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arXiv:2608.06849v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context LLM inference is bottlenecked by quadratic attention computation and growing KV-cache costs. Existing sparse attention and KV-compression

applicationsarxiv-cs-ai

AVCap: Reinforcing Audio-Video Joint Caption with Detail-Aware Reward

DGX agent

arXiv:2608.06930v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Detailed audio-video joint captioning is essential for multimodal video understanding and generation. However, prior works are constrained by three main

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cv

10 Aug 2026

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ggml-webgpu : refactor several wgsl files and simplify flash_attn wgsl. (#26134) Website: https://llama.app macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64) macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) DISABLE

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model-saver : fix expert shared/chunk FFN length key clobber (#26693) The saver called add_kv with LLM_KV_EXPERT_SHARED_FEED_FORWARD_LENGTH twice, the second time passing n_ff_chexp. gguf_set_val_u32

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model : Granite-Switch Architecture (#25107) granite-switch: add llama.cpp backend (POC, CPU) New 'granite-switch' architecture: a dense, all-attention Granite-4.1 model with N embedded LoRA adapters

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vendor : update cpp-httplib to 0.53.0 (#26821) Website: https://llama.app macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64) macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) DISABLED macOS Intel (x64) iOS XCFramewor

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model: add MTP support for Nemotron model (#26725) model: add MTP support for Nemotron Nano model model: add mtp_flags for nemotron model address review comments Website: https://llama.app macOS/iOS:

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ggml : require contiguous src for ROLL on CUDA and Metal (#25928) ggml_roll only asserts nb[0] == ggml_type_size, so a permuted src is a valid input, but the CUDA and Metal roll kernels index by ne al

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ggml-cpu : fix CPU affinity mask being ignored on Android (#26838) Website: https://llama.app macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64) macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) DISABLED macOS Intel

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llama : support multi-output backend sampling (#25532) Enable backend sampling with token speculation Clamp the mask sum before converting it into the sampled index Add a numeric context parameter dec

BDD2Seq: Enabling Scalable Reversible-Circuit Synthesis via Graph-to-Sequence Learning

arXiv:2511.08315v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) are instrumental in many electronic design automation (EDA) tasks thanks to their compact representation of Bo

researcharxiv-cs-lg

Benchmarking and Reasoning Distillation of Large Language Models for Feedback Controller Design in Complex Dynamical Systems

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ro

arXiv:2608.07004v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although remarkable capabilities have been demonstrated by Large Language Models (LLMs) across scientific domains, feedback controller design remains un

Bend the Basics: Degradation-Aware Deformable Tokenization for All-in-One Image Restoration

arXiv:2608.06832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: All-in-one image restoration seeks a single model that can recover images degraded by diverse and spatially non-uniform corruptions. However, many unifi

researcharxiv-cs-cv

Local Ai

Best Local LLMs - August 2026

Wowee!! Just when you thought it couldn't get better for open weight models, we probably have had our best period yet!?!?! Models that rival the closed frontier, Opus level models on non-insane hardwa

local-air-localllama

Best open-source harness like Claude Code?

model-releasesr-localllama

Avid claude code user here looking to do equivalent things with local models. Just want to plug in something like Qwen and have the interface be 1:1 with claude code. Any suggestion? submitted by /u/N

Better Together: Quantifying the Benefits of AI-Assisted Recruitment

arXiv:2507.08029v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Hiring algorithms have mostly scored the materials recruiters already see. Large language models (LLMs) can instead generate new information about c

researcharxiv-cs-cl

Beyond 'AI Language': The case for the idiolectal nature of LLM output

arXiv:2608.06589v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While large language model outputs are frequently analysed as a collective super variety termed 'AI language,' this chapter argues that this perspecti

