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Large Language Models Can Follow Instructions, But Not Many at Once: Phase Transitions in Compositional Constraint Satisfaction

arXiv:2608.12426v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed in settings that require simultaneous adherence to multiple explicit constraints - reasoning structure,

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MOSAIC: Unveiling the Moral, Social and Individual Dimensions of Large Language Models

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arXiv:2603.00048v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in sensitive applications including psychological support, healthcare, and high-stakes

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14 Aug 2026

SCULPT: Subtractive Composition for 3D Part Generation

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arXiv:2608.13541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Part-aware 3D generation aims to create digital assets that are coherent as complete objects while exposing structural parts for editing, material assig

14 Aug 2026

SteerBench-Work: A Benchmark for Agent Steering at Action Boundaries

arXiv:2608.12654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-running LLM agents act through tools, and a single step can send an email, merge a pull request, or wire a payment. The steering decision is the pr

14 Aug 2026

Convergent Detour Hijacking: Task-Preserving Resource Amplification in Skill-Based LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.12273v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents increasingly rely on third-party skills, using natural-language descriptions for selection and instruction bodies for planning. This progre

DREAMS: Density Functional Theory Based Research Engine for Agentic Materials Simulation

arXiv:2507.14267v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents can execute long-horizon scientific workflows, but their numerical outputs are difficult to trust: agents lose con

Learning to Persuade Exposes How Easily LLMs Abandon Correct Beliefs

arXiv:2608.11624v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Persuasion is a core dynamic of natural language communication, shaping how large language models (LLMs) update beliefs, resolve disagreements, and re

Mechanist: AI as a Scientific Instrument for Discovering the Mechanisms of Intelligence

arXiv:2608.12036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI models have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, yet the mechanisms underlying their capabilities and the risks they may pose remain p

SpaceXAI releases flagship Grok 4.6 model with advanced reasoning capabilities

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SpaceXAI today released Grok 4.6, a large language model that it says can outperform Anthropic PBC’s Claude Fable 5 in some areas. SpaceXAI was known as xAI until last month. The Elon Musk-founded art

TRACES: A Benchmark for Epistemic Reliability in Scientific Reasoning by LLMs

arXiv:2608.11415v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are being proposed as agents in scientific workflows, in domains where no downstream verifier exists. Such deployment assumes th

Trained a 1.5B to write shell commands so I'd stop googling tar flags. Runs on a laptop CPU in ~1 sec.

I've been googling 'tar extract gz' for about ten years. and I finally did something about it. It started out as a research project and I ended up with a Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B on 125k natural-

ComBodied Agents: a New Paradigm of Human-Centric Agentic AI

arXiv:2608.10915v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: After an older adult misses a medication dose, a software agent can send another reminder and an embodied agent can bring the medication. Yet neither ex

GeoForge: Non-Parametric Self-Evolving Agents for Earth-Observation Reasoning

arXiv:2608.10494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Earth observation (EO) agents construct scientifically valid tool workflows and ground their conclusions in current geospatial evidence. This is challen

Measure the Sim-to-Real Gap: Designing an Affordable Real-World Benchmark Platform for Reinforcement Learning in AIoT Systems

arXiv:2607.10309v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) is commonly employed to enhance the performance of autonomous systems, including the Autonomous Internet of Things (AIoT

Navigation Alone Is Not Enough: Evaluating Explanatory Assistive UI Agents

arXiv:2608.09944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern web interfaces are increasingly difficult to use with screen readers, particularly when pages update dynamically or hide important structure be

REAP: Relation-Aware Elicitation and Parsing for Closed-Book Knowledge Base Construction from LLMs

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arXiv:2608.10963v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present the REAP system for the AKBC Shared Task 2026 on constructing knowledge bases from language models in a closed-book setting, subject to a bud

Agentic AI-driven Immersive Simulation: A Knowledge-Aware Virtual Training Platform forHigh Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy

arXiv:2608.08163v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The convergence of the Metaverse and Large Language Model (LLM)-based AI agent is catalyzing a shift toward autonomous, immersive, and personalized peda

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Benchmarking the Robustness of Agentic Systems to Adversarially-Induced Harms

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arXiv:2508.16481v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Ensuring the safe use of agentic systems requires a thorough understanding of the range of malicious behaviors these systems may exhibit. In this pa

Beyond Hazard Resemblance: Contrastive Event Adjudication for Training-Free Video Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2608.09908v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to identify and temporally localize abnormal events in videos. Supervised methods learn anomaly decision boundaries f

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CMU-Drive and V2V-VLA: Cooperative Multi-agent Unified Driving with Reasoning Benchmark and Vehicle-to-Vehicle Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2608.07621v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently achieved impressive performance for end-to-end autonomous driving, yet existing approaches are primari

Large Multimodal Agents for Intelligent Transportation Systems: Architectures, Evidence, and Deployment Challenges

arXiv:2608.08184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large multimodal agents (LMAs) are increasingly proposed for intelligent transportation systems (ITS), but existing studies often conflate multimodality

MasDrift: Benchmarking Authorization Preservation Across Multi-Agent Architectures

arXiv:2608.07556v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent systems (MAS) decompose long-horizon tasks across supervisors and subagents, but delegated goals do not necessarily carry their original a

Observations on Muse-Glimmer reasoning traces being noticeably different from qwen / gemma models and questions for you guys

Just downloaded the model, UD-Q5_K_XL quant, asked it to generate a long story to test out reasoning and speed with dflash (super fast btw, ~ 90 to 160 tok/s on a 5090 depending on task) and was surpr

Open-World Hierarchical Perception: Taxonomic Abstraction over Class-Agnostic Proposals for the Safe Handling of Out-of-Vocabulary Road Objects

arXiv:2608.07577v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A closed-set detector for autonomous driving must assign every object one of a fixed set of labels. On an object outside that set (a horse-drawn carri

OpenAI just launched a cybersecurity model that answers 95% of advanced threat queries. And Meta put a frontier model on your laptop. Same day.

