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Simile Understanding in Text-to-Image Models: An Evaluation Framework

arXiv:2608.04750v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Similes provide a compact and expressive way to describe visual characteristics in text prompts. Recent text-to-image models (t2i models) can produce

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SimMOF: AI agent for Automated MOF Simulations

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arXiv:2603.29152v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) offer a vast design space, and as such, computational simulations play a critical role in predicting their structura

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Simultaneous estimation of multiple discrete unimodal distributions under stochastic order constraints

arXiv:2603.11532v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the problem of estimating multiple discrete unimodal distributions, motivated by search behavior analysis on a real-world platform. T

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SJEPA: Learning Elegant Latent Dynamics with Hybrid Symbolic-Neural Predictors

arXiv:2608.04060v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Joint-embedding predictive architectures learn abstract states by predicting target embeddings from context embeddings, but their transition models ar

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Skill-Use: Can LLMs Actually Use Skills in Agentic Harnesses?

arXiv:2608.04828v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on skills, structured documents that specify when to act, which procedure to follow, and which tools

SmartMage: Dynamic Modality Orchestration for 3D Scene Understanding

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arXiv:2608.05137v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding 3D scenes is fundamental to embodied intelligence, requiring joint reasoning over heterogeneous information from multiple modalities, incl

Social Pressure Breaks Majority Voting in LLM Safety Panels

arXiv:2608.04415v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to detect unsafe content. A common approach is to combine judgments from a panel of models to correct

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Sources: Alibaba plans to ask heavy commercial users of its next Qwen open model for a share of revenue; Moonshot's Kimi K3 requires up to a 30% revenue share (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: Alibaba plans to ask heavy commercial users of its next Qwen open model for a share of revenue; Moonshot's Kimi K3 requires up to a 30% revenue share — Chinese technology giant Aliba

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Sources: Canva slashed revenue growth forecast as heavy use of new AI features drove up costs and slowed their rollout, while more Canva users turned to ChatGPT (The Information)

The Information: Sources: Canva slashed revenue growth forecast as heavy use of new AI features drove up costs and slowed their rollout, while more Canva users turned to ChatGPT — Executives at Canva,

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SparseDitto: Customizing GPU Kernels for Different Sparsity Patterns with LLM-Based Agentic System

arXiv:2608.05033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse matrix kernels are fundamental to scientific computing, graph analytics, and machine learning. Their GPU performance depends strongly on the in

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Spatiotemporal Graph Transformer for Traffic Intelligence in Edge Computing

arXiv:2608.04075v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate traffic forecasting is essential for proactive resource management in edge computing, where service demand evolves dynamically across both sp

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SpecDrop: Parameter-Free Category-Conditioned Routing for Modular Specialization

arXiv:2608.04084v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixture-of-experts (MoE) networks pursue specialization through learned routers, gates, and load-balancing losses, yet at matched total-parameter budg

SpecRoll: Fast-Slow Verifier-Feedback Adaptation for Speculative Reinforcement Learning Rollouts

arXiv:2608.04962v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models, but autoregressive rollout generation remains

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Spend Bits Where Queries Look: KV Cache Vector Quantization with Attention-Preserving Transforms

arXiv:2608.04074v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context LLM decoding reads the key-value (KV) cache at every step. Loading it takes longer than computing attention over it, so throughput is ban

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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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Splat-Based Metal Artifact Reduction in Cone-Beam CT via Compact Attenuation Modeling

arXiv:2608.04764v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: X-ray computed tomography (CT) suffers from severe metal artifacts when high-attenuation objects such as dental fillings or orthopedic implants are pres

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Spoken Function Calling: A New Perspective on Spoken Language Understanding for Large Audio Language Models

arXiv:2608.05126v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is the core component of task-oriented dialogue systems and a pivotal link in achieving seamless human-agent interac

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SPOT: Sparse Probing and Outcome Calibration for On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2608.04419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) provides dense teacher supervision on student-generated trajectories, but standard reverse-KL training can assign insuffi

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SSC: A Verifiable Structured Representation for Bimanual Manipulation Labelling

arXiv:2608.04425v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Subtask labels decompose a long-horizon manipulation demonstration into shorter semantic segments for policy training and evaluation. Natural language d

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SSTQ:Privacy-Preserving Vector Quantization via Subsampled Stochastic TurboQuant

arXiv:2608.05127v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Achieving local differential privacy in distributed optimization while maintaining low communication cost remains challenging. Existing vector quantiz

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Stabilizing Multi-Attack Adversarial Training via Bandit Optimization

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arXiv:2511.12265v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) remain vulnerable to diverse adversarial perturbations, motivating multi-attack adversarial training (AT) for impr

Stable Density Ridges: Consistency and Convergence of Subspace Constrained Mean Shift

arXiv:2608.05112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Subspace Constrained Mean Shift (SCMS) algorithm is a popular nonparametric method for extracting density ridges, which serve as a low-dimensional

State2State: Environment-Derived Mid-Training for LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.04934v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training LLM agents commonly relies on supervised fine-tuning from expert trajectories or online reinforcement learning over human-specified tasks with

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Static Timing Orchestration for Tree-Structured Robot Control Firmware

arXiv:2608.04600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As robotic systems become increasingly complex, generating control firmware from structural description files has emerged as a promising paradigm for re

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StaticSegFormer: An Efficient High-Performance Semantic Segmentation Based on Static Structured Pruning

arXiv:2608.04811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured pruning enhances the efficiency of deep neural networks (DNNs) by eliminating groups of parameters during inference. Previous methods mostly

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Statistical learning theory and Occam's razor: Regularization

arXiv:2608.04049v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The principle of Occam's razor, which instructs us to prefer simplicity in inductive inference, has attracted much scrutiny both in the philosophy of

STEP-OPD: Rethinking Output Targets and Internal Dynamics in On-Policy Distillation for Diffusion Models

arXiv:2608.04887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) has become an effective approach for consolidating multiple task-specialized image generation models into a single student.

