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Residual Reward Models: Leveraging Prior Knowledge for Efficient Preference-based Reinforcement Learning in Robotics

arXiv:2507.00611v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Preference-based Reinforcement Learning (PbRL) provides a promising alternative to heuristic reward design in complex robotic environments. Ho

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Selection Bias Correction in Retail Intelligence

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arXiv:2608.26156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retail intelligence often relies on monitoring popular, high-velocity products, potentially biasing economic indicators by ignoring the 'long tail' of n

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Local Ai

Self-learning and self improving local models can bite. Hard.

TL;DR: Self-learning needs governance, observability, and auditability. Sounds great, it's not great unless you have serious and appropriate protections. Let me lead this off with what we are most pro

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SkillChain: Closing the Loop on Skill Evolution for Image-Based E-Commerce AI Assistants

arXiv:2606.12984v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Image-based AI assistants are now deployed at production scale on e-commerce platforms, where a single uploaded image can trigger fundamentally diff

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Stack Trace-Based Crash Deduplication with Transformer Adaptation

arXiv:2508.19449v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automated crash reporting systems generate large volumes of duplicate reports, overwhelming issue-tracking systems and increasing developer wo

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SymbolLKG: Towards Verifiable Logical Reasoning via Logical Knowledge Graph and Symbolic Solvers

arXiv:2608.26836v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in natural language understanding, yet they struggle with strict multi-step reason

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Thinking on Shots: Consistent Multi-Shot Video Editing with Agentic Reasoning

arXiv:2608.26809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While generative AI has significantly advanced video editing, existing methods primarily focus on single-shot or short video clips. Editing long videos

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Thomson: Continual Learning of Frontier Models for SovereignAI

arXiv:2608.27147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of frontier models is commonly perceived to be the exclusive remit of a small number of heavily funded players, creating an information,

Today I hit 181 toks/s (aggregate) on Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 2x DGX Sparks

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Hey all, and hello fellow DGX Spark-ers! Today I managed some pretty crazy numbers: 181 tok/s aggregate on 2× DGX Spark on Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at 512Kcontext (2.8M kvc) I hit 181 tok/s aggregate today

TrapVLA: Trapping Vision-Language-Action Models in Configured Failure Modes

arXiv:2608.26578v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work introduces Configured Failure Trapping, a novel backdoor attack task against Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, which aims to activate att

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100% Agree @GavinSBaker. Now, I'm going to debunk every single piece of mis-information about data centers that I've ever seen online: > DIS…

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100% Agree @GavinSBaker. Now, I'm going to debunk every single piece of mis-information about data centers that I've ever seen online: > DISINFORMATION: Data centers use a lot of water. FACT: Most AI

A Hierarchical Synergistic Deep Learning Framework Integrating Composition, Structure, and Ionic Transport for Solid-State Electrolyte Discovery

arXiv:2608.25592v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inorganic solid-state electrolytes must combine high room-temperature ionic conductivity, a wide electrochemical window, excellent electronic insulati

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A Layered Security Framework Against Prompt Injection in RAG-Based Chatbots

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arXiv:2606.19660v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Prompt injection is ranked as the most critical vulnerability in large language model (LLM) deployments by the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applicatio

Agent Arena Code - Very good result (preliminary) for GLM and Qwen!

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Everything has changed in two months: DS4 0731 flash was the start of a wave that is taking open weights to paradise. It is easy to think that Qwen 4 and GLM 6 will be on par with Mythos. submitted by

Anchoring Bias in LLM-as-a-Judge Systems: Prior Scores Compromise Evaluation Independence

arXiv:2608.25869v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly assess generated content, giving rise to the LLM-as-a-Judge paradigm. These systems now score outputs, filter

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BVR Sim: An Open and High-Throughput Environment for Heterogeneous Air-Combat Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.25419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Beyond-visual-range (BVR) air combat is a challenging reinforcement-learning domain characterized by partial observability, long-horizon decision maki

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CRAMER: Control via Request-Aware Masking for Editing Recommenders

arXiv:2608.25370v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sequential recommendation models, while powerful, have limited flexibility in responding to immediate user requests, making it difficult to adapt thei

