AI News Archive: June 16, 2026 — Part 22
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- Qwen-RobotManip Technical Report: Alignment Unlocks Scale for Robotic Manipulation Foundation Models
Foundation models in language and multimodality achieve strong generalization by aligning heterogeneous data under a unified formulation and training at scale. In this report, we investigate whether this scaling recipe can be applied to robotic manipulation to achieve genuine generalization. This is...
- MaineCoon: Pursuing A Real-Time Audio-Visual Social World Model
As an increasing majority of global video content is consumed on social platforms for interactive social purposes, video generation models built for social worlds are important but largely overlooked by previous studies. In this work, we define the position of social world models and build a prototy...
- ED3R: Energy-Aware Distributed Disaster Detection Enabled by Cooperative Robotic Agents
Robotics are expected to support environmental monitoring and natural disaster management, where decisions must be made under uncertainty, resource limitations, and strict operational constraints. In critical missions, such as wildfires, robotic agents must not only identify hazardous events with su...
- ActWorld: From Explorable to Interactive World Model via Action-Aware Memory
Interactive world models aim to simulate environment dynamics under real-time user actions. However, their action vocabulary is largely confined to navigation: most actions correspond to motion (e.g., walk, turn, look around), while interaction with objects in the scene (e.g., pick up plates, open d...
- Structured Adversarial Camouflage via Voronoi Diagrams
Pixel-wise adversarial patches are computationally heavy and often visually detectable, limiting utility in security-critical systems. We present adversarial Voronoi camouflage that optimizes only seed-point locations under fixed, printable palettes using a soft assignment, producing structured, spl...
- Do We Really Need Diffusion? A Fast U-Net for Paired Medical Image Translation
Magnetic resonance imaging-signal fat fraction (MRI-SFF) quantifies tissue fat and serves as an established biomarker for metabolic and musculoskeletal disorders. The acquisition requires, however, specialized MRI sequences, which are not available routinely. We investigate whether SFF can be estima...
- Divide, Deliberate, Decide: A Multi-Agent Framework for Fine-Grained Egocentric Action Recognition
Fine-grained action recognition in egocentric video is challenging for Vision-Language Models (VLMs): actions often differ only in small visual cues, and a single model tends to be biased toward a subset of these cues. We propose Divide, Deliberate, Decide, a fully-local, zero-shot multi-agent frame...
- RAVA: Retrieval-Augmented Viewpoint Alignment for Subject-Driven Image Generation
Reference-driven image generation has made rapid progress on identity preservation, but reliable viewpoint control across different subjects remains poorly understood. The difficulty is not merely generating a new image of the target subject: the model must infer the implicit viewpoint of one subjec...
- Rethinking Dataset Distillation for Classification: Do Distilled Sets Outperform Coresets?
Dataset distillation (DD) has emerged as a prominent approach in data centric machine learning, aiming to synthesize compact training sets for efficient training by compressing the information in large datasets into a small number of synthetic samples. However, DD methods are often evaluated under i...
- Multi-Source Cybersecurity Logs: An ATT&CK-Labeled Dataset and SLM Evaluation
Multi-stage cyberattacks span system, network, and browser logs. Detecting them requires correlating events across all three sources. Machine learning methods can learn these cross-source patterns, but they need labeled multi-source data. Existing public datasets fall short. Network-only datasets su...
- A Convex Quasilinearization Method for Solving Nonlinear PDEs with Physics-Informed Neural Networks
We present a numerical method for the forward solution of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) in which Bellman-Kalaba quasilinearization reduces the nonlinear problem to a sequence of linear subproblems, each discretized by collocation onto a trial space that is linear in its parameters ...
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- Evaluating Open-Source LLMs for Multi-Label ATT&CK Technique Classification on CTI Reports
Classifying Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) using MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK) is essential for proactive defense, but historically required extensive human effort. Pre-Large Language Model (LLM) automation sped up this process, but could not resolve the compl...
- Deep Reinforcement Learning for Minimum Zero-Forcing Sets
This paper explores the problem of finding the minimum zero-forcing set on undirected graphs and proposes an adapted machine-learning framework to solve the problem. The minimum zero-forcing set problem is a graph coloring problem where the color of an initial set of nodes propagates throughout a ne...
- From Reasoning Traces to Reusable Modules: Understanding Compositional Generalization in Language Model Reasoning
Post-training pipelines that combine supervised fine-tuning (SFT) with reinforcement learning (RL) have emerged as the key recipe for transforming large language models (LLMs) into robust reasoners. We argue that this combined success is driven by compositional generalization, which we formalize thr...
- Edge Flow: A Tractable and Predictive Continuous-Time Model for Gradient Descent at the Edge of Stability
Gradient descent in deep learning may operate at the edge of stability (EoS), a regime in which the largest eigenvalue of the loss Hessian hovers near the stability threshold $2/η$, where $η$ is the learning rate. Classical analysis tools such as gradient flow and the descent lemma do not apply here...
