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ATHENA: Knowledge-guided agentic neural architecture search for AutoFormer-based electronic health record modeling

arXiv:2608.21712v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer-based models are widely used for clinical prediction from electronic health records (EHRs), yet their architectures still require substantial manual tuning, and the optimal configuration may vary across tasks and hospitals. Neural architecture search (NAS) aut

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MemGuard: Persisting Verifier Signals for LLM-Agent Memory Governance

arXiv:2608.21867v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents are moving from single-prompt use to long task streams in which reusable memory becomes a core capability for terminal, software-engineering, and web tasks. Such memory is useful only when stored experience remains reliable across hundreds of interactions, but

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Operators using related systems should check whether MemGuard changes compatibility, cost, or access requirements. For researchers and builders, this is an early signal to fold into evaluation, model choice, or agent design.

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HiMA-MDD: A Hierarchical Multi-Agent Harness for Interpretable Multimodal Depression Detection in Clinical Interviews

arXiv:2608.21868v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Depression assessment from multimodal clinical interviews requires integrating dispersed evidence from multiple symptoms into a coherent PHQ-8 profile. This process is hierarchical: relevant evidence is often sparse and context-dependent within local question-answer excha

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Consistency Is Not Coherence: Orientation Search for Certified Alignments Between 4D Defence Upper Ontologies

arXiv:2608.21914v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We align three upper ontologies that sit under UK and NATO defence data infrastructure: the Information Exchange Standard (IES), the Higher Quality Data Model (HQDM) that underpins the National Digital Twin, and Basic Formal Ontology (BFO). No public alignment between IES

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TessIndex: Capability Verified Identity System for the Agent Economy

arXiv:2608.21942v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Software systems have traditionally been organized around applications where human users act as principal decision-makers. Recent developments in agentic capabilities alter this paradigm: software agents now autonomously translate high-level goals into structured tasks, o

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More Accurate or More Efficient? Evaluating Locally Deployed Compact Open-Weight Language Models for Mathematical Reasoning

arXiv:2608.22048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed on local hardware for privacy, cost, and accessibility reasons. Yet many evaluations emphasize accuracy while fewer quantify local runtime and energy, characterize failure modes, or apply paired statistical comparisons under

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From SQL Generation to Tool Selection: A Domain-Oriented Pattern for MCP Servers

arXiv:2608.22063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agents built on Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly reach enterprise data through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and many MCP database servers maximize flexibility by exposing a single generic SQL execution tool. This paper proposes the Domain-Oriented Tooling Pa

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Decision-Support and Modeling with Large Language Models for Geothermal Well Arrays

arXiv:2608.22068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Geothermal well arrays, which organize multiple geothermal wells into carefully planned geometric configurations, provide opportunities to enhance energy production capacity and increase fault tolerance. The development and adoption of these emerging geothermal technologi

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Evaluation of Small Vision-Language Models on Qualitative Mechanical Problems

arXiv:2608.22143v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Qualitative mechanical problem-solving (QMPS) refers to solving qualitative problems from the mechanical domain. Qualitative problems can be solved with minimal discipline-specific information, without any robust quantitative calculation, generally by using qualitative re

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Addressing the Selection Problem in Explainable AI

arXiv:2608.22356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Explainable AI (XAI) research has produced a plethora of explanation techniques, yet user studies repeatedly show that available explanations are not effective in practice. We argue that, given the siloed nature of conventional XAI, users are struggling to select the appr

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WAM-OPD: On-Policy Distillation for World Action Models

arXiv:2608.22364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World action models (WAMs) couple visual future prediction with robot action generation, but accelerated students can lose task capabilities during distillation and later encounter states that are poorly represented by offline data. We study whether on-policy distillation

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When Persona Simulations Are Informative: Graph-Structured Signals for Pluralistic Opinion Sensing

arXiv:2608.22438v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Persona-conditioned large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate survey responses across diverse domains. However, apparent response variation can reflect unconditioned model priors or token sampling noise rather than systematic persona conditioning.

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CausalCache: Conditional High-Fidelity Restoration for Long-Horizon GUI Agents

arXiv:2608.22577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon GUI agents can retain a complete interaction trace cheaply as textual action records, but expose only a few past events to the policy in high-fidelity pixels. We formulate this as conditional fidelity restoration: each event persists in summary-only form and

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DeepSAGE: Stage-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Structured CBT Counseling Dialogue

arXiv:2608.22615v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-based counseling agents can generate fluent and supportive responses, but they often lack the structured, goal-directed progression required to conduct a coherent therapeutic session. We present DeepSAGE (Strategic AI Guidance Engine), a hybrid

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At its core this is about DeepSAGE, worth a look if that's in your workflow. For researchers and builders, this is an early signal to fold into evaluation, model choice, or agent design.

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AI emotional support is better only when chosen, but shifts preferences even when it is not

arXiv:2608.23196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: People increasingly face a novel decision when seeking emotional support: human or AI. In existing studies, AI's empathic messages are rated as well as or better than humans'.

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Automated Construction of FAIR Digital Object Knowledge Graphs from Flat Cultural Heritage Records

arXiv:2608.23263v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The FAIR Digital Object (FDO) framework mandates that metadata attribute values be expressed as persistent identifiers (PIDs) wherever possible, to produce a fully machine-actionable graph in which every reference is resolvable. The Europeana Data Model was designed long

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Multi-Modal Semantic Expansion with Constrained LLM Reranking for Conversational Music Recommendation

arXiv:2608.23484v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Team Semiintelligencn's solution for the ACM RecSys 2026 TalkPlayData Challenge, addressing conversational music recommendation through a multi-modal and personalized conversational recommender system. Our submitted system employs a three-stage pipeline: (1) mu

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Small Language Model enabled Autonomous agent for Language-Conditioned Cognitive Radar

arXiv:2608.11596v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern radar systems require adapting their processing strategies in response to changing interference, clutter, and data availability. This paper introduces a framework for a small language model (SLM)-driven autonomous agent designed for language-conditioned cognitive

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Wazobia Eval: A Benchmark for Nigerian Pidgin Emotion Understanding, Sarcasm Detection, and Cultural Reasoning

arXiv:2608.21369v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Nigerian Pidgin is one of Africa's most widely spoken languages, yet remains severely underrepresented in language model evaluation. Existing benchmarks primarily focus on translation, transcription, or generic sentiment analysis, leaving critical aspects of culturally

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Teams affected by Wazobia Eval need to decide whether its documented change alters their current workflow. For agent builders, this marks where planning, memory, or long-horizon behavior still breaks.

