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CARB: A Characterization-Guided Framework for CNN Inference Cost Prediction and Deployment Screening

arXiv:2608.10506v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate pre-deployment estimation of CNN inference cost--energy, latency, and peak memory--is increasingly critical as models are deployed on resourc

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EvoMem: Memory-Augmented Evolution for Code Optimization

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arXiv:2608.10795v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Successful mutation strategies in evolutionary code search may contain reusable knowledge that is useful beyond a single run, and in some cases may tran

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Ex-Omni-2D: Expressive Omni-Modal Dialogue Models with Native Visual Presence

arXiv:2608.10720v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Omni-modal dialogue models can understand multimodal inputs and synthesize spoken replies, yet their responses remain visually disembodied. We introduce

From Detection to Understanding: TAR and TAR-Bench for Multi-Task Traffic Anomaly Reasoning

arXiv:2608.10317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present TAR (Traffic Anomaly Reasoning) and TAR-Bench datasets, resources for training and evaluating video-language models beyond anomaly detection.

Hand-Written PTX Tensor-Core GEMM Kernels: A Multi-Precision Study on NVIDIA L4

arXiv:2608.10103v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-performance Tensor Core kernels rely on a low-level PTX pipeline built from asynchronous data movement with cp.async, warp-level matrix loads wit

HyWA: Architecture-Preserving Personalized Voice Activity Detection for Full-Duplex Voice Assistants

arXiv:2510.12947v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Voice activity detection (VAD) serves as an early gate in voice-assistant pipelines for smart devices. Because conventional VADs respond to sp

Neuroevolution Arena: Nested Ecological Evaluation of Update-and-Inheritance Regimes across Neural Architectures

arXiv:2608.10323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Competitive artificial-life systems can rank trained controllers differently under training and ecological evaluation. We present Neuroevolution Arena,

TideRL: Boosting Agentic RL Goodput with Readiness-Aware Scheduling

arXiv:2608.10402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) for large language models is moving toward multi-turn agentic workloads, where rollout tasks repeatedly pause for external e

TransitReID: Transit OD Data Collection with Occlusion-Resistant Dynamic Passenger Re-Identification

arXiv:2504.11500v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transit Origin-Destination (OD) data are fundamental for optimizing public transit services, yet current collection methods, such as manual su

Aero Realtime: Fully Aligned Input-Output Streams for Low-Latency Streaming Multimodal Generation

arXiv:2608.08469v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing streaming multimodal models process observations incrementally but still follow a turn-based prefill-then-decode pattern, making them non-duple

AraSSM: A bidirectional state-space encoder for Arabic masked language modeling

arXiv:2608.08256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained Transformer encoders such as AraBERT, MARBERT, and CAMeLBERT have become the standard backbone for Arabic natural language understanding, but

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Beyond Isotropic Assumptions: Continuity-Constrained Segmentation and GPU Morphometry for Nanoscale GBM Analysis

arXiv:2608.07575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Confocal microscopy of optically cleared and swelled tissue resolves complex biological structures in 3D, but such acquisitions are highly anisotropic:

Depth-adaptive Inference of Looped Language Models via Continuous Depth Batching

arXiv:2608.09444v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A main promise of looped language models (LMs) is depth-adaptive inference. By iterating a block of shared layers a variable number of times, the mode

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Design Space of Self--Consistent Electrostatic Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials

arXiv:2603.14700v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have become widely used tools in atomistic simulations. For much of the history of this field,

Differentiate the Solver, Not the Equation: Reverse-Sweep Adjoints for Block Implicit Simulation

arXiv:2608.08559v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Differentiable simulation is a key component in learning, control, and inverse problems, where gradients through nonlinear implicit solvers are requir

EasyBalance: Cross-Layer Load Balancing in Distributed MoE Inference

arXiv:2608.07964v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Load Balancing has emerged as a critical problem in expert-parallel distributed inference of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models. As routing distributions

Eco-SoC: A Sustainable VLSI Architecture for Energy-Proportional Artificial Intelligence

arXiv:2608.08761v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In an era defined by escalating climate change and the pervasive deployment of edge intelligence, the environmental cost of semiconductor manufacturin

ERF-GS: Reconstructing Fast Motion from Disjoint Event-RGB Viewpoints

arXiv:2608.08531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning-driven representations such as neural radiance fields (NeRFs) and 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) have revolutionized the field of dynamic 3D

EsaacSim: A Multimodal Event Camera Add-on for NVIDIA Isaac Sim

arXiv:2608.08522v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Event-based vision is becoming an increasingly important sensing paradigm for robotics, yet its adoption remains limited by sensor availability and the

FlashRT: Agent Harness for Guiding Agents to Deploy Real-Time Multimodal Applications

arXiv:2607.18171v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-time multimodal applications, including voice agents and interactive video generation, compose heterogeneous models into pipelines whose effici

From Approachability Residuals to Anytime-Valid Evidence: The Online Convex Geometry of Testing by Betting

arXiv:2608.09450v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Betting-based sequential tests and Blackwell approachability are linked by a rate-explicit reduction through support-function residuals. For a compact c

Holder Signed Distance: A Differentiable, Signed, Parallelizable Metric for Robotics

arXiv:2608.07707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computing distances between sets is essential in robotic motion planning and control, where differentiable gradients enable real-time optimization. The

Mesh-Attention: A New Communication-Efficient Distributed Attention with Improved Data Locality

arXiv:2512.20968v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Distributed attention is essential for scaling large language models (LLMs) to long contexts, yet existing methods either have limited paralle

Physics-Informed Condition Monitoring of SiC Power Modules

arXiv:2608.08363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Silicon carbide (SiC) power modules are increasingly deployed in automotive traction inverters, where condition monitoring is essential to prevent in-

