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The Many Morals of AI: The cautionary bias of North American news narratives in global perspective

arXiv:2610.18573v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The stories told about artificial intelligence (AI) play a central role in shaping public understanding, policy debates, and expectations about techno

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The Smart Buildings Challenge: Learning Foundation Models for Real-World Optimization at Scale

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arXiv:2610.18511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Buildings cause nearly 40% of carbon emissions in the US. Of total building emissions, HVAC systems are responsible for approximately 40-60% and account

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Token Utility for On-Policy Distillation via Local Trust-Region Optimization

arXiv:2610.18883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Token-selection methods for on-policy distillation (OPD) prioritize student-visited positions using diverse signals, including uncertainty, teacher-stud

Topology-Preserving Multi-Usage Pipe Centerline Refinement under Permanent Tubular Occupancy

arXiv:2610.19403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discrete multi-group pipe routers place channels on a grid or coarse graph. The resulting centerlines are topologically feasible but typically contain m

Towards Efficient Simultaneous Inverse Text Normalization with Pretrained Text-to-Text Language Model and Read-Tag-Write Policy

arXiv:2610.19492v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Streaming Inverse Text Normalization (ITN) is vital for converting spoken-form outputs from streaming Automatic Speech Recognition into formatted writte

Training Language Models to Fail Gracefully

arXiv:2610.20401v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning makes language models better at solving tasks, but the same mechanism also rewards guessing. When success is the only way to earn

Transparent Information Flow Modeling for Role-Aware AI Act Assessment

arXiv:2610.16916v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act introduces a structured framework for governing high-risk AI systems, emphasizing transparency, risk ma

Tree-Structured Synergy of Large Language Models and Bayesian Optimization for Efficient CASH

arXiv:2601.12355v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: To lower the expertise barrier in machine learning, the AutoML community has focused on the CASH problem, which jointly automates algorithm selectio

Trust Hinders Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment

arXiv:2610.15136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trust calibration remains the dominant framing of AI-assisted decision making: the goal is to close the gap between perceived and actual trustworthiness

Trustworthy AI Must Account for Interactions

arXiv:2504.07170v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Trustworthy AI encompasses many aspirational aspects for aligning AI systems with human values, including fairness, privacy, robustness, explainabil

Uncertainty-Driven Self-Play for Robust Multi-Agent Driving Policies

arXiv:2610.19714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning robust driving policies that generalize beyond their training domain remains a central challenge in motion planning. We propose an uncertainty-

Using Evidence-Centered Design to Guide Prompt Engineering in Measurement: An Illustration with Automated Essay Scoring

arXiv:2610.15231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models, particularly large language models (LLMs), are increasingly used in educational settings for tasks su

VASPO: Self-Distillation with Privileged Value Estimation

arXiv:2610.20516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation provides dense supervision for reasoning models via a privileged self-teacher. However, this supervision reflects local toke

VC-OPD: Visual Counterfactual On-Policy Distillation for Grounded Vision-Language Reasoning

arXiv:2610.14939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GRPO-style reinforcement learning has advanced vision-language reasoning, but its sequence-level rewards provide limited credit assignment for individua

Verifier-Grounded Agentic RL for Provably Correct Code

arXiv:2610.19298v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning for code usually rewards passing tests, which a model can do while remaining wrong on the inputs the tests do not cover. A progra

Vision: 'What Don't I Know About User's Preferences?' How Uncertainty Estimation Improves Proactive Assistant Alignment

arXiv:2610.15948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Proactive Smart Assistants (PSAs) increasingly use general knowledge, learned patterns from group-level data, patterns from individual user's data, and

VLRLA: Deployment-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language-Action Models through In-Context Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.19517v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models connect visual perception and language understanding with robot control, providing a foundation for instruction-co

VLX-Go: Robust Embodied Tracking through Multi-Stage Learning and On-Policy Refinement

arXiv:2610.19361v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied visual tracking requires a robot to identify a designated target from visual observations and control its own motion to follow that target th

VQEL: Enabling Self-Play in Emergent Language Games via Agent-Internal Vector Quantization

arXiv:2503.04940v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Emergent Language (EL) focuses on the emergence of communication among artificial agents. Although symbolic communication channels more closel

WeatherBridge: Forecast-Aware Multi-Source Input Adaptation for Pretrained Weather Forecasting Models

arXiv:2610.14863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data-driven weather forecasting models are commonly trained on ERA5, yet operational deployment must use timely initial states from physics-based numeri

WeFair: Fidelity-Aware Alignment from Human Feedback for Personalized Query Rewriting in Short-Video Search

arXiv:2610.16927v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Short-video search requires compact query rewriters that infer personalized intent from brief, ambiguous queries under strict latency constraints. The c

WeGR: Unified Generative Retrieval for Industrial Search Systems in WeChat

arXiv:2610.16979v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative retrieval (GR) offers a promising paradigm for industrial search by unifying candidate generation within an autoregressive framework. Howev

What Happens to the Goal? Distinct Failures of Policy Alignment in Goal Misgeneralization

arXiv:2610.19731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Goal misgeneralization is a common failure mode in which an agent behaves competently out of distribution but does not pursue the intended goal. However

