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Innocent Panels, Hateful Stories: Evaluating and Detecting Hateful Intent in Multi-Turn Visual Story Generation

arXiv:2608.05210v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Picture books and comics have long been used to disseminate hateful narratives because they are easily understood even by children, as exemplified by

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Invariant Representation Learning for Source-Free Time Series Forecasting with LLM-Centric Proxy Denoising

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arXiv:2510.05589v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Effective time series forecasting enables various real-world applications, benefiting from the proliferation of mobile devices. However, the v

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IPV-Bench: Benchmarking Image Protection Methods under Diverse Image-to-Video Generation Scenarios

arXiv:2603.26154v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Image-to-video (I2V) generation models can be misused to animate a single image into a convincing fake video, motivating perturbation-based image pr

IS GLM 5.2, Kimi 2.7 still worth it?

Since now we have kimi k3 and next week we are getting Qwen 3.8 Max and also soon V4 pro Deepseek. I am curious if the old power house like Kimi 2.6/7 code and GLM.5.2 are all that relevant. especiall

Iterate or Widen? When Test-Time Refinement Helps LiDAR Scene Completion: A Controlled Study of Evidence Geometry, Training Coverage, and Compute

arXiv:2608.06014v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Should a completion model spend extra test-time compute by iterating, or spend a similar parameter budget on a wider one-shot predictor? The answer is e

JoyAI-RA 0.5: Scaling Robot Manipulation Learning via Dual Action Alignment

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arXiv:2608.05674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot data is scarce, so generalist policies need to learn from heterogeneous sources, including human egocentric video, simulation, and real robots, wh

Just saw that the LLMs-from-scratch repository passed 100,000 stars on GitHub! This is super cool and motivating. I am really happy to see t…

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Just saw that the LLMs-from-scratch repository passed 100,000 stars on GitHub! This is super cool and motivating. I am really happy to see that this open-source repo has helped so many people. Thanks

Kastor: An efficient fine-tuning strategy for generative emulation of PDE simulations

arXiv:2608.06107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning offers a promising avenue to accelerate physical simulations by replacing computationally expensive traditional Partial Differential Eq

KILVO: Kinematic-Inertial-LiDAR-Visual Odometry with Robust Multimodal Adaptation for Humanoid Robots

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arXiv:2608.05647v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This article presents a kinematic-inertial-LiDAR-visual odometry for humanoid robots, called KILVO. Tailored to the platform features, requirements, and

KV-Skill: Forging Expertise in the Model's Native Language

arXiv:2608.05475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Task knowledge is commonly stored either as text in the prompt or as an update to model weights. Text is modular but must be interpreted on every use, w

LabyrinthBench: a local-focused, judge-free LLM benchmark that measures context recall under interference for multi-step agentic tasks.

LabyrinthBench measures the thing that actually kills long agent runs — whether a model can still use what it learned twenty turns ago — deterministically, with no LLM judge, on your own hardware, wit

LangChoiceBench: Measuring and Explaining Programming-Language Choice in LLMs

arXiv:2608.06041v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to exhibit strong Python preferences when generating project-level code, but there is currently no system

Layer-wise Positional Bias in Short-Context Language Modeling

arXiv:2601.04098v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transformer language models systematically prefer tokens at specific input positions regardless of semantic relevance---a phenomenon known as

Learning When to Trust via Selective Context Preference Optimization

arXiv:2608.06377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models increasingly condition their answers on external signals, and a single misleading one can turn a correct answer wrong. The obvious rem

LFM2.5-2.6B model+KV cache quantization report

LFM2.5-2.6B is a new tiny model by LiquidAI, with benchmarks that put it head to head with much larger models. I've run llama-perplexity on many model GGUF quants, crossed with many KV cache quants, t

llama.cpp PR reports up to 169% faster quantized-KV decode at 118K context on Intel Battlemage from one SYCL kernel switch

A fresh llama.cpp PR (#26689) changes what looks like a tiny SYCL FlashAttention dispatch decision. With a quantized KV cache ('q4_0' / 'q8_0'), decode was being sent through the VEC kernel. On the au

LLM Inference Under Bursty Workload Distribution: Modifying the WAIT Algorithm

arXiv:2608.06135v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Claude are widely used for information retrieval and problem-solving. Recent work has focused on improv

LoDA: A Level of Detection Aware Method and a Multimodal Sensing Benchmark for Object Level Change Detection

arXiv:2608.05356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-definition 3D LiDAR maps are important for autonomous driving and smart-city services, which require reliable detection of object-level changes in

Look Twice: Training-Free Evidence Highlighting for Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering

arXiv:2604.01280v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) requires Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to identify and combine fine-grained visu

LUNAR: Benchmarking Personalized Large Language Models on UNiversal User BehAvioR Logs

arXiv:2608.05246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing personalized LLM benchmarks primarily rely on textual personas or isolated behavioral signals, providing limited evaluation of cross-domain beh

M^3R-Bench: A Unified Benchmark for Evidence-Grounded Multimodal Metaphor Understanding

arXiv:2608.05817v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Metaphor enables the understanding of abstract concepts through cross-domain mappings while conveying affective attitudes. In multimodal scenarios, visu

MAC 2026: Advancing Micro-Action Analysis Towards Fine-Grained Understanding

arXiv:2607.16284v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Micro-Actions (MAs) are subtle and spontaneous human behaviors that provide important non-verbal cues in social interaction and affective communicat

MameLoshnLM: Yiddish Language Model and Evaluation Benchmark

arXiv:2608.05850v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present MameLoshnLM, the first open-source 8B-parameter language model built specifically for Yiddish. Despite Yiddish's rich textual tradition, it

MASS: Multiplayer World Models with Authoritative Shared State

arXiv:2608.06257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current video world models struggle in multiplayer environments because they entangle world state with view-dependent visual latents, leading to redunda

