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Video Encoders Built on Image Representations

arXiv:2610.06616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The design of a video encoder determines when frames begin to interact and which frame-specific visual evidence remains accessible to the language model

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arXiv:2610.05577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A linear probe can show that a label is recoverable from a model's hidden states, but not whether that goes beyond what the input already reveals, or wh

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When Does Retrieval Help? A Study of In-Context Adaptation in Vision-Language-Action Models

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arXiv:2610.05492v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown strong potential as generalist robot policies, but adapting them to unseen tasks often requires costly pa

When Is Enough Enough in Self-Evolving LLM Systems?

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arXiv:2610.04756v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-evolving large language model (LLM) systems repeatedly propose, evaluate, and incorporate updates to prompts, skills, or other persistent artifac

ZeST: an VLM-based Zero-Shot Traversability Navigation for Unknown Environments

arXiv:2508.19131v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The advancement of robotics and autonomous navigation systems hinges on the ability to accurately predict terrain traversability. Traditional

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Adaptive Mutual Distillation for Balanced Multi-Task Post-Training of Large Language Models

arXiv:2610.02856v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-task post-training of large language models (LLMs) aims to improve performance across tasks with unequal amounts of training data. Existing method

AdaStep: Adaptive Step Credit Weighting for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.03223v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon LLM agents are typically trained with sparse outcome rewards, making trajectory-level objectives too coarse to distinguish the contributi

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Automatic Evaluation of Mental Health Stigma in Online Communication

arXiv:2610.02775v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mental health stigma has profoundly harmful impacts but its complexity makes it difficult to evaluate. Stigma may involve explicit derogation, but also

DeskForge: Dense Supervision from Desktop Environments for Computer-Use Agents

arXiv:2610.02320v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computer-use agents need to reliably ground action targets in complex desktop scenes, where multiple applications, overlapping windows, and visually s

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DyadMem: A Long-Term Memory Benchmark of How Agents Work with Users

arXiv:2610.03020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term agents must remember not only what is true about a user, but also how a particular agent should work with that user as their shared history ev

EditHero: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Part-Level 3D Editing and Vibe Modeling

arXiv:2610.02298v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D editing methods are usually tested on a single edit, yet an asset is built through a long sequence of revisions, each of which must implement the r

Evaluating VQA in Vision Language Models using Cooperative Principles

arXiv:2610.02878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We evaluate the performance of Vision Language Models in Visual Question Answering (VQA) when questions violate Grice's maxims. To do this, we use VLMs

EviDent-CBCT: Evidence-Bottlenecked Report Generation from Dental CBCT under Non-Exhaustive Report Supervision

arXiv:2610.02375v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dento-maxillofacial cone-beam CT (CBCT) reports may contain dozens of tooth-specific, anatomical, and spatial findings from a single 3D scan. Learning

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Finding the Move Is Not Winning the Game: XiangqiBench for Closed-Loop Evaluation of LLM Agents

arXiv:2610.02425v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Static evaluations credit a language model for naming the right move, but an agent must carry a plan through to a verified outcome while an opponent res

From Fragments to Global Maps: Learning Vectorized Map Aggregation with Large Language Models

arXiv:2610.02513v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale vectorized HD maps provide structured road information that is essential for perception, localization, and planning in autonomous driving.

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How Robust Is Multimodal Claim Verification to LLM Rewriting?

arXiv:2610.02841v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs are known to introduce stylistic changes into generated text, yet how these stylistic shifts affect model decisions on scientific tasks remains und

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Tutorials

How To Train Your World Model: Fine-tuning vs RAG for LM-based World Modeling

arXiv:2610.02542v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models (WMs) simulate the transition dynamics of environments, enabling agents to plan over the consequences of their actions. In text-based envir

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Interpreting at Write Time: A Policy Ablation for Multi-Goal Agent Memory

arXiv:2610.02897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A long-running assistant cannot keep everything it has seen, so it summarises. Summarising is not neutral: what is kept is chosen against some notion of

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KV^2: A Self-Refining KV Cache

arXiv:2610.03198v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The memory footprint of the key-value (KV) cache constrains the practical use of long-context models, and it dominates cost when one prefilled context m

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Agents

MEA: A Reward-Driven Multi-Agent System for Faithful Model Explanations

arXiv:2610.02480v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent years have seen the employment of a plethora of machine learning (ML) models in high-stakes domains, but they remain largely opaque to the practi

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MintEval: Do LLMs Implement the Trading Strategy You Asked For? A Behavioural-Equivalence Benchmark for Natural-Language-to-Strategy Code

arXiv:2610.03080v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are moving from producing trading signals to writing the code that executes them. The failure mode of the second role is silent:

Mitigating Social Sycophancy via Pluralistic Preference Optimization

arXiv:2610.02568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personal advice, including relationship advice, now ranks among the most common uses of generative AI. But language models (LMs) exhibit sycophancy: the

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Octrees as an Explicit 3D Language

arXiv:2610.02388v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing 3D large language models (LLMs) compromise on two fronts: they compress shapes into latent codebook indices or coordinate text, which removes s

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On the Chain-of-Thought Monitorability of Looped Language Models

arXiv:2610.02741v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitoring provides a promising approach for detecting undesirable model behavior. Looped language models (LoopLMs) repeatedly ap

