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Hierarchical Prototype-Memory Adaptation of SAM for Surgical Instrument Segmentation

arXiv:2608.24541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surgical instrument segmentation (SIS) is fundamental for computer-assisted surgery, where reliable instrument masks enable precise scene understanding

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How Uber improves network reliability while unblocking cloud migration

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Uber has a lot in common with the cities it serves. Both are always changing and growing, both must carefully manage the resulting traffic to prevent congestion and sprawl. Uber has continuously evolv

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Improving Cross-Problem Vehicle Routing with Locally Augmented Preferences and Representation Disentanglement

arXiv:2608.24859v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-task vehicle routing problem (VRP) solvers seek to handle multiple VRP variants within a single unified model, avoiding the need to train a separa

It conciders itself HUMAN?????

https://preview.redd.it/hpnr51vgcnlh1.png?width=1089&format=png&auto=webp&s=e960ca848fb2fa1d5dff0868e099ae682bac8310 This is local, uncencored ollama submitted by /u/Producer_John-Ian [link] [comments

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Lemonade end-of-summer project update, now serving 15 engines!

Hi everyone, it's been a while since I posted so here's an update on what the Lemonade community has been up to this summer. Our overall mission is to enable local AI builders with everything they nee

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Look as You Leap: Planning Simultaneous Motion and Perception for High-DOF Robots

arXiv:2509.19610v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Most common tasks for robots in dynamic spaces require that the environment is regularly and actively perceived. The perception task considered in t

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Low-Rank Velocity Fields as a Structural Prior for Unsupervised 4D Medical Image Interpolation

arXiv:2608.24025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Endpoint-only unsupervised 4D medical image interpolation synthesizes intermediate volumes from sparsely sampled sequences with only the start and end v

Maia 200: A Software Defined Dataflow System for Large-scale AI Acceleration

arXiv:2608.24664v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Maia 200, an advanced AI accelerator delivering high performance-10 145 Tflop/s FP4 and 5072 Tflop/s FP8 within a 750W TDP and 7 TB/s HBM

NeurRAFT: Robot Motion Planning via Anchor-Level Flow Matching with Clearance-Aware Preference Tuning

arXiv:2608.24026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent end-to-end neural motion planners generate trajectories from raw sensor observations, avoiding the privileged geometric models required by classi

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Not All Tokens Are Equal: Region-Aware Consistency Repair of Backdoors in MLLMs

arXiv:2608.24354v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: MLLMs are increasingly deployed in user-facing applications, yet they inherit backdoor risks from the pipelines used to construct them: triggers may r

PARTAB: Partition-Aware Reasoning with Structured Evidence for Scalable Table Understanding

arXiv:2608.24082v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong capabilities in table reasoning, but their effectiveness degrades as tables grow in size and complexity

Perplexity's blog: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/a-local-first-agent-for-private-and-cost-effective-knowledge-work ParseBench: https://…

Perplexity.ai published a blog post titled “A Local‑First Agent for Private and Cost‑Effective Knowledge Work” on August 26 2026. The article describes the company’s new local‑first AI agent, which pr

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qshap: Fast Shapley Decomposition of R^2 for Gradient-Boosted Trees

arXiv:2608.24104v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Numerous methods have been developed to quantify feature attributions in individual predictions for tree ensembles. However, many applications require

RACR-MIL: Rank-aware contextual reasoning for weakly supervised grading of squamous cell carcinoma using whole slide images

arXiv:2308.15618v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is one of the most common cancer subtype, with an increasing incidence and a significant impact on cancer-related mort

Realistic expectations for a ThinkPad T14 gen 2, i7?

