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

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

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Bole: Efficient Tree Speculation for Hybrid-Attention Language Models

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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

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

CopyCat: Improving Fine-Grained Subject Consistency in Subject-to-Image Models within Seconds

arXiv:2608.00674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent subject-to-image models have achieved impressive progress in personalized image generation, yet they still struggle to preserve fine-grained subj

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CoT-Edit: Let CoT Guide Instruction Video Editing

arXiv:2608.01113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-driven instruction-based video editing in complex scenes remains challenging: purely textual prompts often fail to capture precise spatial relation

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Cross-Task Dissociation in Frontier Vision-Language Model Theory of Mind

arXiv:2608.00261v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Do frontier vision-language models present a coherent Theory-of-Mind (ToM) profile across tasks, matching the same human reference group, or does that p

Deepseek V4 Flash 2-bit quant is the first model I can run locally that achieves 100% in this SQL benchmark

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I really like to use this one SQL benchmark when testing new models. I had another post some time ago with my benchmarks, but I decided to post a new one because of how well Deepseek did. I like the b

Distill What the Student Can See: Fisher-Projected On-Policy Distillation for Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608.01263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) samples trajectories from the current student policy and minimizes token-level divergence between student and teacher next-

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DriveCode: Domain Specific Numerical Encoding for LLM-Based Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2603.00919v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise for autonomous driving. However, discretizing numbers into tokens limits precise numerical rea

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Entity-Faithful Repair of Synthetic Supervision for Zero-Shot Image Captioning

arXiv:2608.00994v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Zero-shot image captioning aims to generate image descriptions without annotated image-text pairs. Recent approaches exploit text-to-image models to s

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Exploiting Intrinsic Duality for Multi-Hop Question Generation

arXiv:2608.00712v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi hop question generation (MQG) aims to generate questions from multiple given documents and target answers, whereas question answering (QA) focuses

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Exploring More to Solve More: Boosting Diversity in Text Diffusion Models via Entropy-Based Guidance

arXiv:2608.00024v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although diffusion models have revolutionized continuous domains like image synthesis through high quality generations and controllable guidance mechani

From Patches to Evidence Balls: Class-Conditioned Evidence Retrieval for Few-Shot Whole Slide Image Classification

arXiv:2608.01104v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whole slide image (WSI) classification is an evidence-driven task, where diagnostic cues are often sparse, spatially organized, and class-dependent. Exi

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Geometry-Guided Layerwise FFN Width Allocation in Transformers

arXiv:2608.02064v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Feed-forward networks (FFNs) account for a large fraction of Transformer parameters, yet their hidden width is usually constant across depth. We ask w

Global Optimization and Inference-Time Region Grafting for Agentic Workflows

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arXiv:2608.02353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in agentic workflow optimization automate workflow design through task-specific workflow search or input-conditioned architecture select

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Good Weights: Proactive, Adaptive Dead Reckoning Fusion for Continuous and Robust Visual SLAM

arXiv:2509.22910v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Given that Visual SLAM relies on appearance cues for localization and scene understanding, texture-less or visually degraded environments (e.g., pla

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GraphIR: Architecture-Level Search States for LLM-Guided Neural Architecture Evolution

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arXiv:2608.01633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) enable neural architecture search (NAS) directly over executable neural network programs. However, code-level flexibility d

Grounded Vision-Language Interpreter for Long-Horizon Bimanual Task and Motion Planning

arXiv:2506.03270v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While recent advances in vision-language models have accelerated language-guided robot planning, their black-box nature lacks the safety guarantees

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HapticVLA: Contact-Rich Manipulation via Vision-Language-Action Model without Inference-Time Tactile Sensing

arXiv:2603.15257v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tactile sensing is a crucial capability for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) architectures, as it enables dexterous and safe manipulation in contact-ric

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I benchmarked the 4 models I had pulled. The 1.1GB one beat the 2GB one at math and lost badly at extraction.

152 generations, deterministic grading (exact number/string/JSON/regex), no LLM judge on my 16GB laptop. task type | deepseek-r1:1.5b (1.1GB) | llama3.2:3b (2.0GB) | gemma:2b | codellama 7b arithmetic

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IDraw: Artist Verification from Digital Drawing Images

arXiv:2608.01737v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As digital drawings are increasingly shared online, reliable authorship verification has become important for protecting artists and resolving disputes.