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Reliability- and Anatomy-Consistency-Aware Multimodal Learning for Robust Fracture Classification from Bangladeshi Radiographs

arXiv:2608.21482v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Multimodal fracture classifiers may benefit from patient and anatomical metadata, but they can also become brittle when contextual information is missing or mismatched. Methods: We studied 1493 radiographs from the Bangladeshi OrthoFrac-XR dataset using leak

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SecOPD: Mitigating Adaptive Prompt Injections by On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2608.21500v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prompt injection is listed as the \#1 threat to AI agents. When an agent accesses external data from websites, files, or emails, an attacker may inject a prompt into the data, saying, "Ignore all prior instructions and perform ." To prevent arbitrary manipulation of age

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presto: Efficient, Training-free, and Open-world Object Placement via Imaginary Search

arXiv:2608.21543v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Object placement is critical in image composition, requiring spatially and semantically coherent positioning of objects within diverse scenes. Existing approaches typically rely on hand-crafted rules or supervised learning on limited datasets, which restricts their gene

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SynEHR: Joint Modeling Inter-visit Temporal Evolution and Intra-visit Clinical Structure for Longitudinal EHR Synthesis

arXiv:2608.21673v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Longitudinal electronic health records (EHRs) document patients' sequences of clinical visits over time, preserving the temporal evolution of disease progression and care delivery. However, real longitudinal EHRs are difficult to access because they contain large amount

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Scalable quantum simulation of continuous-time generative models via tensor networks

arXiv:2608.21700v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continuous-time flow and diffusion models are widely used across many application domains, from large-scale deployment in computer vision and protein folding to emerging adoption for modeling language, time series, and quantum states. After training, inferring statistic

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Architecture as Capability Equalizer for Coding Agents

arXiv:2608.21747v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based coding agents generate complete software systems from high-level descriptions, yet little is known about how the format of architecture specifications affects the quality of generated code or whether this effect depends on model capability. We present a contro

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LiteEvent-AE: Lightweight Autoencoder for Event-Based Vision on Low-Latency Energy-Constrained Edge Devices

arXiv:2608.21764v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Event-based vision has emerged as a promising paradigm for energy-aware artificial intelligence (AI), offering sparse, low-latency visual signals that reduce redundant data processing and support sustainable edge computing. However, the asynchronous and noise-prone natu

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Lexical Coupling in GUI Element Grounding: Sentence Embeddings Track Labels across Mobile and Web

arXiv:2608.21794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GUI grounding evaluations that expose UI elements as text metadata often treat high instruction-element embedding similarity as evidence of semantic grounding. Across three mobile and web benchmarks, we show that this interpretation is frequently confounded by visible-l

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Teams affected by Lexical Coupling in GUI Element Grounding need to decide whether its documented change alters their current workflow. For agent builders, this marks where planning, memory, or long-horizon behavior still breaks.

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ExplainGuard: A Zero Trust Framework for Post-Hoc Explanation Integrity Guarantees in Blackbox XAI Models

arXiv:2608.21803v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As machine learning (ML) models are increasingly deployed in high-stakes environments, explainable AI (XAI) methods like SHAP and LIME have become essential for regulatory compliance and trust. However, the current auditing paradigm relies on an implicit "chain of trust

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More Computational Resources Do Not Ensure Higher Scholarly Impact: Evidence from Leading NLP Conference Papers

arXiv:2608.21806v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computational resources are increasingly central to NLP research, but how closely reported GPU capability aligns with scholarly impact remains unclear. We analyze 13,921 ACL, EMNLP, and NAACL main-conference papers published between 2020 and 2025, using GPU resources as

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BioMed-Agent-RL: A Meta Learning, All You Need for Biomedical Applications

arXiv:2608.21864v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The current progress of Clinical Vision Large Language Models (C-VLLMs) has substantially improved digital diagnostics, still these frameworks often endure lesion noises, modality misalignment, hallucination, and missed contextual grounding in complex clinical cases. Mo

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SecurityarXivRepoRadar take: High signal

On Predicting Vulnerability Severity Using In-Context Learning: An Industrial Case Study

arXiv:2608.22089v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern software systems require earlier and more scalable vulnerability severity assessment to reduce exposure to high-impact security flaws. Security analysts typically assign CVSS scores, but this manual triage does not scale with the growth of disclosed vulnerabiliti

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Meta-Ctrl: Guaranteed Plan Generation by Decoupling Syntactic and Semantic Constraints

arXiv:2608.22149v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs generate fluent plans for robots but routinely violate the syntactic and se8mantic constraints they must satisfy to execute, and existing remedies trade formal guarantees against plan quality: soft methods (affordance scoring, grounded decoding) give no guarantee

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Multimodal examination answer data with expert-designed Outcome-Based Education rubrics for criterion-level assessment

arXiv:2608.22346v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This data article describes a multimodal collection of scanned examination answers paired with expert-designed Outcome-Based Education (OBE) grading metadata. The collection contains 485 answer submissions from 415 consenting students at four academic institutions.

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BLADE: Bilevel Low-rank Augmented-Lagrangian Erasure for LLM Unlearning

arXiv:2608.22557v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing LLM unlearning methods struggle with robustness: unbounded forget losses degrade model coherence, fixed-weight balancing cannot adapt as retain difficulty shifts mid-training, and methods that work on one benchmark falter under scaling or repeated application.

