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DivOPD: Spread Wide, Look Close for Asynchronous On-Policy Distillation of Multi-turn Agents

arXiv:2609.34838v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains student agents through teacher supervision on their own interactions with an environment. However, in asynchronous m

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dKFD: Phase-Structured Evidence Allocation for Fixed-Budget Localized Event Understanding

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arXiv:2609.33083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse video understanding often requires selecting a small set of visual evidence under a fixed frame budget. Most sparse selectors allocate this budge

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Do Emotion Concepts Generalize Across Sources, Modalities, and Architectures in Vision-Language Models?

arXiv:2609.34742v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent studies suggest that large language models encode emotion concepts as structured internal representations, but most existing work focuses on text

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Do Latent-CoT Models Think Step-by-Step? A Mechanistic Study on Sequential Reasoning Tasks

arXiv:2602.00449v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Latent Chain-of-Thought aims to enable step-by-step computation without emitting long rationales, yet its internal mechanisms remain unclear.

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Do Not Cut When Uncertain: Rejectable and Calibrated Decision Heads for VLA Policies in Robotic Harvesting

arXiv:2609.35039v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies trained with behavior cloning or flow matching are optimized to output an action trajectory, but they cannot expre

Do Temporal Link Predictors Need Learned Memory? A Smoothed-Count Baseline with a Handful of Parameters

arXiv:2609.35364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many temporal link predictors summarize past interactions through learned node representations. We examine whether simple counts of recurring interactio

Do We Really Need KL Divergence for On-Policy Distillation of Large Language Models?

arXiv:2609.33791v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Since the advent of knowledge distillation, KL divergence has been the standard loss in distillation. Recently, on-policy distillation (OPD) has emerged

Do World Models Learn Global Understanding?

arXiv:2609.34058v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems often feel brittle and fragmented. A large language model (LLM) may correctly explain a concept but fail to apply it, or follow safety instru

Does Adversarial Training Improve Generalization in Multi-View VLAs? Revealing and Mitigating View Collapse

arXiv:2609.33707v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models adapt pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) for closed-loop robot control, transferring their perceptual and se

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Does Execution Require Target KV Fidelity? A Mixed-Fidelity KV Runtime for LLM Serving

arXiv:2609.33536v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) serving is increasingly constrained by the GPU memory consumed by key-value (KV) caches. Existing compression, eviction, and

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Does Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture Pretraining Help Time Series Forecasting?

arXiv:2609.31680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPA) have emerged as a promising self-supervised pretraining paradigm for time series, learning representatio

Does Native 3D Texture Generation Necessarily Require 3D Assets for Training?

arXiv:2609.34621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Native 3D texture generation synthesizes colors directly in 3D space for a given geometry, conditioned on multi-view reference images. It is generally b

Does Transolver really need a Transformer?

arXiv:2609.32525v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The widely used Transolver family of neural operators is based on physics-attention, which softly assigns the points of an unstructured mesh to a small

Does Vision-Language Pretraining Granularity Matter? A Controlled Evaluation of Vision-Language Objectives Across Chest X-Ray Interpretation Tasks

arXiv:2609.31985v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language pretraining objectives differ in the spatial granularity of their supervision, yet the implications of this distribution for chest X-ray

DOHF: Online Diffusion Fine-tuning with Doob's h-transform Guidance

arXiv:2609.31882v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward-based diffusion fine-tuning faces practical challenges when desirable outcomes are rare or conditioning corrections are costly to estimate. In th

Domain-Adapted Diffusion Models for Conditional Independence Testing

arXiv:2609.33490v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conditional independence (CI) is a fundamental concept in statistics and machine learning. Recent advances in conditional generative modeling provide

Domain-adaptive Zero-Shot Image Enhancement via Locality-Constrained Diffusion Guidance

arXiv:2609.35289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models have shown remarkable performance in unconditional image generation. In order to generate images with desired s

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Domain Generalization under Sampling Pattern Shifts in Irregular Time Series

arXiv:2609.33279v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Irregularly sampled multivariate time series (ISMTS) are prevalent in real-world applications, where both observation times and available measurements c

Don't Forget! Decomposing the Training Dynamics of Memorization in Language Models

arXiv:2609.34933v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memorization has been proposed as a mechanism to explain how language models fit the tail of their training distributions, but its training dynamics are

Don't stop me now: How Validation Criteria Affect Checkpoint Selection and Early Stopping

arXiv:2602.22107v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Checkpoint selection is a standard component of neural network training, yet the validation criterion used to select a checkpoint is often chosen he

Don't Throw Away the Tail: Action Upcycling for Policy Acceleration

arXiv:2609.34911v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern robot policies predict a chunk of future actions from a single observation, execute only a prefix, and discard the rest before replanning. Choo

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dOPT: Differentiating Conic Optimization via Geometric Reduction

arXiv:2609.33828v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optimization layers enable the incorporation of structured constraints and decision problems into learning systems. Training such systems requires diffe

DORA: Dynamic Online Reinforcement Agent for Token Pruning in Vision Transformers

arXiv:2609.34325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision Transformers (ViTs) incur quadratic self-attention cost in the number of tokens. Most token-reduction methods adapt token identities within a pre

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Double-Edged Sword of Mediated Visibility: How Visual Framing Undermines Congresswomen's Perceived Competence

arXiv:2609.31970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Women's presence in Congress has stalled below 30%. That institutional underrepresentation is mirrored by their limited visibility on televised news, wh

