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Multi-Source Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Graph Learning

arXiv:2608.19914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Network topology inference from graph signals is central to graph signal processing with applications in neuroscience, sensor, and social networks. In p

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On the convergence of optimistic policy iteration for stochastic shortest path problem

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arXiv:1808.08763v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, we prove some convergence results of a special case of optimistic policy iteration algorithm for stochastic shortest path problem. We

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PEA-DPO: Perception-Enhanced Alignment Direct Preference Optimization for MLLMs Alignment

arXiv:2608.19598v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as an effective approach for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. However, i

RoMAN-Flow: Taming Autoregressive Normalizing Flows for Offline Reinforcement Learning in Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2608.20208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning improves robotic policies using previously collected data without further environment interaction. Yet prevalent diffusio

SAPO: Single-Rollout Autoregressive Policy Optimization for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.19842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) has become a critical stage in the post-training of large language models. Existing critic-free, group-relative meth

Scaffolding Minds: Optimizing Latent Visual Target Representations for Multimodal Reasoning

arXiv:2608.19669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent reasoning has advanced multimodal reasoning through a two-stage training paradigm: (1) a helper image is encoded into latent tokens to teach visu

Scale-Aware Pretraining of Time Series Foundation Models via Multi-Patch Token Alignment and Hybrid Masking

arXiv:2608.20005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretraining time series foundation models across heterogeneous datasets necessitates effective handling of varying sampling frequencies. Current methods

SCAPE: Scenario-Conditioned Simulation-Augmented Policy Evaluation

arXiv:2608.19425v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable performance evaluation is a central bottleneck for deploying robot-learning policies in real-world conditions. Real-world testing is faithful

SceneGTMM: A Conformal Mapping-based Scene-Aware Transferable GNN-Transformer Dual-Graph Interaction Framework for Map Matching

arXiv:2608.19298v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Map matching is a key technology connecting positioning data with high precision road networks, but it faces challenges in noise robustness, cross regio

Swift-Image: Exploring the Performance Frontier of Compact Unified Image Generation Models

arXiv:2608.20334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Swift-Image, a compact unified model for text-to-image generation, single-image editing, and multi-image editing. Our goal is to explore how

The Asymmetric Harms of LLM Compression

arXiv:2608.19670v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) compression reduces deployment costs, but standard aggregate metrics like perplexity and accuracy often mask underlying beh

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Truncate Bad, Upweight Good: BoN-Style Distillation via Rank-Based Classification

arXiv:2608.19748v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inference-time selection methods, such as Best-of-N, improve generation by sampling a pool of candidates and selecting the top-ranked completion accor

Unregularized Convergence of Single-Loop, Entropy-Regularized Natural Actor-Critic

arXiv:2608.19587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While entropy regularization is widely used to stabilize and accelerate Natural Policy Gradient methods, its ability to yield faster convergence rates f

Video Evidence to Reasoning Efficient Video Understanding via Explicit Evidence Grounding

arXiv:2601.07761v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) face a fundamental dilemma in video reasoning: they are caught between the prohibitive computational costs of v

Video2DoorTraversal: Push Door Traversal via Simulated Door Twins

arXiv:2608.20251v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Door opening and traversal is a long-horizon loco-manipulation task that requires precise handle interaction and coordinated base-arm control. We presen

VQC-ZTI: Variational Quantum Control for Zero Trust Protection of the Tactile Internet

arXiv:2608.18572v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tactile Internet services couple cyber events directly to physical actuation, so security decisions must improve risk discrimination without perturbin

what i have been saying endlessly (to those few who have listened carefully)

what i have been saying endlessly (to those few who have listened carefully) Turing Award winner Rich Sutton: 'LLMs are an amazing scientific breakthrough. but it's frustrating that instead of celebra

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What Matters for Latent Actions in Robot Learning

arXiv:2608.19613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent Action Models (LAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling robot learning to leverage large-scale unlabeled videos through latent a

Whatever you may think of Generative AI, the Capex craze is absolutely bonkers: “we are potentially talking about AI needing to generate $10…

Whatever you may think of Generative AI, the Capex craze is absolutely bonkers: “we are potentially talking about AI needing to generate 10 trillion in annual sales to justify all the capex being thro

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When Irrelevant Text Matters: Affine Margin Shifts in Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.19208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are frequently exposed to auxiliary textual context, the impact of which on visually grounded tasks remains und

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When to Retrain: An Empirical Study of Retraining Policies for Streaming ML Under Concept Drift, Budget, and Latency Constraints

arXiv:2608.19488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Production machine learning systems degrade under concept drift, yet practitioners have little principled guidance on when to retrain. Retraining is cos

Which Eviction Policy Should an LLM Cache Use? A Systematic Study Across Workloads, Capacities, and Encoders

arXiv:2608.20280v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic caches reuse an LLM response when the incoming query embedding lies near a cached query, but proposed eviction policies have rarely been comp

Accelerating Visual On-Policy Distillation with Batched Speculative Jacobi Rollouts

arXiv:2608.18183v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual on-policy distillation (OPD) improves the training of compact visual autoregressive models by learning from trajectories generated by the current

ADEPT: Accelerating Dexterity via Pre-Training and Post-Training using Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.19182v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Accelerating Dexterity via Pre-Training (ADEPT), a large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) framework for learning sim-to-real transferabl

Alignment Is All You Need: Instruction-Free Training for General Audio-Language Models

arXiv:2608.18132v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are typically built through a multi-stage pipeline consisting of cross-modal alignment, supervised fine-tuning

