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K-Bench: measuring model performance on real scientific agent requests

arXiv:2608.21601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Benchmarks for scientific artificial intelligence are mostly written to be scored: multiple-choice questions, curated agent tasks with reference solutio

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KAN-Robust-Bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating the Robustness of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

DGX agent

arXiv:2608.21488v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While machine learning models have demonstrated strong performance in many domains, these models have shown profound vulnerabilities when they are exp

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KMGen: A Skill-based Approach for Synthetic Individual Patient Data Generation

arXiv:2608.22618v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Individual patient data (IPD) from clinical trials is the substrate for survival modeling, meta-analysis, and safety research, yet IPD is rarely release

Krea2 Turbo Distill 4 step LoRA - new checkpoint (chk26K) released (cuts 4-step error vs. the 8-step Turbo teacher by 46%, improves texture and detail vs previous checkpoints)

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Krea 2 Turbo — 4-Step Distillation LoRA (work in progress) A LoRA for Krea 2 Turbo that reduces the minimum usable step count from 8 to 4. This is an update release, following up from my previous post

KVBoost: Chunk-Level Key-Value Cache Reuse with Deviation-Guided Recomputation for Efficient Large Language Model Inference

arXiv:2608.21362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) incur high prefill latency because key-value (KV) tensors must be recomputed for each request. Existing p

LaGEA: Language Guided Embodied Agents for Robotic Manipulation

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arXiv:2509.23155v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic manipulation benefits from foundation models that describe goals, but today's agents still lack a principled way to learn from their own mis

Large-Small Model Collaboration for Zero-Shot Surgical Phase Recognition

arXiv:2608.22879v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Task-specific lightweight models for surgical phase recognition excel at capturing temporal dynamics but generalize poorly under domain shift. Conversel

Learning to Look Again: Loss-Gap Supervision for Free-form Crop Routing in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608.21762v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) fail many detail-centric questions for a concrete reason: the answer is visible in the image, yet lost after the image i

Length-Adaptive Decoding for Masked Diffusion Machine Translation

arXiv:2608.22274v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine translation tests masked diffusion language models (dLLMs) because every source token must be rendered faithfully, while fixed canvas decoding

Length-Controlled Margin-Based Preference Optimization without Reference Model

arXiv:2502.14643v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) is a widely adopted offline algorithm for preference-based reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), d

Let Credit Follow Computation: Architecture-Aware Credit Transport for Large Language Model Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.21501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Credit assignment in large-language-model reinforcement learning (LLM RL) can be separated into three objects: evidence about success, a transport opera

LetzCross: A Cross-Lingual Page-Level Benchmark for Multimodal Retrieval over Luxembourgish Documents

arXiv:2608.21714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent page-image retrievers such as ColPali have improved retrieval over visually rich documents, yet little is known about how they behave in cross-li

Lexical Coupling in GUI Element Grounding: Sentence Embeddings Track Labels across Mobile and Web

arXiv:2608.21794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GUI grounding evaluations that expose UI elements as text metadata often treat high instruction-element embedding similarity as evidence of semantic g

LiST: Local-Simplex Test-Time LoRA Fusion

arXiv:2608.22370v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Task-specific LoRA adapters offer a modular way to specialize large language and vision-language models. However, existing adapter composition methods a

LLM-based Agents for Forecasting and Prediction: Methods, Training, Evaluation, and Applications

arXiv:2608.23058v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) now support forecasting systems that combine language-based reasoning with temporal data, evidence retrieval, external tool

LLM for pentesting?

Hi, I’m having fun using “huihui_ai/Qwen3.6-abliterated:35b-Claude-4.7” for pen testing. It’s uncensored so it does whatever I want. I’m on M4 Pro 14 core 64GB. Just wondering if there are some models

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LLM-Specific Utility for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2510.11358v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is typically optimized for topical relevance, yet its success ultimately depends on whether retrieved pas

LLM4LLM: Bridging Kernel Benchmarks and Real Deployment via Closed-Loop Agentic Optimization

arXiv:2608.21836v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models have become increasingly capable agents for low-level code and kernel optimization, but isolated kernel benchmarks provide only a

LLMs are Few-Shot Decision-Makers: Generalized Context-Aware Microgrid Frequency Control through Prompt Decision Transformer

arXiv:2608.21858v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid evolution of energy structures has positioned microgrids as pivotal components of next-generation power systems, offering enhanced resilienc

LLMs for Survey Text Analysis - A Performance Comparison Between Humans and GPT-5 on Inductive Content Analysis

arXiv:2608.22417v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to support text analysis in qualitative research, yet evidence on their performance in inductive cont

Local LLMs for AI Agents

Hey everyone, I'm trying to set up a local LLM on my machine. My goal is to use it with Qwen Code or OpenCode to help me out with small to medium sized tasks, but nothing too big. I tested many differ

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Localization-Infused Vision-Language Semantic Fusion for Text-Guided Medical Image Segmentation

arXiv:2607.16327v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Medical image segmentation is essential for modern computer-aided medicine. Recently, text-guided segmentation has shown promise by incorporating cl

LongWoF-Bench: Evaluating EvoMap Genes for Verifiable Long-Workflow Tasks

arXiv:2608.23200v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly expected to execute complex workflows whose success depends on maintaining interdependent constraints and produci

Loopy: Seamless Video Loop Generation via Anchored Looping Shift of Positional Embedding

arXiv:2608.23090v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Looping videos are essential for practical applications such as web graphics, game development, and social media. However, existing approaches typically

Loss-Parameterized Fisher Width Along Learning Trajectories

arXiv:2608.21561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fisher width measures the Gaussian width of a probe set after deformation by the local Fisher geometry. We study its evolution along learning trajectori

M^3ISR: A Multi-Modal Multi-View Benchmark for 3D/4D Gaussian Splatting and Feedforward Compression

arXiv:2608.22465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-fidelity free-viewpoint video (FVV) and interactive rendering increasingly rely on explicit Gaussian representations, yet practical deployment rema

M5 Ultra 96GB vs M5 Max 128GB — is 2x bandwidth worth losing 32GB of RAM, with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next dropping tomorrow?

