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Subtype Robustness Is Not Just Accuracy: Calibration Under Unseen Subtype Shift

arXiv:2608.00928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Subtype robustness asks whether a model keeps the correct coarse prediction when test examples come from fine-grained subtypes absent from training but

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TAB-PO: Preference Optimization with a Token-Level Adaptive Barrier for Token-Critical Structured Generation

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arXiv:2603.00025v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) is effective for offline alignment but poorly matched to ontology-driven structured prediction, where preferred

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The Learning Objective Governs Perceptual Narrowing: A Cross-Lingual, Layer-Wise, Ten-Seed Study of Self-Supervised Speech Encoders

arXiv:2608.00507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Perceptual narrowing---the developmental loss of non-native phoneme discrimination in the first year of life itep{werker1984}---is a canonical developme

The Role of Disfluencies in Speech Translation

arXiv:2608.02138v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current speech translation systems, including SpeechLLMs, are trained on cleaned text and tend to strip disfluencies like filled pauses and false starts

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Token-Native Storage: Read and Write in your Agent's Language

arXiv:2608.02376v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Search and database engines still store text as UTF-8, a format built for humans. But the systems that increasingly read and write that text (embedder

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WAM-Diff2: Hierarchical AR-to-Diffusion Distillation for Highly Efficient Autonomous Driving VLA

arXiv:2608.01035v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a prominent paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving; however, their efficient deployment is sev

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We're detailing two new incidents that occurred during external cyber evaluations conducted by independent evaluation partners. We outline w…

We're detailing two new incidents that occurred during external cyber evaluations conducted by independent evaluation partners. We outline what happened, how the activity was contained, and how we’re

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What Makes Position Zero Special? A Mechanistic Study of Position Zero Attention Sinks in LLMs

arXiv:2603.06591v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transformers frequently allocate disproportionate attention to specific tokens, a phenomenon known as attention sinks. Causal large language m

When Retrieval Helps and Distracts: Evaluating Evidence-Generating LLMs for Biomedical Claim Verification

arXiv:2608.01409v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biomedical fact-checking systems must do more than predict whether a claim is supported, contradicted, or unaddressed: they should also produce evidence

Which Modality Decides? Counterfactual Modality Attribution for Multimodal LLMs

arXiv:2608.00076v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) increasingly support high-stakes decision making by combining complementary information from images and text. W

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Analytical and Bootstrap Confidence Intervals of Double Machine Learning: Simulation studies and an application to rural-urban difference in obesity prevalence

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arXiv:2607.29456v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Double Machine Learning (DML) is a popular approach for treatment effect estimation in various settings, which allows a wide range of flexible machine

Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs 0.14/1M input and 0.28/1M output tokens, or 0.03 per test, far below Kimi K3's 0.86 and GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.86 (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs 0.14/1M input and 0.28/1M output tokens, or 0.03 per test, far below Kimi K3's 0.86 and GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.86 — A version of Ch

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🚨ASI/AGI is imminent fans don’t realize that they ALREADY lost the argument around Astra. My argument (spelled out in detail in my Substack…

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🚨ASI/AGI is imminent fans don’t realize that they ALREADY lost the argument around Astra. My argument (spelled out in detail in my Substack today) was that Astra was unlikely to be the dramatic leap f

Assessing the Generalization of Graph Neural Networks for Fault Location Across Increasing Distributed Energy Resource Penetration Levels

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arXiv:2607.29293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate fault location is critical for distribution network reliability. However, increasing distributed energy resource (DER) penetration complicates

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DualDiT: A Conditional Dual-Output Diffusion Transformer for Joint OCT Image and Segmentation Mask Generation

arXiv:2607.29337v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background and Objective: Generating realistic medical images with anatomically accurate segmentation masks helps address the shortage of annotated da

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DungeonBench: A Benchmark for Rules-Rich Tactical Reasoning in Dungeons & Dragons Combat

arXiv:2607.29577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Games and simulators make valuable benchmarks by turning decisions into measurable outcomes, but many current suites under-test rules-rich tactical reas

