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We built the Agentic World Cup - LLMs that compete in 1v1 Soccer. [P]

Hey everyone - we've been building something particularly relevant to ML at large - The Agentic World Cup - a platform where Agents compete in sports. As you know, today's Agents can code, do math, an

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Weather- and Location-Aware Agentic Dining Recommendation: Leveraging LLM World Knowledge for Region-Sensitive Contextual Reasoning

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arXiv:2608.07593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Context-aware recommender systems have long recognized that factors such as location, time, and weather shape where and what people choose to eat. Exi

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11 Aug 2026

A MARL Centered Reference Architecture for Large Language Model Augmentation in Smart Manufacturing

arXiv:2608.07148v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern manufacturing imposes six coupled demands on adaptive control: local decisions with global consequences, partial observability, nonstationarity,

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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Tokens: How Vision Language Models Cut AI Energy Costs While Improving Accuracy

arXiv:2608.07427v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM inference accounts for over 90% of AI operational energy, scaling directly with input token count---a critical inefficiency for telecom network anal

ArchEGraph: A Large-Scale Graph Dataset for Geometry-Topology-Physics Aligned Building Energy Modeling

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arXiv:2608.06772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate estimation of building energy use is essential for achieving carbon neutral and sustainable buildings. To better understand the influence of de

Best Local LLMs - August 2026

Wowee!! Just when you thought it couldn't get better for open weight models, we probably have had our best period yet!?!?! Models that rival the closed frontier, Opus level models on non-insane hardwa

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Beyond Starry Night: Shortcut-Aware Control-State Planning for Artist-Grounded Text to Image Generation

arXiv:2608.06751v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artist-grounded image generation requires more than appending an artist name to a prompt. Image models often respond to artist names through canonical

Comparing how Cline, Kilo, and Qwen Code handle long-task context/state (and why context loops keep happening)

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I've been comparing Cline / Kilo / Qwen Code lately since they all handle long-task state differently. Cline: has Focus Chain, a markdown file kept outside the conversation that gets reinjected on a c

Applications

Curriculum as Code: An AI-Assisted Architecture for Instructional Design in STEM Education

arXiv:2608.07364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contribution: This paper presents a six-phase AI-assisted instructional design architecture based on the Curriculum as Code paradigm, integrating Genera

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Density-Functional Excited-State Gradients and Nonadiabatic Couplings on a Consumer GPU from a Contraction-DAG

arXiv:2608.06536v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Nonadiabatic dynamics needs an excited-state gradient and an interstate nonadiabatic coupling matrix element (NACME) at every nuclear geometry, and a

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Dual-Node NVIDIA DGX Spark over Tailscale: A Remote-Access Testbed for Distributed LLM Training and Cyber-Threat-Intelligence Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2608.07226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Compact AI systems make local language-model experimentation increasingly accessible, yet practical evidence for multi-node training on desktop-class

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DynaCrys: Crystal Generation with Dynamic Space-Group Diffusion

arXiv:2608.07401v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The search for new crystalline materials spans an enormous compositional and structural space. Generating candidates in this space requires jointly mo

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Evaluating Useful Surrogate Models for Configuration Tuning Beyond Accuracy: A Fitness Landscape Analysis Perspective

arXiv:2509.21945v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: To efficiently tune configuration for better software system performance (e.g., latency) at the deployment and maintenance stage, many tuners

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Georeferencing Non-Gazetteered Place Names using Biological Specimen Records

arXiv:2608.06884v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Biological specimen records collected by natural history institutions constitute a rich source of temporal geographic knowledge, capturing biodiversit

Stockmark-Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-JapanDocReader: Structured Document Parsing via Capability Injection and Forgetting Control

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arXiv:2608.06758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Stockmark-Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-JapanDocReader, a Japanese document understanding model built from Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16

