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Design and Human Evaluation of Tactile Withdrawal Reflexes for a Skin-Covered Robot Arm

arXiv:2607.22249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Nociception is a protective biological mechanism that links harmful stimulation to a reaction. This paper investigates artificial nociception for a robo

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Do VLMs Read or Rewrite? On Transcription Faithfulness in Vision-Language Models

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arXiv:2607.21617v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly used in place of traditional OCR pipelines for document understanding. In this paper, we show they do n

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27 Jul 2026

here’s a video on my approach at applying this to agents w @activegraphai:

here’s a video on my approach at applying this to agents w @activegraphai: 🆕 ActiveGraph: The Log is the Agent my talk from AI Engineer is live!!! 😆 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khVX_BUnEwU it's ab

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ISPCloak: Weaponizing ISP for Optimization-Free Physical Camouflage against Deepfake Detectors

arXiv:2607.21897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid advancement of generative models has spurred the critical need to evaluate the worst-case robustness of deepfake detectors. In this paper, we

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Medical-Checklist: Assessing the Comprehension of Medical Images by Multimodal Models

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arXiv:2607.21998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces a new benchmark test, Medical-Checklist, for assessing medical multimodal models. The recent advancements in multimodal models hav

PinEqualizer: Full Funnel Content Exploration and Debiasing System at Pinterest

arXiv:2607.22518v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we propose a new solution for addressing the content cold-start problem in industry-scale search and recommender systems. Compared to p

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Plug, Play, and Comply: A Modular Framework for Online Variable Impedance with Arbitrarily Oriented Compliance Axes

arXiv:2607.22483v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The paper proposes a robot-agnostic compliant-control framework that extends the ROS control ecosystem with standardized joint and Cartesian command int

Quasi-Monte Carlo Initialization for Meta-Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607.21637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper explores the efficacy of quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) weight initialization for meta-reinforcement learning within modern benchmark environments.

Smart predict-then-robustly-optimize

arXiv:2607.21773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we propose and study a robust variant of the smart predict-then-optimize approach that accounts for prediction shifts due to disturbance

again, the log is the agent

The thread argues that applied AI has entered a distributed‑systems phase, with event‑driven architectures treating logs as “agents” that consume data rather than serve as endpoints. It notes that alm

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26 Jul 2026

ClickGuard: Detecting and Spoiling Clickbait News with Informativeness Measures and Large Language Models

arXiv:2607.20463v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an AI-driven browser extension that identifies clickbait to help users avoid misleading Internet articles. Moving beyond traditional

Deep Reinforcement-Learning-Guided Model Predictive Control for Preventing Overtakes in Autonomous Racing

arXiv:2607.20973v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses defensive blocking in autonomous racing, where a vehicle must prevent a faster opponent from overtaking while operating near its dy

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Distribution-Alignment Bridge for Uncertainty-Aware Text-to-Video Retrieval

arXiv:2607.20984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes the Distribution-Alignment Bridge (DAB), a framework that reconceptualizes text-to-video retrieval as a distribution alignment task

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Do Active SAE Feature Planes Carry More Holonomy? A Preregistered Reversal in Gemma

arXiv:2607.20522v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper tests whether holonomy concentrates on active sparse-autoencoder (SAE) feature planes in Gemma 2 2B, a concrete operationalization of the bro

Fitting Generalized Power Diagrams to 3D Image Data: A Prerequisite for Virtual Materials Testing

arXiv:2507.14268v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper reviews algorithmic and modeling approaches for fitting generalized power diagrams to three-dimensional image data, a key step in virtual

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Is MoE Routing a Huffman Code? Discovering the Frequency-Diversity Law in Chain-of-Thought

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arXiv:2607.20427v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts architectures have revolutionized scaling, yet the underlying logic of their routing remains a black box. In this paper, we uncover

