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World Tokens: Enhancing Embodied Policies with Training-Time World Modeling

arXiv:2608.09730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models are a widely adopted paradigm for embodied policies. They excel at efficient closed-loop control but do not explicit

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A Practical Evaluation Method for Long-Form Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation

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arXiv:2606.15059v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Simultaneous speech-to-speech translation (SimulS2ST) enables real-time cross-lingual communication, but existing evaluation has focused largely on

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An AI4AI Framework for Visual Token Pruning

arXiv:2608.07193v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual-token pruning can substantially reduce the inference cost of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), yet existing methods largely rely on fix

AutoIntervene: Calibrated Intervention for Action-Chunking Imitation Learning Policies

arXiv:2608.07065v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Action-chunking visuomotor policies learn from demonstrations and improve temporal consistency by predicting short action sequences rather than single

Automated item evaluation: Predicting item acceptance and rejection using LLM-generated critiques

arXiv:2608.06609v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated item evaluation (AIE) refers to the use of computational methods to assess item quality without requiring manual expert review or field testin

Automated Terminal-to-Housing Assembly System for Flat Ribbon Cable Harness

arXiv:2608.06996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a sensor-minimal automated assembly system for bidirectional single-row flat ribbon cable harnesses (FRCHs). Unlike conventional peg

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Beyond Post-Hoc Temperature Scaling: Bilevel Optimization for LLM Calibration

arXiv:2608.07419v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Preference alignment often makes large language models (LLMs) overconfident and poorly calibrated. Traditional post-hoc temperature scaling is inherentl

Bootstrap-Conditioned Action Selection with Tabular Foundation Models

arXiv:2608.06559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contextual bandits offer a natural framework for sample-efficient personalization, but practical deployment remains difficult under sparse, biased inter

Bypassing Krum: Selection-Aware Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning

arXiv:2608.06637v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust aggregation methods are widely used in federated learning to mitigate the impact of adversarial client behavior. Distance-based aggregation rul

Calibrating WEAT Against Anisotropy: ZCA Whitening as a Geometric Pre-Processing Step for Embedding Association Tests

arXiv:2608.06908v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose Zero-phase Component Analysis (ZCA) whitening as a geometric pre-processing step for the Word Embedding Association Test (WEAT). WEAT is a

Cascade: Exploiting SLO-Aware latency budget for fair and high goodput LLM inference serving

arXiv:2608.06557v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The reasoning and agentic capabilities of large language models have expanded the range of applications they support, from short interactive exchanges

CEDAR: Agent-Orchestrated Tree Search for Goal-Directed Optimization of Complex Systems

arXiv:2608.06871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Complex systems, core objects of study in artificial life, model diverse phenomena through nonlinear, feedback-driven interactions that produce emergent

CHIME: A Case for Efficient Long-Context Attention-FC Disaggregated Inference with DIMM-PIM

arXiv:2504.17584v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Attention-FC Disaggregated (AFD) LLM inference systems offload memory-bound Attention operations to memory-rich accelerators (e.g., CPUs, HBM-

Confidence Estimation for Financial Vision-Language Models in Chart and Document Understanding

arXiv:2608.06532v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LVLMs are increasingly used to read financial charts, tables, and documents, where a single misread figure can move a decision and the most authoritativ

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Counterfactual Shapley Credit Assignment

arXiv:2607.16999v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Credit Assignment Problem (CAP) is fundamental to developing efficient and explainable Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents. Existing framew

CreativeInstruct: Scalably Teaching LLMs to Balance Quality, Creativity, and Diversity

arXiv:2608.07460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While post-training improves the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), it generally lowers their output diversity and creativity, negatively i

CrystalGRPO: Target-Aligned and Coverage-Preserving Reinforcement Learning for Flow-Based Crystal Structure Prediction

arXiv:2608.06582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow-based generative models can efficiently produce candidate structures for crystal structure prediction (CSP), but their pretrained objectives do not

Density-Functional Excited-State Gradients and Nonadiabatic Couplings on a Consumer GPU from a Contraction-DAG

arXiv:2608.06536v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Nonadiabatic dynamics needs an excited-state gradient and an interstate nonadiabatic coupling matrix element (NACME) at every nuclear geometry, and a

DiDPO: Diff-in-Diff Policy Optimization for Coding Agent Training

arXiv:2608.07147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training coding agents, where the execution feedback from co

Do 3D Medical Foundation Models See Through MRI Artifacts? A Controlled Study of Representation Robustness

arXiv:2608.06613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-supervised 3D medical foundation models are increasingly used as general-purpose feature extractors, yet their sensitivity to MRI artifacts remai

Does Splitting a Triage Decision Across Agents Hide Bias or Help Catch It? A Multi-Agent Simulation Study of LLM-Based Resource Allocation Under Audit Capacity Constraints

arXiv:2608.06949v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prior benchmarking work has shown that a single large language model (LLM), forced to make life-or-death resource-allocation decisions, exhibits measura

Dual-Space Modality Consistency Learning for Universal Cross-Modal Re-Identification

arXiv:2608.06943v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-modal Re-Identification (ReID) aims to retrieve the same identity across heterogeneous imaging modalities and has been widely studied in visible-i

Explore or Converge? Stage-Guided Per-Step Optimization for Diffusion Models

arXiv:2608.06768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models have strong generative capabilities. However, their maximum likelihood training objective only focuses on reconstructing the data distr

From Optimal Actions to World Models: Identifiability of Transition Kernels in Discounted MDPs

arXiv:2608.07301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study what can be recovered about the transition probabilities of a Markov decision process from optimal actions alone. This is closely related to th

