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WorldSimProbe: Diagnosing Simulator Faithfulness in Action-Conditioned World Models for Embodied Manipulation

arXiv:2608.09298v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Action-conditioned world models (ACWMs) promise to provide embodied AI with scalable predictive simulators for planning, policy evaluation, and data g

11 Aug 2026

Research

You Only Flow Once: Calibrated and Real-Time Radar Pose Estimation with Multi-Hypothesis Normalizing Flows

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arXiv:2608.09579v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse and noisy millimeter-wave radar point cloud observations often correspond to multiple plausible human poses, making deterministic pose estimation

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11 Aug 2026

Zero-shot 2D Grounding with Novel Affordance Types

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arXiv:2608.08929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 2D affordance grounding aims to locate the region of an object that a human can interact with. Existing research focuses on recognizing affordance types

11 Aug 2026

ZetaGPT: A Reference Implementation of Positional--Encoding--Free State--Space--Attention Language Models

arXiv:2608.09432v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer-based language models rely on self-attention, whose computation is permutation-equivariant and therefore lacks an intrinsic mechanism for

11 Aug 2026

A Haptic Robot Finger Designed for Guqin Instrument Playing

arXiv:2608.07002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid advancement of humanoid robotics and embodied intelligence technologies, numerous musical instrument-playing robots have emerged in recen

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A primer on optimal transport for causal inference with observational data

arXiv:2503.07811v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The theory of optimal transportation has developed into a powerful and elegant framework for comparing probability distributions, with wide-ra

Aftab: A Comprehensive Benchmark of CNN Encoders and Advanced Value Functions in Parallelized Q-Networks

arXiv:2608.07335v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advancements in deep reinforcement learning have increasingly favored simplified, highly parallelized paradigms. Notably, the Parallelized Q-Ne

AI-native market research automation startup Echovane raises $1M

Agentic artificial intelligence startup Echovane Inc. said today it has closed on a 1 million pre-seed funding round to accelerate the development of its AI-native market research platform. Titan Capi

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Best Local LLMs - August 2026

Wowee!! Just when you thought it couldn't get better for open weight models, we probably have had our best period yet!?!?! Models that rival the closed frontier, Opus level models on non-insane hardwa

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Blast Radius

arXiv:2608.07440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic coding faces growing problems of affordability and wasted tokens. We introduce Blast Radius, a predictive memory management layer that estimates

CEDAR: Agent-Orchestrated Tree Search for Goal-Directed Optimization of Complex Systems

arXiv:2608.06871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Complex systems, core objects of study in artificial life, model diverse phenomena through nonlinear, feedback-driven interactions that produce emergent

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Cluster Attention for Graph Machine Learning

arXiv:2604.07492v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Message Passing Neural Networks have recently become the most popular approach to graph machine learning tasks; however, their receptive field

Convergence of Diffusion Models Under the Manifold Hypothesis in High-Dimensions

arXiv:2409.18804v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) are powerful state-of-the-art methods used to generate synthetic data from high-dimensional da

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Counterfactual Simulation Training for Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness

arXiv:2602.20710v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Inspecting Chain-of-Thought reasoning is among the most common means of understanding why an LLM produced its output. But well-known problems with C

DA-Cal: Towards Cross-Domain Calibration in Semantic Segmentation

arXiv:2602.20860v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While existing unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods greatly enhance target domain performance in semantic segmentation, they often neglect n

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Dual-Space Modality Consistency Learning for Universal Cross-Modal Re-Identification

arXiv:2608.06943v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-modal Re-Identification (ReID) aims to retrieve the same identity across heterogeneous imaging modalities and has been widely studied in visible-i

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Hardware

Fast LapSum: Exact Differentiable Top-k at Million Scale

arXiv:2608.06912v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The top-k operation is a fundamental building block of modern sparse computation, enabling token routing, expert activation, memory selection, and atten

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Flowing Through States: Neural ODE Regularization for Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.06595v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural networks applied to sequential decision-making tasks typically rely on latent representations of environment states. While environment dynamics

Google named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI Platforms, Q3 2026

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At Google Cloud, we help organizations of all sizes build and operationalize complex agentic workflows with total confidence. By combining world-class AI research with an open, fully integrated AI pla

Grad-ECLIP: Gradient-based Visual and Textual Explanations for CLIP

arXiv:2502.18816v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Significant progress has been achieved on the improvement and downstream usages of the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) vision-languag

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How Malachyte solves retail’s cold-start problem with managed real-time AI

What’s the best way to recommend products to little-known users? We’ve spent our careers trying to solve this problem for major companies like Spotify and Priceline, and it’s why Sidd founded Malachyt

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HRDiT: Training-Free High-Resolution Image Generation with Off-the-Shelf Diffusion Transformer Models

arXiv:2608.07003v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training-free text-to-high-resolution image generation has recently attracted growing research attention. However, existing studies on this task primari

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Human-Centered Explainable AI for TinyML Edge Devices: A Pareto-Based Selection Framework with LLM-Guided Design

arXiv:2608.07091v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Edge Artificial Intelligence (Edge AI) enables the deployment of AI models directly on local edge devices, while such deployments are subject to stric

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Hyperbolic Graph Embedders for Link Prediction and Topology Reconstruction

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arXiv:2608.07029v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hyperbolic embeddings provide compact geometric representations of complex networks in hyperbolic spaces, but systematic comparisons of methods develope

