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SHAFT: A Slack-Compensating, Helical-Buckling-Attenuating Flexible-Shaft Transmission for Lightweight Multi-DoF Manipulation

arXiv:2609.22677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lightweight and slim manipulators enable safe operation in human living environments. Proximal actuation using remote transmission mechanisms, such as w

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ShapeLex: Decoupling Local Shape Symbolization and Global Scale Modeling for Text-Controlled Time Series Generation

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arXiv:2609.24003v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-controlled time series generation aims to synthesize sequences that follow natural-language descriptions while remaining faithful to real data dist

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Shared Execution-Clock Drifting Policy for Dynamic Precision Manipulation

arXiv:2609.23305v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Manipulation under time constraints requires both accurate actions and an execution rhythm that matches the evolving scene. This becomes critical when a

ShearFuse-UNet: Hadamard, DCT, and Shearlet Transform Fusion for Next-Day Wildfire Spread Prediction

arXiv:2606.14071v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose ShearFuse-UNet, a lightweight and computationally efficient deep learning model for next-day wildfire spread prediction from multi-modal

Signal-Informed Temporal Routing for Vinyl Defect Regime Detection

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arXiv:2609.23164v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vinyl restoration systems must distinguish isolated clicks, short bursts, dense crackle, and overlapping damage before selecting a repair operation. W

Hardware

Silent Failures at the 2^{32} Boundary: A Technical Report on Large-Tensor Matrix Multiplication in PyTorch's Apple MPS Backend

arXiv:2609.22991v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Apple Silicon machines with 192GB or more of unified memory make it routine to place tensors with more than 2^{32} elements on a desktop GPU. We show

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Sim2Real Diffusion: Leveraging Foundation Vision Language Models for Adaptive Automated Driving

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arXiv:2507.00236v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Simulation-based design, optimization, and validation of autonomous vehicles have proven to be crucial for their improvement over the years. Neverth

Simpler Methods Work Better for L1 Penalized Logistic Models and Large Datasets

arXiv:2609.23995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Linear models with an L_1-norm penalty remain state-of-the-art for high-dimensional (d > 1,000,000) tasks, offering a straightforward method for solving

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Simulating fault tolerance with stage skipping in pipeline-parallel training [R]

Our most recent work at Templar explores fault tolerance in Crucible, our distributed pre-training platform. The goal is to keep healthy workers training when another pipeline stage goes offline. Cruc

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Simultaneous Forward and Inverse Human-in-the-Loop Optimization

arXiv:2609.22630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Subjective user experience is important to human-robot interaction, but the outcomes users value, and how those preferences vary across individuals and

Single Point, Full Mask: Velocity-Guided Level Set Evolution for End-to-End Amodal Segmentation

arXiv:2508.01661v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Amodal segmentation aims to recover complete object shapes, including occluded regions, serving as an essential technique for user-centric multimedi

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SKstars at SHROOM: Visions Agreement-Guided Ensembling of Zero-Shot and LoRA-Adapted Vision--Language Models

arXiv:2609.24198v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper describes the SKstars submission to SHROOM-Visions 2026, a shared task on fine-grained hallucination detection in large vision-language mod

SLICEChat: Progressive In-Encoder Token Pruning for Whole-Slide Pathology Language Models

arXiv:2609.24894v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Whole-slide pathology images (WSIs) contain gigapixel-scale visual content, creating a major scalability challenge for slide-level multimodal large la

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Slot-ID: Identity-Preserving Video Generation from Reference Videos via Slot-Based Temporal Identity Encoding

arXiv:2601.01352v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human identity-preserving text-to-video generation remains challenging under large changes in viewpoint, facial expression, illumination, and motion

Small Gradient Norm Regret for Online Convex Optimization

arXiv:2601.13519v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper introduces a new problem-dependent regret measure for online convex optimization with smooth losses. The notion, which we call the

SmallSatSim: A GPU-Accelerated Microgravity Robotics Toolkit for Planning, Control, and Policy Learning

arXiv:2603.14598v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Microgravity rendezvous and close proximity operations (RPO) is a growing area of interest for applications spanning in-space assembly and manufactu

