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RELAY: Selective Self-Distillation with Adaptive Hand-off for Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.17623v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rubric-based reinforcement learning grades a response against many written criteria but collapses them into one reward, which discards the detail the ru

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Reliable Risk Estimation with Kernel Mean Matching under Dependent Sampling

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arXiv:2610.18292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Kernel Mean Matching (KMM) estimates risk under covariate shift by reweighting labelled source samples so that their kernel mean embedding matches that

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Reliable Scale-Free Bandits via Empirical Likelihood

arXiv:2610.18055v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study stochastic bandits without knowledge of reward scales or tail parameters. Almost-sure regret guarantees describe eventual learning but do not

ReMAP: Lossless Residual Neural Lifting for Scalable MAP Inference in Arbitrary-Order Markov Random Fields

arXiv:2411.18954v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Maximum a posteriori inference in a finite Markov random field is generally NP-hard. We study an instance-wise optimizer that minimizes the exact mu

Remember alphaXiv? Their new research agents are told to report on users without telling them with no disclosure [D]

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I was curious about OpenResearch by alphaXiv. 'Turn your coding agents into research agents'? Sounds great! Just what I needed to save time on my experiments. So I copy pasted their repo into Claude a

Remembering What Matters for Long-Horizon Robotic World Models

arXiv:2610.14583v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive robot video world models based on discrete visual tokens remain unreliable over long rollout horizons. Retaining the entire generated h

Removing the Compute Bottleneck for Event-based Visual Place Recognition with Spiking Neural Networks

arXiv:2610.16022v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neuromorphic sensing and computing promise low latency and high energy efficiency for robotics, yet most event-based visual place recognition (VPR) pipe

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RepProbe: Can Video Language Models Count Repeated Actions? A Diagnostic Benchmark

arXiv:2610.18844v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Repetition counting requires identifying and enumerating action cycles over time. While state-of-the-art video language models describe actions fluently

Representation Drift in Continual Learning: LoRA versus N-gram Memory

arXiv:2610.14921v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A language model that keeps learning online must not slowly erode its own base capabilities. We ask which part of a modern LLM should absorb continual u

Representation Geometry and Inductive Biases in Quantum Classifiers across Classical Visual Benchmarks

arXiv:2610.17722v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum Machine Learning (QML) has a theoretical advantage over classical algorithms for specific synthetic data that is computationally hard. However

Representational Difference Distillation

arXiv:2610.15997v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge distillation transfers representational knowledge from a large teacher network to a compact student. Existing relational and contrastive dis

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RePrior: Measurement-Reconciled Prior Correction for Sparse-View CBCT Reconstruction

arXiv:2610.14102v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse-view cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is severely under-constrained by limited X-ray projections. Learned reconstruction can provide comple

Local Ai

Requests of a Feather Must Flock Together: Batch Size vs. Prefix Homogeneity in LLM Inference

arXiv:2605.06046v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Auto-regressive token generation in large language models is memory-bound because it requires 'attending to' key and value tensors (KV cache) of all

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RES-MR: Risk-Aware Reasoning for Explainable and Safe Medication Recommendation

arXiv:2610.14474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medication recommendations seek to deliver personalized drug combinations based on patients' clinical information, where ensuring transparent decision-m

Resample the Answer: Where to Spend Test-Time Compute in Recursive Reasoning

arXiv:2610.16427v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recursive reasoning models such as the Tiny Recursive Model (TRM) iteratively refine two latent states: an answer state y, decoded into the output, and

Rescuing Points Trapped Inside Incorrect Decision Regions: A target for Evaluating and Improving Forward-Forward Learning

arXiv:2610.16347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forward-Forward learning replaces end-to-end backpropagation with local, layer-wise training objectives. Its variants are evaluated primarily by classif

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ResearchFlow-Eval: Tracing the Execution Gap in End-to-End Multi-Claim Autoresearch

arXiv:2610.18088v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoresearch systems increasingly undertake entire research projects. In practice, scientific research requires systems to pursue multiple interdepend

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Residual Compliant Policy: Learning Compliant Policies from Few Demonstrations

arXiv:2610.14035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-rich manipulation requires a robot to be precise in free space to establish the intended contacts, and compliant once in contact to avoid excess

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Resource-Efficient 3D Shape and Orientation Estimation of Road Users using Roadside RGB Camera and 3D Radar

arXiv:2610.18417v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end deep learning pipelines for camera-radar 3D object detection are well established in driver assistance systems and autonomous vehicles; howev

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RespFocus: Learning Temporal Evidence for Weakly Supervised Respiratory Sound Classification

arXiv:2610.15702v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Respiratory auscultation provides a low-cost means of assessing pulmonary function, yet transient crackles and sustained wheezes can be difficult to rec

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RESTA: Time-Scaling Augmentation for Data-Efficient Robot Imitation Learning

arXiv:2610.18163v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulation policies trained through imitation learning commonly rely on costly demonstrations recorded in one task direction and at one temporal

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ReTerm: Recovery Training for Self-Improving Terminal Agents

arXiv:2610.18484v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Terminal agents have shown strong abilities in complex coding tasks. However, they often struggle to recover from errors during long-running execution

Rethinking Activation Functions: Reducing Bias Can Improve Learning

arXiv:2610.14500v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many widely used activation functions, including ReLU, GELU, Swish, and Sigmoid, produce predominantly positive outputs, resulting in a nonzero post-act

