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SCLATE: a Substrate for Continual-Learning Agent Training and Evaluation

arXiv:2609.32391v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual-learning agents are systems of models, harnesses, and memory operating over long multi-session horizons. Evaluating and training them requir

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SCOPD: Sparse-Context On-Policy Self-Distillation for Efficient Vision-Language Models

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arXiv:2609.34044v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning vision-language models (VLMs) process images and videos as long sequences of visual tokens, making inference expensive. Training-free token pr

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Hardware

Scope-WM: Scoped Computation for Efficient Visual World Models

arXiv:2609.33218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual world models enable robotic planning by predicting future observations, but dense latent-state propagation and sample-intensive trajectory optimi

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SCORENF: Score-based Normalizing Flows for Sampling Unnormalized distributions

arXiv:2510.21330v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unnormalized probability distributions are central to modeling complex physical systems across various scientific domains. Traditional sampling meth

Scoring the Wrong Question: Readout Failures in Constrained-Option Evaluation

arXiv:2609.33179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Constrained-option scoring reads a model's probabilities for a fixed set of permitted answers, so it returns a score even when the model is about to w

ScreenHaystack: Finding Blind Zones in GUI Grounding

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cv

arXiv:2609.32036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce ScreenHaystack, a dynamic needle-in-a-haystack benchmark for evaluating spatial reliability in GUI grounding. Instead of testing each targe

Scriboora: Rethinking Human Pose Forecasting

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arXiv:2511.15565v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human pose forecasting predicts future human poses from past observations for applications including action recognition, sports analysis, and human-

See it, Say it, Sorted: Mechanistic Diagnosis and Parameter-Space Mitigation of Emergent Misalignment in LLMs

arXiv:2609.34970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety-aligned LLMs can exhibit emergent misalignment (EM): narrow domain adaptation unexpectedly triggers catastrophic safety failures across unrelated

See, Measure, and Reason: Learning Visually Grounded Reasoning in Pathology

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arXiv:2609.34277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pathological assessment relies on recognizing fine-grained visual details in histological images. Vision-language models (VLMs) increasingly support pat

Seeing and Solving Are Not Enough for Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.33694v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) answer visual questions by combining visual information extraction with downstream problem solving. We investigate a funda

Seeing Parts, Reasoning about Worlds: Visual Inference under Partial Observation

arXiv:2609.32456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World modeling under partial observation requires reasoning about the complete worlds that remain compatible with limited visual evidence. Occluded obje

Local Ai

Seeing the Heat: Synthesizing High-Resolution Wood Thermal Responses from Optical Imagery

arXiv:2609.31737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The thermal behavior of wood is a critical factor in advanced material assembly. However, pixel-level thermal analysis remains fundamentally constrained

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SEES: A Self-Evolving Embodied System via Failure-Guided VLA Policy Adaptation

arXiv:2609.32698v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent vision-language-action (VLA) policies demonstrate promising generalization across diverse short-horizon tasks. However, they remain unreliable on

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

Agents

SegBanana: Steering Unified Multimodal Models into Medical Segmenters

arXiv:2609.34235v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical image segmentation remains challenging in practical deployment, as models often struggle to generalize beyond the distributions covered by their

agentsarxiv-cs-cv

Selecting Diverse SFT Traces Improves Post-RL Generalization

arXiv:2609.33780v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Verified solutions are not equally useful for preparing reasoning models for reinforcement learning (RL). We present a comprehensive study of route dive

Selective Fine-Tuning for Targeted and Robust Concept Unlearning

arXiv:2602.07919v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text guided diffusion models are used by millions of users, but can be easily exploited to produce harmful content. Concept unlearning methods

Self-Confirming Superposition Traps in Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.32966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) trains representations on data selected by the agent's policy, which then uses the resulting returns to guide its next choic

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Self-Evolutionary Replanning for Failure-Aware Motion Planning

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arXiv:2603.02772v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Motion planners tuned under nominal conditions can fail when execution conditions change. Existing differentiable adaptation methods provide efficie

Self-Evolving Coding Agents: From Digital Programs to Physical-World Intelligence

arXiv:2609.35432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) and world-action (WAM) models map observations and instructions directly to robot actions. This directness ties a policy to

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Agents

Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Symbolic Discovery for Financial Fundamental Analysis

arXiv:2609.32746v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While symbolic regression (SR) has been successfully used in science to discover new equations, its use in financial valuation is hindered by several

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Self-Evolving Time-Series Forecasting Agents with Episodic Memory and Online Policy Learning

arXiv:2609.32689v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based agents are increasingly used for time-series forecasting because they can organise contextual information, perform multi-step analysis, and gu

Applications

Self-eXplainable AI for Medical Image Analysis: A Survey and New Outlooks

arXiv:2410.02331v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The increasing demand for transparent and reliable models, particularly in high-stakes decision-making areas such as medical image analysis, has led

applicationsarxiv-cs-cv

Self-Reconstruction Dynamics for Autoencoder Reconstruction Refinement

arXiv:2609.32268v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard autoencoder (AE) inference uses a single encoder-decoder pass, though the latent may not be optimal for each sample under a fixed decoder. We a

SelfCue: Making a 3D CT Report Generator Say What It Already Knows

arXiv:2609.31788v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Progress in 3D CT report generation is usually sought in increasingly sophisticated architectures and larger pools of training data. We find instead tha

Tutorials

SeLMRoute: Probabilistic Semantic Evidence for Large Language Model Routing

arXiv:2609.34736v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) routing aims to select the most suitable model for each incoming query. Most existing routers learn this decision directly