Smartphone GNSS Booster: Centimeter-Level Pedestrian Positioning Using a Portable Signal Re-Radiator

arXiv:2609.23456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-precision positioning using the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) embedded in smartphones is demanded for sidewalk-level pedestrian navigat

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SmoLSTM: A Compact Vision-Language-Action Model with Recurrent Memory that Persists

arXiv:2609.22854v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action models often predict actions from only the current observation, which can leave tasks involving object occlusion or visually id

Smoothness as a Constraint for Stable Humanoid Locomotion

arXiv:2609.24552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied AI systems, particularly humanoid robots deployed in real world scenarios require whole-body control policies that are both task-responsive and

Agents

Snorkel AI, which offers an 'agentic data development platform' with humans and AI agents to create and vet data, raised 350M at a 3.5B valuation (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

Krystal Hu / Reuters: Snorkel AI, which offers an “agentic data development platform” with humans and AI agents to create and vet data, raised 350M at a 3.5B valuation — Data startup Snorkel AI has ra

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So… are we actually getting something big today? 👀

Tibo said Tuesday, GPT-6 Sol is suddenly everywhere, and now Claude Opus 5.5 leaks are blowing up too. Yet… nothing so far. 😂 At this point I’m just refreshing X like it’s a live event. What do you th

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SocioVerse2: A Longitudinal Dynamic Social Simulation Framework under a Human-AI Co-evolutionary Paradigm

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arXiv:2609.24911v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social simulation offers the social sciences an experimental instrument that the real world cannot supply, and generative agents have transformed it by

SoK: Formal Methods for Fact-Checking and Information Integrity

arXiv:2609.23239v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An automated fact-checking system returns a label: the claim is true, or it is false. In many such systems the verdict remains the primary output. What

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SolarFlowRefiner: Refinement-Aware Flow Matching for Surface Solar Radiation Downscaling

arXiv:2609.22126v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-resolution surface solar radiation (SSR) is important for solar forecasting and grid operation. However, physically consistent reanalysis product

SomaNet: Weakly Supervised Learning for Instance Soma Segmentation in 3D Electron Microscopy with Partial Annotations

arXiv:2609.23019v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Soma instance segmentation, i.e., identifying and delineating individual cell somas as distinct instances, is crucial for cellular analysis and connec

Some Dialects Are More Equal Than Others: Non-Prestigious Arabic Dialectal Bias in LLMs

arXiv:2609.23955v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Previous work on Egyptian Arabic in NLP has focused largely on the prestigious Cairene Egyptian Arabic (CEA) dialect, resulting in a lack of representat

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Industry

Sources: AI training data startup Micro1 raised 100M+ at a 4B valuation, up from $500M in September 2025 (Anna Tong/Forbes)

Anna Tong / Forbes: Sources: AI training data startup Micro1 raised 100M+ at a 4B valuation, up from 500M in September 2025 — At the beginning of last year, Ali Ansari's company, Micro1, was a recruit

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Industry

Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to build self-improving AI, is in talks to raise ~1B led by Kleiner Perkins at a 5B valuation (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to build self-improving AI, is in talks to raise ~1B led by Kleiner Perkins at a 5B valuation — Mirendil, an artificial intelligen

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SPACE: Semantic Projection and Alignment of CLIP Embeddings for Domain Adaptation

arXiv:2609.23248v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A fundamental challenge in deploying vision models is domain shift, which arises when training and test data follow different distributions, leading to

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SparkDiffusion: Mitigating the High-Sparsity Trap --- A Unified Framework for up to 265imes Single-GPU Acceleration of Visual Generation

arXiv:2609.23153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video diffusion transformers are expensive because attention dominates long spatiotemporal token sequences. We identify the high-sparsity trap: at extre

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Sparse Regression Distilled from a Single Robust Fit

arXiv:2609.23937v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust linear fits can resist response contamination yet remain too dense or unstable for useful global explanations. We propose penalized distillatio

