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17 Aug 2026 edition

437 articles · 5 sources · 436 papers ·

Top topics: AI · AI Research · AI Labs

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Evolve Vision-Language-Action Model into an Agent with On-the-fly Tool-use

arXiv:2608.14047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper integrates end-to-end Visual-Language-Action (VLA) models with agentic tool-use to propose Agentic Robot with Tool-use (ART). ART is a tool-injection…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Yi Ding, Yanzhao Yu, Xili Dai, Xianbiao Qi, Peiwen Sun, Xueqian Wang, Xiangyu Yue, Jianan Wang
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SDO: Subspace Deconflicting Operator for Multi-Adapter Composition

arXiv:2608.13820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Composing independently trained adapters within a shared diffusion backbone provides a modular approach to multi-character generation, but naive joint deployment often…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Zhongsheng Wang, Zhedong Lin, Qian Liu, Xinyu Zhang, Jiamou Liu
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AI Research Preference Models

arXiv:2608.13940v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI research agents (AIRA) can now propose, implement, and evaluate their own machine learning experiments, but progress on frontier tasks is throttled by cost: a candidate…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Thomas Simon Foster, Bassel Al Omari, Tingchen Fu, Thomas Mann, Carl Domond, Lucia Cipolina-Kun, Bhavul Gauri, Muna Aghamelu, Alexander D. Goldie, Eryk Helenowski, Jean-Christophe Gagnon-Audet, Alber…
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An InSAR Phase Unwrapping Framework for Large-scale and Complex Events

arXiv:2603.21378v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Phase unwrapping remains a critical and challenging problem in InSAR processing, particularly in scenarios involving complex deformation patterns. In…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Yijia Song, Juliet Biggs, Alin Achim, Robert Popescu, Simon Orrego, Nantheera Anantrasirichai
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Second Thought: Reasoning in Parallel as LLM Agents Act and Observe

arXiv:2608.13667v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents in the ReAct paradigm alternate between reasoning, acting, and observing, but deliberate reasoning is confined to the Thought phase: while the agent serializes…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Zhensu Sun, Chengran Yang, Yunbo Lyu, Jieke Shi, David Lo
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Optimal Scheduling of Road Maintenance Jobs Considering Impact on Traffic Flows

arXiv:2608.14491v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Network-level maintenance planning requires repeated evaluations of equilibrium traffic flows under road capacity reductions. While equilibrium traffic assignment models…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Charitha Nandepu, Lohitha Kalepu, Gabriele Ciavarella, SangWoo Park
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Disentangled Shared Representations Improve Morpho-Transcriptomic Integration

arXiv:2608.14355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial transcriptomics (ST) enables the simultaneous profiling of gene expression and tissue morphology, creating an opportunity to learn multimodal representations…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Julian Ostermaier, Swann Ruyter, Reuben Dorent, Daniel Racoceanu
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Edge Case Detection in Automated Driving: Methods, Challenges, and Future Directions

arXiv:2410.08491v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Automated vehicles (AVs) promise to enhance transportation safety and efficiency. However, ensuring their reliability in real-world conditions remains…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Saeed Rahmani, Sabine Rieder, Erwin de Gelder, Marcel Sonntag, Jorge Lorente Mallada, Sytze Kalisvaart, Vahid Hashemi, Bart van Arem, Simeon C. Calvert
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Wyvern: An Agentic Framework for Generating Grounded Multimodal Reports

arXiv:2608.14446v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the current artificial intelligence-driven innovation era, the pace of knowledge growth is accelerating, and is hard to keep up with. While generative models are…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Beatrice Alessandra Motetti, Emilien Guandalino, Daniele Jahier Pagliari, Alessio Burrello, Lorenz K. M\"uller, Konstantin Berestizshevsky, Lukas Cavigelli

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