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Distributional Open-Ended Evaluation of LLM Cultural Value Alignment Based on Value Codebook

arXiv:2604.06210v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As LLMs are globally deployed, aligning their cultural value orientations is critical for safety and user engagement. However, existing benchmarks fac

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EMMa: End-Effector Stability-Oriented Mobile Manipulation for Tracked Rescue Robots

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arXiv:2604.08292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The autonomous operation of tracked mobile manipulators in rescue missions requires not only ensuring the reachability and safety of robot motion but al

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10 Apr 2026

Evaluation as Evolution: Transforming Adversarial Diffusion into Closed-Loop Curricula for Autonomous Vehicles

arXiv:2604.07378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous vehicles in interactive traffic environments are often limited by the scarcity of safety-critical tail events in static datasets, which biase

Event-Centric World Modeling with Memory-Augmented Retrieval for Embodied Decision-Making

arXiv:2604.07392v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous agents operating in dynamic and safety-critical environments require decision-making frameworks that are both computationally efficient and

Event-Level Detection of Surgical Instrument Handovers in Videos with Interpretable Vision Models

arXiv:2604.07577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable monitoring of surgical instrument exchanges is essential for maintaining procedural efficiency and patient safety in the operating room. Automa

Forward Trajectory Steering for Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Analysis

arXiv:2608.11480v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability provides a mathematically rigorous framework for safe control of dynamical systems, but its practical application is

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

13 Aug 2026

Learning-Based Behavior Planning for Automated Driving: Real-World Integration and Deployment

arXiv:2608.12198v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent research in machine and deep learning has shown the potential of learningbased motion planning approaches to improve the driving behavior of au

13 Aug 2026

ELMER: Evolutionary Language Model that Explores and Refines

arXiv:2608.10196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Program evolution can measure whether a mutation helped, but it rarely controls how far the mutation moves in behavior space. Syntactic edit size is a

Hidden in Plain Sight: Diffusion-Based Unrestricted Robotic Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2608.10393v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong capabilities in controlling robots across diverse manipulation tasks. However, their adversarial r

How to Verify Consistency of Probabilistic Claims

arXiv:2608.11181v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When a probabilistic predictor answers many conditional-probability queries, are its answers self-consistent, and can this be verified in polynomial t

MedUP: Awakening Unified Understanding and Perception in Medical Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608.10635v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical Vision-Language Models (Med-VLMs) excel at verbalizing visual content, yet precise visual perception, segmentation, and grounding remain chall

Never Stop Speaking: a Denial-of-Service Attack on End-to-End Speech Language Models

arXiv:2608.10405v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many studies have shown that specially crafted inputs can induce large language models (LLMs) to generate excessively long outputs, resulting in signi

Rethinking Data Efficiency in Industrial Dense Prediction: Pretraining Coherence, Not Inductive Bias, Determines ViTs Low-Data Advantage

arXiv:2608.10590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision Transformers (ViTs) are widely believed to require more labeled data than CNNs for industrial dense prediction. Through controlled experiments on

SPOTting the Future: Lookahead Explanations for Deep Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.09967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agents achieve strong performance in complex environments, yet their decision-making processes remain difficult to int

The CASE Framework: A Multi-Disciplinary Control Architecture for Governing Enterprise Agentic AI

arXiv:2608.10153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprises are deploying autonomous AI agents faster than they can govern them, and prevailing approaches stretch a single discipline, typically DevSec

The Hidden Puppet Master: Predicting Human Belief Change in Manipulative LLM Dialogues

arXiv:2603.20907v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As users increasingly turn to LLMs for practical and personal advice, they become vulnerable to subtle steering toward hidden incentives misaligned

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XCoT-VLA: Executable Chain-of-Thought for Vision-Language-Action Driving

arXiv:2608.10976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models can connect scene understanding, semantic reasoning, and trajectory generation for autonomous driving. However, verb

An Agentic Generative Large Language Model for Treatment Planning of Colorectal Cancer

arXiv:2608.09142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Treatment planning in precision oncology requires synthesizing heterogeneous patient information with rapidly evolving clinical guidelines to ensure gui

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Decoy Images Amplify Caption-Mediated Defenses Against Encoded Jailbreaks

arXiv:2608.01043v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We report a counter-intuitive interaction between image inputs and existing black-box defenses on Vision--Language Models (VLMs): pairing an e

From Operational Design Domain to Action: A Systematic Behavioral Taxonomy for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2608.08941v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Operational Design Domain (ODD) specifications describe where an automated driving system (ADS) is permitted to operate, but they do not prescribe wha

MedCalc-R1: Knowledge-Guided Reward Framework for Medical Mathematical Reasoning

arXiv:2608.08623v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) frameworks for mathematical reasoning tasks, floating-point results are typically evaluated usi

Multimodal Model Diffing for Feature Discovery and Control

arXiv:2608.09928v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) exhibit strong visual understanding, yet the internal features that cause these behaviors remain difficult to

What Keeps Agent Skills from Being Reusable? Evidence from 138K SKILL.md Files

arXiv:2608.08453v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Under the current standard, Agent Skills are SKILL.md files that combine instructions with supporting resources, enabling Large Language Model (LLM) age

bioMoR: Biology-Guided Mixture-of-Recursions for Effective Genomic Learning

arXiv:2608.06727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer models for high-dimensional omics analysis process thousands of genes or pathways, although only a subset requires deep computation. Mixture

