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Benchmarking LLM Judges for Voice-Agent Evaluation: Reliability, Calibration, and Human Oversight

arXiv:2608.24314v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating conversational voice agents at scale re- quires reliable assessment methods that capture both observ- able interaction quality and the contex

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Boot-and-Feedback Framework for Generalist-Expert Model Collaboration in Breast Ultrasound Diagnosis

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arXiv:2608.23974v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Breast ultrasound (BUS) is widely used for breast cancer diagnosis yet remains operator-dependent. While deep learning shows promise, ensuring diagnosti

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Can large language models assist choice modelling? Insights into prompting strategies and current models' capabilities

arXiv:2507.21790v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming widely used to support various workflows across different disciplines, yet their potential in discre

ChorusTIC: Training-Free Multivariate Time Series Classification via Chorus In-Context Learning

arXiv:2608.24033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time series classification underpins applications in healthcare, sensing, and industrial monitoring. Although time series foundation models support fo

Claude is an incredible coding agent. I use it a lot. (Also Codex and start checking Cursor again). But I’m not convinced the AI-native SDLC…

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Claude is an incredible coding agent. I use it a lot. (Also Codex and start checking Cursor again). But I’m not convinced the AI-native SDLC is the existing SDLC with a magical Claude wand waved over

Agents

CoMMa: Contribution-Aware Medical Multi-Agents for Decentralized Oncology Decision Support

arXiv:2602.09159v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent multi-agent frameworks have shown promise for oncology decision support, yet most assume centralized data access and rely on prompt-based ass

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Compared Qwen 3.8 27B community quants on RTX 6000 vs Claude Opus 4.6

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*part 2 of an earlier post: previous quant comparison with voxel island creation this time I rented three rtx pro 6000 96gb, on each one I launched a qwen 3.8 27b quant and gave them 4 identical promp

Applications

Constrained Entity Selection under Partial Knowledge for LLM-Based Knowledge Graph QA

arXiv:2608.24824v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used for knowledge graph question answering (KGQA), but can fail to correctly ground answers in the underlying gr

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Local Ai

Do Recipes Have Personas? Characterizing and Generating Creator Style in Attributed Procedural Graphs

arXiv:2608.24369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While large language models (LLMs) possess vast zero-shot procedural knowledge, their tendency to produce homogenized logic often obscures the unique, i

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Do Robotic World Models Really Follow Actions? Diagnosing and Aligning Action-Conditioned Generation for Policy Learning

arXiv:2608.24885v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Action-conditioned world models are increasingly used as learned simulators for policy evaluation and improvement, yet their effectiveness rests on an

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DriftAD: Visually-Guided Text Drift for Few-Shot Industrial Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2608.23723v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Few-shot anomaly detection (FSAD) has recently benefited from vision-language models such as CLIP, which enable anomaly de?tection by aligning visual fe

EXAM^2: nderline{Ex}tending nderline{A}udio Understanding in nderline{M}ultilingual and nderline{M}ultimodal Analysis

arXiv:2608.23758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent large audio language models (LALMs) have achieved impressive progress in audio understanding. However, existing evaluations remain largely cons

Experiment with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 176B Model on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 for Agentic Coding

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The Qwen3.8‑Flash‑Next 176 B multimodal MoE model uses a hybrid Gated DeltaNet / Qwen Sparse Attention (QSA) architecture that compresses long‑context history and aggregates tokens into micro‑blocks f

Experiment with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 for Agentic Coding

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Qwen3.8‑Flash‑Next is a multimodal mixture‑of‑experts model with 125 B parameters that employs Gated DeltaNet (compressing historic context) and Qwen Sparse Attention (exact retrieval over full contex

From Causal Plausibility to Causal Reliability: Evaluating LLMs as Calibrated Direct Causal-Edge Classifiers

arXiv:2608.23660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to provide prior causal knowledge for structural causal discovery, yet whether their direct-edge ju

Gen2Physics: Grounding Generated 3D Meshes in Physics via Multi-View Material Decomposition

arXiv:2608.23869v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While state-of-the-art generative models produce high-fidelity 3D meshes, these outputs lack the physical properties required for interactive simulation

'Ghaib in Translation' aka Unseen Harm: Measuring Cross-Script Safety Inconsistency with 'Missed-in-Urdu' Scores in LLM Hate Speech Detection

arXiv:2608.24191v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Urdu, the world's tenth most spoken language with 246 million speakers, remains almost entirely absent from mainstream LLM safety evaluation and nine

Great new paper from AWS on agent handoff tax. If you build agents today, you need to understand the so-called handoff tax. (bookmark it) Es…

Great new paper from AWS on agent handoff tax. If you build agents today, you need to understand the so-called handoff tax. (bookmark it) Escalating to a stronger model mid-run is usually the resort w

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How to Fine-Tune an LLM: An End-to-End Guide

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I ended up fine tuning a mistral 7b to outperform our costly foundational model and saved $300k. I previously thought that fine tuning was pointless (it's definitely not) and that all these problems c

Human-Inspired Social Engagement Analysis via Interpretable Mutual Visual Attention

arXiv:2608.24580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding social interactions from non-verbal visual data is important for behavior analysis and activity monitoring. We propose an interpretable co

Tutorials

IDEA Prune: An Integrated Enlarge-and-Prune Pipeline in Generative Language Model Pretraining

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Recent advancements in large language models have intensified the need for efficient and deployable models within limited inference budgets. Structured pruning pipelines have shown promise in token ef

Interesting new approach to recursive self-improvement in agents. Systems that add a meta-level hold that level fixed. Systems that edit the…

Interesting new approach to recursive self-improvement in agents. Systems that add a meta-level hold that level fixed. Systems that edit themselves have to leave part of their own editing machinery un

