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A Triple-Robustness Analysis of Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Multi-Hop Requirements Traceability

arXiv:2608.00705v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reported verdicts on GraphRAG versus vector RAG disagree, and the evidence is typically tied to a single corpus, embedder, and judge -- and, we show,

Agents

A US appeals court overturns a ruling that had temporarily barred Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tools on Amazon's platform (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

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Blake Brittain / Reuters: A US appeals court overturns a ruling that had temporarily barred Perplexity from using its agentic shopping tools on Amazon's platform — A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday over

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Abduction Without a Body? Representational Grounding and the Abduction Loop for Scientific Hypothesis Generation

arXiv:2608.02505v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Can scientific abduction occur without continuous sensorimotor embodiment? Recent arguments in AI and philosophy of science hold that genuine hypothes

ABRA: Teleporting Fine-Tuned Knowledge Across Domains for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection

arXiv:2603.12409v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Although recent Open-Vocabulary Object Detection architectures, such as Grounding DINO, demonstrate strong zero-shot capabilities, their performance

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Abstention as an Action Can Kill Both the Reward Gradient and the KL Anchor: Collapse Law and Repair for Error-Penalized Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.00301v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Error-penalized scoring rules (+1 for a correct answer, -lambda for a wrong one, 0 for abstaining) are increasingly prescribed against hallucination:

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Accelerating Evolutionary Strategy via Rao-Blackwellizing Realization of Uncertain Input

arXiv:2608.02073v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate Optimization under Input Uncertainty (OIU), in which the input to the objective function, rather than the objective function itself, is

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Accuracy Does Not Guarantee Human-Likeness: Cross-Domain Human-Centered Benchmark in Monocular Depth Estimation

arXiv:2512.08163v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly used as functional models of human vision, yet standard monocular depth estimation (MDE) benchmarks lar

ACE-GraphRAG: Agentic Context Engineering for Hierarchical GraphRAG

arXiv:2608.01269v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hierarchical Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) organizes corpus knowledge at multiple levels of granularity, yet fixed context constructio

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Action Chunk Scheduling for Batched Robot Policy Serving

arXiv:2608.00337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying robot foundation models at scale is the next step towards realizing the potential of general-purpose robots. However, Vision-Language-Action (

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Action-grounded tissue affordance enables anticipatory auto-framing that lowers surgeon cognitive workload during laparoscopic surgery

arXiv:2608.02471v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computational attention models could help surgeons manage the visual demands of laparoscopy, but they require dense spatial labels that are difficult to

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Active Regression for Single-Index Models with Unknown Link Functions

arXiv:2608.01287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper studies active regression for single-index models under general ell_p-loss with an unknown 1-Lipschitz link function f, formulated as min_{

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AdaForensics: Learning A Characteristic-aware Adaptive Deepfake Detector

arXiv:2608.02160v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we propose a characteristic-aware adaptive network named AdaForensics for deepfake detection. Most existing methods learn a fixed network

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AdaHAT: Adaptive Hard Attention to the Task in Task-Incremental Learning

arXiv:2608.01252v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Catastrophic forgetting is a major problem in task-incremental learning, where neural networks tend to overwrite previously learned knowledge when train

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AdaMTP: An Adaptive Training Paradigm for Multi-Token Prediction

arXiv:2608.00434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) has emerged as an effective paradigm that augments a shared Large Language Model backbone with auxiliary heads, training th

Adaptive Human-Robot Collaborative Painting Combining Preference-Based Optimization and Dynamic Motion Primitives

arXiv:2608.01981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work presents a human-centered collaborative framework that integrates Preference-Based Optimization (PBO) and Dynamic Movement Primitives (DMPs) t

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Adaptive Quantum Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Differential Equations with Applications to Fluid Dynamics

arXiv:2608.00850v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have emerged as a versatile approach for solving nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs), yet achieving

