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Behavior Leverage Imbalance in Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2607.07050v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic language models must learn when to call tools, when to consume tool responses, and when to answer directly. This makes multi-teacher on-policy d

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ContrastiveCFG: Guiding Diffusion Sampling by Contrasting Positive and Negative Concepts

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arXiv:2411.17077v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) has proven effective in conditional diffusion model sampling for improved condition alignment, many applicat

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D2PO: Optimizing Diffusion Samplers via Dynamic Preference

arXiv:2607.06609v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose D2PO (Dynamic Direct Preference Optimization), a principled framework for optimizing diffusion sampling policies with respect to timestep s

DASH: Dynamic Audio-Driven Semantic Chunking for Efficient Omnimodal Token Compression

arXiv:2603.15685v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Omnimodal large language models (OmniLLMs) jointly process audio and visual streams, but the resulting long multimodal token sequences make in

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Reliability Based Bi-Objective Portfolio Optimization

arXiv:2607.06610v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Portfolio optimization under uncertainty is inherently a multi-objective decision problem involving complex interactions among return, risk, market dy

DiaLLM: An Investigation into the Robustness-Generation Gap in English Dialect Adaptation

arXiv:2607.07669v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models increasingly understand dialectal English, yet still produce only standard, US-leaning English, leaving dialectal generation, th

Discovering Geometric Biases in 3D Face Reconstruction: A Curvature-Aware Spectral Framework for Fairness Evaluation

arXiv:2607.07486v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Morphable Models (3DMMs) remain the standard parametric shape priors for many state-of-the-art 3D face reconstruction algorithms. However, as these m

Do Counterfactually Fair Image Classifiers Satisfy Group Fairness? -- A Theoretical and Empirical Study

arXiv:2607.06603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The notion of algorithmic fairness has been actively explored from various aspects of fairness, such as counterfactual fairness (CF) and group fairnes

Dual Latent Memory in Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2607.07608v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mainstream Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models predict actions primarily from the current observation under a Markovian assumption, thus struggling wi

EmbodiedGen V2: An Agentic, Simulation-Ready 3D World Engine for Embodied AI

arXiv:2607.07459v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present EmbodiedGen V2, a generative 3D world engine for building executable sim-ready environments for embodied intelligence. Sim-ready 3D asset g

EMO-R3: Reflective Reinforcement Learning for Emotional Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2602.23802v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable progress in visual reasoning and understanding tasks but still struggle to capture th

Entropy Pacing Policy Optimization for Multi-Task Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607.07178v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent breakthroughs of Reinforcement Learning (RL) have highlighted its potential for complex agentic Large Language Model (LLM) tasks. However, exis

Fast Rates for Semi-Supervised Learning via Data-Augmentation Graph Regularization

arXiv:2607.07513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-supervised learning matches supervised accuracy from a fraction of the labels, but the labeled-sample efficiency behind this has lacked a theoretic

Feynman Kac Reweighted Schrodinger Bridge Matching for Surface-Based Tau PET Harmonization

arXiv:2606.17420v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Tau positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used for the in vivo characterization of disease stage and progression in Alzheimer's disease

Framing Instability in LLM Ethical Stance: Auditing Negation Sensitivity in Moral Dilemmas

arXiv:2601.21433v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Language models are increasingly consulted on ethically consequential questions, yet the stance a model expresses may not survive a change in framin

GemNav: Discrete-Token Visual Robot Navigation using a Multimodal Large Language Model

arXiv:2607.06882v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual navigation policies built on large pretrained models have so far followed a common recipe: a dedicated visual encoder, a bespoke action head, a

Gen4U: Unifying Video Generation and Understanding via Diffusion

arXiv:2607.06856v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prior work suggests that diffusion representations capture low-level geometry but struggle with high-level semantics. We demonstrate that state-of-the-a

Gradient-Based Speech-to-Text Alignment for Any ASR Model: From CTC to Speech LLMs

arXiv:2607.06831v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech-to-text alignment means finding the temporal boundaries of each word in the audio. Some models provide such an alignment directly and others do

HART: High-Resolution Annotation-Free Reasoning Technique through a Closed-loop Framework

arXiv:2602.23615v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) struggle with high-resolution visual inputs during the reasoning process, as the number of image tokens incre

HiDVFS: Hierarchical Multi-Agent DVFS for Real-Time OpenMP DAG Workloads

arXiv:2601.06425v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Leakage power in multicore embedded systems now rivals dynamic power, so DVFS schedulers must respect deadlines and thermal limits, not just a

HumAIN: Human-Aware Implicit Social Robot Navigation

arXiv:2607.07357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Effective social robot navigation requires sensitivity to human behavior, often revealed through subtle skeletal cues like gait and orientation. We pr

Incentivizing Temporal-Awareness in Egocentric Video Understanding Models

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have recently shown strong performance in visual understanding, yet they often lack temporal awareness, particularly in egocentric settings where reasoning dep

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InductWave: Inductive Multi-Hop Logical Query Answering on Knowledge Graphs

arXiv:2607.07422v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Logical Multi-Hop Query Answering over Knowledge Graphs (KGs) can be formulated as querying, with an implicit completeness assumption. Current works mai

Latent Policy Steering through One-Step Flow Policies

arXiv:2603.05296v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning (RL) allows robots to learn from offline datasets without risky exploration. Yet, offline RL's performance ofte

