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Communication-Efficient Relative Pose Estimation with Vision Foundation Models for Ephemeral Collaborative Perception
arXiv:2607.14539v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Relative pose estimation is a fundamental capability for collaborative perception and coordination in multi-robot systems. However, robots encountering each other in real-world environments often operate in short interaction windows and must operate under limited communication bandwidth with intermittent or missing visual overlap caused by occlusions or limited fields of view. Existing approaches typically rely on global reference frames, assume sustained view overlap, or incur prohibitive communication costs, thereby limiting their applicability to ephemeral collaborative perception. To address these challenges, we introduce communication-efficient relative pose estimation (CERPE), a system-level framework that coordinates vision foundation models to jointly estimate ego-motion and inter-robot relative pose. CERPE reduces unnecessary raw-observation exchange by using continuously shared fixed-size descriptors to gate event-triggered raw-image requests independently of pose estimation. Non-overlapping encounters are handled by propagating inter-robot relative poses through metrically scaled ego-motion, thus maintaining relative pose estimates even in the absence of visual overlap. Experiments in simulation and real-world robots show that CERPE improves 6-DoF relative pose estimation over selected baselines in ephemeral collaborative perception.
Democratizing Agent Deployment Safety: A Structural Monitoring Approach
arXiv:2607.14570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI software development agents are increasingly capable of modifying infrastructure and security critical systems, creating risks where an agent completes its assigned task while covertly weakening safeguards through actions such as broadening permissions, degrading logging, or introducing persistence mechanisms. While frontier laboratories may deploy sophisticated monitoring pipelines, many organizations and individual users adopting coding agents lack the resources and governance maturity required to maintain complex learned monitor ensembles. We study this problem as infrastructure level sabotage under task success in the infrastructure-as-code setting from ControlArena and compare trained and untrained monitors across synchronous and asynchronous deployment modes. We introduce an Information Flow Graph (IFG) monitor that analyzes structural security regressions using control-flow and data-flow graph diffs alongside raw code diffs. In asynchronous evaluation, an untrained git diff monitor misses 11.6% attacks at 1% false positive rate auditing budget, our untrained IFG monitor reduces this to 3.5%, and the trained Async RF monitor achieves below 1%. Unlike the trained Async RF monitor, IFG can also operate synchronously as a pre-deployment safeguard that blocks suspicious infrastructure changes before execution or merge. In synchronous mode, IFG realtime rollback reduces joint main task and covert task success from 74.4% to 0.0% with no measurable reduction in legitimate task completion. These results suggest that untrained structural monitors provide a practical and auditable path toward democratizing deployment safety for organizations seeking trustworthy adoption of advanced AI agents.
Periplus: A Resilient In-band SDN Control Plane via Embedded Forwarding Graphs
arXiv:2607.14869v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many resource-constrained, wide-area telecommunications deployments could benefit from an in-band SDN control plane, but several challenges stand in the way. This paper presents Periplus, an in-band SDN control plane designed to address four challenges that this approach presents in such contexts: automatic bootstrapping, source-based routing, fast failure recovery, and multi-controller coordination. The first three are developed in detail, while multi-controller coordination is addressed in a separate paper. For bootstrap, Periplus avoids network-wide flooding: when a new switch joins, the controller installs flow rules in only two switches. For routing and failure recovery, Periplus encodes a primary path and per-hop alternatives in a graph structure encapsulated between L2 and L3 headers; switches forward along the primary path and, upon detecting a failure, fall over locally to the encoded alternative without controller involvement. We evaluate a Ryu-based implementation of Periplus in Mininet across multiple topologies. Periplus runs on stock Open vSwitch (OVS), relying only on its built-in Nicira extensions for Network Service Header (NSH) encapsulation. The evaluation shows sub-50 ms failure recovery, scalable bootstrap across topologies of varying size and diameter, and a per-switch flow-table footprint that is independent of network size and grows only at switches where the controller encodes multiple alternatives.
