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presto: Efficient, Training-free, and Open-world Object Placement via Imaginary Search

arXiv:2608.21543v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Object placement is critical in image composition, requiring spatially and semantically coherent positioning of objects within diverse scenes. Existin

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Rethinking Communication Metrics: How Should We Measure Meaning?

DGX agent

arXiv:2608.21626v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semantic communication shifts the objective of communication systems from accurate symbol reconstruction toward meaning preservation, task accomplishmen

researcharxiv-cs-lg

25 Aug 2026

Thinking Beyond Videos: Unifying Video Reasoning and Deep Research for Open-World Video Agents

arXiv:2608.23329v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-world video understanding often requires a model to locate sparse visual evidence and acquire external knowledge that is absent from the video an

Towards Actionable Surgical Team Dynamics: from Teamwork to Counterfactual Annotations

arXiv:2608.23344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modeling team interactions in high-stakes environments such as operating rooms is critical for understanding how coordination, communication, and indivi

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

Towards Comprehensive Basketball Understanding

arXiv:2608.23435v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding a basketball game requires recognizing events, localizing actions, identifying players, and relating these to structured game knowledge.

Towards Safer Social Media Platforms: Scalable and Performant Few-Shot Harmful Content Moderation Using Large Language Models

arXiv:2501.13976v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The prevalence of harmful content on social media platforms poses significant risks to users and society, necessitating more effective and sca

Training-Free VLM Personalization via Calibrated Residual Decoding

arXiv:2608.22263v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models can be personalized in a training-free manner by directly providing user profiles, preferences, or visual references at inferen

VERDICT: Agreement Beats Pixel-Space Verification in Real-Document OCSR

arXiv:2608.22183v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optical Chemical Structure Recognition (OCSR) converts 2D molecular depictions in the published literature into SMILES, and is increasingly important fo

ViTexSZ: Heterogeneous Vision-Text Knowledge Distillation for EEG Seizure Detection

arXiv:2608.21445v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated seizure detection from electroencephalography (EEG) is essential for continuous neurological monitoring, particularly for subclinical epilepti

A Collaborative Multi-Modality Interaction for VLA-based End-to-End Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2608.20890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving by jointly integrating perception, reasoning,

A VLM Answer Is Not an Anomaly Score: Rank Compression in Training-Free Video Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2608.21244v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models enable training-free video anomaly detection by answering questions about video segments. VAD benchmarks, however, require a scal

AEGIS: Preventing Cross-Domain Resource Abuse in MCP

arXiv:2608.20481v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open source JSON-RPC protocol that standardizes how large language models (LLMs) interact with external systems

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

AGIDefect-4K: A Richly Annotated Dataset for AI-Generated Image Defect Detection, Localization and Explanation

arXiv:2608.20713v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative AI can now produce highly realistic images, yet current models still exhibit subtle but critical defects that undermine their reliability. Wh

researcharxiv-cs-cv

Bankruptcy Prediction via Hybrid Resampling and Stacking Ensemble Techniques with Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)-Driven Analysis

arXiv:2608.20343v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study develops and evaluates a bankruptcy prediction framework that integrates consensus-based feature selection, hybrid resampling, stacking ensem

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BC-Bench: Evaluating Agentic Engineering in a Domain-Specific Language for ERP

arXiv:2608.20851v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic engineering systems have shown strong performance on general-purpose benchmarks, yet their effectiveness in enterprise resource planning (ERP)

Belief Without Behavior: Measuring the Translation of Theory of Mind into Coordinated Social Action in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608.20975v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective social interaction requires agents to translate mental state inferences into coordinated behavioral signals across verbal and nonverbal channe

Breaking High Confidence: Practical Face Impersonation under High-Security Thresholds

arXiv:2608.20884v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Face recognition systems (FRSs) are increasingly deployed in critical real-world services for authentication, such as banking applications and airport i

