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It's How You Ask: Gender-Associated Linguistic Bias in LLMs

arXiv:2608.13328v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Professional communication is increasingly mediated by LLMs - but do these models serve all users equally? We show that when prompts contain linguisti

14 Aug 2026

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LLMs Are Not Good Strategists, Yet Memory-Enhanced Agency Boosts Reasoning

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arXiv:2608.12626v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Strategic reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) within long-horizon environments is often limited by inconsistent subgoals. In these settings, fin

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14 Aug 2026

Agents

Memorization Diagnostics for Code LLMs Should be Scale-Aware

arXiv:2608.12771v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The extent to which large language models for code rely on memorization over genuine understanding remains highly debated. While current literature fr

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14 Aug 2026

Revolutionizing Finance with LLMs: An Overview of Applications and Insights

arXiv:2401.11641v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have seen considerable advancements and have been applied in diverse fields. Built on the

14 Aug 2026

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LinearKV: One Cached State Suffices for Position-Independent Caching in Hybrid LLMs

arXiv:2608.11231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM serving is increasingly accelerated by position-independent caching (PIC). Existing PIC methods, however, are built for full-attention models, where

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13 Aug 2026

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LLMs in Process Diagram Engineering: From Optimal PFDs to Validated P&IDs

arXiv:2608.11220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Nowadays, the creation of a process flow diagram (PFD) and its subsequent transformation into a piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) is predominant

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13 Aug 2026

10 year garbage card for local llms

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Hello everyone! I like dumb things. I like working with weak computers and microcontrollers. I like the simplicity and low electricity usage. Simply put, the efficiency of a 'dumb' PC. The first tim

Can We Optimize the Performance-Carbon Emission Break-Even Point?: The Quest for Greener LLMs

arXiv:2608.08744v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The carbon footprint of any deployed Large Language Model (LLM) accumulates during inference, where repeated use of the model substantially exceeds th

From Chains to DAGs: Probing the Graph Structure of Reasoning in LLMs

arXiv:2601.17593v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent progress in large language models has renewed interest in how multi-step reasoning is represented internally. While prior work often treats r

JustLLMGRPO: Radiographic Control for Chest X-Ray Generation

arXiv:2608.08046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-conditioned chest X-ray generation aims to synthesize realistic radiographs that faithfully depict specified findings. Existing work has primarily

KGCaRe: Explainable Complex Conditional Question Answering using Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction and Context Retrieval with LLMs

arXiv:2608.09779v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Answering complex conditional questions using Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) remains a challenge, particularly

Test-Time Augmentation for LLMs: When Input Diversity Beats Output Diversity at Matched Compute

arXiv:2608.09351v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Test-time scaling improves LLM accuracy but multiplies inference cost, making the accuracy gained per unit of compute the metric that matters in deplo

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Understanding Calibration and Truncation Error Propagation in Training-Free Low-Rank Compression for LLMs

arXiv:2608.08506v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training-free low-rank compression frameworks have been gaining prominence for LLM compression given their effectiveness in reducing model parameter cou

Your Prompt Is Not the Only Prompt: How Much Do LLMs Weight Structured-Output Schema Descriptions?

arXiv:2608.08254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured output, where an LLM populates a predefined JSON schema, has become a default mechanism for data labeling and information extraction, but it

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Can MLLMs Decode the Creative Leap? Introducing C4 for Cross-Concept Understanding

arXiv:2608.06501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Creative capabilities of MLLMs matter in design, communication, education, and human--AI collaboration, yet remain difficult to evaluate because explici

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10 Aug 2026

Skill-Use: Can LLMs Actually Use Skills in Agentic Harnesses?

arXiv:2608.04828v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on skills, structured documents that specify when to act, which procedure to follow, and which tools

6 Aug 2026

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs

arXiv:2608.04893v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems relay key--value caches instead of text and credit their gains to exchanged ``latent thoughts''. That credit is a claim about

