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Risk-Set Transported Synthetic Control with Difference-in-Differences Adjustment under Staggered Treatment Adoption

arXiv:2609.20264v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In staggered treatment-adoption designs, later-treated units are valid controls for an earlier-treated cohort only until their own treatment begins, s

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Score Centering Stabilizes Off-policy Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2609.20807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) of large language models is notoriously sensitive to small differences between training and inference engines, often referre

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SplashSplat: Reconstructing Splashing Liquids from Real-World Multi-View Videos

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cv

arXiv:2609.20818v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A splash lives for a fraction of a second: sheets tear into ligaments and droplets, appearance is view-dependent and nearly textureless, and little pers

Steering Equilibrium Selection in Regularized Self-Play via the Reference Policy

arXiv:2609.19820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Regularized self-play -- the family behind DeepNash's Stratego play -- drives a two-player zero-sum policy to a Nash equilibrium by best-responding to a

When EOS Tokens Disagree: Understanding Length Inflation in On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2609.20511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study length inflation in on-policy distillation (OPD), where student responses can become excessively long and even exhaust the generation budget. W

Why Pretraining Fails to Share Cross-Lingual Knowledge

arXiv:2609.19291v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have made remarkable progress in the processing and modeling of many languages. Yet, unlike human multilinguals, they exh

Beyond Accuracy: How Procedural Traces Shift the Decision Criterion of LLM Overseers

arXiv:2609.18204v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Organizations increasingly use oversight loops where one large language model (LLM) audits another's outputs alongside procedural traces of claimed st

Beyond the Previous Layer: Residual Predictive Structure in Sparse MoE Routing

arXiv:2609.17940v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse mixture-of-experts models route each token through a sequence of expert selections. We ask whether the immediately preceding selection adequately

Bias Amplification in Multi-Agent Network: How Biased Agents Shape Opinions and Rhetoric

arXiv:2609.18306v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in applications involving interaction between agents, where their output plays a role in collecti

Applications

Causal-History Test-Time Scaling for Failure Recovery in Autoregressive World-Action Models

arXiv:2609.18016v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World-action models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for robot manipulation by jointly modeling future visual dynamics and robot actions. How

applicationsarxiv-cs-ro

Compiled Agency: Frontier General-Purpose Coding Agents Build Winning Game Players from Bare Interaction - from Flappy Bird to StarCraft II and Civilization

arXiv:2609.18996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents have repeatedly struggled to convert knowledge of a game into competent play, even when researchers build the agent around the model - supply

Disentangling Long-Term Memory via Latent Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning

arXiv:2609.18461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized agents are required to reason over long-term history interactions to infer both explicit preferences and implicit behavioral evidence. Whil

Local Ai

Entropy in Conversational AI: Structured Unpredictability as Inferrable Interiority

arXiv:2609.19044v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sampling can increase response diversity without producing history-dependent behavior. We formalize a different design target, structured unpredictabili

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ERPBench: A State-Grounded Evaluation Paradigm for Computer-Use Agents in Enterprise Software

arXiv:2609.17885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-use agents that operate through screenshots and simulated actions are advancing rapidly, yet their evaluation remains anchored to general deskt

Agents

EvoUndo: Recoverability-Constrained Self-Evolution for LLM Agent Harnesses

arXiv:2608.28363v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM agents increasingly modify their own prompts, tools, middleware, resources, and execution harnesses at runtime. Such self-evolution can improve

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In-Context Robot Learning with VLM Agents

arXiv:2609.19138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enabling robots to adapt to unfamiliar environments as readily as humans remains a moonshot goal of embodied AI. No finite collection of demonstration

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Infinite-Parameter LLMs: Generating and Adapting Weights from Live Data

arXiv:2609.18842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The scaling laws hold that a language model grows more capable with more parameters and more training data, and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures h

Multi-Hop Knowledge Composition is Bound by Pretraining Exposure

arXiv:2606.09338v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models fail at implicit multi-hop reasoning: a model answers 'When was X born?' and 'Who is Y's closest friend?' correctly but fails

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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

Applications

Prepared Or Unprepared? Evaluating Healthcare Workforce Readiness for Clinical Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Nigeria

arXiv:2609.19096v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly integrated into healthcare systems worldwide, yet its successful clinical adoption depends critically on

applicationsarxiv-cs-ai

Reflections on Trusting Trust, Revisited: Contaminating Self-Modifying AI Coding Agents with Poisoned Benchmarks

arXiv:2609.17817v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Thompson's 'Reflections on Trusting Trust' showed that a compiler can be poisoned to reinsert its own backdoor, so that even recompiling clean source

REVERSAL-BENCH: A Reversibility Axis and Reset Oracle for Measuring the Reset-Free RL Cliff

arXiv:2609.17745v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central goal of autonomous reinforcement learning is continuous policy training without external resets. However, existing paradigms largely depend

Hardware

Risk-Aware World Modeling with Flow-Guided Occupancy Evolution for Selective Trajectory Planning in Automated Driving

arXiv:2609.18442v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe motion planning in automated driving requires anticipating evolving traffic risks and deciding when to revise the current planned trajectory. We in

hardwarearxiv-cs-ai

Switchable-Polarity Electropermanent Magnet: Reconfigurable Magnetic Fields for Scalable Fluidic Control

arXiv:2603.24811v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scalable control of pneumatic and fluidic networks remains fundamentally constrained by architectures that require continuous power input, dense ext

