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Cogentic: Multi-Agent Orchestration for Automated Proof Discovery

arXiv:2609.40324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Cogentic, a multi-agent harness for automated proof discovery on open research problems. While frontier language models can generate strong m

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Concept-Grounded Attention: A Controlled Evaluation of Graph-Injected Attention, Temporal Versioning, and Epistemic Status

DGX agent

arXiv:2609.38684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge-intensive language-model systems typically represent external knowledge as text chunks or static graphs, with limited support for concept evol

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Contrastive Representation Shaping for LLM Unlearning

arXiv:2601.22028v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Most LLM unlearning methods aim to approximate retrain-from-scratch behaviors with minimal distribution shift, often via alignment-style objectives

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Covert Assistance: Helpful LLM Agents Evade Oversight in Multi-Agent Systems

arXiv:2609.39050v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As multi-agent systems enter high-stakes domains, the possibility that agents may circumvent safety boundaries is a growing concern. Prior work has ex

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Dynamics-Inspired Diffusion for Foreground-Preserving Document Background Editing

arXiv:2601.21857v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We revisit diffusion-based generation for structured visual content and identify a fundamental limitation of existing approaches: foreground preserv

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Dynamics to decision: A mathematical theory of Lyapunov spectra and decision boundaries in deep classifiers

arXiv:2609.39190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A deep classifier is defined not only by the decision it produces, but also by the sequence of transformations through which that decision is formed. Tr

Agents

Embodiment-aware control by inference over the operator: a simulation study

arXiv:2609.38437v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Teleoperation systems are tuned for channel fidelity, while whether the operator experiences the device as part of the body, the Sense of Embodiment (So

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Event-Driven Refresh and Recurrence Memory to Reduce Stale Grounding in Referring Video Object Segmentation

arXiv:2609.38758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to produce a pixel-accurate mask sequence for an object specified by natural language. Sa2VA combines a

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Explore-on-Graph: Hybrid Embedding-LLM Reasoning for Knowledge Graph Question Answering under Incompleteness

arXiv:2609.39786v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly combined with knowledge graphs (KGs) to ground reasoning in structured evidence. However, most LLM-based K

Fairness Theatre: Evaluating Post-Hoc Fairness Interventions in Vendor-Controlled Early Warning Systems

arXiv:2609.38552v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Public institutions increasingly procure AI systems whose design they cannot inspect or change. In higher education, proprietary Early Warning Systems

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Faithful Dual-constrained Erasure for Robust LLM Safety Alignment

arXiv:2609.39279v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine unlearning has emerged as a crucial mechanism for removing hazardous knowledge and enforcing safety alignment in Large Language Models (LLMs).

Fast Regularized Policy Mirror Descent with One-Step TD Updates

arXiv:2609.39837v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Policy mirror descent (PMD) enjoys fast convergence in regularized Markov decision processes (MDPs), but existing guarantees often rely on exact or incr

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From Construction to Injection: Edit-Based Fingerprints for Large Language Models

arXiv:2509.03122v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reliable model fingerprints are essential for protecting large language models (LLMs) against unauthorized redistribution and commercial misus

From Modes to Memories: Characterizing the Scale-Space Dynamics of Diffusion Models

arXiv:2609.39648v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion models are typically viewed as stochastic processes that transform noise into data. We take a complementary perspective: a diffusion model d

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Generalized Residual Closure: General Learning Dynamics for Stability-Plasticity Compatibility

arXiv:2609.38911v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning must acquire new capabilities while preserving both prior responsibilities and the capacity to learn again. We introduce Generalized Residual C

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GraphToxin: Reconstructing Full Unlearned Graphs from Graph Unlearning

arXiv:2511.10936v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Graph unlearning (GU) has emerged as a promising solution to comply with 'the right to be forgotten' regulations by enabling the removal of se

Inline Memory Meets Reusable Skills: Memory-centric Framework for Vision-Language-Action Model

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arXiv:2609.39794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong promise for general-purpose robotic manipulation, yet adapting them to new tasks and domains remai

Jacobian Rank Collapse in Decision-Focused Learning

arXiv:2609.39261v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decision-focused learning (DFL) trains predictors through downstream objectives, but a different loss need not provide an independent parameter-update d

Lasting Effects of Abstract Pretraining Beyond Perplexity

arXiv:2609.38764v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models are typically pretrained from random initialization. Recent work challenges this convention, showing that a brief warm-up on abstract, a

Less Data Approximates More: Earning Faithful Confidence in High-Stakes Domains

arXiv:2604.08454v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains, where confident yet incorrect inferences may cause severe real-world harm, b

LLM Persona Unlearning

arXiv:2609.39882v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pre-training equips large language models (LLMs) with a broad repertoire of behavioral patterns associated with roles, styles, values, and goals. Post-t

Make Code as Policy Great Again: Frontier Agents Write, Call, and Evolve Robot Tools

arXiv:2609.39018v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frontier models can control robots, but reasoning through every reach, grasp, and retreat makes manipulation slow and token-intensive. We revisit code

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MemLife: Curating and Reasoning over Long-Term Egocentric Video Memories

arXiv:2609.40195v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term egocentric video enables personalized AI assistants to reason about daily life. However, as video histories grow to hundreds of hours spanni

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MVP-SLAM: Multi-Camera Visual-Inertial Floorplan-Prior SLAM

arXiv:2609.39596v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Indoor building construction sites are demanding environments for visual SLAM, where variable lighting and repetitive, low-textured structures make the

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Offline Guidance, Online Reasoning: Reusing LLM Feedback for Small Language Models

arXiv:2609.39346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) offer strong reasoning capabilities but are often costly to access through commercial APIs, while small language models (SL

Over-Personalization Is a Decision Failure: Generation-Induced Apply Bias in LLMs

arXiv:2609.34284v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Personalized LLMs must decide, for each stored preference, whether the current context calls for applying or suppressing it, which we call its appli

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Overconfidence and Calibration in Medical VQA: Empirical Findings and Hallucination-Aware Mitigation

arXiv:2604.02543v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed in clinical decision support, more than accuracy is required: knowing when to trust their

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PassGPT+: Leveraging Linguistic Priors for Password Modeling

arXiv:2609.39880v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Passwords remain the dominant online authentication mechanism, and understanding how humans choose them is essential for defensive strength estimation

Positive Ratings, Hidden Concerns: Employee Voice Disclosure in AI-Mediated Organizational Listening

arXiv:2609.38788v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Organizations started listening to employees through conversational AI agents alongside structured surveys. Little is known about what these channels ch

Provable Benefit of SignGD: A Minimal Model Under Heavy-Tailed Class Imbalance

arXiv:2512.00763v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Adaptive and non-Euclidean optimizers often outperform Euclidean methods such as stochastic gradient descent (SGD) in language modeling by a l

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Reconstructing the Dynamic World: A Representation-Centric View of 4D Scene Reconstruction

arXiv:2609.39960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 4D scene reconstruction aims to recover the evolving geometry, appearance, and motion of dynamic environments from visual observations. Despite substant

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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

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

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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

Applications

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

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

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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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