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We've never seen this before. The biggest jump in Vending-Bench history. GPT-6 Astra is better at making money and more ethical than Claude …

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We've never seen this before. The biggest jump in Vending-Bench history. GPT-6 Astra is better at making money and more ethical than Claude Fable 5.1. Surprising, because: 1. First time ever that Open

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What are some practical tasks I can assign to my local AI models?

DGX agent

I'm looking for more information to expand my creativity around this. I don't really have a realistic idea of what people actually do with local AI yet, I mostly just want to explore the possibilities

model-releasesr-localllama

8 Sept 2026

Local Ai

Which local model is actually good at knowing when to stop and ask you a question?

I’ve been thinking about this after using more agentic/local coding models. A lot of the newer models are surprisingly good at continuing on their own. But sometimes that seems like the problem. If a

local-air-localllama

Which local models handle structured extraction well? I moved my agent's memory into a folder (BYO model) and want to run it on Ollama instead of Sonnet

Setup, so the question makes sense: my coding agent's memory now lives in a folder of Markdown — entities, episodes, and procedures (workflows with a per-step success/fail record). Nothing needs an ac

model-releasesr-ollama

Tutorials

Wow, the field is moving so quickly! So impressed with what people can do with a SO-101, that we designed with @therobotstudio at @huggingfa…

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Wow, the field is moving so quickly! So impressed with what people can do with a SO-101, that we designed with @therobotstudio at @huggingface i gave astra a robot, a paint brush, and a camera then as

Industry

Yes, this result cost millions of dollars. But remember that when @OpenAI announced o3 it cost ~$500,000 to score 87.5% on ARC-AGI 1. Today,…

Yes, this result cost millions of dollars. But remember that when @OpenAI announced o3 it cost ~500,000 to score 87.5% on ARC-AGI 1. Today, Astra scores higher for ~20. In 2025 it took us and GDM an e

industrysam-altman--x

9 easy steps for llama.cpp, a local model, Freecad (and pi coding agent) to generate solid objects that sound mechanically good and can be also be 3D printed/milled

model-releasesr-localllama

Quick setup on linux: STEP 0: install/download llama.cpp, Freecad, your favourite gguf model - possibly with multimedia image reading capabilities (I've used Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q4_K_M and relative mmproj-

A Biomimetic Vertebraic Soft Robotic Tail for High-Speed, High-Force Dynamic Maneuvering

arXiv:2509.20219v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robotic tails can enhance the stability and maneuverability of mobile robots, but current designs face a trade-off between the power of rigid system

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

A Calibrated Reflection Approach for Enhancing Confidence Estimation in LLMs

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2609.04539v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A critical challenge in deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) is developing reliable mechanisms to estimate their confidence, enabling systems to deter

Tutorials

A Comparative Study of Counterfactual Explainers for Graph Neural Networks Enabling Multiple Types of Graph Edit

arXiv:2609.05113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Counterfactual explanations for graph-structured data seek to determine minimal and realistic modifications required in an input graph to alter a model'

tutorialsarxiv-cs-lg

A Constraint-Aware Generative Framework for Synthetic Origin-Destination Demand in Logistics Networks

arXiv:2609.04345v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale logistics networks require synthetic data generation capabilities to support scenario-based planning under novel conditions-such as networ

A Cost-Aware Agentic Architecture for NL-to-SQL over Nested Enterprise Schemas, with a New Benchmark

arXiv:2609.04641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural-language-to-SQL systems have ad- vanced rapidly on academic benchmarks, yet production enterprise schemas exhibit graph- like, semi-structured,

A couple years later, with GPT-6. https://underdark-duel.netlify.app Apparently the mindflayer has a '101-bone skeletal rig' (This is 5E 201…

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A couple years later, with GPT-6. https://underdark-duel.netlify.app Apparently the mindflayer has a '101-bone skeletal rig' (This is 5E 2014 rules, and I didn't see major errors, though the mind flay

A Data Fusion Framework for Grounding Aerospace Surrogate Model via Experimental Wind-Tunnel Observations

arXiv:2609.04267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerodynamic surrogate models trained on high-fidelity CFD data reproduce numerical predictions of both scalar outputs and entire fields accurately, yet

A Deep Generative Model for Synthesizing Labeled Wireless Signals

arXiv:2609.05396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wireless signals with position-related labels are pivotal for both performance evaluation and model training in the realm of wireless sensing. However,

