model releases

Opt.Gear Technical Report

arXiv:2608.01034v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Opt.Gear, a foundation model designed for efficient on-device deployment, real-tim inference, and strong task capability. It includes a den

ORCA: ORgan-Centroid Aggregation for Training-Free 3D CT Visual Token Compression

arXiv:2608.00345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A 3D CT scan entering a vision-language model produces a long sequence of visual tokens, often thousands to tens of thousands per volume, and this seque

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PackingGPT: 3D Packing Agent for Real Furniture in Last-Mile Delivery

arXiv:2608.01427v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D bin packing rectangular items into standardised containers to maximise space utilisation under geometric shipping automation. Loading a furniture pur

Parameter-Dynamic Adaptive Fusion and Calibration Network for RGBT Tracking

arXiv:2608.01807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing RGBT trackers typically employ fusion functions with fixed parameters across different targets and scenarios. Although dynamic-architecture met

Parameter-Efficient CLIP Adaptation for 3D Understanding via Unified Tokenization

arXiv:2505.18819v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language models, such as CLIP, encode rich semantic knowledge through large-scale image-text pretraining. Reusing these models for 3D underst

Passing Coarse Marginal Checks Can Be Cheap: Persona Mixtures and Imprecise Treatment-Response Estimates in an LLM Persona Panel

arXiv:2608.00979v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used as synthetic research participants and are often validated by whether their marginal responses resemble hu

Pc build limitations

Here's the build I managed to scrape together System Specifications: CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix Z270-E Gaming RAM: 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4-3000 Storage: 1TB Crucial P5 Pl

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PhysAgent: A Multi-Agent Framework for Reliable Remote Heart Rate Estimation

arXiv:2608.00066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables non-contact heart-rate estimation from facial videos, but its weak physiological signal is easily corrupted b

Picking the right agent harness is now a crucial skill for any AI engineer. Imagine using the same model, same task, and same prompt. Now mo…

Picking the right agent harness is now a crucial skill for any AI engineer. Imagine using the same model, same task, and same prompt. Now move it between two agent harnesses and the cost per success c

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PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx

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PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx MiniMax released MiniMax-H3 two days ago - they describe it as a 'a general-purpose, omni-modal generative system', which in practice means it accepts text, images, audio an

PNEC-Mamba: Prototype-Guided Positive-Negative Evidence Calibration for Hyperspectral Image Classification

arXiv:2608.01910v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In real-world hyperspectral scenes, pixel representations are often ambiguous due to factors such as spectral similarity, mixed pixels, and local contex

PredAct-Bench: Benchmarking Tool-Augmented Dialogue under Controlled Tool Noise

arXiv:2608.02372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in task-oriented dialogue systems that support multi-step decision-making in high-stakes domains

Private Generative Bootstrap via Blocking

arXiv:2608.02480v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With AI systems gaining more access to individuals' information, it is important to protect privacy when reporting statistical answers. Equally import

Probably the best way to run DS4 flash on a mac right now (192gb+ vram)

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Found this quant, so thought I would share, since its the best I've found so far for running on my mac (m3 ultra). It's got dspark/mtp support so runs faster than anything else I've tried. The tok/s o

Prompt-Induced Waste in Large Reasoning Models: A Preregistered Two-Harness Benchmark of Coding Agents

arXiv:2608.01347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large reasoning models used as coding agents incur costs from deliberation, tool calls, and repeated agent turns, yet the causal effect of prompt wordin

Protocol generalisation for brain tissue microstructure estimation via hypernetwork-controlled geometric deep learning

arXiv:2608.02053v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Brain tissue microstructure estimation with machine learning provides higher computational efficiency than conventional fitting. However, machine lear

Quality-Diversity Red-Teaming: Automated Generation of High-Quality and Diverse Attackers for Large Language Models

arXiv:2506.07121v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Ensuring the safety and robustness of large language models (LLMs) is a fundamental challenge and a critical prerequisite for the responsible deploy

