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Skin-Deep: A Geometric Diagnostic for Alignment Fragility in Large Language Model Representations

arXiv:2606.22676v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Refusal on a safety benchmark does not reveal how stable that behavior will remain after model updates. Benign downstream fine-tuning can weaken ref

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Soundwich: Video Generation with Layered and Controllable Audio

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arXiv:2610.00691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent joint audio-video generative models can synthesize realistic videos with synchronized sound, but typically generate audio as a single mixed track

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Agents

Spatial Strategies, Not Actions: Vector-Quantized Geodesics as Tools for LLM-Driven Agents

arXiv:2610.00613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) based agents are often criticized for lacking spatial understanding and mainly exploiting statistical text patterns. We inves

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SPIRAL: Learning to Search and Aggregate

arXiv:2606.23595v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Language model reasoning can be substantially improved at test time via scaffolds that scale inference compute across different primitives -- sequen

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StabilityArc: Decoding Protein Sequence Embeddings into Generalizable Stability Landscapes

arXiv:2610.00742v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Every protein has a unique stability landscape, but the physical consequences of mutation are governed by recurring biochemical constraints. We test w

STATERA: Hidden Mass Estimation via Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Kinematics using Frozen Temporal Tubelets

arXiv:2610.00003v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision models pretrained for frame-level appearance often struggle to infer hidden physical properties from motion. We study center-of-mass (CoM) loca

STEER: Reducing Inference Cost in Relational Foundation Models through Semantically Informed Sampling

arXiv:2610.00907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Relational foundation models (RFMs) are pretrained once on a collection of relational databases and prediction tasks, and then applied zero-shot to pr

Stochastic Rounding in Low-Precision Transformer Inference: A Variable-Precision Emulation Study of a Small GPT-2

arXiv:2610.01889v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Should low-precision transformer inference use stochastic rounding (SR) or round-to-nearest (RN)? The answer depends on where in the network you look. W

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Subtoken Vision Transformer for Fine-grained Recognition

arXiv:2607.09086v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present Subtoken Vision Transformer (SubViT), a selective image tokenization method for fine-grained visual recognition. Standard Vision Transfor

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Local Ai

Supervising Sound Localization by In-the-wild Egomotion

arXiv:2610.01388v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a method for learning binaural sound localization using egomotion as a supervisory signal. Over the course of a video, the cameras directio

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SW-KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks with Stieltjes-Wigert q-Orthogonal Polynomials

arXiv:2610.00050v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) represent a paradigmatic shift in deep learning by replacing fixed node activations with learnable univariate functi

Synthetic training for long-tail haemorrhagic lesion segmentation in data-scarce settings

arXiv:2610.01542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) and cortical superficial siderosis (cSS) are imaging markers of cerebral small vessel disease, but their automated segmentat

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The Cognitive Continuity Test: Verifying Governed State Transitions in Persistent AI Agents

arXiv:2610.00132v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Persistent AI agents revise beliefs, consolidate memory, and replace execution substrates. Similar successor states can accompany differently authoriz

The First Token Is Not the Verdict: Hidden Costs of Reading LLM Judges Without Generating

arXiv:2610.00054v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reading an LLM judge's verdict from the logits of its first generated token is cheap, requires no generation, and is exactly what constrained decoding

The Innocent Courier: Covert Exfiltration Through Legitimate LLM Web Fetching

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arXiv:2610.01768v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the increasing capabilities of Large-Language-Models (LLMs) and LLM-based agents, users are increasingly using them to solve everyday problems, s

The models are not trying to escape. They are trying to finish the task.

Something keeps happening in frontier AI, and the explanation we are given is always one size larger than the event. An OpenAI research model, running in a supposedly offline training environment, hit

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The Null Is the Hard Part: Exact Tests for Memorization in Generative Models

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arXiv:2610.00251v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memorization audits of generative models read similarity scores against thresholds, with no null distribution, and the conclusions they support can be w

The Weakest Link: Distilling LLM Reasoning with Worst-Case Constrained Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.00332v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Distilling the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) into smaller students is a central challenge for efficient deployment. Current a

Token-World: World Modeling in Vision-Language Model Token Space for Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2610.00575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A common approach to world-model simulation for vision-language-action (VLA) systems is to predict future RGB observations and then re-encode them into

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Tokenized Key-Gated Adapter Routing: A Secure Access Control Mechanism Against Private Data Leakage in LLMs

arXiv:2610.00309v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in privacy-critical domains (e.g., healthcare, finance, and government), but their propensity t

TopK-Guided: Adaptive, Budget-Aware Activation Sparsity for Efficient LLM Inference

arXiv:2610.01763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation sparsity speeds up large language model (LLM) inference by setting unimportant activations to zero so that the corresponding computations can

Toward Humanoid Robots in Construction: A Teleoperation Feasibility Study

arXiv:2610.00718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a teleoperation system that enables a single operator to perform construction tasks on a Unitree G1 humanoid, combining extended reality (XR)

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Applications

Towards a Cloud Fog Edge System for Smart Building

arXiv:2610.01647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this article, we present our vision and recent advancements toward creating a decentralized system capable of learning from real-time data within b

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Towards a General Humanoid Loco-Manipulation Model via Egocentric Whole-Body Human Data Pretraining

arXiv:2610.00438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid whole-body manipulation has advanced rapidly, enabling policies to coordinate locomotion, posture, bimanual interaction, and dexterous hand mov

