📄 Notable* Recent AI/ML arXiv Papers

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📄 Joints, Camera, Action! Co-Generating 3D Motion and Video for Arbitrary Rigs
🗓️ Published: 10/20/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28632v1
👥 Authors: Noam Rotstein, Yoad Tewel, Chen Tessler, Haggai Maron, Gal Chechik (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Or Litany (possible past Stanford University affiliation), Yoni Kasten, Yuval Atzmon
Abstract

Video generation models can now depict remarkably realistic motion. Yet it is unclear how to use this motion beyond pixels: to animate a specific 3D asset and replay the animation in its 3D scene. For instance, a video model can show a monkey jumping over a crossbar, but it cannot return that jump as replayable 3D motion placed in the 3D scene. Here we present a model that directly co-generates the video and 3D motion for any supplied rig, along with a camera that registers this motion to the sc...

📄 MindView: Benchmarking Generative Multi-View Spatial Intelligence
🗓️ Published: 10/20/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28622v1
👥 Authors: Yanbo Wang, Siqi Luo, Siyu Zhang, Chenming Zhu, Wenzhao Zheng, Qian Yu (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Juncheng Yan, Bin Fu (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Tai Wang, Yu Qiao (possible past Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory affiliation), Yihao Liu, Jiwen Lu (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation)
Abstract

Spatial intelligence has recently been assessed through generative tasks such as spatially grounded image editing, yet language-guided generation of spatially consistent views from partial multi-view observations remains underexplored. We introduce MindView, a benchmark for generative multi-view spatial intelligence with 1,500 samples from 513 scenes across three indoor datasets. Its seven tasks form two families: geometry-dominant tasks specify changes in camera position and orientation, while ...

📄 Beyond the Sequentiality Bottleneck: A Hybrid Diffusion-Autoregressive Framework for Efficient Multimodal Reasoning
🗓️ Published: 10/20/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28584v1
👥 Authors: Wei Cai, Jian Zhao, Yuchen Yuan (possible past Baidu (China) affiliation), Xuelong Li (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation)
Abstract

Autoregressive models (ARMs) face a "Sequentiality Bottleneck" in reasoning, while diffusion language models (DLMs) offer parallelism but lack semantic coherence. To addresses both limitations, we propose Collaborative Reasoning Asymmetric Learning (CoRAL), a hybrid framework via an Asymmetric Planner-Executor (APE) architecture: a DLM Planner generates K diverse reasoning trajectories in parallel, while a large ARM Executor selects the optimal plan and synthesizes the final answer. To train the...

📄 Sage-A1.5: From Long-Horizon Execution to Scientific Exploration with Capability Composition
🗓️ Published: 10/20/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28578v1
👥 Authors: Wenjie Lou, Tianshuo Peng, Shiyang Feng, Shengji Tang, Runmin Ma, Ruizhe Chen, Jinxin Shi, Haoyang Peng, Fangchen Yu, Zhijie Zhong, Yuhao Zhou, Yue Fan, Yixin Chen, Yiming Wu, Yiheng Wang, Yigeng Jiang, Yichen Jiang, Yi Xie, Xu Guo, Xiaohan He, Tao Hu (possible past Baidu (China) affiliation), Songtao Huang, Siyu Zhou, Shuaiyu Zhang, Shangheng Du, Qinglong Cao, Kun Li, Jingqi Ye, Hongbin Zhou, Guohang Yan, Zongsheng Cao, Ziyi Wang, Zhuo Liu, Zhiyin Yu, Zhiwang Zhou, Zelin Tan, Yuqing Zhu, Yaoze Zhang, Yang Chen (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Xuming He, Xiuliang Liang, Xingjian Guo, Xiang Zhuang, Weiping Shen, Weida Wang, Tianyuan Zhou, Tianlin Ye, Tengyuan Fan, Siyu Yan, Shuo Li, Shuchen Pu, Shengyuan Xu, Shao Zhang, Ran Wei, Qinyuan Qin, Qingyu Yang, Nianchen Deng, Meng Dai, Kuikun Liu, Kaitao Chen, Juncheng Xiao, Jiangning Liu, Jianbiao Mei, Jia Yu, Haonan He, Hangfan Zhang, Cheng Yang (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Chen Zhang (possible past Peking University affiliation), Bihao Zhan, Benteng Cheng, Yuqiang Li, Yihao Liu, Yang Yang (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Xujun Fu, Xiaosong Wang (possible past Nvidia (United States) affiliation), Xiangyu Yue (possible past University Of California, Berkeley affiliation), Wenwei Zhang, Shuyue Hu, Pinlong Cai, Mianxin Liu, Lei Bai, Jie Zhou (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Jie Hou, Jiamin Wu, Hui Wang, Haijun Li, Guangyu Wang, Dongzhan Zhou, Chunfeng Song, Chao Yang, Biqing Qi, Xing Xie, Dahua Lin, Bowen Zhou, Xiangchao Yan, Wenlong Zhang, Shufei Zhang, Peng Ye, Bo Zhang (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation)
Abstract

