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TRACER: Persistent Regularization for Robust Multimodal Finetuning

arXiv:2605.29380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mainstream strategies for finetuning pretrained multimodal models often degrade out-of-distribution (OOD) robustness, a phenomenon known as catastroph

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Train the Agent, Not the Expert: Learning to Harness Heterogeneous Experts for Multi-Turn Visual Reasoning

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arXiv:2605.29894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress in computer vision has produced a wide range of powerful specialized models for detection, segmentation, counting, and other visual task

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TriSearch: Learning to Optimize Triangulations via Bistellar Flips

arXiv:2605.30220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce TriSearch, a reinforcement learning framework for optimizing objectives over triangulations of a polytope via bistellar flips. The key idea

Uncertainty Estimation via Hyperspherical Confidence Mapping

arXiv:2605.05964v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Quantifying uncertainty in neural network predictions is essential for high-stakes domains such as autonomous driving, healthcare, and manufacturing

User-Aware Active Knowledge Acquisition for Emotional Support Dialogue

arXiv:2605.29715v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emotional support plays an important role in dialogue systems, and its success depends on adapting to a user's evolving and implicit needs across multi-

ValueFlow: Measuring the Propagation of Value Perturbations in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

arXiv:2602.08567v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-agent large language model (LLM) systems increasingly consist of agents that observe and respond to one another's outputs. While value a

VLA-Trace: Diagnosing Vision-Language-Action Models through Representation and Behavior Tracing

arXiv:2605.30117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding how Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models transform multimodal knowledge into embodied control remains an open challenge. We present VLA-Tra

When and How Human Curation Backfires: Preference Alignment under Multi-Model Self-Consuming Loop

arXiv:2605.29267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models are increasingly trained on synthetic data generated by prior model iterations rather than exclusively on real data. This self-consumi

xModel-KD: Cross-modal Knowledge Distillation for 3D Scene Perception using LiDAR

arXiv:2605.30111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Point cloud segmentation is a fundamental task in 3D scene understanding. Its progress is constrained by the high cost and time required for dense 3D

A Factory-Floor Deployment Case Study of VLA Pipelines for Industrial Packaging Task: Workflow, Failures, and Lessons

arXiv:2605.27461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies have shown promising manipulation capabilities, yet their practical impact is often limited by the reliability dem

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A Structural Theory of Position Bias in Transformers

arXiv:2602.16837v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Transformer models systematically favor certain token positions, yet the architectural origins of this position bias remain poorly understood. This

AdaMemento: Adaptive Memory-Assisted Policy Optimization for Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2410.04498v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In sparse reward scenarios of reinforcement learning (RL), the memory mechanism provides promising shortcuts to policy optimization by reflecting on

ADWIN: Adaptive Windows for Horizon-Aware On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2605.28396v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) transfers reasoning behavior by training a student on teacher feedback along student-generated trajectories, but standard

Affective Music Recommendation: A Rollout-Based World Model for Offline Preference Optimization

arXiv:2605.28810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Functional music applications, from consumer focus and sleep aids to clinical interventions, share a distinctive recommendation problem: success is defi

AgensFlow: A Coordination-Policy Substrate for Multi-Agent Systems

arXiv:2605.27466v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent systems built on large language models (LLMs) require many coordination choices that are difficult to fix a priori: which skill protocol t

Agent Explorative Policy Optimization for Multimodal Agentic Reasoning

arXiv:2605.28774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models with extended reasoning succeed on complex problems, but many real-world problems require external tools that internal reasoning

Agents that Matter: Optimizing Multi-Agent LLMs via Removal-Based Attribution

arXiv:2605.27621v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As multi-agent systems (MAS) become increasingly complex, identifying the contributions of individual agents is critical for system optimization. Howe

AI, Take the Wheel: What Drives Delegation and Trust in Human-Computer Cooperative Question Answering?

arXiv:2605.28255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems are fallible, and humans can make mistakes in deciding whether to trust AI over their own judgment. Thus, improving human-AI collaboration re

AREA: Attribute Extraction and Aggregation for CLIP-Based Class-Incremental Learning

arXiv:2605.28809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) is important in building real-world learning systems. In CLIP-based CIL, the model performs classification by comparing

Artemis: Structured Visual Reasoning for Perception Policy Learning

arXiv:2512.01988v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent reinforcement-learning frameworks for visual perception policy usually incorporate intermediate reasoning chains expressed in natural languag

Auditable Decision Models with Learned Abstention and Real-Time Steering

arXiv:2605.27768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Production AI systems often operate with incomplete, conflicting, or insufficient evidence. Forced classifiers collapse such cases into action labels, w

Auditing Stance Asymmetry in Generative Explanations

arXiv:2605.27988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bias evaluation for language models has made substantial progress on bounded comparisons, such as overt derogation, stereotype association, or label-sen

Automated Estimation of Impact Time, Impact Location, and Shuttlecock Speed in Badminton Smashes Using Event Cameras

arXiv:2605.28011v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantifying impact phenomena in badminton smashes is important for evaluating both athletic performance and equipment; however, conventional measurement

Behavioural Analysis of Alignment Faking

arXiv:2605.27681v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Alignment faking (AF) refers to a model strategically complying with a training objective to avoid behavioural modification while preserving its deploym

