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From Association to Causation: Improving Retrieval Precision of Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Causal Relations and an Attention Mechanism

arXiv:2608.21702v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) grounds LLM generation on retrieved documents, but the standard terminal retrieval stage--dense-vector similarity,

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GeoRisk-RAG: A Hierarchy-Aware Risk Framework for Improving RAG Reliability through Selective Answering

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arXiv:2608.22634v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current work on improving reliability in large language model (LLM)- generated answers has primarily leveraged Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), k

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25 Aug 2026

HIRA: A Human-in-the-Loop Retrieval-Augmented Cascade for Document Classification in Regulated Industries

arXiv:2608.21792v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Document classification in regulated industries is constrained by data residency, limited cold-start labels, scarce review capacity, and costly model-go

How Agents Represent Humans: Human-Directed Stereotypes in an Open Agent Social Network

arXiv:2608.22192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based agents are increasingly deployed in persistent social environments, where generated claims can be posted, replied to, remembered, and reused.

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LakeHopper: Knowledge-Aware Adaptation of Column Type Annotators across Data Lakes

arXiv:2602.08793v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Column Type Annotation (CTA), which assigns a semantic type to a table column, underpins data integration, cleaning, and search over data lakes. Sta

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Let Credit Follow Computation: Architecture-Aware Credit Transport for Large Language Model Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.21501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Credit assignment in large-language-model reinforcement learning (LLM RL) can be separated into three objects: evidence about success, a transport opera

MobilePA-Bench: Benchmarking Mobile Planner Agents on Complex Real-World Tasks

arXiv:2608.23035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As on-device LLM agents evolve into personal copilots, the mobile operating system has become a key testbed for this paradigm, making rigorous capabilit

Repo2Skill-Evo: Repository Skills Go Stale in Silence

arXiv:2608.21964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly operate over evolving software repositories, where success depends on repository-specific procedural know

SAEM: Stage-Aware Expert Management for Memory-Efficient MoE Inference in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

arXiv:2608.21614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting improves LLM reasoning by decomposing complex problems into intermediate steps, but its sequential nature increases dec

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ST-EVO: Towards Generative Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Multi-Agent Communication Topologies

arXiv:2602.14681v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM-powered Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have emerged as an effective approach towards collaborative intelligence, and have attracted wide resear

Walking on the DARKSIDE

arXiv:2608.23370v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) recognise patterns but do not natively track the path of exclusions that a coherent discourse demands. When an input rests

A Factorial Ablation of a Speech-to-SFT Pipeline: Differential Effects on Data Quality and Downstream Transfer

arXiv:2608.20394v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industry pipelines that turn speech into supervised fine-tuning (SFT) data via multi-stage refinement are increasingly adopted but, to our knowledge,

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AID-Guard: Stateful Authorization for Delegated Agent Effects

arXiv:2608.21159v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-using AI agents turn delegated tasks into provider effects, yet authorization often ends at admission while provider state, delivery, retry, and

ASTAR: Automated induction of STAndardized radiology Reporting templates from large-scale clinical free-text corpora

arXiv:2608.20369v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Structured reporting converts free-text radiology narratives into queryable data keys, facilitating cohort assembly, longitudinal tracking, and traini

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Belief Without Behavior: Measuring the Translation of Theory of Mind into Coordinated Social Action in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608.20975v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective social interaction requires agents to translate mental state inferences into coordinated behavioral signals across verbal and nonverbal channe

COEC: Calibrated Orthogonal-Equivalence Compensation for Structured Pruning of Large Language Models

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arXiv:2608.21142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured pruning reduces the size and inference cost of large language models (LLMs) by removing weight columns, but the resulting output error can de

DreamBench-SWE: A Multi-Session Memory-Hygiene Benchmark for Software Agents

arXiv:2608.20664v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: DreamBench-SWE is a multi-session benchmark for software-agent memory hygiene in which later software tasks depend on non-inferable evidence from earlie

Research

Efficient Self-Evaluation for Diffusion Language Models via Sequence Regeneration

arXiv:2603.02760v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) have recently attracted significant attention for their ability to enhance diversity, controllability,

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Evaluating Large Language Model Performance on International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code Compliance

arXiv:2608.21036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The transport of dangerous goods by sea is a high-consequence activity governed by the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code, a complex reg

Evaluating Skills, Not Just Agents: Agentic Continuous Evaluation of Skills

arXiv:2608.20614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise agent programs are moving from prototypes into production, where reusable skills, tools, and workflow packages must be reviewed with evidence

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ForeDreamer: A Self-Evolving Dual-Agent Memory Architecture for Future Event Prediction

arXiv:2608.20920v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-web future event prediction requires agents to distill reliable signals from noisy, redundant, and incomplete evidence. Existing retrieval/memory m

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HIERA: Workload-Aware Planning Across Implementation Spaces for GPU Kernel Optimization

arXiv:2608.21157v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-performance GPU kernels underpin modern deep learning and scientific computing. As workloads become increasingly diverse and GPU hardware evolves

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Is Vibe Coding Safe? Benchmarking Vulnerability of Agent-Generated Code in Real-World Tasks

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arXiv:2512.03262v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vibe coding is a new software development paradigm in which human engineers prompt a large language model (LLM) agent to complete complex codi

MedRAGChecker: Claim-Level Verification for Biomedical Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2601.06519v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Biomedical retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) can ground LLM answers in medical literature, yet long-form outputs often contain isolated unsupport

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NVIDIA Vera Rubin and Blackwell Set a New Standard for Agentic AI Performance per Watt

NVIDIA’s new GPUs in the Vera Rubin and Blackwell families set a new benchmark for agentic‑AI performance per watt on AgentX, an open‑source inference test that models realistic multi‑step, tool‑using

