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YouTube-Occ: Learning Indoor 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction from YouTube Videos

arXiv:2506.18266v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 3D semantic occupancy prediction is crucial for fine-grained scene understanding, yet its advancement in privacy-sensitive indoor environments is fu

6 Aug 2026

A Hierarchical Approach to Imitation Learning for Manipulation Tasks Requiring Time Varying Forces

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arXiv:2608.03103v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion policies have shown strong performance in learning complex, multi-modal behaviors for robotic manipulation. However, their application to co

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5 Aug 2026

A Physics-Flavored Transformer Network for Parametrizing Contraction Dynamics of Engineered Skeletal Muscle Tissues

arXiv:2608.03927v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Engineered Skeletal Muscle Tissues (ESMs) have become a key structure for biomedical disease modeling and pharmacological screening, yet their functiona

A Security-Oriented Lifecycle Model for Large Language Model Systems

arXiv:2608.03626v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are being integrated into critical infrastructure and enterprise workflows at unprecedented scale,yet the lifecycle frameworks g

Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Self-Distilled Reward Shaping

arXiv:2608.03223v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning enables LLM agents to learn through interaction, but sparse trajectory-level rewards reveal success without identifying

AI Alignment and Fiduciary Obligation

arXiv:2608.02660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advanced AI assistants engage users in extended interactions across a widening range of roles, including advice, decision support, collaboration, lear

AI-Assisted Peer Review Across Research Communities: From Reviewer AI Policies to LLM Review Quality

arXiv:2608.03581v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI-assisted peer review is increasingly discussed and adopted as a tool to support the scientific publishing process, yet there is little systematic u

BAP-SQL: Budget-Aware Observation Planning for Agentic Text-to-SQL

arXiv:2608.02876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using agents do not merely consume observations: their actions determine what arrives next. In agentic text-to-SQL, a broad query can spend context

Bimanual Manipulation Within an 8 GB Budget: Zero-Copy Sensing and Quantized ACT on an Entry-Level Jetson

arXiv:2608.03938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bimanual manipulation policies trained with imitation learning are typically evaluated on workstation or datacenter-class GPUs, leaving the cost of depl

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BODHI: Do LLMs Branch Out and Discover Heterogeneous Inferences?

arXiv:2608.02867v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has improved the performance of large language models (LLMs) across a variety of reason

BOW: Training Language Models to Reason Over Plausible Next Words

arXiv:2506.13502v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Next-word prediction (NWP) trains language models against a single observed continuation, even though many contexts admit multiple plausible next wo

Bridging Prediction and Attribution: Identifying Forward and Backward Causal Influence Ranges Using Assimilative Causal Inference

arXiv:2510.21889v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Causal inference identifies cause-and-effect relationships between variables. While traditional approaches rely on data to reveal causal links

CAPE-T2V: Captioner-Anchored Prompt Enhancement toward Two-Sided Conditioning Alignment in Text-to-Video Generation

arXiv:2608.03046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-video (T2V) diffusion transformers (DiTs) are trained with detailed video captions, whereas inference often relies on user prompts rewritten by

CausalOPD: First-Wrong-Step Supervision for Distilling Causal Chain Reasoning

arXiv:2608.03673v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many critical reasoning tasks, including clinical diagnosis, legal judgment, and industrial fault diagnosis, require step-dependent causal chains in whi

Channel-wise Dynamic Knowledge Distillation via Adaptive Sample Generation for Action Recognition

arXiv:2608.03100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge Distillation (KD) offers a promising yet underexplored path for compressing large action recognition models. However, existing KD methods suff

Clinically-Grounded Hierarchical Classification for Consistent Chest X-ray Interpretation

arXiv:2608.03016v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate chest X-ray interpretation is inherently hierarchical. Clinical decisions depend not only on what abnormality is present but where it is situat

CLIP4VI-ReID: Learning Modality-shared Representations via CLIP Semantic Bridge for Visible-Infrared Person Re-identification

arXiv:2511.10309v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper proposes a novel CLIP-driven modality-shared representation learning network named CLIP4VI-ReID for VI-ReID task, which consists of Text

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Constitutional AI is not working. Aligning LLMs is not working. We need a different approach. If society doesn’t place its bets diffe…

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Constitutional AI is not working. Aligning LLMs is not working. We need a different approach. If society doesn’t place its bets differently, we are screwed. Anthropic's Mythos created fake iden

Continue or Replan? Bernoulli-Continuation Policy Learning for Adaptive Horizon Execution

arXiv:2608.03483v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing chunk-based Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models execute a fixed number of actions (i.e., execution horizon) before replanning, turning replan

CROSS: Cascaded Distillation and Dual-Constraint Grounding for Remote Sensing Referring Segmentation

arXiv:2608.03147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) has achieved significant progress through the integration of VLMs and the Segment Anything Model (SA

CT-HEG: A Bidirectional, Timestamp-Attributed Event Graph for ICU In-Hospital Mortality Prediction - An Architectural Ablation Study

arXiv:2608.02663v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate ICU mortality prediction requires modeling irregular clinical observations across heterogeneous entity types. Existing sequence models handle

CVPO: Enhancing LLM Reinforcement Learning Reasoning via Value-Variance Adaptation and Dynamic Curriculum Learning

arXiv:2608.03068v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as an effective method for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, exis

Deferred Exposure of Future Trajectories for Verifiable Reasoning in Autonomous Driving VLMs

arXiv:2608.01755v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for autonomous driving (AD) increasingly utilize chain-of-thought (CoT) supervision to enhance the reason

