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Private Etymology: Designing Relational Reuse of Shared Symbols in Long-Term Human-AI Interaction

arXiv:2608.08443v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Previous studies have shown that people can develop shared symbols, partner-specific expressions, personal idioms, inside jokes, and other parts of a

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Research

Recurrent Neural Networks Beyond Time: Learning from Multiple Ordered Projections

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arXiv:2608.09690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are widely used for sequence learning, yet their application is commonly associated with temporal data, although recurr

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11 Aug 2026

SAKE: Structured Agentic Knowledge Extrapolation for Complex LLM Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2505.15062v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge extrapolation is the process of inferring novel information by combining and extending existing knowledge that is explicitly availab

The Spectral Neuron

arXiv:2608.08003v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As machine learned models increase in complexity and expressive power, features of simpler models, such as interpretability and control over the shape

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VCU-Bridge: Hierarchical Visual Connotation Understanding via Semantic Bridging

arXiv:2511.18121v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel on benchmarks, their processing paradigm differs from the human ability to integrate visu

A foundation-model approach to pediatric headache classification from rs-fMRI

arXiv:2608.07287v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Headache is the most common neurological disorder in children and substantially affects quality of life. We investigated whether resting-state functiona

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Agentic AI: User Empowerment or Enclosure?

arXiv:2608.06510v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic AI promises a more flexible form of digital agency: systems that can act on users' behalf, from filtering content to negotiating prices to sel

Cascading Through the Hierarchy: Regularizer-Induced Feature Detection as Phase Transitions in Deep Linear Neural Networks

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arXiv:2608.06597v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A scientific theory of deep learning, comprising learning dynamics and statistical properties of learned models, is rapidly gaining attention. One of

DREAMS: Diverse Reactions of Engagement and Attention Mind States Dataset

arXiv:2608.06382v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Active attention and engagement are important in improving users' learning experiences. Engagement refers to the level of involvement and interest ind

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Dual-Node NVIDIA DGX Spark over Tailscale: A Remote-Access Testbed for Distributed LLM Training and Cyber-Threat-Intelligence Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2608.07226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Compact AI systems make local language-model experimentation increasingly accessible, yet practical evidence for multi-node training on desktop-class

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Applications

Equivariant Sparse Autoencoders: Mechanistic Interpretability of Neural Networks on Symmetric Data

arXiv:2511.09432v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine learning (ML) models achieve remarkable performance but remain hard to interpret due to their scale and complexity. In particular, their act

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How Malachyte solves retail’s cold-start problem with managed real-time AI

What’s the best way to recommend products to little-known users? We’ve spent our careers trying to solve this problem for major companies like Spotify and Priceline, and it’s why Sidd founded Malachyt

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Human-AI Perceptual Alignment by Playing Hues and Cues

arXiv:2608.07141v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating the perceptual alignment between Contrastive Vision-Language Models (CVLMs) and humans is typically constrained by traditional benchmarks tha

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Human-Centered Explainable AI for TinyML Edge Devices: A Pareto-Based Selection Framework with LLM-Guided Design

arXiv:2608.07091v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Edge Artificial Intelligence (Edge AI) enables the deployment of AI models directly on local edge devices, while such deployments are subject to stric

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Latent Fact-Checking: Detecting Misinformation through Activation Engineering

arXiv:2608.06417v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The proliferation of misinformation online has driven demand for scalable detection systems. While most existing approaches rely on surface-level ling

MI-MIDI: Mechanistic Interpretability of Text-to-MIDI Generation Models via Probing, Lenses and Steering

arXiv:2608.06638v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mechanistic interpretability of music generation has concentrated on audio models, leaving symbolic models largely unexplored. We analyze two public t

MiGHT-EHR: A Multi-task Graph Transformer for Heterogeneous Temporal Electronic Health Records

arXiv:2608.06430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) has gained significant attention due to its potential to improve clinical prediction. However, effective

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MiniMax H3 with a 4B or 8B text encoder instead of the 32B: update, the voice matches now

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MiniMax H3 loads a 32B text encoder, 15.7 GB, just to turn your prompt into a conditioning tensor. I replaced it with a Qwen3-VL 4B or 8B plus a learned map into the same space. Same DiT, same VAEs, s

Model Confidence Under Answer-Preserving Attacks: An Informativeness-Manipulability Frontier

arXiv:2608.06571v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deployed vision-language systems often gate their answers on confidence, making confidence robustness relevant to oversight. We study confidence reado

Science Edge Evaluation: SEE the Missing Step Toward Real Scientific Discovery

arXiv:2608.06931v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved in scientific discovery, yet it remains unclear whether they can support complex real laboratory

Seeking SOTA: Time-Series Forecasting Must Adopt Taxonomy-Specific Evaluation to Dispel Illusory Gains

arXiv:2603.15506v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We argue that the current practice of evaluating AI/ML time-series forecasting models, predominantly on benchmarks characterized by strong, pe

Social World Models

arXiv:2509.00559v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humans intuitively navigate social interactions by simulating unspoken dynamics and reasoning about others' perspectives, even with limited informat

GitHub Models is now retired

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GitHub Models is now retired I missed this news until today, when the GitHub Actions run for my simonw/research repository failed with this error message: GitHub Models is temporarily unavailable as p

9 Aug 2026

Showoff Saturday: Local 4x 6000 Pro (multi-year progression)

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Not the biggest or shiniest, but it's mine From gaming machine inference on the original llama models, to a 4x RTX 6000 Pro Max Q + 4x 3090s local AI cluster. Pictures are in reverse chronological ord

