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DuplexSpeechBench-IFEval: Evaluating Implicit Instruction Following in Full-Duplex Voice Agents

arXiv:2609.03423v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full-duplex voice agents must continuously decide when to listen, backchannel, interrupt, handle speech overlaps, take the floor, and yield. Existing be

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EraseSAE: Surgical Concept Erasure in Text-to-Video Diffusion Models via Sparse Autoencoders

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arXiv:2609.03629v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in text-to-video (T2V) diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable generative capabilities, yet their reliance on loosely curated tr

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Fresh Memory, Stale Plans: Dependency-Scoped Validation for Distributed LLM-Agent Memory

arXiv:2609.03340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distributed LLM-agent teams can read the latest shared facts and still act on an obsolete plan. A planner may derive an action from requirement r_3, ano

Predictive Zonotope Reduction: Precise Runtime Monitoring under Uncertainty

arXiv:2609.03699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots operating in physical environments make control decisions based on uncertain sensor measurements, which can lead to unsafe or suboptimal actions.

Proactive Service Agents: A Unified Decision Framework, Methods, and Evaluation

arXiv:2609.03727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents can plan, invoke tools, and modify external states, yet most systems still take an explicit user instruction as a fixed star

the united states split the atom, landed on the moon, beat polio, doubled the global wheat yield, sequenced the genome, and put a computer i…

the united states split the atom, landed on the moon, beat polio, doubled the global wheat yield, sequenced the genome, and put a computer in every pocket. we've taken steps backwards too, like doom s

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A Data-Driven Multimodal Method for Early Detection of Coordinated Abnormal Behaviors in Live-Streaming Platforms

arXiv:2609.01649v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the rapid growth of live-streaming e-commerce and digital marketing, abnormal marketing behaviors have become increasingly concealed and coordina

Agent Memory Is a Surface for Endogenous Authorization Laundering

arXiv:2609.01836v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-running LLM agents rely on persistent memory to carry state across interactions, including permissions, restrictions, and revocations. When memor

Beyond Textual Chain-of-Thought: A Survey on Action-Grounded Reasoning in Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2609.01659v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning powers generative models by eliciting intermediate steps before producing an answer. In autonomous driving, the answe

Candidate Generation and Definition-Guided Verification for Sentence-Level Depression Symptom Recognition

arXiv:2609.01833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sentence-level recognition of depression symptoms is challenging because similar expressions can differ in symptom relevance, and language-model inferen

CodePoisonRAG: Knowledge Poisoning Attacks on Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation

arXiv:2609.02774v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation (RACG) improves LLM-based software development by retrieving external code artifacts, documentation, and patches,

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Congrats @ClementDelangue @Thom_Wolf!!!!!!!! Big day for sovereign ai. excited to see open weight models, open science, (and most importantl…

Congrats @ClementDelangue @Thom_Wolf!!!!!!!! Big day for sovereign ai. excited to see open weight models, open science, (and most importantly, micro ducks) find their forever home 🤗🦆 Exciting day for

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From Proxy Learning to Driving Decisions: A Transfer-Based Framework for Evaluating Future-Aware Autonomous Driving Planners

arXiv:2609.02688v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Future-aware representations and world models are increasingly used in proposal-based autonomous-driving planners to improve trajectory selection. Howev

Hot take on OpenAI GPT-6 Astra*, with a challenge to @gdb’s claims about it being AGI toward the end: • Looks to be pretty impressive. Multi…

Hot take on OpenAI GPT-6 Astra*, with a challenge to @gdb’s claims about it being AGI toward the end: • Looks to be pretty impressive. Multiple reports suggest it is a genuine advance. • As someone wh

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If It Moves, Radar Knows: A Physics-Aware Radar Transformer for Class-Agnostic Moving-Object Detection

arXiv:2609.02289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Detectors trained on closed-set annotations can miss rare moving objects outside the training taxonomy. Automotive radar provides category-independent D