Disentangling Language Modeling and Boundaries

arXiv:2608.03599v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Byte-level language models are usually argued for on the grounds of robustness, multilingual fairness, and character-level skills. We point to a differe

DiverseDiT++: Quantifying, Analyzing, and Promoting Representation Diversity in Diffusion Transformers

arXiv:2608.03082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have enabled remarkable progress in visual synthesis, benefiting from their superior scalability. To fa

DocTrace: Towards Traceable Long Document VQA via Hierarchical Evidence Graph Reasoning

arXiv:2608.03292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long Document Visual Question Answering (LongDocVQA) requires Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to locate, integrate, and reason over heterogeneo

Don't Peek at the Answer: Outcome-Masked Group Relative Policy Optimization for Label-Free RLVR

arXiv:2608.03119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) improves LLM reasoning but typically relies on ground-truth (GT) answers, limiting scalability. Vo

Model Releases

Don't Walk the Line: Boundary Guidance for Filtered Generation

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arXiv:2510.11834v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative models are increasingly paired with safety classifiers that filter harmful or undesirable outputs. A common strategy is to fine-tun

DRIFT: Derailing Denoising Trajectories of Flow-Matching VLAs with Adversarial Patch Attack

arXiv:2608.03207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow-matching vision-language-action (VLA) models such as pi0 generate robot actions by integrating a learned denoising velocity field, and have been re

DriftWorld: Fast World Modeling through Drifting

arXiv:2607.15065v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Predictive world models enable robots to plan by imagining the outcomes of their actions, but their value for control hinges on generating man

Emulate or Estimate? The Divergent Strengths of Base and Post-Trained Language Models for Opinion Simulation

arXiv:2608.03044v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used to simulate human opinions, but prior work reports conflicting results: some studies find promising alignm

Enhanced Polarization Locking in VCSELs

arXiv:2604.01857v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While optical injection locking (OIL) of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) has been widely studied in the past, the polarizatio

Enhancing Q-Value Updates in Deep Q-Learning via Successor-State Prediction

arXiv:2511.03836v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep Q-Networks (DQNs) estimate future returns by learning from transitions sampled from a replay buffer. However, the target updates in DQN often r

Enhancing VLM Reward Models Through Structure-Aware Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2608.03875v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Designing effective reward functions remains a major bottleneck in Reinforcement Learning (RL). Recent work uses large foundation Vision-Language Mode

EvoHIL: Self-Evolving Reward and Flow-Matched Policy Optimization for Robust Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.03872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning (HIL-RL) enables robots to learn contact-rich manipulation from limited real-world interaction, but deployment

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Fields Medalist Jacob Tsimerman knows MUCH MUCH more about math than I do, or ever will, but I have been studying natural and artificial int…

Fields Medalist Jacob Tsimerman knows MUCH MUCH more about math than I do, or ever will, but I have been studying natural and artificial intelligence for 40 years, and I think his prediction here (“AI

From Routes to Steps: Separating Semantic Progress from Local Execution in Vision-and-Language Navigation

arXiv:2608.03143v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to follow a route-level instruction by executing its constituent steps from egocentric visual obs

GORDON: Graph-based Object-centric Rewards for Decomposition of Long-Horizon Manipulation

arXiv:2608.03753v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning long-horizon manipulation skills with reinforcement learning remains challenging due to the complexity of reward design, the limited guidance o

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GROW: Group-Relative Advantage-Weighted On-Policy Reinforcement Learning of Autoregressive-Diffusion Text-to-Speech model

arXiv:2608.03215v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning for flow-matching text-to-speech is complicated by deterministic ODE sampling: trajectory-level policy-gradient methods typical

HERO: Hierarchical Evidential Reasoning Optimization for Radiology Report Generation via Reason-then-Summarize

arXiv:2601.03321v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have substantially advanced Radiology Report Generation (RRG), yet aligning them through reinforcemen

Hi-Token: Hierarchical Coordinate Tokenization for Generative Visual Grounding

arXiv:2608.03471v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative Vision-Language Models (VLMs) commonly treat bounding-box coordinates as independent output symbols, leaving numerical order and axis semanti

Hi-TTRL: Regulating Consensus with Hints for Test-Time Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.03545v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time reinforcement learning (TTRL) improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models without labeled data by updating the policy with ps

HomoEnsNER: Does Language Alignment Outperform Architectural Complexity in Gujarati Named Entity Recognition?

arXiv:2608.03105v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Named Entity Recognition (NER) for Gujarati remains underexplored, hindered by the absence of capitalization cues, rich morphology, lexical ambiguity, a

Implementing Causal Perception: Competing SCMs and Situated Fairness

arXiv:2608.03917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Causal perception occurs when agents with competing Structural Causal Models (SCMs) of the same system infer different probability distributions, includ

Improved Quantum Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning Under a Generative Model

arXiv:2608.02826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning is a subfield of machine learning that studies how an agent interacts with an environment in order to extract as large a reward

interesting (and completely opposed to @haider1’s take on the same graph) the labs themselves have only modestly changed their predictions…

interesting (and completely opposed to @haider1’s take on the same graph) *the labs themselves* have only modestly changed their predictions on AGI timelines over the last decade. note also that (on a

Interpretable Adaptive Sampling for LLM Test-Time Scaling

arXiv:2608.03961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time scaling improves LLM reasoning by generating and aggregating multiple candidate answers, yet many pipelines use fixed per-query budgets that s

is there a polite synonym for “circle jerk”?

The post contains two distinct snippets. First, user @GaryMarcus asks whether there is a more polite way to refer to “circle jerk.” Second, it shares a (likely satirical) claim that Microsoft’s AI rev