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Sim4RAD: A MATLAB Toolkit for Design-Phase Sizing, Actuator Selection and URDF-Model Verification of Serial Robotic Arms

arXiv:2610.17534v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Actuator sizing is an early and consequential decision: joint torque and velocity specifications fix the motors, gearboxes and brakes before any CAD mod

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Simple Baselines are Competitive with Code Evolution

DGX agent

arXiv:2602.16805v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Code evolution is a family of techniques that rely on large language models to search through possible computer programs by evolving existing

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Simple Linear Corrections for Compression in Late Interaction

arXiv:2610.14196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Late-interaction (multi-vector) models represent documents using a set of token-level vectors, providing a middle ground between cross-encoders and de

Simpler and Stronger Baselines for All-in-One Image Restoration

arXiv:2512.10581v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current methods for all-in-one image restoration increasingly rely on complex mechanisms, such as Mixture-of-Experts or prompt learning, to handle d

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Local Ai

Simplifying and Improving On-Policy Distillation for Few-Step Diffusion

arXiv:2610.18472v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Few-step distillation reduces the sampling cost of diffusion and flow models, but existing approaches often require auxiliary score models or specialize

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SIRNET: Causal Adaptation of Pretrained Embeddings for Semiparametric Treatment-Effect Estimation Under Surrogacy

arXiv:2610.14011v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern experiments increasingly produce rich post-treatment objects---such as text, images, and video---that may provide early surrogate signals for out

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Skill-Aware Diffusion for Generalizable Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2601.11266v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robust generalization in robotic manipulation is crucial for robots to adapt flexibly to diverse environments. Existing methods usually improve gene

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SkillScaffold: Scaffolding Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Policy-Adaptive Skill Credit Assignment and Selective Injection

arXiv:2610.18807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) enables large language models (LLMs) to learn from multi-turn interactions with verifiable outcomes. Textual skills

Skin Tone in the Wild: A Dataset and Benchmark for 10-tone MST Classification

arXiv:2603.02475v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Skin tone classification is a fundamental task in computer vision, with applications in quantifying medical features, assessing demographic represen

Tutorials

SkipWorld: Latent Skip Planning with Distilled World Models for Efficient Visual Navigation

arXiv:2610.18135v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World-model-based visual navigation enables action planning by predicting future states under candidate trajectories. However, long-horizon rollout rema

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SLDBench v2: Active Scaling Law Discovery

arXiv:2610.16297v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling laws predict large-model performance from small experiments, but finding a reliable law itself requires costly experiments. SLDBench tests wheth

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SLEM: Spectrum-Aware Latent Expert Merging

arXiv:2610.16484v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models scale model capacity efficiently by activating only a small subset of experts for each input, while still requiring all

SlideDP: Scaling Host-Resident LLM Fine-Tuning Across Multiple GPUs

arXiv:2609.34162v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Host-resident layer streaming enables full-parameter LLM fine-tuning beyond GPU memory, but data-parallel ranks compete for shared host resources. Rep

SliderEdit++: Improved Slider Trajectories in Instruction-Based Image Editing

arXiv:2610.14253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Slider-based control aims to give users continuous, fine-grained control over the intensity of individual edits in instruction-based image editing. Howe

SlotAVS: Object-Centric Audio-Visual Segmentation via Bi-Modal Slot Attention

arXiv:2610.15764v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) requires predicting pixel-wise masks of sounding objects by grounding acoustic signals in visual space. In multi-source

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Small area learning

arXiv:2610.15953v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Small area estimation (SAE) traditionally borrows strength across domains through a prespecified working model. We introduce small area learning (SAL)

Smartphone-Based, Field-Deployed AI Inspection System for Power Distribution Infrastructure

arXiv:2610.17620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Routine inspection of power distribution infrastructure remains challenging for utilities operating geographically dispersed networks, where conventiona

Smoothness Ranks Skill, Not Success: An Audit of Published Trajectory-Smoothness Curation Metrics Under Episode-Length Controls

arXiv:2610.17427v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trajectory smoothness has been proposed as a cheap, training-free signal for curating imitation-learning demonstrations, most recently by rinse, which i

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Social Priors: Descriptions of AI Users Shape How Language Models Trust and Cooperate

arXiv:2610.16946v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Descriptions of how people use AI are becoming training data for the next generation of models. We ask whether what a model reads about its users change

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SocraticRepair: Planning-Guided Socratic Tutoring for Program Debugging and Misconception Repair

arXiv:2610.15204v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used in computer science education. However, the teaching abilities of even the most powerful LLMs are limited:

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Soft MPCritic: Value-Based Reinforcement Learning for Non-Differentiable Predictive Control

arXiv:2604.01477v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) and model predictive control (MPC) offer complementary strengths, yet existing MPC-RL frameworks commonly rely on gradie

Soft Teacher Forcing

arXiv:2610.17189v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Soft tokens have so far been used to replace discrete chain-of-thought in latent reasoning methods. These approaches typically require multi-stage tra

Softmax-Free Attention in Spiking Transformers as the Zero-Temperature Limit of Two-Level Systems

arXiv:2610.15968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spiking Transformers achieve energy efficiency by discarding softmax normalization in favor of thresholded, binary attention. However, this removal brea

SoK: Rethinking Membership Inference in Tabular Machine Learning

arXiv:2610.18486v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) are currently the dominant approach to evaluating privacy in machine learning applications. Despite their significan