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Instruction-Conditioned Exploration with Asymmetric Reinforcement Learning and Self-Distillation

arXiv:2608.02087v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) with Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become an important tool for improving model capabilities, but the LLM

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Introducing Database Operations Agents: The future of autonomous database management

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As part of the Agentic Data Cloud launch at Google Cloud Next ‘26, we announced two AI-powered database agents to simplify database management. These include the Database Onboarding Agent for Day 0 op

Learning What to Remember: Test-Time Training via Context Distillation

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arXiv:2608.01672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective long-context modeling is not merely about retaining more of the past, but about preserving the information that may prove relevant later. Test

Less is More: Compact-Token Masked Feature Prediction for Skeleton Representation Learning

arXiv:2603.10648v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current skeleton representation learning paradigms face distinct limitations: Contrastive Learning (CL) often overlooks fine-grained motion details,

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Light Forcing: Accelerating Autoregressive Video Diffusion via Sparse Attention

arXiv:2602.04789v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Advanced autoregressive (AR) video generation models have improved visual fidelity and interactivity, but the quadratic complexity of attention rema

Loanword or Switch? The Annotation Boundary, Not the Model, Drives Kazakh-Russian Code-Switching Identification

arXiv:2608.00581v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Off-the-shelf LID and letter heuristics over-label Kazakh-Russian social text as mixed: Russian loanwords inside Kazakh look like code-switching under a

MemSIF: From Structured Interactions to Dual-Track Fact Memory for LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.01742v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term memory is critical for LLM agents operating over long-horizon interactions. However, several persistent limitations of existing memory syste

MIDAL: Math Image Descriptions for Accessible Learning

arXiv:2608.00868v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many open educational resources are lacking in accessibility, especially in-depth image descriptions. In subjects like Science and Mathematics, however,

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Multiple result sets: How Database Migration Service automates SQL server to PostgreSQL translation

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In the Medium blog post, 'From MARS to SETOF REFCURSOR: Migrating Multi-Result Stored Procedures to PostgreSQL,' we explored the fundamental architectural differences between SQL Server and PostgreSQL

MVHOI: Bridge Multi-view Condition to Complex Human-Object Interaction Video Reenactment via 3D Foundation Model

arXiv:2603.14686v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human-Object Interaction (HOI) video reenactment aims to transfer the interaction dynamics of a source video to a novel target object while preservi

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onepot-Bench 0: towards lab-aware in silico chemistry benchmarks

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arXiv:2608.02595v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models are playing an increasingly important role in laboratory science, performing tasks such as experiment planning, execution, and post-hoc

PALMs: Using Multi Construct-Grounded Rationales for Modeling Population Preferences in LLMs

arXiv:2608.01458v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are being extensively used to simulate individual user behavior, yet faithfully representing a population requires capturing the s

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PeCA: Palette Context Assisted Inference for Test-Time Paint-Bucket Colourisation on Animation Videos

arXiv:2608.00903v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In animation production, paint-bucket colourisation for hand-drawn animation is a labour-intensive procedure that assigns each enclosed region in line s

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PhysAgent: A Multi-Agent Framework for Reliable Remote Heart Rate Estimation

arXiv:2608.00066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) enables non-contact heart-rate estimation from facial videos, but its weak physiological signal is easily corrupted b

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PRISM: Privileged Probabilistic Latent Supervision for End-to-End Autonomous Driving Motion Planning

arXiv:2608.01201v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving (E2E AD) systems integrate perception, prediction, and planning into a single differentiable architecture. While these m

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RadYOLO: Computationally Efficient 3D Object Detection and Segmentation in CT and MRI

arXiv:2608.00508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Object detection and segmentation in three-dimensional medical images is a very active area of research. However, most proposed deep learning models car

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RAG Strategies for Natural Language-Based SQL Query and REST API Call Generation

arXiv:2602.07086v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Enterprise software systems commonly expose business functionality through both relational databases and REST APIs. Accessing these interfaces

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Real-Time Visual Obstruction Detection in Surgical Augmented Reality

arXiv:2608.00232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surgical augmented reality (AR) can provide contextual guidance by overlaying virtual annotations, tool cues, and procedural information onto the surgic

Retrieval Augmented Biomedical Question Answering with Weak Question Recovery and Neural Reranking for BioASQ Task 14b

arXiv:2608.01468v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work presents DS@GT ARC BioASQ team's work for a biomedical question answering pipeline, integrating multi-source query expansion, neural reranking

Reusing Rollouts under Policy Lag: Prefix-Normalized Policy Optimization for LLM Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2608.01418v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive rollout generation is a major computational cost in reinforcement learning for large language models. Reusing each rollout batch for ad

RSC-GestureNet: Reliability-Aware Selective Causal Recognition of Chinese Traffic Police Gestures

arXiv:2608.02200v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic police gestures are safety-critical perception cues for autonomous driving. A deployable recognizer must infer commands causally from continuous

RSRA: Training-Free Probing of Representation Sensitivity for Efficient LoRA Rank Allocation

arXiv:2607.09757v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning enables large language models to adapt to downstream tasks with substantially lower computational and storage cost,

RSVideo: Are Your Vision-Language Models Ready for Remote Sensing Videos?

arXiv:2608.02039v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Remote-sensing videos enable real-time observation of changes in target attributes, short-term activities, and scene evolution. They record motion, acti

SafeBuild-Bench: A Temporal-Robust Construction Safety Benchmark with Graph-Enhanced Data Mining

arXiv:2608.00068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Construction-safety models must handle concrete deployment risks, such as a worker standing near a scaffold edge without guardrails, rather than only re