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  1. DecomVoxel: Harnessing 3D-Native Priors with Guided In-situ Denoising Optimization for Decompositional Scene Reconstruction

    Oct 1, 2026Junfeng Ni, Zirui Zhou, Yixin Chen +5Scene ReconstructionVoxel

    Tsinghua University, State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, BIGAI, China · Peking University, China

  2. LiDARFlow: Real-Time Panel-Based MAV Guidance in Unknown Environments

    Oct 1, 2026João Machado, Zeynep Bilgin, Matthieu Verdoucq +1Unmanned Aerial VehiclesObstacle Avoidance

    ENAC-LAB · ENAC

  3. Completion Aware Guidance for World Action Models

    Oct 1, 2026Seungyeon Kim, Junhoo Lee, Baekseung Kim +2Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

    Seoul National University · KAIST

  4. Learned End-to-End Guidance Schedules for Diffusion Models

    Oct 1, 2026Aneesh Barthakur, Mathias Niepert, Luiz F. O. ChamonDiffusion ModelsGuidance

    University of Stuttgart · École polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris

  5. A Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Personalized Health Checkup Interpretation and Guidance

    Oct 1, 2026HyungJun Kim, Taehan Lee, Soojin CheonMulti-Agent Large Language Model SystemsLlm-As-A-Judge

    DaNaA Data Co., Ltd.

  6. VR-JEPA: Learning Contrastive-State Latent Guidance for Generation-based Video Reasoning

    Sep 30, 2026Zehua Ma, Kun Xiang, Yunshuang Nie +9Latent Visual ReasoningVideo Generation

    Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University · Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute +3

  7. WEIRDO: WEak resIdual Regularized DOob's h-transform diffusion alignment

    Sep 30, 2026Denis SuchkovDiffusion AlignmentWasserstein Gradient Flows

    HSE University, Russian Federation

  8. NarrativeSteward: Coordinating Delegation, Guidance, and Verification in Agent-Assisted Interactive Narrative Authoring

    Sep 30, 2026Wenjin Wang, Jiazhen Lei, Yuxin Sha +6NarrativesDelegation

    Interactive Entertainment Group, Tencent Inc Shanghai, China

  9. Steepest Guidance: A Practical and Principled Approach to Inference-Time Alignment of Flow and Diffusion-based Models

    Sep 30, 2026Shokichi Takakura, Akifumi Wachi, Rei Higuchi +2Diffusion AlignmentDiffusion Models

    LY Corporation · The University of Tokyo · RIKEN AIP

  10. Multi-Agent Flow Matching with Decoupled Generative Guidance

    Sep 29, 2026Ruoyu Lin, Magnus Egerstedt, Fabio PasqualettiConditional Flow MatchingGenerative Processes

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA

  11. Guide, Then Let Go: Gap-Adaptive Teacher Scheduling for Sparse-Reward Agentic RL

    Sep 29, 2026Youling Huang, Tiankuo Xu, Jiaji Liu +10Repair-Based Group-Relative Policy OptimizationTeacher

    DUT · Kuaishou · XJTU +5

  12. PreferenceFlow: Test-Time Guidance of Flow-Matching Robot Policies from Human Interventions

    Sep 29, 2026Yiqi Tang, Diyuan Shi, Runze Li +1Flow PoliciesRobot Policies

    Westlake University

  13. Why Deterministic PRM Guidance Underperforms in Discrete Diffusion Reasoning

    Sep 28, 2026Yan Zhan, Shaobo Liu, Zhijun GaoDiffusion Language ModelsProcess Reward Model

    Peking University · Shenzhen University

  14. Domain-adaptive Zero-Shot Image Enhancement via Locality-Constrained Diffusion Guidance

    Sep 28, 2026Theresa Neubauer, Dimitrios Lenis, Astrid Berg +7Image EnhancementMulti-Reference Image Generation

    VRVis GmbH, Vienna, Austria

  15. Adjoint Guidance Flow: Amortized Critic Guidance for VLA Policies

    Sep 28, 2026Jeongsol Kim, Youngjun Jun, Kyumin Choi +6Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionCritic-Free Reinforcement Learning

    KAIST · SKKU · GIST

  16. SkillRubric: Co-Evolving Actor Guidance and Evaluator Rubrics for Multimodal Agents

    Sep 28, 2026Bingqing Jiang, Guoxi Zhang, Jasper Wang +7Multimodal AgentsTask-Specific Rubrics

