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When Does Test-Time Physical Diagnosis Pay? A Frozen Policy Buys Evidence It Never Reads

arXiv:2609.22299v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When a robot faces unfamiliar physical conditions, a common approach is to collect evidence about what changed and adapt. For such diagnosis to improv

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When Does Touch Matter? Charting the Vision-Interaction Gap in Cluttered Dexterous Grasping

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arXiv:2609.24068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dexterous grasping in clutter poses a basic sensing question: when do tactile measurements and external wrench estimates improve on visual geometry? Occ

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When Evidence Conflicts: Reliability-aware Meta-review Generation

arXiv:2609.24028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating coherent meta-reviews from multiple peer reviews is challenging when reviewer evidence conflicts and varies in reliability. Existing approach

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When is a closed-form RGB->S/P ratio adequate? A hyperspectral characterization on natural scenes for mesopic display

arXiv:2609.24819v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mesopic and low-light display transforms require, as their driving signal, a per-pixel scotopic-to-photopic luminance ratio (S/P); the exact spectral

When Is Availability-Aware Training Worth It? A Benchmark and Empirical Study of Interruption-Resilient Optimization Under Predictable Compute Schedules

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arXiv:2609.22087v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training under non-stationary but predictable compute availability (satellites under eclipse, duty-cycled edge devices, power-capped datacenters) is o

When Quantization Preserves Accuracy but Not Evidence: Explanation-Aware Post-Training Quantization for Medical LLMs

arXiv:2609.24799v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) enables efficient deployment of large language models, and PTQ methods are usually optimized and evaluated with generic

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When Residualization Helps an Audit: Format Effects, Slice Gains, and Their Limits

arXiv:2609.24194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluation scores used around LLM systems -- including reward models, rerankers, and LLM judges -- can track surface form instead of the quality they cl

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When Tomorrow Becomes Today: Self-Evolving Policies for Agentic Time-Series Forecasting

arXiv:2609.24862v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic time series forecasting concerns systems whose underlying mechanisms evolve, making the relative effectiveness of numerical models, reasoning st

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When Who You Are Can Change the Code You Get: A Study of Persona-Induced Bias in LLM Code Generation

arXiv:2609.22102v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used as programming assistants, yet it remains unclear whether and how user's demographic information impacts

When Wider Views Fail: Stress-Testing Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction

arXiv:2609.24839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Feed-forward 3D reconstruction models enable efficient geometry estimation from sparse images, but their pretrained nature can make them vulnerable to d

Which Part of the Context Layer Does the Work? Separating Semantic Content from Retrieval Scaffolding in Text-to-SQL Agents

arXiv:2609.22259v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Context layers, curated documentation that an analytics agent fetches at query time, produce large accuracy gains on text-to-SQL benchmarks. A with/with

Which Terrain Is Better? Preference Learning with VLM Prototypes for Off-Road Traversability Ranking

arXiv:2609.23673v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In vision-based off-road navigation, a robot needs to know not only which obstacles to avoid but also which terrain is better. The first is handled by f

Whitening Inverts the Hierarchy: What the Norm of a Whitened Embedding Measures

arXiv:2609.23117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whitening a foundation-model embedding and using its squared norm as a training-free likelihood surrogate is motivated by the observation that whitened

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Whole-Body UMI: Transferring UMI Manipulation Skills to Humanoid Whole-Body Manipulation via Real-Time Motion Generation

arXiv:2609.22829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collecting whole-body demonstrations for humanoid manipulation mostly relies on teleoperation, which is costly and hard to scale up. The Universal Manip

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Why Do Video Diffusion Models Violate Physics? Unveiling the Flaws in Attention Mechanisms

arXiv:2609.23658v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite impressive visual quality, state-of-the-art video diffusion models often generate content that violates real-world physical laws. While existing

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Why Ghost Outputs Teach: A Kernel-Based Understanding of Subliminal Learning

arXiv:2609.23260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Subliminal Learning (SL) is a recently identified phenomenon in which a student model acquires downstream task capabilities by matching seemingly unrela

