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From Demonstrations to Rewards: Test-Time Prompt Optimization for VLM Reward Models

arXiv:2606.00083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning relies on accurate reward functions, which are often hand-crafted or even unavailable in real-world applications, such as robotics. Recent work has explored the zero-shot reasoning capabilities of pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) as reward…

Hoeffding Concept Bottleneck Models with Applications to Overhead Images

arXiv:2606.00082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Explainability of deep learning algorithms is critical for computer-vision applications with high-stake decisions. Concept bottleneck models (CBM) have recently shown promising performance to provide explainable and accurate predictions for classification problems, based on a bottleneck…

Honest Lying: Understanding Memory Confabulation in Reflexive Agents

arXiv:2605.29463v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reflexion-style agents rely on self-generated reflections as memory, implicitly assuming that agents can accurately diagnose their own failures. We show that this assumption can fail systematically: across ALFWorld and HumanEval, agents store confident but incorrect…

Generative AI and Digital Ecosystem Resilience: A Proactive Lifecycle-Based Survey

arXiv:2606.00136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The proliferation of adversarial synthetic content, accelerated by Generative AI (GenAI) is rendering traditional reactive detection methods ineffective. This survey synthesizes emerging research to demonstrate a paradigm shift toward the proactive detection of emerging inauthentic…

Geometric Erasure by Contrastive Velocity Matching in Rectified Flows

arXiv:2606.00140v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While the rapid adoption of multimodal generative models offers immense potential, it has also increased the risks of harmful content synthesis, deepfakes, and copyright infringements. To address these challenges, concept erasure has emerged as a…