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How to Recognize New Words: A Comparison Between Context Biasing Methods and Speech LLMs

arXiv:2608.05759v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recognizing new and rare words - named entities, acronyms, domain specific special words, and other items scarce in training data - remains a key challe

tutorialsarxiv-cs-cl

How TReNDS automates root-cause analysis with Amazon Bedrock

DGX agent

TReNDS, a research center at Georgia State University, built an agentic AI pipeline on Amazon Bedrock and the open-source Strands Agents SDK that automatically investigates production errors in real t

agentsaws-ml-blog

7 Aug 2026

https://x.com/sama/status/2085862292311396515

https://x.com/sama/status/2085862292311396515 astra is a powerful model and we are working to make it generally available. we do not think it is a good strategy to keep powerful models to a chosen few

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Human-Like Anaphor Resolution in Large Language Models

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2608.05630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Anaphors are expressions that refer to other expressions, called antecedents. The process of connecting the two is called resolution. Cognitive science

Hybrid-Adaptive Thread Tuning to Mitigate Simulation Execution Bottlenecks in High-Performance Reinforcement Learning Inference

arXiv:2608.06025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In simulation-in-the-loop decision-making systems, reinforcement learning (RL) inference is often constrained by simulator-side execution overhead, wher

tutorialsarxiv-cs-lg

Hybrid Machine Learning Framework for Herd-Level Cattle Growth Pattern and Weight Gain Forecasting in Grazing-Based Production Systems

arXiv:2608.06001v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Commercial grazing systems yield irregular livestock observations, which challenge cattle growth forecasting. This study developed a hybrid machine lear

applicationsarxiv-cs-ai

Hybrid Probabilistic Zonotopes for Identifiable and Refinable Predictive Uncertainty

arXiv:2608.05454v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Probabilistic prediction heads in neural networks typically output either a Gaussian mixture or a single conformal region. Neither separates the distinc

researcharxiv-cs-lg

Hyper-ES: Effective Evolution Strategies for LLM Reasoning via Descent Direction Merging

arXiv:2608.05541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evolution Strategy (ES) is a promising alternative to gradient-based fine-tuning for resource-constrained Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning. However,

Hypothesis Testing with Conditional Queries: Learnability and the Value of Interaction

arXiv:2608.06262v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model evaluations may fix all tests before observing any responses or select later tests using earlier responses. We study this choice in a conditional-

safetyarxiv-cs-lg

HyTBE: Hyperbolic Target-Background Expert Model for Cross-Domain Infrared Small Target Detection

arXiv:2608.05771v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) has achieved substantial progress under domain-consistent evaluation, yet detector performance often degrades

researcharxiv-cs-ai

I concur, and the point is broader than just for Biology. Science does not advance by 'pure thinking' alone. We need to do experiments, and …

I concur, and the point is broader than just for Biology. Science does not advance by 'pure thinking' alone. We need to do experiments, and interpret the results of those experiments, which in turn ra

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I had Codex Desktop and GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra take a go at building my Raccoon Heist game and it did an even better job than Claude Fable 5 did!…

model-releasessimon-willison--x

I had Codex Desktop and GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra take a go at building my Raccoon Heist game and it did an even better job than Claude Fable 5 did! Here's 'Moonlight & Mayhem', now with a team of raccoons ra

I made a simple local voice input extension for pi (nemotron 3.5 0.6B ASR)

model-releasesr-localllama

There are already plenty of different extensions for voice input, but all I found required having a second server running. I wanted something super simplistic: launching local STT server just for my p

Agents

iARCS: Iterative Agentic RL for Controllable 3D Scene Generation

arXiv:2608.06161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthetic 3D scene generation is increasingly used as a data source for computer vision and embodied AI, but existing generators often optimize perceptu

