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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

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

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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

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A First-Order Learning Algorithm for Online Resource Allocation with Constant Regret

arXiv:2609.05895v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study a finite-horizon online resource allocation problem with initial resource capacities proportional to the horizon. In each period, a request typ

A Review of the Long Horizon Forecasting Problem in Time Series Analysis

arXiv:2506.12809v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The long horizon forecasting (LHF) problem has come up in the time series literature for over the last 35 years or so. This review covers aspects of

A significant fraction of humanity read this thread. Is anyone prepared to do something about it? Fretting doesn’t count.

A significant fraction of humanity read this thread. Is anyone prepared to do something about it? Fretting doesn’t count. I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretrainin

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A Sub-4 Approximation for Fair k-Means

arXiv:2609.07974v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fairness in clustering has attracted sustained research interest, motivated by the need to ensure equitable representation of protected groups in mach

A Theoretical Analysis of Provable Compositional Generalization in Neural Networks: A Necessary and Sufficient Condition

arXiv:2505.02627v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Compositional generalizationnicode{x2013}the ability to systematically process novel combinations of known componentsnicode{x2013}is a hallmark of h

A Theoretical Framework for Masked Pretraining (MPT)

arXiv:2609.06460v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, Masked Pretraining (MPT) based on reconstruction pretraining tasks has risen to a promising self-supervised learning paradigm across various d

A*-Thought-V2: Efficient Latent Reasoning via Geometric Dynamics of LLM

arXiv:2609.07821v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chain-of-Thought (CoT) improves the reasoning ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) but incurs substantial computation and context costs. Existing m

Adapting Technical-Service LLM Agents with Latent Logic Augmentation, Robust Noise Reduction, and Hybrid Reward Modeling

arXiv:2603.18074v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Technical-service LLM agents are entering production workflows, where value depends on whether engineers adopt generated replies. Service tickets hi

Adaptive Anisotropic Attention for Axis-Structured Signals

arXiv:2609.08788v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dense self-attention treats all token pairs as equally plausible before learning, an interaction-isotropic prior that can be mismatched to structured si

Aesthetic Post-Training Diffusion Models from Generic Preferences with Step-by-step Preference Optimization

arXiv:2406.04314v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generating visually appealing images is fundamental to modern text-to-image generation models. A potential solution to better aesthetics is direct p

Agile and Generalized Legged Locomotion via Attention-Based Neural Map Encoding

arXiv:2601.08485v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Achieving agile and generalized legged locomotion across terrains requires tight integration of perception and control, especially under occlusions

Aha-Flow Distillation: Flow Markers Matter in LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2609.07036v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We identify the Flow Moment, a reasoning pattern characterized by sustained, process-confirming verbalizations such as I'm doing, in contrast to the r

Alpha-R1: Alpha Screening with LLM Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2512.23515v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Signal decay and regime shifts pose recurring challenges for data-driven investment strategies in non-stationary markets, where conventional t

An overview of 3D Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.05583v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are reshaping computer vision by aligning visual and textual embeddings, allowing models to recognize visual concepts and

AnomalyCraft-700K: Component-Level Controllable and Verifiable Synthetic Anomalies for Fine-Grained Video Anomaly Understanding

arXiv:2609.06978v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Progress in video anomaly understanding (VAU) has long been limited by inherent deficiencies of real-world anomaly videos, which are hard to collect and

Anthropic's Alignment Science lead says there is a '>10%' chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade and worries about recursive self-improvement (Evan Hubinger/@evanhub)

Evan Hubinger / @evanhub: Anthropic's Alignment Science lead says there is a “>10%” chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade and worries about recursive self-improvement — Jacob is corre

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Architectural and Regularization Components in Deep Learning Medical Image Registration: Systematic Ablation Study

arXiv:2609.05484v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning registration methods routinely stack two kinds of enhancement on a base network: architectural additions such as affine pre-alignment stag

ArmPoser: Real-Time, Calibration-Free Arm Pose Estimation from Smartwatch IMU

arXiv:2609.08806v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Arm pose estimation enables applications in fitness, extended reality input, rehabilitation, and life logging. Prior smartwatch-based approaches rely on

Artificial Foveated Perception for Mitigating Shortcut Learning in Robotic Foundation Models

arXiv:2607.10655v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic foundation models still need task-specific fine-tuning before deployment, and the fine-tuned policies often break under modest changes in sc

AudioFuse: Unified Spectral-Temporal Learning via a Hybrid ViT-1D CNN Architecture for Robust Phonocardiogram Classification

arXiv:2509.23454v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Biomedical audio signals, such as phonocardiograms (PCG), are inherently rhythmic and contain diagnostic information in both their spectral (t

AURORA: Active Uncertainty-Driven Re-Orientation for In-Hand Reconstruction

arXiv:2609.08493v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Observing objects grasped by a robot hand is challenging due to severe visual occlusions. Although in-hand manipulation can expose hidden surfaces, ex

BAFF: Bid-Aware Filter Family for Mitigating Training Data Interference in RTB A/B Tests

arXiv:2609.08725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In online A/B tests for real-time bidding (RTB), control and treatment models are typically trained on a shared serving log that includes data generated

