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Robot Learning to Communicate through Projected Visual Abstractions

arXiv:2607.22434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans routinely communicate through abstractions of their bodies, including shadows, silhouettes, and reflections. Yet robots remain largely confined t

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Running local agentic workflows with Ollama? Here is a pre-flight validator for third-party skills

DGX agent

sample Hey r/Ollama! If you're hooking up local agent tools and using Ollama to drive agentic workflows, you've probably downloaded a bunch of third-party SKILL packages or repos. I built a free open-

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27 Jul 2026

Local Ai

RX 9060 XT 16GB vs RTX 5060 Ti 16GB for local AI — worth the price difference?

Hey everyone! I’m building a PC to run AI models locally and can’t decide between the RX 9060 XT 16GB and the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB. Both have the same amount of VRAM, but is AMD actually a solid choice fo

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Safe Learning Predictive Control for Ego-World Robotic Systems

arXiv:2607.22225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe autonomous navigation in shared environments requires the ability to anticipate and react to the latent behaviors of surrounding robots. In this pa

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Local Ai

SCALE: Self-Supervised Constraint-Aware Layout GEneration for Local P&R DRV Fixing at Advanced Nodes

arXiv:2607.21850v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As semiconductor manufacturing advances toward sub-2nm nodes, local place-and-route (P&R) design-rule violation (DRV) fixing is increasingly limited by

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Scaling Laws for Classical Machine Learning on Tabular Data: A Benchmark Study

arXiv:2607.21866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prior classical-ML learning-curve work fits power laws to tree, linear, and kernel models on tabular data, but at small scale: typically one curve, one

Scaling Native Multimodal Pre-Training From Scratch

arXiv:2607.22043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable reasoning capabilities, their reliance on text-only pre-training restricts the perception of th

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SceneActBench: Can Agents Act on the 3D Scenes They See?

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arXiv:2607.22393v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language model (VLM) agents increasingly use tools to act on 3D scenes rather than only describe them. Existing 3D benchmarks score textual res

SCOPE and SCION: A Benchmark and an Auditable Reference Pipeline for Schema Induction and Fusion from Text

arXiv:2607.21610v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Schema graphs are an upstream bottleneck of schema-grounded information extraction and knowledge graph construction, yet most extraction systems assum

Searching the Space of Feed-Forward Neural-Network Weight-Update Rules with Fixed Depth Symbolic Regression

arXiv:2607.21855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate whether symbolic regression can discover explicit neural network weight-update rules that outperform standard hand-designed optimizers on

Security Without Detection: Economic Denial as a Primitive for Edge and IoT Defense

arXiv:2512.23849v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sophisticated attackers can evade detection-based security by using encryption, stealth tactics, and low-rate attack patterns. This challenge

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Self-Guided Process Reward Optimization with Redefined Step-wise Advantage for Process Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2507.01551v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Process Reinforcement Learning~(PRL) has demonstrated considerable potential in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models~

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Self-Poisoning in Adaptive Out-of-Distribution Detection: A Sharp-Threshold Theory and Certified Label-Free Calibration

arXiv:2607.21673v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Test-time adaptive out-of-distribution (OOD) detectors update a memory bank from the unlabelled stream. We show this adaptation obeys a provable dynam

Industry

Several digital-asset treasury firms have pivoted to AI amid a slump in crypto prices, but their poor stock performance suggests the strategy is not working (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg)

Monique Mulima / Bloomberg: Several digital-asset treasury firms have pivoted to AI amid a slump in crypto prices, but their poor stock performance suggests the strategy is not working — The implosion

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Shallower ReLU Network Representations via Exact Linear Algebra

arXiv:2607.21651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We prove that the maximum of n real numbers is exactly representable by a ReLU network with two hidden layers for every nle 10. The constructions are ob