Learning social norms enhances compatibility in dynamic human-AI coordination

arXiv:2607.07021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans continuously coordinate with others in dynamic interactions, often through implicit, hard-to-quantify social norms that act as shared tacit expec

LHM-Humanoid: Long-Horizon Human Motion Control for Continuous Object Transport in Cluttered Scenes

arXiv:2508.16943v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Physics-based human motion control can make a simulated character walk, sit, and manipulate objects with high physical realism. Almost always,

Lipschitz-Regularized Critics Lead to Policy Robustness Against Transition Dynamics Uncertainty

arXiv:2404.13879v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Uncertainties in transition dynamics pose a critical challenge in reinforcement learning (RL), often resulting in performance degradation of trained

LLM-Guided Task-Semantic Field Factorization for Industrial Process Forecasting

arXiv:2607.06623v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Process industries rely on time-series forecasting and soft sensing to estimate quality variables that are hard to measure online. Labeled data are sc

LLM-powered reasoning in agent-based modeling

arXiv:2607.06757v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent-based modeling (ABM) has the capability to model millions of individuals and their interactions, which is useful for policy making. However, ABMs

LLMs Silently Correct African American English: Auditing and Mitigating Dialect Bias via Activation Steering

arXiv:2607.06845v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: African American English (AAE), a rule-governed dialect spoken by over 30 million people, is routinely misinterpreted and 'corrected' by large language

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Mathematical methods of reinforcement learning

arXiv:2607.06935v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) is increasingly grounded in tools from probability, optimization, and operator theory. This survey organizes the mathemati

Max Out GRPO Signal: Adaptive Trace Prefix Control for Hard Reasoning Problems

arXiv:2607.07674v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) stalls on a model's hardest problems: when no rollout in a group succeeds, the group-relative advantages van

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Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US now has AI 'regulation without transparent or complete rules', and adds that 'without rules, businesses can't plan' (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)

Beatrice Nolan / Fortune: Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US now has AI “regulation without transparent or complete rules”, and adds that “without rules, businesses can't plan” — Microsoft Pre

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NativeMEM: Native Memory Compression for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2607.06678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How can pretrained Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models retain long-horizon visual histories with high-frequency updates without sacrificing efficiency?

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Open-Ended Scenario Reasoning for Specialist Model Adaptation

arXiv:2607.06625v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Process industries have accumulated validated specialist models, yet sensor drift, feedstock variation, and regime switching cause these models to deg

ORAN-DEFEND: Subspace Detection and Sanitization of Backdoor DRL xApps in Open RAN

arXiv:2607.06647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) increasingly delegate near-real-time control to deep reinforcement learning (DRL) xApps obtained from third-party v

ORCAID: Oblique Rule-Based Continuous-Action Interpretation for Deep RL Policies

arXiv:2607.07235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Explainability remains a key issue in reinforcement learning (RL). Distilling an interpretable policy from an agent trained in a complex environment i

Pelican-VLA 0.5: Attending Before Acting Benefits Generalization

arXiv:2607.06655v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this report, we present Pelican-VLA 0.5, a unified VLA model that integrates vision-language understanding, future-frame generation, and action pre

Provably Efficient Off-Policy Adversarial Imitation Learning with Convergence Guarantees

arXiv:2405.16668v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Adversarial Imitation Learning (AIL) faces challenges with sample inefficiency because of its reliance on sufficient on-policy data to evaluate the

Rapidly Learning Soft Robot Control via Implicit Time-Stepping

arXiv:2511.06667v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With the explosive growth of rigid-body simulators, policy learning in simulation has become the de facto standard for most rigid morphologies

RoboSnap: One-Shot Real-to-Sim Scene Generation for Generalizable Robot Learning and Evaluation

arXiv:2607.06699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recovering real-world scenes as interactive simulation environments can enable generalizable robot learning and reproducible policy evaluation. However,

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Scaling Mixture-of-Experts Video Pretraining for Embodied Intelligence

arXiv:2607.07675v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the recent promise in robot control, video generative models suffer from a domain mismatch due to their primary focus on content creation. For e

Selective Timestep Weighting and Advantage-Based Replay for Sample-Efficient Diffusion RLHF

arXiv:2607.07693v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for aligning generative models with human preferences. However, a

SHTA: Semantic Hard Token Correction and Center Alignment for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation

arXiv:2607.07019v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in semi-supervised medical image segmentation have achieved remarkable performance through prediction consistency, pseudo-label supervis

Single-Rollout Asynchronous Optimization for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607.07508v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) is becoming increasingly important for post-training large language models (LLMs). Previous RL pipelines for LLMs were mos

SOMtime the World Ain't Fair: Violating Fairness Using Self-Organizing Maps

arXiv:2602.18201v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unsupervised representations are widely assumed to be neutral with respect to sensitive attributes when those attributes are withheld from training.

T2T-VICL: Cross-Task Visual In-Context Learning via Implicit Text-Driven VLMs

arXiv:2511.16107v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual in-context learning (VICL) solves visual tasks by conditioning on a few input-output demonstrations without any model training. Recent

TACoS: Weakly Supervised Learning of Two-Dimensional Materials from Scribble Annotations to Precise Segmentation

arXiv:2607.07169v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The precise pixel-level localization of 2D material flakes is crucial for high-throughput screening. However, traditional fully supervised methods rely