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Vectra AI launches Vectra AI Pro to feed AI agents better attack signals

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Threat detection company Vectra AI Inc. today launched Vectra AI Pro, a product built to give the artificial intelligence agents now working inside security operations centers a more reliable read on

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Verifiable Memory: Learning Unified Memory Management with Local and Global Verifiers for Large Language Model Agents

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arXiv:2608.03137v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents must retain reusable information, control a bounded active context, and recover earlier evidence during long-horizon i

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Agents

Verified Tool Calls Improve LLM Agent Reliability Under Non-Atomic Failures

arXiv:2608.02645v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents rely on external tools to perform multistage tasks. Existing agent frameworks typically assume that tool calls are a

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Verifier-Guided Model Discovery for Physical Dynamical Systems with Pretrained Symbolic Transformers

arXiv:2608.02662v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable forecasting of nonlinear physical systems underpins scientific discovery and engineering decision-making. Yet high-fidelity simulations are p

VeriTrace: Human-Like Temporal Exploration Completes Agentic Action Space

arXiv:2608.02878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models have shown promise for automated Verilog RTL generation, yet state-of-the-art multi-agent systems plateau at ~95% accuracy on stan

Very interesting to see @JeffDean's pitch deck. Just look at those open science and engineering problems. Lots to advance there with automat…

Very interesting to see @JeffDean's pitch deck. Just look at those open science and engineering problems. Lots to advance there with automated ML engineering. AI for science and engineering is just ge

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VetScore: Risk-Weighted Fact Verification for Veterinary Long-Form QA with Citations

arXiv:2608.03675v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Citation excerpts can be used to increase the reliability of generated outputs and their faithfulness to cited sources, which is especially important in

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VIBE: A VAD-Informed Benchmark for Entity-Centered Affective Profiling of Large Language Model Outputs

arXiv:2608.03810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models routinely describe socially salient targets, including political figures, countries, religions, organizations, historical events

VIBE: Vector Index Benchmark for Embeddings

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arXiv:2505.17810v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search is a performance-critical component of many machine learning pipelines, and rigorous benchmarking is essen

Video-DeepResearch: Towards the Next-Generation Multimodal Deepresearch Agent

arXiv:2608.03979v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Video-DeepResearch (Video-DR), extending multimodal agents from static images to continuous video streams, a setting that demands dense s

Virtual Patients, Real Gains: Digital Twin-Based Simulated CT for Multitask Lung Nodule Analysis

arXiv:2502.21187v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI-based lung cancer screening is constrained by scarce, annotated CT data, particularly for rare nodule presentations. We investigate whether physi

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VIVID: A Culturally Grounded Benchmark Exposing the Figurative Language Gap in Vietnamese NLP

arXiv:2608.03095v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present VIVID (Vietnamese Idioms for Validation and Interpretation Depth), the first systematic benchmark for evaluating culturally grounded figurati

Agents

VLC Fusion: Vision-Language Conditioned Sensor Fusion for Robust Object Detection

arXiv:2505.12715v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Although fusing multiple sensor modalities can enhance object detection performance, existing fusion approaches often overlook subtle variations in

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Vulnerabilities, Secrets and Misconfiguration in the Highest-Exposure Docker Hub Images

arXiv:2608.02669v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Docker Hub is the registry underneath most container deployments, and a flaw in a widely reused base image is inherited by every image built on it. Pr

Watch a local Ollama's qwen3:8b turn one English question into a 9-node investigation graph - planned, admitted by a deterministic gate, and run live in the browser (open source, MIT)

The video is one real run, not a mock-up: grapharc go 'why did checkout latency spike at 09:14 UTC?' --model ollama/qwen3:8b A local 8B model proposes the graph → triage fanning out into four parallel

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WeClawArena: An Auditable Sandbox and Benchmark for Cross-User Agents Collaboration and Security in Human-Centered Agent Networks

arXiv:2608.03499v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in persistent personal-agent frameworks are making human-centered agent networks realistic deployment targets: each user can be served b

