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arXiv:2609.03807v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A free pause token gives a language model extra compute to form each next-token prediction (as a pause, or thinking, token does) but carries that comp

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4 Sept 2026

I benchmarked 21 Qwen3.8 27B variants on 16GB VRAM

After Qwen3.8 27B came out, I decided to benchmark the models that could fit in my GPU (RTX 5080) on my actual code (C code), the results were not completely unexpected but some quants were definitely

Jina-OCR-v1: Efficient Document Parsing with Speculative Decoding and Dense Verifiable Rewards

arXiv:2609.03181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Jina-OCR-v1, an end-to-end document parsing model built to serve on low-budget GPUs. It combines the compressed-vision encoder and the 3B mix

Learning What Not to Forget: Long-Horizon Agent Memory from a Few Kilobytes of Learning

arXiv:2606.20954v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Long-running language-model systems accumulate interaction history that outgrows the context window, so they must continually evict. When an e

Lost in Reordering: Structural Sensitivity of Multilingual LLMs under Semantics-Preserving Perturbations

arXiv:2609.03511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate strong multilingual reasoning performance, yet their robustness to semantics-preserving structural variation re

MedQA-MM: Shortcuts Behind Medical Visual Reasoning

arXiv:2609.03261v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A benchmark score credits final answers, but not the route by which an item can be answered. In medical multimodal multiple-choice questions (MCQs), t

ObserverBench: Testing Mechanistic Estimates for Intervention and Control

arXiv:2609.03026v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mechanistic interpretability is increasingly used to guide interventions such as activation steering, circuit removal, and safety monitoring. Yet an i

Occupancy-based Quantile Risk Control

arXiv:2609.03104v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conformal risk control is an emerging framework for the safe deployment of machine learning models with finite-sample guarantees. To accommodate a bro

OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis

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Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by models being tra

Plan Pointers and Record-Directive Form in Budgeted Verification of Inherited Agent Memory

arXiv:2609.03450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An agent that inherits six one-line memories may pull at most one archived source record before acting; a directive written into the store can steer t

Privacy-Preserving Heterogeneous Multi-LLM Federated Inference for Cognitive Diagnosis

arXiv:2609.02947v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Significant challenges remain in AI-driven educational systems in balancing privacy preservation with accurate cognitive diagnosis. To overcome this,

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Random Attention: Rethinking KV Cache Eviction for Efficient Reasoning

arXiv:2609.03430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models achieve superior performance on tasks that require extended reasoning, but long chains of thought make the KV cache a severe memor

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Sensing Which Modality Matters: Evidence-Gated Regularization for Robust VLA Policies

arXiv:2609.03142v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies fuse multimodal sensory inputs, but training on limited and homogeneous robot demonstrations encourages spurious

Sharpening the Ensemble: An SSIM-Aligned Residual Refiner for Brain-MRI Inpainting Post-Processing

arXiv:2609.03981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Brain-MRI inpainting replaces a masked region of a scan with synthesized, anatomically plausible healthy tissue, so that analysis tools built for health

SPARK: Input-Conditioned Sparse Activation Modulation for Frozen DiT-based Super-Resolution

arXiv:2609.03813v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world image super-resolution (SR) increasingly relies on Diffusion Transformer (DiT) backbones, whose internal activations can be dominated by a sm

STAIR (STructure Aware Information Retriever): A novel dataset and LLM based retriever for document structure augmentation

arXiv:2609.03874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a key component for generating accurate and hallucination free answers using Large Language Models (LLMs). LLMs

SVG-Score: Human-Aligned Evaluation of Text-to-SVG Generation

arXiv:2609.03806v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) generation is attracting increasing attention as generative models improve in expressiveness and controllability. Progres

TabScope: Question-Adaptive Scope Selection for Table Question Answering

arXiv:2609.03395v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong performance on table question answering, yet their accuracy often degrades as table size increases. We

The Impact of Synthetic Data Augmentation on Discourse-Pragmatic Function Classification

arXiv:2609.03652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthetic data augmentation has become a common strategy for addressing class imbalance in NLP, but most approaches focus on the quantity and diversity

The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting

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I got access to GPT-6 Astra this afternoon, so naturally I used it to generate SVGs of pelicans riding bicycles - at low, medium, high, xhigh and max reasoning levels (Astra doesn't support reasoning=

ThousandWorlds: A benchmark for climate emulation of potentially habitable exoplanets

arXiv:2606.18338v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The search for life beyond Earth will depend on detecting faint signatures in the atmospheres of potentially habitable exoplanets. Interpreting thos

Toward Collective-Centric Evaluation of Preference Inference for Participatory Democracy

arXiv:2609.02990v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: To scale up collective decision-making, participatory democracy platforms such as Polis and Remesh enable online deliberation among thousands of parti

Local Ai

You can now run a 90M conversational LLM on the Sony PSP (hardware from 2004). Doesn't get more local than this.

Github link: https://github.com/thatblend/LLMPSP I wanted to see what the PSP can theoretically handle and I got my answer - a 90M model is about the max it can do without atrocious inference speeds.