Simulation-Based Empirical Bayes

arXiv:2607.21843v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Empirical Bayes (EB) performs simultaneous inference across many related latent variables. Classical EB assumes that the likelihood p(x | z) is tracta

applicationsarxiv-cs-lg

Singular value soft-thresholding via the polar decomposition

arXiv:2607.22484v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Singular value soft-thresholding can be computed via a reduction to the matrix polar decomposition, which allows one to exploit GPU-friendly algorithm

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SiPhy: Single-Image Physical Property Reasoning

arXiv:2607.22355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inferring physical properties such as mass, stiffness, and elasticity from a single image is essential for simulation and embodied AI, yet most existing

Six Agent Harness Capabilities for Higher Model Performance

The performance of AI agents depends not only on the underlying models but also heavily on their “harness”—the surrounding architecture that supplies context, state management, action execution, and t

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Skill Self-Play: Pushing the Frontier of LLM Capability with Co-Evolving Skills

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arXiv:2607.22529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM training is shifting from manual design and annotation to interaction-driven self-evolution. However, existing self-evolutionary methods face a fund

SLIP: Segmentation with Low-latency Interactive Prompting for 3D Medical Images

arXiv:2607.22332v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interactive deep image segmentation enables efficient medical image annotation by iteratively refining predictions from user prompts, such as positive a

SM4RT: Learning Structured Motion Geometry for 4D Reconstruction

arXiv:2607.22534v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Geometry Foundation Models (GFMs) have substantially advanced monocular 3D reconstruction, yet extending this capability to 4D dynamic understanding rem

applicationsarxiv-cs-cv

Small context windows + knowledge graphs: the serialization format alone doubled my multi-hop accuracy (benchmarked 10 formats)

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Running local models means every token counts — an 8K or 16K window fills up fast when you're stuffing graph context into prompts for RAG. I benchmarked 10 graph serialization formats (JSON, GraphML,

Small Vision-Language Models Know When They Are Wrong But Cannot Say So: A Two-Model Study of Stated versus Internal Confidence Under Realistic Image Degradation

arXiv:2607.22034v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed on consumer hardware where input images are degraded by compression, camera shake, and poor li

researcharxiv-cs-cl

Smart predict-then-robustly-optimize

arXiv:2607.21773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we propose and study a robust variant of the smart predict-then-optimize approach that accounts for prediction shifts due to disturbance

Industry

Source: Sam Altman will meet with senior US officials, lawmakers, and economists in Washington, DC, this week to preview OpenAI's upcoming family of AI models (CNBC)

CNBC: Source: Sam Altman will meet with senior US officials, lawmakers, and economists in Washington, DC, this week to preview OpenAI's upcoming family of AI models — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will meet w

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Sources: Nvidia has committed to invest 5B in Ilya Sutskever's SSI; the startup has previously raised about 3B in funding and was valued at $32B last year (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Sources: Nvidia has committed to invest 5B in Ilya Sutskever's SSI; the startup has previously raised about 3B in funding and was valued at 32B last year — Nvidia Corp. ha

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Spatially-Enhanced Temporal Fusion Transformer: Interpretable Multi-Output Prediction for Parametric Dynamical Systems with Time-Varying Inputs

arXiv:2505.00473v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We explore the promising performance of a transformer model in predicting outputs of parametric dynamical systems with external time-varying input s

Spectral Flow Certificates for Depth-Aware Long-Range Propagation in Graph Neural Networks

arXiv:2607.21607v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph Neural Networks propagate information through local message passing, but the graph topologies themselves can silently prevent any amount of trai

Spectral Prior for Reducing Exposure Bias in Diffusion Models

arXiv:2607.22091v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models typically suffer from error accumulation during iterative sampling, commonly referred to as exposure bias. We reveal systematic frequen

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StARS: Socially Appropriate Robot Actions via a Recommender System-Driven Approach

arXiv:2607.21802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social appropriateness in human-robot interaction (HRI) is not universal: different people can judge the same robot action differently in the same situa

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Start owning your own intelligence today with Kimi K3 on Fireworks. Serve it, fine-tune it, and put it into production. What are you waiting…