Adaptive Reconstruction of Bosonic Quantum States

arXiv:2608.02049v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bosonic quantum systems provide a hardware-efficient platform for quantum information processing but remain challenging to characterise due to their l

AdaThink-Med: Optimizing Inference-Time Compute for Medical Reasoning via Uncertainty Quantification

arXiv:2509.24560v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Extended Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has significantly bolstered the capabilities of medical large language models (LLMs). However, current mod

AdaThinkV: Adaptive Thinking for Token-Efficient Video Reasoning

arXiv:2608.01980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning can improve performance on difficult video questions but often wastes decoding tokens on simple ones. We study whether

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Advancing Relevance Measurement with Vision-Language Models for Web-Scale Search

arXiv:2608.02446v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Relevance evaluation plays a crucial role in personalized search systems, serving as a guardrail alongside user engagement metrics to ensure that sear

AdvPlan-Bench: Adversarial Evaluation of Structured Plan-Generation Agents

arXiv:2608.00832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured plan-generation agents are often evaluated as if a plan has quality in isolation, yet many realistic planning tasks require asking how a cand

AeroLLE: Constrained Pseudo-Supervision for Nighttime Aerial Image Enhancement with the AeroNight-1.5K Benchmark

arXiv:2608.00702v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Nighttime aerial image enhancement is challenged by spatially nonuniform exposure, mixed illumination, and weak structural evidence, while registered no

AffordTrajDP: Dynamic Affordance-Guided Visuomotor Policy Learning for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv:2608.01603v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Affordance-guided imitation learning has shown impressive performance in robotic manipulation tasks by compressing visual perception into task-specific

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Agentic Bayesian Optimization through Surrogate-Augmented Autoresearch

arXiv:2608.00316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian optimization (BO) has become the standard tool for sample-efficient optimization and owes its efficiency to uncertainty-aware search driven by

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Agentic Coding in the Wild: Characterizing GitHub Copilot Traces at Production Scale

arXiv:2608.00101v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI coding agents like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Codex interleave multi-step LLM inference with tool execution, creating a workload different fr

Agentic Graph Token Reasoning

arXiv:2608.00542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graphs model relational data throughout science and industry, from citation networks to product co-purchase graphs. Because the nodes of many such graph

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AgentMemBench: A Systematic Benchmark for Evaluating Long-Term Memory Management Strategies in Conversational AI Agents

arXiv:2608.00009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term memory remains a critical bottleneck for conversational AI agents, whose finite context windows cannot support coherent recall across thousand

Aggregate-then-Calibrate for Human-centered Assessment with Theoretical Guarantees

arXiv:2608.02455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-centered assessment tasks, which are essential for systematic decision-making, rely heavily on human judgment and typically lack verifiable ground

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AI-Based Thesis Assessment: An Empirical Study of Human Evaluation Priorities and Their Impact on Automated Assessment

arXiv:2608.00717v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rubric-based AI systems for thesis assessment use criterion weights to assign different levels of importance to evaluation criteria. These weights are

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Hardware

AI cloud startup Volta Infra raised 300M led by a16z and Altimeter at a 2.4B valuation and says it landed a $10B contract with an unnamed leading AI developer (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: AI cloud startup Volta Infra raised 300M led by a16z and Altimeter at a 2.4B valuation and says it landed a 10B contract with an unnamed leading AI developer — Volta Infra Holdi

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AI compute is going to orbit. 🚀 @SpaceX’s Starmind AI1 satellite compute payload is powered by NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, bringing AI factory…

AI compute is going to orbit. 🚀 @SpaceX’s Starmind AI1 satellite compute payload is powered by NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, bringing AI factory compute closer to the stars. The next chapter of AI infrastr

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AI Leaders Propose SAFE Guidelines for Cybersecurity Transparency

Members of the Open Secure AI Alliance — now more than 120 organizations strong — are developing new guidelines to strengthen agentic AI cybersecurity as the annual Black Hat conference begins in Las