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APEx: Distillation of Agent Procedural Experience for Adaptive Deep Research Question Answering

arXiv:2609.02253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep research agents augment large language models with external tools to answer complex, long-horizon questions through multi-turn reasoning. Learning

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model: add NVIDIA Nemotron-3-Puzzle-75B-A9B (NemotronHPuzzle) support (#25444) hparams: add per-layer n_ff_exp/n_expert_used arrays with scalar-or-array loading G1/G2 infrastructure for variable-per-l

Benchmarking RAW and RGB Restoration in Image Signal Processors

arXiv:2609.02831v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern cameras transform RAW sensor measurements into sRGB images through an image signal processor (ISP). We benchmark two placements for blind restora

Bridging Latent Reasoning and Target-Language Generation via Retrieval-Transition Heads

arXiv:2602.22453v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent work has identified a subset of attention heads in Transformer as retrieval heads, which are responsible for retrieving information from the

C^{3}T: Counterfactual Causal Reasoning for Sentiment Shifts in Social-Media Conversation Trees

arXiv:2609.02131v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sentiment in social-media threads does not only vary across posts; it shifts as users react to claims, corrections, evidence, and hostility within a b

CORAL: An LLM-Native Harness for Production Recommender Systems

arXiv:2609.02730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Production recommender systems shape what billions of people see, and sustaining their performance requires continual optimization: as content, user beh

D-FROST: Decentralized Federated pRompt-tuning via Optimal tranSporT for Non-IID and Imbalanced Data

arXiv:2609.01802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prompt tuning provides a parameter-efficient way to adapt foundation models (FMs) by freezing the pretrained backbone and updating only a small set of l

Does Playing it Safe Count as Faithfulness? Reassessing LVLM Hallucination Mitigation Methods

arXiv:2609.01888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent inference-time hallucination mitigation methods for large vision-language models (LVLMs) report strong gains on hallucination benchmarks. However

EarlyEval: Cheaper Agent Evaluation via Early Outcome Prediction

arXiv:2609.02783v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating LLM agents is essential for guiding their development, yet it has grown prohibitively expensive: a single pass of a frontier model over an ag

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Edit Knowledge, Not Just Facts via Multi-Step Reasoning over Background Stories

arXiv:2602.02028v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Enabling artificial intelligence systems, particularly large language models, to update knowledge and flexibly apply it during reasoning remains a c

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Genesis: A Generative Engine for Hierarchical Satellite Image Synthesis

arXiv:2609.02683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Earth observation is fundamentally multi-scale; geospatial tasks span varied resolutions, and satellite imagery is organized into cascading tile pyramid

IFM/K2-Horizon-MoVA-36B-A4B-GGUF · Hugging Face

more sizes (probably still uploading): https://huggingface.co/IFM/K2-Horizon-32B-GGUF https://huggingface.co/IFM/K2-Horizon-7B-GGUF https://huggingface.co/IFM/K2-Horizon-3.7B-GGUF https://huggingface.

Krea2 Turbo Distill 4 step LoRA - new checkpoint (chk60K) released (fine detail now above the 8-step teacher and clean of artefacts, best prompt-adherence and teacher-faithfulness scores so far)

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Krea 2 Turbo — 4-Step Distillation LoRA (work in progress) A LoRA for Krea 2 Turbo that reduces the minimum usable step count from 8 to 4. ⚡ Half the steps — 8 → 4, on Turbo's own deployment sigmas. ⏱

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, initially for customers in its Daybreak program; Greg Brockman says it is a 'generational leap' and 'we are now in the AGI era' (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Hayden Field / The Verge: OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, initially for customers in its Daybreak program; Greg Brockman says it is a “generational leap” and “we are now in the AGI era” — OpenAI's next b

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Quantum MeanFlow: single-shot generative sampling on NISQ hardware

arXiv:2609.02186v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum generative models offer a promising framework for exploring whether quantum computation can enhance generative machine learning. Flow matching

Qwen3.6 35b Q2_XXS: Being GPU poor in 2026 is not so bad

A potato can create a very cool RPG in 24 minutes Laptop I3 8gb RAM 0gb VRAM, Windows 11 llama-server.exe --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080 -m modelsqwen3.6-35b-InstructQwen_Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-IQ2_XXS.gguf -c 8

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 2x3090 + DDR4: 17 → 25-29 t/s decode with the expert cache PR

Sharing some numbers because most posts on this model are either using a single 3090 or unified systems from what I've seen. My current setup: 2x RTX 3090 (PCIe 3.0), dual Xeon E5-2696 v4, 188 GB usab

Rating the Raters: Rasch Measurement Theory for LLM Evaluation

arXiv:2608.27463v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLMs now sit on every side of evaluation: as examinees scored on benchmarks, judges of other models' outputs, and raters of human-generated content.

Rendering-in-the-Loop: An Execution-Driven Agent for Interactive Web Development

arXiv:2609.02088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models have achieved remarkable progress in front-end web development, generating interactive webpages from multimodal referen

RouteGraph-Mona: Confusion-Aware Routing Fine-Tuning for Mineral Image Classification

arXiv:2609.02282v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mineral image classification is important for geological exploration and resource development, but it remains challenging due to substantial intra-cla

Smoothed Analysis for Learning Concepts with Low Intrinsic Dimension

arXiv:2407.00966v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In traditional models of supervised learning, the goal of a learner-- given examples from an arbitrary joint distribution on R^d imes {pm 1}-- is to

Task-Level Natural Language Priors as Learning Signals for Low-Resource LLM Training

arXiv:2609.02244v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often struggle when low-resource training data are ambiguous or incomplete. Task-level natural-language priors can provide

A Benchmark for Vehicle Attribute Classification in Cross-Domain Surveillance Scenarios

arXiv:2609.01584v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vehicle attribute analysis is a key component of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), supporting applications such as vehicle identification, traff

2 Sept 2026

A Multi-Branch Feature Fusion Approach for Health Misinformation Detection and Propagation

arXiv:2609.00403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a multi-branch fusion framework for detecting and characterising the propagation of health misinformation in online social networks