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Findings of the First Teaching Monster Challenge: A Benchmark of Pedagogical Content Knowledge in AI Agents

arXiv:2608.08852v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents can now solve problems, answer like subject experts, and generate long-form multimodal content. However, whether they can adapt a lesson to fi

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Finite basis physics-informed neural networks with hard constraints for viscous fluid flow in highly perforated domains

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arXiv:2608.08114v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this work, viscous fluid flow governed by the Stokes equations in highly perforated domains is studied using physics-informed neural networks (PINN

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Finite Constant Frontiers and Auditable Regret Certificates for Average-Reward Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2608.07725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Average-reward reinforcement-learning regret is known up to logarithmic factors, but the numerical content of published guarantees is difficult to compa

Local Ai

FiRe: Fixed-Noise Refinement for Visual Counterfactual Explanations

arXiv:2608.08664v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual counterfactual explanations aim to change classifier decisions through realistic and localized edits while preserving decision-irrelevant content

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Tutorials

First Orion accelerates QA automation using Amazon Nova Act

Learn how First Orion, a branded communications company, shifted from brittle script-based UI testing to AI-driven QA automation with Amazon Nova Act. By describing tests in plain English instead of m

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FitAQA: A Benchmark of Fitness Action Quality Assessment for Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.08736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fitness Action Quality Assessment (AQA) is important for intelligent sports training, yet the capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) i

Hardware

FlashRT: Agent Harness for Guiding Agents to Deploy Real-Time Multimodal Applications

arXiv:2607.18171v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-time multimodal applications, including voice agents and interactive video generation, compose heterogeneous models into pipelines whose effici

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FlexSplat: Flexible Feed-Forward 3D Gaussian Splatting without Point Cloud Correspondence

arXiv:2608.07937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present FlexSplat, a feed-forward framework for novel view synthesis (NVS) from uncalibrated, object-centric multi-view image collections. A recent l

Floating-Point Neural Network Verification at the Software Level

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arXiv:2510.23389v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The behaviour of neural network components must be proven correct before deployment in safety-critical systems. Unfortunately, existing neural

Flow-based conditional cardiac anatomy generation for virtual cohorts

arXiv:2608.09460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cardiac digital twin research is moving from subject-specific anatomical replicas toward virtual cohorts that represent clinically relevant population

Flow-by-Flow:Content-Judgment Bypass for Governing AI Output in High-Loss Domains

arXiv:2608.07474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prior work showed that human-in-the-loop oversight becomes structurally untenable in high-loss domains when AI output velocity V exceeds human cognitive

flowengineR: A Modular and Extensible Framework for Fair and Reproducible Workflow Design in R

arXiv:2511.00079v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: flowengineR is an R package designed to provide a modular and extensible framework for building reproducible algorithmic workflows for general-purpo

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FlowErase-OPD: Multi-Concept Erasure via Anchored On-Policy Distillation in Flow Matching Models

arXiv:2608.07620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in flow matching models have substantially improved the quality of text-to-image generation, but have also raised increasing safety conc

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Focus particles and scalar inferences across humans and language models

arXiv:2608.08227v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Focus particles such as 'even' and 'only' are central to formal semantic theories that posit structured representations over sets of alternatives. 'Even

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FoMoH: A clinically meaningful foundation model evaluation for structured electronic health records

arXiv:2505.16941v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Foundation models (FMs) promise to address core limitations of traditional supervised machine learning: (i) reliance on large amounts of label

ForestBench: A Unified Graph Framework for Evaluating Multi-Agent Collaboration

arXiv:2608.08605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent systems (MAS) built on Large Language Models (LLMs) are proliferating rapidly, but their heterogeneous execution traces provide no common ba

Forged Peer Judgments Mislead Multimodal LLM Judge Panels: Source-Blind Anchoring and Panel-Consensus Verification

arXiv:2608.07920v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal LLM judge panels can cross-reference peers, but a quoted peer judgment may itself be untrusted. We expose source-blind anchoring as a text-le

Forgetting-Resistant and Lesion-Aware Source-Free Domain Adaptive Fundus Image Analysis with Vision-Language Model

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arXiv:2602.19471v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Source-free domain adaptation (SFDA) aims to adapt a model trained in the source domain to perform well in the target domain, with only unlabeled ta

Forgotten History or Test-of-Time? Retrospect and Prospect on RAG from an IR Perspective

arXiv:2608.08445v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is widely regarded as a novel paradigm born from the limitations of large language models (LLMs)--a mechanism to gr

Foundation Models are Implicit Deepfake Detectors

arXiv:2608.09427v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained self-supervised representations have emerged as a core component of current deepfake detection methods, yet it remains unclear which of their

Fourier Self-Supervision for Fine-Grained Generalized Category Discovery

arXiv:2608.08963v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalized Category Discovery aims to recognize known categories while identifying novel ones within unlabeled data. Existing methods, typically base

Tutorials

FreCast: Refining Radar Echo Intensity via Phase-Preserving Amplitude Residual Diffusion for Precipitation Nowcasting

arXiv:2608.08436v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Precipitation nowcasting predicts the spatiotemporal evolution of future radar echoes from historical radar echo sequences, thereby estimating the occur

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Frequency-Domain Dual-Branch Fusion for Medical Visual Question Answering

arXiv:2608.08307v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires aligning subtle visual evidence, including lesion texture, boundary sharpness, and diffuse density ch

FreSH: Frequency-Segmented Hierarchical Multi-Expert Framework for Multivariate Time Series Classification

arXiv:2608.08207v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multivariate Time Series Classification (MTSC) demands models that can effectively capture complex temporal patterns across multiple scales while rema

