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arXiv:2608.27147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of frontier models is commonly perceived to be the exclusive remit of a small number of heavily funded players, creating an information,

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We are rolling out GLM-5.3 on Ollama. Private. Fast. US and Europe hosted. No data retention. Try Ollama's GLM-5.3-Flash as we bring it GLM-…

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We are rolling out GLM-5.3 on Ollama. Private. Fast. US and Europe hosted. No data retention. Try Ollama's GLM-5.3-Flash as we bring it GLM-5.3 online. Super fast. Claude Code: ollama launch claude --

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zai-org/GLM-5.3 · Hugging Face

GLM-5.3 uses the same base model as GLM-5.2 — every gain comes from post-training. Compared with GLM-5.2, it is much better at complex coding and long-horizon tasks: Stronger Coding: GLM-5.3 is the mo

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Zero-Shot Self-Orchestration with Ledger-Based Control for Improved LLM Coding Performance

arXiv:2608.26480v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent large language model systems are widely reported to beat single-model baselines, but the evidence is mixed, and comparisons are usually co

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A Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Framework Defense against LLM Jailbreak Attacks

arXiv:2608.26008v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that exploit techniques such as role-playing, obfuscation, code transformation, an

Activation-Space Order-Swap Geometry: A Site-Asymmetry Audit

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arXiv:2608.25315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Order-dependent activation statistics are often interpreted as evidence of interaction, but that interpretation can be confounded by where interventions

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DataKernelBench: Can LLMs Optimize Database Queries on GPUs?

arXiv:2608.25061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GPUs increasingly accelerate database systems, but query-specific peak performance still often relies on hand-written kernels. Existing LLM kernel bench

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Fusing Perceptual Vision Experts with Multimodal Large Language Models for Explainable Plant Disease Diagnosis: From Benchmark Imagery to Real-World Robotic Field Validation

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arXiv:2608.24934v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate field plant disease diagnosis requires reliable fusion of uncertain and conflicting perceptual evidence. We present the Hybrid Hierarchical Mul

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Lower-Resource, Higher Scores: Language Bias in LLM Evaluators

arXiv:2607.14480v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM evaluators (trained reward models and prompted LLM-as-a-Judge) are routinely validated via pairwise accuracy. In a multilingual setting, this op

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Nvidia reportedly acquires AI project hosting platform Hugging Face for $12.9B

Nvidia Corp. has reportedly bought Hugging Face Inc., a startup with a popular platform for hosting open-source artificial intelligence projects. Reports that an acquisition was in the cards first lea

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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

Retrieve, Match, Escalate: Accurate and Scalable Product Linking with VLM-Distilled Cross-Encoders and Agentic VLMs

arXiv:2608.25037v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Product linking, the entity-resolution task of mapping merchant product records to canonical catalog products, consolidates fragmented listings so dow

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Skill Issue: Are Skills Language-Invariant in LLMs?

arXiv:2608.25832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models access knowledge inconsistently across languages, but to what extent do they differ in their skill sets when interacting with diff

Thank you @NVIDIAAI for the day-0 support! 🙌 Developers can finetune the model for domain-specific use cases using NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel: h…

Thank you @NVIDIAAI for the day-0 support! 🙌 Developers can finetune the model for domain-specific use cases using NVIDIA NeMo AutoModel: https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Automodel/tree/main/docs/model-

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This is as bad as saying there is no alpha in customizing your own models. I don't think people realize how much harnesses and models go han…

This is as bad as saying there is no alpha in customizing your own models. I don't think people realize how much harnesses and models go hand in hand. And thus the rest of the intelligence stack. Not

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AI assistant Instinct is raising a 250M Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at a 2.5B valuation, bringing its total raised to $350M (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: AI assistant Instinct is raising a 250M Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at a 2.5B valuation, bringing its total raised to 350M — Buzzy startup Instinc

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Can large language models assist choice modelling? Insights into prompting strategies and current models' capabilities

arXiv:2507.21790v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming widely used to support various workflows across different disciplines, yet their potential in discre

EMRB: A Multi-Level Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Reasoning over Raw Electromagnetic Signals

arXiv:2608.24086v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as code agents for scientific and engineering analysis, but their ability to analyze raw physical-lay

ESQ-Bench: A Multi-Tier Enterprise Oracle Benchmark for Evaluating NL2SQL Dialect Generalization and Silent Semantic Divergence

arXiv:2608.23569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: State-of-the-art Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) models report execution accuracy exceeding 89 percent on established benchmarks such as Spider and BIR

Evaluating Language Models on Cross-Language Code Functional Equivalence

arXiv:2608.23961v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance across a variety of code-understanding tasks, leading many to believe th

From Causal Plausibility to Causal Reliability: Evaluating LLMs as Calibrated Direct Causal-Edge Classifiers

arXiv:2608.23660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to provide prior causal knowledge for structural causal discovery, yet whether their direct-edge ju

Great paper on why agent leaderboard comparisons are hard to trust. It's on the hot topic of how much of an agent benchmark score actually b…

Great paper on why agent leaderboard comparisons are hard to trust. It's on the hot topic of how much of an agent benchmark score actually belongs to the harness. The harness is the layer between the

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[Megathread] GLM-5.3-Flash - former ox-alpha

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Megathread for discussing the release of GLM-5.3-Flash. Quants Fine-Tunes & Abliterations Chat Templates Inference Server Support & Configuration Experiences, Benchmarks & Model Comparisons We'll try

Neurosymbolic Alignment for Physiologically-Safe Clinical Language Models

arXiv:2608.24534v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical LLMs can generate recommendations that are factually plausible yet physiologically unsafe. We investigate whether safety alignment can be impro

