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RoboMP-DINOv2: Prompts, Not Filters for Robust Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2609.25506v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot manipulation policies must generalize across visual shifts while preserving scene context relevant to action. General-purpose vision encoders are

RoboTwin-Phys: Do WAMs and VLAs Understand the Physical World?

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arXiv:2609.26292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical-condition diversity is largely missing from current benchmarks for robot manipulation. While large-scale simulation benchmarks increasingly inc

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Local Ai

Robust Active-Perception Control for Global-State-Free Aerial-Ground Cooperation

arXiv:2609.25898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerial-ground cooperation requires real-time UAV--UGV relative-state information. Instead of maintaining global estimates for both robots, direct contro

local-aiarxiv-cs-ro

Robust, Estimator-Agnostic Dynamic 3DGS Compression

arXiv:2609.25633v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic 3D Gaussian splats (3DGS) model time-varying scenes using a separate Gaussian set per frame. While neighboring video frames are highly correla

Applications

Robust Photoplethysmography Signal Denoising via Mamba Networks

arXiv:2510.11058v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Photoplethysmography (PPG) is widely used in wearable health monitoring, but its reliability is often degraded by noise and motion artifacts, limiti

applicationsarxiv-cs-lg

Rocket Software brings governed AI agents to mainframe operations

Rocket Software Inc. is expanding its Enterprise Virtual Assistant agentic artificial intelligence platform to help enterprises investigate and eventually automate operational work on mainframe system

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Rolling out starting today: — Developers: Both models in @GoogleAIStudio and the Gemini API — Consumers: Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS in @Gemini_Not…

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Rolling out starting today: — Developers: Both models in @GoogleAIStudio and the Gemini API — Consumers: Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS in @Gemini_Notebook and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS in Google Vids — Coming

RoofLang: Enabling AI-Driven Architecting of LLM Inference Systems

arXiv:2609.12551v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI is beginning to make substantive contributions to LLM inference optimization. Existing AI optimizations are predominantly profiling-based.

RootQuantV2: Adapting a Vision Foundation Model for Root-Trait Regression from Minirhizotron Imagery

arXiv:2609.25567v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A lack of high-throughput phenotyping solutions for root traits in field-grown crops has severely constrained understanding and improvement of below-g

RouteRLT: Learning When and Which RL Specialist Should Control a Vision-Language-Action Policy

arXiv:2609.26467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models provide broad manipulation competence, but often struggle during the precision-critical stages that dominate contact

RULER: Instance-aware Rubric Rewards for SVG Generation

arXiv:2609.25270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) code from natural-language instructions is an open-ended task without absolute visual ground truth, leaving bo

Local Ai

Run Ollama locally on Android with Termux (One-command setup script)

Hey everyone, I made a simple script called MOMOS to run Ollama and small LLMs directly on your Android phone using Termux. It automatically handles PRoot-Distro (Debian), installs Ollama, and lets yo

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SafeLoop: Risk-Aware Rollback for Vision-Language-Action Manipulation

arXiv:2609.26313v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models are promising for general-purpose manipulation, but long-horizon execution remains fragile. Small state-estim

Safety-Constrained Model Predictive Control for an Omnidirectional Walking Assistive Robot Using Control Barrier Function

arXiv:2609.25994v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Providing safe and effective mobility assistance plays a crucial role in restoring independence and enhancing the quality of life for individuals with m

SafetyFlow: An Agent-Flow System for Automated LLM Safety Benchmarking

arXiv:2508.15526v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The rapid proliferation of large language models (LLMs) has intensified the requirement for reliable safety evaluation to uncover model vulnerabilit

Hardware

Sakeena Fiza Helps NVIDIA Hardware Succeed at Scale

When Sakeena Fiza describes her work as a validation engineer at NVIDIA, she does so in terms more befitting a detective story than a world-class engineering lab. “Validation engineers look in the sha

hardwarenvidia-blog

SAM-V: Geometry-Aware Segment Anything for Multi-View Instance Segmentation

arXiv:2609.25490v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Consistent multi-view object segmentation is critical for 3D perception and robotics, yet remains challenging under severe viewpoint and occlusion cha

SambaGraph: Action-Reaction Spatio-Temporal Graphs for Soccer Tactical Response Modeling

arXiv:2609.25569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Soccer tactics are interactive: an attacking action changes the opponent's defensive problem, and the observed response depends on the multi-agent match

Same Chart, Different Story: Bias in Vision-Language Chart Interpretation

arXiv:2609.26210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used to interpret charts and generate natural-language explanations for socially consequential data. Howe

Same Quantity, Different Answer: Numerical Representation Invariance in Language Models

arXiv:2609.25009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Numerically equivalent word problems should yield the same canonical answer whether a quantity is written as a decimal, fraction, percentage, number wor

SAMI3D-DW: Interactive Segmentation of Any 3D Medical Images

arXiv:2609.25743v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interactive segmentation of 3D medical images supports quantitative analysis of anatomical structures and disease while allowing users to specify and re

Sample, Simulate, Select: Physics-in-the-Loop Text-to-Motion for Humanoids Without Training

arXiv:2609.26420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-motion models generate plausible human motion but do not model a robot's dynamics; whole-body tracking controllers execute robot references reli

Sample-Smooth Spaces: A Convenient Category for Differentiable Probabilistic Programming

arXiv:2609.26270v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce the category mathbf{SSS} of sample-smooth spaces over a mixed site. The test objects are the products Omega_n := R^n imes Omega of a Cart

Sampling at intermediate temperatures is optimal for training large language models in protein structure prediction

arXiv:2603.29529v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Using a statistical mechanics framework, we investigate the parameter space of transformer models trained on protein sequence data. We sample

SBMVTrack: Spike-Budgeted Multi-View Learning for Energy-Efficient UAV Tracking

arXiv:2609.25503v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With sparse and event-driven computation, spiking neural networks show great potential for achieving accurate and energy-efficient UAV visual tracking.