Rethinking Human Intent-to-CAD: Parametric CAD Model Generation via Cooperative Multi-Task Alignment and Spatial-Aware Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.15681v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parametric Computer-Aided-Design (CAD) modeling from human intent remains challenging, particularly during the conceptual design stage, where design goa

Rethinking Langevin Thompson Sampling from A Stochastic Approximation Perspective

arXiv:2510.05023v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Langevin-based Thompson Sampling (TS) methods for multi-armed bandits use likelihood gradients to approximate posterior samples when exact sampling

Rethinking LLM-Guided Visual Question Answering: Does Deeper Knowledge Integration Really Help?

arXiv:2610.17079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires reasoning that extends beyond visible image content, demanding external commonsense and factual

Rethinking Opinion Measurement Interfaces for Human-in-the-Loop Optimization

arXiv:2610.14757v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human-in-the-loop optimization refers to systems that present choices to a human decision-maker and query their judgment to optimize system parameters

Rethinking Projector Training in Multimodal LLMs

arXiv:2610.18598v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal LLMs are typically trained by first aligning a vision encoder with a language model via projector training on large image-caption datasets, f

Rethinking Supervision in Document Unwarping: A Self-consistent Flow-free Approach

arXiv:2610.15445v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In recent years, the proliferation of smartphones has led to an upsurge in the digitization of document files via these portable devices. However, image

ReTrace: Cross-Stage Failure Attribution for Self-Improving Robotic Manipulation

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arXiv:2610.15814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose multimodal foundation models are increasingly capable of directly controlling robots, yet improving their manipulation capabilities thro

Retraining-Free Depth Pruning of Vision Transformers: A Cross Domain Study of Layer Redundancy

arXiv:2610.15005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer architectures have achieved strong results in natural language processing and computer vision, but their deployment is limited by high compu

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Retrievable Gradients: Continual Post-Training Without Cumulative Weight Drift

arXiv:2606.15734v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continual post-training enables models to absorb emerging knowledge after deployment, but repeatedly updating shared parameters can accumulate

RetroPlanner: Multi-Route Expansion and Multi-Objective Reasoning for LLM-Based Retrosynthesis Planning

arXiv:2610.16391v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-step retrosynthesis planning is often considered solved once a route to purchasable starting materials is found, but such a route should also be

Revisited Support Vector Machines: A Unified Joint Optimization Framework with Nystrom Approximation for Scalable Adaptive Learning

arXiv:2610.15498v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The theoretical elegance of Support Vector Machines (SVMs), grounded in statistical learning theory, establishes them as a reference for robust classifi

Revisiting Error Feedback for Model Quantization

arXiv:2610.18139v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study causal error-feedback coefficients as design variables for model quantization. Modeling instantaneous quantization errors as independent, zero-

Revisiting Natural Language Prompts from Large Language Models for Open-Vocabulary Video Recognition

arXiv:2610.16666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have shown great success in image tasks, however, applying CLIP to open-vocabulary video recognition poses chall

Revisiting the 16x Pretraining Compute Gap between Diffusion and Autoregressive Language Models

arXiv:2610.17590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) have attracted wide attention for their fast, parallel decoding, but they are believed to be far less efficient to trai

Reviving Stale Updates: Data-Free Knowledge Distillation for Asynchronous Federated Learning

arXiv:2511.00655v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients without sharing raw data, yet its scalability is limited by

Reward-Aligned Distillation

arXiv:2610.14572v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models, but remains computationally expensive and s

RF Fingerprinting of DSP Implementations using Machine Learning: An Over-the-Air Case Study

arXiv:2610.15494v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Radio frequency fingerprinting aims to identify transmitters by exploiting small differences in the emitted signal waveform. Common approaches exploit

RFWeave: Learning Wireless Propagation Across Scenes and Transceiver Configurations

arXiv:2610.16656v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wireless propagation modeling is foundational to the evaluation and design of modern communication systems. To achieve accurate wireless propagation p

RIECNN: Real-Time Image Enhanced CNN for Traffic Sign Recognition

arXiv:2610.15127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic sign recognition plays a crucial role in the development of autonomous cars to reduce the accident rate and promote road safety. It has been a n

Riemannian Graph Tokenizer for Structural Knowledge Transfer

arXiv:2610.15427v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models are at the forefront of artificial intelligence. A tokenizer, converting the raw input into discrete representations that the model ca

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RIFT: Token Influence Follows the Path of Least Resistance

arXiv:2610.16349v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Which context tokens drive a language model's answer? Graph-based tools such as attention rollout and attention flow answer this from a single forward

Risk-Averse Inference-Time Diffusion Model Alignment with Finite-Sample Guarantees

arXiv:2610.17579v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inference-time alignment steers diffusion models toward downstream objectives without costly fine-tuning, but existing methods typically optimize expe

RM-WAM: Reliable Memory-Augmented World Action Models for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2610.15305v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) improve robotic manipulation by jointly predicting future visual states and actions, yet most existing methods make decisions

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RoboBugBench: Benchmarking Automated Repair of Real Robot Software Under an Audited Behavioral Oracle

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arXiv:2610.16369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language agents increasingly modify robot software, but whether they can repair it is unmeasured, because the domain supplies no oracle to inherit: a ro

RoboFake: Are Deepfake Detectors Ready for Humanoid Face Robots?

arXiv:2610.14269v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid face robots can now move their lips in sync with speech and show detailed facial expressions. Give such a robot the face of a real person and d

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