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Surfacing the Unsaid: CUE-Bench for Affective Stance in Chinese Discourse

arXiv:2608.10810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Emotion understanding in discourse requires reasoning beyond surface sentiment because speakers often convey affect through indirect, implicit, polite

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Test-Time Self-Evolving GUI Visual Grounding via Reflection-Guided On-Policy Self-Distillation

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arXiv:2608.11191v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GUI Visual Grounding is a fundamental capability for GUI agents. Existing models typically freeze their parameters after deployment, limiting their ab

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12 Aug 2026

The GENEA Challenge 2026: A Large-Scale Disentangled Evaluation of Speech-Driven Gesture Generation on the Seamless Interaction Dataset

arXiv:2608.10839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This preprint presents the results of the fourth GENEA Challenge, a large-scale human evaluation of five speech-driven gesture-generation systems traine

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TrAC: Trace-Conditioned Answer Consistency for Efficient Uncertainty Quantification in LLMs

arXiv:2608.00422v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can generate fluent reasoning traces that nevertheless lead to incorrect answers, making response-level uncertainty est

TRACE-GS: On-Policy Trajectory Distillation with Privileged Geometric Conditioning for Sparse-View 3DGS Restoration

arXiv:2608.10286v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present TRACE-GS, an on-policy trajectory distillation framework that leverages privileged geometric conditioning at training time, thereby adapting

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VidForensics-M1: Meta-Detection Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Temporal Grounding for AI-Generated Video Forensics

arXiv:2608.11201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in video generation models have significantly improved the realism of synthetic videos, blurring the boundary between generated and auth

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When Vision Becomes Text: Visual Token Pruning via Cross-Modal Residual Guidance in VLMs

arXiv:2608.10489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Abundant visual information strengthens vision-language model (VLM) perception, yet massive visual tokens raise inference costs. Existing visual token p

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BRUCE: Benchmarking Robustness Under Corruption Escalation for Scientific Vision-Language Reasoning

arXiv:2608.07742v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual-language models (VLMs) frequently struggle with robustness issues in real-world situations due to low- or varying-quality input images. In this p

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CircuitReason-1k: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Visual-to-Symbolic Reasoning inElectrical Circuits

arXiv:2608.09374v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electrical circuit analysis requires more than recognizing components in an image. A solver must ground symbols and labels, recover latent topology, sel

Describe-to-Score: A text-guided framework for image complexity assessment

arXiv:2509.16609v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurately assessing image complexity (IC) is essential for many vision tasks, yet existing approaches rely almost exclusively on visual features an

Evolving Safety Landscape of Multi-modal Large Language Models: A Survey of Emerging Threats and Safeguards

arXiv:2608.07535v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) integrate heterogeneous modalities through modality alignment and fusion, enabling stronger understanding an

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Frequency-Domain Dual-Branch Fusion for Medical Visual Question Answering

arXiv:2608.08307v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires aligning subtle visual evidence, including lesion texture, boundary sharpness, and diffuse density ch

Goal-oriented Navigation Instruction Generation with Tour Video Priors

arXiv:2608.08596v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Navigation Instruction Generation (NIG) aims to produce step-by-step natural language instructions for navigation guidance. Existing studies primarily t

I put Gemma 4 E4B and E2B into an e-reader so I can ask my weird questions and share my thoughts in private directly in app.

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Here's how it works in the app: Framework: Runs on LiteRT-LM (like Google's AI Edge). Models: Downloads either the E2B (~2.5 GB) or E4B (~3.6 GB) INT4 quantized models directly from ungated litert-com

Learning Physical Interaction: A Survey of Tactile- and Force-aware Robot Learning

arXiv:2608.07558v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physically grounded robot intelligence requires robots to perceive, reason about, and regulate their interactions with the physical world. This capabi

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Sources: Nvidia is developing a Nemotron 4 model with 1T+ parameters, up from Nemotron 3 Ultra's 550B parameters but smaller than leading Chinese open models (The Information)

The Information: Sources: Nvidia is developing a Nemotron 4 model with 1T+ parameters, up from Nemotron 3 Ultra's 550B parameters but smaller than leading Chinese open models — Nvidia is doubling down

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SpikeWorld: Fast-State Adaptation for Frozen Spiking World Models

arXiv:2608.07712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A predictive model receives a self-supervised signal whenever the consequence of an action is observed. Using that signal after deployment is difficul

VIGIL: Tackling Hallucination Detection in Image Recontextualization

arXiv:2602.14633v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce VIGIL (Visual Inconsistency & Generative In-context Lucidity), a benchmark dataset and framework that provides a fine-grained categoriz

VLZip: Unified Visual and Textual Compression for Interleaved Long-Context Modeling

arXiv:2608.08630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision Language Models (VLMs) face significant challenges with ultra-long, interleaved image-text sequences due to the quadratic complexity of self-atte

What to Edit Next: Visually Aligned Image-Editing Follow-Up Suggestions in Conversational Systems

arXiv:2608.07565v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational assistants increasingly recommend follow-up edits to help users continue a task. Existing systems primarily target text-only interactio

ZOMP: Zeroth-Order Multi-Modal Prompt Tuning for Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608.08060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning vision-language models such as CLIP typically requires backpropagation (BP) through the full model, which is infeasible when only forward-pa

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Confidence Estimation for Financial Vision-Language Models in Chart and Document Understanding

arXiv:2608.06532v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LVLMs are increasingly used to read financial charts, tables, and documents, where a single misread figure can move a decision and the most authoritativ

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ControlRef: Efficient Layout-Guided Multi-Instance Generation via Anchored 4D-RoPE

arXiv:2608.06878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Layout-guided multi-instance generation is essential for controllable image synthesis in Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformers (MM-DiTs). However, integrat