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WildfireSpreadBench: The Metric Decides the Model in Wildfire Spread Prediction

arXiv:2609.22191v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning is being increasingly used to predict where active wildfires will burn the following day, helping inform evacuation boundaries and co

Applications

WiNeRF: Measurement Constrained Radiance Fields for Actionable Wireless Channel Modeling

arXiv:2609.22132v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wireless embedded systems increasingly rely on wireless channel information for decision making, yet practical platforms operate under severe constrai

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With $35M in early funding, Baselayer is building the trust layer for the agentic economy

Business identity and risk infrastructure startup Baselayer is shifting its attention to artificial intelligence agents after raising 35 million in early-stage funding today. Alongside the Series A ro

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WOLF: World Model Guided LiDAR Exploration with Predictive Frontiers

arXiv:2609.23656v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LiDAR-based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) exploration builds maps by continually selecting where to observe next. However, decisions based on the measur

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WorldCrafter: Consistent Video World Model with Implicit 3D-aware Memory

arXiv:2609.24984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video world models enable interactive exploration of dynamic environments, yet struggle to respect prior observations over long horizons and across view

WorldScape Policy 2.0: Empowering Steerable World Action Modeling with Reasoning-Augmented Memory and In-Context Learning

arXiv:2607.18840v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) offer a promising paradigm for robotic manipulation by jointly modeling visual state transitions and robot actions. Howev

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WPBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Wind Power Forecasting

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arXiv:2609.24444v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate, reliable, and deployable wind power forecasting is critical for power system dispatch, renewable energy integration, and electricity market op

Written as a Record, Read as an Address: What a Forward Pass Leaves in an Operation's KV Cache

arXiv:2609.24635v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a language model reads an operation such as 'Swap the contents of Box F and Box B', its forward pass writes keys and values for those tokens into t

X-Beat: An Explainable Framework for ECG Image Classification

arXiv:2609.22631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate automated interpretation of electrocardio- grams (ECGs) is essential for early detection of cardiac condi- tions such as myocardial infarction

Industry

Xiaomi introduces Mimo-V2.6 series open-source AI model family

Global technology company Xiaomi Corp. today announced the release and open-sourcing of its MiMo-V2.6 series generative artificial intelligence models today, which includes two natively omnimodal mode

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XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B

https://preview.redd.it/ybwqqbrst0rh1.png?width=811&format=png&auto=webp&s=1e40c5b53e304caf2a10efa2baa6f998b9a9a0bb MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B is a 9B agentic model developed by Xiaomi MiMo through sup

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XSQ-AST: An Explainable Audio Spectrogram Transformer Framework for Localising Synthetic Speech Artifacts

arXiv:2609.24770v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Localising artifacts in synthetic speech remains challenging, as most evaluation methods yield only global quality scores. This paper presents XSQ-AST

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XYEval: Agents say yes to bad advice

arXiv:2609.23939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective communication between users and AI agents is essential for human-AI collaboration. The XY problem is a well-known communication pitfall where

Yarn tracking of large-scale 3D textile reinforcements using topological material features

arXiv:2609.22315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated segmentation of CT images has become increasingly important to enhance the reliability of simulations through the generation of high fidelity

You Can Tell Who's Asking: What the Web's Questions Are Made Of, and Where They Come From

arXiv:2609.24106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Questions scraped from the web are used across academia and industry as a proxy for what people want to know. Across QA training data, retrieval benchma

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Zeva-Ego: Egocentric Mid-Training with In-Context Causal Learning for Robot Manipulation

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arXiv:2609.24411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Egocentric video offers a scalable source of physical interaction experience, yet translating it into robot-executable knowledge and enabling continual

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ZIL: Zero-shot Image-to-LiDAR Registration

arXiv:2609.22716v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image-to-LiDAR registration estimates the camera pose of an image with respect to a LiDAR point cloud. It has diverse applications in autonomous driving

