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Square’s new kiosk lets you talk to AI for help with your order

Square is launching new hardware: a big kiosk for ordering things that has a touchscreen and lets you talk to an AI. It's called the Square Kiosk. Square says the Kiosk, which has a large pill shape,

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Squeeze-Aware-YOLO: Early Channel Recalibration and Multi-Scale Fusion for Real-Time Traffic Sign Detection

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arXiv:2610.15604v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic sign detection plays a vital role in intelligent transportation systems, supporting the safe operation of advanced driver assistance systems and

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SSM-Attack: Learning Where to Perturb for Black-Box Face Privacy

arXiv:2610.17323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Face recognition systems are deployed widely enough that a photograph shared online can be matched without its subject's consent. Generator-based protec

ST-GRU PredRNN-V2: A GRU-Based Reformulation of PredRNN-V2 for Video Prediction

arXiv:2610.18645v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video prediction requires models to capture complex spatiotemporal dependencies and to retain relevant information over long sequences. PredRNN and its

Stable-Plastic Subspace Construction for Differentially Private Continual LoRA

arXiv:2610.17904v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning (CL) adapts pretrained models to a sequence of tasks while retaining knowledge acquired from earlier tasks. When task data are sensit

Start Right, Arrive Right: Asynchronous Execution via Initial Noise Selection

arXiv:2606.19774v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Action chunking enables robot policies to produce temporally coherent behavior, but generating multi-step action sequences with flow-based policies

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Startups are built on relationships. That’s why IRL events are a core part of our growth strategy at @lemma_ . We hosted our biggest one yet…

Startups are built on relationships. That’s why IRL events are a core part of our growth strategy at @lemma_ . We hosted our biggest one yet during @SFTechWeek : The Agent Economy Gala. 400+ founders,

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StateSkill-Agent: An Effective and Efficient Embodied Agent via State-conditioned Skill

arXiv:2610.14601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we aim to develop an embodied MLLM agent that understands and solves embodied tasks by learning, abstracting, and reusing transferrable an

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Statistical Downscaling of Daily Precipitation from ERA5 Atmospheric Fields to IMERG over West Africa

arXiv:2610.16816v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Global reanalyses are too coarse to resolve the convective systems that produce most West African monsoon rainfall. In this work, we use U-Net based a

Statistical Vignettes on the Grokking Phenomenon

arXiv:2610.18811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we study grokking in a simple, analytically tractable setting whose rich phenomenology allows us to disentangle the effects of initializat

Steering the Fidelity in State Preparation on Noisy Bosonic Systems with Risk-Seeking Optimization

arXiv:2610.18495v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In order to execute quantum algorithms on bosonic quantum computers, it is necessary to encode their inputs into a desired target quantum state, with

Steertuning Policies from a Few Human Videos

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ro

arXiv:2610.18711v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current recipes for robot learning require massive amounts of robot demonstrations to obtain robust and adaptive policies. In this work, we introduce St

Stein Variational Distributional Reinforcement Learning: Score-Guided Particles for Multivariate Return Distributions

arXiv:2610.17925v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decisions that weigh several reward signals against each other require the joint distribution of the return vector. Categorical critics scale exponentia

Stereo-Planner: Learning Stereo-to-Trajectory Planning for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Quadrotor Navigation

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ro

arXiv:2610.15560v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing navigation systems commonly rely on dedicated depth sensors or explicit depth reconstruction, while learning to generate trajectories directly

StimFlow: Synthesizing Brain Activity from Images via Stimulus-conditioned Flow Matching

arXiv:2610.15341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The inherent variability of fMRI responses across trials encourages a generative view of the stimulus-to-response mapping. Prior generative encoders oft

Stochastic Difference-of-Convex Optimization with Momentum

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2510.17503v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study the online stochastic difference-of-convex (DC) program min_{x in R^n} F(x) = G(x) - H(x) + r_1(x) - r_2(x), which covers sparse learning w

Strata performance finetuning - try it out

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As strata is somewhat new, I assume that some people din't yet learn how to finetune it for best performance on their machine. I find documentation a bit hard to navigate (use your agents for this!),

StreamingWAM: Streaming World Action Modeling via Chunk-Wise Staircase Flow Matching

arXiv:2610.15585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs), often built upon pretrained video-generation world models, have emerged as a promising framework for general-purpose and ope

applicationsarxiv-cs-ro

Streamline pathology foundation model by cross-magnification distillation

arXiv:2509.23097v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Foundation models (FM) have transformed computational pathology but remain computationally prohibitive for clinical deployment due to their massive

STREGO: A Scalable Implementation of a Trust-Region Framework for Noisy Bayesian Optimization

arXiv:2610.14338v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: TREGO, a trust-region Bayesian optimization (BO) method for expensive blackbox problems, has convergence guarantees, but only for exact function value

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Strong Gaussian Approximation of Constant-Learning-Rate SGD: Bias and Trajectory Inference

arXiv:2610.14567v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper develops strong Gaussian approximations (KMT type) for constant learning rate stochastic gradient descent (SGD). We work with heavy tailed

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Structural Pass Analysis in Football: Learning Pass Archetypes and Tactical Impact from Spatio-Temporal Tracking Data

arXiv:2603.28916v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Football action-value approaches estimate scoring, possession, or other downstream outcome value; complementary descriptions can characterise how a

tutorialsarxiv-cs-lg

Structure-preserving fidelity diagnostics for partial differential equations

arXiv:2610.17483v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning surrogates of partial differential equations (PDEs) are commonly trained on data generated by numerical solvers. Therefore, the trainin

