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I feel like I finally graduated.

I finally made the move from LM Studio to vLLM thanks to this post https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/NmS9CgHvqz. I may not know what it all means yet but I’m going to start diving into the docs to

Keeping the Franka Emika Panda alive: a ROS 2 stack with a reliable position interface

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arXiv:2608.19740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an open-source software stack that restores ROS 2 support for the Franka Emika Panda robot while resolving the long-standing unrelia

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MILD: Tractable Terrain Modeling for Learning Improved Bipedal Locomotion on Deformable Surfaces

arXiv:2608.19955v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enabling robots to walk on yielding terrain is vital for applications ranging from disaster response to planetary exploration. While bipedal robots hold

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Safety

On the Applicability of Safety Nets: A Safety-By-Design Solution for Certifying Neural Networks

arXiv:2608.20053v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in safety-critical aviation systems presents significant challenges for certification and deployment. Av

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QUASAR: A Quantum-Classical Neural Network for SAR Satellite Physical-Layer Authentication

arXiv:2608.20240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: X-band SAR satellites (8-12 GHz) play a critical role in disaster response, environmental monitoring, and military intelligence. Yet, they lack robust p

Reducing the Complexity of Matrix Multiplication by Quantum Computing

arXiv:2602.05541v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Matrix multiplication is a fundamental operation in compute-intensive tasks and a key component of modern quantum acceleration frameworks. Her

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The sense of touch is the most criminally under-explored modality in robotics. Imagine doing sleight of hand wearing thick oven mitts. That'…

The sense of touch is the most criminally under-explored modality in robotics. Imagine doing sleight of hand wearing thick oven mitts. That's exactly how a robot feels today if it were alive. A magnet

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WaveVerif: Acoustic Side-Channel based Verification of Robotic Workflows

arXiv:2510.25960v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we present a framework that uses acoustic side-channel analysis (ASCA) to monitor and verify whether a robot correctly executes

3 days benchmarking most llama.cpp flags on my weird 40gb vram laptop + tb4 egpu setup. Got +70% generation, +40% prefill, 60k more context, and filed a bug in llama around MTP. What I learned.

tldr: went from 16~ t/s to 27~ t/s generation. got my usable context up from 220k to the full 262k without sacrificing anything. prefill also increased from 376 to 573 command I ended up with, fwiw: l

Autonomous Agricultural Tractor: Integrated Weed Detection and LiDAR Navigation for Precision Paddy Farming

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arXiv:2608.19004v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Site-specific weed management in paddy farming offers substantial reductions in herbicide use over conventional broadcast spraying, but field deployme

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GigaBrain-WBC-0.5: A Behavior World Model for Robust Whole-Body Control with Environment Interaction

arXiv:2608.18234v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Whole-body motion tracking policies turn a humanoid into a robust control interface: the teleoperator---or an upstream model---only supplies a coarse

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High-Flux Count-Free Single-Photon 3D Cameras

arXiv:2608.18306v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Single-photon cameras based on single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) technology are gaining popularity for 3D sensing, thanks to their extreme sensitivit

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home lab assistant llm

hey so im currently working to integrate a locally ran llm to control home assistant (through tool calling, no direct connection) so i can use a voice input without needing very specific commands. Its

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How do you deal with long-context sessions after restarting llama.cpp?

I run local models on a 128GB Strix Halo and restart llama.cpp fairly often while testing builds, backends and model parameters. The annoying part is long-running agent sessions. Hermes/OpenCode sessi

Institutional Newspapers Pipeline: Deriving billions of high quality tokens from historical newspapers

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arXiv:2608.18972v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Historical newspapers are an abundant record of public life, but their dense, irregular and sometimes noisy layouts make computational access to these m

LACONIC: Dense-Level Effectiveness for Scalable Sparse Retrieval via a Two-Phase Training Curriculum

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arXiv:2601.01684v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While dense retrieval models have been the standard for state-of-the-art information retrieval, their deployment is often constrained by high

