Retrieval-augmented generation

Retrieval pipelines, vector search, chunking and reranking: how models are grounded in a corpus instead of their weights.

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arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 24

Verifiable Foundation Models for Robot Safety

arXiv:2606. 23754v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying foundation models for robot control raises a central challenge: the expressive power that enables rich, multimodal perception also makes these models opaque and difficult to analyze formally, rendering them intractable for existing verification tools.

By Davide Corsi, Kyungmin Kim, Roy Fox
arXiv AI
Jun 24

G$^3$VLA: Geometric inductive bias for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2606. 24472v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have made rapid progress in generalist robot manipulation by harnessing semantic knowledge from pretrained vision-language backbones, but their visual tokens remain grounded in 2D image coordinates rather than the calibrated geometry of the robot's cameras -- a mismatch especially pronounced in multi-camera setups, where views are coupled by known intrinsics and extrinsics yet processed as independent images.

By Yue Peng, Yongzhe Zhao, Artur Habuda, Khuyen Pham, Yanheng Zhu, Tran Nguyen Le, Fares Abu-Dakka, Li Guo
arXiv AI
Jun 24

FLUX3D: High-Fidelity 3D Gaussian Generation with Diffusion-Aligned Sparse Representation

arXiv:2606. 24874v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse voxel representation has emerged as a scalable foundation for image-to-3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) generation, yet current methods struggle to preserve high-frequency visual details of input images due to two structural bottlenecks.

By Haorui Ji, Weizhe Liu, Hongdong Li, Hengkai Guo
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 24

Does My Embedding Reflect That $A = B$? Evaluating Mathematical Equivalence in Embedding Models

arXiv:2606. 23959v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Because mathematics is highly abstract, a single statement can take very different forms depending on what subfield it is framed in.

By Jiaying Ye, Samarth Rao, Leo Carlin, Kedar Chintalapati, Saharsh Bhargava, Rachit Jaiswal, Michael Zhou, Jared Darlington, Jarod Alper, Vasily Ilin, Henry Kvinge
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 24

Selective Rotary Position Embedding

arXiv:2511. 17388v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Position information is essential for language modeling.

By Sajad Movahedi, Timur Carstensen, Arshia Afzal, Frank Hutter, Antonio Orvieto, Volkan Cevher
arXiv AI
Jun 24

When Language Overwrites Vision: Over-Alignment and Geometric Debiasing in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2605. 08245v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) increasingly power high-stakes applications, from medical imaging to autonomous systems, yet they routinely hallucinate, confidently describing content not present in the input.

By Harshvardhan Saini, Samyak Jha, Yiming Tang, Dianbo Liu