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arXiv:2608.17389v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-sequence 3D reconstruction from RGB videos requires both accurate local geometry and globally consistent camera motion. Feed-forward models provide

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GUPO: Gradient Uncertainty-aware Policy Optimization for Post-Training Large Language Models

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arXiv:2608.17411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has become a widely used approach for post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) for reasoning. In GRPO, the g

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GxP-Agent: Process-DAG Topology for Reliable Clinical Trial Programming with LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.16890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical trial programming -- transforming study protocols into analysis-ready datasets under CDISC standards -- is a bottleneck in regulatory submissio

HeteRo-Select: Informativeness as the Participation Driver in Heterogeneous Federated Learning

arXiv:2508.06692v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning systems typically allocate gradient compression by link speed. This is sensible when bandwidth and data informativeness align. Ho

HODAgent: Towards On-Demand, Responsive Humanoids for Physical World Human Interaction

arXiv:2608.17584v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose HODAgent, a System-2 embodied agent for humanoid robots in service settings, addressing situated intent, responsive execution, task revision,

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Hydra-0: Action Flow for Generalist World Modeling and Control

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arXiv:2608.18077v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Hydra-0, a generalist world model conditioned on action flow, which represents robot actions as pixel motion. This shared visual interface

If, Then, Otherwise: Diagnosing Conditional Branching in Vision-Language Navigation

arXiv:2608.17318v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language navigation agents are often evaluated on their ability to follow route-like instructions toward a fixed goal. Yet, real navigation instr

I'm literally brand new, what's the best unrestricted model atm?

Hi folks, I have a 7800x3d + 32GB RAM + Rtx4090 and > 200TB of storage. I downloaded the Qwen 3.7 35B hauhaucs but it has been a disappointment so far because training data is too outdated (networking

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Initialization-Free Bundle Adjustment Revisited: A Controlled Experimental Study

arXiv:2608.18028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Initialization-free bundle adjustment (InitFree BA) aims to recover camera poses and scene structure directly from image observations, avoiding the geom

Institution-Specific LLM Prompting Recovers PHI That De-identification Systems and Their Gold Standards Both Miss

arXiv:2608.17051v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Secondary use of electronic health records requires de-identification, yet existing systems miss institutionally situated protected health information

Judge, Retrieve, or Abstain: Uncertainty-Guarded LLM Judging with Provable Risk Guarantees

arXiv:2608.17994v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Using LLMs as judges has become standard practice for evaluating model outputs at scale. This is particularly common for subjective, open-ended tasks su

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KAN We Flow? Advancing Robotic Manipulation with 3D Flow Matching via KAN & RWKV

arXiv:2602.01115v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion-based visuomotor policies excel at modeling action distributions but are inference-inefficient, since recursively denoising from noi

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KernelArc: A Multi-Agent Framework for GPU Kernel Optimization

arXiv:2608.17071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present KernelArc, a multi-agent framework for autonomous GPU kernel optimization across heterogeneous workloads. Strategy-specialized agents run in

Leveraging existing sparse point annotations for benthic imagery dense segmentation

arXiv:2608.17561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The health of marine ecosystems is a critical indicator of global environmental change, yet the physical constraints of underwater observation and the i

Tutorials

Live Interactive Training for Video Segmentation

arXiv:2603.26929v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Interactive video segmentation often requires many user interventions for robust performance in challenging scenarios (e.g., occlusions, object sepa

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Research

MaLViL: Multi-axis Low-rank Vision-LSTM for Medical Image Segmentation

arXiv:2608.17635v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-LSTM (ViL) enables efficient global modeling, but its cost still scales with the number of spatial tokens, so existing segmenters confine ViL to

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Mask What Matters: Saliency-Guided Video Self-Supervised Learning for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2608.17178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video self-supervised learning through masked spatiotemporal prediction has emerged as a promising paradigm for learning feature representations from un

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MCTS-KBQA: Monte Carlo Tree Search with Information Gain Rewards for Knowledge Base Question Answering

arXiv:2502.13428v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This work investigates how to improve large language model (LLM)-based reasoning for knowledge base question answering (KBQA) via Monte Carlo

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MoE-ViE: Mixture of Experts Vision Encoder for Efficient Image and Video Understanding

arXiv:2608.17402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision encoders are a critical component of vision-language models, and scaling their capacity effectively improves performance. However, dense scaling

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MoNe: Modular Neural Memory for Efficient Long Context Inference

arXiv:2608.17616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present MoNe, a lightweight modular neural memory that attaches to any frozen pretrained Transformer to enable long-context inference without retrain

MoRA: Mobility as the Backbone for Geospatial Representation Learning at Scale

arXiv:2506.01297v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Representation learning of geospatial locations remains a core challenge in achieving general geospatial intelligence, with increasingly diverging p

MS-MFAD : Multimodal large language models for Face Anti-spoofing Detection

arXiv:2608.17328v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Facial biometric recognition systems currently face compound threats intertwining generative AI and high-fidelity physical spoofing. Existing defenses s

MSEditor: Toward Consistent Multi-Shot Video Editing

arXiv:2608.17559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we tackle the problem of performing consistent, unified modifications to a multi-shot video sequence. This task is particularly challengi

Applications

Multi-Observer Vehicle Localization Case Study with Roadside Radar and Connected Vehicle Sensing

arXiv:2608.16966v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In modern intelligent transportation systems, it is essential to accurately estimate vehicle positions, especially in mixed traffic conditions where bot

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Multi-turn Conversational AI from Text to Multimodal Interaction: Data, Models, Evaluation, and Open Challenges

arXiv:2608.17605v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational AI is moving beyond isolated text prompts toward sustained, multimodal interaction. In real conversations, users clarify goals, revise

Neural Operator-Based Nonlinear Nudging for Chaotic Dynamical Systems

arXiv:2508.05778v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Nudging is an empirical data assimilation technique that incorporates an observation-driven control term into the model dynamics. The trajectory of

Nonadaptive Learning in Robust Nonlinear Output Regulation

arXiv:2608.17262v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper considers robust nonadaptive regulation for general nonlinear systems in an output-feedback setting with arbitrarily high relative degree.