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Hardware

IcFuzz: Fuzzing Isaac Sim with Semantic Stage Guidance and Multi-level Mutation

arXiv:2608.06088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotics simulators serve as a foundational infrastructure for embodied AI, facilitating safe and scalable robotic system development. NVIDIA Isaac Sim

hardwarearxiv-cs-ro

IDperturb: Enhancing Variation in Synthetic Face Generation via Angular Perturbation

arXiv:2602.18831v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Synthetic data has emerged as a practical alternative to authentic face datasets for training face recognition (FR) systems, especially as privacy a

applicationsarxiv-cs-cv

IFlowNets: Extending Generative Samplers to Learn Strategies in Incomplete Information Games

arXiv:2608.05422v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While many algorithms blend reinforcement learning (RL) with counterfactual regret (CFR) methods to leverage tradeoffs in computational speed and perfor

tutorialsarxiv-cs-lg

IMMENSE: Inductive Multi-perspective User Classification in Social Networks

arXiv:2608.05259v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Online social networks increasingly expose people to users who propagate discriminatory, hateful, and violent content. Young users, in particular, are

applicationsarxiv-cs-ai

Improving Interoperability among Defence and National Security Ontologies: Analysis and Evaluation Tasks

arXiv:2608.05867v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The use of ontologies and knowledge graphs is becoming increasingly widespread in the defence and national security domain. Numerous ontologies have bee

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

Improving the Realism of Synthetic Clinical Benchmarks Under Utility Constraints

arXiv:2608.06265v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthetic clinical benchmarks for enterprise AI agents can pass existing utility checks and still remain structurally unrealistic, especially in privacy

Local Ai

In-Context Forcing: Uncovering Context Effects in Autoregressive Video Diffusion

arXiv:2608.05237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current few-step autoregressive video diffusion models depend on previous fully denoised clean frames as context for all denoising steps of the curren

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In-Context VLA: Endowing Vision-Language-Action Models with Language via In-Context Post-Training and Agentic Tool Use

arXiv:2608.05738v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become the dominant recipe for generalist manipulation, yet they are almost universally trained by behavior clo

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

In the era of base LLM scaling (2022-2024), I believed the LLM line of research would reach a capability plateau (as later seen with base LL…

researchfrancois-chollet--x

In the era of base LLM scaling (2022-2024), I believed the LLM line of research would reach a capability plateau (as later seen with base LLMs). In late 2024, after the o3 test-time compute demo, I ch

In this episode of @wandb's Gradient Dissent , @l2k and Fireworks CEO @lqiao discuss why she believes the industry is at a turning point... …

model-releasesfireworks-ai--x

In this episode of @wandb's Gradient Dissent , @l2k and Fireworks CEO @lqiao discuss why she believes the industry is at a turning point... ... one that calls for more open intelligence, not less. The

Innocent Panels, Hateful Stories: Evaluating and Detecting Hateful Intent in Multi-Turn Visual Story Generation

arXiv:2608.05210v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Picture books and comics have long been used to disseminate hateful narratives because they are easily understood even by children, as exemplified by

Local Ai

Innovation-Residual Auditing of Autonomous Analysis Agents: Localization, Detection Limits, Error Control, and Identifiability

arXiv:2608.05490v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous agents now carry out entire data analyses, selecting cohorts, joining tables, and fitting models with little step-by-step supervision. When s

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Inspecting Training Dynamics of Similarity Development in Supervised Vision Networks

arXiv:2505.21338v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: For trustworthy and human-aware artificial intelligence, models should be evaluated beyond accuracy, among others through error predictability and s

safetyarxiv-cs-cv

Integrating Human Linguistic Insights into AI: Theory-Driven Representation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech

arXiv:2204.07228v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper explores the integration of human linguistic insights into multilingual text-to-speech (TTS) systems by evaluating the Featurally Undersp

researcharxiv-cs-cl

Integrating Implicit and Explicit Relational Biases through Graph-Based Multiple Instance Learning: A Case Study in Skin Lesion Diagnosis

arXiv:2608.06037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Relational inductive biases are essential for capturing structural dependencies among data. This study investigates a dual-level relational framework fo

tutorialsarxiv-cs-ai

Invariant Representation Learning for Source-Free Time Series Forecasting with LLM-Centric Proxy Denoising

arXiv:2510.05589v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Effective time series forecasting enables various real-world applications, benefiting from the proliferation of mobile devices. However, the v

Investigating Artificial Intelligence Digital Sovereignty in Mobile Shopping Apps: A Case Study of Nigeria

arXiv:2608.06364v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The use of e-commerce mobile applications is expanding in Nigeria, creating both opportunities and risks, including fraud and reduced user control ove

applicationsarxiv-cs-ai

Invisible Shortcuts: Why Vision Encoders Know Your Camera

arXiv:2608.05424v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep vision models exploit shortcuts, relying on cues that correlate with supervision signals. Prior work has focused on visible biases, such as object-

