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Competence, Not Accuracy: A Diagnostic for Reference-Free Judge Gates in Skill Optimization

arXiv:2608.18719v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-space skill optimization adapts a frozen agent by evolving a natural-language skill document, accepting each candidate through a validation gate. E

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Compress and Forget: bitsandbytes Quantization Amplifies Proactive Interference in LLMs

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arXiv:2608.18578v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Proactive interference (PI) is a documented failure mode in large language models in which retrieval of a repeatedly overwritten value degrades as prior

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COSTA: A Cluster-Centric Paradigm for Annotation-Free Open-Set Semantic Segmentation of Aerial Point Clouds with Domain Shifts

arXiv:2608.18479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Semantic segmentation of aerial point cloud is trapped in a generalization crisis under distinct domain shifts. While test-time adaptation offers a priv

CTIFoundry: An Agent-Native Corpus Scaffold for Cyber Threat Intelligence

arXiv:2608.18613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is increasingly consumed not by human analysts but by LLM agents that compose multi-step investigations at query time. T

DART-SD: Diamond-topology Aware Retrieval and Tuning for Self-Distillation of Multi-Turn Tool-Calling Agents

arXiv:2608.18524v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Equipping Large Language Models (LLMs) with multi-turn tool-calling capabilities is essential for building autonomous agents. However, progress is fun

DeepWeaver: Bridging the Evidence Synthesis Gap in Open-Ended Question Answering

arXiv:2608.18988v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieve-then-generate pipelines are commonly used to produce deep-research answers for open-ended questions, but retrieval alone is insufficient: LLM

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DentAgent: Evidence-Centric Multi-Agent Coordination for Multimodal Dental Reasoning

arXiv:2608.18878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Oral diseases affect billions of people worldwide, underscoring a pressing need for accurate and reliable dental assessment that integrates heterogeneou

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Discretizing Continuous Time Series for Imputation with Masked Diffusion Training

arXiv:2608.19119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time series imputation is a crucial area for reliable time series analysis, yet it remains challenging due to the complex temporal dynamics and noise

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DocClaw: A Unified Agentic System for Intelligent Document Processing

arXiv:2608.18685v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intelligent document processing (IDP) encompasses a broad range of tasks, including optical character recognition (OCR), document question answering (Do

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Dynamic SpectraFormer for Ultra-High-Definition Underwater Image Enhancement

arXiv:2608.18662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Underwater images suffer from color distortion, haze, and poor visibility due to light refraction and absorption in water. These challenges significantl

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Efficient Adaptation of LLMs for Hate Speech Detection in Low-Resource Languages: A Comparative Study on Roman Urdu

arXiv:2608.18142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: It is challenging to detect hate speech in Low Resource Languages (LRLs) because of the absence of annotated data, the informality of its language struc

Efficient INT8 Inference of Small NLP Models on Server CPUs with PyTorch Native Stack

arXiv:2608.18182v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small NLP models, especially BERT-family encoders, remain important in industrial workloads such as classification, ranking, and retrieval even in the e

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Event-Causal RAG: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework for Long Video Reasoning in Complex Scenarios

arXiv:2605.06185v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large vision-language models perform well on short- and medium-length video understanding but still struggle to maintain coherent event memory and r

Execution-grounded evaluation reveals hidden failures in language-model calculations for environmental science

arXiv:2608.18726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used for quantitative work in the environmental sciences, yet existing evaluations score only final answers, leav

Eyes on the Image: Gaze Supervised Multimodal Learning for Chest X-ray Diagnosis and Report Generation

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arXiv:2508.13068v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Medical vision-language models still struggle to match radiologists' attention and to verbalize findings with explicit spatial grounding. We address

First-Token Broadcasters: Mechanistic Origins of Language Identity and Distributed Robustness in Transformers

arXiv:2606.22361v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Why do multilingual language models sometimes generate in the wrong language, and why is this so hard to fix? We introduce Language Identity H

