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Making the MiniMax H3 Video VAE 2x Faster

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Kijai put his magic to good use to improve your MiniMax H3 workflows. The video VAE now encodes up to ~2.2x faster and decodes ~1.4-2.7x faster on Nvidia GPU. Checkout the blog post how to use it: htt

Manage Kubernetes Node Fleets with NodeWright

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NodeWright is an open‑source, Kubernetes‑native package manager that declaratively configures host operating systems on GPU clusters while preserving workloads; its operator cordons nodes, drains pend

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Sakeena Fiza Helps NVIDIA Hardware Succeed at Scale

When Sakeena Fiza describes her work as a validation engineer at NVIDIA, she does so in terms more befitting a detective story than a world-class engineering lab. “Validation engineers look in the sha

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Sources and Nscale's US SEC filings: ByteDance accounted for nearly 75% of Nscale's sales in 2025 and used Nscale's facility in Norway to access Nvidia AI chips (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources and Nscale's US SEC filings: ByteDance accounted for nearly 75% of Nscale's sales in 2025 and used Nscale's facility in Norway to access Nvidia AI chips — Chinese tech giant w

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TopoCompress: Topology Aware Token Compression Algorithm for Distributed Edge MoE Inference

arXiv:2609.26061v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixture-of-experts (MoE) models improve capacity with moderate overhead by sparsely activating experts per token. However, deploying MoE across resour

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Uncertainty-Aware 3D Residual Wavelet Diffusion for Ultra Low-Field MRI Super-Resolution

arXiv:2609.25319v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ultra low-field MRI expands global access to neuroimaging but produces scans with low signal-to-noise ratio, reduced contrast, and thick slices. While r

Validate GPU Cluster Readiness Before AI Workloads Land

NVIDIA Cluster Readiness Engine (NVCRE) is an open‑source Kubernetes controller that runs real distributed workloads across topology‑aware node groups to certify GPU cluster readiness before productio

WeightBridge: An Efficient Weight Transfer Library for Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.25442v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Weight transfer - the propagation of updated parameters from trainers to rollout generators - is becoming an important performance bottleneck in reinf

When Riemann flows with Wasserstein: Generative Modeling of Probability Distributions on Manifolds

arXiv:2609.25659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many scientific datasets, such as molecular conformational ensembles or single-cell tissue measurements, are naturally modeled as meta-distributions: di

A Monolithic Force-Proprioception Soft Acutuator Enabled by Single-Material 3D printing

arXiv:2609.24499v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pneumatic proprioceptive actuators integrate actuation and sensing for soft robots that attract interest due to functional potential. Existing approache

A principled approach for energy-efficient training via phase-aware GPU frequency tuning

arXiv:2609.24205v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern AI model training imposes unprecedented computational demands, making it a key contributor to datacenter energy consumption. Yet a significant

Accelerating a ROS 2 Node with an AI Agent and NVIDIA Isaac ROS

ROS 2 nodes in NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0 now employ a CUDA buffer backend (via rosidl::Buffer) so that payloads remain GPU‑resident and can be transferred between nodes with zero‑copy when both endpoints s

AgentRouter: Heterogeneous Model Routing for Cost-Optimal Multi-Step Agentic Workflows

arXiv:2609.22951v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enterprise agentic systems that route every trajectory step to a frontier model waste 60-80% of their inference budget on subtasks that smaller models

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Andreessen Horowitz is launching an ‘academy’ with no homework and partnerships with Palantir, Google, and Meta

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating an 'academy' positioned as a pipeline for young people to build or join a Silicon Valley startup. The 'Horowitz Andreessen Academy' will lau

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Becoming a Fruit Ninja: Real-Time Probabilistic Kinodynamic Planning for Manipulator Projectile Interception

arXiv:2609.22608v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Projectile interception is a challenging dynamic manipulation problem. Intercepting a thrown object with a robot arm requires reaching a point on the ob

Beyond UV Mapping: Mesh Texture Compression via Surface-Aligned Texture Fields

arXiv:2609.23606v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mesh texture compression typically relies on 2D UV atlases, whose chart discontinuities and mapping overhead can limit coding efficiency. To tackle this

