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Hot take on OpenAI’s Astra: - Obviously impressive - But math is different from most other problems in that it is more amenable to to formal verification and synthetic data. How well it works in open-

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Is there a point where models just cannot get any smaller without losing intelligence?

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DeepSeek V4 Flash got me thinking... We keep seeing smaller models get way better. A model at a certain parameter count today can be much smarter than a model of the same size from a year or two ago.

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1 Aug 2026

“Stochastic parrots” is not my term (it’s @emilymbender’s). But a lot of people today commenting on it are confused. To some extent (though …

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“Stochastic parrots” is not my term (it’s @emilymbender’s). But a lot of people today commenting on it are confused. To some extent (though I don’t think it’s a perfect metaphor, and have said that be

1 Aug 2026

What's currently the 'smartest' LLM to use on 8GB vram and 16 RAM and same thing for 8 VRAM and 64 RAM?

Been trying to find something that actually handles my workload well instead of just being 'fine.' Started on Qwen 2.5 7B, moved to Qwen 3 8B, and right now I'm using Nemotron 3 Ultra (the big 550B on

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1 Aug 2026

A Systems Engineering Framework for Vision-Language-Enabled UAV Triage and Disaster Response

arXiv:2607.27597v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Vision Language Models (VLMs) have created new opportunities for disaster response, where responders must interpret large volumes of

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

AI LEGO: Scaffolding Cross-Functional Collaboration in Industrial Responsible AI Practices during Early Design Stages

arXiv:2505.10300v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Responsible AI (RAI) efforts increasingly emphasize the importance of addressing potential harms early in the AI development lifecycle through

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

Auto Research for Materials: Auditable AI-Scientist Workflows with Held-Out Transfer

arXiv:2607.17100v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Auto Research uses language-model agents to propose, implement, and evaluate machine-learning changes in a closed loop, but is usually judged

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AutoSupervision: Closing the Feedback Loop in Scientific Workflows with Grounded Revision Verification

arXiv:2607.27845v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled AI systems to assist scientific research and peer review. However, an essential capability

Benchmarking the Residual: What Long-Horizon Evaluations Add Beyond Matched Short-Task Performance

arXiv:2607.27283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon benchmarks often show that agents fail more as tasks become longer. This observation is useful for deployment, but it does not by itself ex

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Can LVLMs Uncover the Truth Behind Visual Illusions? An Analysis of Perceptual and Reasoning Capabilities

arXiv:2607.27747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Vision Language Models have integrated reasoning capabilities, elevating cognitive performance to new levels. However, existing evaluations either

Could we all crowdsource a dataset/model/finetune?

I know it’s been discussed to try to make our own model through crowdsourcing, but finetuning seems like it would be even easier. We could edit and proofread and write our own datasets at a large scal

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EEG-EditBench: Probing Visual Information in EEG-Image Retrieval Models with Controlled Image Edits

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arXiv:2607.27857v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent EEG-to-image retrieval models have achieved strong performance in identifying viewed images from semantically diverse candidates. Yet such succes

Endo-NeRF++: Uncertainty-Aware Neural Rendering with Multi-Resolution Hash Encoding for Dynamic Surgical Scene Reconstruction

arXiv:2607.27825v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reconstructing dynamic surgical scenes is crucial for robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery; however, it continues to be difficult because of tiss

Experience sharing: How do you use your local models and for what kind of tasks?

Here is my experience, which I would like to share with you and I also would like to hear your thoughts and valuable tips&tricks. Hardware: Mac Mini M4 (32GB Unified Memory) Model Server: Ollama Orche

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FinanceHarness: Autonomous Financial Deep Research Framework

arXiv:2607.27853v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Powered by advances in LLMs and autonomous agents, deep research has become one of the most widely adopted agentic products. However, most deep research

Generative AI and linguistic diversity in academic writing and publishing: Perspectives from World Englishes

arXiv:2607.28505v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rise of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in academic writing and publishing (AWP) raises questions about linguistic inclusivity and the le

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GoGoTB: Agentic RTL Verification with Specification-Grounded Coverage Closure

arXiv:2607.26181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Functional verification dominates integrated circuit (IC) front-end engineering effort, and a single missed bug that escapes to silicon can trigger a co

