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SPARC: Reliable Spatial Annotations from Robot Demonstrations at Scale

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arXiv:2606.13497v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This work introduces Spatial Annotations from Robot Demonstrations with Reliability Calibration (SPARC), a risk-aware framework that automatic

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Startup nFox to open-source its ‘sandbox’ for open AI models

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Artificial intelligence governance startup nFOX Lab today launched a platform for managing owned large language models and announced plans to open-source Blockhouse, a security sandbox designed to res

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TEX-MEX: Similarity-Guided Temporal Contrastive Learning for Time Series

arXiv:2610.19557v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contrastive learning for time series depends on deciding which pairs of inputs should be treated as similar and dissimilar. Because few augmentations re

Text-Informed Training Data Filtering for Enhanced Virtual Flow Meter Performance

arXiv:2610.19860v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In sectors such as energy, aquaculture and chemical processing, the effectiveness of both mechanistic and data-driven models is frequently limited by

TextualRL: Textual Reinforcement Learning for Context Management

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arXiv:2610.18216v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents can adapt to task feedback by revising the textual context that guides their behavior, without changing their model parameters. However, tu

Theoretical and Practical Advances in Hierarchical Bayesian Deep Learning Methodology

arXiv:2610.19074v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable uncertainty quantification remains an important challenge in AI. Hierarchical Bayesian methods provide a principled framework for this by repre

Using Evidence-Centered Design to Guide Prompt Engineering in Measurement: An Illustration with Automated Essay Scoring

arXiv:2610.15231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models, particularly large language models (LLMs), are increasingly used in educational settings for tasks su

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Verification and Forward Invariance of Control Barrier Functions for Differential-Algebraic Systems

arXiv:2603.13509v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Differential-algebraic equations (DAEs) arise in power networks, chemical processes, and multibody systems, where algebraic constraints encode

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Vision: 'What Don't I Know About User's Preferences?' How Uncertainty Estimation Improves Proactive Assistant Alignment

arXiv:2610.15948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Proactive Smart Assistants (PSAs) increasingly use general knowledge, learned patterns from group-level data, patterns from individual user's data, and

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VLRLA: Deployment-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language-Action Models through In-Context Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.19517v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models connect visual perception and language understanding with robot control, providing a foundation for instruction-co

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W-JEPA: Wavelet Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture for Wearable Activity Recognition

arXiv:2610.19411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A major challenge in wearable device activity recognition is the heterogeneity across datasets in sensor placement, channel count, sampling rate and sub

What the Gemini agent means for startups

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Small teams, short runway, and constant pressure to ship faster — it’s the reality we see every day among the founders we work with at Google for Startups. When you are building a company from the gro

What the Machine Invented: Mining New Mathematical Instruments from OpenAI's October 2026 Release of AI-Generated Mathematics

arXiv:2610.17090v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On 6 October 2026 OpenAI published an initial 722 AI-written mathematical manuscripts, organized into 372 problem families, in the public repository g

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What We Talk About When We Talk About LLM Planning: Evidence for Two Distinct Planning Abilities

arXiv:2607.11197v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: When LLMs exhibit uneven performance across planning tasks, these gaps are often attributed to task difficulty. We argue that this explanation is in

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When Messages Go Wrong: Understanding Communication Faults in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

arXiv:2610.15459v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based multi-agent systems (LLM-MAS) use specialized agents that exchange messages to accomplish complex tasks. Their reliance on networked protoco

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Who Should We Listen to More? Welfare-Aware Preference Acquisition for Pluralistic Alignment

arXiv:2610.19035v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pluralistic alignment needs to accommodate diverse preferences under limited human feedback. Using AI simulators to label preference comparisons reduc

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A Generalized McDiarmid Inequality: Sample Reuse and Non-Uniform Unbounded Differences

arXiv:2610.17159v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We develop a novel generalization of McDiarmid's concentration inequality and use it to obtain a uniform law of large numbers result and error bounds

A Note on Graphon-Signal Analysis of Graph Neural Networks

arXiv:2508.18564v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A recent paper, ``A Graphon-Signal Analysis of Graph Neural Networks'', by Levie, analyzed message passing graph neural networks (MPNNs) by embeddin

A physics-coupled graph neural operator for mid-plane six-component stress tensor field prediction in concrete penetration

arXiv:2610.16996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The penetration-resistant design of concrete structures requires the spatiotemporal evolution of the stress field within the target, whereas in design o

A text-guided vision model for enhanced recognition of small instances

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arXiv:2602.19503v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As drone-based object detection technology continues to evolve, the demand is shifting from merely detecting objects to enabling users to accurately

[AINews] AI Engineer NYC: Gemini 4 Argon, Vals AI Benchmarks

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Google’s Gemini 4 Argon is now generally available (GA), offering coding, knowledge‑work, enterprise‑workflow, and cyber‑defense features via the paid Gemini API, Google AI Pro/Ultra in the Gemini app

Assessing the Quality of Concrete Scenarios Generated from Scenario Classes for Automated Driving

arXiv:2610.18169v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A scenario-based development approach has become state of the art for automated driving systems. Once a set of scenario classes covering the operation

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Asynchronous Sharpness-Aware Minimization For Fast and Accurate Deep Learning

arXiv:2503.11147v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) is an optimization method that improves the generalization performance of machine learning models. Despite its ef