I am aware that I may not be able to run some higher end models, but I’m starting my journey into Ollama to learn capabilities and limits of local hosting. What could I expect to run on a Lenovo Think

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RefineRank: Joint Box Refinement and Ranking for Surgical Spatio-Temporal Grounding

arXiv:2608.23928v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Surgical spatio-temporal grounding (STG) requires locating, at each video time specified by a procedural question, the object that the question asks a

Score-Based Ideal Observer Approximation via Denoising Score Matching for Signal-Known-Exactly Detection Tasks

arXiv:2608.24768v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Bayesian Ideal Observer (IO) establishes the theoretical upper bound on task performance for binary detection tasks. However, analytical computati

Self-hosting LLMs on budget hardware: general principles, hardware, benchmarks and frontends

Hello, I've been self-hosting LLMs on various budget hardware for a while (6x RTX 3060 12 GB, Intel Arc Pro B60 24 GB, RX 9070 XT, etc). Over the last few months, I wrote about it in 4 articles: Gener

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StrokeGuard: A Multi-Agent Guided System for Prehospital Stroke Assessment

arXiv:2608.24555v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prehospital stroke assessment aims to accurately identify stroke symptoms and make rapid decisions through standardized procedures within an extremely

Topology-Aware Decision Making for Multi-Session Localization and Mapping

arXiv:2602.17226v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Operating in previously visited environments is becoming increasingly crucial for autonomous systems, with direct applications in autonomous driving

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TRACE: Transition-Aware Residual Control for Multi-Objective Materials Discovery

arXiv:2608.23631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-objective materials discovery with LLM agents is often limited not only by how many candidates can be proposed, but by how effectively each costly

What Guides the Agent? Adjudicating Unauthorized Behavior via Localizing Behavior-Guiding Instructions

arXiv:2608.24022v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents integrated with external resources gain complex task capabilities, yet the unified natural-language context channel makes them vulnerable t

When Similarity Is Interaction-Driven: Quantum Kernels for Regime-Sensitive Learning

arXiv:2608.24631v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Similarity in many decision systems is governed not by distance alone but by interactions among variables. In fraud and anomaly detection, small local

Accelerating Diffusion Language Models via Structured Suffix Modeling

arXiv:2608.23167v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) exhibit strong parallel decoding capabilities by denoising multiple tokens in a single generation step. However, this p

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AgentWeave: Routing Before Reasoning for Efficient Function Calling in Tool-Rich Language Models

arXiv:2608.23078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models increasingly operate over large collections of tools, functions, APIs, and specialized agents. As the candidate action space grows

AI Watchdog: Agent Interfaces for Detecting and Defending Against Manipulative Dark Patterns in AI Conversations

arXiv:2608.21841v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversational AI increasingly shapes consequential decisions, yet users have limited support for recognizing and resisting manipulation. We present AI

Aligning Human Sense: Calibrated Distributional Reward Learning for Video Generation

arXiv:2608.21425v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video generation is central to AI-powered content creation. Aligning generated videos with human preferences is a key criterion for evaluating generat

An end-to-end-trained vision-language model for native-language prostate pathology report generation

arXiv:2608.23143v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prostate cancer is among the most frequently diagnosed malignancies worldwide, and structured reporting of each biopsy core burdens pathologists. Existi

AnaDiffusion: Anatomically CompositionalLatent Diffusion for Controllable 3D Brain MRI Generation

arXiv:2608.23014v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D brain MRI generation has made significant advances in medical imaging, simulation, and controllable anatomical analysis. However, existing generative

Apple unveils a more powerful Mac mini featuring the all-new M6 and M5 Pro

'A 12-core GPU, also with two more cores than before, now includes Neural Accelerators in each core for the first time on Mac mini, resulting in up to 4x faster AI performance and 2x faster graphics t

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Backdoor Sentinel: Detecting and Detoxifying Backdoors in Diffusion Models via Temporal Noise Consistency

arXiv:2602.01765v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion models have been widely deployed in AIGC services, but their reliance on opaque training data exposes them to backdoor attacks. In p

Barycentric Fused Gromov-Wasserstein Balancing for Causal Inference under Multiple Treatments

arXiv:2608.22024v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Estimating heterogeneous single and interaction treatment effects from observational data under multiple simultaneous treatments is crucial for decisi

