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Evaluating LLMs in Database Scenarios: A Lifecycle Benchmark for Assessing Their Potential in Core Database Tasks

arXiv:2608.03794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming database interaction paradigms, evolving from simple query translators to autonomous database administra

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FLARE: Few-shot Learning-based Adaptive Reflective Engine

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arXiv:2608.02919v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in complex, compound AI systems where performance hinges on the quality of prompts. Recent state-

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FraQ: Efficient Coordinate-Space Recompression for Federated Low-Rank Adaptation

arXiv:2608.03605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated fine-tuning with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) enables efficient collaborative adaptation of Large Language Models (LLMs) without centralizing pr

Getting the Parameters Right: A Difficulty-Graded Benchmark and Probe-Guided Training for LLM Tool Calls

arXiv:2608.03071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents derive much of their capability from tool use. Existing research on tool use has largely focused on selecting the right tool

Global Graph-Validated Optimization for VLM-based 3D Indoor Scene Generation

arXiv:2608.03064v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study open-vocabulary 3D indoor layout generation, which synthesizes diverse and physically plausible scenes from unlabeled 3D assets using free-form

HalluTruthQA-4K: A Fine-Grained Corpus and Annotation Process for Arabic Hallucination Detection and Truth Verification

arXiv:2608.03966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models can generate fluent Arabic answers while introducing factual errors that are difficult to identify and verify. Existing Arabic hal

HyperAgent: Planning and Acting over Tool-Schema Hypergraphs for Tool-Use LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.02650v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on external tools to complete complex real-world tasks. However, reliable tool-use planning remains

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Hypercubes, Hyperplanes, and Constraint-Induced Complexity Collapse in Atomic Concept Learning

arXiv:2608.02930v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We revisit higher-arity atomic concept learning through the geometry of hypercubes and hyperplanes of ground instances. Our starting point is the observ

Implementing Causal Perception: Competing SCMs and Situated Fairness

arXiv:2608.03917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Causal perception occurs when agents with competing Structural Causal Models (SCMs) of the same system infer different probability distributions, includ

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Is Inter-Seed Cross-Play Enough? Evaluating the Robustness of Zero-Shot Coordination Algorithms to Implementation Details

arXiv:2608.03644v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents deployed in real-world settings must be capable of coordinating with humans and other AI agents they have not encountered before. Zero-shot co

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Knowing the Form, Not the Function: Automatically Auditing Answer--Authority Decoupling in Legal Benchmarks

arXiv:2608.02621v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Legal benchmarks typically score final answers even when models also state legal authority. We test whether answer correctness can serve as a proxy fo

LiteMVS: Efficient Multi-View Stereo with Foundation Distillation and Expert Aggregation

arXiv:2608.03851v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-time 3D perception is crucial for robotics, augmented reality, and embodied intelligence applications. Existing multi-view stereo (MVS) methods pri

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LLM Serving in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Frameworks, Methods, and System Designs

arXiv:2608.03036v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are integrated into software systems and AI services, making efficient LLM serving a concern for software engineering. Se

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LocAnyMed: Vision-Language Grounding for Multimodal Medical Images

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arXiv:2608.03322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical visual grounding connects free-form clinical queries to spatial evidence in medical images and is an important component of interpretable medica

M-GATE: Multilingual Grammar, Accuracy in Translation, and Efficiency Benchmark for Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.03803v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multilingual language models are deployed across a hundred or more languages, yet most benchmarks test whether a model can perform a task _in_ a languag

MDArena: Evaluating Coding Agents on Realistic Molecular Dynamics Workflows

arXiv:2608.02642v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accelerating scientific discovery is among the most consequential applications of AI, and computational biomolecular simulation stands out as a partic

MemArena: An Ego-Centric Benchmark for On-Device Agentic Personal Memory Assistants at Scale

arXiv:2608.02613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Edge-deployed personal memory assistants must handle private interpersonal conversations on-device with open-weight models. Yet, existing memory bench

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Modeling Scientific Experiment Scenes: Dataset and Model

arXiv:2608.02892v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scene Graph Generation (SGG) is fundamental to structured visual understanding, yet existing benchmarks focus mainly on daily life images and overlook s

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MoEGen: Mixture-of-Experts for Instance-Adaptive LoRA Generation

arXiv:2608.03275v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) enables efficient adaptation of large language models, but existing MoE-based PEFT methods typically improve capa

OliveGemma: A 3 Billion Visual Language Model for Recognising the Mediterranean & European Diet

arXiv:2608.03428v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Image based dietary assessment offers a scalable alternative to self reported food diaries, yet fine-grained food recognition remains challenging due

One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5

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Back in 2024 I tweeted screenshots of a game concept generated by GPT-3 and some concept 'art' created using DALL-E. Today, on the fourth anniversary of that tweet, I decided to see if Claude Fable 5

OPTD: On-Policy Transition Distillation with Consistency-Guided Adaptive Compression for Few-Step Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2608.02942v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion language models (dLLMs) can predict many tokens in parallel, but accurate generation still requires many iterative denoising steps. Few-step d

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Output-Aware Rotation for INT2 KV-Cache Quantization

arXiv:2608.02691v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The key-value (KV) cache has become a major memory and bandwidth bottleneck in long-context large language model inference, making ultra-low-bit quant

POMDPs for Autonomous Science Exploration

arXiv:2608.03155v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous exploration missions require decision-making under sensor uncertainty and computational constraints, yet integrating scientific representatio

agentsarxiv-cs-ro

RoboReact: Agentic Skill Distillation from Generated Egocentric Videos for Generalizable Whole-Body Manipulation

arXiv:2608.03387v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots have the potential to perform dexterous manipulation in human environments, yet acquiring diverse and generalizable skills remains costl

