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Difference-Aware Retrieval Policies for Imitation Learning

arXiv:2606.09758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Parametric imitation learning via behavior cloning can suffer from poor generalization to out-of-distribution states due to compounding errors during deployment. We show that reusing the training data during inference via a semi-parametric retrieval-based imitation learning…

ResearchClawBench: A Benchmark for End-to-End Autonomous Scientific Research

arXiv:2606.07591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI coding agents are increasingly used for scientific work, but their end-to-end autonomous research capability remains difficult to verify. We present ResearchClawBench, a benchmark for evaluating autonomous scientific research across 40 tasks from 10 scientific…

Learning Quantized Continuous Controllers for Integer Hardware

arXiv:2511.07046v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deploying continuous-control reinforcement learning policies on embedded hardware requires meeting tight latency and power budgets. Small FPGAs can deliver these, but only if costly floating-point pipelines are avoided. We study quantization-aware training (QAT) of policies…

Similarity-Distance-Magnitude Activations

arXiv:2509.12760v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce the Similarity-Distance-Magnitude (SDM) activation function, a more robust and interpretable formulation of the standard softmax activation function, adding Similarity (i.e., correctly predicted depth-matches into training) awareness and Distance-to-training-distribution awareness to the existing output…

Rethinking Local Learning: A Cheaper and Faster Recipe for LLM Post-Training

arXiv:2605.04913v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM post-training typically propagates task gradients through the full depth of the model. Although this end-to-end structure is simple and general, it couples task adaptation to full-depth activation storage, long-range backward dependencies and direct task-gradient…

From A to B to A: Palindromic Zero-Shot Voice Conversion with Non-Parallel Data

arXiv:2606.08843v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a voice conversion (VC) framework that utilizes K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) retrieval over WavLM representations to align non-parallel source and target speech, constructing synthetic training pairs for supervised learning. The retrieved segments serve as…