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A Human-Factors Guided Cognitive Model of Visuospatial Complexity in Embodied Active Vision

arXiv:2608.23572v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a novel framework for the analysis of multimodal data -- encompassing visual, auditory, and spatial stimuli -- foregrounding the role of co

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ADVERSA: Measuring Multi-Turn Guardrail Degradation and Judge Reliability in Large Language Models

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arXiv:2603.10068v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Most adversarial evaluations of large language model (LLM) safety assess single prompts and report binary pass/fail outcomes, which fails to c

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Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash, an open-weight, 125B-parameter model built on its next-gen Qwen 4 architecture, saying it rivals Opus 4.6 and V4-Flash (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash, an open-weight, 125B-parameter model built on its next-gen Qwen 4 architecture, saying it rivals Opus 4.6 and V4-Flash — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd

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Anatomy of a Scam Call: What 10,000 real scam and spam calls reveal about how phone scammers operate

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arXiv:2608.24127v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Telephone fraud is pervasive and costly, but its inner workings are rarely observed at scale. We analyze a complete corpus of 10,211 inbound scam and

BenchBench-Protocol: Evaluating Real-World Wet-Lab Protocol Reasoning and Modification

arXiv:2608.23898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce BenchBench-Protocol, a benchmark for large language models of 149 protocol-modification tasks recovered from modifications that scientists

BREAKING: GLM-5.3 Flash by @Zai_org debuts at 6th overall on Design Arena with a preliminary Elo of 1343. This places the MIT-licensed, nati…

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BREAKING: GLM-5.3 Flash by @Zai_org debuts at 6th overall on Design Arena with a preliminary Elo of 1343. This places the MIT-licensed, natively multimodal model in the same performance band as GLM-5.

ChorusTIC: Training-Free Multivariate Time Series Classification via Chorus In-Context Learning

arXiv:2608.24033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time series classification underpins applications in healthcare, sensing, and industrial monitoring. Although time series foundation models support fo

ESQ-Bench: A Multi-Tier Enterprise Oracle Benchmark for Evaluating NL2SQL Dialect Generalization and Silent Semantic Divergence

arXiv:2608.23569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: State-of-the-art Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) models report execution accuracy exceeding 89 percent on established benchmarks such as Spider and BIR

GLM-5.3-Flash scores 57 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. At $0.09 Cost per Task, it sits comfortably on the Intelligence vs. C…

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GLM-5.3-Flash scores 57 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. At 0.09 Cost per Task, it sits comfortably on the Intelligence vs. Cost per Task Pareto frontier @Zai_org has released GLM-5.3-Fl

Granite.Trust Policy Tools: Shareable, Actionable Policies for Generative AI Applications

arXiv:2608.23870v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When it comes to safety policies for generative AI, one size does not fit all. Each organization and use case needs to mitigate different risks dependin

Hierarchical Skill Retrieval for Data-Efficient Adaptation of Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2608.24042v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models pretrained on large-scale robot datasets provide a strong foundation for robot manipulation, their performan

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How Uber improves network reliability while unblocking cloud migration

Uber has a lot in common with the cities it serves. Both are always changing and growing, both must carefully manage the resulting traffic to prevent congestion and sprawl. Uber has continuously evolv

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Introducing the MLPerf End-to-End RAG Inference Benchmark

Benchmarking Retrieval-Augmented Generation End to End — from Building the Vector Database to Serving an Iterative, Multi-Hop Question-Answering Inference Pipeline The post Introducing the MLPerf End-

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Lemonade end-of-summer project update, now serving 15 engines!

