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Is Forward Prediction Enough? Physical State Grounding for JEPA World Models

arXiv:2608.06799v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning structured and control-relevant latent representations remains a key challenge for world models. Recent JEPA-based world models learn action-

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KReF: Training-Free Retrieval for Long-Term Time-Series Forecasting and Predictive Uncertainty

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arXiv:2608.06748v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Probabilistic long-term time-series forecasting commonly relies on trained models. Training-free conformal methods typically construct intervals aroun

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Learning Suffers More Than the Policy Class Under Partial Observability: A Closed-Form Analysis

arXiv:2608.07228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a reinforcement learning agent cannot observe the full state, we usually blame its policies: it cannot see enough to represent a good one. We show

Learning to Walk With Less: A Dyna-Style Approach to Quadrupedal Locomotion

arXiv:2509.06296v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Traditional on-policy reinforcement learning (RL) controllers for quadrupedal locomotion often suffer from low data efficiency, requiring mill

Let's Unlearn Stereotypes Before Decision-Making: Assessing the Impact of Intrinsic Bias Mitigation on Downstream Fairness in LLMs

arXiv:2509.16462v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in high-stakes decision-making systems, where biased predictions can reinforce social and economi

LMM Modality Transfer: A Pre-requisite for Autonomous GIS Agents

arXiv:2608.06948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI models are becoming increasingly adept at understanding and processing spatial information, thereby facilitating agentic problem-solving in spatial t

LyEvO: Lyapunov-Guided Evolutionary Optimization for Safe and Robust Sim-to-Real Policy Learning

arXiv:2608.06481v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training controllers that are safe and robust in simulation, and systematically assessing their readiness for real-world deployment, remain key challe

MaskFlow: Precise, Consistent and Seamless Regional Image Editing

arXiv:2608.06929v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Regional image editing has attracted considerable attention for its spatial controllability. Although instruction-based and mask-reference-based editi

MemOPD: On-Policy Distillation through Memory State Alignment for Long-Horizon Agents

arXiv:2608.07068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agents accumulate growing contexts during interaction, impairing performance and stability. Compact memory mitigates this problem by compre

MemPrism: Task-Conditioned Relational Memory Views for Long-Horizon Agents

arXiv:2608.06745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon agents rely on memory to reuse experiences, yet existing memory systems often assume that evidence can be directly consumed through a fixed

Mind the Gap: A Dual Knowledge Graph Framework for Unified Multi-task User Intent Inference

arXiv:2608.06752v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes DKG-MTI, a dual knowledge graph framework for unified multi-task user intent inference from online travel reviews. Existing approach

Minimal Ingredients for Reward Assignment from Expert Demonstrations

arXiv:2506.06793v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reward assignment from scarce demonstrations is a key challenge in both offline and online imitation learning. A common and intuitive strategy

MolBioKG: Grounding Out-of-Graph Molecules in Biomedical Knowledge Graphs via Multi-Resolution Structural Anchoring

arXiv:2608.06713v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biomedical knowledge graphs (KGs) accelerate drug discovery, but standard pipelines assume query molecules already exist as graph entities, leaving unre

NTDH: Complex Reasoning for Comprehensive Affective Analysis

arXiv:2608.06425v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Comprehensive affective analysis is challenging for two reasons: it spans heterogeneous prediction tasks with continuous, ordinal, and multi-label outpu

PAST: Prompt-Adaptive Sampling Termination for Efficient Diffusion Model

arXiv:2608.06794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While diffusion models have made significant progress in text-to-image tasks, they still exhibit limitations when directly optimizing downstream objecti

People Are Not Just Their Countries. Disentangling Social Determinants of LLM Value Alignment Across Europe

arXiv:2608.07367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as a primary source of information and advice, understanding their alignment to humans in terms of

Progress-Certified Reversible Simplex Supervision of Goal-Reaching Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2601.19499v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Task completion is difficult to certify when state aggregation, model mismatch, and disturbances invalidate nominal RL transitions. We present a rev

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Progressive Alignment of Recommender Foundation Model through Multi-Phase Post-Training

arXiv:2608.06792v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation model(FM) for recommendation has shown strong ability to model long-horizon sequential user behavior. In practice, a single pretrained foun

R2S-EGO: Dual-Proxy Refinement for Sparse-Capture Real-to-Sim

arXiv:2608.06827v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-to-sim (R2S) depends on scene representations that render observations along robot ego trajectories, yet dense multi-view capture limits per-envi

Reading Copom's Tone: A Weighted LLM Framework for Hawkish-Dovish Sentiment, Forward Guidance, and Uncertainty

arXiv:2608.07251v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper documents an applied natural-language-processing framework for measuring the tone of Brazilian Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) statements

Representation-driven Endoscopic Visual Embedding Alignment for Latent Generation

arXiv:2608.07176v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Developing foundation generative models for endoscopy is limited by the gap between natural and clinical images and the computational cost of training

RibAssist 3D: Biplanar Rib-Fracture Detection, Addressing, and Selective 3D Localization from CT-Derived Projections

arXiv:2608.06914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rib fractures are common, clinically significant, and time-consuming to localize on computed tomography (CT). We ask whether fractures detected in two o

Robust Average-Reward Markov Decision Processes: Minimax-Optimal Learning via Plug-in Reductions

arXiv:2608.06545v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distributionally robust Markov decision processes provide a principled framework for sequential decision making under model uncertainty. We study how ma

Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning

arXiv:2601.19897v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continual learning, enabling models to acquire new skills and knowledge without degrading existing capabilities, remains a fundamental challenge for