Hardware

SPARSER: Sparse Variable Projection by Exploiting Separable Structure in Robotic Perception

arXiv:2609.24708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic perception often requires solving large nonlinear least-squares (NLS) problems. While sparsity has been widely exploited to scale solvers, a com

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Spatial Action Review: A Visual Analytics Dashboard for Auditing Language-to-Action Hand-offs in Electron Microscopy

arXiv:2609.24470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly explored as interfaces for scientific image analysis, where a visual question-answering (VQA)

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Spatial-Interactor: Learning Spatial Reasoning through Interaction with the Observable Physical World

arXiv:2609.23038v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatial reasoning is essential for vision-language models (VLMs) to understand and act in the physical world. Reasoning in dynamic environments requir

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Spatiotemporal Flux Probing for Single-Photon Videography

arXiv:2609.22479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We address the problem of recovering high-speed videos from dynamic scenes under extreme photon sparsity. Existing methods rely on aggregating photon de

SPeaR: Test-Time Adaptation with Steering Primitives for Realigning Representations

arXiv:2609.24111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Test-time adaptation (TTA) addresses distribution shift using only unlabeled test data. Existing methods typically adapt pretrained models by updating

Hardware

Spectral Rendering Without a Spectral Renderer: Learned Spectral Codes for RGB Pipelines

arXiv:2602.18741v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Spectral rendering reproduces the wavelength-dependent appearance that RGB rendering cannot: metamerism, colour shifts under spectrally rich i

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Speech-to-SOAP: End-to-End Summarization of Medical Dialogues: KIT@BeTraC 2026

arXiv:2608.24327v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the advent of Large Language Models and its instruction following capabilities a promising application is the task of summarization. Within thi

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SPHQuant: Efficient extreme low bit weight quantization for Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.24875v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent foundation models are moving toward native multimodal Vision-Language Models (VLMs), making VLMs a central form of next-generation foundation mod

SPIBER: Reconstructing Free Energy Landscapes from Short, Unconverged Trajectories with Generative Flow Networks

arXiv:2609.22663v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Molecular systems have many degrees of freedom, but their metastable behavior can often be described by a few collective variables. Identifying these

SPID: Distilled Protein Backbone Generation

arXiv:2510.03095v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion- and flow-based generative models have recently demonstrated strong performance in protein backbone generation tasks, offering unprecedent

applicationsarxiv-cs-lg

Spiking Neural Network Actor-Critic Proximal Policy Optimization Control for Autonomous UAV Navigation Through Constrained Openings in Civil Infrastructure and Buildings

arXiv:2609.23643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles in constrained three-dimensional environments has been a challenge in the robotics domain. The applica

Splat-CBF: Safe Next-Best-View Control in 3D Gaussian-Splat Maps

arXiv:2609.23100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Where to look and how to move? A robot navigating an unmapped environment must do both at once, and the two goals pull against each other. The regions m

SRPR-Net: Semantic and Relational Prompt Refinement for Automated SAM-based Instance Segmentation

arXiv:2609.24226v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Instance segmentation is a fundamental computer vision task with diverse real-world applications. Recently, prompt-driven foundation models have shown p

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SSP-GNN: Learning to Track via Bilevel Optimization

arXiv:2407.04308v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose a graph-based tracking formulation for multi-object tracking (MOT) where target detections contain kinematic information and re-identific

ST-Topo GAN: A Motor EEG-to-EMG Decoding Model Matched to Wrist Movement Complexity

arXiv:2609.22128v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The wrist plays a critical role in upper-limb function by enabling precise hand positioning, force regulation, and object manipulation. Continuous bra

STA-TFM: Spatio-Temporal Aggregation Across Views TransForMer for Pose Estimation

arXiv:2609.24482v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Monocular 3D human pose estimation (HPE) remains challenging due to depth ambiguity, occlu- sions, and the need for temporal consistency. While multi-vi

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Stability-Aligned Residual Adaptation for Rapid Recovery from Dynamics Shifts

arXiv:2603.07775v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic systems deployed beyond controlled environments encounter abrupt and unobserved dynamics shifts that induce substantial transient performanc

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