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Signed Graph Pre-Training and Prompt Learning

arXiv:2609.25722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Signed graphs arise in trust--distrust networks, financial correlation systems, biological interaction graphs, and many other domains in which edges can

applicationsarxiv-cs-lg

Agents

Silent Sabotage: Internal State Triggered Backdoor Attacks on LLM-Powered Robotic Systems

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DGX agent

arXiv:2609.26184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into robotic control systems is enabling a new generation of autonomous agents capable of complex reason

agentsarxiv-cs-ro

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Tutorials

Simulation-free Structure Learning for Stochastic Population Dynamics

arXiv:2510.16656v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modeling dynamical systems and unraveling their underlying structural dependencies is central to many domains in the natural sciences. Various physi

tutorialsarxiv-cs-lg

Situation Aware Locomotion for Dual Mobile Cobots in Shared Environments

arXiv:2609.26083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a situation aware locomotion framework for two mobile collaborative robots operating in shared industrial environments. The proposed

Skill Sequence Planning for Collaborative Multi-Robot Construction

arXiv:2609.25649v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots have significant potential to automate construction processes. However, their industry adoption remains limited, partly because of the programmin

applicationsarxiv-cs-ro

Skytopia: Monocular Drone Navigation with Action-Conditioned Latent World Models

arXiv:2609.26007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Monocular drone navigation requires reaching a goal in an unseen environment from a single forward-facing camera, which offers few cues for depth and sc

Slow Decay and Silenced Expression: Iterated Subliminal Trait Transfer in Language-Model Lineages

arXiv:2609.25721v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models are increasingly trained on the outputs of other models, forming chains that we call lineages, in which a trait present in one generat

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Agents

Small-world Networks of Agents Brainstorm AI Risks to Support Ideation

arXiv:2609.24859v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The ideation phase of participatory AI risk assessment often starts with a blank slate or a limited list of predefined risks, making it difficult to s

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

Smoothed Analysis of Inconsistent A*

arXiv:2609.23680v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The A* search is a fundamental path-finding algorithm in artificial intelligence. While admissible and consistent heuristics guarantee efficient perfo

applicationsarxiv-cs-ai

Agents

Social Influence and the Allocation of Scientific Attention in AI Populations

arXiv:2609.22408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems are becoming participants in the evaluation and use of scientific research. They encounter citation counts, download statistics and lists of

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

Sometimes You Gotta Run Before You Can Walk: Run-then-Walk Scheduling Strategy for VLM Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2609.25831v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent VLM-based autonomous driving planners adopt GRPO-style reinforcement learning to optimize driving performance. However, existing GRPO recipes eit

Sonicmesh: Enhancing 3D Human Mesh Reconstruction in Vision-Impaired Environments With Acoustic Signals

arXiv:2412.11325v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 3D human mesh reconstruction (HMR) from RGB images often degrades under poor illumination, occlusion, and non-line-of-sight conditions. Acoustic sen

researcharxiv-cs-cv

Hardware

Sources and Nscale's US SEC filings: ByteDance accounted for nearly 75% of Nscale's sales in 2025 and used Nscale's facility in Norway to access Nvidia AI chips (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources and Nscale's US SEC filings: ByteDance accounted for nearly 75% of Nscale's sales in 2025 and used Nscale's facility in Norway to access Nvidia AI chips — Chinese tech giant w

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SPARC: SuperPixel-Aware Region Contrastive Learning for Self-Supervised Dense Prediction

arXiv:2609.25067v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) has become an effective approach for learning visual representations without manual annotations. Among SSL approaches,

SparseNav: Instruction-conditioned Sparse Semantic Perception for Training-Free Vision-Language Navigation

arXiv:2609.26408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Map-based vision-language navigation (VLN) relies on persistent spatial representations to connect language understanding with geometric planning. Howev

