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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

10 Aug 2026

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

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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

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7 Aug 2026

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-

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

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

Hardware

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

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

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

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

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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Reinforcing Action Policies by Prophesying

arXiv:2511.20633v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies excel in aligning language, perception, and robot control. However, most VLAs are trained purely by imitation,

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TAU-Bench: From Anomaly Instance Tracking to Fine-Grained Video Anomaly Understanding

arXiv:2608.05699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans understand anomalous events through a coherent perceptual process in which they identify the focal instance, follow its behavior as the event unf

Training a Conditioned Video Game Agent on a VLM Annotated Dataset

arXiv:2608.05954v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a powerful but far from easy-to-use technique for policy learning. In the specific case of video games, access to the gam

A Unified Model for Cross-Domain Clone Detection via Model Merging

arXiv:2608.04215v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing diversity of code clone types, from syntactic copies to cross-language semantic clones to AI-generated duplicates, has created a fragmenta

Hardware

An Explainable LLM Agent Layer for Open-World Anomaly Detection in Oil Wells

arXiv:2608.04041v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-World Learning (OWL) pipelines for oil well anomaly detection have recently been shown to combine autoencoder-based detection, multiclass classific

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Argus: A General-Purpose Agentic Runtime for Long-Horizon Reasoning

arXiv:2608.05144v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon reasoning requires an agentic runtime that can persist when evidence supports its current approach and pivot when measurements reveal failu

CoCo-IR: Contextual Composed Image Retrieval

arXiv:2608.05149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current instruction-based image retrieval systems are powerful but limited to single-turn interactions, failing to capture the iterative nature of compl

Continual-Learning Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Parameterized Partial Differential Equations

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arXiv:2608.04778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) incorporate governing equations into neural-network training and can approximate PDE solutions without requirin

DAC-Pose: Dual-Agent Collaborative Framework for Pose-Guided Human Generation

arXiv:2608.04622v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents have emerged as a powerful new paradigm in generative image synthesis, enabling systems to perform complex semantic reasoning rather than pass

Diagnosing Tool-Selection Reasoning in LLM Agents with Canary Tools

arXiv:2608.04719v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent evaluations tell us that a model picked the wrong tool, but rarely why. We introduce canary tools: diagnostic probe tools planted in an agent's Mo

EdgeLM: Edge Demonstrations for Language Models' Table Understanding

arXiv:2608.04390v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) perform table-centric prediction through in-context learning, making demonstration selection critical to performance. Exist

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Eigenius: A Typed Knowledge-Graph DBMS with Epistemic Stratification and Institution-Mediated Reasoning

arXiv:2608.04457v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As 'AI Scientists' emerge to drive research via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), systems relying on ephemeral scripts will fail. The sheer scale of s

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Local Ai

EvolveNet: Collaborative Harness Evolution for Agent Self-Improvement

arXiv:2608.04968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The capabilities of an LLM agent depend not only on its model but on the harness: the executable program that constructs context, invokes tools, verifie

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FinProBench: Evaluating Financial AI Agents with Role-Grounded Rubrics Derived from Professional Deliverables

arXiv:2608.04077v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating financial AI agents requires criteria aligned with real professional work. Existing rubric methods typically derive criteria from task prompt

From Brute Force to Semantic Insight: Performance-Guided Data Transformation Design with LLMs

arXiv:2601.03808v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved notable performance in code synthesis; however, data-aware augmentation remains a limiting factor, handle

From Score Matrices to Football-Aware Match-State Simulation: An Auditable LLM Harness for Exact-Score Reranking

arXiv:2608.05030v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Football score forecasting combines a strong statistical core with a difficult contextual edge. Dynamic Poisson-family models estimate team strength, ex

Applications

Learning Compression Rules for Network Traffic

arXiv:2608.04545v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the problem of learning compact rule-based compressors for structured network traffic. Each packet is a record of header fields that are highly

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Applications

MIDAS: Multi-LLM Iterative Data-Adaptive Summarization

arXiv:2608.04307v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text summarization is deceptively difficult. While condensing information seems straightforward, real-world enterprise summarization of support ticket

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OctoLong: Mid-Training On Cross-Repository Code Contexts Enhances Long-Context Modeling

arXiv:2608.05141v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Context lengths of language models (LMs) have dramatically increased, driven by the demands for in-context learning, self-improvement, and long-horizon

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

OmniRouting: A Semantic-Coupled Multimodal Benchmark for Constraint-Aware Spatial Reasoning in PCB Routing

arXiv:2608.04434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable progress in constraint-aware navigation, maze reasoning, and graph reasoning. However,

One Surrogate to Fool Them All: Universal, Transferable, and Targeted Adversarial Attacks with CLIP

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arXiv:2505.19840v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved widespread success yet remain prone to adversarial attacks. Typically, such attacks either involve f

ReCodeAgent: A Multi-agent Workflow for Language-Agnostic Translation and Validation of Large-Scale Repositories

arXiv:2604.07341v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Most repository-level code translation and validation techniques have been evaluated on a single source-target programming language (PL) pair,

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Hardware

RORA: Realistic Object Reconstruction with Articulation

arXiv:2608.04842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Replicating real-world environments into simulation by realistic visual representation like NeRF and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as an effe

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SpecRoll: Fast-Slow Verifier-Feedback Adaptation for Speculative Reinforcement Learning Rollouts

arXiv:2608.04962v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models, but autoregressive rollout generation remains

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Tutorials

The RAIL Principles for Neurosymbolic AI: Reasoning, Assurances, Interfacing and Learning

arXiv:2608.04285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neurosymbolic AI systems that integrate machine learning and symbolic reasoning are rapidly gaining attention. They complement the data-intensive statis

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Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition of Classical Latin through LLM Prompting

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2608.04015v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the increase in digitized resources of Classical Latin texts and modern breakthroughs of Large Language Models (LLMs), I contribute to ancient lang

TriCLE: Tri-Modal Vision-Language Reasoning for Edge-Deployed Fine-Grained Clustering

arXiv:2608.04175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Edge platforms used for aerial observation must interpret aircraft imagery under limited memory, limited compute, and intermittent connectivity. This se

TS2TabPFN: Time Series Classification and Extrinsic Regression through Feature Extraction and a Tabular Foundation Model

arXiv:2608.04174v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time series data are ubiquitous in practical applications, where classification (TSC) and extrinsic regression (TSER) have emerged as essential tasks fo

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War in the Abstract: The Rise and Consequences of Militarized Language in Scientific Communication

arXiv:2606.23462v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scientists do not, by profession, wage war. Yet warfare's vocabulary consistently appears in their abstracts. To quantify the extent to which