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WANDR: A Benchmark for Wide and Deep Research

arXiv:2608.14747v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: WANDR (Wide ANd Deep Research) is a benchmark of 500 realistic, challenging data-collection tasks for research agents. Each task requires a system to di

We still don’t know how people are really using AI

AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say. “Ther

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WeSCE: A Benchmark for Measuring Security Drift in LLM-Driven Code Editing

arXiv:2608.15092v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this work, we introduce WeSCE, a benchmark for quantifying security drift in code editing under weak-security constraints, where tasks specify only

When do machine-learned exchange-correlation improvements inherit into density-functional tight binding?

arXiv:2608.14875v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine-learned exchange-correlation functionals correct band gaps at near-semilocal cost, while density-functional tight binding reaches the 10^3-10^

When Entropy Is Not Enough: Reclaiming Lost Semantics in LLM Output Length Prediction

arXiv:2608.15592v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient LLM serving is often bottlenecked by the need to pad sequences to a fixed maximum length, and this wastes compute and degrades throughput. Pre

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When Is Shallow Enough? Adaptive Split Federated Learning with Client-Specific Sufficiency Estimation

arXiv:2608.15639v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: extit{Split Federated Learning} (SFL) enables distributed model training by splitting networks between the server and clients. However, under client h

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When to Communicate: Belief Distributions and KL Divergence for Principled Gating in Multi-Agent RL

arXiv:2608.14559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective communication in multi-agent reinforcement learning requires agents to decide not only extit{what} to communicate, but when? Existing approach

When Tool-Backed Skill Retrieval Fails: Source-Style Collapse in Executable Capability Retrieval

arXiv:2608.16502v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale agents increasingly rely on retrieval to access external capabilities. We study this retrieval gate in structured tools and APIs, a measurab

Which Question Is Your Attention Metric Answering? Attention Rows as Compositional Data

arXiv:2608.14712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Each row of a transformer's attention matrix is a probability distribution over tokens, and in trained models most of that probability lands on a sing

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Why Vision Fails as a Universal Bridge: Rectifying Modality Asynchrony in Multilingual MLLMs

arXiv:2608.15085v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit substantial performance degradation in non-English visual reasoning, despite the strong multilingual co

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X^2Localizer: Cross-grained Alignment for Progressive Cross-view Video Geo-localization

arXiv:2608.16658v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-view Video Geo-localization (CVG) aims to localize ground-view videos by retrieving their corresponding geo-tagged aerial images. However, CVG a

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Zetta zeta: An Efficient Closed-Loop Embodied Harness for Self-Evolving Physical Intelligence

arXiv:2608.16590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied agents are increasingly used to close the gap left by end-to-end policy models. Yet the agentic path has not realized closed-loop learning in p

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zLend: A Dual-Scope Cash-Flow Reconstruction Framework for On-Chain Credit Underwriting

arXiv:2608.16856v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Decentralized lending lacks a credit bureau: a borrower's capacity to repay must be inferred entirely from public on-chain activity, without income ve

1/2 the turns and 25% of the tokens. Task/Token is something to watch. Is Grok 4.6 inside Grok Bot? Has this been revealed yet? Have I misse…

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1/2 the turns and 25% of the tokens. Task/Token is something to watch. Is Grok 4.6 inside Grok Bot? Has this been revealed yet? Have I missed it? I’ve been wondering what magic allows grok bot to just

A Pathway to General-Purpose Scientific AI: Multimodal Comprehension of Scientific Images

arXiv:2608.14075v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific figures and tables encode essential experimental evidence, yet remain difficult for digital libraries and multimodal AI systems to retrieve a

Agents

Agent-Orchestration in Autonomous Chip Design

arXiv:2608.14035v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent developments in large language models (LLMs) and tool-using agents encourage people to explore the potential of using agents in chip design. The

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Agentao: A Governed Local-First Runtime for Tool-Using LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.13574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly operate as execution systems that invoke tools, modify local state, use persistent memory, and interact with external protocols.

