📄 Notable* Recent AI/ML arXiv Papers

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📄 SM4RT: Learning Structured Motion Geometry for 4D Reconstruction
🗓️ Published: 7/24/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22534v1
👥 Authors: Shing Ho J. Lin, Wenzhao Zheng, Dong Zhuo, Yuqi Wu, Jie Zhou (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Jiwen Lu (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation)
Abstract

Geometry Foundation Models (GFMs) have substantially advanced monocular 3D reconstruction, yet extending this capability to 4D dynamic understanding remains a fundamental challenge. Most existing motion perception methods (e.g., sparse tracking, dense point-wise flow) treat motion as independent point-wise displacements, ignoring the structured nature of physical motion. However, real-world objects usually obey rigid-body kinematics, and points thus usually move collectively, not in isolation. M...

📄 Cross-Tokenizer On-Policy Distillation via Byte-Prefix Marginalization
🗓️ Published: 7/24/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22334v1
👥 Authors: Hao Wang (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Kun Yuan, Wenlin Zhong, Minglei Zhang, Han Xiao, Ming Sun (possible past Baidu (China) affiliation), Honggang Qi
Abstract

Open-weight language models from different families exhibit complementary capabilities, motivating their consolidation into a compact student through on-policy distillation (OPD). However, full-vocabulary OPD typically assumes a shared tokenizer, while existing cross-tokenizer methods may discard teacher probability mass or assign it to student tokens with unrelated content. We introduce Byte-Prefix Marginalization (BPM), which re-expresses the teacher's next-token distribution over the student ...

📄 A Roadmap to Impactful Pluralistic Alignment Research
🗓️ Published: 7/24/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22305v1
👥 Authors: Elinor Poole-Dayan, Jillian Fisher, Atoosa Kasirzadeh (possible past University Of Toronto affiliation), Jacob Andreas (possible past University Of California, Berkeley affiliation), Mitchell Gordon (possible past Stanford University affiliation), Michiel A. Bakker
Abstract

Pluralistic value alignment---the goal of building AI systems that represent and serve diverse human values and perspectives---has emerged as an active research agenda. Yet, there's no public evidence that it has shaped the training or evaluation of the AI systems people actually use. We audit the public behavior documents and evaluations of frontier labs, finding none name pluralism as a goal, and as of this writing, no clear indication that production models are explicitly trained or tested fo...

📄 Nanbeige4.2-3B: Unlocking Agentic Capabilities in a Compact Mode
🗓️ Published: 7/24/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22083v1
👥 Authors: Nanbeige Lab, :, Chen Yang (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Chengrui Huang, Fufeng Lan, Hanhui Chen, Hao Zhou, Huatong Song, Jiaqi Cao, Jiaying Zhu, Jinlin Niu, Kai Wang, Lisheng Huang, Qiliang Liang, Ran Le, Ruixiang Feng, Shuang Sun, Tao Gu, Tao Zhang (possible past Nvidia (United States) affiliation), Tianyu Luo, Yang Song (possible past Stanford University affiliation), Yun Xing, Yuntao Wen, Ziyao Xu, Zongchao Chen, Zongqiang Li
Abstract

We present Nanbeige4.2-3B, a compact general agentic model with 3B non-embedding parameters. It delivers strong performance across code-agent, office-agent, and complex tool-use tasks while maintaining highly competitive reasoning capabilities in mathematics, coding, and science. Nanbeige4.2-3B is pretrained from scratch on 28T tokens with a Looped Transformer that reuses the layer stack to increase capacity without adding parameters. For SFT data and trajectory construction, we expand the diver...

📄 Agent Security Needs Redefinition through a Holistic Framework
🗓️ Published: 7/24/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22024v1
👥 Authors: Vincent Siu, Jingxuan He, Kyle Montgomery, Zhun Wang, Chenguang Wang (possible past Amazon (United States) affiliation), Dawn Song (possible past University Of California, Berkeley affiliation)
Abstract

Agent security is widely treated as a question about action content. Defenses ask whether an instruction looks malicious. Benchmarks ask whether an agent performs a harmful sounding action. \textbf{We argue that agent security is fundamentally a contextual problem, and that the current content based framing systematically misdefines it.} A command to ``delete user data'' might be a routine administrative request or a prompt injection attacking production systems, and the content alone cannot dis...

📄 OpenForgeRL: Train Harness-native Agents in Any Environment
🗓️ Published: 7/23/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21557v2
👥 Authors: Xiao Yu, Baolin Peng, Ruize Xu, Hao Zou, Qianhui Wu, Hao Cheng (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Wenlin Yao, Nikhil Singh, Zhou Yu, Jianfeng Gao (possible past Microsoft (United States) affiliation)
Abstract

Modern AI agents rely on elaborate inference harnesses such as Claude Code, Codex, and OpenClaw to drive multi-turn reasoning, tool use, and access to external systems. While powerful, these complex harnesses also make agents hard to train end-to-end with open infrastructure, whose SFT/RL stacks cannot natively express stateful, multi-process harness inference. To address this, we present OpenForgeRL, an open-source framework for training harness-based agents end-to-end in diverse environments. ...

