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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 176B on a 16GB card: yes it works, here's how

Got the new Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (176B total, 6B active MoE) running locally and figured I'd share for anyone else wondering if their setup can handle it. **My hardware:** 192GB DDR5 RAM, RTX 5070 Ti (1

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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Time to Update Those Benchmarks

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specs hardware: M4 Max 128GB Studio inference engine: oMLX & lllama.cpp insights it still very early, so had to disable oMLX K/V caching, qwen4_exp architectureis not yet supported + the obvious n-gra

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27 Aug 2026

Qwen3.8-Flash on @qwen_cloud: 0.15/1M input tokens, 0.47/1M output tokens, and just $0.016/1M on cache hits. ☁️ Come give it a try! 👇

Qwen3.8-Flash on @qwen_cloud: 0.15/1M input tokens, 0.47/1M output tokens, and just 0.016/1M on cache hits. ☁️ Come give it a try! 👇 Qwen3.8-Flash API is live on QwenCloud. 262K native context, extens

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RA-VLA: Retrieval-Augmented VLA for Test-Time Adaptation

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arXiv:2608.25585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models provide a versatile foundation for general robotic manipulation, yet they exhibit significant brittleness when confr

Rare Diseases, Common Dilemmas: LLMs Prioritize Equal Resource Distribution over Patient Benefit in Decision-Making

arXiv:2608.25236v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clinical decision-making often involves prioritizing ethical values, such as beneficence, non-maleficence, respecting a patient's autonomy, and justic

Reconstructing the Right Episode: Evaluating Interleaved Conversational Memory Beyond Long Context

arXiv:2608.25655v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversations with chat assistants increasingly span many topics in a single long-running thread, challenging memory systems. Existing long-context and

RefLAM: A Reference-Grounded Line Annotation Pipeline for Historical Arabic Manuscripts

arXiv:2608.25140v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing approaches to building line-level Arabic handwritten-text-recognition (HTR) training data either rely on fully manual annotation, which does

Reflection Steering: Disentangling Reflection from Reasoning in Activation Space for Token-Efficient Inference

arXiv:2608.25542v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large reasoning models often produce reasoning traces with verification, revision, and backtracking. When reflection merely re-checks established resu

Reimagining work: How Pythian’s internal AI playbook delivers customer ROI

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When Pythian rolled out Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise across our 500-person company in 27 countries, the goal was simple: use our own company as a proving ground to discover how enterprise AI actua

REQUEST: A new plan between Max & Pro (50-60$)

Hi, I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one in this scenario, I have the Max Plan but I'm downgrading it to Pro and will buy GPT Plus because it's too much usage for my use cases. So either I waste money

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Resource-Efficient Pruning for Transformer via Low-Rank Importance Estimation

arXiv:2608.24973v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid development of large-scale pre-trained language models based on Transformer architectures, their high computational and memory costs have

Robust CurveMoE: Multi-Norm Adversarial Defense for Mixture-of-Experts Models via Mode Connectivity

arXiv:2608.26043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-norm adversarial defense aims to protect neural networks against perturbations defined by different norm constraints, but existing methods typical

RSFusionDet: Underwater RGB-Sonar Multimodal Object Detection

arXiv:2608.25367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Underwater unimodal object detection faces many challenges in sensor imaging, such as optical images limited by underwater noise and visible distance, a

Running local LLM's as agents in Claude Code

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I hit my token limit three times a day on my max subscription - got sick of that and designed this MCP setup to shift some of the coding load to my local Qwen3.8-27B model. I've been iterating on it n

Sample Margin-Aware Recalibration of Temperature Scaling

arXiv:2506.23492v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in deep learning have significantly improved predictive accuracy. However, modern neural networks remain systematically overco

Scene2Demo: Self-Evolving Embodied Data Generation via Object-Action Graph

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arXiv:2602.12065v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present Scene2Demo, a self-evolving framework for offline embodied data generation. Given a single real-world RGB image and a user query, Scene2D