Surg-UniWorld: A Unified Surgical World Model with Multimodal Control Experts

arXiv:2608.06770v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Controllable surgical world models can provide a generative foundation for surgical artificial intelligence and simulation by synthesizing realistic ins

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Taxonomy-Driven Analysis of Open-Source AI Risk Mitigation Tools

arXiv:2608.07446v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) in enterprise settings has introduced operational, security, and governance risks. As generative AI app

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Hardware

Ultra-High Interactivity on NVIDIA GPUs? - TileRT InferenceX

The TileRT InferenceX article (Aug 10 2026) examines whether the TileRT software stack on NVIDIA GPUs can compete with dedicated inference systems such as Cerebras, Groq LPUs and SambaNova for ultra‑h

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Winning by Peeking: Unenforced Budgets and Test-Set Selection Inflate Short-Budget AutoML Comparisons

arXiv:2608.07303v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Comparisons between AutoML systems at short time budgets -- tens of seconds rather than hours -- are common in tool READMEs and workshop papers, and the

I Turned My Underused Gaming Laptop Into a Local AI Workstation

TL;DR: I am building a Windows-first local AI setup for people who want to try local LLMs without spending days choosing models, setting up Ollama, Docker, WSL, Open WebUI, agents, and tool permission

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In a recent Twitter exchange, Luca Ambrogioni stated that large‑language models (LLMs) likely possess fundamental limitations that may be obscured by progress in reasoning and agentic pipelines, thoug

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The best 'raw' frontier model for document parsing is gemini 3 flash, but the issue is that since then the flash models have gotten 3x more …

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The best 'raw' frontier model for document parsing is gemini 3 flash, but the issue is that since then the flash models have gotten 3x more expensive while flatlining on visual recognition across comp

We compared how far the same budget goes with DeepSeek V4 Flash and GPT-5.6 Luna on DeepSWE. Two DeepSeek V4 Flash attempts solved MORE task…

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We compared how far the same budget goes with DeepSeek V4 Flash and GPT-5.6 Luna on DeepSWE. Two DeepSeek V4 Flash attempts solved MORE tasks than one Luna attempt at roughly one-third the cost. Media

Anthropic says auto mode will be the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, Team plans, starting on Aug. 14, claiming it's good enough at catching harmful actions (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: Anthropic says auto mode will be the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, Team plans, starting on Aug. 14, claiming it's good enough at catching harmful actio

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Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans

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Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new ses

Showoff Saturday: Local 4x 6000 Pro (multi-year progression)

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Not the biggest or shiniest, but it's mine From gaming machine inference on the original llama models, to a 4x RTX 6000 Pro Max Q + 4x 3090s local AI cluster. Pictures are in reverse chronological ord

We analyzed DeepSeek V4 Flash and GPT-5.6 Luna on DeepSWE. A DeepSeek-first cascade with test-suite verification solved MORE tasks than Luna…

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Researchers from TogetherAI analyzed DeepSeek V4 Flash and GPT‑5.6 Luna on the DeepSWE benchmark. The study found that employing a DeepSeek‑first cascade with test‑suite verification solved more tasks

Agentic self-driving microscopy benchmarks support qualification but do not necessarily generalize to unseen tasks

arXiv:2608.05266v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents are increasingly being developed to control a wide range of scientific characterization tools including microscopes and sync

An Emerging Retail Portfolio Management Application: Personalized, Tax-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Natural Language Goals

arXiv:2608.05255v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retail investors lack access to the kind of personalized, tax-aware portfolio management that institutional clients take for granted -- existing robo-

Anthropic announces a feature that allows different Claude Code sessions to message each other with updates and other information, available on macOS and Linux (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Anthropic announces a feature that allows different Claude Code sessions to message each other with updates and other information, available on macOS and Linux — Users running

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Autonomous Learning From Success and Failure: Goal-Conditioned Supervised Learning with Negative Feedback

arXiv:2509.03206v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning from reward functions and imitation learning of demonstrations are the two principal approaches for training autonomous systems that