📄 MIRROR: Learning from the Other View for Multi-Modal Reasoning
🗓️ Published: 7/23/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21552v1
👥 Authors: Wen Ye, Yuxiao Qu, Aviral Kumar (possible past University Of California, Berkeley affiliation), Xuezhe Ma (possible past Carnegie Mellon University affiliation)
Abstract

Unlike large language models (LLMs) that exhibit strong reasoning capabilities, vision-language models (VLMs) struggle with visual reasoning, even on geometry problems that admit equivalent text, diagram, and combined diagram+text views. We show that these views often elicit different behaviors: a model may solve a problem from text but fail on the corresponding diagram, or succeed visually while failing textually. This inconsistency suggests that different views expose complementary reasoning p...

📄 PATS: Policy-Aware Training Scaffolding for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
🗓️ Published: 7/23/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21419v1
👥 Authors: Yipeng Shi, Zhipeng Ma, Yue Wang, Qitai Tan, Yang Li (possible past Google (United States) affiliation), Peng Chen (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Zhengzhou Zhu
Abstract

In long-horizon LLM agent reinforcement learning, weak policies often repeat similar failures, producing uninformative rollout trajectories and limiting effective policy optimization. Existing skill-centric methods improve exploration by optimizing, filtering, or internalizing reusable skills. However, they remain centered on the skills themselves rather than being designed as adaptive training-time support for the evolving policy. To address this, we propose a policy-centric training paradigm t...

📄 Hilbert Operator for Progressive Encoding (HOPE): A Mathematical Framework for Deconstructing Learned Representations in Deep Networks
🗓️ Published: 7/23/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21366v1
👥 Authors: Hossein Mobahi (possible past Massachusetts Institute Of Technology affiliation), Peter L. Bartlett (possible past University Of California, Berkeley affiliation)
Abstract

Deep neural networks encode complex representations, but deconstructing this internal knowledge remains a challenge. Given the link between learning and compression, network compression offers a promising lens to analyze this knowledge. However, standard compression heuristics often suffer from scale symmetries and architectural biases. To resolve these, we introduce Hilbert Operator for Progressive Encoding (HOPE), a mathematical framework to gradually deconstruct the representations in trained...

📄 SPORD: A Simulation-Propose-then-OR-Dispose Approach for Supply Chain Planning
🗓️ Published: 7/23/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21354v1
👥 Authors: Jiayin He, Yutong Pan, Sen Yang (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Ningxuan Kang, Yongzhi Qi, Jianshen Zhang, Wei Qi (possible past Baidu (China) affiliation), Zuo-Jun Max Shen
Abstract

For years, supply chain planning at e-commerce firms has operated as a collection of isolated projects. Each planning task from static network planning to dynamic warehouse assortment planning requires analysts to spend weeks building models from scratch, calibrating and persuading executives to act on outputs they cannot verify. Three barriers drive this: bespoke models proliferate because standardization is difficult (operational fragmentation); once unified, the combinatorial scale of million...

📄 On the Identifiability of Controlled World Models
🗓️ Published: 7/24/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22430v1
👥 Authors: Xiangteng Zhang, Yang Guan, Bo Zhang (possible past Tencent (China) affiliation), Ya-Qin Zhang, Shengbo Eben Li (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation)
Abstract

Learning world models that infer environment dynamics from high-dimensional observations and predict outcomes under candidate actions is central to planning and control. Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) provide a compelling framework for learning such models in representation space. Recent action-conditioned extensions perform promisingly in visual control and latent-space planning, but leave a fundamental question unresolved: when does controlled latent prediction identify both ...

📄 Probabilistic Residual Learning for Online Recommendations
🗓️ Published: 7/23/2026
🔗 http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20863v1
👥 Authors: Wenyuan Wang, Yusong Zhao, Zihao Xu, Hengyi Wang, Qi Xu, Zhigang Hua, Yan Xie, Yi Wang, Zihao Zhao (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation), Bo Long, Chengzhi Mao, Shuang Yang, Hengguan Huang, Hao Wang (possible past Tsinghua University affiliation)
Abstract

Modern recommender systems are typically based on deep learning (DL) models, where a dense encoder learns representations of users and items. As a result, these systems often suffer from the black-box nature and computational complexity of the underlying models, making it difficult to systematically enhance their recommendation capabilities. To address this problem, we propose Probabilistic Residual Learning (PRL), a causal Bayesian recommendation model that models the residual between ground-tr...

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