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Testing Qwen 3.8 27B running locally on a single 5090 via Ollama

I wanted to test what Qwen 3.8 27B running locally on a single 5090 could do in Row-Bot. I gave it just one prompt: 'I want you to create an animation showing what the current local model can do. Test

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16 Sept 2026

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Today everyone is talking about Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI). In 1987, when compute was 100,000,000 x more expensive, I published the 1s…

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Today everyone is talking about Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI). In 1987, when compute was 100,000,000 x more expensive, I published the 1st concrete RSI algorithms. Now compute is cheap, and RSI is

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16 Sept 2026

Upgraded my local setup with 2 rtx pros and it's amazing.

Follow up post of https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/nGMyKswrch. Thanks everyone who replied. I didn't change the specs. Might be loosing some of the memory bandwidth but will scale in future if I

16 Sept 2026

Write up on building and improving reliability of agentic harnesses + a big dataset from my work.

I've been working on something for this community (and other self-hosted communities) for almost 5 months now. Personally, I would grade it as probably the closest open source equivalent of Manus and

16 Sept 2026

Best practices for handling cloud reliability incidents

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Cloud outages can range from global service disruptions to issues isolated to a specific region, zone, or even just your project, workload or application. If you suspect a Google Cloud Platform outage

BIG-CBF: Behavior-Imagination-Guided Control Barrier Function with Shared Uncertainty for Mobile Robot Navigation

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arXiv:2609.14343v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Control barrier functions (CBFs) provide a mathematically grounded framework for enforcing local collision-avoidance constraints in autonomous mobile ro

Carbon-Aware Routing for Function Calling in Edge-Cloud LLM Systems

arXiv:2609.13559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) with function-calling capabilities are becoming critical for modern agentic AI systems. Nevertheless, current deployments t

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DeepSeek V4.1F Q4 on M3 Ultra with native DSpark MTP (40tps / 800tps)

I liked DeepSeek V4.1 Flash as an agent model but at 16 t/s on ds4 it was painful to sit through a real turn. It seemed some redditors and m3 ultra owners appreciated my glm 53 flash optimizations, so

Dense vs. MoE Models: Active Parameters, Throughput, and When to Choose Each

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Dense models activate all of their parameters for each token, whereas a Mixture‑of‑Experts (MoE) model loads all experts into memory but activates only a subset—e.g., Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 30 B t

Diagnosing Temporal Misalignment in Multichannel Time-Series Classification with Minimum Description Length

arXiv:2609.14595v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multichannel time-series classification commonly assumes synchronized sensor streams, although latency, clock drift, and preprocessing can introduce r

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

Efficient On-Device Agents via Adaptive Context Management

arXiv:2511.03728v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: On-device AI agents offer the potential for personalized, low-latency assistance, but their deployment is fundamentally constrained by limited memor

Force-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Hybrid Sensorless Force Estimation for Wheeled-Legged Loco-Manipulation

arXiv:2609.13779v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Force-controlled loco-manipulation requires a whole-body policy to coordinate locomotion and arm motion while regulating end-effector interaction forces

JaxAHT: A JAX-Based Library for Ad Hoc Teamwork

arXiv:2609.13716v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ad Hoc Teamwork (AHT) addresses the challenge of designing agents capable of coordinating with novel partners without prior coordination. However, progr

JEPLO: Joint-Embedding Predictive Learning for LiDAR-Based Legged Locomotion

arXiv:2609.15770v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) remains less explored than RGB-D sensing for perceptive legged locomotion, and existing LiDAR-based approaches often

Large-FOV RGBD Imaging via Structured PSF Coding in a Bio-inspired Monocentric System

arXiv:2510.25314v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-fidelity large-field-of-view (LFOV) 3D sensing, essential for autonomous platforms, is hindered by the coupling of anisotropic off-axis aberrat

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Large-scale bioacoustic detection using semantic segmentation: a deep learning framework applied to fin whale calls in ocean-bottom seismometer recordings

arXiv:2609.13281v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ocean-bottom seismometers (OBS), originally deployed for geophysical research, continuously record low-frequency sound for months to years across broa

