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  1. October 9, 2026

  2. Can Language Models Play the Wikipedia Game?

    Oct 9, 2026Alexander Hickey, Joanna Knight, James BishopLLM EvaluationMultilingual Language Model Evaluation

    The Alan Turing Institute, 96 Euston Rd., London NW1 2DB, UK

  3. Splat2Act: From Captured Scenes to Personalized VLA Manipulation

    Oct 9, 2026Xiaomeng Ye, Krishna Jaganathan, Gyubeum Lim +3Sim-to-Real TransferVision-Language-Action Models

    Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. · Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA, USA. · Toyota Research Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.

  4. Noise Space Learning for VLA Adaptation

    Oct 9, 2026Junjie Lu, Chuheng Zhang, Yucen Wang +4Vision-Language-Action ModelsVLMs for Robotics

    University of Technology Sydney · Microsoft Research · Nanjing University +1

  5. Hide and Seek: HIDE Concepts to SEEK explanations for black box models

    Oct 9, 2026Bhanu Tokas, Rahul Nair, Rockwell Jackson +1Interpretable MLConcept-Based Explanations

    Arizona State University

  6. Constructive Bounds for the Topological Expressivity of Neural Networks

    Oct 9, 2026Kosio BeshkovNeural Network ExpressivityReLU Neural Networks

    Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

  7. Chronos Policy: Learning Robot Policies on Physical Time

    Oct 9, 2026Changhao Wang, Jaden Clark, Shuran SongRobot Policy LearningRobot Learning

    Stanford University

  8. AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities

    Oct 9, 2026Andis Draguns, Sumeet Ramesh Motwani, Raymond Douglas +1Backdoor Attacks

    Contramont Research · University of Oxford · ACS Research

  9. KL Before and After Mixing: A Round-Complexity Separation in Parallel Sampling

    Oct 9, 2026Tianyi Wu

    Amazon

  10. Goal-Oriented Bundle Management and Flow Control for Deep-Space Communications via Reinforcement Learning

    Oct 9, 2026Sajjad Baghaeea, Aimin Lib, Shanmugarajan Balasubramanian +1Wireless CommunicationsAge of Information

    Communication Networks Research Group (CNG), Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Türkiye

  11. DyssomniaNN: Multi-Scale Spiking Neural Modeling of Human Sleep Disorders and Perceived Restedness

    Oct 9, 2026Daniel Szelogowski

    Department of Computer Science University of Wisconsin–Whitewater

  12. Designing Protein Structures from Natural Language

    Oct 9, 2026Joseph Lee, Yanjing Li, Bo Qiang +7Protein DesignGenerative Modeling

    University of Washington · National University of Singapore · Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) +1

  13. RSI-Anything: Unlocking Recursive Self-Improvement with World Models

    Oct 9, 2026Taoyong Cui, Pinxian Zeng, Wanghan Xu +8Recursive Self-ImprovementSelf-Improving Agents

  14. When VLMs Destroy What They Know: Spatial Representations Fall Below Lexical Priors

    Oct 9, 2026Shubh Garg, Chen ShaniFaithfulness in VLMsVLM Evaluation

    Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology · Tel Aviv University

  15. Revisiting Tabular Deep Regression: Objectives and the Limits of Global Early Stopping

    Oct 9, 2026Danil Rudenko, Georgii Bulgakov, Nikolay Kartashev +3Tabular RegressionQuantile Regression

    Yandex Research · BRAInLab · HSE University

  16. Hitting-Time Bounds for Asynchronous Q-Learning

    Oct 9, 2026Yang PengReinforcement LearningQ-Learning

    Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University

  17. Structural Automata for Neural Semantic Parsing

    Oct 9, 2026Xiao ZhangSemantic ParsingConstrained Decoding

    University of Groningen

  18. Task Context Shapes Component Roles in Language Models

    Oct 9, 2026Sovesh Mohapatra, Dani S BassettLLM InterpretabilityCircuits in Language Models

