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🤗 Upvotes: 88 | cs. CV, cs. RO Authors: Zhen Wang, Changpeng Wang, Zhe Liu, Zhangyang Qi, Yuxiang Lu, Zimo Zeng, Donglian Qi, Xi Chen Title: PanoVLN: Towards Effective Panoramic Vision-and-Language Navigation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.34759v1 Abstract: Recent vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced vision-and-language navigation (VLN), enabling models to predict navigation actions from...

🤗 Upvotes: 57 | cs. CL Authors: Yanlin Li, Mingyang Hao, Shengqiong Wu, Hao Fei, Mong-Li Lee, Wynne Hsu Title: Omni-IO Skills: Harnessing Your Agent Omni-Native Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.31847v1 Abstract: General-purpose agents can plan, reason, and act over long horizons, yet their production capabilities remain fragmented across text, images, audio, video, documents, 3D assets, and code....

🤗 Upvotes: 55 | cs. CV, cs. RO Authors: Renping Zhou, Zanlin Ni, Zihao Fan, Guohao Fu, Zeyu Liu, Hao Shi, Jie Zhang, Chi Bene Chen, Yang Yue, Xueyang Fu, Gao Huang Title: What Makes World Action Models Generalize? An Empirical Study of Test-Time Future Modeling Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.34981v2 Abstract: World action models (WAMs) predict the future alongside actions during training. Due t...

🤗 Upvotes: 52 | eess. AS, cs. SD Authors: Yang Xiao, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Eun-Jung Holden, Ting Dang Title: VoxMem: Benchmarking Multimodal Memory in Large Audio Language Models Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.32607v1 Abstract: Spoken conversational systems must recover information from prior interactions (i.e., memory), yet relevant information in speech extends beyond what was said to who said...

🤗 Upvotes: 45 | cs. CV Authors: Xuehai Bai, Zhenchen Tang, Yang Shi, Dianyi Wang, Tengfei Liu, Wanshun Su, Xuanyu Zhu, Ruohui Wang, Haiwen Diao, Haotian Wang, Xiaoling Gu, Yuanxing Zhang Title: Think Before You Score: Thinking Reward Model for Visual Generation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37372v1 Abstract: Visual reward models are essential for evaluating and improving visual generation mode...

🤗 Upvotes: 43 | cs. RO, cs. LG Authors: Haojian Huang, Zexi Li, Junhao Guo, Yehang Zhang, Wenxuan Peng, Bohan Zhou, Weilin Ruan, Leyi Wu, Chenxu Wang, Jianchong Su, Binghui Xie, Wosong Chen, Yingjie Xu, Tianhao Zhou, Suzeyu Chen, Pukun Zhao, Jiaqi He, Xinyi Li, Runze Li, Peiran Dong, Shaoxiang Dang, Jing Huang, Yingbing Chen, Yifan Chang, Tianyi Zhang, Shiyuan Deng, Haozhi Wang, Yangkai Wei, Wenq...

🤗 Upvotes: 41 | cs. CV, cs. AI, cs. CL, cs. IR, cs. LG Authors: Hui Ren, Lei Fan, Henry Pao, Han Guo, Zeeshan Zia, Ying Chen, Alexander Schwing, Gang Hua Title: Beyond the Timeline: Augmenting Long-Video Memory with Grounded Entity Biographies Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38155v1 Abstract: Answering questions about long videos often requires connecting events involving the same objects across...

🤗 Upvotes: 37 | cs. AI Authors: Miteto Wei, Xiaohan Wang, Zehao Chen, Jiajun Chai, Sichao Liu, Li Wang, Haoyuan Xu, Zhaoyu Hu, Wei Lin, Guojun Yin Title: SAKI: Maximal-Coupling-Routed Teacher Supervision for On-Policy Distillation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.36601v1 Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) reduces train-test state mismatch by training a student on its own generated trajectorie...

🤗 Upvotes: 58 | cs. LG Authors: Xin Li, Hao Jiang, Xin Gao, Annan Wang, Yuchen Xie, Jinghao Guo, Xingwei Qu, Yichi Zhang, Chau Yuen Title: Beyond Teacher Assignment: Domain-Normalized Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35347v1 Abstract: Reinforcement learning can turn one language model into several specialists, each excellent at a single skill such as mathemati...

