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FinVerse: Financial Time-Series Benchmark

arXiv:2608.03259v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As time-series foundation models have emerged, the need for benchmarks that can evaluate their forecasting ability in meaningful ways has become incre

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I built a local OCR pipeline a few days ago, and it turned into a surprisingly interesting experiment—taking accuracy from around 60% to 99%. I wrote a short blog about what worked, what failed, and t

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Improved Quantum Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning Under a Generative Model

arXiv:2608.02826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning is a subfield of machine learning that studies how an agent interacts with an environment in order to extract as large a reward

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LACE: Large Language Model Aided Multi-Agent Framework for Agile RISC-V Instruction Extension

arXiv:2608.02915v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Domain-specific Instruction Set Architecture eXtensions (ISAX) are widely adopted in the RISC-V ecosystem to accelerate emerging workloads, but implem

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LFM2.5-2.6B on a OnePlus 13 at 17 tok/s ~ Pure CPU

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As you all know the model is 2.69B parameters with a 128K context window and purpose-built for multi-step agent workflows. What you are seeing is the Q4_K_M GGUF running on my own inference engine bui

PASE: Leveraging the Phonological Prior of WavLM for Low-Hallucination Generative Speech Enhancement

arXiv:2511.13300v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative models have shown remarkable performance in speech enhancement (SE), achieving superior perceptual quality over traditional discriminative

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Route-Align-Verify for Functional Correctness in Code Generation

arXiv:2608.03341v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have substantially improved code generation, yet achieving strong functional correctness remains difficult, especially fo

Single Canonical Prompts Underestimate LLM Safety's Surface-Form Sensitivity

arXiv:2608.02665v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A benchmark score is a measurement instrument, yet most benchmarks read each item at a single canonical surface form. We ask whether that reading is f

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The Tell-Tale Trace: Detecting Reasoning Failures in LLMs Using Chain-of-Thought Dynamics

arXiv:2608.03291v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning improves large language model (LLM) performance while also providing an observable interface to the model's reasoning

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UHP Detection: LVLMs have their Unique Hallucination Pattern in the Consistency Space

arXiv:2608.03817v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large vision--language models (LVLMs) demonstrate strong multimodal reasoning capabilities but remain prone to hallucination, where model predictions

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Wiring Beats Blending: What Transfers Between Transformer Sizes -- and What Doesn't

arXiv:2608.02829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model families train every size from scratch. Can a pretrained large model be converted into a smaller sibling? We characterize the 1.4B->410M conversio

A Benchmark Dataset for MLLM-Generated Image Detection: GPT Image2 & Nano Banana2

arXiv:2608.01258v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The realism of images generated by multimodal large language models (MLLMs), such as GPT Image2 and Nano Banana2, has improved rapidly in recent years.

AdaMTP: An Adaptive Training Paradigm for Multi-Token Prediction

arXiv:2608.00434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) has emerged as an effective paradigm that augments a shared Large Language Model backbone with auxiliary heads, training th

Analyzing Speech Condition Effects in Dysarthric ASR: A Layer-wise Probing Study

arXiv:2608.01865v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance degrades sharply on dysarthric speech, yet how disordered articulation reshapes a model's internal repres

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Beyond Global Latents: Chunk-Based Sparse Grid VAE for Scalable 3D Modeling

arXiv:2608.02016v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse voxel grids preserve the spatial structure needed for detailed 3D reconstruction, but their memory still grows rapidly with resolution as active

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CADENA: Stepwise CAD Reverse Engineering

arXiv:2608.00799v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computer-Aided Design (CAD) underpins modern engineering, yet converting existing shapes into editable models still demands substantial expert effort. M

Can Humans Dream of Electric Sheep? Human-Written Samples for Fine-Grained Vision-and-Language Hallucination Benchmarking

arXiv:2608.01021v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In an age of rapid model turnover, how do we make hallucination evaluation more perennial? We explore whether human-written hallucination samples coul

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Don't Judge a Book by its Cover: Testing LLMs' Robustness Under Logical Obfuscation

arXiv:2602.01132v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tasks such as solving arithmetic equations, evaluating truth tables, and completing syllogisms are handled well by large language models (LLMs) in t

EgoIntent: A Pre-Outcome Micro-Step Benchmark for Understanding What, Why, and Next

arXiv:2603.12147v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Egocentric video provides a natural modality for studying human behavior, but conventional visual understanding captures mainly observable scenes, o

FinHardBench: Can LLMs Generate Latency-Aware Hardware for Financial Computing?

arXiv:2608.00909v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can large language models generate not just correct, but fast hardware? This paper investigates the question in financial FPGA design, where 5-10 nanose

From Direction to Magnitude: How Multimodal Instruction-Tuning Reorganizes the Geometric Encoding of Identity-Specifying Prompts in Transformer Hidden States

arXiv:2607.09842v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We investigate whether identity-specifying system prompts produce statistically distinguishable geometric fingerprints in the hidden-state tra

GIFT: Geometry-Invariant Fine-Tuning for Non-Lambertian Monocular Depth Estimation

arXiv:2608.02068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Monocular depth foundation models, benefiting from large-scale synthetic training data, have demonstrated strong generalization. However, they often hal

HapticVLA: Contact-Rich Manipulation via Vision-Language-Action Model without Inference-Time Tactile Sensing

arXiv:2603.15257v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tactile sensing is a crucial capability for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) architectures, as it enables dexterous and safe manipulation in contact-ric

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HyperODE: Zero-Shot Surrogate for Simulation and Inference of Dynamical Systems

arXiv:2608.00852v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding and controlling complex dynamical systems often requires executing thousands of numerical simulations across vast parametric landscapes, w

I built a DwarfStar-inspired Vulkan/Metal inference engine for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on 16 GB machines