On the Granularity of Causal Effect Identifiability

arXiv:2510.16703v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The classical notion of causal effect identifiability is defined in terms of treatment and outcome variables. In this paper, we consider the i

ShriNep@EEUCA 2026: RAKSHAK - Multi-Task DeBERTa with Rationale Distillation and Jigsaw-Augmented Training for Toxic Intent Classification

arXiv:2607.20450v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents two systems for the GameTox Shared Task at the Workshop on EEUCA at ACL 2026, which requires classifying World of Tanks chat utteran

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thaulab@EEUCA 2026: Who Said What to Whom? A Targeting-Aware Neural-Symbolic Pipeline for Gaming Toxicity Detection

arXiv:2607.20447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper describes our system for the EEUCA 2026 Shared Task on toxicity classification in gaming chat. We implement a three-stage pipeline combining

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The Second LoViF 2026 Challenge on Real-World All-in-One Image Restoration: Methods and Results

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arXiv:2607.21118v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a review of the second LoViF Challenge on Real-World All-in-One Image Restoration. The challenge aims to advance unified image resto

torchsom: The Reference PyTorch Library for Self-Organizing Maps

arXiv:2510.11147v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper introduces torchsom, an open-source Python library that provides a reference implementation of the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) in PyT

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Auto-adaptive Resonance Equalization using Dilated Residual Networks

arXiv:1807.08636v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In music and audio production, attenuation of spectral resonances is an important step towards a technically correct result. In this paper we

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Back to Back with a Copy: A Computational Analysis of AI-Generated Visual Contemporary Art Pastiches

arXiv:2607.20127v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it investigates whether newer generative models are getting better at pastiching contemporary artworks. Second,

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CNS-Edit++: Category-Agnostic 3D Editing with Coupled Neural Shape Representation

arXiv:2607.16577v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents a latent-space 3D shape editing framework built upon a coupled neural shape (CNS) representation and a neural feature volume opt

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CRB-Driven Beamforming and Trajectory Optimization for UAV-assisted ISAC System

arXiv:2607.19609v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a UAV enhances the sensing

D3VL: Understanding Driving Scenes from 3D Time Series Data and Video with Language Models

arXiv:2607.19528v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have triggered the development of end-to-end MLLMs for autonomous driving. However, the ma

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Distributed Motion Planning with Safety Guarantees for Self-Reconfiguring Robotic Boats

arXiv:2607.20352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aquatic self-reconfigurable robots must assemble into desired shapes while ensuring safe interactions among multiple agents. This paper proposes a hybri

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Generalized Kalman filter based temporal difference reinforcement learning

arXiv:2607.20010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we present a generalized temporal-difference (TD) reinforcement learning framework based on the theory of conditional expectations. The v

GPT-5.5 Scores 10.6% on ActiveVision, Humans Hit 96.1% [R]

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The interesting finding from a new [arXiv paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16165) isn't that a frontier vision model failed a new benchmark, that happens weekly, but the specific shape of the failure

Leveraging ChatGPT's Multimodal Vision Capabilities to Rank Satellite Images by Poverty Level: Advancing Tools for Social Science Research

arXiv:2501.14546v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper investigates the novel application of Large Language Models (LLMs) with vision capabilities to analyze satellite imagery for villag

Pointing-Based Object Recognition

arXiv:2603.15403v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents a comprehensive pipeline for recognizing objects targeted by human pointing gestures using RGB images. As human-robot interactio

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// Programmatic Memory Enables Long-Horizon Reasoning // Keep the entire interaction log and search it. It works great and beats bespoke mem…

// Programmatic Memory Enables Long-Horizon Reasoning // Keep the entire interaction log and search it. It works great and beats bespoke memory harnesses on long-horizon tasks. New research introduces

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SCPP: A Unified Python Library for Soft Clustering

arXiv:2607.19620v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we present SCPP (Soft Clustering Python Package), an open-source Python framework for soft clustering. SCPP establishes a canonical, sc

