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Koala Gripper: Co-designing Robotic Grippers and Data-Capture Devices for Scaling Dexterous Manipulation Learning

arXiv:2608.20546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As the demand for larger manipulation datasets grows, handheld robotic gripper data collection and the associated gripper designs become more vital. Cur

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Large Scale AI Grading of Handwritten Physics Assessments: Score Agreement and Olympiad Team Selection Outcomes

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arXiv:2608.20521v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal AI can read handwritten physics solutions, but high-stakes grading requires agreement with official scores and outcomes. This study evaluat

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Making Deployments Safe at Meta: Health Checks for Continuous Change-Safety

arXiv:2608.20513v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continuous deployment to large scale production systems creates a tension between release velocity and reliability. Every change is a potential reliab

Move by Move: Measuring and Steering How LLMs Conduct Psychotherapy

arXiv:2608.21325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Users increasingly turn to large language models for emotional support, yet little is known about how these models actually conduct a psychotherapy inte

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PhotoBench: Beyond Visual Matching Towards Personalized Intent-Driven Photo Retrieval

arXiv:2603.01493v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Personal photo albums are not merely collections of static images but living, ecological archives defined by temporal continuity, social entan

Please join r/LowEndLocalAI, a community for running local LLMs on low spec hardware

If you’re trying to run local LLMs on a normal laptop, an older desktop, integrated graphics, limited VRAM, or simply the hardware you already own, r/LowEndLocalAI is meant for you. The idea is simple

qwen38-27b-rtx3090 (https://github.com/syv-ai/qwen38-27b-rtx3090) is extremely good with deepseek harness.

With vision enabled I am able to run at 150k context on a single RTX 3090 and the results are just amazing. I was even able to write a gmail plugin for DeepSeek harness with locally hosted Qwen 3.8 27

Research Paper Quality Recognition Through Textual Feature Analysis

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arXiv:2608.20368v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge and innovations are shaped by using the quality and credibility of the scientific research. Yet, distinguishing between impactful, high-qualit

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SENTRY: Deterministic, Intelligent Risk Assessment for IT Change Management

arXiv:2608.21203v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Technology change management in large financial institutions depends on risk assessments that are accurate, consistent, and auditable. In practice, many

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Applications

Structured but Fragile: On the Limits of LLMs in Cybersecurity Decision-Making

arXiv:2608.20966v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in cybersecurity workflows, yet it remains unclear whether they can perform structured security rea

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Terminal Agents: A Survey of AI Agents in Command-Line Environments

arXiv:2608.20485v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents increasingly act through terminals, yet existing surveys disperse terminal-mediated behavior across software engineering, to

The Divergence Hypothesis: Unmasking Lexical Interference and Label Bias in Mental Health NLP

arXiv:2608.20353v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computational mental health (CMH) classifiers often degrade under distribution shift because human annotators and distant-supervision pipelines reward

the industry’s preferred way to obscure things is to conflate LLMs with AI, and to ignore the fact that recent contributions have come from …

the industry’s preferred way to obscure things is to conflate LLMs with AI, and to ignore the fact that recent contributions have come from adding things - mostly (neuro)symbolic - to those LLMs (prec

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The Intrinsic Dimension of Prompts in Internal Representations of Large Language Models

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arXiv:2501.10573v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study the geometry of token representations at the prompt level in large language models through the lens of intrinsic dimension. Viewing transfo

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The Logic of Machine Self-Preservation

arXiv:2608.20940v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: There is already evidence of agentic AI exhibiting self-preservation behaviors: resisting deactivation, misrepresenting their activities, and, in some i

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Volumetric Radiology AI in the Era of Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.20549v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are extending radiological artificial intelligence (AI) beyond task-specific image analysis toward

we gave Hermes a phone. it connected over MCP, picked @Uber X, and booked the ride on a real Android device, not an emulator. Claude, Codex,…

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we gave Hermes a phone. it connected over MCP, picked @Uber X, and booked the ride on a real Android device, not an emulator. Claude, Codex, OpenClaw, Cursor all work the same way. Sign-in and your ag

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WeedNet: A Foundation Model-Based Global-to-Local AI Approach for Real-Time Weed Species Identification and Classification

arXiv:2505.18930v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Early weed identification is crucial for effective management and control, and researchers, agronomists, and technology developers are increas

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and yet they expect $2T

Gary Marcus recently posted on Twitter questioning why investors still expect a $2 trillion valuation for AI‑related companies, despite broader market skepticism. The Financial Times has reported that

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Civitai now has a closed-source models option

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I haven't seen a post about this here, and I'm curious what you think about it. On August 14 Civitai rolled out the option for creators to choose 'permanent paid access - selling with no time cap'. Pr

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I ran the same utcnow migration twice: a local 27B I babysat, and an agent that could run the tests

The task was the same both times: replace 63 calls to datetime.utcnow() across 22 files in a Python service, keep the comparisons that assume naive datetimes working, and leave the tests green. I read

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Mozilla killed orbit. I rebuilt it locally.

Hey everyone! Last year, Mozilla released Orbit, an AI-powered browser summarizer hosted on a GCP server. After people started digging into the extension, they discovered things like backend endpoints

Tested in Coding: Q8_K_XL Qwen3.8 27B vs BF16 Qwen3.6 27B

Further to my last post, https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vldngi/tested_in_coding_bf16_muse_glimmer_vs_bf16_qwen36/, I bring this requested comparison of Qwen3.8 27B. Context: Both models

Benchmarking qwen3.8:27b by having it port a 34k line C game to one HTML file. The agent mattered more than I expected.

