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Reconquering Bell sampling on qudits: stabilizer learning and testing, quantum pseudorandomness bounds, and more

arXiv:2510.06848v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bell sampling is a simple yet powerful tool based on measuring two copies of a quantum state in the Bell basis, and has found applications in

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Scaling Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Models via Velocity Matching

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arXiv:2608.23664v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward fine-tuning is becoming an important tool for adapting diffusion models to human preferences and task-specific objectives, but existing methods l

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Semantic Overlays: Mitigating Prompt Injection with Annotations Beyond Tokens and Steering Vectors

arXiv:2608.23873v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Everything a language model sees is tokens. The serving stack knows what each span is -- user input, tool output, instructions -- but the model must kee

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Simthesizer: An Agent-Driven Simulation Framework for LLM Serving Systems

arXiv:2608.24650v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: System-level simulation is an essential tool for exploring the rapidly expanding design space of LLM serving systems, where real deployments remain co

The Empire, Long Divided, Must Unite: Architectural Convergence in Three LLM Agent Harnesses

arXiv:2608.23953v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An agent harness is what turns a language model into an autonomous agent: the surrounding code that builds the model's context, mediates its tools, ru

TorchMorph: CUDA-accelerated Morphological Transforms

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arXiv:2608.24738v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Morphological transforms are long-standing tools for shape and mask processing, but the de facto reference implementation in the Python ecosystem, i.e.

Clarify User Expertise: Towards Proactive Conversational Agents Tailoring Responses to User Proficiency

arXiv:2608.22266v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the context of information seeking, conversational agents are undergoing an evolution from reactive tools to proactive, personalized assistants. A cr

Disagree to Explore, Agree to Commit: Routing-Guided Test-Time Scaling for Software Agents

arXiv:2608.22191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Software-engineering agents solve repository-level tasks through long, stochastic tool-use trajectories, and repeated attempts often find fixes missed b

Expectations and Practices around AI Disclosure in CS Research

arXiv:2608.23271v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As generative AI tools find increasing use in research workflows, ongoing debates on their impact, appropriateness and responsible use have led policy

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Exploring Dowker Homology for Sentence Similarity

arXiv:2608.22909v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dowker homology is a topological tool that may be used to analyze the relative position of two point clouds living in a common space. We investigate whe

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LITERARYBIGFIVE: Author-Personalized Text Generation in a Unified Interpretable Space

arXiv:2608.23124v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Personalized text generation for authors and literary writing is essential for applications such as adaptive writing assistants, creative support tool

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Noise Floor Audit for Agent Benchmarks

arXiv:2608.22331v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We audit measurement variability for 3 native tool-calling endpoints across 2 providers on the official BFCL multiple and parallel categories, using mat

SkillAlchemy: Open-World Agent Skill Creation

arXiv:2608.23417v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills are reusable procedural artifacts that extend language agents with specialized workflows, tool conventions, and domain behaviors at inferen

Small Language Model enabled Autonomous agent for Language-Conditioned Cognitive Radar

arXiv:2608.11596v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern radar systems require adapting their processing strategies in response to changing interference, clutter, and data availability. This paper int

Spiking Neural Networks for Energy-Efficient Object Detection in Forward-Looking Sonar Imagery

arXiv:2608.22072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are increasingly important tools in industries ranging from research, to energy, to defense. AUVs are power-constr

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The Imitator Game: Benchmarking Robot Imitative Ability Beyond Action Prediction

arXiv:2608.22301v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans imitate at the level of intent: given a demonstration, we infer its goal and carry it out with whatever tools, objects, and layouts are at hand

The Variance of Thought: Policy Variance, Critical Forks, and Local Credit Assignment

arXiv:2608.22467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon language-model tasks --- multi-step reasoning and tool-using agents alike --- are limited by credit assignment. We analyze it through the p

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Thinking Beyond Videos: Unifying Video Reasoning and Deep Research for Open-World Video Agents

arXiv:2608.23329v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-world video understanding often requires a model to locate sparse visual evidence and acquire external knowledge that is absent from the video an

Ansari: A Retrieval-Grounded Islamic AI Assistant -- Architecture, Deployment, and Lessons from 140,000 Conversations

arXiv:2608.20390v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General-purpose large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to answer religious questions, but for Islamic content they carry two serious risks

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Large Language Models at the Intersection of Software Engineering and Software Security:An Evidence-Centered Structured Survey and Research Agenda

arXiv:2608.21107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are moving from code completion toward repository-scale agents that retrieve context, edit files, execute tools, and partic

Learning-Based Measurement-Robust Control Barrier Functions for Obstacle Avoidance under State Estimation Error

arXiv:2608.20467v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety filters are an effective tool for enforcing constraints in safety-critical systems, but most existing methods assume perfect state information,

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Metag: A dataset to build agentic meta-reviewing capabilities

arXiv:2608.20488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI tools increasingly support tasks across the scientific research cycle, from experiment design and manuscript preparation to peer review. At the same

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Robust Discovery of Coarse-Grained Continuum Equations from Microscopic Dynamics

arXiv:2608.20404v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The discovery of governing partial differential equations (PDEs) directly from spatiotemporal data has emerged as a powerful tool for understanding th

