlation, Under a Single-Common-Factor Model

arXiv:2609.08826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When an external reference set (an anchor) is used to decompose an LLM-judge panel's error into a quality signal and a shared common-mode error, stand