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Tutorials

Analogy as Nonparametric Bayesian Inference over Relational Systems

arXiv:2006.04156v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Our inferences in the real world are rarely naive - we acquire experiences through our lifetime that can help us more quickly understand the structu

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BlockPython: A Process-Aware Agent-Supported Platform for the Transition from Block-Based to Python Programming

arXiv:2608.05716v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The transition from block-based to text-based programming requires learners to convert visible program structures into abstract textual expressions, whi

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DARAD: Dual Adapters and Ranking-Aware Distillation for Continual Remote Sensing Image-Text Retrieval

arXiv:2608.06059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rapid growth of Earth observation technologies, remote sensing archives are rapidly expanding, making remote sensing image-text retrieval (RS-I

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Evaluating and Improving Pedagogical Fit in LLM-Based AI Tutors with the Pedagogical Suitability Index

arXiv:2608.05411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as AI tutors, but a correct answer is not always a pedagogically appropriate one. In classroom learni

Evidential Rule Learning for Interpretable Classification with Abstention

arXiv:2608.05859v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Interpretable classification often requires more than accurate predictions for real-life deployment: models should be transparent about the evidence b

Got job as Director of AI and Systems development self-taught

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Hey everyone, I just wanted to share my journey here for some motivation. Three years ago, I saw the sudden spike in AI and realized it was the future of tech. My goal at the time was to be an indie g

Sliding Sensors: Configurable Confidence in State Estimation for Continuum Robots

arXiv:2608.05410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuum robots often operate in uncertain environments, where accurate state estimation is essential for safe interactions. Estimate uncertainty is in

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You can play it here: https://simonw.github.io/raccoon-heist-codex/ For comparison, here's Fable 5 + Claude Code's game, built from the exac…

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You can play it here: https://simonw.github.io/raccoon-heist-codex/ For comparison, here's Fable 5 + Claude Code's game, built from the exact same prompt https://x.com/simonw/status/208508951822360205

Agentic Future Ready With BigQuery: Continually Improving Price-Performance, Zero Effort

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In the modern data landscape, query performance tuning and managing system price-performance is challenging, especially as the number of agentic workloads increase. Even for experienced developers and

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An entropic explanation of insistence on sameness in autism

arXiv:2608.04616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An information theory-based framework is proposed in attempt to explain insistence on sameness in autism as an instance of a general behavior pattern in

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Safety

Approximate Multi-Objective Search Under Rulebooks

arXiv:2608.04398v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic planning often involves multiple objectives with complex priority relationships, such as safety, efficiency, and regulatory compliance. Rulebo

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Do LLMs Know What Is Private Internally? Probing and Steering Contextual Privacy Norms in Large Language Model Representations

arXiv:2604.00209v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-stakes settings, yet they frequently violate contextual privacy by disclosing private

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From Score Matrices to Football-Aware Match-State Simulation: An Auditable LLM Harness for Exact-Score Reranking

arXiv:2608.05030v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Football score forecasting combines a strong statistical core with a difficult contextual edge. Dynamic Poisson-family models estimate team strength, ex

Improving Auto-Design of Neural PDE Solvers with a Domain-Specific Language

arXiv:2608.04384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural PDE solver auto-design is fundamentally a search-space representation problem. In the space of unrestricted Python programs, valid solvers form a

IslamicTurathBench: A Multi-Task, Multi-Discipline Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models on the Islamic Scholarly Tradition (turath)

arXiv:2608.04703v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for question answering, education, and research, including in religious and cultural domains where an

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NeuMoSync: End-to-End Neuromodulatory Control for Plasticity and Adaptability in Continual Learning

arXiv:2608.04358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning (CL) requires models to learn tasks sequentially, yet deep neural networks often suffer from plasticity loss and poor knowledge trans

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Regularization can make diffusion models more efficient

arXiv:2502.09151v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models are one of the key architectures of generative AI. Their main drawback, however, is the computational costs. This study indicates t

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A game theory for foundation models shows new paths to rational cooperation through similarity inference

arXiv:2608.03958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As autonomous agents powered by foundation models are increasingly integrated into social and economic systems, understanding the principles governing t

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Activation-Guided Neuron Intervention to Induce Alzheimer's-Related Computational Language Phenotypes in a Large Language Model

arXiv:2608.03067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Changes in spontaneous speech provide an early signal of cognitive dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease (AD) that large language models (LLMs) can detect.

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Adversarial Fast-Moving Real-World Domains as Test Beds for Benchmarking AI Scientist Capabilities

arXiv:2608.03569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Benchmarking the ability of AI scientists to generate novel ideas is notoriously difficult. Existing benchmarks in this field have made progress in eval

ArtECulture: Benchmarking Culture-Conditioned Visual Emotion Understanding in Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.03358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing visual emotion understanding methods typically ignore cultural variations in emotional perception. We introduce culture-conditioned visual emot

Assessing the Effect of Cross-Domain Mapping on Creativity in Humans and Large Language Models

arXiv:2603.19087v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Creativity is the ability to come up with novel ideas, a capacity crucial for human development and flourishing. Are large language models (LLMs) cr

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Autoreflection: How Agentic Strange Loops Turn Human Culture into AI Infrastructure

arXiv:2608.03800v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An LLM-based agent is a loop that reads itself. Agentic frameworks externalize identity, memory, and disposition into editable files. The agent loads

Beyond Either-Or Reasoning: Transduction and Induction as Cooperative Problem-Solving Paradigms

arXiv:2505.14744v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Traditionally, in Programming-by-example (PBE) the goal is to synthesize a program from a small set of input-output examples. Lately, PBE has