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OptiModNet: A UNet-Transformer Hybrid with Grouped-Query and Channel Attention for Optic Disc and Cup Segmentation

arXiv:2608.18516v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Precise segmentation of the optic disc and cup is critical for the early detection and diagnosis of glaucoma. However, achieving consistently high per

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ORBITER: Conflict-Aware Decision-Making for Agentic Last-Mile Delivery

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arXiv:2608.18846v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Last-mile delivery aims to handle dynamically arriving orders with couriers while modeling complex spatial and temporal correlations. Recent learning-ba

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20 Aug 2026

Orienteering Problem with Uncertain Time-Varying Rewards: Framework and Benchmark for Everyday Service Robotics

arXiv:2608.18672v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present the orienteering problem with uncertain time-varying rewards (OP-UTVR), a novel variant of the orienteering problem (OP). While most existi

Orthogonal Polynomial Approximation for Matrix Log Normalization in Global Covariance Pooling

arXiv:2608.19021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Global Covariance Pooling (GCP) improves deep networks by capturing second-order feature statistics, and is especially effective for fine-grained recogn

Pairwise Logical Selection of Enthymeme Completions under Semantic-Link Uncertainty

arXiv:2608.18820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Arguments often omit premises or claims, forming enthymemes. We study pairwise logical selection between two candidates for the omitted component. Exist

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PLASMA: A Layout-Aware Benchmark Reveals Memory Layout Matters for Graph-based ANNS on GPU

arXiv:2508.15436v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose a extbf{P}latform for extbf{L}ayout-extbf{A}ware extbf{S}earch and extbf{M}emory extbf{A}rrangement (extbf{PLASMA}), a unified eval

Pretraining Reusable Inference Across Views with Synthetic Task Priors

arXiv:2608.19115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern pretrained encoders make representations from heterogeneous views increasingly reusable, but the procedure that determines view utility and combi

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Progressive Experience Fusion for Multi-Task World Model Control in Endovascular Navigation

arXiv:2608.18647v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous endovascular navigation could support the delivery of mechanical thrombectomy to underserved areas, but controllers must navigate long, multi

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ProxyGuard: Direct Reliability Inference for Randomized Data Release Mechanisms with Shared Targets

arXiv:2608.18643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Researchers often choose a proxy dataset from many releases, transformations, or seeds. Search can make an invalid release appear adequate, while one ad

Qwen3.8-27B scored 29/30 on AIME 2026 with FP8 + xhigh reasoning — BF16 vs FP8 results

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I benchmarked Qwen3.8-27B on MathArena/aime_2026 dataset, comparing BF16 and FP8 weights at medium and xhigh reasoning effort. Interesting findings are: quantized FP8 xhigh is better than BF 16 medium

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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Reinforced Planning with Latent World Models

arXiv:2608.18669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans solve complex problems by constructing plans and mentally simulating their outcomes with an internal model of the world. Machine learning has pro

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Role-Conditioned Sub-Token Routing for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Policies

arXiv:2608.18410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models process long multimodal token sequences, making inference expensive in both memory and computation. Existing efficie

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RVLoss: Runoff Vote Loss for Self-Supervised LiDAR Scene Flow Estimation

arXiv:2608.18864v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LiDAR scene flow estimates point-wise motion between two consecutive scans, referred to as the source and target. Leading self-supervised methods typica

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Scheduling and Routing with Degradation-Triggered Job Arrivals: An Application to Forest Firefighting with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Fleet

arXiv:2608.18140v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We define an intertwined scheduling and routing problem where new jobs appear due to the degradation of the existing jobs. Specifically, once a job arri

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Self-supervised In-context Operator Learning for Stochastic Mean-Field Control

arXiv:2608.18282v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stochastic mean-field control (MFC) provides a fundamental framework for coordinating large populations of interacting agents under uncertainty, with

SIGMA: Symmetry-aware, Intelligent, Geometric, Multi-objective Adaptive Control for Robust, Dependable Traffic Management

arXiv:2608.18263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic signal control is a complex sequential decision-making problem requiring real-time adaptation and trade-offs among throughput, delay fairness, s

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SMTrap: Cost-Effective DoS Attacks Against Large Reasoning Models via SMT Conflict Guidance

arXiv:2608.18921v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing LRM-DoS methods rely heavily on model feedback to synthesize attack queries, requiring either repeated queries to the target model or trainin

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Industry

Source: AI training data startup Micro1's gross annual run rate grew from 100M to 500M in the past eight months, putting net annual run rate at 150M-200M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Source: AI training data startup Micro1's gross annual run rate grew from 100M to 500M in the past eight months, putting net annual run rate at 150M-200M — The near-bottoml

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SPARC: Slice-to-volume Pipeline for Automated Reconstruction of gated 3D+time fetal Cardiac MRI

arXiv:2608.18616v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fetal cardiac MRI (fCMR) provides valuable diagnostic information complementary to echocardiography, particularly for complex congenital heart disease (

SPARC: Subspace Position-Aware Robust Few-Shot Calibration for Distribution-Shifted Industrial Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2608.18585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-based industrial anomaly detectors are calibrated on one distribution but may be deployed on another that differs in illumination, fixture placem

Stability-Aware Feature Design for Robust Watermark Detection in Machine-Generated Text

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arXiv:2608.18102v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs) has intensified the demand for principled methods to distinguish human from machine-generated te

StocksTalk: A Voice-Enabled Conversational Agent for Structured Query Generation over Web Data

arXiv:2608.18105v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: StocksTalk is a voice-enabled conversational system for transforming spoken financial screening requests into executable and validated structured quer

