arXiv AI

MindZero: Learning Online Mental Reasoning With Zero Annotations

arXiv:2606. 00240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective real-world assistance requires AI agents with robust Theory of Mind (ToM): inferring human mental states from their behavior.

arXiv AI

Jun 2

MindClaw: Closed-Loop Embodied Mental-State Reasoning for Precision Intervention

arXiv:2606. 01063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Theory of Mind (ToM) enables an agent to reason about another actor's beliefs, goals, and intentions, which is essential for human-centered embodied assistance.

By Ruoxuan Zhang, Qiaoqiao Wan, Zhengguang Wang, Chenghao Yu, Hongxia Xie, Jianlong Fu, Wen-Huang Cheng

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 9

From Shortcuts to Reasoning: Robust Post-Training of Theory of Mind with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 09092v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Theory of Mind (ToM) is a must-acquire skill for modern foundation model systems to operate effectively and safely in the real world.

By Jike Zhong, Yuxiang Lai, Ming Li, Yuheng Li, Wuao Liu, Behzad Dariush, Konstantinos Psounis, Shao-Yuan Lo

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arXiv AI

Aug 3

Multimodal Reinforcement Learning with Adaptive Verifier for AI Agents

arXiv:2512. 03438v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic reasoning models trained with multimodal reinforcement learning (MMRL) have become increasingly capable, yet they are almost universally optimized using sparse, outcome-based rewards computed based on the final answers.

By Reuben Tan, Baolin Peng, Zhengyuan Yang, Hao Cheng, Oier Mees, Theodore Zhao, Andrea Tupini, Isar Meijer, Qianhui Wu, Yuncong Yang, Lars Liden, Yu Gu, Sheng Zhang, Xiaodong Liu, Lijuan Wang, Marc Pollefeys, Yong Jae Lee, Jianfeng Gao

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 16

DLWM: Diverse Latent World Models for Efficient Multimodal Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 15160v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have improved considerably in recent years.

By David Huang, Lianlei Shan

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arXiv AI

Jun 4

Smart Picks in the Dark: Towards Efficient RLVR for Reasoning via Tracing Metacognitive Pivots

arXiv:2606. 04503v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has greatly advanced large reasoning models (LRMs), but it requires timely training on a huge fully-annotated dataset.

By Guangcheng Zhu, Shenzhi Yang, Haobo Wang, Xing Zheng, Yingfan MA, Xuening Feng, Zhongqi Chen, Bowen Song, Weiqiang Wang, Gang Chen

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arXiv AI

Aug 5

Balancing Efficiency and Efficacy: Training-Free Attention-Guided Switching Between Explicit and Latent Thoughts for MLLMs

arXiv:2608. 03450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) requires both fine-grained visual perception and rigorous logical deduction.

By Haoqian Kang, Liupeng Li, Kuofeng Gao, Jinpeng Wang, Zhenyu Lu, Bin Chen, Ke Chen, Yaowei Wang

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 17

Continual Self-Improvement with Lightweight Experiential Latent Memories

arXiv:2606. 17803v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models achieve strong reasoning performance by scaling inference-time compute, yet remain fundamentally stateless, discarding the rich, self-produced reasoning traces generated during this process.

By Vaggelis Dorovatas, Nancy Kalaj, Rahaf Aljundi

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arXiv AI

Jun 4

Belief-Aware VLM Model for Human-like Reasoning

arXiv:2604. 09686v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Traditional neural network models for intent inference rely heavily on observable states and struggle to generalize across diverse tasks and dynamic environments.

By Anshul Nayak, Shahil Shaik, Yue Wang

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arXiv AI

Jul 14

SVR-R1: Bootstrapping Multi-modal Reasoning with Self-verification in Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607. 10966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Self-Verified Reasoner (SVR-R1), a multi-turn RL framework that turns a model's own verification into a learning signal for multimodal reasoning.

By Mingyuan Wu, Jingcheng Yang, Shengyi Qian, Xudong Wang, Jize Jiang, Qifan Wang, Aashu Singh, Khoi Pham, Fei Liu, Zhaolun Su, Zhuokai Zhao, Klara Nahrstedt, Jianyu Wang, Hanchao Yu

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arXiv AI

2d ago

Think in Latent, Explain in Language: Self-Explainable Latent Reasoning

arXiv:2608. 13570v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent reasoning has emerged as a powerful alternative to text-based Chain-of-Thought (CoT), offering significant gains in computational efficiency by compressing verbose reasoning into compact embeddings.

By Dayuan Zhao, Shengcao Cao, Yu-Xiong Wang, Liang-Yan Gui

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arXiv AI

Jun 17

ThinkJEPA: Empowering Latent World Models with Large Vision-Language Reasoning Model

arXiv:2603. 22281v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent progress in latent world models (e.

By Haichao Zhang, Yijiang Li, Shwai He, Tushar Nagarajan, Mingfei Chen, Jianglin Lu, Ang Li, Yun Fu

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arXiv AI

Jun 2

Continuous Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action

arXiv:2606. 00229v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Natural language is a powerful reasoning medium for language and vision-language models, but it is mismatched to the granularity of continuous control.

By Yueh-Hua Wu, Tatsuya Matsushima, Kei Ota

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