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**Summary:** Kimi K3 is a publicly available 3‑trillion‑parameter language model now live on Fireworks, offering 1 million-token context windows with native vision and reasoning that rivals top closed

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Statistical mechanics of extensive-width Bayesian neural networks near interpolation

arXiv:2505.24849v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: For three decades statistical mechanics has been providing a framework to analyse neural networks. However, the theoretically tractable models

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Stocks should be ripping today given the move in oil. But they're not thanks to NVDA and it's unbelievable 250 Billion roundtrip with Open…

Stocks should be ripping today given the move in oil. But they're not thanks to NVDA and it's unbelievable 250 Billion roundtrip with OpenAI. There's no hiding anymore that the whole AI bubble is real

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Stop to Decide: Latency-Aware Proprioceptive Navigation Primitives for Mapping-Free Quadruped Inspection

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arXiv:2607.11204v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Onboard quadruped inspection systems often share limited compute between perception and navigation, reducing the rate at which event-triggered contr

SurvDiff: A Diffusion Model for Generating Synthetic Data in Survival Analysis

arXiv:2509.22352v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Survival analysis is a cornerstone of clinical research by modeling time-to-event outcomes such as metastasis, disease relapse, or patient death. Un

Susceptible Reservoir Architectures for Regime-Conditional Volatility Forecasting

arXiv:2607.22491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Volatility forecasting is dominated by persistence and measurement noise, leaving limited residual structure for nonlinear models to exploit. We introdu

SwiftMem: Fast Agentic Memory via Query-aware Indexing

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2601.08160v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic memory systems have become critical for enabling LLM agents to maintain long-term context and retrieve relevant information efficiently. How

Synthetic Speech, Real Signal: Paralinguistic Preservation and Cross-Lingual Augmentation via Voice Cloning

arXiv:2607.22304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthetic data augmentation in speech is common practice for linguistic tasks like ASR, but has seen far less work for paralinguistic ones, especially c

TDiR: Transformer based Diffusion for Image Restoration Tasks

arXiv:2506.20302v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Images captured in challenging environments often experience various types of degradation, such as noise, color cast, blur, and light scattering. Th

Teaching LLMs to Self-Evolve: Cultivating Core Meta-Skills with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607.21971v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Test-time scaling through iterative self-evolution with environment feedback, as demonstrated by AlphaEvolve, shows remarkable performance gains. We h

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Teachy Mini: Development and Preliminary Evaluation of a Knowledge-Based Generative Social Robot for Higher Education

arXiv:2607.22345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative social robots (GSRs) powered by large language models offer new possibilities for personalized tutoring in higher education, but also introdu

applicationsarxiv-cs-ro

Tech industry leaders join to form Open Secure AI Alliance to promote safety and security

Nvidia Corp. today announced the launch of the Open Secure AI Alliance, a new organization founded by technology, cloud computing and cybersecurity leaders to build and share open artificial intellige

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TensorWave targets focused AI cloud strategy to deliver better customer experience

As AI infrastructure matures, AI cloud strategy is increasingly defined by reliability and open ecosystems rather than raw GPU performance. That evolution is creating new opportunities for specialized

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TextSLIP: Text Self-Supervised CLIP for Medical Report Generation

arXiv:2607.21970v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automating radiology report generation is important for improving reporting consistency and clinical workflows . While Contrastive Language--Image Pretr

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The 3D Mirage: Probing and Taming 3D Hallucinations

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arXiv:2512.15423v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Monocular depth foundation models achieve remarkable generalization by learning large-scale semantic priors, but this creates a critical vulnerabili

The Coordination Gap: Multi-Agent Alternation Metrics for Temporal Fairness in Repeated Games

arXiv:2603.05789v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Repeated multi-agent interactions require evaluation metrics that capture not only payoff distributions but also their temporal organization.

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The Hard Decision Layer: Evidence for Committed Inference in Transformers

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arXiv:2607.21613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate where and how transformer-based language models commit to predictions in multiple-choice question answering. We identify the _Hard Deci