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Noise Floor Audit for Agent Benchmarks

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arXiv:2608.22331v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We audit measurement variability for 3 native tool-calling endpoints across 2 providers on the official BFCL multiple and parallel categories, using mat

SkillAlchemy: Open-World Agent Skill Creation

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arXiv:2608.23417v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills are reusable procedural artifacts that extend language agents with specialized workflows, tool conventions, and domain behaviors at inferen

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25 Aug 2026

Small Language Model enabled Autonomous agent for Language-Conditioned Cognitive Radar

arXiv:2608.11596v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern radar systems require adapting their processing strategies in response to changing interference, clutter, and data availability. This paper int

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Spiking Neural Networks for Energy-Efficient Object Detection in Forward-Looking Sonar Imagery

arXiv:2608.22072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are increasingly important tools in industries ranging from research, to energy, to defense. AUVs are power-constr

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The Imitator Game: Benchmarking Robot Imitative Ability Beyond Action Prediction

arXiv:2608.22301v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans imitate at the level of intent: given a demonstration, we infer its goal and carry it out with whatever tools, objects, and layouts are at hand

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The Variance of Thought: Policy Variance, Critical Forks, and Local Credit Assignment

arXiv:2608.22467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon language-model tasks --- multi-step reasoning and tool-using agents alike --- are limited by credit assignment. We analyze it through the p

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Thinking Beyond Videos: Unifying Video Reasoning and Deep Research for Open-World Video Agents

arXiv:2608.23329v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-world video understanding often requires a model to locate sparse visual evidence and acquire external knowledge that is absent from the video an

Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD): An open specification for agent discovery

AWS Agent Registry gives your organization a centralized, searchable catalog for agents, tools, and skills. It works with the open Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) standard to enable cross-environment

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Ansari: A Retrieval-Grounded Islamic AI Assistant -- Architecture, Deployment, and Lessons from 140,000 Conversations

arXiv:2608.20390v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General-purpose large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to answer religious questions, but for Islamic content they carry two serious risks

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metal : per-device tuned (Q, NE) for flash-attn vec (#26570) metal : per-device tuned (Q, NE) for flash-attn vec (#25750) rebase Q-generic FA vec body from 01dc936 (#23114) add 53 f16 (Q,NE) flash-att

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Best Local Vision Language Models - August 2026

Share what your favorite models are right now and why. Given the nature of the beast in evaluating VLMs (untrustworthiness of benchmarks, immature tooling, intrinsic stochasticity), please be as detai

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Empowering autonomous agents with advanced security governance

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AI agents are the ultimate insiders. We grant them permission to read emails, query databases, and trigger API calls. They don’t just retrieve information, they take action. Agents offer incredible po

Large Language Models at the Intersection of Software Engineering and Software Security:An Evidence-Centered Structured Survey and Research Agenda

arXiv:2608.21107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are moving from code completion toward repository-scale agents that retrieve context, edit files, execute tools, and partic

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Learning-Based Measurement-Robust Control Barrier Functions for Obstacle Avoidance under State Estimation Error

arXiv:2608.20467v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety filters are an effective tool for enforcing constraints in safety-critical systems, but most existing methods assume perfect state information,

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Metag: A dataset to build agentic meta-reviewing capabilities

arXiv:2608.20488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI tools increasingly support tasks across the scientific research cycle, from experiment design and manuscript preparation to peer review. At the same

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Hardware

NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Blackwell Set a New Standard for Agentic AI Performance per Watt

NVIDIA’s new GPUs in the Vera Rubin and Blackwell families set a new benchmark for agentic‑AI performance per watt on AgentX, an open‑source inference test that models realistic multi‑step, tool‑using

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Robust Discovery of Coarse-Grained Continuum Equations from Microscopic Dynamics

arXiv:2608.20404v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The discovery of governing partial differential equations (PDEs) directly from spatiotemporal data has emerged as a powerful tool for understanding th

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SPD Matrix Learning for Neuroimaging Analysis: Perspectives, Methods, and Challenges

arXiv:2504.18882v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Neuroimaging provides essential tools for characterizing brain activity, structure, and connectivity through modalities that capture complemen

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VortexChat: An agentic framework for autonomous multi-objective integrated photonic design

arXiv:2608.20688v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The advancement of modern integrated photonics is frequently bottlenecked by device design workflows that rely heavily on manual simulation and expert i

Weighted Memory Tree: Remembering What Matters for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.20631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents have demonstrated the ability to solve multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and external information access,

Agent Quest now tells you when Claude Code or Codex needs you visually and with sound

A few weeks ago I shared Agent Quest, my open-source experiment that turns Claude Code and Codex sessions into heroes living inside a small 2D world. The original idea was mainly about making it easie

23 Aug 2026

MCP vs. RAG for world knowledge?

As I’m navigating the best setup for using Qwen3.8 27b as both my main coder and my personal assistant, I want to hook it into Wiki & beyond but I don’t want to be reliant on an internet connection. W

One of the interesting properties we’ve observed around schema-guided, complex document extraction tasks 📑 is that coding agent harnesses a…

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One of the interesting properties we’ve observed around schema-guided, complex document extraction tasks 📑 is that coding agent harnesses are good baselines (in terms of cost/accuracy) for longer docu

Single RTX 5090: Qwen3.8-27B NVFP4 at a real 262K context in vLLM — 77 tok/s short-context, 64.7 tok/s at 128K

This is the Qwen3.8-27B setup I actually use every day on one RTX 5090. I wanted to write it down with enough detail that another 5090 owner can reproduce it instead of guessing which memory knobs I u

Watching that wattage, in your terminal.