In this report, we introduce Sage-A1.5, a 35B Mixture-of-Experts agentic model that builds on A1 to advance long-horizon problem solving through adaptive capability composition. Compared with A1, Sage-A1.5 learns not only to solve individual tasks, but also to organize work and revise its approach during execution. Sage-A1.5 highlights three improvements: agentic orchestration, verification, and open scientific discovery. First, agentic orchestration extends single-agent execution through task d...

📄 Stratified Sparse Attention: Reducing the Sparse-to-Dense Gap at Extreme Sparsity
🗓️ Published: 10/20/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28441v1
👥 Authors: Sahil Joshi, Prithvi Dixit, Aryan Katiyar, Agniva Chowdhury, Joseph E. Gonzalez (possible past University Of California, Berkeley affiliation), Anshumali Shrivastava, Aditya Desai, Kumar Krishna Agrawal (possible past Google (United States) affiliation)
Abstract

Large Language Model inference over long contexts is increasingly bottlenecked by the cost of attending to a growing Key-Value (KV) cache. Sparse attention reduces this cost by accessing only a fraction of the cache, but existing methods face a trade-off between deterministic retrieval, which captures high-scoring tokens but discards residual attention mass, and sampling, which improves coverage at the cost of higher variance. Hybrid methods combine top-$k$ retrieval with uniform sampling, yet s...

📄 Plausible Future, Wrong Choice: Steering World-Action Models toward Intended Future
🗓️ Published: 10/20/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28431v1
👥 Authors: Zhuohao Li, Jiawei He (possible past Baidu (China) affiliation), Yuxuan Yan, Lang Zhou, Yinghao Li, Yanrui Li, Tianyu Zhang, Yi-Yang Song, Xirui Wu Andyi-Lin Wei, Fating Hong, Qing Zhang, Zhilin Zhao, Jingdong Wang (possible past Baidu (China) affiliation), Wei-Shi Zheng
Abstract

World-Action Models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for embodied generalist policies by jointly modeling future world evolution and robot actions across diverse manipulation tasks. However, representing diverse futures is only the first step: a capable WAM must also generate futures that match the requirements of the current task and execution progress. In long-horizon manipulation where similar observation-action segments occur across different tasks and stages, existing approaches ...

📄 MAS-Guard: Unified Guardrails from Individual Agents to Multi-Agent LLM Systems
🗓️ Published: 10/20/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28397v1
👥 Authors: Mohammad Kachuee, Phu Mon Htut, Sheng Li (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Nikolaos Pappas, Miguel Ballesteros Martinez, Yassine Benajiba, Sujith Ravi (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Dan Roth
Abstract

Agentic AI extends large language models (LLMs) from generating responses to planning and executing complex workflows, substantially expanding their utility while exposing applications to unsafe actions, information leakage, and adversarial manipulation. Multi-agent systems further expand these capabilities through specialization and collaboration, but distributed authority, heterogeneous roles, and opaque or potentially compromised participants make safeguarding even more challenging. Existing ...