10 Aug 2026

From Cheap Fakes to Pure Synthesis: Addressing the New Era of T2V Fake News Videos

arXiv:2608.06732v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent text-to-video (T2V) generation models enable fake news videos to be synthesized from scratch, shifting the threat beyond cheap fakes assembled fr

10 Aug 2026

SoRoMoX: Fast, Differentiable, and Parallelizable Soft Robot Models

arXiv:2608.06650v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reduced-order models based on Cosserat-rod theory are now well established, and modeling theory is no longer the primary bottleneck in soft-robot cont

10 Aug 2026

A System for Train Condition Monitoring and Structural Health Assessment of Rail Vehicles

arXiv:2608.05221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ongoing digitalization of rail systems and the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) are fundamentally transforming the design, operation,

7 Aug 2026

DreamGuard: Efficient Runtime Guardrail for LLM Agents via Risk-Aware World Model

arXiv:2608.05695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language model (LLM) agents increasingly invoke external tools and interact with real-world systems, unsafe actions may cause irreversible cons

7 Aug 2026

Looking in the Mirror: Introspecting Side-Effect Misalignments Induced by Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2608.04347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning enables a source model to acquire desired capabilities and behaviors in a target domain while retaining much of its general-purpose competen

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6 Aug 2026

A Blind Spot in Alignment: Quantifying Biosecurity Risks in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.02684v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are accelerating biological research, yet this same capability poses a critical biosecurity threat: models that assist in

LatentGuard: Efficient and Inspectable Latent Reasoning for LLM Safeguards

arXiv:2608.03838v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning-based guard models improve LLM safeguards, but decoding explicit rationales for every interaction makes them costly to deploy. Although latent

Poisoning Prompt-Guided Sampling in Video Large Language Models

arXiv:2509.20851v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) are increasingly deployed as automated moderators on user-generated video platforms, where a few unwatched s

PULSE: An Executable Contract Language for Spatiotemporal Knowledge Graph Engineering

arXiv:2608.02630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge graph engineering often distributes accepted state, observations, constraints, processes, and hypothetical scenarios across artifacts whose co

HapticVLA: Contact-Rich Manipulation via Vision-Language-Action Model without Inference-Time Tactile Sensing

arXiv:2603.15257v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tactile sensing is a crucial capability for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) architectures, as it enables dexterous and safe manipulation in contact-ric

MedPRESS: A Multi-turn Benchmark for Patient-Pressure-Induced Medical Sycophancy in LLMs

arXiv:2608.02520v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for health-related advice. Existing research measures their safety with static questions rather than

Quality-Diversity Red-Teaming: Automated Generation of High-Quality and Diverse Attackers for Large Language Models

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arXiv:2506.07121v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Ensuring the safety and robustness of large language models (LLMs) is a fundamental challenge and a critical prerequisite for the responsible deploy

Self-Improving Large Language Models via Progressive Experience Evolution

arXiv:2608.02139v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) capable of self-improvement require not only effective policy optimization, but also a principled mechanism for transformin

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When May a Model Replace the Experiment? Audits, Licenses, and the Price of Trust in Surrogate-Driven Design

arXiv:2608.01378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Design campaigns in chemistry, materials science, and machine learning share a bottleneck: determining how good a candidate truly is requires an expensi

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CAGE: Certified Authorization under Typed-Return Uncertainty for Tool-Using Agents

arXiv:2607.29190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using LLM agents act on typed tool returns, records pairing provenance and categorical fields with numerical values. Runtime permission gates gener

3 Aug 2026

Active Lubrication of Transluminal Medical Instruments

arXiv:2506.07225v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transluminal minimally invasive surgery uses natural orifices and small incisions to access internal anatomical structures, promoting quicker

Ask don't tell: Reducing sycophancy in large language models

arXiv:2602.23971v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sycophancy, the tendency of large language models to favour user-affirming responses over critical engagement, has been identified as an align

Corrigible Assistance in One Round: Pragmatic-Pedagogic Best Response

arXiv:2607.27508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Assistance games formalize human-robot collaboration under asymmetric information: the human knows the goal, while the robot must infer it from observat

EmoFeedback^2: Reinforcement of Continuous Emotional Image Generation via LVLM-based Reward and Textual Feedback

arXiv:2511.19982v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continuous emotional image content generation (C-EICG) is emerging rapidly due to its ability to produce images aligned with both user descriptions

FleetScape: A Mixed Reality Sandtable for Spatial Supervision and Control of Scalable Drone Fleets

arXiv:2607.26423v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As autonomous drone deployments scale from individual units to coordinated swarms, the human operator's role shifts from direct piloting to high-level

30 Jul 2026

Prosody-driven Jailbreaks in Audio LLMs: A Controlled Study and Mechanistic Analysis

arXiv:2607.26541v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio-capable foundation models enable end-to-end spoken interaction, but they also introduce safety risks beyond transcript content. It remains uncle

30 Jul 2026

Agentic AI in medicine: architectures, applications, evaluation, and challenges for clinical translation

arXiv:2607.25489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models and multimodal foundation models are enabling medical artificial intelligence (AI) systems to move beyond isolated prediction and

29 Jul 2026

Inspect India Evals: An Open Benchmarking Framework for Evaluating Large Language Models in the Indian Linguistic and Cultural Context

arXiv:2607.25375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: India is a vast nation of over 1.4 billion people, varied by hundreds of diverse and locally specific traditions and cultures and 22 officially recogniz

29 Jul 2026

Shieldstral

arXiv:2607.25857v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Shieldstral, a 3B-parameter policy-adaptive multimodal safety classifier that matches or outperforms models nearly 7imes its size on text s