Co-occurrence Patterns of LoRA Adapters in Production Diffusion Model Inference Services

arXiv:2609.23321v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) has become a key technology for serving large-scale personalized large language models and diffusion models in the cloud. H

Connected Content Retriever: Dense Graph Edge Features Powering Pre-Ranking at LinkedIn

arXiv:2609.22441v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In large-scale recommendation systems like the LinkedIn Feed, content generated by a member's network (connections and follows) makes up over 70% of imp

Enabling Private High-Performance Production AI Inference with NVIDIA Confidential Computing

NVIDIA Confidential Computing (CC) secures large‑language‑model inference by providing encrypted virtual machines, GPUs, and NVLink, enabling processing of sensitive data in trusted hardware. Running

Event-Frame Fusion for Inter-Frame Segmentation via Event-Guided Motion

arXiv:2609.22500v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous navigation requires precise and efficient semantic segmentation, yet existing frame-based approaches remain limited by motion blur, glare, la

FlashBoB: I/O-Efficient Exact Backward-over-Backward for Softmax Attention

arXiv:2609.24089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer models built on the attention mechanism have become a central building block in modern deep learning, yet softmax attention remains a major

G6D: Geometric Learning-Free RGB-D 6D Pose Solver for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2609.23566v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 6D object pose estimation is fundamental to robotic manipulation and automation. Recent zero-shot methods have significantly improved generalization to

Gradient-estimator design overcomes trainability barriers in neural-network-based variational optimization

arXiv:2609.22342v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural networks provide expressive representations for scientific computing. However, even sufficiently expressive networks can suffer training failur

HiLo-Token: Input-Adaptive High-Low Frequency Token Compression for Efficient Image Editing

arXiv:2606.13898v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Creative image editing tools, such as Photoshop's Remove or Generative Fill buttons, are central to everyday customer use and account for a major sh

“Hot dog or not?” at 0.4 sec 🌭 jev-style decision model for image [glance-qwen3-vl-4b] now on huggingface and replicate: Demo: https://glan…

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“Hot dog or not?” at 0.4 sec 🌭 jev-style decision model for image [glance-qwen3-vl-4b] now on huggingface and replicate: Demo: https://glancevlm.replit.app Replicate: https://replicate.com/untapped/gl

KerColle: Unlocking Fine-Grained GPU Concurrency in Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2609.22335v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as foundational models for next-generation robotics. High VLA inference throughput is critical for me

Mask-Aware Execution for Efficient JEPA Training

arXiv:2609.22674v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) are becoming a core representation-learning primitive and a building block for latent world models ac

Open-Jev Judgments on CallScreenBench: Calibrated One-Pass Scam Screening with a Small Language Model

arXiv:2609.23959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Screening a phone call for fraud needs a trustworthy probability after every caller turn, in milliseconds. Jev-style typed decisions promise exactly tha

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PREM: Prefix-Steered Recurrent Memory for Long-Video Understanding

arXiv:2609.23601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-video understanding must capture transient visual evidence under strict token budgets, yet existing methods compress frames, append memory tokens,

RegVGGT: Sustainable Visual Geometry Grounding for Streaming via Regulated Memory

arXiv:2609.23286v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D reconstruction from a lengthy video stream input poses a dilemma for feed-forward reconstruction models (FFRMs), that a whole-stream inference contex

Scout: Open-World Species Recognition on the Edge

arXiv:2609.22897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large vision-language models (VLMs) enable recognition beyond a fixed class set, but their computational demands prevent them from running on many edge

Silent Failures at the 2^{32} Boundary: A Technical Report on Large-Tensor Matrix Multiplication in PyTorch's Apple MPS Backend

arXiv:2609.22991v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Apple Silicon machines with 192GB or more of unified memory make it routine to place tensors with more than 2^{32} elements on a desktop GPU. We show