Subgroup performance analysis of adaptation strategies for chest X-ray foundation models

arXiv:2608.19078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models are increasingly adapted for downstream medical imaging tasks, yet the influence of the chosen adaptation strategy on subgroup fairnes

Syntactic Simplification of OWL Class Expressions

arXiv:2608.18899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Class expression learning often produces complex OWL class expressions that are difficult to interpret and reason over. However, by following theoretica

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Task-Conditioned Least-Privilege Learning for Executable Terminal and MCP Agents

arXiv:2608.18351v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-using large language-model agents can complete a task while exercising authority that the user did not grant or the task does not need, causing e

Tensor Field Models

arXiv:2608.18808v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces Tensor Field Models (TFMs), realization-level Mathematical Structures in which a learned Operator maps a product of admissible com

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TokenPowerSandbox: Evidence-Gated CPU-First Screening for Energy-Aware LLM Serving

arXiv:2608.18149v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Energy-aware LLM serving requires comparing configurations under realistic request shapes, yet exhaustive target-GPU profiling is costly and a cheap p

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Topology-Aware Differential Privacy in Hierarchical Federated Learning

arXiv:2506.19260v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Hierarchical federated learning places regional aggregators between clients and the cloud, so a participant's update is observed only alongsid

TractoGraphVLM: A Unified Vision-Language Framework for White Matter Tractography

arXiv:2608.18166v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision language models have transformed 2D medical imaging, yet extending them to 3D white matter tractography remains challenging due to the complex

Training Chemical Plausibility-Aware Large Language Models for Single-Step Retrosynthesis

arXiv:2608.18940v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Single-step retrosynthesis is a central component of computer-aided synthesis planning, yet its intrinsically one-to-many nature is poorly captured by

Transferable Tool-Tissue Contact Detection from Stereo Depth in Robot-Assisted Surgery

arXiv:2608.18270v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable tool--tissue contact detection can support interaction-aware control and downstream force estimation in robot-assisted surgery. Most existing m

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Transforming Heart Disease Prediction with Advanced Machine Learning Techniques

arXiv:2608.18687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Heart disease remains the leading cause of mortality globally, necessitating early and accurate detection to improve patient outcomes. This research foc

TrojanGYM: A Detector-in-the-Loop LLM for Adaptive RTL Hardware Trojan Insertion

arXiv:2601.17178v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Hardware Trojans (HTs) remain a critical threat because learning-based detectors often overfit to narrow trigger/payload patterns and small, s

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Uncertainty-Aware Art-Historical Dating with Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608.18984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Museum and archival datasets do not mirror historical artistic production, but materialize the contingent histories of collecting, preservation, catalog

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VERAGMIL: Virtual Environment for Scooping Granular Foods with Imitation Learning Models

arXiv:2608.18258v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot-Assisted Feeding (RAF) systems are essential for assisting individuals with disabilities or motor impairments in eating tasks. Manipulating granul

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Vision-Language Models for Egocentric Video: From Hand-Object Interaction to Embodied AI

arXiv:2608.18671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Egocentric video captures activities from the wearer's perspective, providing a direct view of human attention, hand--object interaction, and goal-direc

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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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When Does Dynamic Ensembling Pay Off? Diagnosing Regionwise Gains in Regression under Distribution Shift

arXiv:2608.18330v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whether input-dependent ('dynamic') combination of a regression model pool beats the best static blend depends on the shift and is rarely known before d

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Whole-Piece Training for Symbolic Music Language Models via Full-Horizon Compressed Recurrence

arXiv:2602.19816v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: For computational efficiency, modern language models are typically trained on independently sampled fixed-length sequences. Symbolic music lan

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X-LMC: Cross-View Spatiotemporal Collateral Circulation Scoring from DSA

arXiv:2608.18986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is the reference standard for leptomeningeal collateral (LMC) assessment, providing critical prognostic insights t

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X2Streaming-TTS: Causal Token-Level Text-to-Speech from Streaming Text with Speech-State Inheritance

arXiv:2608.18661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Streaming text-to-speech is essential for low-latency spoken dialogue systems, yet many systems wait for sentence-level text and are therefore only pseu

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XRF-to-Optical Field-of-View Localization with Vision Language Models

arXiv:2608.18309v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Registering images acquired with different microscopy modalities is essential for relating complementary measurements of the same specimen. In correlati

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You Are What You Prompt: Prompt Quality, Domain Shift, and Uncertainty in Agrifood Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608.18116v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models enable zero-shot classification through natural language prompts, but performance is sensitive to prompt formulation, especially

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Zero-Shot SAM2 Segmentation and Vision Transformer-Based Recognition of Elamite Cuneiform Symbols from Degraded Tablet Images

arXiv:2608.18544v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated recognition of ancient cuneiform script poses a compound signal-degradation problem: the three-dimensional relief of clay tablets creates spat

3D Gaussian Accelerated Ray Tracing: Fast training through particle-based backward propagation

arXiv:2608.17298v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting has made Gaussian primitives a highly efficient representation for real-time novel view synthesis, but its rasterisation-based f

19 Aug 2026

A Diffusion-Refined Planner with Reinforcement Learning Priors for Confined-Space Parking

arXiv:2510.14000v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The growing demand for parking has increased the need for automated parking planning methods that can operate reliably in confined spaces. In restri

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19 Aug 2026

Accuracy and Robustness of Model Cascades Under Data Perturbations