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Local Ai

SEER: A Self-Grounded Evidence Interface for Controlled Spatial Relation Classification

arXiv:2608.03631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial relation questions require a model to identify the queried subject and object before comparing their layout. Yet a VLM can recognize both entiti

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Some people are surprised that APIs (aka what Anthropic, OpenAI, and others provide) are treated differently than open weights in the new AI…

Some people are surprised that APIs (aka what Anthropic, OpenAI, and others provide) are treated differently than open weights in the new AI model framework. I'm not surprised at all, and it's actuall

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Stochastic Multiple Shooting Trajectory Optimization via Sequential Local Policy Evaluation

arXiv:2608.03978v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stochastic single shooting trajectory optimization methods such as Model Predictive Path Integral control (MPPI) have been widely adopted in robotics du

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Strong bounds for large-scale Minimum Sum-of-Squares Clustering

arXiv:2502.08397v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Clustering is a fundamental technique in data analysis and machine learning, used to group similar data points together. Among various cluster

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Suffix-Constrained Greedy Search Algorithms for Causal Language Models

arXiv:2603.01243v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are powerful tools that have found applications beyond human-machine interfaces and chatbots. Beside free-form generati

Temporal Leakage in LLM Backtesting: Measurement, Validation, and Adjusted Scores

arXiv:2608.02985v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The standard check for contamination in LLM backtests is simple: compare scores before and after the training cutoff. We show this check is uninformat

The Agent Operating System (AOS): A Reference Operating Architecture for Distributed Agentic Systems

arXiv:2608.03214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models have transformed artificial intelligence from isolated prediction services into components of long-running, distributed systems th

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Uncovering Spontaneous Physics Representations in In-Context Learning

arXiv:2508.12448v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In-context learning (ICL) lets large language models (LLMs) solve new tasks from prompts alone, across an ever-widening range of domains, yet

Unlocking the future of shared storage: Filestore on Colossus

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Today, enterprise storage must be as agile, elastic, and responsive as the workloads it supports. Filestore, Google Cloud’s first-party, secure, scalable NFS file service, can service a wide-range of

When Teachers Mislead: Spurious-Signal-Aware On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2608.03632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-Policy distillation (OPD) transfers teacher capabilities by supervising student-sampled trajectories with dense token-level teacher signals. Recent s

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3DZip: Spatial-Aware Feature Diversity-Guided Token Compression for 3D Question Answering

arXiv:2608.01185v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent 3D vision-language models (3D VLMs) construct geometry aware tokens by projecting 2D visual features into world coordinates, enabling spatial rea

A Few Neurons Reveal When LLMs Misuse Tools: Sparse Detection and Selective Steering for Reliable Tool Use

arXiv:2608.00218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic LLMs exhibit three consequential tool-use failures: invalid arguments (validity), unnecessary calls (over-calling), and omitted calls when tools

A pioneer of AI-in-biology just published a sharp rebuttal to the 'AI will cure cancer' narrative. The core argument: It's a measurement pro…

A pioneer of AI-in-biology just published a sharp rebuttal to the 'AI will cure cancer' narrative. The core argument: It's a measurement problem. Over 90% of drugs that enter clinical trials still fai

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AdaMTP: An Adaptive Training Paradigm for Multi-Token Prediction

arXiv:2608.00434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) has emerged as an effective paradigm that augments a shared Large Language Model backbone with auxiliary heads, training th

Assistant Placement Aria: A Benchmark for Egocentric Placement Assistance

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arXiv:2608.00652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human assistance in robotics spans around several tasks such as navigation, object manipulation, and placement, where a key challenge is selecting targe

Attention-Steered Vision-Language Models for Sign Language Translation

arXiv:2608.00235v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have emerged as a powerful framework for multimodal video understanding. However, they remain limited in the sign language

Bagpiper: Solving Open-Ended Audio Tasks via Rich Captions

arXiv:2602.05220v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current audio foundation models typically rely on rigid, task-specific supervision (e.g., speech recognition), addressing isolated factors of audio

Beyond Accuracy: Auditing Spatial Provenance in Visual Token Pruning for OCR-Critical MLLM Inference

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arXiv:2608.00077v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual-token pruning is usually judged by answer quality at a fixed retention budget. For text-rich multimodal large language models (MLLMs), this proto

Hardware

Bole: Efficient Tree Speculation for Hybrid-Attention Language Models

arXiv:2608.01651v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hybrid-attention large language models combine full attention with recurrent linear attention to reduce long-context inference costs, yet their autore

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Breaking the Horizontal Prior: From Long-Tailed Orientation Bias to Roll-Robust Monocular Depth Estimation

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arXiv:2608.00678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite recent advances in Monocular Depth Estimation, state-of-the-art depth foundation models remain vulnerable to robustness issues. Particularly, ev

Can Humans Dream of Electric Sheep? Human-Written Samples for Fine-Grained Vision-and-Language Hallucination Benchmarking

arXiv:2608.01021v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In an age of rapid model turnover, how do we make hallucination evaluation more perennial? We explore whether human-written hallucination samples coul

Complete Motion Planning using Workspace-Fibered Decomposition for nR-Planar Manipulator

arXiv:2608.01172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose a workspace-fibered decomposition framework for motion planning in nR planar redundant manipulators operating in cluttered environments. Rath

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CoNav-UAV: Cooperative Dual-Altitude Aerial Navigation via Stackelberg Learning

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arXiv:2608.01802v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Target-oriented vision-and-language navigation (VLN) on aerial platforms is attracting growing attention for missions such as disaster rescue, infrast