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I’ve been going back and forth on this for a week and I can’t settle it, so I’m hoping someone here has hands-on numbers. The two configs (German prices, dealer quote, incl. VAT): Config Price Mac Stu

Mac Studio M5 Max Cost Analysis

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At $10k, you could get - 6.2B tokens with Qwen 3.8 Max (Qwen Pro plan) - 5.7B tokens with DeepSeek V4 Pro OpenRouter - 100B tokens with DeepSeek V4 Flash OpenRouter As a firm believer of local inferen

MADE: Benchmark Environments for Closed-Loop Materials Discovery

arXiv:2601.20996v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing benchmarks for computational materials discovery primarily evaluate static predictive tasks or isolated computational sub-tasks. While valu

Mamba-based Selective State Space Modeling Improves the Accuracy-Complexity Tradeoff of SmolVLA Vision-Language-Action Experts

arXiv:2608.21407v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models face a crucial tradeoff between their task success rate and the policy-call frequency. Executing a single action p

MASH-Bench: Diagnosing Cross-Source Failure in Mass-Shooting Risk Classification

arXiv:2608.22460v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Public mass-shooting databases differ substantially in coverage, feature availability, and reporting practices, creating challenges for machine-learning

MDCPP: Multi-Robot Dynamic Coverage Path Planning for Workload Adaptation

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arXiv:2509.23705v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-robot coverage path planning commonly balances geometric area or path length under a constantspeed assumption. This assumption is inadequate w

Measuring Activation Control in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.21664v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe deployment of increasingly capable models will likely come to rely on latent-space monitoring as a complement to behavioral evaluations, especially

MediSkill-Evo: Process-Constrained Self-Evolution for Evidence-Grounded Clinical Interaction

arXiv:2608.23397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interactive clinical agents must gather decisive evidence and convert it into grounded actions under partial observability. A correct final diagnosis al

MedReaMM: Evaluating Large Multimodal Models on Expert-Level Clinical Diagnostic Synthesis

arXiv:2608.22323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The application of Large Language Models (LLMs) to diagnostic decision-making has garnered growing interest. However, existing benchmarks largely focus

MemGuard: Persisting Verifier Signals for LLM-Agent Memory Governance

arXiv:2608.21867v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents are moving from single-prompt use to long task streams in which reusable memory becomes a core capability for terminal, software-engineering,

MEMORY Wins All: Indirect Bias Injection Attacks via Social Media Feeds

arXiv:2608.22061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personal AI agents routinely consume external content while performing tasks such as web browsing, email processing, and SNS feed summarization, and the

Meta-Ctrl: Guaranteed Plan Generation by Decoupling Syntactic and Semantic Constraints

arXiv:2608.22149v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs generate fluent plans for robots but routinely violate the syntactic and se8mantic constraints they must satisfy to execute, and existing remedie

Minimum Bisection Problem: Machine Learning-Based Penalty Parameter Tuning for Optimization on Quantum Annealers

arXiv:2509.19005v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Minimum Bisection Problem is a fundamental, computationally hard graph partitioning problem with applications in parallel computing, netwo

Mitigating Reasoning-Induced Misalignment via Safety-Direction Penalty

arXiv:2608.23497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning-Induced Misalignment, where fine-tuning on reasoning data containing no harmful content, including mathematics, code, and problem-solving with

MixLoRA-DSI: Dynamically Expandable Mixture-of-LoRA Experts for Rehearsal-Free Generative Retrieval over Dynamic Corpora

arXiv:2507.09924v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continually updating model-based indexes in generative retrieval with new documents remains challenging, as full retraining is computationally

MobilePA-Bench: Benchmarking Mobile Planner Agents on Complex Real-World Tasks

arXiv:2608.23035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As on-device LLM agents evolve into personal copilots, the mobile operating system has become a key testbed for this paradigm, making rigorous capabilit

Model-Free Adaptive Parameter Tuning for Efficient Multi-Robot Warehouse Operations

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arXiv:2608.21533v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic Fulfillment Centers (FCs) store inventory on shelves (pods) arranged in dense blocks. Retrieving a target pod that is buried deep in a block req

Model Merging is Secretly Certifiable: Non-Vacuous Generalisation Bounds for Low-Shot Learning

arXiv:2505.15798v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Certifying the IID generalisation ability of deep networks is the first of many requirements for trusting AI in high-stakes applications from medici

Models in the Same Family are NOT Trust-Equivalent

arXiv:2508.13533v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Within a model family, a smaller variant is often deployed as a drop-in replacement for a larger one when their performance is similar. However, per

Motion-Based Tokenization for Cross-Dataset Egocentric Gaze Modeling

arXiv:2608.22926v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gaze is increasingly used as an input signal for vision and multimodal models, yet no consensus exists on how to represent it across datasets. Raw trace

Mover360: Controllable Object Manipulation in 360{eg} Panoramic Images

arXiv:2608.23238v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Mover360, a controllable object manipulation framework for 360{eg} images. Unlike perspective images, 360{eg} images in equirectangular proje

MRMAD: A Multi-Round Multi-Audio Benchmark for Evaluating Acoustic Degradation Perception in Large Audio-Language Models

arXiv:2608.22236v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large audio-language models (LALMs) have shown promising progress in understanding speech, music, and general sound events, yet their ability to reaso