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[SYCL] support OP OPT_STEP_ADAMW, OPT_STEP_SGD (#25268) fix conflict fix conflict of ops.md fix conflict of ops.md update the ops.md Co-authored-by: Neo Zhang Jianyu jianyu.zhang@intel.com Website: ht

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sycl: fix thread/block count in quantized cpy kernel launches (#27160) Adjusts the thread/block count to be proportional to the size of the quant, reducing under/over subscription. Largest perf improv

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ci : push release tag explicitly in release.yml (#27261) Add a 'Create and push git tag' step to the release job, right before the 'Create release' step. The tag is created with git tag and pushed wit

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cuda : skip UMA override for HIP builds (#27083) AMD APUs report accurate memory via hipMemGetInfo. Using MemAvailable over-promises on small-carveout systems. fixes #18159 Website: https://llama.app

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BiasTrace: Linking Reasoning Behaviours to Biased Outputs in LLMs

arXiv:2608.14161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs exhibit social biases that can produce inaccurate and discriminatory inferences, posing risks in high-stakes applications. While prior work has mad

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Content Depth Matters in Short-Video Recommendation: Rethinking the Attention Economy

arXiv:2608.13990v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Driven by the attention economy, short-video Recommender Systems (RSs) are primarily optimized to maximize user engagement by promoting videos that capt

CRAFT: Constrained Reward via Attention Fine-Tuning for Subject Personalization without Composed Targets

arXiv:2608.14403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Subject-driven image personalization---generating new images that preserve the identity of one or several reference subjects in novel scenes---is a foun

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Deepseek Harnness - why is feels better

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Guys, could someone smarter than me explain what makes Deepseek Harness so efficient? I run it with local Qwen 3.8 (Q6). I tried Opencode/Openchamber (my favourite so far), Pi agent and Hermes. New Qw

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Disentangled Shared Representations Improve Morpho-Transcriptomic Integration

arXiv:2608.14355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial transcriptomics (ST) enables the simultaneous profiling of gene expression and tissue morphology, creating an opportunity to learn multimodal re

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Effect of Twisted-Yarn Architecture on Pressure and Proximity Sensing Characteristics of Textile Capacitive Sensors for Robotic Skin

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arXiv:2608.14406v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Textile-integrated capacitive sensors offer flexible and conformable tactile sensing for wearable electronics and human-robot interaction; however, the

FlatLab: A Unified Methodology Framework and Simulation-Based Benchmark for Robotic Manipulation of Flat Objects

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arXiv:2608.14049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic manipulation of flat objects is challenging due to the ungraspable configurations and strong variations in object geometry and material. Existin

Get closer to the game with Gemini and Pixel

Gemini and Pixel have entered long‑term partnership agreements with Arsenal FC, FC Barcelona, FC Bayern München, Liverpool FC, and Paris Saint‑Germain to deliver AI‑powered personal intelligence exper

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Handover of In-Context Learning State Across Session Boundaries

arXiv:2608.14528v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study investigates the methodological and theoretical properties of session handover in applications that use large language models. A task may con

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HierDAMap: Towards Universal Domain Adaptive BEV Mapping via Hierarchical Perspective Priors

arXiv:2503.06821v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The exploration of Bird's-Eye View (BEV) mapping technology has driven significant innovation in visual perception technology for autonomous driving

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High-dimensional nonparametric changepoint detection via low-rank degree-two density projection

arXiv:2608.13922v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Detecting distributional changes in high dimension is difficult when neither the pre-change nor post-change density is parametrically specified. We intr

I just ran Qwen 3.8 27 in Q4 against GPT 5.6 Sol high - and it easily won against SOL - complex animated SVG tasks

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I created 3 SVG prompts, each one rather hard. Perspective: A animated drone view perspective on a park. Beauty: A beach scene with an evil cat Composition: An AGI breaking out of a virtual sandbox pr