SPARSER: Sparse Variable Projection by Exploiting Separable Structure in Robotic Perception

arXiv:2609.24708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic perception often requires solving large nonlinear least-squares (NLS) problems. While sparsity has been widely exploited to scale solvers, a com

Spectral Rendering Without a Spectral Renderer: Learned Spectral Codes for RGB Pipelines

arXiv:2602.18741v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Spectral rendering reproduces the wavelength-dependent appearance that RGB rendering cannot: metamerism, colour shifts under spectrally rich i

Streaming Video Editing with Easy Adaptation

arXiv:2609.24788v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we propose SVEET, a framework that requires merely training on a pretrained bidirectional video diffusion model but supports high-quality

Tip Manipulation in Soft Everting Robots via Wall Retraction and Deployable Fingers

arXiv:2609.23132v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soft everting robots can traverse long, confined paths by continuously growing, yet active interaction remains limited to a single tool fixed at or near

Topology-Aware Workload Scheduling with NVIDIA Topograph

**Summary:** NVIDIA Topograph discovers and normalizes cluster topology from cloud APIs or on‑prem fabric systems into a common model that is published as Kubernetes node labels, Slurm configuration,

TriFleetRCA: On-Premise LLM Root Cause Analysis for Kubernetes

arXiv:2609.23766v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Root cause analysis at a remote site is slow: evidence is scattered across pod logs, Kubernetes events and cluster-level objects, and many operators c

What’s New for Game Developers: DLSS 5 with 3D-Guided Neural Rendering, NVIDIA ACE Updates, and New RTX Kit Capabilities

NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 introduces a 3D‑Guided Neural Rendering system that adds realistic lighting and material detail to the renderer’s frame while preserving artistic intent; it operates one‑frame‑in/one‑f

5 Companies Using NVIDIA AI for Clean Energy

Clean energy isn’t hard to come by, but the pace of large-scale adoption has historically been slow due to bottlenecks — including out-of-date infrastructure, elongated research and development timeli

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Alibaba's T-Head unveils the Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator, which it says triples its predecessor's performance and can scale to clusters of up to 500K units (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Alibaba's T-Head unveils the Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator, which it says triples its predecessor's performance and can scale to clusters of up to 500K units — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is ro

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Automated Physics-Informed Neural-Networks-Based Calibration of Highly Segmented Silicon Telescopes

arXiv:2609.20868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transfer and multi-nucleon transfer reactions are essential tools for probing nuclear structure and reaction dynamics, requiring precise determination

Big Tech is increasingly using residual value guarantees for off-balance sheet AI spend, giving Nvidia and Broadcom a way to support their customers' purchases (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Big Tech is increasingly using residual value guarantees for off-balance sheet AI spend, giving Nvidia and Broadcom a way to support their customers' purchases — Wall Street finds new

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Bio-MF: Low-Latency and High-Fidelity EEG-to-fNIRS Cross-Modal Generation for Hybrid Motor-Imagery Brain--Computer Interfaces

arXiv:2609.20904v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hybrid motor-imagery brain-computer interfaces (MI-BCIs) combining EEG and fNIRS can outperform EEG-only systems by exploiting complementary electroph

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Contact-Rich Motion Planning via GPU-Parallel Mode Evaluation

arXiv:2609.21803v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-rich motion planning (CRMP) is essential for robotic manipulation and locomotion, yet remains computationally challenging due to combinatorial c

FastLoop: Parallel Loop Closing with GPU-Acceleration in Visual SLAM

arXiv:2603.17201v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual SLAM systems combine visual tracking with global loop closure to maintain a consistent map and accurate localization. Loop closure is a compu

From Enablement to Execution, Egypt’s AI Ecosystem Reaches Production Scale

Today, Egypt’s AI builders gathered in the Grand Egyptian Museum for a reception that highlighted the nation’s rapidly growing AI ecosystem — spanning AI natives, developers, researchers, startups and

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How Much of a Real Workload Can LLM-Generated GPU Kernels Actually Reach?

arXiv:2609.21058v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models can now write GPU kernels that outperform PyTorch. We evaluate five model configurations on KernelBench level 1 and find that a fronti

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