Real-time physics inversion for retrieval of sub-pixel wildfire temperatures from VSWIR imaging spectroscopy

arXiv:2608.07580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we present a wildfire temperature retrieval framework for VSWIR imaging spectroscopy data, employed on data from NASA's Airborne Visible I

StitchCUDA: An Automated Multi-Agents End-to-End GPU Programing Framework with Rubric-based Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2603.02637v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern machine learning (ML) workloads increasingly rely on GPUs, yet achieving high end-to-end performance remains challenging due to depende

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SwiftQK: Fast and Communication-Efficient Tensor Parallelism for Query-Key Normalization

arXiv:2608.09160v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Query-Key Normalization (QK-Norm) improves the training stability and quality of modern Large Language Models (LLMs). However, under Tensor Parallelism

verdi: retrieval is not transfer for continual world model optimization

arXiv:2608.09537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation world models have made remarkable progress in planning, simulation, and embodied intelligence. However, optimizing a pretrained world model t

What Irregularity Costs: CUDA C++, Rust, and Triton on a Hash-Blocked GPU Workload

arXiv:2608.08287v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GPU language comparisons are almost always run on tiled dense linear algebra, where every toolchain is good and the differences are small. We implement

Beyond Visibility: Real-Time Surface Accessibility Fields from Sparse LiDAR

arXiv:2608.06412v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding which surfaces in a scene are physically accessible to a given tool is fundamental for robotic interaction, yet 3D perception systems ty

CubicQuant: Parametric Non-Uniform Codebooks for High-Throughput LLM Inference with 1-8-Bit Weights

arXiv:2608.06763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Weight quantization for large-language-model inference must balance adaptive reconstruction levels with representations regular enough for efficient GPU

Fast LapSum: Exact Differentiable Top-k at Million Scale

arXiv:2608.06912v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The top-k operation is a fundamental building block of modern sparse computation, enabling token routing, expert activation, memory selection, and atten

Scalable High-Fidelity Macromolecular Docking for GPU-Accelerated Supercomputers

arXiv:2608.07078v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flexible macromolecular docking offers high-fidelity predictions of biomolecular interactions, but remains prohibitively expensive at scale. Among exi

Summarize First, Download Later: Onboard VLMs for Bandwidth-Efficient Earth Observation

arXiv:2608.06959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern Earth observation (EO) satellites carry increasingly advanced sensors that produce vast volumes of high-resolution, multispectral data, yet downl

CUDA-L2: Surpassing cuBLAS Performance for Matrix Multiplication through Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2512.02551v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we propose CUDA-L2, a system that combines large language models (LLMs) and reinforcement learning (RL) to automatically optimi

IcFuzz: Fuzzing Isaac Sim with Semantic Stage Guidance and Multi-level Mutation

arXiv:2608.06088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotics simulators serve as a foundational infrastructure for embodied AI, facilitating safe and scalable robotic system development. NVIDIA Isaac Sim

Learning to Rank Tensor Network Contraction Plans for GPU-Accelerated Quantum Circuit Simulation

arXiv:2608.05819v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Classical simulation remains essential for developing and validating quantum algorithms, but its cost grows rapidly with circuit size. Tensor-network co

PaDoc: Layout-Grounded Parallel Decoding for Document Parsing

arXiv:2608.06146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end document parsers provide a unified interface, but serialize page layouts and regional contents into one autoregressive sequence. This formula

Parallel-in-Time Nonlinear Optimal Control via GPU-native Sequential Convex Programming

arXiv:2603.10711v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-time solution of nonlinear optimal control problems remains challenging on embedded robotic hardware, where conventional solvers often rely on

AI-based single-shot structured-light depth reconstruction for real-time laparoscopic surgical guidance

arXiv:2608.05109v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Significance. Accurate intraoperative depth perception is important for autonomous and semi-autonomous robotic laparoscopic surgery. Conventional frin

An Explainable LLM Agent Layer for Open-World Anomaly Detection in Oil Wells

arXiv:2608.04041v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-World Learning (OWL) pipelines for oil well anomaly detection have recently been shown to combine autoencoder-based detection, multiclass classific

ContextMaster: Interactive Multi-Shot Video Creation via Fixed-Budget Sparse Context Routing

arXiv:2608.04956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent video models increasingly support generation, reference conditioning, and editing within a single model, yet typically expose them as separate op

GASP: GPU-Accelerated Safe Planner for Real-Time Collision-Aware Motion Generation with Latent Trajectory Sampling

arXiv:2608.04612v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present GASP, a GPU-Accelerated Safe Planner for real-time, collision-aware joint-space motion generation in known environments. GASP combines a clam

Gaussian-LIC2: LiDAR-Inertial-Camera Gaussian Splatting SLAM

arXiv:2507.04004v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents the first photo-realistic LiDAR-Inertial-Camera Gaussian Splatting SLAM system that simultaneously addresses visual quality, geo

RORA: Realistic Object Reconstruction with Articulation

arXiv:2608.04842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Replicating real-world environments into simulation by realistic visual representation like NeRF and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as an effe

SparseDitto: Customizing GPU Kernels for Different Sparsity Patterns with LLM-Based Agentic System

arXiv:2608.05033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse matrix kernels are fundamental to scientific computing, graph analytics, and machine learning. Their GPU performance depends strongly on the in

StaticSegFormer: An Efficient High-Performance Semantic Segmentation Based on Static Structured Pruning

arXiv:2608.04811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured pruning enhances the efficiency of deep neural networks (DNNs) by eliminating groups of parameters during inference. Previous methods mostly

A Deployment-Friendly Foundational Framework for Efficient Computational Pathology

arXiv:2602.14010v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pathology foundation models (PFMs) generalize well across computational pathology tasks but remain costly for gigapixel whole-slide image anal