Beyond Attention: Signed Integrated Gradients Attribution in a BiomeGPT-Style Microbiome Transformer

arXiv:2608.06486v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In a feature-tokenized transformer (arXiv:2106.11959) such as BiomeGPT (doi:10.64898/2026.01.05.697599), each input token is built by fusing a fixed ide

researcharxiv-cs-lg

Beyond Co-Movement: Locality by Exposures Enables a Joint Factor-Graph Framework for Portfolio Diversification

arXiv:2608.06618v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current portfolio construction methods are either agnostic to the effects of idiosyncratic shocks (standard factor models) or to the latent data struc

researcharxiv-cs-lg

Beyond Fluency: A Clinical Benchmark and Anomaly-Enhanced Baseline for Spine MRI Report Generation

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cv

arXiv:2608.07117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Radiology reporting is time-consuming and subject to inter-rater variability, making automated report generation an attractive clinical application for

Beyond Foundation Models: Dimension-Aware Neural Architecture Search with Small-Data Representation Models for Cryocooler Lifetime Prediction

arXiv:2608.06993v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale pretrained time-series models achieve strong results through large-scale pretraining and task-agnostic representation learning, but they r

Beyond Isolation: Unlocking Reinforcement Learning Component Synergy for Sample-Efficient Continuous Control

arXiv:2608.07086v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning systems are significantly more complex than other machine learning paradigms due to inherent properties, causing RL system desi

Local Ai

Beyond Myopic World Models: Long-Horizon End-to-End Training for Direct Future Prediction

arXiv:2608.07420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models are expected to support imagination over extended temporal horizons, yet most are still trained through local few-step prediction objective

local-aiarxiv-cs-lg

Beyond Post-Hoc Temperature Scaling: Bilevel Optimization for LLM Calibration

arXiv:2608.07419v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Preference alignment often makes large language models (LLMs) overconfident and poorly calibrated. Traditional post-hoc temperature scaling is inherentl

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

Beyond Routing Weights: Faithful Response-Level Interpretation of Mixture-of-Experts Reward Models via Contribution Contrast

arXiv:2608.06400v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward models are central to learning from human preferences, yet identifying what drives their predictions remains challenging. Recent sparse Mixture-o

Beyond Starry Night: Shortcut-Aware Control-State Planning for Artist-Grounded Text to Image Generation

arXiv:2608.06751v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artist-grounded image generation requires more than appending an artist name to a prompt. Image models often respond to artist names through canonical

Beyond Text Matching: Towards Reference-Free Evaluation for Human-Oriented Binary Reverse Engineering

arXiv:2608.07038v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human-Oriented Binary Reverse Engineering (HOBRE) aims to transform decompiled pseudocode into a more human-friendly representation, thereby reducing

Beyond the Black Box: Interpretable Models of Human Randomisation Failures

arXiv:2608.07220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixed strategy equilibrium predicts i.i.d play: past actions should not help predict future decisions. Human players, however, systematically depart fro

Hardware

Beyond Visibility: Real-Time Surface Accessibility Fields from Sparse LiDAR

arXiv:2608.06412v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding which surfaces in a scene are physically accessible to a given tool is fundamental for robotic interaction, yet 3D perception systems ty

hardwarearxiv-cs-ro

bioMoR: Biology-Guided Mixture-of-Recursions for Effective Genomic Learning

arXiv:2608.06727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer models for high-dimensional omics analysis process thousands of genes or pathways, although only a subset requires deep computation. Mixture

Agents

Blast Radius

arXiv:2608.07440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic coding faces growing problems of affordability and wasted tokens. We introduce Blast Radius, a predictive memory management layer that estimates

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

Blind to the Pivotal Vote: Aggregate Independence Metrics Miss Where Verification Actually Helps

arXiv:2608.06940v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM judge panels are a standard evaluation tool, but prior work reports highly correlated panel errors: nine judges provide roughly the effective inform

Agents

BONSAI: Evolvability-Guided Tree Search over Skills

arXiv:2608.07056v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A skill is a naturallanguage document that steers a frozen agent whose weights cannot be updated so any capability the agent lacks must be supplied in p

