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SPAE: Spectrally Guided Autoencoder for Pretrained Visual Latents

arXiv:2608.01306v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latents from vision foundation models (VFMs) are semantically rich and well suited for visual understanding. Recent representation autoencoder methods s

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arXiv:2608.02181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) for large language models typically trains its critic by mean-squared-error (MSE) regression on scalar value targets.

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STEAM:ASpatio-TEmporal Alignment Mixture-of-Experts Model with Hierarchical Pre-training for EEG Decoding

arXiv:2608.02070v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been widely used in motor rehabilitation, disease diagnosis, and other neural engineering scenarios. However, conv

StochSIPP: Safe Interval Path Planning in Stochastic Dynamic Environments

arXiv:2608.00792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe navigation under uncertain time-dependent blockage requires anticipating observations before committing to motion. We present StochSIPP, an exact c

Teleopit: A Full-Embodiment Humanoid Teleoperation System

arXiv:2608.01834v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid teleoperation for demonstration collection requires coordinated whole-body motion, continuous dexterous hand control, and viewpoint control. Ex

Toward Plasticity-Preserving KL Regularization for Capability Retention in LLM Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.01743v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a central paradigm for large language model (LLM) post-training, but optimization toward new objectives can deg

Towards Compact Unified Multimodal Tracking: Synergizing Knowledge Distillation with Structural Pruning

arXiv:2608.01488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unified multimodal object tracking has achieved remarkable robustness by leveraging complementary sensor data (e.g., RGB, Thermal, Depth), yet the heavy

Track-Guided Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Vehicle Drifting with Minimum-Lap-Time Planning

arXiv:2608.00113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In Formula 1, drivers optimize racing lines within tire grip limits to minimize lap times; however, in rally racing, drivers intentionally break tractio

Training Small LLMs as Spatial Multi-Agent Policies

arXiv:2608.01425v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training LLM-based multi-agent systems with multi-agent reinforcement learning is rapidly gaining traction, and a parallel line of work argues that su

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Trustworthiness Costs of Domain Adaptation in Small Language Models:A Cross-Architecture Empirical Study

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arXiv:2608.00042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Domain adaptation of small language models (SLMs) has emerged as a practical strategy for deploying capable NLP systems in resource-constrained, high-st

Trustworthy AI in Digital Health: A Comprehensive Review of Robustness and Explainability

arXiv:2608.02238v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ensuring trust in AI systems is essential for the safe and ethical integration of machine learning systems into high-stakes domains such as digital he

TS-Reasoner: Aligning Time Series Foundation Models with LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2510.03519v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Time series reasoning is crucial to decision-making in diverse domains, including finance, energy, and scientific discovery. While existing time ser

UDT: Reconciling U-Nets and Diffusion Transformers with Data-Adaptive Token Reduction

arXiv:2608.01298v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have emerged as a core architecture in generative modeling due to their scalability and adaptability to multimodal tasks.

Uncovering and Mitigating Positional Blind Spots in Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2608.01573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve promising performance in robotic manipulation, typically measured by success rates aggregated over pr

Understanding and Correcting Low-Frequency Bias in EEG Foundation Model

arXiv:2608.01898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Increasing EEG pretraining data scale or model capacity does not consistently improve downstream performance. We identify a persistent low-frequency bia

Understanding and Overcoming Cross-modal Fusion Bias in Multimodal Anomaly Detection From A Fisher Information Perspective

arXiv:2608.00986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current advancements in Multimodal Anomaly Detection (MAD) are largely driven by enhancing multimodal fusion, particularly through the integration of RG

Unleashing the Potential of Large Language Models: A Blueprint for Real-Time, Enterprise-Ready Deployments

arXiv:2608.00419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models deployed in real-time, regulated settings face knowledge staleness, catastrophic forgetting, hallucination, and weak feedback lo

Upper-Expectile Multi-Step Q-Learning for Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.02034v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-step returns accelerate reward propagation in off-policy reinforcement learning, but couple the evaluation of each decision to the suboptimal logg

USP-Mamba: Unmixing-Derived Spectral and Structural Prompting for Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution

arXiv:2608.02401v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hyperspectral image super-resolution aims to reconstruct high-resolution imagery while preserving dense spectral information. Recently, Mamba-based mode

Verifier-Induced Support Reshaping in On-Policy Optimization

arXiv:2608.00220v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We show that on-policy reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) can improve the current objective while making successful behaviors for l

VLAGuard: A Framework for Evaluating and Mitigating Physical Attention Hijacking in Vision-Language-Action Robots within Wireless Sensor Networks

arXiv:2608.01028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying Vision-Language-Action (VLA) robots as mobile edge nodes within wireless sensor networks (WSNs) requires robust protection against physical ad

WAM-Diff2: Hierarchical AR-to-Diffusion Distillation for Highly Efficient Autonomous Driving VLA

arXiv:2608.01035v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a prominent paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving; however, their efficient deployment is sev

Wasserstein mixing time of the unadjusted Langevin algorithm

arXiv:2608.02430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We provide new estimates in Wasserstein distance for the asymptotic bias of the unadjusted Langevin algorithm, in the classical setting of log-smooth

Who Should Be Generated? Justifying Demographic Targets in Open-Ended Generation

arXiv:2608.02551v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fairness evaluation concerns not only what a model produces, but also what its outputs ought to be compared against. When a model generates 'a CEO in

Why Does Action Chunking Improve Behavioral Cloning Performance in Robotic Control?