SciMIF: Understanding Multimodal Instruction Following in Scientific Domains

arXiv:2608.25973v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding instruction-following capabilities in scientific domains is essential for effectively leveraging Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs

Semi-Supervised Adaptation of Vision-Language Models for Image Classification

arXiv:2608.25485v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models like CLIP have shown sig- nificant potential in handling natural images, yet their perfor- mance is often limited by the distinct

SeVeR: Selective Visual Exposure and Retrieval for 3D Medical Image Question Answering

arXiv:2608.25630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Volumetric medical VQA requires reasoning over long and redundant 3D visual token sequences, especially in multi-sequence MRI where complementary modali

SHIFT-LLM: Distribution Shift Correction in Depth-Pruned LLMs

arXiv:2608.25068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Depth pruning removes entire Transformer blocks to reduce the inference cost of large language models, but disrupts the hidden-state distributions expec

SimLens for Early Exit in Large Language Models: Eliciting Accurate Latent Predictions with One More Token

arXiv:2507.17618v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Intermediate-layer predictions in large language models (LLMs) are informative but hard to decode accurately, especially at early layers. Existing l

Simultaneous inference of environmental and interaction forces in collective dynamics

arXiv:2608.25181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collective dynamics arise in a wide range of physical, biological, and engineering applications. Examples include cell migration, swarm robotics, social

Skill Issue: Are Skills Language-Invariant in LLMs?

arXiv:2608.25832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models access knowledge inconsistently across languages, but to what extent do they differ in their skill sets when interacting with diff

SkyDrive: Learning to Drive in a New City from Aerial Traffic Monitoring

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arXiv:2608.25142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving has made remarkable progress through imitation learning with massive human demonstration data. However, a trained planner often degra

SNAP-KG: Streaming Node Assignment via Projection for Knowledge Graph Entity Integration

arXiv:2608.25149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge graph (KG) construction pipelines must continuously integrate newly arriving entities into a growing graph. Unlike inserting triples between e

So they do offer 'free' cloud models?

Just noticed this today. I've been trying to be careful to not max out my pro budget, but alas I am just a fool. Anyway, just noticed these free models. Some of these are pretty high in terms of compu

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Sonar launches Hunter Agent to find flaws code scanners can’t see

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Artificial intelligence code verification and governance company SonarSource Sàrl today released SonarQube Hunter Agent, an AI agent built to find security flaws that pattern-based scanning cannot see

StablePDENet: Enhancing Neural Operator Stability through Physics-Informed Residual-Sensitivity Regularization

arXiv:2601.06472v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning solution operators for differential equations with neural networks has shown great potential in scientific computing, but ensuring their st

StreamPI: Streaming Multimodal Temporal Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2608.26067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated effectiveness in robot manipulation, yet state-of-the-art models such as pi0.5 operate under a sin

Thank you @NVIDIAAI for the day-0 support! 🙌 Developers can finetune the model for domain-specific use cases using NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel: h…

Thank you @NVIDIAAI for the day-0 support! 🙌 Developers can finetune the model for domain-specific use cases using NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel: https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Automodel/tree/main/docs/model-

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The Changing Geometry of Grammar: Dimensionality and Neighborhood Reorganization across Transformer Layers

arXiv:2608.25166v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer representations describe trajectories through high-dimensional vector spaces, which are shaped dynamically as tokens incorporate relational

The Imperfective Paradox Is Not Necessarily in Large Language Models: A Benchmark Failure Before a Model Failure

arXiv:2608.25005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The imperfective paradox provides a useful test of compositional semantic analysis. Recent work constructs an NLI benchmark and reports that models freq

The Von-Neumann State-Space Transformer for neural decoding

arXiv:2608.25088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cortical computation is strikingly low-dimensional: a handful of latent variables, carried in a neural population's activity, steer the higher-dimension

Theoretically Principled Federated Learning for Balancing Privacy and Utility

arXiv:2305.15148v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose a general learning framework for the protection mechanisms that protects privacy via distorting model parameters, which facilitates the t

this is a friendly reminder you can legally seed ai models via torrenting.

