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Near-sensor Computing for Rapid Visuotactile Perception

arXiv:2608.05725v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visuotactile sensors reconstruct dense contact geometry from measured surface gradients, but host-based processing increases power consumption and intro

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Operating Multi-Node Full Fine-Tuning on NVIDIA B300: A Field Report on Telemetry-Based Triage, Negative Results, and Operational Hardening

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arXiv:2608.05944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We report operational experience full-fine-tuning a 32.76B-parameter dense model (Qwen3-32B) on 16 x NVIDIA B300 (two nodes, FSDP / ZeRO-3) -- among t

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Provably Efficient Self-Calibrating Quantum Fault Tolerance

arXiv:2608.05686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum error correction protects logical information only when every physical operation remains below the fault-tolerance threshold, a condition that

Resourced Authority A Mechanism-Design Model for Participatory Governance of Deployed AI Agents

arXiv:2608.06353v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We give a formal mechanism design model for the continuous participatory governance of a deployed AI agent. The mechanism is built on the principle th

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Serving Deepseek v4 Flash 0731 on 2x DGX Spark — 5-7 GB OS headroom, what would you do to lower VRAM usage and increase OS available RAM?

Hey all, I'm serving DSv4Flash 0731 on a cluster of 2x DGX Sparks but am running into constant issues with having almost no RAM (unified memory) left for the OS/cache and I'd love to hear the communit

Sliding Sensors: Configurable Confidence in State Estimation for Continuum Robots

arXiv:2608.05410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuum robots often operate in uncertain environments, where accurate state estimation is essential for safe interactions. Estimate uncertainty is in

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The Closing Window: How Governments Could Lose Their Ability to Restrain Advanced AI

arXiv:2608.05173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI capabilities advance, AI systems will pose greater risks to national security and potentially humanity as a whole. Governments may eventually co

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Auto-fit vs tuned MoE offload: 564 → 1330 pp tok/s, unchanged decode (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Q6 / RTX 3090)

TL;DR: On a Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Q6 setup sized for 64K context on a 24GB RTX 3090, spilling eight MoE expert layers to CPU freed enough VRAM to increase -b from 512 to 1024 and -ub from 128 to 512. Prompt

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Confirming rumors, Anthropic reveals plan to develop custom chip

Anthropic PBC today disclosed that it plans to develop a custom artificial intelligence chip. A spokesperson told Business Insider that the company will co-design the processor with its future large l

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Deltoris: Enabling Real-time VLA Inference in Embodied AI via Bit-level Sparsity and Speculative Inference

arXiv:2608.04428v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have emerged as a key component in embodied AI. Among existing approaches, diffusion-based VLA models achieve supe

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Filing: OpenAI says 'Apple should not be permitted to use a baseless and pretextual lawsuit to make up for its failures to integrate AI into its products' (Megan Morrone/Axios)

Megan Morrone / Axios: Filing: OpenAI says “Apple should not be permitted to use a baseless and pretextual lawsuit to make up for its failures to integrate AI into its products” — If the case survives

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Label-Free Target-Domain Adaptation for Unconstrained Event-Image Feature Matching via Dual-Stage Distillation

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arXiv:2607.10082v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Building pixel-level correspondence between event and image data is a fundamental task for multi-sensor systems. However, existing cross-modal match

RAG-Stack: Co-Optimizing RAG Serving Performance and Quality

arXiv:2608.03487v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), which augments large language model (LLM) generation with information retrieved from databases, has become a wid

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SpikingNav: Robust Embodied Navigation with Spiking Neural Policies

arXiv:2608.05078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied navigation requires an agent to make sequential decisions from egocentric observations in a physical environment. Existing Artificial Neural Ne

Taalas buried the lede for the amazing demo of their first tape out. 15k tokens per second with a llama 8b model, ability to scale that up e…

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Taalas buried the lede for the amazing demo of their first tape out. 15k tokens per second with a llama 8b model, ability to scale that up etched onto silicon As models satisfice etching makes sense,

Unsloth's Gemma 4 mmproj silently broke vision & audio on newer llama.cpp builds — anyone else hit this?