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Disclosure: I’m the author and maintainer of QuarkStar. I built QuarkStar, a small native inference engine inspired by Antirez’s DwarfStar. QuarkStar currently supports: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, using the sam

It's the Decoding Format, Not the Perturbation: Auditing Consistency-Based Selection for Vision-Language Test-Time Scaling

arXiv:2608.01207v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time scaling lifts large language model reasoning by sampling many candidate solutions and selecting among them, yet the same recipe transfers poor

Light Forcing: Accelerating Autoregressive Video Diffusion via Sparse Attention

arXiv:2602.04789v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Advanced autoregressive (AR) video generation models have improved visual fidelity and interactivity, but the quadratic complexity of attention rema

MoRAL: Sensor-Grounded BEV Reasoning for Compact VLMs toward Edge-Oriented Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2608.02449v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying vision-language models (VLMs) for safety-critical spatial reasoning on resource-constrained autonomous driving platforms requires both compact

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NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super, the Frontier Open Model for Robotaxis and Autonomous Vehicles, Now Available for Commercial Use

For robotaxis and other autonomous vehicles (AVs), the hardest problems aren’t the everyday scenarios. They’re the rare, complex situations that are difficult to anticipate and train for. Handling the

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PredAct-Bench: Benchmarking Tool-Augmented Dialogue under Controlled Tool Noise

arXiv:2608.02372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in task-oriented dialogue systems that support multi-step decision-making in high-stakes domains

Proteus: A Truncation-Robust Entropy Model for Progressive LiDAR Compression

arXiv:2608.00687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LiDAR point clouds provide explicit, deterministic physical boundaries critical for collaborative safety-critical perception. However, wireless channels

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Qwen3.8-Max is available in Hermes Agent now! Let's build! 🚀🚀

Qwen 3.8‑Max, Alibaba.Qwen’s latest large‑language model, has been added to Hermes Agent and can currently be accessed at a 20 % discount. The update aims to streamline integration of the model for de

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Refine Drugs, Don't Complete Them: Uniform-Source Discrete Flows for Fragment-Based Drug Discovery

arXiv:2509.26405v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce InVirtuoGen, a discrete flow generative model for fragmented SMILES for de novo and fragment-constrained generation, and target-propert

Shieldstral is available under Apache 2.0. Try it: https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Shieldstral-1.0

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**Shieldstral** is a 3‑billion‑parameter open‑weights model developed by Mistral AI for content safety. It can be deployed on-device and is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The model is avail

Similarity-Aware Machine Unlearning

arXiv:2608.00246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine unlearning removes the influence of user-specified training examples from a trained model, avoiding the need to retrain it from scratch. Localiz

Toward Robust LLM-Based Judges: Taxonomic Bias Evaluation and Debiasing Optimization

arXiv:2603.08091v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based judges are widely adopted for automated evaluation and reward modeling, yet their judgments are often affected by j

TreeProbe : A Tibetan Medicine Benchmark for Cultural Bias in LLMs

arXiv:2608.00640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly viewed as a potential means of mitigating global health inequities, yet their outputs often reflect dominant high

Who Should Be Generated? Justifying Demographic Targets in Open-Ended Generation

arXiv:2608.02551v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fairness evaluation concerns not only what a model produces, but also what its outputs ought to be compared against. When a model generates 'a CEO in

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A Generalized-Bayes Perspective on Counterfactual Explanations: Posterior-Based Decision-Making and Evaluation

arXiv:2607.29077v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Counterfactual explanations (CEs) enhance the interpretability of machine learning models by identifying the smallest change to an input required to obt

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Agentic Harness for Real-World Compilers

arXiv:2603.20075v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Compilers are critical to modern computing, yet fixing compiler bugs is difficult. While recent large language model (LLM) advancements enable

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llama : MTP support for DeepSeek V3.2 (#26457) llama : MTP support for DeepSeek V3.2 model : no need to include MTP layers during DeepSeek V3.2 model type discovery Co-authored-by: Stanisław Szymczyk

Benchmarks Are Not Monolithic: Sample-Level Auditing and Orchestration for LLM Evaluation

arXiv:2607.28801v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Benchmark datasets are central to evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs), yet they are typically conceived as monolithic tasks, obscuring substantial

Benchmarks Are Not Validation: A System-Level View of Financial LLM Applications

arXiv:2607.28840v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed in financial applications that combine retrieval, proprietary data, tool use, orchestration logic, monit

Can Synthetic Data Overcome the Generalization Limits of AI-Based Flower and Pod Detection Across Cowpea Breeding Genotypes and Environments?

arXiv:2607.28796v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-throughput phenotyping requires AI-enabled computer vision models that generalize across genotypes, locations, and growing seasons, yet such models

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Agents

HarnessBank: Semantic Gene-Bank Search with Gated Verification for Agent-Harness Self-Evolution

arXiv:2607.13683v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled capable agents across diverse applications. Beyond the foundation model, the performance of an agent is go

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I gave five different local LLMs a town. They invented Facebook and a duck-based credit bureau. (MIT, self-hosted, you don't play it — you watch it)

Each villager in Pepperton is a different model — a mistral, a qwen3, a qwen2.5, a phi4-mini, a llama3.2 — because model families have genuinely different temperaments, and the friction between them i

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LARA: Lightweight Adapters in the Residual Stream for Composable Adaptation and Alignment

arXiv:2607.28669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present LARA (Lightweight Additive Residual Adaptation), a method for efficient adaptation that operates in the residual stream of a frozen model rat

🔥Let's talk about Qwen! #AMA

The post announces an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) about Qwen, the Alibaba‑developed foundation model. It introduces the Qwen Foundation Model Team and directs readers to their GitHub repository @QwenDevs,

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