arXiv preprints from January 1, 2026 through July 21, 2026 — 21:24:28 EST
Vision-language-action (VLA) models have achieved impressive generalization in robotic manipulation, and recent memory-augmented VLAs have relaxed the Markovian assumption by conditioning on past images or language summaries. Vision-based memory approaches address this by conditioning on sampled past image frames, but they are...
Modern vision-language models (VLMs) have significantly improved image generation and editing capabilities, making pixel-level image tampering detection increasingly important yet challenging under cross-model and out-of-distribution shifts. This work studies domain generalization for pixel-level image tampering detection in modern...
To test how correct logical judgments respond to learned context, we prepend a soft prefix to an exactly labeled syllogistic reasoning benchmark while keeping the model fixed. Soft prefixes are opaque continuous vectors, so we characterize them through the behavior they induce across controlled variations in logical form and...
In line with the prevailing direction of vision research, we explore the integration of both generation and editing capabilities for video and image modalities within a single model. Current approaches to collecting video editing data typically depend on labour-intensive, time-consuming curated procedures--involving object mask...
Causal discovery methods have shown strong performance in temporal systems, but they typically rely on regular and discrete lag structures, limiting their applicability to regularly sampled data. However, many real-world tasks require dealing with irregularly sampled streams of events, such as sensor streams, healthcare data, and...
We propose one-step and two-step methods for policy learning with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). We formulate RAG-based action selection under the potential outcome framework. In the two-step method, vector search retrieves action-specific neighboring evidence in an embedding space, the generator estimates conditional expected...
The existence of allocations of indivisible goods that are simultaneously fair (envy-free up to one item (EF1)) and efficient (Pareto optimal (PO)) when agents have monotone submodular valuations has been a longstanding open problem. We settle this question negatively by giving an example with two agents where no allocation is...
Foundation models have emerged as a driving force in computational pathology, with the potential to transform cancer diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment selection by learning transferable representations from large-scale histopathology data. A growing landscape of pathology foundation models now spans diverse data sources,...
Human-object centric video personalization (HOCVP) is a core task within subject-driven video generation. However, existing methods suffer from two key limitations. First, most approaches focusing on inter-subject personalization still struggle to strike a balance between high subject fidelity and accurate interaction patterns between...
Pruning long context for coding agents has been a vital technology for efficient context management. While existing context pruning methods such as SWE-Pruner realize this by attaching a separate code classifier, we find the agent itself encodes internal representations indicating the relevance of code context when reading tool...
Robotic grasping requires accurate coordination between visual perception, object localization, inverse kinematics, and hand control. However, when movements planned in simulation are executed on a physical robot, the sim-to-real gap can cause small positioning errors that prevent successful grasping. In our previous work, we...
This paper considers a multi-environment factor model in which high-dimensional covariates are collected from heterogeneous environments, with auxiliary labels available in a subset of these environments. The joint distribution of the covariates may vary across environments, whereas the latent structure is decomposed into invariant...
Robots in cluttered indoor spaces often fail not because they cannot generate collision-free paths, but because a fixed safety margin is mis-calibrated: conservative margins cause detours and timeouts, while permissive margins lead to near-boundary shortcuts under perception bias. Diffusion-based planners propose diverse trajectory...
Not all training samples contribute equally to large language model fine-tuning. Selecting informative training samples can reduce the computational cost while preserving downstream performance. Many existing data selection methods rely on indirect heuristics, such as data quality, diversity or reasoning trace length. However, the...
Modern generative models typically rely on an adversarial critic, a prescribed noise-to-data path, or an autoregressive factorization. Instead, we show that a proper distributional energy can induce sample-level motion and provide direct regression supervision for a one-step generator. Three-Body Scattering Modeling (TBSM) for...
Seamless human-robot interaction (HRI) requires a number of perceptual and motor abilities from the robot, one of them being the imitation of human gestures. Humanoid robots have an advantage in HRI thanks to their anthropomorphic features. In this work, we develop a system for imitation of human arm gestures by the semi-humanoid...
Sample-based Quantum Diagonalization (SQD) is a hybrid quantum-classical method that replaces variational optimization with a self-consistent recovery loop over QPU samples. Although SQD is considered robust to noisy samples and imperfect classical inputs, its robustness across practical deployment choices has not been systematically...
Vision models have been found to be susceptible to perturbations such as motion blur induced at runtime by a shaking camera. This impedes their deployment in critical applications since phenomena such as slightly blurred vision might lead to failures, for example an object detector missing objects. While methods such as data...
This paper explores a way to verify that audio has not been maliciously tampered in a specific context: short viral videos taken from news recordings. Rather than trying to detect artifacts of tampering (internal inconsistency), we focus on positively verifying a query against a trusted source such as a news recording (external...
In this study, we explore how pianists can customize Music Minus One (MMO) concerto accompaniments to match their playing style. Bypassing the need for a symbolic score, often not available digitally, we use three types of audio data: solo piano recordings, MMO orchestra-only recordings, and mixed recordings of both piano and...
Large-scale scientific simulations generate volumetric data at rates that far outpace advances in storage and network bandwidth, making effective lossy compression increasingly critical. However, conventional compressors often struggle to preserve fine structural details at high compression ratios (CRs), and implicit neural...
In random expected utility (Gul and Pesendorfer, 2006), the distribution of preferences is uniquely identified from random choice. This paper investigates whether such identification extends beyond expected utility. We first show that when risk preferences conform to the disappointment aversion model of Gul (1991), the distribution of...
How should people choose careers when artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the nature of work? We first compare six recent projections of occupational exposure to task automation with AI, examining their methods and assumptions. We then propose a new empirical model of occupational AI exposure based on 2025 query data...
Research on Nash equilibrium existence for infinite games has grown into a patchwork of technical preconditions and counterexamples. This paper presents a unified program in equilibrium theory by revising the predominant model of mixed strategies based on countable additivity. A game is specified by a nonempty set of players and, for...
This paper examines how algorithmic and AI-driven fund management shapes the international transmission of U.S. monetary policy to emerging markets. It argues that the key source of instability is not algorithmic intermediation itself, but the similarity of models across funds. When algorithms rely on similar signals and make...