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Grasp Execution Without a Planner: Configuration-Space Grasp Distance Fields with Certified Safety & Guaranteed Quality

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arXiv:2608.00600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard multifingered grasp execution architectures plan a collision-free trajectory to a selected grasp pose and track it with a feedback law. Executi

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Grounded Semantic Re-Binding for Robust Instruction Generalization in Vision-Language-Action Models

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arXiv:2608.02497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models excel in robotic manipulation but suffer catastrophic performance drops when canonical instructions are simply parap

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Grounding Agentic VLMs with Dedicated Segmentation for Fine-Grained Vehicle Damage Assessment

arXiv:2608.02470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed as reasoning agents in real-world visual assessment pipelines, yet their spatial grounding remai

Grounding and Explaining Visual Evidence for AI-Generated Image Detection in Human-Centric Scenes

arXiv:2608.01988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rapid advances in image generation models call for interpretable AI-generated image detection methods that not only determine authenticity but also prov

GuideGround: VLM-guided Semantic Understanding and Viewpoint-aware Reasoning for 3D Visual Grounding

arXiv:2608.00518v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D visual grounding aims to localize the target object in a 3D scene from a natural language query, requiring both fine-grained semantic understanding a

Hard Constraints, Smooth Gradients: Learning Feasible Inventory Policies via Differentiable Projection

arXiv:2608.02343v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many operational problems are constrained sequential decision processes with large, combinatorial action spaces and interdependent feasibility constra

HarMoE: Multi-Source Chest Radiograph Pretraining with Dataset-Disentangled Experts

arXiv:2608.02252v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent vision-language models for chest X-ray understanding are largely built on image-report alignment and therefore rely heavily on MIMIC-CXR as the d

HarnessCompass: Guiding Automatic Harness Evolution toward Generalizable and Effective Agent Harnesses

arXiv:2608.01918v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Harness design plays a critical role in agent performance by shaping how large language models (LLMs) perceive, reason over, and act within executable

Harnessing Adversarial Distillation to Customise Debiased, Disease-Specific Pathology Foundation Models for Breast Cancer

arXiv:2608.01356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pathology foundation models (PFMs) provide strong tissue representations and have become central to digital pathology. However, deployment in disease-sp

HindSearch: Trajectory-Level Hindsight Critique for Search-Augmented Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.01597v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search-augmented LM agents are typically trained with a binary exact-match reward, which throws away most of what a failed trajectory tells us about why

HopRefusalBench: Diagnosing Refusal Failures in Search-Augmented Agents for Multi-Hop Reasoning

arXiv:2608.01358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search-augmented large language model agents are increasingly capable of solving knowledge-intensive tasks, but their behavior when a multi-hop question

HorusEye: Language as Dynamic Attention for Emergency Visual Analysis

arXiv:2606.14741v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce HorusEye, Language as Dynamic Attention for Emergency Visual Analysis. Our investigation followed five stages. The first one is benchma

How Benchmarks and Evaluation Protocols Shape Conclusions in Provenance-Based Intrusion Detection

arXiv:2608.01454v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Provenance-based intrusion detection systems (PIDS) frequently report strong performance, but the conclusions drawn from these results can be highly s

How Much Does a Reasoning Summary Reveal? An Observability Ladder for Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.02089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models often show users a final response and a short reasoning summary while the full reasoning trace stays hidden. We introduce an obser

HP-JEPA: Hierarchical Partitioning for Multi-Resolution Graph Joint-Embedding Predictive Learning

arXiv:2608.00491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph self-supervised learning aims to learn transferable representations from large-scale unlabeled graph data. Joint-embedding predictive architecture

Humans Are More Diverse: Frontier LLMs Show Extreme Policies in Idealised AI Development Races

arXiv:2608.01193v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An AI development race creates a multi-agent safety dilemma. Each company can develop slowly and safely, or move faster while taking a risk that may r

HyperGS: Fast and Generalizable Gaussian Video Representation

arXiv:2607.11500v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Gaussian Splatting has emerged as an effective representation for video, but existing methods rely on per-video optimization. This leads to slow enc

HyperODE: Zero-Shot Surrogate for Simulation and Inference of Dynamical Systems

arXiv:2608.00852v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding and controlling complex dynamical systems often requires executing thousands of numerical simulations across vast parametric landscapes, w

I benchmarked the 4 models I had pulled. The 1.1GB one beat the 2GB one at math and lost badly at extraction.

