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Distributed Optimization with Streaming Data: A Temporal Weighting Perspective

arXiv:2608.09565v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optimization theory is a widely used tool for intelligent decision-making. While classical optimization deals with fixed, time-invariant objective fun

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Efficient identification of critical regions via Flow Matching-based Monte Carlo initialization

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arXiv:2508.15318v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a standard tool for studying many-body systems, but its practical cost can become substantial, especially w

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11 Aug 2026

EvalConvoLearn: An Open-Source Framework for Evaluating Grounded Learner Simulations in Tutoring Conversations

arXiv:2608.07497v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational learner simulations are valuable tools for testing learning theories, evaluating instructional materials and automated tutors, or power

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Harmful Content Is Not Enough: Continuation Framing Moderates In-Context Emergent Misalignment

arXiv:2608.08212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In-context learning (ICL) can induce emergent misalignment (EM), where narrow misaligned examples alter answers to unrelated questions. Existing prompts

Hierarchical Self-Improvement: A Framework for Task-Specific Evolvable Agent Harnesses

arXiv:2608.08466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern LLM agents are often improved by modifying prompts, tools, or workflows manually, while the executable scaffold surrounding the model---the harne

How to Ask the AI: A User Perspective Survey for Large Language Model Prompting

arXiv:2608.07494v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI tools like ChatGPT and DeepSeek, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), allow users to obtain instant and effective content responses simply by t

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Idea Search: Guiding Tree Search with Ideas to Explore Diverse Scientific Methods

arXiv:2608.08958v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tree Search-based test-time scaling of LLMs is a powerful tool for automated scientific coding. However, pure Tree Search sometimes struggles with sys

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Knowing You Is Everything: LLM Agents Achieve Near-Perfect Profile-Consistent Reaction Prediction in Social Media Simulation

arXiv:2608.07498v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous AI agents in social media present concrete risks to democratic discourse and platform governance, while also offering tools for pre-deploym

Logarithmic-Free Moment and Generalization Bounds for Uniformly Stable Algorithms

arXiv:2608.09870v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Uniform stability is a classical tool for controlling the generalization error of a learning algorithm. Bousquet, Klochkov, and Zhivotovskiy (2020) sh

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Open Evaluation Agent: Efficient and Promptable Evaluation of Visual Generative Models

arXiv:2608.09666v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in visual generative models have enabled high-quality image and video generation, but evaluating these models often demands sampling hun

OpenLoopEvolve: A Verifiable Self-Evolution Framework for Loop Policies in Long-Horizon Complex Tasks

arXiv:2608.09380v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon complex tasks require agents to repeatedly observe states, formulate plans, invoke tools, verify results, and recover from failures in cont

Ouroboros: A Self-Developing Frontier Coding Agent with Reviewed Core Evolution

arXiv:2608.08311v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present Ouroboros, a self-developing agent harness whose tools, prompts, context assembly, and core implementation improve through reviewed commits

RoboSeg: Online Part-Level Semantic Reconstruction for Robotic Manipulation via a Single Eye-in-Hand Camera

arXiv:2608.09778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic manipulation requires perception systemsthat identify actionable parts such as handles, rims, triggers,and tool tips, not merely object categori

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Safety Cost of Steering Vectors Is Separable and Reducible

arXiv:2608.08383v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Steering vectors are a lightweight tool for controlling LLM behavior. However, emerging evidence shows that steering vectors can unintentionally comprom

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SkillSentry: Reliable Skill Execution for LLM Agents via Runtime Assurance

arXiv:2608.09253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly equipped with skills to perform complex tasks through multi-step reasoning and tool use. Although skills provide reusable pr

Sparse corruption in low-rank matrix inference: the PCA benchmark

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arXiv:2511.11927v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a standard tool for extracting a low-rank signal from noisy observations. It is known that applying PCA

Stateful CARS: Exact Cross-History Reuse for Policy-Constrained LLM Agents

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arXiv:2608.08282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using language-model agents face constraints whose meaning changes with observations and prior actions. We study exact sampling from the model dist

This is part of working with the EU AI Act, other labs are adding similar watermarking. It’s hard to identify AI-generated text, and this gi…

This is part of working with the EU AI Act, other labs are adding similar watermarking. It’s hard to identify AI-generated text, and this gives people better tools to do that. We’ll also be a shipping

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Transformer Explainer: Learning LLM Transformers with Interactive Visual Explanation and Experimentation

arXiv:2408.04619v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Transformer architecture underpins modern large language models powering state-of-the-art text generation and AI applications. However, it

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TREAT: Evaluating Access to Formal Knowledge across Equivalent Mathematical Representations

arXiv:2608.07540v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems increasingly operate between flexible input representations and formal objects used by downstream tools. A key challenge is recognizing when

TSPORec: Token Selection via Preference Optimization for LLM-Based Sequential Recommendation

arXiv:2608.09605v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for improving recommendation systems. The effectiveness of LLMs arises from their ability

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Two-Layer Linear Auto-Regressive Models Estimate Latent States

arXiv:2606.12691v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Auto-regressive models have emerged as powerful tools for sequential data, from language to video. Understanding how and why these models lear