🤗 Upvotes: 56 | eess. AS, cs. LG, cs. SD Authors: Ruibin Yuan, Jiahao Pan, Junyan Jiang, Zhiyue Wu, Ziya Zhou, Jiankai Sun, Yizhi Li, Ge Zhang, Yicheng Gu, Zeyue Tian, Junyu Dai, Hanfeng Lin, Kai Li, Shangda Wu, Xuanjie Liu, Jiaming Wang, Zihan Liu, Yue Wang, Yinghao Ma, Hanzhi Yin, Kangrui Chen, Xinyue Zhang, Ziyang Ma, Mengqi Liao, Hejia Zhao, Guowei Huang, Chao Yan, Lei Ke, Jianwei Yu, Bei Liu...

🤗 Upvotes: 50 | cs. AI, cs. CL Authors: Dehai Min, Daoan Zhang, Yiming Zeng, Huayi Zhang, Ziyi Chen, Yan Zhang, Qinbo Bai, Mengyuan Chao, Jing Ning, Qiyue Hua, Huiyi Chen, Hanrong Zhang, Henry Peng Zou, Jie Yang, Wei Xu, Philip S. Yu Title: TraceDance: An Automated System for Building Agent Behavior Benchmarks from Real-World Agent Deployment Traces Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.33295v1 Abstra...

🤗 Upvotes: 46 | cs. CL, cs. AI, cs. LG Authors: Ziyang Zhang, Yubin Jing, Yuanhao Zeng, Yuyao Li, Haofan Wang, Yichen Gong Title: Post-Training Leaves Behavioral Shadows on Unrelated Decisions Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.29233v1 Abstract: We find that language models can transfer capabilities through task-unrelated text. Post-training typically improves language models using task-specific da...

🤗 Upvotes: 41 | cs. RO Authors: Hongcheng Gao, Jingjing Zhou, Zelin Zheng, Shijia Ge, Jay Zhu, Yazhe Wang, Jianshu Zeng, Xuan Shangguan, Di Wu, Lingyu He, Zhiqi Jia, Sihang Wu, Xiao He Title: Self-Evolving Coding Agents: From Digital Programs to Physical-World Intelligence Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35432v1 Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) and world-action (WAM) models map observation...

🤗 Upvotes: 35 | cs. CL, cs. LG Authors: Yichen You, Tianyu Fu, Aosong Feng, Xingtai Lv, Xuefei Ning, Ning Ding, Yu Wang Title: Improving Test-Time Scaling with Adaptive Looped Transformers Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35748v1 Abstract: Looped transformers have demonstrated promising parameter efficiency by reusing layers for latent computation. Prior studies compare looped and non-looped mode...

🤗 Upvotes: 32 | cs. CV Authors: Lin Chen, Bolin Ni, Qi Yang, Lan Jiang, Kun Ding, Xiaoran Fan, Hower Yang, Ying Wang, Shiming Xiang Title: How Far Are We from Removing the Visual Encoder? Scaling Laws for Encoder-Free Multimodal Pretraining Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35457v1 Abstract: Most modern multimodal large language models (MLLMs) build on a pretrained visual encoder that provides a s...

🤗 Upvotes: 27 | cs. CV Authors: Lizhou Liang, Xinyu Zhong, Miao Pan, Xiaohe Zhou, Xuanyu Liu, Qinfeng Li, Peng Li, Jintao Chen, Xuhong Zhang, Wenqi Zhang Title: EmbodiedMemory-Bench: Benchmarking Embodied Memory for Long-Horizon Embodied Tasks Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28236v1 Abstract: Long-horizon embodied interaction requires agents to retain and continually update information about the...

🤗 Upvotes: 27 | cs. AI Authors: Xiao-Wen Yang, Weiyi Xu, Wen Da, Hang Xu, Canwei Li, Hong-Jie You, Pusen Dong, Yucheng Zeng, Zhaokai Luo, Yu-Feng Li, Yao Hu, Mu Chuan Title: CompoWorld: Compositional Environment Scaling for General Agents Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.33665v1 Abstract: Automatically generated environments provide a scalable source of interaction data for training general agent...