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ZoAQ: Adaptive Zeroth-Order Querying via Query-Reuse Coupling

arXiv:2609.22115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zeroth-order optimization (ZOO) estimates updates from function evaluations, making perturbation queries a primary cost. Fixed budgets spend the same nu

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ZVeC: A Zero-Shot Framework for Instance-Level Vehicle Extraction and Generative Point Cloud Completion

arXiv:2609.24825v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LiDAR point clouds acquired in underground environments exhibit severe geometric incompleteness due to occlusions and limited sensor viewpoints, making

16GB (and in many cases 12GB) is the max vram most people will ever reasonably have

This sub is, needless to say very niche and skewed towards the high end. There are tons of extremely high end setups here with multiple gpu's etc. Even 24GB is out of reach of most people financially,

2D GauSS-MI: Efficient Active Scene Reconstruction with Balanced Visual and Geometric Quality

arXiv:2609.21516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active reconstruction requires efficient active view selection to achieve high-quality reconstruction within limited onboard computational resources. Ex

2nd Place Solution to the HANDS 2026 Workshop Challenge-Dexterous Grasp Motion Track: Single-Shot Trajectory Warping for Grasp Motion Generation

arXiv:2609.21511v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This report describes our 2nd place solution to the HANDS 2026 workshop challenge (Dexterous Grasp Motion track) in conjunction with ECCV 2026. In thi

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2x r9700 in one strix halo machine

https://preview.redd.it/5aon65uosrqh1.jpg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd21ce0648b0ffa5dc07e66718a230f1f91d8a53 I have a GMKtec EVO-X2, it doesn't have oculink nor pcie slots, but it does have 2

4DGS-Fixer: Generative Sparse-View 4D Gaussian Splatting with Iterative Refinement Guided by Video Diffusion Priors

arXiv:2609.21176v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses the challenges of dynamic scene synthesis from sparse-view videos. Existing methods employ geometric priors, adaptive optimization,

Hardware

5 Companies Using NVIDIA AI for Clean Energy

Clean energy isn’t hard to come by, but the pace of large-scale adoption has historically been slow due to bottlenecks — including out-of-date infrastructure, elongated research and development timeli

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50+ Hours and 100M+ Tokens Later, Open Source Autonomous Agent is GETTING CLOSER at Solving an Open Math problem

This experiment is live, you can inspect all the internal reasoning, memories, attempts here: https://artificium-covering-experiment.gr.bio/ The problem that the agent is trying to solve is a covering

A benchmark dataset and baseline methods for four-dimensional STEM diffraction patterns

arXiv:2609.21593v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM) records a two-dimensional diffraction pattern at each electron-probe position, yiel

A better coder for the small-GPU/small-RAM crowd!

I’ve been working on making small models more capable at agentic coding and work, because most people in the world don’t have the sort of hardware needed to run 3.8-27B, or even 35B-A3B or 9B dense, a

A Differentiable Ray-Wave Framework for Hybrid Refractive-Diffractive System Modeling and Optimization

arXiv:2605.15418v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hybrid optical systems combining refractive and diffractive optical responses have the potential to support new types of optical behavior, but they ar

A Fully Differentiable Neuro-Soft-Symbolic Framework for Perceptual Task Planning

arXiv:2609.21221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Perceptual planning tasks require two key capabilities: accurately perceiving uncertain scenes and planning valid action sequences following logical rul

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A Generative Grammar Underlying the Voynich Manuscript, the Pastiche Hypothesis: Evidence from Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.20835v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background: The Voynich Manuscript is a fifteenth-century codex written in an unknown script whose content remains undeciphered. Previous studies sugges

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A High-Payload Wall-Climbing Robot Using Passive Bistable Suction Cups

arXiv:2609.21584v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wall-climbing robots capable of scaling vertical surfaces could help automate hazardous or labor intensive tasks such as window washing, inspection, mai

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