EarlyDx: An Admission-Anchored Benchmark for Open-Ended Generation of Evidence-Supported ED-Encounter Diagnoses

arXiv:2607.28788v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical diagnosis at hospital admission must be made rapidly from limited, incomplete evidence. Existing diagnosis-prediction benchmarks are poorly sui

Fragility of Value under Imperfect Alignment

arXiv:2607.28881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As more responsibility is placed upon AI systems, it becomes increasingly important to guarantee that these systems are aligned with humanity. A common

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Frugal Bayesian Optimization: Scalable Surrogates for Data- and Resource-Limited Discovery

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arXiv:2607.29225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian Optimization (BO) is widely adopted for data-efficient optimization in scientific and engineering applications, yet its computational cost is r

HenTwin: A Multimodal Digital Twin Framework for Longitudinal Biological State Monitoring in Laying Hens

arXiv:2607.28652v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Early-life monitoring in laying hens remains constrained by fragmented single-modality sensing and the absence of formal system-level state representa

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InferQ: A Database-Oriented Benchmark for Quantum Circuits Simulation

arXiv:2607.29134v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work suggests that relational database management systems (RDBMSs) can execute quantum circuit simulation by compiling the simulation into SQL

Learning from Adversity: Semantic-Aware Mask Refinement through Adversarial Perturbation

arXiv:2607.29059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite significant advances in image segmentation, even state-of-the-art models produce masks with imperfect boundaries, semantic inconsistencies, and

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Local Ai

My downloading is undownloading ??

So I just installed ollama and was trying to download qwen3-vl:8b model but while downloading the it downloads and then undownloads like it goes from close to 500mb to 320 mb like what is going on I t

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OSEF: One-Step Evidence Fusion for Cross-Video Scene Procedure Planning

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arXiv:2607.29401v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video Scene Procedure Planning (VSPP) supplies the target start-goal observations in advance, leaving open how a planner should act when the evidence mu

Predicting Steel Fatigue Life from Micrographs Using Physics-Informed Deep Learning

arXiv:2607.28695v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Here is the plain text version optimized for arXiv's submission form. Custom macros (like CV and SI) have been converted to standard text/math so they

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Reproducing Human Individual Motor Signatures: A Data-Driven Approach for Repetitive Motion

arXiv:2503.15225v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The deployment of autonomous virtual avatars (in extended reality) and robots in human group activities---such as rehabilitation therapy, spor

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ReSum: Synergizing LLM Reasoning and Summarization with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606.13316v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) is a central technique for improving long-horizon reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs). H

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Scaling Properties of Text Conditioning in Visual Generation

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arXiv:2607.29679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study empirical scaling properties for text conditioning in visual generation. Such properties have rarely been measured because diffusion loss does

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Scaling Scientific Discovery Environments for Turn-Level Agentic RL

arXiv:2607.28990v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents have shown promising capabilities in data-driven scientific discovery tasks, where an agent interacts with an execution envi

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SeekBrain: An Autonomous Multi-Agent System for Accelerating Neuroscience Discovery

arXiv:2607.29347v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern neuroscience relies on integrating multi-scale, multimodal datasets to uncover the neural principles underlying intelligence. However, analytic

Sycophancy Undermines Epistemic Vigilance in Cooperative Vision-Language Tasks

arXiv:2607.29585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To maintain common ground in cooperative conversation, humans iteratively update their beliefs as conversation participants share new information; parti

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TextCloak: Thwarting Unauthorized LLM Exploitation via RL-Driven Unlearnable Text

arXiv:2607.28862v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to significant advances across a wide range of language tasks, while simultaneously rais

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Towards bridging the gap: Systematic sim-to-real transfer for diverse legged robots