Gated-BEPO: Confidence-Gated Bellman Credit Assignment for Large Language Model Agents

arXiv:2608.06861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training large language model agents in long-horizon environments requires assigning credit from sparse terminal outcomes to individual actions. Existin

GOPI: Generation-Oriented 3D Pose Inference for Furniture Insertion from Single-View RGB-D Indoor Scenes

arXiv:2608.06836v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the problem of inserting new furniture into indoor scene images. Under masked single-view 2D image-plane conditioning, however, the physical sc

Grad-ECLIP: Gradient-based Visual and Textual Explanations for CLIP

arXiv:2502.18816v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Significant progress has been achieved on the improvement and downstream usages of the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) vision-languag

Graph Machine: Exploring Edge Mechanisms as an Inductive Bias

arXiv:2608.06834v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformers provide a powerful architecture for global content-based matching, but reasoning problems may benefit from a stronger inductive bias toward

High-dimensional ridgeless least squares interpolation under spiked covariance structures

arXiv:2608.07281v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of the out-of-sample prediction risk of the high-dimensional ridgeless least-squares estimator when th

How Much, Then Where: Credit-Conserving Action-to-Token Allocation for Multi-Turn Agent Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.07118v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Credit assignment in multi-turn agent reinforcement learning operates at two levels: assigning trajectory-level credit to actions and distributing each

Identity as Presence: Towards Appearance and Voice Personalized Joint Audio-Video Generation

arXiv:2603.17889v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in video synthesis have enabled realistic integration of real individuals, driving demand for identity-aware generation. While emerg

Improving Performance of Spike-based Deep Q-Learning using Ternary Neurons

arXiv:2506.03392v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose a new ternary spiking neuron model to improve the representation capacity of binary spiking neurons in deep Q-learning. Although a ternar

Interpretable reinforcement learning with decision-tree pruning

arXiv:2608.07151v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning policies are difficult to inspect, but interpreting them is a prerequisite for trustworthiness. Converting a trained policy int

Is Forward Prediction Enough? Physical State Grounding for JEPA World Models

arXiv:2608.06799v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning structured and control-relevant latent representations remains a key challenge for world models. Recent JEPA-based world models learn action-

KReF: Training-Free Retrieval for Long-Term Time-Series Forecasting and Predictive Uncertainty

arXiv:2608.06748v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Probabilistic long-term time-series forecasting commonly relies on trained models. Training-free conformal methods typically construct intervals aroun

Learning Suffers More Than the Policy Class Under Partial Observability: A Closed-Form Analysis

arXiv:2608.07228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a reinforcement learning agent cannot observe the full state, we usually blame its policies: it cannot see enough to represent a good one. We show

Learning to Walk With Less: A Dyna-Style Approach to Quadrupedal Locomotion

arXiv:2509.06296v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Traditional on-policy reinforcement learning (RL) controllers for quadrupedal locomotion often suffer from low data efficiency, requiring mill

Let's Unlearn Stereotypes Before Decision-Making: Assessing the Impact of Intrinsic Bias Mitigation on Downstream Fairness in LLMs

arXiv:2509.16462v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in high-stakes decision-making systems, where biased predictions can reinforce social and economi

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LMM Modality Transfer: A Pre-requisite for Autonomous GIS Agents

arXiv:2608.06948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI models are becoming increasingly adept at understanding and processing spatial information, thereby facilitating agentic problem-solving in spatial t

LyEvO: Lyapunov-Guided Evolutionary Optimization for Safe and Robust Sim-to-Real Policy Learning

arXiv:2608.06481v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training controllers that are safe and robust in simulation, and systematically assessing their readiness for real-world deployment, remain key challe

MaskFlow: Precise, Consistent and Seamless Regional Image Editing

arXiv:2608.06929v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Regional image editing has attracted considerable attention for its spatial controllability. Although instruction-based and mask-reference-based editi

MemOPD: On-Policy Distillation through Memory State Alignment for Long-Horizon Agents

arXiv:2608.07068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agents accumulate growing contexts during interaction, impairing performance and stability. Compact memory mitigates this problem by compre

MemPrism: Task-Conditioned Relational Memory Views for Long-Horizon Agents

arXiv:2608.06745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agents rely on memory to reuse experiences, yet existing memory systems often assume that evidence can be directly consumed through a fixed

Mind the Gap: A Dual Knowledge Graph Framework for Unified Multi-task User Intent Inference

arXiv:2608.06752v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes DKG-MTI, a dual knowledge graph framework for unified multi-task user intent inference from online travel reviews. Existing approach

Minimal Ingredients for Reward Assignment from Expert Demonstrations

arXiv:2506.06793v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reward assignment from scarce demonstrations is a key challenge in both offline and online imitation learning. A common and intuitive strategy

MolBioKG: Grounding Out-of-Graph Molecules in Biomedical Knowledge Graphs via Multi-Resolution Structural Anchoring

arXiv:2608.06713v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biomedical knowledge graphs (KGs) accelerate drug discovery, but standard pipelines assume query molecules already exist as graph entities, leaving unre

NTDH: Complex Reasoning for Comprehensive Affective Analysis

arXiv:2608.06425v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Comprehensive affective analysis is challenging for two reasons: it spans heterogeneous prediction tasks with continuous, ordinal, and multi-label outpu

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PAST: Prompt-Adaptive Sampling Termination for Efficient Diffusion Model

arXiv:2608.06794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While diffusion models have made significant progress in text-to-image tasks, they still exhibit limitations when directly optimizing downstream objecti