6 Aug 2026

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The Tell-Tale Trace: Detecting Reasoning Failures in LLMs Using Chain-of-Thought Dynamics

arXiv:2608.03291v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning improves large language model (LLM) performance while also providing an observable interface to the model's reasoning

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5 Aug 2026

Are the Financial Reasoning from LLMs Credible? A Real World Test over Long-Horizon Statements

arXiv:2607.28661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Do Large Language Models (LLMs) possess genuine structural reasoning, or merely rely on surface-level pattern matching? The financial domain, demanding

3 Aug 2026

Can LLMs Really Understand Item Difficulty Levels? Implications for Automated Item Generation Using LLMs

arXiv:2607.28634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The estimation of item difficulty plays a key role in both formative assessment and large-scale high-stakes summative assessments. This study explores h

3 Aug 2026

Hardware

DeltaServe: Host-Agnostic Co-Serving of Inference and Fine-Tuning for LLMs

arXiv:2607.28848v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM serving systems are provisioned for peak load to meet strict latency targets, leaving substantial GPU compute idle whenever traffic falls below pe

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3 Aug 2026

Applications

CACHE-UK: A Stability-Aware Memory Editor for Sequentially Updated Quantized LLMs in Finance

arXiv:2607.28292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) deployed in dynamic financial environments face a critical challenge: maintaining factual accuracy as market conditions, re

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31 Jul 2026

Prox: Training-Free FFN Activation Sparsity via Approximate Intermediate-Channel Salience in LLMs

arXiv:2607.27591v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Feed-forward networks (FFNs) dominate memory traffic and computation in large language model (LLM) inference, making them a primary target for activat

31 Jul 2026

The Easy Trap: Why LLMs Underestimate Misconception-Driven Difficulty

arXiv:2607.26067v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for estimating item difficulty in educational assessment. However, it remains unclear whether such

31 Jul 2026

A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack

It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at the International Conferen

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From Representations to Behaviors: Exploring the Person-Situation-Behavior Triad in LLMs

arXiv:2607.26853v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human personality theories characterize traits not as isolated attributes captured by a single score, but as stable individual tendencies expressed thro

Applications

LAMUS: A Large-Scale Corpus for Legal Argument Mining from U.S. Caselaw using LLMs

arXiv:2603.08286v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Legal argument mining aims to identify and classify the functional components of judicial reasoning, such as facts, issues, rules, analysis, and con

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Latent-IM: Latent Interaction Management for Speech LLMs

arXiv:2607.26928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Classical spoken dialogue systems often separated dialogue management from response realization: a policy selected the next dialogue action, and a gener

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation in LLMs for Mental Health: Quantifying the Incremental Contribution of Retrieval Within a Layered Safety Architecture

arXiv:2607.24817v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Digital mental health interventions (DMHIs) offer scalable support, but ensuring they accurately detect users' intent during volatile situations can b

29 Jul 2026

Reasoning or Memorization: Can LLMs Understand and Generate Chinese Xiehouyu Riddles?

arXiv:2607.23440v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we push the boundary of LLM reasoning by testing them in a Chinese language game, xiehouyu, with novel xiehouyu created by linguists th

28 Jul 2026

Language-Aware Distillation for Multilingual Instruction-Following Speech LLMs with ASR-Only Supervision

arXiv:2603.07025v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Speech Large Language Models (LLMs) that understand and follow instructions in many languages are useful for real-world interaction, but are difficu

27 Jul 2026

A Comparative Evaluation of Embeddings and LLMs in a Greek Book Publisher Setting - The CUP Dataset

arXiv:2607.21274v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present CUP, a Greek book retrieval benchmark consisting of 868 catalog records and 104 expert-annotated queries with graded relevance judgments. W

Enhancing Explainable Cardiac Diagnosis with Guide-Grounded Multimodal LLMs

arXiv:2607.20814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a cornerstone of cardiac as- sessment, yet clinical deployment of deep learning models remains con- strained by limited i

