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HarvestPoint-ACT: Explicit Target Selection and Harvest-Point Conditioning for Robotic Fruit Harvesting under Occlusion

arXiv:2608.18446v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end imitation learning avoids hand-made robot motion for approaching and grasping, but the policy must still decide which fruit to pick and where

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How do you deal with long-context sessions after restarting llama.cpp?

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I run local models on a 128GB Strix Halo and restart llama.cpp fairly often while testing builds, backends and model parameters. The annoying part is long-running agent sessions. Hermes/OpenCode sessi

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Human-Centric Intelligence in the Era of Foundation Models: A Survey

arXiv:2608.18184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-centric intelligence is evolving in the foundation-model era, with growing emphasis on scale, transferability, and general-purpose modeling. Yet i

Infrared Universality of Collective Dynamics across Transformer and State-Space Architectures

arXiv:2608.18592v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whether distinct neural architectures develop common collective dynamics remains an open question. Recent analysis of Transformer language models reveal

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Institutional Prestige as Geographic Bias in Large Language Models: Evidence from Three Factorial Experiments with Bootstrap Confidence Intervals

arXiv:2608.18107v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate whether large language models (LLMs) systematically discriminate in candidate evaluations based on applicant name ethnicity and/or inst

Language Models for Portuguese: A Systematic Mapping Study

arXiv:2608.18138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In recent years, the rapid development of language models has transformed the field of Natural Language Processing through a wide range of application

Latent Space Refusal Anchoring for Low-Resource African Languages: Mechanistic Safety Recovery Without Retraining

arXiv:2608.18089v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Instruction-tuned models often refuse harmful requests in English but comply with the same requests in Yoruba, Igbo, Igala, and Hausa. This suggests t

MAVEN: A Macro-Societal Value Evaluation Framework of Multimodal Content with Compact Aligned Evaluators

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arXiv:2608.18096v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Assessing whether multimodal content aligns with macro-societal values, such as peace, justice, and freedom, has become an increasingly urgent challenge

Mitigating Spectral Bias in Neural Operators for Underwater Transmission Loss Prediction

arXiv:2608.18141v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting underwater acoustic transmission loss rapidly and accurately is crucial for real-time ocean acoustic applications. While Fourier Neural Ope

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On the Robustness of Vision-Language Models in Zero-shot Privacy Classification

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arXiv:2510.09253v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automatic systems for document understanding require multimodal models that accurately identify sensitive visual content, even in the presence of im

Pairwise Logical Selection of Enthymeme Completions under Semantic-Link Uncertainty

arXiv:2608.18820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Arguments often omit premises or claims, forming enthymemes. We study pairwise logical selection between two candidates for the omitted component. Exist

Persona-Guided LLM Agents for Task-Oriented Dialogue

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arXiv:2608.18085v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prior work has shown that large language models (LLMs) can express diverse personality traits in open-ended text generation. However, it remains unclear

Position: Multi-Agent Systems Should Prioritize Concurrency Control

arXiv:2608.18092v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) promise scalable collaboration, yet adding agents often reduces reliability. This position paper argues that many MA

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Ramp launches Router, an AI model routing service it has been using internally over the past three years, in the US; Router is free to use for the rest of 2026 (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)

Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: Ramp launches Router, an AI model routing service it has been using internally over the past three years, in the US; Router is free to use for the rest of 2026 — Corporate expen

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Redakto - The Incognito Tab for LLMs

arXiv:2608.18260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are being increasingly used in everyday applications. A major challenge in the context of LLMs or Artificial Intelligence (

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rEDMRec: Distilling Large Language Model Reasoning into an Editable Experience Memory for Recommendation

arXiv:2608.18952v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models can improve recommendation quality by reasoning explicitly over user history and candidate items - for example, extracting a use

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Reinforced Planning with Latent World Models

arXiv:2608.18669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans solve complex problems by constructing plans and mentally simulating their outcomes with an internal model of the world. Machine learning has pro

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ReWEIGH the Evidence: Calibrating Token-Level Ordinal Visual Evidence to Mitigate Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608.19075v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large vision-language models (LVLMs) often hallucinate, generating content that the input image does not support. Preventing such content during decod

Applications

RouteCost: A Production-Inspired Multi-Stage Framework for Pre-Order Shipping Cost Estimation in E-Commerce

arXiv:2607.16230v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate pre-order shipping cost estimation is important in e-commerce because it affects price presentation, margin planning, and conversion.

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SAM2Dual: Training-Free, Dual Memory for Long-Term Video Object Segmentation

arXiv:2608.18640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term video object segmentation (VOS) remains challenging due to error accumulation under extended occlusions, re-appearance, and scene changes. Alt

SeisEvo: Evolution of Seismic Data Reconstruction Algorithms by Agents

arXiv:2608.18272v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Classical seismic data reconstruction relies on manually designed structural priors and iterative operators, whose coupled design space is far larger

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Self-Improvement of Large Language Models: A Technical Overview and Future Outlook

arXiv:2603.25681v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance, improving them solely through human supervision is becoming increasingly costly and limited in

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SESSE: Sketch, Expand, Sort, Summarize, Evaluate -- LLM-as-Judge Evaluation via Structured Decomposition

arXiv:2608.18303v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-as-judge evaluation reduces response quality assessment to a single holistic A/B preference choice, providing no mechanism to isolate which quality

Temporal Multi-Signal Fusion for Token-Level Hallucination Detection

arXiv:2608.18115v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Token-level hallucination detectors score each token independently from a single signal, and fail exactly when the generating model is confidently wro

Hardware

TokenPowerSandbox: Evidence-Gated CPU-First Screening for Energy-Aware LLM Serving

arXiv:2608.18149v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Energy-aware LLM serving requires comparing configurations under realistic request shapes, yet exhaustive target-GPU profiling is costly and a cheap p

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Training Chemical Plausibility-Aware Large Language Models for Single-Step Retrosynthesis

arXiv:2608.18940v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Single-step retrosynthesis is a central component of computer-aided synthesis planning, yet its intrinsically one-to-many nature is poorly captured by

Applications

Transportable Causal Effect Estimation across Networks under Interference

arXiv:2608.18932v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Estimating causal effects under network interference typically assumes that the network used for training and the network used for deployment coincide.