Analytical study of the optimal combination of binary classifiers based on classifiers-induced partitioning of the training set
arXiv:2607.14889v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies an optimal linear combination of binary classifiers based on a logical structuration of the dataset via truth tables. The given classifiers partition data into equivalence classes, allowing for a rigorous analysis of the convexified empirical risk through a multidimensional generalization of classification calibrated functions. We establish sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of the (global) point of minimum of the convexified empirical risk for any list of classifiers (when the number of classifiers is large, there frequently could be no point of minimum). In the case of three classifiers, our analysis allows to list all the configurations leading to either a unique solution, infima or non-unique points of minimum. Furthermore, we derive explicit analytical formulae for optimal weights using Exponential (Boost) and Logistic (Logit) loss functions, bypassing iterative optimization. The stability of the resulting classifier and the analysis of data quality can be evaluated through the introduction of the notion of $\phi$-frontiers.
Code Correctness Is Linearly Decodable from LLM Hidden States Before Generation
arXiv:2606.14530v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models encode rich information in their hidden states. This work asks whether the correctness of code that Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 has not yet generated is already legible in its hidden states, evaluated on a set of 444 tasks from LiveCodeBench. The correctness of the model's first-attempt code is linearly decodable from the hidden state at the final prompt token, captured before any output token is generated, with a leakage-free held-out AUC of 0.881 +/- 0.008 across 50 outer splits. To assess whether this signal is explained by prompt length, each hidden state dimension is residualized with respect to its linear effect. The probe still achieves an AUC of 0.842 +/- 0.010, substantially above a logistic prompt-length baseline of 0.657 +/- 0.014, and none of the nonlinear models tested improves upon it. A companion question about whether self-repair leaves a geometric signature in the model's hidden states could not be answered, because successful repairs following a failed first attempt are too rare in this setting to support the analysis. The contribution is both empirical and methodological, providing evidence that pre-generation hidden states contain a robust signal of eventual code correctness, together with a confound-control diagnostic that quantifies how much of that signal survives adjustment for prompt length.
Cache to the Future: A Distributed Webpage Archive for Internet Blackouts
arXiv:2606.17245v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Internet blackouts, occurring due to technological mishaps or intentional governmental action, prevent citizens from accessing the internet. Citizens in regions where internet blackouts are common have utilized blackout-resistant technologies to maintain communication. Such technologies often rely on mobile mesh networks to provide limited messaging services. However, no technology currently exists which can provide continued access to knowledge sources on the web during a blackout. We present Cache to the Future (CttF): a system to cache and deliver static content hosted on the web during a blackout. CttF's distributed community ratings crowdsources caching at scale while cryptographic constructs (digital signatures, proofs-of-work) mitigate adversarial interference. Our realistic simulations demonstrate CttF delivering content at city-scale across a wide range of benign and adversarial scenarios.
Local Fault Repair of Perfect Resource Placements in Eisenstein--Jacobi Networks
arXiv:2606.17288v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Perfect resource placements in dense Eisenstein--Jacobi (EJ) networks partition the network into hexagonal radius-$t$ service cells. This paper studies local repair of such placements after resource failures. For one failed resource, we prove that one replacement cannot cover the failed hexagon and two always suffice, giving $\rho_{\mathrm{EJ}}(t)=2$ for all $t\ge1$. Among minimum-size repairs, the sharp minimum-overlap formula $\Omega_{\mathrm{EJ}}(t)=t^2$ follows from the three-strip geometry of EJ balls. For two failed resources, independent repair gives a four-replacement upper bound, but unlike the Gaussian case EJ repair is not always additive: two infinite neighboring displacement families admit three-replacement repairs, proved optimal by a two-ball impossibility argument. Additive behavior is established algebraically via endpoint-rigidity and diagonal-corridor theorems. For $q$ failed resources, independent canonical repair gives a universal $2q$ upper bound, exact when failed cells are pairwise more than $4t$ apart. Dense cluster subadditivity is proved for infinite four-fault and six-fault families with exact repair numbers four and five, giving savings of four and seven over independent repair. An exact inclusion--exclusion identity governs repeated coverage for arbitrary multi-fault repairs. An audit over 19,400 instances confirms widespread subadditivity. EJ local repair is structurally distinct from the Gaussian case: the one-fault overlap is quadratic, two-fault repair can be non-additive, and clustered repairs reuse replacement balls across multiple failed cells.
