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AdvFD: Boosting Visual Generation via Adversarial Fr'echet Distance Loss

arXiv:2608.11205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frechet distance has recently emerged as an effective distribution-level objective for generator post-training, complementing the conventional sample-le

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APCReg: Anatomical-Prior-Guided Coarse-to-Fine CBCT--IOS Registration via Multi-View Projection and Reliability-Controlled Residual Correction

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arXiv:2608.09993v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Registration between cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) and intraoral scans (IOS) is essential for patient-specific surgical planning. However, disp

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Beyond Forecasting: Recasting Volatility Control as a Routing Problem

arXiv:2608.10375v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Volatility control converts risk estimates into portfolio exposure, yet existing approaches often rely on a fixed volatility estimator or a pre-define

BooST: Bridging Semantics and Motions for Efficient Skill Transfer

arXiv:2608.10600v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Skill abstraction---the process of learning reusable and temporally extended behaviors---has emerged as a key paradigm for improving sample efficiency

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Boundary-Seeking Policy Gradient for Safe Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2608.10204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe reinforcement learning maximizes reward subject to safety constraints. For Constrained Markov Decision Processes, the linear-programming view over

CARE: Confidence-Aware Reasoning for Reliable Medical VQA

arXiv:2608.10964v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) has enabled medical Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to produce Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning for visual qu

Carefully Considering Culture: Analyzing LLM Alignment in Single- and Multi-Cultural Settings using Cultural Consensus Theory

arXiv:2608.09937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work in NLP has probed large language models for their understanding of cultural norms across countries. However, this work typically considers d

ConRub-Med: Reinforcement Learning with Consensus Rubrics for Open-Ended Medical Question Answering

arXiv:2608.10996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards has been especially effective in mathematics and coding, where answers can be checked automatically. Many

Convergence of Sign-based Random Reshuffling Algorithms for Nonconvex Optimization

arXiv:2310.15976v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: signSGD is attractive in nonconvex optimization because it communicates sign-valued rather than full-precision gradients. Several standard analyses

Critic-Free Pretraining for Efficient Online Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2608.10473v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Offline-to-online (O2O) reinforcement learning aims to leverage policies pretrained on static datasets while improving them through online interaction

Detecting an Effect Is Not Learning to Act on It: A Reward-SNR Floor for LLM Acquisition Agents

arXiv:2608.10441v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many pipelines can pay a per-example cost to acquire an auxiliary, model-derived observation -- an LLM's structured reasoning, a slow oracle, an expen

DIMOS: Disentangling Instance-level Moving Object Segmentation

arXiv:2606.12826v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Moving instance segmentation (MIS) attracts increasing attention due to its broad applications in traffic surveillance, autonomous driving, an

Do AI weather models miss extremes?

arXiv:2608.09972v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: First-generation AI weather models are often reported to underperform at extremes, mostly in reanalysis-based evaluations of deterministic regression

Do Time-Series Forecasters Use the Right History: Recoverability, Recovery, and Functional Use of Temporal Delays

arXiv:2608.10433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forecast accuracy does not tell us which past inputs produced a prediction. We separate three questions for time-series models with known delay structur

Dual-Loop Self-Evolution via Verifiable Emotion Feedback for Multi-Turn Empathetic Dialogue

arXiv:2608.10626v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models have demonstrated conversational capabilities, yet empathetic competence remains challenging. Empathetic support is inherently mul

Dual Space Preconditioning for Gradient Descent in the Overparameterized Regime

arXiv:2603.10485v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this work, we study the convergence properties of the Dual Space Preconditioned Gradient Descent, encompassing optimizers such as Normalize

Efficient Hypergradient Descent for Inverse Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.11052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) aims to recover a reward function under which the resulting policy reproduces the behavior observed in expert demon

Enhancing Automated Essay Scoring With Three Techniques: Two-Stage Fine-Tuning, Score Alignment, and Self-Training

arXiv:2602.01747v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automated Essay Scoring (AES) plays a crucial role in education by providing scalable and efficient assessment tools. However, in real-world setting

Evaluation-Conditioned Training: Teaching Models to Generalize to Stronger Oversight Regimes

arXiv:2608.10209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Feedback signals used to train Large Language Models (LLMs) are the primary driver of their behavior and our main lever for instilling alignment with hu

Every Token Counts: Exact Likert-Scale Distributions for Measuring LLM Attitudes and Biases

arXiv:2608.10503v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents, accurately evaluating their latent values and biases is critical. The NL

FedCGR: Federated Cross-Domain Generative Recommendation

arXiv:2608.10929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) transfers preference knowledge across related domains, but federated deployment makes cross-domain alignment difficult

FoR-SALE: Frame of Reference-guided Spatial Adjustment in LLM-based Diffusion Editing

arXiv:2509.23452v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current text-to-image generation models, even state-of-the-art models, exhibit a significant performance gap when spatial expressions are desc

From Prediction to Incrementality: Causal Optimization for Large-Scale Targeting and Recommendation

arXiv:2608.10182v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale targeting and recommendation systems are typically built around predictive scores fed into heuristic or local allocation. When the busines

Generation-Step-Aware Framework for Cross-Modal Representation and Control in Multilingual Speech-Text Models

arXiv:2601.17387v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multilingual speech-text models rely on cross-modal language alignment to transfer knowledge between speech and text, but it remains unclear whether

