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A Positive Case for Faithfulness: LLM Self-Explanations Help Predict Model Behavior

arXiv:2602.02639v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM self-explanations are often presented as a promising tool for AI oversight, yet their faithfulness to the model's true reasoning process i

8 Oct 2026

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Beyond the Sycophancy Score: How Task, Model, and Pressure Shape LLM Yielding

DGX agent

arXiv:2610.08840v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often abandon a correct answer, or endorse a user's position, once the user pushes back. This behavior, called sycophancy,

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8 Oct 2026

2x CMP 170HX 64GB: GLM-5.3-Flash at 384K context / ~90 tok/s (EXL3, HBM-first setup) + Qwen3.8 comparison

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I've been tinkering with GLM-5.3-Flash on two 64GB CMP 170HX cards for a while, and the setup is finally stable enough that I figured I'd share it. I also compared it against the Qwen3.8-Flash-Next se

3D-DefectBench: A Controlled Factorial Study of Vision-Language Model Evaluation Pipelines for Fine-Grained 3D Generation Defects

arXiv:2607.10826v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automated evaluation is essential for scaling generative 3D systems, where exhaustive human review is costly and slow. Yet the reliability of

An Information-Theoretic Evaluation Framework for Benchmark and Model Diagnosis in Knowledge Tracing

arXiv:2610.06988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge tracing (KT) models are predominantly evaluated using aggregate metrics such as area under the curve (AUC) and accuracy. However, these global

Dynamics Modeling of a Multi-UAV Slung Load System Using a Discrete-Link Cable Approach

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arXiv:2610.07456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A common assumption to simplify the problem of controlling a multi-UAV slung load system (MUSLS) is that the flexible cables can be modeled as massless

Even Small Reasoners Should Quote Their Sources: Introducing the Pleias-RAG Model Family

arXiv:2504.18225v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce a new generation of small reasoning models for RAG, search, and source summarization. Pleias-RAG-350m and Pleias-RAG-1B are mid-trained

DreamFormer: Dream Imitation with a Transformer World Model for Language-Conditioned Robotic Manipulation

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arXiv:2610.04540v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce DreamFormer, a model-based agent that acquires language-conditioned, multi-task skills by imitating expert demonstrations within the latent

6 Oct 2026

MatrixFormer: A Foundation Model for Matrix Completion

arXiv:2610.06751v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Matrix completion underlies problems from tabular imputation to causal inference, yet existing tabular foundation models treat it as entry-by-entry pred

6 Oct 2026

Adaptive Spectral-Koopman Dynamics Modeling for Temporal Domain Generalization

arXiv:2610.02822v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Temporal Domain Generalization (TDG) has emerged to address real-world streaming data with distribution shifts over time. However, existing methods ar

Understanding Trajectory Heterogeneity in Federated World Model Learning

arXiv:2610.02957v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models learn state evolution from trajectories, making access to temporal context a central training requirement. Federated learning can use dis

WebFovea: When the Model Is Right but the Click Is Wrong -- Reliable Round Trips for Vision-Based Web Agents on Live Websites

arXiv:2610.03036v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present WebFovea, a vision-based web agent that placed 2nd in the WebRetriever Challenge 2026 with a final score of 57.0 out of 100. The challenge

Which model, which harness? I have data for you.

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I keep testing harness & model setups on real tasks: basic math, vision, computer use (reading emails, navigating stores) and coding. I created a benchmark and a leaderboard. You can see it here: http

[16GB AMD] Smartest local model that also does not refuse? 7950X + RX 6950 XT

I want the smartest local model I can run that also does not refuse. Not a tiny 'uncensored' 8B. Not a censored model with a jailbreak prompt. Tried dolphin-llama3:8b with a custom SYSTEM prompt. It c

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2 Oct 2026

Safety

Modeling The Object Representations Underlying Human Physical Reasoning

arXiv:2602.12486v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Humans appear to represent objects when reasoning about physics with coarse, volumetric 'bodies' that smooth concavities, trading fine visual