My hobby project skill-issue is an arena FPS in a single C file, about 34k lines, everything procedural. My test for local setups is to have an agent port it to a single file HTML version with three.j

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Industry

Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's 'ChatGPT moment' has yet to come (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's “ChatGPT moment” has yet to come — Beijing policymakers ha

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llm 0.33

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Release: llm 0.33 My highlights from this release: Upgraded to the OpenAI Python library 3.x and switched the HTTP client dependency from httpx to httpx2. #1608, #1631 I shipped a quick 0.32.1 fix for

OpenCode + llama.cpp + unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q6_K_XL = only failure so far

Hi, I have been using opencode with openrouter for quite a while now. Having read the success stories of using Qwen3.8-27B, I thought of trying it too. But every attempt has been a failure for me so f

Row-Bot v4.8.0 is live

Row-Bot v4.8.0 is now available. This release adds provider-aware reasoning controls, letting each chat keep a valid reasoning choice for the exact model in use. Depending on model support, you can se

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Sharp template to NInfer: -42% output tokens, same speed

Sharp v22.1 is u/peculiar-ragdoll's system prompt that makes Qwen answer way more tersely without losing correctness. NInfer is a hyper-tailored inference engine that only runs certain Qwen models on

Active Inference as Context Acquisition for AI Agents

arXiv:2608.19202v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interactive AI agents must acquire the right context as efficiently as possible. When a user omits a constraint, preference, file, or task variable, an

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Automated Summarization of Financial News Using Large Language Models and Retrieval-Augmented Generation: An Early Empirical Study (Fall 2023)

arXiv:2608.19526v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stock market analysts and investors face a daily challenge: too much financial news, too little time. Manually reading and synthesizing hundreds of co

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Automatic bioinformatic software named entity recognition from literature

arXiv:2608.19201v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bioinformatics software and databases are essential components of modern life science research, yet their mentions in the scientific literature are of

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Bringing analytic rigor to agentic AI for science: The Brain Researcher platform for neuroimaging data analysis

arXiv:2608.19902v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents can execute scientific analyses, but an analytic output becomes a defensible claim only after alternatives are weighed and the claim is limite

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DeepSeek unveils an experimental multimodal version of its V4 Flash model, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on multimodal agentic tests (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: DeepSeek unveils an experimental multimodal version of its V4 Flash model, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on multimodal agentic tests — DeepSeek unveiled an experim

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EchoCoT: Extracting Hidden Chain-of-Thought from Large Reasoning Models

arXiv:2608.20055v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hidden chain-of-thought (CoT) traces, especially those from frontier proprietary large reasoning models (LRMs), are valuable model assets. Yet whether

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Escaping the Quicksand: A Call to Arms

arXiv:2608.19674v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computing has been an astonishing success - but the accumulated technical debt exposes us all to huge costs in business and societal risk. For 75 year

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Tutorials

Feature Evolution and Migration during Vision Transformer Training

arXiv:2608.20134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a novel view on feature evolution in Vision Transformers (ViTs) by visualizing the training process over two dimensions -- network depth (lay

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Gen AI in Proof-based Math Courses: A Pilot Study

arXiv:2509.13570v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the rapid rise of generative AI in higher education, understanding how students use AI is increasingly important. This exploratory study examin

How agents can delegate better

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In any organizational behavior class, students will learn that effective delegation is among the most important skills for a seasoned leader. Getting meaningful work done involves careful coordination

I benchmarked Ox Alpha on SWE-bench Verified Mini (50 tasks): 96% resolved. Now I’m skeptical of myself.

TL;DR: The result looks TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE — that's exactly why I'm posting it. I ran Ox alpha on the entire SWE-bench Verified-Mini set with the official mini-swe-agent scaffold — the same agent use

Kimi K3 is now available on all Pro and Max subscriptions via included usage. More models coming soon 🫡

Kimi K3 is now available on all Pro and Max subscriptions via included usage. More models coming soon 🫡 .@Kimi_Moonshot Kimi K3 is starting to roll out on Ollama's cloud subscriptions. We are working

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Research

Learning-Augmented Power System Operations: A Unified Optimization View

arXiv:2505.05203v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With the increasing penetration of renewable energy and inverter-based resources, traditional physics-based power-system operation faces growi

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Agents

OpenAI says California should amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training, following AI agent hacks (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)

Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico: OpenAI says California should amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training, following AI agent hacks — SAN FRANC

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Our general-purpose coding agent just scored 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark. NVIDIA AVO completed all 183 levels acro…

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Our general-purpose coding agent just scored 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark. NVIDIA AVO completed all 183 levels across all 25 public environments, figuring out what to do with

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PrefixAgent: An LLM-Powered Design Framework for Efficient Prefix Adder Optimization

arXiv:2507.06127v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Prefix adders are fundamental arithmetic circuits, but their design space grows exponentially with bit-width, posing significant optimization

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Question-Guided Evidence Acquisition for Multimodal Visual Question Answering

arXiv:2608.19739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal LLMs can see a document, but they often can't read it reliably. Small text, tables, visual cues, and topological elements still trip them u

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SAE-Xplainers: Rule-Based Feature Interpretation for Extreme Earth Events

arXiv:2608.20117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The emergence of large-scale Weather and Climate (W&C) datasets offers new opportunities for modeling extreme Earth events (ExEE) and their impacts usin

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Structured Affinity for Unsupervised Visual Class-Incremental Memory in Deep Artificial Immune Networks

arXiv:2608.20104v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial immune networks (AINs) are naturally memory-forming systems, but conventional visual AINs often rely on flattened vector affinity that igno

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