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When Lexical Change Misleads: Rethinking Dynamic Topic Model Evaluation with Traditional and LLM-Based Metrics

arXiv:2608.13835v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic topic models capture evolving word distributions, but traditional coherence metrics may fail when vocabulary changes while semantic meaning pers

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Where Does Vision Meet Language? Understanding and Refining Visual Fusion in MLLMs via Contrastive Attention

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arXiv:2601.08151v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in vision-language understanding, yet how they internally integrate visua

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17 Aug 2026

CORS Chat

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Tool: CORS Chat I built this today (with GPT-5.6-Sol xhigh) to help test Qwen 3.8 27B running in LM Studio on both my M5 MacBook Pro and an NVIDIA DGX Spark. It provides a web UI for exercising an Ope

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Are You Sure You're Sure? On the Impact of Instruction Tuning on Confidence and Lexical Diversity

arXiv:2608.13430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Instruction-tuned language models achieve strong performance across a range of generation tasks, but have also recently been shown to exhibit verbaliz

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BavGround: A Benchmark for Regional Cultural Grounding and Dialect Competence in Bavarian

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arXiv:2608.12894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cultural evaluation of large language models (LLMs) often focuses on high-resource standard languages, leaving regional culture and dialect communities

BoardroomAI: Dependency-Aware Human-Steerable Multi-Agent Deliberation through Evolving Decision Graphs

arXiv:2608.13046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Organizational decisions are co-created while evidence, constraints, and human priorities continue to evolve. In conventional transcript-based multi-age

DAPD: Dual-Anchored Policy Distillation

arXiv:2608.01735v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: On-policy (self) distillation (OPSD) is increasingly adopted for language-model post-training. It strengthens the teacher with privileged informatio

Defensive Boosting for Online Probabilistic Forecasting

arXiv:2608.13554v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study online probabilistic forecasting of binary outcomes chosen by an adaptive adversary. Given an online learning algorithm for a weak hypothesis c

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DIVE: Unlocking Self-Improvement in Frozen Language Models Through Diversity-Driven Skill Evolution

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arXiv:2608.12486v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) cannot retain post-deployment experience without parameter updates. We introduce DIVE, a diversity-driven framework that en

FIRE-VLA: Failure-Informed Self-Evolution for Vision-Language-Action Models in Autonomous Driving

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arXiv:2608.13395v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning improves autonomous-driving vision-language-action (VLA) models by evaluating trajectories sampled from the current policy. Group

From Observation to Intervention: Memory in Brains and Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.12377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Brains and large language models (LLMs) are fundamentally different memory systems, but they can be compared through shared functional questions: wher

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Functional Adjoint Sampler: Scalable Sampling on Infinite Dimensional Spaces

arXiv:2511.06239v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning-based methods for sampling from the Gibbs distribution in finite-dimensional spaces have progressed quickly, yet theory and algorithm

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I-SDPO: Instance-Level Adaptive Self-Distillation Policy Optimization

arXiv:2608.12957v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) learns from reward differences within a rollout group, but receives no useful relative signal when every sam

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Interaction Readiness: A Framework for Building and Evaluating AI Agents in Human Roles

arXiv:2608.12358v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Product and engineering teams building role-bearing AI agents face an evaluation gap: an agent can produce accurate, safe, and fluent content while st

It's How You Ask: Gender-Associated Linguistic Bias in LLMs

arXiv:2608.13328v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Professional communication is increasingly mediated by LLMs - but do these models serve all users equally? We show that when prompts contain linguisti

NARU: A Benchmark for NARrative Evolution and Cultural Nuance Understanding in Japanese Extreme Long Video

arXiv:2608.13210v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-form video understanding encompasses tasks that go beyond retrieving isolated events, including tracking an evolving narrative and interpreting s

PlayWorld: Benchmarking World Models with Agent Players over Long-Horizon Objectives

arXiv:2608.13552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video world models simulate future states conditioned on current observations and user actions. Recent systems have demonstrated impressive video consis

Polish Medical Visual Question Answering: Vision-Language Models Underutilize Visual Evidence

arXiv:2608.12928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce a Polish-language medical visual question answering (VQA) benchmark, built from Polish Board Certification Examination questions for licens

Regulatory Approval Is Not Enough: Gaps in Trustworthy AI Reporting in FDA-Cleared Medical Devices

arXiv:2608.12360v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: AI/ML-enabled medical devices are increasingly deployed in healthcare under evolving regulatory frameworks. As these systems become more i

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Rethinking Normalization Placement for LLMs: Post-Norm under Curriculum Depth Growing

arXiv:2608.13156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pre-norm is the standard normalization placement in modern Transformers because it facilitates joint optimization of full-depth models. We ask whether t

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Robust data-driven discovery of fractional differential equations via weak formulations and Pareto-based subset selection

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arXiv:2608.12879v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fractional partial differential equations describe nonlocal dynamics, but discovering them from noisy data is difficult because fractional differentiati

SAP-Nav: Spatial Semantic Representation Meets Active Perception for Hierarchical Open-Vocabulary Object Navigation

arXiv:2608.12707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hierarchical open-vocabulary object navigation (OVON) requires agents to follow free-form instructions that may specify targets through scene-, room-, r

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Self-Localizing MIMO Beam Mapping for Intelligent Open RAN with Continuously Evolving Channel Memory

arXiv:2511.17007v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Open and intelligent radio access networks (RANs) envisioned for 6G require accurate and reusable wireless channel knowledge for intelligent i

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@skills: Attention is all you have

arXiv:2608.12610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: There are 56,804 public agent skills today, and teams write many more privately. The dominant delivery model is installation: once installed, a skill's

