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MotionCraft: Latent World Modeling with Sparse Attention for Visual Upscaling

arXiv:2608.08553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video super-resolution (VSR) aims to recover high-fidelity high-resolution videos from low-resolution inputs and is central to applications ranging from

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Multi-Branch Policy Optimization for Multimodal Large Language Models

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arXiv:2608.07581v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Group-based reinforcement learning methods for multimodal large language models typically rely on trajectory-level credit assignment that applies a si

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MultiShadow: Multi-Object Shadow Generation for Image Compositing via Diffusion Model

arXiv:2603.02743v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Realistic shadow generation is crucial for achieving seamless image compositing, yet existing methods primarily focus on single-object insertion and

Neural Message Passing on Structural Interaction Graphs for Fully-Inductive Graph Neural Networks

arXiv:2608.08567v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A central obstacle in building graph foundation models is the input heterogeneity in terms of feature space dimensionality, semantics, and structure. Su

North Africa's Missing Framework: NLP-Driven Mental Healthcare in Algeria and Implications for Low-resource Settings

arXiv:2608.08607v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mental health disorders are a leading cause of disability worldwide, yet Natural Language Processing (NLP) research for mental healthcare has remained c

OD-Gear: Online Decomposition and Group Sampling for Expert-Guided Adversarial Routing in Scalable Capacitated Vehicle Routing

arXiv:2602.00488v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Solving large-scale capacitated vehicle routing problems (CVRP) is hindered by the high complexity of classical heuristics and the limited generaliz

On the use of foundation models in cognitive science

arXiv:2608.07812v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A host of recent studies have evaluated the cognitive and developmental alignment of Foundation Models (FMs). These investigations include evaluations o

OnEvoMemory: Evolving Memory through Online Robot Rollouts for Pretrained Robot Policies

arXiv:2608.08749v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon robot manipulation requires policies to track completed subtasks and critical interaction events. However, existing memory mechanisms heavi

PAST: Privileged Adaptation from Complete Student Trajectories for On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2608.08726v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) uses a privileged teacher to supervise a reasoning model on prefixes sampled from its own rollouts. Yet each rollou

Penalizing Length: Uncovering Systematic Bias in Quality Estimation Metrics

arXiv:2510.22028v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Quality Estimation (QE) metrics are vital in machine translation for reference-free evaluation and increasingly serve as selection criteria in data

Perception Before Supervision: Self-Contained Visual Distillation from Counterfactual Blind Spots

arXiv:2608.09931v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-improvement for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is typically driven by reward-based methods that provide only coarse scalar feedback. Dist

PhysAttNet: Enhancing Predictive Performance in Industrial and Astrophysical Time Series via Physics-Informed Attention

arXiv:2608.07681v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate and robust time series forecasting is essential in many applications involving physical processes, such as manufacturing monitoring and astroph

Physics-Informed Policy Iteration for High-Dimensional Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman Equations: Interior Error Bounds without Boundary Data

arXiv:2508.01718v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We develop a physics-informed policy-iteration method for stationary second-order Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equations arising in continuous-time sto

PIVOT: Preference-based Intervention Vectors for Pedagogical Tutor Steering

arXiv:2608.07509v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs are increasingly used for conversational tutoring, but effective tutoring requires more than correct answers. Tutors must choose when to scaffold

Position Bias in Ordinal Classification: A Systematic Evaluation

arXiv:2608.08869v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used for ordinal classification, yet semantically equivalent changes to prompt organization can alter their predi

Privacy-Preserving Data Drift Detection and Recovery for Large-Scale LLM Applications via Proxy Representations

arXiv:2608.08245v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM applications deployed at scale face a fundamental challenge: privacy constraints prevent direct inspection of user interactions, making it difficu

Private Anytime Selective-Risk Certification for Federated Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Guarantees and Empirical Limits

arXiv:2608.07913v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Selective-risk certificates promise that accepted outputs meet a declared error target. We develop Fed-SRC, a score-agnostic certificate for federated

Privileged Likelihood Is Not Automatically Value: Three Checks for Token Credit in On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2608.09263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Outcome verifiers score completed reasoning traces but do not assign credit to intermediate tokens. Privileged self-distillation attempts to fill this g

Privileged Solutions or Context-Induced Teacher Behavior? Dissecting On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2608.09228v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD) is commonly interpreted as the transfer of privileged information: a teacher observes the verified solution to the

Proxy OPD: On-Policy Distillation with Transferable Relative Proxy Update

arXiv:2607.11505v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Post-training for large language models typically couples policy exploration with model optimization, hindering the reuse of high-reward behav

Reading is not Reasoning: Bridging the Agentic Policy Gap in Vision-Text Compression

arXiv:2608.08960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-step language-model agents repeatedly process growing interaction histories, leading to substantial context costs. Vision--text compression reduce

Real-Time Nonlinear MPC via Sequential Quadratic Programming with Structure-Exploiting ADMM and Interior-Point Methods for Underactuated Double-Pendulum Swing-Up

arXiv:2608.09272v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The 4th 'AI Olympics with RealAIGym' competition, to be held at IJCAI-ECAI 2026 in Bremen, challenges participants to develop a global control policy

Reconfigurable Structural Robotic Assembly: Interlocking 3D Aggregations with Self-Aligning Compound Nested Lattice Modules

arXiv:2608.07576v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic construction systems often treat the material system and the robot as separate design problems, locating intelligence primarily in hardware, sen

