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SparseVoxelDet: Fully Sparse Voxel Networks for Efficient Event-Based Drone Detection

arXiv:2603.21638v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Event cameras excel at detecting small, fast drones, but today's detectors give away their key advantage: they convert the sparse event stream into

Model Releases

Spatiotemporal Agility: Time-Constrained Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Guided Dynamic Quadrupedal Interception

DGX agent

arXiv:2608.06907v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Legged robots require robust agility to perceive and interact with complex and dynamic environments within a constrained time. However, most existing qu

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Stability of Transformers under Layer Normalization

arXiv:2510.09904v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite their widespread use, training deep Transformers can be unstable. Layer normalization, a standard component, improves training stabili

Stable Curves, Unstable Items: Item-Level Scaling Heterogeneity in Video LLMs

arXiv:2608.07014v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aggregate scaling curves suggest that Video LLMs improve smoothly or saturate as visual budgets grow. We show that this view can conceal large, opposing

StepJack: Benchmarking Computer-Use Agent Safety Against Multi-Step Indirect Prompt Injection

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arXiv:2608.06477v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computer-use agents (CUAs) face a growing threat from indirect prompt injection, where adversarial instructions are planted in the environment such as

Tutorials

Stochastic Autoregressive Learning

arXiv:2608.07224v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motivated by LLMs, which generate outputs by iteratively sampling from next-token distributions, we introduce a PAC-learning model for binary stochastic

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Stockmark-Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-JapanDocReader: Structured Document Parsing via Capability Injection and Forgetting Control

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2608.06758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Stockmark-Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-JapanDocReader, a Japanese document understanding model built from Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16

Stoicheia: Character-Level Masked Diffusion for Ancient Greek Textual Restoration, Parsing, and Metrical Scansion

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arXiv:2608.07249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Stoicheia, a 405M-parameter character-level masked-diffusion encoder for Ancient Greek whose input factors into five aligned, independently

Strategy-first synthesis planning for complex natural products

arXiv:2608.07454v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The total synthesis of a complex molecule is among the most demanding intellectual and experimental feats in chemistry: a chemist must plan many steps

Local Ai

Stream Learning: Partition-Fair Gossip Learning Without Tokens

arXiv:2608.06946v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In gossip learning, a network of nodes trains a shared model collaboratively, without a central coordinator, by repeatedly exchanging parts of their l

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Sub-Quadratic Bisimulation Metrics via Approximate Nearest Neighbors: Coverage-Augmented Guarantees and Computable Two-Sided Certificates

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arXiv:2608.06762v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bisimulation metrics quantify behavioral similarity in Markov decision processes, but their Wasserstein fixed-point operator updates every state pair an

SubtleTalk: Generating Controllable Weakly-correlated Facial Dynamics for 3D Talking Heads via Residual Flow Matching

arXiv:2608.06408v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio-driven 3D facial animation aims to synthesize realistic and temporally coherent motions from speech. Despite notable progress in lip synchroniza

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Hardware

Summarize First, Download Later: Onboard VLMs for Bandwidth-Efficient Earth Observation

arXiv:2608.06959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern Earth observation (EO) satellites carry increasingly advanced sensors that produce vast volumes of high-resolution, multispectral data, yet downl

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Summary of Takeaways from the Minimax AMA

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Summary from https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1vh9rtw/ama_minimax_h3_team_ask_us_anything_about_our/ This summary was compiled with AI but cross-checked manually by me for accuracy. I

Suppress and Diversify: Refining Robust Pathways for Corruption Robustness

arXiv:2608.06712v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model robustness against natural image corruptions is essential for safety-critical applications. While existing methods primarily focus on implicit rep

Surg-UniWorld: A Unified Surgical World Model with Multimodal Control Experts

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arXiv:2608.06770v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Controllable surgical world models can provide a generative foundation for surgical artificial intelligence and simulation by synthesizing realistic ins

Symbolic Graphics Programming with Large Language Models

arXiv:2509.05208v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) excel at program synthesis, yet their ability to produce symbolic graphics programs (SGPs) that render into precise vis

SyncSBC: Decentralized Swarm Behavior Prediction for Synchronized Autonomous Control

arXiv:2608.06587v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robot swarms utilize many independent limited-sensing agents to produce complex emergent behaviors without requiring centralized control. However, lit

Applications

Synthetic LiDAR Data Generation and Deterministic Downsampling for Point Cloud Classification on the Edge

arXiv:2608.07106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying three-dimensional deep learning frameworks to low-power embedded processors is bottlenecked by the unstructured nature of spatial data and the

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TA-RAG: Tone Awareness as a Design Imperative for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2608.06672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a robust architecture for grounding large language models (LLMs) in trusted knowledge. However, standard

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Tutorials

Target-Weighted Neyman Allocation: Experimental Design for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects under Population Shift

arXiv:2608.06512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Randomized experiments are often run in one population to guide decisions in another. Allocating by experimental proportions wastes budget on groups tha

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Tutorials

TaskSense: Focusing on What Matters in World Models

arXiv:2608.06544v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models for visual control typically learn compact latent states by reconstructing observations, implicitly encouraging representations to preserve

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Applications

Taxonomy-Driven Analysis of Open-Source AI Risk Mitigation Tools

arXiv:2608.07446v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) in enterprise settings has introduced operational, security, and governance risks. As generative AI app

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TEMPO: Semantic-Action Decoupled RL Post-Training for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2608.07314v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models are commonly adapted to downstream manipulation tasks via supervised fine-tuning (SFT) or online reinforcement lea

Tensor Network Kernel Machines: A JAX Framework for Machine Learning and Nonlinear System Identification