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Downstream-Aware Context Selection for Online In-Context Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.33166v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-context reinforcement learning (ICRL) enables large language model agents to adapt to new environments using their interaction history without updati

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DP-Rec: Towards Dynamic Patching for Efficient Long-Sequence Recommendation

arXiv:2609.32215v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformers have redefined sequential recommendation by effectively modeling dynamic user behaviors and long-range dependencies. However, they remain i

DPAMixerSR: An Efficient Degradation-Pattern-Aware Model for Image Super-Resolution

arXiv:2609.32705v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While content-adaptive schemes have delivered notable advances in image super-resolution (SR), existing approaches typically focus on texture complexity

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Dr. MAS: Stable Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent LLM Systems

arXiv:2602.08847v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems enable advanced reasoning and tool use via role specialization, yet reliable reinforcement learning (RL) post-training for s

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DR-net-Mamba: Selective State-Space Modeling for Long-Range ECG Time-Series Denoising

arXiv:2609.35634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings are corrupted by non-stationary noise sources that degrade diagnostic reliability, particularly in ambulatory and lon

DraftAttention2: Fast Video Diffusion with Low-Resolution-Guided Mixed-Precision Attention

arXiv:2609.32628v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video generation has broad applications in content creation and entertainment. Diffusion transformers have advanced the quality of generated videos, but

DRAM: Delta-rule Recurrent Associative Memory for Robot Manipulation Policies

arXiv:2609.32453v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic manipulation is inherently history-dependent, yet most pretrained robotic policies condition on only the current observation or a short temporal

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DrawingsDreamer: A Unified Multi-View Engineering Drawings Generation Model

arXiv:2609.35242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) are essential for modern industrial Computer-Aided Design (CAD). However, existing autoregressive SVG generation models a

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DreamingGoose: Staged Distillation from Autoregressive Transformers to Bidirectional Recurrent Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2609.34253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained autoregressive Transformers represent a large sunk investment in compute. Existing conversion methods reuse that investment by changing eithe

DRIFT: Data Selection for LLM Instruction Tuning via On-Policy Attribution

arXiv:2606.18307v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Data selection for instruction tuning is usually studied for efficiency, reaching strong performance with a fraction of the training data. We ask wh

DRIFT: Disentangled Responsive-Invariant Flow Transport for Single-Cell Perturbation Prediction

arXiv:2609.35106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting cellular responses to perturbations is a central problem in cellular biology, with broad applications in systems biology and drug discovery.

DroneWAM: Efficient World Action Model for Drone Visual Navigation

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arXiv:2609.33148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World-action models give visual navigation agents a way to anticipate how candidate actions will change future observations and to act from the predicte

Drug-Target Interaction Prediction via Hierarchical Sequential Cross-Attention over Chemical and Protein Language Models

arXiv:2609.34921v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting Drug-Target Interactions~(DTIs) is a central task in computational drug discovery, with direct applications in virtual screening, drug repurp

DS-VLA: A Dendritic-inspired Vision-Language-Action Model for Robust Action Control

arXiv:2609.32253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have achieved strong performance in language-conditioned manipulation, yet success under nominal evaluation does not

DuoOPD: Learning from Joint Teacher-Student Outcomes for Multi-Task On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2609.33711v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own responses with token-level feedback from a stronger teacher, yet the teacher can fail on questi

Dynamic Buffers: Cost-Efficient Planning for Tabletop Rearrangement with Stacking

arXiv:2509.22828v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Rearranging objects in cluttered tabletop environments remains a long-standing challenge in robotics. Classical planners often generate inefficient,

Dynamic Image Prompt Adapter for Scalable Zero-shot Personalized Text-to-Image Generation

arXiv:2512.09814v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Personalized Text-to-Image (PT2I) generation aims to produce customized images based on reference images. A prominent interest pertains to the integ

Dynamic Kuramoto-Hodge Operators for PDEs on Complex Geometries and Topologies

arXiv:2609.33693v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning PDE operators on complex domains requires capturing interactions among fields on vertices, edges, and faces, alongside global responses shaped

Dynamic Manipulation with World-Action Models via Counterfactual Planning

arXiv:2609.33172v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World-Action models (WAMs) trained on static demonstrations often fail to manipulate moving targets even when they possess the required manipulation s

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Dynamic Model Identification and Gravity Compensation for the dVRK-Si Patient Side Manipulator

arXiv:2603.12099v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) has been widely used for research in robot-assisted surgery over the past decade, and its latest generation, the dV

DynamicDx: Evaluating Evidence Acquisition in Video-Based Diagnosis

arXiv:2609.32957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diagnosing a patient from video requires more than recognizing the sign: a vision-language model must turn what it sees into hypotheses, questions and t

DynaTokens: Teaching Dynamics to Camera-Controlled Video Models at Test Time

arXiv:2609.35704v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video generation must account for two sources of motion, one induced by the observer's camera path and the other caused by scene dynamics. An ideal came

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DynGraphAgentBench: A Benchmark for Agentic Lifecycle Control in Dynamic Graph Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2609.33980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic graph anomaly detection requires repeated decisions as graph structure and class prevalence drift, yet detector benchmarks usually score a fixed

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E-CONAN (Entailment, CONtradition And Neutral) Diagnostics Dataset Investigating Linguistic Phenomena in Arabic Natural Language Understanding

arXiv:2609.33530v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Natural Language Understanding (NLU) plays a crucial role in various applications, yet its performance suffers from weaknesses in handling the complex

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