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The Effect of Emotional Context on Large Language Models' Endorsement of Premature Decisions: Comparing Emotional Vulnerability Across Six Commercial Models

arXiv:2608.27465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for everyday decision-making advice, whether a model shifts the direction of its advice according

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FlashMLA sm_120 kernel build with 2-3x performance increase from SPDA

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Hey guys I have been working on a open source LLM development repo. Anyone can train any amount of parameter against any arch (GQA, MLA, Dense...) When I tried to implement MLA I read the technical re

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30 Aug 2026

A Layer Importance Metric for Quantization Accounting for the Speed-Quality Trade-off in Autoregressive Models

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arXiv:2608.26926v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small language models (sLLMs) are nowadays hosted on devices with limited memory and computational budget. In an autoregressive setup, inference is memo

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tests : run test-save-load-state across all architectures (#27755) tests : run test-save-load-state across all architectures test-save-load-state previously only ran in ctest against a single download

Benchmarking AI Agents for Hardware Design Automation via MCP Tool Calling

arXiv:2608.26199v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We ask whether AI agents powered by locally deployed large language models can reliably automate expert-defined hardware design workflows in an industry

DRL: A Deterministic Relational Middleware Layer for Transaction-Safe Enterprise NL2SQL Under Schema-Graph Scaling

arXiv:2608.26172v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying natural-language interfaces over enterprise OLTP catalogs fails at scale because semantic parsers collapse under schema-graph scaling, infla

FireRedAudio: A General-Purpose Audio Language Model with Decoupled Continuous Representations for Understanding and Generation

arXiv:2608.24168v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A unified audio model must recognize and understand linguistic, paralinguistic, and environmental information while supporting speech synthesis and

I reverse-engineered an NPU vendor's engine format (int8 weights stored as two nibble planes) to run GGUFs with no model conversion — now 1.5× faster than the vendor's own runtime

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I've been running Qwen3-0.6B on the M5Stack LLM-8850 card (Axera AX8850 NPU, 24 TOPS, 8GB LPDDR4x) hosted by a Raspberry Pi 5 — as a llama.cpp backend. The problem: the vendor stack requires convertin

Invocation-Level Reliability of Tool-Using Agents

arXiv:2608.26189v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using agents fail two ways: choosing the wrong tool, or forming wrong arguments, and an early failure of either kind can silently corrupt everythin

MACGen: Toward Functionally Correct and Secure Code Generation via Multi-Agent Collaboration

arXiv:2608.25457v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite their strong ability to generate code, large language models often fail to produce secure code, as their outputs frequently contain se

Natural-Language Policies to Executable Decisions: An Interpretable Large Language Model Framework

arXiv:2608.26124v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pricing automation in large-scale tourism is challenging because travel orders are highly unstructured, while pricing policies are complex, rapidly evol

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Not All Eval-Awareness Is Equal: Capabilities Framing Predicts Compliance

arXiv:2608.27340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Steering interventions targeting eval-awareness, a model's recognition that it is being tested, are increasingly used in safety evaluation pipelines, wh

PACEShop: Evaluating Personalized, Actionable, Compositional, and Evidence-grounded Shopping Assistants

arXiv:2608.26180v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Shopping assistants are shifting from ranked product lists toward structured decision support, where systems must synthesize shopper context, product

PICasso: An AI-Enabled Design Framework for Autonomous Optimization of Silicon Photonic Devices

arXiv:2608.26113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present PICasso, an AI-assisted framework for automated synthesis, verification, and optimization of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) from natural

RedEvoAgent: Automatic Red-Teaming Agent with Experience-Driven Skill Evolution

arXiv:2608.27439v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based agents are increasingly deployed in product-level execution harnesses, where jailbreaks can trigger harmful tool use and persistent state ch

SPAR-K: Scheduled Periodic Alternating Early Exit for Spoken Language Models

arXiv:2603.09215v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Interleaved spoken language models (SLMs) alternately generate text and speech tokens, but decoding at full transformer depth for every step becomes

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Vagdhenu: A Vrutta (Meter) Aware Shloka-to-Chant (TTS) System for Sanskrit

arXiv:2608.26146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Vagdhenu, a vrutta (meter) aware shloka-to-chant system for Sanskrit: a text-to-speech system that maps a metrical verse to its chanted paray

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WikiSkill: Compiling Agent Experience into Persistent Knowledge for Skill Evolution

arXiv:2608.27454v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills package specialized knowledge and workflows into reusable resources that extend AI agent capabilities. Recent work automatically discovers

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Deepgram deepens Amazon SageMaker AI observability with Enhanced Metrics

Self-hosted speech AI carries an observability trade-off: the numbers that drive capacity planning and cost management stay locked inside the vendor container. Deepgram closes that gap on Amazon SageM

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Demystifying Reinforcement Learning Post-Training of Language Models

arXiv:2608.24949v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training has emerged as a powerful framework for enhancing the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), enabling

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Detection != Reliable Control: Decodable Empathy Directions Yield at Most Partial Shifts in Automated Empathy Scores

arXiv:2608.24901v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A decodable 'empathy' direction is routinely read as a causal lever, conflating decodability, automated-metric control, and human-perceived change. We t

Reflection Steering: Disentangling Reflection from Reasoning in Activation Space for Token-Efficient Inference

arXiv:2608.25542v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large reasoning models often produce reasoning traces with verification, revision, and backtracking. When reflection merely re-checks established resu

Resource-Efficient Pruning for Transformer via Low-Rank Importance Estimation

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arXiv:2608.24973v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid development of large-scale pre-trained language models based on Transformer architectures, their high computational and memory costs have

TailSFT: Filtered Fine-Tuning Improves Post-Training Performance

arXiv:2608.25756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning post-training drives reasoning and agentic capabilities in modern AI systems, yet a growing body of work shows that it is most ef

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TraceML: An Empirical Analysis of Human-Agent Planning in Machine Learning Development

arXiv:2608.26086v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models write correct code for isolated problems but remain far weaker at autonomous machine-learning development, where an agent must rev

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Understanding the Energy Scaling of Large Language Model Inference Across Context Lengths and Attention Architectures

arXiv:2608.25096v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The growing adoption of large language models (LLMs) has raised increasing concerns about the energy consumption and environmental impact of inference.

