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Single RTX 5090: Qwen3.8-27B NVFP4 at a real 262K context in vLLM — 77 tok/s short-context, 64.7 tok/s at 128K

This is the Qwen3.8-27B setup I actually use every day on one RTX 5090. I wanted to write it down with enough detail that another 5090 owner can reproduce it instead of guessing which memory knobs I u

22 Aug 2026

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What if Chain-of-Thought wasn’t lossy? Exploring reversible logic (Toffoli/Fredkin-style) for edge LLMs

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Right now standard CoT is a one-way street. You generate forward, dump a pile of scratchpad tokens into the KV cache, and pray the model doesn’t hallucinate halfway through. On phones/laptops that cre

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22 Aug 2026

Bounded Sovereignty and the Control Tax: Pricing AI Oversight When the Deployer Does Not Own the Model

arXiv:2608.19216v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI control research asks how to deploy models safely even when they may be misaligned, but many control protocols assume that the deployer can instrumen

Can Conversational AI loosen Us-Versus-Them Boundaries? The Effects of Common, Dual, and Separate Identity Framings on Pro-Immigrant Intergroup Helping

arXiv:2608.19220v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rising immigration has intensified intergroup tensions in many countries. Traditional bias-reduction programs remain difficult to scale and increasing

Electronic Navigational Chart Change Classification

arXiv:2608.20218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs) are geospatial vector datasets used in maritime navigation systems that represent hydrographic and navigational in

ExPhy: A Benchmark for Explicit Physical Property Learning in Multi-Object Trajectory Forecasting

arXiv:2608.20009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding object dynamics requires not only predicting future trajectories but also examining whether a model captures the physical properties that

FleetSieve: Decision-Critical Profiling for SLO-Aware LLM Fleet Configuration

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arXiv:2608.19659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Choosing tensor-parallel (TP) degrees and replica counts for an LLM serving fleet is difficult because performance is not monotonic in TP and the feasib

From Retrieved Context to Runtime Control: Adaptive Compression for Edge-based RAG

arXiv:2608.19535v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves language-model responses by grounding generation in external passages, which comes with overhead: retrieve

Growth Without Us: Machine Consumers, Corporate Circularity, and the Decoupling of GDP from Humanity after AGI

arXiv:2608.20231v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The standard objection to full automation is demand-side: if humans earn nothing, who buys the output? This confuses an accounting role with a biologi

Inter-X++: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal Human-Human Interaction Analysis

arXiv:2608.20312v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The capability to perceive and synthesize human-human interactions is fundamental to developing intelligent digital human systems. However, existing dat

Is there any interest in a self hosted open source version of manus/perplexity?

I have been working on a project for about 3 months because I found Vane to be awful and I wanted something like Manus for myself. I have a pretty solid app that's probably about ready to release, but

Measuring What a Specification Determines: A Formal Semantic-Block Model and an Execution-Judged Benchmark

arXiv:2608.19475v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work introduces a formal semantic-block model for specifications and an execution-judged benchmark for evaluating specification quality independe

Multimodal API support 🔌 🔹 Set model='deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp' 🔹 Images are tokenized for billing: up to 384 tokens each, at V4-Flas…

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Multimodal API support 🔌 🔹 Set model='deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp' 🔹 Images are tokenized for billing: up to 384 tokens each, at V4-Flash pricing 🔹 Supports Chat Completions, Messages & Responses 🔹 S

PL-NBA: A Possession-level Universal Basketball Video Dataset Supporting Multiple Visual Understanding Tasks

arXiv:2608.19646v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual understanding in sports has emerged as a hot topic in computer vision in recent years. Most existing basketball video datasets adopt single actio

Qwen 3.8 27b is strong even at Q3_xxs

So usually I avoid Q3 quants because I have had bad experiences with it, models were usually too degraded, so the smallest I normally do is Q4, since I only have rtx 4060 ti 16gb. But since there hasn

Qwen3.8-27B at 262K context on a Strix Halo + RTX 3090 Ti: 9.5 -> 153 tok/s, and it beats a dual-3090 vLLM box on HumanEval

