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EduClaw-Bench: A Long-Horizon Benchmark for Pedagogical LLM Agents with Simulated Learners

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arXiv:2608.03206v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) power educational applications from tutoring to essay scoring, but each is a point solution to a single task, and only re

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... four years later, I got the new Claude Fable 5 to actually build the game https://x.com/simonw/status/2085089518223602058

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... four years later, I got the new Claude Fable 5 to actually build the game https://x.com/simonw/status/2085089518223602058 Four years ago today I tweeted about having GPT-3 and DALL-E come up with

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ICO: Enhancing Semantic-Shift Jailbreaks via Iterative Context Optimization

arXiv:2608.03210v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models have achieved remarkable success across diverse tasks, but they remain vulnerable. To investigate such vulnerabilities, semantic-shift

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Learning Biomechanically Plausible Human Motion from Sparse Radar Point Clouds

arXiv:2608.03637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Radar-based human pose estimation has focused on improving learning algorithms while representing the body as unconstrained keypoint coordinates. We add

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LLMs Can Annotate Attribution Graphs

arXiv:2608.02632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Circuit tracing is an exciting technique for revealing the internal computation of language models, but it requires a time-intensive manual step of grou

Long-term Traffic Scene Prediction via Polynomial Representations in Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2608.03330v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This thesis addresses fundamental challenges in traffic scene prediction for autonomous driving by introducing robust and computationally efficient mode

Multi-Camera Trajectory Forecasting with Trajectory Tensors

arXiv:2108.04694v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce the problem of multi-camera trajectory forecasting (MCTF), which involves predicting the trajectory of a moving object across a network o

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Test-Time Scaling for Safe Text-Guided Image Generation via Intermediate Clean Estimates

arXiv:2608.03284v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ensuring safety and policy compliance in text-to-image diffusion models remains a critical challenge, as benign or adversarial prompts can often elici

The Agent Operating System (AOS): A Reference Operating Architecture for Distributed Agentic Systems

arXiv:2608.03214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models have transformed artificial intelligence from isolated prediction services into components of long-running, distributed systems th

Uncovering Spontaneous Physics Representations in In-Context Learning

arXiv:2508.12448v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In-context learning (ICL) lets large language models (LLMs) solve new tasks from prompts alone, across an ever-widening range of domains, yet

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Constrained Co-Design for Photonic Bayesian Neural Networks

arXiv:2608.02229v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Classical neural networks frequently produce overconfident predictions on ambiguous or out-of-distribution (OOD) data, a liability that grows with each

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Enhancing Large Language Model Reasoning with Reward Models: An Analytical Survey

arXiv:2510.01925v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reward models (RMs) play a critical role in enhancing the reasoning performance of LLMs. For example, they can provide training signals to finetune

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From Digital to Physical Reservoir Computing: Co-Optimizing Soft Robotic Reservoirs via Dynamics Matching

arXiv:2608.00484v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Soft robotic substrates are promising for Physical Reservoir Computing (PRC) because their compliant nonlinear dynamics can provide temporal memory, h

H+ Embedding: Harmonizing Global and Token-Level Retrieval with Context-Dependent Phrases

arXiv:2608.00065v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Terminology-intensive retrieval, especially in medical settings, depends on preserving multi-word entities, abbreviations, numerical constraints, and

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Hylog: A Hybrid Approach to Logging Text Production in Non-alphabetic Scripts

arXiv:2601.17753v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Research keyloggers are essential for cognitive studies of text production, yet most fail to capture the on-screen transformations performed by Inpu

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Large Causal Models for Temporal Causal Discovery

arXiv:2602.18662v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Causal discovery for both cross-sectional and temporal data has traditionally followed a dataset-specific paradigm, where a new model is fitted for

Learning Compositional Meta-Routing for Agentic Workflows: An Executable Benchmark

arXiv:2608.00106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic systems must decide not only what answer to produce, but which reasoning and execution operations should precede it. A controller may answer dir

Mind the Gap: Zero-Query Jailbreaks via Filter-Generator Discrepancy in Text-to-Image Systems

arXiv:2608.00973v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image (T2I) systems typically have prompt-level safety filters before the generator to block unsafe requests, yet such systems remain vulnerable

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New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging

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I released LLM 0.32 this morning, the most significant new version of LLM since the initial launch of the project. The new version includes support for visible reasoning traces, server-side provider t

Nonlinear Laplacians Improve Signed-Directed Graph Learning

arXiv:2608.00836v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While signed-directed graphs have been studied using linear Laplacians in the design of graph neural networks, relatively little research has focused on

Optimal Unambiguous DNFs and Alon-Saks-Seymour

arXiv:2608.02533v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We construct unambiguous DNFs having width O(n) but 0-certificate complexity Omega(n^2). By utilizing the special structure of these DNFs, we prove a

Response Magnitude as a Dominant Signal for Held-Out CRISPRi Perturbation Effect Prediction

arXiv:2608.00152v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting the magnitude of a CRISPRi perturbation's transcriptomic effect on held-out target genes is an important open problem in single-cell biology.