arXiv:2608.02547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Action chunking---predicting and executing multiple actions instead of a single action---has proven to be a critical component for learning effective ro

World Action Models in Real Time: An Empirical Study of Smooth Execution via Asynchronous Deployment

arXiv:2608.01880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models generate fixed-horizon action chunks through iterative denoising, creating substantial inference latency that can cause pauses, stal

ActFovea: Runtime Safeguarding for VLA Policies via Spatiotemporal Visual-Action Consistency

arXiv:2607.29169v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) policies achieve strong performance in robotic manipulation but remain vulnerable to runtime disturbances that break the

Adaptive Emotional Video Captioning via Affective Heterogeneous Graph Reasoning and Multi-task Joint Learning

arXiv:2607.29045v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emotional video captioning (EVC) aims to describe a video with both factual correctness and affective expressiveness. It requires a model to perceive su

Adaptive FastOPD: Progress-Aware Rollout Horizon Expansion for Efficient On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2607.29494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) provides dense teacher supervision along student-generated trajectories, but its online rollout process incurs substantial

Adjudicated Captioning: Multi-Agent Alignment Scoring and Consensus-Distilled Beam Arbitration for Strict Zero-Shot Image Captioning

arXiv:2607.28986v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Zero-shot image captioning (ZIC) describes images without paired image-caption supervision during captioner training, relying on text-only corpora and

Advances, challenges, and opportunities for legged robots

arXiv:2607.28952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid and quadrupedal robots have the potential to revolutionize the way we work, interact, and coexist with intelligent machines. To understand thei

Agreement Is Not Quality: Blind Expert Verification of Human and LLM Qualitative Coding When Human Consensus Is Not Ground Truth

arXiv:2607.28890v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluations of LLM-assisted qualitative coding almost universally measure model performance as agreement with human coders, a practice that presumes h

An analysis of machine learning approaches for enhancing decision-making in complex discrete choice tasks

arXiv:2607.28854v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discrete choice modeling is a common tool used for preference elicitation during policy-making, but this is typically done through parametric models. Ma

Automated Straight-line Sewing of Stretchable Fabrics with Different Lengths

arXiv:2607.29464v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Different Length Alignment Sewing (DLAS), which involves stretching the shorter fabric to match the longer one and sewing them together in a straight li

Beyond Feature and Structure Alignment: Learning Transferable Propagation Knowledge for Graph Foundation Models

arXiv:2607.28980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph Foundation Models (GFMs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling knowledge transfer across diverse domains. Unlike traditional

Bridging the Question-Answer Gap in Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Hypothetical Prompt Embeddings

arXiv:2607.29402v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems synergize retrieval mechanisms with generative language models to enhance the accuracy and relevance of r

Can Zero-Shot LLMs Predict Child Malnutrition? A Fairness and Temporal Robustness Study

arXiv:2607.29082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Child malnutrition remains a major public health challenge in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in South Asia, where early identification o

Chain-of-Models: Cross-Model Auditing for Bias-Robust LLM Judges

arXiv:2607.28636v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs increasingly serve as automated judges, but their judgments remain vulnerable to cognitive biases. Existing mitigations mostly rely on prompt-drive

ConnectED: A Curriculum-Aligned AI System for Vietnamese Instructional Lesson Planning and Student Learning

arXiv:2607.28647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents ConnectED, a human-centered AI system that supports the full instructional lifecycle in Vietnamese education by linking curriculum

Convergence and Regret of the Policy Gradient for Multi-Armed Bandits in Diffusion Environment

arXiv:2607.29593v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies the policy gradient update for a multi-arm bandit problem in diffusion environment that is described by a stochastic differential equ

Deformable Medical Image Registration with KAN-based Implicit Neural Representations

arXiv:2509.22874v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deformable image registration (DIR) is central to medical image analysis, supporting spatial alignment for longitudinal studies and multi-modal fusi

Design Concept: Scaffolding Geopolitical Reflection Among Tech Workers

arXiv:2607.28904v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents a speculative Human-Computer Interaction design proposal for encouraging geopolitical reflexivity amongst tech workers at geopolit

Distance-aware Soft Prompt Guidance for Multimodal Valence-Arousal Estimation

arXiv:2603.13415v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Valence-arousal (VA) estimation is crucial for capturing the nuanced nature of human emotions in naturalistic environments. While pre-trained vision

Do Medical Foundation Models Generalize on the African Brain?

arXiv:2607.28771v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical foundation models (FMs) are increasingly used for brain MRI analysis. However, their evaluation remains dominated by high-resource datasets, lea

Domain-Adaptive Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding for Image Classification

arXiv:2607.28907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep joint source--channel coding (Deep JSCC) enables visual semantic transmission by mapping inputs directly to channel symbols and task outputs, but

Domain-Division based Progressive Learning for Source-Free Domain Adaptation

arXiv:2607.29202v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With growing privacy and portability concerns, source-free domain adaptation requires only a source pre-trained model and an unlabeled target domain, al

DoubleHelix: Structured Cross-Modal Fusion for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition with LLMs

arXiv:2607.29112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio-visual speech recognition (AVSR) relies on effective fusion of audio and visual modalities, yet existing approaches treat cross-modal interactio

DreamQAS: Learning a Decision-Useful World Model for VQE-Efficient Quantum Architecture Search

arXiv:2607.29491v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement-learning-based quantum architecture search (RL-QAS) repeatedly optimizes a variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) after extending a circu