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Design and Implementation of an Ultra-Low-Cost Wall-Climbing Robot for Infrastructure Crack Detection

arXiv:2609.26130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Crack detection is a crucial process to ensure the safety and longevity of buildings and other infrastructure. In this paper, we developed a low-cost, a

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From IceCube to IT-Sphere: A Hybrid Quantum-Classical GNN for Banking IT Root Cause Analysis

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arXiv:2609.22822v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present Hybrid Quantum Root Cause Analysis (HQ-RCA), an industrially grounded workflow for root cause analysis in banking IT operations, built on a

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From Inference Engine to Inference Control Plane: Connecting vLLM, llm-d, and the Evolution of Efficient Distributed LLM Serving

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arXiv:2609.23130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) inference is evolving from an engine-local optimization problem into a distributed control problem involving reusable state,

MATE: Multi-Agent Virtual Teleoperation Platform for Humanoid Collaboration Data Collection

arXiv:2609.26520v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots require diverse embodied experiences to acquire complex loco-manipulation and collaborative skills. However, existing humanoid data pipe

New user - seeking help

I’m looking for advice as I’ve just started out the local llm journey. I’d like to try out coding. I downloaded LM Studio and Qwen3.8-27B-Q4, but I wonder if there are more optimal options for my hard

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NPU Accelerator: Quantized Real-Time Vehicle Detection on PYNQ-Z1 Using FINN

arXiv:2609.24757v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents the design, optimization, implementation, and on-board validation of a neural processing unit (NPU) accelerator for real-time vehi

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Qwen FN vs 27B --- Think I'm saturated.

Got QFN up and running on our Strix box this past weekend and have been running on it for a few days now. Big thank you/shout out to the Halogen team, it's running fantastic on the Strix, this is clea

Secure, intelligent experiences across every endpoint

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For years, the workday looked remarkably consistent. Employees logged into devices, opened browsers and toggled across a dozen disconnected applications. Users acted as the bridge between apps, copyin

Semantic-Anchored Evidential Fusion for Domain-Robust Whole-Slide Survival Analysis

arXiv:2606.19966v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Whole-slide images (WSIs) are widely used for computational cancer prognosis. However, most existing methods primarily focus on in-domain perf

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Teaching Reinforcement Learning and Humanoid Robotics to High-School Students: An Expert-Validated Curriculum Design on a Low-Cost Open Platform

arXiv:2609.25674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lower cost open source robots and reinforcement learning (RL) simulation tools create new opportunities for precollege students to engage with contempor

Thanks @arena for the recognition! 🏆 Qwen-Image-2.1 is now the #1 open-source model in both the Image Edit and Text-to-Image Arenas. Try it…

Thanks @arena for the recognition! 🏆 Qwen-Image-2.1 is now the #1 open-source model in both the Image Edit and Text-to-Image Arenas. Try it now and show us what you create! 🎨 Qwen-Image-2.1 by @Alibab

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The Cartesian Hand: In-Hand Manipulation with All-Linear Fingers

arXiv:2609.25696v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic manipulation has increasingly pursued human-like dexterous hands with many articulated degrees of freedom, offering rich manipulation capabiliti

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Toward Self-Repairing Ubiquitous Robots Using Goal-Oriented Agentic AI in Human-Robot Interactions

arXiv:2609.26155v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ubiquitous robotic systems often lack traditional visual interfaces, making natural language interaction important for maintenance and repair. This pape

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Toward User-Mediated Self-Repair in Ubiquitous Robots Through Goal-Oriented Agentic AI

arXiv:2609.26157v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ubiquitous robotic systems often lack traditional visual interfaces, necessitating resilient natural language interaction for maintenance and repair t

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VeriLoop E2 is now open on Hugging Face — curious what Ollama/GGUF quantization would make the most sense for this 27B model

Saw a new open 27B model release that looks like it could be interesting for the Ollama crowd: VeriLoop E2. It is a Qwen3.8-27B post-train aimed at code, mathematics, scientific reasoning, and agentic