Released today: version 1.3 of energygraph Zero build dependencies, lightweight tool for live views of the power-consumption. Version 1.3 adds support for dGPUs from nvidia, intel, amd. Depending on v

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A Locally Tokenized Generative Model for Robust Time-Series Watermarking

arXiv:2608.19727v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Watermarking is a central tool for provenance in generative models, yet its application to multivariate time series remains hindered by reliability fa

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Artificial Intelligence for Workflow Analysis in Colorectal Surgery: A Multicentric, Cross-Procedural Development and Generalization Study

arXiv:2608.20154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Minimally invasive colorectal surgeries (MIS-CRS) are characterised by significant variability and inconsistent outcomes. ColoWorkflow, a tool for the v

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Cloud CISO Perspectives: Sticking to security fundamentals in the AI era

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Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2026. Today, Chris Betz explains why the AI era makes it more important than ever to lean into security fundamentals.As with all Cloud CISO Pers

Credit Without Ground Truth: Auditing Step-Level Credit Assignment in LLM Agents Against Executed Replay

arXiv:2608.19760v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audited against causal ground truth from executed replay in a single-agent tool environment (ALFWorld), none of the step-level credit signals used to

FlowEvo: Self-Evolving Agents through the Co-Evolution of Workflows and Executable Skills

arXiv:2607.21596v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model agents can adapt to complex tasks by constructing workflows at inference time, but procedures discovered in one episode are usu

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Multi-Method Causal Evidence Synthesis: Ranking Candidate Drivers by Convergent Cross-Method Evidence from Observational Data

arXiv:2608.20187v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Practitioners inferring causality from observational data usually rely on a single method and treat its output as causal truth. Recent tools select an

Hardware

NVIDIA AVO Reaches 100% on ARC-AGI-3, Demonstrating a Frontier-Level General-Purpose Architecture for Long-Horizon Autonomous Agents

NVIDIA’s Agentic Variation Operators (AVO) architecture delivers a frontier‑level general‑purpose agent by integrating persistent memory, supervision, and tool use within the system harness rather tha

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Remember, Verify, or Ask? Cross-Family Evaluation of Memory Commitment in LLM Agents

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arXiv:2608.19564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Persistent memory can personalize an LLM agent, but an incorrect durable update can silently distort future behavior. We study the memory-clarification

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Specification-delta-driven data governance: an empirical study of the {guillemotleft}spec-delta{guillemotright} as the unit of change in lakehouse data platforms

arXiv:2608.19838v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spec Driven Development SDD has consolidated the idea that the specification rather than the code should be the primary artefact governing AI assisted w

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Hardware

Stop Making TUIs

Stop Making TUIs Thomas Ptacek advocates for building real native user interfaces for even the smallest of personal tools, because coding agents have reduced the cost of getting a usable-enough GUI up

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Time-Uniform Self-Normalized Concentration for Discounted Least Squares: Limits and Corrections

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arXiv:2608.19643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-normalized concentration inequalities are standard tools in bandit and reinforcement-learning analyses. A widely used weighted extension claims an

When AI Writes, Who Gets Cited? Evidence of Citation Monoculture Across Language Models

arXiv:2608.19230v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As language models move from drafting prose to running literature-search agents with tool calls, fabricated references are becoming easier to catch an

Adobe expands generative AI audio with Firefly music, speech and sound effects

Adobe Inc. today announced the general availability of audio capabilities in Firefly, the company’s all-in-one creative AI tool suite, allowing users to produce music, speech, and sound effects for th

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CausalProfiler: Generating Synthetic Benchmarks for Rigorous and Transparent Evaluation of Causal Machine Learning

arXiv:2511.22842v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Causal machine learning (Causal ML) aims to answer 'what if' questions using machine learning algorithms, making it a promising tool for high-

CTIFoundry: An Agent-Native Corpus Scaffold for Cyber Threat Intelligence

arXiv:2608.18613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is increasingly consumed not by human analysts but by LLM agents that compose multi-step investigations at query time. T

Applications

Designing Social Robots for Social-Cognition Training with Autistic Adults

arXiv:2608.18488v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Social robots have been widely explored as tools for autism intervention, yet this literature has focused predominantly on children and has rarely inv

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Evaluation of Image Matching Methods for Visual Odometry on UAVs

arXiv:2608.18624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming a powerful tool for many environmental monitoring and transport applications. Yet, their reliance on Global

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FairGlucose: A CGM Fairness Benchmark Reveals Subgroup Disparities Hidden in Population-Level Validation

arXiv:2608.18296v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As CGM-based AI tools approach clinical deployment, whether their accuracy is equitable across patient demographics remains insufficiently tested. To

Getting better at coding doesn't make a model better at everything else

A majority of users in this sub use LLMs for coding/agentic tasks and I see why a lot of value is put into them but many try to say 'Well coding has improved therefore it can just use tool calling and

Grading the Graders: Verification Autonomy Levels (L0-L5) for LLM Reasoning

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arXiv:2608.19009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly paired with verifiers (step checkers, self-consistency filters, tool-based fact checkers, formal proof ass

Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models Using Diversion Decoding

arXiv:2607.10476v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a powerful tool for retrieving knowledge through seamless, human-like interactions. Despite their advan

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Tutorials

Learning Topological Features of widehat Z-invariants

arXiv:2608.18570v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning and data analysis techniques have recently emerged as powerful tools for identifying patterns and formulating conjectures in mathemat

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LEDGER: Claim-to-Evidence Trace Graphs for Auditing LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.18398v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents can now carry out long-horizon technical workflows involving complex tool use, code execution, file edits, and gener

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