TerraTransfer: Learning End-to-End Driving Policies Without Expert Demonstrations
arXiv:2606.17386v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving has achieved state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks and real-world deployments. Its standard training recipe, however, is expensive across all stages: collecting and labeling millions of driving frames is costly, and closed-loop RL on images is bottlenecked by the per-step cost of photorealistic rendering plus a forward pass through a large vision backbone. Self-play in vectorized simulators changes the economics: millions of rollout steps per second, and a state distribution naturally rich in collisions, near-misses, and recoveries that no driving log contains. Our approach exploits this asymmetry by decoupling learning to drive from learning to see. We pretrain a single policy by self-play, then align its latent space with a pretrained vision backbone, through the action KL divergence and a batch-relational low-rank structural loss. The action target comes from the self-play policy, so alignment never supervises against a logged trajectory: a paired dataset of (image, scene-state) frames suffices, with no need for the curated expert demonstrations that imitation pretraining is built on. On photorealistic 3D Gaussian splatting closed-loop scenarios, the resulting end-to-end policy matches or exceeds prior end-to-end methods.
VOiLA: Vectorized Online Planning with Learned Diffusion Models for POMDP Agents
arXiv:2606.19729v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Planning under uncertainty is an essential capability for autonomous robots. The Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) provides a powerful framework for such a capability. Although POMDP-based planning has advanced significantly, its application to real-world problems is often limited by the difficulty of obtaining faithful POMDP models. We present Vectorized Online planning wIth Learned diffusion model for POMDP Agents (VOiLA), a framework that learns task-agnostic POMDP models for online planning under uncertainty. VOiLA learns transition and observation samplers using conditional diffusion models and learns observation-likelihood models for particle-based belief updates. To enable efficient online planning, the diffusion samplers are distilled into compact feedforward generators and integrated with Vectorized Online POMDP Planner (VOPP), an online POMDP planner designed to leverage GPU parallelization. Experimental results indicate the distillation strategy reduces sampling cost by up to nearly three orders of magnitude, making learned generative POMDP models practical for online planning. Evaluation of VOiLA on three benchmark problems indicate that VOiLA achieves equal or better performance than Recurrent Soft Actor Critic while using less than 10% training data, and generalizes much better to unseen environment configurations. Physical robot evaluation indicates VOiLA uses the models learned using only simulated data and generates a policy that successfully accomplish the task in 10 of 10 runs.
Training-Free Metrics for Synthetic Object Detection Data: A Proxy for Detector Performance
arXiv:2606.19817v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Synthetic images are increasingly used to augment scarce real data for object detection. However, not all synthetic sets help equally, and the only way to know a set's value is to train a detector on it, which is slow and demands dense annotation. We ask whether a training-free metric can instead rank candidate synthetic training sets by their downstream utility. Existing image-set metrics such as FID, KID, and MMD compare two feature distributions with a single global statistic, which we show is mis-specified for detection-data selection in two ways: it is blind to per-image composition (object count, box scale, class mix), and even at fixed composition its global averaging washes out the appearance differences that separate high-mAP pools from low-mAP ones. We propose Conditional-Composition Domain Match (CCDM), which converts any feature-space distance into a composition-stratified comparison, matching candidate and target within metadata-defined strata without training a detector. On COCO and VisDrone-DET, the best CCDM variant ranks 19 candidate training sets in strong agreement with YOLOv8 mAP (Spearman \r{ho} = 0.97 and 0.96), outperforming FID, KID, and MMD. Furthermore, CCDM holds when reference metadata comes from detector pseudo-labels rather than ground-truth boxes.
Building Agent Harnesses for Scientific Curation from Multimodal Sources
arXiv:2606.21005v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scientific discovery workflows often depend on structured curation from the literature. This is difficult for current agents because the key evidence is scattered across long text, dense tables, and figures, and the final records often require reasoning across multiple evidence fragments rather than copying a single span. We study scientific curation from multimodal sources and introduce Beaver, an agent harness that extracts structured information from scientific papers while preserving provenance to the supporting evidence. Beaver combines a frontier agent with multimodal evidence tooling, task scaffolding, and artifact-grounded autoresearch. These components turn curation into a staged, auditable workflow and enable an iterative evaluate--diagnose--revise loop, where persistent run artifacts expose stage-localized failures and guide harness updates. Experiments show that Beaver reaches 81.0 on Gold-Referenced Attribute Score (GRAS), an attribute-level measure of agreement with gold curated records, outperforming frontier agents by over 23 absolute points. Ablations show that task scaffolding, multimodal evidence tooling, and provenance traces each contribute meaningfully to performance, while attribute-level analysis shows the largest gains on high-value attributes that require cross-modal reasoning and normalization. These results show that, for scientific curation from papers with multimodal evidence, harness design is a central determinant of agent performance.