So I had been building ScreenMind, kinda like local ai desktop assistant that uses Gemma 4 for screen analysis, voice memo transcription, and meeting transcription — all through llama-server. Everythi

Bimanual Manipulation Within an 8 GB Budget: Zero-Copy Sensing and Quantized ACT on an Entry-Level Jetson

arXiv:2608.03938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bimanual manipulation policies trained with imitation learning are typically evaluated on workstation or datacenter-class GPUs, leaving the cost of depl

Building a Fully Local PDF Read-Aloud & PDF-to-Audiobook Desktop App with Kokoro 82M, Qwen, and llama.cpp

Hey everyone, I’ve been building Speechfony - a desktop app for reading PDFs (and EPUBs) with offline text-to-speech. Open a document, listen sentence-by-sentence with highlighting, or export selected

CUDA MPC: A GPU-Native Solver for Model Predictive Control

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arXiv:2608.03051v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model Predictive Control (MPC) delivers constraint-aware control, but its reliance on online optimization limits its use on systems with fast dynamics,

Design-Time Optimization of Deep Neural Networks for Intermittent Learning on Microcontrollers

arXiv:2608.03589v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a method for designing deep neural networks (DNNs) for intermittent, energy-autonomous, on-device learning on microcontroller units (MCUs). I

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Fast Object Removal Attacks on Safety-Critical Video-based Perception Systems

arXiv:2608.02806v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: By leveraging data from video-based perception systems, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) support safety-critical applications that improve roa

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Fretiq: Browser-Native Electric Guitar String Classification via Engineered Spectral Features and Held-Out Free-Play Evaluation

arXiv:2607.18303v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Identifying which string produces a given pitch in monophonic electric guitar audio is a classification challenge: a single pitch can often be

I built xSignalBot: an auto-reply bot for Signal that answers with a local LLM via Ollama — zero cloud, zero cost

Disclaimer: I'm the developer of this project — sharing because it might be useful to others running self-hosted AI. (Full transparency, as Reddit's self-promo etiquette expects.) xSignalBot is an ope

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Inkling-Small 276B-A12B at ~2.9 tok/s on <10gb memory

A follow up to the launch of Mference, it now supports and runs Inkling-Small 276B-A12B. Inkling-Small (Thinking Machines, Apache 2.0), from the pipenetwork/Inkling-Small-MLX-4bit conversion: 276B tot

Internalising the Identity Primitive: Cryptographic Individuality for an Autonomous Agent on a Public Blockchain

arXiv:2608.02986v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A software agent on a public blockchain accumulates authority and economic stakes, raising the engineering question of what makes it count as an indiv

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Light-Loco-Parkour: Versatile Perceptive Whole-Body Locomotion via Multi-Skill Distillation

arXiv:2608.02653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing humanoid whole-body control systems still fall short of the way humans move through cluttered terrain: they either track expressive whole-body

LoCA: Forward-Only LLM Tuning after One-Shot Calibration with Local Credit Assignment

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arXiv:2608.03020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parameter-efficient post-training reduces the number of trainable parameters, but still requires repeated end-to-end backpropagation through the frozen

None of this was us. Day 1 (and the first 48 hours) belonged to the open-source community: Generate with it @ComfyUI — native support + offi…

None of this was us. Day 1 (and the first 48 hours) belonged to the open-source community: Generate with it @ComfyUI — native support + official quantized builds, Day 0 Diffusers — the reference Pytho

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Omega-S: A Functional Resilience Index for LLM Fine-Tuning

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arXiv:2608.03887v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning a large language model on new data degrades what it previously learned. We present Omega-S, a drop-in penalty computed from the weight matri

RoboReact: Agentic Skill Distillation from Generated Egocentric Videos for Generalizable Whole-Body Manipulation

arXiv:2608.03387v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots have the potential to perform dexterous manipulation in human environments, yet acquiring diverse and generalizable skills remains costl

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Robust Biharmonic Skinning Using Geometric Fields

arXiv:2406.00238v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bounded bihramonic weights are a popular tool used to rig and deform characters for animation, to compute reduced-order simulations, and to de

Staying on Spec: Real-Time Monitoring under Uncertainty with a Maritime Case Study

arXiv:2608.02811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic systems must operate under uncertainty while satisfying complex task and safety specifications. Monitoring such specifications under uncertainty