Ling 3.0 Tiny makes an amazing auxillery model for Hermes (Qwen 3.8 27B as the primary model)

Just got the setup dialed in yesterday. Getting really good results and is making 3.8 usage feel faster in hermes. I got Qwen to specifically use Ling tiny for simple tasks like context compression an

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MicroPython and CircuitPython: Pythons Quiet Takeover of IoT and Robotics

arXiv:2608.18160v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Python has become the dominant language in software and data science, yet embedded systems have remained tied to C/C++ due to performance

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Open-MOPD: Diagnosing and Fixing Capability Imbalance in Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2608.19098v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-teacher on-policy distillation (M-OPD) has emerged as a promising paradigm for consolidating domain-specialized reinforcement learning (RL) expe

Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B Q4 running 60tk/s on 4070Ti.

Not everyone has the disposable income to build a small data center, so making this post for the underdogs as I was very surprised by the performance/results of this 35B MOE model. Context is admitted

Pairwise Ranking Outperforms Single-Action RL for Offline Explanation Selection: A Practical Lesson

arXiv:2608.18531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial explainable-recommendation systems built on LLMs incur a substantial serving cost: each request triggers an LLM generation, with latency in t

Pre-Compiled Pipeline Shards for Distributed LLM Inference on Intel AI PC Fleets

arXiv:2608.19147v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern Intel AI PCs ship capable integrated GPUs and NPUs with 16+ GB of unified memory, and they spend considerable time idle. That is not enough mem

Qwen3.8-27b has the highest level of 'agency' I've ever seen in a local model

Off a single prompt, given my credentials and the name of my university, qwen3.8-27b was able to successfully pull my class schedule from the kinda shitty and convoluted web of university websites. It

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Redakto - The Incognito Tab for LLMs

arXiv:2608.18260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are being increasingly used in everyday applications. A major challenge in the context of LLMs or Artificial Intelligence (

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Structure-Informed Estimation for Pilot-Limited MIMO Channels via Tensor Decomposition

arXiv:2602.04083v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate channel state information in wideband MIMO systems is constrained by pilot overhead, a challenge intensifying as bandwidths scale tow

What do you think of my Modelfile for Qwen3.8

Hello, any params I missing or mis-tuning for my coding model ? FROM ./models/unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-Q5_K_M.gguf # Generation parameters optimized for logical reasoning and coding tasks PARAMETER tempera

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Am I doing something wrong? Qwen 3.8 27B seems useless for agentic coding

I have been using local models on/off for like 2 years or so but never really used them extensively because the closed ones were always much better. Once Qwen 3.8 27B was released I decided to give it

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Collective Ranking of Environmental Signals through Gaussian Belief Propagation in a Patrolling Robot Swarm

arXiv:2608.17690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-robot patrolling requires a team to visit all areas of an environment at regular intervals, typically minimising idleness. A practical extension,

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DistillPath: An Efficient 22M Distilled Pathology Encoder Approaching Large Foundation Model Performance

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arXiv:2608.17872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many high-performing pathology tile encoders are now foundation models with hundreds of millions to over a billion parameters. Encoding and storing the

ETHEREAL: A 25.6-mus/inf. Low-latency Event-driven Graph-neural-network Processor for High-resolution Vision at the Edge

arXiv:2608.17787v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic vision sensors (DVS) are enticing candidates to reach the low-latency, sub-ms target of edge-vision applications, as they generate events with

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MANIGUARD: A Benchmark and Data Suite for Specification-Grounded Safety Evaluation and Improvement of Robotic Manipulation

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arXiv:2608.17386v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation-model policies for robotic manipulation are advancing rapidly on task success, but rigorous evaluation of whether they succeed safely is stil

MotoSafety: Edge-AI with Learned Temporal Importance for Two-Wheeler Collision Risk Assessment Under Time Pressure

arXiv:2608.17823v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Powered two-wheeler riders face critical safety challenges in low- and middle-income countries, yet limited studies exist on how cognitive stressors s

