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Causal Representation Learning with Observational Grouping for CXR Classification

arXiv:2506.20582v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Identifiable causal representation learning seeks to uncover the true causal relationships underlying a data generation process. In medical imaging, this presents opportunities to improve the generalisability and robustness of task-specific latent features. This work introduces…

Alpha Divergence Losses for Biometric Verification

arXiv:2511.13621v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Performance in face and speaker verification is largely driven by margin based softmax losses like CosFace and ArcFace. Recently introduced $alpha$-divergence loss functions offer a compelling alternative, particularly for their ability to induce sparse solutions…

VisPlay: Self-Evolving Vision-Language Models from Images

arXiv:2511.15661v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) provides a principled framework for improving Vision-Language Models (VLMs) on complex reasoning tasks. However, existing RL approaches often rely on human-annotated labels or task-specific heuristics to define verifiable rewards, both of which…

$pi^{*}_{0.6}$: a VLA That Learns From Experience

arXiv:2511.14759v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study how vision-language-action (VLA) models can improve through real-world deployments via reinforcement learning (RL). We present a general-purpose method, RL with Experience and Corrections via Advantage-conditioned Policies (RECAP), that provides for RL training of…