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Robust General Utility for Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.03562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) with general utility extends classic RL by optimizing an arbitrary utility functional of the policy-induced occupancy measur

5 Aug 2026

Stiffness Copilot: An Impedance Policy for Contact-Rich Teleoperation

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arXiv:2603.14068v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In teleoperation of contact-rich manipulation tasks, selecting robot impedance is critical but difficult. The robot must be compliant to avoid damag

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5 Aug 2026

A Forward-Inverse Dynamic Game Framework for Enhanced Multi-Agent Trajectory Planning

arXiv:2608.01636v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies feedback Nash equilibrium (FBNE) seeking for multi-agent trajectory planning in nonlinear dynamical systems with unknown agents' obje

ARMOR: Robust Reinforcement Learning-based Control for UAVs under Physical Attacks

arXiv:2506.22423v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) depend on onboard sensors for perception, navigation, and control. However, these sensors are susceptible to physica

Constrained Co-Design for Photonic Bayesian Neural Networks

arXiv:2608.02229v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Classical neural networks frequently produce overconfident predictions on ambiguous or out-of-distribution (OOD) data, a liability that grows with each

DiffuseAgent-MI: Distributionally-Grounded,Tool-Integrated Self-Evolving Agents for Faithful Visual Reasoning

arXiv:2608.00540v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-integrated vision-language agents have made remarkable progress on compositional and multi-step visual reasoning. Yet their outputs frequently exhi

EndoWAM: A Grounded World-Action Model for Generalizable Endoscopic Navigation

arXiv:2608.01221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous endoscopic navigation can reduce clinicians' operational burden, yet robust control remains challenging due to tissue deformation, transient

Expert-Choice Routing Enables Adaptive Computation in Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2604.01622v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) enable parallel, non-autoregressive text generation, yet existing DLM mixture-of-experts (MoE) models inherit

From Failures to Supervision: DynamicEnvPlan for Robust Long-Horizon Embodied Planning

arXiv:2608.00613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical-world interaction is inherently dynamic, as environments can evolve during execution, requiring agents to adapt their plans under non-stationar

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Humans Are More Diverse: Frontier LLMs Show Extreme Policies in Idealised AI Development Races

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arXiv:2608.01193v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An AI development race creates a multi-agent safety dilemma. Each company can develop slowly and safely, or move faster while taking a risk that may r

Interaction Dynamics MPC for Knee Rehabilitation Exoskeletons: A Closed-Loop SEA Outer-Loop Study

arXiv:2606.13485v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Safe rehabilitation is an interaction-dynamics problem: the controller must regulate a prescribed motion while absorbing involuntary spasm, vo

Invisible Ink Threats: Adversarial Goals Behind Legitimate Tasks in Computer-Use Agents

arXiv:2608.02018v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-use agents (CUAs), which empower large language models to autonomously operate operating systems and the web, are increasingly vulnerable to in

Learning-Based Motion Planning for Dynamic Environments: From Foundational Algorithms to Emerging Paradigms

arXiv:2608.00625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motion planning in dynamic environments is a fundamental problem in robotics, aiming to generate safe and efficient paths, trajectories, or control acti

Near-Optimal Reinforcement Learning for Constrained Recurrence Objectives

arXiv:2511.19849v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recurrence objectives, where a target region must be visited infinitely often, are a fundamental class of specifications for Markov decision p

Neural operator learning for collision-aware trajectory planning of spacecraft swarms

arXiv:2608.00320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous spacecraft swarms must plan fuel-efficient, collision-free maneuvers in increasingly congested orbits, yet classical trajectory optimization

No One Wins in Nuclear War: A Social Simulation of Military Decision-making

arXiv:2608.01868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: WOPR is a social-simulation environment for studying how organizations make high-stakes decisions, built on a deterministic, replay-validated rules en

Nonparametric Distribution Regression Re-calibration

arXiv:2602.13362v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A key challenge in probabilistic regression is ensuring that predictive distributions accurately reflect true empirical uncertainty. Minimizin

ORCESTRA: VLM-driven Visual Robot programming in Mixed Reality

arXiv:2608.00775v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: ORCESTRA is a mixed-reality system for programming robot digital twins through no-code waypoint teaching and language-guided control. In a passthrough

Self-Correction Bench: Uncovering and Addressing the Self-Correction Blind Spot in Large Language Models

arXiv:2507.02778v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Although large language models (LLMs) have transformed AI, they still make errors and follow unproductive reasoning paths. Self-correction is vital

StableMimic: Smooth Human-Like Recovery for Humanoid Motion Tracking - Learning Beyond the Tracking Distribution for Structured Post-Fall Behavior

arXiv:2608.02385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid motion trackers perform reliably within learned tracking distributions, but falls can move the robot into low-height, contact-rich states from

TANGO-VIO: Triangulation-Aware Navigation with Guaranteed Feature-Observability for Visual-Inertial Odometry

arXiv:2608.02079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In vision-aided navigation and visual-inertial odometry, the quality of triangulated three-dimensional feature positions is a fundamental prerequisite f

TravKAN: Fast and Interpretable Nonlinear Traversability Analysis with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

arXiv:2608.02320v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traversability analysis is a fundamental capability for autonomous mobile robots operating in unstructured environments. While modern machine learning

Trust or Check? Understanding the (Evolutionary) Dynamics of User Trust in AI Systems

arXiv:2603.24742v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As the capabilities and adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems grow, trust in these AI systems is an increasingly urgent concern. Mu

UAV-Based Environmental Monitoring of Rip-Current Indicators Using Wavelet-Derived Texture Features

arXiv:2608.02448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rip currents are recurrent coastal natural hazards that threaten beachgoers and create operational challenges for lifeguards and coastal managers. Relia

