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LWiAI Podcast #253 - Opus 5, Gemini 3.6, Kimi K3, Hugging Face Hack

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LWiAI Podcast #253 (July 29 2026) covers a roundup of recent AI developments: Anthropic introduced Claude Opus 5 with Fable‑like capabilities; Google released Gemini 3.6/3.5 “Flash” variants and a cyb

Model Releases

M3-DuplexBench: A Multi-Turn, Multilingual, Multidomain Benchmark for Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue Models

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arXiv:2607.29125v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full-duplex spoken dialogue systems (FDSDSs) can listen while speaking, enabling natural behaviors such as smooth turn-taking, backchannel handling, and

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M3MAD-Bench: Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Multi-Agent Debate Across Domains and Modalities

arXiv:2601.02854v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As an agent-level reasoning and coordination paradigm, Multi-Agent Debate (MAD) orchestrates multiple agents through structured debate to improve an

Matterhorn: Masked Time-to-First-Spike Encoding by Reassigning the Silent State for Sparse and Energy-Efficient Spiking Transformers

arXiv:2601.22876v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) promise energy-efficient inference for large language models (LLMs), yet most reported savings rely on compute-operat

MDIR: A Task-Manifold Impedance Retargeting Method for Contact-Rich Teleoperation

arXiv:2607.29271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fixed Cartesian impedance makes contact-rich teleoperation demonstrations practical, but gains that secure progress and contact support also determine i

📢Meet Qwen3.8-Max — our most capable model to date. Next week, the open weights of Qwen3.8-Max will be released, and Qwen3.8-27B is also go…

📢Meet Qwen3.8-Max — our most capable model to date. Next week, the open weights of Qwen3.8-Max will be released, and Qwen3.8-27B is also going open-weights to meet you all!🎉 Qwen3.8-Max, a new bar for

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MirrorCraft: Paired Evaluation under Hidden Rule Changes in Minecraft

arXiv:2607.29218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the prosperity of the large language models (LLMs), it has become an interesting topic: how do LLM-based agents work in Minecraft? Unfortunately, m

MMShopBench: A Real-Log Benchmark for Multimodal, Multi-Turn Shopping Agents

arXiv:2607.29002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online shoppers increasingly turn to AI shopping assistants, using images and multi-turn dialogue to express and refine product needs that are difficult

Model or Harness? An Interaction-Centric Taxonomy for Localizing Agent Failures

arXiv:2607.28802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing evaluations often reduce agent failures to system-level outcomes, obscuring where the fault originated and which intervention would improve the

ModelEquivBench: Certifying Multi-Relational Evaluation of LLM-Generated Optimization Models

arXiv:2607.29431v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models increasingly generate optimization models from natural language, but existing evaluation often reduces a generated model and its g

MoPET: Parameter-Efficient Mixture-of-Experts for Unified Medical Image Classification

arXiv:2607.29462v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adapting deep learning models to profound clinical heterogeneity typically relies on parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) to avoid the severe overfi

MoRoute: Dynamic Routing for In-Context Multimodal Video Generation

arXiv:2607.29545v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal video generation aims to generate and edit videos conditioned on arbitrary combinations of text, images, and videos within a single model, al

Multi-Agent Planning with Spatio-Temporal and Topological Constraints using STL-GO

arXiv:2607.28679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent planning problems arise in a variety of engineering applications, such as multi-robot wildfire fighting and unmanned aerial inspection in fa

Nate is right (full context can lead to a degradation of chats in several different ways) but you can't ask the AI about stuff like this as …

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Nate is right (full context can lead to a degradation of chats in several different ways) but you can't ask the AI about stuff like this as they have bad self-knowledge A good approach is to compact t

Nice benchmark to measure agentic e-commerce capabilities. They ran an agent for one simulated year of e-commerce operations and it ends up …

Nice benchmark to measure agentic e-commerce capabilities. They ran an agent for one simulated year of e-commerce operations and it ends up with 27.3% of the money a human makes. MerchantBench is a 36

