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When Visual Signals Mislead: A Mechanistic Study of Attribute Hallucination in Vision-Language Models

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arXiv:2608.11024v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Attribute hallucination---where vision-language models (VLMs) correctly identify an object but mischaracterize its properties---is prevalent yet mechani

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When Your State Estimator Has Lost The Plot: Detecting Estimator Failures Via Spectral Analysis

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arXiv:2608.10623v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable onboard state estimation is essential for safe robotic operation, yet unmodeled disturbances, such as sensor aliasing or out-of-distribution no

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Where To Look? : Causal Tracing of Vision Encoders in VLM

arXiv:2608.10758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models can describe an image with remarkable accuracy, yet a more fundamental question remains unanswered: what visual information actua

Whisper-Aware LLM: Self-Supervised Uncertainty Learning for Robust Whispered Speech Recognition

arXiv:2608.10836v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The signal ambiguity of whispered speech drives ASR systems toward two opposing failure modes: failing to capture whispered speech or hallucinatory tr

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Who Gets Heeded? An Obligation-Level Audit of Responsiveness in EPA Rulemaking

arXiv:2608.10329v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Notice-and-comment rulemaking gives any affected party the same formal right to influence federal regulation, but formal access is not substantive cap

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Whole-Body Planning for Humanoids Navigating Confined Spaces via Self-Collision Avoidance References

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arXiv:2608.10220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid locomotion in highly confined environments requires navigating dense environmental obstacles and complex self-collision bounds while maintainin

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding

arXiv:2608.11095v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic coding READMEs like CLAUDE.md grow without bound in real repositories, stopping only when the repository retires or someone rewrites the file wh

Why does CLAUDE.MD keep growing? If you maintain a CLAUDE.md or an AGENTS.md, this one is worth your time. (bookmark it) This work traces wh…

Why does CLAUDE.MD keep growing? If you maintain a CLAUDE.md or an AGENTS.md, this one is worth your time. (bookmark it) This work traces why these files grow without bound. Appending an instruction i

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Wind-Informed Rapid Flight-Planning in Complex Urban Topologies via Machine Learning and Experimental Validation

arXiv:2608.10309v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Advanced air mobility operations hold the potential to enhance and expand regional transportation of both people and goods in populated areas. However

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With the smartest person I know, @HarshSensei, we're building evsys-sdk for the community, this open-source repository allows anyone to buil…

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With the smartest person I know, @HarshSensei, we're building evsys-sdk for the community, this open-source repository allows anyone to build their own continual learning system with first-class suppo

Withholding the Completing Chunk: Deterministic Pair-Completion Guardrails for Streaming LLM Output

arXiv:2608.10279v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Streaming language-model output creates a release-timing problem: complete-response moderation acts after streamed text has escaped, whereas repeated

Workflow Cards: Structured Summaries of Workflow Executions Using Provenance Data

arXiv:2608.11022v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Model Cards and Data Cards have demonstrated the value of structured, human-readable documentation for machine learning artifacts, capturing their con

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Write your first prompt with the GitHub Copilot app

Learn how to write your first prompt in the GitHub Copilot app, choose the right context and model, and start your first task with confidence. The post Write your first prompt with the GitHub Copilot

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X2-Turn: Frame-Synchronous Dual-Head Modeling for Joint Streaming ASR and Turn State Prediction

arXiv:2608.10878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate and responsive turn-taking is essential for spoken dialogue systems, which must distinguish in real time between user interruptions, backchanne

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XCoT-VLA: Executable Chain-of-Thought for Vision-Language-Action Driving

arXiv:2608.10976v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models can connect scene understanding, semantic reasoning, and trajectory generation for autonomous driving. However, verb

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'YES! YES! I absolutely love this insight!' Affirmative Narration as Interactional Strategy in Dialogues with LLM Chatbots

arXiv:2607.28646v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This article analyses narrative mechanisms that are common in dialogues with LLM chatbots. In combination, these mechanisms produce an interactional s

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You can now use Ollama as a provider in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains. https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-11-copilot-memory-and-ollama-in-…

GitHub announced on August 12 2026 that users can now integrate Ollama as a provider in **GitHub Copilot for JetBrains**. This update allows JetBrains developers to switch to or add locally‑hosted (or

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You chose the best model. Why is your agent still failing?

Public benchmarks can show how a model performs in general. Production reliability depends on the context and harness around it, which only your team can evaluate against its own data, workflows, and

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Your LLM, Your Style: Behavioral Mode Axes for LLM Behavioral Control

arXiv:2608.10703v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly act in interactive settings where their behavioral styles affect user experience, safety, and downstream dec

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Yukon: Open Innovation for Frontier Research Open Innovation has been the driving value at Eigen Labs. But I’ve often struggled with where i…

Yukon: Open Innovation for Frontier Research Open Innovation has been the driving value at Eigen Labs. But I’ve often struggled with where it is actually better than a great closed team. Finally we fo

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ZeroPur: Succinct Training-Free Adversarial Purification

arXiv:2406.03143v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Adversarial purification is a kind of defense technique that can defend against various unseen adversarial attacks without modifying the victim clas

1 Day in and I feel okay saying Muse-Glimmer-30B finally beats 3.6-27B for the size in some use-cases

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A few things right off the bat: it reasons very efficiently. Like Grok 4.5 levels of efficient thinking it quantizes very well. My first few tests with iq3_xxs were better than Qwen/Gemma behaved at t

10 year garbage card for local llms

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Hello everyone! I like dumb things. I like working with weak computers and microcontrollers. I like the simplicity and low electricity usage. Simply put, the efficiency of a 'dumb' PC. The first tim

12GB VRAM gang, what's our plan?