    The University of Hong Kong · WeChat, Tencent · Peking University +2

  17. Learn Now, Use Next, Trust Later: Prequential Test-Time Learning for LLM Agents

    Sep 28, 2026Tong Zhao, Reed Li, Yuyang Hu +5Large Language Model AgentsNext

    Renmin University of China · Tencent

  18. Reciprocal Guidance: Orchestrating Draft and Verify Budgets for Advancing the Diffusion-AR Self-Speculation Frontier

    Sep 28, 2026Linye Wei, Shutian Zheng, Haoyu Zeng +1Block-Diffusion DrafterSpeculative Decoding

    Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University · School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University · College of Engineering, Peking University +2

  19. Theory Guided and Interpretable Neural Operator Design for Partial Differential Equation Learning

    Sep 27, 2026Zeyuan Song, Zheyu JiangNeural Partial Differential Equation SolversNeural Operators

    Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK 74078

  20. DISCERN: Can AI Agents Work Like Scientists and Guide Discovery?

    Sep 27, 2026Nan Huang, Mario Tapia-Pacheco, Kun Zhou +4Scientific AgentsData Science Agents

    University of California San Diego · Independent Researcher

  21. Guides That Cause Actions: An Offline Study of Guide-Action Mutual Reinforcement in Multimodal Web Agents

    Sep 23, 2026Chengguang Gan, Yunhao Liang, QingHao Zhang +1Web AgentsGuidance

    Independent Researcher

  22. Impact-Time Guidance via Normal Contraction to a Time-to-Go Isochron

    Sep 22, 2026Shivam Bajpai, Abhinav SinhaConditional VelocityAcceleration

    Guidance, Autonomy, Learning, and Control for Intelligent Systems (GALACxIS) Lab, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, USA

  23. Learning to Defer with Guidance on Real World Medical Data

    Sep 22, 2026Emma Sun, Joshua Strong, Alison NobleHuman AnnotationsMulti-Stage Training

    Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK

  24. Classifier-Free Guidance in Flow Matching: Non-Autonomous Potentials, Overshoot, and Posterior-Mean Control

    Sep 21, 2026Jishen Peng, Zheng MaClassifier-Free GuidanceWasserstein Gradient Flows

    School of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Institute of Natural Sciences, MOE-LSC, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Qing Yuan Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China +1

  25. How to Guide Your Language Flow

    Sep 16, 2026Rohit Dilip, Tianrong Chen, Yuyang Wang +3Diffusion Language ModelsDiffusion Models

    Apple · Caltech

  26. ProtoGuide: Prototype-Driven Guidance for Class-Conditional Graph Generation

    Sep 14, 2026Salvatore Romano, Marco Grassia, Pietro Liò +1Physics-Guided DiffusionLearnable Prototypes

    Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Italy · Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK · University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Italy

  27. Unsupervised Point Cloud Registration via Training-Time Semantic Guidance

    Sep 14, 2026Kezheng Xiong, Shiyun Xu, Sheng Ao +3Point Cloud RegistrationLight Detection And Ranging Point Clouds

    Key Laboratory of Multimedia Trusted Perception and Efficient Computing, Ministry of Education of China, Xiamen University, China · Fujian Key Laboratory of Urban Intelligent Sensing and Computing, Xiamen University, China

  28. MUSE: A Theory-Harnessed Story Engine for Vibe Narrativizing

    Sep 14, 2026Jianxiang Ma, Xiaocui Yang, Daling Wang +4Narrative GenerationNarratives

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China · OranAI, Shenzhen 518057, China · OranAI Ltd., City of Industry, CA 91748, USA

  29. GUIDE: Generative Utility Inference and Decision Engine

    Sep 14, 2026Anagha Tiwari, Alexander G. Gray, Nick Feamster +3Preference Alignment LearningElicitation

    Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago · Centaur AI Institute, University of Chicago · Heinz College & School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University +1

  30. 2AM: Grounding Agent-Side Memory as Guidance for Steerable Action Models in Long-Horizon Manipulation

    Sep 12, 2026Yutong Hu, Fengjiao Chen, Xuezhi Cao +1Action ExpertMultimodal Agents

    KU Leuven, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Research unit Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics · Meituan Inc. · KU Leuven, Dept. Electrical Engineering, Research unit Processing Speech and Images

  31. Guide, Not Bind: Why Defeasible Priors Fail in Augmented Lagrangian Causal Discovery

    Sep 3, 2026Sairam Sundararaman, Sara Girdhar, Manit Narasimha Murthy +2Causal Discovery MethodsPrior Knowledge Integration

    Department of Computer Science (AI & ML) PES University · Department of Computer Science2026 PES University · Department of Computer Science PES University

