Search: “persistence”

AI-Based Sound Effect Generation: A Narrative Review of Generative Models Across Input Modalities

arXiv:2608.03742v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sound effects play a crucial role in conveying actions, events, and environmental cues across digital applications, often requiring a high degree of v

researcharxiv-cs-ai

Tutorials

Content type

All Blog X Post Paper YouTube Reddit GitHub

Clear filters

AI Sandbox: Technical Report

DGX agent

arXiv:2608.02679v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Collaborative AI experimentation across industry and academia requires platforms that enable rapid prototyping while preserving controlled access, ten

tutorialsarxiv-cs-ai

5 Aug 2026

Approximate Speculative Decoding

arXiv:2608.03447v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates autoregressive generation by verifying a draft block with a target model in parallel. Under standard greedy verificat

ARCHead: Activation-Metric Residual Correction for Large Language Model Output Heads

arXiv:2608.02703v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Weight-only quantization substantially reduces the storage of large language model (LLM) transformer blocks, but practical backends often retain the fin

BanglaWild: An In-the-Wild Bengali Scene Text Recognition Benchmark for OCR and Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608.03884v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In-the-wild Bengali scene text recognition is largely unmeasured: existing resources target handwritten documents or constrained sign-board parsing, r

Bridging Prediction and Attribution: Identifying Forward and Backward Causal Influence Ranges Using Assimilative Causal Inference

arXiv:2510.21889v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Causal inference identifies cause-and-effect relationships between variables. While traditional approaches rely on data to reveal causal links

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

CARE-Bench: Benchmarking Patient-Facing LLM Triage

arXiv:2608.03731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Patient-facing medical LLMs and agents increasingly answer symptom questions before clinician contact, where the key safety question is what action the

Tools

ChatGPT Work is OpenAI's fighter in the highest stake product category in history: bringing the power of coding agents to the masses. It's a…

ChatGPT Work is OpenAI's fighter in the highest stake product category in history: bringing the power of coding agents to the masses. It's also how a billion users will soon use ChatGPT by default. I

toolsswyx--x

Detecting high-frequency brain disorder signals using dynamic mode decomposition from EEG

arXiv:2608.02804v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent studies have reported clearly identifiable dynamical changes in the high-frequency range of EEG signals recorded during specific stimuli, such

Enhancing Tabular Learners with Context-Aware Semantic Embeddings

arXiv:2608.03565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While modern tabular learners excel at capturing statistical patterns, they frequently operate in a semantic vacuum, treating textual features as discre

Evaluating Counterfactual Sensitivity to Patient Information in Medication-Safety Reasoning

arXiv:2608.03028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Applying a valid medication-safety rule when its patient-specific conditions are not met can produce an incorrect decision. Existing medical evaluations

Flying over The Uncertain Nature (FORTUNE): Intelligent and Humanistic 3D Path Planning for Low-Altitude Collaboration

arXiv:2608.03408v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The proliferation of low-altitude intelligent agents is increasing the demand for timely and socially responsible collaborative sensing in dynamic urban

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

GoT-CD: Graph-of-Thoughts Causal Discovery and the Fragility of Post-hoc Path-Specific Fairness Audits

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2608.02877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Causal discovery recovers directed structure from observational data and is increasingly used in clinical settings to support mechanism reasoning and fa

Local Ai

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

local-air-ollama

Language Models Encode the Contextual Truth of Propositions

arXiv:2608.03035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prior work has shown that LLMs encode the truth of factual propositions along linear directions in activation space. It's unclear how these representati

