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Active sensing to characterize the heterogeneity of plant stress

arXiv:2608.27088v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While most phenotyping platforms rely primarily on image-based measurements, advanced plant characterization requires the integration of active physio

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Autoresearch with Coding Agents: Generalizers and Metric-Maximizers on Quran Recitation Data

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arXiv:2607.18064v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Coding agents can now be left alone to improve software against a score. In this pattern--recently popularized as 'autoresearch'--the agent re

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Comparative Evaluation of 3D Reconstruction Methods for Immersive Visualization of Laboratory Objects

arXiv:2608.27301v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this study, we examined whether current 3D reconstruction methods can support the creation of realistic holographic representations of laboratory o

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Compositional Generalization via Structural Identification in a Category-Theoretic Framework

arXiv:2608.26465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compositional generalization is usually evaluated through model accuracy. We instead ask which structural or lexical identifications make held-out COGS

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Consolidating RLVR Capabilities Across Domains: A Deep Dive into Fusion Paradigms

arXiv:2608.27409v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) improves specific capabilities of large language models, but covering multiple capabilities often

CorporateBench: Large-Scale Q&A Benchmarking with Temporal Knowledge Bases

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arXiv:2608.27391v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs are increasingly able to answer complex questions about enterprise-scale document collections. But evaluation is hard: companies don't want to shar

Decoupling Planning and Control for Instructable Agents

arXiv:2608.26788v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work shows that pre-trained, instruction-tuned vision-language models (VLMs) perform well at mapping from instructions and observations to high-l

Do LLMs Understand Personality? Rethinking Persona Fidelity Evaluation through Structured Behavioral Inference

arXiv:2608.26674v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models are increasingly deployed to simulate diverse human characters, ensuring persona fidelity, defined as the extent to which an

DocTalkBN: A Novel Dataset of Expert Telemedicine Conversations in Bengali

arXiv:2608.27110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable medical conversational AI requires authentic expert--patient interaction data, yet such datasets remain scarce, especially for low-resource lan

Evaluating AI Generated Summaries for Cancer Patients

arXiv:2608.26154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into digital health platforms to generate summaries of complex medical data. Although t

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Exploring the Role of LLMs in HPC Programming: A Survey

arXiv:2608.26110v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are emerging as promising assistants in High-Performance Computing (HPC), where programming remains complex and expertise

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Forward-Free Diffusion Language Models with BPTT-Free Looped Refinement

arXiv:2606.08357v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion language models generate text through iterative denoising, offering a powerful alternative to autoregressive generation. However, discrete

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From SQL to Knowledge Graphs: An LLM-Driven Multi-Agent Approach with Data Schema Improvement

arXiv:2608.26117v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) databases face several limitations, including slow execution with multi-hop queries and a lack of explai

I benchmarked 9 open models on spotting fake sources during agentic search (DeepSeek V4, Qwen 3.8, Nemotron 3 Ultra)

I built a benchmark called EchoNet. An agent gets a factual question, then searches a syntheic web I made before answering. Some of that web is seeded with misinformation: one fake page, a fake page r

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Information-Guided Frontier Decoding: Contextual Utility-Driven Commitment in dMLLMs

arXiv:2608.26641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decoding quality in diffusion multimodal language models (dMLLMs) depends heavily on the order in which masked tokens are committed. Existing confidence

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J-Zero: Unified Challenger--Solver--Judge Co-Evolution from Zero Data

arXiv:2608.26582v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-evolving language models have recently emerged as a promising path toward superintelligence, with the advantage of reducing the cost of human sup

Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days

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Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days Anil Madhavapeddy is a professor of computer science at Cambridge and a core maintainer of the OCaml compiler. In this somewhat a

Knowing When Not to Reuse: Conditional Experience Transfer in Autonomous LLM Post-Training

arXiv:2608.26730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models offer broad capabilities, but adapting them to evolving domains, tools, and requirements often entails repeated post-training. Aut

Learning Woody Clearing With Loss Alignment for Zero-Shot Regrowth and Woody Segmentation

arXiv:2608.26489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Detecting woody clearing is vital for managing biodiversity. Deep learning models can detect change in woody vegetation from bitemporal remote sensing i

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Legal Rule Induction: Towards Generalizable Principle Discovery from Analogous Judicial Precedents

arXiv:2505.14104v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Legal rules encompass not only codified statutes but also implicit adjudicatory principles derived from precedents that contain discretionary norms,

LiveSim: Simulating Environment-Shaped Users in Multi-Agent Live-Stream Ecosystems

arXiv:2608.26849v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: User behavior simulation with large language models~(LLMs) is increasingly used to support multi-agent ecosystem simulation. Existing simulators typical

LLM Agents for Time-Series: A Survey

arXiv:2608.26226v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based agents are increasingly being developed for time-series problems, but their design choices vary substantially across task settings. This surve

Making Clinical Language Models Auditable: Concept-Guided Fine-Tuning for Robust Prediction

arXiv:2608.27397v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clinical language models can achieve strong in-hospital accuracy yet fail under deployment shifts because they exploit note-specific artifacts (e.g.,

MAPLE: Metadata Conditioned LLM Pretraining for Locale-Aware Question Answering

arXiv:2601.15236v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models can memorize competing locale-specific facts yet fail to select among them when the locale changes, defaulting instead to a si