Welcome to the thunderdome of commoditization

Welcome to the thunderdome of commoditization 🚨The endgame of commoditization and falling prices and lack of a moat that I warned was inevitable in August 2023 took three years. But that moment has co

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What is the Right Embedding Space for Contrastive Learning in REC?

arXiv:2505.22850v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Referring Expression Counting (REC) requires distinguishing visually similar objects described by fine-grained text cues. Existing methods tackle th

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What Language Does and What the Evidence Supports: A Functional Role Taxonomy and Evidence Audit of Language Grounding in Embodied Agents

arXiv:2608.03099v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models place language throughout embodied agents, but its presence does not show what it contributes or how well that contribution is grounde

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What to expect during the Supermicro Open Storage Summit series: Join theCUBE Aug. 11-Sept. 3

This year is turning out to be a good one for companies in the server and storage architecture business. In late July, Super Micro Computer Inc. told investors during a preliminary earnings forecast t

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When Agents Learn to Be You: Benchmarking Privacy Leakage, Impersonation Risk, and Defenses in Persona Skills

arXiv:2608.03700v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Persona skills distill personal interaction histories into portable and executable artifacts for downstream agents. While enabling flexible personaliz

When and Where to Look: Adaptive Visual Evidence Scheduling for Efficient Long Video Understanding

arXiv:2608.03918v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient long-video understanding requires vision--language models (VLMs) to reason over a small number of frames selected as sparse visual evidence.

When Attention Goes Blind: Numerical Failure in ALiBi Positional Encodings

arXiv:2608.03994v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We identify a previously overlooked failure mode of ALiBi positional encoding: its linear bias scaling underflows floating-point precision, which zeroes

When Classes Evolve: A Benchmark and Framework for Stage-Aware Class-Incremental Learning

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arXiv:2602.00573v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to sequentially learn new classes while mitigating catastrophic forgetting of previously learned knowled

When Compression Scores Cannot Decide: Information Boundaries for Group-Robust LLM Pruning

arXiv:2608.02940v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A reproducible compression statistic can still select the wrong candidate. A dense pruning score with 0.906 split-half reliability predicted a 16.1% gai

When Correct Solutions Repeat: Rarity-Aware Credit Redistribution for GRPO

arXiv:2608.03467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) com- monly optimizes each correct completion as an independent learning signal. In GRPO, this comp

When Do Fewer Visual Tokens Accelerate Multimodal Inference? A Break-Even Study Across Decision Locations and Hardware

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arXiv:2608.03649v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fewer visual tokens do not guarantee lower end-to-end latency. We evaluate break-even with a reproducible protocol that accounts for decision overhead,

When Efficiency Becomes Fragility: Exploiting Dynamic Routing Vulnerabilities in Adaptive UAV Tracking

arXiv:2608.03902v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Resource constraints on UAV platforms have driven a paradigm shift in aerial tracking, from pursuing performance toward balancing accuracy with efficien

When Many Answers Are Valid, Voting Fails: Symbolic Verification for Best-of-K Causal Reasoning in LLMs

arXiv:2608.03506v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-consistency assumes the most frequent answer among sampled reasoning traces is the most reliable, but this can fail in causal reasoning: samples of

When Memory Becomes Authority: Benchmarking Authority Collapse at the Memory Consolidation Boundary

arXiv:2608.01679v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Persistent memory allows (self-evolving) LLM agents to adapt across tasks by consolidating heterogeneous interaction histories into reusable facts,

When Oracle Conditioning Misleads Deployment: Conditioning-Availability Bias in Echocardiographic Segmentation

arXiv:2608.03342v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conditional segmentation models may be trained and evaluated with auxiliary signals cleaner than those available at deployment. We study this protocol

