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TaoLive Digital Avatar Agent Technical Report: Training Agents to Evolve with Their Harness

arXiv:2608.15763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-powered digital-avatar streamers in live e-commerce must answer product questions, engage viewers, and execute changing business strategies in real t

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Temporal Logic Guided Universal Task Representations for Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2608.15509v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Task guided agents demonstrate strong performance in a wide range of complex tasks. However, most existing task representation algorithms are tailored

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The Fake Friend Dilemma: Relational Trust and the Political Economy of Conversational AI

arXiv:2601.03222v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As conversational AI systems become a larger part of the media landscape, they raise questions about whose interests they serve and the risks

The Fragility of Strategic Thinking in Large Language Models

arXiv:2510.10813v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to domains that require reasoning about other agents' behavior, such as negotiation, policy de

The Note-Chord-Voice Framework: Structured Source Separation and Causal Inference for EV Charging Data

arXiv:2608.14756v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world EV charging data exhibit three interlocking pathologies: hardware fragmentation (network timeouts and billing resets split sessions), physi

The Political Ideology of Large Language Models: Measurement, Inconsistency, and Persuasive Influence

arXiv:2505.04171v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are a transformational technology, fundamentally changing how people obtain information and interact with the wor

The Trade-off Between Covariate Dependence and Latent Structure in Representation Learning

arXiv:2608.16245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Disentangled representation learning seeks latent representations whose indicidual dimensions each align with a distinct covariate. Unsupervised approac

Throwing a Tight Spiral American Football by a Humanoid Robot

arXiv:2608.16642v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate throwing of the American football requires precise regulation of release conditions, where coupled linear and angular momentum determine flight

Towards a theory of inference-time alignment with unknown rewards

arXiv:2608.15402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative model alignment has received broad interest, and significant progress has been made in supervised fine-tuning and inference-time computation.

Towards a Unified Understanding of Robot Manipulation: A Comprehensive Survey

arXiv:2510.10903v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Embodied intelligence has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, driven by advances in computer vision, natural language processing, and the

Trajectory-Level Automatic Curriculum Learning for Legged Locomotion on Unstructured Terrain

arXiv:2608.16164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training locomotion policies for complex unstructured terrain requires a curriculum to avoid early exploration failures. However, since unstructured ter

TRCA: Transition-wise Rubric Credit Assignment for Long-horizon LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.16156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon large language model (LLM) agents are typically optimized with sparse terminal outcomes, making fine-grained credit assignment across multi

Trust Is Not Enough: Influence Calibration for On-Policy Self-Distillation in Agentic RL

arXiv:2608.14945v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) gives language agents dense token-level supervision from a privileged self-teacher on the policy's own trajectories.

UAV Video Deblurring via Motion-Aware Diffusion: A Path to Robust Target Detection

arXiv:2608.15259v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play a crucial role in various scenarios ranging from disaster response to traffic surveillance. However, aerial video

UC-PSRO: Utility-Conditioned Policy-Space Response Oracles with a Communication-Dropout Curriculum for Game-Theoretic Course-of-Action Generation in Adversarial Swarms

arXiv:2608.15372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study generating game-theoretically optimized Courses of Action (COAs) for a Blue UAS swarm against an adaptive Red adversary in a communication-degr

UrbanWorld2.0: A Multimodal Agentic Framework for Reality-Aligned 3D World Generation at City-Scale

arXiv:2511.18005v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The automated generation of high-fidelity, city-scale 3D environments remains a formidable challenge with profound academic and industrial implicati

Ventor-QTest: Threat-Model-Driven Verification of Vendor-Hosted LLM APIs

arXiv:2608.16391v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models become increasingly widespread, third-party providers that deploy open-weight models have become an important part of the eco

VGGT-Align: Bridging Local Reconstruction and Global Consistency for Long-Sequence 3D Reconstruction

arXiv:2608.15260v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Maintaining global geometric consistency is a central challenge in long-sequence 3D reconstruction, with scale drift being the most critical failure m

ViHaTeleop: A Low-Cost, Lightweight Visual-Haptic Teleoperation System for Dexterous Manipulation Learning

arXiv:2608.16572v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from demonstration is a promising approach for dexterous manipulation, but collecting high-quality contact-critical demonstrations remains diff

VirnyFlow: Optimizing ML Pipelines for Accuracy, Fairness, and Stability at Scale

arXiv:2506.01584v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Developing machine learning (ML) systems for real-world deployment requires navigating context-dependent trade-offs among accuracy, fairness,

When Agents Coordinate: Measuring Coordination in Multi-Agent AI Coding

arXiv:2608.16801v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study how teams of AI coding agents coordinate while solving programming tasks. Current evaluations usually report whether the agents complete the ta

When AI Rewrites, Classifiers Relax: Uncertainty-Aware Sentiment Analysis on Sarcastic and AI-Paraphrased Social Text

arXiv:2608.15338v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sentiment classifiers are increasingly applied to social media content that is either sarcastic or AI-generated --- two distributional regimes where s

When Context Misleads: Intent-Guided Decoding for Robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2608.16515v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves large language models by grounding generation in external evidence, but it also introduces a source trus

When Do Concepts Become Functionally Sufficient During Language-Model Training?

arXiv:2608.15323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding a model and its learning mechanisms in depth requires identifying when its internal structures become useful, rather than simply looking a

When Do Explanations Help In-Context Learning? A Comparative Study of Natural Language Explanation Types and Faithfulness

arXiv:2608.16627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Natural language explanations (NLEs) are increasingly used as inputs, for example, as few-shot rationales that influence model behavior in in-context

