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RefineAny3D: Depth Refinement as Semantic Alignment for Monocular 3D Detection

arXiv:2608.09147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Monocular 3D object detection spans two regimes: closed-set detectors operating within a fixed category vocabulary, and open-vocabulary detectors that l

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Rethinking Reasoning with MDLMs: Early Exits, Post-hoc Reasoning, and Beyond

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arXiv:2510.19990v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The reasoning paradigm, where language models reason before answering, has enabled breakthroughs on tasks such as mathematical problem-solving. Whil

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11 Aug 2026

Self-Attention to Operator Learning-based 3D-IC Thermal Simulation

arXiv:2510.15968v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Thermal management in 3D ICs is increasingly challenging due to higher power densities. Traditional PDE-solving-based methods, while accurate,

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STAIR: Effective Incident Response Using an End-to-End Agentic Planning Framework

arXiv:2608.09524v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Incident response planning is critical for restoring compromised software systems after cyberattacks. Common practice relies on expert-driven playbook

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Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

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Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs A vanity domain name (stolen-thoughts.com) for a neat paper: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google return encrypted chain-of-thought blocks to clients that

SurgWMBench: A Vision-Based Benchmark for World-Modeling Surgical Instrument Motion Planning

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arXiv:2608.08070v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable surgical planning requires models that move beyond recognizing the current surgical step or imitating expert demonstrations, and instead antici

The Anatomy of a Prompt Injection: A Component Model for Structured Analysis

arXiv:2608.07808v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Four years after prompt injection was first identified in 2022, attacks are still predominantly documented as verbatim strings rather than structured

The Collaboration Gap: Exploration and Benchmarking of Open-World Agentic Cooperation

arXiv:2511.02687v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The trajectory of AI development suggests that we will increasingly rely on agent-based systems powered by language models, composed of independentl

The Politician, the Liar, and the Obedient Worker: Emerging Behavior of LLM Agents in Hierarchical Games

arXiv:2608.09574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs are rapidly embedding themselves into daily life: drafting our emails, managing our schedules, and making decisions on our behalf. As they move fro

💡The world needs an open-source platform, and that’s exactly what we’re building to give our customers more choice and the flexibility to c…

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💡The world needs an open-source platform, and that’s exactly what we’re building to give our customers more choice and the flexibility to choose the right model for the right task. As part of this, we

Toward Mask Annotation-Free Surgical Instrument Segmentation from Endoscopic Images Using Text-Prompted Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM3)

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arXiv:2608.08844v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surgical instrument segmentation is a fundamental task for computer-assisted interventions, yet most existing methods rely on pixel-level annotations or

VeriForge: Mitigating Latent Knowledge Gaps in Narrative Drafting via Mixed-Initiative Scaffolding

arXiv:2608.09698v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Great fiction earns its verisimilitude through precise details, from how a longsword is gripped to pierce armor gaps to why a bleeding corpse cannot y

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Walking through Discussions: A Mobile Visual Analytics System for In-Situ Group Discussion Analysis

arXiv:2608.08617v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group discussion-based teaching is widely used to foster collaborative learning, yet teachers in physical classrooms often struggle to simultaneously mo

When Grammar Guides the Attack: Uncovering Control-Plane Vulnerabilities in LLMs with Structured Output

arXiv:2503.24191v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Content Warning: This paper may contain unsafe or harmful content generated by LLMs that may be offensive to readers. Large Language Models (L

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

Achievable 253 t/s - unsloth/Muse Glimmer 30B UD-Q5_K_M on a 5090

Benchmarked Muse Glimmer 30B on my RTX 5090 (32GB), 262k context, UD-Q5_K_M + dflash-kquant + mmproj. Workload Stock master + DFlash ngram-simple PR #26842 + DFlash Code patch 78 t/s 57 t/s 220-253 t/

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An End-to-End Agent Auditing Engine

arXiv:2608.07346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), harnesses have become essential infrastructure for deploying agents across a wide range of d

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Automated item evaluation: Predicting item acceptance and rejection using LLM-generated critiques

arXiv:2608.06609v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated item evaluation (AIE) refers to the use of computational methods to assess item quality without requiring manual expert review or field testin

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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Can MLLMs Decode the Creative Leap? Introducing C4 for Cross-Concept Understanding

arXiv:2608.06501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Creative capabilities of MLLMs matter in design, communication, education, and human--AI collaboration, yet remain difficult to evaluate because explici

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Claude Haiku is my current least favorite model - it hallucinates wildly, and is out-performed now by other similarly priced models like GPT…

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Claude Haiku is my current least favorite model - it hallucinates wildly, and is out-performed now by other similarly priced models like GPT-5.6-Luna Even worse: it seems to still be used by the Claud

Corma launches with $60M in funding for defensive cybersecurity AI

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Defensive cybersecurity startup Corma Labs Ltd. today announced it has raised 60 million in seed funding to build a foundation model purpose-built for security defense. Founded in 2025, Corma runs off

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Curriculum as Code: An AI-Assisted Architecture for Instructional Design in STEM Education

arXiv:2608.07364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contribution: This paper presents a six-phase AI-assisted instructional design architecture based on the Curriculum as Code paradigm, integrating Genera

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Detection and Ranging of Transient Extrinsic Contacts Based on 6D Dynamic Tactile Sensing

arXiv:2608.07075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Delicate manipulation often involves transient and subtle collisions between a grasped object and the environment. While the human hand localizes these

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ED-CSP: Crystal Structure Prediction from Electron Diffraction

arXiv:2608.06448v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recovering a periodic 3D crystal structure from sparse, unindexed electron diffraction (ED) observations is a challenging generative inverse problem.

