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Towards Safer RAG: Only Agents Capable of System 2 Thinking may Access Untrusted Documents

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arXiv:2608.17153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has significantly enhanced the performance of large language models (LLMs), yet these systems remain vulnerable to

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Towards Unified World Models for Visual Navigation via Memory-Augmented Planning and Foresight

arXiv:2510.08713v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Enabling embodied agents to imagine future states is essential for robust and generalizable visual navigation. Yet, state-of-the-art systems typical

Towards Zero-Shot Task Transfer with Neurosymbolic World Models

arXiv:2608.17959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: State-of-the-art model-based reinforcement learning methods learn neural world models that allow policy improvement by planning in a latent space, witho

Traceable Trust for action-ready artificial intelligence in bioscience

arXiv:2608.17997v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming part of the working infrastructure of the biosciences. AI models can predict biomolecular structures, design

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TraceSQL: Traceable Answerability Estimation for Reference-Free Text-to-SQL Verification

arXiv:2608.17795v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-SQL systems are commonly evaluated using ground-truth SQL queries or reference execution results, but such supervision is unavailable at inferen

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Training-Free Human-in-the-Loop Anomaly Detection via Memory Bank Correction

arXiv:2608.17775v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Anomaly detectors are hardest to deploy exactly where training data is scarcest: a newly commissioned production line has a handful of verified 'golden'

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Training with synthetic data for drone detection in thermal imagery

arXiv:2608.17799v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ground-to-Air (G2A) drone detection in medium- and long-wave infrared (MWIR/LWIR) imagery is challenging due to reduced texture information, sensor no

TRUSS: Towards Task-Reliable and User-Safe Automated Agent Skill Generation

arXiv:2608.17588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent Skills package reusable natural language procedures with executable resources, enabling software agents to acquire task specific capabilities with

TSQueryBench: LLM-as-a-Judge for Time Series Explanations

arXiv:2604.02118v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Natural language explanations of time series data are increasingly produced by foundation models in high stakes domains, making factual correctness

Uncertainty-Aware Decision Making in Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.17084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) increasingly answer questions whose correctness depends on visual, textual, temporal, acoustic, document, chart

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Understanding Curriculum Learning in Large Language Models via Cross-Difficulty Optimization Dynamics

arXiv:2608.17268v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Curriculum learning has been widely adopted in the post-training of large language models by organizing training data from easy to hard. However, its

Understanding the Surprising Generalization Properties of Tabular Foundation Models

arXiv:2608.17957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) increasingly rely on in-context learning, where a model receives labelled examples at inference time and predicts label

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Understanding Undesirable Word Embedding Associations

arXiv:1908.06361v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Word embeddings are often criticized for capturing undesirable word associations such as gender stereotypes. However, methods for measuring and remo

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UniQuery4R: Unified 4D Scene Reconstruction from a Single Query

arXiv:2608.17283v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reconstructing dynamic 4D scenes requires jointly estimating correspondence, geometry, object motion, and camera motion. Existing feed-forward methods t

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UniReflex: Plug-and-Play Force Control for Pretrained Generative Policies via Fast-Slow Reflex

arXiv:2608.17432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative imitation learning policies excel at trajectory planning but lack closed-loop force regulation, while directly incorporating force modalities

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Unsupervised Deep Generative Models for Anomaly Detection in Neuroimaging: A Systematic Scoping Review

arXiv:2510.14462v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) based on deep generative modelling has been increasingly explored for identifying pathological brain abnormalit

Validated Adaptation for Aerial Crowd Monitoring at Mass Gathering Scale: A Deployment Protocol, a Severity Law, and a Diagnostic for Label-Free Drone Crowd Counting, Toward the FIFA World Cup 2034 (Saudi Arabia)

arXiv:2608.17625v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Saudi Arabia will host the 2034 FIFA World Cup and already operates crowd management at Hajj scale. Drone-based counting must hold accuracy on footage u

Vision-Language Enhanced Foundation Model for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation

arXiv:2511.19759v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Semi-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as an efficient paradigm for medical image segmentation, reducing the reliance on extensive expert annota

Vision-Language Models for Analog Gauge Reading: An Empirical Study of Specialization, Transfer and Reliability

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arXiv:2608.17723v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Analog gauges remain common in industrial environments where manual inspection is costly or hazardous. The engineering application addressed here is dir

Vision Transformers for End-to-End Quark-Gluon Jet Classification from Calorimeter Images

arXiv:2506.14934v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Distinguishing between quark- and gluon-initiated jets is a critical and challenging task in high-energy physics, pivotal for improving new physics

Visual Prompting for Robotic Manipulation with Annotation-Guided Pick-and-Place Using ACT

arXiv:2508.08748v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic pick-and-place tasks in convenience stores pose challenges due to dense object arrangements, occlusions, and variations in object prop

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VLCP: Vision Language Control Policy Closed-Loop Code Replanning for Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2608.16978v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Turning a frontier vision-language model into a robot policy usually means fine-tuning it to emit an action representation it never saw in pretraining,

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Wasted large language models: A life cycle thinking approach

arXiv:2608.17055v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are machine learning (ML) models that have an increasingly large carbon footprint through their development and use. Effo

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What Aggregate Scores Miss: Measuring Item-Level Regressions in Commercial LLM API Migrations

arXiv:2608.17719v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Context: Software systems that depend on commercial large language model APIs must migrate to successor versions when vendors deprecate older models.

