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PACIFIC: Can LLMs Discern the Psychometric Traits Influencing Your Preferences? Personality-Driven Preference Alignment in LLMs

arXiv:2602.07181v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: User preferences are increasingly used to personalize Large Language Model (LLM) responses, yet reliably leveraging preference signals remains under

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14 Sept 2026

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Component-Aware Differential Privacy for Federated Multilingual Speech-LLMs

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arXiv:2609.11762v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Per-layer differential privacy (DP) clipping improves gradient fidelity in federated learning by allocating per-matrix clipping budgets proportional to

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11 Sept 2026

RetroThinker: Enabling Retrospective Thinking in Speech LLMs

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arXiv:2609.11864v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech large language models (SpeechLLMs) offer reduced latency and retain paralinguistic nuances that are typically lost in cascaded automatic speech

11 Sept 2026

Local Ai

DiSCo: A Distribution-First Steering and Cultural Prior Evaluation Framework for Measuring Cultural Preference Bias in LLMs

arXiv:2609.10253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in globally used assistants, yet their default choices in culturally grounded everyday situations

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If It's Not Buggy, Don't Fix It: On the Dynamics of Iterative Bug-fixing with LLMs

arXiv:2609.10123v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have become ubiquitous in software development, with LLM-based automated program repair tools increasingly used during co

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PopResume: Causal Fairness Evaluation of LLM/VLM Resume Screeners with Population-Representative Dataset

arXiv:2603.22714v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present PopResume, a population-representative resume dataset for causal fairness auditing of LLM- and VLM-based resume screening systems.

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Tracing Stereotypes from Representation to Output in Multilingual LLMs

arXiv:2609.08322v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual LLMs show stereotype-related behavior that varies across languages, but behavioral scores do not show where the relevant information is r

TreeThink: A Modular Tree Search Library for Mathematical Reasoning with LLMs

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arXiv:2607.11258v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tree search algorithms enable systematic exploration of the proof space in neural theorem proving. Existing LLM tree search libraries primarily targ

XYBench: Can LLMs Respond Pragmatically to Queries with Misconceptions?

arXiv:2609.06842v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When non-expert users ask LLMs for assistance, their queries can often have misconceptions (e.g., 'How do I parse XML with regex?'). In such cases, of

SAEs Can Improve Unlearning: Dynamic Sparse Autoencoder Guardrails for Precision Unlearning in LLMs

arXiv:2504.08192v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine unlearning is a promising approach to improve LLM safety by removing unwanted knowledge from the model. However, prevailing gradient-based u

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9 Sept 2026

Do LLMs Exhibit Coherent Knowledge Structures in Mathematical Reasoning? A Perspective from Knowledge Space Theory

arXiv:2609.05245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human knowledge is inherently structured and interdependent: mastery of a concept requires prior mastery of its prerequisites, a principle formalized by

7 Sept 2026

From Answers to Interpretations: Rethinking Ambiguity-Induced Aleatoric Uncertainty Estimation in LLMs

arXiv:2609.04543v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A key challenge in reliable LLM deployment is recognizing when uncertainty reflects irreducible variability in the task rather than limitations in the m

7 Sept 2026

Applications

RECAST: Expanding the Boundaries of LLMs' Complex Instruction Following with Multi-Constraint Data

arXiv:2505.19030v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly expected to tackle complex tasks, driven by their expanding applications and users' growing proficienc

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4 Sept 2026

Control-Data Flow Separation: Stable Prompt Optimization in Multi-Agent LLMs

arXiv:2609.00621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prompt optimization can improve multi-agent LLM systems, but the prompts being optimized often serve two entangled roles: generating task-relevant conte

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Latent Recurrent Thoughts: Recurrent Refinement of Proposed Latents for Reasoning with Frozen LLMs

arXiv:2609.01117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-thought reasoning unfolds in discrete token space: each step is committed as text, errors propagate, and eliciting good traces presupposes trac