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Agents

The Free Inference Dimension: Complexity Measure for Zero-Collision Navigation under Hypothesis Mixtures

arXiv:2609.17816v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Solomonoff induction frames prediction as a mixture over computable hypotheses, typically leading to identification of the true environment. In a fini

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

Trajectory Learnability for Offline On-Policy Distillation with Imperfect Teachers

arXiv:2609.18321v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Offline on-policy distillation gains efficiency by collecting student trajectories and teacher supervision once and reusing them throughout optimizati

Agents

UAVs Meet Embodied Intelligence: Bridging Human Intents and Flying Dynamics Via Harnessing Physical-Digital AI Agents

arXiv:2609.18326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) extend embodied intelligence into continuous three-dimensional space, where perception, reasoning, physical embodiment,

agentsarxiv-cs-ro

Visual Compliance via Executable Safety Rule Entailment

arXiv:2609.18328v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in LLMs and VLMs have enabled safety systems to reason beyond simple risk patterns toward more contextual and semantic safety concerns.

Tutorials

When Audit Quality Fails to Predict Downstream Utility: A Counterfactual Study of Synthetic-Data Selectors for Low-Resource African NLP

arXiv:2609.18960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quality-aware synthetic-data selection rests on a proxy: examples that an LLM judge rates as good should also help a downstream model learn. In a contro

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Applications

Adaptive Bayesian Partner Selection for Federated Clinical Centers

arXiv:2609.16446v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) in healthcare faces pronounced heterogeneity and temporal concept drift across clinical centers, where evolving patient populati

applicationsarxiv-cs-lg

AI for Games in the Foundation Model Era

arXiv:2609.16679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models, alongside advances in learned game-world models, are reshaping AI across the game lifecycle. Beyond playing games, recent systems mod

AsyncCouple-Flow: Asynchronous Cross-Modal Coupling and Flow Matching for Spatio-Temporal Forecasting

arXiv:2609.16573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-modal spatio-temporal forecasting (MM-STF) supports weather nowcasting, traffic prediction, and earth-system modeling by combining heterogeneous s

Tutorials

Attention is All You Need Until You Need Retention

arXiv:2501.09166v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pretrained Transformers keep what they learned in their weights and lose what they observe once a session ends. The first version of this pape

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Local Ai

Cognitive Admission Control: Risk-Conditioned Assurance for Consequential Actions in Agentic Distributed Systems

arXiv:2609.16313v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In agentic distributed systems, an agent may be authorized to mutate external infrastructure while lacking evidence that the mutation is ready to exec

local-aiarxiv-cs-ai

Coupled Calibration and Learning: Mitigating Teacher Bias in LLM Distillation without Target-Domain Reward Feedback

arXiv:2609.17474v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) distillation aims to transfer the capabilities of a powerful teacher to a smaller student. Direct imitation, however, can a

Decomposition Buys Integrity, Not Yield

arXiv:2609.17464v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent systems split a task across a tree of agents and justify the split with folklore: smaller contexts, cleaner separation, parallelism. We as

LCAP: Population-Informed Latent Chip Adaptation from Few Output Probes for Photonic Neural Networks

arXiv:2609.16823v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Photonic neural networks (PNNs) offer efficient analog inference, but parameters optimized under ideal device models can degrade after fabrication, crea

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Lesion-centered 3D mapping of colonoscopy procedures: validation of a hierarchical ensemble pipeline on public benchmark videos

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arXiv:2609.16672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background and Objective: Colonoscopy recording practice preserves text reports and still photographs, while the spatial information already present in

Memorisation bias in medical AI

arXiv:2609.17223v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical AI models hold immense potential to improve patient outcomes, but they are also known to unintentionally memorise individual records from their

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

Partial recovery of meter-scale surface weather

arXiv:2602.23146v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Near-surface weather varies over tens to hundreds of meters, yet remains unresolved in analyses and forecasts. We test whether this variation

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Tutorials

Repurposing Unified Topological Signatures for Graph Representation Learning

arXiv:2609.17061v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Message-passing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) iteratively propagate and aggregate local neighborhood information followed by global readout to learn gr

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RoleBreak: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Role-Playing Robustness in Spoken Dialogue

arXiv:2609.16614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech-to-speech dialogue models increasingly support persona control, yet existing spoken role-playing benchmarks remain largely character-centric an

Same Problem, Different Field: Cross-Domain Solution Import via Domain-Stripped Computational Fingerprints

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arXiv:2609.07595v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The same underlying computational problem is solved across unrelated fields under different names: recursive Bayesian state estimation appears

Schema-Adaptive Action-Conditioned JEPA for Cross-Machine CNC Transfer under Partial Sensor Overlap

arXiv:2609.16071v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-machine deployment of industrial world models requires transfer across changes in dynamics, sensing interfaces, sampling regimes, and control un

Self-reported archetypes and behavioral failures in Large Language Models

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arXiv:2609.15998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Every large language model (LLM) has behavioral traits and moral preferences that comprise its character. Whether by design or as an emergent property o

Semantic-Spatial Agreement Verification for Mitigating Object Hallucination in Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.17269v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models generate natural-language responses from visual inputs, yet may mention objects absent from an image. In medication ass

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TEMPO: Learning Temporal Context for Dynamic Robot Manipulation

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arXiv:2609.16864v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have achieved impressive performance in quasi-static manipulation, but struggle in dynamic manipulation tasks beca

Toward Governance-Aware Autonomous GIS: A Narrative Review of Ethical and Privacy Risks in LLM-Enabled GeoAI

arXiv:2609.16232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) powered by large language models (LLMs) is expanding the capacity to query, generate, and interpret spatial i