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We show that existing visual MoEs fall into ","authors":["Yu Xu","Yuxin Zhang","Xiao Yang","Haotian Yang","Yizhi Wang","Xinwei Huang"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38140v1","arxiv_id":"2609.38140v1","published":"2026-09-29T17:55:19Z"},{"title":"Stochastic World Models for Verifying Vision-Based Neural Feedback Systems","abstract":"Verifying a vision-based neural feedback system requires a model of the observations its controller acts upon. Such a model must capture the variation the sensor produces, while remaining tractable for closed-loop analysis. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have served as perception surrogates, but they are large, reproduce complex scenes poorly, and are hard to verify. We explore stochastic world models as a ri","authors":["I. Samuel Akinwande","Mykel J. 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Inspired by sparse population coding and top-down modulation in biological vision, we introduce Neu","authors":["Ruiyu Yan","Bowen Chen","Shaowen Wan","Lin Zhao"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38098v1","arxiv_id":"2609.38098v1","published":"2026-09-29T17:44:09Z"},{"title":"Character Training for Risk-Averse Agents","abstract":"Risk aversion in resources could prevent misaligned AI agents from causing catastrophic harm. Misaligned but risk-averse agents would tend to favor safer strategies like making deals with humans over riskier strategies like rebelling. We train agents to be risk averse through character training, finding that persona traits provide a robust mechanism for instilling risk preferences. To do this, we construct a model co","authors":["Arav Dhoot","Punya Syon Pandey","Jamie Johnson","Daniel Tan","Elliott Thornley","David Demitri Africa"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38093v1","arxiv_id":"2609.38093v1","published":"2026-09-29T17:42:54Z"},{"title":"Neural topology optimization of ship structures under propulsion machinery vibrations","abstract":"Ship structural vibrations contribute to noise, fatigue, and equipment damage, while dynamic-compliance topology optimization can produce pathological designs near resonance. This study extends neural-reparameterized topology optimization using a convolutional Kolmogorov-Arnold network (KATO) to forced-vibration design with active input power (AIP) as the objective. Applications include a 100 Hz engine-supporting dec","authors":["Shengyu Yan","Muhammad Muztahidul Hakim Zareer","Jasmin Jelovica"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38089v1","arxiv_id":"2609.38089v1","published":"2026-09-29T17:41:08Z"},{"title":"Probability is Not Enough: Exploring and Counting Divergent Tokens for Reasoning Uncertainty Quantification in LLMs","abstract":"As the chain-of-thought reasoning capabilities of large language models improve, evaluating and calibrating their reasoning confidence is becoming increasingly important for quantifying the uncertainty of their answers. Current methods for estimating the confidence of large language models are generally based on probabilities of selected key tokens, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Our pilot study finds ","authors":["Feiyang Li","Shengjing Liu","Qi Zhan","Sijie Cheng","Weiqing Wang","Hongwen Chen"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38070v1","arxiv_id":"2609.38070v1","published":"2026-09-29T17:33:36Z"},{"title":"Jaxolotl: A Unified High-Performance Benchmark Suite for LTL-Based Multi-Task RL","abstract":"Training agents to follow arbitrary instructions is an important goal of multi-task reinforcement learning (RL). Linear temporal logic (LTL) provides a precise and structured formalism for specifying instructions to agents, and has been successfully adopted for training generalist multi-task policies. However, differences in implementations, task distributions, and evaluation protocols make existing methods difficult","authors":["Mathias Jackermeier","Jacques Cloete","Alessandro Abate"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38065v1","arxiv_id":"2609.38065v1","published":"2026-09-29T17:30:21Z"},{"title":"UserProxyBench: Evaluating LLM User Simulators for Agent Benchmarks and Training","abstract":"Interactive agent benchmarks and multi-turn reinforcement learning increasingly place a second language model in the role of the user. This simulated user controls what information the agent receives and when, yet current benchmarks score only the agent and do not directly measure whether the user correctly executed its assigned role. We introduce UserProxyBench, an evaluation layer over the tau-bench family, and the","authors":["Ashish Jain","Armaan Sandhu"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38043v1","arxiv_id":"2609.38043v1","published":"2026-09-29T17:17:24Z"},{"title":"Gender bias across LLMs is common and