Studying, Identifying, and Fixing Hidden Technical Debt in AI-Intensive Cyber-Physical Systems

arXiv:2608.02638v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) components are increasingly pervasive in several software systems, including Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs). AI-CPS are us

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Toward Certified Functional Safety for Industrial Humanoid Robots: The Fail-Passive Gap and a Feasibility Study

arXiv:2608.02809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial humanoid robots are constrained less by locomotion or manipulation capability than by the immaturity of functional safety certification for l

A 2.6B model with tool calling and 128K context now runs at 30 tok/s on a phone

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B today, and this might be more relevant to local AI than another massive model most people cannot run. The model is only 2.69B parameters, has 128K context, supports tool

bFaaaP: An Inclusive, Head-Angle Piano-Pedal Interaction that Quantitatively Reproduces a Pianist's Intended Pedalling -- Foot-Free, for Acoustic and Electronic Pianos

arXiv:2608.00633v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Expressive piano performance depends on the sustain (damper) pedal, operated by foot, excluding players who cannot readily use their feet: wheelchair

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Bicycle Acrobatics with Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.00880v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bicycle robots are fast and energy efficient, but their simple mechanical design and their underactuated and non-holonomic dynamics make highly agile ma

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BiKAN: Restoring Collapsed Basis of Binary Kolmogorov--Arnold Networks

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arXiv:2608.01490v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Binarizing a polynomial Kolmogorov--Arnold Network (KAN) not only changes parameter precision, but also alters the function space available to each laye

Breaking the Statistical Similarity Trap in Extreme Convection Detection

arXiv:2509.09195v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current evaluation metrics for deep learning weather models create a 'Statistical Similarity Trap', rewarding blurry predictions while missing

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Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap in Parallel-Link Leg Mechanisms via Simulator-Side Dynamics Normalization

arXiv:2608.01697v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses the sim-to-real gap in dynamics arising when a parallel-link mechanism is represented by a serial-tree surrogate in simulation. Con

CascadeLUT: Information-Ordered Streaming Inference for Bandwidth-Constrained FPGAs

arXiv:2608.00720v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mapping neural networks to FPGAs enables low-latency, energy-efficient inference, particularly for lookup table (LUT)-based models that eliminate mult

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[Deepseek-V4-Flash-0731] Full 1M context on a single RTX5090 + DDR5 Desktop Setup with VLLM CPU/Ram Offloading, ~800 tps pp & 15+ tps decode [Agentic Coding]

First of all, obviously I took some help from AI to type this post and this is the topic that enabled me to accomplish all that: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1veow4b/deepseek_v4flash_2

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (Q4) now reaches 1,328 tok/s prefill and ~29 tok/s decode on one RTX PRO 6000

I've been working on speeding up DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 in Krasis and have now got the long-prompt prefill quite a bit faster on a single RTX PRO 6000 96GB. These are timing-disabled internal Krasis r

DPL: Depth-only Perceptive Humanoid Locomotion via Realistic Depth Synthesis and Cross-Attention Terrain Reconstruction

arXiv:2510.07152v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advancements in legged robot perceptive locomotion have shown promising progress. However, terrain-aware humanoid locomotion remains largely

Gaokerena: A Small Persian Medical Language Model Family

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arXiv:2608.00932v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The integration of artificial intelligence into medical question-answering systems has advanced rapidly; however, research remains predominantly focused

HapticVLA: Contact-Rich Manipulation via Vision-Language-Action Model without Inference-Time Tactile Sensing

arXiv:2603.15257v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tactile sensing is a crucial capability for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) architectures, as it enables dexterous and safe manipulation in contact-ric

Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks: Theory, Implementations, and Applications

arXiv:2608.01194v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence has been transformed by deep neural networks, yet the search for new learning architectures continues. Quantum machine learnin

Interaction Dynamics MPC for Knee Rehabilitation Exoskeletons: A Closed-Loop SEA Outer-Loop Study

arXiv:2606.13485v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Safe rehabilitation is an interaction-dynamics problem: the controller must regulate a prescribed motion while absorbing involuntary spasm, vo