Improving Evaluation Realism with Inference-Time Compute and Deployment Scaffolds

arXiv:2609.02302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A core obstacle to alignment evaluation is evaluation awareness: capable models can tell when they are being tested rather than deployed, weakening the

Passivity-Centric Safe Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Robotic Tasks

arXiv:2503.00287v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved remarkable success in various robotic tasks; however, its deployment in real-world scenarios, particularly

Real-Time Dynamics-Based Torque-Sampling MPPI for Compliant and Force Aware Manipulation

arXiv:2609.02020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study proposes a novel Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI)-based task-space control framework. The proposed framework explicitly solves rigid-bod

Today we're launching Base Labs, a research lab by Baseten. Our mandate is to make open-source as useful as possible, and our one rule is th…

Today we're launching Base Labs, a research lab by Baseten. Our mandate is to make open-source as useful as possible, and our one rule is that we publish without exception, including what fails. Up un

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Adapting Without Gradients: Affine Statistics Transport and What Its Certificate Can Tell You

arXiv:2609.00374v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Test-time adaptation (TTA) typically assumes that model parameters can be updated at inference time. This assumption is restrictive for inference-only

Consistency Without Alignment: Item-Sensitive Language Models Indistinguishable From Random

arXiv:2609.00576v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Item-sensitivity, defined as whether a model's choice depends on the specific input rather than on its own output prior, is widely reported as evidence

Context-Aware Intelligent Vehicles

arXiv:2609.00682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intelligent vehicles increasingly support adaptive applications beyond driving themselves, ranging from context-aware ADAS and automated driving to in-c

Ctrl-F-Resist. Practices, Challenges, and Technical Needs of Civil Society Organizations Monitoring the Far-Right Online

arXiv:2609.00808v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As far-right actors increasingly exploit online platforms to disseminate ideology and mobilize supporters, civil society organizations (CSOs) play a v

Evaluating Second-Order Bias of LLMs Through Epistemic Entitlement

arXiv:2606.17506v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Evaluations of social bias in LLMs largely focus on whether models generate or imply biased content. However, as LLMs are increasingly used as judge

GlossoGen: Emergent Language in Complex Multi-Agent LLM Interactions

arXiv:2609.01491v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing rate at which LLM agents interact with one another raises key questions about language evolution in multi-LLM-agent settings, with implica

Integrating Traffic Noise Emission Modelling into Variable Speed Limit Control

arXiv:2609.01339v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Road traffic noise remains a major environmental challenge, yet most speed management strategies are static and do not respond to short-term variations

OpenAI is facing a new round of lawsuits from witnesses and victims of the February mass shooting in a Canadian town; the suspect spent days talking to ChatGPT (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)

Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI is facing a new round of lawsuits from witnesses and victims of the February mass shooting in a Canadian town; the suspect spent days talking to ChatGPT — N

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Provably Safe Sim-to-Real Transfer

arXiv:2609.01418v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: To mitigate the sample complexity of real-world reinforcement learning (RL), a common practice is to first train a policy in a simulator, where sample

RadMatch: Auditable Radiology Report Evaluation via Finding-Level Matching

arXiv:2609.01470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI systems are increasingly used to draft radiology reports, reliably evaluating their clinical quality remains a critical challenge. Large language

Socrates went Nuclear: Comparing Interaction Strategies for AI systems in a Learning Context using Brain Sensing

arXiv:2609.00584v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Does unrestricted AI access bypass the cognitive effort required for learning, or does it streamline knowledge acquisition? This paper reports on a stud

SurgiATM: A Physics-Guided Plug-and-Play Model for Deep Learning-Based Smoke Removal in Laparoscopic Surgery

arXiv:2511.05059v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: During laparoscopic surgery, smoke generated by tissue cauterization can significantly degrade the visual quality of endoscopic frames, increasing t