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Enrich-Retrieve-Rank: Scaling Capability Discovery Beyond In-Context Routing

arXiv:2608.22695v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent ecosystems now include thousands of MATS components (Models, Agents, Tools, and Skills), yet their discovery still relies on in-context routing. These systems read a registry (names, hints, or descriptions, as context budget permits), pick a candidate, invoke it

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TEE-X: TEE-aware Acceleration Framework for Large Vision Models at the Edge

arXiv:2608.22716v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite their remarkable success, machine learning models, particularly in vision applications, are alarmingly vulnerable to a range of security threats. One key factor in the attack landscape is the distinction between white-box and black-box threat models, as the latt

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XTC: Head-Aware Sampling by Excluding Top Choices

arXiv:2608.22758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard decoding rules for autoregressive language models promote diversity by rescaling the full next-token distribution or truncating its low-probability tail. These strategies overlook a common regime of open-ended generation in which several continuations are plaus

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Machine Learning Assisted Inverse Design of Pixelated mmWave Patch Antennas

arXiv:2608.23469v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A machine learning-assisted framework for the inverse design of pixelated millimetre-wave patch antennas targeting the 22--30 GHz band is presented. The antenna surface is represented as a 19x23 binary pixel grid on a Rogers RT/duroid 5880 substrate, where each pixel is

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Benchmarking Retrieval-Augmented Generation Strategies for Large Language Model-Based Travel Mode Choice Prediction

arXiv:2508.17527v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurately predicting travel mode choice is essential for effective transportation planning, yet traditional statistical and machine learning models are constrained by rigid assumptions, limited contextual reasoning, and reduced transferability. This study explores th

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Beyond Benchmarks: LLM Evaluation with an Anthropomorphic and Lifecycle-oriented Roadmap

arXiv:2508.18646v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite their rapid advancement, large language models (LLMs) suffer from a critical disconnect between benchmark scores and real-world utility. Current evaluation remains fragmented, prioritizing isolated technical metrics over the holistic, developmental, and societ

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SlideGen: Collaborative Multimodal Agents for Scientific Slide Generation

arXiv:2512.04529v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Creating presentation slides from scientific papers is not simply a matter of summarizing paragraphs. A presenter is required to decide what story to tell, which figures and equations to highlight, and how to arrange them into pages that are visually clear rather than

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ATP-Bench: Towards Agentic Tool Planning for MLLM Interleaved Generation

arXiv:2603.29902v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Interleaved text-and-image generation represents a significant frontier for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), offering a more intuitive way to convey complex information. Current paradigms rely on either image generation or retrieval augmentation, yet they typ

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Reconciling Consistency-Based Diagnosis with Actual-Causality-Based Explanations

arXiv:2605.08688v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We establish, from the point of view of Explainable AI (XAI), connections between Consistency-Based Diagnosis (CBD), on one side, and Actual Causality and Causal Responsibility, on the other. CBD has received little attention from the XAI community.

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Designing Benchmarks for Knowledge Work

arXiv:2605.23262v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI agents are moving quickly from answering isolated questions toward completing work through tools, software environments, and multi-step workflows. Much of what these systems are now asked to do is knowledge work, where information and expertise are interpreted, pro

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Latent Reward Steering: An Adaptive Inference-Time Framework that Implicitly Promotes Cognitive Behaviors in Reasoning LLMs

arXiv:2606.00726v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Strong reasoning depends not only on model knowledge but also on how effectively cognitive behaviors are deployed during generation. Existing methods often rely on explicit behavior-level control, making them insufficiently adaptive when failures and required correcti

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OriginBlame: Record- and Token-Level Data Provenance for AI Training Datasets

arXiv:2607.13037v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: When a data contributor requests removal, model trainers face a practical gap: unlearning algorithms require a forget set, yet no tool can locate which training records belong to a given author. Existing provenance systems operate at file or dataset level, forcing cat

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What is an intelligent system?

arXiv:2009.09083v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The term intelligent system has emerged in the field of information technology as a category of computer systems derived from successful applications of artificial intelligence. This paper proposes a general description that identifies the main properties and ty

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Towards a resource for multilingual lexicons: an MT assisted and human-in-the-loop multilingual parallel corpus with multi-word expression annotation

arXiv:2011.03783v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this work, we introduce the construction of a machine translation (MT) assisted and human-in-the-loop multilingual parallel corpus with annotations of multi-word expressions (MWEs), named AlphaMWE. The MWEs include verbal MWEs (vMWEs) defined in the PARSEME s

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Towards Safer Social Media Platforms: Scalable and Performant Few-Shot Harmful Content Moderation Using Large Language Models

arXiv:2501.13976v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The prevalence of harmful content on social media platforms poses significant risks to users and society, necessitating more effective and scalable content moderation strategies. Current approaches rely on human moderators, supervised classifiers, and large volu

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The thing to notice is Towards Safer Social Media Platforms; decide whether it changes your next build. For researchers and builders, this is an early signal to fold into evaluation, model choice, or agent design.

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Time Series Forecasting via Reasoning: A Slow-Thinking Approach with Reinforcement Fine-Tuned LLMs

arXiv:2506.10630v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: To advance time series forecasting (TSF), various methods have been proposed to improve prediction accuracy, evolving from statistical techniques to data-driven deep learning architectures. Despite their effectiveness, most existing methods still adhere to a fas

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From Recognition to Reasoning: Advancing Multimodal Harmful Meme Detection via Chain-of-Thought Alignment

arXiv:2506.18919v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As a multimodal communication medium that integrates images and text, memes often convey implicit harmful content through metaphors, satire, and humor, making harmful meme detection a complex and challenging task. Although recent studies have achieved considerab

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What's actually new here is From Recognition to Reasoning - see if it moves anything you maintain. For researchers and builders, this is an early signal to fold into evaluation, model choice, or agent design.

