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Claude's skill creator (literally, just ask it to make a skill) is still the best way to make reusable skills if you care about the details.…

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Claude's skill creator (literally, just ask it to make a skill) is still the best way to make reusable skills if you care about the details. ChatGPT tends to want to do magic & just do it for you, whi

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ClosureBench: A Constructive Benchmark for Compositional Graph Reasoning

arXiv:2608.18242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce ClosureBench, a constructive benchmark for compositional graph-relational reasoning with programmatically verified ground truth. Unlike fix

Competence, Not Accuracy: A Diagnostic for Reference-Free Judge Gates in Skill Optimization

arXiv:2608.18719v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-space skill optimization adapts a frozen agent by evolving a natural-language skill document, accepting each candidate through a validation gate. E

ComponentBench: Diagnosing Component-Level Failures in Computer-Use Agents

arXiv:2608.18307v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current evaluation of computer-use agents is split between long-horizon workflow benchmarks and atomic GUI-grounding tests. This leaves an under-instrum

Compress and Forget: bitsandbytes Quantization Amplifies Proactive Interference in LLMs

arXiv:2608.18578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Proactive interference (PI) is a documented failure mode in large language models in which retrieval of a repeatedly overwritten value degrades as prior

Computational Measurement of Team-Process Phase Dynamics in Collaborative Virtual Reality

arXiv:2608.18660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collaborative virtual reality (VR) environments make team communication observable as it unfolds, but conventional transcript analyses often summarize e

Computational Orientalism: Measuring Structural Discourse Bias in Large Language Models Using the Middle East Cultural Sensitivity Score (MECSS)

arXiv:2608.18100v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI systems now shape how hundreds of millions of people learn about cultures other than their own. When someone asks one of these systems about the Mi

Congratulations to the whole @GoogleDeepMind Gemma team! Gemma is one of the most popular open models. It's been an amazing journey being a …

Congratulations to the whole @GoogleDeepMind Gemma team! Gemma is one of the most popular open models. It's been an amazing journey being a close partner! Can't wait to see what's to come! 🎉 Gemma off

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CTIFoundry: An Agent-Native Corpus Scaffold for Cyber Threat Intelligence

arXiv:2608.18613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is increasingly consumed not by human analysts but by LLM agents that compose multi-step investigations at query time. T

Decomposing Wrong-Consensus Agreement in LLM Self-Consistency: A GPT-4.1 Case Study

arXiv:2608.18795v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Majority voting over multiple LLM samples is widely used to raise answer accuracy, yet its gain varies erratically: on hard questions it can even back

DeepTCM1.0: A Multi-Expert AI Agent for Deciphering Mechanisms of Chinese Herbal Formulae Based on General Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.18103v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Mechanistic elucidation of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) compound formulas remains a central challenge in the modernization of TCM. C

DeepWeaver: Bridging the Evidence Synthesis Gap in Open-Ended Question Answering

arXiv:2608.18988v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieve-then-generate pipelines are commonly used to produce deep-research answers for open-ended questions, but retrieval alone is insufficient: LLM

DigitalOcean Inference Router, Now Cache-Aware: Why the Cheapest Model Isn't Always the Best Deal

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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong recently posed the question every company scaling AI is asking: how do you keep spend flat while token usage grows exponentially? This isn’t hypothetical. It’s confronting

[Draft - Open PR] AVX2: Speed up large batch size prompt processing of IQ models by bartowski1182 · Pull Request #27402 · ggml-org/llama.cpp

IQ quants are particularly slow on CPU at large batch sizes (what you'd see for imatrix and perplexity) Benchmark numbers I ran PPL against master and this PR to get speed and numbers on --chunks 50 f

Efficient Adaptation of LLMs for Hate Speech Detection in Low-Resource Languages: A Comparative Study on Roman Urdu

arXiv:2608.18142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: It is challenging to detect hate speech in Low Resource Languages (LRLs) because of the absence of annotated data, the informality of its language struc