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UMER: Unifying Embedding and Ranking via Pair-Aware Discriminative Reasoning for Universal Multimodal Retrieval

arXiv:2608.18504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Universal multimodal retrieval aims to support diverse instruction-aware retrieval tasks, demanding both efficient corpus-scale matching and fine-graine

Vector Symbolic Policy Gradient

arXiv:2608.18404v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We answer this question with Vector-Symbolic Policy Gradient (VSPG), a discrete-action actor that represents each action by a unit-norm hypervector an

What is Missing from AI Post-Training AI: An Empirical Analysis

arXiv:2608.19072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents can now post-train an LLM end-to-end. They can write code, launch training, evaluate checkpoints, and improve downstre

When Clean Signals Are Not Enough: Detecting Structural Ambiguity for Safe Wearable Stress Classification

arXiv:2608.18397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wearable stress classifiers can achieve strong average performance while failing completely for a particular individual. On WESAD, a Random Forest reach

When Do LLMs Actually Help? Evaluating LLMs as Data Quality Annotators

arXiv:2608.18158v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs have been increasingly used to catch data quality issues automatically, but we know very little about how consistent these judgments actually are

Which Negatives Matter? Ask Your Text Encoder: Adaptive Similarity Margins for Dense-Caption Retrieval

arXiv:2608.18521v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dense-caption retrieval has recently been improved by introducing segmentation, edge maps, LLM-filtered captions, and cross-modal modules into contrasti

Abra: Scaling Diffusion Image Training

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arXiv:2608.17286v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compute-optimal scaling laws guide the training of frontier language models yet remain largely unexplored for visual generation. We present a systematic

Advancing Health Equity through Multi-Level Fairness in Health Informatics

arXiv:2608.16902v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The increasing integration of machine learning in healthcare has highlighted critical challenges related to fairness, transparency, and health equity.

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Agentic ESOpt: Fine-Tuning Long-Horizon LLM Agents with Minimal GPU Requirements

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arXiv:2608.17310v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been promising in single-turn LLM fine-tuning. However, long-horizon agentic reasoning introduces increasingly branching

ArguLens: An Open-Source System for Automated Essay Scoring and Label-Aware Feedback Generation

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arXiv:2608.17356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most automated essay scoring (AES) systems output a single holistic score without interpretable evidence and rely on closed APIs that introduce data pri

BayesPrompt: human readable prompts that make sense

arXiv:2608.17866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconstructing prompts that can elicit a desired answer or behaviour in an LLM is an open and important research topic. Optimisation methods which aim a

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Hardware

Beyond FLOPs: Energy-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Sustainable LLMs on Code-Related Task

arXiv:2608.17515v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being applied to Software Engineering (SE) tasks, achieving high accuracy across problems su

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Beyond the Trace: Coupling an Interpretable Reasoning-State Readout to Native MoE Routing

arXiv:2608.17638v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: What a reasoning model writes is only a partial record of the process that produces it. We introduce a two-level internal readout for mixture-of-experts

BrainNorm: A Foundation Model that knows Normal via Semantic Atlas Pretraining

arXiv:2608.17521v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce BrainNorm, a normative foundation model, trained and tested on ~66,000 T1-weighted structural MRI (T1w sMRI) scans. By leveraging language-

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Can Large Language Models Explain Flight Safety Events? A Prior-Guided Semantic LLM-based Approach

arXiv:2608.18017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Improving flight safety with flight data requires not only accurate detection of risk events, but more importantly, clear interpretation of their underl

Cascaded Multi-Scale Attention for Enhanced Multi-Scale Feature Extraction and Interaction with Low-Resolution Images

arXiv:2412.02197v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In real-world applications of image recognition tasks, such as human pose estimation, cameras often capture objects, like human bodies, at low resol

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ChatPlanner: A Large Language Model Framework for Personalized Public Transit Routing

arXiv:2606.15315v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Personalized public transit routing in public transit systems remains challenging due to the difficulty of capturing and integrating diverse user pr

CHM-Net: Center Heatmap-driven Macro-Micro Modeling Network for MRI-based Microbial Density Stratification

arXiv:2607.09812v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Microbial density is clinically important for tumor assessment and treatment decision-making, and recent advances in deep learning suggest tha

CKAA: Cross-subspace Knowledge Alignment and Aggregation for Robust Continual Learning

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arXiv:2507.09471v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continual Learning (CL) empowers AI models to continuously learn from sequential task streams. Recently, parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT)-base

COMIC: Reference-Aware Safety Gating for Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.17234v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly used to interact with screenshots, scanned documents, diagrams, and other visually grounded

Counterfactual Anatomy-guided Spatial-Temporal Decoding for Annotation-Free Hallucination Mitigation in Medical VLMs

arXiv:2608.17427v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical vision-language models (Med-VLMs) have demonstrated strong performance on medical visual question answering, yet they remain prone to hallucinat