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Text-ADBench: Text Anomaly Detection Benchmark Based on LLM Embeddings

arXiv:2507.12295v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text anomaly detection is a critical task in natural language processing (NLP), with applications spanning fraud detection, misinformation identification, spam detection and content moderation, etc. Despite significant advances in large language models (LLMs) an

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MOCLIP: A Foundation Model for Large-Scale Nanophotonic Inverse Design

arXiv:2511.18980v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Foundation models (FM) are transforming artificial intelligence by enabling generalizable, data-efficient solutions across different domains for a broad range of applications. However, the lack of large and diverse datasets limits the development of FM in nanoph

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Dynamic Cogeneration of Bug Reproduction Test in Agentic Program Repair

arXiv:2601.19066v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Bug Reproduction Tests (BRTs) have been used in many Automated Program Repair (APR) systems, primarily for validating fixes and aiding fix generation. In practice, when developers submit a patch, they often implement the BRT alongside the fix.

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SecurityarXivRepoRadar take: High signal

Breadcrumbing Search Agents

arXiv:2608.04565v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM-based search agents are widely used for information-seeking tasks, but their reliance on external tool returns introduces a critical security risk: web content retrieved during execution is untrusted, exposing agents to prompt injection and goal hijacking. P

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Open sourceGitHub ReleasesRepoRadar take: Worth knowing

anthropics/claude-code: v2.1.239

What's changed Cost estimates ( /cost , status line, --max-budget-usd ) now include the 1.1× US-only-inference premium for data-residency workspaces Added the one-time fullscreen renderer offer on Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry and other previously excluded setups; new installs there now start in fullscreen Added /claude-api

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Better tools for managing blocked users

Managing blocked users is now faster and clearer for personal accounts and organizations. With this update, you can: Search by username, full name, or email.

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Enter Google Play’s sweepstakes to win legendary experiences and collectibles with your Play Points.

Redeem Google Play Points in the sweepstakes to win a trip to New York Comic Con, rare collectibles, gaming gear, and more.

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The thing to notice is Enter Google Play’s sweepstakes to win legendary experiences; decide whether it changes your next build. For builders, this may affect how you choose, deploy, or govern AI tools this week.

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The new GitHub Copilot experience in Slack

The GitHub integration in Slack now brings the agentic capabilities of GitHub Copilot CLI and the GitHub Copilot app into Slack in public preview. You can work with @GitHub to...

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Shared agentic work with GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams

Turn a Microsoft Teams discussion into a collaborative agent session everyone can see and help direct. Mention @GitHub in a channel, thread, or direct message to start a GitHub Copilot...

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What does “full-stack” AI actually mean?

A Google DeepMind engineer breaks full-stack development into five simple layers and explains how it affects everyday users.

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Here's how to use sign-to-text translation on Pixel 11.

Developed in partnership with the Deaf community, sign-to-text translates ASL into text in real time.

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What's actually new here is Here's how to use sign-to-text translation on Pixel - see if it moves anything you maintain. For builders, this may affect how you choose, deploy, or govern AI tools this week.

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langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-perplexity==1.4.1

Changes since langchain-perplexity==1.4.0 release(perplexity): 1.4.1 ( #39826 ) fix(perplexity): include type="message" on Responses input items ( #39774 ) fix(perplexity): preserve caller extra_body ( #39203 ) chore: bump pillow from 12.2.0 to 12.3.0 in /libs/partners/perplexity ( #38991 ) chore(deps): refresh lockfil

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Tap to pay with Google Pay is coming to Walmart.

Add your preferred card to Google Wallet to tap to pay at Walmart stores.

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NousResearch/hermes-agent: Hermes Agent v0.20.5 (v2026.8.19)

Hermes Agent v0.20.5 (v2026.8.19) Release Date: August 19, 2026 Patch release. This tag rolls up the ~323 PRs merged since v0.20.4 into a stable tagged release for downstream consumers (Docker images, hosted deployments, fresh installs).

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From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games

Google DeepMind partners with game studios to prototype breakthrough AI gameplay.

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From Retrieved Context to Runtime Control: Adaptive Compression for Edge-based RAG

arXiv:2608.19535v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves language-model responses by grounding generation in external passages, which comes with overhead: retrieved context lengthens the prompt, increasing prefill work, KV-cache footprint, memory traffic, latency, and energy. Contex

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When Saying No Makes Better Videos: Designing Dual Gatekeeping for Pedagogically Grounded AI Content Creation

arXiv:2608.19812v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To prevent the adoption of aesthetically polished but pedagogically flawed AI content, we study a video authoring pipeline featuring two layers of structured refusal. The first layer empowers educators to iteratively reshape AI scripts based on multimedia learning theory

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Automatic bioinformatic software named entity recognition from literature

arXiv:2608.19201v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bioinformatics software and databases are essential components of modern life science research, yet their mentions in the scientific literature are often inconsistent and difficult to systematically identify at scale. The lack of a comprehensive and up-to-date catalog o

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Teams affected by Automatic bioinformatic software named entity recognition from literature need to decide whether its documented change alters their current workflow. For researchers and builders, this is an early signal to fold into evaluation, model...

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Automated Summarization of Financial News Using Large Language Models and Retrieval-Augmented Generation: An Early Empirical Study (Fall 2023)

arXiv:2608.19526v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stock market analysts and investors face a daily challenge: too much financial news, too little time. Manually reading and synthesizing hundreds of company-specific articles is impractical, yet missing key information can directly affect investment decisions.

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Teams affected by Automated Summarization of Financial News Using Large Language need to decide whether its documented change alters their current workflow. For researchers and builders, this is an early signal to fold into evaluation, model choice, or agent...

