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Strata with Qwen3.8 Flash Next UD-Q4_K_XL

Been seeing quite a few posts about Strata lately, so I figured I'd give it a shot on my RTX PRO 6000 and I am very impressed. Most of the benchmarks I've seen are using IQ2 or IQ3 quants, so I wanted

10 Oct 2026

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I shipped a new feature for my blog today: the Newsletters page, which offers an index of all of the newsletters I've sent out, both my free weekly Substack and my monthly sponsors-only updates. I bui

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9 Oct 2026

A Survey on LLM-Integrated Hardware Design Verification

arXiv:2610.10580v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into hardware verification to automate specification interpretation, verification-artif

Tutorials

AgentGarten: Code Worlds for Evolving Agents

arXiv:2610.12374v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interactive virtual worlds allow agents to learn through exploration and interaction. What agents can learn is bounded by the environments they practice

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Beyond the Ergodic Wall: A Discrete Geometric Physics Sandbox for Analysing AI Scaling Limits and Complexity Collapse

arXiv:2610.10651v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper exposes the ergodic ceiling and thermodynamic inefficiency of current deep learning, which converges to a statistical average of historic h

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Can AI Agents Learn Their Way to the Top? Evaluating Heuristic Learning in a Long-Running Game Agent Competition

arXiv:2610.12341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adversarial games have driven advances from heuristic search to reinforcement learning, yet learning and adapting strategies from limited samples remain

Closed-loop evaluation of LLM agents for embedded software development

arXiv:2610.11447v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as coding agents that edit files, run builds and tests, inspect execution results, and repair s

Detecting Spin in Clinical Trials with Large Language Models

arXiv:2610.11845v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spin in clinical trials includes reporting practices that distort the presentation of results. This is particularly critical in medicine, where spin is

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DynaTE: Accelerating Diffusion LLMs via Dynamic Token Execution

arXiv:2610.11284v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion-based LLMs (dLLMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive (AR) LLMs by enabling bidirectional parallel refinemen

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Embodied Turing Machines: Stateful Code for Robot Recursive Self-Improvement

arXiv:2610.12369v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most robot policies keep a model in the control loop: a VLA maps observations to actions, and an Agent Harness, such as Agent-as-Policy or Harness VLA

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FearCaut-Qwen: Affective Steering in a Vision-Language Model Shifts the Decision Criterion for Hazard Assessment

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arXiv:2610.11986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) show great potential for damage assessment after a disaster, but a recurring deficiency is that they are reluctant to decl

I made a portable AI memory format that transfers both context and skill

Last month I created a portable memory format as a .txt file as a small project. I named it as: Memory Journal, in a shape of a skill card. It's essentially a large prompt wrapped in a text file. Init

ILM: An AI-Powered Storytelling Educational Tool

arXiv:2610.12064v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Digital technologies have made Islamic narratives more accessible, but existing platforms provide limited support for structured learning and comprehens

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Just another purely open-weight models benchmark

Live results, coding benchmarks included, agentic benchmarks included, domains and other classifications filters included. (Spoiler: DeepSeek-V4-Vision-Exp rules, but other models have their rule area

OneSearch-VL: Unified Multimodal Deep Research Agent for Image and Video

arXiv:2610.12419v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Single-image, multi-image, and video deep research require different visual operations but share a workflow of visual grounding, external retrieval, and

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RoboRSI: Stable, efficient, and reusable robot self-evolution in complex real-world environments

arXiv:2610.12424v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A generalist robot should not only perform diverse tasks but also improve through experience, turning what it learns during execution into capabilitie

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Runnable Commit Untangling for Coding Agents

arXiv:2610.11593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Coding agents produce large, tangled patches that mix multiple development purposes, making the code hard to review and maintain. Commit untangling of

Scaling Verifiable Environments for Long-horizon Work Agents

arXiv:2610.04906v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Work agents operate over digital artifacts to execute professional knowledge-intensive work, requiring training environments that support long

Strix halo + CMP 170HX setup

A bit of backstory : i got lucky in August and was able to grab a CMP 170 HX 8GB for around 500 on alibaba. I tried later to get a second one for around 1k but my order got cancelled and prices went t

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The Harness as the Only Mutable Surface: Compliance-Bounded Self-Evolution of LLM Agents in Credit Pipelines, with a Measured Admission Gate

arXiv:2610.10629v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-improving LLM agents can adapt a credit pipeline to a changed rule, but an agent that rewrites itself destroys the artefact a supervisor reviews: a

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Universal Textual Teaching for LLMs

arXiv:2610.12114v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from stronger Teacher models to weaker Student models, but most methods require training the Student par

Web automation with Ollama on a 4 GB GPU: Qwen 3.5 4B plans, a heuristic clicks, and saved tasks replay with no model at all

I've been building ANCHOR, a web automation agent that runs entirely on Ollama. You describe a task in plain language ('Register Maria Silva, IT department, contractor, and save'), point it at a site,

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$2800 rig with 8x Radeon Pro V620 (256 GB VRAM) + custom vLLM fork = Qwen3.8-Flash-Next at 60 to 100 t/s decode and 3000+ t/s prefill

Post title is slightly misleading, I don't think you can get these for $350 each anymore but they're still pretty cheap all things considered. They're Radeon Pro V620's which are older RDNA2 enterpris

Hardware

Accelerating Floating-Point Satisfiability Solving via Gradient Normalization

arXiv:2610.08808v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers are foundational to software verification, program analysis, and compiler testing, particularly over the

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AirGroundVLN: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Goal-Oriented Air-Ground Collaborative Vision-and-Language Navigation

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arXiv:2610.10421v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Goal-oriented Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to locate and reach targets described in natural language without prescribed routes.

