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Humanoid Rickshaw Pulling: Whole-Body Locomotion under Coupled Wheeled Loads

arXiv:2610.04238v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humanoid robots could transport payloads substantially heavier than themselves by pulling passive wheeled vehicles instead of carrying the load. This

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I made a Forge Neo extension for MiniMax H3: text or picture to video with sound, reference pictures, runs on 16 GB

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I've been working on an extension that runs MiniMax H3 inside Forge Neo. H3 makes the picture and the sound together, in one pass: footsteps, rain, engines, music and dialogue in pretty much any langu

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6 Oct 2026

Introducing EmbeddingGemma 2: A best-in-class open model for natively multimodal embeddings | Google

https://huggingface.co/google/embeddinggemma-2 EmbeddingGemma 2 is an open multimodal embedding model built by Google DeepMind which maps text (incl. code), images, video, and audio inputs—and combina

JASPER: Special Session on Joint Reliability And Security Assessment of SPlit Computing for Edge Robustness

arXiv:2610.04396v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Split Computing (SC) enables efficient deployment of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) by partitioning inference between edge devices and cloud servers. How

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LightVLN: Efficient Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation with Compact Memory and History-Guided Local Aggregation

arXiv:2610.05024v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerial vision-and-language navigation (VLN) enables unmanned aerial vehicles to execute long-horizon natural-language instructions from visual observati

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Local AI World Model Part 2 - Deep NN to turn Images into Playable Characters, with prompt switching mid rollout

Last time when I posted on this subReddit to share my work, the response almost made me cry because a tiny demo got so many people talking about this In the past 2 months Ive been training a new model

M^2-Occ: Resilient 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction for Autonomous Driving with Incomplete Camera Inputs

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arXiv:2603.09737v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Semantic occupancy prediction enables dense 3D geometric and semantic understanding for autonomous driving. However, existing camera-based approache

Safe Ergodic Control for Multi-Robot Systems via Quadratic Programming

arXiv:2610.05258v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ergodic control drives robots to spend time in each region in proportion to a spatial distribution of interest, making it well suited for dense spatiote

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Sparse Calibration-Based Personalization of Kernel-Based Gait Phase and Speed Estimation Using Wearable IMUs

arXiv:2610.03931v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents sparse calibration-based personalization for kernel-based gait phase and walking speed co-estimation from wearable inertial measurem

STILL: Selecting Tokens for Intra-Layer Hybrid Attention to Linearize LLMs

arXiv:2602.02180v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Linearizing pretrained large language models (LLMs) primarily relies on intra-layer hybrid attention mechanisms to alleviate the quadratic complexit

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Swift1.5 Qwen3.8 Flash Next - Tailored for the 96GB Mac Studio with M5 Ultra

https://huggingface.co/Dankpaws/Swift1.5-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-MLX-4.7bpw I've had the 96GB Mac Studio with M5 Ultra for about a week now and wasn't satisfied with the results I was getting from the limi

Tactile Perception through Fluid-Solid Interaction

arXiv:2610.03773v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Soft tactile sensors elevate robotic touch through enhanced flexibility and adaptability, yet most existing designs depend on embedded electronics tha

Industry

Three key insights you may have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of the Supermicro Open Storage Summit interview series

AI storage strategy is taking on a larger role as enterprises move from successful experiments to systems that must deliver dependable business results. How organizations store, serve and manage data

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Tutorials

Ultrasound Operator Guidance Using World Modeling and Retrieval Based Action Planning

arXiv:2610.06008v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ultrasound is widely used, but acquisition quality is heavily dependent on the operator's knowledge and expertise. With demand for examinations outpac

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VAMPS: Visual and Motor Policies from Sampling-Based Planning

arXiv:2610.05331v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Learning robot policies directly on physical systems remains difficult because data collection is costly and policy exploration can be unsafe. We intr

What Does It Cost to Simulate a Quantum Sentence Classifier? An Energy and Compute Perspective on Near-Term QNLP

