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Task-Aware Harness Provisioning for LLM Agents in Mission-Critical Infrastructure Operations

arXiv:2608.17433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents have been widely adopted to operate mission-critical infrastructure (MCI). These agents normally rely on a harness that determines what infor

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Teach and Grow: An Agent-Centered Architecture for General Robot Learning

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arXiv:2608.17209v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end vision-language-action (VLA) and world-action models offer an elegant route to general-purpose robotics, but their reliability is bounded b

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TEAMS: Text-prompted spatiotEmporal dual-heAd Mamba Snake

arXiv:2608.17421v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep snake is a promising family of instance segmentation methods that accurately predicts object-level contours, thereby overcoming common pixel-level

Temporal Leakage in Financial News NLP: A Multi-Architecture Audit with a Regime-Specific M&A Signal

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arXiv:2608.17223v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial-news direction prediction has become a popular NLP benchmark, yet reported gains depend critically on whether the train-test split is chronolo

The Curious Case of Exploding DecPOMDPs: Containing the Fire through Policy Counting

arXiv:2608.17749v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decentralised partially observable Markov decision processes (DecPOMDPs) provide a general framework for modelling multi-agent decision making under unc

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The IOL-AI Challenge: An Open Challenge towards Advancing Linguistic Reasoning

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arXiv:2608.18011v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning in LLMs is overwhelmingly studied in domains that provide a model with rules: mathematics and code. Linguistic puzzles invert this: the solver

Thoughts About Scaling Law - Z.ai

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Thoughts About Scaling Law Scaling, but not only of parameters. Every model release now ends with the same question: how many parameters? It isn't a question that can be answered on its own. Parameter

TINA+: Probing Residual Visual Knowledge in Unlearned Diffusion Models via Diffusion-Consistent Text-Free Inversion

arXiv:2608.17747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although text-to-image diffusion models exhibit remarkable generative power, concept erasure techniques are essential for preventing harmful content. Ex

tinyDSM: A Framework for Skill Modeling and Development for Resource-Constrained Millirobots

arXiv:2608.17596v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this study, we investigate developmental mechanisms that enable small, resource-constrained systems such as cm-sized millirobots to autonomously ex

Token Optimization and Context Window Management in Multi-Agent AI Workflows

arXiv:2608.17188v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-agent AI workflows are limited not only by model quality but by token cost, latency, and context-window quality. This paper presents a practitio

Top 15 models in Agent Arena vs. median task cost: who's delivering the most for their price? Key findings: Even within the top 5, median co…

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Top 15 models in Agent Arena vs. median task cost: who's delivering the most for their price? Key findings: Even within the top 5, median cost per task ranges from 0.62 for Kimi K3 (Max) to 3.37 for C

Towards Safer RAG: Only Agents Capable of System 2 Thinking may Access Untrusted Documents

arXiv:2608.17153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has significantly enhanced the performance of large language models (LLMs), yet these systems remain vulnerable to

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Understanding the Surprising Generalization Properties of Tabular Foundation Models

arXiv:2608.17957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) increasingly rely on in-context learning, where a model receives labelled examples at inference time and predicts label

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UniQuery4R: Unified 4D Scene Reconstruction from a Single Query

arXiv:2608.17283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconstructing dynamic 4D scenes requires jointly estimating correspondence, geometry, object motion, and camera motion. Existing feed-forward methods t

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UniReflex: Plug-and-Play Force Control for Pretrained Generative Policies via Fast-Slow Reflex

arXiv:2608.17432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative imitation learning policies excel at trajectory planning but lack closed-loop force regulation, while directly incorporating force modalities

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Validated Adaptation for Aerial Crowd Monitoring at Mass Gathering Scale: A Deployment Protocol, a Severity Law, and a Diagnostic for Label-Free Drone Crowd Counting, Toward the FIFA World Cup 2034 (Saudi Arabia)

arXiv:2608.17625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Saudi Arabia will host the 2034 FIFA World Cup and already operates crowd management at Hajj scale. Drone-based counting must hold accuracy on footage u

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VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push

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Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival i

Vision Transformers for End-to-End Quark-Gluon Jet Classification from Calorimeter Images

arXiv:2506.14934v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Distinguishing between quark- and gluon-initiated jets is a critical and challenging task in high-energy physics, pivotal for improving new physics

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Visual Prompting for Robotic Manipulation with Annotation-Guided Pick-and-Place Using ACT

arXiv:2508.08748v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic pick-and-place tasks in convenience stores pose challenges due to dense object arrangements, occlusions, and variations in object prop

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VLCP: Vision Language Control Policy Closed-Loop Code Replanning for Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2608.16978v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Turning a frontier vision-language model into a robot policy usually means fine-tuning it to emit an action representation it never saw in pretraining,

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We will continue to offer Zero Data Retention for frontier models. As AI takes on longer, more autonomous work and delivers greater value to…

We will continue to offer Zero Data Retention for frontier models. As AI takes on longer, more autonomous work and delivers greater value to businesses, safety systems also need to identify risks acro

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What Tokens are Learned when Tokenization is Optimized Jointly with Language Modeling?

arXiv:2608.17325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tokenization is a fundamental component of language modeling pipelines. Despite its importance, it is often fixed, even though it significantly impacts

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When AI Designs AI: Innovation or Imitation?

arXiv:2608.17471v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in LLM agents have made them increasingly capable of designing methods for complex AI tasks. This raises two central questions about age

When More Foundation Models Means Less: Diagnosing and Addressing Multi-View Fusion Failure

arXiv:2608.17490v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation-model hubs turn multi-view fusion into a selection problem: from a large heterogeneous encoder pool, which views should be fused, and how man