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A lot of people are skeptical Nvidia will keep huggingface intact now that they will buy huggingface. There's a lot of doom and gloom about not having any alternatives, removing nsfw models, saying th

Towards Fine-Grained Text-to-3D Quality Assessment: A Benchmark and A Two-Stage Rank-Learning Metric

arXiv:2509.23841v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in Text-to-3D (T23D) generative models have enabled the synthesis of diverse, high-fidelity 3D assets from textual prompts. However,

Towards Reliable, Generalizable, and Specific In-Context Knowledge Editing via Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.25100v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful but limited by static parametric knowledge that becomes outdated once pretraining ends. Knowledge editing ad

Trace Integrity for LLM Data Agents: A Vision for Auditable Structured Reasoning in Real-World Systems

arXiv:2608.26036v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Answer accuracy is an insufficient reliability signal for LLM data agents. In structured-data tasks, a benchmark-correct answer can be produced by an

Trust the Mass: Forced Weights in KV-Cache Eviction

arXiv:2608.25230v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Every deployed sparse-attention or KV-cache-eviction rule keeps a subset of the keys, discards the rest, and renormalizes the attention weights over t

TurnBench: A Multi-Domain Benchmark for Turn-Taking Dynamics in Spoken Dialogue

arXiv:2608.25218v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speakers in natural conversation take turns speaking and listening, deciding in real time when to take, hold, or yield the floor. However, turn-taking

Unfolding Scientific Papers into Multi-Turn Generation Trajectories for Continued Pre-Training

arXiv:2608.25826v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A recent line of synthetic-data work reconstructs the thinking behind existing text rather than rewriting the text itself, but it operates on short web

Unmatched Does Not Mean False: Incomplete Reference Sets Can Reverse Calibration Rankings in Open-Ended Theory-of-Mind Tracking

arXiv:2608.25654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-ended Theory-of-Mind (ToM) trackers emit valid beliefs absent from finite references. A finite-reference-plus-matcher pipeline marks unmatched outp

— Upgrades coming to @FlowbyGoogle — Extend scenes in the @GeminiApp (globally rolling out for all Google AI Plus, Pro and Ultra subscribers…

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— Upgrades coming to @FlowbyGoogle — Extend scenes in the @GeminiApp (globally rolling out for all Google AI Plus, Pro and Ultra subscribers) — Build directly in @GoogleAIStudio — Deploy on the Gemini

V-Rubrics: Visual Faithfulness via Rubric-Based Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.25580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models can produce fluent answers that are insufficiently grounded in the visual evidence: a single unsupported object, chart value, or

VGA-BenchV2: An Expanded Unified Benchmark and Multi-Model Framework for Evaluating Video Aesthetics and Generation Quality

arXiv:2608.25452v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce VGA-BenchV2, an extended human-aligned benchmark and optimization framework for jointly evaluating and improving video generation quality a

Video-IFBench: Evaluating Instruction Following of Multimodal LLMs in Video Understanding Scenarios

arXiv:2608.25529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown strong performance in video understanding. However, their ability to follow instructions in this dom

VisDocAgentBench: Benchmarking Agents for Visually Rich Document Retrieval

arXiv:2608.17889v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visually rich documents encode relevance through language, layout, structured visual elements, and corpus context, yet retrieval is typically evaluate

We have a limited window to strengthen cyber defenses, and together with organizations including @AnthropicAI, @awscloud, @Google, @Microsof…

We have a limited window to strengthen cyber defenses, and together with organizations including @AnthropicAI, @awscloud, @Google, @Microsoft, and @Oracle, we're calling for a global effort to give de

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