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Visual Sculpting: Visually-Aligned Planning Representations for Long-Horizon Robot Clay Sculpting

arXiv:2605.17556v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clay sculpting is a nuanced, artistic task involving dexterous manipulation with long-horizon planning to achieve high-level goals. As a robotics prob

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Voices in the Loop: Mapping Participatory AI

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arXiv:2605.16827v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Participatory approaches to artificial intelligence are increasingly documented across public, civic, and humanitarian settings, but evidence about how

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VolTA-3D: Self-Supervised Learning for Brain MRI using 3D Volumetric Token Alignment

arXiv:2605.16775v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) has advanced medical image analysis be enabling learning form large unlabelled data. However, in brain magnetic resonan

Weak-to-Strong Elicitation via Mismatched Wrong Drafts

arXiv:2605.17314v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We consider whether off-policy experience from a smaller, weaker model can elicit capability in a stronger learner that on-policy RL fine-tuning (e.g.

When Dynamics Shift, Robust Task Inference Wins: Offline Imitation Learning with Behavior Foundation Models Revisited

arXiv:2605.17017v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Behavior Foundation Models (BFMs) enable scalable imitation learning (IL) by pretraining task-agnostic representations that can be rapidly adapted to

When Is Rank-1 Steering Cheap? Geometry, Granularity, and Budgeted Search

arXiv:2605.16362v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Activation steering offers a lightweight way to control LLMs without retraining, but its effectiveness varies sharply across concepts. Prior work ofte

When Vision Speaks for Sound

arXiv:2605.16403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite rapid progress in video-capable MLLMs, we find that their apparent audio understanding in videos is often vision-driven: models rely on visual c

Where Pretraining writes and Alignment reads: the asymmetry of Transformer weight space

arXiv:2605.16600v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-entropy pretraining and preference alignment update the same transformer weights, but leave geometrically distinct traces. We characterise this

Whispers in the Noise: Surrogate-Guided Concept Awakening via a Multi-Agent Framework

arXiv:2605.18150v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models (DMs) are widely used for text-to-image generation, but their strong generative capabilities also raise concerns about unsafe or undesi

White-Box Sensitivity Auditing with Steering Vectors

arXiv:2601.16398v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Algorithmic audits are essential tools for examining systems for properties required by regulators or desired by operators. Current audits of

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World Model-Enabled Causal Digital Twins for Semantic Communications in Physical AI Systems

arXiv:2605.16547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling goal-oriented networking. However, most existing semantic communication solution

Zero-Shot Textual Explanations via Translating Decision-Critical Features

arXiv:2512.07245v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Textual explanations make image classifier decisions transparent by describing the prediction rationale in natural language. Large vision-language m

ZeroSiam: An Efficient Asymmetry for Test-Time Entropy Optimization without Collapse

arXiv:2509.23183v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Test-time entropy minimization helps adapt a model to novel environments and incentivize its reasoning capability, unleashing the model's potential

A Differentiable Measure of Algebraic Complexity: Provably Exact Discovery of Group Structures

arXiv:2511.23152v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Discovering discrete algebraic rules from data is a fundamental challenge in machine learning. We formalize this problem through Cayley-table comple

A Generative AI Framework for Intelligent Utility Billing CO 2 Analytics and Sustainable Resource Optimisation

arXiv:2605.16250v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Distribution utilities are now expected to deliver bills that customers can actually read attach a defensible carbon number to every kWh sold and sche

A Split-Client Approach to Second-Order Optimization

arXiv:2510.15714v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Second-order optimization methods offer superior convergence rates but are often bottlenecked by the wall-clock cost of Hessian computation an

Accelerated Gradient Descent for Faster Convergence with Minimal Overhead

arXiv:2605.16017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we present CT-AGD (Curvature-Tuned Accelerated Gradient Descent), an optimization method for non-convex optimization problems in deep lea

ActiveDPO: Active Direct Preference Optimization for Sample-Efficient Alignment

arXiv:2505.19241v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The recent success in using human preferences to align large language models (LLMs) has significantly improved their performance in various do

Ada-Diffuser: Latent-Aware Adaptive Diffusion for Decision-Making

arXiv:2605.16054v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work has framed decision-making as a sequence modeling problem using generative models such as diffusion models. Although promising, these appr

Adaptive Outer-Loop Control of Quadrotors via Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2605.16015v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) for quadrotor flight control typically relies on Domain Randomization (DR) for sim-to-real transfer, resulting in ov

AI-Mediated Communication Can Steer Collective Opinion

arXiv:2605.16245v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly integrated into the online platforms where humans exchange opinions; large language models (LL

Always Learning, Always Mixing: Efficient and Simple Data Mixing All The Time

arXiv:2605.15220v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data mixing decides how to combine different sources or types of data and is a consequential problem throughout language model training. In pretrainin

An Algebraic Exposition of the Theory of Dyadic Morality

arXiv:2605.16153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper provides an algebraic exposition of the theory of dyadic morality (TDM), a psychological model of moral judgment grounded in a simple two-nod

An Introduction to Deep Reinforcement and Imitation Learning

arXiv:2512.08052v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Embodied agents, such as robots and virtual characters, must continuously select actions to execute tasks effectively, solving complex sequent

