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Governance at the Boundary: How Agent Decomposition Degrades Policy Compliance

arXiv:2608.16055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing agent benchmarks ask whether the agent finished the task. We ask whether it finished it within policy. We introduce Fiducia-bench, a benchmark

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Handoff-H1: An Orchestrated Vision-Agent System for Material Quantity Takeoff from Construction Blueprints

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arXiv:2608.15032v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Converting a set of architectural blueprints into a complete material quantity takeoff requires visual perception across drawing sheets, dimensional a

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18 Aug 2026

L3Cube-IndicQuest v2: A Large-Scale Multilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Factual Knowledge of Large Language Models Across Indic Languages

arXiv:2608.15535v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present L3Cube-IndicQuest v2, a large-scale gold-standard multilingual question-answering benchmark for evaluating the India-specific factual knowled

LLMs for Zero-Shot Threat Detection via Structured Risk Indicators

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arXiv:2608.16508v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a two-stage large language model (LLM) framework for zero-shot detection of insider threats and advanced persistent threats (APTs) from het

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Local AI pre-screening for human triple-blind peer review in health sciences

arXiv:2608.14625v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Academic peer review is under mounting strain: NeurIPS 2025 received 21,575 submissions, ICLR 2025 received 11,603, and ICML 2025 received 12,107. Thi

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One Score, Two Decisions: Selective Prediction on the Rare-Disease Tail

arXiv:2608.14683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Given a patient's clinical findings, a diagnostic system ranks possible diseases and must decide when to endorse its first prediction or defer it for re

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Plausible but Not Valid: A Psychometric Audit of LLMs as Synthetic Survey Respondents

arXiv:2608.14606v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as synthetic survey respondents, but existing evaluations ask whether answers look plausible at the

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Policy Iteration with Human Feedback: Bringing Post-Training RL to In-context Learning

arXiv:2608.16831v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative pretraining established reusable task representations; later work on language-based task conditioning and in-context learning showed that a f

Qwen 27B is the 'DeepSeek moment' for open source. It matches the closed-source state-of-the-art from just a few months ago and runs on an R…

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Qwen 27B is the 'DeepSeek moment' for open source. It matches the closed-source state-of-the-art from just a few months ago and runs on an RTX 5090. Without exaggeration, it’s a game changer. let that

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Revisiting Classifier-Free Guidance Methods in Latent Diffusion Models

arXiv:2608.16786v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inference-time quality-enhancement methods are an effective and widely adopted means of improving diffusion models without expensive retraining. We stud

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Routing Divergence Is Not Evidence of Behavioral Influence in Same-Weight MoE Self-Distillation

arXiv:2608.15787v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Two Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) forward passes can share every weight yet route the same token through different experts. This creates a possible blind s

Sharing a new way to work with Stable Audio

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Stable Audio 3.0 now offers a DAW‑plugin that brings real‑time audio generation directly into your favorite digital audio workstation, letting you arrange, edit, and mix generated tracks like any othe

Strong enough to keep up with the frontier, light enough to run on your own laptop. Come see what it can do! ⚡

Strong enough to keep up with the frontier, light enough to run on your own laptop. Come see what it can do! ⚡ It's official: Qwen3.8-27B just scored 52 on the @ArtificialAnlys Intelligence Index. We

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The Recall Trap: A Recall-Maximizing Retriever Configuration Reduces Issue Resolution in Fixed-Budget Code Context

arXiv:2608.14838v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval components for code assistants are tuned against retrieval metrics: a configuration that raises recall@k is adopted, and downstream task suc

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Workspace Topology as an Attack Vector in Agentic Coding Assistants

arXiv:2608.14876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic coding assistants are finding widespread use, not just in new code development but in quickly ingesting and leveraging third-party code. This

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A Four-Axis Trustworthiness Benchmark for LLM-as-Judge in Principle-Based Regulation

arXiv:2608.14329v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Principle-based regulation, with evaluative standards such as 'fair, clear, and not misleading' or 'deliver good outcomes', cannot be reduced to binar