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

Bootstrap-Conditioned Action Selection with Tabular Foundation Models

arXiv:2608.06559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contextual bandits offer a natural framework for sample-efficient personalization, but practical deployment remains difficult under sparse, biased inter

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

Local Ai

Boundary Density Likelihood for Direct Event-Time Supervision

arXiv:2408.12792v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Event detection turns long recordings into a sparse set of ranked timestamps. Yet many sequence models are trained for samplewise segmentation and o

local-aiarxiv-cs-ai

Bridging the Gap Between Hyperdimensional Computing and Kernel Methods via the Nystrom Method

arXiv:2608.06860v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is an approach from the cognitive science literature for solving information processing tasks using data represented

Bypassing Krum: Selection-Aware Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning

arXiv:2608.06637v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust aggregation methods are widely used in federated learning to mitigate the impact of adversarial client behavior. Distance-based aggregation rul

Tutorials

C2Dex: Contact-Consistent Reconstruction and Retargeting for Dexterous Manipulation from Monocular Video

arXiv:2608.07045v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-quality demonstrations for dexterous robot manipulation are costly and difficult to collect, whereas monocular human videos provide a scalable so

tutorialsarxiv-cs-cv

CADSpotting: Robust Panoptic Symbol Spotting on Large-Scale CAD Drawings

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cv

arXiv:2412.07377v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce CADSpotting, an effective method for panoptic symbol spotting in large-scale architectural CAD drawings. Existing approaches often stru

Agents

CAi Copilot: Reducing Operational Workload in Molecular Design through Intent-Driven Agentic Workflows

arXiv:2608.06961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Early-stage molecular design is an iterative process, not just a task of generating molecules. Researchers turn broad goals into design strategies, refi

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

Calibrating WEAT Against Anisotropy: ZCA Whitening as a Geometric Pre-Processing Step for Embedding Association Tests

arXiv:2608.06908v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose Zero-phase Component Analysis (ZCA) whitening as a geometric pre-processing step for the Word Embedding Association Test (WEAT). WEAT is a

Can Language Models Imagine Without Seeing? Ekphrasis: Measuring Visual Creative Ideation in Text-Only LLMs

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2608.06967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current evaluations do not isolate whether text-only language models can originate visual concepts before image generation. Fluent visual prose can hide

Applications

Can MLLMs Decode the Creative Leap? Introducing C4 for Cross-Concept Understanding

arXiv:2608.06501v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Creative capabilities of MLLMs matter in design, communication, education, and human--AI collaboration, yet remain difficult to evaluate because explici

applicationsarxiv-cs-ai

Applications

CANIS: Generation-Assisted 3D Canonicalization via an Image-Semantic Bridge

arXiv:2608.07256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Canonicalizing 3D object orientation is fundamental to 3D understanding and analysis. Existing approaches often rely on geometric cues, although 3D cano

applicationsarxiv-cs-cv

Capacity Confounds and Coverage Guarantees in Adaptive Sub-model Federated Learning

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2608.07157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sub-model federated learning lets resource-constrained clients train width-reduced versions of a global model, but existing methods allocate capacity by

Capek 0.5: An Execution-Centric Vision-Language Model for Embodied Intelligence

arXiv:2608.06756v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models are increasingly serving as the reasoning core of embodied agents. Robot execution is inherently iterative: each action reshapes

CAS2UML: A Handwritten Sketch-to-PlantUML Dataset for Class and Activity Diagrams

arXiv:2608.07036v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated UML generation from sketches and images is gaining renewed attention with the rise of large language models and multimodal AI. However, repr

researcharxiv-cs-cv

CASA: Classification Augmented with Safety Attention for Robust Multimodal Alignment

arXiv:2604.00310v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large-language models (MLLMs) often experience degraded safety alignment when harmful queries exploit cross-modal interactions. Mod