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Unifying Object-Centric World Models and Diffusion Policy: A Hierarchical Framework for Multi-Stage Robotic Tasks

arXiv:2606.08775v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual world models have shown great potential in learning complex system dynamics. Recent advancements leverage these models as transition functions

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UNIQ: Conformal Calibration for Adaptive Conservatism in Offline Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2606.07592v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning requires careful conservatism to mitigate distribution shift, yet most existing methods apply a fixed penalty uniformly a

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Variational Proximal Policy Optimization

arXiv:2606.08032v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback via Proximal Policy Optimization often suffers from policy mode collapse, brittle exploration loops, and di

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VFEM: Visual Feature Empowered Multivariate Time Series Forecasting with Cross-Modal Fusion

arXiv:2510.03244v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large time series foundation models often adopt channel-independent architectures to handle varying data dimensions, but this design ignores c

Video Understanding by Design: How Datasets Shape Video Models

arXiv:2509.09151v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Research in video understanding has advanced rapidly, driven by increasingly diverse datasets and more powerful model architectures. While exi

VisualFLIP: Do Predictions Depend on Task-Critical Visual Evidence in Multimodal Reasoning?

arXiv:2606.07872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a multimodal large language model answers a visual reasoning question correctly, is the prediction actually supported by the task-critical visual e

VisualLeakBench: Reproducible Action-Boundary Propagation Failures in Vision-Language Agents

arXiv:2606.07595v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language agents increasingly consume screenshots, documents, and user interfaces before writing to memory, sending messages, or invoking extern

vla.cpp: A Unified Inference Runtime for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2606.08094v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies are typically shipped as Python/PyTorch stacks that assume a workstation-class GPU, a mismatch for the hardware

VoLo: A Physical Orchestrator for Open-Vocabulary Long-Horizon Manipulation

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arXiv:2606.07723v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-vocabulary long-horizon manipulation requires robots to reason over flexible instructions and complex multi-object scenes while adaptively planning

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Voting Protocols as Coordination Mechanisms for Role-Constrained Multi-Agent Tutoring Systems

arXiv:2606.08030v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic tutoring systems introduce a coordination challenge: multiple agents may propose different but reasonable interventions, yet only one response

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What Makes Video World Model Latents Action-Relevant: Prediction over Reconstruction

arXiv:2606.07687v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video world models are increasingly used to provide predictive visual representations, yet it remains unclear which pretraining signals induce action-

When No Answer Is Correct: Diagnosing Absent Answer Detection for MLLMs in Video Understanding

arXiv:2606.08239v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made substantial advancements in video understanding, yet the reliability of their responses remains under

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When Vision Misleads, Let Location Speak: A Worldwide Image Geo-Localization Method via Location Attention Mechanism and Large Multimodal Models

arXiv:2606.08918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Worldwide image geo-localization aims to determine the capture location of an image on a global scale. Existing methods often mislocalize images by matc

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Where Instruction Hierarchy Breaks: Diagnosing and Repairing Failures in Reasoning Language Models

arXiv:2606.07808v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning language models deployed in agentic workflows must follow an instruction hierarchy: when instructions from different sources conflict, the mod

Your Model Already Knows: Attention-Guided Safety Filter for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2606.09749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated impressive end-to-end performance across a variety of robotic manipulation tasks. However, these

Zero-Shot Semantic Re-Identification for Autonomous Driving: A VLM Baseline Study

arXiv:2606.09362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Re-Identification (ReID) in autonomous driving is typically formulated as a visual matching problem, where observations of vehicles, pedestrians, and cy

A Cross-view Fusion Framework for Robust 6-DoF Grasp Pose Estimation

arXiv:2606.06878v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we propose a cross-view fusion framework that enhances the robustness of 6-DoF grasp pose estimation in corner views. Our framework all

A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his na…

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A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name. He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, ever

A Held-Out Transition-Pair Falsifier for Long-Horizon Non-Abelian State Tracking

arXiv:2606.07254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: State tracking exposes a sharp limitation of sequence models: the relevant signal is often not a summary of observed tokens, but an ordered latent state

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A machine-learning-assisted progressive digit-randomness screening framework for detecting non-random patterns in raw numerical research data

arXiv:2606.07128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Raw numerical datasets remain less systematically examined in integrity screening than images, plagiarism, or summary-statistic inconsistencies. We deve

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Accelerating Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimisation via Predictive-Gradient Catalysts

arXiv:2606.06984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a general acceleration mechanism for multi-objective Bayesian optimisation (MOBO) that leverages Gaussian process predictive gradien

Acoustic Cue Alignment in Audio Language Models for Speech Emotion Recognition

arXiv:2606.07309v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Instruction-following audio language models (ALMs) can be augmented with explicit acoustic cues, yet it remains unclear whether such cues are used in

ADAGE: Active Defenses Against GNN Extraction

arXiv:2503.00065v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) achieve high performance in various real-world applications, such as drug discovery, traffic states prediction, a

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Agentopia: Long-Term Life Simulation and Learning in Agent Societies

arXiv:2606.07513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans learn from social life. Simulating this process with LLM-powered agents represents a promising research direction, raising a natural question: wh

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alpha-PFN: Fast Entropy Search via In-Context Learning

arXiv:2606.07134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Information-theoretic acquisition functions such as Entropy Search (ES) offer a principled exploration-exploitation framework for Bayesian optimization