Automatic Thematic Indexing of Large Literary Corpora: A Machine Learning Approach to Voltaire's Complete Works

arXiv:2607.09316v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Thematic indexing -- the practice of assigning structured conceptual labels to sections of text -- is essential to scholarly access in large-s

Bayesian Nonparametric Thompson Sampling for Multi-Armed Bandits

arXiv:1808.02932v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In stochastic multi-armed bandits, rewards are generated by an unknown distribution; the world's reward uncertainty induces the exploration-ex

Benchmarks Are Not Atomic: Composition-Aware LLM Evaluation using BenchHub

arXiv:2506.00482v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM benchmarks are often treated as coherent measurement units, yet they are heterogeneous collections of instances spanning diverse domains, skills

Better Capturing Interactions Between Products in~Retail: Revisited Negative Sampling for~Basket Choice Modeling

arXiv:2610.17963v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Brick-and-mortar retailers face many different challenges that involve understanding thoroughly its products catalog and customer preferences. In partic

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Beyond Task Success: A Theory of Representation Reuse

arXiv:2610.18375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A learned representation is useful beyond its source task only if later tasks can make use of what the encoder has already learned. Source-task performa

Building Multilingual Datasets for Predicting Mental Health Severity through LLMs: Prospects and Challenges

arXiv:2409.17397v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into various medical fields, including mental health support systems. However,

Closing the Estimation Gap: Training-Free Transductive Inference for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Action Recognition

arXiv:2610.18209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-domain few-shot action recognition (CD-FSAR) aims to recognise unseen action classes in a target domain from a handful of labelled videos. Despite

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Cloud CISO Perspectives: New Gemini Notebook can help CISOs and policymakers prepare for PQC

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Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2026. Today, Stephanie Kiel explains the latest on our approach to post-quantum cryptography, and shares a new tool to help CISOs and executive

Comprehensive Workflow for Uncertainty-Aware Ionic Liquid Solvent Discovery

arXiv:2610.17171v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Designing synthesizable materials with targeted properties remains one of the central objectives in materials sciences. Ionic liquids (ILs) are well s

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Concealed Handgun Detection using WiFi Signals

arXiv:2610.18736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While conventional camera-based surveillance systems and metal detectors can provide a sufficient level of security when used appropriately, they have f

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Contrastive learning for video reuse detection

arXiv:2610.17098v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The incorporation of footage from other sources has long been a concern from a copyright perspective, as such usage can harm the interests of rights hol

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Decentralized Bandit Learning of Markov Perfect Equilibria

arXiv:2610.14333v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study decentralized bandit learning in discounted infinite-horizon, general-sum Markov games with continuous actions. Agents observe the public state

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Declarative Reactive Robot Behaviors from Imperative Language Models

arXiv:2610.17083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are predominantly trained on imperative programming languages, and existing work on LLM-based robot programming reflects th

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Deep Learning and Elicitability for McKean-Vlasov FBSDEs With Common Noise

arXiv:2512.14967v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a novel numerical method for solving McKean-Vlasov forward-backward stochastic differential equations (MV--FBSDEs) with common noise, com

Deep Learning-based Mechanical Characterization of Synthetically Generated Plant Fibers under Transverse Compression

arXiv:2610.16529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Plant fibers are increasingly used as sustainable reinforcements in composites, but the intrinsic variability of their microstructure causes substantial

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Deep Neural Mixed Models for Nonlinear Longitudinal Prediction with Subject-Specific Heterogeneity

arXiv:2610.15323v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Longitudinal health data often exhibit within-subject correlation, subject-specific heterogeneity, and complex nonlinear predictor--response relations

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Dependency, Compression, and Synergy: A Unified Information-Theoretic View of Multimodal Learning

arXiv:2609.14421v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in multimodal foundation models have intensified the need to understand how different modalities share, preserve, and complement infor

DiffNash: Finding Nash Equilibrium in High-Dimensional Continuous Action Spaces with Diffusion Policies

arXiv:2610.15932v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computing equilibria in high-dimensional continuous games requires learning and representing rich, multi-modal strategy distributions, something convent

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Drift, Then Spread: Learning One-Step Generative Policies for Online Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.15662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative policies offer expressive action distributions for online reinforcement learning (RL), but many diffusion- and flow-based policies require co

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Efficient Preconditioned Optimization Methods with Frequent Directions

arXiv:2610.16792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adaptive optimization methods have received considerable attention in recent years due to their strong empirical performance. However, they generally re

Exact power indices for plurality-voting ensembles

arXiv:2610.17980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Plurality-voting ensembles aggregate the predictions of multiple base classifiers and output the most voted class, with ties typically broken at random.

Exact Topological Compliance: Generating Persistence-Equivalent Graphs

arXiv:2610.18856v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Persistent homology summarizes the topological evolution of a graph as persistence diagrams (PDs). Generating graphs whose topology matches a target des

Explicit Bounds on Hoffman Constants for Sparse Polyhedral Regularizers

arXiv:2610.15241v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hoffman constants quantify the distance to the solution set of a polyhedral system in terms of its residual; they control error bounds, geometric cond

Facial Recognition Leveraging Generative Adversarial Networks

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arXiv:2505.11884v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Face recognition performance based on deep learning heavily relies on large-scale training data, which is often difficult to acquire in practical ap

Fast and Accurate: Improving Personalized LLM Performance by Semantic Concentration Inspired Workload Split between RAG and Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2610.15921v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With ever increasing personalized large language model (LLM) services, the next question to answer is how to improve the quality of services/users' expe