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Latest cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL preprints from arXiv

From Fixed to Free Cameras: Calibration-Free View-Robust Vision-Language-Action Model

Real-world robot deployment rarely maintains the training-stage camera setup, where cameras often experience repositioning or remounting depending on actual scenarios. Existing view-robust Vision-Language-Action (VLA)...

Wenhao Li, Xueying Jiang, Quanhao Qian et al. cs.CV 21h ago
Weak-to-Strong Generalization via Direct On-Policy Distillation

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is a powerful recipe for improving language-model reasoning, but it is expensive to repeat on every new strong model because the target model must generate many ro...

Shiyuan Feng, Huan-ang Gao, Haohan Chi et al. cs.LG 21h ago
Interpretable Human-Label-Free Deep Learning for Real-Bogus Classification with Uncertainty Quantification

Time-domain surveys generate many transient candidates, making Real-Bogus classification a critical step in automated discovery pipelines. Reliable labels are costly, while community labels can be noisy and survey-dep...

Raphaël Bonnet-Guerrini, Bruno Sanchez, Dominique Fouchez et al. astro-ph.IM 21h ago
LLM-as-a-Verifier: A General-Purpose Verification Framework

Scaling pre-training, post-training, and test-time compute have become the central paradigms for improving the capabilities of LLMs. In this work, we identify verification, the ability to determine the correctness of...

Jacky Kwok, Shulu Li, Pranav Atreya et al. cs.AI 21h ago
Search Beyond What Can Be Taught: Evolving the Knowledge Boundary in Agentic Visual Generation

Visual generators excel at rendering, but they confidently fabricate what they do not know. User requests are unbounded, evolving, and deeply long-tailed: new characters, trending entities, post-cutoff events, and mor...

Haozhe Wang, Weijia Feng, Jinpeng Yu et al. cs.CV 21h ago
What Does a Discrete Diffusion Model Learn?

What does a discrete diffusion model learn: a denoiser, a score ratio, or a bridge plug-in predictor? At the level of jump rates, these are one object in different coordinates, and reading a neural network in the wron...

Rodrigo Casado Noguerales, Bernhard Schölkopf, Thomas Hofmann et al. cs.LG 21h ago
TabPack: Efficient Hyperparameter Ensembles for Tabular Deep Learning

In deep learning for tabular data, efficient ensembles of multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) have recently emerged as effective and practical architectures. Existing methods of this kind use the same hyperparameters for al...

Yury Gorishniy, Akim Kotelnikov, Ivan Rubachev et al. cs.LG 21h ago
CompactionRL: Reinforcement Learning with Context Compaction for Long-Horizon Agents

Long-horizon agentic LLMs are increasingly limited by finite context windows, as extended interaction trajectories can exceed the maximum context length before a task is completed. Context compaction offers a natural...

Yujiang Li, Zhenyu Hou, Yi Jing et al. cs.LG 21h ago
Cortex: A Bidirectionally Aligned Embodied Agent Framework for Long-horizon Manipulation

While recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show promise toward generalist manipulation policies, they struggle with long-horizon tasks due to their Markovian nature-relying solely on current observations. Hierar...

Jiaqi Peng, Xiqian Yu, Delin Feng et al. cs.RO 21h ago
Fitted Occupancy-Ratio Evaluation without Bellman Completeness

Occupancy ratios correct distribution shift in offline reinforcement learning and are central to off-policy evaluation. Existing primal-dual and minimax methods typically estimate these ratios by enforcing occupancy-b...

Lars van der Laan, Nathan Kallus stat.ML 21h ago
GaP: A Graph-as-Policy Multi-Agent Self-Learning Harness For Variational Automation Tasks

For robots to work reliably in commercial and industrial applications, can recent advances in agentic coding systems combine interpretable robot programming with the open-world adaptability of model-free policies? We...

Kaiyuan Chen, Shuangyu Xie, Letian Fu et al. cs.RO 21h ago
SPEARBench: A Benchmark for Naturalness Evaluation in Streaming Speech-to-Speech Language Models

Streaming speech-to-speech language models aim to answer spoken queries directly with synthetic speech. However, standard speech and text benchmarks do not capture whether these systems behave naturally in conversatio...