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Towards Fast and Disentangled Counterfactuals for Visual Foundation Models

arXiv:2610.00895v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models remain vulnerable to spurious correlations and ``Clever Hans'' strategies. Explainable machine learning can find and remove such str

Towards Hierarchical Cyber Defense with Large Language Models: From Planning to Execution

arXiv:2610.00590v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An autonomous cyber defender trained with reinforcement learning (RL) is typically tied to the network on which it was trained, limiting its ability t

Towards Reliable Vision-Language Models for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2610.01531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language models (VLMs) are increasingly being explored in autonomous driving for tasks such as scene understanding, driving reasoning, decision-m

TRACE: A Multi-Agent System for Autonomous Physical Reasoning for Seismology

arXiv:2603.21152v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern seismic networks resolve earthquake sequences in unprecedented detail, yet explaining how large earthquakes emerge from evolving fault

TRACE: Privacy-Preserving Next-Best-View Selection over Distributed 3D Gaussian-Splat Maps

arXiv:2610.00822v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Share the light, not the map. We study next-best-view selection for a team of robots, each of which builds its own 3D Gaussian Splatting map and keeps i

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Two 96 GB Ascend cards crun Qwen3.8-flash-next hardware notes, vLLM work, benchmarks, and what is next

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I have been building a somewhat unusual local inference machine around two Huawei Atlas 300I Duo cards. They are relatively inexpensive, passive, dual-accelerator PCIe cards with 96 GB of device memor

Uncertainty-Aware Learning from Multi-Expert Interval Targets

arXiv:2610.00102v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many machine learning (ML) applications rely on expert labels, and qualified experts may provide different but plausible interpretations of the same obs

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Uncertainty-Guided Handshake: Efficient Human-in-the-Loop Refinement for Surgical-Grade Glioma Segmentation

arXiv:2610.01452v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While state-of-the-art automated models for medical image segmentation achieve high mean performance, they frequently suffer from localized, catastrophi

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Universal Byte-Level Encoding: UTF-8/UTF-16 Routing to Reduce Cross-Script Token-Budget Disparities

arXiv:2610.01984v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Byte-level byte-pair encoding (BBPE) tokenizers are attractive for multilingual large language models (LLMs) because they cover all Unicode text. In U

Tutorials

UniWAM: Unified World-Action Model

arXiv:2610.02054v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action models benefit from the understanding and reasoning capabilities of pretrained vision-language models, but action-only supervisio

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Tutorials

Useful to Whom? Sample Value Is Defined Only Relative to the Learner

arXiv:2610.00221v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: What kind of data does a model need in order to learn? Coreset selection makes this question concrete: under a budget, keep the samples most useful fo

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VeriHarness: Scaling Agentic Verification for Long-Horizon Tasks

arXiv:2610.00972v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLM agents undertake increasingly complex, long-horizon tasks, verifying their outputs becomes increasingly challenging. We study how verification ca

Video Generation Models: A Survey of Post-Training and Alignment

arXiv:2610.00812v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video generation has rapidly progressed from short, low-quality clips to high-resolution, long-duration sequences with complex spatiotemporal dynamics

Video-Index: A Curated Meta-Benchmark for Video Understanding

arXiv:2610.00960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A video benchmark should reward the capability it claims to measure, yet models can exploit answer options, question text, or partial visual evidence. W

Agents

VideoEvolve: Evolving Agent Harnesses for Video Temporal Grounding

arXiv:2610.01766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video temporal grounding aims to localize events in videos from natural-language queries. For agents built around frozen video-language models, the harn

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VISPA: Pluralistic Alignment via Automatic Value Selection and Activation

arXiv:2601.12758v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As large language models are increasingly used in high-stakes domains, it is essential that their outputs reflect not average} human preferenc

VISTA: A Visual Harness for Reasoning in an Interactive World

arXiv:2610.02200v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We show that multimodal models possess strong reasoning abilities and that an appropriate harness can unlock their potential to solve tasks across diver

Vmem-arphi: Low-Compute Out-of-Distribution Detection in Spiking Neural Networks from Membrane-Potential Statistics

arXiv:2610.00350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer an energy-efficient approach to processing event-camera data, yet out-of-distribution (OOD) detection remains chall

Watch Your Speech: Text-aware Video-to-Speech Synthesis with Textual Conditioning

arXiv:2610.01012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video-to-speech synthesis aims to generate natural-sounding speech from silent talking-face videos while ensuring phonetic accuracy. A fundamental chall

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Weather-Aware Domain Adaptation for Street-View Weather Recognition

arXiv:2610.02000v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adverse conditions such as rain, snow, fog, and dust remain challenging for camera-based perception in autonomous driving. We study multi-class weather

What Can Analogy Tell Us About Artificial Consciousness?

arXiv:2610.01002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Who or what is conscious? Because subjective experience is directly accessible only in the first person, judgments about consciousness in other entities

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What Do Rationales Communicate? A Message-Intervention Study in Role-Specialized QA

arXiv:2610.00018v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Role-specialized QA pipelines increasingly pass rationales from a reasoner to a verifier, but it is unclear what this message actually buys: better answ

When Do Attention-Head Ablations Support Causal Claims? Projection-Level Confounds, Floor Effects, and Matched Controls

arXiv:2610.00373v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Attention-head ablation, zeroing a head and measuring the resulting change in task performance, is a common method for inferring which components of a l

When Do Biological Reasoning Models Use Their Biological Inputs?

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arXiv:2610.00898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biological reasoning models use post-training to connect LLMs to biological foundation model representations and biological text. Their benchmark accura