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JoyAI-VL-Interaction: Real-Time Vision-Language Interaction Intelligence

arXiv:2606.14777v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Many moments in the real world do not wait for a user to ask. A fire starts on a security monitor, an expression flickers across a video call,

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LLM on a budget part 2, from P102-100 to CMP 50HX.

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I finally got around to upgrade the GPU's. First a word of warning, when upgrading GPU's on P520 you have to be extra careful not to slot the card on any angle other than straight when installing or w

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Multimodal Thinking with Renderable Programs

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arXiv:2609.30130v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current vision-language models (VLMs) excel at visual content understanding and text-based reasoning, yet their structure limits the advancement of in

Qwengram-0.8B: I transferred Qwen3.8 Flash-Next’s n-gram memory into Qwen3.5-0.8B — 5.05% lower validation perplexity

I’ve been experimenting with whether Qwen3.8-Flash-Next’s pretrained PLE n-gram memory can improve a much smaller Qwen3.5-0.8B model. I trained the 0.8B setup with limited resources, mostly using free

Requirement-Bound Verified Commissioning: A Frozen Four-Billion-Parameter Local Model as a Candidate Generator under an External Acceptance Layer with Verification and Release Authority

arXiv:2609.30219v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An acceptance protocol is developed for sensor-coordinate and polarity binding in mechatronic commissioning. Candidate generation is separated from re

RoboLDA: A Probabilistic Generative Model for Uncovering Embodied Hierarchical Structures in Voxel-based Soft Robots

arXiv:2609.29490v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in robotics highlight hierarchical configurations of robot morphology, where multiple levels of functional substructures synergize to

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Sim-to-Real Aware End-to-End Learning Environment for Micromobility

arXiv:2609.28969v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While end-to-end autonomous driving systems show promise, their application to micromobility vehicles is hindered by simulators failing to capture speci

Swift1.5-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is phenomenal vs. base 3.8-Flash!

TL;DR - Swift Flash is a killer model that massively reduces excess reasoning. Try it out! If you haven't seen from my previous comparison posts, I'm a huge fan of the Swift Qwen3.8 models. I've been

Temperament Engineering: Designing Strategic Behavioural Diversity in Robot Swarms

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arXiv:2609.29423v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: No two robots are truly identical: calibration, battery state, sensor drift and wear give every swarm a distribution of behaviour rather than a single p

What IDE to use for local models

Hi people, I am looking for a lightweight IDE or plugin that won't inject large context at initiation. I tried Cline and native VS Code but they inject such heavy initial context that it fills up my g

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Banger paper introducing Jev-as-a-Judge. The overall finding is that you want to use a cheap judge for most of your evals and send only the …

Banger paper introducing Jev-as-a-Judge. The overall finding is that you want to use a cheap judge for most of your evals and send only the uncertain calls to a frontier model. This paper measures how

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ChronoSteer: Bridging Large Language Model and Time Series Foundation Model via Synthetic Cross-Modal Alignment Dataset

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arXiv:2505.10083v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Conventional forecasting methods are trained end-to-end on unimodal time series, which limits their ability to exploit textual information and under

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Experts say that air-gapping AI could prevent events like the Hugging Face hack, but would undermine the value of evaluations and slow research to a crawl (Robert Hart/The Verge)

Robert Hart / The Verge: Experts say that air-gapping AI could prevent events like the Hugging Face hack, but would undermine the value of evaluations and slow research to a crawl — Researchers are te

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If you believe the risk is coming from 1-3 people in a garage with no money and no compute, you just don't understand this technology and ha…

If you believe the risk is coming from 1-3 people in a garage with no money and no compute, you just don't understand this technology and haven't learned anything this summer. Risk comes from the asym

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I'm new and it's kinda overwhelming to get into

Hi, sorry if this doesn't belong here. Getting to the point basically, I've been using online-only AI like GPT/Gemini since 2022, and have been interested in local models but am clueless overall. Yes