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Stream4D: 4D-Consistency for Streaming Autoregressive Diffusion Video Models

arXiv:2608.19556v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Streaming autoregressive diffusion models enable real-time, long-horizon video generation, but their training objectives optimize local frame prediction rather than the geometry and dynamics of a coherent world: long rollouts accumulate geometric drift and degrade into

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A Standardized Framework for Machine Learning in Power System Protection

arXiv:2608.20181v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Studies of machine-learning-based power-system protection increasingly report near-perfect scores, yet the meaning of those scores depends strongly on the evaluation setting. Protection task, physical scope, measurements, timing, targets, preprocessing, and validation o

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Computational Phenomenology of Borderline Personality Disorder: A Comparative Evaluation of LLM-Simulated Expert Personas and Human Clinical Experts

arXiv:2508.19008v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Building on a human-led thematic analysis of clinical life-story interviews (> 150,000 words) with inpatients with Borderline Personality Disorder, this study examines the capacity of large language models (OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini, and Anthropic's Claude) to sup

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Agent-First Tool API: A Semantic Interface Paradigm for Enterprise AI Agent Systems

arXiv:2605.10555v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As AI agents transition from research prototypes to enterprise production systems, the tool interfaces they consume remain rooted in human-oriented CRUD paradigms. This paper identifies five fundamental architectural mismatches between conventional APIs and autonomous

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Agent systemsarXivRepoRadar take: Worth knowing

DiverValue-Bench: A Benchmark and Fine-Tuning Framework for Aligning Large Language Models with Diverse Human Values

arXiv:2509.08022v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Aligning large language models (LLMs) with diverse human values is essential for safe and effective deployment, yet existing benchmarks often overlook cultural and demographic variation. We introduce DiverValue-Bench, a population-aware benchmark for evaluating

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The Concept Allocation Zone: Tracking How Concepts Form Across Transformer Depth

arXiv:2605.24856v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Concept formation in transformer language models is a depth-extended process, not a single-layer event: a concept becomes separable across one or more contiguous regions of the residual stream - its Concept Allocation Zone (CAZ). A CAZ is not a concept but the d

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Open sourceGitHub ReleasesRepoRadar take: Worth knowing

mastra-ai/mastra: @mastra/upstash@1.4.2

GitHub Releases published a source-backed AI update around mastra-ai/mastra: @mastra/upstash@1.4.2. RepoRadar is keeping the source link direct for verification.

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Builders evaluating mastra-ai/mastra should verify the source before changing a production default. For builders, an open release means inspectable, self-hostable code instead of a closed hosted demo.

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mastra-ai/mastra: @mastra/temporal@0.3.3

GitHub Releases published a source-backed AI update around mastra-ai/mastra: @mastra/temporal@0.3.3. RepoRadar is keeping the source link direct for verification.

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Open sourceGitHub ReleasesRepoRadar take: Worth knowing

mastra-ai/mastra: @mastra/tanstack-start@0.2.17

GitHub Releases published a source-backed AI update around mastra-ai/mastra: @mastra/tanstack-start@0.2.17. RepoRadar is keeping the source link direct for verification.

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mastra-ai/mastra: @mastra/spanner@1.6.2

GitHub Releases published a source-backed AI update around mastra-ai/mastra: @mastra/spanner@1.6.2. RepoRadar is keeping the source link direct for verification.

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What's actually new here is mastra-ai/mastra - see if it moves anything you maintain. For builders, an open release means inspectable, self-hostable code instead of a closed hosted demo.

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Open sourceGitHub ReleasesRepoRadar take: Worth knowing

mastra-ai/mastra: @mastra/server@1.61.0

GitHub Releases published a source-backed AI update around mastra-ai/mastra: @mastra/server@1.61.0. RepoRadar is keeping the source link direct for verification.

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The thing to notice is mastra-ai/mastra; decide whether it changes your next build. For builders, an open release means inspectable, self-hostable code instead of a closed hosted demo.

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Open sourceGitHub ReleasesRepoRadar take: Worth knowing

mastra-ai/mastra: @mastra/redis@1.4.2

GitHub Releases published a source-backed AI update around mastra-ai/mastra: @mastra/redis@1.4.2. RepoRadar is keeping the source link direct for verification.

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This lands on mastra-ai/mastra - gauge whether it shifts what you already ship. For builders, an open release means inspectable, self-hostable code instead of a closed hosted demo.

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mastra-ai/mastra: mastracode@0.35.0

GitHub Releases published a source-backed AI update around mastra-ai/mastra: mastracode@0.35.0. RepoRadar is keeping the source link direct for verification.

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mastra-ai/mastra: mastra@1.26.0

GitHub Releases published a source-backed AI update around mastra-ai/mastra: mastra@1.26.0. RepoRadar is keeping the source link direct for verification.

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Builders evaluating mastra-ai/mastra should verify the source before changing a production default. For builders, an open release means inspectable, self-hostable code instead of a closed hosted demo.

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mastra-ai/mastra: @mastra/react@1.4.5

GitHub Releases published a source-backed AI update around mastra-ai/mastra: @mastra/react@1.4.5. RepoRadar is keeping the source link direct for verification.

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Open sourceGitHub ReleasesRepoRadar take: Worth knowing

mastra-ai/mastra: @mastra/playground-ui@51.0.0

GitHub Releases published a source-backed AI update around mastra-ai/mastra: @mastra/playground-ui@51.0.0. RepoRadar is keeping the source link direct for verification.

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Builders evaluating mastra-ai/mastra should verify the source before changing a production default. For builders, an open release means inspectable, self-hostable code instead of a closed hosted demo.

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Pinning saved views to the repository issues sidebar is generally available and more

Pinning saved views to the repository issues sidebar You can now pin saved views⁠ to the repository issues sidebar, making the views you use most just one click away, even...

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anthropics/claude-code: v2.1.238

What's changed Added a keybindingFlavor setting: set it to "readline" to make Ctrl+W in the prompt delete back to the previous whitespace, as in Bash; the default ( "classic" ) is unchanged Plugin marketplaces: headersHelper on a url marketplace or a catalog entry runs a command that mints HTTP headers (e.g. a short-li

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anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: v1.0.0

1.0.0 (2026-08-20) Full Changelog: v0.125.0...v1.0.0 ⚠ BREAKING CHANGES client: upgrade to httpx2 and some minor breaking changes. See MIGRATION.md for details Features client: upgrade to httpx2 and some minor breaking changes.