- ConTex: Reformulating Counterfactual Generation For Time Series Forecasting
Decision-making with deep learning-based time series forecasting requires not only accurate predictions but also actionable insights. However, current architectures do not inherently provide such information. Specifically, guidance is needed on how current conditions must be modified to shift from a...
- INI-VPINN: A Variational Physics-Informed Neural Network with Implicit Neumann and Interface Handling for Multi-Material Domains with Geometric Singularities
We propose a new weak-form Physics-Informed Neural Network approach (named INI-VPINN). INI-VPINN naturally incorporates Neumann boundary and interface conditions into the variational formulation. It removes the need for additional loss terms or multiple subdomain networks. This framework employs com...
- SoftMoE: Soft Differentiable Routing for Mixture-of-Experts in LLMs
Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures enable scaling LLM parameters under a fixed inference budget by activating only a small subset of experts via top-$k$ routing. While this preserves causality and suits autoregressive language models, the discrete top-$k$ operator is not differentiable, f...
- Monotonic Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks: A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Monotonicity as an Inductive Bias
Monotonicity has been a long-running architectural inductive bias for neural networks, motivated by tabular, scientific, and economic settings where outputs are known to respond monotonically to certain inputs. Existing approaches are MLP- or flow-based and lack per-edge functional transparency; the...
- AnchorKV: Safety-Aware KV Cache Compression via Soft Penalty with a Refusal Anchor
Large language models (LLMs) outperform earlier architectures on generative inference and long-context tasks, but their large size introduces significant challenges in memory usage, energy cost, and on-device deployment. Since scaling pre-trained language models improves downstream capability \cite{...
- Meta-classification of one-class classification models using ranking correlation and nearest neighbor
Machine Learning (ML) techniques have been applied to various problems. However, applying ML to ML models is an unexplored direction. For this purpose, this paper considers a meta-classification of one-class classification (OCC) models, because all ML models could be approximated as OCC models. The ...
- From Drift to Coherence: Stabilizing Beliefs in LLMs
Large language models (LLMs) are often hypothesized to perform implicit Bayesian inference, yet a key coherence condition, the martingale property of predictive beliefs, has been shown to fail in controlled synthetic in-context learning settings. We revisit this question in a more typical usage regi...
- A Diffusion Approximation for Temporal-Difference Learning with Linear Features under Markovian Noise
Temporal difference (TD) learning with linear function approximation is a core method for policy evaluation. Its classical continuous-time description is an ordinary differential equation (ODE), which captures the asymptotic mean dynamics but neglects stochastic fluctuations determining the error fl...
- Tensor-based second-order causal discovery
Causal discovery seeks to uncover the causal dependencies among variables. For this purpose, we propose an algorithm called Tensor-based Second-order Causal Discovery (TSCD). Its input is a tensor obtained from the covariance matrices of observational and interventional data. Assuming the causal dep...
- NoiseTilt: Noise-Tilted Reverse Kernels for Diffusion Reward Alignment
We introduce the Noise-Tilted Reverse Kernel (NTRK), a reward-guided diffusion sampler that injects reward gradients through the noise term, leaving the pretrained reverse kernel unchanged and requiring only a single sample per step. Reward-guided sampling at inference time has greatly expanded the ...
- Uncertainty Quantification for Flow-Based Vision-Language-Action Models
Vision-language-action models (VLAs) combine vision-language backbones with expressive generative action heads trained via flow matching on large-scale robotic datasets. Despite their strong empirical performance in robotic manipulation, VLAs lack mechanisms to quantify confidence in their predictio...
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- Half a Link can Be Enough to Predict a Whole Link: Understanding Generalization in Knowledge Graph Foundation Models
Knowledge graph (KG) foundation models (KGFMs) are zero-shot generalizers: trained once, they can predict links on unseen graphs without retraining. However, understanding when and how they can robustly generalize across KGs is still an open question. In this paper, we shed some light on their gener...
- Differential Privacy of Gaussian Process Posterior Sampling
We study the privacy of releasing posterior sample paths from a Gaussian process (GP) when the entire training set including covariates and responses is private. Unlike standard differential-privacy (DP) mechanisms that add external noise, posterior sampling is random by construction. We show that t...
- Predictive Analytics in E-Commerce for CustomerBehavior Forecasting using hybrid Ret-DNN withXGBoost Model
In recent years, electronic (E) commerce services have rapidly increased in the daily lives of people, which helpsthem to purchase products online. However, retail platforms have struggled to understand customer behavior and make it difficult to predict their future purchases. To overcome these chal...
- KANLib -- An Modular, Extensible and Fast Kolmogorov-Arnold Network Implementation
Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to traditional multilayer perceptrons by replacing linear weights with learnable univariate functions. Despite their theoretical advantages in interpretability and expressiveness, practical research of KANs remains di...
- Dimensionality Controls When Modularity Helps in Continual Learning
Compositional learning systems must balance plasticity, the ability to acquire new knowledge, with stability, the preservation of previously learned components, especially when tasks share structure and risk interference. We study how modular architecture, task similarity, and representational dimen...
