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arXiv:2608.06885v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cooperative UAV-swarm defenses commonly cross-check GNSS positions against measured inter-drone geometry. We show that this relative-geometry channel

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Semi Edge Inference Idea [D]

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Today the most important factor in AI is cost. My idea is to split ML models inference (closed ones, proprietary) across server and edge computing on clients, and I would like to hear what do you thin

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10 Aug 2026

SetEasy: A Multi-Modal Classroom Engagement Assessment and Seating Optimization Framework

arXiv:2608.07188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: SetEasy optimizes classroom engagement in fixed seating grids. It fuses multimodal sensing (wristband physiology, 4K video, environmental data) and trai

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Summary of Takeaways from the Minimax AMA

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Summary from https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1vh9rtw/ama_minimax_h3_team_ask_us_anything_about_our/ This summary was compiled with AI but cross-checked manually by me for accuracy. I

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Synthetic LiDAR Data Generation and Deterministic Downsampling for Point Cloud Classification on the Edge

arXiv:2608.07106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying three-dimensional deep learning frameworks to low-power embedded processors is bottlenecked by the unstructured nature of spatial data and the

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This Meta campaign is a case study in strategic reframing, with 4 major examples: 1) REFRAMES THE AI RACE FROM “who builds it the best” TO “…

This Meta campaign is a case study in strategic reframing, with 4 major examples: 1) REFRAMES THE AI RACE FROM “who builds it the best” TO “who distributes it to the most people”: Instead of fighting

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Transformers are famously bad at arithmetic, so I set one's weights by hand (no training) and it multiplies with 100% accuracy [P]

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Obviously nobody needs a transformer that's good at multiplication. I wanted to know whether a stock transformer could do exact arithmetic if I chose its weights directly. I implemented the grade-scho

What Characters Minimax H3 knows - American Edition

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As promised, the first Batch of Characters that Minimax knows - American knowdledge Edition. Hope this helps the Community. Workflow for this was simple: This is the Prompt: Brad Pitt integrated_multi

What Characters Minimax H3 knows - Part 2 - Videogames

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Here is the second Edition, Videogames. Workflow is the same as in the first Part, its pretty simple: This is the Prompt: Brad Pitt integrated_multimodal_description: [Shot 1] Live-action, contemporar

Agents

AI agentic Internet traffic will obviously VASTLY exceed human usage. Not a close call at all. Cloudflare’s forecast is accurate.

AI agentic Internet traffic will obviously VASTLY exceed human usage. Not a close call at all. Cloudflare’s forecast is accurate. For context, Global bandwidth is somewhere between 2-8 Pbps (2,000-8,0

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9 Aug 2026

KLQ: Training-free measured rotation quantization. Beats all training-free rotation-based quantization methods on W4A4KV4-bits. Llama 3.2 1B KLQ-quantized beats SpinQuant and gets close to ReSpinQuant without GPTQ/LDLQ rounding.

First of all, I'm not a lab, this was a solo summer research project that finally culminated into the github repo and the writeup. The repo includes a much deeper dive with methods, findings about qua

9 Aug 2026

enabling PCI-E p2p for consumer Nvidia cards will yield you more than you think

Disclaimer - no LLM was used to write this post/note As larger post about my setup will come later, want to give heads-up to folks who use VLLM and >= 2 GPUs. So I have pretty meaty server (8 channel

8 Aug 2026

I tested a fresh GitHub download → Ollama → first local coding-agent task (72 seconds, no cloud API)

I’m building DesktopLab, an open-source local-first control plane for development agents. I recorded the setup boundary that most agent demos skip: DesktopLab detects the host, proposes the supported

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8 Aug 2026

100% Local RAG Without Internet and Without Ollama

Build a 100% offline fast Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system that runs without an internet connection, without cloud APIs, without OpenAI/Ollama Published a video where you can build a fully

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A Multi-Layer System for Ultra-High-Resolution Static 360-Degree Telepresence

arXiv:2608.05570v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 360-degree video telepresence offers strong immersive potential but remains constrained by the limited resolution of current capture and display hardw

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Analysis of Numerical Localisation in LLM Translations

arXiv:2608.05232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The work of Tang et. al. (2025) on numerical translation is extended by analysing the capability of five large language models (LLMs) for the localisati

