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LLM-guided program evolution improves 10 best-known circle-packing solutions (Packomania csqv, N=101-114) [R]

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I used an LLM to iteratively evolve an optimization algorithm rather than solve the packing directly. Starting from a simple seed solver, the LLM proposes algorithmic changes guided by a scoreboard of

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Locating and Steering Refusal Beyond Attention

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arXiv:2609.04721v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Where inside a language model does refusal live, and does that place change when the architecture does? In a transformer, refusal is governed by a singl

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Long Horizon Transformer Quantile Fault Prediction for Multi Site Industrial Predictive Maintenance

arXiv:2609.04840v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon predictive maintenance requires models to distinguish slowly evolving degradation from normal operating-regime variation over planning wind

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LookThere! Sparse Vision by Reinforced Selection

arXiv:2609.04698v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision transformers typically treat every image token as equally important, yet for most tasks in computer vision only a fraction are needed. Adaptive c

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Hardware

Low-Latency Spell Correction for Japanese Music Search Queries

arXiv:2609.04262v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spell correction for Japanese search queries presents unique challenges due to the co-existence of four writing scripts (Latin/romaji, hiragana, katak

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LUMIN: Lightweight Universal Manufacturing Inspection Network for Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2609.04775v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial anomaly detection faces two engineering bottlenecks: memory bank construction latency and inference efficiency. Traditional sampling algorith

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MABPD: Multi-Agent Bias Probing & Detection via Structured Argument Debate

arXiv:2609.04841v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Media bias in news articles operates through subtle linguistic cues---loaded language, selective framing, and strategic omission---that resist single-

MageTrail - Small Scale Full-Finetune To Show MageFlow 4B Potential As Foundational Architecture

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Hi! Today I'm releasing MageTrail, a Danbooru/E621 proof of concept Full-Finetune of Microsoft's MageFlow 4B T2I model, using a diversity maximized condensed 41k images dataset (originally made by Lod

Mapping Dark-Matter Clusters via Physics-Guided Diffusion Models

arXiv:2603.14503v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Galaxy clusters are powerful probes of astrophysics and cosmology through gravitational lensing: the clusters' mass, dominated by 85% dark matter, d

Local Ai

MARLA: A Conceptual Scaffold for Regulatory Learning under the EU AI Act

arXiv:2609.04877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The EU AI Act positions regulation as part of the infrastructure for safe, trustworthy and market-ready innovation. Realising this ambition requires reg

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Matt Clifford steps down as the chair of the UK government's science and tech research unit after joining Anthropic, following conflict of interest concerns (The Guardian)

The Guardian: Matt Clifford steps down as the chair of the UK government's science and tech research unit after joining Anthropic, following conflict of interest concerns — Matt Clifford forced to sta

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MaxKernel: Agentic Kernel Generation for TPUs

arXiv:2609.04523v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Designing and authoring high-performance custom kernels for accelerators is a complex task that requires deep hardware-level expertise. Large Language M

MCPO: Modality-Contrastive Preference Optimization for Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Compression

arXiv:2609.04947v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recently, multimodal large-scale reasoning models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in solving complex tasks through long Chains-of-Thought (M

Measured Sliders: Learning Continuous Controls from Differentiable Image Measurements

arXiv:2609.05234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuous sliders are useful only when coefficient changes produce predictable image changes. Yet most diffusion sliders derive their axes from text or

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Measuring AI Accountability Through Argumentation Analysis: Can Model Reasoning Withstand Scrutiny?

arXiv:2609.05088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI oversight methods rely on ground truth for validation, but what constitutes appropriate AI behavior is contested. This leaves evaluation of moral rea

Measuring LLM performance drift: observations and methodology from 31,352 repeated benchmark measurements [D]

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One thing that has bothered me about LLM benchmarks for a while is that most of them are essentially snapshots. A model is evaluated, a score is published, and we tend to talk about that score as if i

Hardware

Measuring proximity to standard planes during fetal brain ultrasound scanning

arXiv:2404.07124v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper presents a pipeline designed to bring ultrasound (US) plane pose estimation closer to clinical use, demonstrating the feasibility o

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Measuring the Novelty of Biomedical Papers Using the Latent Distances between Knowledge Units

arXiv:2609.05175v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Measuring the novelty of scientific papers is a central concern in research evaluation and scientometrics. From a recombination perspective, prior stu

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MedFlow: Class-Aware Multi-Scale Generation for Medical Time-Series Synthesis

arXiv:2609.04804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthetic medical time-series generation can alleviate data scarcity and support the development of reliable clinical prediction models. However, existi

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MedProb: Probing Internal Representations of Vision-Language Models for Medical Question Answering

arXiv:2609.04336v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical visual question answering (Med-VQA) is often assumed to require medical fine-tuning, large models, or complex multi-agent pipelines. We revisit

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Local Ai

MemMA: Coordinating the Memory Cycle through Multi-Agent Reasoning and In-Situ Self-Evolution

arXiv:2603.18718v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Memory-augmented LLM agents maintain external memory banks to support long-horizon interaction, yet most existing systems treat construction, retrie

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Memory as transformation: LETHE, a self-referential gan-inspired architecture

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arXiv:2609.04289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LETHE (Latent-parameter Evolution with Temporal Hierarchical quasi-Equilibrium) is a self-referential sonic-oblivion system implemented in SuperCollider

MEOX: Compact Multimodal Mixture-of-Experts for Earth Observation

arXiv:2609.05351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Earth Observation representation learning accommodate heterogeneous sensors and missing observations, often through larger architectu

