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ScioMind: Cognitively Grounded Multi-Agent Social Simulation with Anchoring-Based Belief Dynamics and Dynamic Profiles

arXiv:2605.13725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent simulation offers a powerful testbed for studying social opinion dynamics. Yet current approaches often ado

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SECOND-Grasp: Semantic Contact-guided Dexterous Grasping

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arXiv:2605.13117v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Achieving reliable robotic manipulation, such as dexterous grasping, requires a synergy between physically stable interactions and semantic task guida

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Selective Off-Policy Reference Tuning with Plan Guidance

arXiv:2605.11505v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards helps reasoning, but GRPO-style methods stall on hard prompts where all sampled rollouts fail. SORT a

Self-Supervised On-Policy Reinforcement Learning via Contrastive Proximal Policy Optimisation

arXiv:2605.13554v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contrastive reinforcement learning (CRL) learns goal-conditioned Q-values through a contrastive objective over state-action and goal representations,

Sharpness-Guided Group Relative Policy Optimization via Probability Shaping

arXiv:2511.00066v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a practical route to improve large language model reasoning, and Group Relative Pol

SID: Sliding into Distribution for Robust Few-Demonstration Manipulation

arXiv:2605.13428v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalizing robotic manipulation across object poses, viewpoints, and dynamic disturbances is difficult, especially with only a few demonstrations. End

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SP-GCRL: Influence Maximization on Incomplete Social Graphs

arXiv:2605.12513v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Influence maximization (IM) in real platforms is challenged by incomplete, noisy social graphs and non-stationary diffusion dynamics. We propose SP-GC

Spatiotemporal downscaling and nowcasting of urban land surface temperatures with deep neural networks

arXiv:2605.13566v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Land Surface Temperature (LST) is a key variable for various applications, such as urban climate and ecology studies. Yet, existing satellite-derived LS

Spectral Energy Centroid: a Metric for Improving Performance and Analyzing Spectral Bias in Implicit Neural Representations

arXiv:2605.12709v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) model continuous signals using multilayer perceptrons (MLPs), enabling compact, differentiable, and high-fidelity

STAR: Semantic-Temporal Adaptive Representation Learning for Few-Shot Action Recognition

arXiv:2605.13202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Few-shot action recognition (FSAR) requires models to generalize to novel action categories from only a handful of annotated samples. Despite progress

Structural Diversity Drives Disruptive Scientific Innovation

arXiv:2605.12514v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific innovation increasingly depends on collaboration, yet the organizational structure that fosters breakthrough ideas remains poorly understoo

Switching Successor Measures for Hierarchical Zero-shot Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2605.13207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hierarchical reinforcement learning can improve generalization by decomposing long-horizon decision-making into simpler subproblems. However, existing a

Teacher-Guided Policy Optimization for LLM Distillation

arXiv:2605.13230v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The convergence of reinforcement learning and imitation learning has positioned Reverse KL (RKL) as a promising paradigm for on-policy LLM distillatio

TeleGate: Whole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation via Gated Expert Selection with Motion Prior

arXiv:2602.09628v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-time whole-body teleoperation is a critical method for humanoid robots to perform complex tasks in unstructured environments. However, developi

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Temper and Tilt Lead to SLOP: Reward Hacking Mitigation with Inference-Time Alignment

arXiv:2605.13537v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inference-time alignment techniques offer a lightweight alternative or complement to costly reinforcement learning, while enabling continual adaptatio

Test-time Offline Reinforcement Learning on Goal-related Experience

arXiv:2507.18809v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Foundation models compress a large amount of information in a single, large neural network, which can then be queried for individual tasks. There ar

Test-time Sparsity for Extreme Fast Action Diffusion

arXiv:2605.13316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action diffusion excels at high-fidelity action generation but incurs heavy computational costs owing to its iterative denoising nature. Despite current

The End Justifies the Mean: A Linear Ranking Rule for Proportional Sequential Decisions

arXiv:2605.12717v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI alignment and participatory design motivate a new democratic design problem: how to collectively choose a decision rule to use repeatedly. We study

The Horizon Threshold in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reward-Free Exploration

arXiv:2602.01453v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning in the setting of reward-free exploration, where multiple agents jointly explore an unknown

Think Twice, Act Once: Verifier-Guided Action Selection For Embodied Agents

arXiv:2605.12620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building generalist embodied agents capable of solving complex real-world tasks remains a fundamental challenge in AI. Multimodal Large Language Models

Tight Sample Complexity Bounds for Entropic Best Policy Identification

arXiv:2605.13717v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study best-policy identification for finite-horizon risk-sensitive reinforcement learning under the entropic risk measure. Recent work established a

Topology-Preserving Neural Operator Learning via Hodge Decomposition

arXiv:2605.13834v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we study solution operators of physical field equations on geometric meshes from a function-space perspective. We reveal that Hodge ort

Towards a holistic understanding of Selection Bias for Causal Effect Identification

arXiv:2605.13430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Selection bias is pervasive in observational studies. For example, large scale biobanks data can exhibit ``healthy volunteer bias'' when respondents a

Towards Generalizable Reasoning: Group Causal Counterfactual Policy Optimization for LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2602.06475v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) excel at complex tasks with advances in reasoning capabilities. However, existing reward mechanisms remain tightly coup

TrackCraft3R: Repurposing Video Diffusion Transformers for Dense 3D Tracking

arXiv:2605.12587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dense 3D tracking from monocular video is fundamental to dynamic scene understanding. While recent 3D foundation models provide reliable per-frame geome

