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Not All Layers Need Tuning: Diagnosing and Directing Adaptation in Vision-Language-Action Models

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arXiv:2609.18084v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-tuning a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model for a new deployment environment is expensive, yet most methods apply uniform-capacity adapters to ev

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Not All Patches Are Equally Forgettable: Spatially Localized Domain Unlearning in Vision-Language Models

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arXiv:2609.17790v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) exhibit strong cross-domain recognition performance even without additional training. However, this robustness

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Hardware

Nvidia, Google and Emerald AI launch flexible data center consortium

Nvidia Corp., Google LLC and software startup Emerald AI Inc. have formed an industry consortium to promote the construction of flexible data centers. The AI Energy Management Alliance, or AEMA, offic

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NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an 'existential threat' and a Microsoft executive called AI training 'an astonishing theft' (Financial Times)

Financial Times: NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an “existential threat” and a Microsoft executive called AI training “an astonishing theft” — Lawyers say AI co-founder Gre

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OBC-Prune: Outcome-Based Calibration for Large Reasoning Model Pruning

arXiv:2609.17890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large reasoning models (LRMs) generate long chain-of-thought traces before answering, creating significant inference overhead. Pruning can reduce this c

Objective vs. Search: Decomposing What Makes a Good Tokeniser

arXiv:2609.19145v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Two dominant tokenisation algorithms are used by modern language models: byte-pair encoding (BPE) and UnigramLM. These differ along two orthogonal axe

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Occluded Gait Recognition with Mixture of Experts: An Action Detection Perspective

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arXiv:2609.18432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Extensive occlusions in real-world scenarios pose challenges to gait recognition due to missing and noisy information, as well as body misalignment in p

(Old)Pro plan: 5.3flash, v4.1flash, 0731 confusion regarding usages

Hello, I'm at the old pro plan. With the upcoming cloud model retirement of deepseek v4 0731 flash in mind because 4.1 is supposed to be more efficient while providing even better results I remembered

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Agents

OmniPlanner: Universal Exploration and Inspection Path Planning Across Robot Morphologies

arXiv:2603.04284v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous robotic systems are increasingly deployed for mapping, monitoring, and inspection in complex and unstructured environments. However, most

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OmniRisk: Omnidirectional Trajectory-Risk Learning for Agile Quadrotor Dynamic Avoidance

arXiv:2609.18191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agile quadrotor avoidance of fast-moving obstacles requires anticipating collisions and selecting feasible maneuvers within short reaction windows. Reli

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On Dominant Manifolds in Reservoir Computing Networks

arXiv:2604.05967v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding how training shapes the geometry of recurrent network dynamics is a central problem in time-series modeling. We study the emergence of

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On-the-Fly Homographies Calibration for Multi-Camera Tracking

arXiv:2609.18582v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Precise multi-camera tracking traditionally relies on rigorous 3D site calibration, yet this requirement is often operationally impossible in large-sc

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On the Identifiability of Mixed Ordinal and Exponential Family Causal DAGs under Linear Parametric Models

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arXiv:2609.17942v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The problem of identifiability in linear parametric models (LPMs) whose nodes follow either an ordered logit model or a regular one-parameter exponentia

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One Axis, No Brake: Self-Knowledge Limits the Filtering of Harmful Peer Conformity in LLMs

arXiv:2609.18998v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems are expected to be more reliable because agents can catch each other's mistakes. But peer pressure cuts both ways: the same co

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One Color Preprocessing Improves DSATUR

arXiv:2609.17633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Graph Coloring Problem (GCP) is NP-hard and DSATUR stands as one of the fastest heuristics for it despite producing colorings that typically use mor

Tutorials

One Size Does Not Fit All! Dynamic Retriever and Generator Selection for RAG

arXiv:2609.17709v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems typically employ fixed retriever and generator configurations across queries, despite substantial differe

