arXiv:2605. 21751v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Text-to-optimization requires two separable capabilities: modeling -- choosing the right optimization structure -- and binding -- grounding every coefficient, index, and parameter in the concrete problem data.
By Zhiqi Gao, Albert Ge, Alexander Berenbeim, Nathaniel D. Bastian, Frederic Sala
arXiv:2607. 15200v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning has proven effective for improving reasoning in large language models, but extending it to Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLMs) remains challenging due to the intractability of the log-likelihood estimation.
By Haran Raajesh, Kulin Shah, Adam Klivans, Philipp Kr\"ahenb\"uhl
arXiv:2607. 15142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models are usually evaluated as components of model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) systems, while the world models themselves are rarely studied in isolation.
By Yukuan Lu, Zaishuo Xia, Weyl Lu, Yubei Chen
arXiv:2607. 14145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented large language model agents excel at long-horizon tasks, yet they are typically post-trained on fixed toolsets.
By Weiting Liu, Jieyi Bi, Wanqi Zhou, Jianfeng Feng, Yining Ma, Ai Han, Wenlian Lu
arXiv:2605. 25170v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training data for olfaction is scattered through disparate, non-standardized datasets that limit the ability to build representative world models.
By Kordel K. France, Ovidiu Daescu
arXiv:2406. 04737v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The cellular network of magnetic Induction (MI) communication holds promise in long-distance underground environments.
By Honglei Ma, Erwu Liu, Zhijun Fang, Rui Wang, Yongbin Gao, Wenjun Yu, Dongming Zhang
arXiv:2607. 14886v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Temporal Knowledge Graph (TKG) reasoning under the extrapolation setting focuses on forecasting future time-stamped events (facts) from historical data in a temporal knowledge graph.
By Chien-Liang Liu, Tsao-Lun Chen
arXiv:2505. 22442v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Offline RL (ORL) promises safe and sample-efficient deployment but existing methods rely on undocumented online interactions for hyperparameter tuning and lack reliable fully offline estimates of initial online performance.
By Mattie Fellows, Clarisse Wibault, Uljad Berdica, Johannes Forkel, Maike Osborne, Jakob N. Foerster
arXiv:2607. 14614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) commonly uses entropy for advantage shaping.
By Weiwen Xu, Jia Liu, Hou Pong Chan, Long Li, Deng Cai, Min Chen, Hao Zhang
arXiv:2607. 15273v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: MeanFlow generators achieve fast few-step sampling by predicting average velocities over time intervals, making them attractive for efficient generation.
By Yushi Huang, Xiangxin Zhou, Jun Zhang, Liefeng Bo, Tianyu Pang
arXiv:2607. 14506v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is widely used to improve the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), the generalizability of the resulting models remains poorly understood.
By Yuxuan Zhu, Rohan Alur, Daniel Kang
arXiv:2607. 14962v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-image (T2I) models can synthesize realistic, prompt-aligned images, yet samples generated for the same prompt often cover only a small subset of visually distinct modes.
By Ku Onoda, Paavo Parmas, Hiroki Furuta, Soichiro Nishimori, Yuta Oshima, Shohei Taniguchi, Yutaka Matsuo
arXiv:2607. 15003v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The deployment of autonomous cyber-physical systems in safety-critical environments requires closed-loop control strategies (i.
By Riccardo Curcio, Toni Mancini, Enrico Tronci
arXiv:2607. 14185v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Feedback-driven loops support iterative improvement in large language models, reinforcement learning, and autonomous discovery, yet their gains often diminish under repeated internal feedback.
By Xuening Wu, Shan Yu, Shenqin Yin
arXiv:2607. 14192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As recommender systems mature in the past few years, their optimization objectives have evolved from a primary focusing on short-term behavioral signals to a broader emphasis on long-term user engagement and retention.
By Dingsu Wang, Filip Ryzner, Kelly He, Armando Ordorica, David Woo, Aditya Mantha, Liyao Lu, Usha Amrutha Nookala, Haoran Guo, Jiacong He, Olafur Gudmundsson, Matt Chun, Krystal Benitez, Dhruvil Deven Badani, Yijie Dylan Wang
arXiv:2607. 15107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper develops a categorical framework -- Learning in Infinitesimal Non-Compositional Sketches (LINCS) -- as the repair of non-compositionality: failures of diagrams to factor through quotient sketches lifted to the tangent category setting.
By Sridhar Mahadevan
arXiv:2607. 14272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flow matching has emerged as an effective framework for learning complex data distributions, but adapting pretrained flow models to new tasks often requires computationally expensive retraining.
By Jingdong Zhang, Xinze Li, Yize Jiang, Luan Yang, Minkai Xu, Junhong Liu
arXiv:2607. 13501v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning for multi-turn search reasoning typically relies on terminal outcome rewards, which cannot distinguish useful, redundant, and harmful intermediate interactions.
By Qiang Zhu, Jiajun Wu, Longyi Wang
arXiv:2607. 14682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient multimodal document question answering with explicit visual grounding, locating the precise document region that supports each answer remains an open challenge.
By Harikrishnan P M, Goutham Vignesh, Ganesh Parab, Saisubramaniam Gopalakrishnan, Vishal Vaddina, Varun V, Rohit Agrawal
arXiv:2604. 09870v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We investigate how looped transformers encode human preference, training lightweight evaluator heads on frozen Ouro-2.
By Jan Kirin