LifeAgentBench: Benchmarking LLMs for Long-Horizon, Cross-Dimensional Lifestyle Health Reasoning

arXiv:2601.13880v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Personalized lifestyle health analysis requires long-horizon, multi-dimensional reasoning over heterogeneous lifestyle signals, and recent advances

LLMPEDIA: Browsing, Verifying, and Comparing the Parametric Encyclopedic Knowledge of LLMs

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arXiv:2609.01182v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Flagship language models appear saturated on benchmarks like MMLU (Hendrycks et al., 2021), scoring above 90% - yet benchmarks test only what the experi

Scaling Near-Optimal SFT-RL Annotation Budget Allocation from Small to Large LLMs

arXiv:2609.01573v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How to divide a fixed annotation budget between supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL) during LLM post-training remains an open

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Uncovering the Computational Ingredients of Human-Like Representations in LLMs

arXiv:2510.01030v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The human ability to translate diverse perceptual and linguistic inputs into structured behavior has been thought to rest on learning robust represe

Answer Probing-Guided Search for Diverse Solution Exploration of LLMs

arXiv:2608.30345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating multiple diverse and high-quality solutions is valuable for many applications, such as code-test generation and drug discovery. However, Larg

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Creation begins with understanding: LLMs as strategy designers for privacy-preserving tabular data synthesis

arXiv:2608.29674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sharing tabular data in high-stakes domains is constrained by privacy regulations. Synthetic data offer a promising alternative, but deep generative mod

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Hardware

Given how common RTX 3090 use is for LLMs, why don't we see more INT8 W8A8 models ?

Based on https://huggingface.co/hardware, the RTX 3090 is the second most used GPU by LLM enthusiasts. Because RTX 3090 has native INT8 tensors cores, it can provide better performance with INT8 W8A8.

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Man Made Language Models? Evaluating LLMs' Perpetuation of Masculine Generics Bias

arXiv:2502.10577v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Instruct-based large language models (LLMs) have been shown to propagate and even amplify gender bias when prompted with contextually constrai

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Q-Strata: Hierarchical Bit Allocation for Mixed-Precision Quantization of Mixture-of-Experts LLMs

arXiv:2608.30564v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixed-precision quantization (MPQ) assigns a different bitwidth to each linear layer of a large language model (LLM) to minimize the quantization-indu

Tail-Replay: Escaping the Curse of Linear Attention in Prefix Caching for Hybrid LLMs

arXiv:2608.30310v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hybrid large language models interleave full-attention layers with linear-attention layers to reduce the cost of long-context inference. This structur

When Hate Meets Facts: LLMs-in-the-Loop for Check-worthiness Detection in Hate Speech

arXiv:2603.25269v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Hateful content online is often expressed using fact-like, not necessarily correct information, especially in coordinated online harassment campaign

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ToolSense: A Diagnostic Framework for Auditing Parametric Tool Knowledge in LLMs

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arXiv:2606.12451v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models deployed as agents over large tool catalogs face a critical tool-retrieval bottleneck. As embedding-based retrieval appr

31 Aug 2026

LLMs Can Design Near-Optimal OR Algorithms

arXiv:2608.27296v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We ask whether large language models (LLMs) can design effective algorithms for well-specified operations research (OR) problems. We study inventory con

LLMs for Academic Workflows: An Evaluation of Literature Reviews Generated with Short and Long Context Windows of LLMs

arXiv:2608.26145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Our research focuses on evaluating literature reviews generated in short and long context settings of large language models (LLMs) to investigate the im

LLMs in Digital EDA: A perspective on shifting roles from Generation to Orchestration

arXiv:2608.27184v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Electronic design automation (EDA) has advanced engineering productivity through successive generations of tooling that progressively automate synthes

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STEP: State-Aware Task Estimation and Planning with Multi-Modal LLMs for Human-Robot Collaboration

arXiv:2608.27225v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Effective human-robot collaboration in industrial settings requires robots to understand human intentions and assist with task planning, reducing work

