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Understanding Alignment in Multimodal LLMs: A Comprehensive Study

Preference alignment has become a crucial component in enhancing the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet its impact in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) remains comparatively under

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Unified continuous-time q-learning for mean-field game and mean-field control problems

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arXiv:2407.04521v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper studies the continuous-time q-learning in mean-field jump-diffusion models in a setting where the environment simulator does not pr

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Unifying public and private data: Scale knowledge graphs with Data Commons on Spanner

To make informed decisions, businesses often need to connect their internal data with public reference data, to create a knowledge graph that connects real-world things and their relationships. Howeve

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UniPolymer: A Unified Framework for Property Prediction, Structure Recommendation, and Evaluation in Polyimide Design

arXiv:2607.29256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Designing polyimide structures with specific glass transition temperatures (Tg) is highly challenging. Existing methods primarily focus on target-condit

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Using optimization at inference time is a foundational concept of Energy-Based Models (EBM) and Objective-Driven AI architectures (ODAI). Wh…

Using optimization at inference time is a foundational concept of Energy-Based Models (EBM) and Objective-Driven AI architectures (ODAI). When the variables to be inferred are continuous, it makes sen

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V4-Flash-0731 - vibes after first weekend of use

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Spent way too much time with V4-Flash-0731 this weekend and wanted to share my vibes as briefly as possible. I sent it through a bit of real-work and some of my personal benchmarks. My quick thoughts

Validation Evidence in LLM Repair Agents: How Much of What Passes Actually Tests the Bug?

arXiv:2607.28871v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When a repair agent runs a test and sees it pass, the result is treated as evidence about the reported defect. We measure how often that treatment is

Versatile On-device Adaptation at the Edge by Unifying Few-shot, Zero-shot, Continual, and In-context Learning

arXiv:2607.29353v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the ever-increasing pervasiveness of smart edge devices, the demand is growing for applications that can be tailored to users (e.g., custom keywo

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VFAD: Variational Semantic Prompting Meets Frequency-Adaptive Representation Learning for Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2607.29370v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD) aims to detect and localize anomalies in unseen categories without access to target-specific training data. Although

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Visa plans to acquire Israeli company BioCatch, which uses AI to detect fraud and distinguish legitimate users from attackers in real time, for $2.4B in cash (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal: Visa plans to acquire Israeli company BioCatch, which uses AI to detect fraud and distinguish legitimate users from attackers in real time, for $2.4B in cash

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ViSAGE: Constructing Self-Correcting Memories for Long-Form Video Understanding

arXiv:2607.28678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal agents operating in long-horizon environments must build and continually update multimedia memories to support entity-consistent, temporally

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Vision-based Goal-Reaching Control for Mobile Robots Using a Hierarchical Learning Framework

arXiv:2601.00610v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has strong potential in robotics, but exploration-based training complicates safe deployment on large-scale robots. For

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Visual Distribution Anchoring for Efficient Prompt Tuning

arXiv:2607.28967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prompt tuning adapts vision--language models with few trainable parameters, but existing approaches trade off efficiency and adaptation: static textual

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VSTaI: Design and Characterization of Variable-Stiffness Tactile Interfaces Based on 3D-Printed Structured Fabrics

arXiv:2607.29102v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Realistic palpation training requires reliable rendering of soft tissue stiffness changes in real time, which is difficult to achieve with conventional

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WaiT for the Signal: Simple Frequency-Aware Flow-Matching

arXiv:2607.28760v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As image generation models scale to ever higher resolutions, global coherence, local detail, and texture fidelity become critical axes for generation

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WaMo: Wavelet-Enhanced Multi-Frequency Trajectory Analysis for Fine-Grained Text-Motion Retrieval

arXiv:2508.03343v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Text-Motion Retrieval (TMR) aims to retrieve 3D motion sequences semantically relevant to text descriptions. However, matching 3D motions with text

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Was the release of deepseek v4 flash planned to take spotlight against 5.6 luna?

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Id figured since they first emailed people about api price changes coming mid july then delayed the v4 flash release to late july, I wonder if they delayed it for the sake of stealing spotlight from o

WCM: A World Critic Model for Vision-Language-Action Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607.29613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models has shown strong promise for robotic manipulation. Among RL methods,

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WebCoderBench: Benchmarking Web Application Generation with Comprehensive and Interpretable Evaluation Metrics

arXiv:2601.02430v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Web applications (web apps) have become a key arena for large language models (LLMs) to demonstrate their code generation capabilities and com

Weight-Space Mixture-of-Experts for Implicit Neural Representation Classification

arXiv:2607.29463v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) encode signals as the weights of a coordinate-based neural network and have recently been proposed as an alternat

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We’re releasing the manuscripts, formal Lean certificates, and reasoning walkthroughs so mathematicians can examine these results and build …

We’re releasing the manuscripts, formal Lean certificates, and reasoning walkthroughs so mathematicians can examine these results and build on their ideas. https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mat

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what does the 'last human code review' look like? to @itamar_mar, ceo and founder of @QodoAI, it looks like two agents talking to each other…

what does the 'last human code review' look like? to @itamar_mar, ceo and founder of @QodoAI, it looks like two agents talking to each other, backed by a context engine specific to your organization.