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LAION-BVD: A 10-Million-Hour Open Video Dataset for Multimodal Pre-training

arXiv:2608.24845v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present LAION-BVD, a large-scale open video dataset for multimodal learning, which contains 1.3B platform-specific video URLs collected from Common

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LeFlow: Generative Latent Flow Planning for World Models

arXiv:2608.24855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent world models are inherently strong encoders that transform image pixel to latent embedding, yet existing world models still rely on online trajec

Agents

LUCAID: Agentic Multimodal AI for Lung Cancer Precision Pathology

arXiv:2608.23803v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lung cancer tissue diagnostics is complex, as therapy decisions in precision oncology rely on the integration of histomorphological, immunohistochemic

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Meta^n: Recursive Self-Improvement through Emergent Depth

arXiv:2608.24735v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-improving LLM agents refine answers, not the process that produces those answers. Systems that add a meta-level hold that level fixed, and those th

MetaRAG: Belief-Action Aligned Policy Optimization for Agentic RAG

arXiv:2608.24214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) requires language models to decide when to continue searching and when to answer. Existing RL-based methods

Mitigating Exploration Bias in RL for Multi-Instruction Following

arXiv:2608.23830v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: RL has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing the instruction following capabilities of LLMs. While existing training recipes achieve substantia

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Applications

NeoWorld-Pro: Programming Interactive Scenes from Monocular Images for Embodied Simulation

arXiv:2608.24212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The advancement of Embodied AI necessitates high-quality simulation assets that faithfully mirror the real world. However, transforming raw visual obser

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NeuralParker: A Reinforcement Learning Planner for Irregular Parking Environments

arXiv:2608.24485v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated parking commonly assumes marked slots and short approach maneuvers. Delivery and service vehicles, however, may need to reach an operator-sp

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NeuronGuard: Robust LLM Safety Alignment via Ablation-Aware Safety Signal Redistribution

arXiv:2608.23959v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety alignment in large language models (LLMs) remains brittle against a growing spectrum of attacks. Jailbreak attacks bypass safety mechanisms thr

Neurosymbolic Alignment for Physiologically-Safe Clinical Language Models

arXiv:2608.24534v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical LLMs can generate recommendations that are factually plausible yet physiologically unsafe. We investigate whether safety alignment can be impro

Object Counting Across Modalities: Taxonomies, Benchmarks, Applications, and Open Challenges

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arXiv:2608.23845v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Object-counting methods have rapidly shifted from class-specific density regression to open-vocabulary, foundation-model-backed counters. These methods

On-policy Distillation with Verifiable Reward

arXiv:2608.24696v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) and on-policy distillation (OPD) have become two widely adopted paradigms for post-training larg

Agents

PinSieve: Production Selective VLM Serving and a Governed Memory Flywheel for Enterprise Content-Quality Triage

arXiv:2608.24040v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise AI agents in production often need to be bounded, stateful, observable, and governable rather than fully autonomous. We present PinSieve, a p

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Platonic Representation Hypothesis on World Models

arXiv:2608.23720v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models have demonstrated significant potential for perceiving and simulating complex environments. Despite their strong performance, the fundament

Preference Data Selection for Mitigating the Alignment Tax in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.24192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning large language models to human preferences is crucial for real-world deployment but frequently incurs an alignment tax, leading to the catastro

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Another open weights model from Qwen. This one is 'a multimodal MoE model that also serves as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4'. It's pretty big: 125B tokens, but

Reading Is Not Using: Retrieval, Judgment, and the Design of AI Financial Research Workflows

arXiv:2608.24842v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as AI analysts to process financial disclosures and support AI-assisted investment decisions. Y

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Applications

Real-World Knowledge-Guided Change Data Synthesis for Remote Sensing

arXiv:2608.24263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Change data synthesis provides a cost-effective solution for expanding training data and improving the performance of change detection models. However,

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ReGround-Surg: Reliability-Guided Anchor Grounding for Referring Surgical Video Segmentation

arXiv:2608.24671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Referring surgical video segmentation requires segmenting a target instrument or tissue region across video frames according to a natural language expre

Hardware

RT-NeuS: Towards Real-Time Neuro-Symbolic Video Understanding via Adaptive Temporal Verification

arXiv:2602.23553v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-form video question answering (LVQA) requires answering natural-language queries about videos spanning minutes to hours, demanding temporal rea

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Rubrics as Visual-Repair Context for Self-Evolving UI-to-Code Generation

arXiv:2608.24138v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large vision-language models have shown strong progress in UI-to-code generation, yet their test-time self-evolution remains unstable. We first identify

StepGuard: Learning Step-Level Guardrails with Scalable Supervision and Safety-Utility Balancing

arXiv:2608.24777v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based agents can interact with external environments through tool invocation, but this capability also introduces security risks such as file modifi

Strictly Causal Streaming Video Anomaly Detection with a Theoretically-Grounded State-Space Core

arXiv:2608.24810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work has applied Mamba style state space models (SSMs) to video anomaly detection, yet existing approaches still rely on buffering clips or windo

Task-Adaptive Rubrics for GUI Reward Modeling

arXiv:2608.24174v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent studies on GUI agents have increasingly focused on outcome reward modeling, which assigns outcome rewards by judging whether an executed trajecto

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The Handoff Tax: Continuing Non-Native Trajectories in LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.24358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents perform long-running tasks spanning dozens of model calls, tool uses, and code edits. As these runs unfold, users face a practical cost-qu

The Invisible Editorial Layer: Formalizing Undisclosed Inference-Time Steering, Probability Placement, and the Attribution Problem in Deployed Language Models

arXiv:2608.24662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are commonly evaluated under the assumption that their observable behavior is primarily determined by model weights, traini