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IPV-Bench: Benchmarking Image Protection Methods under Diverse Image-to-Video Generation Scenarios

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cv

arXiv:2603.26154v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Image-to-video (I2V) generation models can be misused to animate a single image into a convincing fake video, motivating perturbation-based image pr

IS GLM 5.2, Kimi 2.7 still worth it?

model-releasesr-localllama

Since now we have kimi k3 and next week we are getting Qwen 3.8 Max and also soon V4 pro Deepseek. I am curious if the old power house like Kimi 2.6/7 code and GLM.5.2 are all that relevant. especiall

Is Self-Pretraining really useful to improve diagnosis in medical Time Series?

arXiv:2608.06122v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inspired by recent evidence that transformer architectures benefit from Self-PreTraining (SPT) on long-context benchmarks, we investigate whether simi

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Iterate or Widen? When Test-Time Refinement Helps LiDAR Scene Completion: A Controlled Study of Evidence Geometry, Training Coverage, and Compute

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cv

arXiv:2608.06014v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Should a completion model spend extra test-time compute by iterating, or spend a similar parameter budget on a wider one-shot predictor? The answer is e

Local Ai

Iterative Hybrid Discrete-Continuous Viewpoint Planning for UAV Photogrammetry

arXiv:2608.05718v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry requires camera networks that provide sufficient surface coverage, image overlap, parallax, and resolution,

local-aiarxiv-cs-cv

JoyAI-RA 0.5: Scaling Robot Manipulation Learning via Dual Action Alignment

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ro

arXiv:2608.05674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot data is scarce, so generalist policies need to learn from heterogeneous sources, including human egocentric video, simulation, and real robots, wh

JTA: Joint Testability Architecture for Scenario-Based Validation of Safety-Critical Software

arXiv:2608.05594v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Validation adequacy in safety-critical software depends on more than the system under test. Critical scenarios must be constructed under controlled co

safetyarxiv-cs-ro

Just saw that the LLMs-from-scratch repository passed 100,000 stars on GitHub! This is super cool and motivating. I am really happy to see t…

model-releasessebastian-raschka--x

Just saw that the LLMs-from-scratch repository passed 100,000 stars on GitHub! This is super cool and motivating. I am really happy to see that this open-source repo has helped so many people. Thanks

Kastor: An efficient fine-tuning strategy for generative emulation of PDE simulations

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2608.06107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning offers a promising avenue to accelerate physical simulations by replacing computationally expensive traditional Partial Differential Eq

KILVO: Kinematic-Inertial-LiDAR-Visual Odometry with Robust Multimodal Adaptation for Humanoid Robots

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ro

arXiv:2608.05647v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This article presents a kinematic-inertial-LiDAR-visual odometry for humanoid robots, called KILVO. Tailored to the platform features, requirements, and

KV-Skill: Forging Expertise in the Model's Native Language

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arXiv:2608.05475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Task knowledge is commonly stored either as text in the prompt or as an update to model weights. Text is modular but must be interpreted on every use, w

KVAE: Family of Tokenizers for Multimodal Generative Models

arXiv:2608.05798v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent diffusion modeling (LDM), a prominent paradigm, utilizes tokenizers to map input signal to compressed representation. This dependency positions t

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LabyrinthBench: a local-focused, judge-free LLM benchmark that measures context recall under interference for multi-step agentic tasks.

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LabyrinthBench measures the thing that actually kills long agent runs — whether a model can still use what it learned twenty turns ago — deterministically, with no LLM judge, on your own hardware, wit

LangChoiceBench: Measuring and Explaining Programming-Language Choice in LLMs

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2608.06041v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to exhibit strong Python preferences when generating project-level code, but there is currently no system

Large Language Models Threaten Double-blind Review

arXiv:2608.05157v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Double blind peer review serves as the scientific community primary defense against status and affiliation bias. Its effectiveness rests on the assump

safetyarxiv-cs-ai

Latent Utility Q-Learning for Preference-Adaptive Dynamic Treatment Regimes

arXiv:2307.12022v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Optimizing individualized treatment sequences for patients who weigh multiple, competing outcomes differently poses a challenge for dynamic tr

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