Entity tracking emerges in sub-billion parameter language models and exceeds human performance in naturalistic narratives

arXiv:2608.18083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding language requires tracking entities across discourse - i.e., knowing where things are and how they change, even when not explicitly stated

ERASE: EaRly bAckpropagation SchEdule for Faster Training of Modern Recommendation Systems

arXiv:2608.18469v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lightweight proxy models enable rapid experimentation without repeatedly training frontier-scale systems, but their small kernels often leave modern a

Escaping Local Minima Provably in Non-convex Matrix Sensing: A Deterministic Framework via Simulated Lifting

arXiv:2602.05887v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Low-rank matrix sensing is a fundamental yet challenging nonconvex problem whose optimization landscape typically contains numerous spurious local m

Evaluating Structured Information Extraction with Open Models in a High Risk Public Sector Application

arXiv:2608.18289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The extraction of structured information from unstructured documents represents a critical component of digital transformations in all sectors. While pr

Evaluation of Monocular SLAM Systems on High-Altitude Nadir UAV Footage

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arXiv:2608.18632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerial nadir video combines weak geometric constraints with severe perceptual aliasing, making it a difficult regime for monocular SLAM. We benchmark fi

Event-Causal RAG: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework for Long Video Reasoning in Complex Scenarios

arXiv:2605.06185v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large vision-language models perform well on short- and medium-length video understanding but still struggle to maintain coherent event memory and r

Execution-grounded evaluation reveals hidden failures in language-model calculations for environmental science

arXiv:2608.18726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used for quantitative work in the environmental sciences, yet existing evaluations score only final answers, leav

Expanding Google Antigravity for enterprise customers

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Since announcing Google Antigravity in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at I/O in May, we’ve heard helpful feedback from our customers. Your developers want easy access to coding agents across surface

Eyes on the Image: Gaze Supervised Multimodal Learning for Chest X-ray Diagnosis and Report Generation

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arXiv:2508.13068v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Medical vision-language models still struggle to match radiologists' attention and to verbalize findings with explicit spatial grounding. We address

FairGlucose: A CGM Fairness Benchmark Reveals Subgroup Disparities Hidden in Population-Level Validation

arXiv:2608.18296v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As CGM-based AI tools approach clinical deployment, whether their accuracy is equitable across patient demographics remains insufficiently tested. To

Falcon Perception-HD: High Density Perception via Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2608.18881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive perception models trained to localize visual entities under the open-vocabulary setting are mostly trained using Supervised fine-tuning (

FedLNS: Leverage LayerNorm Signature Modeling to Mitigate Adversarial Manipulation in Federated LLMs

arXiv:2608.18736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated training enables language models to learn from distributed private text, but the server cannot directly verify the local supervision or optimi

Figurative and Cultural Knowledge in LLMs: Investigating Cross-Domain Transfer through Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2608.18361v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Figurative language is deeply culturally embedded; fluent use requires not just linguistic competence but cultural immersion. We ask whether LLMs can le

FiLoRA: Focus-and-Ignore LoRA for Controllable Feature Reliance

arXiv:2602.02060v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal foundation models integrate heterogeneous signals across modalities, yet it remains unclear whether their predictions can be contro

Finally a good paper testing whether agents can really post-train other agents. (bookmark it) They analyzed a large corpus of publicly relea…

Finally a good paper testing whether agents can really post-train other agents. (bookmark it) They analyzed a large corpus of publicly released post-training trajectories. Across tasks, the agent lock

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Fine-tuning Cactus Needle 2 can match DeepSeek v4 on the specific task

Hey LocalLlama, Henry from Cactus here! When we trained Needle 2, I had a strict rule to not expose the model to any data sample that remotely felt like these benchmarks. It seemed over-the-top, but b

