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#01Oct 19, 2026

cs.CL

MemT-1.0: Towards Memory-Native Evolution

Zhiyu Li, Zeyu Zhang, Linyun Liu and 71 more

Memory-native evolution requires making memory an intrinsic capability of foundation models, enabling them to continuously accumulate and utilize information. To this end, we introduce MemT-1.0, a new architecture of memory foundation models that internalize memory as part of model computation. Building on Metis, MemT-1.0 employs Gated DeltaNet-2 with a stable token-level memory update mechanism within each turn. We further introduce Mixture-of-Storage to scale native memory capacity. Following a deliberate backbone preparation, we develop a two-stage training pipeline consisting of continued pre-training and post-training, supported by 34B tokens of training data and efficient training and inference infrastructure. We release a model family comprising MemT-1.0-Nano and MemT-1.0-Flash, and conduct a comprehensive evaluation of memory and general capabilities. The results show that they outperform the parametric memory baselines on average and remain competitive with retrieval-augmented methods, while largely preserving general capabilities. At a history length of 128K tokens, MemT-1.0-Nano achieves approximately $1.86\times$ end-to-end inference speedup and a $66\times$ reduction in persistent storage relative to full context KV cache. By internalizing retrieved procedural experience, MemT-1.0 improves task success on agentic tasks, providing a practical step toward memory-native evolution.

#02Oct 19, 2026

cs.CV

Ropedia W0: Scaling Loco-Manipulation World Models across Embodiments with Human Experience

Tianqi Liu, Hanfei Zhao, Qifeng Liang and 12 more

World models enable embodied agents to anticipate action consequences, yet jointly modeling locomotion and manipulation across diverse embodiments remains challenging due to heterogeneous action spaces and limited multimodal supervision. We present Ropedia W0, the first egocentric loco-manipulation world foundation model spanning humans and robots with diverse embodiments. We curate Xp-Data, comprising 10k hours of egocentric human data and 3k hours of robot data with unified multimodal annotations and systematic quality control. A unified kinematic representation encodes locomotion through camera poses and manipulation through projected skeletons, with robot skeletons combining embodiment-specific forward kinematics with extensive manual keypoint annotation and correction. We also introduce Xp-Teleop, a long-horizon loco-manipulation benchmark based on high-quality dexterous humanoid teleoperation data. Evaluations demonstrate state-of-the-art performance across five cross-embodiment benchmarks (DreamDojo, $Ψ_0$, $ω$-HOME, Xp-Teleop, and AgiBot) and on held-out human egocentric video, from zero-shot inference to few-shot and full-data post-training. Scaling human pre-training data improves performance on both human and robot evaluations. After distillation, our model supports real-time, minute-long rollouts, enabling live VR interaction. Applications in policy evaluation, model-based planning, and world-action modeling further demonstrate the model's utility for embodied decision-making.

#03Oct 19, 2026

cs.CV

Reinforcement Learning with Visually Attributable On-Policy Self-Distillation

Shiao Xie, Siyu Chen, Jianwei Lv and 2 more

Multimodal reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) provides reliable task-level supervision, yet offers limited guidance for localizing errors in visual reasoning. On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) complements this supervision with dense token-level corrections from a privileged teacher equipped with an evidence-centered visual view. However, the resulting corrections may conflate visual evidence with non-visual shifts induced by linguistic priors, response style, or the privileged view itself. We formalize this phenomenon as privileged-correction contamination: a token-level correction is contaminated when its update direction cannot be consistently attributed to the privileged visual evidence. Directly distilling contaminated corrections may therefore reinforce erroneous token-level updates. To address this issue, we propose reinforcement learning with visually attributable on-policy self-distillation, an evidence-consistent paradigm that augments task-level RLVR supervision with privileged token-level corrections grounded in visual evidence. We instantiate this paradigm with Visual-Attribution Gating (VAG), which uses the verifier-derived advantage as the optimization anchor and validates each privileged correction against the contrast between evidence-present and evidence-degraded teacher views. By admitting only corrections directionally supported by this visual contrast, VAG preserves visually grounded guidance while suppressing inconsistent residuals. Experiments across six visual reasoning benchmarks show that VAG consistently outperforms GRPO and OPSD methods, establishing new state-of-the-art average performance.

#04Oct 19, 2026

cs.CL

ASTOR: Benchmarking and Improving Autoformulation for Soft-Constraint Optimization with a Formal Grammar

Amer Goel, Yeganeh Alimohammadi, Andrew Daw

Real-world decision problems combine two qualitatively different kinds of constraints: requirements that must be satisfied, called hard constraints, and preferences that can be violated, called soft constraints. Because these problems are often posed to decision-makers in natural language, large language models offer a natural tool for assisting with their solution. This has given rise to autoformulation, which focuses on using LLMs to translate natural-language descriptions of decision problems into executable mathematical optimization models. However, this research often neglects soft constraints like those proposed by consumers, managers, and planners, despite the fact that many practical problems require modeling them explicitly. We introduce ASTOR, an inference-time framework that maps a natural-language decision problem to a grammar-guided abstract syntax tree (AST) before deterministically compiling the resulting representation into executable optimization code. We also introduce SoftOR, a unified benchmark of natural language problems which focuses on soft constraint formulations. On SoftOR, ASTOR achieves the best aggregate accuracy among comparable single-request and multi-agent LLM methods while remaining competitive on standard autoformulation benchmarks that include only hard constraints. Code and data are available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/astor-softor-iclr-E34C/README.md.

#05Oct 19, 2026

cs.CV

SpecKCast: Spectral Kalman Forecasting for Diffusion Acceleration

Javad Rajabi, Hakki Can Karaimer, David B. Lindell and 2 more

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve high-fidelity image and video generation, but they suffer from substantial inference costs due to repeated transformer evaluations across many denoising steps. Feature caching reduces this cost by reusing features across denoising steps. Recent forecasting methods extend this idea by extrapolating features to skipped steps instead of reusing them. However, existing forecasting methods extrapolate the features they predict uniformly, even though the spatial-frequency components of these features change most at different stages of denoising. They also overlook that denoising progresses nonuniformly, so equal step intervals can correspond to very different amounts of change. These mismatches amplify forecast errors as more steps are skipped, limiting the achievable acceleration. We propose SpecKCast, a training-free method that forecasts the model output in the frequency domain. SpecKCast applies a 2D discrete cosine transform (DCT) to the output and tracks each coefficient with a lightweight Kalman filter along a band-specific time coordinate derived from the noise schedule. The filter tracks each coefficient's value and rate of change, and the transformer is evaluated only when the filter's forecast uncertainty exceeds a threshold. Experiments on FLUX.1-dev, Qwen-Image, Wan2.1-14B, and HunyuanVideo show that SpecKCast achieves a better trade-off between acceleration and fidelity than existing caching and forecasting methods, reaching up to 6x speedup with less than 0.05 GiB of additional memory.