Formal Verification of Romanov's Triplet Logic: A Verified Filter for Sliding-window 3-CNF with Application to Structured Formulas

arXiv:2608.18445v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present the first mechanised formalisation of Romanov's Triplet Logic (TLS) in the Rocq proof assistant. TLS is a triplet-based combinatorial frame

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From Storage to Access: Verifiable Activation of Parametric Knowledge in LLMs via Explicit Priming and Implicit Reasoning

arXiv:2608.18581v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although Large Language Models (LLMs) encode rich factual knowledge in their parameters, reliably recalling and verifying such knowledge remains a key

GenEx: A Graph-Based Representational Paradigm for SARS-CoV-2 Variant Detection via Codon Co-occurrence Networks

arXiv:2608.18238v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Genomic analysis on viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 variants: Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Omicron is heavily dominated by classical bioinformatics methods, inclu

Grok 4.6

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Grok 4.6 Grok 4.6 just tied for #1 on the Artificial Analysis Agentic Index • Grok 4.6 (high) — 59 • Claude Opus 5 (max) — 59 Outperforming Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol We’re entering the agentic er

GS-VLA: Plug-and-Play Viewpoint Canonicalization for Frozen VLA Policies via Gaussian Splatting

arXiv:2608.19066v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper proposes a lightweight, plug-and-play framework that improves robustness to viewpoint shifts in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies witho

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Huge thanks to Unsloth for the great work. This is wonderful news for the community! 🥳Qwen3.8-27B, smaller and sharper than ever. Let's try…

Huge thanks to Unsloth for the great work. This is wonderful news for the community! 🥳Qwen3.8-27B, smaller and sharper than ever. Let's try it! @UnslothAI We’re releasing new Qwen3.8-27B GGUFs with 10

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Human-Centric Intelligence in the Era of Foundation Models: A Survey

arXiv:2608.18184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-centric intelligence is evolving in the foundation-model era, with growing emphasis on scale, transferability, and general-purpose modeling. Yet i

Hybrid ANN-SNN Pipeline with Local Plasticity

arXiv:2606.20151v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This work proposes a hybrid ANN-SNN pipeline that effectively leverages the rich embeddings of pretrained artificial neural networks (ANNs) to

Impact of Iterative Fine-Tuning on Transcription Accuracy in Complex Historical Sanskrit Manuscripts

arXiv:2608.18696v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Digitizing the text from handwritten historical manuscripts is required to make them easily accessible, preservable, and to enable historical scholars

Introducing the Privacy-HSD Trade-off: Hate Speech Detection, but not at the Cost of Privacy

arXiv:2608.19006v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hate speech is a real and timely threat that affects a large portion of online users, especially youth and minority groups. While building reliable and

JSL-DC: A Word-Level Japanese Sign Language Dataset with Linguist-Derived Descriptions for Distinguishing Confusable Signs

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arXiv:2608.18412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective sign language (SL) acquisition is crucial for deaf children, yet 95% are born to hearing parents who often lack proficiency in SL. SL recognit

LACONIC: Dense-Level Effectiveness for Scalable Sparse Retrieval via a Two-Phase Training Curriculum

arXiv:2601.01684v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While dense retrieval models have been the standard for state-of-the-art information retrieval, their deployment is often constrained by high

Learning What to Fail On: Failure-Mode Contextual Bandits for Adversarial Data Curation

arXiv:2608.18681v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce a failure-aware adversarial retrieval-augmented framework for improving robustness in natural language understanding. Rather than selecting

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Look Clearly Before Answering: Mitigating Hallucinations in LVLMs via Saliency-Driven Perceptual Realignment

arXiv:2607.16841v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in multimodal understanding. However, they remain prone to hallucinat

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[MASSIVE TINY RELEASE] - Supra2-Medium-Base - a tiny 25M parameters model competing heavily with our previous 50M model!

