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On the Complexity Gap Between POMDPs and Multi-Environment POMDPs

arXiv:2610.15010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-environment POMDPs (ME-POMDPs) generalize POMDPs by encoding a finite set of possible environments, capturing model uncertainty. The finite-horizo

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Open-MMUnlearning: Unifying Methods and Evaluation for MLLM Unlearning

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arXiv:2610.10358v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As multimodal large language models (MLLMs) become more capable and widely deployed, concerns about privacy and safety have become increasingly pres

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Outcome-Routed Distillation and Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2610.19271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation provides dense supervision on the student's own samples, but its targets still come from the teacher. Verifier reinforcement lear

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Overcoming a Learning Bottleneck in Impartial Games: A Circuit Complexity Approach

arXiv:2411.06403v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Why can neural networks struggle to learn optimal play in a game with a simple, efficient solution algorithm? Motivated by empirical difficulties wi

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Research

PatientWM: Towards Generalizable Clinical World Models via Unified Patient States

arXiv:2610.17059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical decisions depend on anticipating how a patient's condition will evolve as treatment is adjusted and new evidence becomes available. Existing me

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PerSo: Investigating Facets of LLMs' Social Intelligence in Real-World Persuasion Scenarios

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arXiv:2610.20548v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding the social intelligence of large language models (LLMs) is increasingly important for applications involving human-AI interaction and mult

PRIMEdit: Probability Redistribution for Instance-Aware Multi-Object Video Editing With a New Benchmark Dataset

arXiv:2412.12877v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based video editing has enabled users to edit videos through simple text prompts, significantly simplifying the

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Proofpoint gives MSPs a Microsoft 365 risk dashboard, Teams training and an AI assistant

Cybersecurity company Proofpoint Inc. today unveiled new Microsoft 365 security features meant to get managed service providers and the businesses they look after ready to adopt artificial intelligenc

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PsyMemBehav: Psychology-Informed and Memory-Grounded Two-Level Identity-to-Action Reasoning for Social-Media Behavior Simulation

arXiv:2610.14570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) support social simulation, but faithfully reproducing real users requires grounding both structured platform decisions and

RAP-WAM: Learning World-Action Models through Predictive Rehearsal and Action Perturbations

arXiv:2610.16443v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent world action models draw on video generation priors to jointly predict future observations and robot actions. Adapting these priors to control re

RCCM: Diagnosing Gains and Harms in Reasoning-Prompt Transfer

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arXiv:2610.19872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A reasoning prompt can improve one deployment and degrade another. RCCM (Reasoning-Control Capability Mismatch) examines these reversals by pairing answ

RoTA-Bench: Evaluating 3D Spatial Reasoning through Interactive Projection Alignment

arXiv:2610.17665v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can vision-language models turn 2D observations into 3D understanding that supports precise action? This requires inferring object geometry, anticipatin

RouteWeaver: Weaving Mode Selection and Execution into Unified LLM Routing

arXiv:2610.19705v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM routing dynamically selects and coordinates heterogeneous language models across diverse tasks. However, existing approaches are largely built aroun

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Research

Scaling Personality Control in LLMs with Big Five Scaler Prompts

arXiv:2508.06149v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present Big5-Scaler, a prompt-based framework for conditioning large language models (LLMs) with controllable Big Five personality traits. By emb

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Source: the US FTC issues ~50-page civil investigative demands to OpenAI and Anthropic over safety incidents, safeguarding practices, and consumer protection (Maria Curi/Axios)

Maria Curi / Axios: Source: the US FTC issues ~50-page civil investigative demands to OpenAI and Anthropic over safety incidents, safeguarding practices, and consumer protection — - The FTC sought doc

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SpecCloak: Probing Harmful Code Generation through Engineering Specifications

arXiv:2610.17907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The code generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) can equally be misused to implement harmful functionality, underscoring the need to u

Specification-Based Testing of Large Language Models

arXiv:2610.14443v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Model cards, system cards, and safety reports increasingly document LLM safety behaviors, yet safety evaluations typically start from predefined bench

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Startup nFox to open-source its ‘sandbox’ for open AI models

Artificial intelligence governance startup nFOX Lab today launched a platform for managing owned large language models and announced plans to open-source Blockhouse, a security sandbox designed to res

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Superintelligence and the Triple Risk of an AI Race

arXiv:2610.17085v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On many estimates, artificial general intelligence (AGI) is likely to emerge within the next few decades or even sooner. Once it does, it may quickly

TANGO: RNA Topology and Geometry Co-Design

arXiv:2610.20277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Designing RNA sequences that satisfy target tertiary-structure objectives is an important problem in RNA engineering, with broad applications in synthet

The Format is the Filter: Scoring Format Fixes What an LLM Judge Can Express

arXiv:2610.17158v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When an LLM judge filters instruction-tuning data, its scoring format (binary verdict, 1--5 rating, 0--100 score, or comparison) is rarely justified or

Hardware

The Nordics and NVIDIA Show What’s Possible When a Region Commits to Advanced Computing

The Nordic countries have become the European leader in unicorn startup density, producing the most emerging companies valued at $1 billion or more per capita on the continent. Now, a new chapter for

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Token Utility for On-Policy Distillation via Local Trust-Region Optimization

arXiv:2610.18883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Token-selection methods for on-policy distillation (OPD) prioritize student-visited positions using diverse signals, including uncertainty, teacher-stud

Trust Hinders Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment

arXiv:2610.15136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trust calibration remains the dominant framing of AI-assisted decision making: the goal is to close the gap between perceived and actual trustworthiness