QuerySplat: Decoupling Geometry and Appearance Representations in 3DGS Prediction

arXiv:2608.01186v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables efficient 3D reconstruction, achieving high-fidelity rendering remains challenging. Existing pix

Qwen 3.8-Max, the latest model from @Alibaba_Qwen, is now available in Hermes Agent at 20% off. > hermes update

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Qwen 3.8-Max, the latest model from @Alibaba_Qwen, is now available in Hermes Agent at 20% off. > hermes update 📢Meet Qwen3.8-Max — our most capable model to date. Next week, the open weights of Qwen3

Qwen-CUA: Native Computer Use for (almost) Everything

arXiv:2608.02352v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Native computer use offers a general interface for agents to operate almost any software available to people, but requires long-horizon state tracking

Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro has made a massive leap from the previous generation, now ranking #5 globally. Appreciate the recognition! We will keep b…

Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro has made a massive leap from the previous generation, now ranking #5 globally. Appreciate the recognition! We will keep building.🚀 More exciting news from @Alibaba_Qwen: Qwen-Image-

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Qwen3.8-Max, better and cheaper. Try it out. 👀

Qwen3.8-Max, better and cheaper. Try it out. 👀 We ran a test between the new Qwen3.8-Max, Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. 3 models. same prompt. one-shot with the /design command. Reviewed gameplay features,

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Qwen3.8-Max is available in Hermes Agent now! Let's build! 🚀🚀

Qwen 3.8‑Max, Alibaba.Qwen’s latest large‑language model, has been added to Hermes Agent and can currently be accessed at a 20 % discount. The update aims to streamline integration of the model for de

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RADAR: Rubric-Aware Dependency and Redundancy Analysis for LLM-as-Judge Evaluation

arXiv:2608.01810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rubric-based LLM-as-judge pipelines often assume that evaluation criteria provide independent signals. In practice, however, criteria can be behaviorall

RamanPFN: learning from Raman spectral structure with a tabular foundation model

arXiv:2608.02157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Raman spectroscopy enables non-destructive, label-free molecular characterization across materials science, biomedicine and process monitoring. Predicti

Ranking Image Fusion the Way Humans Do: A Learned Pairwise Preference Metric for Infrared-Visible Fusion Assessment

arXiv:2608.01301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Infrared-visible image fusion (IVIF) has no ideal fused reference, so fusion algorithms are routinely ranked by scalar objective metrics that formalize

RAP: KV-Cache Compression via RoPE-Aligned Pruning

arXiv:2602.02599v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-context inference in large language models (LLMs) is bottlenecked by the memory and compute of the key-value (KV) cache. Structured pruning is

Real-Time Detection and Repair of LLM Agent Failures

arXiv:2608.02464v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents fail mid-episode -- they loop, cascade tool errors, drift off goal, fabricate results, or silently absorb corrupted content -- and the stan

Real-Time Visual Obstruction Detection in Surgical Augmented Reality

arXiv:2608.00232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surgical augmented reality (AR) can provide contextual guidance by overlaying virtual annotations, tool cues, and procedural information onto the surgic

ReasonCast: Towards Explainable Time Series Forecasting with Reasoning

arXiv:2608.01875v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most time series (TS) models are specialized for a single task, either understanding (i.e., returning text answers about a TS) or generation (i.e., re

Recursive Vision Language Models for General Symbolic Reasoning

arXiv:2608.01534v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hard symbolic-reasoning tasks such as Sudoku, maze pathfinding, and ARC remain challenging for LLMs due to their fixed-depth autoregressive reasoning, w

Refine Drugs, Don't Complete Them: Uniform-Source Discrete Flows for Fragment-Based Drug Discovery

arXiv:2509.26405v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce InVirtuoGen, a discrete flow generative model for fragmented SMILES for de novo and fragment-constrained generation, and target-propert

