Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed in consumer, medical, financial, and enterprise applications. This broad deployment expands the safety surface: risks can arise from multimodal question answering, assistant responses, and cross-modal composition, while moderation policies may vary across products, regions, and deployment stages.
The paper introduces a visual odometry frontend that automatically and continuously adapts its parameters using an image-conditioned reinforcement learning policy. The policy selects key tuning values—FAST detection threshold, KLT patch size, and RANSAC rejection threshold—based on a lightweight image embedding and frontend statistics, with a privileged critic aiding training. Trained on synthetic data, the approach transfers zero‑shot to real-world benchmarks, improving the tracking‑computation trade‑off by up to 8% in accuracy and 57% in runtime compared to static configurations.
By Simone Nascivera, Leonard Bauersfeld, Jeff Delaune, Davide Scaramuzza
arXiv:2607. 21401v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A vision-language AI assistant returns its answer as a stream of generated tokens.
By Dongbin Na
arXiv:2608.21748v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Verifier-guided text-to-image systems increasingly use test-time search to select, refine, or stop among multiple candidates, yet release thresholds ar...
By Xuanhua Yin, Shunqi Mao, Wei Guo, Chuanzhi Xu, Weidong Cai
BCPPO is a new variant of Proximal Policy Optimization that uses Bachelier-inspired cost‑prediction networks to generate a smooth penalty based on disagreement among critics. The method keeps temporal‑difference learning unchanged, applies a saturation‑aware controller to manage cost penalties, and deploys only the policy network. Across extensive experiments, BCPPO outperforms comparators in achieving higher mean returns while maintaining lower or comparable CVaR in all tested tasks.
By Dongsheng Hou, Yanqiao Chen, Yuhan Rui
arXiv:2606. 29887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In real-world applications, guardrails are often expected to identify unsafe user-model interactions according to application-specific safety policies, rather than relying on predefined risk taxonomies.
By Jiacheng Zhang, Haoyu He, Sen Zhang, Shen Wang, Xiaolei Xu, Yuhao Sun, Meng Shen, Feng Liu