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Authoring Dogwood policies from natural language in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AI agents can take actions that do not match your organization's policies. Policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore lets teams enforce controls across agents, now including time-based constraints. This post

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Beyond Placement and Articulation: Usage-Driven Code Scenes for Embodied Interaction

arXiv:2608.18840v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Indoor scene synthesis provides essential environments for embodied AI, robotic manipulation, and simulation-based policy learning. Recent code-based

Beyond Predictive Fairness: Quantifying Attribution Consistency Across Demographic Groups in Diabetic Retinopathy Screening

arXiv:2608.18759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fairness in medical imaging is commonly evaluated through subgroup performance metrics, yet it remains unclear whether models rely on consistent visua

Beyond Trial Averaging: Anchoring Neural and Visual Representations for Few-Repetition Brain-to-Image Retrieval

arXiv:2608.19128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decoding visual information from brain signals probes neural representations and enables neuro-rehabilitation and dream decoding. Recent brain-to-image

Bidirectional representational alignment between biological and artificial neural networks

arXiv:2608.18244v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work has shown that representational alignment between biological and artificial neural networks is asymmetric: model representations predict n

Clinically Structured Surrogate Rewards for Post-SFT Medical Image Captioning

arXiv:2608.18654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical image captioning requires translating heterogeneous visual evidence into concise clinical descriptions, where errors in findings, assertion stat

Communications-Aware NMPC for Multi-Rotor Aerial Relay Networks Under Jamming Interference

arXiv:2603.28467v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicles (MRAVs) are increasingly used in communication-dependent missions where connectivity loss directly compromises task exec

Continual Reasoning Gym: Diagnosing and Harnessing Shared Reasoning in Continual RLVR

arXiv:2608.18574v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) commonly post-trains reasoning models on multiple tasks, while rerunning multitask RLVR (MTRL) as

Continuous-Time Reinforcement Learning for Controlled Hawkes Jump-Diffusions

arXiv:2608.19151v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study stochastic control of multivariate Hawkes-driven stochastic differential equations with machine learning algorithms in a non-Markovian setting.

Counterfactual Behavior Cloning: Offline Imitation Learning from Imperfect Human Demonstrations

arXiv:2505.10760v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning from humans is challenging because people are imperfect teachers. When everyday humans show the robot a new task they want it to perform, h

DART-SD: Diamond-topology Aware Retrieval and Tuning for Self-Distillation of Multi-Turn Tool-Calling Agents

arXiv:2608.18524v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Equipping Large Language Models (LLMs) with multi-turn tool-calling capabilities is essential for building autonomous agents. However, progress is fun

Debiased Inference for AI-Generated Data without Gold-Standard Labels: Identification via Multiple Imperfect Measurements

arXiv:2608.18294v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An increasing number of scholars use AI to measure variables they subsequently include in downstream analyses. Although AI-measured variables are ofte

Decision-Metric Alignment in Latent World Models: Diagnostics and Action-Conditioned Objectives for MPC Planning

arXiv:2608.18746v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: JEPA-style latent world models can use Euclidean distance to a goal latent as the cost for model-predictive control (MPC). Strong decoding of task var

Dream2Reward: Transition-Alignment Reward Models from Positive Demonstrations for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2608.18787v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning robotic policies requires dense rewards that remain informative when behavior departs from successful demonstrations. Progress-based rewards es

DynCur-Geo: Dynamic Curiosity Reward Shaping for Multimodal Active Geo-Localization

arXiv:2608.18673v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active geo-localization enables low-altitude UAVs to search for specified targets from limited local aerial observations, supporting time-sensitive appl

EgoHRV: Continuous Heart Rate Variability Estimation from Egocentric Systems for Autonomic Response and Skill Assessment

arXiv:2608.18711v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Egocentric vision systems capture human behavior from visible cues, but overlook physiological indicators of autonomic states such as stress, engagement

Europe's Climate Ambition Under Scrutiny: Evidence from Deep Learning Emission Projections

arXiv:2608.18690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The European Union has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions 55% below 1990 levels by 2030, but whether current trends are compatible with th

FACET: Preserving Source Intent and Executable State in Terminal Task Synthesis

arXiv:2608.18580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training terminal agents requires scalable executable supervision, yet synthesizing high-quality terminal tasks remains challenging. Each task couples a

Fast Best-in-Class Regret for Contextual Bandits

arXiv:2510.15483v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the problem of stochastic contextual bandits in the agnostic setting, where the goal is to compete with the best policy in a given cl

FD-CanKD: Frequency-Decoupled Cross-Attention Distillation as a Refinement Prior for Compact Object Detectors

arXiv:2608.18590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compact object detectors are suitable for resource-constrained visual perception, but their limited representation capacity creates an accuracy gap rela

Flux-form spatiotemporal neural operators for coarse-grained dynamics of multiscale PDEs

arXiv:2608.18148v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study data-driven prediction of coarse-grained dynamics in multiscale PDE systems. Adopting a closure-free operator-learning viewpoint, we apply a

Fractional Decay KV-Cache: Ownership-Aware Memory Management for Improved Inference Relevancy in Dialog Systems

arXiv:2608.18098v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Key-value (KV) caching is essential for efficient autoregressive inference in transformer based dialog systems, yet existing strategies treat all cach

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FraudBench: Stress-Testing Policy-Grounded Banking Agents Against Adaptive Fraud

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arXiv:2608.18136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversational agents now act for end users through tools while holding access to customer databases and internal policy documents that a caller can rea