Regret of exploratory policy improvement and q-learning

arXiv:2411.01302v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study the convergence of q-learning and related algorithms introduced by Jia and Zhou (J. Mach. Learn. Res., 24 (2023), 161) for controlled diffu

REIN: Bridging the Gap between Reasoning and Reliability via Reflection and Abstention Alignment

arXiv:2608.07931v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large reasoning models (LRMs) are prone to hallucination, which undermines their reliability and poses challenges for safe deployment. Hallucinations in

Retrieval-Augmented Generation-Based Color Restoration for Low-Light Image Enhancement

arXiv:2608.08211v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent low-light image enhancement (LLIE) methods have driven brightness and structural fidelity close to that of normally-exposed images, yet their o

RL-Native Distillation: Exploiting Scored Trajectories for Few-Step Image Generation

arXiv:2608.09226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient text-to-image generation requires both reinforcement-learning (RL)-based reward alignment and few-step distillation, yet these procedures ar

RobustDefect-LLM: Explainable and Robustness-Aware Industrial Surface Defect Classification with Decision Support and AI-Assisted Reporting

arXiv:2608.08589v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents RobustDefect-LLM, an industrial surface-defect inspection framework integrating deep-learning classification, operator-facing visual

RynnValue: Scaling Robotic Value Foundation Models with Temporal Distance

arXiv:2608.09853v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General-purpose reward models are increasingly the bottleneck for scaling robot learning, yet the recipe for learning value-related capabilities from

Satellite Trajectory Optimization via Proximal Policy Optimization for Space Debris Avoidance

arXiv:2608.09628v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collision avoidance systems are commonly used to avoid fragmentation events occurring in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and Geosynchronous Equatorial Orbit (GEO)

SC-Diff: Semantically Calibrated Diffusion for Visible-to-Infrared Image Translation

arXiv:2608.08555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visible-to-infrared image translation provides a practical way to expand infrared training data using abundant visible images. Diffusion models are prom

Scalable extensions to given-data Sobol' index estimators

arXiv:2509.09078v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Given-data methods for variance-based sensitivity analysis have significantly advanced the feasibility of Sobol' index computation for computa

SCOUT: Self-Checking and Recovery-Aware Tool-Thought Agents for Ultra-Long Egocentric Video Reasoning

arXiv:2608.07959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ultra-long egocentric video understanding requires reasoning over temporally sparse evidence distributed across hours or days, challenging current multi

Search-G1: Grounded Search Agents via Representation-Based Intrinsic Rewards

arXiv:2608.07531v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Search-augmented language agents should retrieve external information only when necessary and ground their answers in retrieved evidence. Existing ext

Self Supervised Learning from Automatically Generated Demonstrations for Visual Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2608.07553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic manipulation often requires object specific programming, manual data annotation, or calibrated perception pipelines, which limits rapid deployme

SMAC: Score-Matched Actor-Critics for Robust Offline-to-Online Transfer

arXiv:2602.17632v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern offline Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods find performant actor-critics, however, fine-tuning these actor-critics online with value-b

SpeedTuning: Speeding Up Policy Execution with Lightweight Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.09138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While learned robotic policies hold promise for advancing generalizable manipulation, their practical deployment is often hindered by suboptimal execu

SR-OPSD: Self-Referenced On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2608.09745v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) converts feedback into dense token-level supervision on trajectories generated by the policy to be optimized, provi

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

arXiv:2608.09867v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Leading large language model providers now conceal their models' step-by-step reasoning, or chain-of-thought, to protect intellectual property and lim

StructReward: Efficient Structured Process Rewards for Self-Correcting Multimodal Reasoning

arXiv:2608.08326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as an effective approach for improving multimodal reasoning. However, most existing me

Symbolic Attack Chain Generation from Atomic Red Team Techniques: An Empirical Study of Predicate Representation Granularity

arXiv:2608.00143v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automated attack chain generation is critical for modern cybersecurity, yet manual construction fails to scale as adversary behaviors expand.

SynVAR: Synergizing Spatial and Semantic Alignment in Visual Autoregressive Model

arXiv:2608.07948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: VAR has gained widespread popularity due to its next-scale prediction paradigm. However, it faces substantial performance bottlenecks when handling comp

The Anatomy of a Prompt Injection: A Component Model for Structured Analysis

arXiv:2608.07808v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Four years after prompt injection was first identified in 2022, attacks are still predominantly documented as verbatim strings rather than structured

The Sample Complexity of Policy Learning with Mu-Resets

arXiv:2608.07772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study policy-based reinforcement learning under the mu-resets interaction protocol of Kakade and Langford [KL02]. This interaction protocol enables t

The Scaling Paradox in Human-AI Collaboration

arXiv:2608.00818v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The discovery of scaling laws has highlighted the extraordinary potential of AI systems with a striking empirical pattern: as AI systems scale, thei

The Theory of Strategic Evolution: Games with Endogenous Players and the Seven Laws of Strategic Replicators

arXiv:2512.07901v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Von Neumann founded both game theory and the theory of self-reproducing automata, but the two programs never merged. Rational players do not c

The Transparency Trap: How AI Disclaimers Create Overconfidence in High-Stakes Decisions

arXiv:2608.07493v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current AI disclaimers often fail to function as intended due to warning habituation and a transparency paradox. As AI-generated information becomes p

The Voiceprint Fallacy: Why Voices Are Not Unique Biometric Imprints

arXiv:2608.07980v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In recent years, the term voiceprint has regained attention, particularly in technological applications and policy-making contexts, often carrying the