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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Your Agentic LLMs Secretly Encode Latent Signals of Indirect Prompt-Injection Exposure

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arXiv:2608.02657v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic LLMs are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection (IPI) attacks, e.g., malicious side-tasks hidden in external tool results. While many efforts

ZK-SR117: A Chunked Zero-Knowledge Attestation Design for Aggregated Fair-Lending Metrics, with a Control Mapping toward Full SR 11-7 Coverage

arXiv:2608.02664v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying ML models in regulated decision-making (credit underwriting, fraud detection, loan approval) requires demonstrating fairness and robustness

3D-CovDiffusion: 3D-Aware Diffusion Policy for Coverage Path Planning

arXiv:2510.03011v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models have shown strong potential for robot skill learning, yet their role in coverage path planning remains underexplored. In industrial

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3DZip: Spatial-Aware Feature Diversity-Guided Token Compression for 3D Question Answering

arXiv:2608.01185v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent 3D vision-language models (3D VLMs) construct geometry aware tokens by projecting 2D visual features into world coordinates, enabling spatial rea

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A 2-Block Architecture for Real-Time EEG Gait Decoding: A Pilot Study

arXiv:2608.02083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Closed-loop lower-limb exoskeleton control via Electroencephalography (EEG) remains limited by motion artifacts, low signal-to-noise ratio, and binary g

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

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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

A Benchmark Dataset for MLLM-Generated Image Detection: GPT Image2 & Nano Banana2

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arXiv:2608.01258v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The realism of images generated by multimodal large language models (MLLMs), such as GPT Image2 and Nano Banana2, has improved rapidly in recent years.

A Comparative Analysis of MLP and Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) for Faster-than-Nyquist (FTN) Signaling Detection

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arXiv:2608.02062v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Faster-than-Nyquist signaling improves spectral ef- ficiency by deliberately introducing inter-symbol interference. Classical sequence detectors such

A Comprehensive FP8 Training Recipe for Reasoning-Enhanced Language Models

arXiv:2509.22536v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The immense computational cost of training Large Language Models (LLMs) presents a major barrier to innovation. While FP8 training offers a promisin

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A Constitution-Grid Instrument for Data-Efficient RL Alignment (C-Guard)

arXiv:2608.00180v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conflicting objectives are general in RL alignment, and training on them data-efficiently is hard. Training a safety guard with RL means optimizing two

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Agents

A drone that learns to efficiently find non-uniformly distributed objects in agricultural fields: from simulation to the real world

arXiv:2505.09278v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Drones are promising for data collection in precision agriculture but are limited by battery capacity. Drone paths are usually planned using full co

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A False Average: Chain-of-Thought Monitors Collapse Where They Are the Only Defense

arXiv:2608.00583v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitoring is meant to catch the reward hacks that look clean in the actions and betray themselves only in the reasoning. We sh

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A Few Neurons Reveal When LLMs Misuse Tools: Sparse Detection and Selective Steering for Reliable Tool Use

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arXiv:2608.00218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic LLMs exhibit three consequential tool-use failures: invalid arguments (validity), unnecessary calls (over-calling), and omitted calls when tools

Hardware

A Fortran General-Purpose Transpiler: Proof of Concept

arXiv:2608.00130v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fortran has been the cornerstone of high-performance computing for decades and remains unmatched in many domains. Yet the language faces an expertise

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A Forward-Inverse Dynamic Game Framework for Enhanced Multi-Agent Trajectory Planning

arXiv:2608.01636v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies feedback Nash equilibrium (FBNE) seeking for multi-agent trajectory planning in nonlinear dynamical systems with unknown agents' obje

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A General-Purpose VLM Can Teach an Astronomy Foundation Model to Better Recognize Galaxy Morphology

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arXiv:2608.02300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing astronomy foundation models provide strong galaxy representations, but adapting them to new survey conditions and survey-specific morphology re

A Heuristic Perspective on Debiasing Language Models

arXiv:2608.00622v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models (LMs) often acquire various biases during pre-training and may express them in interactions, potentially causing social harm. Existing m

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A Large-Scale Multi-Dimensional Empirical Study of LLMs for Conversation Summarization

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arXiv:2606.15974v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite the significant advancement of LLMs in conversation summarization, their evaluation remains limited by insufficient scenarios, input lengths

A llama.cpp PR caches “hot” MoE experts on the GPU — 33 → 56 tok/s reported with 8GB VRAM

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A new llama.cpp PR (#26563) adds a heatmap that tracks which MoE experts are used most often. Instead of keeping every expert on the GPU or offloading all of them, it caches the frequently selected ex

A Multi-Objective AutoML-based Efficient Intrusion Detection System for EV Charging Networks

arXiv:2608.02274v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Electric Vehicle Charging Systems (EVCSs) are increasingly connected with Internet of Things (IoT) devices, which improves charging intelligence but a

A Physics-Chemistry-Informed Neural Network (PCINN) for Real-Time Spatial-ALD Coverage Prediction and Reliable Kinetics Inversion

arXiv:2608.00212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial atomic layer deposition (SALD) is a leading atmospheric-pressure, high-throughput route to industrial ALD, but design and control are limited by

A pioneer of AI-in-biology just published a sharp rebuttal to the 'AI will cure cancer' narrative. The core argument: It's a measurement pro…

A pioneer of AI-in-biology just published a sharp rebuttal to the 'AI will cure cancer' narrative. The core argument: It's a measurement problem. Over 90% of drugs that enter clinical trials still fai

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A reproducible and extensible framework for benchmarking competing risks survival models

arXiv:2608.00271v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A wide range of statistical and machine learning methods have been proposed for survival analysis with competing risks, where the occurrence of one ev

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A Robotic System for Automated Manufacturing of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

arXiv:2608.00369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This letter presents an automated robotic manufacturing system for soft capacitors which operate as actuators and sensors. Emphasis is placed on the two

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A Semiparametric Discrete Hawkes Model with a Collapsed Gaussian-Process Prior

arXiv:2509.21996v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Hawkes processes are used in settings where past events increase the likelihood of future events occurring, resulting in a natural clustering

A Sequence-to-Sequence ConvLSTM Approach for Leaf Area Index Forecasting over the South-Central United States

arXiv:2608.00879v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Leaf Area Index (LAI) is a fundamental biophysical variable governing land-atmosphere interactions; however, LAI forecasting at high spatial resolutio

A Simple Approximation to the Distribution of the Ridge Regression Estimator

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arXiv:2608.02539v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a simple Gaussian approximation to the finite-sample distribution of the classical ridge regression estimator. Our approximation captures t

A Spatial Persistence Gradient in European Warming Consistent with North Atlantic Cold-Blob Influence

arXiv:2608.00063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Europe is warming faster than the global mean, yet the spatial organisation of this acceleration remains incompletely understood. Using ERA5 reanalysi

A Spectral Filtering Approach to Regret Analysis of Distributed Online Control for Linear Dynamical Systems

arXiv:2608.02375v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper studies the distributed online control problem over a network of linear time-invariant (LTI) systems in the presence of adversarial disturb

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A Tilt-Rotor UAV with a Gripper for Stable Contact-Based Tasks via Environmental Anchoring

arXiv:2608.01736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Maintaining a stable pose during physical interaction is a significant challenge for aerial robots, often limiting their use in contact-based tasks. Thi

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