When Does Belief-Based Agent Memory Help? Reliability-Conditional Updating and Provenance-Capped Poisoning Defense
arXiv:2606.22030v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We investigate when belief-based memory actually improves large language model (LLM) agents. Our vehicle is Nous, a long-term memory architecture that represents each entity-attribute pair as a categorical probability distribution updated through closed-form Bayesian inference, with information-theoretic surprise driving belief revision and entropy-based forgetting. A controlled ablation on the LoCoMo benchmark shows that Bayesian belief updating alone provides little benefit over naive last-write-wins because existing conversational memory benchmarks rarely contain contradictory or differently reliable evidence. We then introduce reliability-conditioned updating, estimating per-observation reliability from epistemic language, and show on a controlled contradiction benchmark that belief updating substantially outperforms last-write-wins and raw-memory retrieval when observations differ in trustworthiness. Because content-derived reliability is itself vulnerable to manipulation, we further propose provenance-capped belief updating, where trust is bounded by source provenance rather than textual confidence. Under controlled memory-poisoning experiments, this approach resists volumetric poisoning attacks while revealing the utility costs and implementation requirements of provenance-aware memory. Finally, we quantify a 27.5-point discrepancy between strict token-F1 and LLM-as-judge evaluation on identical outputs, highlighting important reproducibility concerns for long-term memory benchmarks. Our results suggest that probabilistic belief-based memory is most beneficial in environments requiring reasoning over conflicting and differently trustworthy evidence, rather than conventional conversational recall alone.
MedBeads: An AI-Native Clinical Context Graph Built from Immutable Beads and Reconstructable Clinical Links
arXiv:2602.01086v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative AI can encode substantial medical knowledge, but patient-specific answers remain constrained by the context supplied at inference time. Electronic health records and FHIR support documentation and interoperability, but they do not by themselves define the complete, current, and auditable context a model should receive. Similarity-based retrieval can find related text, but it neither guarantees collection of clinically connected records nor makes omissions explicit. We introduce MedBeads, an AI-facing clinical record substrate that assembles a declared closure of longitudinal patient information before generation. A Bead is an immutable clinical or knowledge object identified by SHA-256 over canonical content and stored as an append-only frame in a patient-scoped Pod. Structural parent edges form a patient-rooted Merkle DAG. Typed clinical links occupy a separate, reconstructable interpretation layer derived from signed, versioned knowledge rules; they can be recomputed when knowledge changes without rewriting clinical facts. Retrieval follows authorized structural and clinical edges, resolves amendments and retractions, and reports policy or token truncation. An open-source Go implementation uses append-only Pods and reconstructable SQLite projections. File-based conversion of 1,135 synthetic Synthea FHIR bundles produced approximately one million Beads and demonstrated deterministic clinical-link derivation and interpretation-layer reconstruction. These engineering results establish feasibility and reproducibility, not reduced hallucination or improved clinical outcomes. MedBeads reframes grounding as a data-structure problem by delivering a policy-bounded, provenance-bearing clinical subgraph rather than an opaque list of similar fragments.
Schemata, Cyclic Proofs and Herbrand Systems
arXiv:2606.23040v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Inductive proofs can be represented by proof schemata, a formalism that represents infinite sequences of proofs by recursive definitions. Since proof schemata avoid the explicit application of induction rules, they admit novel applications, one of which is the realization of Herbrand's theorem in the presence of induction. In this paper, we develop a new type of proof schema based on point transition systems. For skolemized proof schemata without quantified cuts, so-called Herbrand systems, that is, schemata of Herbrand instances of quantified formulas, can be computed. Herbrand systems also allow the representation of schemata of Herbrand sequents, thereby realizing Herbrand's theorem for proof schemata. We compare proof schemata with cyclic proofs and define a transformation from a large class of cyclic proofs to proof schemata. Finally, we show that proof schemata based on point transition systems are capable of proving the 2-Hydra statement, a well-known example that is provable by the cyclic proof system CLKID\omega but not in LKID.