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arXiv:2610.06176v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Near-term quantum natural language processing (QNLP) experiments often run on classical simulators, so simulator cost is part of the field's practical

A Passive AI System for Verifying Physical State on Automated Liquid Handlers

arXiv:2610.02668v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated liquid handlers execute digital protocols, but operators must assemble the deck and confirm that the physical setup matches the intended exper

Benchmarking Literature Retrieval for a Model Organism: A Dictyostelium Case Study

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arXiv:2610.03130v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Biological literature retrieval systems are often developed and evaluated using broad biomedical corpora and general-purpose search tasks. However, ma

CSIR: Contextually and Socially Informed Robots for Efficient Person Goal Navigation

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arXiv:2610.02750v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We address the Person Goal Navigation (PersonNav) problem, enabling robots to search for people under realistic constraints on information accessibility

D2K-Bench: Can LLM Agents Turn Expert Designs into Efficient GPU Kernels?

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arXiv:2610.03226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GPU kernels generated by large language model (LLM) agents can remain less efficient than expert implementations, but runtime alone does not reveal ho

DecisionTune 1.0: a 395M encoder that picks from your options offline, about 10 ms per short decision on MLX (Apache-2.0)

Disclosure: I made this. Sharing it here because it is fully local and small, and I want feedback from people who run models on their own machines. What it is: a 395M decision model (ModernBERT-large

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Agents

Fast Models, Slow Evidence: A Paired and Self-Audited Evaluation of System-1 Decision Models for LLM Agent Harnesses

arXiv:2610.02267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent harnesses make many small, typed decisions per task: which model to call, which tool to use, whether retrieved text is relevant, whether an input

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Filter-Aware Fine-Tuning for Safe Humanoid Whole-Body Tracking

arXiv:2610.02341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe whole-body motion is essential for deploying humanoid robots in unstructured environments. Modern humanoid control commonly separates reference spe

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Gated Slot Attention-2: Two-Sided Associative Memory Correction in Linear Attention

arXiv:2610.02816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Linear attention models have emerged as efficient alternatives to standard attention, but effectively managing their fixed-size recurrent memory remains

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Learning Reflexive Behavior for Contact-Rich Manipulation

arXiv:2610.02811v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: During contact-rich manipulation, interactions between a robot and its environment carry information about local geometry: a surface prevents penetratio

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On-Board Anomaly Detection for Efficient Marine Environmental Monitoring

arXiv:2610.03649v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Marine ecosystems are impacted by various threats such as oil spills, algal blooms, and sediment floods, which disrupt habitats, wildlife, and human a

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PewDiePie getting banned twice by OpenAI while making a local model is top-tier comedy 💀

So PewDiePie decides to fine-tune a local AI model called Ajax on his own computer. Pretty normal stuff for local model fans. To make his dataset, he uses OpenAI's API. OpenAI catches him using their

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RAOA: Alternating-Operator Neural Computation with Programmable Radio Propagation

arXiv:2610.02683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Can programmable radio propagation serve as computational depth rather than only as a communication channel or one-shot analog transform? We introduce t

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WakeKV: Reactive, Reversible KV Residency for Heads That Change Their Minds

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arXiv:2610.02713v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most KV-cache compression methods classify attention heads once, either offline or during prefill, and keep this classification fixed throughout generat

What Does a Token Cost? A Mixture-of-Agents Measurement of Sufficient Per-Token Compute

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arXiv:2610.02491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models spend the same amount of computation on every token they generate, regardless of how difficult each token is to produce. Methods s

Where Quantum Fourier Sampling Stops Short: A Three-Gate Audit Protocol for Delay-PUF Security Models

arXiv:2610.02636v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantum Fourier sampling may help audit the spectral learnability of delay-based physical unclonable functions (PUFs). We ask whether that promise sur

Qwen3.8 27B addition in words

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Research: Qwen3.8 27B addition in words Colin Frasier posted on Bluesky about an experiment he ran over two years ago using GPT-4o to see how well it could 'compute the sum but return the answer in wo

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The curse of 64GB system RAM

Not a bot. Not a Strata shill. Just sharing my experience. So, I have an R9700 in my machine, plus an RTX 5060 Ti, and 64GB DDR5 system RAM. Overall, not a bad setup. Anyway, I mainly run a daily driv

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US family SUVs: Tesla FSD, Super Cruise, BlueCruise and Rivian Autonomy+

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US three-row SUV options distinguish Tesla's supervised route driving from rivals' hands-free assistance, with current six-seat options and child-seat fit limits.