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A Literate Programming Environment for Human and Machine Agents

arXiv:2608.24644v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper introduces an environment for constructing literate programs in concert with language-aware machine agents. This environment includes a gra

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Adaptive Influence Graphs for Failure Attribution in Multi-Agent Systems

arXiv:2608.24361v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems are increasingly deployed in real-world applications, where failures can be costly and difficult to localize. Despite growing ef

AgentRoom: Concurrent Multi-Agent Coding in a CRDT-Backed Shared Workspace

arXiv:2608.23740v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Concurrent multi-agent coding promises division of labor across modules, robustness through redundancy, and parallel exploration at the natural granular

Beyond the Mandate: A Systematic Security Analysis of the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)

arXiv:2608.23858v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), introduced by Google, enables large language model (LLM)-driven shopping agents to authorize and execute payments o

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Data Mixing as Mixture Experiment: Response Surface Methodology and Optimal Design for Large Language Model Pretraining

arXiv:2608.23922v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data mixing is a central design problem in large language model pretraining: given a fixed token budget, practitioners must decide how much data to allo

applicationsarxiv-cs-ai

Feedback That Backfires: Why Small Language Model Agents Repeat the Call They Just Watched Fail

arXiv:2608.23651v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent harnesses record a failed tool call and its error message in the transcript and ask the model to continue, on the assumption that the error is c

Function-Level Execution Feedback for Code Preference Optimization

arXiv:2608.23632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Process supervision has improved mathematical reasoning, where intermediate steps are naturally expressed as chains of thought. In code generation, howe

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Gated Activation Steering for Reducing Sycophancy & Hallucination in Medical Question Answering

arXiv:2608.23666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sycophancy and hallucination are persistent failure modes of Large Language Models (LLMs) across domains. However, it becomes particularly consequential

Generating Biomedical Fact-Checking Reports with RL-Enhanced Agentic Search

arXiv:2608.23811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated fact-checking is essential for ensuring the reliability of public health information, yet the biomedical domain poses unique challenges. Valid

Hybrid Semantic Tool Discovery for Enterprise MCP Gateway: Architecture and Implementation

arXiv:2608.23992v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents invoke external tools to retrieve and reason over information beyond pretrained knowledge. The Model Context Protoco

Identifying Latent Declarative Representations of Code for Assisting Repository Migration

arXiv:2608.23619v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Legacy software repositories embed decades of domain knowledge in undocumented code, making understanding and modernization difficult. We treat a prog

Joint Optimization of Tool Creation and Use for Large Language Model Agents

arXiv:2608.24571v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented language models are bounded by the APIs humans bothered to write; existing tool-creation systems patch this by prompting a frozen LLM at

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PARTAB: Partition-Aware Reasoning with Structured Evidence for Scalable Table Understanding

arXiv:2608.24082v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong capabilities in table reasoning, but their effectiveness degrades as tables grow in size and complexity

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Rebuild Dossier: Mechanically-Enforced Specs for Agentic App Rebuilds, and What Model-Tier Failures Reveal

arXiv:2608.23616v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An AI agent's rebuild is only as good as the process that produced it. Prior work found that once a model is strong enough, a multi-agent rebuild pipe

Retrieval-augmented generation vs. deterministic tax computation in multi-agent financial advisory: A 2x2 factorial experiment

arXiv:2608.23908v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tax-loss harvesting demonstrates consistent benefits to long-term portfolio growth; yet implementing it efficiently often involves complex consideration

Selective Regenerative Decoding: Trajectory-Level Intervention for Inference-Time Reasoning

arXiv:2608.24338v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inference-time decoding methods improve LLM reasoning by exploring multiple candidate trajectories, yet treat each trajectory as atomic: either retainin

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StepGuard: Learning Step-Level Guardrails with Scalable Supervision and Safety-Utility Balancing

arXiv:2608.24777v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based agents can interact with external environments through tool invocation, but this capability also introduces security risks such as file modifi

Using OKF with Knowledge Catalog to serve context for agents

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We continue to iterate on the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), an open specification that formalizes the LLM-wiki pattern into a portable, interoperable format. But a big question remains: How can you sha

Hardware

Adversarial Entropy Inflation Against Gumbel-Based Inference Verification

arXiv:2608.23375v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Gumbel-based inference verification bounds LLM weight exfiltration by only forgiving token choices that plausibly arise from honest GPU nondeterminism

hardwarearxiv-cs-ai

Architecture as Capability Equalizer for Coding Agents

arXiv:2608.21747v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based coding agents generate complete software systems from high-level descriptions, yet little is known about how the format of architecture spec

AutoSaddler: Automatic Harness Optimization with Durable Updates from Agent Execution Traces

arXiv:2608.23041v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents remain unreliable on long-horizon tasks, where small local failures can compound over extended interactions and lead to overall task failure.

CacheRouter: A Dual-Path Tool Routing Architecture with Cache-Preserving Main-Model Isolation for Long-Tail Tool Discovery

arXiv:2608.22708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool use in LLM systems faces a structural trade-off. Progressive disclosure keeps the prompt small by showing only the tools relevant to the current ta