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What do VLM-Based Vision-Language Navigation Models Rely on: Interpreting and Steering Policy Behavior

arXiv:2609.24576v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) models rely mostly on pre-trained large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to predict navigation actions. While thi

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Benchmarking Autonomous Driving Planners Across Leaderboards: A Unified CARLA-Based Evaluation

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arXiv:2509.22754v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous driving remains a highly active research domain that seeks to enable vehicles to perceive dynamic environments, predict the future

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21 Sept 2026

Collab-Solver: Collaborative Solving Policy Learning for Mixed-Integer Linear Programming

arXiv:2508.03030v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) has been a fundamental problem in combinatorial optimization. Conventional MILP solving mainly relies on car

Design of Adaptive PID Controller Based On Asynchronous Advantage Actor Critic Learning Method for QuadCopter Control

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arXiv:2609.21082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quadcopters offer great utility in many applications, but their nonlinear nature and disturbance sensitivity present great control challenges. Basic PID

EnterpriseVal: Quantifying the Efficacy, Reliability and Value of Generative AI in the Enterprise

arXiv:2609.21841v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier language models now produce professional deliverables that expert graders judge to match human work on a substantial share of economically valu

From Pretraining to Proficiency: Real-World Subtask RL for Long-Horizon Manipulation with Minimal Human Intervention

arXiv:2609.21788v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A pretrained robot foundation policy may execute most of a long-horizon task yet repeatedly fail at a few critical subtasks. Collecting additional ful

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From Task Success to Productive Success: Evaluating Human-AI Collaboration by Quality and Cost

arXiv:2609.21117v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI productivity is often measured by task completion time, economic value, or improvements in outcome quality. However, these measures usually treat c

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Learning to Move Cities: Deep Meta-Models and Reinforcement Policies for Calibration and Control in Urban Networks

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arXiv:2609.21945v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Urban transportation networks present complex optimization challenges spanning calibration of high-fidelity simulators and real-time operational control

Omni Demand Understanding: A Benchmark for Contextual User-Intent Inference in Multimodal Interaction

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arXiv:2609.21392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural audio-visual interaction is emerging as an important interface for AI assistants, allowing users to communicate through speech and vision rather

PlaceReasoner-Beta: Reasoning-Driven Macro Placement and Benchmarking

arXiv:2609.21263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated macro placement remains a fundamental challenge in VLSI physical design. Despite decades of research, existing approaches predominantly optimi

REFINEPPO: Learning Continuous Control Policies by Iterative Action Refinement

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arXiv:2609.21108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has achieved strong performance across a wide range of continuous-control problems. These continuous-control policies,

Risk-Aware Occupancy for Safety-Oriented End-to-End Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2609.21470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse representation formulates the environment perception for the end-to-end driving system as a set of discrete elements like objects and lane lines.

SAGE: Safety-Aligned Gradient Enforcement for Human--Robot Collaboration

arXiv:2609.21130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-party human-robot collaboration poses a dual challenge: robot decisions should remain interpretable and auditable, while executed actions must sat

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Towards the Vision-Sound-Language-Action Paradigm: The HEAR Framework for Sound-Centric Manipulation

arXiv:2603.16086v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have begun to incorporate audio, they typically treat sound as static pre-execution prompts o

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A Large-Scale Vision-Language Dataset Derived from Open Scientific Literature to Advance Biomedical Generalist AI

arXiv:2503.22727v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite the excitement behind biomedical artificial intelligence (AI), access to high-quality, diverse, and large-scale data - the foundation for mo

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BioPhys-Bridge: A Benchmark for Interdisciplinary Scientific Reasoning in Physics-Grounded Biological Research

arXiv:2609.19180v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models face unique challenges in analyzing interdisciplinary scientific research literature. In biophysics research, faithful answers require g

Diagnose, Recover, Certify: Task Readiness under Hidden Dynamics Changes

arXiv:2609.20304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A deployed control policy can conceal consequential dynamics changes: an actuator may lose effectiveness without affecting the current task when the pol

Improving Online Reinforcement Learning via Bidirectional Behavior Prior Distillation

arXiv:2609.20268v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms frequently exhibit poor sample efficiency and unstable learning dynamics, stemming from systematic critic

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Inference-Engine Fingerprinting Attacks are Practical: Exploring Model-Driven Environmental Discovery, Exploitation, and Escape

arXiv:2609.20614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frontier AI models are rapidly gaining the ability to exploit vulnerabilities in complex pieces of software. The risk is not theoretical, as evidenced

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Learn Before You Judge: Progressive Knowledge-to-Decision Alignment for Explainable Hateful Meme Detection

arXiv:2609.19778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hateful memes spread abusive content through implicit interactions between images and text, posing serious threats to the safety of online communities.