    University of Pennsylvania · Yale University

  19. Beyond the Snowflakes: Disentangling Weather Effects from Confounding Meta-Factors in LiDAR Object Detection

    Oct 9, 2026Yiming Yang, Jeremy P. BosLidar-Based 3D Object DetectionAutonomous Driving Perception

  20. RATED: Reliability-Aware AI Agent Tool Retrieval via Execution Dynamics

    Oct 9, 2026Weiliang Chen, Song LiaoAI Agent ReliabilityAI Agent Benchmarks

    Department of Computer Science Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas, USA

  21. X-AgentRed: Red-Teaming Personal Agents in Evolving Multi-Service Ecosystems

    Oct 9, 2026Yeonsung Jung, Zhiyuan Wang, Zifan Wang +5Automated Red TeamingAI Agent Security

    Meta Reality Labs Research · Meta Superintelligence Labs · Meta +1

  22. Prediction Is Not a Sufficient Memory State

    Oct 9, 2026Robert Jenkinson AlvarezOnline Learning

  23. Tracking the Invisible: Self-Supervised Wheel Track Detection with Thermal-RGB Fusion

    Oct 9, 2026Yiming Yang, Jeremy P. BosAutonomous Driving PerceptionAutonomous Driving

  24. Partially Informed Stochastic Optimization via Zeroth-Order Residual Tracking

    Oct 9, 2026El Mahdi Chayti, Alireza Mirrokni, Martin JaggiStochastic OptimizationNonconvex Stochastic Optimization

    Machine Learning and Optimization Laboratory (MLO), EPFL

  25. Ask Your Advisor: Learning When to Consult Stronger Models in Agentic Systems

    Oct 9, 2026Pascal Sowietzki, Steffen Holter, Yannick Metz +3Agentic WorkflowsCost-Aware Inference

    ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  26. BT-Agent: Deploying Onboard Robot Agents with Behavior Trees and Multi-Fidelity Evaluation

    Oct 9, 2026Fabio Hübel, Adam Lilja, Yue Yin +5Large Language Model-Based Robot PlanningMobile Robotics

    Stanford University · University of California, Berkeley · NVIDIA

  27. Finite-Sample Guarantees for Fully Discrete Conditional Diffusion Models

    Oct 9, 2026Qiuyun ZhuConditional Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Sampling

    Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Iowa

  28. HorizonNav: Geometry-Guided Video Diffusion for Anticipatory 3D Robot Navigation

    Oct 9, 2026Hajira Amjad, Valerii Serpiva, Viacheslav Liubimov +2Robot NavigationSingle-View 3D Reconstruction

    Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Moscow, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, bld. 1, 121205, Moscow, Russia.

  29. Inference-Time Steering Across Scaffolds and Epitopes for Sample-Efficient De Novo Nanobody Design

    Oct 9, 2026Mason Minot, Simon Friedensohn, Cédric R. WeberInference-Time Compute AllocationProtein Binder Design

    Alloy Therapeutics Allschwil, Switzerland

  30. Returning to Development States: When Full Sandbox Snapshots Help Coding Agents

    Oct 9, 2026Daniel Thi Graviet, Tanmay ShahAI Coding AgentsInference-Time Search

    Daytona, San Francisco, California, USA · University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

  31. Studying Comics at Scale with Artificial Intelligence: The PAGE Framework and Three Studies of American Comics and Japanese Manga

    Oct 9, 2026Emilio FerraraLLM-Assisted Annotation

    Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

  32. Mapless, Stabilizing, and Anti-Stuck Flipper Control for Articulated Tracked Robots

    Oct 9, 2026Valentýn Číhala, Pavel Sarga, Martin Pecka +2Robotic ControlTerrain-Aware Robot Locomotion

    Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Cybernetics

  33. Specialists Learn Faster: Knowledge Organization in Pre-training Shapes Knowledge Update Efficiency

    Oct 9, 2026Sheng Zhao, Yuhao ZhuContinual Learning for LLMsContinued Pretraining

    Department of Computer Science University of Rochester

  34. On the Design Space of Continuous Diffusion Language Models

    Oct 9, 2026Oscar Davis, Daan Roos, Alice Bizeul +5Continuous Diffusion Language ModelsRepresentation Geometry in Language Models