Evaluating Useful Surrogate Models for Configuration Tuning Beyond Accuracy: A Fitness Landscape Analysis Perspective

arXiv:2509.21945v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: To efficiently tune configuration for better software system performance (e.g., latency) at the deployment and maintenance stage, many tuners

HLSmith: An Expert-Guided Agentic Framework for C/C++-to-HLS Translation

arXiv:2608.06791v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Application-specific FPGA accelerators offer substantial performance and energy-efficiency gains across many application domains, but developing them

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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I compared GGUF quants of Qwen3.6 27B to NVFP4, AWQ, AutoRound, and FP8

There's an interactive chart and some extra data in the blog post if you're interested. There are plenty of KL-divergence benchmarks for GGUF models, but most of them compare one GGUF quant against an

Introducing Muse Glimmer: an open-weight model optimized for always-on local agent workflows

Hi r/LocalLLaMA 👋 Today we’re excited to release Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight model built specifically for local agent workflows. We’re releasing the weights to the community under a permissive Apa

Meta returns to open weights: Muse Glimmer, its first open-weights release since Llama 4, scores 35 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence …

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Meta returns to open weights: Muse Glimmer, its first open-weights release since Llama 4, scores 35 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. It is a 30B-parameter model, and the first from Meta

MolBioKG: Grounding Out-of-Graph Molecules in Biomedical Knowledge Graphs via Multi-Resolution Structural Anchoring

arXiv:2608.06713v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biomedical knowledge graphs (KGs) accelerate drug discovery, but standard pipelines assume query molecules already exist as graph entities, leaving unre

Policy-Masked Private Experts: Auditable and Reversible Capability Access Control in Sparse MoE Models

arXiv:2608.06690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most language-model access controls regulate behavior while leaving the same computation available to every request. We study a different systems ques

RAG-art: Build Your Own Art Expert with ollama

I built myself a personal AI art history assistant https://github.com/lololerigolo60/RAG-art/tree/main I love art history but I have way too many books, PDFs, and notes scattered everywhere. So I buil

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ReGraph: Learning to Generate Recipe Graphs from Food Images

arXiv:2608.06917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have achieved impressive performance in recipe generation from food images.However, cooking is a structured transf

Representation-driven Endoscopic Visual Embedding Alignment for Latent Generation

arXiv:2608.07176v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Developing foundation generative models for endoscopy is limited by the gap between natural and clinical images and the computational cost of training

ResidencyRL: Reinforcement Learning in Simulated Clinical Environments

arXiv:2608.07418v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In medical education, physicians convert academic knowledge into clinical expertise through residency: years of training across thousands of encounters,

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Sharding Prevents LLM Oversight Failures and Adversarial Exploitation

arXiv:2608.06422v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Giving an LLM judge more compute does not necessarily make it check more requirements. When one call must return many verdicts, some decisions become we

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Soft Redaction of Image Provenance via Zero-Knowledge Proofs

arXiv:2608.07063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Content provenance standards, such as C2PA, are increasingly used to attach signed records of origin, editing history, and rights to digital images. H

Tested Muse Glimmer locally on coding with OpenCode & agentic work

Ran the model with quants (Q4) by Unsloth with latest (build from master) llama.cpp server. It takes ~20GB ram running on M5 Pro with 48GB at about 17t/s. Didn't do any reasoning loops/overthinking. O

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Uncovering expert objectives in production planning via inverse optimization: An industrial case study

arXiv:2608.07398v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Production planning in the manufacturing industry often relies on the use of optimization models, but defining an appropriate objective function can b

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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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When @QualiaQuanta took a shot at the Riemann, half in jest, people called her a crackpot. When Anthropic uses Claude to do the same thing, …

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When @QualiaQuanta took a shot at the Riemann, half in jest, people called her a crackpot. When Anthropic uses Claude to do the same thing, it gets a hundred thousand views in 30 minutes. It might wel

Why Speculative Decoding went mature in 2026?

Spec-dec has been a thing for a while, in fact, it's wasn't an idea that was born for LLM inference. E.g. Uber's https://github.com/uber/submitqueue applied it to a merge queue. Apple & GDM had been r

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Word doc cleaning

I have been trying to parse word docs for use with llama3.1:8b in Ollama. I only need the text - Even if I cut and past into a text editor weird characters seem to stick around which break llama/Ollam

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DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Q8_K_XL sometimes stops mid-task in OpenCode - anyone else seeing this?

Hey everyone, I've been experimenting with the new DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 release locally using the Unsloth Studio Q8_K_XL GGUF with OpenCode. Overall, it's been working really well, but I've noticed

9 Aug 2026

GitHub Models is now retired

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GitHub Models is now retired I missed this news until today, when the GitHub Actions run for my simonw/research repository failed with this error message: GitHub Models is temporarily unavailable as p

9 Aug 2026

Grok Build is quickly turning into an all-in-one creation environment It can now also generate images and videos with Grok Imagine directly …