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Introducing Quartermaster, an open source local AI platform designed for ease of use that does not sacrifice customizability

It started as a fork of llama-swap, but I have been building it out for myself since then as a convenient tool for all my local AI needs, and by now it has drifted far enough to be its own thing. The

3 Sept 2026

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We need a better taxonomy for what people are calling 'continual learning'

Continual learning isn't some fake term but a real goal and arguably one of the most important open ones in 2026. It roughly means: ‘building systems that keep acquiring useful knowledge or skills aft

3 Sept 2026

What a super interesting paper this one is. They propose an architecture for agents that outlive their model, harness and host. Today we des…

What a super interesting paper this one is. They propose an architecture for agents that outlive their model, harness and host. Today we describe an agent by whatever model and harness it happens to r

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3 Sept 2026

Beyond Token Positions: Safety Alignment Across Denoising Steps in Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2609.00495v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) generate text through iterative denoising rather than left-to-right decoding. This generation paradigm introdu

Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics

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Anthropic publish the system prompts for their Claude consumer applications (Claude.ai and the Claude mobile apps - sadly not for Claude Cowork or Claude Code). I love that they do this, and that they

Gaussian Core LoRA: Distribution-Aware Dynamic Adaptation for Broad Concept Erasure

arXiv:2609.01433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Concept erasure aims to suppress unsafe, privacy-sensitive, or undesirable generations in text-to-image diffusion models while preserving benign semanti

H3-World: Turning Language Understanding into World Control

arXiv:2609.01560v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present H3-World, an efficient framework that turns the 33B MiniMax-H3 video generator into an interactive world model. Our key finding is that, as

Measuring the Behavioral Fidelity of Long-Horizon Human Activity Simulations

arXiv:2609.01257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLM-based human simulators are increasingly used for policy, evaluation, and training, they must faithfully reproduce real behavioral patterns. While

Safin-1: Safety from Within through Memory-Native State Evolution

arXiv:2609.00092v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon complex tasks require foundation models to accumulate information, maintain internal states, and adapt over extended interactions. Safety s

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

Training-Free Inpainting Across Domains with a Frozen Text-to-Image Diffusion Model

arXiv:2609.00862v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We show that a frozen generic text-to-image diffusion model can perform conditional inpainting across three evaluated natural-image domains with one fix

researcharxiv-cs-cv

Amortized Anchor Refinement for Deployable Continuous-Time 4D Gaussian Reconstruction

arXiv:2608.30218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuous-time 4D reconstruction remains impractical on standalone XR headsets. Per-scene optimization demands deployment-infeasible compute, and lower

Benevolent Bias in Multi-Turn Human-Agent Dialogue

arXiv:2608.29206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bias in human-agent interaction can manifest not only through hostile language but also as benevolent bias, whereby unequal treatment hides behind a war

EvoSkill Injection: Red-Teaming Autonomous Skill Generation and Evolution in Self-Evolving Agents

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai

arXiv:2608.30429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based agent systems increasingly adopt skill-based architectures to reduce repetitive reasoning costs and improve stable, efficient task execution.

FRAMEWORKERS: A Dynamic Multi-Agent Framework for AI-Generated Video Production

arXiv:2608.29814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern video generators excel at synthesizing individual clips, but complete video production requires coordinating a long sequence of interdependent cr

Tutorials

From the Loss Landscape to Diverse Feature Learning in Neural Networks

arXiv:2608.28948v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Over the course of the last decade, neural networks have grown from an academic curiosity to moving the markets of nations. Despite this explosion in

tutorialsarxiv-cs-ai

Integrating adaptive human behavior into epidemic models with large language models

arXiv:2608.29535v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Infectious disease transmission is shaped by patterns of human interaction, which adapt as epidemic conditions change. Capturing these context-depende

JFTA-Bench: Evaluate LLM's Ability of Tracking and Analyzing Malfunctions Using Fault Trees

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai

arXiv:2603.22978v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In the maintenance of complex systems, fault trees are used to locate problems and provide targeted solutions. To enable fault trees stored as image