  32. StudentSim: Training LLM-based Student Simulators

    Sep 1, 2026Ke Yang, Chenglong Wang, Michel Galley +4TutorsUser Simulation

    1Microsoft Research · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  33. Accelerating Reinforcement Learning via MPC Solver-Gradient Guidance for Weights-varying MPC

    Sep 1, 2026Baha Zarrouki, Arslan Thobani, Jasper Hoffmann +6Offline Reinforcement LearningModel Predictive Control

  34. Trust Your Guide Only When Certain: Uncertainty-Aware Sparse Alignment at Inference Time

    Sep 1, 2026Zeen Zhu, Zhuo Li, Weiyang Guo +4Distributional AlignmentInference-Time Defense

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China · Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, China.

  35. GUIDE: Guiding Internal Evidence with Language Instructions

    Aug 31, 2026Soyeon Caren Han, Hyunsuk Chung, Jinwoo Kim +2Multimodal ModelGuidance

    School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea · Brain Science Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Republic of Korea +1

  36. Online Estimation of Dynamic Origin-Destination Matrices Using Reinforcement Learning with Link-Flow Propagation Guidance

    Aug 31, 2026Donggyu Min, Dong-Kyu KimOrigin Destination FlowsFlow Policies

    Seoul National University · Seoul, 08826, South Korea

  37. ALTSTEER: Selective Safety Steering for Moving Beyond Hard Refusals to Constructive Alternatives

    Aug 31, 2026Hoejoon Kwon, Byeonggeuk Lim, Kahyeon Kim +1SteeringRefusals

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Chung-Ang University · Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film, Chung-Ang University

  38. SMART: MLLM-guided Temporal Alignment for Unifying Sign Language Recognition and Spotting

    Aug 26, 2026Eunjee Choi, JungHoon Sung, Seongwhan Cho +2Sign Language TranslationGuidance

    Dankook University · Yongin, Korea

  39. GUIDE: Generative Unsupervised Chinese Query Correction via Phonetic and Visual Shared-ID Encoding

    Aug 26, 2026Lei Yang, Binbin Huang, Jiwei Tan +4Grammatical Error CorrectionText Corpora

    Kuaishou Technology · School of Data Science, Fudan University

  40. GUIDE: Governed Unified Intelligence for Document-to-Artifact Generation in Enterprise Settings

    Aug 12, 2026Shivali Dalmia, Sumukha Thoppanahalli, Mohammadreza Sediqin +1Enterprise SystemsGuidance

    Centific Research Washington, USA

  41. Enabling Scalable Kinesthetic Teaching via Observer-based Hand-guiding with Active Support

    Aug 11, 2026Anna Tuma, Giuseppe Monetti, Jochen J. Steil +1Robotic HandsGround Reaction Forces

    Technology & Innovation Center, KUKA, Augsburg, Germany · Institute of Robotics and Process Control, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

  42. When Vision Becomes Text: Visual Token Pruning via Cross-Modal Residual Guidance in VLMs

    Aug 11, 2026Congyang Ou, Ruike Song, Yang Zhou +3Visual Token PruningCross-Modal

    Northwestern Polytechnical University · Chongqing University · MiLM Plus, Xiaomi Inc.

  43. Graph-Guided Safe Diffuser: Topological Graph Guidance for Safe Diffusion Planning

    Aug 10, 2026Nakgyu Yang, KwangBin Lee, SooJean HanDiffusion PlanningPhysics-Guided Diffusion

    School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Daejeon, Republic of Korea

  44. Beyond Uniform Restoration: Empowering All-in-One Restoration with Pixel-Level Multimodal Guidance

    Aug 10, 2026Chunxiao Liu, Wei Liu, Anbin Xiong +1Image RestorationRestoration

    Xiaomi Corporation Beijing, China

  45. Intuitive Hand Positional Guidance Using McKibben-Based Surface Tactile Sensations to Shoulder and Elbow

    Aug 10, 2026Kenta Yokoe, Yuki Funabora, Tadayoshi AoyamaTactileWrist

    Department of Micro-Nano Mechanical Science and Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8603, Japan · Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, 102-0083, Japan · Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8603, Japan +2

  46. Commitment Before Realization: When Classifier-Free Guidance Becomes Unnecessary in Masked Diffusion Language Models

    Aug 8, 2026Fan Zhou, Weitian Wang, Tim Van de CruysClassifier-Free GuidanceMasked Diffusion Language Models

    KU Leuven, Belgium · Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

  47. Structural Guidance for Unified Joint Demosaicing and Denoising

    Aug 7, 2026Qixin Zheng, Ping Chen, Qiangqiang Shen +1Image RestorationRestoration

    Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, China

  48. Toward surface-based registration of a virtual preoperative cutting guide onto the mandible for reconstruction surgery

    Aug 6, 2026Yue Yang, Jie Ying WuAugmented RealityImage Registration

    Vanderbilt University, Department of Computer Science, 1400 18th Avenue South, Suite A4004 Nashville, TN 37212, USA.