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TabularQGAN: A quantum generative model for tabular data synthesis

arXiv:2505.22533v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a novel quantum generative model for synthesizing tabular data. Synthetic data is valuable in scenarios where real

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A Scalable Pipeline for LLM-Teacher Distillation Labeling: Work-Stealing Job Scheduling and Memory-Aware GPU Concurrency

arXiv:2608.15975v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Labeling large text corpora with LLM teachers has become a practical route to training data at scale. At millions of items, hand-labeling every batch

A Unified Mamba--MoE Surrogate for Closed-Loop Simulation and Measurement-Window Forecasting of Inverter Transients

arXiv:2608.15051v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes a Mamba surrogate model with mixture-of-experts (MoE) routing to represent the transient dynamics of inverter-based resources. A Mam

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Artificial Intelligence as a Tool for Combating Child Labour: A Real-Time Edge Vision Pipeline for Child Detection and Age Estimation

arXiv:2608.14770v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An estimated 138 million children remain in child labour worldwide, and the monitoring systems used by affected sectors, built on periodic household v

AudioTQ: A Data-Oblivious 6-Bit CPU Audio Codec via Randomized Hadamard Rotation and Lloyd-Max Quantization

arXiv:2608.15369v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lossy audio compression algorithms traditionally rely on psychoacoustic modeling and frequency-domain representations (e.g., MP3, AAC, and Opus) to di

Binarized High-Efficiency RAW Video Restoration and Beyond

arXiv:2608.16756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: RAW video restoration is fundamental to high-quality low-level perception and serves as the basis for a wide range of downstream vision applications. Wh

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DeepInsight II: One Trace from Benchmark to Robot

arXiv:2608.16556v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Across a Physical AI stack, evaluation maturity is inversely aligned with deployment risk: foundation models enjoy mature, standardized harnesses, while

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 on Strix Halo: draft model, n_max sweep, and a launch line that actually helps

I know the front page is completely dominated by the Qwen3.8 27B. I know it's a fantastic model and everyone is rightfully discussing it, but I wanted to shift gears and talk about another model I’ve

DiffSoup: Direct Differentiable Rasterization of Triangle Soup for Extreme Radiance Field Simplification

arXiv:2603.27151v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Radiance field reconstruction aims to recover high-quality 3D representations from multi-view RGB images. Recent advances, such as 3D Gaussian

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Experimentally Extending Quantum Kernel Learning to Quantum Data by NMR

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arXiv:2412.09557v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Quantum kernel learning (QKL) promises efficient machine learning by encoding feature maps onto exponentially large Hilbert spaces inherent in

FlexWorm: Primitive-augmented Hybrid Contact-motion Planning for Suction-based Multi-segment Deformable Robots

arXiv:2608.16853v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-segment suction-based soft robots are promising for inspection and maintenance in confined or fragile environments, but existing approaches still

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Gradient descent reliably finds depth- and gate-optimal circuits for generic unitaries

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arXiv:2601.03123v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: When the gate set has continuous parameters, synthesizing a unitary operator as a quantum circuit is, in principle, always possible using exac

HP2-SLAM: Adaptive Hybrid ICP for Robust and Efficient LiDAR SLAM

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arXiv:2608.14996v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving robustness, accuracy, and efficiency simultaneously remains a central challenge in light detection and ranging (LiDAR) simultaneous localizati

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Hybrid System Planning using a Mixed-Integer ADMM Heuristic and Hybrid Zonotopes

arXiv:2602.17574v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Embedded optimization-based planning for hybrid systems is challenging due to the use of mixed-integer programming, which is computationally intensi

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In Defense of OCTA: The Reconstruction-Utility Gap in OCT-to-OCTA Synthesis

arXiv:2608.15626v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) images retinal blood flow, giving capillary-perfusion and foveal-avascular-zone biomarkers that grade di

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Large Language Model Assisted Operational Monitoring for Battery Energy Storage System Integrated Power Distribution Networks

arXiv:2608.15396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Battery energy storage systems (BESS) are increasingly used in distribution networks for voltage regulation and demand response, which increases the vol