arXiv:2608. 16806v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated capabilities in in-context learning, task decomposition, step-by-step reasoning, and code generation, driving their gradual evolution from text generation models into the core of agents capable of perceiving environments, invoking tools, and executing tasks.
By Jiawei Liu, Jiacheng Guo, Tian Zhang, Yiwei Xu, Juan Wang, Jinlin Fan, Bowen Xiao, Chi Guo, Keyan Guo, Hongxin Hu
arXiv:2506. 15700v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Control contraction metrics (CCMs)-defined by Riemannian metrics under which a closed-loop system is incrementally exponentially stable-offer a constructive framework for synthesizing contracting policies in nonlinear path-tracking problems.
By Minjae Cho, Hiroyasu Tsukamoto, Huy T. Tran
arXiv:2608. 14825v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frontier LLM agents increasingly transact on behalf of separate principals, often using natural language rather than structured APIs.
By Zeyuan Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Lukas Petersson (Andon Labs), Alessandro Acquisti (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Michiel A. Bakker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
arXiv:2608. 16003v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated checking pipelines increasingly place one language model as the checker and another (or the same one) as the fixer.
By Parsa Mazaheri, Kasra Mazaheri
arXiv:2608. 16696v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physical AI systems such as autonomous vehicles and robots rely on timely exchange of high-dimensional sensory signals under tight bandwidth, latency, and energy budgets.
By Homa Esfahanizadeh, Matin Mortaheb, Jinfeng Du, Harish Viswanathan
arXiv:2608. 16285v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio-Visual Segmentation (AVS) is a fundamental task in multimodal perception that performs pixel-level segmentation of sounding objects in videos by leveraging both visual and audio cues.
By Zhaojin Fu, Yuyang Hong, Qi Yang, Zili Wang, Kun Ding, Shiming Xiang, Bin Fan
arXiv:2602. 18094v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing Visual-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved significant progress by being trained on massive-scale datasets, typically under the assumption that data are independent and identically distributed (IID).
By Ling Lin, Yang Bai, Heng Su, Congcong Zhu, Yaoxing Wang, Yang Zhou, Huazhu Fu, Jingrun Chen
arXiv:2608. 15043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video world models are increasingly used as simulators for planning and embodied decision making, yet improving them at inference time introduces a subtle evaluation problem: prompts, samplers, verifiers, and selectors may evolve together, making it difficult to attribute gains or prevent held-out feedback from shaping the final policy.
By Yuhua Jiang, Jiaming Wang, Qingbin Liu, Feifei Gao
arXiv:2509. 24900v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The performance of unified multimodal models for image generation and editing is fundamentally constrained by the quality and comprehensiveness of their training data.
By Zhihong Chen, Xuehai Bai, Yang Shi, Chaoyou Fu, Huanyu Zhang, Haotian Wang, Xiaoyan Sun, Zhang Zhang, Liang Wang, Yuanxing Zhang, Pengfei Wan, Yi-Fan Zhang
arXiv:2608. 14603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cooperative perception enables vehicles and infrastructure to exchange sensor data via Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication, extending sensing coverage beyond occlusions and mitigating blind spots.
By Chun-Yeow Yeoh, Chee Keong Tan, Joanne Mun-Yee Lim, Heng-Siong Lim
arXiv:2604. 09860v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The pursuit of general-purpose robotics has yielded impressive foundation models, yet simulation-based benchmarking remains a bottleneck due to rapid performance saturation and a lack of true generalization testing.
By Jenai Xuning Yang, Rishit Dagli, Alex Zook, Hugo Hadfield, Ankit Goyal, Stan Birchfield, Fabio Ramos, Jonathan Tremblay
arXiv:2608. 16447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon embodied tasks require LLM agents to iteratively decompose high-level goals, revise plans in response to environmental feedback, and ground leaf-level subgoals into valid executable actions.
By Shen Liu, Zhenguo Xu, Shaopu Wang, Yike Gao, Chunlei Wang
arXiv:2608. 16435v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In collection operations, accumulating payload progressively slows the vehicle, imposing a cumulative penalty on routing efficiency.
By Kabir Murjani, Abhay Sobhanan
arXiv:2608. 15502v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising foundation for Embodied AI, but their high inference cost poses significant challenges for deployment in robotic systems.
By Ao Zhou, Bo Dai, Le Yu, Xingyu Liu, Zeyu Hao, Lingkun Long, Chunming Hu, Jianlei Yang
arXiv:2608. 15893v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rise of social media bots poses a persistent threat, enabling misinformation, opinion manipulation, and the erosion of trust in online platforms.
By Nof Orenstein, Yoni Birman
arXiv:2608. 14724v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid advancement of intelligent transportation systems and autonomous driving relies heavily on multi-modal urban traffic datasets.
By Mohammed Abdul Al Arafat Tanzin, Rudzidatul Akmam Dziyauddin
arXiv:2608. 16031v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Camera-based object detectors are vulnerable to physical adversarial attacks designed to suppress detections.
By Yuting Wu, Dongfang Guo, Xiangzhong Luo, Qun Song, Rui Tan
arXiv:2608. 15594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-turn jailbreak attacks have emerged as a critical safety threat to LLMs, as harmful objectives are decomposed across a sequence of apparently benign turns to bypass guardrails.
By Md Messal Monem Miah, Adrita Anika, Zhiyuan Yu, Ruihong Huang
arXiv:2608. 15509v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Task guided agents demonstrate strong performance in a wide range of complex tasks.
By Hao Zhang, Zhangli Zhou, Zhen Kan
arXiv:2605. 21862v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chunked vision-language-action (VLA) policies predict multi-step robot controls, conditioning each update on the current visual observation alone.
By Chushan Zhang, Ruihan Lu, Jinguang Tong, Xuesong Li, Yikai Wang, Hongdong Li