📄 S-Agent 2.0: Spatial Reasoning with a General Coding Agent
🗓️ Published: 10/20/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28354v1
👥 Authors: Rui Gong, Ruoyu Wang (possible past University Of Edinburgh affiliation), Yalun Dai, Hao Li (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Sidi Yang, Qihao Zhao, Hongyu Li (possible past Meta (United States) affiliation), Zeyang Guan, Fangzhou Hong, Zhaoxi Chen, Kim-Hui Yap, Ziwei Liu
Abstract

Spatial reasoning asks a model to work out where objects are in 3D space, how they relate to one another, and how they move. Agentic VLMs have recently brought large improvements on such tasks by letting the model actively gather evidence with 3D perception tools instead of answering in a single pass. Even so, on many questions the tools return the right evidence and the model still does not arrive at the correct answer: the gap between model and tools, where raw readings become usable conclusio...

📄 ChartEvo: Self-Evolving Agent Harnesses for Long-Tail Chart Reasoning
🗓️ Published: 10/20/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28282v1
👥 Authors: Qi Wang (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Peijie Wang, Jun Cao, Haoyang Tong, Xiao-Hui Li, Fei Yin (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Cheng-Lin Liu
Abstract

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have substantially advanced chart understanding and reasoning, yet their performance remains highly uneven across chart types. While modern MLLMs perform well on common charts, their accuracy drops sharply on long-tail charts with diverse visual structures and reasoning requirements. Tool-augmented agents can improve complex chart reasoning by introducing specialized visual capabilities, but manually engineering strategies and tools for the heterogeneous ...

📄 ACE-Compression: An Ability-Centric Evaluation of Compressed Large Language Models
🗓️ Published: 10/20/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27913v1
👥 Authors: Jiahui Ning, Liang Chen (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Yuchen Liang, Yi Zhang (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Fenglei Fan
Abstract

Model compression makes large language models deployable, but today's evaluation tells an incomplete story. Standard practice measures retained task performance and stops there. This misses a critical fact: compression perturbs the distributed knowledge embedded across billions of weights, and task scores alone cannot reveal which underlying abilities survive and which quietly collapse. To solve this question, we introduce ACE-Compression, an ability-centric evaluation framework. Instead of aski...

📄 SMART: Semantic Segment Mapping and Assessment of Recognition Transcripts with Contextual Rubrics
🗓️ Published: 10/20/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27820v1
👥 Authors: Xiaoyu Gu, Chencheng Wang, Fuyang Li, Yu Xi, Tao Liu (possible past Baidu (China) affiliation), Jiaoqi Guo, Kai Yu (possible past Baidu (China) affiliation)
Abstract

Word error rate (WER) assigns equal cost to lexical edits despite their different semantic consequences, while overall semantic scores cannot identify which individual errors alter the intended meaning. We formulate ASR semantic evaluation as context-aware, segment-level consequence assessment and propose Semantic Segment Mapping and Assessment of Recognition Transcripts with Contextual Rubrics (SMART), a framework for traceable semantic evaluation and targeted ASR correction. SMART maps referen...

📄 SLM-SS: Token-Based Speech Separation with Speech Language Models
🗓️ Published: 10/20/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27785v1
👥 Authors: Chenda Li, Tianhua Li, Yiming Chen, Wei Wang (possible past University Of Oxford affiliation), Jiahe Wang, Xin Zhou (possible past Stanford University affiliation), Yanmin Qian (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation)
Abstract

Speech separation (SS) has witnessed substantial progress in recent years with the advent of neural network-based methods, achieving notable improvements on signal-level evaluation metrics. Existing speech separation systems are mostly optimized with signal-level objectives, and often yield outputs that are acceptable in waveform metrics but suboptimal for intelligibility-sensitive downstream tasks. To address this gap, we propose SLM-SS, a token-based generative speech separation framework that...

