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FARE: Forensic Acceptance Region Estimation for Catching Bait-and-Switch Image Generators

arXiv:2609.30982v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern AI image generators are increasingly deployed as opaque APIs, where customers can query the deployed service, but cannot inspect model weights

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FlatClip: A Geometry-Aware Surface-Level Baseline for fMRI Representation Learning

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arXiv:2609.31204v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent fMRI foundation models differ substantially in the spatial scale at which they represent brain activity. ROI- and connectivity-based models are

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28 Sept 2026

GPT-3 is discontinued today

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It had such a long run. It was my first introduction to modern language models. I remember getting slightly excited over it. And now it lives purely in our memories. Arguably what's more infuriating i

Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock

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xAI's Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock: a frontier model for coding, long-running agents, and knowledge work. It offers a 500K token context window and four configurable reasoning effort le

Guarded Gradient-Based Activation Steering of Shutdown Responses in Qwen3.5-0.8B: A Minimum-Step Policy

arXiv:2609.30326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation steering changes a model's internal activations during inference without updating its weights, but a useful intervention must determine both

Introducing Ask, a new Google Earth Engine feature to accelerate geospatial coding

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Whether you are mapping global forest cover, detecting changes in the built environment, or monitoring agricultural yields, writing scripts in Google Earth Engine is a powerful way to develop these in

LandscapeSHAP: Which Persistent Homology Class Gets the Credit?

arXiv:2609.31469v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Shapley values, a solution concept from cooperative game theory, have recently become a standard tool for feature credit allocation in machine learnin

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LocUS: Head Selection and Subspace Projection for Targeted Activation Steering

arXiv:2609.31122v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation steering is a powerful training-free paradigm for controlling large language models at inference time. However, standard approaches estimate

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Mentored Decoding: Faster Inference meets Boosting

arXiv:2609.30474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative decoding is a successful technique speeding up inference of a target autoregressive language model via a fast drafter model. Lossy speculati

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Mica v0.1 4B got diamonds in survival Minecraft on its first run. 26 decisions from an empty inventory.

I've been working on Mica, a 4B decision model, and wanted to see how far it could get in actual Minecraft, not a sim. New world, empty inventory, and the goal was a diamond pickaxe. Last time I poste

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RAZOR: Pruning Replaceable Experts in LLMs

arXiv:2609.30465v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixture-of-experts (MoE) models activate few experts per token but store the full expert pool. Expert pruning reduces this storage burden; at a fixed

Recursive Self-Improvement via On-Policy Distillation for Reasoning

arXiv:2609.30652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student model by having it generate trajectories, then matching its next-token predictions with an external teache

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Refining Cytology Predictions with Conditional Random Fields

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arXiv:2609.31028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve strong zero-shot (ZS) classification on histology images but do not perform as well on cytology, whose stains and

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Rethinking Data Quality for AI-Driven Systems: Evidence from Practitioner Interviews

arXiv:2609.31191v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data quality research has usually treated data as an input that is stored, processed, and validated. In AI-driven software-intensive systems, data als

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SEA-CLIP-Tiny: Efficient Multilingual Text-Vision Embedding for Southeast Asian Languages

arXiv:2609.30739v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multilingual text-vision embedding models are essential for cross-lingual image-text retrieval, but Southeast Asian languages remain poorly supported du

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Softmax Reparameterization for Output-Head Quantization

arXiv:2609.31291v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large vocabularies make output heads a substantial inference cost in small language models. We propose softmax reparameterization, a post-training met

The Uncontrolled Variable: Vision-Language Refusal Is Conditioned on the Image-Attachment Interface, and Not Robust to Irrelevant Image Properties

arXiv:2609.26174v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We show that aligned vision-language models also condition refusal on a property of a request's form: whether an image is attached, holding ev

Uncertainty and Explainability in Deep Rough Volatility: A Neural Information-Theoretic Posterior Approach

arXiv:2609.31570v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning has substantially accelerated the calibration of complex stochastic-volatility models, but neural point calibration alone does not captu

Understanding Perturbed Parameter Ensemble Sensitivities Using A Contrastive Learning Approach

arXiv:2609.30420v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Perturbed parameter ensembles (PPEs) reveal how physics parameters affect climate simulations, but interpreting parameter sensitivities across multiva

Understanding the Role of Prompt Template in Knowledge Distillation for Safety Alignment

arXiv:2609.30802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prior research has demonstrated that the choice of prompt template during Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) significantly impacts the robustness of safety al

Splash 1.1.0 released, GGUF quants support, MLX import and more

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On my M5 Pro 64GB I can comfortably work in an agentic setup with the Qwen3.8 27B model in good quality (Unsloth UD-Q4_K_XL) at a decent speed of 50 t/s. Splash combines optimized kernels, excellent s

26 Sept 2026

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A Simple Gripper Interface for Simulator-Agnostic Cloth Manipulation

arXiv:2609.29340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a grasping model for cloth manipulation specifically tailored to ease the deployment of robotic control methods. The model is robust

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An Explainable DistilBERT-BiLSTM-Attention Framework for Binary and Multi-Class Hate Speech Detection

arXiv:2609.28703v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hate speech on social media poses serious risks to social harmony, mental well-being, and public safety, making its timely and accurate detection esse

Beyond Average Safety: Chance-Constrained LLM Fine-tuning

arXiv:2609.29960v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-tuning large language models on new objectives can improve helpfulness, instruction following, or domain-specific performance, but it can also in

Delay-of-Gratification as a Multi-Agent Survival Micro-benchmark for Long-Horizon LLMs: Social Exposure, Personas, and Tool Use Budgets

arXiv:2609.29509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as multi-turn agents that must sustain goals, use tools, and adapt to other agents over extended

Hallucination Neurons and Where to Find Them: An Investigation into the existence of Hallucination Neurons

arXiv:2609.29781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interpretable machine learning for Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly relies on sparse probing methods that identify small sets of neurons claime

How are you guys thinking about context now, and building around it?