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Windows 11 arm64 VS2026 image generally available

The Windows 11 arm64 image with Visual Studio 2026 is now generally available on standard and larger GitHub-hosted runners. To use it in GitHub Actions, update your workflow file to...

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Builders evaluating Windows 11 arm64 VS2026 image generally available should verify the source before changing a production default. For builders, an open release means inspectable, self-hostable code instead of a closed hosted demo.

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Open sourceGitHub ReleasesRepoRadar take: Worth knowing

langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-fireworks==1.6.0

Changes since langchain-fireworks==1.5.2 release(fireworks): 1.6.0 ( #39810 ) feat(fireworks): add document reranking ( #39732 ) fix(fireworks): filter invalid tool calls from v1 content ( #39805 ) feat(core): add standard model exception types ( #39538 ) chore(model-profiles): refresh model profile data ( #39646 ) fix

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Take an interactive journey through America’s national parks

YouTube video: United Parks of America

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Dev toolingGoogle AIRepoRadar take: Worth knowing

Inside the Gemmaverse: Celebrating one billion Gemma downloads

an illustrated blue image that reads "Celebrating the Gemmaverse"

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For BuildersEvidence: Source-confirmedConfidence: High
SecurityGitHubRepoRadar take: High signal

Code scanning adds a mitigated alert dismissal reason

You can now dismiss a code scanning alert with the reason Mitigated when a vulnerability remains in the code but external controls, such as a web application firewall or network...

Why it matters

The thing to notice is Code scanning adds a mitigated alert dismissal reason; decide whether it changes your next build. For teams giving agents real access, this surfaces a failure mode worth weighing before widening agent or tool permissions.

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Open sourceGitHub ReleasesRepoRadar take: Worth knowing

langchain-ai/langchain: langchain==1.3.16

Changes since langchain==1.3.15 release(langchain): 1.3.16 ( #39806 ) feat(core): add standard model exception types ( #39538 ) feat(langchain): support custom token_counter in ContextEditingMiddleware ( #39754 ) fix(langchain): re-raise non-retryable exceptions in ModelRetryMiddleware ( #38960 ) chore(langchain): upda

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Separate GitHub Actions path for GitHub Code Quality

A dedicated workflow path for code quality CodeQL actions workflows is now generally available. Your workflow run history and your Actions usage reports now tell GitHub Code Quality runs apart...

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For BuildersEvidence: Source-confirmedConfidence: High
Open sourceGitHubRepoRadar take: Worth knowing

Track GitHub Code Quality enablement changes in the audit log

GitHub Code Quality now writes an audit log event whenever someone enables, disables, or changes its settings on a repository. Three new events give you that history: repo.code_quality_enabled records when...

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What's actually new here is Track GitHub Code Quality enablement changes - see if it moves anything you maintain. For builders, an open release means inspectable, self-hostable code instead of a closed hosted demo.

For BuildersEvidence: Source-confirmedConfidence: High
Open sourceGitHub ReleasesRepoRadar take: Worth knowing

langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-anthropic==1.6.1

Changes since langchain-anthropic==1.6.0 release(anthropic): 1.6.1 ( #39804 ) fix(anthropic): filter invalid tool calls from v1 content ( #39803 )

Why it matters

At its core this is about langchain-ai/langchain, worth a look if that's in your workflow. For builders, an open release means inspectable, self-hostable code instead of a closed hosted demo.

For BuildersEvidence: Source-confirmedConfidence: High
Company updateGoogle AIRepoRadar take: Watchlist

Make AI Max work for your business with new testing and planning tools.

Use new AI Max tools - like A/B tests and performance planners for budget and bidding changes - to maximize your Search campaigns.

Why it matters

The thing to notice is Make AI Max work for your business; decide whether it changes your next build. For builders, this may affect how you choose, deploy, or govern AI tools this week.

For EveryoneEvidence: Source-confirmedConfidence: High
Agent systemsMistral AIRepoRadar take: Worth knowing

Agentic Search. More accurate and efficient results from your AI systems.

The retrieval layer that helps AI systems navigate, read, and verify information inside even the most complex documents

Why it matters

What's actually new here is Agentic Search. More accurate and efficient results - see if it moves anything you maintain. For agent builders, this marks where planning, memory, or long-horizon behavior still breaks.

For BuildersEvidence: Source-confirmedConfidence: High
ResearcharXivRepoRadar take: Worth knowing

Hierarchical Classification via Cascading Feature Elimination: Application to Human Phenotype Ontology-Aligned Facial Phenotyping (FaceMesh2HPO)

arXiv:2607.05585v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: FaceMesh2HPO is a framework for classifying facial phenotypic descriptors aligned with the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) to support clinical diagnosis. Using annotations from 124 clinicians across 10 disorders (107 HPO terms) combined with non-syndromic control

Why it matters

What's actually new here is Hierarchical Classification via Cascading Feature Elimination - see if it moves anything you maintain. For researchers and builders, this is an early signal to fold into evaluation, model choice, or agent design.