InsightSR: Refining Symbolic Regression Search Spaces via Parallel Semantic and Structural LLM Guidance

arXiv:2608.25291v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Symbolic regression (SR) seeks to discover parsimonious mathematical laws from observational data, yet conventional approaches often struggle with the v

MyoMechanix: Biomechanically-Grounded Compositional Skilled Activity Understanding and Coaching

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arXiv:2608.26094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing action quality assessment (AQA) datasets and methods rely primarily on visual inputs such as RGB and pose, overlooking physiological dynamics s

Neat paper suggesting that human augmentation and task automation are not necessarily related. Models that are really good at doing work are…

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Neat paper suggesting that human augmentation and task automation are not necessarily related. Models that are really good at doing work are not always good at helping humans do work better. Given the

RefLAM: A Reference-Grounded Line Annotation Pipeline for Historical Arabic Manuscripts

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arXiv:2608.25140v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing approaches to building line-level Arabic handwritten-text-recognition (HTR) training data either rely on fully manual annotation, which does

Sources: Town, which develops enterprise personal AI assistants, is in talks to raise at a $1B valuation in a round led by Index Ventures (Newcomer)

Newcomer: Sources: Town, which develops enterprise personal AI assistants, is in talks to raise at a 1B valuation in a round led by Index Ventures — Town, the buzzy enterprise personal agent, is raisi

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SUPER ODOMETRY 2.0: Resilient Odometry via Hierarchical Adaptation

arXiv:2608.25427v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Resilient and robust odometry is crucial for autonomous systems operating in complex and dynamic environments. Existing odometry systems often struggle

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Vertical Advantage: Transforming Industries with Lakebase and Agentic AI

**Vertical Advantage: Transforming Industries with Lakebase and Agentic AI** The article details how Lakebase’s unified data‑lake platform, coupled with Agentic AI’s autonomous decision‑making agents,

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VirTooS: A ROS 2 - Unity Virtualization Toolkit for Fleet Management of Autonomous Mobile Robots

arXiv:2608.26066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we present VirTooS, a Python/C# toolkit designed to implement fleet-management tasks on teams of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs). VirTooS

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VISTA: Visually Inferred Spatial ConTact Attention for Contact-Rich Manipulation

arXiv:2608.25872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contact-rich manipulation requires precise interaction feedback. While vision-centric imitation learning is prevalent, external visual observations prov

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We've introduced native, agentic spreadsheet extraction 📊 into LlamaParse. Spreadsheets are a wildly different format from PDFs (or any oth…

We've introduced native, agentic spreadsheet extraction 📊 into LlamaParse. Spreadsheets are a wildly different format from PDFs (or any other document format). They can span arbitrarily many rows/colu

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When agents act on their own, governance has to live in the data layer

Presented by EDB As enterprises give AI agents more autonomy — the ability to plan, decide, and act across systems without a human approving each step — a hard question moves to the center of every ar

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Automated Synthesis of Cloud Emulators

arXiv:2608.23842v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: DevOps programming (e.g., using CLI/API scripts or IaC frameworks) is key to cloud infrastructure management. Unlike traditional programming tasks, De

Dimensionless Controls of Plasticity Under Alternating Tasks: From Evolutionary Biology to Continual Learning

arXiv:2608.23889v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Plasticity under changing environments is central to both evolutionary biology and continual learning. Motivated by recent work on genotype--phenotype

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Experiment with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 for Agentic Coding

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Qwen3.8‑Flash‑Next is a multimodal mixture‑of‑experts model with 125 B parameters that employs Gated DeltaNet (compressing historic context) and Qwen Sparse Attention (exact retrieval over full contex

Forget the Pelican, it's Weevil-Time! / Benchmaxxing-Proof SVG and Vision Benchmark

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The Artist: Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q3K_XL, q8_0 caches, xhigh, temp 1.0, image-min-tokens 1024, froggeric template) I was screwing around with different Qwen3.8-27B quants and thought of this very simplistic

Gen2Physics: Grounding Generated 3D Meshes in Physics via Multi-View Material Decomposition

arXiv:2608.23869v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While state-of-the-art generative models produce high-fidelity 3D meshes, these outputs lack the physical properties required for interactive simulation

