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Linear Multi-Timescale Retention as a Memory-Efficient Vision-Language Bridge

arXiv:2608.01614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) face a critical computational bottleneck when processing high-resolution imagery due to the O(N^2) memory complexity of So

Model Releases

Live and ready to build. Thanks for having us! @OpenRouter. Open weights dropping soon.⚡️

DGX agent

Live and ready to build. Thanks for having us! @OpenRouter. Open weights dropping soon.⚡️ Qwen3.8 Max by @Alibaba_Qwen is live on OpenRouter. The new flagship has 2.4T parameters (95B active) and is b

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LiveMem: Maintaining Memory State Continuity in Long-Running LLM Inference

arXiv:2608.02515v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-running assistants and agents consume interaction streams that eventually outgrow the context. Existing context retention, summarization, and retri

Llama.cpp PR 8% speed boost

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Llama.cpp currently uses cpu based sampling for user with mtp enabled. The PR moves sampling to the gpu, which on a 5090 boasts an 8% increase in tok/s for qwen3.6:35b. I tested it on my P40 and obser

llm-anthropic 0.26

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Release: llm-anthropic 0.26 Includes new features enabled by LLM 0.32: New models: claude-fable-5, claude-sonnet-5, and claude-opus-5. #75, #76 Added server-side tools for WebSearch, WebFetch, CodeExe

Loggia dei Lanzi: AI Thermography Enhancement Comparisons through 3D Photogrammetry

arXiv:2608.02404v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Loggia dei Lanzi in the Piazza della Signoria is one of Florence's most prominent structures visited by millions every year. Its construction histor

Long-Horizon Embodied Decision-Making via Multimodal Memory Compression

arXiv:2608.01456v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agents are increasingly expected to act not only as task executors, but also as decision-makers on behalf of human users. This shift requires agents t

LongCat Sparse Attention: Taming the Lightning via Streaming-aware Hierarchical Cross-Layer Indexing

arXiv:2608.01662v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA) enables efficient long-context modeling through its Lightning Indexer. However, practical deployment remains constrain

LongChart VQA: A Comprehensive Benchmark for MLLMs with Complex Multi-Chart Reasoning

arXiv:2608.01328v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are rapidly evolving with expanded context windows and stronger reasoning capabilities, enabling multi-chart un

LongHorizon-Harness: Advancing Long-Horizon Agents for Real-World Tasks

arXiv:2608.01964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly undertake long-horizon tasks that require sustained reasoning, tool use, and revision across many interde

Look Up and Look Back: Hidden Attention and Latent Orientation in a Frozen Foundation Model for Panoramic SLAM

arXiv:2608.00925v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Monocular panoramic SLAM benefits from substantial visual overlap under large camera rotations, yet remains prone to errors caused by camera tilt, scale

Look Where It Matters: Adaptive Visual Refinement for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2608.02197v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual representations of VLA models remain unreliable for spatially precise robotic manipulation. We uncover that vision encoders in VLAs also exhibit

Loop-Mamba: A Loop Mamba with Degradation-Aware and Shared Memory for Old Photo Restoration

arXiv:2608.02346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Old photographs often suffer from multiple coupled degradations, including scratches, cracks, fading, blur, noise, and missing regions, severely degradi

LooperMuscle: Fast and Stable Learning of Humanoid Whole-Body Tracking via Structured Mixture-of-Experts

arXiv:2608.00820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: FastSAC-style methods significantly reduce humanoid motion training time but often suffer from notable performance degradation compared with PPO in whol

LoopsBench: From Harness Engineering to Loop Engineering in Benchmarking Coding Agent

arXiv:2608.00267v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coding agent infrastructure is shifting from harness engineering toward loop engineering as coding agents are deployed for sustained long-horizon soft

Machine-Precision Prediction of Low-Dimensional Chaotic Systems from Noise-Free Data

arXiv:2507.09652v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Low-dimensional chaotic systems such as the Lorenz-63 model are commonly used to benchmark system-agnostic methods for learning dynamics from

Mamba Policy: Towards Efficient 3D Diffusion Policy with Hybrid Selective State Models

arXiv:2409.07163v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion models have been widely employed in the field of 3D manipulation due to their efficient capability to learn distributions, allowing

Manifold-GS: Certified Hybrid Assets via Varifold-Conservative Gaussian Splatting

arXiv:2608.00214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) gives high-quality novel-view synthesis, but its adaptive radiance primitives are not directly usable as structured assets:

MAPLE: Metadata Augmented Private Language Evolution

arXiv:2603.19258v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Differentially private (DP) fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) requires massive compute and full model access, which rules out state-of-the

MDTD-ArtIR: Benchmarking Image Editing and Restoration Models for Art Image Restoration under Texture-Overlay Degradations

arXiv:2608.00736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Restoring severely degraded visual media still remains a formidable challenge, as existing methods often hallucinate unnatural textures and contents, st

MDWD: A Street-Level Dataset for Municipal Solid Waste Detection in Dense Urban Environments

arXiv:2608.00257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated visual monitoring of urban environments is a growing Computer Vision research area, but municipal solid waste detection remains under-represen

Measuring in-context algorithmic reasoning in language models against an exact Bayes-optimal standard

arXiv:2608.01575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whether large language models perform genuine algorithmic reasoning or mere pattern completion is hard to test, because most benchmarks lack a ground tr

MedPRESS: A Multi-turn Benchmark for Patient-Pressure-Induced Medical Sycophancy in LLMs

arXiv:2608.02520v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for health-related advice. Existing research measures their safety with static questions rather than

MetaRoute-Bench: Evaluating Meta-Decision Policies for Agentic Workflow Routing

arXiv:2608.00107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic systems must repeatedly decide whether to answer directly, decompose a task, invoke a tool, execute code, delegate to a specialist, verify an in

