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arXiv:2610.11302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training-free sparse attention offers a practical acceleration solution to Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) via reducing computations without fine-tuning.

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Imperative Interference: Social Register Shapes Instruction Topology in Large Language Models

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arXiv:2603.25015v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: System prompt instructions that cooperate in English compete in Spanish, with the same semantic content, but opposite interaction topology. We

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Language Models for Page-Level Layout Decisions in E-commerce Search

arXiv:2610.10920v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: E-commerce search pages are critical touchpoints for millions of online shoppers. While traditional search engines return a ranked list of results, mo

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Low-rank tensor structure of precipitation and its application to satellite-reference merging

arXiv:2610.11000v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The intermittent and variable nature of precipitation makes its accurate estimation over extended domains difficult, yet its spatiotemporal structure su

Ranking Prior Alignment for Credit Risk Modeling: When Do External Priors Matter?

arXiv:2610.11146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cold-start credit scoring -- deploying models with scarce labeled data, weak features, or minimal capacity -- is a recurring problem in financial machin

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ik ik 'another harness D:'. so... i spent the last 6 months of my life building and ironing out every single detail and bug through almost every route with extensive testing across 3 machines, daily,

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Rethinking the Tradeoff Between Temporal Encoding and Nonlinear Computation in Spiking Language Models

arXiv:2610.10933v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spiking language models face a tradeoff between representing continuous semantic features over short temporal windows and retaining costly nonlinear a

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Sparse Attention Is Matrix Approximation, Not Choosing from a Bag of Values

arXiv:2610.10871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across many domains, but their efficiency is limited by the quadratic cost of attention with res

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StoreBench: A Live-Commerce Environment for Evaluating and Training Autonomous Operator Agents

arXiv:2610.10942v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning environments are now a primary lever for improving large language model (LLM) capabilities in post-training, yet most agentic ben

Strategic Governance of AI Models in Earth Science

arXiv:2610.10560v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI foundation models pretrained on weather and climate data are increasingly fine-tuned to Earth science tasks well beyond weather forecasting. Their

The challenge for Google post-Gemini 4 will be what they do with a good model. Anthropic & OpenAI show we are moving towards a single interf…

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The challenge for Google post-Gemini 4 will be what they do with a good model. Anthropic & OpenAI show we are moving towards a single interface for many tasks with orchestrator agents. The Gemini 3 er

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The Operator Mismatch Problem: Deploying BEV Perception with Portable GPU Compute

arXiv:2610.11504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern autonomous driving systems rely on bird's-eye-view (BEV) perception models that fuse camera and LiDAR inputs to detect objects in 3D space. These

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ThinkingBox: Solving an agent task once vs. solving it 20/20: 507 stateful workflows graded on terminal database state [R]

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Figure 1b from our paper Disclosure: I'm one of the authors (Microsoft). The paper, code, dataset are public and ThinkingBox is on Hugging Face OpenEnv as well. Raw evaluation trajectories are not rel

TokenRouter: Efficient Serving System for Token-Level LLM Routing

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arXiv:2610.12242v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) routing distributes inference work across different models, advancing the cost-quality Pareto frontier of LLM serving. While

Workerville: Towards an Organizational Behavior Account of Agent Safety

arXiv:2610.11561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based agents now interact with their environments continuously, shaped by such organizational channels as user instructions, peer messages, and long

2 months (meme-d) research, Do People Notice the Difference Between AI Models?

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Preamble and disclaimer, Sample size: 8, at any size of form this research is just screwing around being writing it down. This was just a little,(well... big), curiosity test I wanted to run to see wh

AI hardware startup Natura unveils Interface, a $99 smart ring that connects to AI agents and apps, including Claude, ChatGPT, Muse, Grok Bot, and Instinct (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: AI hardware startup Natura unveils Interface, a 99 smart ring that connects to AI agents and apps, including Claude, ChatGPT, Muse, Grok Bot, and Instinct — Meet Interface, a

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Algorithmic Scratchpads and Curriculum Staging for Arithmetic Reasoning in Tiny Transformers

arXiv:2610.09003v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently struggle with deterministic multi-step algorithmic tasks such as multi-digit multiplication and l

Allocation Stability and Wald Inference under Variance-Aware UCB

arXiv:2412.08843v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Allocation stability is often used to justify Gaussian inference from bandit data, but when is it necessary? In this paper, we address this qu

An Accuracy--Information Tradeoff for Loss-Difference Conditional Mutual Information

arXiv:2610.09206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Loss-difference conditional mutual information (ld-CMI) uses the smallest of the standard observations in the supersample hierarchy of generalization bo

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CAFE+FNO: Fourier Kernel Generation via Multiplicative Feature Composition

arXiv:2610.10105v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Fourier Neural Operator (FNO) learns solution operators of partial differential equations (PDEs) through Fourier-space kernel parameterization, but

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Coding-Agent Benchmarks Should Match Their Users' Task Flows

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arXiv:2610.09633v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The evaluation of coding agents generally strives to be as realistic as possible. In our study, we collect 4,782 agent sessions of real software engin

Constrained-Action AI Remediation for SIEM/XDR via a NeMo-Guardrails Proxy

arXiv:2610.09906v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Security Operations Centers (SOCs) for information technology and operational technology share one incident-response problem: a flood of correlated al

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Dual-QK: Sharp Queries and Flat Keys for Prunable 2-bit KV Caches

arXiv:2610.09827v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long inputs and extended generation increase the storage and access costs of the key-value (KV) cache. Low-bit quantization reduces storage and memory t

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End-to-End Autonomous Generation of Human Assembly Plans

arXiv:2610.09781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Turning a CAD design into an assembly plan is still largely done by hand, requiring engineers to reason about geometric feasibility, tool access, stabil