A Comedy of Estimators: On KL Regularization in RL Training of LLMs

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arXiv:2512.21852v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The reasoning performance of large language models (LLMs) can be substantially improved by training them with reinforcement learning (RL). The RL ob

AsymSpec: Context-Asymmetric Speculative Decoding for Agentic LLMs

arXiv:2608.26004v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic LLM pipelines face escalating inference costs as context accumulates across retrieval, tool use, and multi-turn interactions. To control laten

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Hardware

DataKernelBench: Can LLMs Optimize Database Queries on GPUs?

arXiv:2608.25061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GPUs increasingly accelerate database systems, but query-specific peak performance still often relies on hand-written kernels. Existing LLM kernel bench

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What are the most frustrating silent failures you've encountered with local LLMs?

I've been building a small tool opensource project that sits between applications and local LLM servers (starting with Ollama) to diagnose silent inference failures instead of just showing logs. Thing

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From Causal Plausibility to Causal Reliability: Evaluating LLMs as Calibrated Direct Causal-Edge Classifiers

arXiv:2608.23660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to provide prior causal knowledge for structural causal discovery, yet whether their direct-edge ju

26 Aug 2026

When Less Is More: An Empirical Study of Minimal Responses in Counseling Dialogues and the Behavior of LLMs

arXiv:2608.24080v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In psychological counseling, effective support is not always delivered through long, information-rich responses. Minimal responses, such as backchanne

26 Aug 2026

Beyond Surface Cues: Disentangling Sociocultural Signals in Multilingual LLMs

arXiv:2608.23026v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual LLM outputs can vary across sociocultural contexts. However, evidence of cultural grounding can be misleading: identity labels may be inf

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25 Aug 2026

Tutorials

How to evaluate LLMs before production

Mariko Wakabayashi is a Principal Applied Scientist at Microsoft who leads the development of agentic AI workflows for cybersecurity operations. She specializes in evaluating LLM‑powered systems and a

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25 Aug 2026

Local LLMs for AI Agents

Hey everyone, I'm trying to set up a local LLM on my machine. My goal is to use it with Qwen Code or OpenCode to help me out with small to medium sized tasks, but nothing too big. I tested many differ

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25 Aug 2026

Applications

Enhancing LLMs in Predictive Political QA with Semi-Structured Data

arXiv:2608.21218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predictive political question answering (QA), such as predicting how a political actor will vote, goes beyond factual lookup. External political resourc

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KREL: Automatic Medical Coding via Knowledge-Guided Reasoning over Clinical Evidence with LLMs

arXiv:2608.20887v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automatic Medical Coding (AMC), which assigns standardized International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes to clinical notes, is essential for me

Please join r/LowEndLocalAI, a community for running local LLMs on low spec hardware

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If you’re trying to run local LLMs on a normal laptop, an older desktop, integrated graphics, limited VRAM, or simply the hardware you already own, r/LowEndLocalAI is meant for you. The idea is simple

When Do LLMs Replace Fine-Tuned NLU? A Decision Framework for Intent Detection in Production Conversational Systems

arXiv:2608.20371v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A common claim is that zero-shot large language models (LLMs) can replace fine-tuned NLU classifiers for intent detection. We test this claim head-to-

Industry

LLMs are so advanced right now that it's jarring that a lot of people think ChatGPT is just a mere chatbot.

I still meet/talk to people that are so outdated in terms of LLM that when they talk about ChatGPT, it feels like they're talking about what ChatGPT was 2-3 years ago. They don't know all the capabili

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21 Aug 2026

KA2L: A Knowledge-Aware Active Learning Framework for LLMs

arXiv:2603.17566v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) with high-quality knowledge has been shown to enhance their performance effectively. However, there is a pa

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20 Aug 2026

Safety Alignment Illusion: The Cross-Lingual Safety Gap in LLMs

arXiv:2608.18131v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current safety alignment training for Large Language Models (LLMs) are heavily English-centric. When such safety filters fail for non-English languages,

20 Aug 2026

TinySearch v0.6.1 - still a lightweight web research tool for local LLMs, now with bring-your-own-browser support