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I built a hybrid Transformer–SSM LLM agent with a local CLI, active control, and run receipts

I’m one of the builders of LOLM, a hybrid Transformer–SSM model and agent system from Qira. The model separates surface token processing from persistent latent-state tracking. An NFET controller can s

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Improved Classification of Nitrogen Stress Severity in Plants Under Combined Stress Conditions Using Spatio-Temporal Deep Learning Framework

arXiv:2509.06625v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Plants in their natural habitats endure an array of interacting stresses, both biotic and abiotic, that rarely occur in isolation. Nutrient stress-p

Learning to Trace Seiberg Dualities

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arXiv:2607.28628v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dualities play an important role in establishing both microscopic and emergent phenomena in a wide range of physical systems. In practice, though, it

Metrics vs Surveys: An Analysis for Human-Aligned Benchmarking in Social Robot Navigation

arXiv:2510.02941v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Social, also called human-aware, navigation is a key challenge for integrating mobile robots into human environments. The evaluation of such systems

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mmRadarTwin: A Measurement-Calibrated Signal-Level Digital Twin Platform for Indoor mmWave Radar

arXiv:2607.28108v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Indoor mmWave radar perception is difficult to reproduce because measured range-angle responses depend on scene geometry, material response, multipath,

OK, GPT-5.6 Luna is a bit of a beast. Given the 80% price drop today I decided to try it in Datasette Agent, and it's furiously quick and ge…

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OK, GPT-5.6 Luna is a bit of a beast. Given the 80% price drop today I decided to try it in Datasette Agent, and it's furiously quick and generates all the SQL, HTML and JavaScript (for Datasette Apps

PCAP-LM: An LLM-Native Text Representation for TLS Bulk Traffic Analysis

arXiv:2607.28100v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) offer powerful reasoning capabilities for network traffic analysis, but standard capture formats and their textual equiva

PlantBGC: Transformer for Plant BGC Discovery via Label-Free Domain Adaptation and Weak Supervision

arXiv:2607.27258v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Plant biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) encode specialized-metabolite pathways, yet curated plant BGC labels remain scarce, hindering supervised disco

PUDA: An AI-Native Hardware Harness for Self-Driving Laboratories

arXiv:2607.26464v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physical Unified Device Architecture (PUDA) is an AI-native hardware harness for self-driving laboratories (SDLs). Rather than building a human-center

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RadHarmony: Radiological Data Handling in the Era of Agentic AI

arXiv:2607.27235v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training deep learning models on radiological images requires integrating heterogeneous datasets across different sources, file formats, directory lay

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Random Projection Flows for Efficient Manifold Density Estimation

arXiv:2509.25228v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate density estimation is crucial for understanding complex high-dimensional data, but it becomes challenging when the data lies on or near low

Towards Autonomous Aircraft Surveillance from Nanosatellites through On-Board Inference and Generative Data Augmentation

arXiv:2607.28470v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Airborne surveillance from low Earth orbit is hindered by two interconnected bottlenecks: nanosatellites have a limited downlink budget, yet the conve

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TraceCoder: Explainable and Auditable Code Generation with Position-Key Snippet Versioning

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arXiv:2607.26307v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contemporary LLM-based coding agents produce code as black-box outputs: the rationale behind each line is hidden, the evolution of the code through benc

Uncensored Multi-Model Releases, Jamba2-Mini, Qwen3.5-9B-Nikusui-v1 with MTPs and Qwen3.5-27B-Nikusui-v1 with MTPs, Available in Safetensors and GGUF Formats!

First we have Jamba2-Mini Ultra Uncensored Heretic, it's a model which has never been uncensored before, it's a hybrid Mamba model with 52B parameters. Here is the model links: Safetensors: https://hu

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Uncensored Multi-Model Releases, LongCat-Flash-Lite with MTPs, Jamba2-Mini, Qwen3.5-9B-Nikusui-v1 with MTPs and Qwen3.5-27B-Nikusui-v1 with MTPs, Available in Safetensors and GGUF Formats!

model-releasesr-localllama

Been working hard for the past month to bring to the community some interesting curios, so for starters we have LongCat-Flash-Lite Uncensored Heretic with MTPs which has never before been uncensored,