Liquid Gated Attention

arXiv:2608.30695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world time series often exhibit irregular sampling and extended temporal horizons, requiring models to capture continuous-time dynamics across arbi

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

Phys4D: Fine-Grained Physics-Consistent 4D Modeling from Video Diffusion

arXiv:2603.03485v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent video diffusion models have achieved impressive capabilities as large-scale generative world models. However, these models often strugg

Predicting Future Organ Dysfunction in ICU Patients Using Temporal Convolutional Networks on MIMIC-IV Data

arXiv:2608.29301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting future organ dysfunction in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients is critical for early clinical intervention, yet existing machine learning app

Agents

Scaffolding Foundation Models into Physical-World Agents Pushes the Frontier of Long-Horizon Navigation

arXiv:2608.30396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon physical-world agents must reason over distant goals while grounding decisions in reliable closed-loop behavior. Today's foundation models

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

SNF-Bench: Separating Static Drift from Natural Flow in Long-Horizon Fixed-Camera Video Generation

arXiv:2608.28694v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon video generation is evaluated with whole-frame metrics that reward motion and temporal consistency. For fixed-camera nature scenes this cre

Update: llama.cpp for Radeon VII / MI50 / MI60 — +14% PP, +9% long-context fill vs upstream + adaptive Flash Attention

I posted a new gfx906 based llama.cpp fork a few days ago. One of the main points of critique was that i did not provide sufficient numbers for the gains to be achieved. -- TL;DR: After switching our

AcrossVAM1.0: Particle World Modeling for Text-Assisted Robot Video Prediction

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arXiv:2608.28491v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting robot videos requires both precise motion reasoning and preservation of high-frequency appearance, yet monolithic pixel models entangle the

31 Aug 2026

An Enclosed Mode Is a Gauge Choice: Topology Relative to Reach in Certified Code World Models

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2608.28541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A code world model accepted by a sampling gate can be exactly right on everything the gate can see and arbitrarily wrong beyond it. We characterize what

31 Aug 2026

Agents

Synthetic Linguistic Agency: How an Embodied Mortal Agent Learns Linguistic Affordances through Consequential Social Experience

arXiv:2608.27843v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contemporary language models can converse fluently and influence human decisions, yet their exchanges do not enter a continuing, vulnerable life of thei

agentsarxiv-cs-cl

31 Aug 2026

INTENT-AS-A-TOOL Makes it Easy to Track Agentic Misalignment

arXiv:2608.27348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are deployed as autonomous agents, safety failures increasingly involve consequential actions. We study agentic misalign

safetyarxiv-cs-cl

28 Aug 2026

Safety Does Not Compose: Non-Decaying Loop State for Autonomous LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.27141v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model agents are increasingly deployed as autonomous loops. Starting from one human goal, such a system repeatedly discovers work, plan

28 Aug 2026

The Cold-Start Safety Gap in LLM Agents

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2606.07867v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Are tool-calling LLM agents equally safe throughout a conversation? We discover they are not: agents are most vulnerable at the very start of a sess

28 Aug 2026

Canalization Before Generalization: Grokking as a Dynamical Probe

arXiv:2608.25813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For overparameterized neural networks, many solutions can fit the training data equally well while behaving very differently on unseen samples. Grokking

researcharxiv-cs-lg

Applications

Choose Your Game Wisely: Measuring Game-Theoretic Structures in Real-World Vehicle Interactions

arXiv:2608.25917v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Game-theoretic models provide principled frameworks for modeling vehicle interactions, but their underlying temporal assumptions have not been systema

applicationsarxiv-cs-ro

Local Ai

CVE-SAI: Counterfactual Visual Evidence-Guided Selective Attribute Indexing for Risk-Controlled E-commerce Search

arXiv:2608.25023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal product models can complete missing e-commerce attributes, yet current methods still optimize attribute-answer accuracy without verifying v

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Running local LLM's as agents in Claude Code