AnchorBench: A Multi-Pathway Benchmark for the Anchoring Effect in LLMs

arXiv:2608.14320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The anchoring effect is a cognitive bias in which an initial reference value shifts a later judgment toward itself. This effect is well established in h

ChartProbe: A Diagnostic Study on Visual Reasoning through Perception, Grounding, and Simple Reasoning

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arXiv:2608.13766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) remain unreliable on chart questions that require reasoning over visual quantities, and this weakness is usually attribute

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CytoBERT: A Foundation Model for Cytometry Data

arXiv:2608.14414v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cytometry measures the complex characteristics of single cells (e.g., counts and protein expression of immune cells) and is widely used across immunolog

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Detecting Contaminated Code-Generation Prompt Batches via Influence Functions

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arXiv:2608.14303v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for code generation, yet they remain vulnerable to prompts that elicit insecure implementations. Exis

Implementing Computational Law in Wolfram Language for the Governance of Artificial Intelligence

arXiv:2608.13958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How do we govern AI systems whose reasoning we cannot fully inspect? Governance does not require understanding a system's reasoning. It requires stating

Jais 2: A Family of Arabic-Centric Open Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.13580v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Jais 2 is a family of Arabic-centric large language models developed jointly by MBZUAI, Cerebras, and Inception, designed to advance Arabic-centric la

Long Review: Qwen 3.8 27B is VERY good at tapping into it's real-world knowledge. It's 'overthinking' brings it to Sonnet level performance with the potential for Opus level results.

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Hi all! I finally just got around to testing out Qwen 3.8 27b. I'm using Unsloth's UD-Q8_K_XL quant as a sit-in replacement to Qwen 3.6 27b, same quant size. Wow -- this thing isn't messing around. I

Repair, Not Improvement: Decomposing Constrained Decoding in Tool-Call Abstention

arXiv:2608.13959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Function calling is what the recent accounting of constrained generation explicitly sets aside: it finds the decoder's contribution small for format con

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Stable Miscalibration in Large Language Models: A Practical View of High-Confidence Errors

arXiv:2608.13591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-confidence errors in large language models are often treated as evidence of fragile internal inference. We study a different possibility: stable mi

Whose doctor does the AI recommend? An algorithm audit of reputation and demographic signals in large language model-assisted physician choice

arXiv:2608.14399v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Patients increasingly ask large language model (LLM) assistants which doctor to see, making these systems AI infomediaries: algorithms that intermedia

A short illustration of how the Claude's watermarking is supposed to work (based on my read of their released materials). In general, when w…

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A short illustration of how the Claude's watermarking is supposed to work (based on my read of their released materials). In general, when we are generating tokens, there can be multiple high-scoring

15 Aug 2026

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GitHub - meta-models/meta-oss-cookbook: All recipes for oss models from Meta Inc.

Muse Glimmer Cookbook Clone it, run it on the GPU you already own, and ship a working agent — one that plans, calls tools, and self-corrects — in a single sitting, fully offline. Muse Glimmer is an op

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15 Aug 2026

The perfect way for Google to screw over OAI and Anthropic is by releasing a 120B dense multimodal Gemma model

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The two leading labs are already feeling extremely threatened by Qwen & friends, however I think there are tons of enterprises and organizations in the West that don't feel comfortable using Chinese m

15 Aug 2026

A Contract-Grade Verifier for LLM-Generated GPU Kernels, and a Native Blackwell Backward for the Gated-Linear-Recurrence Family

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arXiv:2608.12700v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Systems that generate GPU kernels with language models report high correctness rates. Those rates come from a single loose test: run the kernel on a few

BavGround: A Benchmark for Regional Cultural Grounding and Dialect Competence in Bavarian

arXiv:2608.12894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cultural evaluation of large language models (LLMs) often focuses on high-resource standard languages, leaving regional culture and dialect communities