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SPD Matrix Learning for Neuroimaging Analysis: Perspectives, Methods, and Challenges

arXiv:2504.18882v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Neuroimaging provides essential tools for characterizing brain activity, structure, and connectivity through modalities that capture complemen

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VortexChat: An agentic framework for autonomous multi-objective integrated photonic design

arXiv:2608.20688v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The advancement of modern integrated photonics is frequently bottlenecked by device design workflows that rely heavily on manual simulation and expert i

Weighted Memory Tree: Remembering What Matters for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.20631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents have demonstrated the ability to solve multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and external information access,

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A Locally Tokenized Generative Model for Robust Time-Series Watermarking

arXiv:2608.19727v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Watermarking is a central tool for provenance in generative models, yet its application to multivariate time series remains hindered by reliability fa

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Artificial Intelligence for Workflow Analysis in Colorectal Surgery: A Multicentric, Cross-Procedural Development and Generalization Study

arXiv:2608.20154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Minimally invasive colorectal surgeries (MIS-CRS) are characterised by significant variability and inconsistent outcomes. ColoWorkflow, a tool for the v

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Credit Without Ground Truth: Auditing Step-Level Credit Assignment in LLM Agents Against Executed Replay

arXiv:2608.19760v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audited against causal ground truth from executed replay in a single-agent tool environment (ALFWorld), none of the step-level credit signals used to

FlowEvo: Self-Evolving Agents through the Co-Evolution of Workflows and Executable Skills

arXiv:2607.21596v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model agents can adapt to complex tasks by constructing workflows at inference time, but procedures discovered in one episode are usu

Multi-Method Causal Evidence Synthesis: Ranking Candidate Drivers by Convergent Cross-Method Evidence from Observational Data

arXiv:2608.20187v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Practitioners inferring causality from observational data usually rely on a single method and treat its output as causal truth. Recent tools select an

Remember, Verify, or Ask? Cross-Family Evaluation of Memory Commitment in LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.19564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Persistent memory can personalize an LLM agent, but an incorrect durable update can silently distort future behavior. We study the memory-clarification

Specification-delta-driven data governance: an empirical study of the {guillemotleft}spec-delta{guillemotright} as the unit of change in lakehouse data platforms

arXiv:2608.19838v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spec Driven Development SDD has consolidated the idea that the specification rather than the code should be the primary artefact governing AI assisted w

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Time-Uniform Self-Normalized Concentration for Discounted Least Squares: Limits and Corrections

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arXiv:2608.19643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-normalized concentration inequalities are standard tools in bandit and reinforcement-learning analyses. A widely used weighted extension claims an

When AI Writes, Who Gets Cited? Evidence of Citation Monoculture Across Language Models

arXiv:2608.19230v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As language models move from drafting prose to running literature-search agents with tool calls, fabricated references are becoming easier to catch an

CausalProfiler: Generating Synthetic Benchmarks for Rigorous and Transparent Evaluation of Causal Machine Learning

arXiv:2511.22842v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Causal machine learning (Causal ML) aims to answer 'what if' questions using machine learning algorithms, making it a promising tool for high-

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

Applications

Designing Social Robots for Social-Cognition Training with Autistic Adults

arXiv:2608.18488v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Social robots have been widely explored as tools for autism intervention, yet this literature has focused predominantly on children and has rarely inv

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Evaluation of Image Matching Methods for Visual Odometry on UAVs

arXiv:2608.18624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming a powerful tool for many environmental monitoring and transport applications. Yet, their reliance on Global

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FairGlucose: A CGM Fairness Benchmark Reveals Subgroup Disparities Hidden in Population-Level Validation

arXiv:2608.18296v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As CGM-based AI tools approach clinical deployment, whether their accuracy is equitable across patient demographics remains insufficiently tested. To

Grading the Graders: Verification Autonomy Levels (L0-L5) for LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2608.19009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly paired with verifiers (step checkers, self-consistency filters, tool-based fact checkers, formal proof ass

Hallucination Detection in Large Language Models Using Diversion Decoding

arXiv:2607.10476v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a powerful tool for retrieving knowledge through seamless, human-like interactions. Despite their advan

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Learning Topological Features of widehat Z-invariants

arXiv:2608.18570v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning and data analysis techniques have recently emerged as powerful tools for identifying patterns and formulating conjectures in mathemat

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LEDGER: Claim-to-Evidence Trace Graphs for Auditing LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.18398v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents can now carry out long-horizon technical workflows involving complex tool use, code execution, file edits, and gener

MIFR: A Modality-Invariant and Fair Representation Framework for Skin Disease Classification

arXiv:2608.18774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skin diseases represent a major global public health burden, yet machine learning tools developed to assist in their diagnosis suffer from two critical

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Persona-Guided LLM Agents for Task-Oriented Dialogue

arXiv:2608.18085v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prior work has shown that large language models (LLMs) can express diverse personality traits in open-ended text generation. However, it remains unclear

SkillNet: Create, Evaluate, and Connect AI Skills

arXiv:2603.04448v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current AI agents can flexibly invoke tools and execute complex tasks, yet their long-term advancement is hindered by the lack of systematic accumul

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Agent Lightning v1.0: Towards Harnessed Agentic RL

arXiv:2608.17528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern agents operate inside agent harnesses that manage tools, context, and control flow, making the harness a critical part of the agent system. Our o