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

TrustShiftProbe: Characterizing, Benchmarking, and Defending Staged Trust Attacks on MCP Servers

arXiv:2608.23763v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as the standard layer connecting Large Language Model agents to external tool backends. This openness int

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AI Watchdog: Agent Interfaces for Detecting and Defending Against Manipulative Dark Patterns in AI Conversations

arXiv:2608.21841v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conversational AI increasingly shapes consequential decisions, yet users have limited support for recognizing and resisting manipulation. We present AI

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Breaking the Assumptions: Auditing Input-Side Jailbreak Defenses Against Semantic Attacks

arXiv:2608.21895v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Locally deployed Large Language Models (LLMs) via inference engines such as Ollama run without the moderation and abuse detection present in API-serve

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Budget-Constrained Embodied Perception: Four Resource Walls and a Pre-Registered Evaluation of Access-Structured Perception on Open Models at less than 31B

arXiv:2608.22975v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied multimodal agents must answer from growing observation streams under a fixed per-decision token budget. We formalize this constraint through fo

CyberFactory: Scaling Cyber Security Capabilities with Instances from the Wild

arXiv:2608.23181v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance in coding capabilities, their potential in cybersecurity has drawn increasing research attention,

DiagFlowBench: Evaluating How Language Models Handle Off-Procedure Inputs in Grounded Diagnostic Dialogue

arXiv:2606.17904v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Language models increasingly serve as advisory systems in maintenance operations. To prevent hallucination, recent systems ground these models in pr

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Disagree to Explore, Agree to Commit: Routing-Guided Test-Time Scaling for Software Agents

arXiv:2608.22191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Software-engineering agents solve repository-level tasks through long, stochastic tool-use trajectories, and repeated attempts often find fixes missed b

Dual-Grained Agent Memory and Shapley Context Attribution for Multimodal Agentic Learner

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arXiv:2608.23268v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier multimodal large language models (MLLMs) deliver impressive perception yet still falter on scientific and mathematical reasoning. Parameter-lev

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Evaluation Awareness in Language Models: Representation, Verbalization, and Control

arXiv:2608.21766v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Both capability and safety benchmarks rest upon the assumption that the behavior of language models undergoing a test is informative about their behav

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Forgetting to Forget: Attention Sink as A Gateway for Backdooring LLM Unlearning

arXiv:2510.17021v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) unlearning is a key approach for removing undesired data, knowledge, or behaviors from pretrained models while reta

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Future Querying: Can LLMs Serve as Implicit Medical World Models?

arXiv:2608.23248v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional clinical prediction models rely on task-specific pipelines and curated, structured data, which scale poorly and underutilize unstructured

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Granite 4.2 brings native reasoning to enterprise agents

IBM has released Granite 4.2, an open‑source agentic AI model that adds native reasoning, tool use, coding instruction following and speech capabilities to enterprise agents. The suite of pre‑built mo

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GuardianBench: A Same-Scene Instruction-Contrastive Benchmark for Latent Contextual Risk in Embodied AI

arXiv:2608.21928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In embodied AI, safety risk can be latent: a benign instruction and a safe scene become hazardous only when composed. Prior work has advanced embodied s

Industrial-Instruction: An End-to-End Framework for Building Instruction-Tuning and Benchmark Datasets from Industrial Technical Reports

arXiv:2608.22817v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial technical reports contain high-value knowledge for maintenance, troubleshooting, and product engineering, but their heterogeneous structure (

Lexical Perturbations Disrupt LLM Reasoning: An Empirical Study of Attention Diversion

arXiv:2608.22140v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong reasoning performance, but their robustness to realistic lexical corruption remains poorly understood. We

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Meta-Ctrl: Guaranteed Plan Generation by Decoupling Syntactic and Semantic Constraints

arXiv:2608.22149v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs generate fluent plans for robots but routinely violate the syntactic and se8mantic constraints they must satisfy to execute, and existing remedie

On the Threat Model of Weird Generalization and Emergent Misalignment

arXiv:2608.23476v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Narrow fine-tuning on small, domain-specific datasets can produce broad and surprising changes in model behavior-a phenomenon called weird generalizatio

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One Polluted Page Is Enough: Evaluating Web Content Pollution in LLM Recommenders

arXiv:2606.13610v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Search-augmented LLMs increasingly mediate everyday consumer recommendations by retrieving live web content. This creates a new risk: LLM reco

OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip delivered 1.5x-1.9x more AI work per watt and 1.7x-3.6x lower latency vs. Nvidia chips across GPT-OSS, DeepSeek R1, Kimi K2.5 1T (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Emma Roth / The Verge: OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip delivered 1.5x-1.9x more AI work per watt and 1.7x-3.6x lower latency vs. Nvidia chips across GPT-OSS, DeepSeek R1, Kimi K2.5 1T — Jalapeño outperf

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PUMA: A Polish Benchmark for Culturally Grounded Multimodal Understanding

arXiv:2608.21853v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly moving beyond text processing, adding support for other modalities such as images and audio. While text understan

The Entertainment Industry’s Biggest Names Back Stability AI in Latest Funding Round

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We've closed our Series B, bringing total funding to $232M under new leadership. This round welcomes entertainment titans Electronic Arts, Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group,

There Is No Neutral Harness: Modern LLM Leaderboards Are Manufactured by Config-Fragile Items

arXiv:2608.21382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multiple-choice benchmarks fix the questions and the correct answers, but not the harness: the order of the options, the wording of the prompt, and whet

TSWAP: A Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Thai Wellness Advisor

arXiv:2608.22917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present TSWAP, a deployed eight-language conversational wellness advisor grounded, via retrieval-augmented generation, in a verified knowledge base o