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Beyond Weights and Gradients: A Taxonomy of Federated Learning Messages

arXiv:2606.16891v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Federated Learning is rapidly evolving beyond the exchange of traditional model weights and gradients, yet existing definitions fail to captur

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Decomposed Entailment for Factuality Checking and Hallucination Detection

arXiv:2608.05823v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The reliability of Large Language Models (LLMs) is often compromised by factual inconsistencies, including hallucinations---cases where generated conten

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ECHO: A Locally-Deployable Agentic Health Assistant with Temporal Memory, Safety Guardrails, and Speech Assessment

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arXiv:2608.06110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents ECHO (Enhanced Care & Health Observer), a locally-deployable conversational health assistant for long-term chronic care management.

EdgeXpert: An Edge Device for Memory-Efficient LLM Inference with Mixture-of-Experts and Speculative Decoding

arXiv:2608.05303v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-device deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) has become essential for personalized edge applications. A primary bottleneck is external memory

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Failing Gracefully: Mitigating Impact of Inevitable Robot Failures

arXiv:2608.05313v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Service robots operate in household environments shared with humans, pets, and everyday objects, where they are highly susceptible to failures such as

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Floating Radiance Networks

arXiv:2608.05920v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in neural scene representations enable photorealistic novel-view synthesis, yet most methods remain tightly coupled to a single renderin

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Agents

Hierarchical Server Architecture for Agentic Science

arXiv:2608.05332v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic science is transforming the landscape of computational work, extending to scientific pipelines and workload managers. The workloads require sp

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LC-Implicit-QAOA: Active-Workspace-Capped Exact Objective-and-Gradient Evaluation for Training over Bounded QUBO Light Cones

arXiv:2608.05610v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: QAOA training repeatedly queries an objective and all shared gradients, making exact evaluation a feasibility bottleneck even when QUBO terms have bou

llama.cpp PR reports up to 169% faster quantized-KV decode at 118K context on Intel Battlemage from one SYCL kernel switch

A fresh llama.cpp PR (#26689) changes what looks like a tiny SYCL FlashAttention dispatch decision. With a quantized KV cache ('q4_0' / 'q8_0'), decode was being sent through the VEC kernel. On the au

Near-sensor Computing for Rapid Visuotactile Perception

arXiv:2608.05725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visuotactile sensors reconstruct dense contact geometry from measured surface gradients, but host-based processing increases power consumption and intro

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Operating Multi-Node Full Fine-Tuning on NVIDIA B300: A Field Report on Telemetry-Based Triage, Negative Results, and Operational Hardening

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arXiv:2608.05944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We report operational experience full-fine-tuning a 32.76B-parameter dense model (Qwen3-32B) on 16 x NVIDIA B300 (two nodes, FSDP / ZeRO-3) -- among t

Provably Efficient Self-Calibrating Quantum Fault Tolerance

arXiv:2608.05686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum error correction protects logical information only when every physical operation remains below the fault-tolerance threshold, a condition that

Resourced Authority A Mechanism-Design Model for Participatory Governance of Deployed AI Agents

arXiv:2608.06353v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We give a formal mechanism design model for the continuous participatory governance of a deployed AI agent. The mechanism is built on the principle th

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Serving Deepseek v4 Flash 0731 on 2x DGX Spark — 5-7 GB OS headroom, what would you do to lower VRAM usage and increase OS available RAM?

Hey all, I'm serving DSv4Flash 0731 on a cluster of 2x DGX Sparks but am running into constant issues with having almost no RAM (unified memory) left for the OS/cache and I'd love to hear the communit

Sliding Sensors: Configurable Confidence in State Estimation for Continuum Robots

arXiv:2608.05410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuum robots often operate in uncertain environments, where accurate state estimation is essential for safe interactions. Estimate uncertainty is in

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The Closing Window: How Governments Could Lose Their Ability to Restrain Advanced AI

arXiv:2608.05173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI capabilities advance, AI systems will pose greater risks to national security and potentially humanity as a whole. Governments may eventually co

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Auto-fit vs tuned MoE offload: 564 → 1330 pp tok/s, unchanged decode (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Q6 / RTX 3090)