When Outputs Disperse, Does Epistemic Revision Follow? A Black-Box Coupling Diagnostic for Machine Collectives

arXiv:2608.03722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collective intelligence research treats disagreement as evidence of epistemic diversity: if agents express different views, the group should retain capa

When Policies Change Probabilities: Modular Decision-Making for LLM Code Review

arXiv:2608.02677v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM code reviewers often estimate patch risk and make approval decisions in one prompt. A probability should depend on evidence; costs should determin

When Refusal Looks Safe: The Refusal-Cue Shortcut in Safety Guard Models

arXiv:2608.03201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety guards are widely used to filter harmful content and are typically trained via supervised fine-tuning on labeled prompt-response pairs. We audit

When Search Teaches Style: Causal Internalization of Tactical Priors in AlphaZero

arXiv:2504.14636v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AlphaZero is normally evaluated as one agent: a policy-value network fused with Monte Carlo tree search. That fusion hides a causal question.

When Should Graph Attention Be Sparse? Learning a Per-Edge Tsallis Index

arXiv:2608.02938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph attention normalizes neighborhood scores with softmax, the maximum-entropy choice under Shannon statistics. But homophilic and heterophilic grap

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When Teachers Mislead: Spurious-Signal-Aware On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2608.03632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-Policy distillation (OPD) transfers teacher capabilities by supervising student-sampled trajectories with dense token-level teacher signals. Recent s

Where Did It Go Wrong? Process-Level Evaluation of Web Agents with Semantic State Tracking

arXiv:2606.15673v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Web agents act through long interaction sequences, yet existing benchmarks evaluate only terminal success, discarding all process information and of

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Where Knowledge Collides: A Mechanistic Study of Intra-Memory Knowledge Conflict in Language Models

arXiv:2601.09445v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In language models (LMs), intra-memory knowledge conflict arises when inconsistent information about the same subject is encoded within the mo

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Where Reasoning Diverges: Localized Multi-Agent Debate for Multi-Hop Question Answering

arXiv:2608.01463v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-agent debate commonly exchanges complete rationales even when disagreements concern only a few intermediate claims. We introduce Localized Mul

White House, AI firms keep safety framework talks private

The White House met with representatives from leading artificial intelligence companies today to discuss a safety framework for the government to review frontier models prior to launch, although there

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Wiring Beats Blending: What Transfers Between Transformer Sizes -- and What Doesn't

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arXiv:2608.02829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model families train every size from scratch. Can a pretrained large model be converted into a smaller sibling? We characterize the 1.4B->410M conversio

Word Recovery in Large Language Models Enables Character-Level Tokenization Robustness

arXiv:2603.10771v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) trained with canonical tokenization exhibit surprising robustness to non-canonical inputs such as character-level token

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WorldCup Arena: Prospective, Leakage-Free Evaluation of Frontier LLMs on a Live Tournament

arXiv:2608.04008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Benchmarks that measure the forecasting ability of large language models are almost always retrospective: the event has happened, the answer is somewher

Xiaomi-Robotics-1: New robotics model released

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Xiaomi-Robotics-1 is a robot foundation model trained on over 100K hours of real-world manipulation trajectories. It is a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model engineered for out-of-the-box mobile manipu

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XiDepth: a Lightweight and Efficient Network for Self-supervised Monocular Depth Estimation

arXiv:2608.03666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has emerged as an appealing solution to design lightweight and effective models for deployment on computation

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Yes, the AIs were given a cybersecurity challenge, with internet access enabled and safety filters disabled. But the extent to which Mythos …

Yes, the AIs were given a cybersecurity challenge, with internet access enabled and safety filters disabled. But the extent to which Mythos 5 pursued its mission (fake identities, social engineering,

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You have Dwarkesh predicting Anthropic is going to make well over 100B in revenue this year. and then you have this chart.

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Gary Marcus noted that investor Dwarkesh predicts Anthropic will generate more than $100 billion in revenue this year, according to a source. A chart accompanying the claim omitted DeepSeek’s pricing