AstraFlow: Dataflow-Oriented Reinforcement Learning for Agentic LLMs

arXiv:2605.15565v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) is increasingly used to improve the reasoning, coding, and tool-use capabilities of large language models, but agentic RL

Best-of-Both-Worlds for Heavy-Tailed Markov Decision Processes

arXiv:2602.01295v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We investigate episodic Markov Decision Processes with heavy-tailed losses (HTMDPs). Existing approaches for HTMDPs are conservative in stochastic e

Beyond Objective-Based Improvement: Stationarity-Aware Expected Improvement for Bayesian Optimization

arXiv:2601.21357v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a principled framework for optimizing expensive black-box functions, with Expected Improvement (EI) among its most wid

Beyond Performance Disparities: A Three-Level Audit of Representational Harm in CelebA

arXiv:2605.15312v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale facial datasets like CelebA are widely used in computer vision, yet the cultural biases embedded in their labels remain underexplored. Fai

Blending Supervised and Reinforcement Fine-Tuning with Prefix Sampling

arXiv:2507.01679v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing LLMs-post-training techniques are broadly categorized into supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT). Each par

Controllable Molecular Generative Foundation Models

arXiv:2605.15354v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the success of foundation models in language and vision, molecular graph generation still lacks a unified framework for heterogeneous design tas

DebiasRAG: A Tuning-Free Path to Fair Generation in Large Language Models through Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2605.16113v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved unprecedented success due to their exceptional generative capabilities. However, because they depend on kno

Decomposed Vision-Language Alignment for Fine-Grained Open-Vocabulary Segmentation

arXiv:2605.15942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-vocabulary segmentation models often struggle to generalize to unseen combinations of object categories and attributes, because fine-grained desc

Deep Double Q-learning

arXiv:2507.00275v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Double Q-learning is a classical control algorithm that mitigates the maximization bias of Q-learning. To do so, it explicitly trains two inde

DeltaPrompts: Escaping the Zero-Delta Trap in Multimodal Distillation

arXiv:2605.15532v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Distillation enables compact Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to obtain strong reasoning capabilities, yet the prompts driving this process are typically

Designing Datacenter Power Delivery Hierarchies for the AI Era

arXiv:2605.16255v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Demand for AI accelerators is rapidly increasing rack power density, with projections approaching 1MW per deployment by 2027. This poses a major chall

Detecting Heel Strike and toe off Events Using Kinematic Methods and LSTM Models

arXiv:2503.00794v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate gait event detection is crucial for gait analysis, rehabilitation, and assistive technology, particularly in exoskeleton control, where pre

Differentially Private Motif-Preserving Multi-modal Hashing

arXiv:2605.15460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-modal hashing enables efficient retrieval by encoding images and text into compact binary codes. State-of-the-art methods rely on semantic simil

Diffusion Policy for Coordinated Control of a Nonholonomic Mobile Base and Dual Arms in Door Opening and Passing

arXiv:2605.15352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Opening heavy, self closing doors, especially those that require pulling remains a long standing challenge in robotics. Humans naturally employ both arm

DiffVAS: Diffusion-Guided Visual Active Search in Partially Observable Environments

arXiv:2605.15519v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual active search (VAS) has been introduced as a modeling framework that leverages visual cues to direct aerial (e.g., UAV-based) exploration and p

Discretizing Group-Convolutional Neural Networks for 3D Geometry in Feature Space

arXiv:2605.15368v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group-convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) are among the most important methods for introducing symmetry as an inductive bias in deep learning: In each

Do Less, Achieve More: Do We Need Every-Step Optimization for RL Fine-tuning of Diffusion Models?

arXiv:2605.15855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite strong image-generation performance, diffusion models' reconstruction objectives limit alignment with human preferences. RL enables such alignme

DR Tulu: Reinforcement Learning with Evolving Rubrics for Deep Research

arXiv:2511.19399v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep research agents perform multi-step research to produce long-form, well-attributed answers. However, most open deep research agents are tr

Drawback of Enforcing Equivariance and its Compensation via the Lens of Expressive Power

arXiv:2512.09673v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Equivariant neural networks encode the intrinsic symmetry of data as an inductive bias, which has achieved impressive performance in wide doma

DualKV: Shared-Prompt Flash Attention for Efficient RL Training with Large Rollouts and Long Contexts

arXiv:2605.15422v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern RL post-training methods such as GRPO and DAPO train on N response sequences of R tokens sampled from a shared prompt of P tokens, but standard F

DualReg: Dual-Space Filtering and Reinforcement for Rigid Registration

arXiv:2508.17034v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Noisy, partially overlapping data and the need for real-time processing pose major challenges for rigid registration. Considering that feature-based m

Dynamic Plasma Shape Control with Arbitrary Sensor Subsets

arXiv:2605.15935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Plasma shape control in tokamaks requires a real-time controller that tracks dynamically changing shape targets while tolerating diagnostic failures. Cl

Dynamic-TreeRPO: Breaking the Independent Trajectory Bottleneck with Structured Sampling

arXiv:2509.23352v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The integration of Reinforcement Learning (RL) into flow matching models for text-to-image (T2I) generation has driven substantial advances in

Efficiently Solving Mixed-Hierarchy Games with Quasi-Policy Approximations

arXiv:2602.01568v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-robot coordination often exhibits hierarchical structure, with some robots' decisions depending on the planned behaviors of others. Whil