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SkillGate: Training In-Policy Skill Selection in Long-Horizon Agents

arXiv:2608.18852v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent frameworks increasingly package procedural knowledge as skills: instruction files an agent reads on demand, while public libraries now hold thousa

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SPK: Eliciting Structured Prior Knowledge for Interpretable Out-of-Distribution Detection in Real-Time Object Detection

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arXiv:2608.19080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Object detectors often produce over-confident predictions for objects outside their training categories, leading to so-called out-of-distribution (OoD)

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SuTRA : Structurally-Unified Tokenization with Root Awareness

arXiv:2608.18087v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing subword tokenizers optimize statistical compression but ignore morphological structure, particularly the relationship between roots and affix

The Road Taken: The Role of Optimizers at the Edge of Stability

arXiv:2608.18415v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The edge of stability refers to a phenomenon in deep learning with gradient-based optimizers where the Hessian eigenvalues of the loss remain stable abo

To Go Far, Go Together: Diverse Preferences Induce a Curriculum for Reward Optimization

arXiv:2608.18770v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning a reward model from human feedback and optimizing a policy against it is one approach to aligning AI systems with individual users. From a fa

Towards Reversible Forgetting: Managing Obsolete Knowledge in Continual Enterprise AI Agents

arXiv:2608.18177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning has traditionally treated forgetting as a failure, emphasizing preservation of previously acquired knowledge as environments evolve.

Vector Symbolic Policy Gradient

arXiv:2608.18404v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We answer this question with Vector-Symbolic Policy Gradient (VSPG), a discrete-action actor that represents each action by a unit-norm hypervector an

Vision-Language Models for Egocentric Video: From Hand-Object Interaction to Embodied AI

arXiv:2608.18671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Egocentric video captures activities from the wearer's perspective, providing a direct view of human attention, hand--object interaction, and goal-direc

Weak-to-Strong Generalization via Bregman Bias-Variance Decomposition

arXiv:2505.24313v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Weak-to-strong generalization (W2SG) is the phenomenon in which a powerful student model, trained on labels produced by a weaker teacher, ultimately

A Diffusion-Refined Planner with Reinforcement Learning Priors for Confined-Space Parking

arXiv:2510.14000v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The growing demand for parking has increased the need for automated parking planning methods that can operate reliably in confined spaces. In restri

Action-Effect Memory Pretraining for Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2606.12499v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present AEM, an Action-Effect Memory pretraining framework for robot manipulation that learns compact temporal representations from vision-action

Adaptive Policy Portfolios for Robust Markov Decision Processes

arXiv:2608.17929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robust Markov decision processes optimize one policy against a set of plausible transition functions. This can be conservative when the unknown dynamics

Advancing Health Equity through Multi-Level Fairness in Health Informatics

arXiv:2608.16902v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The increasing integration of machine learning in healthcare has highlighted critical challenges related to fairness, transparency, and health equity.

Adversarial Data Modeling in Epidemiology

arXiv:2602.20134v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Epidemiological models increasingly rely on crowdsourced, self-reported behavioral data such as vaccination status, mask usage, and social dis

Against Political Polarization: A Unified Framework for Tracing Evolving Political Ideologies on Social Media

arXiv:2608.17987v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid growth of social media has greatly influenced political discourse, highlighting the need to understand individual political ideologies and t

Asynchronous Message Passing for Addressing Oversquashing in Graph Neural Networks

arXiv:2509.06777v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) suffer from oversquashing, where structural bottlenecks limit message propagation between distant nodes, hindering task

Beyond BFI: The CSI for Enhanced Reliability and Validity in Evaluating LLM Personality Traits

arXiv:2503.20182v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) increasingly function as human-like assistants exhibiting human-like personality traits, understanding their b

Bootstrap Dynamic-Aware 3D Visual Representation for Scalable Robot Learning

arXiv:2512.00074v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite strong results on recognition and segmentation, current 3D visual pre-training methods often underperform on robotic manipulation. We

Cross-Model Memory Transfer via Target-Side Reader Adaptation

arXiv:2608.17050v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Methods for improving knowledge use in large language models typically fall into two regimes. Non-parametric retrieval offers flexible access to exter

Decomposition Attacks Across Unlinkable Identities: Limits of Stateful Defenses for LLM Services

arXiv:2608.17445v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most large language model services use stateless defenses, which judge only the current request, to refuse harmful tasks. Decomposition attacks exploi

Denoised Variance-Based Pruning with Optimal Brain Bias Compensation

arXiv:2608.17657v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision Transformers (ViTs) achieve state-of-the-art performance but carry massive computational overhead that restricts edge deployment. Although struct

Depth Enables Local Entropy: Quadratic Depth Dependence in Deep Variation-Norm ReLU Regression

arXiv:2608.17434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study Gaussian regression over the explicit vector-valued Parhi--Nowak deep-RBV^2 architecture with depth L, width w, layer-sum variation budget A, a

DynaForcing: Overcoming Dynamic Collapse in Self-Forcing Distillation for Streaming Avatar Generation

arXiv:2608.17707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Audio-driven avatar generation requires realistic lip-sync, expressive motion, and real-time streaming. Recent work achieves the latter via self-forcing

Embodied-Navigator: Point, Think, Memorize, and Align for Efficient Navigation

arXiv:2608.17512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have significantly advanced embodied navigation, their direct deployment remains challenging, as existing m