REFLEX: Rethinking MoE Inference as Refinement-Aware Compute Allocation in Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2608.01784v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixture-of-experts (MoE) models increase parameter capacity by activating only a small subset of experts for each token. This conditional-computation

Relative Parameter Importance in Task-Agnostic Replay-Free Continual Learning

arXiv:2608.00630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving continual learning (CL) with deep neural networks requires balancing stability and plasticity while enabling knowledge transfer. In this work,

Relax Within, Balance Across: Geometry-Guided Load Balancing for Vision-Language Mixture-of-Experts

arXiv:2608.00574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language MoE batches contain different numbers of image and text tokens. Image resolution, image count, tiling, and prompt length all change this

Releasing Pokee-Isaac 28B — the world’s first real 10M-token context frontier-class agentic model, deployable on a single GPU (starting from…

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Releasing Pokee-Isaac 28B — the world’s first real 10M-token context frontier-class agentic model, deployable on a single GPU (starting from RTX 4090 or equivalent). New proprietary non-decoder-only a

Remember OpenAI tripled its score on ARC-AGI with a harness fix? We fixed harness for Kimi K3 on CyberGym E2E: 2x better at vulnerability de…

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Remember OpenAI tripled its score on ARC-AGI with a harness fix? We fixed harness for Kimi K3 on CyberGym E2E: 2x better at vulnerability detection, 3x at patching K3 is SOTA cyber-defense model you c

Residual-Based Adaptive Kalman Filtering for Legged Robot State Estimation

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arXiv:2608.02316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: State estimation is a key component in model-based control of walking robots and, more broadly, applicable wherever hidden variables must be inferred. T

Response Magnitude as a Dominant Signal for Held-Out CRISPRi Perturbation Effect Prediction

arXiv:2608.00152v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting the magnitude of a CRISPRi perturbation's transcriptomic effect on held-out target genes is an important open problem in single-cell biology.

RestoreKV: Recovering Full-Cache Behavior Under Aggressive Query-Agnostic KV Cache Eviction

arXiv:2608.01247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Query-agnostic KV cache eviction compresses a context once and reuses the resulting cache for arbitrary future queries, but performance can collapse und

Rethinking Federated Graph Foundation Models: A Graph-Language Alignment-based Approach

arXiv:2601.21369v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent studies of federated graph foundational models (FedGFMs) break the idealized and untenable assumption of having centralized data storage to t

Reusing Rollouts under Policy Lag: Prefix-Normalized Policy Optimization for LLM Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.01418v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive rollout generation is a major computational cost in reinforcement learning for large language models. Reusing each rollout batch for ad

Riemannian Attention Mechanisms for Transformers: A Theoretical Framework and Architecture Design

arXiv:2608.01283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: All Transformer-based large language models compute attention via the Euclidean inner product, an architectural choice that Dong et al. (2021) proved ca

Right Answer, Wrong Method: Shortcut Hacking Misleads the Evaluation of LLM Reasoning on Frontier Science Benchmarks

arXiv:2608.02442v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific reasoning benchmarks typically evaluate large language models (LLMs) using final-answer accuracy. However, a correct answer does not necess

RING: Retrieval-Internalized Generation for Continual Large-Scale Knowledge Injection

arXiv:2608.01630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves factuality but adds latency and engineering overhead at serving time. We propose RING (Retrieval-Internali

RIT*: Riemannian Informed Trees for Cost-Adaptive Optimal Motion Planning

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arXiv:2608.00822v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Riemannian Informed Trees (RIT*), a planning framework that replaces Euclidean primitives in batch-informed search with their Riemannian coun

Robust Watermarks Meet Backdoored Models: Evading Diffusion Semantic Watermarks via Stealthy Backdoor

arXiv:2608.00543v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although semantic watermarking is considered a promising safeguard for images generated by Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs), the reliance of the waterma

Role Steering of Language Models for Social Simulations

arXiv:2608.00023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social simulations built from language-model agents need role-conditioned behavior that can be checked before agents are placed into a simulated populat