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Bootstrapping Vision-Language Model for Hysteroscopic Surgical Scene Segmentation

arXiv:2608.09302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hysteroscopic surgical scene segmentation plays a pivotal role in understanding the hysteroscopic intraoperative environment as well as computer-assiste

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Bright-Channel Retinex Enhancement with a Conditional Overdispered-Noise Analysis

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arXiv:2608.09137v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: I present a training-free low-light enhancement method that combines local bright-channel illumination estimation, Retinex division, and edge-preserving

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Classical SU(2) Models Match or Exceed Shallow Variational Quantum Circuits on Vision Benchmarks

arXiv:2608.07822v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quaternion-valued neural networks and variational quantum circuits (VQCs) both derive local transformations from SU(2) geometry, yet their performance

ColluSkill: Adversarial Cross-Skill Composition for Evading Agent Skill Scanners

arXiv:2608.09732v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent skills are emerging as an important attack surface in LLM-based agent systems. Through an empirical study of existing skill scanners, we find th

Decided Upstream, Written Late: Locating and Pricing the Cross-Lingual Refusal Circuit of a Multilingual MoE

arXiv:2608.08032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety alignment in multilingual models is uneven: a model that reliably refuses a harmful request in English will often comply with the same request in

Deferred Audio Pruning with Local Audio-Visual Dynamics for Omni-LLMs

arXiv:2608.08794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Omni-modal LLMs jointly process audio, video, and text, but long multimodal sequences incur substantial prefill and KV-cache costs. Existing omni-modal

Diffusion Image Editing via Asynchronous Token Decoding

arXiv:2608.09322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-guided diffusion image editing aims to modify semantic attributes of an image while preserving its identity, layout, and background. However, naive

DistMoE: Private-data Rehearsal-free Routing in Mixture-of-Experts for Distributed Instruction Tuning

arXiv:2608.09907v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown strong multimodal instruction-following ability, but adapting them to diverse visual-language domain

Efficient Cross-View Localization in 6G Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network

arXiv:2603.11398v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recently, visual localization has become an important supplement to improve localization reliability, and cross-view approaches can greatly en

Ego-OSCAR: Egocentric Open source Stereo CAptuRe System

arXiv:2608.08285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Ego-OSCAR, an open-hardware, low-cost, head-mounted stereo-inertial capture device for egocentric data collection in the wild. EgoOSCAR pairs

Evidence-Calibrated Runtime Reconstruction for Agent Skills Across Heterogeneous Coding Agents

arXiv:2608.08793v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent Skills package reusable instructions and assets for tool-using language-model agents. Progressive loading creates failure boundaries poorly repres

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Evidence-RL: Towards Evidence-intensive Visual Reasoning

arXiv:2608.08021v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) should answer from concrete image evidence rather than language priors, dataset shortcuts, or irrelevant visual context.

Explainable Machine Learning in Healthcare: Methods, Interpretation, and Applications for Clinical Research

arXiv:2608.07522v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a structured review of commonly used Explainable machine learning (XML) methodologies, including global and local interpretability tools su

FedTVD: Balancing Data Quality and Quantity for Robust Federated Learning

arXiv:2608.09221v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed client devices while preserving data privacy. However, FL faces signif

FiRe: Fixed-Noise Refinement for Visual Counterfactual Explanations

arXiv:2608.08664v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual counterfactual explanations aim to change classifier decisions through realistic and localized edits while preserving decision-irrelevant content

GALA: Graph-Augmented LLM Agents for Root Cause Analysis and Incident Response in Microservices

arXiv:2608.08968v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Microservice root cause analysis (RCA) requires correlating failures across heterogeneous telemetry within complex service dependency graphs. Existing

General OOD Detection via Model-aware and Subspace-aware Variable Priority

arXiv:2512.13003v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is essential for determining when a supervised model encounters inputs that differ meaningfully from its t

GeoPhysAdapter: Scale-Matched Geophysical Adaptation for Cross-Domain Landslide Mapping with Vision Foundation Models

arXiv:2608.09325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Newly triggered landslides rarely carry immediate annotations, so cross-domain transferability determines the value of landslide mapping for emergency r

GLocFM: A Geometry-Aware Foundation Model for 3D Indoor Wireless Localization

arXiv:2608.09285v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning-based wireless localizers often fail to utilize geometric information about the propagation environment, limiting their ability to exploit no

GWM-VLA: Geometry-Aware Latent World Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Learning

arXiv:2608.07619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve strong robotic manipulation performance but often degrade under visual and environmental shifts. Latent worl

Hallucination-Free GUI Grounding via Regression-Free Layout-Aware Matching

arXiv:2608.09654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GUI agents are shifting from metadata-dependent large language models to purely visual multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that operate directly on

HarnessWAM: Bridging Prediction and Deliberation in World Action Models

arXiv:2608.09516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) jointly learn environmental dynamics and robot actions, introducing priors over physical evolution into embodied control. How

HSMLA: Hierarchical Softmax Multi-scale Linear Attention for Efficient Vision Transformers

arXiv:2608.07616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision transformers face significant computational overheads in high-resolution dense prediction due to the quadratic complexity of self-attention. Line

I will be parting with my 4x Spark Cluster.