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'Not in My Backyard': LLMs Uncover Online and Offline Social Biases Against Homelessness

arXiv:2508.13187v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Homelessness is a persistent social challenge, impacting millions worldwide. Over 876,000 people experiencing homelessness (PEH) were recorded

NousResearch keeps doing things on hermes

Has anyone followed nousresearch work on Hermes? I mean we are Q3 2026. We have some crazy models trickling down from HGX territory to multi gpu workstation. And we have nousresearch deploying the 0.2

On the Generalization of Steering Vectors for Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness

arXiv:2607.29062v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model capabilities have improved in large part due to scaling chain of thought. This has been a promising development for AI safety--where models verbal

Open-Source LLM-Driven Formal Verification: A Multi-Agent Pipeline for RTL Repair

arXiv:2607.28877v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Verification consumes the majority of modern chip design effort, yet the formal verification tools that provide mathematical guarantees of correctness

OpenClaw and Ollama in Agentic AI: Toward Fully Autonomous and Scalable AI Agent Systems

arXiv:2607.28629v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid transition from reactive large language models (LLMs) to persistent, action-capable systems has exposed critical gaps in the architectural und

OSAGEN: Object-Aware Mask Priors and Multistage Decoupled Diffusion for Industrial Anomaly Generation

arXiv:2607.29533v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial anomaly detection and localization are limited by scarce real anomalies and pixel-level annotations, a bottleneck that synthetic image-mask p

OSEF: One-Step Evidence Fusion for Cross-Video Scene Procedure Planning

arXiv:2607.29401v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video Scene Procedure Planning (VSPP) supplies the target start-goal observations in advance, leaving open how a planner should act when the evidence mu

PARALLEL: A Prefrontal-Aligned Reinforcement inspired Approach for Language-Model Learning under Explicit Limits

arXiv:2607.28982v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent language models achieve strong performance across a variety of tasks, but conventional adaptation applies updates uniformly across training sam

Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Spiking Point Cloud Models

arXiv:2607.29048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer energy-efficient solutions for point cloud analysis on resource-constrained devices through event-driven computatio

Parameter-Free Heavy-Tailed Bandits

arXiv:2607.29460v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Heavy-tailed distributions arise naturally in sequential decision-making problems such as financial investment, online advertising, and network manageme

Paris: A Decentralized Trained Open-Weight Diffusion Model

arXiv:2510.03434v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Paris, the first publicly released diffusion model pre-trained entirely through decentralized computation. Paris demonstrates that

Patch-Based 3D Variational Autoencoder for Super-Resolution of Turbulent Channel Flow

arXiv:2507.22082v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Direct numerical simulation (DNS) accurately resolves all spatio-temporal scales of wall-bounded turbulence but becomes prohibitively expensiv

PluRel-to-RDB-PFN: Schema-Guided Synthetic Relational Pretraining

arXiv:2607.29129v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Relational Foundation Models (RFMs) require large-scale synthetic relational databases for pretraining, but existing approaches tightly couple data gene

POSSE-kNN: Pathwise Out-of-Bag Selected Subspace Ensembles for Binary Classification

arXiv:2211.11278v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Nearest neighbour classification is attractive for tabular data, but its performance can deteriorate when a fixed query centred neighbourhood

Predicting Steel Fatigue Life from Micrographs Using Physics-Informed Deep Learning

arXiv:2607.28695v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Here is the plain text version optimized for arXiv's submission form. Custom macros (like CV and SI) have been converted to standard text/math so they

Question about Quant versus Size.