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DocMemo: Dynamic Evidence Discovery via Probabilistic Memory-Guided Retrieval for Multi-Modal Document Understanding

arXiv:2608.07067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-document understanding requires locating sparse and heterogeneous evidence across hundreds of pages, yet existing systems remain limited by static

Georeferencing Non-Gazetteered Place Names using Biological Specimen Records

arXiv:2608.06884v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Biological specimen records collected by natural history institutions constitute a rich source of temporal geographic knowledge, capturing biodiversit

How Malachyte solves retail’s cold-start problem with managed real-time AI

What’s the best way to recommend products to little-known users? We’ve spent our careers trying to solve this problem for major companies like Spotify and Priceline, and it’s why Sidd founded Malachyt

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How Should I Pick a Foundation Model for My Robot? In Favor of a Community Evaluation Framework for Social Robots

arXiv:2608.06898v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Researchers who seek to build social robot applications on foundation models are faced with a difficult question: how should we pick a model? Public l

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International Transfer of Stochastic Cortical Self-Reconstruction

arXiv:2608.07092v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stochastic cortical self-reconstruction (SCSR) enables personalized mapping of gray matter atrophy, a hallmark of neurodegenerative disorders such as

Introducing Muse Glimmer

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Introducing Muse Glimmer Meta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glimmer is a brand new 30B model under a clean Apache 2.0 license (a step up from the janky Llama licenses of old). They claim to

Introducing Muse Glimmer: an open-weight model optimized for always-on local agent workflows

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Hi r/LocalLLaMA 👋 Today we’re excited to release Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight model built specifically for local agent workflows. We’re releasing the weights to the community under a permissive Apa

Latent Fact-Checking: Detecting Misinformation through Activation Engineering

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arXiv:2608.06417v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The proliferation of misinformation online has driven demand for scalable detection systems. While most existing approaches rely on surface-level ling

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LoRAScan: Detecting Backdoor Prompts in Low-Rank Adapters for Large Language Models via Down-Projection Activation Spikes

arXiv:2608.06795v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) enables efficient specialization and distribution of large language models through compact adapters. However, untrusted ada

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Meta returns to open weights: Muse Glimmer, its first open-weights release since Llama 4, scores 35 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence …

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Meta returns to open weights: Muse Glimmer, its first open-weights release since Llama 4, scores 35 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. It is a 30B-parameter model, and the first from Meta

Mobile Interaction for Assessing Fatigue, Sleep, and Activity in Neurodegenerative and Chronic Diseases

arXiv:2608.06380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fatigue, sleep, or disturbances in daily activities are common symptoms among patients with neurodegenerative disorders (NDD) and immune-mediated infl

PsychoAgent: An Affect-Sensitive Cognitive Architecture for Conflict-Aware Memory in LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.07438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-like cognition does not select past experience by topical similarity alone: affective significance and unresolved conflict also shape what becomes

SkillProx: Self-Evolving Agent Skills via Proximal Textual Gradient Descent

arXiv:2608.07449v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly adapt to recurring tasks by accumulating procedural knowledge in skills. These skills are lightweight, reusable textual artifact

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SLED: Scalable Location Encoding via Distillation

arXiv:2608.06612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The plethora of readily available geospatial data offers exciting opportunities to learn high quality representations of the planet, but the sheer siz

Stockmark-Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-JapanDocReader: Structured Document Parsing via Capability Injection and Forgetting Control

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arXiv:2608.06758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Stockmark-Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-JapanDocReader, a Japanese document understanding model built from Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16

The Perils of Agency: How Developers Perceive, Prioritize, and Address Risks in Agentic AI Products

arXiv:2606.15485v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agentic AI systems act autonomously, use tools, adapt to context, and operate in complex real-world environments. However, these same characte

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Applications

Towards a Theoretical Understanding of Two Tower Recommendation Models

arXiv:2403.00802v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Production-grade recommender systems rely heavily on a large-scale corpus used by online media services, including Netflix, Pinterest, and Ama

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UAV3DCrop: Benchmarking 3D Reconstruction in Repeated Multi-Angle UAV Crop Surveys

arXiv:2608.06404v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate 3D crop monitoring underpins data-driven precision agriculture by enabling field-scale analysis of plant structure, growth dynamics, and manage

YOLO-PEFT: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning on YOLO Family

arXiv:2608.07051v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generic parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods transferred from language models can fail silently on real-time detectors, whose heterogeneous op

MoCA: Implicit Social Context Analysis

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arXiv:2608.05825v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human social communication, such as affection and intent, is often conveyed in highly implicit ways, where underlying meanings are expressed through ind

7 Aug 2026

A quick snapshot of where Qwen3.8-Max stands today: Qwen3.8-Max now ranks #5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, and #1 on the Ag…

Qwen 3.8‑Max, Alibaba’s latest large language model, was reported on August 6 2026 to rank **#5** on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and **#1** on the Agentic Index. These rankings position

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EmpaAva: An Open-source Agentic 3D-Avatar Empathetic Live Chatbot

arXiv:2608.04709v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents EmpaAva, to our knowledge the first open-source, agentic 3D-avatar empathetic chatbot, which carries empathetic response generation

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SmartMage: Dynamic Modality Orchestration for 3D Scene Understanding

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

What are Agentic Workflows?

**Agentic Workflows** enable automated systems to execute complex tasks by orchestrating multiple agents that interact with each other and external services. They delegate subtasks, monitor progress,

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Better, Stronger, Faster, and Broader: Structured All-Mask Prediction for MLLM-Based Segmentation