Shape Your Feed: An LLM-based Agentic System for Conversational Recommendation

arXiv:2608.06632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial recommendation systems predominantly adopt a passive ranking paradigm that infers user preferences from implicit behavioral signals (e.g., cl

SNI-GNN: SmartNIC-Assisted Full-Graph GNN Training with In-Network Embedding Prediction

arXiv:2608.06441v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full-graph GNN training delivers high accuracy but scales poorly on multi-server clusters due to heavy, irregular inter-node embedding exchanges. We pre

TA-RAG: Tone Awareness as a Design Imperative for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2608.06672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a robust architecture for grounding large language models (LLMs) in trusted knowledge. However, standard

The Horizon Gap: Planning, Memory, Execution, Training, and Evaluation for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.06663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier language models solve reasoning problems in a single forward pass that would have been research contributions years ago, yet fail at multi-hour

The Optimizer Is the Agent: Reasoning-Driven Search across Prompts, Programs, and ML Workflows

arXiv:2608.06714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent systems for optimizing prompts, programs, and ML workflows typically rely on explicit outer-loop controllers such as evolutionary search, bandits

TMTE: Effective Multimodal Graph Learning with Task-aware Modality and Topology Co-evolution

arXiv:2603.27723v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal-attributed graphs (MAGs) are a fundamental data structure for multimodal graph learning (MGL), enabling both graph-centric and modality-c

Toward surface-based registration of a virtual preoperative cutting guide onto the mandible for reconstruction surgery

arXiv:2608.06599v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mandibular reconstruction restores facial continuity and oral function after segmental resection. Patient-specific cutting guides transfer a computed to

Unmasking Removal-Budget Confounding: A Matched Operating-Point Evaluation Framework for Adaptive Data Cleaning

arXiv:2608.06511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adaptive data-cleaning methods replace manual filtering thresholds with data-driven partitions. However, changing the partition granularity, the number

Wasserstein Policy Gradient for Entropy-Regularized Linear-Quadratic Control

arXiv:2608.07433v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wasserstein policy gradient (WPG) updates state-conditional action laws by transport in the action space. We study entropy-regularized discounted line

WNM-3D: A World Navigation Model with 3D Scene Conditioning for Closed-Loop VLN

arXiv:2608.07267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent vision-language navigation (VLN) systems increasingly adapt pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) into vision-language-action (VLA) policies t

A Bridge from Audio to Video: Phoneme-Viseme Alignment Allows Every Face to Speak Multiple Languages

arXiv:2510.06612v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Speech-driven talking face synthesis (TFS) focuses on generating lifelike facial animations from speech input. Current TFS models perform well in En

A Unified Causal Inference Framework for the Desirability of Outcome Ranking Paradigm in Benefit-Risk Evaluation

arXiv:2608.05244v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We developed a unified covariate-adjusted causal inference framework for estimating the desirability of outcome ranking (DOOR) probability for benefit

AgentOPSD: Recursive Self-Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.05987v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) with verifiable rewards constructs trajectory-level advantage estimates, yet it often fails to credit the few pivotal decisi

All-Quadrant Bounded Clipping GRPO: Closing the Unbounded Blind Spot for Stable and Generalizable Training

arXiv:2601.03895v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has emerged as a popular algorithm for reinforcement learning with large language models (LLMs). How

Alternating Levenberg-Marquardt Training of Physics-Informed Neural Networks with Fourier-Enhanced Features

arXiv:2608.05892v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) often fail to accurately resolve partial differential equations (PDEs) with high-frequency or multi-scale solut

An Emerging Retail Portfolio Management Application: Personalized, Tax-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Natural Language Goals

arXiv:2608.05255v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retail investors lack access to the kind of personalized, tax-aware portfolio management that institutional clients take for granted -- existing robo-

AppDeltaWorld: Transition-Grounded Delta Code World Model for Mobile GUI Agents

arXiv:2608.05891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile GUI agents can operate apps through pixel perception and touch actions, making them a promising interface for collecting and improving long-horiz

ARGUS: Aligning Robot Scene Geometry Under Shifting Views with Large 3D Vision Models

arXiv:2608.05579v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale visuomotor policies have demonstrated impressive performance across a wide range of robot manipulation tasks. However, despite this success,

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As You Wish: Mission Planning with Formal Verification using LLMs in Precision Agriculture

arXiv:2606.18519v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Though robotic systems are now being commercialized and deployed in various industries, many of these systems are highly specialized and often

Autonomous Learning From Success and Failure: Goal-Conditioned Supervised Learning with Negative Feedback

arXiv:2509.03206v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning from reward functions and imitation learning of demonstrations are the two principal approaches for training autonomous systems that

Beyond Marginal Validity: Finite-Sample Guarantees for Localized Conformal Prediction

arXiv:2608.06206v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conformal prediction endows arbitrary black-box predictors with finite-sample, distribution-free marginal coverage, yet marginal validity can hide sev

Beyond Sentiment: Comparing Traditional NLP and LLM-Based Multi-Dimensional Analysis for Political News Evaluation

arXiv:2608.05155v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional sentiment analysis (SA) models, while effective for polarity classification, provide limited insight into the rhetorical, ideological, and

Bias Analysis of L2 Speaking Assessment Systems Using Concept Activation Vectors

arXiv:2608.06300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic speaking assessment systems are increasingly deployed in high-stakes settings to mark second language (L2) learners' speaking tests, making it

Challenges in Evaluating Explanation Methods for Static and Evolving Data

arXiv:2608.06351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses the limitations of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) with respect to insufficient evaluation. They are illustrated through