I hit my token limit three times a day on my max subscription - got sick of that and designed this MCP setup to shift some of the coding load to my local Qwen3.8-27B model. I've been iterating on it n

Towards safe and optimal flight: Viability Kernel MPC for Fully Actuated Multirotor

arXiv:2608.25459v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial aerial robotics demands safety guarantees for navigation in unstructured environments while optimizing performance and computational efficien

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

Video-IFBench: Evaluating Instruction Following of Multimodal LLMs in Video Understanding Scenarios

arXiv:2608.25529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown strong performance in video understanding. However, their ability to follow instructions in this dom

Tutorials

A Behavior-Guided Online Probabilistic Forecasting Method for Electric vehicle Charging Loads

arXiv:2608.24441v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electric vehicle (EV) charging loads exhibit strong behavioral heterogeneity and temporal variability, posing significant challenges for online probabil

tutorialsarxiv-cs-ai

Local Ai

AURASeg: Attention-Guided Upsampling with Residual-Assisted Boundary Refinement for Drivable-Area Segmentation

arXiv:2510.21536v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Free-space segmentation is essential for autonomous robots to identify drivable regions and navigate safely across indoor, outdoor, and road-s

local-aiarxiv-cs-cv

Disentangled Skill Representations for Predictive Human Modeling

arXiv:2608.23776v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding human skill is important for AI systems that collaborate with, coach, or assist people. Unlike typical latent variable estimation proble

DreamLedger: Execution-Settled Credit Files for World-Model Imagination in Robot Decision Loops

arXiv:2608.23863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robots are beginning to act on world-model predictions, yet reliability is still expressed through instantaneous, model-internal signals. DreamLedger in

researcharxiv-cs-ro

LumiXAI: A Modular Full-Stack Framework for Feature Attribution

arXiv:2608.24524v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Feature attribution is a central tool of model interpretability, yet the software through which it is applied remains fragmented: individual tools spe

StarHarness: Evolving Harnesses with Stratified Search for Enterprise Environments

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai

arXiv:2608.24804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present StarHarness, a framework for evolving environment-specific agent harnesses while keeping model weights fixed. The evolved harness can include

StateTune: Transforming LLM-Assisted EDA Flow Tuning into a Stateful, Closed-Loop Process

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2608.23601v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: EDA flow parameter tuning is critical for quality-of-results~(QoR), yet the parameter space is large, tightly coupled, and full evaluations are prohib

Agentic AI for Safety-critical Multi-drone Systems: Challenges and Opportunities

arXiv:2608.21444v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-drone systems are increasingly positioned for safety-critical missions such as search and rescue (SAR) and critical infrastructure monitoring. Yet

25 Aug 2026

Local Ai

Where World Models Break: Natural-Input Failure Discovery

arXiv:2608.22421v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models predict action-conditioned futures and serve as critical internal simulators for downstream planning and control. However, catastrophic pre

local-aiarxiv-cs-ai

25 Aug 2026

Ansari: A Retrieval-Grounded Islamic AI Assistant -- Architecture, Deployment, and Lessons from 140,000 Conversations

arXiv:2608.20390v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General-purpose large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to answer religious questions, but for Islamic content they carry two serious risks

Applications

EviRank: Structured Relevance Evidence for Multimodal Image Re-ranking

arXiv:2608.20886v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world image search queries are multimodal and compositional: ``find this shirt in pink'' specifies an entity to retain, an attribute to modify, and

applicationsarxiv-cs-cv

Generating Multi-view Adversarial Examples for Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer

arXiv:2608.20748v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT) enables unified feed-forward 3D reconstruction from multi-view images. However, deploying such a high-pe

safetyarxiv-cs-cv

Applications

Perseus: Interactive Time Series Segmentation with Sparse Supervision via Stateful Memory

arXiv:2510.09930v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-world systems, ranging from industrial manufacturing to wearable healthcare, generate multivariate time series with hierarchical states r

applicationsarxiv-cs-ai