2 images + 1 prompt > expected output

Hi, I'm trying to replicate a thing locally, that I can do on ChatGPT. What I want is to give a local AI two reference images (a face and a background item) and a prompt about the composition of the p

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AI Alignment in Medical Imaging: Unveiling Hidden Biases Through Counterfactual Analysis

arXiv:2504.19621v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine learning (ML) systems for medical imaging have demonstrated remarkable diagnostic capabilities, but their susceptibility to biases poses sig

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“AI Meltdown” is the scenario where the agent goes off the rails and forgets/ignores all previous instructions and soft guardrails. No promp…

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“AI Meltdown” is the scenario where the agent goes off the rails and forgets/ignores all previous instructions and soft guardrails. No prompt injection or malicious actor is needed for this to happen.

And Grok 4.6 comes out in a week

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And Grok 4.6 comes out in a week BREAKING: Grok 4.5 ranked #1 on LaurenBench with a score of 56.9%, ahead of Claude Sonnet 5, GLM 5.2, Claude Opus 5, Kimi K3 and GPT-5.6. The benchmark tests real-worl

Characterizing Human-Likeness in AI Generated Poetry: A Zero-shot Classification Study

arXiv:2607.26221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the advancement of AI technologies, Generative AI (GenAI) and human written text have become nearly indistinguishable. Additionally, the global sta

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Cohere has joined @NVIDIA alongside industry leaders in founding the Open Secure AI Alliance. Everybody should have the capability to keep t…

Cohere has joined @NVIDIA alongside industry leaders in founding the Open Secure AI Alliance. Everybody should have the capability to keep their infrastructure secure. Everybody deserves access to mod

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DataBahn raises $40M as AI agents queue up for enterprise telemetry

Enterprise data pipeline startup DataBahn Inc. today revealed that it has raised 40 million in new funding to accelerate development of what it calls an agentic data control plane. Founded in 2024, Da

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Do Unified Multimodal Models Think in One Space? A Lens Through Cross-Branch Steering

arXiv:2607.26411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) aim to integrate understanding and generation within a single architecture, yet it remains unclear whether these capabi

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Domain adaptation for handwriting trajectory reconstruction from IMU sensors

arXiv:2607.26736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Digital pens are commonly used to write on digital devices, providing the handwriting trace and enhancing human-computer interation. This study focuses

Embodied Agents Take Control: Minimal-Interface Zero-Shot Agents Rival Industrial-Scale Policies in Vision-and-Language Navigation

arXiv:2607.26148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous embodied agents must sustain a long decision-making loop that involves perceiving, acting, verifying, and self-correcting over many steps. Cu

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Field Codes for Distributed Coupling Samplers and Certified Empirical Transport

arXiv:2607.27078v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we formulate three communication tasks for empirical optimal transport: distributed coupling sampling, cost-evaluable coupling output,

Improving Knowledge Distillation Under Unknown Covariate Shift Through Confidence-Guided Data Augmentation

arXiv:2506.02294v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large foundation models trained on extensive datasets demonstrate strong zero-shot capabilities in various domains. Knowledge distillation has becom

Just for reference, from what I observed in my Using Local Coding Agents blog article last month: https://x.com/rasbt/status/207051816739969…

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Just for reference, from what I observed in my Using Local Coding Agents blog article last month: https://x.com/rasbt/status/2070518167399698490?s=20 'I tried to analyze why Claude Code uses more toke

Knowledge before Reasoning: EC-Reason-Bench, a Training-Free Diagnostic Benchmark for LLM Enzyme Classification

arXiv:2607.26397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enzyme function prediction is a hierarchical, knowledge-intensive form of protein function classification. Existing benchmarks expose an anomaly: genera

LG AI Research releases K-EXAONE 2.0 750B A37B

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It was developed under Phase 2 of Korea's Sovereign AI Foundation Model Project. Size: 750B parameters (3x larger than their 236B v1 model). - License: Apache 2.0 Languages: Expanded to 10 language

llm-chat-completions-server 0.1a0

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Release: llm-chat-completions-server 0.1a0 A key goal of the new content-addressable logs in LLM 0.32rc1 was being able to support OpenAI Chat Completion style requests where each incoming message ext