Scalable Minimum-Volume Simplex Estimation with Non-asymptotic Analysis

arXiv:2609.25576v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the estimation of a K-dimensional simplex from N i.i.d. points sampled uniformly from its interior; the observations are convex combinations

Scale your own way, using HPA with built-in support for PromQL metrics queries in GKE

Earlier this year, we announced native support for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) custom metrics. This milestone allowed you to scrap external adapters and instead collect autoscaling metrics directly

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ScholarStack: Layered Research Asset Orchestration and Cross-Task Reuse for Scientific Agents

arXiv:2609.23735v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific agents support a range of literature-based research tasks, such as retrieval, question answering, evidence-grounded generation, and claim ass

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SEABED: SouthEast Asian Benchmark for Evaluating Audio Reasoning

arXiv:2609.22586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern audio-language models are no longer judged only on what words they can transcribe, but on whether they can reason over what they hear: recoveri

Secure, intelligent experiences across every endpoint

model-releasesgoogle-cloud-ai

For years, the workday looked remarkably consistent. Employees logged into devices, opened browsers and toggled across a dozen disconnected applications. Users acted as the bridge between apps, copyin

Self-Cleaning and Captured Anyway: One Measured Primitive for Error in a Store an Agent Writes to Itself, and What a Falling Score Actually Measures

arXiv:2609.25052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 'An agent that writes its conclusions into a store it later retrieves from closes a loop usually reported as one-way contamination. Taking the loop to t

Local Ai

Self-Healing Harness for Runtime Oversight of Agent Self-Modification

arXiv:2609.24130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents can change their own future behavior, raising a basic control question of which self-generated changes should be allowed to persist. We formu

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Self-Organizing Agent Teams Learn to Reason Together

arXiv:2609.22682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collective intelligence depends not only on what team members know, but also on how they organize their work. When the structure of a solution is unknow

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

Self-Supervised Combinatorial Optimization with Constraints via Frank-Wolfe

arXiv:2609.25728v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-supervised learning for combinatorial optimization has emerged as a promising paradigm for solving discrete optimization problems with neural netwo

SelfOp: An Optimization Algorithm for Self-Improving Security Agents

arXiv:2609.22792v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly used for security tasks: vulnerability discovery, exploit reproduction, and patch generation. Improving them at the model

Semantic Abstraction for Natural Language Inference: a Methodological Framework for Discovering and Compensating Semantic Knowledge and Reasoning Gaps in Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.26610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite their outstanding performance on many NLP tasks, LLMs face serious challenges related to semantic abstraction. In this study, we are interested

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Semantic-Anchored Evidential Fusion for Domain-Robust Whole-Slide Survival Analysis

arXiv:2606.19966v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Whole-slide images (WSIs) are widely used for computational cancer prognosis. However, most existing methods primarily focus on in-domain perf

Semantic Candidate-Job Matching: A Comparative Evaluation of Dense Embedding Models in Hybrid Retrieval

arXiv:2609.23307v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents a comparative evaluation of dense embedding models for semantic candidate-job matching in high-volume staffing workflows. Incoming

Semantic Self-Distillation for Language Model Uncertainty

arXiv:2602.04577v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models present challenges for principled uncertainty quantification, in part due to their complexity and the diversity of their outpu

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Semantically-Guided Domain Randomization for Industrial Object Detection in Low-Image-Budget Regimes

arXiv:2609.26505v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retraining visual perception pipelines in High-Mix, Low-Volume (HMLV) automotive manufacturing must be carried out under tight annotation, energy, and t

SemDHT: Certified Semantic Discovery for Peer-to-Peer Agent Networks over Exact-Key DHTs

arXiv:2609.23539v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agents may need capabilities exposed through external agent endpoints or service APIs. When a requester is not already bound to a provider, it must di

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

Separators in Enhancing Autoregressive Pretraining for Vision Mamba

arXiv:2603.03806v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The state space model Mamba has recently emerged as a promising paradigm in computer vision, attracting considerable attention for its efficient han

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Sex Estimation from Footwear Outsole Impressions Using CNN Transfer Learning and Interpretable Image Statistics

arXiv:2609.25386v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Footwear outsole impressions are a common form of forensic pattern evidence, yet quantitative methods for estimating wearer attributes from these imag

SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering

SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering I'm hosting an evening event with Jesse Vincent in San Francisco on Wednesday 14th October for people who are building weird and in

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SG-CPG: Severity-Gated Central Pattern Generators for Adaptive Quadruped Locomotion under Continuous Actuator Degradation

arXiv:2609.25687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An animal with a weakened limb does not necessarily switch its gait, instead it unloads the affected limb, re-coordinates the remaining limbs, and scale

Shaft-Configuration-Adaptive Catheter Tip Position Estimation via Motor-History Conditioned Residual Learning

arXiv:2609.26304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tendon-driven continuum manipulators are widely used in medical applications, where accurate tip-position estimation is essential for precise navigation

researcharxiv-cs-ro

Shallow to Deep: Aligning Token Pruning with Stage-wise Roles in LVLMs

arXiv:2609.25635v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) incur high computational costs from redundant visual tokens. Although training-free attention-based multi-layer pru

Sharp First-Order Lower Bounds for Higher-Order Smooth Nonconvex Optimization

arXiv:2606.05438v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study the deterministic first-order oracle complexity of finding (epsilon)-stationary points in smooth nonconvex optimization when the objective