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

2 Oct 2026

Permutation-Robust Decision Modeling with Candidate-Independent Block-Causal Attention

arXiv:2610.01601v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decision models often score a variable-sized set of candidate actions encoded in a single sequence. This setting is increasingly relevant for System 1

2 Oct 2026

Exploring Heterogeneous Model Merging Approach for Complex Knowledge Transfer

arXiv:2609.39369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Specialized models encode task-oriented behavior, but transferring that behavior to a general language model usually requires training, distillation, or

Hardware

Gestalt: a meta-foundation model for astronomy

arXiv:2609.38312v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Platonic Representation Hypothesis predicts that sufficiently scaled foundation models converge on a shared representation of the world. As each n

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Index-Translate: A Multilingual Translation Model Family -- Text, Speech, Controlled Dubbing, and Long-Document Translation

arXiv:2609.40181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Index-Translate, a multilingual translation model family that combines a shared multilingual foundation with specialized training for gener

UniEvo-VL: An On-policy Self-Distillation Training Recipe for Multimodal Model Self-improvement

arXiv:2609.38721v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern multimodal models bring generation and understanding into a single unified system, which enables them to provide and learn from their own feedbac

Local Ai

HARISSA: Inference-Time Self-Checks for Efficient and Safe Local Language Model Deployment

arXiv:2609.38006v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Running a language model locally offers advantages in privacy, latency, and cost, but local hardware fits only small models, which are less capable than

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LEMON-ZEST: Evolution-Informed Tokenization for Efficient Protein Language Modeling

arXiv:2609.37675v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Protein Language Models (PLMs) have made remarkable progress following scaling laws established in natural language processing across sequence- and stru

PHASE: Multi-Regime Modeling of Incompressible Magnetohydrodynamics

arXiv:2609.37609v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is central to plasma modeling in astrophysics, space science, fusion, and engineering, but resolving multiscale MHD dynamics

Spotter: Let the Embodied Model Lead, and the VLM Reflect for It

arXiv:2609.36808v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current embodied models do not respond to their own failures, although what just went wrong could inform a small adjustment on the next attempt, the k

TabFM: A Zero-Shot Foundation Model for Tabular Data

arXiv:2609.37959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular machine learning typically relies on per-dataset workflows, fitting tree ensembles or running AutoML searches from scratch for every task. We pr

Graph Workflows in ADK: Everything You Need to Know

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Graph engineering is the design work: breaking a task into nodes, connecting them with edges, and deciding where code, models, or people control the next step. The Agent Development Kit (ADK)'s Workfl

Humanoid Loco-Manipulation With Discrete VLA Model

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arXiv:2609.35709v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models using discrete action tokens have proven effective for controling robotic arms on manipulation tasks. For a humanoid

Tutorials

Improving Generative Model Self-Training with Geometrically Modified Outputs

arXiv:2609.35512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-training generative models - the continued improvement of a model using its own outputs - is becoming increasingly important as high-quality traini

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The Judge Is Not Its Twin: Post-training makes a model's writing more predictable but barely moves its taste, as a judge, toward predictable writing

arXiv:2609.32196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models are now routinely graded by other language models. If post-training makes a model's own writing more predictable, it may also teach th

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ViBR-WM: Visual Bayesian Regression for World Modeling

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arXiv:2609.33844v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modeling temporal dependence and uncertainty is central to forecasting with world models. The Visual Bayesian Regression World Model combines visual f

World SLAM Model: Joint World Modeling for SLAM and Navigation

arXiv:2609.32626v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce World SLAM Model (WSM), a unified framework that brings the SLAM paradigm directly into downstream navigation. Rather than treating SLAM

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Safety

User Model Extraction via Belief Self-Distillation

arXiv:2609.31603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) implicitly infer attributes of their users and adapt their behavior accordingly, yet these beliefs remain difficult to in

