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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

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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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5 Aug 2026

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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Inkling-Small 276B-A12B at ~2.9 tok/s on <10gb memory

A follow up to the launch of Mference, it now supports and runs Inkling-Small 276B-A12B. Inkling-Small (Thinking Machines, Apache 2.0), from the pipenetwork/Inkling-Small-MLX-4bit conversion: 276B tot

Internalising the Identity Primitive: Cryptographic Individuality for an Autonomous Agent on a Public Blockchain

arXiv:2608.02986v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A software agent on a public blockchain accumulates authority and economic stakes, raising the engineering question of what makes it count as an indiv

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Light-Loco-Parkour: Versatile Perceptive Whole-Body Locomotion via Multi-Skill Distillation

arXiv:2608.02653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing humanoid whole-body control systems still fall short of the way humans move through cluttered terrain: they either track expressive whole-body

LoCA: Forward-Only LLM Tuning after One-Shot Calibration with Local Credit Assignment

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arXiv:2608.03020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parameter-efficient post-training reduces the number of trainable parameters, but still requires repeated end-to-end backpropagation through the frozen

None of this was us. Day 1 (and the first 48 hours) belonged to the open-source community: Generate with it @ComfyUI — native support + offi…

None of this was us. Day 1 (and the first 48 hours) belonged to the open-source community: Generate with it @ComfyUI — native support + official quantized builds, Day 0 Diffusers — the reference Pytho

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Omega-S: A Functional Resilience Index for LLM Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2608.03887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning a large language model on new data degrades what it previously learned. We present Omega-S, a drop-in penalty computed from the weight matri

RoboReact: Agentic Skill Distillation from Generated Egocentric Videos for Generalizable Whole-Body Manipulation

arXiv:2608.03387v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots have the potential to perform dexterous manipulation in human environments, yet acquiring diverse and generalizable skills remains costl

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Robust Biharmonic Skinning Using Geometric Fields

arXiv:2406.00238v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bounded bihramonic weights are a popular tool used to rig and deform characters for animation, to compute reduced-order simulations, and to de

Staying on Spec: Real-Time Monitoring under Uncertainty with a Maritime Case Study

arXiv:2608.02811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic systems must operate under uncertainty while satisfying complex task and safety specifications. Monitoring such specifications under uncertainty

Studying, Identifying, and Fixing Hidden Technical Debt in AI-Intensive Cyber-Physical Systems

arXiv:2608.02638v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) components are increasingly pervasive in several software systems, including Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs). AI-CPS are us

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Toward Certified Functional Safety for Industrial Humanoid Robots: The Fail-Passive Gap and a Feasibility Study

arXiv:2608.02809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial humanoid robots are constrained less by locomotion or manipulation capability than by the immaturity of functional safety certification for l

A 2.6B model with tool calling and 128K context now runs at 30 tok/s on a phone

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B today, and this might be more relevant to local AI than another massive model most people cannot run. The model is only 2.69B parameters, has 128K context, supports tool

bFaaaP: An Inclusive, Head-Angle Piano-Pedal Interaction that Quantitatively Reproduces a Pianist's Intended Pedalling -- Foot-Free, for Acoustic and Electronic Pianos

arXiv:2608.00633v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Expressive piano performance depends on the sustain (damper) pedal, operated by foot, excluding players who cannot readily use their feet: wheelchair

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Bicycle Acrobatics with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.00880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bicycle robots are fast and energy efficient, but their simple mechanical design and their underactuated and non-holonomic dynamics make highly agile ma

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BiKAN: Restoring Collapsed Basis of Binary Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks

arXiv:2608.01490v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Binarizing a polynomial Kolmogorov--Arnold Network (KAN) not only changes parameter precision, but also alters the function space available to each laye

Breaking the Statistical Similarity Trap in Extreme Convection Detection

arXiv:2509.09195v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current evaluation metrics for deep learning weather models create a 'Statistical Similarity Trap', rewarding blurry predictions while missing

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Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap in Parallel-Link Leg Mechanisms via Simulator-Side Dynamics Normalization

arXiv:2608.01697v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses the sim-to-real gap in dynamics arising when a parallel-link mechanism is represented by a serial-tree surrogate in simulation. Con

CascadeLUT: Information-Ordered Streaming Inference for Bandwidth-Constrained FPGAs

arXiv:2608.00720v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mapping neural networks to FPGAs enables low-latency, energy-efficient inference, particularly for lookup table (LUT)-based models that eliminate mult

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[Deepseek-V4-Flash-0731] Full 1M context on a single RTX5090 + DDR5 Desktop Setup with VLLM CPU/Ram Offloading, ~800 tps pp & 15+ tps decode [Agentic Coding]

First of all, obviously I took some help from AI to type this post and this is the topic that enabled me to accomplish all that: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1veow4b/deepseek_v4flash_2

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Q4) now reaches 1,328 tok/s prefill and ~29 tok/s decode on one RTX PRO 6000

I've been working on speeding up DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 in Krasis and have now got the long-prompt prefill quite a bit faster on a single RTX PRO 6000 96GB. These are timing-disabled internal Krasis r

DPL: Depth-only Perceptive Humanoid Locomotion via Realistic Depth Synthesis and Cross-Attention Terrain Reconstruction

arXiv:2510.07152v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advancements in legged robot perceptive locomotion have shown promising progress. However, terrain-aware humanoid locomotion remains largely