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ReasFlow: Assisting Reasoning-Centric Scientific Discovery in Applied Mathematics via a Knowledge-Based Multi-Agent System

arXiv:2607.14178v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models have fueled autonomous AI agents capable of tackling complex scientific tasks, yet existing automated research systems remain predominantly focused on empirically driven domains with quantitative benchmarks, leaving theory-driv

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Position: Profiling Game Worlds by Transition Complexity

arXiv:2608.18079v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Game world modeling (GWM) and reinforcement learning (RL) are often confounded because research papers rarely quantify how difficult the underlying transition prediction problem is at the declared interface (pixels/tokens/latents with finite history). We propose the Trans

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Position: Current Model Cards Are Insufficient for Downstream Governance of Open-Weight Foundation Models

arXiv:2608.18086v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The growth of open-weight foundation models (OWFMs) has prompted the AI community to re-evaluate strategies for effective downstream governance. Although model cards have been widely adopted as transparency artifacts in model repositories, existing frameworks often fail t

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A Metamorphic Artificial Age Score Decision-Support Prototype for Flight-Log-Based Drone Propeller Health Monitoring

arXiv:2608.18088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Drone propeller faults can create safety and reliability risks when their effects are distributed across multiple flight-log channels rather than appearing as a single diagnostic signal. This paper proposes a Metamorphic Artificial Age Score (AAS) decision-support prototy

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Solving Is Not Drawing: A Benchmark for Diagrammatic Reasoning in Olympiad Geometry

arXiv:2608.18111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models such as GPT and Claude now solve olympiad-level mathematics with remarkable proficiency, so much so that geometry problem solving has become a standard proxy for their mathematical reasoning. Yet solving a geometry problem and drawing the figure it depen

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A Jagged Frontier: Evaluating Robustness of Code Agents to Semantics-Preserving Transformations

arXiv:2608.18389v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI code agents are increasingly deployed to resolve real software issues, yet their reliability under superficial code variations remains poorly understood. We evaluate whether coding agents that repair repository-level issues remain reliable when the surrounding codebase

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UMER: Unifying Embedding and Ranking via Pair-Aware Discriminative Reasoning for Universal Multimodal Retrieval

arXiv:2608.18504v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Universal multimodal retrieval aims to support diverse instruction-aware retrieval tasks, demanding both efficient corpus-scale matching and fine-grained semantic reasoning. Recent MLLM-based embedding methods typically derive representations from hidden states, while Cha

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FACET: Preserving Source Intent and Executable State in Terminal Task Synthesis

arXiv:2608.18580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training terminal agents requires scalable executable supervision, yet synthesizing high-quality terminal tasks remains challenging. Each task couples an instruction, an initialized environment, a reference solution, and an executable verifier; if these artifacts are gene

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Sanyu Studio: A Multi-Agent System for Art-Historical Narrative Construction

arXiv:2608.18677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Amid concerns that generative AI may standardize art interpretation, this paper examines whether LLM-based interaction can support plural art-historical narrative construction. We present Sanyu Studio, a multi-agent dialogue system that models 321 Sanyu oil paintings as a

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Training-Free Inference-Time Self-Reflection and Cost-Bounded Early Stopping for Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.18884v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement-learning training of reasoning LLMs (e.g., GRPO) is expensive and requires a controllable environment, committing every contribution to a full training pipeline. We present EvoResearcher, a training-free, inference-time protocol that adds cost-bounded self-r

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Eureka: Task-Conditioned Meta-Agent Orchestration for Scientific Discovery

arXiv:2608.19047v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Eureka, a task-conditioned Meta-Agent architecture that compiles long-horizon tasks into dynamic obligation graphs with explicit acceptance semantics. During execution, Eureka forms Macro-Agents with specialized state, memory, operators, tools, verifiers, and l

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Robust Risk Under Evolving Uncertainty: A Wasserstein Counterpart of the Entropic Value-at-Risk

arXiv:2608.19073v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An agent still learning its environment should be cautious while ignorant and bold once confident. The entropic value-at-risk captures this through a robust-optimization identity---a confidence level fixes the radius of a relative-entropy ball of alternative models---but

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Latent Space Refusal Anchoring for Low-Resource African Languages: Mechanistic Safety Recovery Without Retraining

arXiv:2608.18089v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Instruction-tuned models often refuse harmful requests in English but comply with the same requests in Yoruba, Igbo, Igala, and Hausa. This suggests that the refusal mechanism is present in the residual stream but fails to activate for low-resource inputs.

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Nine Emotion Centroids: A Label-Free Valence Axis That Transfers Across Four Modalities

arXiv:2608.18090v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inside a modern language model sits a single internal direction that tracks how positive or negative a sentence feels. We show how to find this valence axis (V-axis) from just 9 emotion category names plus 50 short narrative paragraphs per emotion -- about 1,500 fewer l

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Global Index on Responsible AI 2026 : Conceptual Framework and Methodology

arXiv:2608.18122v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This report presents the methodology of the Global Index on Responsible AI (GIRAI), 2nd Edition. This edition refines the 1st Edition by strengthening the distinction between framework existence and implementation, restructuring dimensions from three to five thematic ar

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The Deontic Gap: Large Language Models and the Modal Language of Obligation

arXiv:2608.18144v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modal auxiliaries such as must, should, and have to mark necessity and obligation within the contexts of speaker authority and interpersonal stance. We examine whether large language models (LLMs) reproduce contemporary human patterns of deontic modal usage.

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TokenPowerSandbox: Evidence-Gated CPU-First Screening for Energy-Aware LLM Serving

arXiv:2608.18149v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Energy-aware LLM serving requires comparing configurations under realistic request shapes, yet exhaustive target-GPU profiling is costly and a cheap predictor can be dangerously confident outside its measured scope. We present TokenPowerSandbox, an evidence-gated workfl

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Are LLMs Safe Beyond Text: Do Emojis Expose Gaps in Safety Evaluation

arXiv:2608.18164v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety evaluations of large language models (LLMs) predominantly rely on text-based adversarial prompts, potentially overlooking vulnerabilities arising from alternative input representations. This work examines emoji-augmented prompts as a test case for this gap, evalu

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One Gate Is Not Enough: Composing Stateful Pre-Action Controls for Agentic AI

arXiv:2608.18360v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic AI systems take consequential actions governed by more than one pre-action control at once: authority, resource, and evidence gates that can admit, degrade, or remediate an action before it executes. This paper's central object is remediation-induced control cou

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Pedagogical AI in Mental Health: A Tri-Stream Fine-Tuned LLM Framework for Automated Clinical Supervision and Risk Triage

arXiv:2608.18438v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern mental healthcare faces a critical shortage of senior supervisory oversight, leading to a "supervision gap" where novice therapists manage high-stakes risks with delayed professional feedback. This paper proposes a new framework utilizing a fine-tuned Mistral-7B