Training-Free Policy Violation Detection via Activation-Space Whitening in LLMs

arXiv:2512.03994v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As organizations increasingly deploy LLMs in sensitive domains such as legal, financial, and medical settings, ensuring alignment with internal orga

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trajectory-judge: What Outcome-Only LLM Judges Miss on Agent Trajectories

arXiv:2609.00038v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Outcome-only evaluation is the production default for LLM agents: show a judge the request and the final reply and ask whether it was handled well. Th

A Cognitive Architecture for Shared Autonomy in AUV Operations

arXiv:2608.29347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Operators remain essential to Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) operation, yet often suffer from low situational awareness and high workload, both of whic

BAITBENCH: Measuring Agent Reward Hacking with Optional Shortcuts Planted in ML Tasks

arXiv:2608.30724v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly used to run autonomous ML experiments, iterating on target metrics with little human oversight. Prior work has documented

BCPPO: Bachelier-Inspired Constrained Proximal Policy Optimization for Tail-Risk-Aware Safe Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.30283v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Expected-cost constraints can still permit rare, high-cost events. Monte Carlo conditional value at risk (CVaR) gradients can be noisy at high confide

Benevolent Bias in Multi-Turn Human-Agent Dialogue

arXiv:2608.29206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bias in human-agent interaction can manifest not only through hostile language but also as benevolent bias, whereby unequal treatment hides behind a war

BikeScenes: LiDAR Semantic Segmentation for Bicycles

arXiv:2510.25901v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The vulnerability of cyclists, exacerbated by the rising popularity of faster e-bikes, motivates adapting automotive perception technologies for bic

BLOOM-WILT: Logit Tilting for Behaviour Elicitation in Automated LLM Auditing

arXiv:2608.31105v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Users of a deployed language model routinely encounter behaviours that testing almost never surfaces, since deployment puts the model through orders of

Coding What Matters: A Semantic-Aware Memory Interface for Energy-Efficient Perception in Autonomous Vehicles

arXiv:2608.29000v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous vehicles stream high-resolution surround-camera frames into memory before perception runs. This sensor-to-memory path consumes energy when ce

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Cognitively-Grounded On-Device Runtime Learning for Ground Robots in Unknown Physical Environments

arXiv:2608.28677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents l{CogRun}, a framework that enables safety-critical ground robots to perform cognitively-grounded runtime learning entirely on edge-

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Comprehensive Assessment and Analysis for NSFW Content Erasure in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

arXiv:2502.12527v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models have gained widespread application across various domains, demonstrating remarkable creative potential. However, the

Emergent Misalignment Is Not Magical

arXiv:2608.29118v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) on narrowly harmful datasets can lead to misalignment broadly, a phenomenon known as emergent misalignment (EM)

Evolutionary Soups: Evolving Mixture-of-Experts for Multi-Objective LLM Alignment

arXiv:2608.29978v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly required to generate responses that satisfy multiple competing objectives. Since optimal trade-offs depend on bot

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in Computational Pathology: Definitions, Taxonomy, and Recommendations

arXiv:2608.28820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computational pathology (CompPath) is transforming medicine by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to support diagnosis, prognosis, and t

From Multi-Modal Paths to Executable Trajectories: A Trajectory Planning Framework for 4WIS Robots

arXiv:2608.29108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Four-wheel independent steering (4WIS) mobile robots support multiple motion modes, offering high maneuverability in narrow and complex environments. Ho

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Guardrail-Agnostic Societal Bias Evaluation in Large Vision-Language Models

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arXiv:2608.29590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a societal bias evaluation method for large vision-language models (LVLMs) in the era of strong safety guardrails. Existing benchmarks rely o

Learning-Assisted Congestion-Aware Route Scheduling for Semiconductor Fab Material Control Systems

arXiv:2608.30520v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated material handling systems in semiconductor fabs are operated by a material control system (MCS) that must schedule a relay route for every tra