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arXiv:2609.36785v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-rich manipulation requires robots to sequence precise contacts, maintain stable grasps, and apply directed forces. Reinforcement learning (RL) c

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Task-Oriented Visual Feature Compression via Residual Vector Quantization for Device-Edge Multimodal Inference

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arXiv:2609.37090v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large multimodal models (LMMs) support diverse visual understanding and reasoning tasks but are often impractical to run entirely on resource-constraine

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Task-Relevant Null-Space Residuals for Non-Injective Neural Mappings

arXiv:2609.37272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Non-injective mappings in neural networks map distinct inputs to the same representation, thereby implicitly inducing equivalence relations in the input

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TaskBridge: Bridging Unsupervised Tabular Anomaly Detection and In-Context Learning via Virtual Tasks

arXiv:2609.36968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unsupervised tabular anomaly detection (TAD) aims to identify anomalous rows in tabular data using normal training samples. While conventional methods r

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Teaching LLMs to Generate Challenging MILP Instances via Solver Feedback

arXiv:2609.37356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating optimization instances that are both feasible and computationally challenging is crucial for benchmarking solvers and training learning-based

Technical note on: Zero-Training Feature-Space Alignment via Information Geometry

arXiv:2609.37302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep vision models often degrade under distribution shift. Test-time adaptation can improve robustness but typically requires iterative optimization, hy

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Temporal-Aware Fusion for Robust Outdoor LiDAR Localization

arXiv:2609.36432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LiDAR relocalization aims to estimate the global 6-DoF pose of a sensor in the environment. However, existing regression-based approaches often encounte

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Tensor-Train Compressed Separable PINNs: A Curvature-Aware Optimization Framework for Parametric PDEs in High Dimensions

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arXiv:2609.36165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this work, we develop a second-order optimization framework for physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) applied to high-dimensional parametric par

Test-Time Adaptation of Manipulation Policies Under Actuator Degradation

arXiv:2609.36182v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulation policies are usually trained under the assumption that a commanded action produces the same motion as it did during training even aft

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Text2Sim: Agentic Physics-Based Simulation Generation with Distilled Expertise

arXiv:2609.36593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Creating diverse physical simulations remains labor-intensive because assets, layout, physical parameters, motion, control, and rendering must be desi

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Texture Space Material Diffusion

arXiv:2609.37654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a method for generating high quality materials for 3D objects entirely in texture space. We finetune a video diffusion transformer for text-g

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The Camera Inside the Editor: Reading the Implicit Camera of Image Editors with Painted Calibration Patterns

arXiv:2609.37732v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Instruction-based image editors insert objects, restyle scenes and render new viewpoints, but it is unknown which camera they assume when they paint int

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The Canonical Order Problem: When Large Language Models Are Unreliable Knowledge Bases for Multi-Valued Relations

arXiv:2609.36209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as knowledge bases (KBs) due to the vast amount of knowledge they acquire during pre-training. While

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The Commit-Abstain Circuit: Why Language Models Hallucinate Instead of Abstaining

arXiv:2609.32964v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Language models (LMs) often hallucinate by committing to confident answers rather than abstaining, even when they do not have enough information to

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The Decision Value of Perception Compute

arXiv:2609.35910v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adaptive perception spends extra computation on inputs where perception is expected to improve. When perception feeds a downstream decision system, a

The Default Trap: Rethinking Plan Evaluation in Tool-Using LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.36829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An executor can respond strongly to a change in a supplied plan's priority while showing a small change in the same information-selection probability wh

The Detectability Gap: Hidden Heterogeneity in Hallucination Detection Across Language Models

arXiv:2609.35860v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sampling based consistency is widely used for hallucination detection, yet aggregate performance can conceal systematic differences in which errors ar

The Domain Is a Residue: Adapting Self-Supervised Features, Not Generators

arXiv:2609.37330v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clearing fog, rain or snow from footage, or turning renders into photographs, must remove the source domain and keep the scene. Unpaired translators car

The finite-horizon five-expert prediction problem

arXiv:2609.38035v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We give an explicit solution to the five expert prediction with expert advice partial differential equation (PDE) in the finite-time horizon setting.

The Geometry of Inference in Transformer Residual Streams

arXiv:2609.37824v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer language models build predictions through successive residual updates, but how their representations become specific to an eventual outcome

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The Layer Mystery of VLA: An Information-Theoretical Analysis of VLA Latent Interface

arXiv:2609.36118v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies connect a pretrained vision-language backbone to an action head through a latent interface, but which backbone lay

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The Price of Token Boundaries: Compression Certificates and Prediction

arXiv:2609.35869v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pre-tokenisation restricts which text fragments can become prediction units, but its compression cost is obscured when tokenisers are compared only unde

The Rashomon Wikipedia: A Data-Perspectivist Analysis of Divergent Historical Narratives

arXiv:2609.37498v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wikipedia aims to provide a unified, neutral record of history, yet its independent language editions often function as distinct epistemic communities,

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The Role of Feed-Forward Layers in Transformer Dynamics

arXiv:2609.36230v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the dynamical behavior of tokens in transformers from a control-theoretic perspective. Our model includes the feed-forward layer present after

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The Safety Operator: Modulating the Expression of Safety Instructions via Spectral Optimization

arXiv:2609.36434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Context tokens in a transformer-based language model can be absorbed into the model's weights as a multiplicative operator. We study this operator in th

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The Signed Geometry of One-Shot Recourse: On-Path Validity and the Signed-Curvature Criterion

arXiv:2609.36252v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Closed-form recourse moves a rejected user along the unit gradient hat g of the classifier score f by the promised distance d_p=|f(x)|/|nabla f(x)|, at

The Surge of Anti-Semitism in German Social Media following the October 7 Attacks

arXiv:2609.36290v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate the extent to which the Hamas attacks on Israel of October 7, 2023, have affected German social media debates about Judaism and Israel.