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Stochastic Emulation using Generalized Stratified Sampling for Performance-Based Risk Optimization of Structures

arXiv:2608.05006v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Metamodels are instrumental in reducing the computational burden associated with nested reliability analyses and optimization loops in Performance-Based

Strategic Evaluation of Planning Strategies for LLM Agents in Cyber-Physical Systems

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arXiv:2608.04265v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluations of LLM planning agents largely ask whether a task succeeds or a declared plan is followed. In strategic cyber-physical systems, a stronger

stratum: A System Infrastructure for Massive Agent-Centric ML Workloads

arXiv:2603.03589v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) transform how machine learning (ML) pipelines are developed and evaluated. LLMs enable a new t

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Strengthening Target-Language Features: SAE-Based Steering for Multilingual Inference

arXiv:2608.04904v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multilingual large language models exhibit substantial performance differences across languages, while existing adaptation methods often require paramet

STRIVE: Probing Reasoning Limits in Graded Plausibility Generation and Evaluation

arXiv:2608.04567v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Event knowledge concerns who does what to whom. Psycholinguists use event-plausibility judgments to examine how this knowledge supports human language p

Structured LLM Reasoning for Zero-Shot Human--Robot Coordination Under Hidden Goals

arXiv:2608.04309v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a structured large-language-model (LLM) architecture for zero-shot human--robot coordination in a cooperative construction task with private

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Sublogarithmic Swap Regret in Multiplayer General-Sum Games via Hybrid Regularization

arXiv:2608.04149v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Swap regret governs the rate at which uncoupled learning dynamics converge to correlated equilibria in multiplayer general-sum games. Under full-infor

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Suppression Sticks, Locality Is Fragile: A Closed-Loop Target-and-Control Audit of Task-Vector Negation in VLA Policies

arXiv:2608.04692v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Task-vector arithmetic offers a closed-form way to modify a model, yet its behavioral locality remains unclear in closed-loop robot control. We presen

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SurgNarrator: A Generative Retrieval Framework for Surgical Video Understanding

arXiv:2608.04676v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surgical procedures unfold as structured and recurring clinical events, whose real-time understanding via intraoperative surgical videos is critical for

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SVI-DAG: A Structured Variational Inference Approach to Bayesian Causal Discovery

arXiv:2608.04930v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bayesian causal discovery seeks to determine the posterior distribution of causal theories, which are interpreted as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) th

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Hardware

Sydney-based AI data center company Firmus raised 2B in funding from Coatue, Nvidia, and others at a 10.5B post-money valuation, up from $5.5B in April (Nichiket Sunil/Reuters)

Nichiket Sunil / Reuters: Sydney-based AI data center company Firmus raised 2B in funding from Coatue, Nvidia, and others at a 10.5B post-money valuation, up from 5.5B in April — Firmus said on Friday

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Tactus: Open-Vocabulary Object Recognition from Low-Cost Pressure Arrays

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arXiv:2608.04043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Resistive pressure arrays are the cheapest and most widely shipped tactile sensors, yet tactile representation learning has concentrated on optical sens

Talk2Sensors: 3D Visual Grounding in Autonomous Driving via Sensor-Adaptive Physical Cue Matching

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arXiv:2608.04568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As a key capability for embodied intelligence, 3D visual grounding (3DVG) has been predominantly studied in indoor scenes with RGB-D or point-cloud inpu

Teaching Foundation Models to Read mmWave: Pose-Guided Kinematic Representation for Human Behavior Understanding

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arXiv:2608.04127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents need to perceive human behavior in physical environments. Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar provides a privacy-friendly and con

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Teaching MLLMs to Say No: Generalized Referring Expression Comprehension via Refusal Calibrated GRPO

arXiv:2608.04698v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We tackle the challenging yet underexplored task of Generalized Referring Expression Comprehension (GREC), which requires a model to localize the obje

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Teaching Nemotron Greek: Mining a Corpus, Adapting Retrieval, and Grounding Generation for Modern Greek across Specialist Domains

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arXiv:2608.05138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern Greek is absent from NVIDIA's Nemotron retrieval models and from major multilingual retrieval benchmarks, despite being important for retrieval

Temporal Context Awareness: A Defense Framework Against Multi-turn Manipulation Attacks on Large Language Models

arXiv:2503.15560v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated multi-turn manipulation attacks, where adversaries strategically build conte

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Tenex pairs agentic AI with human oversight for faster security operations

As AI accelerates the speed and scale of cyberattacks, organizations are adopting AI security operations to investigate threats and respond in minutes rather than hours or days. The shift is enabling

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Terminal Agents Suffice for Enterprise Automation

arXiv:2604.00073v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: There has been growing interest in building agents that can interact with digital platforms to execute meaningful enterprise tasks autonomousl

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Test, then Route: How Language Models Execute In-Context Conditional Rules Across Models and Languages

arXiv:2608.04183v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a language model follows an in-context conditional rule such as 'if P(x) then A else B,' does it assemble a runtime circuit with one module that te