Hey guys! Supra2-Medium is finally out! It's a 25M parameters qwen3 architecture model trained entirely from scratch (on our new rig: RTX 5060 Ti 16GB + the new RTX 5060 8GB!). Here's how it competes

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Mechanistic Interpretability of Structure-Aware Numerical Reasoning in LLaMA 3.1 8B

arXiv:2608.18419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work has shown that large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong numerical sequence modeling capabilities and show promise in time-series predic

Metrics That Write Themselves: Evolving an Evaluator from Its Own Blind Spots

arXiv:2608.18744v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agents improve quickly against a reliable automatic metric and stall without one, and the applications that need them most, report generation among them

MMD-Flagger: Leveraging Maximum Mean Discrepancy to Detect Hallucinations

arXiv:2506.01367v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into agentic AI systems, yet their propensity to generate hallucinations remains a critical

MR-IQA-2: Faithful Image Quality Reflection via Fine-Grained Credit Assignment

arXiv:2608.18579v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential for image quality assessment (IQA) by improving consistency between quality ratin

Multi-Agent Off-Policy Deep Reinforcement Learning for Smart Campus Coverage

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arXiv:2608.19049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has recently gained a great attention due to its real-time adaptation and effectiveness in complex optimization proble

Multi-Class Electrical and Mechanical Fault Classification Using Random Convolutional Kernels

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arXiv:2608.18716v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diagnosing faults in rotating machinery is essential for ensuring the reliability of industrial processes. Random convolutional kernel-based Time Series

OmniAlign: A Unified Multilingual Aligner for Word and Sentence Alignment

arXiv:2608.18474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-lingual sequence alignment is fundamental for building and exploiting parallel corpora, spanning mappings from documents and sentences down to wor

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Open-MOPD: Diagnosing and Fixing Capability Imbalance in Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2608.19098v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-teacher on-policy distillation (M-OPD) has emerged as a promising paradigm for consolidating domain-specialized reinforcement learning (RL) expe

Orthogonal Polynomial Approximation for Matrix Log Normalization in Global Covariance Pooling

arXiv:2608.19021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Global Covariance Pooling (GCP) improves deep networks by capturing second-order feature statistics, and is especially effective for fine-grained recogn

PCQA-R1: Advancing Generalized 3D Point Cloud Quality Assessment with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.18627v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: No-reference point cloud quality assessment (PCQA) has been an active topic in recent years and is used to measure and optimize the visual experience of

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Preference Reasoning under Indeterminacy in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.18631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models evolve into decision-making agents, the ability to reason over preferences becomes fundamental to alignment, coordination, and

Pretraining Reusable Inference Across Views with Synthetic Task Priors

arXiv:2608.19115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern pretrained encoders make representations from heterogeneous views increasingly reusable, but the procedure that determines view utility and combi

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Rethinking Privileged Information in On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2608.18271v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) trains a student on its own responses using token-level supervision from the same model conditioned on privileged ref

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RTPO: Reverse-Turn Policy Optimization for Stabilizing Agentic RL Training

arXiv:2608.18682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training multi-turn agentic workflows with reinforcement learning (RL) enables large language models to perform complex reasoning, use external tools, a

Safe Domain Adaptation for Physics: Overcoming Nuisances, Label Shifts, and Simulation Priors

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arXiv:2608.18190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Domain adaptation is widely used to make neural networks trained on simulations applicable to experimental data. Its premise is that the two domains dif

SAM2Dual: Training-Free, Dual Memory for Long-Term Video Object Segmentation

arXiv:2608.18640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term video object segmentation (VOS) remains challenging due to error accumulation under extended occlusions, re-appearance, and scene changes. Alt

SCORE: Subject Coordinate Recovery for Label-Free Cross-Subject EEG-to-Image Retrieval

arXiv:2608.19134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate visual decoding can reveal how the brain represents visual information and recover perceived content from neural signals such as electroencepha

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