Structuring International Governance through the Space of Concerns
arXiv:2606.25286v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: When institutions decide by consensus, the official record shows agreement but hides who shaped what was decided. We introduce a way to recover that hidden structure from the one trace consensus cannot suppress: the documentary record of what actors choose to work on. Adapting tools from economic complexity, we map a ``space of concerns'' in which issues lie close when the same actors repeatedly specialize in both -- turning a flat agenda into a measurable topology of attention. Across six decades of the Antarctic Treaty (6,591 documents, 66 actors), engagement is structured, local, and persistent, and the most specialized actors produce binding law at roughly five times the baseline rate. The approach generalizes to any document-rich consensus forum, showing that unanimity does not erase political structure -- it relocates it upstream, into the organization of attention.
Modular molecular toolkit for photochemical energy conversion in a self-assembling nanocontainer
arXiv:2606.27238v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Production of useful chemicals using photoelectrochemical biohybrid devices offers an environmentally friendly alternative to existing energetically demanding processes. These devices exploit light-driven charge separation, e.g. by a photosystem, and require efficient electron transfer to a tailored redox enzyme cascade. Here we demonstrate that electron transfer efficiency can be increased by confining the photosystem with the redox protein inside a self-assembling, virus-based nanocontainer. The photosynthetic system from the phototrophic bacterium Cereibacter sphaeroides and cytochrome c were conjugated to a bacteriophage P22 scaffolding protein and co-incorporated into the 50 nm diameter virus shell in vitro. The porous shell confined the macromolecular components for efficient electron transfer while allowing free exchange of small electron mediators. Sustainable and accelerated light-driven electron transfer between the encapsulated components was confirmed by optical spectroscopy. This self-assembly system presents a versatile platform for developing nanoreactors that combine photosystems with complex redox pathways.
Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-Image: Advancing Masked Discrete Diffusion for High-Resolution Image Synthesis
arXiv:2606.29814v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-Image, a state-of-the-art masked discrete diffusion model (MDM) for high-resolution text-to-image synthesis. Compared with prior work on masked image generation, Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-Image addresses two key challenges. First, unlike continuous diffusion models which progressively refine latent representations across the entire image, standard MDMs lack self-correcting capability because discrete tokens cannot be modified once they are unmasked. Second, although increasing the vocabulary size of discrete image tokenizers improves reconstruction fidelity, it introduces optimization difficulties for generative modeling as the per-token training signal becomes increasingly sparse. To address the first challenge, Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-Image incorporates a token-editing mechanism that enables the model to dynamically revise already-unmasked tokens during inference, similar to how a sculptor iteratively refines their work. To tackle the second challenge, we propose a Grouped Cross-Entropy (GCE) objective that assigns positive learning signals to tokens neighboring the ground truth in embedding space, thereby alleviating signal sparsity. To further improve training efficiency, we implement a custom fused operator for GCE that significantly reduces VRAM usage in large-vocabulary settings. Experimental results demonstrate that these innovations substantially improve both training efficiency and image fidelity of masked discrete image generators, achieving a score of 0.90 on GenEval, 86.9 on DPG and 10.76 of HPSv3.
Inoculation Adapters: Improved Selective Generalization of Capabilities with Fewer Surprising Backdoors
arXiv:2606.30252v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Inoculation prompting is a selective-generalization technique used against Emergent Misalignment. We introduce inoculation adapters (IA), a family of methods that similarly reduce the optimization pressure to learn undesired traits by strengthening those traits during training. Inoculation adapters are LoRAs that are trained and used in three steps: (1) trained on undesired traits; (2) attached frozen while a separate task adapter is trained on data exhibiting both desired and undesired traits; (3) the IA is discarded at deployment, while only the task adapter is kept. We compare inoculation adapters with four selective-generalization baselines: inoculation prompting, preventative steering, Concept Ablation Fine-Tuning (CAFT), and KL regularization. Across nine setups and five model families, the inoculation adapter family spans a new Pareto frontier of desired trait retention vs. undesired trait suppression, although given wide confidence intervals the magnitude of improvement remains uncertain. Inoculation adapters also avoid two drawbacks of inoculation prompting: they can suppress capabilities and traits that cannot be reliably elicited by a prompt, and they introduce fewer surprising backdoors. However, no IA variant optimizes all objectives perfectly; gains in desired-trait generalization are generally accompanied by weaker suppression of the undesired trait and increased backdoor occurrence.
