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Skills in Weights, Memory in Code: Hybrid Learning for Memory-Dependent Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2608.09410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern vision-language-action (VLA) policies have acquired broad manipulation skills, but typically generate each action chunk from the current observat

agentsarxiv-cs-ro

SkillSentry: Reliable Skill Execution for LLM Agents via Runtime Assurance

DGX agent

arXiv:2608.09253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly equipped with skills to perform complex tasks through multi-step reasoning and tool use. Although skills provide reusable pr

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai

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SkillsMetric: Mapping the Detection Boundary of Static Analysis for Malicious Agent Skills

arXiv:2608.08468v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent Skills---structured packages of instructions and scripts that augment LLM-based agents---are rapidly proliferating, yet their security propertie

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

SkillSmith: Enhancing Locally Deployed Agents via Automatic Skill Construction and Evolution

arXiv:2608.08037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based agent frameworks now act as personal assistants for multi-step tasks. Existing agent frameworks such as OpenClaw commonly follow the Cloud Age

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SLAP: Selective Local Vision-Language Alignment for Fish Re-Identification via Partial Optimal Transport

arXiv:2608.08840v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Individual fish re-identification (ReID) is a fine-grained recognition problem in which identity-discriminative cues are often localized to specific bod

local-aiarxiv-cs-cv

SLIM-0.5B: Learning Action-Grounded Predictive Latents for Robot Manipulation

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ro

arXiv:2608.09771v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language-action policies rely on large multimodal backbones to jointly perform perception, language conditioning, and action generation at every

SMAC: Score-Matched Actor-Critics for Robust Offline-to-Online Transfer

arXiv:2602.17632v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern offline Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods find performant actor-critics, however, fine-tuning these actor-critics online with value-b

Smart Compaction: Predicting Compaction Utility from Lakehouse Table Metadata

arXiv:2608.08639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open lakehouse table formats accumulate small data files over time, which degrades query performance. Deciding when compaction is worthwhile remains thr

Applications

Snowflake moves enterprise AI beyond fragmented data pipelines

Data interoperability is quickly becoming a practical requirement for companies trying to move artificial intelligence into production. Picking the right model or adding computing capacity is only par

applicationssiliconangle

SNR-Edit: Structure-Aware Noise Rectification for Inversion-Free Flow-Based Editing

arXiv:2601.19180v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Inversion-free image editing using flow-based generative models challenges the prevailing inversion-based pipelines. However, existing approac

Social Gym and SPaRTan: Benchmarking and Improving LLM Social Reasoning via Multi-Agent Game Tournaments

arXiv:2608.09128v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly deployed in multi-agent social settings where they must cooperate, negotiate, and adapt to other agents. Measuring and imp

SodaMem: Evidence-Grounded Temporal Graph Memory for LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.08055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents that assist users over weeks of conversation must remember what is currently true, not merely what was once said. Flat

SoftmaxGRPO: Learning to Reason using Softmax Advantage Group Estimation

arXiv:2608.09271v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Group-based reinforcement learning objectives such as GRPO can allocate learning signal poorly across prompt difficulty: under binary rewards, group n

SoftMCC: An MCC-Brier Calibration Bridge for Threshold-Free Model Selection under Class Imbalance

arXiv:2608.08984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model selection for imbalanced binary classification often uses the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC), but thresholding makes validation rankings t

researcharxiv-cs-lg

Software Engineering for and with GUI Agent

arXiv:2608.09278v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GUI agents have advanced rapidly, producing a growing body of frameworks, benchmarks, and applications. However, this growth has outpaced the maturity

Industry

Source: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised 40M led by Sequoia at a 300M valuation (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised 40M led by Sequoia at a 300M valuation —

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Industry

Sources: Anthropic is courting investors for what could be the biggest IPO ever, touting rapid growth and plans to address mounting public backlash against AI (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic is courting investors for what could be the biggest IPO ever, touting rapid growth and plans to address mounting public backlash against AI — Company is racing

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Industry

Sources: former OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil is aiming to raise 150M for a new AI science startup, seeking a valuation of at least 750M (Business Insider)

Business Insider: Sources: former OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil is aiming to raise 150M for a new AI science startup, seeking a valuation of at least 750M — Kevin Weil, the former chief prod

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Sources: Nvidia is developing a Nemotron 4 model with 1T+ parameters, up from Nemotron 3 Ultra's 550B parameters but smaller than leading Chinese open models (The Information)

The Information: Sources: Nvidia is developing a Nemotron 4 model with 1T+ parameters, up from Nemotron 3 Ultra's 550B parameters but smaller than leading Chinese open models — Nvidia is doubling down

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SPA: A Simple but Tough-to-Beat Baseline for Knowledge Injection

arXiv:2603.22213v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While large language models (LLMs) are pretrained on massive amounts of data, their knowledge coverage remains incomplete in specialized, data

Space-Creating versus Dead Possession: An Off-Ball Possession-Quality Index for Broadcast Football

arXiv:2608.09887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ball possession is the most-cited and most-misleading number in football: 60% recycled in one's own half is not 60% spent pinning the opponent back. Exi

researcharxiv-cs-cv

SpaceXAI rolls out Grok Bot AI agent app in beta on Mac, iOS, Windows, and Linux, initially for SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams Premium users (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: SpaceXAI rolls out Grok Bot AI agent app in beta on Mac, iOS, Windows, and Linux, initially for SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams Premium users — SpaceXAI and Cursor

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Sparks of Cooperative Reasoning: LLMs as Strategic Hanabi Agents

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2601.18077v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cooperative reasoning under incomplete information remains challenging for both humans and multi-agent systems. The card game Hanabi embodies this c