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Spatiotemporal Calibration of Doppler Velocity Logs for Underwater Robots

arXiv:2510.24571v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The calibration of extrinsic parameters and clock offsets between sensors for high-accuracy performance in underwater SLAM systems remains insuffici

applicationsarxiv-cs-ro

Spatiotemporal Kronecker Covariance Neural Networks

arXiv:2609.25326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multivariate time series contain complex patterns that span across both space and time. While covariance-based statistical tools like spatiotemporal Pri

applicationsarxiv-cs-lg

Local Ai

SpeakerMem-R1: Speaker-Centered Dual-Track Memory for Multi-Party Dialogue

arXiv:2609.26780v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term conversational memory in multi-party settings requires more than retrieving relevant content from long-term conversations: it must distinguish

local-aiarxiv-cs-cl

SPEANet: Structural Prior Enhanced Attention Network for Parameter-Efficient Remote Sensing Object Detection

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cv

arXiv:2609.26064v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Remote sensing object detection (RSOD) requires compact backbones capable of preserving weak geometric cues under extreme scale variation and background

SpecialEduBench: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models on Knowledge, Skill, and Attitude in Language Intervention for Autistic Children

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2609.26090v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language is the target of most early intervention for autistic children. Because the goal and the method change from child to child, the work falls to a

SPECTRA: Adaptive Execution of Speculative Decoding on a Runtime-Reconfigurable Tiled Architecture

arXiv:2609.24847v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM inference on edge devices is constrained by computational and memory resources, making efficient autoregressive decoding challenging. Speculative

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Spectral Overfitting in Noisy Linear Probing of Pretrained Representations

arXiv:2603.02293v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Frozen pretrained features are often treated as a safe interface for downstream learning: only a small linear readout is trained, while the backbone

Spectral Tail Interventions in Decoder-Only Language Models: Reasoning-Sensitive Weight Structure from Controlled Surgery

arXiv:2609.26165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Weight-space structure often correlates with language-model behavior, but correlation alone does not establish computational involvement. We study conce

Splitting Documents at Lower Cost: Multi-Split Boundary Decisions for LLM-Based Page Stream Segmentation

arXiv:2609.22620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scanned mail, uploaded PDFs, and consolidated attachments often arrive as page streams that must be split into individual documents before downstream cl

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Spoken Language Models that Think Aloud

arXiv:2609.26488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has improved the capability of language models, directly applying it to Spoken Language Models (SLMs) may introdu

researcharxiv-cs-cl

SSP-Bench: A Hybrid Data Generation Framework for Safety, Security, and Privacy Evaluation

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arXiv:2609.25352v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluation of large language models (LLMs) for safety, security, and privacy (SSP) relies heavily on static benchmarks, which suffer from score satura

Stable Unsupervised Continual Chunking with Sheaf SyncMap

arXiv:2609.25143v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unsupervised Continual chunking is a fundamental problem in machine learning and neuroscience, where the goal is to identify groups of states that frequ

StableVQ: Practical Guidelines for Stable Vector-Quantized Tokenizer Training

arXiv:2609.26774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vector Quantization (VQ) is fundamental to discrete visual tokenizers that power modern autoregressive and masked image generation models. While recent

researcharxiv-cs-cv

STAR-VAE: A Scalable Latent-Variable Transformer for Controllable Molecular Generation

arXiv:2511.02769v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many molecular Transformers lack probabilistic latent variables for posterior inference and latent interpolation. We introduce STAR-VAE, a SELFIES-e

Statistical Gains from Looped Estimation under Parameter Budgets

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2609.25778v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Growing memory demands in artificial intelligence motivate learning with fewer trainable parameters. We ask whether a looped estimator, which repeated

Statistical Rates for Entropic Optimal Transport in the Discrete to SubGaussian Regime

arXiv:2609.26647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study statistical rates in entropic optimal transport in the semi-discrete regime where one measure has finite support and the other is subGaussian

StepTrigger: Contact-State-Triggered Backdoor Attacks on VLM-Powered Legged Robots

arXiv:2609.26131v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models and vision-language models are increasingly used as high-level planners in robotic systems, using task goals and sensor summaries

