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How Do Users Negotiate Harmful Value Conflicts with AI Companions? A Study with Minion, a Technology Probe for In-Situ Human-AI Conflict Response

arXiv:2411.07042v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI companions increasingly sustain long-term, emotionally engaging relationships but can also make discriminatory remarks or exert control, le

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Multimodal AI predicts clinical outcomes of drug combinations from preclinical data

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arXiv:2503.02781v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Predicting clinical outcomes from preclinical data is essential for selecting safe and effective drug combinations and for reducing late-stage

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TAM-Chain: Multi-Scale Thyroid Cytology Classification via Absorbing Markov Chains and Shannon Entropy Uncertainty Quantification for False-Negative Suppression and Domain-Shift Adaptation

arXiv:2609.28590v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background & Problem: Thyroid Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy (FNAB) cytology based on the Bethesda System plays a pivotal role in early thyroid cancer

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TRACE: Interactive Bi-Directional Tracing of Monochrome Cables Amid Clutter

arXiv:2609.29103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate state estimation (tracing) of Deformable Linear Objects (DLOs) such as cables is a critical challenge for data centers, manufacturing, construc

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AeRSoM: An Aerial Rigid-Soft Integrated Manipulator for Contact-Rich Manipulation

arXiv:2609.28044v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-rich aerial manipulation remains fundamentally challenging because interaction forces are directly transmitted to the aerial platform, often lea

'AI Is Turning Too Human': How Teenagers Experience and Negotiate AI in Everyday Life

arXiv:2609.27824v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative AI is rapidly entering adolescents' everyday lives during a critical period of cognitive, social and emotional development. Yet its adoption

DRSR: Learning Set-Level Deletion Risk for Efficient Long-Horizon Agents

arXiv:2609.27276v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon language-model agents accumulate reasoning traces, tool exchanges, and observations whose relevance changes with the current decision. Exis

ForgetMimic: Motion Unlearning for Reinforcement Learning Humanoid Control

arXiv:2609.28378v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humanoid control, leveraging human demonstrations, has achieved diverse, agile, and natural locomotion behaviors through reinforcement learning (RL).

Latent evolving World Action Model

arXiv:2609.27455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) jointly model action generation and environment dynamics and are mostly built on pretrained Video Diffusion Models (VDMs). In

Learning from Failures: Heterogeneous Graph Memory for Small Language Model Tool-Using Agents

arXiv:2609.28003v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small and medium-sized language models offer cost-effective executors for tool-using agents, making them attractive for local and large-scale deployment

Policy-as-Skill: Governed LLM Decision Support with Evidence, Deterministic Control, and Audit

arXiv:2609.27087v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Organizations increasingly use LLMs for policy, compliance, risk, and operational decision support, requiring evidence validation, review routing, versi

Safe Multi-Robot Coordination via VLM-LLM Reasoning and Reachability Analysis

arXiv:2609.27816v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safe coordination in heterogeneous machine-to-machine (M2M) robotic systems is challenging when robots differ in sensing capabilities, environmental a

'As a Language Model...': Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice and Activation Steering Reproduces It

arXiv:2609.25021v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) tend to add disclaimers like 'I'm just an AI' when asked about something related to themselves. The self-reports from suc

CoEvo: Oracle-Grounded Self-Evolution of a Single Model for Multi-Step Causal Reasoning

arXiv:2609.26094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-step causal reasoning requires chaining inferences where each step constrains the next. An early error propagates silently, and a correct answer r

Contact-Stable Deformable Tissue Simulation Using Implicit Integration and Live-Pose Grasp Constraints for Laparoscopic Surgery Robot Policy Evaluation

arXiv:2609.25642v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Closed-loop evaluation of surgical robots requires tissue that deforms, can be grasped and lifted, and reproduces the anatomy in which the robot will op

Dynamic Deep Prompt Optimization for Defending Against Jailbreak Attacks on LLMs

arXiv:2609.26185v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities across many applications but remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks, which elicit har

From Research Frontier to Laboratory Bench: Design of a Four-Tier Experimental Teaching System for Multimodal Medical Image Intelligent Diagnosis

arXiv:2609.22790v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Undergraduate programmes in intelligent medical engineering are expanding, yet laboratory curricula lag behind the multimodal, long-tailed, and distribu

Incremental Consistency Execution for Autonomous Intelligent Systems

arXiv:2609.24090v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon autonomous intelligent systems rely on heterogeneous components such as large language models, databases, external APIs, and rule engines,

Learning to Defer with Guidance on Real World Medical Data

arXiv:2609.26384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical image interpretation is high-volume and time-consuming, and while AI interpretation can reduce workload, fully autonomous deployment carries pot

LoRango: It Takes Two LoRAs to Unlock Hidden Behaviors in Diffusion Models

arXiv:2609.25884v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Users commonly combine multiple Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) adapters to personalize images with different subjects, styles, and visual attributes. Yet

MedRSI: Recursive Self-Improvement for Medical Agents via Clinically Aligned Self-Evolution

arXiv:2609.24838v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical agents increasingly combine general reasoning models with specialized clinical tools, yet their capabilities remain largely fixed by what clinic

Optimal Sequential Annotations for Off-Policy Evaluation

arXiv:2609.26707v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning and off-policy evaluation evaluates dynamic treatment rules based on retrospectively collected data prior to deployment

Situation Aware Locomotion for Dual Mobile Cobots in Shared Environments

arXiv:2609.26083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a situation aware locomotion framework for two mobile collaborative robots operating in shared industrial environments. The proposed