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 177B running at 11–15 tok/s on a single RTX 5070 12GB + 32GB RAM DDR4

Benchmarking an LLM here with a NVIDIA RTX 5070 12 GB VRAM here I had been working on a llama.cpp based expert streaming setup for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 177B (UD-IQ3_XXS) on Windows. Benchmark is about 1

3 Oct 2026

Replacing vector databases with SQLite and SIMD hypervectors in under 1.2GB VRAM (Hillock)

Disclosure: I am the creator of this project. After days of lurking and building up enough karma, I can finally post here. Every time I tried running local RAG on my own machine, I hit the exact same

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3 Oct 2026

🎵 Wave of distillation 🎵 US labs say Chinese labs distill their models. And Europe's new “sovereign model” is fine-tuned on data generated…

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🎵 Wave of distillation 🎵 US labs say Chinese labs distill their models. And Europe's new “sovereign model” is fine-tuned on data generated by… GLM and Qwen. Small bird, fast wings, Kolibri is here. 78

3 Oct 2026

4 mins plus for a response to simple 'Reply with: Ok'

What modle works on a 16 GB laptop i5 intel I have an old machine lying around and tried running a few models and non seem to be good, the response time is 4 mins and above Models tested: Google Gemma

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AdaptManip: Learning Adaptive Whole-Body Object Lifting and Delivery with Online Recurrent State Estimation

arXiv:2602.14363v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper presents Adaptive Whole-body Loco-Manipulation, AdaptManip, a fully autonomous framework for humanoid robots to perform integrated

AI21 achieves an 83% reduction in time-to-start for AI workloads with AI Hypercomputer

Editor’s note: AI21 Labs is a leading global AI lab with a long track record of building foundation models, most notably the Jamba family, and today focuses on specialized LLMs and agent optimization

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Context-Aware Error Mitigation Orchestration for Hybrid Quantum Reinforcement Learning on NISQ Systems

arXiv:2610.01253v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantum Reinforcement Learning (QRL) integrates reinforcement learning with parameterized quantum circuits and is a promising approach to combinatorial

Deep Learning for Anomaly Detection in Railway Systems: A Structured Survey

arXiv:2610.00363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ensuring safe and reliable operation of modern railway systems increasingly relies on data-driven monitoring and intelligent fault detection. Deep lea

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I made my own cybersecurity benchmark and ran Qwen3.8 27B, here's how a local model actually does at hacking

Hey local AI community, I've been working on this for a while and finally feel ok sharing it. It's a cyber benchmark where the model gets a shell in an isolated docker box and has to find the exact fl

Applications

I've ended up with an AI lab in a public community college. What should we actually be teaching?

Looking for some ideas from people who know a lot more about this than I do. We've got funding for a small AI lab in a public further education college in Ireland (roughly community college in the US)

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Agents

LLM-Driven Multi-Agent Control for Skill-Based Smart Manufacturing

arXiv:2610.01364v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Factories are shifting toward smaller lot sizes with high product customization, requiring frequent re-programming of flexible and reconfigurable auto

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MOMAT: Mixture of Multiple Atlases for Low-Power Jailbreak Defense of Quantized LLMs

arXiv:2610.01058v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantized large language models are increasingly deployed on edge devices for their low latency and energy efficiency. However, model quantization wea

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Reactive Humanoid Multi-Contact Using Learned Stability Models

arXiv:2610.00823v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a planning and control approach to reactively use hand contacts to stabilize a humanoid in low stability scenarios, where only using feet con