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Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-powered speech-to-text

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Google has launched Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a new voice‑to‑text AI model in the Gemini 3.5 branch that powers Gboard’s “Rambler” feature on Pixel 11 and is set to roll out across Google products such a

Holographic Invariant Storage: Design-Time Safety Contracts via Vector Symbolic Architectures

arXiv:2603.13558v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce Holographic Invariant Storage (HIS), a protocol that assembles known properties of bipolar Vector Symbolic Architectures into a d

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Hosting the 2nd founder dinner in sf on August 31 with @GuangyuRobert at @Fundamental - the team behind @tryshortcutai Agents are increasing…

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Hosting the 2nd founder dinner in sf on August 31 with @GuangyuRobert at @Fundamental - the team behind @tryshortcutai Agents are increasingly capable of solving tasks for longer task horizons without

Hybrid Semantic Tool Discovery for Enterprise MCP Gateway: Architecture and Implementation

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arXiv:2608.23992v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents invoke external tools to retrieve and reason over information beyond pretrained knowledge. The Model Context Protoco

Interesting new approach to recursive self-improvement in agents. Systems that add a meta-level hold that level fixed. Systems that edit the…

Interesting new approach to recursive self-improvement in agents. Systems that add a meta-level hold that level fixed. Systems that edit themselves have to leave part of their own editing machinery un

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Learning about AI agents starts with understanding the fundamentals and then building something. We are introducing our first interactive AI…

Learning about AI agents starts with understanding the fundamentals and then building something. We are introducing our first interactive AI Agents tutorial to help you learn to build agent skills. Ex

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MoRF-AST: Calibrated Probabilistic Virtual Sensing for Structural Monitoring under Changing Operating Conditions

arXiv:2608.24531v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Probabilistic full-field reconstruction provides uncertainty-aware response evidence for structural reliability assessment, yet inference from sparse

MRI-based Deep Radiomic Phenotyping of Neuromuscular Disorders: A Topology-driven Characterization

arXiv:2608.24415v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantitative assessment of muscle MRI is crucial for monitoring neuromuscular disorders (NMD). This study introduces an automated radiomic phenotyping f

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Applications

NeoWorld-Pro: Programming Interactive Scenes from Monocular Images for Embodied Simulation

arXiv:2608.24212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The advancement of Embodied AI necessitates high-quality simulation assets that faithfully mirror the real world. However, transforming raw visual obser

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Neurosymbolic Alignment for Physiologically-Safe Clinical Language Models

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arXiv:2608.24534v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical LLMs can generate recommendations that are factually plausible yet physiologically unsafe. We investigate whether safety alignment can be impro

Object Counting Across Modalities: Taxonomies, Benchmarks, Applications, and Open Challenges

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arXiv:2608.23845v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Object-counting methods have rapidly shifted from class-specific density regression to open-vocabulary, foundation-model-backed counters. These methods

OPDSearch+: On-Policy Distillation with RL Refinement for Search-Augmented Reasoning

arXiv:2608.24310v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search-augmented reasoning remains difficult for small language models. On-policy distillation (OPD) from trained teachers offers a promising direction,

Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents

Presented by Tata Communications Enterprises are deploying AI agents, voice AI, and automation across messaging, voice, and digital channels faster than the architecture meant to support it. Most of t

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Pipeline-Native Transformers: Co-Designing Model Architecture and CPU Inference for Bandwidth-Efficient Autoregressive Decode

arXiv:2608.23841v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Single-token autoregressive decode on CPUs is bound by memory bandwidth, not arithmetic: a modern CPU sustains roughly 1 TFLOP/s of compute but only a

Hardware

Qwen3.8 27B C8 at 972 TG / 5,680 PP on 4x MI100 rig ($6.5k) using my new INT8 vLLM fork

Yet another vLLM fork thread here, but this time its for older INT8-centric hardware. This is a complete INT8 serving stack for Qwen3.8 27B based on vLLM, AITER, and a 27B GPTQ INT8 quant w/ DFlash2.

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