    Apple · University of Amsterdam · University of Oxford

  35. SpatialASM: Internalizing Active Mentalization for Spatial Reasoning

    Oct 9, 2026Yuhong Liu, Shenxi Wu, Junyi Chi +5Visual Spatial ReasoningVisual Reasoning

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Shanghai AI Laboratory · Fudan University +2

  36. MC-EvoBench: Auditing Experience-Driven Self-Improvement in Minecraft Agents

    Oct 9, 2026Jingwei Song, Zhisheng Chen, Bingfan Zeng +5AI Agent BenchmarksSelf-Improving Agents

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences · South China University of Technology +4

  37. OpenPA: Forced-alignment-free Multi-granular Pronunciation Assessment with Mixed-transcript Adaptation

    Oct 9, 2026Fu-An Chao, Bi-Cheng Yan, Berlin ChenSpeech ProcessingSpeech Quality Assessment

    National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

  38. Same Query, Different Answer: Run-to-Run Variance in Semantic Query Processing

    Oct 9, 2026Oktie Hassanzadeh, Dharmashankar SubramanianLLM EvaluationLLM Reliability

    IBM Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

  39. Can Language Models Learn When to Abstain? Policy Learning and Calibrated Answer Selection

    Oct 9, 2026Juan Terven, Diana-Margarita Córdova-Esparza, Ruben Gomez +3LLM AbstentionSelective Prediction

    CICATA Qro., Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México · Facultad de Informática, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, México

  40. Shared Canonical Component Removal Beyond Expert Views

    Oct 9, 2026Jose Roberto Tello Ayala, Akl C. Fahed, Roy Perlis +1Algorithmic AuditingConcept Erasure

    School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University · Heart and Vascular Institute Mass General Brigham · Center for Quantitative Health Mass General Brigham

  41. TabMF: Learning Dataset Representations with Tabular Foundation Models

    Oct 9, 2026Rafiq Kamel, Nicolas Atienza, Aziz Fouché +2Representation LearningTabular Foundation Models

    University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN) · Neuralk

  42. Dream to Remember: Continual Steering of Generalist Robot Policies with World Models

    Oct 9, 2026Bahey Tharwat, Iman Nematollahi, Marvin Alles +3Continual Robot LearningRobotic RL

    University of Freiburg · Technical University of Munich

  43. Spanning Diffusion and Flow-based Posterior Sampling via Exact Gaussian Conditioning

    Oct 9, 2026Teo Deveney, Lea Bogensperger, Hok Shing WongPosterior SamplingDiffusion Posterior Sampling

    University of Bath · University of Zurich · LMU Munich

  44. QTestBench: A Test Framework for Evaluating LLM-Generated Quantum Code

    Oct 9, 2026Meriem Terki, Nouhaila Innan, Minghao Shao +3Automated Test GenerationLLM Evaluation

    Ecole Supérieure en Informatique de Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria · eBRAIN Lab, Division of Engineering, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), Abu Dhabi, UAE · Center for Quantum and Topological Systems (CQTS), NYUAD Research Institute, NYUAD, Abu Dhabi, UAE +1

  45. Tracing and Taming Hallucinated Terms via Subsequence-Association Filtering and Breadth-Aware Selection for LLM Query Expansion

    Oct 9, 2026Amit Kumar Jaiswal, Sagar Uprety, Prayag TiwariQuery ExpansionInformation Retrieval

    Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India · University College London, London, UK · Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden

  46. Diversity-Aware Ensemble of Quantum-Classical Models via Combinatorial Fusion

    Oct 9, 2026Jingyan Xu, Yuanhong Wu, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen +3Ensemble LearningHybrid Quantum-Classical ML

    Laboratory of Informatics and Data Mining, Department of Computer and Information Science, Fordham University, New York, NY, USA · Wells Fargo, New York, NY, USA · Division of Computer Science, Mathematics and Science, St. John’s University, Queens, NY, USA

  47. Error Rate is Not Enough: Costs of Augmentation in Low-Resource ASR

    Oct 9, 2026Katsumi Ibaraki, David ChiangLow-Resource Speech RecognitionSynthetic Data Augmentation for Speech Recognition