152 generations, deterministic grading (exact number/string/JSON/regex), no LLM judge on my 16GB laptop. task type | deepseek-r1:1.5b (1.1GB) | llama3.2:3b (2.0GB) | gemma:2b | codellama 7b arithmetic

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I built a DwarfStar-inspired Vulkan/Metal inference engine for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on 16 GB machines

Disclosure: I’m the author and maintainer of QuarkStar. I built QuarkStar, a small native inference engine inspired by Antirez’s DwarfStar. QuarkStar currently supports: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, using the sam

If you missed today's K3 on Fireworks webinar, we've got you covered. We'll be partnering with @arizeai to chat more models on Thursday, Aug…

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If you missed today's K3 on Fireworks webinar, we've got you covered. We'll be partnering with @arizeai to chat more models on Thursday, August 6th. Sign up below! Next session, August 6 we'll be co l

Illuminating Visual Identity in Universal Multimodal Embeddings

arXiv:2608.01794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Universal Multimodal Embeddings (UMEs) aim to unify various modalities and tasks into a shared representation space. In recent years, this field has w

Image-Space Rule Discovery

arXiv:2608.00490v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can image-editing models discover visual rules in image space and complete problem-solving end-to-end? We tackle this question in the spirit of a human

inclusionAI/Ling-3.0-flash · Hugging Face

The Ling-3.0-flash MoE is now open-weighted at 124B A5B params. I know the original announcements were before the Kimi K3, DeepSeek-V4-Flash and Qwen3.8 hype, but this model might still have a good ni

inclusionAI/Ling-3.0-flash weights are up on Hugging Face — MIT, BF16 plus an official FP8

Went public in the last few minutes, both repos ungated. Ling-3.0-flash, BF16, 24 shards, ~255GB Ling-3.0-flash-fp8, official FP8, ~128GB 127.5B total, they quote 5.1B active. What jumped out at me in

InteracVid: Building a Real Interactive Audio-Visual Response Dataset from Live-Chat Videos

arXiv:2608.01157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models have made text the default medium for human--AI interaction, buttext alone cannot express the full range of responses required by

Interpretable machine learning for predicting splitting strength of asphalt concrete: insights from SHAP analysis

arXiv:2608.00956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an interpretable machine-learning framework for predicting the splitting strength (ST) of asphalt concrete and supporting data-drive

Interpretable Machine Learning for Traffic Congestion Prediction: Unveiling the Impact of Different COVID-19 Periods

arXiv:2608.01180v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic congestion prediction is essential for congestion mitigation, but the COVID-19 pandemic and related control measures altered travel behavior and

Introducing Database Operations Agents: The future of autonomous database management

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As part of the Agentic Data Cloud launch at Google Cloud Next ‘26, we announced two AI-powered database agents to simplify database management. These include the Database Onboarding Agent for Day 0 op

🛡️Introducing Shieldstral, Mistral’s 3B open-weights model for content safety that can be deployed on-device 🧵 http://mistral.ai/news/shie…

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Mistral AI introduced Shieldstral, a 3‑billion‑parameter, open‑weights model designed for content‑safety tasks and capable of on‑device deployment. The announcement was shared via a tweet from @Mistra

Is LM Studio abandoning their core product?