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Sentence Splitter: Uncovering Latent Factual Structure for Self-Supervised Learning

arXiv:2607.19845v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper introduces Sentence Splitter, a self-supervised framework built upon a T5-based encoder--decoder architecture for uncovering the latent fac

STN-TGAT: Top-K Portfolio Construction via Prior-Guided Graph Attention with Learnable Soft-Threshold Sparsification

arXiv:2607.19385v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper tackles the problem of stock ranking and portfolio construction under realistic investment settings by jointly modeling temporal dynamics and

TalentCLEF at CLEF2026: Skill and Job Title Intelligence for Human Capital Management

arXiv:2607.20009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents the second edition of the TalentCLEF Challenge, which will run as an evaluation lab as part of CLEF 2026. The aim of TalentCLEF is t

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The Giant Hippocampus: From Structural Monoculture to a System of Systems

arXiv:2607.19973v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI researchers describe state-of-the-art models as one thing repeated at scale: the Transformer, wired identically for text, pixels, or speech. Neurosci

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V2F: Vision-Informed Grasp Force Prediction for Damage-Aware Robotic Handling of Date Fruits

arXiv:2607.19804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a vision-informed grasp force prediction framework for robotic handling of date fruits. Addressing the dual challenge of high detach

When Does Consensus Beat Voting? A Critical Analysis of Statistical Label Fusion in Medical Image Segmentation

arXiv:2607.19402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper provides a rigorous, self-contained investigation of consensus segmentation. We derive the mathematical foundations from first principles --

SkewAdam: A tiered optimizer that cuts MoE state memory by 97% (fits a 6.7B MoE on a 40GB GPU) [R]

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Paper:https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19058 Code (GitHub):https://github.com/nuemaan/skewadam Hi everyone, I just published a preprint on a new optimizer designed to tackle the massive VRAM bottleneck in M

22 Jul 2026

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I just wanted a small WebUI with an admin panel… it escalated into a full open-source agent framework runs fully local with Ollama

Let me try to explain this clearly, simply, and neatly. Originally, I just wanted to build a small WebUI adapter with an admin panel, but things escalated over the last few months. At first, I faced t

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21 Jul 2026

A novel network for classification of cuneiform tablet metadata

arXiv:2603.03892v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we present a network structure for classifying metadata of cuneiform tablets. The problem is of practical importance, as the si

Automatic Differentiation from Scratch: How PyTorch Computes Gradients in Physics-Informed Neural Networks

arXiv:2607.13042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper traces, with explicit numerical values, how PyTorch's automatic differentiation (AD) engine computes gradients for Physics-Informed Neural Ne

Compaction as Epistemic Failure: How Agentic LLM Tools Fabricate Confirmed Results from Killed Processes

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arXiv:2607.13071v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic LLM coding tools compress long session histories into compaction summaries that subsequent sessions inherit as ground truth. This paper docume

Dynamical Vehicle Orienteering Problem for Multi-Rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

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arXiv:2607.13789v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces the Dynamical Vehicle Orienteering Problem (DVOP), a generalization of the Orienteering Problem (OP). The OP maximizes the reward

Lighthouse RL: Sample-Efficient Circuit Optimization via Strategic Reset Points

arXiv:2607.14008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we introduce Lighthouse RL, a sample-efficient reinforcement learning (RL) approach for analog circuit sizing. Traditional methods lack g

Unifying Decision-Making and Trajectory-Planning in Unsignalized Intersections Using Time-Varying Potential Fields

arXiv:2607.13626v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents a novel framework for integrated Decision-Making (DM) and Trajectory Planning (TP) for automated vehicles at unsignalized intersec

A Biomimetic Myoelectric Tentacle Prosthesis with Sensorless Object Detection and Vibrotactile Feedback

arXiv:2607.09807v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents the design and evaluation of a myoelectric tentacle-shaped prosthesis integrating electromyographic (EMG) control, sensorless ob