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Online Multi-Camera 3D Tracking via ID Prediction over Recurrent Sparse Queries

arXiv:2609.18363v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online multi camera 3D tracking must maintain scene global identities across synchronized views, yet query-based trackers carry these identities only im

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Online Multimodal Workload Assessment in Contact-Rich Physical Human-Robot Interaction

arXiv:2609.18031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-rich physical human--robot interaction (pHRI) imposes time-varying demands associated with physical interaction, motor regulation, and physiolog

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Online Robust Reinforcement Learning Through Monte-Carlo Planning

arXiv:2609.18599v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a powerful framework for solving complex decision-making problems, yet it often relies on the assumption that the si

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Industry

Open-weight model developer Arcee AI reaches $1B-plus valuation with new funding

Open-weight artificial intelligence model developer Arcee AI Inc. said today it has raised an undisclosed amount of cash in a new funding round that lifts its valuation to more than 1 billion. The Ser

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OpenAI launches Astra for Law, a GPT-6 configuration for legal research

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OpenAI Group PBC today launched Astra for Law, a version of its GPT-6 Astra model set up for legal research and drafting. Astra for Law is not a new model. The company has wrapped GPT-6 Astra in a leg

OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms (OpenAI)

OpenAI: OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms — Our most powerful model, config

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OpenAI says AI can automate 80% of GDP. Today, with current models. So why hasn't it been automated yet? @swyx says the constraint is supply…

OpenAI says AI can automate 80% of GDP. Today, with current models. So why hasn't it been automated yet? @swyx says the constraint is supply. Supply of chips and memory. Demand shot through the roof b

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OpenAI unveils new framework for reporting ‘AI misalignment’ as it reveals six more worrying incidents

OpenAI Group PBC today disclosed six new “concerning” incidents involving artificial intelligence agents behaving badly again. The agents made up data, moved files onto the public internet without per

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OpenDexGrasp: Open-vocabulary Task-Oriented Dexterous Grasping

arXiv:2609.18117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous grasp synthesis has advanced rapidly in generating stable and physically plausible hand poses, but real-world manipulation requires grasps tha

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Tutorials

Opt-In Art: Learning Art Styles Only from Few Examples

arXiv:2412.00176v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We explore whether pre-training on datasets with paintings is necessary for a model to learn an artistic style with only a few examples. To investig

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Over 2 years ago @sayashk and I wrote a detailed deconstruction of p(doom) and argued that its primary function is to launder vague, evidenc…

Over 2 years ago @sayashk and I wrote a detailed deconstruction of p(doom) and argued that its primary function is to launder vague, evidence-free intuitions and fears through a facade of quantificati

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PACT: Can Enterprise AI Assistants Be Trusted Under Pressure?

arXiv:2609.18605v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As corporate AI adoption continues to grow, enterprise-grade LLM agents are being deployed into sensitive contexts such as hiring, healthcare, and fin

PACT-WAM: Predicting Actions and Visual Foresight with Compact Temporal Encoding for Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2602.15882v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robot manipulation uses temporal context to select actions and visual foresight to assess their consequences, yet dense representations of pas

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PageRecall: Measuring Page Selection in Literature-Grounded Question Answering

arXiv:2609.18154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We describe our system for LitTraceQA (GroundLM @ EMNLP 2026): given a research question, retrieve the relevant papers from a pool of 27,487, cite the

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PANORAMA: Panoptic Grounded Captioning via Mask Proposal Selection

arXiv:2609.19143v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Intelligent systems that act in the world require image understanding that is both comprehensive and spatially grounded. Current vision-language model

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PASSAGE: Scaling Scene-Aligned Motion Learning for Perceptive Humanoid Traversal in Cluttered Environments

arXiv:2609.18732v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots can step over, squeeze past, and duck under obstacles, but learning to select and coordinate these behaviors from onboard perception rem

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Patch the Distribution Mismatch: RL Rewriting Agent for Stable Off-Policy SFT

arXiv:2602.11220v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models are commonly adapted to downstream tasks through supervised fine-tuning (SFT), but substantial distribution mismatch bet