Spent a while treating layer placement, KV format and llama.cpp itself as experimental variables. 159 logged experiments. Numbers first, caveats after. Hardware: AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 (Strix Halo, 128

Rethinking the Evaluation and Optimization of LLM-Based Social Simulation

arXiv:2608.19689v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based social simulation is a promising complement to traditional methods such as surveys and behavioral experiments. A core question is how to evalu

Towards Quantifying Benchmark Optimization in ASR Models

arXiv:2608.19936v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Public benchmarks are important measures of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model capabilities. However, by nature of being public, there is risk o

Video Evidence to Reasoning Efficient Video Understanding via Explicit Evidence Grounding

arXiv:2601.07761v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) face a fundamental dilemma in video reasoning: they are caught between the prohibitive computational costs of v

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Write Once, Run Everywhere: The Axon DSL for Shape-Safe and Framework-Agnostic LLM Architectures

arXiv:2608.19889v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The entire ecosystem of open-source language models effectively relies on a single platform. What if this platform was forced to shut down tomorrow? Imp

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Your Turn: At Home Turning Angle Estimation for Parkinson's Disease Severity Assessment

arXiv:2408.08182v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: People with Parkinson's Disease (PD) often experience progressively worsening gait, including changes in how they turn around, as the disease

A Critical Synthesis of Uncertainty Quantification and Foundation Models for Semantic Segmentation

arXiv:2608.18709v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models are increasingly breaking what seemed to be impossible not long ago by enabling unprecedented accuracy and cross-domain generalizati

A Metamorphic Artificial Age Score Decision-Support Prototype for Flight-Log-Based Drone Propeller Health Monitoring

arXiv:2608.18088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Drone propeller faults can create safety and reliability risks when their effects are distributed across multiple flight-log channels rather than appear

ADEPT: Accelerating Dexterity via Pre-Training and Post-Training using Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.19182v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Accelerating Dexterity via Pre-Training (ADEPT), a large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) framework for learning sim-to-real transferabl

Beyond Placement and Articulation: Usage-Driven Code Scenes for Embodied Interaction

arXiv:2608.18840v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Indoor scene synthesis provides essential environments for embodied AI, robotic manipulation, and simulation-based policy learning. Recent code-based

Budget-First Tariff Recommendation (BFTR): A Complete Algorithmic Framework for Telecom Plan Recommendation without Overcharging

arXiv:2608.18723v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Telecom operators traditionally offer predefined tariff grids, forcing users to choose from a limited set of plans. This paper proposes BFTR (Budget-F

CamWorldQA: Perceptual Quality Assessment of Camera-Controlled World Video Generation

arXiv:2608.18710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in generative video models have enabled camera-controlled world video generation, allowing models to synthesize videos under user-define

Can a Lightweight Multimodal Model Estimate LLM Reasoning Performance? A Study for Compute-Optimal Document Inference

arXiv:2608.18591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Uniformly allocating inference reasoning budgets to LLMs is expensive and prone to over-thinking penalties; especially in document tasks where visual la

ClosureBench: A Constructive Benchmark for Compositional Graph Reasoning

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arXiv:2608.18242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce ClosureBench, a constructive benchmark for compositional graph-relational reasoning with programmatically verified ground truth. Unlike fix

Geometric Data Perturbation with Noisy-Anchor Alignment for Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Learning

arXiv:2608.18749v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Geometric Data Perturbation (GDP) enables one-shot, privacy-preserving collaborative learning: each participant applies a distance-preserving transforma

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Grouping the Stochastic Machine: Precision, Not Capability, as the Frontier Metric for AI Systems

arXiv:2608.19140v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier language models are compared, marketed, and benchmarked on capability -- what their best or average output can achieve. I argue this measures t

Ling 3.0 Tiny makes an amazing auxillery model for Hermes (Qwen 3.8 27B as the primary model)

Just got the setup dialed in yesterday. Getting really good results and is making 3.8 usage feel faster in hermes. I got Qwen to specifically use Ling tiny for simple tasks like context compression an