StrataVLA: Hierarchical and Efficient 3D Geometric Grounding for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2609.26071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models inherit strong semantic priors from large-scale vision-language pretraining, yet remain limited in robotic manipulat

applicationsarxiv-cs-ro

Streaming Nemotron 3 Diarization

model-releasesr-localllama

I’ve been playing with Nemotron 3 Diarization, and it fills a gap I’ve had with local voice agents: keeping track of who is speaking. It’s a diarization model, so it gives you speaker labels rather th

StreamTTO: Efficient Online Test-Time Optimization for Video Depth Completion

arXiv:2603.01765v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Monocular depth foundation models generalize across diverse scenes, but recovering accurate metric depth consistent with a target sensor remains cha

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Structured Decomposition for Reliable LLM-Generated Access Control Policies

arXiv:2609.24036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an LLM-based system that translates natural-language access control policies (NLACPs) into executable Rego code for Open Policy Agen

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

STRUCTUREDAGENT: Planning with AND/OR Trees for Long-Horizon Web Tasks

arXiv:2603.05294v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing LLM-based web agents struggle on complex, long-horizon tasks due to limited in-context memory, weak planning abilities, and greedy behavior

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stuntd: a local Jev-compatible server on Laya that learns from your own traffic (no API key needed)

model-releasesr-localllama

What it is. stuntd is a local proxy for typed LLM decisions: choice, yes/no, score. Your app keeps calling its provider through it. stuntd records the decisions, trains a small head on top of Laya (th

SuperPCA: subspace analysis and an efficient algorithm for high-dimensional PCA

arXiv:2609.26406v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Principal component analysis (PCA) is a fundamental tool to reduce the dimensionality of the data in many applications. PCA finds a few signal directi

Syndrome, Synergy, and Safety: Structured Reasoning and Knowledge-Driven Alignment for TCM Prescription Generation

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2609.25755v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Applying large language models to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) prescription generation reveals three clinically critical gaps: models produce end-

Synthesis and editing of multi-instrument audio mixtures using scalar-quantised latents with MIDI Span conditioning

arXiv:2609.25546v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Music creation often involves iterative refinement, changing selected musical details while retaining the rest. To support such refinement, we introdu

Synthesizing Reactive Character Behaviors for Continuous Games via Programmatic Policy Search

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai

arXiv:2609.24025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a method for synthesizing reactive character behaviors for continuous games as compact, human-readable programs. Game AI practice still relie

SyzHarness: Patch-Based Kernel Bug Reproduction with LLM-Synthesized Fuzzing Harnesses

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai

arXiv:2609.23889v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated kernel vulnerability reproduction is essential for bug triage, patch validation, and regression testing, but still lacks an effective and ef

Local Ai

TailSpec-EASE: Knowledge-Graph-Regularized Linear Recommendation for Web Long-Tail Discovery

arXiv:2609.26143v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recommender systems on Web platforms tend to over-serve popular items and neglect the long tail. Item-side knowledge graphs (KGs), often available as

local-aiarxiv-cs-lg

Local Ai

Taming CoT Obfuscation in VLMs: From Mechanistic Evidence to Activation Enforcement

arXiv:2609.24243v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) improves reasoning in vision-language models (VLMs) but can induce chain-of-thought (CoT) obfuscation: an operational, non-i

local-aiarxiv-cs-ai

Target alignment, dilution and forecast selection when cross-sectional forecasts share a common target

arXiv:2609.26303v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Forecasters often score the same units per date against one standardized realized outcome. We show that every standardized forecast splits exactly int

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

Targeted Review for AI-Assisted Biodiversity Surveys: Active Continuous-Score Occupancy Modeling

arXiv:2609.25657v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We increasingly use machine learning to label scientific datasets. The models we develop and deploy are improving all the time, but they are not and wil

applicationsarxiv-cs-lg

Teaching Reinforcement Learning and Humanoid Robotics to High-School Students: An Expert-Validated Curriculum Design on a Low-Cost Open Platform

arXiv:2609.25674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lower cost open source robots and reinforcement learning (RL) simulation tools create new opportunities for precollege students to engage with contempor