A Differentiable Neural Surrogate for Photon Propagation in Neutrino Telescopes

arXiv:2609.04695v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-volume neutrino telescopes infer neutrino properties from Cherenkov light, but simulating the transport of billions of photons through highly sc

A Fairness Audit of the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern Method: Format-Specific and Gender-Differential Bias, with an Interpretable Calibration Layer for Cricket Target Revision

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arXiv:2609.04754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) method has been the international standard for revising target scores in rain-interrupted limited-overs cricket since 19

A few days ago, Anthropic shared this brilliant prompt. I was surprised by how it significantly improved writing with Fable 5.1. Even more s…

A few days ago, Anthropic shared this brilliant prompt. I was surprised by how it significantly improved writing with Fable 5.1. Even more surprising, it also improved writing for GPT-5.6 Sol. I have

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A Generalizable Feature Extractor for Alzheimer's-Related Brain MRI Tasks

arXiv:2609.05400v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When there is not enough labeled data to properly train deep learning models, transfer learning can help. We still do not fully understand how effective

researcharxiv-cs-cv

A Human-in-the-Loop Framework for AI-Assisted Scoring in Large-Scale Writing Assessment

arXiv:2609.05143v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The integration of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large language models (LLMs), into educational assessment has opened new opportunities t

Applications

A Hybrid Predictive Ensemble of Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks for Early Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment

arXiv:2609.05146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study introduces an intelligent framework that integrates machine learning and deep neural network ensemble techniques for early detection and prog

applicationsarxiv-cs-ai

Industry

A look at Anthropic's Labs team, a ~20-person group led by cofounder Ben Mann that acts as an internal startup incubator for developing flagship products (Stephen Council/Business Insider)

Stephen Council / Business Insider: A look at Anthropic's Labs team, a ~20-person group led by cofounder Ben Mann that acts as an internal startup incubator for developing flagship products — Inside A

industrytechmeme

A Quantum Variational Approach to Prototypical Recurrent Unit

arXiv:2609.04354v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce a lightweight Quantum Prototypical Recurrent Unit (QPRU) that requires significantly fewer parameters than both classical recurrent archite

Industry

A record 12.7M graduates are entering China's workforce in 2026 as AI adds uncertainty to an oversaturated job market with a shrinking pool of entry-level roles (Yan Zhuang/New York Times)

Yan Zhuang / New York Times: A record 12.7M graduates are entering China's workforce in 2026 as AI adds uncertainty to an oversaturated job market with a shrinking pool of entry-level roles — A record

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A Removal Based Approach to Improve LLM Faithfulness at Test-Time

arXiv:2609.04343v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for consequential decisions, making their explanations an important tool for auditing model behavior.

A Repeated-Measurement Study for Cultural Analytics of English Song Lyrics Using Five Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.04428v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to annotate cultural texts at scales that are impractical for human coders. However, before their out

A Roadmap for MEG Foundation Models

arXiv:2609.04461v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models are beginning to reshape brain-signal analysis by moving the field beyond task-specific decoding pipelines toward reusable models pr

Applications

A Robust Watermark-based Fingerprint Framework for GNNs Ownership Verification

arXiv:2609.04772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The high training cost of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has raised growing concerns regarding model ownership infringement, such as model stealing and un

applicationsarxiv-cs-lg

Local Ai

A Schema Bounded Language Model for Refining Robot Policies Without Destabilizing Local Learning

arXiv:2609.05133v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper addresses navigation by composite heterogeneous robots in a decentralized system when policy reasoning and local control operate at differe

local-aiarxiv-cs-ai

A Semantic Model of Genetic Evidence: A Step Toward Bridging the Basic-Science-Clinic Gap

arXiv:2609.04509v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific and clinical decision-making depends on evidence from the primary literature, but existing standards for representing that evidence (FHIR E

Hardware

A Sim-to-Real Study of Surface-Code Decoder Benchmarking

arXiv:2609.04557v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum error-correction decoders are typically benchmarked against synthetic circuit-level noise, under the assumption that a decoder's ranking under

hardwarearxiv-cs-lg

A Structured Debate-Mixture-of-Agents Framework for Complex Clinical Diagnostic Decision Support

arXiv:2609.05069v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) show potential for medical tasks, but their single-turn question-answer format does not reflect how clinical diagnosis is