Applications

Sparse Attention to Emotion: Efficient Facial Emotion Recognition via Token Reduction

arXiv:2608.08873v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) is an important task that has significant implications across various fields such as biometrics, health, and human-comp

applicationsarxiv-cs-cv

Sparse corruption in low-rank matrix inference: the PCA benchmark

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2511.11927v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a standard tool for extracting a low-rank signal from noisy observations. It is known that applying PCA

Spatial Heterogeneity-Aware Multi-Hazard Susceptibility and Risk Mapping at Regional Scale

arXiv:2608.08321v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Floods and landslides often co-occur, but their relationships with environmental controls vary spatially. This study develops a spatial heterogeneity-aw

researcharxiv-cs-lg

Spatiotemporal Context-dependent Personalized Movement Compensation in Delayed Telemanipulation

arXiv:2608.08200v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Communication delay remains a central challenge in telerobotics, where it disrupts visuomotor coordination and reduces task precision. Motion scaling is

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

Tutorials

SPD Learn: A Geometric Deep Learning Python Library for Neural Decoding Through Trivialization

arXiv:2602.22895v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Implementations of symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrix-based neural networks for neural decoding remain fragmented across research codeba

tutorialsarxiv-cs-lg

SPECTRA: Pushing the KV Cache Beyond the 2-Bit Cliff via Spectral Transform Coding

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2608.07915v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly read long inputs in the agentic era, from whole documents and codebases to conversations across many turns. Th

Spectral Outliers Reveal Dominant Learned Structure in Transformer Attention

arXiv:2608.07921v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We apply Marchenko-Pastur (MP) random matrix theory to pre-trained attention weights in order to separate each projection matrix into a random-like bu

SpeedTuning: Speeding Up Policy Execution with Lightweight Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.09138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While learned robotic policies hold promise for advancing generalizable manipulation, their practical deployment is often hindered by suboptimal execu

SpikeWorld: Fast-State Adaptation for Frozen Spiking World Models

arXiv:2608.07712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A predictive model receives a self-supervised signal whenever the consequence of an action is observed. Using that signal after deployment is difficul

SplitGaussian: Reconstructing Dynamic Scenes via Visual Geometry Decomposition

arXiv:2508.04224v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reconstructing dynamic 3D scenes from monocular video remains fundamentally challenging due to the need to jointly infer motion, structure, and appe

researcharxiv-cs-cv

SportsGrounder: Proposal-Aided Interleaved Grounding for Dense Sports Video Reasoning

arXiv:2608.07932v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sports video analysis is crucial for athletic analytics and broadcasting enhancement. Dense sports video reasoning, however, demands a fine-grained unde

local-aiarxiv-cs-cv

SPRInG: Continual LLM Personalization via Selective Parametric Adaptation and Retrieval-Interpolated Generation

arXiv:2601.09974v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Personalizing Large Language Models typically relies on static retrieval or one-time adaptation, assuming user preferences remain invariant over tim

SR-OPSD: Self-Referenced On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2608.09745v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) converts feedback into dense token-level supervision on trajectories generated by the policy to be optimized, provi

SRE-FER: Regional residual evidence learning for mitigating local evidence dilution in fine-grained facial expression recognition

arXiv:2608.08702v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-grained facial expression recognition (FER) hinges on capturing subtle muscular cues that distinguish adjacent emotions. Yet capturing these cues p

local-aiarxiv-cs-cv

STAIR: Effective Incident Response Using an End-to-End Agentic Planning Framework

arXiv:2608.09524v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Incident response planning is critical for restoring compromised software systems after cyberattacks. Common practice relies on expert-driven playbook

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

Stateful CARS: Exact Cross-History Reuse for Policy-Constrained LLM Agents

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2608.08282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using language-model agents face constraints whose meaning changes with observations and prior actions. We study exact sampling from the model dist

Staying True to the Origin: Continuous Image Stylization with Smooth Transitions

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cv

arXiv:2608.08125v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in generative models have achieved remarkable performance in text- and image-conditioned editing. However, preserving the content of a g

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

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Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs A vanity domain name (stolen-thoughts.com) for a neat paper: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google return encrypted chain-of-thought blocks to clients that

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

arXiv:2608.09867v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Leading large language model providers now conceal their models' step-by-step reasoning, or chain-of-thought, to protect intellectual property and lim

STEMMA: An Adversarial Multi-Agent Framework for Evaluating Self-Identity Consistency in LLMs

arXiv:2608.08164v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge Distillation is a widely adopted technique in the training and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) enabling transfer of structured i

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

Hardware

StitchCUDA: An Automated Multi-Agents End-to-End GPU Programing Framework with Rubric-based Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2603.02637v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern machine learning (ML) workloads increasingly rely on GPUs, yet achieving high end-to-end performance remains challenging due to depende

hardwarearxiv-cs-cl

Stochastic gradient descent with discontinuity across a manifold

arXiv:2608.07618v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stochastic gradient descent for a loss function discontinuous across lower dimensional manifolds is analyzed by studying its differential equation lim

researcharxiv-cs-lg

Stochastic Physics-Informed Neural Networks on Lie Groups for Learning Underwater Vehicle Dynamics

arXiv:2608.08356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate models of underwater vehicle motion are needed for autonomous execution of marine tasks like infrastructure inspection and scientific sampling.

agentsarxiv-cs-ro

Stochastic Subgradient Methods with Guaranteed Global Stability in Nonsmooth Nonconvex Optimization

arXiv:2307.10053v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we focus on providing convergence guarantees for stochastic subgradient methods in minimizing nonsmooth nonconvex functions. We

StructReward: Efficient Structured Process Rewards for Self-Correcting Multimodal Reasoning

arXiv:2608.08326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as an effective approach for improving multimodal reasoning. However, most existing me