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AIMold: An Autonomous AI-based Pipeline for Complex Mold Design

arXiv:2608.00800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Injection molding is the cornerstone of mass-producing plastic components. While current algorithms can automate mold design for basic geometries using

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AirSplat: Alignment and Rating for Robust Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Splatting

arXiv:2603.25129v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While 3D Vision Foundation Models (3DVFMs) have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot capabilities in visual geometry estimation, their direct applicati

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All models are currently 20% discounted in Portal, other than GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna which 50% off and DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 which is 90% o…

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All models in the Portal are discounted by 20 %, except GPT‑5.6 Terra and Luna (50 % off) and DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (90 % off). The latest Alibaba Qwen release, Qwen3.8‑Max, is now available for Herm

AlphaG-OPD: Reliability-Gated Sibling Counterfactuals for On-Policy Distillation in Symbolic Alpha Factor Discovery

arXiv:2608.01303v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Symbolic alpha factor discovery can score a completed expression, but it provides no direct label for the structural decisions that produced it. Generat

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AMD’s AI engine shifts into higher gear as data center revenue more than doubles, Helios ramps & market is confused

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. delivered another strong quarter Tuesday, beating Wall Street expectations as its artificial intelligence infrastructure business continued its rapid expansion. The company

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Amortized Inference of Multi-Modal Posteriors using Likelihood-Weighted Normalizing Flows

arXiv:2512.04954v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present a novel technique for amortized posterior estimation using Normalizing Flows trained with likelihood-weighted importance sampling. This a

Amortizing the Calibration Triple: A Projection-Consistent Neural Operator for Local-Stochastic Volatility

arXiv:2608.01217v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Local-stochastic volatility (LSV) combines vanilla marginals with richer smile dynamics, but calibration requires a slow, noisy and sequential McKean-

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An Accessible Solution for Deformable Image Registration Compared with Learning-Based Approaches

arXiv:2608.02248v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deformable image registration (DIR) is a core problem in medical image analysis; but, unlike labeling decision problems such as classification and seg

An AI-Based Decision-Support Pipeline for Day-Ahead Photovoltaic Forecasting

arXiv:2608.02088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable photovoltaic (PV) forecasts are needed for low-carbon energy systems, but newly deployed sites often have short, imperfect records. This makes

An Embedded RISC-V Evaluation of Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks in Hard-Constrained Recurrent Physics-Informed Models

arXiv:2608.00737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hard-constrained recurrent physics-informed networks (HRPINNs) embed known dynamics inside a recurrent numerical integrator and restrict a neural branch

An Evidence-Grounded Retrieval-Augmented Transformer Framework for Health Misinformation Verification

arXiv:2608.02310v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid spread of false and misleading health information through digital platforms has become a major public health challenge, particularly during in

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An Uncertainty-Driven Hybrid Deep Learning Approach for Broad-Coverage RF Modulation Recognition

arXiv:2608.00796v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic RF modulation recognition is of critical importance in spectrum monitoring, electronic warfare, and cognitive radio applications, where low

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Analytic Planning under Uncertainty with Moment Closure

arXiv:2608.02519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective model-based reinforcement learning in stochastic environments requires planning that accounts for predictive uncertainty. Propagating full sta

Analyzing Speech Condition Effects in Dysarthric ASR: A Layer-wise Probing Study

arXiv:2608.01865v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance degrades sharply on dysarthric speech, yet how disordered articulation reshapes a model's internal repres

Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet

Cloudflare Wallets will provide AI agents with native payments and verifiable identity on the web. Using the x402 protocol, agents can autonomously purchase APIs and content within clear safety guardr

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Any House Any Task: Scalable Long-Horizon Planning for Abstract Human Tasks

arXiv:2602.12244v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Open world language conditioned task planning is crucial for robots operating in large-scale household environments. While many recent works attempt

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