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Pessimistic Risk-Aware Policy Learning in Contextual Bandits

arXiv:2605.15620v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study risk-aware offline policy learning, aiming to learn a decision rule from logged data that is optimal under general risk criteria. This proble

phi-Balancing for Mixture-of-Experts Training

DGX agent

arXiv:2605.15403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models rely on balanced expert utilization to fully realize their scalability. However, existing load-balancing methods are lar

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18 May 2026

Polynomial Neural Sheaf Diffusion: A Spectral Filtering Approach on Cellular Sheaves

arXiv:2512.00242v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sheaf Neural Networks equip graph structures with a cellular sheaf: a geometric structure which assigns local vector spaces (stalks) and a lin

Preconditioned Regularized Wasserstein Proximal Sampling

arXiv:2509.01685v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We consider sampling from a Gibbs distribution by evolving finitely many particles. We propose a preconditioned version of a recently proposed

PSD: Pushing the Pareto Frontier of Diffusion LLMs via Parallel Speculative Decoding

arXiv:2605.15609v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) generate text by iteratively denoising masked token sequences. Although dLLMs can predict all masked positions i

RanSOM: Second-Order Momentum with Randomized Scaling for Constrained and Unconstrained Optimization

arXiv:2602.06824v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Momentum methods, such as Polyak's Heavy Ball, are the standard for training deep networks but suffer from curvature-induced bias in stochasti

RE-SAC: Disentangling aleatoric and epistemic risks in bus fleet control: A stable and robust ensemble DRL approach

arXiv:2603.18396v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Bus holding control is challenging due to stochastic traffic and passenger demand. While deep reinforcement learning (DRL) shows promise, standard a

ReactiveGWM: Steering NPC in Reactive Game World Models

arXiv:2605.15256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current game world models simulate environments from a subjective, player-centric perspective. However, by treating the Non-Player Character (NPC) merel

ReAlign: Generalizable Image Forgery Detection via Reasoning-Aligned Representation

arXiv:2605.16080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rise of AI-generated images (AIGIs) poses growing challenges for digital authenticity, prompting the need for efficient, generalizable image forgery

Reference-Free Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning for MT: A Seq2Seq Perspective

arXiv:2605.15976v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Production machine translation relies overwhelmingly on encoder-decoder Seq2Seq models, yet reinforcement learning approaches to MT fine-tuning have l

Reference Games as a Testbed for the Alignment of Model Uncertainty and Clarification Requests

arXiv:2601.07820v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In human conversation, both interlocutors play an active role in maintaining mutual understanding. When listeners are uncertain about what speakers

Res^2CLIP: Few-Shot Generalist Anomaly Detection with Residual-to-Residual Alignment

arXiv:2605.16171v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Few-shot Generalist Anomaly Detection requires models to generalize to novel categories without retraining, posing significant challenges in real-world

Residual Reinforcement Learning for Robot Teleoperation under Stochastic Delays

arXiv:2605.15480v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stochastic communication delays in teleoperation introduce signal discontinuities that undermine control stability and degrade control performance. Co

Response-Conditioned Parallel-to-Sequential Orchestration for Multi-Agent Systems

arXiv:2605.15573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent systems can solve complex tasks through collaboration between multiple Large Language Model agents. Existing collaboration frameworks typica

Reversing the Flow: Generation-to-Understanding Synergy in Large Multimodal Models

arXiv:2605.15792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The long-standing goal of multimodal AI is to build unified models in which visual understanding and visual generation mutually enhance one another. Des

RoPE Distinguishes Neither Positions Nor Tokens in Long Contexts, Provably

arXiv:2605.15514v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We identify intrinsic limitations of Rotary Positional Embeddings (RoPE) in Transformer-based long-context language models. Our theoretical analysis a

SafeGPT: Preventing Data Leakage and Unethical Outputs in Enterprise LLM Use

arXiv:2601.06366v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming enterprise workflows but introduce security and ethics challenges when employees inadvertently s

ScreenSearch: Uncertainty-Aware OS Exploration

arXiv:2605.16024v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Desktop GUI agents operate under partial observability: visually similar screens can correspond to different underlying workflow states, so locally plau

Second-Order Multi-Level Variance Correction for Modality Competition in Multimodal Models

arXiv:2605.16165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive next-token training offers a unified formulation for image generation and text understanding, but it also creates strong modality compe

Seeing What Matters: Visual Preference Policy Optimization for Visual Generation

arXiv:2511.18719v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a powerful tool for post-training visual generative models, with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) in

Self-Supervised Learning by Curvature Alignment

arXiv:2511.17426v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently advanced through non-contrastive methods that couple an invariance term with variance, covariance,

Semi-MedRef: Semi-Supervised Medical Referring Image Segmentation with Cross-Modal Alignment

arXiv:2605.15720v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical referring image segmentation (MRIS) requires pixel-level masks aligned with textual descriptions of anatomical locations, making annotation cost

seriou question: how do you handle an intellectual doppelganger who has systematically started adopting every position you have argued for f…

seriou question: how do you handle an intellectual doppelganger who has systematically started adopting every position you have argued for for 30 years while presenting each idea as if it were his own

Sign-Separated Finite-Time Error Analysis of Q-Learning

arXiv:2605.16103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper develops a sign-separated finite-time error analysis for constant step-size Q-learning. Starting from the switching-system representation, th

SKILL0: In-Context Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Skill Internalization

arXiv:2604.02268v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agent skills, structured packages of procedural knowledge and executable resources that agents dynamically load at inference time, have become a rel