What If AI Carried Her Imagination? Black Girls as Creators in an AI Storytelling Weekend Program

arXiv:2608.16896v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents the design and outcomes of a seven-weekend AI storytelling program developed for Black girls aged 10-12. Grounded in Afrofuturism

What Tokens are Learned when Tokenization is Optimized Jointly with Language Modeling?

arXiv:2608.17325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tokenization is a fundamental component of language modeling pipelines. Despite its importance, it is often fixed, even though it significantly impacts

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When Agents Act on Web3: An Attack-Surface Survey of MCP, Skills, and Tool Calling

arXiv:2608.17275v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents increasingly act rather than merely read: across the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem, the share of deployed tools that modify externa

Agents

When AI Designs AI: Innovation or Imitation?

arXiv:2608.17471v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in LLM agents have made them increasingly capable of designing methods for complex AI tasks. This raises two central questions about age

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When More Foundation Models Means Less: Diagnosing and Addressing Multi-View Fusion Failure

arXiv:2608.17490v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation-model hubs turn multi-view fusion into a selection problem: from a large heterogeneous encoder pool, which views should be fused, and how man

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When Personalization Becomes Bias: Structural and Discursive Religious Framing in AI-Generated Financial Advice

arXiv:2608.16909v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into financial advisory systems, yet their role in reproducing religious bias remains underex

Local Ai

When to Plan, When to Polish: Noise Level as a Granularity Axis for Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2606.21802v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Standard tokenwise diffusion LMs keep training corruption and inference commitment at token granularity throughout denoising. At high noise, this le

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When to Review: Spaced Repetition for Continual Pre-Training of Language Models

arXiv:2608.17530v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual pre-training of large language models must acquire new information without erasing old knowledge. Existing replay methods often choose a globa

When Writing Style Drifts: Benchmarking Authorship Verification under Distribution Shifts in Genre, Time and the AI-Era

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arXiv:2608.17979v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Authorship verification (AV) assumes that an author's writing style remains sufficiently stable to distinguish it from that of other writers. In practic

Where a New Concept Must Enter: Entry Point Gates Cross-Task Usability in Unified Multimodal Models

arXiv:2608.17564v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) are motivated by the hope that understanding and generation reinforce each other but controlled ablations repeatedly

Local Ai

Where A Small Language Model Helps in Invoice Categorisation, Understood Through Embedding Geometry

arXiv:2608.18033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Categorising invoices into the correct General Ledger (GL) code underpins financial reporting and tax compliance. This is a skilled accounting judgeme

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Whether LLMs Can Navigate Beliefs and Facts Depends on How You Phrase It

arXiv:2608.17809v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humans naturally form and express beliefs in daily communication, e.g., 'I think the answer is 3' or 'I suppose that's right.' Such beliefs inevitably i

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Which CS1 Students Will Fail? Identifying Digital Markers from Learning Analytics in Computer Systems and Architecture Using Weighted Academic Momentum and Interaction Logs

arXiv:2608.16914v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Digital learning platforms generate rich behavioural traces (digital markers) that offer the potential to identify struggling students early. This pap

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Which Source Wins? Task-Dependent Reliance in Vision-Language Models

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arXiv:2608.17205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) combine images and text, but when the two conflict and one becomes harder to read, it is unclear how a model shifts its re

Why GPT-Style Models Do Not Directly Transfer to Symbolic Music: Compression in the Wrong Coordinate System

arXiv:2608.18025v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GPT-style models achieve strong performance by representing language with finite vocabularies of reusable discrete tokens. This success has motivated

Applications

WIP: LLM Odyssey: A Game-Based Platform for Teaching LLM Engineering Concepts

arXiv:2608.16924v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work-in-progress (WIP) innovative practice category paper presents LLM Odyssey, an open source, browser-based serious gaming platform comprising

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Without journalists, there is no journalism: the social dimension of generative artificial intelligence in the media

arXiv:2608.17017v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The implementation of artificial intelligence techniques and tools in the media will systematically and continuously alter their work and that of thei

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Local Ai

WONDER: A Radio World Model-based Negotiation Framework for Multi-Agent UAV Coverage Optimization

arXiv:2608.16955v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-disaster damage to terrestrial infrastructure can disrupt wireless coverage,while Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms provide a promising soluti

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WorldBench: Benchmarking Physical Understanding of World Models by Isolating Physics Concepts

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arXiv:2601.21282v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in generative foundational models, often termed 'world models,' have propelled interest in applying them to critical tasks like robo

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Write, Execute, Refine: From Skill Followers to Skill Optimizers via Reinforcement Learning from Execution Feedback

arXiv:2608.17587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Expert-written natural language skills can improve tool-using agents, yet agent-authored skills perform 8-11 points worse than using no skill. This gap

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Wuying-Browser-Agent: Real-World Centric Fundamental Long-Horizon Browser Agents

arXiv:2608.17319v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Browser agents perform well on short, clean demonstrations, but real deployment is fundamentally different: agents must sustain dozens of decisions on l

YILDIZ-VPR: A Novel Dataset with Dense Coverage Under Diverse Environmental Conditions for Visual Place Recognition

arXiv:2608.17033v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual Place Recognition (VPR) aims to recognize the location of a query image by comparing it with a set of geo-referenced images. Although many data

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