LongNovel: A Multi-Scale Benchmark for Hallucination Detection in Long-Context Novel Summarization

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arXiv:2608.18082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although context windows have expanded significantly in recent years, hallucinations in long-context summarization remain a challenge. Long novels are b

LT-Mem: Volatility-Aware Spatio-Temporal Memory for Lifelong Scene Understanding

arXiv:2608.19059v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term robot operation in evolving environments requires object-level understanding that persists across repeated revisits. Existing systems either

MedUAG: Unified Understanding and Generation for Medical Multimodal Models

arXiv:2608.18937v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are rapidly evolving into unified understanding and generation (UAG) frameworks. However, extending th

New benchmark just dropped!

The pelican on a bicycle is sooo outdated, so I came up with a new, improved version. Qwen3.8-27b medium (UD-Q4_K_XL) vs. Sol 5.6 high vs. Qwen3.6-35B (UD-Q6_K_XL) Prompt (only real with typo!): 'Crea

Pairwise Ranking Outperforms Single-Action RL for Offline Explanation Selection: A Practical Lesson

arXiv:2608.18531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial explainable-recommendation systems built on LLMs incur a substantial serving cost: each request triggers an LLM generation, with latency in t

PGFS++: Molecular Property Improvement under Synthesis and Diversity Constraints

arXiv:2608.19121v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Improving molecular properties, such as drug-likeness or binding affinity, is a recurring task in early-stage drug discovery. However, molecules optim

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Redakto - The Incognito Tab for LLMs

arXiv:2608.18260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are being increasingly used in everyday applications. A major challenge in the context of LLMs or Artificial Intelligence (

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SPK: Eliciting Structured Prior Knowledge for Interpretable Out-of-Distribution Detection in Real-Time Object Detection

arXiv:2608.19080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Object detectors often produce over-confident predictions for objects outside their training categories, leading to so-called out-of-distribution (OoD)

Applications

the elephant in the room that no company wants to address: “OpenAI’s 69-page report on ChatGPT enterprise adoption doesn’t address the bigge…

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the elephant in the room that no company wants to address: “OpenAI’s 69-page report on ChatGPT enterprise adoption doesn’t address the biggest question: ROI” by @EmilyForlini https://fortune.com/2026/

TinySearch v0.6.1 - still a lightweight web research tool for local LLMs, now with bring-your-own-browser support

Hey everyone, Posted TinySearch here a few versions ago and got a bunch of useful feedback, so figured I'd post an update because the thing has changed quite a bit since then. Repo: [https://github.co

Industry

Twin1 AI raises $20M to put an AI twin behind every knowledge worker

Twin1 AI Inc. launched today with 20 million in seed funding to build artificial intelligence-powered digital twins that carry an individual professional’s expertise across their organization. The San

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UMER: Unifying Embedding and Ranking via Pair-Aware Discriminative Reasoning for Universal Multimodal Retrieval

arXiv:2608.18504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Universal multimodal retrieval aims to support diverse instruction-aware retrieval tasks, demanding both efficient corpus-scale matching and fine-graine

VA-Judger: Reward Modeling from Human Preference Feedback for Joint Video-Audio Generation

arXiv:2608.18607v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Using reinforcement learning to post-train joint video-audio generation models requires a reward signal. Existing methods construct this reward by combi

What do you think of my Modelfile for Qwen3.8

Hello, any params I missing or mis-tuning for my coding model ? FROM ./models/unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-Q5_K_M.gguf # Generation parameters optimized for logical reasoning and coding tasks PARAMETER tempera

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Adronite launches Codistry AI coding platform, claims half the token cost

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Adronite Inc. today launched Codistry, an artificial intelligence coding platform for large enterprise codebases. The platform runs on Adronite’s Context Engine, or ACE, which the company has patented

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Against Political Polarization: A Unified Framework for Tracing Evolving Political Ideologies on Social Media

arXiv:2608.17987v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid growth of social media has greatly influenced political discourse, highlighting the need to understand individual political ideologies and t