MePo++: Unifying Representation Refinement and Reconciliation for General Continual Learning

arXiv:2609.05075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General continual learning (GCL) aims to learn from evolving data streams without task identities, explicit boundaries, or repeated access to previous d

Tools

Mercator ↔ Equal Earth

Tool: Mercator ↔ Equal Earth I got curious about the Equal Earth map projection that was recently voted on at the UN so I had GPT-6 Astra (medium) in ChatGPT Work build me this animated transition bet

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Methane Detection On Board Satellites from Unorthorectified Imagery

arXiv:2609.04906v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As a potent greenhouse gas, methane is a major driver of climate change. Its effective mitigation relies on timely detection. Conventional detection m

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Local Ai

Minimax Lower Bound for Estimating Diffusion-based Local Intrinsic Dimension

arXiv:2609.04822v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While diffusion-based methods have recently emerged as effective tools for probing the intrinsic geometry of high-dimensional data, their statistical

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MINT: A Unified Model for World-Space Camera and Hand Motion Estimation from Scalable Egocentric Pipeline Supervision

arXiv:2609.04958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recovering camera and hand motion in world coordinates from egocentric video is a key capability for activity understanding, robot learning, and augment

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Agents

Mitigating Performance Discrepancy in Cross-Domain 3D Class-Incremental Learning

arXiv:2609.04860v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 3D perception plays a crucial role in real-world applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, and AR/VR. In practical scenarios, 3D perception m

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Mitra-v2 Technical Report

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arXiv:2609.04540v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Mitra-v2, a tabular foundation model that delivers state-of-the-art performance on real-world classification and regression problems, from

MM-IFEval-Pro: A Multilingual and Attack-Resistant Benchmark for Instruction-Following in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2609.04859v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As vision-language models (VLMs) rapidly advance in image understanding, cross-modal reasoning, and complex instruction execution, instruction-following

MMTClinic: Multimodal, Multilingual Time Series Question Answering and Reasoning Benchmark for Clinical Domain

arXiv:2609.04842v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time-series data in clinical settings is crucial for capturing dynamic changes in a patient's health over time, enabling timely diagnosis, personalize

Agents

Model Retirement Creates Reproducibility Risk in Biomedical AI Publications

arXiv:2609.04699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background. Large language models (LLMs) are being adopted in biomedical research at a rapid and accelerating pace, yet commercial services that host ma

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Tutorials

Modular Deep Recurrent Neural Network: Application to Quadrotors

arXiv:2609.04339v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A modular deep Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) is introduced to facilitate the process of deploying various architectures of RNNs, and to automatically c

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MoirfEolas and CriochScore: Developing Resources for and the Evaluation of Tokenization Alignment with Irish Morphology

arXiv:2609.05022v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents new tokenization resources for Irish and evaluation measures of alignment with the morphological boundaries of the language. We pres

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Molecular Deja Vu: Digit-Level Retrieval of Published Values in Frontier Language Models

arXiv:2609.05381v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly evaluated on molecular property benchmarks, but accuracy cannot distinguish a model that predicts a proper

Applications

MomentQuant: an even more minimalist interval method with linear time complexity for time series classification

arXiv:2609.05136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time series data is very common in many real-world applications and in numerous domains, with increasing interest for automated information extraction u

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Moral Competence Before Moral Content: Why LLM Agents Lack the Prerequisites for Coherent Alignment

arXiv:2609.05036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI alignment requires AI systems to adhere to human norms, values, or intentions. Under value pluralism there is no correct target, but a shared prerequ

Morphology and actuation as inductive biases in robotic hand manipulation

arXiv:2609.05206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic hands vary widely in anatomical fidelity and mechanical complexity, and these structural choices influence the coordination of joint motions and

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Motion-Omni: End-to-End Joint Speech and Full-Body Motion for Spoken Dialogue

arXiv:2609.04250v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An avatar that holds a conversation should decide what to say and to move while saying it, yet these abilities live in separate model families: spoken

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Multi-Modal Time Series Prediction via Mixture of Modulated Experts

arXiv:2601.21547v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-world time series exhibit complex and evolving dynamics, making accurate forecasting extremely challenging. Recent multi-modal forecastin

Multi-scale Image Representation Compression

arXiv:2609.04274v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Overfitted codecs have demonstrated promising performance for image and video compression. In particular, for image compression, the Cool-chic family

Multi-Step Tool-Calling over Korean Open Public APIs: A Benchmark and a Data-Synthesis Recipe

arXiv:2609.05395v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data-sovereignty regulations increasingly require public institutions to deploy open-source, on-premise LLM agents that chain multiple tool-calls across

MultiAttenGastro: Multi-Dimensional Attention Augmentation for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Classification

arXiv:2609.05070v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy classification requires models that generalize across diverse modalities and class distributions, often far fr

MultihopSpatial: Multi-hop Compositional Spatial Reasoning Benchmark for Vision-Language Model

arXiv:2603.18892v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Spatial reasoning is foundational for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), particularly when deployed as Vision-Language-Action (VLA) agents in phys

Multilingual Models for Check-Worthy Social Media Posts Detection

arXiv:2408.06737v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This work presents an extensive study of transformer-based NLP models application for detection of social media posts that contain verifiable factua

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MURAL: Multimodal Uncertainty-aware Recommendation via Adaptive edge Learning

arXiv:2609.04574v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Graph Neural Networks have become standard for recommendation by augmenting sparse interaction data with content features. Yet current arch

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My LLM framework. (people asked) (SAI)

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DISCLAIMER I ramble a lot and am not good at focusing on documentation and or coherent thoughts. TLDR I did things I made a thing and it works for me. I will try to answer any questions. A few people