Bridging Language and Spherical Space: Object-Centric Control for Text-to-Panorama Generation

arXiv:2608.20691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Panoramic image generation is increasingly important for immersive applications such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and 3D content creation. Unl

CogCanvas: A Benchmark for Evaluating Multi-Subject Reference-Based Image Generation

arXiv:2606.15867v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-subject reference-based image generation requires jointly preserving multiple human identities, binding per-person objects and fashion items,

CoST: Semantic-Aware Urban Understanding via Spatial-Temporal Alignment

arXiv:2608.21041v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Geospatial representation learning from satellite imagery is a fundamental problem for large-scale urban analysis and real-world applications. Despite

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

Dorsal Hand Images for Immersive (XR) and Privacy-preserving Age Assurance and Child Safety

arXiv:2608.21009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ensuring that Extended Reality (XR) environments are age-appropriate is an important regulatory and safety challenge. However, current age assurance ope

Fine-tuning LLMs for Tourist Trajectory Prediction using Field Experiment Data

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2608.20830v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluating mobility interventions at tourist destinations requires predicting visitor behavior under varying conditions. Traditional methods struggle

From Thermal Preference Prediction to Adaptive Thermal Intervention: A Reinforcement Learning Approach Using Physiological and Environmental Sensing

arXiv:2608.20423v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Personalised thermal comfort is essential for occupant wellbeing and for the development of more responsive building-control strategies, yet conventio

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Humanoid Musical Robots as Experimental Interfaces for Music-Evoked Emotion

arXiv:2608.20433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advances in technology have led to increasingly sophisticated musical humanoid robots. However, their use has largely been limited to performance and re

applicationsarxiv-cs-ro

Applications

Machine Learning and ARIMA Model Averaging for Adaptive Public Health Forecasting: Comparative Evaluation and an Ontario COVID-19 Case Study

arXiv:2608.20406v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Public health forecasts must respond to abrupt changes in surveillance data without over-extrapolating noise, reporting artifacts, or temporary trends.

applicationsarxiv-cs-lg

Neuro-Geospatial Modelling of EEG Affective States Using Literature-Informed Environmental Context

arXiv:2608.20807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Environmental exposures such as air pollution and greenness have been associated with affective and cognitive outcomes, but EEG and environmental datase

Tutorials

OccluRank: Controllable Occlusion-Aware Layout-to-Image Generation by Adding Just an Ordinal Rank

arXiv:2608.20932v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Layout-to-image generation enables explicit spatial control through bounding-box layouts, yet bounding boxes specify only instance locations and cannot

tutorialsarxiv-cs-cv

Routing Before Looking: Query-Adaptive Evidence Acquisition for Long-form Video Understanding

arXiv:2608.20805v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-form video understanding remains challenging for video agents due to the mismatch between query demands and evidence acquisition strategies. Althou

SPARC: Single-Pass Scaling for Motion Forecasting with Conformal Bayesian Last Layers

arXiv:2608.20802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human motion forecasters are increasingly accurate and fast, but reliable deployment requires uncertainty estimates that are structured, calibrated, and

Agents

TRACE: Agentic Catalog Enrichment with Multi-source Evidence Grounding

arXiv:2608.20844v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Product catalogs underpin search, discovery, and recommendation in e-commerce, yet they are often attribute-sparse: the attributes shoppers and downstre

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

TRACE: Training-time Report-guided and Clinically Ordered Concept Editing

arXiv:2608.20809v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Breast ultrasound diagnosis relies on clinically meaningful semantic concepts, yet most deep learning methods adopt end-to-end image-to-label paradigm

ViTacPhys: Physical Property-Aware Grasping from Human Visual-Tactile Demonstrations

arXiv:2608.21355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent vision-based action models have demonstrated strong capabilities in complex manipulation, but they rarely leverage explicit object physical prope

