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Adaptive Bridge: A Proxy-Based Decoupling Layer for Mitigating DDS Backpressure in ROS 2

arXiv:2608.15380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In ROS 2 systems using DDS, a single slow subscriber on a RELIABLE topic can cause backpressure that degrades throughput and latency for all subscribe

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Agent Gym: A Framework for Continuous Evaluation and Evolution of LLM Agents Through Human-in-the-Loop Feedback

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arXiv:2608.15591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents deployed in production environments face a fundamental tension: the agent's behavior is frozen at deployment time, whi

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18 Aug 2026

As models become more capable, the risks associated with developing and testing them internally also grow. We temporarily paused reinforceme…

As models become more capable, the risks associated with developing and testing them internally also grow. We temporarily paused reinforcement learning (RL) training on our latest models intended for

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Beyond Boundary Noise: Aggregated Aleatoric Uncertainty Fails to Capture Presence Ambiguity in 3D Lung Nodule Segmentation

arXiv:2608.14766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Uncertainty estimation is critical for the safe clinical deployment of deep learning in medical image segmentation, with aleatoric uncertainty theoretic

Beyond L_2: Generalizing Abductive Latent Explanations to Diverse Prototype-Based Architectures

arXiv:2608.16773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prototype-based neural networks are hailed as interpretable-by-design architectures. Recently, Abductive Latent Explanations (ALE) were introduced to pr

Calibration-Free Vehicle Speed Estimation: A Monocular Keypoint-Template Approach

arXiv:2608.16785v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes a calibration-free framework for reliably and effectively estimating vehicle speeds from monocular videos, without relying on roadwa

CAPO: Constraint-Aware Prompt Optimization for LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.16068v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as agents that rely on system prompts to use tools and complete tasks. Such deployments impose

Characterizing Rhetorical Misalignment in Decision-Making with Language Models

arXiv:2608.14630v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human decision-making is often shaped by a range of well-documented cognitive biases. As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated i

Cross-Domain Industrial Fault Detection by Causal Mechanism Monitoring

arXiv:2608.14666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unsupervised fault detection in industrial systems is dominated by reconstruction based methods that monitor individual sensor marginal distributions. T

DYNASHIELD: A Black-Box Moving Target Defense for LLMs via Dynamic Decoding Customization

arXiv:2412.07672v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks in which adversarial prompts induce harmful outputs. Existing defenses oft

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Embodied Robot Manipulation in the Era of Foundation Models: Planning and Learning Perspectives

arXiv:2512.22983v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in vision, language, and multimodal learning have significantly accelerated progress in robotic foundation models, with robotic mani

Emergent Misaligned Communication in Long-Horizon Multi-Agent LLM Commerce

arXiv:2608.14825v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frontier LLM agents increasingly transact on behalf of separate principals, often using natural language rather than structured APIs. Much of the safe

Exposing the Long-tail in Embodied Urban Navigation via Scalable Learning from In-the-Wild Videos

arXiv:2608.16476v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning embodied urban navigation policies from real-world data is constrained by the cost of task-specific data collection and the limited coverage of

Global Simulation-Guided Dynamic Operator Scheduling for Efficient Multi-Tenant Model Serving

arXiv:2608.15762v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Container-granularity scheduling leaves abundant short-lived idle slices within containers unexploited. Reallocating containers is too heavyweight to

HAF: Adapting Generalist VLAs to Humanoid Whole-Body Loco-manipulation via Hierarchical Action Flow and Spectral Latent RL

arXiv:2608.16837v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humanoid robots hold great promise as general-purpose agents in human-centered environments, yet generalist vision-language-action (VLA) foundation mo

I would like to publicly commend @sama and @OpenAI for this taking it at face value. It is very clear that strange and perhaps dangerous thi…

I would like to publicly commend @sama and @OpenAI for this taking it at face value. It is very clear that strange and perhaps dangerous things are happening and our systems are not ready for this. Mo

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If alignment issues are becoming big enough that OpenAI is willing to commit 20% of research inference compute to chain-of-thought monitorin…

If alignment issues are becoming big enough that OpenAI is willing to commit 20% of research inference compute to chain-of-thought monitoring, that suggests that alignment issues are becoming a pretty

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Inference-Time Mitigation of Adversarial Political Bias in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.14629v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) become the mainstay for information retrieval and summarization tasks, ensuring that they are always non-partisan and

Measuring Obedience to Authority Across Large Language Models with the Milgram Paradigm

arXiv:2608.16177v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as agents that operate equipment, execute instructions, and act inside institutional hierarchie

Model Hypnosis: Strong control of AI via additive subliminal effects

arXiv:2608.16834v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We demonstrate that AI models are broadly susceptible to a phenomenon we call model hypnosis, in which individually weak and seemingly irrelevant cues

Multi-Channel Feature Fusion and Monte Carlo Dropout for Uncertainty-Aware Diabetic Retinopathy Grading

arXiv:2608.15234v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated five-stage diabetic retinopathy (DR) grading requires more than high accuracy alone. Medical-grade deployment calls for lesion-aware preproc

Q-based Variational Inverse Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.16888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of safe and beneficial AI requires that systems can learn and act in accordance with human preferences. However, explicitly specifying t

REFLEX: Reflexive Equilibrium Fixed-point Learning for Endogenous eXchanges

arXiv:2608.16155v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In over-the-counter corporate bond markets, dealers compete for client trades by quoting bid and ask prices. Tighter quotes attract more business, but a

Software Engineering for AI-driven Building Operation

arXiv:2608.16237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Building operations are energy-inefficient. Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven control systems promise benefits through optimization and predictive c

Some Modifications to Our End-to-End UAV Planner

arXiv:2608.15741v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The one-stage planner YOPO maps a single depth image and the robot state directly to a set of candidate trajectories, trained by backpropagating through