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28 Sept 2026

Safety

WALT: Learning World-Model-Aligned Latent Trajectories for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2609.30436v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Driving world models learn rich predictive representations of the surrounding environment from visual observations, yet accurate visual prediction doe

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28 Sept 2026

Advancing Model Research in AgentX: Long-Horizon Autonomy for Industrial Recommender Systems

arXiv:2609.30001v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sustaining industrial recommendation research requires using the results of one experiment to decide what to investigate next. We present AgentX-Model,

25 Sept 2026

Modality-Gated Deep Adapters: Adding a Modality to a Frozen Embedding Model with Exact Preservation

arXiv:2609.26182v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal embedding models are deployed at scale: retrieval indices, benchmark results, and behavioral audits all depend on the base model's exact outp

23 Sept 2026

Evaluation Awareness Shifts from Format to Context with Model Scale

arXiv:2609.22119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluation awareness poses an unprecedented threat to model evaluation, but the mechanisms by which models detect it remain unknown. This study focuses

22 Sept 2026

Not All Task Vectors Need Equal Rank: Energy-Proportional Allocation for Model Merging

arXiv:2609.24517v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Model merging aims to combine multiple fine-tuned models derived from a common pretrained model into a single multi-task model without additional join

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22 Sept 2026

The Effect of Quantization on Clinical Benchmarks: Accuracy and Safety Across Model Families

arXiv:2609.22216v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantization enables deployment of large language models on resource-constrained clinical edge devices, but its effect on clinical accuracy and safety

22 Sept 2026

we made a 27b model for creative writing. performs as good as claude fable 5, at a 40x cheaper price, open weights.

hey! we're a small swiss and south african lab and we just put out hemmingway-1. it's a 27b model we trained specifically for roleplay, creative writing, dialogue, stories, and for everyday texting. f

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20 Sept 2026

QVAC Genesis III: A Large-Scale, High-Quality Open Synthetic STEM Corpus for Efficient Language Model Pre-Training

arXiv:2609.19513v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-quality pre-training data is a critical bottleneck for educational and STEM-specific language models targeting edge AI and on-device deployment whe

18 Sept 2026

AI for Games in the Foundation Model Era

arXiv:2609.16679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models, alongside advances in learned game-world models, are reshaping AI across the game lifecycle. Beyond playing games, recent systems mod

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16 Sept 2026

Interesting safety paper from Microsoft. They find that a weaker, unaligned model can split a harmful task into harmless-looking subquestion…

Interesting safety paper from Microsoft. They find that a weaker, unaligned model can split a harmful task into harmless-looking subquestions, ask an aligned frontier model each one in a separate sess

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16 Sept 2026

Agents

Modeling Social Dynamics with an LLM-Enabled Agent Based Network-Dynamic (LAND) Model

arXiv:2608.00929v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Social dynamics encode the process in which individual network and discourse interactions aggregate into collective influence, narrative dominance a

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15 Sept 2026

URCHIN: A Horizontal Spiking Language Model for Data-Constrained Pretraining

arXiv:2609.13899v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The BabyLM challenge measures how much language a model can learn from developmentally-plausible, child-scale data rather than internet-scale corpora,

15 Sept 2026

4D Parallelism Unlocks Exascale Bayesian Neural Networks for High-Fidelity Atmospheric Modeling

arXiv:2609.12815v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present BEAST, the first-ever Bayesian Swin Transformer for atmospheric forecasting on 0.25^irc global resolution able to accurately quantify both

Amortized Low-Rank Adaptation for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.12278v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models let agents plan by predicting the consequences of their actions, but changes in the environment can make them inaccurate. We study the prob

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DeepSeek engineer relections on RSI - burying my talent to yesterday

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Note - This is translated from the actual blog link right at the bottom. A few days ago, DeepSeek v4.1 was released. It raised the ability of small models to a new level. AI is improving much faster t

Tutorials

Efficient AI Model Deployment Using Quantization Analysis Tool

arXiv:2609.11954v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As deep learning models are increasingly deployed on resource constrained devices, the demand for efficient model optimization techniques continues to g

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