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

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-

# Qwen3.8-27B — One Week Later: The r/LocalLLaMA + r/LocalLLM Verdict

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Companion to the Qwen 3.8 Release Megathread. Compiled from ~2,000 posts scanned across both subs, with deep reads of the 45 highest-signal threads (560 posts and comments), Aug 15–22, 2026, plus inde

23 Aug 2026

Scientific terms should have precision. If we use the terms VLM, VLA, WAM in an indiscriminate fashion, as is becoming common in robotics, w…

Scientific terms should have precision. If we use the terms VLM, VLA, WAM in an indiscriminate fashion, as is becoming common in robotics, we are not helping clarity in communication. Let's keep the h

researchyann-lecun--x

23 Aug 2026

Local Ai

An Agentic Approach for Active Data Collection, Travel Behavior Modeling, and Weather-Sensitive Demand Prediction

arXiv:2608.20320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Travel behavior research increasingly combines digital data collection with predictive modeling, yet these stages are often developed and evaluated sepa

local-aiarxiv-cs-ai

CacheRoute: Planned Prefix-Affinity Routing for Large-Scale LLM Serving

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2608.19677v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prefix caching avoids prefill only when a repeated request returns to a server that still holds the prefix KV. Cache-blind balancing disperses that re

FleetSieve: Decision-Critical Profiling for SLO-Aware LLM Fleet Configuration

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2608.19659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Choosing tensor-parallel (TP) degrees and replica counts for an LLM serving fleet is difficult because performance is not monotonic in TP and the feasib

G-CARL: Grounded Checklist-Aligned Reward Learning for Patient-Oriented Medical Report Interpretation

arXiv:2608.20331v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Personalized interpretation of medical reports has emerged as an increasingly important need among patients. Addressing this need requires both eviden

Agents

Got confirmation on what the Ox Alpha model is. Can't disclose anything yet, but I can confirm it's a spectacular model. All I can say is th…

Got confirmation on what the Ox Alpha model is. Can't disclose anything yet, but I can confirm it's a spectacular model. All I can say is that we all need to adjust our timelines. Achieving frontier m

agentsdair-ai--x

HT-Bench: Benchmarking and Learning Dexterous Full-Hand Tactile Representations with Egocentric Vision

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ro

arXiv:2606.19161v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Establishing a universal benchmark for tactile representation learning in robotic manipulation remains challenging due to the diversity of tactile s

ID-VTG: Image-Disambiguated Video Temporal Grounding

arXiv:2608.20127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) faces significant challenges when natural language queries must distinguish between multiple events involving visually si

researcharxiv-cs-cv

Local Ai

MileGPO: Milestone Inference with Local Evidence for Graph-Based Policy Optimization of Long-Horizon LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.19803v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Credit assignment is challenging in long-horizon agentic reinforcement learning, where supervision often comes only from final rewards. Existing metho

local-aiarxiv-cs-ai

Mitigating GenAI-Powered Evidence Pollution for Out-Of-Context Misinformation Detection

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2501.14728v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models have achieved significant success, their misuse for generating deceptive content raise

Multi-Agent Orchestration with the Common-Sense Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2608.20129v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous vehicles require robust perception and decision-making capabilities to operate in diverse and unseen scenarios. While reinforcement learnin

safetyarxiv-cs-cl

Applications

Multi-Modal Graph Interaction for Multi-Graph Convolution Network in Urban Spatiotemporal Forecasting

arXiv:1905.11395v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Graph convolution network based approaches have been recently used to model region-wise relationships in region-level prediction problems in urban c

applicationsarxiv-cs-lg

Reading Between the Pixels: An Inscriptive Jailbreak Attack on Text-to-Image Models

arXiv:2604.05853v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern text-to-image (T2I) models can now render legible, paragraph-length text, enabling a fundamentally new class of misuse. We identify and forma

ReCache: Efficient KV Cache Reuse and Compression for Tool-Augmented LLM Agents

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2608.19662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic language models repeatedly encode tool and skill schemas that recur across requests in different combinations and orders, preventing standard pr