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Tutorials

Exact Dynamics and Finite-Sample Trajectory Recovery of Linear Recursive Feature Machines

arXiv:2610.09196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recursive feature machines (RFMs) learn representations of data by alternating between fitting a predictor to a dataset and updating features of that pr

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From Retrieval to Customer Context: Evaluating Frontier-Model Systems for Voice-of-Customer Analysis

arXiv:2610.09375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Organizations increasingly use frontier language models to analyze customer feedback, but answer quality also depends on how that feedback is organized

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Tutorials

Fully Interpretable Minimal Transformers: From Geometry to Algorithm

arXiv:2610.09838v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a framework for building and interpreting minimal transformer models. By constraining a transformer's embedding dimension and head size to 2,

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geodex: A Library for Motion Planning on Riemannian Manifolds

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arXiv:2610.09165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Planning motions that respect the intrinsic geometry of a robot's configuration space, including its curvature and a configuration-dependent notion of c

Great paper from Google on program repair agents inside CI. (bookmark it) They propose FlowAgent, which runs a ReAct-style generate-and-vali…

Great paper from Google on program repair agents inside CI. (bookmark it) They propose FlowAgent, which runs a ReAct-style generate-and-validate loop on pre-submit test failures and shows the fix insi

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Local Ai

I built an open source framework for building RL environments. Named 'Seahaven' after the fake town in The Truman Show.

I've been optimizing long-running agents: rewriting their prompts, tools, skills and subagents, and keeping the changes that score better. I've been working on some version of this problem for over a

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Applications

Learned Monotone Recurrent Features in Governed Credit Scoring: The Price of the Frame and the Necessity of Macro Conditioning

arXiv:2610.08869v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Regulated credit scoring requires scores monotone non-decreasing in every exposure input. Deployed pipelines -- hand-crafted monotone aggregates feedi

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Marrying Pricing and Advertising with LLMs

arXiv:2610.09985v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study a sequential pricing problem in which a seller jointly posts a price and an advertisement generated by a large language model (LLM). The sell

Multi-Agent Coordination via Support-Preserving Distillation

arXiv:2610.10087v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline MARL increasingly relies on generative policies to model multimodal joint behavior, typically by distilling a centralized teacher into decentral

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On-Demand Robotic Assembly via Differentiable Geometric Part Repair

arXiv:2610.09777v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transitioning from a digital design to a robotic assembly process currently requires months of expert manual tuning to reconcile part geometries with ro

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Persistence Paradox in Dynamic Science: Evidence from the Deep Learning Revolution

arXiv:2506.22729v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Persistence is often regarded as a virtue in science. In this paper, however, we challenge this conventional view by highlighting its contextu

Reproducible LLM Inference Benchmarking: A Sequential Isolation Protocol for Regression Testing

arXiv:2610.09778v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reproducible benchmarking of Large Language Model (LLM) inference is challenging because repeated measurements can vary with execution and system stat

Transferability and operational reliability of a Prithvi crop classification foundation model under phenological and geographic shift across three continents

arXiv:2610.08810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuned geospatial foundation models (GeoFMs) pretrained on large satellite archives have been shown to improve crop classification accuracy and geog

Local Ai

Trust-Region Optimization for Smooth Potential-Interaction Energies in Wasserstein Space

arXiv:2610.08883v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Finding low-energy configurations of interacting particles and approximating probability distributions lead to the minimization of potential-interacti

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A Case Study in Assuring AI-Written Software

arXiv:2610.08651v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Software-engineering agents can enable people without formal software training to build systems they could not otherwise implement and simultaneously

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Applications

A Data-Driven Framework for Unsupervised Monitoring of Transmission Systems Using End-of-Line Testing Data: A Case Study at Ford Motor Company

arXiv:2610.06980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sensing technologies have advanced rapidly across industries ranging from energy to automotive manufacturing. These systems generate high-dimensional (H

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A Footprint-Aware, High-Resolution Approach for Carbon Flux Prediction Across Diverse Ecosystems

arXiv:2512.01917v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Eddy-covariance (EC) flux towers provide in situ measurements of CO_2 flux and serve as the ground-truth data for predictive `upscaling' models deri

A perspective note on likelihood approximation and inference for complex simulation models using a chain of aggregated normalizing flows

arXiv:2610.07391v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a new perspective on the problem of likelihood approximation within the framework of simulation-based inference that promotes scalable and

A stock GLM-Edge-1.5B-Chat on a 4GB Galaxy A04e completed a real Amazon cart task

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Yesterday TechCrunch published a piece about a growing problem for AI agents: websites are starting to block them. Amazon blocking Meta's Muse is the obvious example. At almost exactly the same time,

A Systematic Study of Semantic ID Spaces for Generative Information Retrieval

arXiv:2610.08732v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative Information Retrieval (GIR) has emerged as a transformative paradigm, shifting document retrieval from a traditional 'retrieve-and-rank' wo

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A theory of platonic representations in language models

arXiv:2610.07168v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Representations of translated sentences are similar in the inner layers of multilingual language models -- an observation connected to the platonic re

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Hardware

AEGIS: Runtime-Guided GPU Collocation for Multi-Tenant Deep Learning Training

arXiv:2508.19073v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep learning training commonly runs on shared multi-tenant GPU servers, where exclusive allocation provides isolation but can leave resources

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Agent in a Bottle: Can LLM Agents Turn Their Capabilities Into Cheap, Scalable Artifacts?

arXiv:2610.08775v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can solve many narrow tasks, but querying them separately for millions of related instances can be prohibitively expensive.