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LAWM-3D: Learning 3D-Aware Latent Actions from Human Videos for Generalizable Robot World Models

arXiv:2608.05706v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models enable agents to perform forward rollout and planning without real-world interaction. However, their application in open-world embodied int

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Layer-wise Positional Bias in Short-Context Language Modeling

DGX agent

arXiv:2601.04098v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transformer language models systematically prefer tokens at specific input positions regardless of semantic relevance---a phenomenon known as

model-releasesarxiv-cs-ai

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LC-GRPO: Bridging Train-Inference Gap for Flow-Based GRPO with Langevin Correction

arXiv:2608.05600v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flow-based generative models are typically sampled by solving a deterministic ordinary differential equation (ODE), whereas online reinforcement learn

LC-Implicit-QAOA: Active-Workspace-Capped Exact Objective-and-Gradient Evaluation for Training over Bounded QUBO Light Cones

arXiv:2608.05610v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: QAOA training repeatedly queries an objective and all shared gradients, making exact evaluation a feasibility bottleneck even when QUBO terms have bou

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Agents

Learning Context-Free Grammars for Grammar-Constrained Decoding via Declarative Agentic Programming with Guarantees

arXiv:2608.05493v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models (LMs) are increasingly used to interact with external services via programs written in domain-specific languages (DSLs). Unfortunately

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Learning from Failures: Retrieval-Centric CoT via Hard Negatives for Unified Multimodal Retrieval

arXiv:2608.06060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unified multimodal retrieval aims to identify candidates that satisfy complex user intent expressed through heterogeneous inputs. Although Large Vision-

researcharxiv-cs-cv

Agents

Learning Globally Reusable Skills for Coding Agents

arXiv:2608.06153v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated skill evolution enables Large Language Model (LLM) agents to continuously improve without expensive retraining. However, existing approaches

agentsarxiv-cs-ai

Hardware

Learning to Rank Tensor Network Contraction Plans for GPU-Accelerated Quantum Circuit Simulation

arXiv:2608.05819v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Classical simulation remains essential for developing and validating quantum algorithms, but its cost grows rapidly with circuit size. Tensor-network co

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Learning visual representations for compositional analysis of artworks and photographs

arXiv:2608.06142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Composition, the deliberate arrangement of visual elements, is central to how meaning, emotion, and aesthetic quality are conveyed in artwork, yet it re

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Learning When to Trust via Selective Context Preference Optimization

arXiv:2608.06377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models increasingly condition their answers on external signals, and a single misleading one can turn a correct answer wrong. The obvious rem

Legal AI startup Harvey reportedly raising 500M at 15.5B valuation

Harvey AI Corp., a provider of artificial intelligence software for attorneys, is reportedly seeking at least 500 million in new funding. The Information today cited sources as saying that the round c

applicationssiliconangle

LELA: an LLM-based Entity Linking Approach with Zero-Shot Domain Adaptation

arXiv:2601.05192v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Entity linking (mapping ambiguous mentions in text to entities in a knowledge base) is a foundational step in tasks such as knowledge graph construc

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LFM2.5-2.6B model+KV cache quantization report

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LFM2.5-2.6B is a new tiny model by LiquidAI, with benchmarks that put it head to head with much larger models. I've run llama-perplexity on many model GGUF quants, crossed with many KV cache quants, t

LILAC: An Idempotent Neural Speech Codec

arXiv:2608.05727v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural Audio Codecs are widely adopted in speech generation and editing. However, existing neural audio codecs are not idempotent: across the paper's

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LiteKD-Net: Lightweight Knowledge-Distilled Network for Mobile Image Denoising

arXiv:2608.05739v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile image denoising requires both good restoration quality and low computational cost. In addition, it's annoying to collect large-scale LQ-GT clean

applicationsarxiv-cs-cv

Local Ai

Live now: our Local AI Track from AI Engineer World's Fair 2026, brought to you by @nvidia. Thesis: frontier intelligence is becoming someth…

Live now: our Local AI Track from AI Engineer World's Fair 2026, brought to you by @nvidia. Thesis: frontier intelligence is becoming something you own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB41dTlX1Uc&lis

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llama.cpp PR reports up to 169% faster quantized-KV decode at 118K context on Intel Battlemage from one SYCL kernel switch

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A fresh llama.cpp PR (#26689) changes what looks like a tiny SYCL FlashAttention dispatch decision. With a quantized KV cache ('q4_0' / 'q8_0'), decode was being sent through the VEC kernel. On the au

LLM Inference Under Bursty Workload Distribution: Modifying the WAIT Algorithm

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2608.06135v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Claude are widely used for information retrieval and problem-solving. Recent work has focused on improv

LoDA: A Level of Detection Aware Method and a Multimodal Sensing Benchmark for Object Level Change Detection

arXiv:2608.05356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-definition 3D LiDAR maps are important for autonomous driving and smart-city services, which require reliable detection of object-level changes in

Look Twice: Training-Free Evidence Highlighting for Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering

arXiv:2604.01280v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) requires Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to identify and combine fine-grained visu

LUNAR: Benchmarking Personalized Large Language Models on UNiversal User BehAvioR Logs

arXiv:2608.05246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing personalized LLM benchmarks primarily rely on textual personas or isolated behavioral signals, providing limited evaluation of cross-domain beh

M^3R-Bench: A Unified Benchmark for Evidence-Grounded Multimodal Metaphor Understanding

model-releasesarxiv-cs-cl

arXiv:2608.05817v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Metaphor enables the understanding of abstract concepts through cross-domain mappings while conveying affective attitudes. In multimodal scenarios, visu

MAC 2026: Advancing Micro-Action Analysis Towards Fine-Grained Understanding

arXiv:2607.16284v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Micro-Actions (MAs) are subtle and spontaneous human behaviors that provide important non-verbal cues in social interaction and affective communicat