OraclePhys: A Systematic Framework for LLM Fine-Tuning on Structural Mechanics

arXiv:2608.17162v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: What a language model internalizes from fine-tuning is usually diagnosed after the fact. We make it an experimental variable. OraclePhys is a systematic

PlanPO: Group Planning-Aware Policy Optimization for Multi-Turn Agentic LLMs

arXiv:2608.17289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group-relative policy optimization has emerged as a key paradigm for training agentic large language models (LLMs) on multi-turn interactive tasks. Howe

Plug-and-Play Traffic Element Awareness for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2608.18035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic elements such as traffic lights and road signs play a fundamental role in human driving decisions and should naturally influence end-to-end driv

PRISM: Precision and contact-rich Real-world Industrial Skill dataset with Multimodal sensing

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arXiv:2608.17962v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress in robotic learning has been fueled by large-scale datasets collected in everyday environments. However, most existing datasets emphasiz

PrivAct: Internalizing Contextual Privacy Preservation via Multi-Agent Preference Training

arXiv:2602.13840v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in personalized tasks involving sensitive, context-dependent information, where privacy

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Proactive Road Safety Intervention in Australia: Predicting Risky Driving Hotspots from Connected Vehicle Data

arXiv:2608.16913v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Road safety monitoring has historically been reactive, relying on crash-record analysis after fatalities and injuries have already occurred. Proactive i

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PROBE: Manipulation-Grounded Visual Question Answering with VLM Agents

arXiv:2608.17129v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language Models (VLMs) excel at 2D grounding, spatial reasoning and agentic tool-based planning in static scenes. However, consider asking a home

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Local Ai

PXDepth: Pixel-Space Modeling for Structure Preserving Monocular Depth Estimation

arXiv:2608.16984v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent monocular depth estimators achieve strong zero-shot generalization, yet often struggle to preserve fine-grained structures and object boundarie

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Q-Interference: Memory-Efficient Phase-Aware Quantum-Inspired Attention

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arXiv:2608.17288v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GPT attention measures token compatibility through dot-product similarity. This mechanism is simple, effective, and memory-efficient. But it does not ex

Q-Learning With World Models

arXiv:2608.17163v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Off-policy reinforcement learning (RL) has become increasingly sample-efficient, enabling applications such as RL fine-tuning of Vision-Language-Actio

Qwen 27B is really good local model but, when you use it, it is immediately absolutely and obviously nowhere near as good as the other model…

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Qwen 27B is really good local model but, when you use it, it is immediately absolutely and obviously nowhere near as good as the other models listed here for agentic tasks, and especially for the kind

Qwen3.8-23B-Mini-Me: A Depth-Pruned Qwen3.8-27B (to ~22.7BB)

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I've been working on a depth pruning approach and decided to try it out on the new Qwen3.8-27B model. I managed to get the model down to about 22.7B params without severe reasoning degradation. No fin

REChart: Reasoning-Efficient Chart Editing with Large Reasoning Models

arXiv:2608.17414v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chart editing requires inferring and modifying visualization code from a reference chart image based on an editing instruction, challenging fine-grained

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Reinforcing Consistency in Video MLLMs with Structured Rewards

arXiv:2604.01460v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in video understanding. However, seemingly plausible outputs often suffer

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Repetition as Reinforcement: Enhancing Sample Efficiency via Instant Episode Repetition in Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.17347v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Repetition is a fundamental mechanism in human learning, where revisiting successful experiences strengthens memory, consolidates skills, and improves

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Hardware

rl-triton: High-Performance Triton GPU Kernels for Reinforcement Learning Credit Assignment

arXiv:2608.17641v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present rl-triton, an open-source library of high-performance GPU kernels for reinforcement learning credit assignment, implemented in Triton. The co

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RoBell-RVFL: A Robust Generalized Bell Random Vector Functional Link Network

arXiv:2608.16965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The dominance of majority classes in real-world datasets poses a fundamental challenge to randomized neural networks, often biasing decision boundaries

S^3AM: A Single-Stream SAM with Reliability-Calibrated Frequency Adapter for Multi-modal Salient Object Detection

arXiv:2608.17475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision foundation models have recently advanced multi-modal salient object detection (MSOD) through parameter-efficient tuning and prompt learning. Howe

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Scalix: Uncertainty-Aware Scale-Consistent Monocular SLAM

arXiv:2608.17553v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cameras are ubiquitous sensors in robotics due to their compact form factor and the perceptual richness captured through visual information. Monocular S

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Scanline-Aware Animatable Gaussian Avatars from Rolling-Shutter Videos

arXiv:2608.17314v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Animatable human avatars are routinely reconstructed from multi-view video under a silent assumption: that every pixel of a frame observes the same inst

Solving nonconvex Hamilton--Jacobi--Isaacs equations with PINN-based policy iteration

arXiv:2507.15455v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose a mesh-free policy iteration framework that combines classical dynamic programming with physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to