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Seems like we're limited to qwen finetuned MoEs for now. Looking at the current landscape - focus seems to be on dense models (muse glimmer 30b, qwen 3.8 27b) for smaller setups. Is upgrading to 24GB

360CityArena: A Realistic Virtual Urban Navigation Benchmark for Embodied Agents

arXiv:2608.08814v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present 360CityArena, a benchmark for evaluating the urban exploration capabilities of embodied agents within a photorealistic environment construc

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4D-WAM: Infusing Spatiotemporal Awareness into World Action Models through Trajectory Fields

arXiv:2608.08023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building on recent advances in world models, World Action Models (WAMs) jointly model video prediction and action generation. However, they typically re

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⚡️A coalition that secures long-term AI capacity: We’re aggregating long-term compute demand in Europe to determine what capacity is built, …

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⚡️A coalition that secures long-term AI capacity: We’re aggregating long-term compute demand in Europe to determine what capacity is built, where it’s located, and whom it serves. Through these multi-

A Combined Feature-Based Framework for Disguise and Spoofing Detection in Face Recognition Systems

arXiv:2608.08521v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Face recognition systems face two distinct, commonly-separated failure modes: spoofing, where an impostor presents a photograph or video of an authori

A Communication-Efficient Digital Twin Framework for PSO-Based Swarm Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance

arXiv:2406.19930v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Swarm-based target localization in industrial environments faces two major challenges: navigating obstacle-rich spaces and managing intensive commun

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A Content-Aware Pure Permutation with Intrinsic Avalanche Effect: Breaking the Diffusion-Permutation Dichotomy

arXiv:2608.09452v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pixel permutation is a fundamental tool in image processing, image encryption, and data hiding (including watermarking and steganography) that rearrange

A continually expandable foundation model for brain MRI

arXiv:2608.08319v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is central to neuroscience and clinical assessment, but models are commonly developed for individual diseases, po

A Control Function Framework for Mitigating Position Bias in Learning to Rank Systems

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arXiv:2506.06989v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning-to-rank (LTR) systems commonly depend on implicit feedback, such as user clicks, because it is easy to collect and can serve as a val

A Controlled Study of Feature-Based Knowledge Distillation Across Student Designs

arXiv:2608.08294v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge distillation trains a smaller student to match the outputs of a larger teacher. Feature-based methods also align intermediate representation

A cylindrical neural approximation theorem for conditional laws of McKean-Vlasov equations with common noise

arXiv:2608.08040v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce conditional cylindrical neural networks for approximating functionals of conditional laws in McKean-Vlasov equations with common noise. F

A Distribution Mapping Approach to Counterfactually Fair Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.08743v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) seeks to optimize sequential decisions to maximize population-level benefits over time. However, when deployed in high-sta

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A Domain-Structured Ensemble Framework for Perioperative Outcome Prediction Using Electronic Health Record Data

arXiv:2608.08920v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Perioperative risk prediction models are often limited by narrow surgical populations, incomplete intraoperative data, poor calibration, and limited int

A Dynamic-Semantics Framework for Grounding Human Referring Expressions in Visual Perceptual Data

arXiv:2608.08663v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans converge on shared names for novel, hard-to-describe objects through repeated interaction, a process psycholinguists call lexical entrainment.

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A Fair Objective for Human-Empowerment-Preserving AI: Desiderata, Design, and Likely Behavioral Consequences

arXiv:2608.08240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper explores the idea of promoting well-being and safety in human-AI interactions by forcing AI agents explicitly to empower humans and to manage

A foundation model of numerical intelligence with cross-disciplinary generalization

arXiv:2607.28432v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Intelligence is commonly understood as the ability to acquire and apply knowledge, adapt to unfamiliar situations and solve new problems. Large lang

A Grounded and Decomposed Framework for Relation-Level Hallucination Evaluation in Abstractive Summarization

arXiv:2608.08180v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Abstractive text summarization systems frequently generate fluent yet unfaithful summaries by fabricating or distorting relationships between entities

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A Height-Constrained 2-Point Minimal Solver for Pose Estimation from Active LED Markers with Event Cameras

arXiv:2608.09520v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In many autonomous applications requiring real-time localization, active marker-based systems are preferred due to their low latency and ease of deploym

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A Hybrid Nested Harness for Decoupling Structure and Parameters in LLM-Driven Optimization

arXiv:2608.08156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In evolutionary algorithms powered by language models, the LLM acts as a single operator that simultaneously updates structural components (like control

A Hybrid Neural-Microfacet BRDF Model for Real-Time Rendering

arXiv:2608.09604v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Over the past decade, microfacet-based BRDF models have formed the foundation of real-time rendering pipelines. Despite their widespread use, they oft

A Machine Learning Based Search for Lunar Anomalies

arXiv:2608.09350v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been collecting high-resolution images (at around 0.5-2 meters per pixel linearly with its Narrow Angle Cam

A Mean-Field Framework for Inference-Time Distributional Control of Diffusion Models

arXiv:2608.08770v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion models are increasingly used as controllable samplers, whose generations can be steered at inference time according to a chosen reward funct

A Mechanistic Diagnostic of Rank Collapse in Post-Norm Decoder Transformers

arXiv:2608.09417v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep decoder-only Transformers often replace the original Post-Norm architecture with Pre-Norm variants because Post-Norm training is highly sensitive t

A Minimal kappa--au Logic for Risk-Sensitive Abduction

arXiv:2608.08192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Standard approaches to abductive reasoning can retain multiple candidate explanations, but they do not generally combine explicit compositional cross-hy

A Mixed-Stiffness Anthropomimetic Fingertip Broadens the Operating Range for Coin Grasping

arXiv:2608.07887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic grasping of thin, flat objects such as coins on hard surfaces remains challenging because conventional methods require reorienting the object, a

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