Sampling-Based Visibility Task Planning

arXiv:2608.01027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) algorithms enable autonomous operation by incorporating the specific functions and constraints of end-effector too

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Semantically Calibrated Evidence Composition for CT Vision-Language Learning

arXiv:2608.00239v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning transferable representations from CT-report pairs requires combining whole-volume context with anatomy-specific evidence. Existing methods typi

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The Elements of Differentiable Programming

arXiv:2403.14606v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Artificial intelligence has recently experienced remarkable advances, fueled by large models, vast datasets, accelerated hardware, and, last but not

Towards a theory of morphology-driven marking in the lexicon: The case of the state

arXiv:2604.03422v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: All languages have a noun category, but its realisation varies considerably. Depending on the language, semantic and/or morphosyntactic differences

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What Transfers from Text to Vision? Capability Scaling Laws and Transfer Dynamics for VLMs

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arXiv:2608.00013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Choosing the right large language model (LLM) backbone is the most consequential decision when building a vision-language model (VLM), yet it remains fu

Döner Bench DeepSeek-V4-Flash IQ2_XS running on a single RTX 3090

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https://preview.redd.it/3zcvpbds14hh1.png?width=1911&format=png&auto=webp&s=a79aafb71eeca97638da93d2591902631e897fd5 I tried a test similar to the recent model-quant comparisons, but this time I focus

ELISA: An Interpretable Hybrid Generative AI Agent for Expression-Grounded Discovery in Single-Cell Genomics

arXiv:2603.11872v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Translating single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data into mechanistic biological hypotheses remains a critical bottleneck, as agentic AI sy

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Embedded Universal Predictive Intelligence: a coherent framework for multi-agent learning

arXiv:2511.22226v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The standard theory of model-free reinforcement learning assumes that the environment dynamics are stationary and that agents are decoupled from the

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First Investigation of Deep Learning for Intraoperative Gauze Segmentation in Minimally Invasive Abdominal Surgery

arXiv:2607.29132v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surgical gauze is an essential part of surgical procedures, primarily used for controlling bleeding and absorbing bodily fluids. The post-surgical reten

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Information Processing by Neuron Populations in the Central Nervous System: A Theory of the Mathematical Structure of Data and Operations

arXiv:2309.02332v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In the mammalian central nervous system, neurons are organized into populations communicating by spike trains propagating along axonal bundles

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Local Ai

Multimodal Reinforcement Learning with Adaptive Verifier for AI Agents

arXiv:2512.03438v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic reasoning models trained with multimodal reinforcement learning (MMRL) have become increasingly capable, yet they are almost universally opt

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Persistent Convolution: A Topological Framework for AI Alignment Testing and Semantic Space Characterization

arXiv:2607.29008v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern opaque AI models prize performance over interpretability, which makes testing difficult. However, formal statistical tests conducted on a model

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QR-Structured Thermal Triggers for Targeted Semantic Attacks on Infrared Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2607.29445v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Infrared vision-language models (IR-VLMs) extend thermal perception to open-vocabulary classification, image captioning, and visual question answering

TokenSwap: Benchmarking and Reducing the Modality Gap in Multimodal LLMs

arXiv:2607.28640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) should generate consistent responses given semantically equivalent inputs across modalities. However, we observ

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Applications

Top eight misconceptions about OpenAI’s amazing new Astra math results. 1. Expertise in one domain does not at all guarantee expertise in al…

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Top eight misconceptions about OpenAI’s amazing new Astra math results. 1. Expertise in one domain does not at all guarantee expertise in all or even most domains. There is an important, principled re

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ARES: Anomaly Recognition Model For Edge Streams

arXiv:2511.22078v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many real-world scenarios involving streaming information can be represented as temporal graphs, where data flows through dynamic changes in edges o

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Beyond Binary Rewards: A Comparative Study of Reward Design for Reinforcement Unlearning

arXiv:2607.27968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine unlearning seeks to selectively remove specific knowledge from trained language models without full retraining, a growing necessity under privac

BioPro: Towards Difference-Aware Gender Fairness for Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2512.00807v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) inherit significant social biases from their training data, notably in gender representation. Current fairness interve

ChronoMem: Version Control and Semantic Rollback for Large Language Model Agent Memory

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arXiv:2607.27773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly rely on long-term memory to support multi-session interaction and personalization. However, existing agent memory systems are de

Tutorials

Dynamically Scaled Activation Steering

arXiv:2512.03661v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Activation steering has emerged as a powerful method for guiding the behavior of generative models towards desired outcomes such as toxicity mitigat

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Pramana: A Composable, Domain-Specific Backend for Empirical Networking Research

arXiv:2607.26352v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Networking research advances by turning hypotheses into empirical evidence, so accelerating it means reducing the lag between ideation (synthesizing a

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Some deepseek-v4-flash 20260731 opinion review

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First of all, I want to apologize if it's off-topic or in the wrong format. Having tried Deepseek Flash with reasoning high on a conceptually difficult task, involving Machine Learning classifiers and

STEREODISCO: Discovering Stereotypicality in LLMs

arXiv:2607.27824v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs encode, convey, and perpetuate stereotypes. Prior computational research focuses on a small set of semantic axes investigated in social psycholog

The Confidence Manifold: Geometric Structure of Correctness Representations in Language Models

arXiv:2602.08159v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: When a language model asserts that 'the capital of Australia is Sydney,' does it know this is wrong? Models assert misconceptions with the sam

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TraceCoder: Explainable and Auditable Code Generation with Position-Key Snippet Versioning

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arXiv:2607.26307v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contemporary LLM-based coding agents produce code as black-box outputs: the rationale behind each line is hidden, the evolution of the code through benc

Understanding Submodular Information Measure Based Objectives for Representation Learning: A Variance and Separation Perspective

arXiv:2607.27660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Submodular Information Measures (SIMs) have recently emerged as a powerful framework for representation learning and multimodal learning. In particula

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