- Revisiting Structural Dependency in Autoregressive Multi-Task Table Recognition via Order-Independent Cell-Level Representations
Multi-task table recognition jointly addresses table structure prediction, cell localization, and cell content recognition within a unified framework. Existing approaches often rely on autoregressive decoders to generate table structures and reuse their hidden states for cell localization and conten...
- WAM-RL: World-Action Model Reinforcement Learning with Reconstruction Rewards and Online Video SFT
Recent World-Action (WA) models demonstrate strong generalization ability and data efficiency, but they typically rely on expert trajectories for training. This reliance limits their ability to acquire fine-grained manipulation skills beyond the demonstration distribution and prevents them from cont...
- Learn to Quantify Social Interaction with Constraints for Pedestrian Walking
Long-term human path forecasting in crowds is critical for autonomous moving platforms (like autonomous driving cars and social robots) to avoid collision and make high-quality planning. Although the current research take into account social interactions for prediction, they don't reveal the exact k...
- MuseVLA: An Adaptive Multimodal Sensing Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotic Manipulation
Humans naturally leverage diverse sensing modalities to interact with the physical world, while most Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for robotics rely solely on RGB observations. This limits their ability to perceive physical properties that are difficult or impossible to infer from RGB cameras,...
- MagicSim: A Unified Infrastructure for Executable Embodied Interaction
Robot learning and embodied agents now require simulation to serve as a shared execution substrate linking control, skills, and planning, not only as a renderer, controller testbed, or fixed task environment. Existing pipelines split these layers with "magic" actions, disconnected training environme...
- When Robots Sleep: Offline Skill Consolidation for Shared-Policy Robot Learning
Robots that learn over long deployments must add new skills without losing the shared policy structure that makes earlier skills reusable. We study sequential robot skill learning, where previous trajectories and task losses may be unavailable, and the deployed policy must remain a single shared con...
- Embodiment Shapes Rolling Behavior in a Multimodal Infant Model
Rolling over is one of the earliest milestones in infant motor development, reflecting the emergence of coordinated, whole-body sensorimotor control. Here, we conduct a computational study of infant rolling using MIMo, a virtual infant embodiment equipped with proprioception and vestibular sensation...
- TerraTransfer: Learning End-to-End Driving Policies Without Expert Demonstrations
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 p...
- EgoInfinity: A Web-Scale 4D Hand-Object Interaction Data Engine for Any-View Robot Retargeting and Video-to-Action Robot Learning
Internet videos constitute the largest reservoir of embodied human manipulation knowledge, yet converting arbitrary RGB footage into actionable robot training data remains a major bottleneck. Existing lab- or factory-collected datasets are narrow in scale and diversity, limiting open-world robot lea...
- Contactless Respiratory Monitoring on Heterogeneous Mobile Robots: A Multimodal Edge-Computing Framework
Respiratory-rate (RR) monitoring is a critical component of remote triage and victim assessment in emergency response, disaster recovery, and infectious-disease scenarios, where minimizing physical contact can reduce responder risk and improve operational safety. However, field deployment of contact...
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- EBench: Elemental Diagnosis of Generalist Mobile Manipulation Policies
We present EBench, a simulation benchmark that diagnoses generalist mobile manipulation policies beyond a single success-rate scalar. EBench comprises 26 diverse and challenging manipulation tasks annotated along 5 capability dimensions and 4 generalization dimensions. We evaluate state-of-the-art g...
- Beyond Failure Recovery: An Engagement-Aware Human-in-the-loop Framework for Robotic Systems
Conventional human-in-the-loop approaches typically involve users only when a robot encounters failure or uncertainty, treating humans primarily as tools for improving robot performance. However, in many human-centered robotics settings, interaction should support engagement by keeping users involve...
- A Hybrid Optimization Framework for Grasp Synthesis under Partial Observations
We propose a hybrid grasp synthesis framework that combines a learning-based Energy-Based Model (EBM) with an analytical Iterative Closest Point (ICP) method to generate robust grasps from partially observed point clouds. The learned energy function acts as a prior within a Stein Variational Gradien...
- LAGO Policy: Latency-Aware Asynchronous Diffusion Policies with Goal-Directed Collision-Free Planning for Smooth Manipulation
Diffusion-based visuomotor policies deployed with asynchronous inference often exhibit inter-chunk discontinuities and lack explicit mechanisms for obstacle-aware execution, leading to jerky motions and collisions that hinder reliable manipulation in real-world scenes. To address these issues, we pr...
- ThinkingVLA: Interleaved Vision and Language Reasoning for Robotic Manipulation
Most Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models map observations directly to actions without explicit reasoning, limiting their capacity for reasoning-intensive long-horizon tasks. To address this, existing approaches adopt Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning to enable subgoal decomposition and spatial antici...
- SPARK: Low Latency Single-Camera 3D Pose Estimation for Autonomous Racing using Keypoints
In autonomous racing, fast detection of other participants' movements is required to plan safe, collision-free trajectories with non-cooperative opponents. LiDAR detection is inherently slower and harder to deploy on edge devices than vision methods, causing delayed detections that limit object trac...