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T-LLM Compiler: Trusted LLM-based Code Optimization and Verification Framework

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arXiv:2608.14953v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have opened opportunities to apply high-level code transformations to the field of code optimization, an

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Tabletop Pen Manipulation With a Vision-Guided 4-DoF Arm

arXiv:2608.15968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-cost four-degree-of-freedom (DoF) arms are among the most accessible robotic platforms. But they are, in theory, underactuated for picking up in sit

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Tac4Loco: Learning Spatiotemporal Plantar Pressure Representations for Humanoid Locomotion

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arXiv:2608.15766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Humanoid robots are expected to traverse complex terrains, where the plantar support may vary dramatically due to foot placement errors, ground properti

Tactile Sim2Real without Tactile Simulation via Bottlenecked Latent Reconstruction

arXiv:2608.15897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot sensor designs, particularly tactile sensors, are highly diverse and evolve rapidly. Modeling each sensor in simulation demands substantial domain

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TAHB: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Text-Attributed Hypergraph Learning

arXiv:2608.15055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hypergraphs effectively model higher-order groupwise relationships beyond pairwise interactions, while pretrained language models (PLMs) and large langu

Tail-Aware Top-k On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2608.14728v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) has emerged as an effective paradigm for transferring knowledge between language models, where a student is trained to al

Applications

Take it Personally: The Limits of General SSL Representations for Real-Life PPG Emotion Detection

arXiv:2608.14675v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) effectively extracts general representations from noisy, unconstrained physiological signals such as photoplethys

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TaoLive Digital Avatar Agent Technical Report: Training Agents to Evolve with Their Harness

arXiv:2608.15763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-powered digital-avatar streamers in live e-commerce must answer product questions, engage viewers, and execute changing business strategies in real t

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Task- and Session-Level Model Routing: A Common-Interface Hybrid Evaluation of Four Open-Source Routers Across Four Benchmarks

arXiv:2608.14641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic systems increasingly delegate model selection to a router, yet open-source routers are usually evaluated with different tasks, candidate pools,

Task-Anchored Representation Shaping for Pre-Trained Model-Based Continual Learning

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arXiv:2608.16345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pre-trained models (PTMs) provide a strong foundation for continual learning by offering stable representations that facilitate lightweight adaptation t

Task-Driven Three-Layer Distributed Scheduling for Emergency Earth Observation in Large Low-Earth-Orbit Constellations

arXiv:2608.14789v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large low-Earth-orbit (LEO) Earth-observation (EO) constellations offer frequent access to geographically dispersed ground targets, but emergency reques

TDD-Agent: Test-Driven Reasoning for Code Generation

arXiv:2608.16742v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in code generation, yet ensuring correctness in complex, repository-level tasks remains

TEA: Text Encoder Alignment for Robust Concept Erasure in Text-to-Image Models

arXiv:2608.15341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models can be misused to generate harmful content through adversarial or paraphrased prompts that bypass built-in safety mechani

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Temporal Graph Prototype-conditioned Conformal Prediction for Fraud Detection

arXiv:2608.15768v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conformal prediction (CP) provides distribution-free coverage guarantees and has emerged as a principled tool for uncertainty quantification. In edge-

Temporal Logic Guided Universal Task Representations for Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.15509v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Task guided agents demonstrate strong performance in a wide range of complex tasks. However, most existing task representation algorithms are tailored

Hardware

TERRA: A Hierarchical Parallel Training and Memory Orchestration Framework for High-Resolution AI-based Earth Modeling

arXiv:2608.15211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training high-resolution AI-based Earth forecasting models is memory-intensive. Window-based Swin Transformers reduce the quadratic cost of global atten

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Test-Time Instance Selection for Improved Whole Slide Image Analysis

arXiv:2608.14759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis has been widely studied for cancer diagnosis. Conventionally, a gigapixel WSI is divided into small patches and proce

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The Authority Resolution Framework: A Five-Domain Ontology for Governing Who and What Decides, at Scale

arXiv:2608.15832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI systems become increasingly capable of autonomous action, determining whether an agent is technically capable of performing an action is insuffici

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The Benchmark Trap: Structures of Power and Injustice in AI Evaluations

arXiv:2608.15326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) benchmarks are not neutral tools of evaluation but socio-technical artefacts that shape competition, power, and research pr

The canonical facets of multi-separator polytopes

arXiv:2608.16861v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We initiate a polyhedral study of the graph multi-separator problem proposed by Irmai et al. (2024) as an alternative to the lifted multicut problem f

The Commercial Tax: Rent-vs-Own Blind Spots in Multi-Hop Retrieval Benchmarks

arXiv:2608.16096v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enterprises connect language models to their own data through retrieval. The benchmarks that rank multi-hop retrieval systems leave out two facts a bu

The Distributional View of Knowledge Distillation

arXiv:2608.15215v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Token-level knowledge distillation (KD) matches two conditional distributions per position, yet the standard objectives compare them pointwise: a Kull

The Ethical Decision Head: Operationalizing Normative Ethics in Autonomous Vehicles via Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

arXiv:2608.16710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As autonomous vehicles (AVs) approach Level 4 and Level 5 operational capability [SAE International, 2018], their on- board decision systems must handle

The Fake Friend Dilemma: Relational Trust and the Political Economy of Conversational AI

arXiv:2601.03222v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As conversational AI systems become a larger part of the media landscape, they raise questions about whose interests they serve and the risks