LEAP-CBF: A Safety Filter for Uncertain Systems with Least-Effort Adversarial Potentials

arXiv:2609.28364v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Control barrier functions (CBF) are a popular safety filter to ensure safety for nonlinear dynamical systems. However, when the system is subject to u

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MSK-Bench: Benchmarking Full-Body Musculoskeletal Motor Control Across Tasks, Control Paradigms, and Physiological Metrics

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arXiv:2609.26872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Musculoskeletal (MSK) humanoids provide a physiologically grounded embodiment for studying full-body motor control, but their high-dimensional muscle ac

Need some suggestion

Guys I have a M4-mac air with 24 GB unified memory and I wanna run some local LLM model on my machine Currently I am working on building and RAG application which is mostly and QnA system but I wanna

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Prompt, Probe, Train, or Annotate? Single-camera sports video understanding in amateur settings

arXiv:2609.28049v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video understanding is usually benchmarked on curated, single-actor, or professionally filmed clips, and a strong score there is routinely read as evi

Safety-Filtered Distributed Koopman-MPC

arXiv:2609.27463v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distributed model predictive control (DMPC) often constructs both predictions and collision constraints from neighbor trajectories, so packet loss can r

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Self-Evolving Multimedia Verification through Memory Consolidation of Contestation Experiences

arXiv:2609.27175v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimedia verification requires not only accurate decisions but also traceable evidence, reliable human correction, and safe reuse of prior experienc

Spiderbot: An Open-Source Energy-Efficient Hexapod with Passive Gravity Compensation

arXiv:2609.26989v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hexapod robots can achieve static stability with fewer actuated joints than bipeds or quadrupeds, yet many platforms still use 3-DOF legs, increasing we

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VFX company DNEG's AI unit Brahma, whose customers include Warner Bros. and the NBA, raised 150M led by Indian PE firm Multiples at a 2B post-money valuation (Priyanka Salve/CNBC)

Priyanka Salve / CNBC: VFX company DNEG's AI unit Brahma, whose customers include Warner Bros. and the NBA, raised 150M led by Indian PE firm Multiples at a 2B post-money valuation — Brahma AI, an Ind

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Watch, Recall, Act: Always-On Robots in Concurrent Embodied Streams

arXiv:2609.28429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An always-on robot faces an endless stream that never resets: instructions arrive and lapse, the scene changes, and its own past actions reshape what it

ZO-COSMO: Index-Free One-Hop Mixing for Decentralized Zeroth-Order Optimization

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arXiv:2609.27199v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse communication in decentralized zeroth-order learning requires compatible peer-state coordinates. We characterize this one-hop condition and devel

A bioinspired internal model-based online estimator for planar pursuit

arXiv:2609.25470v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bioinspired feedback controls for pursuit, tracking, and collective motion are often expressed in terms of the relative configuration between interactin

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A Multimodal Large Language Model-Driven Framework for Context-Aware UAV Emergency Landing Site Selection

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arXiv:2602.01163v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Safe UAV emergency landing requires more than just identifying flat terrain; it demands understanding complex semantic risks (e.g., crowds, temporar

Anthropic says Claude autonomously discovered a new enzyme system in the DNA of bacteriophages, somewhat similar to CRISPR, the first result from its new biolab (Robert Hart/The Verge)

Robert Hart / The Verge: Anthropic says Claude autonomously discovered a new enzyme system in the DNA of bacteriophages, somewhat similar to CRISPR, the first result from its new biolab — It took near

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BackTrend: Evaluating Scientific Weak-Signal Prediction via Backward Reconstruction

arXiv:2609.24921v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific weak signals are early, low-visibility research directions that later become central to mature scientific topics, yet existing resources such

Can you take the cheapest open model from a frontier lab & beat closed models on the hardest long range tasks? Yep Our open adaptive intelli…

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Can you take the cheapest open model from a frontier lab & beat closed models on the hardest long range tasks? Yep Our open adaptive intelligence system Zenith ramps DeepSeek v4.1 Flash past GPT 5.6 S