Gaokerena: A Small Persian Medical Language Model Family

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arXiv:2608.00932v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of artificial intelligence into medical question-answering systems has advanced rapidly; however, research remains predominantly focused

HapticVLA: Contact-Rich Manipulation via Vision-Language-Action Model without Inference-Time Tactile Sensing

arXiv:2603.15257v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tactile sensing is a crucial capability for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) architectures, as it enables dexterous and safe manipulation in contact-ric

Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks: Theory, Implementations, and Applications

arXiv:2608.01194v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence has been transformed by deep neural networks, yet the search for new learning architectures continues. Quantum machine learnin

Interaction Dynamics MPC for Knee Rehabilitation Exoskeletons: A Closed-Loop SEA Outer-Loop Study

arXiv:2606.13485v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Safe rehabilitation is an interaction-dynamics problem: the controller must regulate a prescribed motion while absorbing involuntary spasm, vo

Linear Multi-Timescale Retention as a Memory-Efficient Vision-Language Bridge

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arXiv:2608.01614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) face a critical computational bottleneck when processing high-resolution imagery due to the O(N^2) memory complexity of So

Motion Planning for Mobile Manipulators Navigating Doorways via Model Predictive Control

arXiv:2608.00206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Navigating doorways is a fundamental capability for mobile manipulators operating in human environments, requiring coordinated motion between the mobile

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RadYOLO: Computationally Efficient 3D Object Detection and Segmentation in CT and MRI

arXiv:2608.00508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Object detection and segmentation in three-dimensional medical images is a very active area of research. However, most proposed deep learning models car

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RH-RAG: Trustworthy Long-Form Generation for Privacy-Constrained Settings

arXiv:2608.01311v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating long-form content from extensive internal reports remains challenging for organizations operating under strict privacy and security constrain

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RobotDancing: Residual-Action Reinforcement Learning Enables Robust Long-Horizon Humanoid Motion Tracking

arXiv:2509.20717v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon, high-dynamic motion tracking on humanoids remains brittle: retargeted reference motions are typically kinematically plausible but dyna

Rolling Shutter Camera Self-Calibration

arXiv:2608.01509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rolling shutter (RS) cameras are widely used in consumer devices, but their row-wise exposure causes distortions under motion, making geometric 3D visio

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Staged Multi-Agent Training (SMAT) for Hip Exoskeletons: Metabolic and Biomechanical Validation of a Simulation-Trained Co-Adaptive Controller

arXiv:2608.00715v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning-based controllers can deliver exoskeleton assistance after training entirely in physics-based simulation, yet few controllers that address hu

Statistical Mechanics of Learning on Product Wasserstein Manifolds

arXiv:2608.01434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Normally the statistical mechanics of learning treats constraints on weight distributions as restrictions that shrink the space of possible solutions. T

Structured Memory for Edge Language Models: Persistent Context and Corpus Retrieval via O(1) SSM State Injection

arXiv:2608.02560v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) imposes a prefill cost proportional to retrieved context length, and -- with Transformer backbones -- a KV-cache th

VespaSeg: A Resource-Aware Ground-then-Segment Pipeline for Referring Expression Segmentation

arXiv:2608.01077v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Referring expression segmentation requires language conditioned localization and pixel-accurate masks, but monolithic models can be costly to deploy. We

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WiFuse: An Attention Mechanism for Human Activity Recognition using Fused CSI Amplitude and Delay-Doppler Channel Features

arXiv:2608.00642v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, Wi-Fi sensing has played a significant role in Human Activity Recognition (HAR), as it enables the detection of various activities using only

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70-class VRAM stagnation

been thinking about how the desktop 70-class has sat at 12GB for two generations now, 4070, 4070 super, 5070, all 12GB. the 1070 gave you 8GB back in 2016 and it felt generous for the price. ten years

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A Biometric Sensor Network to Enable Real-Time Measurement of Individual Student Engagement in STEM Lecture Environments

arXiv:2607.28944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Student engagement (SE) is a critical predictor of academic performance and retention in STEM education, yet existing measurement approaches are often

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Tutorials

A user's guide to PINNs in geometric analysis: lessons from the asymptotic Plateau problem

arXiv:2607.28733v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This proceedings contribution elaborates on the findings of arXiv:2605.26234v2: a joint work with Marco Usula, where we introduced a machine learning

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Advances, challenges, and opportunities for legged robots

arXiv:2607.28952v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid and quadrupedal robots have the potential to revolutionize the way we work, interact, and coexist with intelligent machines. To understand thei

DART: Dual-Axis Airborne Reachability-Gated Torque-Reaction for Off-Road Vehicle Jumps

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arXiv:2607.29011v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traversing crests, ledges, and ditches at high speed often launches vehicles into the air, and a mishandled landing presents a substantial crash hazard.

Dimensionality reduction for homological stability and global structure preservation

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arXiv:2503.03156v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose DiRe, a force-directed dimensionality reduction framework designed to preserve global structure and homological features while rema

Döner Bench DeepSeek-V4-Flash IQ2_XS running on a single RTX 3090

https://preview.redd.it/3zcvpbds14hh1.png?width=1911&format=png&auto=webp&s=a79aafb71eeca97638da93d2591902631e897fd5 I tried a test similar to the recent model-quant comparisons, but this time I focus

Enabling Low-Latency Machine learning on Radiation-Hard FPGAs with hls4ml

arXiv:2602.15751v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper presents an end-to-end demonstration of a viable, ultra-fast, radiation-hard machine learning (ML) application on FPGAs, which coul