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An Expanded Synthetic Conversation Dataset for Multi-Turn Smishing Detection

arXiv:2606.06879v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Our prior work introduced COVA, a synthetically generated multi-turn conversational smishing dataset of 3,201 labeled conversations, establishing baseli

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Anchored, Not Graded: Vision-Language Models Fail at Slant-from-Texture Perception

arXiv:2606.06714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human perception of surface slant from texture exhibits systematic, graded biases that emerge reliably in psychophysical experiments. Prior work showed

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Attention Consistent Longitudinal Medical Visual Question Answering Guided by Vision Foundation Models

arXiv:2606.06534v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Longitudinal medical visual question answering (VQA) requires reasoning about anatomical differences between an image of a current time point and an i

Auditing Training Data in Domain-adapted LLMs: LoRA-MINT

arXiv:2606.06946v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present LoRA-MINT, a new methodology for Membership Inference Test (MINT) applied to recent Large Language Models (LLMs) fine-tuned for specific Na

Aumann-SHAP: The Geometry of Counterfactual Interaction Explanations in Machine Learning

arXiv:2603.14014v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce Aumann-SHAP, an interaction-aware framework that decomposes counterfactual transitions by restricting the model to a local hypercube co

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AutoTool: Dynamic Tool Selection and Integration for Agentic Reasoning

arXiv:2512.13278v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning has advanced large language models (LLMs) to reason through long chain-of-thought trajectories while interleaving ext

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Beyond Rubrics: Exploration-Guided Evaluation Skills for Reward Modeling

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arXiv:2606.07040v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-ended reward modeling requires judges that can follow subtle, domain-specific preferences when verifiable answers are unavailable. Existing rubric-

Beyond Universality: The GCC-FER Dataset and Culture-Aware Adaptation for Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition

arXiv:2606.07063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic Facial Expression Recognition (DFER) is a key enabling technology in affective computing, human-computer interaction, and intelligent multimed

Beyond Waypoints: A Trajectory-Centric Waypointing Paradigm for Vision-Language Navigation

arXiv:2606.07244v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) requires agents to follow natural-language instructions while navigating in real-world-

Bradley-Terry Rankings for Recommender Systems Across Dataset Taxonomies

arXiv:2606.07492v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The ranking of recommendation algorithms is a challenging problem since model performance is sensitive to dataset characteristics such as sparsity, se

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Breaking the Ice: Analyzing Cold Start Latency in vLLM

arXiv:2606.07362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As scalable inference services become popular, the cold start latency of an inference engine becomes important. Today, vLLM has evolved into the de fact

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CF-JEPA: Mask-free forward prediction with asymmetric encoder utilization for time-series representation learning

arXiv:2606.07031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) for time-series representation learning is dominated by two paradigms: contrastive methods, which face challenges in cons

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CHDP: Cooperative Hybrid Diffusion Policies for Reinforcement Learning in Parameterized Action Space

arXiv:2601.05675v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Hybrid action space, which combines discrete choices and continuous parameters, is prevalent in domains such as robot control and game AI. However,

ChronoForest: Closed-Loop Multi-Tree Diffusion Planning for Efficient Bridge Search and Route Composition

arXiv:2606.06618v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How can we plan long-horizon routes that reach designated goals, visit required waypoints, and remain short when only short-horizon offline trajectori

Chunking the Critic: A Transformer-based Soft Actor-Critic with N-Step Returns

arXiv:2503.03660v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce a sequence-conditioned critic for Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) that models trajectory context with a lightweight Transformer and trains on a

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COF26: A new on-top functional for multiconfiguration pair-density functional theory

arXiv:2605.06215v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multiconfiguration pair-density functional theory (MC-PDFT) provides an efficient and accurate framework for computing electronic energies in

COMPOSE: Hypergraph Cover Optimization for Multi-view 3D Human Pose Estimation

arXiv:2601.09698v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 3D human pose estimation from sparse multi-view camera rigs is an essential task for numerous applications, including action recognition, sports ana

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Dash2Sim: Closed-Loop Driving Simulation from in-the-wild Dashcam Videos

arXiv:2606.07366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-driving simulations typically rely on data collected in a small number of cities or on hand-authored synthetic scenarios. Dashcam videos cover a fa

DataEvolver: Automatic Data Preparation for Large Language Models through Multi-Level Self-Evolving

arXiv:2606.07001v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-quality training data is essential to large language models (LLMs) and typically requires extensive and costly manual curation. Existing automati

Declarative Skills for AI Agents in Knowledge-Grounded Tool-Use Workflows

arXiv:2606.06923v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study orchestration mechanisms for tool-using AI agents in realistic customer-service workflows over an unstructured knowledge base. We argue that de

DEFINED: A Data-Efficient Computational Framework for Fine-Grained Creativity Assessment in Debate Scenarios

arXiv:2606.07226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human creativity has emerged as a critical competency in the era of large language models. Assessing creativity in complex, open-ended environments is

Detecting and Mitigating Bias by Treating Fairness as a Symmetry Operation

arXiv:2606.06514v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning systems deployed in high stakes socioeconomic settings routinely display bias. We formalize bias as a symmetry breaking operation: a cl

DiBS: Diffusion-Informed Branch Selection

arXiv:2606.06518v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sudoku is a representative constraint satisfaction problem that requires global structural reasoning under strict discrete constraints. The existing wor