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Anchored Scenario Coverage for Failure-Aware First-Hit Batch Inverse Design

arXiv:2608.27873v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Early discovery of at least one valid design satisfying a target requirement is a central objective in failure-prone closed-loop inverse design. A nat

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Anthropic details security efforts following Claude cyber evaluation incidents, including a weeks-long pause on higher-risk RL and work to curb reward hacking (Anthropic)

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Anthropic: Anthropic details security efforts following Claude cyber evaluation incidents, including a weeks-long pause on higher-risk RL and work to curb reward hacking — On July 30, we reported thre

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Industry

Apparently the peak of ROBOTICS in 2026 is a 399 duck on roller skates. Microduck pre-orders topped 2.6M in 24 hours. Now there’s a 4–6 mo…

Apparently the peak of ROBOTICS in 2026 is a 399 duck on roller skates. Microduck pre-orders topped 2.6M in 24 hours. Now there’s a 4–6 month backlog. Not a humanoid. Not a warehouse robot. A duck. Th

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ARC-CT: Anatomy-Routed Contrastive Vision-Language Learning for 3D Chest CT

arXiv:2608.28455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contrastive vision-language learning uses paired chest CT volumes and radiology reports to learn abnormality classifiers without manually annotated labe

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Are These Modules Worth Their Cost? A Paradigm-Level Accuracy-Cost Analysis of In-context Learning Text-to-SQL

arXiv:2608.28432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in in-context learning (ICL) text-to-SQL have substantially improved execution accuracy on public benchmarks by assembling increasingly

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Agents

💯: “as the lines get blurred, we lose our ability to pinpoint the technically-grounded points of leverage in AI agent oversight”

💯: “as the lines get blurred, we lose our ability to pinpoint the technically-grounded points of leverage in AI agent oversight” This is a *super exciting* read. It's like a sci-fi thriller. And that'

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Aspiration-based Perturbed Learning Automata in Games with Noisy Utility Measurements. Part A: Stochastic Stability in Non-zero-Sum Games

arXiv:2511.11602v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement-based learning has attracted considerable attention both in modeling human behavior as well as in engineering, for designing measureme

Attribute Token Arithmetic: Disentangled and Continuous Semantic Control for Visual Autoregressive Models

arXiv:2608.28082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive text-to-image generation has recently achieved remarkable progress, offering high-fidelity synthesis via a unified generative framework.

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Safety

Auditing Generative Audio Calls for Known-Task Audio-LLM Evaluation

arXiv:2608.27817v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speech and audio LLMs are often evaluated by asking whether a waveform prompt beats an automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcript. For known closed

safetyarxiv-cs-cl

Automatic Pronunciation Error Detection and Correction of the Holy Quran's Learners Using Deep Learning

arXiv:2509.00094v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Assessing spoken language is challenging, and quantifying pronunciation metrics for machine learning models is even harder. However, for the H

Industry

AWS recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025

We're excited to share that AWS has been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025. In this evaluation of 13 providers, AWS received the highest score in the S

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ggml: add SWIGLU_CLAMP (#27930) ggml: add SWIGLU_CLAMP add vulkan shader Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/attestations/44034152 macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Sil

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kv-cells: stop the sequence scan once all sequences are seen (#28011) for_each_token_in tested all LLAMA_MAX_SEQ sequences for every used cell, while a cell almost always belongs to one. The scan now

b10708

ggml : fix ggml_backend_buft_get_alloc_size() guard (#28038) Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/attestations/44038725 macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64)

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rpc: avoid serializing buffers from other servers (#26500) rpc: avoid serializing buffers from other servers Only include remote buffer pointers when the buffer belongs to the RPC dispatcher receiving

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metal : add remaining Q4_1/Q5_0/Q5_1 fa-vec tunings for M2 (#28017) Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/attestations/44044108 macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon

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hexagon: fix CPY fence bug (#28033) Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/attestations/44046740 macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64) macOS Apple Silicon (arm

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vulkan: top_k radix select for k >= 1024 for Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (#28032) vulkan: add top-k radix sort shader for k >= 1024 add Qwen 3.8 Flash Next top-k tests add top-k qsa fusion clean up code Websi

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ggml : add MUL_MAT to the list of ops that may need additional memory (for WebGPU) (#28071) Co-authored-by: Stanisław Szymczyk sszymczy@gmail.com Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://githu

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vulkan: tune mat-vec rows for batched inference on Strix Halo (#27909) vulkan: RDNA3 static mat-vec rows above four columns On RDNA3 above four columns a static 4 rows for all types benches faster tha

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spec : fuse the DFlash encoder into the KV cache injection (#27310) dflash : fuse the encoder into the KV injection decode The encoder is a single fc + norm, but running it as a separate llama_encode

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sycl : Enhance to get the free memory of Intel GPU (#27968) enhance get mem info by l0 an SYCL API remove debug code, format the code update SYCL.md for GGML_SYCL_GET_MEM_API Website: https://llama.ap

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CUDA: extend MOE fusion to specdec, earlier MOE glu fusion and topk-router fusion were restricted to 1 token (#27621) CUDA: extend MOE fusion to specdec, earlier MOE glu fusion and topk-router fusion

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metal : add fa-vec tunings for M1 (#28078) Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/attestations/44172949 macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64) macOS Apple Silic

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ROCm: add radix TOP_K for long rows (#27466) ROCm: add radix TOP_K for long rows Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/attestations/44178618 macOS/iOS: macOS A