Mitigating Fabrication in Multi-Stage LLM Pipelines for Hiring: An Empirical Evaluation of Prompt Guardrails and Human-in-the-Loop Checkpoints

arXiv:2608.26171v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-stage LLM hiring pipelines (resume improvement, interview question generation, answer feedback) can fabricate credentials, inflate qualifiers, a

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Multi-Image Visual Token Pruning in Large Visual Language Models

arXiv:2608.26806v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the growing demand for processing multiple image sequences in real-world applications, various visual token pruning methods have emerged to mitigat

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Naive Prompt Optimization: Rethinking the Need for Complex Prompt Search

arXiv:2608.27266v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficiently improving autonomous agents across diverse tasks is central to accelerating recursive self-improvement (RSI) in agentic AI, with prompt opti

PACEShop: Evaluating Personalized, Actionable, Compositional, and Evidence-grounded Shopping Assistants

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arXiv:2608.26180v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Shopping assistants are shifting from ranked product lists toward structured decision support, where systems must synthesize shopper context, product

Packora: Systematic Design for Generative Molecular Crystal Structure Prediction

arXiv:2608.26962v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Molecular crystal structure prediction (CSP) is important in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and organic electronics, where subtle differences in molecu

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pro-team at LLMs4OL 2026 Tasks Flagship and Reuse: Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Vocabulary-Constrained Filtering for Ontology Learning

arXiv:2608.27101v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ontology learning from text remains challenging despite significant progress in Large Language Models (LLMs), which can hallucinate domain terms, produc

Qwen3.8-27b q8 KV cache does seem to actually hurt model performance

EDIT: Though the issue with q8 kv cache seems to arise from when and how often we run the quantize step, not that kv quantizing can't ever work - see comments for various proposed solutions --- One of

Qwen3.8-Flash on RTX3090 + 64GB RAM (but you only need 12GB VRAM)

I've got Qwen3.8-Flash-next running on RTX 3090, Ryzen 9 3950X, a PCIe 3.0 motherboard, and 64GB DDR RAM from 2020. IQ4_XS weights, full kvarn5 context, vision on GPU, experts in host RAM, n-grams on

RTNav: Towards Real-Time Zero-Shot Object Navigation

arXiv:2608.26496v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Navigation in unknown environments to find unforeseen objects has become increasingly feasible with capable vision and language foundation models. How

Said Aloud, Read Different: Cross-Modal Instability in Multimodal Models

arXiv:2608.27135v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal foundation models are increasingly used in speech-first assistants that must interpret spoken queries and produce visually grounded decisions

Local Ai

Self-learning and self improving local models can bite. Hard.

TL;DR: Self-learning needs governance, observability, and auditability. Sounds great, it's not great unless you have serious and appropriate protections. Let me lead this off with what we are most pro

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SpeechGym: An Audio-Native Gym for Training Voice Agents via Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2608.26432v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Voice agents must call tools and hold multi-turn dialogue entirely through speech, yet the dominant paradigm trains them in text. Existing frameworks

Survival-Guided Length Control for Efficient Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2608.26374v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) generate text by iteratively denoising masked sequences, but standard decoding either fixes the sequence length or reli

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The Artificial Experimentalist: Discovery and Control of Self-Organizing Phenomena with Autotelic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.26116v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing methods for exploring cellular automata and other complex systems mostly operate in open loop: they set initial conditions, execute a full simu

TontaubeV1 - Open TTS model release for local long-form generation

Hey everyone, I am the co-founder of Tontaube. My brother and I just released TontaubeV1, a 2.9B-parameter open-weight TTS model focused on expressive speech, long-form generation, and low-latency loc

Toward a New Science of AI as Cognitive Infrastructure

arXiv:2507.22893v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Contemporary human-AI interaction research overlooks how AI systems fundamentally reshape human cognition pre-consciously, a critical blind sp

TTPO: Test-Time Policy Optimization

arXiv:2608.27448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent prominent post-training methods, such as Reinforcement Learning (RL) and On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD), have driven rapid progress in mathem

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UrbanGround: From Local Perception to Spatial Agency in a Real-Scale City

arXiv:2608.27456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can interpret a street view, but urban agency depends on whether such local evidence remains useful after the a

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Tutorials

Vowel Signs Are Not Letters: A Pre-tokenization Ceiling on Multilingual Tokenizer Fertility

arXiv:2608.26449v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Byte-level BPE tokenizers that use the HuggingFace ByteLevel pre-tokenizer inherit GPT-2's word regex, where a word is defined as p{L}+, one or more Uni

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Why did My Robot Just Change Personality? Prompting Guidelines for a Grounded Robot Persona in LLM-Based HRI

arXiv:2608.26182v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for verbal interaction in social robots, yet prompt design in human-robot interaction (HRI) remains u

Agent Arena Code - Very good result (preliminary) for GLM and Qwen!

Everything has changed in two months: DS4 0731 flash was the start of a wave that is taking open weights to paradise. It is easy to think that Qwen 4 and GLM 6 will be on par with Mythos. submitted by

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Anthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms (Will Knight/Wired)

Will Knight / Wired: Anthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms — The potential for AI

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AsymSpec: Context-Asymmetric Speculative Decoding for Agentic LLMs

arXiv:2608.26004v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic LLM pipelines face escalating inference costs as context accumulates across retrieval, tool use, and multi-turn interactions. To control laten

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Hardware

BanglaMamba: Exploring State Space Models for Bangla Fake News Detection

arXiv:2608.25190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fake news detection has become an important Natural Language Processing (NLP) task due to the rapid spread of misinformation through online news platfor

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