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Representation Risk in Pretrained Image Encoders

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arXiv:2609.35470v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Applied researchers increasingly convert images into features with pretrained encoders, then use those features in a downstream prediction model. The

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Rethinking Legibility in Social Robot Hallway Navigation: Impact of Intent Representation and Human Distraction

arXiv:2609.40158v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We focus on legible robot motion generation in social navigation settings. Legibility in human-robot interaction (HRI) is often described as the propert

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Routing Probes Can Improve Without New Information: An Exact-Null Audit of Uncertainty Beyond Model Outputs

arXiv:2609.38956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Routing signals of modern vision transformers -- expert gates, attention-residual weights and halting scores -- often improve probes that predict whethe

RSI-Master: Structuring Experiments to Guide Autonomous Model Improvement

arXiv:2609.35561v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recursive self-improvement (RSI) seeks to enable AI systems to participate in improving their own capabilities. A concrete pathway is autonomous mod

SceneJail: Exploiting Video Scenario Context to Jailbreak Multimodal LLMs

arXiv:2609.38899v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video Multimodal Large Language Models (Video-MLLMs) support reasoning over video inputs, yet remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that elicit polic

Schema: Discovering Unknown Environments via Agentic Program Induction

arXiv:2609.39140v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning to complete tasks in unfamiliar environments with unknown rules remains a key challenge for LLM agents. Current LLM agents often record their d

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SE-ADD: Self-Evolving Audio Deepfake Detection with Mistake-Driven Supervision

arXiv:2609.39679v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio deepfake detection (ADD) must remain effective when new spoofing attacks emerge after deployment. Emerging audio language model (ALM)-based ADD

SEABench: Benchmarking Endogenous Misalignment In Self-Evolving Agents

arXiv:2609.35596v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-evolving LLM agents have gained prominence for their ability to improve after deployment by modifying their harness, including their cont

Synthetic Pre-pretraining Survives Scale, but Not as a Grammatical Prior

arXiv:2609.39827v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pre-pretraining (PPT) on synthetic non-natural language data improves token efficiency during language model pre-training (PT). Prior work attributes

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Taipan: A Query-free Transfer-based Multiple Sensitive Attribute Inference Attack Solely from Auxiliary Graphs

arXiv:2602.06700v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Graph-structured data underpin a wide spectrum of modern applications, yet their multiple sensitive attributes are not isolated but deeply cou

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The Backdrop Exposes What the World Around an Agent Costs It

arXiv:2609.38469v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent benchmarks test agents in worlds that stay still. Deployed agents work in worlds that other people also change. Someone texts the agent to send

The Evolution of Attention in Large Language Models: Mechanisms, Trade-offs, and Emerging Trends

arXiv:2609.39661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-attention gives LLMs fine-grained, query-dependent access to context, but dense token interactions incur quadratic prefill cost and a key--value ca

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The Planning Limits of Latent World Models

arXiv:2609.39235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models offer a promising way to help robots understand how the physical world evolves and plan complex behaviours through imagination. Yet exist

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The Row Normalization Puzzle in Muon

arXiv:2609.39114v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper examines how row-wise renormalization affects Muon, focusing on the gap between NorMuon's worst-case guarantees and its practical performance

TopTimeNet: Topologically-assisted time-series classification model

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arXiv:2609.39792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distinguishing periodic from chaotic dynamics in a time series is a fundamental challenge in both physics and engineering. Yet, end-to-end learned archi

Uruqi: Learning Spatial Cognition from Visual Experience

arXiv:2609.39195v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial intelligence requires maintaining a coherent understanding of the world as the embodied agent moves. Like humans, the agent must use its own mot

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VirusCascade: Hijacking Collaborative Reflection in LLM-Powered Recommender Agents

arXiv:2609.38270v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advancing beyond traditional static scoring models, LLM-powered agentic recommender systems (LLM-ARS) instantiate users and items as autonomous agents

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What Was Said, Not What Was 'Thought': Type-6 Logic for CoT Verification

arXiv:2609.38420v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Type-6 logic, a variant of dynamic epistemic logic augmented with two operators (uncertainty and recurrence), designed to model the infer

When a Kindergartener Solves Calculus: Measuring Capability Leakage in Role-Prompted Reasoning Models

arXiv:2609.39846v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate the problem of role-capability leakage (RCL), in which a role-prompted reasoning model generates convincing in-role text while continui

When Clipping Reverses Correction: Failure Dynamics of Pointwise Forward-KL On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2609.38995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) trains a student on its own generated responses using feedback from the same model conditioned on privileged informat

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When the Right Answer Is Missing: An Arithmetic-Dependent Rejection Bottleneck in Jev

arXiv:2609.39496v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Typed decision models such as Jev offer an efficient alternative to generative LLMs in decision-making workflows by selecting directly from predefined

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Adaptive Consistency Graph for Long-Horizon Agents

arXiv:2609.32754v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model agents can often make reasonable local decisions on short tasks, yet their performance degrades when success requires long sequ

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Adversarial Defense in Cybersecurity: A Systematic Review of GANs for Threat Detection and Mitigation

arXiv:2509.20411v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine learning-based cybersecurity systems are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, while Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) act as

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AnyAct: Universal Action for Self-Evolving Agents

arXiv:2609.37025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) advance, AI agents are increasingly deployed in open-world environments to tackle complex sequential tasks (e.g., docume

ARK: A Dual-Axis Multimodal Retrieval Benchmark along Reasoning and Knowledge

arXiv:2602.09839v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing multimodal retrieval benchmarks largely emphasize semantic matching on daily-life images and offer limited diagnostics of professional know

Asking for What Was Never Requested: Horizontal and Vertical Proactivity in Agents

arXiv:2609.37236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An agent that uses tools typically responds to what the user explicitly asks, yet completing the task may require information the user never requested.