MACRO: Markov Chain Routing of Transformer Layers

arXiv:2608.05872v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard Large Language Models (LLMs) execute layers sequentially. Dynamic layer routing, i.e. search for a different execution path through layers in

MameLoshnLM: Yiddish Language Model and Evaluation Benchmark

arXiv:2608.05850v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present MameLoshnLM, the first open-source 8B-parameter language model built specifically for Yiddish. Despite Yiddish's rich textual tradition, it

Agents

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

**Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale** This article addresses the economic challenges of deploying AI coding tools across large teams or organizations. It explores strategies for tracking resource usag

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Mapping Armenian Paris: Extracting and Geocoding Commercial Advertisements from the 20th-Century Diaspora Press

arXiv:2608.05911v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents an end-to-end, IIIF-based pipeline that turns the digitised Armenian press of France into an interactive map of the 20th-century Par

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Mapping Patient-Perceived Physician Traits from Nationwide Online Reviews with LLMs

arXiv:2510.03997v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding how patients perceive their physicians is essential to improving trust, communication, and satisfaction. Patients increasingly consult

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Tutorials

Mapping Similarity Spaces across Embedding Models with Synthetic Query Probing

arXiv:2608.05857v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems rely on similarity scores to retrieve relevant content, yet scores are not directly comparable across embedding m

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MapTCL: Temporal Consistency Learning via Bidirectional Alignment for Vectorized HD Map Construction

arXiv:2608.05209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Constructing reliable online HD maps remains challenging in dynamic urban environments due to moving objects and occlusions. While recent works employ f

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Marginal Matching Does Not License Factorized Sampling: Auditing Conditional Style Leakage in Factorized Generative Models

arXiv:2608.05243v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Factorized generative models commonly regularize a latent style variable z_s by matching its marginal distribution to a fixed Gaussian prior and inter

applicationsarxiv-cs-ai

MASS: Multiplayer World Models with Authoritative Shared State

arXiv:2608.06257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current video world models struggle in multiplayer environments because they entangle world state with view-dependent visual latents, leading to redunda

Matching Matters: A Fair Quality-Efficiency Benchmark for Command-Line Agents

arXiv:2606.21140v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Rapid advances in large language models have improved the task-solving capabilities of command-line-interface (CLI)-based agents, whose CLIs d

Matrix Zonotopic Attention: A Context-Adaptive Value Projection for Set Transformers

arXiv:2608.05472v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-head attention combines an input-dependent softmax routing with an input-independent linear value projection, so the per-sample operator mapping

MAVISEG: Manifold Propagation and Visual Prototypes for Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary Segmentation in Diffusion Transformers

arXiv:2608.05878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion transformers learn about objects and scenes by learning to generate them, making them strong candidates for training-free zero-s

Tutorials

Mean-Field Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.05152v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) with chain-of-thought reasoning have been widely applied in recent years, and theoretical explanations of their behavior

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Tutorials

Measuring and Detecting Harmful AI Sycophancy

arXiv:2608.05624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sycophantic responses are becoming pervasive in large language models (LLMs), and prior work has pointed out that some of them could be harmful. This pa

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Menlo Security targets real-time AI agent security with MARS platform

As AI agents gain access to enterprise systems and sensitive data, security teams need greater visibility into their actions. Real-time monitoring and policy enforcement are becoming essential as a pa

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MetaboLLM: a metabolomics-specialized large language model for biochemical knowledge integration and predictive metabolite graph construction

model-releasesarxiv-cs-lg

arXiv:2608.06253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Metabolomics knowledge is distributed across heterogeneous resources and remains difficult to translate into predictive representations. We developed Me

MicroEvo: Knowledge-Guided LLM Sampling for Efficient Microarchitecture Design Space Exploration

arXiv:2608.06183v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Microarchitecture design space exploration suffers from expansive search spaces and expensive PPA evaluation, leaving only a small simulation budget for

Mind the Gaps: Mixture-of-Minds for Human Simulation

arXiv:2608.06115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting how a population will answer a new question is a long-standing goal. Statistical methods succeed at the level of the mass but falter at the l

Minimax Optimal Early-Stopped Gradient Descent for Gaussian Mixture Classification

arXiv:2608.06250v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In overparameterised classification, training data can be linearly separable even when the underlying distribution is not. In this setting, gradient d

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MIRA: A Modular Open-Source Micro-UAV for Indoor Research

arXiv:2607.11785v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Indoor robotics research increasingly uses micro-UAV platforms whose airframes, electronics, and control software are open to modification. Off-the-

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MirrorNet: Can Medical Image Anonymization Really Protect Patient Identity?

arXiv:2608.05938v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical images are routinely de-identified---names, dates, and other metadata removed---and then shared for research, teaching, and public benchmarks un

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Mitigating Scoring Bias in LLM-as-a-Judge via Random Number Generation

arXiv:2608.05726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are often used as evaluators of text quality, known as LLM-as-a-Judge, which can outperform conventional automatic evaluati

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ML-for-ML

arXiv:2608.06046v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI training workloads are growing rapidly, making their time, energy, and infrastructure costs increasingly important. In shared cloud clusters, train

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MM-ISTS: Cooperating Irregularly Sampled Time Series Forecasting with Multimodal Vision-Text LLMs

arXiv:2603.05997v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Irregularly sampled time series (ISTS) are widespread in real-world scenarios, exhibiting asynchronous observations on uneven time intervals a

MMaDA-VLA: Large Diffusion Vision-Language-Action Model with Unified Multi-Modal Instruction and Generation

arXiv:2603.25406v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models map visual observations and natural-language instructions to robot actions; however, hierarchical and autoregres

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