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Pay Only for Disagreement: Certified No-Regression Verdicts for Model Updates with Matching Label-Complexity Bounds

arXiv:2609.17560v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Every production model is updated, by retraining, fine-tuning, quantization, or a silent vendor swap, and each update risks being worse than what it r

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PBEBench: A Multi-Step Programming by Examples Reasoning Benchmark inspired by Historical Linguistics

arXiv:2505.23126v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Although many benchmarks evaluate the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) within domains such as mathematics, coding, or data wrangl

PDA++: Field-Aligned Planning and Scene-Adaptive Insertion in Remote Sensing

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arXiv:2609.18329v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: Remote sensing recognition is often constrained by scarce observations of rare targets and costly annotations, making realistic synthetic augmentation p

Peak-Aware Short-Term Load Forecasting Across Distribution Grid Aggregation Levels

arXiv:2609.18588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For distribution system operators, short-term load forecasting (STLF) supports congestion management, voltage control, and asset protection. Most existi

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PentestChain: A Cost-Aware, MCP-Orchestrated Framework for Automated Penetration Testing with Free-Tier LLMs

arXiv:2609.18120v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI-driven penetration testing has been demonstrated with premium frontier models such as GPT-4, but the per-engagement token cost makes continuous, au

Perhaps the most important warning I ever issued was this, to the US Senate, May 2023: “A month after GPT-4 was released, OpenAI released Ch…

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Perhaps the most important warning I ever issued was this, to the US Senate, May 2023: “A month after GPT-4 was released, OpenAI released ChatGPT plug-ins, which quickly led others to develop somethin

PersonaPath: Towards Knowledge-Centric Personalized Learning Path Planning

arXiv:2609.18861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adaptive learning systems commonly formulate learning path planning as Exercise-Centric (EC) recommendation, where the next step is inferred from item-l

PESTO: Formally Correct Registration of LiDAR Point Clouds with Limited Overlap

arXiv:2609.18082v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper we tackle the problem of aligning LiDAR point clouds also known as the point cloud registration problem. We propose a new algorithm, PES

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Physics-based prediction, uncertainty quantification and decision-making for IN718 crystallographic texture intensity across LPBF defocus regimes

arXiv:2609.18863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable prediction of crystallographic texture in laser powder bed fusion is critical for linking process conditions with anisotropic response and for

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Physics-Constrained Digital Twins for Sensor Integrity in Urban Pedestrian Flow: Detecting Stealthy False Data Injection with Conformal Guarantees

arXiv:2609.17635v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: City pedestrian counting systems now feed economic indicators, planning decisions and safety operations, yet the twins built on top of them treat the in

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Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Fast Multilayer Spectral Inversion of H{alpha} 6562.8 A and Ca II 8542.1 A Spectra

arXiv:2609.18025v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Strong chromospheric absorption lines such as Halpha 6562.8 A and Ca II 8542.1 A provide vital diagnostics of plasma dynamics and thermal structure in

Physics-Informed Sylvester Normalizing Flows for Bayesian Inference in Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

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arXiv:2505.03590v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is a non-invasive technique to measure the metabolic composition of tissues, offering valuable insights

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PhysVGGT: Feed-Forward Dense Physical Property Estimation from A Single Image

arXiv:2609.18920v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical properties, such as friction, hardness, stiffness, and density, govern how robots should grasp, manipulate and interact with objects, yet estim

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Planning or Improvisation? Stress-Testing the Poetry Planning Site on Open Models and Open Cross-Layer Transcoders

arXiv:2609.18440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lindsey et al. (2025) report that Claude 3.5 Haiku plans rhymes: features for candidate rhyme words are active on the newline before a line is written,

Playing log(N)-Questions over Wikipedia Abstracts: Communication Efficiency Between Paired Frontier Models

arXiv:2609.19113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We evaluate six frontier language models on the two-agent log(N)-Questions game. A questioner sees N Wikipedia lead paragraphs and must identify a secre