Hierarchical Empirical-Bayes Naive Bayes: Minimax Smoothing and Calibration with AODE Extension

arXiv:2608.11162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Naive Bayes (NB) classifier remains a standard choice for categorical data, yet its widely used smoothing rules, such as Laplace, Lidstone, Krichevs

Hip Energized Monopedal Hopping

arXiv:2608.10387v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a novel stepping strategy for pitch unlocked planar monopeds where the reaction torques from stabilizing pitch with a conventional PD + feedf

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IADD-TR: Intervention-Aware Dynamics Decoupling with Targeted Regularization for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.10634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL), which learns environment dynamics to generate synthetic experience, is a promising approach to sample-efficie

INSIDE the Student's Mind: Jointly Modeling Latent Reasoning and Action in LLM Student Simulators

arXiv:2608.10492v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-based simulators often reproduce observable actions but fail to capture the underlying reasoning behind them. In education, w

IO Factory: Simulating AI-Enabled Influence Campaigns at Scale

arXiv:2608.10920v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce IO Factory, an AI-driven framework for simulating information and influence campaigns as fully integrated, traceable processes. The threat

Learning in ImaginationLand: Omnidirectional Policies through 3D Generative Models (OP-Gen)

arXiv:2509.06191v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent 3D generative models, which are capable of generating full object shapes from just a few images, now open up new opportunities in robot

Leveraging Large Language Models for Causal Discovery: a Constraint-based, Argumentation-driven Approach

arXiv:2602.16481v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Causal discovery seeks to uncover causal relations from data, typically represented as causal graphs, and is essential for predicting the effects of

LoRCA: LoRA Cycle Adaptation for Histology to HiP-CT Translation with DINOv3

arXiv:2608.10002v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hierarchical Phase-Contrast Tomography (HiP-CT) is a synchrotron based X-ray imaging technique that enables non-destructive, volumetric imaging of int

MARCO: Click-Intent Decomposition for Calibrated Ads Conversion Prediction

arXiv:2608.10562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Not all clicks are equal. Industrial ads ranking decouples conversion probability into click-through rate (CTR) and post-click conversion rate (CVR), ye

MarkNull: Model-Agnostic Watermark Removal in AI-Generated Images via On-Manifold Latent Manipulation

arXiv:2608.10166v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Digital watermarking has emerged as a critical technique for provenance and copyright attribution in AI-generated imagery, yet its robustness against

MERA: Model Evolution and Routing with Skill Adaptation for Agentic Systems at Scale

arXiv:2608.10333v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents execute heterogeneous sequences of model calls within a single task: some invocations require careful reasoning, while others are structured

MIDAS: Mutual Information Disentanglement with Uncertainty-Aware Fusion for Incomplete Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

arXiv:2608.09986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most existing multimodal sentiment analysis approaches assume access to complete multimodal inputs. However, real-world applications frequently encounte

Mitigating Bus Bunching with Reinforcement Learning Enhanced by Semantic Stop Embedding

arXiv:2608.10207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bus bunching degrades service regularity and increases passenger waiting in high-frequency transit. Existing reinforcement-learning-based holding contro

Most biomedical publications show signs of LLM-assisted writing

arXiv:2608.10715v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Over the past several years, LLM-powered chatbots and agents have become widely used as a tool for academic writing. LLM-assisted writing can be valua

Multi-View Relational Distillation for Spatial Reasoning with Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608.10864v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved strong image and video understanding, yet their visual-spatial representations remain geometrically fragile,

Multiplayer Nash Preference Optimization

arXiv:2509.23102v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has emerged as the standard paradigm for aligning large language models with human preferences. Ho

Observational Policy Ranking for SMB Financial Guidance from Multi-Action Accounting Logs

arXiv:2608.10050v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small and medium-sized businesses need timely financial guidance, yet historical accounting logs record self-selected and often co-occurring business ch

OmniVTA: Visuo-Tactile World Modeling for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2603.19201v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Contact-rich manipulation tasks, such as wiping and assembly, require accurate perception of contact forces, friction changes, and state transitions

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On the Importance of Geometric Nonlinearity and Temperature-Dependent Properties in Multi-Material Thermo-Mechanical Topology Optimization

arXiv:2608.10344v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Thermo-mechanical compliant devices are commonly designed with small-strain linear elasticity and temperature-independent material properties, even th

On The Statistical Limits of Self-Improving Agents

arXiv:2510.04399v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We develop a learning-theoretic framework for analyzing self-improving agents by decomposing self-modification into five axes. Within this framework

Operationalising Relative Causal Knowledge: Backbone Identifiability from Private Reports on a Shared Outcome

arXiv:2608.10664v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Relativity of Causal Knowledge (RCK) explains how a network of agents with different structural causal models can exchange causal knowledge through

Pair-Centric Graph Rewiring for Over-Squashing via Optimal Transport-Guided Communication Alignment

arXiv:2608.10619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Message-passing neural networks (MPNNs) often struggle when task-relevant information is distributed across distant regions of a graph, since local prop

Partially Observable Learning for Multi-Platform Dispatch Optimization

arXiv:2608.10897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Instant delivery platforms have become a critical component of urban logistics, increasingly relying on crowdsourced couriers to fulfill highly dynamic

Physics-Informed Machine Learning in Prognostics and Health Management: A Systematic Literature Review

arXiv:2608.10047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In modern industry, keeping complex systems reliable, safe, and efficient hinges on Prognostics and Health Management (PHM). Machine Learning (ML) has