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Thermo-FL: Thermal-Aware Robust Federated Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models for Edge AI

arXiv:2608.21172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated fine-tuning enables large language models to adapt on edge devices without centralizing private data, but practical deployments must address h

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Research

Trilingual Topic Modeling of Sri Lankan Parliamentary Debates

arXiv:2608.20365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sri Lankan parliamentary debates (Hansards) constitute a trilingual corpus of speeches in Sinhala, Tamil, and English, including code-mixed content, y

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Utility Under Attack: Agent Memory Poisoning and the Limits of Content Screening and Provenance Ranking

arXiv:2608.21230v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Persistent memory makes false information durable: once a false statement is stored, it can be retrieved into future sessions that match it. We measur

What's the best local model you've found for 8 GB of VRAM?

I'm curious what other people are using for local LLM coding / agentic coding with only 8 GB of VRAM. My current setup is: Intel Core i7-11800H RTX 3070 Laptop, 8 GB VRAM 32 GB DDR4 RAM openSUSE Tumbl

28 TPS on Qwen2.5-7B across two separate cloud regions over public WAN using speculative decoding + CUDA Graphs [P]

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been building ShardFlow for the past few months, a distributed LLM inference framework that splits any HuggingFace transformer across N GPU machines and uses neural speculative decoding to deal with W

23 Aug 2026

Quoting Drew Breunig

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Prior to Fable, it felt silly to waste too much time improving your coding harness or context strategies. A new model would arrive at the same price (or cheaper!) and paper over most of your problems.

23 Aug 2026

Qwen3.8-27B KLDs

I have been lurking on reddit for like 6 years, and this is the first time posting, so apologies for the mistakes. I'm not a native English speaker, so sorry for the bad English too. I used LLM to tra

23 Aug 2026

A couple of days ago, I did a quick explainer on Claude’s new watermarking process and implementation. Since it’s such a popular topic and s…

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A couple of days ago, I did a quick explainer on Claude’s new watermarking process and implementation. Since it’s such a popular topic and sparked such a lively discussion, I thought it might be inter

22 Aug 2026

Current best model for narrative, chat, prompt creation (so basically everything except agentic coding)? - 5090

Im looking to set up a new local llm (probably on unsloth studio as that seemed to be doing pretty well last time I tested it). This one won't need to do agentic coding or app building or anything (no

22 Aug 2026

New 100B Liquid AI model coming soon

Liquid AI currently possesses among the fastest LLM architectures around, and some of the best SLMs (in terms of utility IMO) around, so I'm very excited to see what a potential 100B LFM (3?) model wo

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22 Aug 2026

Air Traffic Control Using Large Language Models: Prompt Engineering, Architecture, and Evaluation

arXiv:2608.19299v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Air traffic control (ATC) communication is a safety-critical dialogue that remains largely human-driven even as other parts of air traffic management ha

An Agentic Approach for Active Data Collection, Travel Behavior Modeling, and Weather-Sensitive Demand Prediction

arXiv:2608.20320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Travel behavior research increasingly combines digital data collection with predictive modeling, yet these stages are often developed and evaluated sepa

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Can Conversational AI loosen Us-Versus-Them Boundaries? The Effects of Common, Dual, and Separate Identity Framings on Pro-Immigrant Intergroup Helping

arXiv:2608.19220v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rising immigration has intensified intergroup tensions in many countries. Traditional bias-reduction programs remain difficult to scale and increasing

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ConceptGuard: Benchmarking Context-Sensitive Unlearning in Large Language Models

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arXiv:2608.20338v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly require selective removal of harmful or sensitive knowledge, called unlearning, yet existing methods and bench

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

Frequency-Aware Continual Learning for Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection with Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.19680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Smart contract vulnerability detection with Large Language Models (LLMs) faces three causally linked challenges. First, new vulnerability categories dem

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Interrupting the Loop: Periodic Subject Changes Raise Judged Surprise and Connection in Base Language Models

arXiv:2608.19893v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Where does the novelty a base language model produces with no task come from, and what can an LLM judge of a long stream actually see? We dismantle a

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MaliciousSkillBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Malicious Agent Skill Detection

arXiv:2608.19901v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent Skills extend LLM agents with reusable instruction packages that may also include scripts, resources, and service configuration. This creates a

Measuring What a Specification Determines: A Formal Semantic-Block Model and an Execution-Judged Benchmark

arXiv:2608.19475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work introduces a formal semantic-block model for specifications and an execution-judged benchmark for evaluating specification quality independe

Outcome Monitors: Recovery Affordances for Silent Tool Failures

arXiv:2608.19303v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a tool call times out, the agent sees the failure and can route around it. A cached error page or negative price can instead arrive in the expected

Strix Halo (8060S / gfx1151), Qwen-3.8-27B @ Q8 and Q6 UD v3, up to 256K ctx, llama.cpp, DFlash2, vision, real workloads quality and steady performances, optimized recipes, ...

Hi fellows fully-local halos, after manually following existing guides, I decided to build an LLM API endpoint installation and optimization guide that works even when autonomously followed by my pi a

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Towards general embodied intelligence: integrating large language models, knowledge bases, and reasoning capabilities to build the next generation of AI agents

arXiv:2608.19794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The convergence of large language models (LLMs), structured knowledge bases (KBs), and reasoning ability (RA) presents a promising trajectory toward gen

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When Machines Speak: A Unified Generative Framework for Integrating Machine-Native Symbols into Pretrained Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.19529v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many real-world AI systems represent entities, behaviors, and structured information using discrete machine-native symbols rather than natural languag

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