Matching Matters: A Fair Quality-Efficiency Benchmark for Command-Line Agents

arXiv:2606.21140v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Rapid advances in large language models have improved the task-solving capabilities of command-line-interface (CLI)-based agents, whose CLIs d

Matrix Zonotopic Attention: A Context-Adaptive Value Projection for Set Transformers

arXiv:2608.05472v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-head attention combines an input-dependent softmax routing with an input-independent linear value projection, so the per-sample operator mapping

MAVISEG: Manifold Propagation and Visual Prototypes for Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary Segmentation in Diffusion Transformers

arXiv:2608.05878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion transformers learn about objects and scenes by learning to generate them, making them strong candidates for training-free zero-s

MetaboLLM: a metabolomics-specialized large language model for biochemical knowledge integration and predictive metabolite graph construction

arXiv:2608.06253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Metabolomics knowledge is distributed across heterogeneous resources and remains difficult to translate into predictive representations. We developed Me

Mind the Gaps: Mixture-of-Minds for Human Simulation

arXiv:2608.06115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting how a population will answer a new question is a long-standing goal. Statistical methods succeed at the level of the mass but falter at the l

MoCA: Implicit Social Context Analysis

arXiv:2608.05825v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human social communication, such as affection and intent, is often conveyed in highly implicit ways, where underlying meanings are expressed through ind

Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra)

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Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra) On Wednesday I wrote about One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5, where I had Claude Fable 5 build a full working game

MS-MLB: An Open Machine Learning Benchmark for Blood-Based MS Classification

arXiv:2608.05196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is diagnosed through clinical assessment, magnetic resonance imaging, laboratory evidence when appropriate, and exclusion of bet

Multi-Representation Geometric Hierarchy Fusion: An Implicit-Submap Driven Framework for Resilient 3D Place Recognition

arXiv:2506.14243v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LiDAR-based place recognition is critical for long-term autonomous driving without GPS. Existing handcrafted feature methods face dual limitations.

My issue with Artificial Analysis's 'intelligence index'

I swear AA is not the bipartisan they so claim. An open source mode (Qwen 3.8 max) was number 1 on the agentic index, then they just so happen to launch 'v4.1.1' of their index in which they just adju

NavTrust: Benchmarking Trustworthiness for Embodied Navigation

arXiv:2603.19229v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: There are two major categories of embodied navigation: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN), where agents navigate by following natural language i

NeSy-RAG: Neuro-Symbolic RAG for Explainable Question Answering

arXiv:2608.06292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves question answering by grounding large language models (LLMs) in external knowledge such as text corpora. H

Neuro-Symbolic Closed-Loop Control of Laser Powder Bed Fusion with an In-Loop Ontology

arXiv:2608.05773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A geometry-conditioned, neuro-symbolic closed-loop architecture is proposed for laser powder bed fusion, in which a standards-aligned ontology operates

OmniMech: All-in-one Multimodal Mechanical Benchmark for 3D Reconstruction

arXiv:2608.05539v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent vision-language models (VLMs) can generate executable CAD programs from images, but existing methods mainly target coarse, general-purpose 3D obj

One Leak Away: How Pretrained Model Exposure Amplifies Jailbreak Risks in Finetuned LLMs

arXiv:2512.14751v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Finetuning pretrained large language models (LLMs) has become the standard paradigm for developing downstream applications. However, its secur

OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful

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OpenAI says it is pausing 'internal activities' around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows i

Operating Multi-Node Full Fine-Tuning on NVIDIA B300: A Field Report on Telemetry-Based Triage, Negative Results, and Operational Hardening

arXiv:2608.05944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We report operational experience full-fine-tuning a 32.76B-parameter dense model (Qwen3-32B) on 16 x NVIDIA B300 (two nodes, FSDP / ZeRO-3) -- among t

OrchestraBench: Evaluating Multi-Agent Orchestration Failure Modes, Recovery, and Decomposition Quality

arXiv:2608.05263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent orchestration frameworks are moving from demos to production, yet benchmarks typically report task accuracy without diagnosing why a pipelin

Otter: A Time-Aware, History-Conditioned Human Chess AI

arXiv:2608.05206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Otter is a 15.3M-parameter human chess AI that predicts human move selection by modeling play as a time-aware, sequential process rather than treating e

Outstanding cost-to-performance from DeepSeek GPT-5.6 Luna (Max) performance for a 1/4th of the cost on ARC-AGI

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Outstanding cost-to-performance from DeepSeek GPT-5.6 Luna (Max) performance for a 1/4th of the cost on ARC-AGI DeepSeek V4 Flash from @deepseek_ai on ARC-AGI (Verified): - ARC-AGI-2: 61.4%, 0.04/task

Parameter-Efficient Semantic Augmentation for Enhancing Open-Vocabulary Object Detection

arXiv:2604.04444v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) enables models to detect any object category, including unseen ones. Benefiting from large-scale pre-trainin

Perfect reconstruction of sparse signals using nonconvexity control and one-step RSB message passing

arXiv:2512.17426v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We consider sparse signal reconstruction via minimization of the smoothly clipped absolute deviation (SCAD) penalty, and develop one-step repl

PhaseCoder: Microphone Geometry-Agnostic Spatial Audio Understanding for Multimodal LLMs

arXiv:2601.21124v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current multimodal LLMs process audio as a mono stream, ignoring the rich spatial information essential for embodied AI. Existing spatial audi

Plausible Patients, Impossible Populations: Auditing Epidemiological Fidelity in Large Language Model Mental Health Simulations

arXiv:2604.17359v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Language models asked to simulate psychiatric patients produce cases that survive inspection one at a time and populations that match no real