🤗 Upvotes: 27 | cs. SD, eess. AS Authors: Chengqian Ma, Wenhao Feng, Weixuan Jin, Gaole Dai, Tianyu Xie, Yuexiao Ma, Zhaolu Kang, Xiangyu Zhao, Xiawu Zheng, Fei Chao Title: Duplex-MPE: Benchmarking Multi-Party Interaction in Full-Duplex Dialogue Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.31948v1 Abstract: Real-time full-duplex speech models can listen while speaking, enabling natural interaction without ri...

🤗 Upvotes: 56 | cs. AI, cs. CV Authors: Haotian Zhang, Fengyuan Yu, Dezhi Luo, Haoran Sun, Zehong Zhao, Qingying Gao, Yihan Li, Siyuan An, Huayi Qin, Yilan Zhang, Zhengze Jiang, Pinyuan Feng, Renrui Zhang, Ziyu Guo, Letian Wang, Mengyue Yang, Kangfu Mei, Maijunxian Wang, Ran Ji, Vikash Kumar, Freda Shi, Chandra Sripada, Vincent C. Muller, Philip Torr, Alan Yuille, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Felix Jue...

🤗 Upvotes: 32 | cs. CV Authors: Harold Haodong Chen, Rongjin Guo, Disen Lan, Wen-Jie Shu, Hongfei Zhang, Hanzhe Hu, Shengtao Yao, Zixin Zhang, Guibin Zhang, Zhefan Rao, Jinxiu Liu, Yexin Liu, Rui Peng, Yuhao Liu, Bin Ren, Shuai Yang, Yukang Chen, Salman Khan, Ying-Cong Chen, Ser-Nam Lim, Rynson W.H. Lau, Nicu Sebe, Yu Cheng, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Qifeng Chen Title: The Past Frames the Future: Memory f...

🤗 Upvotes: 32 | cs. CV Authors: Zhiqi Bai, Junai Cai, Yixin Chen, Jingrun Du, Tao Feng, Wei Gong, Siyuan Huang, Xiao Lin, Jiaheng Liu, Jun Luo, Yongzhe Lyu, Liya Ma, Zenan Meng, Lin Qu, Wenbo Su, Jiaming Wang, Qinghe Wang, Shaofei Wang, Yanghai Wang, Zequn Wang, Ziming Wang, Hu Wei, Jiangtao Wu, Ruiqi Wu, Jiaxin Xie, Yuchi Xu, Ze Xu, Chengting Yu, Liangyu Yuan, Gang Zeng, Yawen Zeng, Xingyao Zhan...

🤗 Upvotes: 45 | cs. CV Authors: Hangyu Ran, Yuhao Zheng, Yingying Zhang, Kevin Qinghong Lin, Han Peng Title: RULER: Instance-aware Rubric Rewards for SVG Generation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25270v1 Abstract: Generating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) code from natural-language instructions is an open-ended task without absolute visual ground truth, leaving both evaluation and policy optimi...

🤗 Upvotes: 28 | cs. CV Authors: Jiahao Lu, Minghao Yin, Wenbo Hu, Hengyu Liu, Wang Zhao, Sai-Kit Yeung, Ying Shan, Yuan Liu Title: GAE: Learning a Geometry-Native Latent Space for 3D-Consistent World Generation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24981v1 Abstract: We present a compact geometry-native latent space as a shared foundation for perception and generation. Visual generators can produce pho...

🤗 Upvotes: 25 | cs. CV Authors: Xingsong Ye, Yongkun Du, Jiaxin Zhang, Zhixian Li, Chong Sun, Chen Li, Jing Lyu, Lianwen Jin, Zhineng Chen Title: All-in-One Multilingual Scene Text Recognition with Script-aware Mixture-of-Experts Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24058v1 Abstract: Multilingual scene text recognition (STR) remains challenging due to the scarcity of training data for most languages...

🤗 Upvotes: 65 | cs. LG, cs. AI, cs. CL Authors: Peng Xia, Rujun Han, Zifeng Wang, Yanfei Chen, Yufan Zhang, Yoonho Lee, Chengsong Huang, Han Yu, Zhongying CuiZhu, Yifei Ming, Huaxiu Yao, Burak Gokturk, Tomas Pfister, Chen-Yu Lee Title: RRSI: Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement of Agent Harnesses Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24972v1 Abstract: An LLM agent's capability is largely magnified b...