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Semantic Modality Compensation for Unsupervised Visible-Infrared Person Re-identification under Unpaired Settings

arXiv:2609.34294v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unsupervised visible-infrared person re-identification (USL-VI-ReID) learns person representations that can be compared across modalities without identi

Semantic Purification for Conditional Representation Learning

arXiv:2602.05464v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Conditional representation learning aims to extract criterion-specific features for customized tasks. Recent methods construct conditional sub

SemReward-VL: Semantic Reward-Guided Video-Language Adaptation for Developmental Behavior Assessment

arXiv:2609.33082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Developmental screening videos show how children perform specific behaviors, but clinical records usually contain outcomes rather than descriptions of w

SentZero: An Enhanced Sentence-Centric Vision-Language Pretraining for Multi-Task Zero-Shot Chest X-Ray Analysis

arXiv:2609.34479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language (VL) pretraining using paired chest X-ray (CXR) images and radiology reports has shown strong potential for medical image understanding.

Separating personal from population gains when calibrating EEG foundation models for new users

arXiv:2609.34801v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models are increasingly adapted to individual users, but an apparent personalization gain can simply reflect a stronger population model. Thi

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seq2cause: One Autoregressive Backbone, Four Causal Discovery Tasks in Event Sequences

arXiv:2609.31801v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Complex systems such as vehicles, patients, or genomes emit discrete event sequences whose operative question is causal, not predictive: which events ca

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Server-Enforced Watermarking in U-Shaped Split Federated Learning

arXiv:2511.14422v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: U-shaped split federated learning (U-SFL) enables resource-constrained Internet of Things devices to collaboratively train models with an edge

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SetOPD: From Few Visual Exemplars to Multimodal Candidate Sets for Remote-Sensing Open-Prompt Detection

arXiv:2609.32529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-prompt detectors allow users to specify targets with text, visual exemplars, or both. We argue that existing designs underuse the visual modality i

SGA-Flow-GRPO: Spatial Gradient-Guided Credit Assignment for Flow-GRPO

arXiv:2609.32340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has proven effective in aligning flow-based generative models with human preferences. Recently, Flow-GRPO has emerged as an

Shallow Queries, Mature Values: Depth-Asynchronous Self-Speculation for Looped Transformers

arXiv:2609.34538v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Looped Transformers reuse a shared block across recurrent depths, making autoregressive decoding expensive because every generated token requires many s

Local Ai

Shaping Persistent Representations from Independent Interactions

arXiv:2609.34604v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models learn environment dynamics from interaction experience. These dynamics depend on the current state and actions, as well as on properties th

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Share-Borne AI Virus: Memory-Hopping Attacks Across LLM Agents

arXiv:2609.35576v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed as stateful assistants that retain information across interactions and use tools to read, modify, and

Shared Autoregressive Context Can Distort Relationships in Synthetic Data

arXiv:2609.32546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models can generate several records within one autoregressive completion, making earlier answers available as context for later records.

Sharp Critical Minimax Laws and No-Learning Thresholds in Continuous-Time Adaptive Control

arXiv:2609.33154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study episodic continuous-time control with an unknown vector control gain, scalar state, quadratic action cost, and smooth convex terminal cost. I

Tutorials

Sharp training-conditional coverage for conformal prediction under covariate shift

arXiv:2609.33456v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Weighted split conformal prediction reweights calibration scores by the likelihood ratio between the test and training covariate distributions and gua

tutorialsarxiv-cs-lg

SHEFL: Sparse Heterogeneous Ensemble Federated Learning with Group-Balanced Aggregation

arXiv:2508.08552v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: System heterogeneity in federated learning (FL) requires training workloads and communication demands to be adapted to client resource capacities. F

Sherry's 3:4 ternary format (1.375 bits per weight) running on WebGPU: a 1.6 MB model that plays Connect Four as well as its 7.8 MB int8 version

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Not an LLM, but the ternary findings should carry over, and we hadn't seen Sherry-style 3:4 weights run in a browser before. Disclosure: this is our work at Precisit, everything is MIT. What it is A 7

Short-Length Code Designs for Integrated Sensing and Communications: A Deep Learning Approach

arXiv:2609.33605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) enables joint communication and sensing using a shared waveform, but its signal design is challenging due to

Applications

SIFT: Enhancing Time Series Foundation Models via Semantic Invariance and Structural Fidelity Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2609.32676v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time Series Foundation Models (TSFMs) have achieved remarkable zero-shot performance through extensive pre-training on massive time series datasets. Nev

applicationsarxiv-cs-lg

Signed up for the Claude $20 plan and realized why I cant cancel Chatgpt

Wanted to try Opus 5.5 because as a plus sub with OAI, Luna just couldn't deliver. Opus is a true beast. It does consume tokens on a medium level yes, but the way it works is just refreshing. But... o

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SignFLIP: A Unified Model for Sign Language Translation and Generation via Stage-wise Alignment at Scale

arXiv:2609.35225v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sign language translation and generation share the goal of bidirectional alignment between text and sign representations. However, existing approaches

Silent Failures in Agentic Security Evaluation: A Validated Harness for Tool-Call Mediation Under Indirect Prompt Injection

arXiv:2609.32691v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents that invoke privileged tools are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection (IPI), in which adversarial instructions embedded in retrieved dat

SIMANF: Sample Free Learning of Unnormalized Distributions via Simulated Annealing in Normalizing Flows

arXiv:2609.32279v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficiently learning and sampling from high dimensional, multimodal unnormalized distributions without target samples remains a challenging problem. Alt