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World In Your Hands: A Large-Scale and Open-Source Ecosystem for Learning Human-Centric Manipulation in the Wild

arXiv:2512.24310v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce World In Your Hands (WIYH), a large-scale open-source ecosystem comprising over 1,000 hours of human manipulation data collected in-the

A Direct Rigid Transmission 2-DoF Wrist Extension for Tendon-Driven Hand

arXiv:2609.22681v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous manipulation in confined spaces requires local control of hand orientation. Without a wrist, a dexterous hand must obtain this local orientati

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A Reconfigurable Dual-Opposition Architecture for Single-Hand Assembly and Manipulation

arXiv:2609.22871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-hand assembly is constrained by the need to maintain grasps on two separate parts while controlling their relative motion within a single hand. To en

Ananke: Contractive Torus Attractor Networks

arXiv:2609.24737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Ananke, a representation-learning framework that scaffolds latent representations onto a structured product-torus prior, and its flagship v

Block-Sparse Attention with Semantic-Geometric Decoupled Routing

arXiv:2609.22884v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context inference has become a defining capability of large language models, but exact dense attention remains costly due to its quadratic scaling

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BrainIAC: Interactive 3D Brain Lesion Segmentation across Heterogeneous MRI Modalities with Online Adaptation

arXiv:2609.23026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Brain lesion segmentation is a fundamental task in medical image analysis, playing a critical role in diagnosis, treatment planning, and longitudinal di

Cognition to Control - Multi-Agent Learning for Human-Humanoid Collaborative Transport

arXiv:2603.03768v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Full-stack human-robot collaboration (HRC) can become brittle when replacing a planner, partner model, coordination policy, or controller changes th

Cost-Accuracy Trade-offs: Neural Operator vs Classical Numerical Solver

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arXiv:2609.24021v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural operators are data-driven models that learn mappings from inputs that parameterize partial differential equations, such as spatially varying co

Cost of a local set-up for coding?

I have to say that I am quite impressed by recent progress in LLM use for coding. I've never really bothered setting up a local model. However now that I went trough some real $$ in Claude / gpt token

Dexterous Robot Manipulation from Human Demonstrations via Contact-Anchored Retargeting and Residual Policy Learning

arXiv:2609.24093v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning dexterous manipulation from demonstrations is bottlenecked by data: the contact forces that determine whether a grasp succeeds are absent from

Experimental Evaluation of a Low-Power Ultra-Wideband Receiver for Spectrum Sensing

arXiv:2609.22134v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Walsh-sequence-based receiver architectures offer an alternative approach for the reception and reconstruction of multiple simultaneous RF signals ove

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Fork of FreeToken with DeepSeek-V4.1, vision and speculative decoding (2x3090 numbers inside)

I've been running FreeToken on my 2x3090 box for a while and ended up maintaining a fork of it. Posting it in case it's useful to anyone else here. Quick context if you haven't used it: FreeToken is a

I'm happy to announce that I've joined Hugging Face. What started as a personal project back in February is now something I get to work on f…

I'm happy to announce that I've joined Hugging Face. What started as a personal project back in February is now something I get to work on full time. Local AI has grown explosively this year. I've sai

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Introducing DigitalOcean Managed Agents: One AI-native stack to power your intelligence

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Following a successful private preview, we’re thrilled to open DigitalOcean Managed Agents to everyone. Teams can now deploy their preferred agent harness (like OpenCode, Codex CLI) or bring their own

Kinematic Interface for the Wild: Modular Bimanual Loco-Manipulation Capture from 360^{irc} Cameras Alone

arXiv:2609.22809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A wrist-mounted camera for UMI-style data collection must do two jobs: record the manipulation and localize in the scene. Most handheld devices localize

Learning tactile perception from high-bandwidth single-point sensing

arXiv:2609.24621v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tactile sensing is increasingly being incorporated into learning-based robotic manipulation, yet many existing approaches rely on spatially distribute

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ME-VLM:A Unified VLM for Embodied Cognition and Agent Coordination

arXiv:2609.24526v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical AI requires models to ground visual and linguistic understanding in real-world environments while accounting for environmental constraints and