The First ChineseBabyLM Challenge: training data-efficient and cognitively plausible language models for Chinese

arXiv:2607.10745v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper presents the first ChineseBabyLM Challenge, organized as part of NLPCC 2026. The challenge asked participants to train language models fr

The Fragility of Strategic Thinking in Large Language Models

arXiv:2510.10813v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to domains that require reasoning about other agents' behavior, such as negotiation, policy de

Agents

The Hallucination Snowball: Modeling Error Propagation as State Transitions in Multi-Agent LLM Pipelines

arXiv:2608.14588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sequential multi-agent LLM pipelines chain specialized agents without verification at handoffs, creating a structural flaw with measurable and severe co

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The Limits of Binding in Dual Encoders

arXiv:2608.15971v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dual-encoder models such as CLIP score an image-caption pair by a single inner product of two independently computed unit vectors, and fail at binding

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The Machine's Internal Clock: Do LLMs Share Human Temporal Illusions?

arXiv:2608.15394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human perception of time is subjective. Well-documented temporal illusions show that the brain relies on context and relational cues for judging duratio

The Many Senses of Visual Similarity: A Text-Prompted Image Perceptual Metric

arXiv:2607.18237v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Human visual similarity judgments are context-dependent. For example, two images may be similar in shape but distinct in color. Existing perceptual

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The Note-Chord-Voice Framework: Structured Source Separation and Causal Inference for EV Charging Data

arXiv:2608.14756v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world EV charging data exhibit three interlocking pathologies: hardware fragmentation (network timeouts and billing resets split sessions), physi

The Null Token Knows: Reducing Message-Free Hallucination in ASR and NMT

arXiv:2608.15940v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern encoder-decoder systems can produce fluent text even when their input contains no recoverable message. We study this failure in ASR and NMT throu

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The Open-Strategy Dictator Game: Cooperation Under Mutual Transparency

arXiv:2608.14913v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce the Open-Strategy Dictator Game (OSDG), a variant of the classic dictator game in which each player's strategy is a natural-language docu

The Physical Cutoff Does Not Restore Homogenization: Phase-Dependent Burning in the Strain G-Equation

arXiv:2608.15337v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We disprove the expectation stated by Xin, Yu, and Ronney that the physical positive part strain G-equation should possess an effective burning veloci

The Political Ideology of Large Language Models: Measurement, Inconsistency, and Persuasive Influence

arXiv:2505.04171v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are a transformational technology, fundamentally changing how people obtain information and interact with the wor

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The Quality of Claude AI-authored Python Tests Is Not Weaker Than Human-authored Tests

arXiv:2608.15188v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We evaluate the quality of Claude AI-written Python tests against human-written Python tests from two established open-source projects Django and Pand

The Quantum Shortcut: Complex Phase-State Dynamics Reduce the Optimization Steps of Sequence Models

arXiv:2608.14691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sequence models are conventionally distinguished by their backbone, the mechanism that routes information across positions, such as attention or recurre

The Recall Trap: A Recall-Maximizing Retriever Configuration Reduces Issue Resolution in Fixed-Budget Code Context

arXiv:2608.14838v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval components for code assistants are tuned against retrieval metrics: a configuration that raises recall@k is adopted, and downstream task suc

The Right Prior for the Right Deformation: Rethinking Continuous Deformable Image Registration

arXiv:2608.16146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deformable image registration models implicitly encode deformation priors through their parametrization and optimization. In this work, we conduct a val

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The Synthetic Web: Adversarially-Curated Mini-Internets for Diagnosing Epistemic Weaknesses of Language Agents

arXiv:2603.00801v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Language agents increasingly act as web-enabled systems that search, browse, and synthesize information from diverse sources. However, these sources

The Trade-off Between Covariate Dependence and Latent Structure in Representation Learning

arXiv:2608.16245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Disentangled representation learning seeks latent representations whose indicidual dimensions each align with a distinct covariate. Unsupervised approac

The Unwritten Benchmark: A New Challenge for Multimodal Machine Learning in Abstract Perceptual Reasoning

arXiv:2608.14558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current multimodal models have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in recognizing static visual and auditory content. However, their capacity for abstra

The Value of a Prompt: An LLM-Relative Kolmogorov-Complexity Approach

arXiv:2608.16438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In a world where valuable artifacts are increasingly created, completed, or processed by LLMs, the central economic question is not only what the LLM ca

The Working Set of a Coding Agent: Coherence Debt in Repository-Scale Tasks

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arXiv:2608.16630v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Repository-scale coding requires an agent to keep tests, imports, configuration, and migration rules consistent within a bounded context window. We mo

Local Ai

THESIS-MoE: Trainable Hierarchical Extraction and SteerIng of Sycophancy in Mixture-of-Experts

arXiv:2608.15687v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sycophancy, the tendency of a language model to change its answer to match a user's stated belief, is a common alignment failure. Existing activation st

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Think Inside the Chunk: RegulaRAG for Regulation-Compliant Scenario Generation using LLMs: A Case Study of UN Regulation No. 152

arXiv:2608.16394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating regulation-compliant test scenarios is essential for validating safety-critical automotive systems, yet Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle

Thinking Outside the (Gray) Box: A Context-Based Score for Assessing Value and Originality in Neural Text Generation

arXiv:2502.13207v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite the increasing use of large language models for creative tasks, their outputs often lack diversity. Common solutions, such as sampling