Finetuning Strategies for Querying Sounds by Vocal Imitation

arXiv:2608.19174v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This technical report describes our winning submission to the AES AIMLA 2025 Challenge on querying sound effects by vocal imitation. We investigate tw

FinRCA-Bench: Benchmarking Evidence Retrieval and Reasoning for Financial AI Systems

arXiv:2608.18534v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used to support financial operations, but their apparent reasoning performance can depend on whether they receive

FinSkillBench: Evaluating AI Agents and Domain Skills for Investment Management

arXiv:2608.18099v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Investment management is a high-stakes domain in which agentic AI systems must do more than generate plausible text. They must retrieve point-in-time da

First-Token Broadcasters: Mechanistic Origins of Language Identity and Distributed Robustness in Transformers

arXiv:2606.22361v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Why do multilingual language models sometimes generate in the wrong language, and why is this so hard to fix? We introduce Language Identity H

FlashAttention for Scalable Vector Architectures

arXiv:2608.18656v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inference with transformer models on CPUs is increasingly important, especially for Small Language Models (SLMs), where vector architectures are emergin

FM-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Management with Competing Agents

arXiv:2608.18423v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language model agents now execute bounded tasks reliably. Whether they can sustain effective decision-making over long horizons, where actions have cumu

ForeSightGuide: An Anticipatory Framework toward Accurate and Low-Redundancy Guidance for the Visually Impaired

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arXiv:2608.18993v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electronic travel aids are pivotal for the independent mobility of the visually impaired. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) offer rich environmental u

FraudBench: Stress-Testing Policy-Grounded Banking Agents Against Adaptive Fraud

arXiv:2608.18136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversational agents now act for end users through tools while holding access to customer databases and internal policy documents that a caller can rea

FrenchNews-7: Benchmarking Cross-Publisher French News Editorial Desk Classification

arXiv:2608.18097v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present FrenchNews-7, a cross-publisher France-based French-language news editorial desk classification benchmark combining a large multi-outlet corp

G9v3-39A5B on artificialanalysis looks good. Has anyone tested it?

I see https://github.com/linuxid10t/llama.cpp/tree/feature/g9v3-support but yeah... Considering that some results place it above Qwen 3.6 27B (the top performer until a few days ago) and that it is an

Getting better at coding doesn't make a model better at everything else

A majority of users in this sub use LLMs for coding/agentic tasks and I see why a lot of value is put into them but many try to say 'Well coding has improved therefore it can just use tool calling and

GLM-5.3 (Max) by @Zai_org has shifted the Pareto frontier for Code Arena: WebDev! GLM-5.3 (Max) would sit at #2 among open models (upon open…

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GLM-5.3 (Max) by @Zai_org has shifted the Pareto frontier for Code Arena: WebDev! GLM-5.3 (Max) would sit at #2 among open models (upon open weights release, and #8 overall) with 1597 pts in the Code

GLM 5.3 SlopCodeBench Results

Howdy once again, I had a request to try out 5.3 on the benchmarks - they're unsaturated so it's a fun test right now! This one was interesting because I accidentally ran it on all 36 problems (rip 20

Google is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms

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We are thrilled to announce that Google has been recognized as a Leader for the third year in a row in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms (CNAP). We believe this

Governance Records as Supervision: Verifier-Selected Self-Training for Structured Workflow Repair

arXiv:2608.18324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine-verifiable workflows produce governance records linking a task contract, model attempt, verifier decision, accepted output, and target origin. W

Grading the Graders: Verification Autonomy Levels (L0-L5) for LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2608.19009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly paired with verifiers (step checkers, self-consistency filters, tool-based fact checkers, formal proof ass

Great UI starts with good code. Give Qwen3.8-Max a try on Kilo! 👀 @kilocode

Great UI starts with good code. Give Qwen3.8-Max a try on Kilo! 👀 @kilocode Qwen3.8-Max landed #4 on Arena's Frontend Code leaderboard — one spot above Claude Fable 5. We ran both on the same 10 UI de

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