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Sparse Orthogonal Regression Technique: A Spectral Framework for Equation Discovery, Approximation, and Integration

arXiv:2608.13504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We develop the Sparse Orthogonal Regression Technique (SORT), a sparse spectral framework for learning orthonormal-basis expansions from noisy and irreg

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Unmasking Conversational Bias in AI Multiagent Systems

arXiv:2501.14844v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Detecting biases in the outputs produced by generative models is essential to reduce the potential risks associated with their application in

A corpus-specific clinical RAG system matches or outperforms newer frontier LLMs on HealthBench

arXiv:2608.12138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General-purpose large language models (LLMs) have recently been reported to match or exceed specialized clinical AI tools on medical benchmarks, but s

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Curvature-Aware Zeroth-Order Optimization for Memory-Efficient Test-Time Adaptation

arXiv:2608.12279v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time adaptation (TTA) aims to enhance the cross-domain performance of pre-trained models by adapting to unlabeled test data. While most existing TT

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D3D-GEN: Robot-Aware Domain-Grounded Interactive 3D World Generation for Social Robotics

arXiv:2608.11876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training and validation of Embodied AI for social navigation critically depends on realistic simulation environments, yet many current approaches fail t

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FarSky: Task-Aware Latent-Space Coupling for Generative Intra-Hour Solar Forecasting

arXiv:2608.11254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate solar irradiance forecasting is essential for the reliable integration of photovoltaic power into modern electricity grids. All-sky imagers (AS

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Harnessing agent memory to build lifelong AI partners for materials scientists

arXiv:2608.11224v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Materials research advances through accumulated experience - scripts that work, protocols that are trusted, warnings attached to failed calculations or

How China-Origin Vision-Language Models Move from Refusal to Reframing in State Alignment

arXiv:2608.11816v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: State-aligned distortion has been documented in China-origin text-based large language models (LLMs), but whether, and in what form, it arises in mult

Identity from the Outside: A Conceptual Framework and Research Program for AI Personality Clones

arXiv:2608.11225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI 'personality clones' force a re-examination of personal identity in operational terms. Setting aside the hard problem of consciousness, we approach i

Retry, Switch, or Abstain? Learning Strategy-Aware Tool-Use Policies via Controlled Error Injection

arXiv:2608.11977v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using LLM agents are commonly trained and evaluated in environments where tool calls succeed reliably, yet deployed tools can fail transiently, per

Surfsvr: 2D Surface Priors as 3D Geometric Regularizers for Sparse Voxel Reconstruction

arXiv:2608.11938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse voxel reconstruction offers an efficient representation for high-fidelity 3D modeling, yet its geometry is commonly optimized from local photomet

Towards the Harness of Embodied Agents

arXiv:2608.11246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The success of coding agents has established the harness as a paradigm: what an agent achieves depends not on the model alone, but on the infrastructure

TradingMoE: Routing the Right Experts in Evolving Markets

arXiv:2608.11785v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong potential for financial analysis and trading, but direct trading remains challenging because the predicti

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Transferable Above-Ground Biomass (AGB) Estimation Model from Multi-Sensor Data with Sparse Field Calibration

arXiv:2608.11638v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatially continuous quantification of forest above-ground biomass (AGB) is what makes carbon accounting credible and mitigation strategies actionable

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Benchmarking LLM-Guided Control-Plane Policies for Backend Fault Isolation in HAProxy

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arXiv:2608.10532v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Static load balancers cannot mitigate a backend that is degraded rather than down: round-robin and least-connections keep routing traffic to a server

Beyond Forecasting: Recasting Volatility Control as a Routing Problem

arXiv:2608.10375v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Volatility control converts risk estimates into portfolio exposure, yet existing approaches often rely on a fixed volatility estimator or a pre-define

Conflict or Strategy? Asymmetric Role Framing of La France insoumise and Rassemblement National in French News Headlines, 2022-2025

arXiv:2608.09936v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Do French news headlines frame left- and right-populist challengers as symmetric ``extremes,'' or as fundamentally different political adversaries? We e

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Continuous Interaction Diffusion: A Diffusion-Native Runtime for Asynchronous Tool-Augmented Reasoning

arXiv:2608.10438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models increasingly rely on external tools to access up-to-date information, perform computation, and interact with the outside world. Fo

DashArena: Benchmarking LLMs on Interactive Analytic Dashboard Generation

arXiv:2608.10567v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Analytic dashboards combine coordinated views and interactions for data exploration and decision-making. Recent models can generate them from data and n

DriveVLA-M0: Failure-Aware Memory Augmentation for Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2608.10413v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving by enabling unified reasoning across

E^3mo-Bench: A Scalable Benchmark for Multimodal Evoked and Expressed Emotion Understanding via Bayesian Pairwise Alignment

arXiv:2608.10796v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding both expressed and evoked emotions is critical for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to achieve comprehensive affect-aware interact

Evaluation-Conditioned Training: Teaching Models to Generalize to Stronger Oversight Regimes

arXiv:2608.10209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Feedback signals used to train Large Language Models (LLMs) are the primary driver of their behavior and our main lever for instilling alignment with hu

Inferential Capability Does Not Determine Legal Scope

arXiv:2608.10601v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Two instruments of EU digital law place inference at their centre and mean different things by it. Article 3(1) of the AI Act uses the capability to i

IO Factory: Simulating AI-Enabled Influence Campaigns at Scale

arXiv:2608.10920v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce IO Factory, an AI-driven framework for simulating information and influence campaigns as fully integrated, traceable processes. The threat