Structured Stateful Relational Scripts with a High-Quality Dataset for Multi-Shot Audio-Visual Video Generation

arXiv:2610.15512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coherent multi-shot audio-visual video generation requires maintaining consistent identities while depicting evolving states and coordinating sounds acr

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StructZO: Structured Zeroth-Order Optimization for Memory-Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2610.16451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning large language models at scale is increasingly limited by the memory cost of backpropagation. Zeroth-Order (ZO) optimizers reduce this burde

Sublinear Algorithms for Wasserstein and Total Variation Distances: Applications to Fairness and Privacy Auditing

arXiv:2503.07775v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Resource-efficiently computing representations of probability distributions and the distances between them while only having access to the samples i

Successful but Unsafe: An Analytical Benchmark for Revealing Collisions in Vision-and-Language Navigation

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ro

arXiv:2610.14682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) agents are typically evaluated by whether they reach a target and how efficiently they follow an instructed route,

SuperAI: Merging Capabilities Across Heterogeneous Foundation Models

arXiv:2610.15322v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enabling the reuse and composition of knowledge and capabilities distributed across foundation models is an important step toward building scalable ar

Hardware

Supermicro wants AI factories judged by how fast they go live, not by GPU count

AI factory deployment has long been a race to secure graphics processing units, but the builders of those systems are finding that compute is only half the problem. Data pipelines, storage costs and t

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SuperSuit: An Isomorphic Bimodal Interface for Scalable Mobile Manipulation

arXiv:2603.06280v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon mobile manipulation needs whole-body demonstrations, and collecting them is the bottleneck. Keeping the robot in the loop ties the data

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Surface Reconstruction from Range Scans Under Visibility Constraints

arXiv:2610.18005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surface reconstruction from range scans is challenging in the presence of noise and outliers, as fidelity to observations must be balanced against sensi

SurgCast: Action-Conditioned Future Skeletons for Controllable Surgical World Models

arXiv:2610.15645v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Surgical world models must turn prospective robot actions into visually faithful, structurally consistent instrument motion. We introduce SurgCast, whic

SurgiCLAW: An Interpretable Atomic-Skill Agent for Precision Robotic Micromanipulation

arXiv:2610.15766v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) and vision--language--action models have provided robots with new capabilities for long-horizon task und

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Hardware

Swarm Telepathy: Prefill-Free KV-Cache Transfer Across Families

arXiv:2610.15095v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM multi-agent systems split work across agents that communicate through text. An agent summarizes its findings, another agent receives the text. This

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SWORD: Scene-Grounded Wasserstein Object-Relation Distance for 3D Scene Graph Prediction

arXiv:2610.17692v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D scene graph prediction is commonly optimized with object-node and relation-edge classification losses. These objectives encourage exact object and re

SyncReward: Human-Aligned Synchronization Reward for Audio-Visual Generation

arXiv:2610.16338v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent years have witnessed rapid progress in joint audio--visual generation. However, audio--visual synchronization remains a challenge, as generated s

SYNPRED: A Synergistic Approach to Multimodal Learning for Clinical Prediction

arXiv:2610.18110v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal medical data captures complementary aspects of disease. It provides a comprehensive basis for diagnosis and the identification of biologica

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TabGift: A Context-Efficient Foundation Model for Tabular Data Generation

arXiv:2610.16990v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular data generation aims to synthesize realistic samples from limited observations while faithfully capturing the underlying data distribution. Tabu

TableVision: Recovering Verified Structure from Historical Tables

arXiv:2610.17448v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gaps, skips, and mistakes are the normal state of a historical register: rows go missing, tables cross page breaks, columns slip under wrong names, and

TabMosaic: Unified In-Context Diffusion for Tabular Generative Tasks

arXiv:2610.15699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative modeling for tabular data has advanced to the point where models can synthesize realistic records, recover missing values, and generate sampl

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TacitVLA: Reasoning Vision-Language-Action Models Without Reasoning Latency

arXiv:2610.17540v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Textual reasoning before acting has improved vision-language-action (VLA) models, but at the cost of latency: every action conditioned on the reasonin

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TacSpin: Tactile Tracking of In-Gripper Object Rotation on SO(3) via Axis-Magnitude Estimation

arXiv:2610.17574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tracking object motion within a gripper provides essential feedback for robotic manipulation. However, limited contact coverage and uneven deformation m

applicationsarxiv-cs-ro

TAG: Calibrating SAM3 for Universal Image Segmentation without Dense Supervision

arXiv:2610.14651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The recent Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM3) extends powerful promptable segmentation from spatial cues to concepts, raising the prospect of a single foun

TagBO: LLM-Driven Task-Aware Graph Bayesian Optimization for Scientific Discovery

arXiv:2610.14626v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mixed-variable optimization in scientific discovery often requires exploring large combinatorial spaces under costly experimental evaluations, making sa

Taking Krea-2 apart, one piece at a time

model-releasesr-stablediffusion

Hellow fellow AI-generated goblins of r/StableDiffusion For a few weeks I’ve been stress-testing my tool, Arthemy Krea-2 Tuner: https://github.com/aledelpho/comfyui-arthemy-krea2-tuner I wanted to inv

Taming Nonconvexity with Epigraph Lifting

arXiv:2610.16429v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We consider inverse problems regularized by a trained neural network with convex activations and unrestricted weights. The resulting optimization prob

Taming Softmax at the Limits of Muon: A Unified Approach through Hilbert Geometry

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2610.17588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Muon controls weight updates through the RMS movement of a linear layer's output. This implicitly treats the linear output as a proxy for the full modul

Tanawpamana: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models on Philippine Cultural Heritage Sites

arXiv:2610.17596v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models are increasingly used to identify and describe places, yet their recognition and knowledge of specific cultures remain poorly und