International Transfer of Stochastic Cortical Self-Reconstruction

arXiv:2608.07092v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stochastic cortical self-reconstruction (SCSR) enables personalized mapping of gray matter atrophy, a hallmark of neurodegenerative disorders such as

Introducing Muse Glimmer

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Introducing Muse Glimmer Meta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glimmer is a brand new 30B model under a clean Apache 2.0 license (a step up from the janky Llama licenses of old). They claim to

Introducing the Developer Device Platform for agentic mobile app development

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Most enterprises connect with their customers through a device. Whether it’s using a mobile app to order a product, contact customer service, view content, or manage their account, the customer experi

Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence

arXiv:2602.02276v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce Kimi K2.5, an open-source multimodal agentic model designed to advance general agentic intelligence. K2.5 emphasizes the joint op

Long-Horizon Agent Trajectory Attribution: A Unified Benchmark and Fine-Grained Annotation Framework

arXiv:2608.06909v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly operate through long-horizon trajectories involving user instructions, tool use, external observations, a

MiCoPro: End-to-End Mixed Precision HW/SW Co-design with HW-aware Proxy Model

arXiv:2608.06916v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantized Neural Networks~(QNN) with low-bitwidth data have proven promising in efficient storage and computation on edge devices. To mitigate accuracy

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Mobile Interaction for Assessing Fatigue, Sleep, and Activity in Neurodegenerative and Chronic Diseases

arXiv:2608.06380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fatigue, sleep, or disturbances in daily activities are common symptoms among patients with neurodegenerative disorders (NDD) and immune-mediated infl

Newton-Schulz Retraction-Based Inference Enables Hidden Quantum Markov Models to Outperform Classical HMMs

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arXiv:2608.06554v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are widely used probabilistic models for discrete sequential data but can be limited when hidden dynamics are complex. Hidde

omlab/VLX-Seek-1.5-10B · Hugging Face

VLX-Seek-1.5-10B VLX-Seek-1.5-10B is the open-source 10B model in the VLX-Seek 1.5 family, designed for fine-grained perception and visual grounding in embodied scenarios. It targets practical setting

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Pathryoshka: Compressing Pathology Foundation Models via Multi-Teacher Knowledge Distillation with Nested Embeddings

arXiv:2511.23204v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Pathology foundation models (FMs) have driven significant progress in computational pathology. However, these high-performing models can easily exce

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Plan-and-Avoid: Real-Time Aircraft Trajectory Coordination in a Multi-Agent Environment

arXiv:2608.06648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a real-time Plan-and-Avoid (PAA framework for coordinating cooperative multi-agent airspace operations around a declared priority tr

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Prune Once: Retraining-Free Task-Agnostic Pruning for Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608.06901v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable generalization across diverse multimodal tasks through large-scale pre-training, yet their rapidl

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Scalable Long-Horizon Planning with Staggered Updates for Lifelong MAPF

arXiv:2608.06702v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding (LMAPF) requires generating collision-free paths for large agent fleets under strict real-time constraints. Reactive

SoRoMoX: Fast, Differentiable, and Parallelizable Soft Robot Models

arXiv:2608.06650v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reduced-order models based on Cosserat-rod theory are now well established, and modeling theory is no longer the primary bottleneck in soft-robot cont

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SyncSBC: Decentralized Swarm Behavior Prediction for Synchronized Autonomous Control

arXiv:2608.06587v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot swarms utilize many independent limited-sensing agents to produce complex emergent behaviors without requiring centralized control. However, lit

Tensor Network Kernel Machines: A JAX Framework for Machine Learning and Nonlinear System Identification

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arXiv:2608.07043v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Developing nonlinear models that are both expressive and computationally efficient remains a challenge in machine learning and nonlinear system identi

Toward a Causal Data Management Ecosystem for Decision Making and Agentic AI

arXiv:2608.07214v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern AI is no longer a single model but an ecosystem: classical ML predictors, deep and multimodal models, large language models, and agents, each t

Hardware

Ultra-High Interactivity on NVIDIA GPUs? - TileRT InferenceX

The TileRT InferenceX article (Aug 10 2026) examines whether the TileRT software stack on NVIDIA GPUs can compete with dedicated inference systems such as Cerebras, Groq LPUs and SambaNova for ultra‑h

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UniREditBench: A Unified Reasoning-based Image Editing Benchmark

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arXiv:2511.01295v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in multi-modal generative models have driven substantial improvements in image editing. However, current generative models still str

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Muse Glimmer Note: Muse Glimmer is currently available via initial support via Ollama's MLX engine on Apple Silicon. Additional support and optimizations for Apple Silicon, NVIDIA, AMD, and other plat

We've used GPT-5.6-Cyber extensively in real-world vulnerability research, including work that uncovered previously unknown vulnerabilities …

OpenAI announced the release of GPT‑5.6‑Cyber as part of its Cybersecurity Initiative, “Daybreak.” The model is aimed at advanced, authorized security research and testing, helping trusted defenders d

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A Low-Power Wearable Respiratory Sensor for Non-Invasive Stress Monitoring

arXiv:2608.05697v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Respiration provides a continuously available window into physiological state and behavior. However, monitoring it outside controlled settings remains

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7 Aug 2026

A System for Train Condition Monitoring and Structural Health Assessment of Rail Vehicles

arXiv:2608.05221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ongoing digitalization of rail systems and the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) are fundamentally transforming the design, operation,

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7 Aug 2026

Acoustic-driven millimetric helical robot: ultrasonic synergistic manipulation in confined fluidic environment