Something happened today that I think most people are going to miss because there are two separate stories and neither one is getting the full picture. OpenAI expanded Daybreak. If you haven't heard o

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Ouroboros: A Self-Developing Frontier Coding Agent with Reviewed Core Evolution

arXiv:2608.08311v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present Ouroboros, a self-developing agent harness whose tools, prompts, context assembly, and core implementation improve through reviewed commits

Position: Certifiable State Integrity Should Be Built from Local Validity, Not Global Scale

arXiv:2601.21249v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Breakthroughs in language and vision have motivated increasingly general foundation models for time series and physical dynamics, where evidence is

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When Grammar Guides the Attack: Uncovering Control-Plane Vulnerabilities in LLMs with Structured Output

arXiv:2503.24191v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Content Warning: This paper may contain unsafe or harmful content generated by LLMs that may be offensive to readers. Large Language Models (L

A MARL Centered Reference Architecture for Large Language Model Augmentation in Smart Manufacturing

arXiv:2608.07148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern manufacturing imposes six coupled demands on adaptive control: local decisions with global consequences, partial observability, nonstationarity,

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Long-Horizon Agent Trajectory Attribution: A Unified Benchmark and Fine-Grained Annotation Framework

arXiv:2608.06909v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly operate through long-horizon trajectories involving user instructions, tool use, external observations, a

Multi-Agent Forensic Reasoning for Generalizable Deepfake Video Detection

arXiv:2608.06865v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The malicious use of generative artificial intelligence to create highly realistic deepfake videos raises serious ethical concerns and poses substanti

ResidencyRL: Reinforcement Learning in Simulated Clinical Environments

arXiv:2608.07418v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In medical education, physicians convert academic knowledge into clinical expertise through residency: years of training across thousands of encounters,

TRACE: A Multi-Layer Benchmark for Human AI Controller Coordination Under Drift and Failure

arXiv:2608.06657v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern cyber-physical and AI-assisted systems couple human operators, AI decision modules, and automated controllers in a single control loop, so trustw

I Turned My Underused Gaming Laptop Into a Local AI Workstation

TL;DR: I am building a Windows-first local AI setup for people who want to try local LLMs without spending days choosing models, setting up Ollama, Docker, WSL, Open WebUI, agents, and tool permission

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9 Aug 2026

[NEW MODEL] SupraElegans-500K

*SupraLabs released a new experimental model!* SupraElegans-500K is a ~500,000-parameter causal language model built around a sparse, signed, recurrent neural graph. No Transformer, no attention mecha

9 Aug 2026

Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans

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Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new ses

8 Aug 2026

Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

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My comment on Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face — Hacker News.I think one of the most interesting details here might be tucked away in that first bulletin poi

8 Aug 2026

CLARA: Clarification of Language Ambiguity through Result Analysis for Natural-Language Cancer Genomics Queries

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arXiv:2608.05195v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A natural language interface can be used to make cancer genomics databases easier to use, but even if a question is perfectly fluent, its scientific m

7 Aug 2026

Clinician input steers AI toward accurate and harmful recommendations

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arXiv:2603.14158v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are entering clinical workflows, yet evaluations rarely assess how clinician reasoning shapes model behavior duri

7 Aug 2026

this talk by openai researchers going through hugging face incident is totally insane, so much to unpack openai only realized it was their a…

this talk by openai researchers going through hugging face incident is totally insane, so much to unpack openai only realized it was their agent who hacked hugging face infra while asking hf to revoke

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7 Aug 2026

Advancing Utility Pole and Sign Detection Through Deep Learning

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arXiv:2608.04061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Utility poles are an essential part of the infrastructure used to support power distribution systems and other critical public services. Their regular i

DelusionEval: Measuring Delusion-Linked Behaviors in AI Chatbots

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arXiv:2608.05004v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mental health professionals have raised concerns about risks of psychological harm from interaction with large language models (LLMs), including 'delusi

Diagnosing Tool-Selection Reasoning in LLM Agents with Canary Tools

arXiv:2608.04719v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent evaluations tell us that a model picked the wrong tool, but rarely why. We introduce canary tools: diagnostic probe tools planted in an agent's Mo

@GoogleDeepMind Humanoid legs or wheeled rovers? Should robots be cracking eggs? Watch as the @GoogleDeepMind team behind Gemini Robotics 2 …

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On July 30 Google AI published a video announcing **Gemini Robotics 2**, an intelligence layer developed by DeepMind that aims to bring autonomous robots closer to everyday human environments. The pos

Robust and Efficient Motion Reasoning for Privacy-Aware Classroom Incident Recognition

arXiv:2608.05115v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Can computer vision help make classrooms safer? In this pilot study, we investigate privacy-aware and computationally efficient classroom incident rec

Unsloth's Gemma 4 mmproj silently broke vision & audio on newer llama.cpp builds — anyone else hit this?

So I had been building ScreenMind, kinda like local ai desktop assistant that uses Gemma 4 for screen analysis, voice memo transcription, and meeting transcription — all through llama-server. Everythi

Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing

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Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing It happened again. This time it was the UK government's AI Security Institute who accidentally attacked other companies while running

5 Aug 2026

Intertemporal Preference Steering in Qwen3 via Contrastive Activation Addition

arXiv:2608.03892v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study linear representations of temporal horizon in the large language model Qwen3-32B and use them to change the model's time-related preferences, r