When State Becomes an Attack Surface: State-Semantic Injection in LLM-Driven Embodied Agents

arXiv:2608.16806v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated capabilities in in-context learning, task decomposition, step-by-step reasoning, and code generation, d

Why Vision Fails as a Universal Bridge: Rectifying Modality Asynchrony in Multilingual MLLMs

arXiv:2608.15085v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit substantial performance degradation in non-English visual reasoning, despite the strong multilingual co

Wiktionary as a Crowdsourced Lexicon for English Dialects

arXiv:2608.15641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper evaluates Wiktionary as an ethically crowdsourced lexicon for English dialects. We took a two-phase approach, providing an in-depth descripti

Zero-Shot Instruction Following in RL via Structured LTL Representations

arXiv:2602.14344v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study instruction following in multi-task reinforcement learning, where an agent must zero-shot execute novel tasks not seen during trainin

Zetta zeta: An Efficient Closed-Loop Embodied Harness for Self-Evolving Physical Intelligence

arXiv:2608.16590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied agents are increasingly used to close the gap left by end-to-end policy models. Yet the agentic path has not realized closed-loop learning in p

Adversarial Learning of Classifier-Free Guidance Schedules

arXiv:2608.14038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern text-to-image diffusion models rely on classifier-free guidance (CFG) to achieve high image fidelity and text alignment. However, CFG typically a

AgilePE: Autonomous UAV Pursuit-Evasion via Self-Play Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.14135v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous pursuit-evasion is a fundamental challenge for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), requiring rapid decision-making under tightly coupled dynam

AlignFace: Human-Aligned Face Similarity Metric with Interpretable Concept Relations

arXiv:2608.14130v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computer vision models for generated facial content, such as face editing and privacy protection, increasingly affect people, requiring similarity met

Amplified Does Not Mean Predictive: Reasoning Behaviors in Thinking Models

arXiv:2608.13760v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Which reasoning behaviors are associated with correct answers in reasoning models, and does reasoning-oriented training amplify those behaviors? This

An Interactive, Automated 4D-STEM data acquisition and analysis routine for Scanning Electron Nanobeam Diffraction and Ptychography experiments

arXiv:2608.13752v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern transmission electron microscopes are versatile instruments which have become indispensable tools for understanding structure and chemical comp

ASSERT: A Measurement Pipeline for GenAI Audits

arXiv:2608.13840v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audits of generative AI (GenAI) systems often summarize behavior as a reported rate: how often the audited system complies with policy. Researchers an

AtomBridge: Agentic VLA Inference Plugin for Long-Horizon Tasks in Scientific Experiments

arXiv:2602.09430v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic laboratories play a critical role in autonomous scientific discovery by enabling scalable, continuous experimental execution. Recent v

Beyond Control Points: Arcsecond Relative-Motion Estimation of Vision Measurement Platforms With Incomplete or Absent Control Fields

arXiv:2608.13918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-range vision-based deformation monitoring is highly sensitive to motion of the camera platform. Absolute-pose differencing typically relies on dedi

Beyond Text Conditioning: A Systematic Study of MLLM-DiT Fusion for Video Generation

arXiv:2608.14043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have become the dominant paradigm for high-fidelity video generation, yet their ability to perform high-level semantic pla

BiasTrace: Linking Reasoning Behaviours to Biased Outputs in LLMs

arXiv:2608.14161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs exhibit social biases that can produce inaccurate and discriminatory inferences, posing risks in high-stakes applications. While prior work has mad

Bridging Network Fragmentation: A Semantic-Augmented DRL Framework for UAV-aided VANETs

arXiv:2603.18871v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Urban Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) can become fragmented because buildings obstruct wireless links and vehicle mobility continuously changes t

CForce: Boosting Parallel Decoding for dLLMs via Consistency Forcing

arXiv:2608.13925v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) accelerate language generation by predicting multiple masks in a single forward pass. However, existing dLLMs

Clearing the Fog: Towards Installing and Refining Proactive Exploration Capabilities in LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.14339v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study proactive exploration in LLM agents, i.e., the ability to explore an environment to acquire information that improves future decision-making. I

CMCNet: Aligning Ultrasound Image Embeddings with Textual TI-RADS Representations for Fine-Grained Thyroid Classification

arXiv:2608.13939v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ultrasound is the primary imaging modality for assessing thyroid nodules, and the ACR TI-RADS framework standardizes diagnosis through five ultrasound

CoCA: Step-level Reward for Free in RL-based T2I Diffusion Model Fine-tuning

arXiv:2505.19196v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) diffusion model fine-tuning leverage reinforcement learning (RL) to align generated images with learnable rew

Consistent Model Chasing Is Minimax Optimal: The Exact Value of Scalar Adversarial Adaptive Control under Large Parametric Uncertainty

arXiv:2608.13651v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We solve exactly a fundamental problem of adaptive control against adversarial disturbances: regulate the scalar system x_{t+1} = ax_t + u_t + w_t, x_

Correcting What You Cannot See: Credit Assignment for Perception Distillation in Multimodal Reasoners

arXiv:2607.28336v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: On-policy distillation provides dense supervision for multimodal reasoners, but its trajectory-level reward cannot determine whether a failed answer

EchoRec: Multi-Item Prediction-Empowered Generative Recommendation via Cycle-Consistent Preference Alignment

arXiv:2608.14011v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative recommendation autoregressively generates the semantic IDs of the target item, unifying preference modeling and index retrieval within the