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HERMES++: Toward a Unified Driving World Model for 3D Scene Understanding and Generation

Xin Zhou, Dingkang Liang, Xiwu Chen, Feiyang Tan, Dingyuan Zhang, Hengshuang Zhao, Xiang Bai · 2026

Driving world models serve as a pivotal technology for autonomous driving by simulating environmental dynamics. However, existing approaches predominantly focus on future scene generation, often overl…

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LaST-R1: Reinforcing Action via Adaptive Physical Latent Reasoning for VLA Models

Hao Chen, Jiaming Liu, Zhonghao Yan, Nuowei Han, Renrui Zhang, Chenyang Gu, Jialin Gao, Ziyu Guo, Siyuan Qian, Yinxi Wang, Peng Jia, Chi-Wing Fu, Shanghang Zhang, Pheng-Ann Heng · 2026

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have increasingly incorporated reasoning mechanisms for complex robotic manipulation. However, existing approaches share a critical limitation: whether employing ex…

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Computing Equilibrium beyond Unilateral Deviation

Mingyang Liu, Gabriele Farina, Asuman Ozdaglar · 2026

Most familiar equilibrium concepts, such as Nash and correlated equilibrium, guarantee only that no single player can improve their utility by deviating unilaterally. They offer no guarantees against …

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Exploration Hacking: Can LLMs Learn to Resist RL Training?

Eyon Jang, Damon Falck, Joschka Braun, Nathalie Kirch, Achu Menon, Perusha Moodley, Scott Emmons, Roland S. Zimmermann, David Lindner · 2026

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become essential to the post-training of large language models (LLMs) for reasoning, agentic capabilities and alignment. Successful RL relies on sufficient exploration …

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Optimal current-based sensing of phonon temperature using a finite reservoir

Sindre Brattegard, Stephanie Matern, Mark T. Mitchison, Saulo V. Moreira · 2026

In realistic nanoscale transport set-ups, electron-phonon coupling leads to the exchange of heat between phonon baths and electronic reservoirs with finite heat capacities. Such exchange affects the f…

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Supercriticality of the SIRS on random networks

Phuc Lam, Oanh Nguyen · 2026

We study how long the SIRS process persists or how quickly it reaches extinction across various network topologies. Our results provide a three-part characterization of this process: In finite sparse …

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Global Optimality for Constrained Exploration via Penalty Regularization

Florian Wolf, Ilyas Fatkhullin, Niao He · 2026

Efficient exploration is a central problem in reinforcement learning and is often formalized as maximizing the entropy of the state-action occupancy measure. While unconstrained maximum-entropy explor…

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Efficient Multivector Retrieval with Token-Aware Clustering and Hierarchical Indexing

Silvio Martinico, Franco Maria Nardini, Cosimo Rulli, Rossano Venturini · 2026

Multivector retrieval models achieve state-of-the-art effectiveness through fine-grained token-level representations, but their deployment incurs substantial computational and memory costs. Current so…

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Claw-Eval-Live: A Live Agent Benchmark for Evolving Real-World Workflows

Chenxin Li, Zhengyang Tang, Huangxin Lin, Yunlong Lin, Shijue Huang, Shengyuan Liu, Bowen Ye, Rang Li, Lei Li, Benyou Wang, Yixuan Yuan · 2026

LLM agents are expected to complete end-to-end units of work across software tools, business services, and local workspaces. Yet many agent benchmarks freeze a curated task set at release time and gra…

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Weak-to-Strong Measurement Transition with Thermal Instabilities

Marcos V. S. Lima, Carlos H. S. Vieira, Irismar G. da Paz, Pedro R. Dieguez, Lucas S. Marinho · 2026

Quantum measurement is physically realized through a finite dynamical interaction between a system and a measuring apparatus, giving rise to a continuous transition from weak to strong regimes. While …

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Simplified approach to extracting nucleon transversity in collinear factorization using near-side energy-energy correlators

Zhong-Bo Kang, Andreas Metz, Daniel Pitonyak, Congyue Zhang · 2026

We develop a novel strategy for accessing the transversity parton distribution function (PDF) of the nucleon within collinear factorization using near-side energy-energy correlators in the dihadron fr…

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MoCapAnything V2: End-to-End Motion Capture for Arbitrary Skeletons

Kehong Gong, Zhengyu Wen, Dao Thien Phong, Mingxi Xu, Weixia He, Qi Wang, Ning Zhang, Zhengyu Li, Guanli Hou, Dongze Lian, Xiaoyu He, Mingyuan Zhang, Hanwang Zhang · 2026

Recent methods for arbitrary-skeleton motion capture from monocular video follow a factorized pipeline, where a Video-to-Pose network predicts joint positions and an analytical inverse-kinematics (IK)…

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Measuring the risk or reducing it, that is the question: is risk measurement necessary for risk reduction?

Pierpaolo Uberti · 2026

In this research, starting from a widely accepted definition of risk, we support the idea that risk reduction is a more realistic objective than risk minimization, which represents a theoretical utopi…

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Auto-FlexSwitch: Efficient Dynamic Model Merging via Learnable Task Vector Compression

Junqi Gao, Dazhi Zhang, Zhichang Guo, Biqing Qi, Yi Ran, Wangmeng Zuo · 2026

Model merging has attracted attention as an effective path toward multi-task adaptation by integrating knowledge from multiple task-specific models. Among existing approaches, dynamic merging mitigate…

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Hierarchical Control for Continuous-time Systems via General Approximate Alternating Simulation Relations

Zhiyuan Huang, Shuo Li, Murat Arcak, Majid Zamani, Bingzhuo Zhong · 2026

This paper introduces a general approximate alternating simulation relation (\emph{$\varepsilon$-gAAS relation}) for continuous-time systems, which relaxes existing simulation relations to tolerate la…

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Machine Learning and Molecular Simulations Reveal Mechanisms of ZIFs Polymorph Selection

Emilio Mendez, Rocio Semino · 2026

Zn(imidazolate)$_2$ metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) exhibit a remarkable degree of polymorphism. Because of their promising industrial applications, many research groups have investigated phase transi…

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AesRM: Improving Video Aesthetics with Expert-Level Feedback

Yujin Han, Yujie Wei, Yefei He, Xinyu Liu, Tianle Li, Zichao Yu, Andi Han, Shiwei Zhang, Tingyu Weng, Difan Zou · 2026

Despite rapid advances in photorealistic video generation, real-world applications such as filmmaking require video aesthetics, e.g., harmonious colors and cinematic lighting, beyond visual fidelity. …

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Shuffling-Aware Optimization for Private Vector Mean Estimation

Shun Takagi, Seng Pei Liew · 2026

We study $d$-dimensional unbiased mean estimation in the single-message shuffle model, where each user sends a single privatized message and the analyzer only observes the shuffled multiset of reports…

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Gauge symmetry and uniqueness in inverse problems for the JMGT equation

Dong Qiu, Xiang Xu, Yeqiong Ye, Ting Zhou · 2026

In this paper, we study an inverse boundary value problem for the Jordan--Moore--Gibson--Thompson equation on a simple Riemannian manifold. We consider an all boundary measurement map that maps Dirich…

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Characterizing Path-Independent Fees: A Route to Zero Impermanent Loss in CPMMs

Andrey Voronin, Roman Vlasov, Vladimir Gorgadze, Andrey Seoev, Yury Yanovich · 2026

Constant Product Market Makers use fees that are typically fixed proportions of trade size. When these fees are automatically reinvested into the pool, as in Uniswap~V2 and some designs of Uniswap V4,…

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