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webgpu : avoid crash when offset is not multiple of 4 in WebGPU ggml_backend_tensor_get() implementation (#28045) webgpu : avoid crash when offset is not multiple of 4 in WebGPU ggml_backend_tensor_ge

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opencl: tune the quant paths for Intel Xe-LP GPUs to improve its TG and PP performance (#26438) opencl: Q4_K/Q5_K mul_mv N_DST 4->8 on Intel for 2x activation reuse opencl: Q4_K mul_mm 8x8 tile fot In

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kv-cache : optimize restoring non-contiguous cells (#27991) kv cache : batch state restore scatter reads per contiguous run When restoring state into non-contiguous destination cells (e.g. a prompt-ca

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AVX2: Speed up large batch size prompt processing of IQ models (#27402) Batched gemm for grid IQ quants Style updates and a bit more performance Clean up comments Move code around Vectorize IQ panel d

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metal : add concat support for quantized types (#28116) Assisted-by: pi:llama.cpp/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/attestations/442

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CUDA: XOR swizzle flash attn K,V smem fp16 tiles (#25635) CUDA: XOR swizzle flash attn K,V smem fp16 tiles Signed-off-by: ynankani ynankani@nvidia.com Fix use 64bit generic pointer instead of 32bit sh

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metal : add fa-vec tunings for M1 Ultra (#28088) metal : add fa-vec tunings for M1 Ultra metal : move M1 Ultra tunings after M1 Max section metal : remove duplicate blank line Website: https://llama.a

Applications

BanglaMed-QA: A Question Answering System for Healthcare Support in Bangla

arXiv:2608.28329v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical question answering (QA) systems have become crucial tools for providing reliable health information. But they remain very unexplored for low-res

applicationsarxiv-cs-cl

Bayesian Experimental Design for Model Discrepancy Calibration: A Rivalry between Kullback--Leibler Divergence and Wasserstein Distance

arXiv:2601.16425v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Designing experiments that systematically gather data from complex physical systems is central to accelerating scientific discovery. While Bayesian

BEACON: Behavior-Anchored Cross-Source Knowledge Graph Construction for Cyber Threat Intelligence

arXiv:2608.28394v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is foundational to modern cyber defense, yet much of it resides in unstructured reports whose volume and heterogeneity

Below the Noise Floor: Bimodal Seed Collapse and Distinct Failure Modes in Small-Model Knowledge Distillation

arXiv:2608.27729v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Function routing -- selecting the correct API call from a fixed catalog given a natural-language request -- is a deployment problem where small students

Benchmarking General Mobile Assistants in Challenging Real-World Scenarios

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arXiv:2608.27477v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graphical user interfaces have emerged as an important environment for evaluating autonomous AI agents on multimodal interactive tasks. Existing bench

Hardware

Benchmarking large language model agent societies against human behavioural distributions

arXiv:2608.28182v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Populations of large language model agents are increasingly used as experimental societies. Three doubts shadow every such result: whether the agents

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Hardware

Beyond Data Scaling: Representation-Centric Continued Pre-training for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2608.27550v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scaling robot data is crucial for building generalist Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, yet robot trajectories are harder to scale than web-scale i

hardwarearxiv-cs-cv

Beyond Flat Netlist: Hierarchical Graph Representation Learning for Scalable Analysis of Sequential Circuits

arXiv:2608.28188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Circuit Representation Learning (CRL) offers a powerful paradigm to guide and optimize core Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tasks, but its practical

local-aiarxiv-cs-lg

Beyond Global Scalars: Synergizing Token-Level Statistics and Deep Semantics for Adversarial AIGC Text Detection

arXiv:2608.28009v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid evolution of large language models necessitates robust machine-generated text detection. Existing paradigms typically follow two isolated trac

Beyond Non-IID: Learner--Client Distribution Mismatch in Federated Learning

arXiv:2608.27715v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning systems are increasingly deployed to facilitate collaborative model training across a heterogeneous client population. Existing pract

local-aiarxiv-cs-lg

Beyond Pairwise Graphs in Science: Hypergraph Adaptive Wavelet Operators for Parametric PDEs

arXiv:2608.27883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical systems are often modeled by solution operators that map input fields, parameters, geometries, or past states to steady or future physical stat

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Safety

Beyond Pixels: Visual Metaphor Transfer via Schema-Driven Agentic Reasoning

arXiv:2602.01335v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A visual metaphor constitutes a high-order form of human creativity, employing cross-domain semantic fusion to transform abstract concepts into impa

safetyarxiv-cs-cv

Beyond Procrustes distances: a multilinear Gromov-Wasserstein distance capturing chirality

arXiv:2608.27774v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficiently and robustly analyzing shape data is critical across many scientific disciplines. While chirality is a fundamental property in numerous ap

Applications

Beyond Relative Geometry: Metric-Aware Geometry Perception for Robotics

arXiv:2608.27497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent embodied models increasingly leverage geometric representations to improve spatial reasoning and robotic manipulation. However, existing reconstr

applicationsarxiv-cs-ro

Beyond Search-Imitation: Prior-Directed Exploration for Searchless Chess

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arXiv:2608.27757v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Searchless chess networks reach human master strength from a single forward pass by imitating a stronger teacher: the strongest, Leela Chess Zero's (Lc0

Beyond the Rabbit Hole: Mapping the Relational Harms of QAnon Radicalization

arXiv:2601.17658v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large-scale computational research on conspiracy theories has focused exclusively on believers' online behavior, leaving the harm experienced by tho

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