Hi everyone, it's been a while since I posted so here's an update on what the Lemonade community has been up to this summer. Our overall mission is to enable local AI builders with everything they nee

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LG-GER: Language-Guided Group Emotion Recognition via Multimodal Evidence Distillation

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arXiv:2608.23880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inferring the collective emotional state of a group of people from a single image, a task known as group emotion recognition (GER), requires integrating

Luce: Relightable Gaussians for 3D Asset Generation

arXiv:2608.23943v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-fidelity image-to-3D generation requires a 3D representation that captures both geometry and appearance. To support relighting and integration in

Massive-STEPS: Massive Semantic Trajectories for Understanding POI Check-ins -- Dataset and Benchmarks

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arXiv:2505.11239v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding human mobility through Point-of-Interest (POI) trajectory modeling is increasingly important for applications such as urban planning,

Mind the Student: Behavioral and Contextual Cues for Automated Engagement Prediction in Online Learning

arXiv:2608.24340v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The prediction of student engagement from the online tutoring videos is difficult because engagement is a multidimensional construct comprising distin

Object Counting Across Modalities: Taxonomies, Benchmarks, Applications, and Open Challenges

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arXiv:2608.23845v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Object-counting methods have rapidly shifted from class-specific density regression to open-vocabulary, foundation-model-backed counters. These methods

On the https://Z.ai Code Bench, which measures real-world coding performance, GLM-5.3-Flash clearly outperforms GLM-5.2 at every effort leve…

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On August 26, 2026 Z.ai reported that its Code‑Bench metric—which assesses real‑world coding performance—shows GLM‑5.3‑Flash outperforming GLM‑5.2 at every effort level. The new model’s results are on

OPDSearch+: On-Policy Distillation with RL Refinement for Search-Augmented Reasoning

arXiv:2608.24310v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search-augmented reasoning remains difficult for small language models. On-policy distillation (OPD) from trained teachers offers a promising direction,

OpenCode with Qwen3.8-27B for Small Games or Browsing the Web With 16GB VRAM

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In the past, I have use llama.cpp, but I read that the exl3 quantization format should give better precision, so I have tried exllamav3/tabbyAPI. It was able to write the shown simple HTML game withou

Parason: Revealing Subtask and Trial Parallelism in LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2608.24658v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling test-time reasoning has substantially improved the problem-solving ability of large language models (LLMs), but standard autoregressive decoding

Pattern-Derived Visual Swarm Games: Multi-Scale Drone-Vision States for Interception and Sustainability Audits

arXiv:2608.23575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We convert drone-vision annotation streams into virtual swarm-game states without controlling physical drones. VisDrone and UAVSwarm metadata are compre

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Research

PROOF-Gen: From Optimized Data to Better Distillation

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Supervised fine-tuning on teacher-generated trajectories is the standard first stage for distilling tool-calling capabilities into deployable models. Post-training pipelines that drive shipped tool-ca

Tutorials

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The fact that AI wrote 1M LOC and then refined it over the course of the next couple of months to produce a reliable piece of software that is currently running on millions of developer machines is ab

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RENDER: Controlling Reader-Facing Evidence in LLM Memory Evaluation

arXiv:2608.23568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Memory and RAG evaluations often treat the answering model's input as an implementation detail, even though systems may render the same history as a mem

Revelation Control

arXiv:2608.23860v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Revelation Control is the problem of choosing priced interventions that reveal hidden state only insofar as the revealed distinctions can change a con

Robust Code RL via Faulty-Code-Driven Test case Synthesis and Dense Reward Shaping

arXiv:2608.24135v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a pivotal technique for enhancing the code generation capabilities of Large Languag

Robust Motion Generation using Part-level Reliable Data from Videos

arXiv:2512.12703v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Extracting human motion from large-scale web videos offers a scalable solution to the data scarcity issue in character animation. However, som

Rules Before Oracles: Auditable, User-Configurable Argument Selection for Deliberative Polling

arXiv:2608.23979v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In a deliberative poll, once submissions outnumber what anyone will read, some mechanism chooses which arguments each voter sees, acquiring much of the

Strictly Causal Streaming Video Anomaly Detection with a Theoretically-Grounded State-Space Core

arXiv:2608.24810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work has applied Mamba style state space models (SSMs) to video anomaly detection, yet existing approaches still rely on buffering clips or windo

Applications

The hottest neolabs are the application layer, who serve as an intermediary layer providing their customers the best intelligence per token …