ShopX: A Foundation Model for Intent-to-Item Fulfillment in Agentic Shopping
arXiv:2606.31693v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The wave of AI-native applications is moving shopping beyond page- and feed-based browsing toward intent-driven experiences orchestrated by LLM agents. A common design wraps an LLM around existing search and recommendation pipelines, forcing complex intents through low-bandwidth retrieval or ranking interfaces and leaving a gap between language understanding and item-space fulfillment. Generative recommendation gives LLMs a direct item-space interface through semantic IDs (SIDs), but existing models mainly generate candidates for retrieval rather than translate flexible intents into item-space outcomes. We propose ShopX to address this bottleneck by unifying intent understanding, execution planning, and flexible SID-native item-space operations into a single foundation model. We deploy ShopX in agentic shopping workflows through a model-native item-fulfillment framework with a serving harness that defines a model-facing action protocol and exposes support surfaces for context access, catalog grounding, and state management. Within this framework, ShopX plans and composes SID-based item-space operations such as SID beam-search retrieval, listwise ranking, or product bundling. This model-centric design reduces lossy hand-offs between agent orchestration and item-space execution. To build ShopX, we design semantically recoverable, LLM-operable SIDs and a training recipe that equips a general LLM for flexible multi-turn item-space fulfillment while retaining the knowledge and instruction-following abilities needed by a shopping agent. We evaluate the ShopX framework against tool-mediated agentic systems on single- and multi-turn fulfillment tasks derived from anonymized Taobao production logs, showing that model-native fulfillment improves overall framework behavior, especially on complex or ambiguous requests.
MSQA: A Natively Sourced Multilingual and Multicultural SimpleQA Benchmark
arXiv:2607.00724v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multilingual fluency often invites a stronger assumption: a model that can speak a user's language must also understand the culture encoded by that language. We call this the Illusion of Cultural Alignment. To test this assumption directly, we introduce MSQA, a benchmark of 1,064 natively sourced questions across 11 language groups, five cultural dimensions, and three difficulty tiers. Unlike translated benchmarks, MSQA targets locally grounded knowledge and reduces shortcuts from English-centric cross-lingual transfer. Evaluating 18 LLMs, we find substantial cultural degradation and a pronounced Locality Effect: cultural competence tracks pre-training exposure more closely than general reasoning ability. We further show that common inference-time remedies do not dissolve the illusion. Models remain overconfident on unfamiliar cultural questions, repeated sampling yields unstable rather than reliable correctness, and retrieval augmentation helps unevenly on long-tail facts. These findings indicate that cultural alignment cannot be inferred from multilingual ability alone and requires deeper intervention than calibration, sampling, or retrieval at inference time
Adversarial Pragmatics for AI Safety Evaluation: A Benchmark for Instruction Conflict, Embedded Commands, and Policy Ambiguity
arXiv:2607.01153v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Safety evaluations for language models increasingly depend on judgments about ambiguous natural-language behaviour: whether a model has followed an instruction, refused appropriately, complied with a policy, resisted an embedded command, or misreported progress in an agentic task. Existing benchmarks often compress these distinctions into pass/fail labels, obscuring whether failures arise from capability limits, policy ambiguity, instruction conflict, scaffold failure, or unstable evaluator judgments. This paper introduces adversarial pragmatics as a benchmark and annotation protocol for evaluating model behaviour under instruction conflict, embedded commands, quotation, scope ambiguity, deixis, indirect speech acts, and multi-turn agent transcripts. The contribution is empirical and methodological: a linguistically controlled taxonomy, an 18-item seed benchmark with validator-enforced metadata, a 54-row local seed pilot, an expert-evaluation protocol distinguishing task success, policy compliance, safety risk, refusal outcome, and evaluator confidence, and metrics for judge validity, diagnostic ambiguity, and taxonomy drift. The benchmark treats labels as inference licenses: it tests whether safety-relevant categories project across paraphrase, wrapper, model, and judge condition. In the pilot, a rubric-aided LLM judge graded its own outputs with expected-behaviour fields visible and still missed the safety-relevant minority classes.