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MAGMA-GEN: Validated Recovery Supervision from Ambiguous Failures via Counterfactual Re-Execution

arXiv:2609.20056v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hierarchical robotic systems executing long-horizon manipulation tasks must make high-level semantic decisions that orchestrate stochastic low-level ski

Odds-Ratio Thompson Sampling: A Specification and Design Guide for Contrast-Based Multi-Armed Bandits

arXiv:2609.19709v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Batched multi-armed bandits update on a service's own schedule, and the usual implementation carries each arm's absolute reward rate from one update to

PrefixBench-H100: Characterizing Prefix Reuse and Time-to-First-Token in H100 LLM Serving

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arXiv:2609.19657v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Repeated prompt prefixes are increasingly common in LLM serving workloads, appearing in system prompts, templated retrieval-augmented generation pipel

Robotic Video World Models: A Survey of Applications, Research Challenges, Future Directions

arXiv:2601.07823v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Video world models have emerged as promising candidates for high-fidelity world models, offering the potential to synthesize high-quality vide

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The AR Fairness Metamodel: A Structured Framework for Fairness Measures

arXiv:2609.19234v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents the AR fairness metamodel, a framework designed to represent, analyze, and compare different fairness scenarios. The metamodel con

TripScore: Aligning LLMs for Real-World Travel Planning via Expert-Calibrated Reward

arXiv:2510.09011v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In our deployed travel-planning service, most users give minimal inputs or free-form requests rather than the structured constraint checklists assum

UniExo: Unified Multi-Skill Policies for Musculoskeletal Locomotion and Co-Adaptive Exoskeleton Control

arXiv:2609.19690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Daily locomotion encompasses diverse activities and frequent transitions between them, yet most exoskeleton controllers are designed for a single acti

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A Multitask Large Reasoning Model for Molecular Science

arXiv:2603.12808v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Artificial intelligence in molecular science must move beyond pattern recognition toward chemically valid and interpretable reasoning. We present a

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Adaptive hybrid coupling with operator inference, the overlapping Schwarz alternating method and reinforcement learning

arXiv:2609.17837v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hybrid domain decomposition methods provide a flexible framework for coupling full order models (FOMs) and reduced order models (ROMs), but typically

An Empirical Evaluation of Cost-Efficient Large Language Models on Algorithmic Programming Tasks

arXiv:2609.18052v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study empirically evaluates whether cost-efficient Large Language Models (LLMs) can be trusted to generate enterprise code to a written specifica

APGEM: Adaptive Policy-Guided Error Mitigation for Quantum Reinforcement Learning on a Real-World CVRP Case Study

arXiv:2609.18219v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum Reinforcement Learning (QRL) represents policies as variational quantum circuits (VQCs), making it attractive for combinatorial optimization s

Autonomy in Check: Governor-Mediated Adaptive Security at the Edge

arXiv:2609.18338v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adaptive security at the network edge increasingly relies on automated planners, including rule-based controllers, learned policies, and LLM-assisted

CapMem: A Benchmark for Caption-Based Episodic Memory in Egocentric Video

arXiv:2609.17688v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wearable assistants require episodic memory over egocentric video, yet current vision-language models face bounded frame budgets, growing visual-token c

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GroundingVLN: Reasoning and Acting with Grounding for Vision-Language Navigation

arXiv:2609.18581v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although vision-language models (VLMs) possess strong visual understanding and reasoning capabilities, existing vision-and-language navigation (VLN) age

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How AI Assistants Respond to Repeated Abuse

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arXiv:2609.17547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI assistants are expected to remain useful during difficult interactions, but little is known about how repeated verbal abuse changes their engagement

Linguistic Triggers of Gender and Racial Bias in Open-Weight LLMs Applied to Recruitment

arXiv:2609.18106v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-weight large language models are rapidly entering hiring pipelines, yet their discriminatory failure modes -- and the regulatory exposure these c

Missing Bridges: Composition-Aware Active Imitation Learning

arXiv:2609.18004v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active imitation learning reduces expert effort by allowing a learner to request the demonstrations it needs. Existing methods typically select these re

Monitoring and Discovering Reward Hacking with Internal Representations during LLM Evaluations

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arXiv:2609.19101v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As models scale, reward hacking becomes more frequent, more sophisticated, and more consequential. Does it leave a telltale signature in model represent

Rethinking Critic Learning in PPO: Understanding and Mitigating Value Flattening

arXiv:2609.18708v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In reinforcement learning for large language models, Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) commonly uses a critic to estimate state values and reduce the

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SAiFE-gym: Model-based Environments for Automated Market Making with Concentrated Liquidity

arXiv:2609.17788v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present SAiFE_gym, a Python module that provides a collection of simulation environments for studying trading problems in Constant Product Markets

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Selection Is Retrieval, Abstention Is Not: On-Device Tool Routing over 70 Korean-English Actions

arXiv:2609.18672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An AI assistant that calls tools makes two decisions on every request: which tool to invoke, and whether any available tool applies. In the usual design

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TalkMatrix: Generating Character Dialogue that is Both Consistent and Diverse

arXiv:2609.19022v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Candidate-based decoding typically selects a completion for each prompt independently, but many applications require a collection of outputs that sati

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The Missing 'I Don't Know': Why Three Reasoning-Reliability Findings Converge on Calibrated Abstention

arXiv:2609.17686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Three recent results describe what look like unrelated LLM reliability problems. Yin et al. (2026) show reasoning RL collapses tool-reliability repres

Variational Approach for Job Shop Scheduling

arXiv:2602.00408v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper proposes a novel Variational Graph-to-Scheduler (VG2S) framework for solving the Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP), a critical tas

VoiceTrace: A Benchmark and Retrieval Framework for Who-Said-What Speech Retrieval

arXiv:2609.18521v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech retrieval has become increasingly important as spoken content continues to grow across meetings, lectures, podcasts, and videos. Existing bench

AquiLLM: Evaluating Faithfulness in Open-Weight RAG-LLM Systems for Scientific Research

arXiv:2609.16519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific research increasingly relies on large, heterogeneous data sources, motivating interest in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems that p

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Artificial intelligence and biosecurity: capabilities, threat pathways, and defense-in-depth governance

arXiv:2609.16213v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence is reshaping biological research across an increasingly connected digital-to-physical workflow. General-purpose large language m

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