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Claude Haiku is my current least favorite model - it hallucinates wildly, and is out-performed now by other similarly priced models like GPT…

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Claude Haiku is my current least favorite model - it hallucinates wildly, and is out-performed now by other similarly priced models like GPT-5.6-Luna Even worse: it seems to still be used by the Claud

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Comparing how Cline, Kilo, and Qwen Code handle long-task context/state (and why context loops keep happening)

I've been comparing Cline / Kilo / Qwen Code lately since they all handle long-task state differently. Cline: has Focus Chain, a markdown file kept outside the conversation that gets reinjected on a c

Corrupting Attention: Evasion-Based Adversarial Attacks on Encoder Attention in Detection Transformers

arXiv:2608.06674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adversarial vulnerabilities remain a major concern for the safe deployment of neural networks, particularly in object detection, a core task embedded in

safetyarxiv-cs-cv

Counterfactual Shapley Credit Assignment

arXiv:2607.16999v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Credit Assignment Problem (CAP) is fundamental to developing efficient and explainable Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents. Existing framew

Coupling Planning with Episodic Memory in LLM Agents for Software Issue Resolution

arXiv:2608.06811v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Resolving a real software issue with a large language model (LLM) agent is a long repair episode, often tens to hundreds of steps spanning exploration

Critical Acclaim Orientation in Large Language Models: Evidence from Film Preference Elicitation

arXiv:2608.06955v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are trained on corpora that contain expressions of human judgment about films, books, music, and more. Yet whether LLMs sys

CyberForge: Verified Vulnerability Injection at Repository Level for Cybersecurity Agent Training

arXiv:2608.06471v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite recent advances, frontier large language model (LLM) agents remain limited in discovering and patching complex vulnerabilities in real-world s

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Decoupling Intention from Trajectory: A Representational Deduction Framework for World Action Models

arXiv:2608.06994v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) aim to construct a unified architecture capable of understanding world state evolution and guiding to generative motion pla

tutorialsarxiv-cs-ai

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is the ‘killer app’ that is going to sell A LOT of DGX Sparks

Having a ‘Killer Application’ that everyone wants to use helps sell hardware, plain and simple. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 isn’t an app of course, but I think it’s going to be the major catalyst for getti

Does More Retrieved Evidence Help Visual Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Diffusion Language Models?

arXiv:2608.07006v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) commonly expands the retrieved evidence set to improve answer-page coverage, implicitly assuming that all av

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Tutorials

Don't `Well, Actually' Me Unless You Know What You're Talking About: Weak Presupposition Verification Degrades General QA Performance

arXiv:2608.06539v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: False-presupposition QA (FPQA) tests LLMs on their ability to identify false presuppositions in questions and abstain or correct them rather than reinfo

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EchoVLA: Robotic Vision-Language-Action Model with Synergistic Declarative Memory for Mobile Manipulation

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ro

arXiv:2511.18112v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent progress in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models has enabled embodied agents to interpret multimodal instructions and perform complex tasks. H

Fisher-R1: Training LLM Agents for Reliable Hypothesis Testing

arXiv:2608.07437v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable hypothesis testing is the foundation of many empirical scientific claims. Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly used to automate t

From Cheap Fakes to Pure Synthesis: Addressing the New Era of T2V Fake News Videos

arXiv:2608.06732v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent text-to-video (T2V) generation models enable fake news videos to be synthesized from scratch, shifting the threat beyond cheap fakes assembled fr

Gated-BEPO: Confidence-Gated Bellman Credit Assignment for Large Language Model Agents

arXiv:2608.06861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training large language model agents in long-horizon environments requires assigning credit from sparse terminal outcomes to individual actions. Existin

Geo-Spatial Concept Probing of Large Language Models: Abstraction, Compositionality, and Grounding

arXiv:2608.07353v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding concepts is fundamental to generalization. Despite their impressive performance on a wide range of tasks, Large Language Models (LLMs) s

GeoBenchLLM: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Geo-Related Tasks

arXiv:2608.07411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the context of geodata, existing Large Language Models have often been studied in a homogeneous setting, which has considerably limited insights into

Google named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI Platforms, Q3 2026

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At Google Cloud, we help organizations of all sizes build and operationalize complex agentic workflows with total confidence. By combining world-class AI research with an open, fully integrated AI pla

HFS: Holistic Query-Aware Frame Selection for Efficient Video Understanding

arXiv:2512.11534v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Key frame selection is essentially a set-level optimization problem: the quality of the selected subset depends on the interactions among fram

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IB-RL: Isolated Bilateral Reinforcement Learning for Strategic Dialogue Agents

arXiv:2608.06735v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved strong results in improving large language models (LLMs) on tasks with stationary, verifiable rewards, such as

Index SLM Technical Report

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arXiv:2607.09885v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present Index-1.9B, a series of open small language models developed at Bilibili. The series comprises four models: Index-1.9B-Base, a foundation

Local Ai

Interpretable Unsupervised Community Detection with LLM-Symbolized Structured Processes

arXiv:2608.06402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Community detection is a fundamental task in graph analytics that aims to identify cohesive groups of entities with similar behaviors or interests. Clas

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Introducing the Developer Device Platform for agentic mobile app development

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Most enterprises connect with their customers through a device. Whether it’s using a mobile app to order a product, contact customer service, view content, or manage their account, the customer experi

INTRYGUE: Induction-Aware Entropy Gating for Reliable RAG Uncertainty Estimation

arXiv:2603.21607v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) significantly improves the factual reliability of LLMs, it does not eliminate hallucinations, so robust u