highly heterogenous","abstract":"Understanding gender biases in large language models (LLMs) is increasingly important as these systems become embedded in decision-support tools with real consequences. Prior research has focused only on a small set of models, leaving open the extent to which gender biases are common and heterogeneous across LLMs. We address this gap across ten models released between April 2025 and June 2026, spanning nine vendors, ","authors":["Edoardo Bolzoni","Valerio Capraro"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38036v1","arxiv_id":"2609.38036v1","published":"2026-09-29T17:11:53Z"},{"title":"doPlan: A Variable-Horizon Dataset for Multi-Stage Language-Conditioned Planning in Autonomous Driving","abstract":"Autonomous vehicles interacting with passengers through natural language must reason beyond immediate commands. Passenger intent may span multiple stages of behavior, depend on future events, refer to surrounding agents or landmarks, and remain relevant as driving conditions evolve. Existing language-enabled driving datasets largely focus on short, localized interactions, leaving these longer-horizon forms of passeng","authors":["Parthib Roy","Yash Tandon","Marcus Blennemann","Giovanni Tapia Lopez","Angel Martinez-Sanchez","Mohan M. Trivedi"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38028v1","arxiv_id":"2609.38028v1","published":"2026-09-29T17:08:01Z"},{"title":"Dr. OPD: Learning What to Follow for Optimal On-Policy Distillation of Large Language Models","abstract":"On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own generated responses using dense, token-level supervision from a stronger teacher. Vanilla OPD treats all teacher signals equally, assuming that the teacher's supervision is equally important for every token. However, teacher signals at different tokens may have very different effects on the student's performance: some correct important reasoning errors, while o","authors":["Zhenyu Wang","Tianze Wang","Linjun Zhang","Yifan Hu"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38025v1","arxiv_id":"2609.38025v1","published":"2026-09-29T17:07:00Z"},{"title":"Retrieval-Augmented Skill Optimization via Cross-Harness Adaptation","abstract":"An agent skill is a reusable, actionable natural-language artifact that guides an agent to perform a task effectively under a given harness. Recent studies have explored the optimization of agent skills, contributing to a growing collection of publicly available skills spanning diverse tasks, domains, and harnesses. Despite millions of publicly shared skills, existing skill optimization methods largely overlook this ","authors":["Jaewon Chu","Ji Soo Lee","Jihwan Park","Dohwan Ko","Jeehye Na","Seunghun Lee"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38024v1","arxiv_id":"2609.38024v1","published":"2026-09-29T17:06:43Z"},{"title":"PE-EK-PINN: Physics Embedding with Evolving Kernel for Scalable Physics-Informed Neural Networks","abstract":"Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) embed governing equations into deep learning, but enforce them only through loss residuals, leaving highly oscillatory wave behavior to be discovered by optimization. As a result, methods that achieve relative $L_2$ errors below $10^{-3}$ on standard manufactured Helmholtz benchmarks can fail on practical radiation problems involving singular excitations, absorbing boundaries,","authors":["Huiwen Zhang","Feng Ye","Chu Ma"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38023v1","arxiv_id":"2609.38023v1","published":"2026-09-29T17:06:08Z"},{"title":"Auditable Long-Term Memory: A Deterministic Retrieval Chain Measured at 479/475 of 500 on LongMemEval-S","abstract":"We evaluate an auditable long-term memory system on LongMemEval-S. Its retrieval chain uses hybrid candidate retrieval, cross-encoder reranking, coverage-first packet compilation, and deterministic reasoning scaffolds; an LLM is used only as a replaceable final reader. The chain places all gold sessions in the candidate pool for 468/470 answerable questions and produces gold-complete packets for 462/470. With a Claud","authors":["Christopher J. Chanhnourack"],"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38021v1","arxiv_id":"2609.38021v1","published":"2026-09-29T17:04:18Z"},{"title":"Brain-SAD: A Brain-Inspired Safe Autonomous Driving Control Framework with Dynamic Fear-Oriented Constraint on Dual-Policy","abstract":"Constrained Reinforcement Learning has recently gained increasing attention in the field of Safe Autonomous Driving, where the general mechanism is to maximize the expected reward while keeping the overall action risk bounded. In this way, the safety issues arising in AD can be mitigated through constrained actions. However, existing Constrained RL methods still lack dynamics on the imposed constraints. 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