📄 RITE: Evaluating End-to-End Resilience to Silent Tool Errors in E-Commerce Agentic Systems
🗓️ Published: 10/20/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27777v1
👥 Authors: Wenshuo Zhang, Yuquan Lin, Yushi Sun, Yishi Lin, Rui Sheng, Peng He (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Han Gao (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Wang Jikai, Yifeng Rong
Abstract

Tool-using LLM agents increasingly answer e-commerce queries through multi-step tool interactions. The expected output of a tool call can shift between agent development and execution, allowing a plausible but incorrect value to be returned without an explicit failure signal. These silent errors may propagate through subsequent decisions into final answers. To study agents' resilience across this end-to-end process, we formulate Silent-error Resilience Task, an interactive task that evaluates wh...

📄 E8-QAT: Efficient 2-Bit Quantization-Aware Training with Implicit Lattice Codebooks
🗓️ Published: 10/20/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27699v1
👥 Authors: Xinyu Lei, Hong Huang (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Jiebin Zhang, Hongyu Li (possible past Meta (United States) affiliation), Jinlong Song, Decheng Wu, Guanghua Yu, Jianchen Zhu, Sujian Li (possible past Peking University affiliation)
Abstract

Low-bit quantization reduces the memory footprint of large language models, but preserving accuracy with efficient training remains challenging. Scalar quantization encodes weights independently, while explicit-codebook vector quantization introduces costly search during training. We propose E8-QAT, a 2-bit quantization-aware training framework that uses the $E_8$ lattice as an implicit eight-dimensional codebook. It jointly quantizes weight groups through arithmetic projection without storing o...

📄 Meta Expert: Cross-Layer Expert Sharing for Storage- and Retrieval-Efficient MoE
🗓️ Published: 10/20/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27598v1
👥 Authors: Ermo Hua, Xiangyu Hong, Baiting Wu, Che Jiang, Haozheng Hou, Yicheng Gu, Hanjing Wang, Qirui Zeng, Ming Zhang (possible past Peking University affiliation), Ning Ding (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Qipeng Guo, Youbang Sun, Biqing Qi, Bowen Zhou
Abstract

As model parameters scale up, sparsely activated Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) approaches have become essential for model scaling. However, mainstream models currently adopt hierarchical architectures, where experts in different layers, although topologically independent, exhibit substantial similarity and redundancy in their stored content. Compared to the hierarchically arranged \textbf{Local Expert} in existing mainstream models, we hypothesize that inter-layer shared \textbf{Meta Expert} hold gre...

📄 Can Native Safety Travel? Reusing Safety Pretraining Across Models via On-Policy Distillation
🗓️ Published: 10/20/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27555v1
👥 Authors: Bingqi Shang, Yang Zhang (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Yiwei Chen, Changsheng Wang, Shiyu Chang (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Bingquan Shen, Sijia Liu
Abstract

Safety pretraining has emerged as a promising paradigm for embedding safety deeply into a model during pretraining, yielding robustness to subsequent fine-tuning that conventional safety post-training often lacks. We refer to this safety acquired during model pretraining as native safety. Yet native safety is expensive to acquire, confined to the model in which it was pretrained, and often accompanied by lower general utility. In this work, we rethink the practical value of safety-pretrained mod...

📄 Adversarial Benchmarks and BenchDoor Attacks: Exploiting Benchmark Incentives for Backdoor Attacks
🗓️ Published: 10/20/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27533v1
👥 Authors: Yixin Wu, Rachel Hong, Jamie Morgenstern (possible past University Of Washington affiliation), Tadayoshi Kohno (possible past University Of Washington affiliation)
Abstract

Machine learning benchmarks act as guideposts for model development and spur the creation of training datasets intended to improve benchmark scores. We introduce BenchDoor, a family of data poisoning attacks that exploits this incentive. Beyond preserving benign performance, BenchDoor requires benchmark gains that encourage adoption of data that also implants a backdoor. The adversary either manipulates a benchmark's training or test data, creating an adversarial benchmark, or supplies an indepe...