Trajectory-Level Data Augmentation for Offline Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2605.13401v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a data augmentation method for offline reinforcement learning, motivated by active positioning problems. Particularly, our approach enables t

Uncertainty-aware Spatial-Frequency Registration and Fusion for Infrared and Visible Images

arXiv:2605.13049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Infrared and Visible Image Fusion (IVIF) has shown promise in visual tasks under challenging environments, but fusion under unregistered conditions face

Unifying Entropy Regularization in Optimal Control: From and Back to Classical Objectives via Iterated Soft Policies and Path Integral Solutions

arXiv:2512.06109v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper develops a unified perspective on several optimal control formulations through the lens of Kullback-Leibler (KL) regularization. We

UniJEPA: Enhancing Robot Policy via Unified Continuous and Discrete Representation Learning

arXiv:2510.10642v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Building generalist robot policies that can handle diverse tasks in open-ended environments is a central challenge in robotics. To leverage kn

Unweighted ranking for value-based decision making with uncertainty

arXiv:2605.13601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As intelligent systems are increasingly implemented in our society to make autonomous decisions, their commitment to human values raises serious concern

VideoSEAL: Mitigating Evidence Misalignment in Agentic Long Video Understanding by Decoupling Answer Authority

arXiv:2605.12571v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long video question answering requires locating sparse, time-scattered visual evidence within highly redundant content. Although current MLLMs perform

wading through bots and LLM-written replies here is getting more tedious by the day. retweet if you agree.

Gary Marcus expresses frustration about the increasing prevalence of bot-generated and LLM-written responses on social media platforms, noting that filtering through such content has become increasing

WD-FQDet: Multispectral Detection Transformer via Wavelet Decomposition and Frequency-aware Query Learning

arXiv:2605.13621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Infrared-visible object detection improves detection performance by combining complementary features from multispectral images. Existing backbone-specif

“we are working harder to manage our tools than we are to solve the actual problems they were meant to fix.”

“we are working harder to manage our tools than we are to solve the actual problems they were meant to fix.” Harvard Business Review research reveals that excessive interaction with AI is causing a sp

What properties of reasoning supervision are associated with improved downstream model quality?

arXiv:2605.13290v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Validating training data for reasoning models typically requires expensive trial-and-error fine-tuning cycles. In this work, we investigate whether the

What to Ignore, What to React: Visually Robust RL Fine-Tuning of VLA Models

arXiv:2605.13105v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) fine-tuning has shown promise for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models in robotic manipulation, but deployment-time visual sh

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When Backdoors Meet Partial Observability: Attacking Real-World Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2601.14104v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Backdoor attacks can cause reinforcement learning (RL) policies to behave normally under clean inputs while executing malicious behaviors when

When to Act, Ask, or Learn: Uncertainty-Aware Policy Steering

arXiv:2602.22474v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Policy steering is an emerging way to adapt robot behaviors at deployment-time: a learned verifier analyzes low-level action samples proposed

When to Trust Confidence Thresholding: Calibration Diagnostics for Pseudo-Labelled Regression

arXiv:2605.12780v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Calibrated probability outputs of trained classifiers are increasingly used as inputs to downstream regression estimands such as effects, prevalences,

a dude who plays fast and loose with a nonprofit’s money like this is going to play fast and loose with you future. it’s time to boycott Ope…

a dude who plays fast and loose with a nonprofit’s money like this is going to play fast and loose with you future. it’s time to boycott OpenAI. 🚨 OpenAI's original board REJECTED Altman's Helion deal

A Survey of On-Policy Distillation for Large Language Models

arXiv:2604.00626v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to grow in both capability and cost, transferring frontier capabilities into smaller, deployable stud

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A survey predicted that 43% of companies would be using AI “as scale” by now. In reality, the figure is just 19%.

A survey predicted that 43% of companies would be deploying AI at scale by the current date, but actual adoption has reached only 19%, indicating a significant gap between forecasted and realized AI i

A Theory of Time-Sensitive Language Generation: Sparse Hallucination Beats Mode Collapse

arXiv:2605.11302v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study language generation in the limit under a global preference ordering on strings, as introduced by Kleinberg and Wei. As in [arXiv:2504.14370,

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A Unified Graph Language Model for Multi-Domain Multi-Task Graph Alignment Instruction Tuning

arXiv:2605.12197v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Leveraging Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) as graph encoders and aligning the resulting representations with Large Language Models (LLMs) through alignment

ACSAC: Adaptive Chunk Size Actor-Critic with Causal Transformer Q-Network

arXiv:2605.11009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon, sparse-reward tasks pose a fundamental challenge for reinforcement learning, since single-step TD learning suffers from bootstrapping erro

Adaption, co-founded by ex-Cohere VP of AI research Sara Hooker, unveils AutoScientist, which can automate the research loop behind model training and alignment (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: Adaption, co-founded by ex-Cohere VP of AI research Sara Hooker, unveils AutoScientist, which can automate the research loop behind model training and alignment — For yea

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Adaptive Policy Learning Under Unknown Network Interference

arXiv:2605.11191v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adaptive experimentation under unknown network interference requires solving two coupled problems: (i) learning the underlying dynamics of interferenc

Adaptive TD-Lambda for Cooperative Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2605.11880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: TD(lambda) in value-based MARL algorithms or the Temporal Difference critic learning in Actor-Critic-based (AC-based) algorithms synergistically integra