Thomas Thebaud, Yuzhe Wang, Hao Zhang et al. cs.CL 21h ago
REDDIT: Correcting Model-Generated Timestamp Drift in ASR without Forgetting via Replay-Based Distribution Editing

Modern autoregressive ASR systems can emit timestamps as decoded tokens, enabling timestamped transcription without frame-level aligners or inference-time post-processing. We show that these generated timestamps can d...

Cheng-Kang Chou, Ming-To Chuang, Ke-Han Lu et al. cs.CL 21h ago
SovereignPA-Bench: Evaluating User-Owned Personal Agents under Evolving Intent, Platform Mediation, and Consent Constraints

Personal agents are becoming persistent user-owned intermediaries: they remember preferences, filter platform-mediated information, use tools, and negotiate with services. Existing benchmarks evaluate tool use, web na...

Dylan Zongmin Liu cs.AI 21h ago
Graph Sparse Sampling: Breaking the Curse of the Horizon in Continuous MDP Planning

Planning under uncertainty in continuous domains is essential for autonomous systems, yet computationally demanding. Tree-based search methods such as Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) remain popular, but their branching...

Idan Lev-Yehudi, Vadim Indelman cs.AI 22h ago
Faithfulness to Refusal: A Causal Audit of Neuron Selectors

Attribution scores increasingly identify which neuron rows of a language model matter for applications such as pruning, interpretability, and editing for safety, yet whether they identify causally important rows is ra...

Ananth Eswar, Pratinav Seth, Utsav Avaiya et al. cs.CL 22h ago
Selective Disclosure Watermarking for Large Language Models

Watermarking methods embed imperceptible and verifiable signals into text generated by large language models (LLMs). Existing approaches include zero-bit schemes for distinguishing synthetic text from human writing an...

Xuyang Chen, Xiang Li, Yangxinyu Xie et al. cs.CR 22h ago
Multiplayer Interactive World Models with Representation Autoencoders

We introduce the first multiplayer world model for highly dynamic environments governed by complex physical interactions. Whereas single-player world models treat the other agents as part of the environment, ours cond...

Anthony Hu, Václav Volhejn, Adrien Ramanana Rahary et al. cs.CV 22h ago
OptiAgent: End-to-End Optimization Modeling via Multi-Agent Iterative Refinement

We propose OptiAgent, a multi-agent framework that, given a natural language description of an Operations Research problem, is able to output a solver-ready mathematical formulation as well as executable code. Our arc...

Adriana Laurindo Monteiro, Nayse Fagundes, Gabriel Mattos Langeloh et al. cs.AI 22h ago
TREK: Distill to Explore, Reinforce to Refine

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) is effective when the current policy already samples useful reasoning trajectories, but it stalls on hard prompts whose correct solution modes lie outside the student's on-pol...

Yuanda Xu, Zhengze Zhou, Kayhan Behdin et al. cs.LG 22h ago
How Far is Too Far? Defining the Distance Threshold for Verification Siamese Networks

Siamese verification networks are widely used to compare items such as faces, cars, or signatures. In these scenarios, the network is trained to learn an embedding space in which similar objects are mapped closer toge...

Heloísa Dias Viotto, Cauê Samonek, Lucas Garcia Pedroso et al. cs.LG 22h ago
Steering Optimisation Trajectories in Diffusion Representation Learning

We study why diffusion autoencoders can achieve similar image quality while learning substantially different latent structures. We trace this behaviour to optimisation dynamics; we analyse curves of image reconstructi...

Rajat Rasal, Avinash Kori, Tian Xia et al. cs.CV 22h ago
Topological Shape Representation for Aneurysm -- Bifurcation Detection

Automated detection of intracranial aneurysms (IAs) from CT angiography (CTA) is severely hindered by high false-positive rates. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) rely on local pixel intensities, causing systematic...

Akshay Gokhale, Mansi Dhamne cs.CV 22h ago
How Much is Left? LLMs Linearly Encode Their Remaining Output Length

Large language models generate one token at a time, yet their responses show remarkably consistent length structure: step-by-step solutions converge in predictable token counts, retrievals stop after a few sentences,...

Mohamed Amine Merzouk, Dmitri Carpov, Mirko Bronzi et al. cs.CL 22h ago
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