Do LLMs Beat Nash? Testing Decentralized Coordination in Self-Play Multi-Agent Games

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arXiv:2608.12547v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model agents deployed without a central controller are often assumed to require communication to coordinate their actions. We ask what

Explanatory Engagement Under Rare Anomalous Failure: Asymptotic Rarity in Model Behavior (or: The Asymptotic AI)

arXiv:2608.13063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prior work on LLM behavior under anomalous conditions asks whether a model notices anomalies. We ask a narrower question: once a model sits in a workflo

Falsehood and Impossibility Are Different Directions in an AI's Representation of Language

arXiv:2608.12852v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language can describe states of affairs that are false and states of affairs that could not be the case at all. Whether an AI model internally disting

From Visual Widgets to UI Code: Efficient Tool-Grounded Generation

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arXiv:2608.12611v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing screenshot-to-code systems face a trade-off between flexibility and controllability. Direct multimodal generation can hallucinate visible detai

Keep, Customize, or Exit: Default Design and Token Pricing in LLM Reasoning Services

arXiv:2608.13315v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study a large language model (LLM) service in which a provider chooses a per-token price and a default reasoning-token allocation, while a user may

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LLM-Assisted Dynamic Threat Analysis for Attacker-Reachable Software Weaknesses in Autonomous Vehicles

arXiv:2608.13450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous vehicles depend on large safety-critical software stacks, where weaknesses reachable from adversarial inputs may affect steering, braking,

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Polish Medical Visual Question Answering: Vision-Language Models Underutilize Visual Evidence

arXiv:2608.12928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce a Polish-language medical visual question answering (VQA) benchmark, built from Polish Board Certification Examination questions for licens

Reasoning Jury: Multi-Model Consensus for Evaluating Reasoning Traces

arXiv:2608.12585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Improving reasoning LLMs requires the ability to judge the quality of long reasoning traces for effective reasoning data curation, strong training signa

Reliability-Aware Sexism Detection: Combining DPO with Annotator Agreement and Token-Level Confidence Scoring

arXiv:2608.12330v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The detection of online sexism remains an open problem. Sexism detection is inherently subjective, yet most existing systems reduce multi-annotator labe

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Scaling Automatic Research Agents via World Models

arXiv:2608.12564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automating empirical research is a long-standing direction of AI. Recent automatic research (AutoResearch) agents bring this goal within reach, as moder

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TRAPSBench: Vision-Language Models Encode but Fail to Express Epistemic Restraint

arXiv:2608.13167v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When visual evidence is occluded or chaotic, models should abstain. In this paper, we show that Vision-Language Models (VLMs) can internally distingui

A corpus-specific clinical RAG system matches or outperforms newer frontier LLMs on HealthBench

arXiv:2608.12138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General-purpose large language models (LLMs) have recently been reported to match or exceed specialized clinical AI tools on medical benchmarks, but s

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Conformity Mitigations in Large Language Models Lie on a Single Resistance-Receptivity Frontier

arXiv:2608.11247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in language models have enabled collaborative settings in which multiple models leverage one another's capabilities, iteratively improvi

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DexterSQL: Deep Schema Exploration and Rule-based Correction for Text-to-SQL Generation

arXiv:2608.11889v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prompting-based (extit{i}.extit{e}., non-fine-tuning) Text-to-SQL methods, where underlying large language model parameters are not changed for the ta

Distribird: Literature-Informed Prior Distribution Design for Bayesian Model Calibration

arXiv:2608.11210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian calibration of process-based models requires a prior distribution for each model parameter. Despite decades of methodological work, researchers

Do Influence Tactics Matter? Investigating Prompt Framing Effects in LLM Code Generation

arXiv:2608.11513v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into software engineering workflows, helping developers write, debug, test, and maintain code

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Forecasting Side Effects of Activation Steering

arXiv:2608.11227v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation steering modifies a language model by adding a learned direction to its hidden activations, enabling targeted behavioral changes without retr

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