When Counterbalancing Hides the Bias: Access-Conditioned Position Lock in Forced-Choice LLM Evaluation

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arXiv:2607.10202v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Forced-choice probes with counterbalanced orientations are a standard tool for measuring language-model 'value dispositions,' and a concentration/ex

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

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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

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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

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EpiFlow: A framework for improving the utility of wastewater signals for disease forecasting

arXiv:2608.06671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wastewater-based surveillance is an effective tool for disease monitoring and can provide early warning of outbreaks. Although wastewater viral loads (W

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From Points to Edges: Edge-Conditioned Spectral Operators for Physics-Sensitive PDE Learning

arXiv:2608.06894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural operators have become a central tool for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), with spectral operators offering efficient global mixing

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HarnessSafe: Evaluating Safety Across Persistent Carriers in Agent Harnesses

arXiv:2608.06984v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern agent harnesses persist state across tasks and sessions through persistent carriers like memory, skills, tools, and shared artifacts. However,

Introducing Muse Glimmer

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Introducing Muse Glimmer Meta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glimmer is a brand new 30B model under a clean Apache 2.0 license (a step up from the janky Llama licenses of old). They claim to

KnifeHunter: Structured Local Representation Learning for Fine-Grained Knife Image Retrieval in Law Enforcement

arXiv:2608.07057v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knife-enabled violence presents a major public safety challenge, and law enforcement agencies require scalable tools for catalogue-level knife identific

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Long-Horizon Agent Trajectory Attribution: A Unified Benchmark and Fine-Grained Annotation Framework

arXiv:2608.06909v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly operate through long-horizon trajectories involving user instructions, tool use, external observations, a

Science Edge Evaluation: SEE the Missing Step Toward Real Scientific Discovery

arXiv:2608.06931v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved in scientific discovery, yet it remains unclear whether they can support complex real laboratory

WebRider: Persona-Conditioned Intent Controllers for Live-Web Assistance

arXiv:2608.06704v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Delegating a web task involves more than asking a question; it requires transferring a policy: what to verify, how to handle uncertainty, which preferen

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Stripe just published how their company-wide AI agent works. The bar for building one just dropped to one engineer and one week It is called…

Stripe just published how their company-wide AI agent works. The bar for building one just dropped to one engineer and one week It is called Kai. Their own words: a coding agent for non-engineers. You

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9 Aug 2026

The Gemma team will host a special event on August 20

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Tweet by u/hackerllama Could be copium, but I would love to see Gemma 4.1 there with unified audio input for all model sizes perhaps even up to 120B, much improved tool calling (even with the latest t

9 Aug 2026

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Agentic self-driving microscopy benchmarks support qualification but do not necessarily generalize to unseen tasks

arXiv:2608.05266v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents are increasingly being developed to control a wide range of scientific characterization tools including microscopes and sync

ChainClaw: A Layered Agent Framework for Reliable On-Chain Execution

arXiv:2608.05790v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: General-purpose large language model agents have achieved strong performance on tool-augmented tasks, yet they rely on assumptions break down in blockch

CohortHijack: Robustness of Single Cell Annotation to Companion Cell Removal

arXiv:2608.05900v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many single-cell annotation tools refine an initial cell label using nearby cells or cluster-level voting. We study whether this refinement can be manip

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Confidence matters: Leveraging Multi-view Geometric Priors for GS-based Reconstruction

arXiv:2608.06117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a widely-used tool for novel view synthesis, offering real-time rendering in a sparse representation. Howeve

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DreamGuard: Efficient Runtime Guardrail for LLM Agents via Risk-Aware World Model

arXiv:2608.05695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language model (LLM) agents increasingly invoke external tools and interact with real-world systems, unsafe actions may cause irreversible cons

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ECG-LENS: Lead-Aware Clinical Context Enriched ECG Report Generation and Evaluation

arXiv:2608.05893v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electrocardiography (ECG) is one of the most widely used non-invasive tools for diagnosing cardiovascular disease, but transforming multi-lead ECG recor

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EcoAgent-Bench: Evaluating Economic Decision-Making in Budget-Constrained LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.05519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent benchmarks usually measure task completion and treat resource use as an auxiliary statistic. In deployment, however, the choice among a local look

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From Passive Mirrors to Active Agents: Holonic Digital Twins for Physical AI over Networks

arXiv:2608.06227v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite advances in artificial intelligence (AI) across multiple sectors, today's AI tools, including deep learning and generative AI, still fail when

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HERALD: Counterfactual Audits and Minimal Repairs for Proof-of-Retrieval Rewards

arXiv:2608.06012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search-agent rewards mix answer quality, citation grounding, tool cost, and anti-hacking terms; a high score therefore need not imply that cited evidenc

How Cohere Health digitizes clinical policies using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

In this post, you learn how Cohere Health built a multi-tenant agentic architecture on AgentCore using AgentCore Runtime’s secure MicroVM isolation, unified tool access through AgentCore Gateway, Agen

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Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

**Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale** This article addresses the economic challenges of deploying AI coding tools across large teams or organizations. It explores strategies for tracking resource usag

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