Applications

Large language models for partial differential equation workflows

arXiv:2608.03600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Partial differential equations (PDEs) become actionable in science and engineering not as isolated formulae, but as executable workflows that connect mo

applicationsarxiv-cs-ai

Logic Before Language: Pre-pretraining on Formal Derivations Fosters Skill Acquisition and Compressibility

arXiv:2608.03930v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pre-pretraining language models (LMs) on symbolic data can accelerate and improve natural language acquisition. However, existing pre-pretraining task

researcharxiv-cs-ai

Muon Meets Mamba: Spectral Optimization for State Space Models

arXiv:2608.03941v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Muon is a recent optimizer that orthogonalizes the update to each weight matrix with a Newton-Schulz iteration, which performs steepest descent under th

'OCR is just a feature now. Frontier models will eat it.' We hear this constantly. The data says otherwise. Across three GPT generations, pa…

'OCR is just a feature now. Frontier models will eat it.' We hear this constantly. The data says otherwise. Across three GPT generations, parsing accuracy gained ~24 points, while cost per page 4x'd.

agentsjerry-liu--x

PAST-Bench: Benchmarking the Foundations of Recursive Self-Improvement in Personal Agents

arXiv:2608.04003v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recursive self-improvement requires agents to turn accumulated experience into better future behavior. Personal AI agents offer a concrete setting for s

Qwen-3D: A Generalist 3D Vision-Language Model for Spatial Understanding

arXiv:2608.02980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have achieved remarkable success on images and short videos, yet scaling them to long videos remains challenging due to f

Search, Inspect, Fetch: Exploiting Boolean Retrieval for Deep-Research Agents

arXiv:2608.02751v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing deep-research agents use a search-visit workflow that retrieves and reads whole pages, without considering the addressable structure that web

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

Local Ai

Speculative Correction: Draft-then-Refine Decoding for Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2608.02625v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) can revise tokens bidirectionally, but standard decoding procedures often adapt them to left-to-right generation by p

local-aiarxiv-cs-ai

The Signal Horizon: Local Blindness and the Contraction of Pauli-Weight Spectra in Noisy Quantum Encodings

arXiv:2602.14735v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The performance of quantum classifiers is typically analyzed through global state distinguishability or the trainability of variational models

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

Towards a new paradigm of scientific discovery with socialized artificial intelligence

arXiv:2608.02775v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific discovery has advanced through successive transformations in the organization of knowledge. Observation and experimentation established the e

researcharxiv-cs-ai

Unlocking the future of shared storage: Filestore on Colossus

model-releasesgoogle-cloud-ai

Today, enterprise storage must be as agile, elastic, and responsive as the workloads it supports. Filestore, Google Cloud’s first-party, secure, scalable NFS file service, can service a wide-range of

When Agents Learn to Be You: Benchmarking Privacy Leakage, Impersonation Risk, and Defenses in Persona Skills

arXiv:2608.03700v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Persona skills distill personal interaction histories into portable and executable artifacts for downstream agents. While enabling flexible personaliz

When Oracle Conditioning Misleads Deployment: Conditioning-Availability Bias in Echocardiographic Segmentation

arXiv:2608.03342v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conditional segmentation models may be trained and evaluated with auxiliary signals cleaner than those available at deployment. We study this protocol

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

When Refusal Looks Safe: The Refusal-Cue Shortcut in Safety Guard Models

arXiv:2608.03201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safety guards are widely used to filter harmful content and are typically trained via supervised fine-tuning on labeled prompt-response pairs. We audit

3DZip: Spatial-Aware Feature Diversity-Guided Token Compression for 3D Question Answering

arXiv:2608.01185v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent 3D vision-language models (3D VLMs) construct geometry aware tokens by projecting 2D visual features into world coordinates, enabling spatial rea

A Sequence-to-Sequence ConvLSTM Approach for Leaf Area Index Forecasting over the South-Central United States

arXiv:2608.00879v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Leaf Area Index (LAI) is a fundamental biophysical variable governing land-atmosphere interactions; however, LAI forecasting at high spatial resolutio

Analyzing Speech Condition Effects in Dysarthric ASR: A Layer-wise Probing Study

arXiv:2608.01865v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance degrades sharply on dysarthric speech, yet how disordered articulation reshapes a model's internal repres