Tutorials

Post-Training Frontier Text-to-Image Models by Composing Preference and Rubric Rewards

arXiv:2610.02967v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent text-to-image generation models have achieved remarkable visual quality, but improving them through post-training remains challenging because n

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PsyEvo: A Personalized Counseling Agent That Self-Evolves at Test Time

arXiv:2610.02885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mental health disorders affect a substantial proportion of the global population, yet a persistent shortage of trained practitioners leaves the majority

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Recursive Agent Optimization

arXiv:2605.06639v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce Recursive Agent Optimization (RAO), a reinforcement learning approach for training recursive agents: agents that can spawn and de

Reliability Stress Tests and Decision-Time Routing for Chest X-ray Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2610.02270v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical vision-language model (VLM) evaluation is sensitive to workflow design, prompting strategy, and benchmark construction, yet most studies treat

Rethinking World-Action Model for Compositional and In-Context Robotic Manipulation

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arXiv:2610.02368v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon compositional manipulation has become increasingly important for real-world robot deployment, where a single task involves multiple coordin

Revealing Epistemic Uncertainty in MLLMs via Causal-Invariant Masking

arXiv:2610.02887v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) suffer from hallucinations, creating a critical need for Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) to ensure reliable d

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Scale-Recursive Rectified Flows for Few-Step Precipitation Ensembles

arXiv:2610.02611v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-resolution precipitation estimates support flood risk assessment and water management, but coarse satellite products cannot resolve rainfall with

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SoftGene: Protein Language Model-Enhanced Soft Prompting for Interpretable Gene Set Annotation

arXiv:2610.03029v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gene set analysis is a cornerstone of functional genomics, yet it remains labor-intensive and heavily dependent on manual curation and expert biological

Spatial Memory Intelligence: Endowing World Models with Understanding-Driven Long-Term Memory

arXiv:2610.02521v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-video generation and world models have shown strong potential for interactive entertainment and embodied simulation by predicting future observatio

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Hardware

Tailoring the Quantization Space for 1-Bit KV Cache Compression

arXiv:2610.03027v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The key-value (KV) cache becomes a major memory bottleneck in long-context LLM inference, placing substantial pressure on memory capacity and bandwidt

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TerraVis: Towards Evaluation of World-Grounded Visual Consistency in Text-to-Image Generation via MLLM Workflows

arXiv:2610.02959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent text-to-image models have made substantial progress in photorealism, aesthetics, and text-image alignment. Yet visually appealing images can stil

To Explore The Strange New World Beyond Data Distribution: System Behavior, Causality Tax, and Non-causal Base Model

arXiv:2610.02839v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We show that the causality of language models (LMs) may not be necessary nor optimal. This is the case when system behavior (denoted as S) is incorpor

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Agents

Toward SLM-based agentic task-tool intent matching

arXiv:2610.03213v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-equipped AI agents use tool calls to access data and act on external systems. Horizontal growth of agentic systems increases the number of these in

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Trained Agentic Context Management

arXiv:2610.02404v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study long context language models. Instead of training long context natively, or designing a long context harness, we train a model over the simpl

Understanding Affective Adaptation in Multimodal Foundation Models: Emergent Functional Specialization

arXiv:2601.15906v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite rapid progress in multimodal affective foundation models, how affective capabilities emerge within their internal architectures remains poor

Verifiable, Articulable, and Tacit Components of Preference

arXiv:2610.03025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: What makes a short story gripping; a news article newsworthy; or a math proof elegant? These constructs resist articulation or verification; their meani

When Predicting Nothing Beats SAM 3: Revisiting Evaluation in Video Object Segmentation

arXiv:2610.02946v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video Object Segmentation (VOS) in complex and long videos is increasingly important for real-world applications, where target objects often appear only

Applications

Here are some pictures of a robot costume wearing high-specularity edge-case mirror suit, a dataset (425 RAW/JPEGs) for benchmarking CV & depth-estimation algorithms against extreme mirror reflections [D]

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Purpose-built to stress-test computer vision models, depth cameras, and spatial AI against severe specular glare and geometric reflections. This 425-asset production archive features a custom faceted

I trained a 3.87B MoE (1.45B active) from scratch on only 86.5B tokens

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First of all, thank you for reading. I trained a small MoE model completely from scratch (no external base weights) and wanted to share the results + a couple of lessons. Apex-2 - Architecture: Decode

Is Strix Halo (GMKtec EVO-X2, etc.) the closest thing we have to a 'dream' local LLM box?

I've been looking at the <32B model space and keep coming back to an interesting question. A few years ago, projects like Hummingbird+ suggested that cheap custom accelerators (FPGA-based) might becom

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Syntheses

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Update #4: Post training yandex/AliceAI-80B-A3B [instruct!] from scratch

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Last update for those following: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wvyc3e/update_3_post_training_yandexaliceai80ba3b/ Project in a sentence: An instruct finetune of ALiceAI-80B-A3B-Base ca

I built Ninfer 4080 for 16GB class GPUs

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Hi everyone, TL/DR I created NInfer 4080 to run ISTA-DASLab-Qwen-3.8-27B-GSQ at 100k context on an RTX 4080 16GB GPU using way more of the hardware capabilities (max overall: 2720 tok/s prefill, 262 t

3 Oct 2026

The Economist's article on Effective Altruism said that some EAs 'even think the welfare of AIs themselves will one day be of vital importan…