Mean-Payoff Games (MPGs) form an interesting family of deterministic, infinite-duration, zero-sum, turn-based games played by two players on a finite weighted directed graph. The goal of the players…
Recent advances in monocular depth estimation have demonstrated highly accurate 3D reconstructions within in-distribution terrestrial domains. This study investigates the efficacy of several…
Numbers computed from trained models, such as an example's difficulty or a model's benchmark lead, change with seed and prompt. We ask when such measurements can be corrected or compared.
We describe the QMUL_AK submission to AISA-ArabicFC 2026. The system adapts the Arabic-English ALLaM-7B-Instruct model to function calling with low-rank adaptation (LoRA).
Latent multi-agent systems reduce inference cost by keeping intermediate reasoning and inter-agent communication in continuous representations.\ Reusable skills, however, are commonly supplied as…
We propose a multimodal transformer framework for efficiently modeling long1 financial documents that combine structured tabular data with noisy, unstructured2 textual disclosures. The framework…
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) lets a large language model (LLM) answer questions by retrieving relevant passages from a large corpus. However, RAG struggles with multi-hop questions, which…
Large language models (LLMs) have shown increasing promise in research-level problem solving, yet a comprehensive collection of such problems is still missing, and evaluating them on research-level…
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in multi-turn agentic workloads that require sustained interaction with complex environments. Existing reflective prompt optimizers such as GEPA…
Self-attention plays a key role in long-sequence modeling, but its quadratic time complexity fundamentally limits the scaling of Large Language Models. Recently, Multi-State Linear Attention (MSLA)…
In smart factory environments, passive entities such as humans and movable obstacles may interfere with autonomous robot operations, posing significant safety risks. Detecting potential conflicts…
Multi-robot control requires integrating distributed camera views while predicting separate action sequences. Most vision-language-action and world-action models target one robot.
As egocentric video becomes increasingly available for embodied learning, an important research question is how to turn this low-cost, scalable source of data into robot manipulation capabilities.…
Fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) on instruction data can quietly erode their safety, even when no training example looks harmful. Because this safety-degrading data looks benign, standard…
Understanding how language models were pretrained requires information about their data, processing procedures, and computational resources. However, it remains unclear whether successive releases…
Long-term memory enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to maintain coherent and personalized interactions across extended conversations. However, existing memory systems face two key challenges: (1)…
We trained four widely used imitation-learning policies, ACT, Diffusion Policy, SmolVLA and $π_{0.5}$, on nested subsets of 12, 25, 50, 100 and 200 teleoperated demonstrations of one pick-and-place…
Variational inference with normalizing flows provides a flexible posterior approximation for Bayesian model calibration, but struggles when the posterior has several modes separated by regions of low…
Coverage-evaluation benchmarks quantify whether retrieved evidence covers the different pieces of information needed to satisfy an information need. Existing benchmarks mostly consider factual claims…
Joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPAs) enable world models to plan from images by predicting future embeddings. However, their visual prediction objectives do not explicitly incorporate…
As expansion and scalability in underwater oper- ations becomes more important and challenging, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) become more relevant and the necessity for reliable autonomy more…
As the use of AI, and consequently its harms, becomes more prevalent, the global discourse around AI has become increasingly risk-aware. With new risks emerging more frequently than ever, a key…