Volcanic Clouds Detection through QCNN and Geostationary Satellite Multispectral Imagery

arXiv:2608.00072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in quantum computing are opening new possibilities for Earth Observation (EO) data analysis. Quantum machine learning (QML) approaches o

Weights or Skills? A Survey of Robot-Learning Techniques: from Action-Predicting Weights to Robots that Write their Own Skills

arXiv:2608.01851v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot learning is splitting into two bets: policies that bake competence into frozen weights (vision-language-action, or VLA, models), and agents that w

Which Modality Decides? Counterfactual Modality Attribution for Multimodal LLMs

arXiv:2608.00076v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) increasingly support high-stakes decision making by combining complementary information from images and text. W

Compiled AI: Deterministic Code Generation for LLM-Based Workflow Automation

arXiv:2604.05150v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study compiled AI, a paradigm in which large language models generate executable code artifacts during a compilation phase, after which wor

Don't Mix Rewards, Mix Policies: Policy Decomposition and Optimization for Multi-Reward RL

arXiv:2607.29246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern large language models (LLMs) are expected not just to answer correctly, but to adapt their behavior to different human values and use cases. As a

Faster but Different: Diagnosing and Controlling Content Drift in Accelerated Multimodal Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2607.29079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training-free acceleration makes diffusion-based multimodal large language models (dMLLMs) more deployable, but it may silently change generated content

Few-shot Deep Learning for Phase-Amplitude Aberration Correction in Transcranial Focused Ultrasound

arXiv:2607.29182v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) is a non-invasive technique that delivers focused acoustic energy through the skull for neuromodulation and the

First Investigation of Deep Learning for Intraoperative Gauze Segmentation in Minimally Invasive Abdominal Surgery

arXiv:2607.29132v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surgical gauze is an essential part of surgical procedures, primarily used for controlling bleeding and absorbing bodily fluids. The post-surgical reten

Fragility of Value under Imperfect Alignment

arXiv:2607.28881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As more responsibility is placed upon AI systems, it becomes increasingly important to guarantee that these systems are aligned with humanity. A common

STAGE: STyle-controllable Action GEneration for personalized autonomous driving

arXiv:2607.29517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Driving style refers to the behavioral preferences that drivers maintain during driving, shaped by their diverse experiences, habits, and needs, and is

Unanticipated Effects of Generative AI on Expertise Pathways and Performance Perception in System Administration

arXiv:2607.28650v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While industry discourse often emphasizes immediate productivity gains and frames GenAI primarily as a tool for automation, the integration of GenAI i

Vision-based Goal-Reaching Control for Mobile Robots Using a Hierarchical Learning Framework

arXiv:2601.00610v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has strong potential in robotics, but exploration-based training complicates safe deployment on large-scale robots. For

A Systems Engineering Framework for Vision-Language-Enabled UAV Triage and Disaster Response

arXiv:2607.27597v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Vision Language Models (VLMs) have created new opportunities for disaster response, where responders must interpret large volumes of

AI-assisted pre-review of open-source software submissions: an experience report from BOSC 2026

arXiv:2607.27228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most conferences rely on peer-review of submissions, but as generative AI makes it easier than ever to prepare submission materials, some conferences ar

Functional Cache Grafting: Robust and Rapid Code-Policy Synthesis for Embodied Agents

arXiv:2606.13097v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Code-writing large language models (CodeLLMs) generate executable code policies for embodied agents by translating natural language goals and

Machines that know they are aging: a framework for hardware-aware autonomous intelligence

arXiv:2607.28451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous systems inevitably age, yet their artificial intelligence typically assumes hardware remains in its original condition. Batteries degrade, se

Metrics vs Surveys: An Analysis for Human-Aligned Benchmarking in Social Robot Navigation

arXiv:2510.02941v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Social, also called human-aware, navigation is a key challenge for integrating mobile robots into human environments. The evaluation of such systems

AI Alignment in Medical Imaging: Unveiling Hidden Biases Through Counterfactual Analysis

arXiv:2504.19621v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine learning (ML) systems for medical imaging have demonstrated remarkable diagnostic capabilities, but their susceptibility to biases poses sig

BioVLN: A Simulation Platform for Visual Language Navigation in Biomedical Laboratories

arXiv:2607.26914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biomedical laboratory robots must navigate to instruments before performing experimental procedures. Existing embodied navigation platforms are designed

CinemaTraj: Composing Atomic Camera Trajectories for 3D Scenes with LLM Agents

arXiv:2607.26910v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatically generating cinematically expressive camera trajectories through 3D scenes from natural language descriptions is a challenging task of high

Multi-Objective Compliance-Integrated Coevolution For Simulated And Real-World Deployment Of Multi-Robot Marine Autonomy

arXiv:2607.26279v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative robots are well-suited to maritime missions that benefit from coordination, such as the exploration of unknown reef structures, inspection

Physically Real-time Infrared Attack against Optical Flow Estimation Networks

arXiv:2607.26651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the promising performance of deep neural networks on image-based tasks, different real-world applications such as autonomous driving and motion det

ResearchArena: Evaluating Sabotage and Monitoring in Automated AI R&D

arXiv:2607.19321v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As AI agents begin to automate AI R&D, we need ways to assess whether their outputs are safe to deploy, even when the agents themselves may be

Robostreet Flow: A Lightweight, Ultra-Low-Drag Electric Tractor and Four-Truck Hybrid Convoy Architecture for Minimum-Cost Point-to-Point Freight

arXiv:2607.26250v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Line-haul trucking costs are dominated by three comparably sized components: energy, driver labor, and equipment. Most efficiency technologies address o