STAG-VIO: Stabilized Prompt-to-Geometry Interface for Robust Dynamic Visual--Inertial Odometry

arXiv:2411.19289v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Dynamic visual-inertial odometry (VIO) requires reliable suppression of motion-corrupted measurements, yet prior semantic-assisted approaches depend

The Ethical Decision Head: Operationalizing Normative Ethics in Autonomous Vehicles via Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

arXiv:2608.16710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As autonomous vehicles (AVs) approach Level 4 and Level 5 operational capability [SAE International, 2018], their on- board decision systems must handle

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TRACE: Trajectory Aware Reasoning for Multi-Turn Adversarial Conversation Evaluation

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arXiv:2608.15594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-turn jailbreak attacks have emerged as a critical safety threat to LLMs, as harmful objectives are decomposed across a sequence of apparently beni

TwinGridShield: Consequence-Aware Runtime Authorization for LLM Grid-Agent Actions

arXiv:2608.15391v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-assisted energy-management tools can translate natural-language context into structured grid commands, but syntactic validity

Visualizing Uncertainty-to-Action Composition for Human Oversight

arXiv:2608.16428v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence systems often disclose uncertainty, yet they rarely make clear what response that uncertainty should trigger. Most uncertainty

Where Does Retrieval Fail? Evaluating RAG Architectures for Agricultural Advisory

arXiv:2608.14886v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval quality in RAG systems is commonly reported as a single aggregate score, which can hide large differences across query types and language cond

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CORAL: Curriculum-Optimized Reward Adaptation for LiDAR-Based Goal-Directed Urban Driving

arXiv:2608.14332v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning is promising for autonomous urban driving, but long-horizon goal-directed navigation asks a policy to acquire several competing

PILOT: Privileged Imitation Learning for End-to-End Motion Planning of Autonomous UAVs under Partial Observability

arXiv:2608.14082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous navigation in cluttered environments is hampered by partial observability and dynamic constraints. This paper presents PILOT, a constraint-aw

Some thoughts on Dario’s post: 1. Dario does not actually address Gavin Baker’s account of what he said – something he could easily deny if …

Some thoughts on Dario’s post: 1. Dario does not actually address Gavin Baker’s account of what he said – something he could easily deny if it were inaccurate. 2. Dario claims his critics live in a “b

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SSP: An Event-Matched Syn2Sim2Phy Cross-Domain Evaluation Framework for Autonomous Driving VLA Models

arXiv:2608.14024v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models for autonomous driving jointly produce scene interpretation, language-based reasoning, and driving trajectories. Exi

Structure-Guided Spatiotemporal Attention Graph Neural Network for Traffic Flow Prediction

arXiv:2608.14177v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep spatiotemporal models integrating graph convolutions and attention mechanisms have demonstrated excellent performance in network-level traffic fl

JUST IN: OpenAI shuts down team responsible for assessing whether its AI models could pose 'catastrophic risks,' FT reports.

OpenAI has shut down the internal team that evaluated whether its AI models could pose “catastrophic risks,” a decision reported by the Financial Times on August 16, 2026. The move was announced via a

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16 Aug 2026

The FT reports this weekend that OpenAI quietly disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month, with responsibilities for individu…

The FT reports this weekend that OpenAI quietly disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month, with responsibilities for individual areas of the preparedness framework distributed across ot

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15 Aug 2026

APEX: Learning Adaptive High-Platform Traversal for Humanoid Robots

arXiv:2602.11143v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humanoid locomotion has advanced rapidly with deep reinforcement learning (DRL), enabling robust feet-based traversal over uneven terrain. Yet platf

Model Releases

Behavioral Reprogramming of Open-Weights Models: Cognitive Plasticity and Alignment Bounds

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arXiv:2608.13069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are predominantly aligned to function as passive, sycophantic assistants. We challenge this default paradigm by empirically

Chance-constrained selection of sequential intervention strategies from counterfactual estimates

arXiv:2608.13209v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many operational decisions are sequences of interventions under a cumulative resource limit, such as a maintenance schedule within a crew-hour budget.

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Don't Want Your LLM to Recommend Nuclear Strike? Try Asking It in Japanese

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arXiv:2608.12373v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used in strategic and advisory contexts, yet their safety alignment is typically evaluated in English only. We te

Drive-to-Music: Context-Aware Generative Audio for In-Vehicle Experiences

arXiv:2608.12615v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In-vehicle music can serve as an adaptive interface to enhance driver experience, attention, and well-being. We present Drive-to-Music, a context-awar

In Silico Study for Optimizing Intensity and Focality Electrode Configurations for Directional DBS Under Uncertainty Using Metaheuristic L1L1 Method

arXiv:2506.13452v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Background and Objective: As Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) advances toward directional leads and optimization-based current steering, selecting

Jagged Judges: Epistemic Stability Under Silence, Pressure, and Persistence

arXiv:2608.12645v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM judges have become central infrastructure for model evaluations, online grading, and reward modeling. Judges are typically validated by accuracy on

Predictive Relative-Velocity Steering for Safe Robotic Manipulator Teleoperation in Dynamic Environments

arXiv:2608.13284v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in teleoperation have enabled robotic manipulators to perform dexterous, human-arm-like motions. However, human operators may fail to av

REHEARSE: Experiential Rehearsal for Verbal Confidence Calibration in Large Language Models

arXiv:2508.14390v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often express verbal confidence that is poorly aligned with actual correctness, limiting their reliability in saf

Research Assistant: AstraZeneca's Agentic System for R&D

arXiv:2608.12395v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We describe Research Assistant, an internal LLM-based system developed at AstraZeneca to help scientists and clinicians explore biomedical questions acr