Eval4Sim: An Evaluation Framework for Persona Simulation

arXiv:2603.02876v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Model personas, explicit profiles specifying a user's attributes, preferences, and behavioural tendencies, are increasingly used to s

Model Releases

Fair ASR: Re-Evaluating Black-Box Jailbreaks under Shared Target-Call Budgets

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arXiv:2608.17360v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable jailbreak evaluation is essential for assessing LLM safety, but most existing studies rely solely on attack success rate (ASR) without accoun

From Entity Mentions to Tone: An LLM-Based Pipeline for Media Bias Analysis

arXiv:2608.17454v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a pipeline for analyzing media bias and framing in online news. The pipeline groups articles into topics and events, adds named-enti

GUPO: Gradient Uncertainty-aware Policy Optimization for Post-Training Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.17411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has become a widely used approach for post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) for reasoning. In GRPO, the g

Information Spreading in Diffusion Models from Effective Field Theory

arXiv:2608.14308v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study score-matching diffusion models with a convolutional architecture. We argue that the inductive bias of locality means that the machinery of e

Judge, Retrieve, or Abstain: Uncertainty-Guarded LLM Judging with Provable Risk Guarantees

arXiv:2608.17994v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Using LLMs as judges has become standard practice for evaluating model outputs at scale. This is particularly common for subjective, open-ended tasks su

KAN We Flow? Advancing Robotic Manipulation with 3D Flow Matching via KAN & RWKV

arXiv:2602.01115v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion-based visuomotor policies excel at modeling action distributions but are inference-inefficient, since recursively denoising from noi

Lambda-Hold Control: Human-Like Movement Emerges from a Minimal Task Reward in Predictive Musculoskeletal Simulation

arXiv:2608.17030v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The massive overactuation in the human musculoskeletal system makes it challenging to train musculoskeletal models to generate human-like motion via rei

ManiCM: Real-time 3D Diffusion Policy via Consistency Model for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2406.01586v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion models have been verified to be effective in generating complex distributions from natural images to motion trajectories. Recent dif

Margin-Regularized Structured Semantic Alignment for Brain-Language Correspondence

arXiv:2608.16975v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid advancement of large language models, brain-language decoding has achieved remarkable progress. However, it remains unclear whether decod

Monitoring Pasture Restoration from Satellite Image Time Series: Caveats and Opportunities

arXiv:2608.17704v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Monitoring nature restoration at scale is an important but difficult ecological problem. Deep learning methods to analyze satellite image time series (S

No Gaussian Required: Contrastive Inverse Dynamics for JEPA World Models

arXiv:2608.17542v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) learn world models by predicting future embeddings, but the objective admits a trivial solution of a

ORPA: Online Residual Policy Adaptation for Robot Manipulation Control with Human Feedback

arXiv:2608.17323v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic manipulation policies trained via imitation learning, such as Action Chunking with Transformers (ACT), can achieve strong performance under id

Physics-Informed Sliding-Window Particle Filtering for Tactile-Only In-Hand 6-DoF Object Pose Refinement

arXiv:2608.17601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies tactile-only 6-DoF pose refinement and belief maintenance for grasped objects in static and short quasi-static in-hand configurations

PlanPO: Group Planning-Aware Policy Optimization for Multi-Turn Agentic LLMs

arXiv:2608.17289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group-relative policy optimization has emerged as a key paradigm for training agentic large language models (LLMs) on multi-turn interactive tasks. Howe

Policy-Invariant Reward Shaping from LLM Feedback: A Framework for Hybrid RL Agents

arXiv:2608.18008v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Combining large language models with reinforcement learning is increasingly explored, yet the theoretical status of LLM-derived reward signals is ofte

Position: Fairness Failure in Generative Models is an Evaluation Problem

arXiv:2608.16974v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite groundbreaking advancements in generative models during the last decade, concerns about their lack of fairness, reinforcing societal inequalit

Prism-GRPO: Faster VLA Policy Optimization via Splitting Same-outcome Groups

arXiv:2608.17423v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GRPO is increasingly used for reinforcement learning of vision-language-action (VLA) policies because, unlike PPO, it does not require training a critic

Q-Learning With World Models

arXiv:2608.17163v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Off-policy reinforcement learning (RL) has become increasingly sample-efficient, enabling applications such as RL fine-tuning of Vision-Language-Actio

Reinforcement Learning as (Discrete) Potential Theory

arXiv:2608.17181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) theory fundamentally depends on probability theory through the Markov chain. There is a deep connection between probability

Reinforcing Consistency in Video MLLMs with Structured Rewards

arXiv:2604.01460v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in video understanding. However, seemingly plausible outputs often suffer

Rethinking Irregular Time Series Forecasting from the Perspective of Basis Functions

arXiv:2608.17284v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Irregular time series forecasting is crucial in many domains, such as healthcare and meteorological observation. However, due to the inherent characte

Reuse Before You Retrieve: Diagnosing Headroom and Complementarity for Test-Time Augmentation of Embodied Multimodal Policies

arXiv:2608.17484v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frozen vision-language-action (VLA) policies are increasingly improved at test time by sampling additional policy behaviors or introducing external demo

SEE: Structure-aware Exploring & Exploiting for Long-horizon GUI Agent Trajectory Synthesis

arXiv:2607.18046v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents powered by vision-language models hold promise for automating real-world mobile tasks. However, progress is li