TL;DR: On a Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Q6 setup sized for 64K context on a 24GB RTX 3090, spilling eight MoE expert layers to CPU freed enough VRAM to increase -b from 512 to 1024 and -ub from 128 to 512. Prompt

Industry

Confirming rumors, Anthropic reveals plan to develop custom chip

Anthropic PBC today disclosed that it plans to develop a custom artificial intelligence chip. A spokesperson told Business Insider that the company will co-design the processor with its future large l

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Deltoris: Enabling Real-time VLA Inference in Embodied AI via Bit-level Sparsity and Speculative Inference

arXiv:2608.04428v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have emerged as a key component in embodied AI. Among existing approaches, diffusion-based VLA models achieve supe

Industry

Filing: OpenAI says 'Apple should not be permitted to use a baseless and pretextual lawsuit to make up for its failures to integrate AI into its products' (Megan Morrone/Axios)

Megan Morrone / Axios: Filing: OpenAI says “Apple should not be permitted to use a baseless and pretextual lawsuit to make up for its failures to integrate AI into its products” — If the case survives

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Label-Free Target-Domain Adaptation for Unconstrained Event-Image Feature Matching via Dual-Stage Distillation

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arXiv:2607.10082v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Building pixel-level correspondence between event and image data is a fundamental task for multi-sensor systems. However, existing cross-modal match

RAG-Stack: Co-Optimizing RAG Serving Performance and Quality

arXiv:2608.03487v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), which augments large language model (LLM) generation with information retrieved from databases, has become a wid

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SpikingNav: Robust Embodied Navigation with Spiking Neural Policies

arXiv:2608.05078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied navigation requires an agent to make sequential decisions from egocentric observations in a physical environment. Existing Artificial Neural Ne

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Taalas buried the lede for the amazing demo of their first tape out. 15k tokens per second with a llama 8b model, ability to scale that up e…

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Taalas buried the lede for the amazing demo of their first tape out. 15k tokens per second with a llama 8b model, ability to scale that up etched onto silicon As models satisfice etching makes sense,

Unsloth's Gemma 4 mmproj silently broke vision & audio on newer llama.cpp builds — anyone else hit this?

So I had been building ScreenMind, kinda like local ai desktop assistant that uses Gemma 4 for screen analysis, voice memo transcription, and meeting transcription — all through llama-server. Everythi

Bimanual Manipulation Within an 8 GB Budget: Zero-Copy Sensing and Quantized ACT on an Entry-Level Jetson

arXiv:2608.03938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bimanual manipulation policies trained with imitation learning are typically evaluated on workstation or datacenter-class GPUs, leaving the cost of depl

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Building a Fully Local PDF Read-Aloud & PDF-to-Audiobook Desktop App with Kokoro 82M, Qwen, and llama.cpp

Hey everyone, I’ve been building Speechfony - a desktop app for reading PDFs (and EPUBs) with offline text-to-speech. Open a document, listen sentence-by-sentence with highlighting, or export selected

CUDA MPC: A GPU-Native Solver for Model Predictive Control

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arXiv:2608.03051v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model Predictive Control (MPC) delivers constraint-aware control, but its reliance on online optimization limits its use on systems with fast dynamics,

Design-Time Optimization of Deep Neural Networks for Intermittent Learning on Microcontrollers

arXiv:2608.03589v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a method for designing deep neural networks (DNNs) for intermittent, energy-autonomous, on-device learning on microcontroller units (MCUs). I

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Fast Object Removal Attacks on Safety-Critical Video-based Perception Systems

arXiv:2608.02806v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: By leveraging data from video-based perception systems, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) support safety-critical applications that improve roa

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Fretiq: Browser-Native Electric Guitar String Classification via Engineered Spectral Features and Held-Out Free-Play Evaluation

arXiv:2607.18303v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Identifying which string produces a given pitch in monophonic electric guitar audio is a classification challenge: a single pitch can often be

I built xSignalBot: an auto-reply bot for Signal that answers with a local LLM via Ollama — zero cloud, zero cost

Disclaimer: I'm the developer of this project — sharing because it might be useful to others running self-hosted AI. (Full transparency, as Reddit's self-promo etiquette expects.) xSignalBot is an ope

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