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The Teacher Is a Direction, Not a Destination: Extrapolating RL-Induced Representation Residuals in On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2609.36484v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student to match the teacher's next-token distributions on the student's own trajectories and has yielded substant

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The Unequal Influence of Bad Advice: Using Training Data Attribution to Modulate Emergent Misalignment

arXiv:2609.37914v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-tuning large language models on narrow, misaligned tasks can undo their post-training alignment and induce novel misaligned behaviors -- a phenom

The Uneven Decline of Collective Knowledge Production: Evidence from Stack Overflow After Generative AI

arXiv:2609.36069v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative AI (Gen AI) is reshaping how individuals learn and work, but its consequences for collective knowledge, the shared body of knowledge that o

The Universal Classifier for Graph Learning

arXiv:2609.36302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While foundation models have revolutionized natural language processing and computer vision by leveraging universal vocabularies, Graph Machine Learning

The Vote Hides the Failure: Aggregation Choice and Noise Robustness in Heart Murmur Detection

arXiv:2609.37161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Noise robustness in automated phonocardiogram (PCG) murmur detection, and how it is measured, remains underexamined despite growing interest in low-reso

Theory on Attention Dynamics for Out-of-Distribution In-Context Learning

arXiv:2609.36448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformers have demonstrated remarkable in-context learning (ICL) capabilities, enabling them to perform new tasks without additional fine-tuning. How

Think Before You Restore: Risk-Aware Manchu Manuscript Restoration with Stroke-Guided Attention

arXiv:2609.36243v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Full-page blind restoration of historical Manchu manuscripts is challenging due to scarce annotations, unknown degradation regions, and fragile connec

Think Before You Score: Thinking Reward Model for Visual Generation

arXiv:2609.37372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual reward models are essential for evaluating and improving visual generation models, yet existing approaches typically map task conditions and cand

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Think, Then Look: Active Spatial Reasoning for House-Scale 3D Scene Understanding

arXiv:2512.03284v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Spatial reasoning in large-scale 3D environments remains challenging for current vision--language models, which are typically constrained to room-sc

Thinking Before Thinking: Scaling Agentic Inference Through Meta-Reasoning

arXiv:2609.38147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As agents take on longer and more complex problems, controlling the execution becomes a task in its own right. Each step in the run brings new control c

Thinking in Depth, Speaking Directly: Recurrent Latent Reasoning for Paralinguistically Grounded Spoken Dialogue

arXiv:2609.37818v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Empathetic spoken dialogue requires models to use both what is said and how it is said to decide how to respond. Explicit CoT can improve paralinguist

ThinkingGuard: Decoding Implicit Hazards via Step-by-Step Risk Attribution in Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.36562v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly deployed in safety-critical domains, their reliability is threatened by multimodal imp

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ThinQuant: Scalable Rotation Learning for Weight and Activation Quantization of LLMs

arXiv:2609.36120v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learned rotations play an important role in enabling low-bit weight and activation quantization of large language models by smoothing outliers in the

ThuRunel: Dynamic Decoupling for Structured Advisory Dialogue

arXiv:2609.36340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-stakes advisory domains such as medical aesthetics, legal consultation, and educational planning exhibit a two-phase structure. The early phase req

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Time-Anchored Diffusion Language Models: Latent-Space Caching for Fast Generation

arXiv:2609.37924v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work on anchored diffusion language models improves denoising by shaping an intermediate latent space with supervised important-token targets.

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TomoTransformer: Towards a Foundation Model for CT Reconstruction

arXiv:2609.37605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Supervised deep learning has advanced sparse-view tomographic reconstruction. However, conventional models, which typically map filtered back-projection

ToolFence: Fine-Grained Authorization for Secure Tool-Using LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.37196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-using LLM agents remain vulnerable to indirect prompt injection because trusted instructions and untrusted observations share one context, allowi

TopoEmbedX: A General Framework for Representation Learning on Topological Domains

arXiv:2609.37884v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Topological structures such as simplicial complexes, hypergraphs, and cell complexes extend standard graph models by modeling higher-order relationships

Topological Coherence for Self-evolving Multi-agent Systems

arXiv:2609.37953v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Complex tasks inherently couple workflow structure, agent responsibility, collaboration, and memory access: task regions delimit responsibility and tool

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TORQUE: Optimizing What (not) to Quantize Before and After Rotation

arXiv:2609.36032v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Uniform random rotations are an effective preprocessing step for quantization: they make normalized coordinate distributions approximately Gaussian, e

Toward a Culturally Adapted Chinese Language Agent: A Wizard-of-Oz Study of Nonverbal Behavior in Chinese-German Intercultural Interaction

arXiv:2609.35150v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Successful intercultural communication requires more than grammatical competence. It demands sensitivity to culturally embedded social norms whose vio

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