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arXiv:2608.07043v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Developing nonlinear models that are both expressive and computationally efficient remains a challenge in machine learning and nonlinear system identi

TEPA: Revoking Stale Memories for Conflict-Robust Language Agents

arXiv:2608.07429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term memory enables language agents to reuse past facts, preferences, and task experience. Persistence also creates a central falsifiability proble

Test-Time Adaptation with Online Personalized Energy-Based Cache for Fine-Grained Video Expression Recognition

arXiv:2608.06467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Facial expression recognition (FER) in videos is challenging because models must identify subtle, temporally evolving affective states that vary across

Tested Muse Glimmer locally on coding with OpenCode & agentic work

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Ran the model with quants (Q4) by Unsloth with latest (build from master) llama.cpp server. It takes ~20GB ram running on M5 Pro with 48GB at about 17t/s. Didn't do any reasoning loops/overthinking. O

TEXAS: Task-Expert-Aware Supervision for Downstream Mixture-of-Experts LLM Adaptation

arXiv:2608.06396v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models route each token through a small subset of experts, making routing patterns useful for identifying task-relev

// The Bitter Lesson of Tool Calling // Tool calling is a design choice, and the defaults are quietly costing accuracy. How so? New research…

// The Bitter Lesson of Tool Calling // Tool calling is a design choice, and the defaults are quietly costing accuracy. How so? New research releases a generation-spanning comparison of programmatic t

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The Horizon Gap: Planning, Memory, Execution, Training, and Evaluation for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

arXiv:2608.06663v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier language models solve reasoning problems in a single forward pass that would have been research contributions years ago, yet fail at multi-hour

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The next frontier of Recursive Self-Improvement is Physical AI. Japan sparked the robotics revolution. We are expanding our RSI Lab to build…

The next frontier of Recursive Self-Improvement is Physical AI. Japan sparked the robotics revolution. We are expanding our RSI Lab to build world models that allow agentic reasoning systems to recurs

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The Optimizer Is the Agent: Reasoning-Driven Search across Prompts, Programs, and ML Workflows

arXiv:2608.06714v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent systems for optimizing prompts, programs, and ML workflows typically rely on explicit outer-loop controllers such as evolutionary search, bandits

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The Perils of Agency: How Developers Perceive, Prioritize, and Address Risks in Agentic AI Products

arXiv:2606.15485v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agentic AI systems act autonomously, use tools, adapt to context, and operate in complex real-world environments. However, these same characte

The Sparsity Whisperer

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arXiv:2608.06630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pruning reduces the inference cost of large language models, but existing criteria primarily preserve large activations or reconstruct layer outputs. We

The successor to Llama is here, and Meta is revitalizing focus on open weights with their new Muse Glimmer - a leading 30B param model desig…

The successor to Llama is here, and Meta is revitalizing focus on open weights with their new Muse Glimmer - a leading 30B param model designed for always-on local agent use, small enough to run on a

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Theoretical Foundations of Communication-Efficient, Robust, and Practical Distributed and Federated Optimization

arXiv:2608.06563v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning and optimization have advanced together, with practical demands motivating new theory and theoretical breakthroughs enabling new applic

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There is an asymmetry in most agentic workflows that does not get talked about much: humans have many ways to talk to agents, and almost no …

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There is an asymmetry in most agentic workflows that does not get talked about much: humans have many ways to talk to agents, and almost no standardized way for agents to talk back to humans. You can

These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs

MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. Way back in the summer of 2017,

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This Meta campaign is a case study in strategic reframing, with 4 major examples: 1) REFRAMES THE AI RACE FROM “who builds it the best” TO “…

This Meta campaign is a case study in strategic reframing, with 4 major examples: 1) REFRAMES THE AI RACE FROM “who builds it the best” TO “who distributes it to the most people”: Instead of fighting

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TMTE: Effective Multimodal Graph Learning with Task-aware Modality and Topology Co-evolution

arXiv:2603.27723v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal-attributed graphs (MAGs) are a fundamental data structure for multimodal graph learning (MGL), enabling both graph-centric and modality-c

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TOFD: Target-Oriented Feature Decoupling against Poisoning Attacks in Split Federated Learning

arXiv:2608.07274v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Split Federated Learning (SFL) facilitates privacy-preserving collaborative training with reduced client-side overhead. However, its split architectur

Together Serverless Inference gives developers a high-throughput, managed production path for running Muse Glimmer across agentic and multim…

Together Serverless Inference gives developers a high-throughput, managed production path for running Muse Glimmer across agentic and multimodal workloads. Start building: https://www.together.ai/mode

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Toward a Causal Data Management Ecosystem for Decision Making and Agentic AI

arXiv:2608.07214v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern AI is no longer a single model but an ecosystem: classical ML predictors, deep and multimodal models, large language models, and agents, each t

Toward Reliable Context Compression for Long-Horizon Agents: An Empirical Study of Execution Instability

arXiv:2608.06503v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recurrent context compression controls context growth in long-horizon agents, but its behavioral effects remain poorly understood. In this preliminary e

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Toward surface-based registration of a virtual preoperative cutting guide onto the mandible for reconstruction surgery

arXiv:2608.06599v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mandibular reconstruction restores facial continuity and oral function after segmental resection. Patient-specific cutting guides transfer a computed to

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Applications

Towards a Theoretical Understanding of Two Tower Recommendation Models

arXiv:2403.00802v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Production-grade recommender systems rely heavily on a large-scale corpus used by online media services, including Netflix, Pinterest, and Ama

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Towards Assurance Closure in AI-Native Large-Scale Agile Software Development

arXiv:2608.07317v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The AI-Native Manifesto envisions large-scale agile software development in which humans increasingly govern intent, risk, and exceptions while agents