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MemFuse: Multi-Source Memory Fusion from Fragmented Observations

arXiv:2608.18704v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-term memory is essential for agents that operate across extended interactions, yet existing memory systems and benchmarks predominantly focus on single-source textual histories. In realistic settings, however, relevant information is often fragmented across applica

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Flama: a Python framework for development and deployment of production-ready APIs, machine learning, and LLM services

arXiv:2608.18733v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present Flama, an open-source Python framework for developing and deploying production-ready web APIs, machine learning services, and large-language-model (LLM) applications. Built on the Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface (ASGI), Flama offers a type-driven, async

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SIDScope: A Diagnostic Resource for Semantic-ID Interfaces in Generative Recommendation

arXiv:2608.18779v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic-ID mappings are reusable interfaces between item tokenizers and generative recommenders, yet released mappings rarely state whether they are coherent, what structure they expose, how generated paths resolve, or what must be revalidated after a refresh. SIDScope

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Event-Causal RAG: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework for Long Video Reasoning in Complex Scenarios

arXiv:2605.06185v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large vision-language models perform well on short- and medium-length video understanding but still struggle to maintain coherent event memory and recover long-range relationships in ultra-long videos. End-to-end methods are limited by visual-token growth and context

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Hybrid LLM-Augmented Reinforcement Learning Agents for Complex Sequential Decision Tasks

arXiv:2608.03502v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown strong capabilities in reasoning, planning, and tool-use, enabling new forms of autonomous agents. However, LLM-based agents struggle with long-horizon sequential decision tasks that require precise action optimization

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Jailbreaking in the Haystack

arXiv:2511.04707v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in long-context language models (LMs) have enabled million-token inputs, expanding their capabilities across complex tasks like computer-use agents. Yet, the safety implications of these extended contexts remain unclear.

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When to Call an Apple Red: Humans Follow Introspective Rules, VLMs Don't

arXiv:2604.06422v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding when Vision-Language Models (VLMs) will behave unexpectedly, whether models can reliably predict their own behavior, and if models adhere to their introspective reasoning are central challenges for trustworthy deployment. To study this, we introduc

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anthropics/claude-code: v2.1.237

What's changed Fixed prompt caching for sessions using an LLM gateway or custom base URL Added a built-in "Concise" output style: Claude leads with results and skips preamble and narration, while doing the work just as thoroughly. Select it under Output style in /config.

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How ChatGPT Work helps Stampli move ideas to market

With a fixed deadline and design resources committed elsewhere, Stampli used Codex and ChatGPT Work to compress weeks of launch production into days.

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anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: v0.125.0

0.125.0 (2026-08-19) Full Changelog: v0.124.0...v0.125.0 Features api: managed agents web search config and self hosted sandbox memory ( b75afd6 )

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langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-openai==1.6.0

Changes since langchain-openai==1.5.2 release(openai): 1.6.0 ( #39762 ) feat(core): add standard model exception types ( #39538 ) fix(openai): raise clear error on unexpected response type in _create_chat_result ( #39731 )

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langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-anthropic==1.6.0

Changes since langchain-anthropic==1.5.6 release(anthropic): 1.6.0 ( #39763 ) feat(core): add standard model exception types ( #39538 ) fix(anthropic): exclude sibling directories from grep search scope ( #39681 ) chore(infra): support langsmith gateway in CI ( #39651 )

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CodeQL 2.26.3 improves GitHub Actions queries and JavaScript modeling

CodeQL 2.26.3 adds JavaScript, TypeScript, and Vue source modeling and improves the accuracy of several GitHub Actions queries. CodeQL is the static analysis engine behind GitHub code scanning, which helps...

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anthropics/claude-code: v2.1.236

What's changed Added ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_MODEL environment variable: sets the model new sessions start on, while a /model pick still overrides it and persists across restarts (unlike ANTHROPIC_MODEL ) Added notify_when_idle to cross-session SendMessage : ask another Claude Code session on this machine to send one notice

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Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models

OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy.

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Start the semester with one year of Gemini, on us

Text reading: "Google Gemini" and "Claim your student plan for 1 year at no cost"

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langchain-ai/langgraph: langgraph-sdk==0.4.3

Changes since sdk==0.4.2 release(sdk-py): 0.4.3 ( #8657 ) feat(sdk-py): add decrypt replacement result ( #8598 ) release(langgraph): 1.2.11 ( #8595 ) chore(deps): bump the minor-and-patch group across 1 directory with 5 updates ( #8532 ) release(checkpoint): 4.2.0 ( #8563 ) chore: enforce PLC0415 in tests for the remai

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Waymo is bringing Gemini into its custom Ojai vehicles.

Waymo is bringing Gemini to its custom-built Ojai vehicles to create a more helpful and personalized ride.

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What 3 creatives built with unlimited access to Google Flow

Text "Google Presents The Small Brief", above photos of Susan Credle, Jayanta Jenkins, and Tiffany Rolfe

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Company updateHugging FaceRepoRadar take: Watchlist

LFM2.5 Q4\_0 Checkpoints from Quantization-Aware Distillation

LFM2.5 Q4\_0 Checkpoints from Quantization-Aware Distillation

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Track organization code quality trends

The organization-level Code Quality dashboard now includes a Trends tab that shows how code quality has changed across your repositories over time. Instead of a point-in-time snapshot, you can see...

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Launching ‘Meta Startup School’ to Accelerate Growth For Early-Stage Startups

We are launching Meta Startup School, a three-month programme designed to help early-stage consumer brands accelerate growth. The first cohort will see 200 startups get exclusive access to support and training from venture capital firms and industry experts.

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Replit expands access to software creation with GPT-5.6 Luna

Replit introduces Free Mode, powered by GPT-5.6 Luna, so anyone can turn ideas into working software without worrying about token costs.

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