FriskAI launches with $3.6M to show enterprises what their AI agents are doing

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Runtime intelligence startup FriskAI Inc. launched today with 3.6 million in pre-seed funding to give enterprises a record of what their artificial intelligence agents actually do once they go into pr

From Alignment to Synthesis Contrastive Volumetric Grounding for Text-to-CT Generation

arXiv:2506.00633v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generating semantically controllable 3D CT volumes from radiology reports requires more than a rich text encoder, it requires vision-language

Hardware

From Approachability Residuals to Anytime-Valid Evidence: The Online Convex Geometry of Testing by Betting

arXiv:2608.09450v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Betting-based sequential tests and Blackwell approachability are linked by a rate-explicit reduction through support-function residuals. For a compact c

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From Benchmark Performance to Tool Deployment: Human-in-the-Loop Anomaly Detection

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arXiv:2608.07770v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated anomaly detection methods often report strong performance on curated academic benchmarks, but their behavior under real-world industrial con

From Chains to DAGs: Probing the Graph Structure of Reasoning in LLMs

arXiv:2601.17593v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent progress in large language models has renewed interest in how multi-step reasoning is represented internally. While prior work often treats r

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From Diagnosis to Correction: Benchmarking and Improving Real-World Table Parsing

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arXiv:2608.09842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent document parsers achieve table TEDS scores above 93 on OmniDocBench v1.6, yet community feedback and our audit reveal persistent failures on comp

From Evaluated Models to Evaluation Aids: A Multi-Evidence Study of LLM-Based Difficulty Calibration for Programming Examinations

arXiv:2608.07523v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Difficulty differences across parallel-class programming examinations affect the fairness of course assessment. This study repositions large language

From Fake to Real: Pretraining on Balanced Synthetic Images to Prevent Spurious Correlations in Image Recognition

arXiv:2308.04553v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual recognition models are prone to learning spurious correlations induced by a biased training set where certain conditions B (eg, Indoors) are

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From Inaudible Inputs to Model Failures: Low-Frequency Safety Risks in LALMs

arXiv:2608.09158v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large audio-language models (LALMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in understanding diverse audio inputs. This diversity includes low-frequency

From Independent to Correlated Diffusion: Generalized Generative Modeling with Probabilistic Computers

arXiv:2603.27996v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful framework for generative tasks in deep learning. They decompose generative modeling into two computation

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From Manuals to Maintenance: Fine-Tuning MedGemma for Multi-Modal Imaging System Support in Low-Resource Settings

arXiv:2608.08896v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imaging device downtime is a major barrier to healthcare delivery in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), often driven by limited access to special

From Mimicry to True Intelligence (TI) -- A New Paradigm for Artificial General Intelligence

arXiv:2509.14474v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The debate around Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) remains open due to two fundamentally different goals: replicating human-level performance v

From Noise to Meaning: Meaningful Secret Sharing with Tamper Detection for Facial Recognition

arXiv:2608.08924v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Popularity of AI-based face recognition system directly demands protection of sensitive biometric data used for training. Visual secret sharing is an in

Tutorials

From Objectives to What Models Learn: A Landau Theory of Invariant Learning

arXiv:2608.09396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Invariant learning seeks representations that remain predictive across environments, yet the behavior of its objectives along the regularization path is

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From Operational Design Domain to Action: A Systematic Behavioral Taxonomy for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2608.08941v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Operational Design Domain (ODD) specifications describe where an automated driving system (ADS) is permitted to operate, but they do not prescribe wha

From Product Search to Preference Articulation: The Economics of Agentic Commerce

arXiv:2608.08395v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative AI is shifting digital commerce from browsing toward agentic search, in which consumers delegate product discovery to AI agents. We compare

Agents

From Prompt to Harness: Coderlet from Scratch

arXiv:2608.09480v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A model alone does not determine how a programming agent acts. What the model sees, how actions enter the environment, how feedback returns, and how one

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From Rebound to Remedy: Understanding and Mitigating Reward Hacking via Representation Engineering

arXiv:2604.01476v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning for LLMs is vulnerable to reward hacking, where models exploit shortcuts to maximize reward without solving the intende

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From Recovery to Drop-off: How Action Post-training Reduces a VLM's Late-Layer Depth Decodability

arXiv:2608.08904v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How much of a vision-language model's (VLM) spatial understanding remains after the action post-training process of building a vision-language-action

Agents

From Relevance to Execution Utility: Reward-Aware Dynamic Execution Gating for Skill-Based LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.09168v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills are increasingly used to equip large language model (LLM) agents with reusable procedural knowledge. Although recent work has substantially

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From Semantic Grounding to Decision Optimization: A Unified Framework for Long-Horizon UAV Vision-Language Navigation

arXiv:2608.09564v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: UAV vision-language navigation (UAV-VLN) focuses on enabling an aerial agent to follow natural-language instructions in open 3D environments from egoc

From @sequoia's own your intelligence event. We're starting to see a new category of company emerge, the Full-Stack AI company, where innova…

From @sequoia's own your intelligence event. We're starting to see a new category of company emerge, the Full-Stack AI company, where innovation happens at both the product and intelligence layer. Tha

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From Single Chatbots to Governed Agent Ecosystems: An Agentic AI Pattern Catalogue and Orchestration Framework for Mission-Critical Hospital Information Management Systems

arXiv:2608.07627v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hospitals are racing to embed AI, while coping with the surge in adaptation of the technology in other industries, into the triage management, documenta

From Speech to Interaction: Analyzing Multimodal Systems in Cocktail-Party Scenarios

arXiv:2608.08510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans have the remarkable ability to engage in spontaneous informal conversations and selectively attend to individual speakers while filtering out com

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