Behavioral Cloning Outperforms Entropy-Regularized RL: Critic-Driven Failure of Actor-Critic Methods on Adaptive Tumor Treatment

arXiv:2609.06667v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adaptive dosing requires policies that reduce tumor burden without excessive toxicity. Learned dosing policies are typically judged against historical o

Bottom-up Modeling of Repeated Elements via Single Image Analysis-by-Synthesis

arXiv:2609.07939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We address the problem of discovering repeated elements from a single image. In contrast to existing approaches that depend on large annotated datasets,

CARDEA: Auditable Reasoning Grounded in Spatial Evidence for End-to-End Coronary Angiography Interpretation

arXiv:2609.06931v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Invasive coronary angiography (CAG) is the gold standard for diagnosing coronary artery disease, but interpretation varies substantially among observers

CASD: Chunk-Aligned Semantic Distillation for Multi-StageRobot Manipulation

arXiv:2609.08638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An action chunk can span several stages of a manipulation task, yet a label for its first step describes only the current stage. We introduce Chunk-Alig

CAST: Alternating State-Value Targets and Expanded Policy Gradients for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.08853v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) is a family of RL methods that learn a model of the environment and use it for action selection, making it wel

Closed-Loop Evaluation of Bird's-Eye-View Maps from Cross-View Transformers as Inputs to Behavior-Cloning Policies

arXiv:2609.05783v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In autonomous driving, Bird's-Eye View (BEV) representations provide a structured, top-down abstraction of the vehicle's surroundings and have become

Conditioned Initialization for Attention

arXiv:2609.07086v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformers are a dominant architecture in modern machine learning, powering applications across vision, language, and beyond. At the core of their s

CONTHER: Context-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation with Sparse Rewards

arXiv:2503.15895v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper investigates whether sequential context improves goal-conditioned Reinforcement Learning in sparse-reward manipulation tasks. While Hinds

Continual Policy Consolidation for Lifelong Robot Learning

arXiv:2601.22475v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Building a generalist robot policy requires continuously integrating new skills while preserving previously acquired behaviors. Directly optimizing

Counter-Swarm Doctrine: Containing Coordinated Agent Intrusions

arXiv:2609.06140v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agents can turn shared infrastructure into a channel for coordinated intrusion. The Hugging Face incident and a separate public-wiki investigation sho

Cross-modal learning for SAR target recognition using optical vision foundation models

arXiv:2609.07753v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is an important modality in a wide range of imaging applications due to its versatile, long range and near all weather op

DC-Gen: Post-Training Diffusion Acceleration with Deeply Compressed Latent Space

arXiv:2509.25180v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing text-to-image diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images, but face significant efficiency challenges when scaled to high reso

DCLP++: Learning to Navigate with Footprint Clearance and Relative Motion

arXiv:2609.08711v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present DCLP++, a local navigation frameworkthat uses footprint clearance as the geometric basis for studying relative motion features in dynamic env

DeCAL: Towards Physically-Grounded Dexterous Vision-Language-Action Models via Contact-Aware Latent Co-Imagination

arXiv:2609.09119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous manipulation involves contact-rich and fine-grained interactions with the physical world, posing significant challenges for existing vision-la

Deep Active Inference with Diffusion Policy and Multiple Timescale World Model for Real-World Exploration and Navigation

arXiv:2510.23258v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous robotic navigation in real-world environments requires exploration to acquire environmental information as well as goal-directed na

Depth-to-Image Synthesis-Driven Generative Unguided Depth Completion

arXiv:2609.06007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Guided depth completion methods heavily depend on RGB quality and alignment, while unguided ones often suffer from limited precision due to the absence

Detect Anything in Graphic Design: Element-Level Rewards for Autoregressive Detection

arXiv:2609.07072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graphic designs, such as posters, advertisements, and infographics, are an important medium for communicating information and shaping understanding. Unl

Dex-X: Learning Visual-Tactile Dexterous Manipulation From Human Videos with Simulated Interaction

arXiv:2609.07747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human videos are an abundant source of dexterous manipulation behaviors, but they lack tactile information that is crucial for contact-rich interaction.

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DF26: We Cannot Tell Fake From Real Anymore

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arXiv:2609.07369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce DF26, a novel benchmark for detecting AI-generated videos containing fully synthetic clips produced by recent text-to-video and image-to-vi

Diagnosing LLM Reranker Behavior Under Fixed Evidence Pools

arXiv:2602.18613v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Standard reranking evaluations study how a reranker orders candidates returned by an upstream retriever. This setup couples ranking behavior with re

Difficulty-Adaptive Tree-Structured Policy Optimization for Expanding Reasoning Coverage in RLVR

arXiv:2609.08650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has been central to the recent success of Large Reasoning Models. However, while RLVR significantl

Discovering Translation-Worthy Languages with E-Values

arXiv:2609.06593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Choosing when to translate multilingual documents is a central routing problem in text classification: translation can improve predictions for some la

Discussing this case tonight at 7:45 eastern time on CBC.

Gary Marcus will discuss his “case for boycotting generative AI” during a CBC segment scheduled to air at 7:45 p.m. ET tonight. The argument is outlined in his Substack post titled *The Case for Boyco

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DISEIL: Demonstration Distillation for Sample-Efficient Imitation Learning

arXiv:2609.08123v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A robot that can be taught a new task from a handful of demonstrations has to work out for itself what it still cannot do, and then ask for exactly th