ADP: Adversarial Dynamics Priors for Physically Grounded Humanoid Locomotion
arXiv:2607.03454v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, we propose Adversarial Dynamics Priors (ADP) for perturbation-resilient humanoid locomotion control. Existing motion prior-based methods induce natural motion styles by imitating kinematic motion features, but they do not directly regularize dynamics features, such as CoM motion, centroidal momentum, contact forces, and contact states. To address this limitation, we replace kinematic motion-style feature with selected dynamics features extracted from locomotion trajectories as the target of adversarial regularization. To this end, we use trajectory optimization to construct a reference dataset and train a discriminator to evaluate whether policy-induced temporal windows are consistent with the resulting reference distribution. Without explicit motion tracking, ADP encourages policy rollouts to remain close to the reference support, even after perturbations. Experimental results show that, compared with AMP, the strongest baseline in our evaluation, ADP improves the $80\%$-success impulse threshold ($J_{80}$) by $16.7\%$, while reducing direction-averaged recovery time and velocity tracking error by $47.9\%$ and $35.4\%$, respectively.
Impact of Expert-Following Strategies in Financial Asset Recommendation
arXiv:2607.14556v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial institutions hold rich transaction histories, yet delivering recommendations that simultaneously maximize investment returns and ensure preference alignment remains a significant challenge. Existing approaches, namely return-based and preference-based strategies, each optimize a single objective, resulting in a fundamental trade-off between profitability (ROI) and relevance (nDCG). In this paper, we propose the Expert-Following Strategies: a framework that identifies top-performing investors based on their historical ROI and recommends the assets they purchased, scored by ROI-weighted purchase frequency. Our experiments using real-world transaction histories show that our strategy achieves statistically significant improvement over the market-average baseline in both ROI and nDCG simultaneously across all four thresholds.
Chat2Scenic: An Iterative RAG-Based Framework for Scenario Generation in Autonomous Driving
arXiv:2607.14387v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Validating autonomous driving systems requires diverse, regulation-compliant test scenarios. In simulation-based testing, scenarios are defined as executable scripts. Yet automatically generating such scripts from regulatory descriptions remains an open challenge, and existing approaches face fundamental trade-offs. Retrieval-assemble methods achieve reasonable compilation rates but lack scalability, whereas retrieval-based full-script generation suffers from low compilation success rates. We present Chat2Scenic, the first iterative retrieval-augmented framework to generate scenario scripts in Domain Specific Language (DSL). Specifically, Chat2Scenic provides a chatbot interface that supports interactive scenario refinement and integrates Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG) to ground scenario generation in regulatory knowledge and DSL syntax. Furthermore, we propose an open benchmark for scenario generation comprising 123 scenarios from various regulations, including NHTSA and United Nations Vehicle Regulations, as well as other sources. Extensive evaluation with State-of-the-Art (SOTA) Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrates that Chat2Scenic achieves 76.42% Compilation Success Rate (CSR) and 58.17% Framework Accuracy (FA), outperforming existing methods (Retrieval Assemble with 30.08% CSR, 11.03% FA and Retrieval full script generation with 16.26% CSR, 10.86% FA). To facilitate future research, we release our code as open source at https://github.com/TUM-AVS/chat2scenic.
MathCoPilot: An Interactive System for Human-AI Symbiotic Paradigm of Mathematical Research
arXiv:2607.14582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing LLM-based theorem provers have achieved impressive results on formal mathematics benchmarks, yet they remain confined to acting as autonomous agents that prove a stated proposition. In this paper, we propose MathCoPilot, a human-in-the-loop system that embodies a new human--AI symbiotic paradigm for mathematical research, in which the mathematician steers the high-level mathematical direction while AI agents carry out the detailed formalization and proof work under continuous human guidance. MathCoPilot unifies three core capabilities: (1) an interactive workbench where the mathematician and AI agents collaborate through a living proof blueprint that decomposes a proof into navigable steps the human can directly inspect, direct, and refine; (2) automated proving skill orchestration with adaptive knowledge base search and Lean-integrated iterative verification; and (3) topic-driven paper retrieval and automated formalization into a verified Lean knowledge base. Using MathCoPilot, we systematically compare four state-of-the-art LLMs, including Gemini~3.1~Pro, GPT-5.4, and Claude~Opus~4.7, on a FormalMATH subset and on two real PDE theorems requiring deep domain expertise, evaluating their ability to produce verified Lean~4 proofs and to identify errors in deliberately incorrect proofs. Our results show that while current models can handle undergraduate-level problems with high success rates under favorable autoformalization conditions, substantial challenges remain for domain-specific theorems requiring genuine mathematical understanding.