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Not asking for anyone’s secrets of the trade, I’m more curious how people are thinking about context now that newer models chew through huge amounts of it for reasoning. the TLDR: I’m starting to thin

Just Ask Jev: Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions as a Zero-Shot Detector of AI Alignment Failures

arXiv:2609.29429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Detectors of alignment failures screen deployed language models and score alignment benchmarks. Most are generative judges that spend a decoding pass on

MoVISA: Multi-Token Reasoning for Video Object Segmentation

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arXiv:2609.28956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in video object segmentation with Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) reasoning have demonstrated the effectiveness of using a single

Online Task Adaptation via Self-Organisation

arXiv:2609.29281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural networks are typically adapted by computing gradients and updating model parameters. We investigate whether task-specific adaptation can instead

Polite but Misaligned: Evaluating LLM Politeness Judgments Against Human Pragmatic Norms

arXiv:2609.29001v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite strong performance on standard benchmarks, it remains unclear whether large language models (LLMs) evaluate social pragmatics in ways that align

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Robo-Harness K1: Harnessing Robot-Use Agents via Perception Augmentation

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arXiv:2609.29389v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation vision-language models (VLMs) understand objects, instructions, and spatial relations, yet translating this capability into robotic manipulat

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Self-Play Pretraining with Zero Data

arXiv:2609.30063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Advances in language modeling have been driven by scaling pretraining on ever more data. Yet, the training data is still largely curated on the model's

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Synthetic Hospital: An Open, Verifiable, Physician-Validated Longitudinal EHR Benchmark

arXiv:2609.30027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier language models are rarely used in clinical workflows because the realistic, longitudinal benchmarks needed to develop them are scarce. Real el

TabSieve: Explicit In-Table Evidence Selection for Tabular Prediction

arXiv:2602.11700v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Tabular prediction can benefit from in-table rows as few-shot evidence, yet existing tabular models typically perform instance-wise inference

Tracking States or Tracking Cosets? An Algebraic Account of Learned State Tracking

arXiv:2609.29951v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: State tracking requires composing a sequence of updates, but accuracy alone does not reveal what a model has learned. We study neural networks trained

Watched my LLM router burn $11 on a 3-word prompt. Here's the fix.

I run a personal always-on agent fleet — eight seats claiming work in parallel from a shared task board, routing across Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Google, and a local Ollama floor. This week the spend fo

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Who Put the I in AI? Provenance and the Admissibility of Machine Self-Report

arXiv:2609.29494v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models make statements concerning their own 'minds'. When asked whether or not they are conscious, they usually say that they are not;

A Systematic Benchmark of Explainable Methods for Temporal Attribution in Sequential Recommendation Systems

arXiv:2609.27201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sequential RecSys are central to modern personalization, exploiting user's historical interaction sequences to drive next-step decisions. Deep learning

Alignment of LRMs via Counter-Aligned Few-Shot Conversation Exposure

arXiv:2609.27763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) rely on explicit chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning and large context windows to achieve strong performance on complex tasks

Anomaly-Free Self-Optimization via AUC Bounds

arXiv:2609.27362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Anomalies are rare, and anomalous data are often unavailable during development, making it difficult to determine which anomaly detection models and con

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Backdoors in Learning-Based Industrial Robotic Arm Manipulation: An Empirical Security Study

arXiv:2609.26868v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning-based models (e.g., visuomotor and Vision-Language-Action (VLA)) are increasingly explored for industrial robotic manipulation, where model pre

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BranchDrive: A Branch-Structured Dataset for Action-Conditioned Driving Prediction

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arXiv:2609.27275v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most autonomous-driving datasets record only the action executed by a behavior policy and the single future that followed, providing limited supervision

ChipMEM: Verification-Grounded Memory for EDA Agents

arXiv:2609.27067v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based agents use Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools to generate and revise register-transfer-level (RTL) designs unde

Classifying Interpretive Canons at the Sentence Level: A Benchmark from the German Federal Constitutional Court

arXiv:2609.26945v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Judicial reasoning remains challenging for large language models (LLMs) to analyze. This paper contributes a sentence-level benchmark for evaluating the

Counterfactual Constraint-Conditioned On-Policy Distillation for Multi-Constraint Instruction Following

arXiv:2609.27421v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-constraint instruction following requires a model to respond to a query under many simultaneously active constraints. Even strong instruction-tune

DCRL: Decoupling and Coupling Reinforcement Learning via Policy-Reward Manifold Alignment

arXiv:2609.27572v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a key paradigm for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, existing

Discovery of fully efficient fault indicators along a data-based diagnosis process

arXiv:2609.28087v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of model-based and data-driven paradigms provides a powerful framework for fault diagnosis by combining the interpretability of analytic