I pushed Qwen3.8-27B to 99 tps single request and 1150 tps with a batch request on a RTX 3090

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I'm back. Yesterday I released the first version of hyper-optimized Qwen3.8-27B inference engine for a RTX 3090, reaching 82 tps on single request and 672 peak. Over the last 24 hours I've been explor

Implicit Bias and Invariance: How Hopfield Networks Efficiently Learn Graph Orbits

arXiv:2512.14338v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many learning problems are organized by group symmetries. While invariance is often imposed through architectures or group averaging, we ask when it

Information Satisfaction: A Reader-Centered Axis for Summarization Evaluation

arXiv:2608.14457v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The majority of work on summarization evaluation focuses on general summary quality (e.g., ROUGE, BERTScore) or specific desired properties (e.g., reada

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Its interesting to see the experiments on how to give AI a computer: Codex & Claude Code use your local machine, ChatGPT Work on the web (as…

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Its interesting to see the experiments on how to give AI a computer: Codex & Claude Code use your local machine, ChatGPT Work on the web (as well as Claude and ChatGPT) give the AI a one-time machine

Knowing When to Stop: Bayesian Optimal Stopping for LLM Evaluations

arXiv:2608.14425v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM evaluations often use fixed sampling budgets, testing every item the same number of times even after estimates are precise. We introduce optstop, a

Leading-Silence Augmentation and Multi-Stage Synthetic Supervision for the Second MLC-SLM Challenge

arXiv:2608.14150v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The second Multilingual Conversational Speech Language Model (MLC-SLM) Challenge evaluates two tasks over complete, unsegmented multilingual conversatio

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Tutorials

Learning to Forecast Crop Growth from Earth Observation Data

arXiv:2608.14281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forecasting crop growth across agricultural landscapes is important for improving the productivity, resilience, and operational management of farming sy

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LLM-Advisor: An LLM Advisor for Cost-efficient Path Planning across Multiple Terrains

arXiv:2503.01236v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper addresses fixed-graph terrain-aware path refinement, in which a global planner is restricted to a predefined route space and may re

LLMs Don't Pay for the Jump

arXiv:2608.14397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zahavy [2026] argues that Large Language Models, despite their capabilities in induction and deduction, cannot perform the abductive 'Jump' that produce

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MagnifiQ: Patch-aware Text Guided Progressive Upscaling for High-Resolution Image Restoration

arXiv:2608.14543v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-resolution image restoration from degraded inputs is challenging because it must preserve global structural consistency while recovering fine-grain

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Many people’s blindness to this problem — AI failing to follow instructions — is like their initially blasé attitude towards hallucinations,…

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Many people’s blindness to this problem — AI failing to follow instructions — is like their initially blasé attitude towards hallucinations, with the same fantasy that core, endemic problems would rap

Mind the Long Tail: Understanding the Difficulty of Delay Detection in Business Processes

arXiv:2608.14367v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The early detection of delayed cases in business processes is a critical capability for organizations. Predictive process monitoring (PPM) supports th

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Ollama Cloud Subscription Confusion.

Now that OpenCode plan isn't really worth it anymore, I'm looking for other options. I'm trying to figure out the Ollama Cloud subscription, specifically the $20 tier, because that's my budget for mon

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Ollama has the best performance for deepseek v4 flash on average. For local only, you can try qwen3.8 that is optimized: Apple Silicon: olla…

Ollama has the best performance for deepseek v4 flash on average. For local only, you can try qwen3.8 that is optimized: Apple Silicon: ollama run qwen3.8:27b-mlx NVIDIA: ollama run qwen3.8:27b Benchm

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Ollama + Qwen

I run locally Ollama + Qwen (tried multiples versions) and I connected it with MCP into my local SQLite database. When I ask a question, 90% of times I see it thinking and just stop and never answer t

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