Some of you may be aware that a few weeks ago, LM Studio announced a new agent, Bionic. This is pretty much an agentic harness for both local models and paid cloud models. But most aren't aware that L

ISRS-DETR: Detection-Guided Click Propagation for Remote Sensing Interactive Segmentation

arXiv:2608.02468v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interactive segmentation reduces the prohibitive cost of pixel-level annotation by allowing users to delineate objects with a few clicks. However, apply

It's the Decoding Format, Not the Perturbation: Auditing Consistency-Based Selection for Vision-Language Test-Time Scaling

arXiv:2608.01207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time scaling lifts large language model reasoning by sampling many candidate solutions and selecting among them, yet the same recipe transfers poor

JADE-GS: Joint Allocation of Deblurring Evidence for Event-Assisted 3D Gaussian Splatting

arXiv:2607.14990v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Neural radiance fields and 3D Gaussian Splatting assume that each training image is a sharp and geometrically consistent observation of the scene. M

June launches with $20M to speed up enterprise software projects

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June.ai Technologies Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence to modernize enterprise software environments, launched today with 20 million in funding. The pre-seed round was led by Time Vent

Kilobyte Models: Neural Networks as a Seed and a Quantized Latent

arXiv:2608.00860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The cost of storing and transmitting a trained neural network scales with its parameter count, a bottleneck for over-the-air updates, on-device librarie

Kimi K3 full model running on 16x GB10 cluster at 20+tps

Kimi K3 full model running on 16x GB10 cluster at 20+tps average (llama-benchy coherent corpus) 38tps peak, 750tps prefill. This is the first run of full k3 with dspark on my cluster. I will be doing

LakeMLB: Data Lake Machine Learning Benchmark

arXiv:2602.10441v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Data lakes have become a fundamental platform for large-scale machine learning by enabling flexible management of heterogeneous data. Despite their

LangFIR: Discovering Sparse Language-Specific Features from Monolingual Data for Language Steering

arXiv:2604.03532v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) show strong multilingual capabilities, yet reliably controlling the language of their outputs remains difficult. Repres

Large Causal Models for Temporal Causal Discovery

arXiv:2602.18662v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Causal discovery for both cross-sectional and temporal data has traditionally followed a dataset-specific paradigm, where a new model is fitted for

Latency-Tolerant Cloud-Edge Collaborative Vision-Language-Action Models via Emergent Representational Specialization

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arXiv:2608.00569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying billion-parameter Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies on mobile robots creates a systems conflict: semantic reasoning benefits from cloud GP

Latent-Centroid Steering: Single-Pass Classifier-Free Guidance for Command-Aligned Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2608.00237v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving, enabling agents to map multimodal inputs

Learning Compositional Meta-Routing for Agentic Workflows: An Executable Benchmark

arXiv:2608.00106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic systems must decide not only what answer to produce, but which reasoning and execution operations should precede it. A controller may answer dir

Learning What to Remember: Test-Time Training via Context Distillation

arXiv:2608.01672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective long-context modeling is not merely about retaining more of the past, but about preserving the information that may prove relevant later. Test

Lethe: How Hard Is It to Forget? A Benchmark for Federated Unlearning in Medical Imaging

arXiv:2608.01094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning enables medical-imaging models to be trained across hospitals, and privacy law, most explicitly the GDPR ``right to be forgotten'', t

LexisNexis opens customer innovation lab driven by AI to change the future of legal work

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LexisNexis Legal & Professional, a division of RELX plc, today announced the opening of its Customer Innovation Lab in New York City, which will deliver a new model for how legal artificial intelligen

LFM2.5-2.6B is out

Released today, with emphasis on agentic capabilities. I really like their models for simple, high volume tasks ('summarize these gazillion documents') and their 8b-a1b was my go-to for certain tasks

Light Forcing: Accelerating Autoregressive Video Diffusion via Sparse Attention

arXiv:2602.04789v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Advanced autoregressive (AR) video generation models have improved visual fidelity and interactivity, but the quadratic complexity of attention rema