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Cross-Lingual Alignment Without Joint Training: Do Monolingual Language Models Converge on Universal Representations?

arXiv:2608.27115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-lingual alignment in multilingual language models is typically attributed to joint training: shared parameters, mixed-language batches, or explici

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Don't Overthink, Don't Underthink: Toward Adaptive Reasoning in Agentic AI

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arXiv:2608.26442v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown that increased inference-time reasoning can improve performance on complex tasks. However, ma

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Embodied Scene Rearrangement Planning

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arXiv:2608.27371v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces Embodied Scene Rearrangement Planning (ESRP), a novel task requiring embodied agents to rearrange furniture in 3D scenes to match

Fairness Invariants: A Relational Approach to Explaining and Mitigating Fairness Bugs

arXiv:2608.26209v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data-driven software systems are increasingly deployed in high-stakes socio-economic domains, from criminal justice to financial lending. However, the

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FedCMAPSS: A Benchmark for Federated Learning in Remaining Useful Life Estimation

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arXiv:2608.26433v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data-driven prognostics and health management has emerged as a key enabler for Industry 4.0, yet the development of robust remaining useful life (RUL) e

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From SQL to Knowledge Graphs: An LLM-Driven Multi-Agent Approach with Data Schema Improvement

arXiv:2608.26117v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: RDBMS (Relational Database Management System) databases face several limitations, including slow execution with multi-hop queries and a lack of explai

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Frona v2026.8.0 – self-hosted personal AI assistant with ontology memory

Hey, An LLM writing into durable memory is an unreliable author. It invents, mislabels, restates, and contradicts. Once one of those mistakes is saved, the agent can carry it into every conversation t

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How have software engineering fundamentals changed with agentic coding? Here is our AI Engineering Skills map for software engineering funda…

Agentic coding lets developers—even those who previously focused on front‑end or mobile work—delegate code generation to AI agents and assume broader full‑stack roles. However, understanding core soft

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HUG-VIS: A Multimodal Benchmark for Human-centered Understanding and Generation in Visual Intelligence

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arXiv:2608.26517v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual intelligence seeks to perceive, interpret, and synthesize the visual world and is central to modern computer vision. Human-centered visual intell

Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days

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Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days Anil Madhavapeddy is a professor of computer science at Cambridge and a core maintainer of the OCaml compiler. In this somewhat a

Legal Rule Induction: Towards Generalizable Principle Discovery from Analogous Judicial Precedents

arXiv:2505.14104v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Legal rules encompass not only codified statutes but also implicit adjudicatory principles derived from precedents that contain discretionary norms,

Performance Foundations of Parallel & Distributed Reasoning Language Models

arXiv:2608.27046v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) and other RL-style post-training paradigms have been used for aligning large language models (LL

Plain Transformers Can be Powerful Graph Learners

arXiv:2504.12588v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transformers have attained outstanding performance across various modalities, owing to their simple but powerful scaled-dot-product (SDP) atte

RATIO: A Benchmark for Retrieval Across Typed Ideation Operations in Scientific Literature

arXiv:2608.27394v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieved scientific literature can serve as inspiration for both human and AI scientists. Inspiration can take different forms: prior work may directly

SPEAR: Distilling Domain-Adaptive Reasoning Skeletons via Sequential Symbolic Alignment in Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2608.26550v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning-based knowledge distillation has the potential to transfer complex reasoning from teacher to student models, yet it currently fac

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Surgical Video Generation From Diffusion to World Models: A Survey

arXiv:2608.26214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surgical video data provides the primary training resource for models of intraoperative perception, surgical workflow understanding, and robotic decisio

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Temporally-Grounded Language Generation: Towards Real-Time Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2505.11326v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable progress in offline tasks such as image captioning and video question answering. However,

The Reasoning Tax: Token Economics of LLM Reasoning Across Task Types and Deployment Contexts

arXiv:2608.26235v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accuracy-only benchmarking of reasoning-capable large language models misses a central deployment question: when do extended thinking tokens earn their

Thomson: Continual Learning of Frontier Models for SovereignAI

arXiv:2608.27147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of frontier models is commonly perceived to be the exclusive remit of a small number of heavily funded players, creating an information,

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TutorTrace: A Dataset and Taxonomy for Classifying Learner Behavioral States during AI-Assisted Programming Education

arXiv:2608.26184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI programming tutors provide scalable support, yet lack the behavioral context human tutors rely on to adapt support to learners' needs. We present Tut

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UrbanGround: From Local Perception to Spatial Agency in a Real-Scale City

arXiv:2608.27456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can interpret a street view, but urban agency depends on whether such local evidence remains useful after the a

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すぐ Web で sim 遊べるのかｗ https://huggingface.co/spaces/pollen-robotics/microduck-simulator

In late August 2026, a post titled “すぐ Web で sim 遊べるのかｗ” highlighted the publicly‑available **microduck simulator** hosted on Hugging Face Spaces by Pollen Robotics (https://huggingface.co/spaces/poll

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Which India Survives Translation? Narrative Homogenisation Across Indian Oral Traditions in LLMs

arXiv:2608.26123v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are trained predominantly on English-language internet text that over-represents certain cultural narratives, raising conce

Why did My Robot Just Change Personality? Prompting Guidelines for a Grounded Robot Persona in LLM-Based HRI

arXiv:2608.26182v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for verbal interaction in social robots, yet prompt design in human-robot interaction (HRI) remains u

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Anthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms (Will Knight/Wired)

Will Knight / Wired: Anthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms — The potential for AI

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Asymmetric Cross-Modal Fine-Grained Visual Categorization: ACF-Net and the BirdPro Benchmark