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Agents

Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence

arXiv:2602.02276v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce Kimi K2.5, an open-source multimodal agentic model designed to advance general agentic intelligence. K2.5 emphasizes the joint op

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Latent Fact-Checking: Detecting Misinformation through Activation Engineering

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arXiv:2608.06417v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The proliferation of misinformation online has driven demand for scalable detection systems. While most existing approaches rely on surface-level ling

LifelongCrossNav: Persistent 3D Semantic Memory for Cross-Floor Multi-Object Navigation

arXiv:2608.07079v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Object-goal navigation has made substantial progress in semantic perception and exploration, yet persistent memory for multi-object navigation and cro

LMM Modality Transfer: A Pre-requisite for Autonomous GIS Agents

arXiv:2608.06948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI models are becoming increasingly adept at understanding and processing spatial information, thereby facilitating agentic problem-solving in spatial t

Motif-Technologies/Motif-3 official realese

Motif-Technologies is one of the tech company participated South Korea's AI Foundation Model project.(독파모) Upstage(Solar Series), LG AI Research(EXAONE Series), and SKT(A.X Series) are the competitors

MultiView-Bench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for World-Centric Multi-View Integration in VLMs

arXiv:2607.08970v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent benchmarks for VLMs largely assess single- or limited-view perception, leaving untested the core cognitive ability to integrate observa

NiyamAI - An Intent-Bound AI Agent with Cryptographically Verifiable Guardrails using Zero-Knowledge Proofs

arXiv:2608.07167v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Giving an AI agent the ability to send emails, query databases, or execute commands is useful--until the agent is tricked into doing something it should

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Online Monitoring and Corrective Steering of Programming Agents

arXiv:2608.06701v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fixing GitHub issues in large-scale projects is a long-horizon task, especially when a fix requires changes across multiple locations or the issue des

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Panoramic Multimodal Semantic Occupancy Prediction for Quadruped Robots

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arXiv:2603.13108v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Panoramic imagery provides holistic 360{eg} visual coverage for environmental perception in quadruped robots. However, existing occupancy pred

PHOENIX: Fine-Tuned SLM-Powered Autonomous Satellite Lifetime Extension via Predictive Self-Healing and Multi-Agent AI Recovery

arXiv:2608.07126v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most CubeSats, small and low-cost satellites roughly the size of a shoebox, do not survive as long as they were designed to: a study of 178 missions f

Progressive Content Refinement with Decaying Reward Joint LinUCB

arXiv:2608.06750v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Iterative refinement has significantly enhanced Large Language Model (LLM) performance; however, existing methods ranging from feedback-based Self-Ref

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Recovering Lesion Parameters from Aphasic Picture Naming Error Profiles in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.06429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interpretability methods for large language models (LLMs) describe internal state but do not directly test whether that state is causally sufficient to

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SCALE: Scientific Concept Aggregation via LLMs and Embeddings for Fine-Grained Taxonomy Extension

arXiv:2608.07254v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The increasing specialization of scientific research challenges existing classification systems, which provide effective representations of broad disc

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Science Edge Evaluation: SEE the Missing Step Toward Real Scientific Discovery

arXiv:2608.06931v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved in scientific discovery, yet it remains unclear whether they can support complex real laboratory

Simple-OPD: Demystifying Warm-up for On-policy Distillation

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arXiv:2608.06802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own rollouts with token-level supervision from teacher models, but its effectiveness can depend str

Stable Curves, Unstable Items: Item-Level Scaling Heterogeneity in Video LLMs

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arXiv:2608.07014v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aggregate scaling curves suggest that Video LLMs improve smoothly or saturate as visual budgets grow. We show that this view can conceal large, opposing

Agents

Strategy-first synthesis planning for complex natural products

arXiv:2608.07454v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The total synthesis of a complex molecule is among the most demanding intellectual and experimental feats in chemistry: a chemist must plan many steps

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Agents

Toward a Causal Data Management Ecosystem for Decision Making and Agentic AI

arXiv:2608.07214v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern AI is no longer a single model but an ecosystem: classical ML predictors, deep and multimodal models, large language models, and agents, each t

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

Transformers are famously bad at arithmetic, so I set one's weights by hand (no training) and it multiplies with 100% accuracy [P]

model-releasesr-machinelearning

Obviously nobody needs a transformer that's good at multiplication. I wanted to know whether a stock transformer could do exact arithmetic if I chose its weights directly. I implemented the grade-scho

Understand Before Detect: Vision--Language Learning for Omni-Domain Infrared Small Target Detection

arXiv:2608.07015v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Omni-domain infrared small target (IRST) detection is crucial for infrared surveillance, yet remains challenging due to heterogeneous imaging domains an

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YOLO-PEFT: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning on YOLO Family

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arXiv:2608.07051v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generic parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods transferred from language models can fail silently on real-time detectors, whose heterogeneous op

AMD llama.cpp: reducing MTP buffer overhead gave me 64K → 149K context for Qwen 27B

Available context length with and without the patch: Model: QWEN 27B ROCm stock patched Vulkan stock patched IQ4_XS Pure, single 16GB GPU 19.456 76.032 68,352 78,592 Q6_K_L on 16GB + 12GB 64,256 149,2

9 Aug 2026

GitHub Models is now retired

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GitHub Models is now retired I missed this news until today, when the GitHub Actions run for my simonw/research repository failed with this error message: GitHub Models is temporarily unavailable as p

9 Aug 2026

Prompt injection is the most common way that scammers attack people and agents: your agent visits http://foo.com, and the website has malici…