MIEScore: Human-Aligned Evaluation for Multi-Source Image Editing

arXiv:2608.02059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in unified multimodal models have significantly improved text-guided image editing abilities. In particular, models such as Nano-Banana-

Minute-Scale Training for Microrobot Navigation

arXiv:2608.00854v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Microrobots hold significant potential for various applications, where targeted navigation is a basic requirement. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has

Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B multimodal safety classifier that it says matches models up to 7x its size on text safety, available under Apache 2.0 (Mistral AI Blog)

Mistral AI Blog: Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B multimodal safety classifier that it says matches models up to 7x its size on text safety, available under Apache 2.0 — Every product that ships a m

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Mitigating Backdoors via Decoy Shortcuts and Knowledge Decoupling

arXiv:2608.00732v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Backdoor attacks pose a serious threat to deep neural networks, especially when training relies on third-party data, allowing adversaries to inject ma

MixedComplementarityProblems.jl: A Fast, Batched, Open-Source Interior Point Solver for Mixed Complementarity Problems

arXiv:2608.00959v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixed complementarity problems (MCPs) arise as the first-order optimality conditions of nonlinear programs and noncooperative games, and provide a nat

MoCRA: Mixture of Compositional Rank-1 Atoms for 4K All-in-One Video Restoration

arXiv:2608.01829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world video arrives hazy, rainy, dark, or noisy, and a deployable restorer faces three demands at once: no degradation label, native 4K output, and

Models as Tools: An Agentic Coordination Framework for Unified Multimodal Visual Tracking

arXiv:2608.00847v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most current visual trackers adopt a matching-based architecture trained exclusively on tracking datasets, whose performance gains depend heavily on the

MoRAL: Sensor-Grounded BEV Reasoning for Compact VLMs toward Edge-Oriented Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2608.02449v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying vision-language models (VLMs) for safety-critical spatial reasoning on resource-constrained autonomous driving platforms requires both compact

Morphology Aware Reversible Semantic Tokenization and Hierarchical Word Composition for Tamil Language Models

arXiv:2608.01153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Statistical subword tokenizers can process arbitrary text, but their units need not align with lexical or grammatical structure. This is especially impo

Move What Matters: Parameter-Efficient Domain Adaptation via Optimal Transport Flow for Collaborative Perception

arXiv:2602.11565v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Efficient domain adaptation remains a fundamental challenge for deploying multi-agent systems across diverse environments in Vehicle-to-Everything (

Multiple result sets: How Database Migration Service automates SQL server to PostgreSQL translation

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In the Medium blog post, 'From MARS to SETOF REFCURSOR: Migrating Multi-Result Stored Procedures to PostgreSQL,' we explored the fundamental architectural differences between SQL Server and PostgreSQL

New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging

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I released LLM 0.32 this morning, the most significant new version of LLM since the initial launch of the project. The new version includes support for visible reasoning traces, server-side provider t

New York Smells: A Large Multimodal Dataset for Olfaction

arXiv:2511.20544v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While olfaction is central to how animals perceive the world, this rich chemical sensory modality remains largely inaccessible to machines. One key

Not the Dimension, the Norm: What Matters in Gradient-Free Weight Perturbation of Language Models

arXiv:2608.01624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapting a language model to a task no longer requires training all of its weights, and a line of parameter-efficient methods has driven the trainable c

Nova: An End-to-End MLIR Compiler for Deep Learning

arXiv:2608.00029v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The performance of deep learning models at scale relies heavily on how effectively high-level mathematical operations are mapped to underlying physica

Obshazard-bench: Benchmarking Multimodal Foundation Models for Real-Time Disaster Intelligence from Raw Earth Observation Streams

arXiv:2608.00012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly used to interpret Earth observation data, yet their capability to support real-world disaster

On the Viability of Semi-Supervised Segmentation Methods for Statistical Shape Modeling

arXiv:2407.15260v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Statistical Shape Models (SSMs) excel at identifying population level anatomical variations, which is at the core of various clinical and biomedical

One QK Channel, Many Sources: Guarding Low-Precision Attention Collapse

arXiv:2608.02091v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A bfloat16 transformer can train normally for many steps and then collapse abruptly. Distinct low-precision errors can trigger the same failure, leaving

One Query, Many Scales: Sparse Mixture-of-Experts for Efficient Hierarchical Cross-View Geo-Localization

arXiv:2608.01060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) retrieves geo-tagged satellite imagery for a ground-view query. Most systems exhaustively search a flat, fixed-resolu

one thing i appreciate about silico is that it's a deeply humanist product. we designed silico to keep you in the experimental loop -- more …

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one thing i appreciate about silico is that it's a deeply humanist product. we designed silico to keep you in the experimental loop -- more observable, easier to steer, easier to understand we want to

onepot-Bench 0: towards lab-aware in silico chemistry benchmarks

arXiv:2608.02595v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models are playing an increasingly important role in laboratory science, performing tasks such as experiment planning, execution, and post-hoc

OoO-Spec: Out-of-Order Semantic Speculation for Fast Tool Calling

arXiv:2608.00814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs generate tool calls token by token, even though the function choice and argument values can often be predicted in parallel from the request and too

OpenAI and Anthropic have both just posted about an overlapping cyber incident involving GPT-5.6-Sol and Mythos 5 during an evaluation by UK…

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OpenAI and Anthropic have both just posted about an overlapping cyber incident involving GPT-5.6-Sol and Mythos 5 during an evaluation by UKAISI. I will quote: 'In the most serious case, an agent trie

OpenART: Scaling Agent Red Teaming via Open-Ended Environment Evolution

arXiv:2608.00677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents operate in persistent environments where early state changes can influence decisions far into the future. Unlike conventional language-model i