  49. When Privileged Guidance Misaligns: State-Matched Routing and Contextualized Self-Distillation for Multi-Turn Agents

    Aug 5, 2026Junzhuo Liu, Weiwei Li, Jun Ling +1Self-TeacherSelf-Distillation Framework

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

  50. Soft Guidance Starts to Outperform CoT Prompting as LLMs Improve

    Aug 4, 2026Denys Pushkin, Albert Q. Jiang, Aryo Lotfi +2Chain-of-Thought ReasoningInstruction-Tuned Models

    EPFL · Apple · Mistral AI

  51. Towards Robust Tool Use in Agents via Experience-Driven Adaptive Guidance

    Aug 4, 2026Can Wang, Haoran Chen, Li Yu +4Controlling Tool UseTool Invocation

    1Shandong Key Laboratory of Digital Service Computing Technology and Systems · 2Alibaba Token Hub · Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  52. Passively Safe Convex Guidance for Cislunar Rendezvous and Proximity Operations

    Aug 4, 2026Ian M. Down, Connor Plaks, Matthew Bolliger +1Intent-Aligned Autonomous Spacecraft GuidanceAdvanced Jet Trainer

    Astrodynamics Engineer, Advanced Space, LLC, 1400 W 122nd Ave, Suite 200, Westminster, CO 80234 · Navigation Engineer, Advanced Space, LLC, 1400 W 122nd Ave, Suite 200, Westminster, CO 80234 · Senior Astrodynamics Engineer, Advanced Space, LLC, 1400 W 122nd Ave, Suite 200, Westminster, CO 80234 +1

  53. RIDGE: Re-Noising with Internal Dynamic Guidance for Image Editing

    Aug 4, 2026Ruiliang Gong, Zhen Wang, Yanghao Wang +1Diffusion-Based Image EditingImage Editing

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  54. Is More Privileged Information Better? From Solution Traces to Problem-Solving Structure in Self-Distilled Reasoning

    Aug 3, 2026Xuyang Zhao, Liting Zhang, Zichen Xu +4Mathematical Reasoning BenchmarksPrivileged Context

    1TMCC, College of Computer Science, Nankai University, Tianjin, China · 2Huawei Technologies Ltd., Beijing, China

  55. GuideGround: VLM-guided Semantic Understanding and Viewpoint-aware Reasoning for 3D Visual Grounding

    Aug 1, 2026Yiwen Wang, Yuyang Deng, Yihao Long +13D Visual GroundingGrounding

    Xi’an Jiaotong University

  56. A user's guide to PINNs in geometric analysis: lessons from the asymptotic Plateau problem

    Jul 30, 2026Tancredi Schettini GherardiniParametric Physics-Informed Neural NetworkPolynomials

    University of Bonn and Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany.

  57. Q-Steer: Action-Value Guidance for Molecular Policy Optimization

    Jul 29, 2026Xinyu Wang, Jinbo Bi, Minghu SongMolecular OptimizationFrictive Policy Optimization

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut · 1Storrs, CT 06269, USA · Institute of Health and Medicine, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center +1

  58. Learning Adaptive Multi-Task Guidance, Navigation, and Control via Hypernetworks

    Jul 27, 2026Ricard Marsal I Castan, Aman Arora, Antoine Richard +3QuadrotorRobust Trajectory

    University of Luxembourg · 2Georgia Institute of Technology

  59. An Unofficial FastLAS Tutorial: A Programmer's Guide

    Jul 26, 2026Fabio Aurelio D'AsaroInductionLogit Lens

    University of Verona, Italy · University College London, United Kingdom

  60. Multi-Modal Object Re-Identification with Prompt-S6 and Semantic-Aware Knowledge Guidance

    Jul 26, 2026Weixiang Zhou, Jiabei Zuo, Yuhao Wang +3Re-IdentificationPrism

    School of Mathematical Sciences and the Key Laboratory for Computational Mathematics and Data Intelligence of Liaoning Province, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China · School of Future Technology, School of Artificial Intelligence, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China +1