An RRAM-based Hardware Implementation of a Radial Basis Function Neuron for Edge Classifiers

arXiv:2606.14739v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The deployment of modern machine learning (ML) solutions on resource-constrained edge devices highlights implementation challenges. This is es

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Anthropic launches OSS Scanner, a free opt-in vulnerability scanner for critical open-source projects; its AI-generated reports are sent without human review (Anthropic)

Anthropic: Anthropic launches OSS Scanner, a free opt-in vulnerability scanner for critical open-source projects; its AI-generated reports are sent without human review — We're launching OSS Scanner,

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Anthropic launches the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program to provide AI models, threat research, and on-site support, starting with CrowdStrike and others (Sam Sabin/Axios)

Sam Sabin / Axios: Anthropic launches the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program to provide AI models, threat research, and on-site support, starting with CrowdStrike and others — Anthropic is launch

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Hardware

Awesome day, @satyanadella! Windows sparked a platform shift that created a new industry for NVIDIA. Then we invented programmable shading G…

Awesome day, @satyanadella! Windows sparked a platform shift that created a new industry for NVIDIA. Then we invented programmable shading GPUs for DirectX, which led to CUDA. Then we partnered to bri

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ClimbLab: MATLAB Simulation Platform for Legged Climbing Robotics

arXiv:2610.09315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an open-sourced MATLAB simulation and analysis platform dedicated to legged climbing robots. This simulator enables the design of an

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Comparing Qwen3.8-27B fine-tunes and baselining vs. frontier

TL;DR: For my use case, mradermacher/Signal-3.8-27B-Terse-Coder.i1-Q4_K_M proved out. Ymmv based on your domain-specific tests. Time taken to solve problems compared to frontier models is massive; esp

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Conditional Flow Matching for Generation of 3D Multi-variable Instantaneous Urban Microclimate Fields

arXiv:2610.10430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rapid and accurate prediction of urban wind and temperature fields is important for urban microclimate design and climate adaptation. Large-eddy simul

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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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Design optimization of tendon-driven robots considering tendon wrapping and shortcut

arXiv:2610.09645v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study proposes a multi-objective optimization method for tendon-driven arm design, addressing the inherent trade-off between joint torque and arm t

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Empowering SMBs to do more with Gemini

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Today, we announced the new Gemini agent, your single, universal agent for work. For small and midsize businesses, with lean teams and margins, Gemini will be a critical tool for you to operate effici

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Evaluating the Transfer of Co-Evolved Communication from 2D to 3D Simulation

arXiv:2610.09280v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work examines the transfer of a co-evolved communication mechanism between two robotic agents from a discrete two-dimensional (2D) simulator to a t

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FreeEvolve: Learning to Evolve Beyond Fixed Loops

arXiv:2610.09197v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent evolvers automate the design of the prompts, skills and workflows around language model agents, yet the optimization process they follow is stil

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GUARD: Geometric Uncertainty-Aware Point Cloud Denoising and Segmentation for Robotic Hard Disk Drive Disassembly

arXiv:2610.09068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable robotic disassembly requires part-level representations that distinguish genuine component geometry from scanning and reconstruction artifacts.

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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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On KL-Regularized Policy Optimization

arXiv:2610.08963v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Asynchronous reinforcement learning (RL) for large language model (LLM) agents trains one policy on trajectories generated by another: rollouts come f

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Open sourcing Game Summoner, my prompt to game site

tldr: Open sourced my prompt to game suite: https://github.com/ndamiano/ai-agent-test, it's MIT licensed, and this runs well on my 5090 with 64gb ram, but any model that can handle tool calls can mana

RSIGym: A Flexible Environment for Recursive Self-Improvement

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arXiv:2610.10310v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recursive self-improvement requires carrying accepted changes into later improvement cycles, while studying agent-proposed changes also requires substan

Same Text, Different Prediction: Serving-Context Nondeterminism in Text Classifiers

arXiv:2610.09111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deterministic inference is essential for reliable and trustworthy machine learning. Prior studies of text generation have shown that changing factors su

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StoryBlender: Inter-Shot Consistent and Editable 3D Storyboard with Spatial-temporal Dynamics

arXiv:2604.03315v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Storyboarding is a core skill in visual storytelling for film, animation, and games. However, automating this process requires a system to achieve t

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A self-learning scientific agent for X-ray diffraction

arXiv:2610.07862v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central challenge for scientific agents is to turn analytical experience into reusable expertise grounded in physical evidence. Here we introduce Ga

A Swarm-Coordinated Multi-Robot System for Early Stress Detection in Agricultural Rows Using Multimodal Leaf Sensing

arXiv:2610.08603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Early stress detection in crops is a necessity today to improve efficiency and reduce waste of time, money, and effort. However, most modern technique

AdvSim2Real : Training Web Agents Against Adaptive Prompt Injection in a Web World Model

arXiv:2610.08773v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Web agents complete user requests by reading and acting on pages that third parties write, so an instruction planted on a page can redirect the agent

AgSpec: Pushing the Limits of Retrieval-Based Speculative Decoding in Coding Agent Pipelines

arXiv:2610.01108v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Retrieval-based speculative decoding (SD) drafts tokens by copying continuations from existing text, which suits coding agents that repeatedly repro

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