A Systematic Comparison of Multilingual Interpretability Methods Reveals Anisotropy-Driven Failures

arXiv:2609.04819v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multilingual language models develop shared cross-lingual representations, and various interpretability methods claim to quantify this sharing. These me

researcharxiv-cs-cl

A Systematic Evaluation of Cross-Lingual Consistency Enhancement Methods in Multilingual Language Models

arXiv:2609.04409v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual language models often produce inconsistent answers to semantically equivalent questions across languages, motivating methods to improve c

A Tree-based RAG Framework for Evidence-Intensive QA via Adaptive Planning and Topology-Aware Evidence Gathering

arXiv:2609.04981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent structured RAG methods leverage tree- or graph-based reasoning structures to improve multi-hop QA. However, they face key limitations in evidence

A Unified Physics-Aware Quantum Machine Learning Framework across Power GaN HEMTs and Logic Nanowire FETs: Predicting Unseen Process Splits and Held-Out Geometry Combinations with Lower Error and Tighter Split-to-Split Variability

arXiv:2609.05251v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a unified reinforcement-learning (RL) framework that discovers compact parametrized quantum circuits (PQCs) for data-scarce device modeling.

A Verifier-Guided Explainable Reasoning Framework with Gold-Anchored QLoRA, Task-Aware Mixture-of-Experts, and Group-Relative RLVR

arXiv:2609.05221v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) show strong reasoning ability, but their explanations can remain inconsistent, weakly grounded, or difficult to verify. W

Agents

Abstraction Agent

arXiv:2609.04303v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Information abstraction, which groups strategically similar private states into a tractable number of buckets, is essential for scaling game-solving a

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

ACE: Adaptive Calibration-Free Expert Skipping for MoE-based LLMs

arXiv:2609.05228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures provide an efficient paradigm for scaling large language models (LLMs), yet fixed top-k routing activates the sam

Achieving Asymptotic Near-Optimality Without elta-Similarity

arXiv:2609.04464v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sampling-based motion planning algorithms are a popular class of trajectory planning algorithm due to their speed in complex, high-dimensional environme

researcharxiv-cs-ro

Agents

Active Inference for an Intelligent Agent in Autonomous Reconnaissance Missions

arXiv:2510.17450v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We develop an active inference route-planning method for the autonomous control of intelligent agents. The aim is to reconnoiter a geographical area

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

Adaptation Interfaces for In-Context Tabular Foundation Models in Time-to-Event Prediction

arXiv:2609.04901v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tabular foundation models (TabFMs) achieve strong performance on structured data, particularly for standard classification and regression problems. Ye

Adaptation Needs in Robotic Systems: Assessing Behavior Trees and Their Enhancement

arXiv:2609.05331v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic systems increasingly operate in dynamic, uncertain, and open-ended environments, where design-time assumptions may no longer hold, and adaptatio

researcharxiv-cs-ro

Tutorials

Adapting from Downturns: Prediction of Long-Term Conversational-Skill Development in Mental-Health Crisis Counselors

arXiv:2609.04350v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: How do people learn to become better conversationalists? This question is especially important in the context of mental-health counseling, where conve

tutorialsarxiv-cs-ai

Adaptive Gated Deepfake Detection for Low-Resolution and Resource-Constrained Environments

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cv

arXiv:2609.05320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deepfake detection models often rely on high-quality inputs, fixed inference paths, and computationally expensive architectures, limiting their use in l

Applications

Adaptive Multi-Granularity Temporal Modeling for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2609.05066v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As the scale of video surveillance data outpaces manual annotation capacities, weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WSVAD) has emerged as a crit

applicationsarxiv-cs-ai

Local Ai

AdaptVPR: Route-Aware Hard Positive Generation for Robust Visual Place Recognition

arXiv:2609.04369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual Place Recognition (VPR) localizes a query image by retrieving database images of the same or nearby place, yet its robustness is often degraded b

local-aiarxiv-cs-cv

After over a year of my nights and weekends, the Jenny app is done!

model-releasesr-localllama

Hi all! I just wanna say that I am tired lol. Yes, it's another harness, but I spent a lot of time and effort and have forsaken my hobbies to build the Jenny (like XJ-9) app. Jenny is a free, MIT lice