Agents

SolarWinds’ Avior pairs AI agents with deterministic execution for enterprise IT

Observability and information technology management software company SolarWinds Worldwide LLC today unveiled Avior, a standalone agentic artificial intelligence system built to take on first-line oper

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Solvating machine-learning interatomic potentials for solution-phase chemistry

arXiv:2610.17226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are trained on gas-phase data, which limits their use for chemistry in solution. Here, we introdu

Industry

Sources: Anthropic told investors that its revenue jumped to 16.8B in Q3, up from 11.5B in Q2, and that the company was profitable on an adjusted basis in Q3 (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic told investors that its revenue jumped to 16.8B in Q3, up from 11.5B in Q2, and that the company was profitable on an adjusted basis in Q3 — Rapid growth is slower

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Industry

Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in China in December via iOS 27.3, with features first rolled out in 2024; the launch won't include Siri AI (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in China in December via iOS 27.3, with features first rolled out in 2024; the launch won't include Siri AI — Apple Inc. is g

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SOVABench: A Vehicle Surveillance Action Retrieval Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2601.04824v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automatic identification of events and recurrent behavior analysis are critical for video surveillance. However, most existing content-based video r

SP^2ec: Adaptive Self-Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2610.18735v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative Decoding (SD) has demonstrated its efficacy in accelerating large language model inference, but for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), the diver

SPARCL: Spatially Adaptive Regional Coverage for Active Learning in Chest X-ray Analysis

arXiv:2610.17808v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pixel-level annotation for chest X-ray (CXR) lesion segmentation is expensive, making active learning (AL) essential. However, existing AL strategies fa

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SPARE: Shared Perception and Adaptive Retrieval of Evidence for Streaming Video Understanding

arXiv:2610.14671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Streaming video understanding requires answering questions from the observed video, with evidence drawn from recent observations or earlier events. Hist

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Sparse All-Layer Connector for Domain Generalised Semantic Segmentation

arXiv:2610.15660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Domain generalised semantic segmentation (DGSS) has recently benefited from combining multiple foundation models, such as vision-language and vision fou

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Sparse-TD-JEPA: Improving Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning With Sparse Latent Task Representations

arXiv:2610.14400v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Successor-feature-based zero-shot reinforcement learning methods pre-train a task encoder and successor-feature predictor on offline, reward-free data,

Sparsity Saves Compute, Not Samples: Oracle Inequalities for Dense and Sparse Mixture of Experts

arXiv:2610.15039v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models combine specialized experts through an input-dependent routing mechanism, and their sparse variants underpin many modern

Spatiotemporal Recognition of Abdominal Wall Layers During Optical Trocar Entry

arXiv:2610.14512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Objective. To evaluate whether spatial context and temporal modeling improve tissue recognition during optical trocar entry, where multiple abdominal-wa

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Hardware

$SPCX isn't just building compute faster than every other neocloud It has something none of them have: OPTIONALITY on every GPU it deploys E…

SPCX isn't just building compute faster than every other neocloud It has something none of them have: OPTIONALITY on every GPU it deploys Every GW SpaceX brings online has two paths to revenue: 1. use

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Spectral Considerations on Unsupervised Time-domain EEG Representation Learning with Deep Networks

arXiv:2610.16264v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG) is a non-invasive, scalable source of quantitative biomarkers for the early diagnosis of brain disorders, and deep represen

Spectral Costs of Multinomial and Residual Resampling in High-Dimensional Particle Ensembles: A Free-Probability Analysis

arXiv:2610.16680v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Resampling is the standard remedy against weight degeneracy in particle filters, yet its effect on the spectrum of the particle second-moment matrix i

Spectral-Driven Adaptive-Rank Optimizer for Large Language Model Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

arXiv:2610.16533v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is reshaping how large language models (LLMs) acquire reasoning capabilities, yet the optimizers

Speed-Oblivious Online Scheduling: Knowing (Precise) Speeds is not Necessary

arXiv:2302.00985v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We consider online scheduling on unrelated (heterogeneous) machines in a speed-oblivious setting, where an algorithm is unaware of the exact j

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SpikeOcc: Towards Resilient Multimodal 3D Occupancy Perception via Spiking Experts

arXiv:2610.15745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal 3D occupancy prediction underpins safe autonomous driving through comprehensive scene understanding. However, existing methods have largely p

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Hardware

SplatBus: A Gaussian Splatting Viewer Framework via GPU Interprocess Communication

arXiv:2601.15431v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Radiance field-based rendering methods have attracted significant interest from the computer vision and computer graphics communities. They en

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SPLICE: Sparse Physics Library Identification and Compositional Expansion

arXiv:2610.17029v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural operator splitting composes a library of neural operators, one per physical mechanism, into zero-shot simulators of new equations. Existing appro

Splicing Hints into Reasoning Traces: Learning from Demonstrator Failures

arXiv:2610.13996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards improves mathematical reasoning when a final answer can be checked, but a correct answer does not certify

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Split Conformal Interval Length under Huber Contamination

arXiv:2610.15458v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing analyses of interval length in split conformal prediction largely focus on clean data. However, how contamination at the training and calibrati

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SPROUT: Scaling Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Long-Horizon Software Engineering

arXiv:2610.14405v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has driven substantial progress in coding agents by relying on verified successful trajectories as learning signals. Howev

SQ-CBF: Signed Distance Functions for Reliable Superquadric-Based Safety Filtering

arXiv:2602.11049v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Ensuring safe robot operation in cluttered and dynamic environments remains a fundamental challenge. While control barrier functions (CBFs) provide

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