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What Is Missing in Surgical Risk Stratification and Outcome Prediction: A Scoping Review of End-to-End Machine Learning Approaches

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arXiv:2607.29090v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Postoperative adverse events, including mortality and morbidity, remain a major global burden, many of which are preventable through early identificatio

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What Makes a Sale? Simulating End-to-End Seller--Buyer Retail Dynamics with LLM Agents

arXiv:2604.04468v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Evaluating retail strategies before deployment is difficult, as outcomes are determined across multiple stages, from seller-side persuasion through

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When an agent starts with shared context, more people can get reliable answers. When truth is shared, AI becomes infrastucture. Read about h…

When an agent starts with shared context, more people can get reliable answers. When truth is shared, AI becomes infrastucture. Read about how our internal truth layer drives our teams at Replit: http

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When Does On-Policy Interaction Help? Representational Tradeoffs in Value-Based Imitation Learning

arXiv:2607.29617v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Imitation learning (IL)---training an agent to replicate expert behavior from demonstrations---underpins applications from robotics to language model

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When Model Priors Conflict with Visual Evidence: Mitigating Commonsense-Driven Hallucinations by Selective Prior Calibration

arXiv:2607.29240v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In vision--language models, commonsense-driven hallucination (CDH) occurs when a model's commonsense prior overrides clear visual evidence of an atypi

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When Unlearning Fails: Reliable Data Deletion under Post-Training in Agent Networks

arXiv:2607.28829v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-improving federated agent networks keep training after deployment by collecting new trajectories with the current policy and feeding them back in

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White House invites AI companies to review its new AI safety framework

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Cybersecurity chiefs at the White House have reportedly finalized the outline of a forthcoming framework that will enable artificial intelligence companies to voluntarily submit their latest frontier

Who Wins Where? Conformal Model Comparison for Local Superiority

arXiv:2607.29053v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard model comparison is global, aggregating losses across the covariate space to declare a single winner. This can obscure heterogeneous performanc

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Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/whos-legally-to-bl…

Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/whos-legally-to-blame-for-anthropic-and-openais-autonomous-ai-hacks-its-compli

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Why It Hurts: Identifying the Drivers of Negative Thoughts in Emotional Support Conversations

arXiv:2607.28648v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for emotional support tasks, such as negative thought reframing. This task relies on modifying cogn

WitCert: Sound Runtime Risk Observability and Gating for KV-Cache Quantization

arXiv:2607.28699v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: KV-cache quantization is validated today by offline benchmark averages; a deployed system cannot tell whether compression is damaging the request it i

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Wrong Code, Right Structure: Learning Netlist Representations from Imperfect LLM-Generated RTL

arXiv:2603.09161v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning effective netlist representations is fundamentally constrained by the scarcity of labeled datasets, as real designs are protected by

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Xberg v1: a local, CPU-only document extraction engine for feeding an Ollama RAG (101 formats, OCR)

I maintain xberg, an open-source (MIT) document extraction engine, and v1 is out. Sharing here because a common piece of a local Ollama RAG setup is 'get clean text out of my PDFs/Office files/images,

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You probably used @FireworksAI_HQ this week. The cool part is that you just did not know you did. 🎆 Open-source models are free, sure... bu…

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You probably used @FireworksAI_HQ this week. The cool part is that you just did not know you did. 🎆 Open-source models are free, sure... but the hard part is tailoring them so they perform best on you

You shouldn't need a vision model to know your PDF has checkboxes. LiteParse can now pull structured data directly from your PDFs: form fiel…

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You shouldn't need a vision model to know your PDF has checkboxes. LiteParse can now pull structured data directly from your PDFs: form field values, checkbox states, annotations, embedded images, vec

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YouTuber Hank Green faces online criticism after using ChatGPT to help research a script, and says his LLM usage 'is not healthy for me or good for the world' (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: YouTuber Hank Green faces online criticism after using ChatGPT to help research a script, and says his LLM usage “is not healthy for me or good for the world” — Hank Green, a

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Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents

arXiv:2607.29377v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents need memory to act consistently over long interactions, yet many systems use additional LLM calls to operate that memory. Generating intermed

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ZeroR@CHiPSAL 2026: Two-Stage Vision-Language Adaptation with Contrastive Learning for Nepali Meme Classification

arXiv:2607.28637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents our system for the CHiPSAL 2026 shared task on multimodal hate speech and sentiment detection in Nepali memes. We address both subta

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A profile of Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields Medal last week and is taking a leave from the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields Medal last week and is taking a leave from the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety — Jacob Tsim

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Alibaba says its 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max tops Moonshot's Kimi K3 on some benchmarks, and it plans to release Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B's weights next week (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Alibaba says its 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max tops Moonshot's Kimi K3 on some benchmarks, and it plans to release Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B's weights next week — Alibaba Group Ho

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All other models on the Portal remain 20% discounted, aside from GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna which are 50% off. https://x.com/NousResearch/status…

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All other models on the Portal remain 20% discounted, aside from GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna which are 50% off. https://x.com/NousResearch/status/2080039066771337475?s=20 All models are now 20% off for a l

Another day and another full frontier model running on your computer. Been teething DeepSeek V4 Flash on over 60 employees at The Zero Human…

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Another day and another full frontier model running on your computer. Been teething DeepSeek V4 Flash on over 60 employees at The Zero Human Company for a few hours and it is stunning. Between Kimi K3

Are you ready for Le Chaton FAT or still wasting money on GPUs?

According to rumors (spread by myself) Le Chaton FAT will be 26T-a3b and I AM READY for it. Let's be real, I can't afford that many 5060Ti, so I got 12x Gen 4 3.2 TB (two per card). This gives me abou

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ggml-webgpu: add support for f16 repeat (#26307) Website: https://llama.app macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64) macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) DISABLED macOS Intel (x64) iOS XCFramew

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model : load MiMo V2 MTP tensors only if used (#26412) Website: https://llama.app macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64) macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) DISABLED macOS Intel (x64) iOS XC

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sycl: fix classification of iGPUs (#26105) Website: https://llama.app macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64) macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) DISABLED macOS Intel (x64) iOS XCFramework Li