What Matters for World Modeling in Vision-Language-Action Models?

arXiv:2610.19825v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Integrating world models into Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) has emerged as a promising direction, enabling policies to anticipate future dynami

When and How Order-Flow Interventions Work After Dealers Adapt

arXiv:2610.18158v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning dealer agents can settle on persistently wide quotes, raising what customers pay to trade. A venue can route more orders to tighter quotes, but

When Does Momentum Help in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards?

arXiv:2610.20413v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Momentum is a classical tool for accelerating convex optimization and a standard component of modern large language model training. Yet recent empirical

When Pairwise Preferences Cycle: A Reliability-Anchored Preference Walk for Video GRPO

arXiv:2610.20089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pairwise preference feedback has become a widely adopted supervision signal for reinforcement learning in video generation models, as pairwise compariso

Where to Start, How to Move: Analyzing Curricula under GRPO for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

arXiv:2610.19349v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) provides no reward-relative learning signal when all rollouts receive identical rewards. In long-horizon tas

Who Should We Listen to More? Welfare-Aware Preference Acquisition for Pluralistic Alignment

arXiv:2610.19035v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pluralistic alignment needs to accommodate diverse preferences under limited human feedback. Using AI simulators to label preference comparisons reduc

A CaLLM Judge is a Better Judge: Mitigating Bias in LLM-as-a-judge

arXiv:2610.18108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as judges to predict which of two candidate answers a human evaluator would prefer, providing a scala

A Concept-informed Interpretable Artificial Intelligence Framework for Breast Ultrasound Diagnosis

arXiv:2610.16128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most existing artificial intelligence systems for breast ultrasound rely primarily on image-driven prediction, with limited incorporation of the knowled

A Few More Tokens Ahead: Reinforcing Parallelism in Diffusion LLMs

arXiv:2610.18200v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parallel generation is widely regarded as an inherent advantage of diffusion large language models. Yet our fixed-quota evaluation of four representativ

A Production-Grade, High-Efficiency Agentic RL Framework for Frontier LLMs with Validated Recipes

arXiv:2610.16352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a critical phase in the post-training pipeline of large language models (LLMs). As the frontier of LLM capabi

A Sense of Proprioception in Language Models

arXiv:2610.17495v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In humans, proprioception corresponds to the sense of self-movement or position, e.g. understanding the position of one's arm. This sense is often less

A Survey of Flow Matching in Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.16275v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow Matching (FM) has recently emerged as a principled and efficient generative modeling framework for reinforcement learning (RL), enabling expressive

A unified three-branch deep learning framework for automated detection and counting of wildlife in aerial imagery

arXiv:2610.17067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automating aerial wildlife surveys requires reliable animal detection, consistent delineation of observation strips, and correction for repeated coverag

Acceptable Misalignment

arXiv:2610.16881v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: There is a specific challenge designers face in developing autonomous robots capable of open-ended learning. This challenge is how one can develop suc

ACCRUE: Continual Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for Robot Foundation Models

arXiv:2610.18596v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training improves robot foundation models (RFMs) beyond their demonstrations, but real-world deployment demands more:

Across Viewpoints and Time: Trajectory-Generalizable Physical Attacks on World Models and Video Understanding Models

arXiv:2610.15343v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models and video understanding models are increasingly deployed in dynamic visual environments, yet their robustness to physical adversarial threa

Act4R: Action-conditioned 4D reconstruction for kinematics-free control

arXiv:2610.17462v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Precise control of movement across various robotic embodiments is a longstanding challenge. Modeling complex robotic structures requires significant tim

Active Exploration in Bayesian Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2404.01867v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Efficiently tackling multiple tasks within complex environments, such as those found in robot manipulation, remains an ongoing challenge in ro

AdaGamma: State-Dependent Discounting for Temporal Adaptation in Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2605.06149v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The discount factor in reinforcement learning controls both the effective planning horizon and the strength of bootstrapping, yet most deep RL metho

Adaptive Role Assignment and Controlled Feature Reconstruction for Federated Image Semantic Communication

arXiv:2610.15623v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hybrid federated semantic communication enables user equipment (UEs) to contribute model updates or semantic features under a shared training framework.

Adversarial Gradient Forcing for Robust Few-Step Autoregressive Video Generation

arXiv:2610.14553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive video generation models generate videos sequentially, with each new block conditioned on previously generated blocks. By training on the

Agentic Robot Creation through Generation, Verification, and Revision

arXiv:2610.17881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can an AI agent turn high-level user intent into a functioning robot and teach it how to behave? We study this question from two complementary aspects:

Algorithmic Fairness Over Time: Advances & Prospects

arXiv:2610.15015v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the presence of feedback loops, algorithmic decisions at one time step can influence observed data in subsequent steps, potentially introducing selec

Align-VAE: Aligning Attention and Geometry in VecSet VAEs for 3D Reconstruction

arXiv:2610.14734v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Set-based variational autoencoders (VecSet VAEs) represent 3D shapes as compact sets of latent tokens. Although each token originates from a query at a

AlignPred: Error-Controlled KV Cache Compression via Alignment and Predictive Coding

arXiv:2610.17970v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-running agents retain KV caches across turns and sessions for hours or days. Compressing these persistent caches requires reducing storage while