Auditable Release Control for Pedagogical Leakage in LLM Tutors

arXiv:2608.00515v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model tutors can be correct and helpful yet disclose an answer or decisive reasoning before that disclosure is authorized. We formalize

Beyond Lanes: Traffic Flow Dynamics in Disordered Conditions Based on High-Resolution Trajectory Data

arXiv:2608.00602v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Disordered traffic flow is characterized by weak or non-existent lane discipline in the presence of strong vehicle heterogeneity and continuous latera

CHOW-SLAM: Compact Hybrid Representation with Complementary Overlap Window Optimization for RGB-D SLAM

arXiv:2608.01914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) enables dense, continuous scene reconstruction. However, existing sy

CORTIVA: Candidate-Score Fusion of Complementary Visual Teachers for EEG- and MEG-to-Image Retrieval

arXiv:2608.01355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decoding visual experience from non-invasive brain activity is central to neuroscience and brain-computer interfaces. Functional magnetic resonance imag

Deep Research Pretraining via Predictive Navigation

arXiv:2608.00432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep research agents are often trained on expensive, environment-grounded tool-use trajectories that require repeated retrieval, document inspection, an

safetyarxiv-cs-cl

DF^3: World Modeling via Decoder-Free Feature Forecasting in Autonomous Navigation

arXiv:2608.02428v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forecasting future states from video sequences is a critical challenge for autonomous robotic systems and a fundamental objective of world modeling. Pri

agentsarxiv-cs-cv

Emergence Invariance: From Symbolized Thought to Interface Refinement

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2608.01548v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language can be viewed as a formalized subset of thought: a consequence-governed symbolic structure projected from wider situated cognition. Large lan

Empirical investigation of 3D CT Foundation Models and Unsupervised Adaptation for Head and Neck Cancer Recurrence Prediction

arXiv:2608.00071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid emergence of 3D CT foundation models has opened new avenues for predictive modeling from CT imaging, offering a compelling alternative to trad

FactorJEPA: Factorizing Monolithic Futures into Layout-Agent-Interaction Channels for Crowded and Chaotic Global South Urban Worlds

arXiv:2608.01049v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models have attracted significant attention for their ability to capture and predict the structure and dynamics of the physical world. In this e

agentsarxiv-cs-cv

Few-Shot Concept Prompt Learning for Segmentation Foundation Models via Visual Grounding

arXiv:2608.01663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Promptable segmentation foundation models (FMs) such as SAM3 and Medical SAM3 promise few-shot, interactively-specified segmentation for medical imaging

Tutorials

Foundations of Reinforcement Learning and Control:Connections and New Perspectives

arXiv:2608.02433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning and control theory are two adjacent scientific fields that focus on optimizing the controller of unknown dynamical systems using

tutorialsarxiv-cs-lg

Geometry-Guided Layerwise FFN Width Allocation in Transformers

arXiv:2608.02064v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Feed-forward networks (FFNs) account for a large fraction of Transformer parameters, yet their hidden width is usually constant across depth. We ask w

HAFI-VLM: A Frequency Perspective for Diagnosing and Enhancing Visual Perception in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2608.02124v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) remain unreliable when predictions require fine-grained visual evidence. We identify a previously overlooked cause: spec

Instruction-Conditioned Exploration with Asymmetric Reinforcement Learning and Self-Distillation

arXiv:2608.02087v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) with Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become an important tool for improving model capabilities, but the LLM

safetyarxiv-cs-cl

Latent-Centroid Steering: Single-Pass Classifier-Free Guidance for Command-Aligned Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2608.00237v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving, enabling agents to map multimodal inputs

LeapTalk: Breaking the Latency-Quality Trade-off in Talking Head Generation

arXiv:2608.00079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-form and real-time talking-head generation remains challenging due to a latency-quality trade-off: inefficient multi-step diffusion prohibits strea