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5 papers in the last four weeks, against 1 the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

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  1. NavHarness: Adaptive Goals for Agentic Vision-Language Navigation

    Sep 30, 2026Haoxiang Shi, Zaijing Li, Muhe Ding +3Vision-Language NavigationNavigation

  2. Local-Minimum Escaper: Programmatic Subgoal Generation for Robust Navigation in Unknown Environments

    Sep 30, 2026Yin Gu, Xinming Zhang, Shanze Wang +2Robot NavigationObject Goal Navigation

  3. The Right Lesson at the Right Step: Deriving Control Updates for Self-Evolving Agents

    Sep 28, 2026Yunhe Su, ZiYi Dong, Tong Yu +4Self-Evolving AgentsAgentic Control

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

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

  5. Topological Necessities: Mechanism-Invariant Strategic Subgoals for Cross-Embodiment Goal-Conditioned Control

    Sep 12, 2026Hao Shi, Xi LiHigh-Level Subgoal GenerationSubgoals

  6. SchemeArena: Factorized Stress Testing of Scheming in LLM Agents

    Sep 8, 2026Jie Ruan, Inderjeet Nair, Amy Liu +3Large Language Model AgentsScenario Generation

  7. Aspire: Can Models Self-Evolve from Vague Goals?

    Aug 31, 2026Yuhao Wu, Jingyuan Zhang, Jiajun Shi +18Self-EvolutionSubgoals

  8. SPADE: Self-Play in Adaptive Synthetic Executable Environments

    Aug 19, 2026Bo Liu, Simon Yu, Yiding Jiang +15Synthetic EnvironmentsSelf-Play

  9. SSTG-Nav: Metric-Grounded Spatial-Semantic Topological Graphs for Reusable Object Navigation

    Aug 1, 2026Daojie Peng, Bingtao Wang, Jun MaObject Goal NavigationSemantic Mapping

  10. Strategies for Milestone-driven Start-ups in Multi-activity Settings

    Jul 30, 2026Zhengli WangStochastic Optimal ControlStochastic Optimization

  11. Finding Optimal Cost-Bounded Plan Reductions: Refined Model

    Jul 28, 2026Martha Del Toro, Raquel Fuentetaja, Angel García-OlayaLinear ProgrammingToken Budget Allocation

  12. Affordance-Based Manipulation Planning with Text Goals and Sim-to-Real Generalisation via Real-to-Sim Image Conversion

    Jul 13, 2026Solvi Arnold, Rin Karashima, Tadashi Adachi +2AffordancesRobot Systems

  13. Comparing Socially-Equitable Renewable Energy Budget Allocation MDP Policies in Mature and Emerging Economies

    Jul 11, 2026Riya Kinnarkar, Mansur M. Arief, Yan Pratama Akhra +1Battery Energy Storage SystemsMarkov Decision Processes

  14. Semantic Drift and the Stability of Operator Control in Reasoning-Class Decision Support Systems

    Jul 8, 2026M. L. Kaluzhsky, V. A. EfirovLLM Reasoning StrategiesSoftware Engineering Decision Support

  15. From Task-Guided Conversational Graphs to Goal-Oriented Dialogue Runtimes

    Jun 22, 2026Mariano Garralda-BarrioLarge Language Model WorkflowsSubgoals

  16. Position: AI Must Become Planet-Centered, Not Just Human-Centered

    Jun 9, 2026Maria Perez-OrtizArtificial Intelligence SystemsEcosystems

  17. Goal Sets, Not Goal States: Queryable Robot Goals through Goal-Set Hindsight Relabeling

    Jun 8, 2026Carlos Vélez García, Miguel Cazorla, Jorge PomaresGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningSubgoals

  18. A Goal-Set Characterization of Task Composition in the Boolean Task Algebra

    Jun 2, 2026Eduardo Terrés-Caballero, Herke van HoofSubgoalsMarkov Decision Processes

  19. Push Your Agent: Measuring and Enforcing Quantitative Goal Persistence in Long-Horizon LLM Agents

    May 22, 2026Yuandao Cai, Yuzhang Zhu, Liyou Gao +2Long-Horizon AgentsSubgoals

  20. Occlusion-Based Object Transportation Around Obstacles With a Swarm of Miniature Robots

    May 13, 2026Breno Cunha Queiroz, Daniel MacRaeObstacle AvoidanceSwarms

  21. Goal-Oriented Reasoning for RAG-based Memory in Conversational Agentic LLM Systems

    May 12, 2026Jiazhou Liang, Armin Toroghi, Yifan Simon Liu +3Agentic MemoryAgentic Reasoning

  22. Diagnosing Capability Gaps in Fine-Tuning Data

    Apr 30, 2026Saeid Asgari Taghanaki, Rakshanda Agarwal, Bruce Sun +10Large Language Model Fine-TuningModel Fine-Tuning

  23. From Fuzzy to Formal: Scaling Hospital Quality Improvement with AI

    Apr 21, 2026Patrick Vossler, Jean Feng, Venkat Sivaraman +9Qualitative ResearchImprovement

  24. GRAIL: Autonomous Concept Grounding for Neuro-Symbolic Reinforcement Learning

    Apr 18, 2026Hikaru Shindo, Henri Rößler, Quentin Delfosse +1SubgoalsRelational

  25. Imagine2Act: Leveraging Object-Action Motion Consistency from Imagined Goals for Robotic Manipulation

    Sep 21, 2025Liang Heng, Jiadong Xu, Yiwen Wang +6Real-World Manipulation TasksImagination

  26. MAGIK: Mapping to Analogous Goals via Imagination-enabled Knowledge Transfer

    Jun 2, 2025Ajsal Shereef Palattuparambil, Thommen George Karimpanal, Santu RanaAnalogySubgoals