📄 Learning Adaptable Dexterous Skills via Hybrid Dexterous Mimicking
🗓️ Published: 10/20/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28628v1
👥 Authors: Yuxuan Kuang, Jiashun Wang, Yixuan Sun, Yufei Ye (possible past Carnegie Mellon University affiliation), Sungjae Park, Umar Iqbal (possible past Nvidia (United States) affiliation), Katerina Fragkiadaki (possible past University Of California, Berkeley affiliation), Shubham Tulsiani (possible past University Of California, Berkeley affiliation)
Abstract

Dexterous multi-finger hands hold promise to unlock diverse skills like functional grasps, in-hand reorientation, and dynamic handover that the human-designed world assumes, yet existing learning recipes force a trade-off. Goal-reaching reinforcement learning generalizes to arbitrary object poses but, lacking any human prior, converges to unnatural and unreliable finger strategies; motion tracking reproduces human-like behavior from a single clip but cannot deviate from it. We present AdaDex, a ...

📄 Planning under Noise with Neural Operators
🗓️ Published: 10/20/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28623v1
👥 Authors: Michael Chen (possible past University Of Toronto affiliation), Hong Chul Nam, Xi Deng, Anima Anandkumar (possible past Nvidia (United States) affiliation)
Abstract

Planning under uncertain control execution noise requires reliable feedback policies across diverse environments. We introduce Planning Under Noise (PUN), a neural operator that learns noise-aware value fields for planning in unseen geometries. Building on an established screened-Poisson formulation of stochastic optimal control, we address two challenges: specifying boundary conditions that support navigation across varying geometries and efficiently computing fields with reliable gradients. Ze...

📄 Fixed Sets and the Hardness of Computing Correlated Equilibria
🗓️ Published: 10/20/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28141v1
👥 Authors: Ioannis Anagnostides, Constantinos Daskalakis (possible past University Of California, Berkeley affiliation), Gabriele Farina, Noah Golowich, Tuomas Sandholm, Brian Hu Zhang (possible past Stanford University affiliation)
Abstract

We show that computing an approximate correlated equilibrium of a polytope game is PPAD-complete, and thus polynomial-time equivalent to finding a Nash equilibrium. This challenges the conventional view in game theory that correlated equilibria are more tractable objects than Nash equilibria. From a conceptual standpoint, we connect correlated equilibria to a natural generalization of fixed points, which we call fixed sets. A fixed set of a continuous function $f$ is a nonempty finite set $S$ su...

📄 From Outcomes to Steps: Reliable Success-Aware Critic Learning for Long-Horizon Language Agents
🗓️ Published: 10/20/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27623v1
👥 Authors: Jiaxi Liu, Shixiong Kai, Zhentao Tang, Yang Li (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Yuqi Cui, Mingxuan Yuan, Junchi Yan (possible past Shanghai Jiao Tong University affiliation)
Abstract

Reinforcement learning for long-horizon language agents requires identifying whether intermediate actions make eventual task success more or less likely when supervision is available only at trajectory level. The main difficulty is that a critic with aggregate return-prediction accuracy may still fail to resolve the local value differences needed to assign credit to actions, especially under sparse feedback and function approximation. Conventional critics estimate future return, but policy impro...

📄 Baseline and Incremental: User, Item, and Request Debiasing in Instagram Feed Ranking
🗓️ Published: 10/20/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27423v1
👥 Authors: Hsin-Chiang Chen, Hao Wang (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Gedi Zhou, Mingze Gao, Abhishek Kumar (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Yiben Yang, Haoyu Wang (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Hongjing Xia, Bo Chen (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Zhengyu Su, Xian Sun, Chang Xu, Kevin Han, Weiwei Li, Zhongchang Sun, Yao Zhang (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Qifei Wang (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Peggy Yang, Yihan Wu, Haoran Liu, Siyang Sun, Xingyu Pan, Shannon Phu, Haoming Chen, Kevin Zhao, Chen Liang
Abstract

A feed ranker scores candidates with a value model, a weighted sum of engagement predictions. Each prediction conflates a baseline, what this viewer, item or request would produce anyway, with the incremental amount by which this candidate exceeds it. The literature mostly removes the baseline. We argue that a multi-signal value model should keep the raw prediction and add the incremental part as a separately weighted term. On Instagram Feed, three debiasing families deployed independently, for ...

*Notable papers are those with at least two authors from a "big" AI/ML lab.