Sorry if this is asked a lot, but I was wondering if there is any clear winner on the Quantization versus Model Size debate? I can run Qwen3.6 27b at Q8, Laguna at Q6, and the new Deepseek Flash at Q3

Qwen 3.8 Max and MiniMax-H3 within hours of each other

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Simon Willison noted that Qwen 3.8 Max and MiniMax‑H3 were released within hours of each other. The MiniMax team announced that MiniMax‑H3 is now publicly available on Hugging Face (https://huggingfac

Qwen3.8-Max matches Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4 Flash

Qwen3.8-Max (2.4T) is another massive contribution to the open weight community. On benchmarks, it performs closely to Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4 flash across all categories and is better at coding and s

RareSense: Rarity-Aware Similarity Search for Anomaly Retrieval in Transactional Data

arXiv:2607.28879v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Similarity search over sparse set-valued data is often dominated by frequent background attributes because classical measures such as Jaccard, cosine,

RayViT: Ray-Conditioned Visual Representations for Viewpoint-Robust Imitation Learning

arXiv:2607.29622v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual imitation learning enables robots to acquire visuomotor skills directly from images, yet RGB observations lack explicit geometric cues, making

Real-world mainframe modernization with AI: A safe, scalable path from mainframe to cloud

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For too long, enterprises with legacy mainframe estates have been faced with a high-stakes dilemma: continue maintaining their mainframes, essentially kicking the modernization can down the road (they

Receding-Horizon Next-Best-View Planner for Autonomous Leaf Surface Reconstruction

arXiv:2607.28995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate plant leaf modeling is fundamental to downstream tasks such as plant growth monitoring, and phenotyping for yield estimation. Autonomous roboti

Reflected UAS: Corrected Deterministic Stability and Direct CTMC Drift Calculation

arXiv:2607.28688v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We analyze Reflected UAS routing for heterogeneous multi-server queues at fixed parameters under subcritical load. The deterministic surrogate is a re

[RELEASE] SupraBrain-50M-v0.1

Hey there! So today we're releasing SupraBrain-50M, a hybrid language model that combines Gated DeltaNet linear recurrence with Sliding-Window Attention and Surprise-Gated update mechanisms to deliver

ReLoop-UME: Recurrent Depth with Learnable Retrieval Registers for Universal Multimodal Embedding

arXiv:2607.28751v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Universal multimodal embedding (UME) maps heterogeneous multimodal inputs into a shared embedding space. Existing UME models either form embeddings thro

Retrieval-Driven Training-Free AI-Generated Video Attribution

arXiv:2607.28955v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI-generated videos are becoming increasingly realistic and difficult to distinguish from authentic ones, which facilitates malicious misuse and poses

Revisiting Multi-Permutation Equivariance through the Lens of Irreducible Representations

arXiv:2410.06665v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper explores the characterization of equivariant linear layers for representations of permutations and related groups. Unlike tradition

Rolling With Resistance: Preference-Optimized LLM Counselors Can Trade Goal Persistence for Relational Attunement in Motivational Interviewing

arXiv:2607.28814v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In Motivational Interviewing (MI), a client's sustain talk (arguments for the status quo) calls for the counselor to roll with resistance, a move that

RynnBrain 1.1: Towards More Capable and Generalizable Embodied Foundation Model

arXiv:2607.17977v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present RynnBrain 1.1, a family of embodied foundation models spanning 2B, 9B, and 122B-A10B scales. Trained with a unified spatio-temporal and p

Safe Vision Language Action Models via Barrier Enhanced Flow Matching

arXiv:2607.29569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This article presents a modular inference framework that integrates Flow Matching generative models with formal Control Barrier Function (CBF) safety gu

Safety, or Just Capability? A Validity Audit of Agent-Safety Benchmarks

arXiv:2607.28685v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent-safety benchmarks measure different behaviors, and their scores get quoted interchangeably as an agent's safety. We treat four of them (R-Judge, I

SAM+D: Parameter-Efficient Dimensional Lifting of SAM-Family Models via Depth-Routed LoRA and Depth Shifting

arXiv:2607.29033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing methods for adapting 2D foundation models such as SAM to 3D volumes either process slices independently---ignoring inter-slice context---or req

Scaling Properties of Text Conditioning in Visual Generation

arXiv:2607.29679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study empirical scaling properties for text conditioning in visual generation. Such properties have rarely been measured because diffusion loss does