    University of Notre Dame Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering

  48. FORTE: A Production Framework for Feature Evaluation and Deprecation in Industrial Recommender Systems

    Oct 9, 2026Vishnu Arun, Adam Obeng, Tianyou Wang +7Recommender SystemsFeature Selection

    Pinterest San Francisco, CA, USA

  49. Constrained Probabilistic Numerics: Gaussian Process Solvers for Linear PDEs under Linear Inequality Constraints

    Oct 9, 2026Boyuan Deng, Kshitiz Upadhyay, Michael ShieldsPDE SolvingGaussian Processes

    Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, Johns Hopkins University · Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota

  50. Adaptive Variance Reduction without Knowing Oracle Smoothness

    Oct 9, 2026Wei Jiang, Yibo Wang, Zechao LiNonconvex Stochastic OptimizationVariance Reduction

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology · National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University

  51. REFLECT: Role-Aware Detection of Sentiment, Emotion, Politeness, and Formality

    Oct 9, 2026Sangpil Youm, Annabel Stocks Natalias, Hayden Heninger +4Emotion Recognition in ConversationsSentiment Analysis

    University of Florida

  52. Not Just an Evaluation: A Case Study of Discourse Particle Sensitivity in Language Models

    Oct 9, 2026William Sheffield, Jiahui Chen, Amy Zhang +3Pragmatic Reasoning in Language ModelsLanguage Modeling

    The University of Texas at Austin · University of California, San Diego

  53. OccludeBench: Can VLMs Find What's Missing?

    Oct 9, 2026Jasin Cekinmez, Addison J. Wu, Ryo Mitsuhashi +3Occlusion ReasoningVLM Reasoning

    Princeton University

  54. Randomized Momentum Transport with Cheap Predictors

    Oct 9, 2026El Mahdi Chayti, Martin JaggiMomentum MethodsStochastic Optimization Convergence

    Machine Learning and Optimization Laboratory (MLO), EPFL

  55. When LiDAR Fades, Radar Takes Over: LiDAR Reliability-Aware Adaptive Localization Under Airborne Obscurants

    Oct 9, 2026Moumita Mukherjee, Avijit Banerjee, Anton Koval +1Robot LocalizationLiDAR Odometry

    Robotics and AI Group, Department of Computer, Electrical and Space Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

  56. Optimal Algorithms for Nonsmooth Nonconvex Stochastic Optimization with Constraints

    Oct 9, 2026Gon Buzaglo, Guy KornowskiNonconvex Stochastic OptimizationConstrained Optimization

    Princeton University · Institute for Advanced Study

  57. Your Discrete Graph Diffusion Model is Secretly Memorizing

    Oct 9, 2026Adarsh Jamadandi, Nicolas KerivenMemorization in Generative ModelsGraph Diffusion

    CNRS, IRISA, Rennes, France

  58. UkrMeme: Multimodal Explainable Persuasion Detection in Ukrainian Memes

    Oct 9, 2026Nazar Andrushko, Vera Schmitt, Veronika SolopovaVLM EvaluationVLM Interpretability

    Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine · Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany · German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Berlin, Germany +1

  59. ReplaySSM: Cache SSM Inputs, Not State

    Oct 9, 2026Ze-Wei Liou, Harris Nover, Amey Naik +4Inference AccelerationLLM Inference Acceleration

    Princeton University · NVIDIA

  60. Geometry-Aware Multi-Objective Optimization: Norm-Constrained Oracles with Entropic Weight Updates

    Oct 9, 2026El Mahdi Chayti, Alireza Mirrokni, Martin JaggiMulti-Objective OptimizationMulti-Task Optimization

    Machine Learning and Optimization Laboratory (MLO), EPFL

  61. MARGoS: A Configuration-Driven Platform for Reproducible MARL Experiments in ARGoS

    Oct 9, 2026Tom Philipp Backert, Mohammad D. Soorati, Javad GhofraniML ReproducibilityMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany · University of Southampton, Southampton, UK · Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Sankt Augustin, Germany