Applications

Learning In-Hand Object Reaching to General 6D Poses

arXiv:2609.13761v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-hand manipulation allows multi-fingered dexterous hands to reconfigure grasped objects without releasing and regrasping them. This improves manipulat

applicationsarxiv-cs-ro

Learning to Exploit Passive Dynamics for Energy-Efficient Target Hopping of a Spring-Legged Quadcopter

arXiv:2609.15447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Combining aerial thrust with spring-loaded hopping makes monopedal quadcopters promising for locomotion over complex terrain, but heuristic proportional

Parameter-Efficient Quantum NLP for Paraphrase Detection: Performance, Robustness, and Entanglement

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arXiv:2609.14529v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rigorous empirical validation of quantum machine learning on natural language tasks remains scarce. We evaluate a 10-qubit hybrid quantum-classical va

Pedestrian Crossing Intent Classification From Event-Based Vision Using Convolutional Spiking Neural Networks With Temporal Augmentation

arXiv:2609.13328v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Anticipating whether a pedestrian will cross the road is safety-critical for autonomous vehicles, requiring real-time inference under challenging cond

Real-World Reinforcement Learning with MPC Scaffolding for Dexterous Manipulation

arXiv:2609.14878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world reinforcement learning (RL) offers a promising route to dexterous manipulation policies that can adapt directly from physical interaction, bu

Self-Orchestrating Language Models: Leveraging Semantic Dependence for Efficient Inference

arXiv:2609.14850v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities, but their deployment presents significant efficiency challenges. Autoregressive decodi

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The Language-Energy Divide: Measuring Energy Costs of Multilingual LLM Inference

arXiv:2606.21869v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in multilingual settings, yet the energy costs of serving these models across different

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Visible Touch: Rendering Contact for Visuomotor Policies

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arXiv:2609.14156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Integrating contact information into visuomotor policies remains an open problem. Touch is essential to robust manipulation, yet most modern policies, i

Local Ai

A Brain Too Big to Carry — On-Device vs Datacenter Inference

Robotics forces AI models to run on‑device because real‑time control loops cannot tolerate the latency or capital cost of sending data to a datacenter, so manufacturers must embed compute within each

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Accelerating Dropless MoE Training in JAX with NVIDIA Transformer Engine

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**AI Knowledge‑Base Summary** NVIDIA’s Transformer Engine augments JAX for dropless Mixture‑of‑Experts (MoE) training, delivering a 10.4× throughput boost on NVIDIA GB200 GPUs and raising DeepSeek‑V3

AquaCubeAI-Powered Monitoring Turbidity on-board {Phi}sat-2

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arXiv:2609.12744v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Timely monitoring of coastal water quality is critical for environmental protection, yet conventional satellite workflows rely on downlink and ground pr

CRFCAN: A Complex-Valued Cross-Domain Residual Network for Joint Channel and Phase Noise Estimation in Sub-THz OFDM Systems

arXiv:2609.12244v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In sub-terahertz (sub-THz) communications, the coupling of ultra-wide bandwidth and severe phase noise (PN) impairments renders conventional joint chann

Tutorials

Introducing PC-ALM, a local-learning alternative to backpropagation. Our method trains 1000-layer neural nets using only local dynamics, and…

Introducing PC-ALM, a local-learning alternative to backpropagation. Our method trains 1000-layer neural nets using only local dynamics, and without backprop. Blog: https://pub.sakana.ai/pc-alm/ Stand

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Industry

OpenAI reportedly buys AI camera startup Glass Imaging for more than $300M

OpenAI Group PBC has apparently bought smartphone camera software startup Glass Imaging Inc. for more than 300 million in a deal first reported today by The Wall Street Journal. Neither company has co

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Running Qwen 3.8 next on 16vram+32ram - A useful/fun post for the gpu poors

Hello Reddit. Posting this for fun. I thought it was a lonely and silly journey to set up Qwen 3.8 Next on a system that doesn't really run it properly—it was a challenge that might help the community

TileNet: Tile-Based CNN-SVM Architecture for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems Inspection of Flat Roofs

arXiv:2609.13013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flat roofs are among the most influential components of the building envelope, governing both structural performance and thermal efficiency, and thereby

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v0.4.1

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Overview llama.cpp 0.4.1 adds Maple 20B-A1B, Tencent Hy 4, and Spark2.5 support, improves JSON schema handling, chat parsing, logging, and server child-process management, and updates ggml to v0.24.0.