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MECAIL: Communication-Aware Incremental Learning for Object Detection with 14.6 KB Spatiotemporal Experts

arXiv:2609.24455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intelligent transportation systems require Incremental Learning (IL) to continually improve their overall performance in dynamic environments. However,

MiMo-V2.6-Flash on vLLM: fixes for 'empty responses' with thinking + tools, and a hidden 2,048-token output cap

Some people here say MiMo-V2.6 is bad with tools and are going back to GLM-5.3-Flash. I spent today running MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL as the backend for an agent harness, on 2× DGX Spark with vLLM, using the

Observing and Controlling Features in Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2603.05487v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) have shown remarkable progress towards embodied intelligence. While their architecture partially resembles that

OpenFlyScan: A Quality-Guided Aerial Reconstruction System for Consumer Drones

arXiv:2609.24253v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) provides high-fidelity scenes for large-scale embodied simulation, but constructing large-scale urban assets remains cons

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Opt2VLA: Force-Aware Vision-Language-Action for Contact-Rich Humanoid Whole-Body Manipulation

arXiv:2609.23968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots are expected to perform diverse human-level tasks in daily environments, many of which require precise regulation of interaction forces.

Performance-Preserving Online Adaptation in Social Navigation via Diffusion Steering

arXiv:2609.24317v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In social navigation, modeling the complex interactions between humans and robots is difficult, and deep reinforcement learning has therefore been activ

PINGU: Extending Air-Bearing Spacecraft Emulators with Open-Source Actuators and Learned Control for Contact-Rich Proximity Operations

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arXiv:2609.23554v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-cost planar air-bearing testbeds have matured into a standard proxy for free-flying spacecraft GNC, but they remain largely thruster-only and are ra

PredActor: Predictive Action Diffusion for Steerable Onboard Humanoid Control

arXiv:2609.24840v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion models offer flexible motion generation, but translating this flexibility into feedback-responsive humanoid control remains challenging. Hie

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PRQuant: Permutation Residual Quantization for Low-Overhead Inference

arXiv:2609.22106v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accuracy of Low-bit quantization of linear layers is often dominated by a small number of outliers. Although existing methods, such as smoothing, rota

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Rabbit launches OS3, a cloud AI agent that connects to local apps and files on Windows, Mac, and Linux and works via web, Telegram, iMessage, or its R1 device (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)

Julian Chokkattu / Wired: Rabbit launches OS3, a cloud AI agent that connects to local apps and files on Windows, Mac, and Linux and works via web, Telegram, iMessage, or its R1 device — Two years aft

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Real-Time Plasma State Prediction via FPGA-Accelerated Quantized Recurrent Probabilistic Neural Networks

arXiv:2609.23141v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real time plasma state estimation for control of Tokamak devices are challenging due to the stringent latency requirements of the plasma control syste

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SCRAMPPI: Contingency-Constrained Planning using Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability

arXiv:2603.26995v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous robots commonly aim to achieve a nominal objective while minimizing a cost. Without contingency preparation, this can leave them vulnerab

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Semi-automated reconstruction of indoor geometry from 360-degree video for CFD-based airflow analysis in classrooms

arXiv:2609.23425v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is widely used to evaluate ventilation and contaminant transport in occupied buildings, but deployment at scale is li

SPHQuant: Efficient extreme low bit weight quantization for Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.24875v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent foundation models are moving toward native multimodal Vision-Language Models (VLMs), making VLMs a central form of next-generation foundation mod

Stability-Aligned Residual Adaptation for Rapid Recovery from Dynamics Shifts

arXiv:2603.07775v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic systems deployed beyond controlled environments encounter abrupt and unobserved dynamics shifts that induce substantial transient performanc

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Steerable and Reactive Grasping Through Modular Design with a Three-Point Interface

arXiv:2609.24896v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous grasping requires deciding where to grasp, reaching the target, and maintaining stable contact. We connect these stages through a compact thre

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