Knowledge Injection Exists in MoE? Exploring Expert-Aware Contrast Decoding in MoE for Mitigating LLMs'Hallucinations

arXiv:2607.20426v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing LLM hallucination mitigation methods, including prompt engineering and model optimization, either hardly alter models'internal knowledge or h

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One More Turn, Less Regret: A Regret-Based Multi-Turn Benchmark for LLMs' Clarification Policies

arXiv:2607.21143v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ambiguous user requests make clarification a sequential decision problem for conversational LLM assistants: they must decide whether to ask, what to a

The Storyteller in the Model: Narrative Pattern Inheritance, Escalation Dynamics, and Alignment Governance in LLMs

arXiv:2607.20449v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs are trained predominantly on human-authored text, yet the structural and narrative conventions embedded in that text are rarely examined as a sou

NexForge: Scaling Agent Capabilities through Requirement-Driven Task Synthesis for LLMs

arXiv:2607.14186v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scaling executable agent training data for LLM post-training is bottlenecked by substrate-bound methods that tie task generation to predefined

23 Jul 2026

Do LLMs Know What They Know? Measuring Metacognitive Efficiency with Signal Detection Theory

arXiv:2603.25112v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Standard evaluation of LLM confidence relies on calibration metrics (ECE, Brier score) that conflate how much a model knows (Type-1 accuracy)

15 Jul 2026

I'm Sorry, but I Can't Help with Braille: Revealing Accessibility Failures in State-of-the-Art LLMs

arXiv:2607.11893v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) perform strongly on many language tasks, but their capability in structurally constrained, accessibility-critical modalit

15 Jul 2026

Modeling Story Expectations: A Generative Framework using LLMs

arXiv:2412.15239v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Consumers' engagement with stories is shaped by their expectations about what will happen next, yet modeling these forward-looking beliefs ove

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15 Jul 2026

When LLMs Agree, Are They Right? Auditing Self-Consistency and Cross-Model Agreement as Confidence Signals

arXiv:2607.08065v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-as-judge (Zheng et al., 2023) is increasingly the default for evaluating AI systems in enterprise pipelines, often scaled to ensembles (Verga et al.

10 Jul 2026

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI in Cybersecurity and Privacy: A Survey of Dual-Use Risks, AI-Generated Malware, Explainability, and Defensive Strategies

arXiv:2607.06963v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI (GenAI) systems, such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA, Copilot, Stable Diffusion by OpenAI, Anthropic

9 Jul 2026

Google updates Android Bench with new LLMs, but Gemini still lags behind

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Google updated Android Bench in July 2026 by adopting the Harbor framework and adding eight new models including Claude Fable 5, Claude Sonnet 5, and others to its LLM leaderboard for Android developm

8 Jul 2026

Amortising Bayesian Experimental Design for Sequential Information Gathering in LLMs

arXiv:2607.03426v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong reasoning and world-knowledge capabilities, yet often struggle to gather information effectively across th

7 Jul 2026

ARCQuant: Boosting NVFP4 Quantization with Augmented Residual Channels for LLMs

arXiv:2601.07475v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The emergence of fine-grained numerical formats like NVFP4 presents new opportunities for efficient Large Language Model (LLM) inference. Howe

7 Jul 2026

Will Scaling Improve Social Simulation with LLMs?

arXiv:2607.02464v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) social simulations are a promising research method, but they are not yet faithful enough to be adopted widely. In this work,

3 Jul 2026

Agents

WorkPods agent memory as wikis. @langchain #openwiki @cognition #deepwiki @karpathy #llmwiki @Factory #autowiki @hwchase17 @BraceSproul

This post discusses using WorkPods agent memory systems organized as wikis, likely exploring how LLM agents can maintain and access persistent knowledge repositories in wiki format for improved contex

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3 Jul 2026

BrepLLM: Enabling Large Language Models to Understand Boundary Representations