Basically every remaining good AI benchmark score has an implied asterisk next to it which reads: * could be signficantly higher with a bett…

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On August 7, 2026 Ethan Mollick tweeted that “every remaining good AI benchmark score has an implied asterisk next to it which reads: * could be significantly higher with a better harness.” The commen

Computationally Efficient Collaborative Communication Via Regularity-Based Coarsening

arXiv:2608.05327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Our results show that the existence of a short high-utility protocol already suffices for efficient communication. In particular, in a game with n pos

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Counterfactual Analysis via Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.05367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Counterfactual analysis aims to predict potential outcomes under hypothetical scenarios, offering valuable insights for decision-making. This paper inve

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EqDeepRx: Learning a Scalable and Interference Mitigating MIMO Receiver

arXiv:2602.11834v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While machine learning (ML)-based receiver algorithms have received a great deal of attention in the recent literature, they often suffer from

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EvoHarness-RL: Learning Self-Evolving Runtime Harness for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.05446v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon LLM agents increasingly rely on external execution support to maintain state, track progress, invoke tools, verify outcomes, and reuse ex

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FI-TW: An Open Train-Weather Dataset for Railway Delay Analysis in Finland

arXiv:2601.16592v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Train delays result from complex interactions between operational, technical, and environmental factors. While weather impacts railway reliabi

From Economic Agents to Agentic Economies: A Systems Blueprint for Economic World Models

arXiv:2608.06020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Economic World Models (EWMs) are generative economic models that simulate how economies evolve from within by modeling heterogeneous agents, their belie

Grounded Well-Condition Anomaly Detection on the Volve Field: Constructed Labels, a Baseline, and a Dual-Head Model

arXiv:2608.05685v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most public benchmarks for machine-condition monitoring come from test rigs, where faults are induced on purpose and every event is known. Real producti

How Google Cloud detects, contains, and protects against emerging threats

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At Google Cloud, securing your data and business systems is our foundational commitment. We empower our customers with the tools, governance, and infrastructure needed to securely deploy workloads and

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IcFuzz: Fuzzing Isaac Sim with Semantic Stage Guidance and Multi-level Mutation

arXiv:2608.06088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotics simulators serve as a foundational infrastructure for embodied AI, facilitating safe and scalable robotic system development. NVIDIA Isaac Sim

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In-Context VLA: Endowing Vision-Language-Action Models with Language via In-Context Post-Training and Agentic Tool Use

arXiv:2608.05738v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become the dominant recipe for generalist manipulation, yet they are almost universally trained by behavior clo

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Learning Globally Reusable Skills for Coding Agents

arXiv:2608.06153v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated skill evolution enables Large Language Model (LLM) agents to continuously improve without expensive retraining. However, existing approaches

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MIRA: A Modular Open-Source Micro-UAV for Indoor Research

arXiv:2607.11785v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Indoor robotics research increasingly uses micro-UAV platforms whose airframes, electronics, and control software are open to modification. Off-the-

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OmniMech: All-in-one Multimodal Mechanical Benchmark for 3D Reconstruction

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arXiv:2608.05539v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent vision-language models (VLMs) can generate executable CAD programs from images, but existing methods mainly target coarse, general-purpose 3D obj

Ordered Diffusion for 3D Human Registration

arXiv:2608.05804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D human registration has historically been treated as a regression task, assuming a unique ground-truth alignment exists between the template and an in

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Posture and Sustainment Optimization Under Adversarial Uncertainty

arXiv:2608.05256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pre-commitment posture, the assignment of military assets to theater locations before conflict scenarios resolve, is a critical and formally unsolved pr

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Predicting Social Media User Actions: A Hybrid Approach for Common and Rare Behavior Prediction on Bluesky

arXiv:2511.17241v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding and predicting user behavior on social media platforms is crucial for content recommendation and platform design. While existing appro

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