The Moral Check: Strategic AI Governance for the Pacing Problem

arXiv:2609.22869v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Technology cannot steer itself. Strategy provides that steering, establishing the rule that purpose and judgment must precede compute capital. As the

Trustworthy Agentic AI: Failure Modes, Mitigation Strategies, and a Lifecycle Framework for Autonomous LLM Systems

arXiv:2609.22712v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI systems built on large language models can plan over multiple steps, use external tools, retain information in memory, and coordinate with ot

Autonomous Model Lifecycle Management for Digital Twin-Based Manufacturing Control

arXiv:2609.22701v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Manufacturing AI systems must autonomously adapt to continuous distributional shift from raw-material variability, ambient changes, and equipment aging,

BadWAM: When World-Action Models Dream Right but Act Wrong

arXiv:2607.15207v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: World-action models (WAMs) are emerging as a promising foundation for embodied control: rather than predicting actions alone, they learn representat

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Causal Localization of the Refusal Direction in Audio Language Models

arXiv:2609.22260v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A large audio language model (LALM) attaches a speech front end to a text language model (LM) that is already safety-aligned. When such a model refuse

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Correct-by-Construction Vision-based Pose Estimation using Geometric Generative Models

arXiv:2601.17556v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We consider the problem of vision-based pose estimation for autonomous systems. While deep neural networks have been successfully used for vision-ba

Cost-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Action Masking and Projection for Battery Energy Storage Dispatch under Suppressed-Spread Market Shifts

arXiv:2609.23590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Battery energy storage system (BESS) dispatch must preserve operational feasibility while declining price spreads reduce the margin available to pay for

Emergent Collusion in Long-Horizon LLM Agent Interaction

arXiv:2609.24967v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly deployed in collaborative settings, yet long-term interaction may give rise to undesirable coordination. We study the emer

Eraser: Jailbreaking Defense in Large Language Models via Unlearning Harmful Knowledge

arXiv:2404.05880v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Jailbreaking attacks can enable Large Language Models (LLMs) to bypass the safeguard and generate harmful content. Existing jailbreaking defense met

Fast and Robust Temporal Logic Planning via ADMM-based Trajectory Optimization

arXiv:2609.23037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a fast numerical method for safe continuous-time motion planning under Temporal Logic (TL) specifications. The method generates smooth contin

Reinforcement Learning Inspired Black-box Adversarial Attacks for Computer Vision

arXiv:2609.24249v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural networks, both convolution or transformer based, are essential for modern computer vision systems. However, they are vulnerable to small pertur

Seeing Through Conflicts: Improving Instruction Hierarchy Alignment in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.22234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Instruction hierarchy (IH) alignment teaches language models to prioritize higher-level instructions when inputs conflict. While studied primarily in te

Transformer-Based Warm-Starting for Feasible and Optimal Terminal Approach to Tumbling Objects with Space Manipulators

arXiv:2606.17317v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous capture of a tumbling object with a space manipulator requires trajectory generation under real-time onboard constraints. However, couple

What Can a Recurrent State Safely Forget?

arXiv:2609.23366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recurrent models must preserve information that changes future behavior while suppressing hidden-state error. These objectives conflict: contraction imp

AirSplan: Risk-Aware Motion Planning for Quadrotors in Cluttered 3D Gaussian Splats

arXiv:2609.21226v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quadrotors are increasingly deployed in applications such as agriculture, infrastructure inspection, and maintenance. In each of these applications, the

CASCADE Against Jailbreaks: Combination Across Stages with Controlled Attack-Defense Evaluation

arXiv:2609.21793v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Defenses against jailbreak attacks on Large Language Models (LLMs) operate at different pipeline stages, such as input modification or output guard, b

Clinician-Grounded Quality Assurance for AI-Assisted Psychiatric Intake

arXiv:2609.21149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Before patients can use AI-assisted psychiatric intake systems, health systems need practical ways to routinely evaluate these tools against their clini

CounterPlay: Counterfactual Post-Training for Self-Play Driving Policies

arXiv:2609.21617v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-play in high-throughput simulators yields driving policies with robust closed-loop performance, but improvement per unit of simulation diminishes a

Efficient Bayes-Adaptive Reinforcement Learning with Temporal Logic Specifications

arXiv:2609.20954v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a novel end-to-end model-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithm for efficient policy synthesis under given Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) s

Offline Constrained RLHF with Multiple Preference Oracles

arXiv:2604.00200v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study offline constrained reinforcement learning from human feedback with multiple preference oracles. Motivated by applications that trade off p

On the Limits of Maximal Coding Rate Reduction for Out-of-Distribution Generalisation

arXiv:2609.21001v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Substantial efforts have been devoted to making deep learning objectives, representations, and architectures interpretable, with the goal of improving t

OverThink: Slowdown Attacks on Reasoning LLMs

arXiv:2502.02542v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A reasoning language model (RLM) generates costly reasoning tokens, often hidden from the users, that help it excel at many tasks. Our Overthink att

Robotic Multiphase Interaction: Manipulating Coupled Liquid and Solid Dynamics with a World Model

arXiv:2609.21448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work presents extit{Robotic Multiphase Interaction (RMI)}, a setting in which liquid enters a porous material and interacts mechanically with its d

ServeGuard: Verifiable, Bounded-Residual Confinement of Operator-Invisible Channels Without Revealing the Certified Read Factor

arXiv:2609.21515v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Third-party adapters for open-weight language models ship as opaque weight matrices; a recipient cannot check whether an adapter hides a backdoor with

Stochastic Neural Signed Swept Volume for Real-time Chance-Constrained Trajectory Optimization

arXiv:2609.21211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collision-free motion planning requires reliable collision models from sensed environments and validation of states along a continuous trajectory. To ma