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The hottest neolabs are the application layer, who serve as an intermediary layer providing their customers the best intelligence per token per task/workflow across different underlying model provider

WeMM-Embedding: WeChat Multi-Modal Embedding Technical Report

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arXiv:2608.24053v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Universal multimodal embeddings are becoming a core component of modern AI systems, enabling heterogeneous content to be represented in a shared space f

What's better than an open-weight multimodal model release? Well, the technical report. I just love how these labs like Qwen and DeepSeek co…

What's better than an open-weight multimodal model release? Well, the technical report. I just love how these labs like Qwen and DeepSeek continue to drop gem after gem. Qwen3.8-Flash is the latest in

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Your closed model refused a task it should have done. Ours didn't. DeepSeek V4 Pro on Fireworks: beats Fable 5 on SWE-Bench and LiveCodeBenc…

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Your closed model refused a task it should have done. Ours didn't. DeepSeek V4 Pro on Fireworks: beats Fable 5 on SWE-Bench and LiveCodeBench, a third of the cost per solved task, and it doesn't decli

A Source-Grounded Framework for Constructing and Evaluating Progressive Multimodal Diagnostic Dialogues from Clinical Case Reports

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arXiv:2608.22713v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical diagnosis requires progressive integration of patient history, physical examination, laboratory findings, medical images, and diagnostic-inform

Beyond Surface Cues: Disentangling Sociocultural Signals in Multilingual LLMs

arXiv:2608.23026v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual LLM outputs can vary across sociocultural contexts. However, evidence of cultural grounding can be misleading: identity labels may be inf

Beyond the Harness: End-to-End Optimization of Context Artifacts for Enterprise Text-to-SQL

arXiv:2608.22830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying LLMs for enterprise Text-to-SQL is bottlenecked less by the model than by what context reaches it: business logic spans thousands of tables, a

Continual Uncertainty Learning for Robust Control of Nonlinear Systems with Multiple Heterogeneous Uncertainties

arXiv:2602.17174v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robust control of mechanical systems with multiple uncertainties remains a fundamental challenge, particularly when nonlinear dynamics and ope

DreamMimic: Learning Visuomotor Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation via World Model

arXiv:2608.22278v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-based whole-body loco-manipulation on humanoid robots is challenging due to partial observability, contact-rich dynamics, and the difficulty of l

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Enhancing Sim2Real Transfer for Torque-Controlled Robots through Real2Sim Dynamics Estimation and Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2608.22629v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transferring reinforcement learning policies from simulation to Real-World robots remains a major challenge, particularly when dealing with low-level to

Tutorials

Every extraction API demos well on a clean invoice. But what about the scanned form, the nested table, the 40-page financial report with mer…

Every extraction API demos well on a clean invoice. But what about the scanned form, the nested table, the 40-page financial report with merged headers? We tested 14 frontier systems to find out. Extr

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FigmaTrace: Capturing Creative Nuances in Human Figma Design Workflows

arXiv:2608.21460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision Language Models have recently shown improvements in several objective and verifiable domains such as object detection but continue to underperf

FinixDoc: Rethinking Financial Document Parsing Beyond Saturated Benchmarks

arXiv:2608.22842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial document parsing requires accuracy, structural consistency, and verifiability that current benchmarks often fail to reflect. We present FinixD

Gated Decoupled Compositional Bandits: A Unified Theory of Contextual Bandits with Supervised-Calibrated Action Scaling and Pre-Execution Gating

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arXiv:2608.21993v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Gated Decoupled Compositional Bandits (GDCB), a family of contextual bandit algorithms with three structural innovations that jointly fall

Grounded Normative Rule Generation with Structured Search

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arXiv:2608.22229v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Normative rules like institutional charters and workplace policies must be both human-readable and operationally verifiable against actual environment r

GTA-RAG: Graph-Trajectory-Augmented Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Turn Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning

arXiv:2608.22479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables LLMs to access external knowledge for answering knowledge-intensive questions. For complex multi-hop questi

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