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arXiv:2509.06342v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Legged robots must achieve both robust locomotion and energy efficiency to be practical in real-world environments. Yet controllers trained in simul

two weeks ago i went on @swyx's pod and said some things that i... should not have said. a lot has happened since then, i owe you all an apo…

two weeks ago i went on @swyx's pod and said some things that i... should not have said. a lot has happened since then, i owe you all an apology. i'm sorry that i was right about every single thing. a

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Validation Evidence in LLM Repair Agents: How Much of What Passes Actually Tests the Bug?

arXiv:2607.28871v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When a repair agent runs a test and sees it pass, the result is treated as evidence about the reported defect. We measure how often that treatment is

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WaiT for the Signal: Simple Frequency-Aware Flow-Matching

arXiv:2607.28760v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As image generation models scale to ever higher resolutions, global coherence, local detail, and texture fidelity become critical axes for generation

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Conclusion: r/LocalLLaMA still has brilliant open-weight research, but finding it requires wading through endless benchmark drama, non-local Discussion Points and repetitive hardware flexes.

I let Gemma4-31b run on my laptop for like almost a day using a heavily altered pi to do a deep dive on our beloved Llama tangentially related Subreddit, and this was the conclusion. Feels pretty accu

Cybersecurity isn’t a fortress problem, it’s an immunity problem. Think vaccines. Eliminating pathogen is not practically possible. Vaccines…

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Cybersecurity isn’t a fortress problem, it’s an immunity problem. Think vaccines. Eliminating pathogen is not practically possible. Vaccines don’t eliminate pathogens. They teach the immune system to

Expert-only IQ3 requant of DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731: better KLD than UD-IQ3_S, 1.4x decode on a CPU-spill rig

Hey all, tldr / who this helps: you run a mixed multi-GPU box where the experts spill to RAM, and you want to stay in the 3-bit tier instead of dropping to Q2 to make it fit. https://huggingface.co/Ta

July 2026 newsletter

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The June edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: Accidental cyberattacks by OpenAl and Anthr

MiniMax H3 is going open-weight in under 6 hours

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here is all the info we have based on open PRs to add support to ComfyUI and HuggingFace diffusers - 33B for the main DiT and a pruned 20b variant - Qwen-3-VL-32b as the text encoder Edit- I posted cl

Xberg v1 is out

Hi all, I'm happy to announce that Xberg v1 is out. Xberg is the successor to Kreuzberg, equivalent to what would have been Kreuzberg v5. It's a content intelligence framework that handles a very wide

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 UD-IQ3_S 12.5 tok/s on RTX 3090 +128GB DDR5

I managed to run DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 UD-IQ3_S in text-generation-webui with: RTX 3090 24 GB 128 GB DDR5 overclocked to 5600 MHz using AMD EXPO llama.cpp loader First, I had to use a rather brutal w

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-UD-Q3_K_XL 3x3090 test results

For anyone interested, here are the llama-bench results on 3 bit K_XL quantization. I think this could be pushed further but no luck so far. CURRENT RESULTS: full moe offloading Prefill suffers 116 --

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Kimi K3: The Complete Developer Guide

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**Kimi K3 is Moonshot AI’s 2.8‑trillion‑parameter open‑weight language model—the largest ever released—designed for frontier tasks such as long‑horizon coding and deep reasoning.** Its architecture us

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

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Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science A few days ago it was Anthropic discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude using Mythos Preview, spending 100,000 on tokens and with

What's currently the 'smartest' LLM to use on 8GB vram and 16 RAM and same thing for 8 VRAM and 64 RAM?

Been trying to find something that actually handles my workload well instead of just being 'fine.' Started on Qwen 2.5 7B, moved to Qwen 3 8B, and right now I'm using Nemotron 3 Ultra (the big 550B on

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A Graph-Native Bitemporal Memory Store for Conversational AI Agents

arXiv:2607.26520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational AI agents commonly lack persistent memory across sessions. The obvious fixes like injecting full chat histories into the context window