Backdoor in the Loop: Compromising Agentic Search via Malicious Retrievers

arXiv:2609.37468v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) interleaves reasoning with repeated retrieval, giving the retriever influence over both the evidence an a

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Beyond Lip Sync: Reference-Grounded Oral Refinement for Audio-Driven Portrait Animation

arXiv:2609.38019v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present RGOR (Reference-Grounded Oral Refinement), an audio-driven lip-sync framework that renders the mouth of the specific person being dubbed rath

Beyond Readability: Evaluating Task Information Recoverability

arXiv:2609.36957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Direct visual readability and task-information recoverability are different quantities. Failure to decode a target from a fixed observation need not eli

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Can Representation Learning Decouple from Loss Minimization? Polar Updates Have an Answer

arXiv:2609.36240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Does representation learning stop when the training loss stops improving? We study this question for matrix Muon, whose polar-normalised updates have a

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Code4Scene: Benchmarking Coding Agents for Constructing and Editing 3D Scenes

arXiv:2609.36777v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier coding agents can now write and execute code that authors 3D environments, but whether they reliably understand 3D structure and precisely cont

ContextRender: From Execution Dependencies to Agent Context

arXiv:2609.37743v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents performing long-horizon tasks accumulate tool results that later steps may need. Passing the full history to every invocation is costly even

Cross-Organizational SysML Model Integration: A Survey of Challenges and AI-Supported Tasks

arXiv:2609.37000v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-organizational collaboration is widely regarded as a key promise of SysML-based Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), yet practitioners still

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CrossTimeEdit: A Decade-Spanning Cross-View Dataset and Reward-Guided Editing for Historical Street-View Generation

arXiv:2609.36616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Historical street-view imagery records urban evolution, but uneven coverage leaves substantial gaps in historical records. Generating plausible past app

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Distilling Agentic Systems: A Roadmap across Models, Artifacts, and Harnesses

arXiv:2609.36630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern agents increasingly rely on memories, tools, and execution logic, so their competence extends beyond model parameters. This shift exposes a limit

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Does Local Video Understanding Transfer Across Encounters? The EgoGears Benchmark

arXiv:2609.37938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied systems must make knowledge acquired during one encounter usable in another despite changes in viewpoint, motion, and illumination. Yet aggre

Early Learning Shapes Later Directions Of Representation Change In Continual Learning

arXiv:2609.36081v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Representations continually change as a network learns new tasks. We ask whether early representational changes naturally form a geometric structure tha

EpiCon: Collective Agent Learning through Co-Evolving Multimodal Memory

arXiv:2609.37923v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agents can learn from past executions, but enabling different agents to reuse and build on one another's experience remains challenging. We introduce Ep

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Equally Good, Yet Different: Benchmarking Rashomon sets in AutoML packages

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arXiv:2609.36970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Rashomon effect describes the existence of multiple near-optimal models that achieve comparable performance while offering fundamentally different e

From Learner Behavior to Reusable Skills for Effective and Efficient Learner Simulation

arXiv:2609.37157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learner simulation aims to reproduce how a particular learner behaves on new tasks. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate increasingly fine

Frontier Autolab: Organizational Memory, Adversarial Dissent and Temporal Leakage in Multi-Agent LLM Firms Across Fifty Years of Technological Change

arXiv:2609.36739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems are increasingly structured like organizations, with roles, critics and shared memory, yet they are evaluated on tasks that la

Generated Query Expansion Still Helps Strong Sparse Retrieval: A Controlled Study with SPLADE-v3

arXiv:2609.37911v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific queries are often brief, while relevant papers use specialized vocabulary. Generated query expansion can bridge this mismatch, but earlier

GNA: Granular Neighbor Assembly for Retrieval-Augmented Multivariate Time-Series Forecasting

arXiv:2609.36281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep forecasters predict from a fixed-length lookback window, and lengthening it gives diminishing returns at a growing cost. Retrieval augmentation ins

Godel Forest: Balancing Search Depth and Breadth for Data-Centric Recursive Self-Improvement

arXiv:2609.36675v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recursive self-improvement (RSI) aims to achieve compounding gains by having models improve themselves. While most existing RSI systems optimize externa

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HeadGuard: Selective Head Protection for Low-Bit VLM KV-Cache Quantization

arXiv:2609.35800v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-bit key-value (KV) cache quantization saves storage but can sharply degrade vision-language model (VLM) accuracy. We introduce HeadGuard, a compos

High-Resolution Dynamic Functional Connectivity Generation with Graph-Variate Flow Matching

arXiv:2609.37037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-resolution dynamic functional connectivity (DFC) can reveal rapidly evolving brain-network interactions, but short temporal windows yield noisy, of

Imagine3D-LLM: Teaching MLLMs to Imagine 3D Scenes Before Answering

arXiv:2609.38177v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning about the 3D world from multi-view images remains a fundamental challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). While modern MLLMs h

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