VertexCBF: Improving Neural Control Barrier Functions via Vertex-Restricted Control Search

arXiv:2609.12831v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As the number of autonomous robots continues to grow, safety becomes increasingly important. Control barrier functions (CBFs) provide a theoretically

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

Write on Paper and Get the Online Digital Trace:newline A New Era for Handwriting

arXiv:2609.12702v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Capturing the digital trace of handwriting usually requires a specific stylus and a compatible substrate, be it a capacitive touchscreen, an ElectroMagn

Is there still strong interest in a dense 9b model?

I have a full model, it's ready to train. It's ~9b parameters. 9.4b to be more exact. That includes a 1/2/3 Engram table, Moonshot's AttnRes modeling, and RoPE / NoPE layering at 3:1 as more or less v

13 Sept 2026

Looped transformers are a popular architecture topic right now. This new technical report extends the loop across tokens. Recurrent Looped T…

Looped transformers are a popular architecture topic right now. This new technical report extends the loop across tokens. Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT) makes the decoder recurrent over every toke

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13 Sept 2026

For those of you forced to only use open models from Western labs in production, what are you deploying?

First off, I know that GLM, Qwen, and DeepSeek absolutely dominate in terms of SOTA Open Source models, and that’s what I use in my personal projects and for school, however, I’m also responsible for

I am impressed and I owe you one, Qwen 3.8 flash next (vision)!

I have enabled the vision for the CIRU Strix UL4 quant of Qwen 3.8 flash next (others quants likely perform very similar) and tried it on a few things, then wanted to show my partner how great it work

Lightweight LiDAR-Based Cone Detection Framework Using Random Forest for Formula Student Driverless

arXiv:2609.11527v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable, low-latency perception is crucial for Formula Student Driverless vehicles, yet many existing pipelines rely on deep learning and multi-sensor

Natural Language Access to Domain-Specific Metadata: A Reusable Framework for LLM Query Generation

arXiv:2607.18029v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Researchers need to answer ad-hoc questions about the contents of domain-specific archives but often lack the expertise to write structured qu

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Qwen3.8 Flash Next llama.cpp config tuning

Hola all. Do you guys mind sharing your LLama.cpp config and system setup details for Qwen3.8 Flash Next? Model's quite big and tryining many combinations of llama.cpp options takes lots of time, so l

A Training-Free, Alignment-Free Approach to Corporate Intelligence: Application to SEC Filings

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arXiv:2609.11620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-dimensional dense text embeddings and large language models face real obstacles in financial-disclosure analysis: context-window limits, hallucinat

Best Local Models for Claude Code with 8gb vram

Tested on Laptop with RTX 5060 8gb vram and 16gb ram Claude code - autocompact = false Ollama - Flash attention = 1, kv cache = q8_0 Gemma4 12B 64K - https://ollama.com/SetneufPT/Gemma4-12B-IT-QAT_Q4_

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BiHDTrans: binary hyperdimensional transformer for efficient multivariate time series classification

arXiv:2509.24425v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The proliferation of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices has led to an unprecedented volume of multivariate time series (MTS) data, requiring efficient

CARLAverse: A Highly Modular, Distributed, and Multimodal Framework for Human-in-the-Loop Simulation

arXiv:2609.11478v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of autonomous driving demands comprehensive testing in mixed-traffic scenarios involving vulnerable road users (VRUs), where purely arti

agentsarxiv-cs-ro

CodeFinetuner: Fine-tune a local code autocomplete model on your own codebase

Hi everyone, I was interested in learning LoRA fine-tuning, and ended up building CodeFinetuner over the past few months, a full pipeline that fine-tunes a small code autocomplete model (e.g. Qwen2.5-

Compute-Bounded Security Assurance - Coverage, Verification, and Response under Resource Constraints

arXiv:2609.09229v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Additional inference compute can increase the number of correctly resolved security-assurance tasks, but repeated success, unique coverage, accepted e