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arXiv:2608.25520v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Audio-visual cross-modal Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC) aims to identify fine-grained categories by jointly leveraging visual and auditory in

Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode

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Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode Anthropic are putting a great deal of faith in Claude Code's auto mode for protecting their coding agent users against prompt injection attacks. They recently mad

Deep Learning Segmentation of Diffusion-Weighted MRI Acute Ischaemic Stroke: A Pragmatic Evaluation Across Three Datasets

arXiv:2608.25675v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Objective: Diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI-MRI) is the gold standard for visualizing and quantifying acute ischaemic stroke (AIS). Although deep learning me

Demystifying Reinforcement Learning Post-Training of Language Models

arXiv:2608.24949v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training has emerged as a powerful framework for enhancing the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), enabling

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Flower Hub: A Reproducible Benchmarking Platform for Federated Learning in Simulation and Deployment

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arXiv:2608.25114v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a key approach for training models across decentralized data, yet benchmarking in FL remains difficult to reprodu

Google launches a pilot of double-blind AI evaluations, keeping external evaluations in a cryptographic 'box' to stop benchmark contamination and protect IP (Google DeepMind)

Google DeepMind: Google launches a pilot of double-blind AI evaluations, keeping external evaluations in a cryptographic “box” to stop benchmark contamination and protect IP — Building trust in propri

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How Robust Are Automated Fact-Checking Systems? A Cross-Benchmark Evaluation

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arXiv:2608.25934v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated fact-checking (AFC) systems retrieve evidence and predict claim veracity, yet evaluations omit simple baselines, systems are developed for a

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Hugging Face unveils Microduck, a $400, 1.7lb, 10-inch-tall bipedal robot developed in part by Pollen Robotics and manufactured by Shenzhen-based Seeed Studio (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Hugging Face unveils Microduck, a 400, 1.7lb, 10-inch-tall bipedal robot developed in part by Pollen Robotics and manufactured by Shenzhen-based Seeed Studio — Artificial intelligence platf

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I used local Qwen 27b to build a harness and replace OpenCode

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Sharing my harness for running local LLMs that I built using Qwen 3.x 27B (> 90% locally built) under my supervision - not vibe-coded. Its free, no telemetry, and open-source (AGPL). Works on Windows,

Learning spatially varying regularisation parameters of low regularity for image reconstruction

arXiv:2608.25127v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this chapter, we review and discuss the regularity properties of spatially adaptive regularisation weight functions used in variational image recon

Local LLM harness for reverse engineering software?

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Does anyone know of a decent reverse engineering harness/workspace setup for local models that I can just point the model at and have it go to work until it's reversed most if not all of the functions

Most companies manage their org chart, their product line, their brand guidelines, their operations manual. Each as a separate document. Eac…

Most companies manage their org chart, their product line, their brand guidelines, their operations manual. Each as a separate document. Each updated on its own cadence. Each a snapshot of a different

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Objectively insane to make a list of the most influential people in AI and include these two but not Jensen

Objectively insane to make a list of the most influential people in AI and include these two but not Jensen TIME’s new cover: Announcing the 2026 TIME100 AI, the world's most influential people in art

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OpenCVL: An Open, Diverse, and Large-Scale Dataset for Fine-Grained Cross-View Localization

arXiv:2608.25274v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-grained Cross-View Localization (CVL) estimates the precise position and orientation of a ground-level image by aligning it with geo-referenced aer

Sopro V2: SOTA-level voice cloning TTS at 120M params, open-source and CPU-friendly

Run it locally with one command (downloads the model, opens a small web UI): uvx --from sopro soprotts serve A year ago I posted Sopro V1 on this subreddit, a small TTS I trained for ~$250 as a side p

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Tutorials

Unsupervised Anatomical Feature Learning via Diffusion Models: Enhanced Medical Image Segmentation with Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models

arXiv:2608.25693v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Acquiring pixel-level annotations for medical image segmentation is a severe bottleneck. Traditional U-Net architectures, while effective, learn local t

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Video-IFBench: Evaluating Instruction Following of Multimodal LLMs in Video Understanding Scenarios

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arXiv:2608.25529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown strong performance in video understanding. However, their ability to follow instructions in this dom

We have a limited window to strengthen cyber defenses, and together with organizations including @AnthropicAI, @awscloud, @Google, @Microsof…

We have a limited window to strengthen cyber defenses, and together with organizations including @AnthropicAI, @awscloud, @Google, @Microsoft, and @Oracle, we're calling for a global effort to give de

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What's this Apodex thing? (AMA prep)

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A sticky popped up 'Hey, AMA today'. At first I thought I missed something, but I didn't see a single mention of it here so far, aside from having never heard of it. So, as the posting was devoid of i

A Human-Factors Guided Cognitive Model of Visuospatial Complexity in Embodied Active Vision

arXiv:2608.23572v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a novel framework for the analysis of multimodal data -- encompassing visual, auditory, and spatial stimuli -- foregrounding the role of co

ADVERSA: Measuring Multi-Turn Guardrail Degradation and Judge Reliability in Large Language Models

arXiv:2603.10068v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Most adversarial evaluations of large language model (LLM) safety assess single prompts and report binary pass/fail outcomes, which fails to c

BenchBench-Protocol: Evaluating Real-World Wet-Lab Protocol Reasoning and Modification

arXiv:2608.23898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce BenchBench-Protocol, a benchmark for large language models of 149 protocol-modification tasks recovered from modifications that scientists

Big shoutout to @perplexity_ai for properly benchmarking document understanding in their Portable Computer release 🔥 They took a subset of …

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Big shoutout to @perplexity_ai for properly benchmarking document understanding in their Portable Computer release 🔥 They took a subset of our ParseBench benchmark (https://www.parsebench.ai/) and mea