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Whether LLMs Can Navigate Beliefs and Facts Depends on How You Phrase It

arXiv:2608.17809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans naturally form and express beliefs in daily communication, e.g., 'I think the answer is 3' or 'I suppose that's right.' Such beliefs inevitably i

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Write, Execute, Refine: From Skill Followers to Skill Optimizers via Reinforcement Learning from Execution Feedback

arXiv:2608.17587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Expert-written natural language skills can improve tool-using agents, yet agent-authored skills perform 8-11 points worse than using no skill. This gap

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A Comprehensive Survey of Wireless Foundation Models for AI-Native 6G Networks

arXiv:2608.14694v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models are emerging as a transformative paradigm for AI-native sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks by enabling scalable, transferable, an

A Highly Efficient Diversity-based Input Selection for DNN Improvement Using VLMs

arXiv:2601.08024v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Maintaining or improving the performance of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) through fine-tuning requires labeling newly collected inputs, a process that

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A Low-Cost IoT Device for Environmental Monitoring and Embedded Solar Forecasting with On-Device Incremental Learning

arXiv:2608.14698v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hyperlocal meteorological sensing is essential for accurate solar photovoltaic forecasting, yet professional-grade meteorological stations require inv

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A Machine-Learned Comorbidity Index

arXiv:2606.17450v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Traditional comorbidity scores (e.g., Charlson and Elixhauser) are widely used for risk adjustment and patient stratification, but they have two key

A multi-center analysis of deep learning methods for video polyp detection and segmentation

arXiv:2603.04288v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Colonic polyps are well-recognized precursors to colorectal cancer (CRC), typically detected during colonoscopy. However, the variability in appeara

A Novel Fourier Feature Network for Solving Partial Differential Equations

arXiv:2608.14733v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Building on the foundation of single-hidden-layer neural networks, Fourier Feature Networks (FENs) are proposed, which incorporate Fourier features us

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A Policy Algebra for Trust-Preserving Agentic AI Execution

arXiv:2608.16402v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model-based agentic frameworks primarily optimize capability: whether an agent can reason, retrieve information, call tools, delegate wor

A Temporal Planning Framework for Disruption Aware Dynamic Route Optimization in Heterogeneous Railway Systems

arXiv:2606.14582v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Efficient route optimization play a vital role in ensuring both safety and punctuality in railway operations. It is very crucial particularly in het

A Unified Geometric Framework for Developmental Analysis of Spatial Transcriptomic Data

arXiv:2608.15306v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-throughput single-cell and spatial transcriptomic technologies provide high-resolution snapshots of heterogeneous cellular states, but their dest

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Accelerating Mixed Discrete-Continuous Motion Planning via Neural Graphs of Convex Sets

arXiv:2608.15440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motion planning problems such as collision-free navigation and contact-rich manipulation can be naturally formulated as optimization problems that coupl

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Accuracy and Reliability of Large Language Models in Cosmetic Chemistry and Skin Health: A Benchmarking Study

arXiv:2608.14631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As consumers increasingly turn to AI chatbots for skincare advice, the technical accuracy of Large Language Models (LLMs) in cosmetic chemistry remains

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ACTS-SQL: Agentic and Critic-Oriented Tree-Structured SQL Correctness with Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.15145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have been increasingly adopted in Text-to-SQL systems, yet SQL errors remain a major obstacle in real-world Text-to-SQL inf

Adaptive Bridge: A Proxy-Based Decoupling Layer for Mitigating DDS Backpressure in ROS 2

arXiv:2608.15380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In ROS 2 systems using DDS, a single slow subscriber on a RELIABLE topic can cause backpressure that degrades throughput and latency for all subscribe

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Adding Voice Cloning to Text-to-Audio-Video Models with a Single Zero-Initialised Layer

arXiv:2608.15690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-audio-video (T2AV) generation models produce a video and its soundtrack from a textual description, but offer no control over whose voice spea

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Advancing Open and Reproducible Relational Learning: RelArena-alpha, TabPFN-Rel and RPI

arXiv:2608.16319v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This first release of Prior Labs in relational learning shows our continued commitment to open science. We open-source three pieces of software that we

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AeroGround: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Aerial-Ground Collaborative Reasoning

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arXiv:2608.14721v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have been widely employed in understanding and reasoning tasks for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Existing UAV benchmark

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can already write code, generate synthetic data for training, and optimiz

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Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design for Efficient VLA Inference via Speculative Inference and Verification

arXiv:2608.15636v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in the field of embodied AI, but their high computational cost and limit

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An Adaptive Gradient Clipping and Noise Injection Mechanism for Differentially Private Federated Learning

arXiv:2608.15153v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Differentially private federated learning must balance privacy protection against model accuracy and training efficiency. Static gradient clipping app

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An Agentic Framework Using Rules and LLMs for Embedding and Annotating Descriptive Document Layouts: A Plant Science Use Case

arXiv:2608.14587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background: Recent advances in information retrieval (IR) leverage both dense and sparse representations, large language models (LLMs), and specialized

Andy: A Mathematical Agent for Rigorous Proof and Autonomous Research

arXiv:2608.15052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Andy is an autonomous mathematical research agent that solves and verifies submitted problems, formulates new research problems, and constructs rigorous

Architecture-Dependent Causal Transfer of Activation States Across Large Language Models

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arXiv:2608.16347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Direct communication between AI systems relies on natural language as an intermediate layer, incurring encoding/decoding overhead, token cost, and laten