SkiP: When to Skip and When to Refine for Efficient Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2605.15536v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Previous imitation learning policies predict future actions at every control step, whether in smooth motion phases or precise, contact-rich operation

STABLE: Simulation-Ready Tabletop Layout Generation via a Semantics-Physics Dual System

arXiv:2605.16137v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating simulation-ready tabletop scenes from task instructions is an intriguing and promising research direction in the field of Embodied AI. Howeve

Task-Semantic Graph-Driven Distributed Agent Networking for Underwater Target Tracking

arXiv:2605.15528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) swarms are emerging as intelligent underwater networks, where each node must sense, communicate, process local data,

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TemplateRL: Structured Template-Guided Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2505.15692v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as an effective paradigm for enhancing model reasoning. However, existing RL methods like GRPO typically rel

Terrain Consistent Reference-Guided RL for Humanoid Navigation Autonomy

arXiv:2605.15517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a method for training reference-guided, perceptive reinforcement learning locomotion policies for humanoid robots in which reference trajecto

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the AI trial of the century ended with a procedural whimper rather a bang; the jury agreed that Musk was too late but never weighed in on th…

the AI trial of the century ended with a procedural whimper rather a bang; the jury agreed that Musk was too late but never weighed in on the questions of whether OpenAI did was legitimate. and so we

The pure LLM debate - which I had for many years, here and elsewhere - is indeed no longer relevant. Why? Because I won; nobody uses pure LL…

The pure LLM debate - which I had for many years, here and elsewhere - is indeed no longer relevant. Why? Because I won; nobody uses pure LLMs anymore. Nowadays all deployed objects are neurosymbolic,

The U.S. faces a chaotic #AI regulatory patchwork with over 1,200 state bills introduced in 2025 and no unified federal framework, researche…

The U.S. faces a chaotic #AI regulatory patchwork with over 1,200 state bills introduced in 2025 and no unified federal framework, researchers @JeffSonnenfeld and Stephen Henriques of @YaleSOM and @Ga

TopoEvo: A Topology-Aware Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Framework for Root Cause Analysis in Microservices

arXiv:2605.15611v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Root cause analysis (RCA) in microservices is challenging due to (i) noisy and heterogeneous multimodal observability (metrics, logs, traces), (ii) casc

Towards Code-Oriented LM Embeddings for Surrogate-Assisted Neural Architecture Search

arXiv:2605.15649v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Developing effective surrogates (performance predictors) for Neural Architecture Search (NAS) typically requires expensive fine-tuning or the engineerin

Trump just shook down the US government for $1.776 billion dollars of taxpayer money to pay off his buddies.

I can't verify this claim without access to the actual post and current information. The headline uses inflammatory language ('shook down') that suggests opinion rather than neutral reporting. To crea

Unified High-Probability Analysis of Stochastic Variance-Reduced Estimation

arXiv:2605.15388v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stochastic estimators are fundamental to large-scale optimization, where population quantities must be inferred from noisy oracle observations. Although

Unveiling the Black Box: A Multi-Layer Framework for Explaining Reinforcement Learning-Based Cyber Agents

arXiv:2505.11708v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents are increasingly used to simulate sophisticated cyberattacks, but their decision-making processes remain op

Verifiable Agentic Infrastructure: Proof-Derived Authorization for Sovereign AI Systems

arXiv:2605.15228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern cloud and enterprise systems rely on identity-centric authorization, assuming that callers possessing valid credentials are safe to execute comma

Video Models Can Reason with Verifiable Rewards

arXiv:2605.15458v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video diffusion models have made rapid progress in perceptual realism and temporal coherence, but they remain primarily optimized for plausible generati

VSPO: Vector-Steered Policy Optimization for Behavioral Control

arXiv:2605.15604v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern language models often need to optimize a primary accuracy objective while also accommodating secondary behavioral preferences, such as verbosit

What Is Preference Optimization Doing, and Why?

arXiv:2512.00778v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Preference optimization (PO) is indispensable for large language models (LLMs), with methods such as direct preference optimization (DPO) and proxim

When and Why Adversarial Training Improves PINNs: A Neural Tangent Kernel Perspective

arXiv:2605.15959v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are powerful surrogates for differential equations but are notoriously difficult to train due to spectral bia

When Importance Sampling Misallocates Credit: Asymmetric Ratios for Outcome-Supervised RL

arXiv:2510.06062v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown great promise in large language models (LLMs) post-training, which typically rely on token-level clipping to m

When Latent Geometry Is Not Enough: Draft-Conditioned Latent Refinement for Non-Autoregressive Text Generation

arXiv:2605.15557v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuous diffusion and flow models are attractive for non-autoregressive text generation because they can update all positions in parallel. A major di

You know how I said yesterday that my feed is littered with people just making stuff up? We didn’t have 71% of Americans opposed to cell pho…

You know how I said yesterday that my feed is littered with people just making stuff up? We didn’t have 71% of Americans opposed to cell phones. Or ipods. Or laptops. We *do* have 71% of Americans opp

Bernie Madoff told the WSJ he was averaging annual returns of 16.3%. Sam Altman has promised annual returns of 17.5% History may not repeat …

Gary Marcus draws a historical parallel between Bernie Madoff's claimed 16.3% annual returns (which proved to be a Ponzi scheme) and Sam Altman's promised 17.5% returns, warning that similarly implaus

17 May 2026

🚨Breaking new study: memory in LLM agents still can’t really be trusted, even after over trillion dollars has gone into the development of …

🚨Breaking new study: memory in LLM agents still can’t really be trusted, even after over trillion dollars has gone into the development of the field. Excited to share our new paper: “Useful Memories B