Laid off then my partner of 10 years said he's leaving, have to move, etc... I will post the r/hardwareswap link when I make it. I'm willing to add some incentive for r/LocalLLaMA folks. I will also a

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Integrated Multimodal AI System for Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning, Object Sensing, and Damage Analysis

arXiv:2608.08935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work presents a unified multimodal AI system for damage assessment that integrates retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) models, thermal spectrum pe

Label Granularity Skew in Federated Learning with Hierarchical Image Classification

arXiv:2608.09236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning enables privacy-preserving collaboration across distributed devices without centralizing local data. However, clients may differ not

Macaron-V1: Towards Open Continual Learning with Self-Improvement and Mixture-of-LoRA

arXiv:2608.09819v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Macaron-V1 is an open agent-model family for experiential intelligence: learning from experience in real environments and continuing to learn after de

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MiniMax-H3: ~38 GB less VRAM with Runtime LoRA Bypass — DoRA Dynamic LoRA Loader v1.0.39

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GitHub: https://github.com/xmarre/ComfyUI-DoRA-Dynamic-LoRA-Loader Release v1.0.39: https://github.com/xmarre/ComfyUI-DoRA-Dynamic-LoRA-Loader/releases/tag/v1.0.39 Also available through ComfyUI Manag

Modern Backbones Improve Multi-task DETR for Mammography Classification and Lesion Localization

arXiv:2608.09801v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Joint exam-level prediction and candidate-region localization may improve the usefulness of AI support in mammography. We study this setting using a m

Multi-modal Interactive Control of Robotic Arm based on Offline Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.08183v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly revolutionized the modern society with numerous advanced interactions between humans and AI agents, wher

Multi-Submap Implicit Neural SLAM with Local-to-Global Loop Closure for Large-Scale Scene Reconstruction

arXiv:2608.09146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)-based SLAM has demonstrated impressive results in small-scale scene reconstruction, yet scaling these methods to extensive

Multimodal Federated Learning under Dual-Axis Modality Missingness

arXiv:2608.09240v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal federated learning (FL) supports collaborative modeling in privacy-sensitive health-sensing and medical settings, but realistic deployments

NVIDIA and Local AI Community Fuel Open Source Models and Intelligent Agents

The open source ecosystem is making it easier for AI enthusiasts and developers to build, customize and run increasingly capable agents locally. Throughout August, NVIDIA is celebrating the partners a

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On-Device Multi-Species Malaria Detection with Uncertainty-Calibrated Slide-Level Aggregation

arXiv:2608.08566v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Malaria remains a leading cause of mortality in resource-limited settings, where expert microscopists are scarce. Automated diagnosis based on microsc

One-Time Training for All Grains: Open-Set Grain Recognition and Quantitative Analysis

arXiv:2608.09345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advances in crop breeding have introduced an increasing number of grain varieties, creating a growing demand for efficient variety recognition and quant

P2Voxel: Pyramid Pivot Voxelization for 3D Mesh Tokenization

arXiv:2608.07549v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Triangle meshes provide explicit and accurate surface geometry, yet their irregular topology connectivity makes 3D mesh tokenization a geometric sampl

Physics-Informed Learning for Robust Acoustic Localization with Calibrated Uncertainty

arXiv:2608.08911v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) offer an opportunity to obtain ecological spatial point-process data at unprecedented scale. Howe

PosBridge: Multi-View Positional Embedding Transplant for Identity-Aware Image Editing

arXiv:2508.17302v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Localized subject-driven image editing aims to seamlessly integrate user-specified objects into target scenes. As generative models continue to scal

Position: Certifiable State Integrity Should Be Built from Local Validity, Not Global Scale

arXiv:2601.21249v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Breakthroughs in language and vision have motivated increasingly general foundation models for time series and physical dynamics, where evidence is

Private Etymology: Designing Relational Reuse of Shared Symbols in Long-Term Human-AI Interaction

arXiv:2608.08443v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Previous studies have shown that people can develop shared symbols, partner-specific expressions, personal idioms, inside jokes, and other parts of a

RayLift: Lifting Complementary Ray-Wise Evidence with 3D Geometry Priors for Semantic Scene Completion

arXiv:2608.08476v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Camera-based 3D semantic scene completion (SSC) provides comprehensive scene understanding for autonomous driving and robotics. However, existing method

RefineAny3D: Depth Refinement as Semantic Alignment for Monocular 3D Detection

arXiv:2608.09147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Monocular 3D object detection spans two regimes: closed-set detectors operating within a fixed category vocabulary, and open-vocabulary detectors that l

Representation Matters in Longitudinal Affective Computing

arXiv:2608.07518v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Longitudinal, in-the-wild, wearable sensing yields day-level physiology, sleep, activity, and environmental streams, whereas affect and cognition are

Rethinking Factor Sharing in Federated LoRA: A Rank-Aware Adaptive Approach

arXiv:2608.09742v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) represents large language model (LLM) updates with two compact matrix factors, i.e., A and B, providing an efficient way to

Robotic Fabric Alignment System for Sewing Using Global Local Weighted ICP

arXiv:2608.09528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate fabric alignment is a critical step that must be performed before sewing. This paper presents a novel automated fabric alignment system. The sy

Rumored 50-series Super refresh bumps everything +50% VRAM

leaked Super specs have the 5070 Ti and 5080 going 16GB to 24GB and the 5070 to 18GB, thanks to the new 3GB GDDR7 modules. 24GB on a Ti-class card is actually the number people here have been waiting

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Scale-to-Dialogue: Low-Burden Elicitation of Daily Premenstrual Symptom Ratings with Small Language Models

arXiv:2608.08746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prospective daily symptom tracking is central to premenstrual health assessment, but repeated ordinal forms impose substantial response burden. We formu

SkillSmith: Enhancing Locally Deployed Agents via Automatic Skill Construction and Evolution

arXiv:2608.08037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based agent frameworks now act as personal assistants for multi-step tasks. Existing agent frameworks such as OpenClaw commonly follow the Cloud Age