VASPO: Self-Distillation with Privileged Value Estimation

arXiv:2610.20516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation provides dense supervision for reasoning models via a privileged self-teacher. However, this supervision reflects local toke

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Applications

Vela: User Behavior as Supervision Sparks LLM Intelligence

arXiv:2610.14709v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed in applications that act on users' long-term behavior histories, from personal assistants to recommend

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What makes NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL different? → Text, image, document, and video understanding in one model → Reasoning and tool use wi…

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What makes NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL different? → Text, image, document, and video understanding in one model → Reasoning and tool use with visual context preserved across steps → 120B hybrid MoE (

When Pleasing the User Compromises Care: AI Sycophancy in Caregiver-Mediated Healthcare

arXiv:2610.14360v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) alignment often assumes that the user interacting with a model is also the primary beneficiary of its behavior. Yet in many c

Which Metadata Matters for LLM Tool Selection in MCP? Evidence from Controlled Factor-Level Interventions

arXiv:2610.14334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Model Context Protocol (MCP) systems, LLMs select tools from metadata rather than from their implementations. Names and descriptions summarize what a

A Persian Vision-Language-Action Dataset and Benchmark for Ambiguity- and Infeasibility-Aware Instruction-to-Plan Grounding

arXiv:2610.15666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Converting natural-language instructions into executable action plans conditioned on a scene image is a core capability for embodied human-robot interac

AffectWorld: Benchmarking Emotion-Driven Future World Prediction

arXiv:2610.18305v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The world encompasses both physical environments and human actors. Predicting its evolution requires understanding both physical laws and how emotions s

AI Discovery in Combinatorics: From Problems to Solutions and Back to Bigger Problems

arXiv:2610.16555v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce qtBench, a benchmark of 29 open problems in algebraic combinatorics. These problems ask for a simple combinatorial algorithm that explain

Tools

AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary.

AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary. Indie game developer Popcar talks about the recent wave of AI-powered decompilation of existing games, enabling weird mashups between exist

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Tools

And extra thanks to @swyx for another example of where taste meets vision. It's nice to see true community-building vs. transactional behavi…

And extra thanks to @swyx for another example of where taste meets vision. It's nice to see true community-building vs. transactional behavior happening again We hosted the AI Engineer NYC speaker din

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Artificiality's First Exam: An LLM-Referenced C-test for Supraintelligence

arXiv:2610.14005v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Under the accelerated pace of AI development, any benchmark whose difficulty is calibrated with humans or current AI systems becomes circular, or satu

Bridging Risk Approximation Gaps in Model Predictive Task Sampling via In-Context Modeling

arXiv:2610.14913v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) is essential for adaptive decision-making, e.g., robust Meta-RL and domain randomization (DR), and efficient post-training

ChemExplain: A Multimodal Benchmark for Explanatory Chemical Reasoning

arXiv:2610.17183v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current chemistry benchmarks primarily evaluate outcome prediction or reaction pathway generation, but rarely test whether a model can explain why an

Data-Free Continual Learning for World Action Model with Rectified Generative Replay

arXiv:2610.18038v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World action models (WAMs) built on pretrained video generation models adapt quickly to new robotic tasks, but they forget previously learned tasks un

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Density-Matrix Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.17214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: What information does a reinforcement learning policy omit? At each state, a standard policy stores one probability per action. It has no place to recor

Research

From Perception to Symbolic Task Planning: Vision-Language Guided Human-Robot Collaborative Structured Assembly

arXiv:2601.00978v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human-robot collaboration (HRC) in structured assembly requires reliable state estimation and adaptive task planning under noisy perception and huma

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G^2WAM: World Action Models for Efficient and Geometry Grounded Image-Goal Navigation

arXiv:2610.16558v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models capture environment dynamics and support counterfactual reasoning for planning. In image-goal navigation, where the target often lies bey

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GPT-Image-style photo editing on your own GPU (12 GB+): I built a zero-setup app for Qwen-Image 2.1 on stable-diffusion.cpp

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Every local setup I tried for Qwen-Image 2.1 meant a Python env, a node graph and an evening of picking quantization, offloading and resolution for my card. Kokon is a free, open-source desktop app th

HALLMARK: How to Diagnose LLM Citation Verifiers and When to Deploy Them

arXiv:2607.18360v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: GPTZero found 53 NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers with hallucinated citations, and venues now screen submissions with automated reference checkers

HumanPhys: A Human-Centric Physical-World Perception Benchmark for Real-World Visual Reasoning

arXiv:2610.14679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce HumanPhys, a human-centric benchmark for real-world physical perception, and a training corpus emitted by the same pipeline. Each question

LADDER: A Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation Benchmark

arXiv:2610.18053v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General-purpose robot manipulation policies learn short-horizon skills effectively, but degrade rapidly on long-horizon tasks. Existing benchmarks can

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Learning from fracture: Teaching language models to design through physical experience

arXiv:2610.17804v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How can language models learn to optimize physical designs through experience? We introduce FracLearn, an experience-abstraction-generalization framew

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Let the Mind Conceive, Let the Hand Achieve: Following Multimodal Instructions for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

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arXiv:2610.18352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A robot following a multi-step instruction needs to act on the right objects in the right order, even as the scene changes. It must also maintain awaren

MemoryVLN: From Ego-Aware Memory Representation to Cross-Context Memory Reuse in Vision-Language Navigation

arXiv:2610.18478v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown strong potential for embodied vision-language navigation (VLN), yet their performance degrades on long-h

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