Breaking the Assumptions: Auditing Input-Side Jailbreak Defenses Against Semantic Attacks

arXiv:2608.21895v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Locally deployed Large Language Models (LLMs) via inference engines such as Ollama run without the moderation and abuse detection present in API-serve

Chorus: Harmonizing Context and Sensing Signals for Data-Free Model Customization in IoT

arXiv:2512.15206v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A key bottleneck toward scalable IoT sensing is efficiently adapting trained AI models to new deployment conditions. Context shifts, such as changes

CiUNet: A Hybrid Swin-CNN UNet for Medical Image Segmentation

arXiv:2608.22281v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical image segmentation requires high accuracy and robustness, yet practical commercial deployment also demands privacy preservation and computatio

Context-Aware Cluster Decoding: Semantic Anchor-Driven Coherence in dMLLMs

arXiv:2608.22367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion multimodal large language models (dMLLMs) frequently produce long-form outputs marred by semantic drift and repetition, with quality generally

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Contextrast++: Robust Multi-Scale Contextual Contrastive Learning for Semantic Segmentation

arXiv:2608.22679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semantic segmentation has rapidly advanced with deep learning; however, challenges remain in effectively capturing local and global contexts as well as

Cross-Temperature Defect Identification in Atomistic Simulations via Multi-Level Domain Alignment

arXiv:2608.22074v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Identifying atomic defects at elevated temperature is difficult because thermal fluctuations blur the local symmetry that both geometric heuristics an

DIME: Query-Efficient Framework for Membership Inference on Diffusion Models

arXiv:2608.22824v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Membership inference attacks expose whether individual records were used to train a model, yet existing attacks on diffusion models are largely heuristi

Do Time-Series Foundation Models Pay Off for Industrial Monitoring? A Cost-Aware Empirical Study

arXiv:2608.22968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial monitoring models must detect operationally relevant deviations while satisfying target-specific data, calibration, and resource constraints.

DRAgent: Discriminative Reasoning Agent for Referring Expression Segmentation

arXiv:2608.22885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Referring Expression Segmentation (RES) aims to generate a pixel-level mask for the object specified by a language expression. Recent methods based on m

DRBD-Mamba for Robust and Efficient Brain Tumor Segmentation with Analytical Insights

arXiv:2510.14383v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate brain tumor segmentation is significant for clinical diagnosis and treatment but remains challenging due to tumor heterogeneity. Mamba-base

Dual-Scale State-Space Modeling with Speaker-Wise Dynamic CRF for Speech Emotion Recognition in Conversation

arXiv:2608.22399v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversational speech emotion recognition must reconcile acoustic evidence across temporal scales with two interaction processes: cross-speaker contextu

E2S-Pruner: Progressive Two-Stage Evidence Fusion for Visual Token Pruning in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608.23253v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models typically encode an image into hundreds of visual tokens, incurring substantial inference latency and GPU memory overhead. Exis

🤯 Excited for all the models to come! Ollama is exploding in token usage. Better models, choice of apps/harness, and all private. We are ju…

🤯 Excited for all the models to come! Ollama is exploding in token usage. Better models, choice of apps/harness, and all private. We are just getting started. Let's continue this record-breaking strea

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Falsification-Based Verification of LLM-Generated Optimization Models: Sound Test Batteries and Their Detection Limits

arXiv:2607.16646v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models now translate natural-language descriptions of decision problems into solver-ready optimization models, and they fail si

FedCC: Towards Addressing Label Distribution Skews in Distillation-Based Federated Learning

arXiv:2608.23031v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables distributed clients to collaboratively train models without sharing raw data, making it promising for leveraging massi

For those of us running Ollama on whatever hardware we already have: r/LowEndLocalAI

One of the things I like most about Ollama is how low it makes the barrier to experimenting with local models. The downside is that once you move away from high-end hardware, finding the right informa

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