Beyond Binary: Sim-to-Real Dexterous Manipulation with Physics-Grounded Contact Representation

arXiv:2605.28812v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A primary bottleneck in contact-rich manipulation is the difficulty of collecting real-world data. Sim-to-real reinforcement learning offers a scalabl

BiasEdit: A Training-Free Bias-Detect-and-Edit Framework for Learning Fair Visual Classifiers

arXiv:2605.28450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual data from the Web power image classifiers, which often underpin many web services, such as recommendation and content moderation. However, the

Blind PRNG Hijacking: An Undetectable Integrity-Preserving Attack Against LLM Watermarking

arXiv:2605.28632v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cryptographic watermarking is a leading defense for attributing text generated by large language models (LLMs). Existing schemes, including KGW, Unigr

Boundary Suppression Asymmetry in Post-trained Assistants: Over-expansion as a Controllability Cost

arXiv:2605.27969v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-trained language-model assistants are often optimized to avoid under-answering, encouraging complete, helpful, cautious, and proactive responses. W

BPPO: Binary Prefix Policy Optimization for Efficient GRPO-Style Reasoning RL with Concise Responses

arXiv:2605.28028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) is widely used for training reasoning models, but updating all sampled completions in each group incurs substa

Breaking the Script Barrier: Enabling Automatic Alignment for PoS-based ASR Error Analysis in Non-Latin Scripts

arXiv:2605.28438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are commonly evaluated using aggregate metrics such as Word Error Rate (WER), which do not capture the lingui

Bridging the Detection-to-Abstention Gap in Reasoning Models under Insufficient Information

arXiv:2605.28070v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We highlight a failure mode of large reasoning models on questions with insufficient information: models may recognize that a problem is under-specified

Calibrated Inference for the Conditional Average Treatment Effect in the Few-Placebo Regime via Gaussian Processes

arXiv:2605.27473v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Estimating how much an intervention helps a given individual the conditional average treatment effect (CATE) is increasingly central to decision-makin

CANDOR: Counterfactual ANnotated DOubly Robust Off-Policy Evaluation

arXiv:2412.08052v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Off-policy evaluation (OPE) is critical for applying contextual bandit algorithms to high-stakes decision-making settings such as healthcare, where

Causal Direct Preference Optimization for Distributionally Robust Generative Recommendation

arXiv:2603.22335v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) guides large language models (LLMs) to generate recommendations aligned with user historical behavior dis

Causal Machine Learning: A Survey and Open Problems

arXiv:2206.15475v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Causal Machine Learning (CausalML) is an umbrella term for machine learning methods that formalize the data-generation process as a structural causa

CIRF: Tokenizing Chain-of-Thoughts into Reusable Functional Units for Efficient Latent Reasoning in Large Language Models

arXiv:2605.28292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Implicit Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reduces the inference cost of large language models by internalizing the explicit rationales. However, existing approach

CodeGENCAT: Generative Computerized Adaptive Testing for Open-ended Coding Problems

arXiv:2602.20020v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) frameworks typically select questions based on the predicted likelihood that the student will answer co

Commit to the Bit: Reactive Reinforcement Learning Done Right

arXiv:2605.28276v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning algorithms are commonly analyzed (and designed) under the Markov assumption. This is unrealistic, as most environments encountere

Compositional Text-to-Image Generation Via Region-aware Bimodal Direct Preference Optimization

arXiv:2605.28615v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the rapid progress of text-to-image (T2I) models, generating images that accurately reflect complex compositional prompts (covering attribute bi

Con-DSO: Learning Short-Horizon Consistency Priors for RGB-D Direct Sparse Odometry

arXiv:2605.27952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual odometry (VO) is a fundamental component in robotics and augmented reality. RGB-D direct VO benefits from metric depth measurements, but it can d

Counterfactually Fair Regression via Optimal Transport

arXiv:2605.28251v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We consider the problem of learning a counterfactually fair regressor. We adopt a causal uncertainty view in which counterfactual fairness is defined

CPPO: Contrastive Perception Policy Optimization for VLM Agents

arXiv:2601.00501v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce CPPO, a Contrastive Perception Policy Optimization method for finetuning vision--language models (VLMs). Reliable perception is a core

Cross-Entropy Games and Frost Training

arXiv:2605.27701v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Frost Training, a method for improving Monte Carlo-based policy optimization for a large family of LLM-as-a-judge tasks called Cross-Entropy

Cyberbullying Governance on Social Media: A Unified Framework from Content Identification to Intervention

arXiv:2605.27584v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The proliferation of social media platforms and online communities has inadvertently catalyzed the spread of cyberbullying, hate speech, and other forms

DebFilter: Eradicating Biases Stashed in Value

arXiv:2605.28167v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models, which are theoretically equivalent to score-based generative models, generate images through a multi-step denoising proc

Deconstructing Spatial Complexity: Hierarchical Decomposition for LLM Spatial Reasoning

arXiv:2605.28144v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs have shown remarkable proficiency in general language understanding and reasoning. However, they consistently underperform in spatial reasoning tha

DenoiseRL: Bootstrapping Reasoning Models to Recover from Noisy Prefixes

arXiv:2605.28421v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning has become a central paradigm for advancing reasoning in large language models, yet most existing methods still depend on stronge

Diagnosing Live Within-Policy Instruction Conflicts in LLM Agents with Witnessed Resolution Profiles

arXiv:2605.27784v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents are governed by long-lived natural-language prompt policies, but individually reasonable standing rules can interact in uninspected ways. We