ChemVTS-Bench: Evaluating Visual-Textual-Symbolic Reasoning of Multimodal Large Language Models in Chemistry

arXiv:2511.17909v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Chemical reasoning inherently integrates visual, textual, and symbolic modalities, yet existing benchmarks rarely capture this complexity, often rel

FireWorldBench: Benchmarking Complex Physical World Intelligence through Coupled-Field Fire Dynamics

arXiv:2609.23064v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding the physical world requires more than object recognition, scene description, and short-term visual prediction, as real-world physical syst

From Inference Engine to Inference Control Plane: Connecting vLLM, llm-d, and the Evolution of Efficient Distributed LLM Serving

arXiv:2609.23130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) inference is evolving from an engine-local optimization problem into a distributed control problem involving reusable state,

HOTICE: Whole-Body Humanoid Object Transportation in Cluttered Environments

arXiv:2609.25363v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Object transportation is a fundamental capability for humanoid robots operating in real-world, human-centric environments, yet existing methods struggle

IntLawNER: A Named Entity Recognition Dataset and Benchmark in International Law

arXiv:2609.22529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: International law provides the normative framework through which states coordinate action, regulate armed conflict, and protect human rights, yet its te

Jev-style structured decisions with DiffusionGemma GGUF in TensorSharp — benchmarks vs. LocalJev

I’m the developer of TensorSharp. Inspired by vLLM PR #57250, I added and optimized a native /v1/systemone endpoint for Jev-style structured decisions using DiffusionGemma GGUF. This uses DiffusionGem

KwaiMind Technical Report

arXiv:2609.26375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Commercial image editing requires product identity preservation, accurate text rendering, and user appeal alongside general editing quality. We present

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Learning to Plan in Human-Robot Collaboration: Multimodal Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Interaction

arXiv:2609.25274v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot assistants for older adults and people with disabilities need to perform collaborative tasks with users effectively. The core component of these s

Hardware

Manage Kubernetes Node Fleets with NodeWright

NodeWright is an open‑source, Kubernetes‑native package manager that declaratively configures host operating systems on GPU clusters while preserving workloads; its operator cordons nodes, drains pend

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MedVLA: A Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Framework for Closed-Loop Precision Medical Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2609.25756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Precision medical robotics demands adaptive decision-making under strict safety, interpretability, and execution constraints. Although recent Vision-Lan

Nathan Lambert's written Congressional testimony on the state of open models - Chinese open-weight downloads now 2x America's, >80% of OpenRouter open-model usage

Worth a read if you track open weights. Nathan Lambert (interconnects) posted the written version of his Congressional testimony on where open models stand. The numbers that got me: Hugging Face downl

OptiSkill: A Hierarchical and Evolving SkillBank for LLM-Based Optimization Modeling

arXiv:2609.22987v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated operations research (OR) modeling requires LLMs to translate natural-language decision problems into correct mathematical programs. Existing m

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PACT: From Credit Assignment to Critic Alignment

arXiv:2609.26355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning has become a central component of large language model (LLM) post-training, yet token-level credit lacks a generally accepted mat

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RoofLang: Enabling AI-Driven Architecting of LLM Inference Systems

arXiv:2609.12551v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI is beginning to make substantive contributions to LLM inference optimization. Existing AI optimizations are predominantly profiling-based.

Same Chart, Different Story: Bias in Vision-Language Chart Interpretation

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arXiv:2609.26210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used to interpret charts and generate natural-language explanations for socially consequential data. Howe

Semantic Abstraction for Natural Language Inference: a Methodological Framework for Discovering and Compensating Semantic Knowledge and Reasoning Gaps in Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.26610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite their outstanding performance on many NLP tasks, LLMs face serious challenges related to semantic abstraction. In this study, we are interested

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StepTrigger: Contact-State-Triggered Backdoor Attacks on VLM-Powered Legged Robots

arXiv:2609.26131v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models and vision-language models are increasingly used as high-level planners in robotic systems, using task goals and sensor summaries

Structured Decomposition for Reliable LLM-Generated Access Control Policies

arXiv:2609.24036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an LLM-based system that translates natural-language access control policies (NLACPs) into executable Rego code for Open Policy Agen

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