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Earlier sources: Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence covers systems that learn from data, generate content, perceive their surroundings, or act toward a goal. Follow model research, agent tooling, evaluation, and the infrastructure used to build and run these systems.
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Up to ten sources with readable evidence, ordered by their feed timestamp. These archive sources can be older than the live fourteen-day window. This list is a sample, not a measure of total activity. Dates distinguish paper publication, repository creation, model/dataset activity, Hacker News posts, and KEV catalog additions. “First archived” records when SYMTRI first stored the signal.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Requirement-Bound Verified Commissioning: A Frozen Four-Billion-Parameter Local Model as a Candidate Generator under an External Acceptance Layer with Verification and Release Authority ↗
An acceptance protocol is developed for sensor-coordinate and polarity binding in mechatronic commissioning. Candidate generation is separated from release authority. Requirements unsupported by a deterministic parser are routed to a frozen local language model with four billion parameters. Plans are released only when both facts can be derived by an external gate under a sealed grammar. One canonical answer is requested from a gold-standard user when eligible. The protocol was evaluated once under a criterion fixed before benchmark construction, on 144 tasks written by isolated agent contexts…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Minimally Invasive Steering of Language Models ↗
Pre-logit steering adapts a frozen language model to a test-time reward by adding vectors to its final hidden states. Unregularized reward optimization can substantially alter the output distribution and degrade generation quality. We propose Minimally Invasive Steering Vector Optimization (MISVO), which penalizes interventions using the local KL geometry of the induced token distribution. The resulting Fisher quadratic measures distributional sensitivity and admits an analytic gradient computed through matrix--vector products with the frozen language-model head. We derive an exact decompositi…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Instrumental Monitor Evasion Emerges Under Ordinary Task Pressure ↗
A central concern in AI safety is that agents may treat oversight as an obstacle when it conflicts with completing their goals. We study instrumental evasion, the propensity of LLM agents to circumvent runtime monitoring as a means of completing ordinary tasks. We introduce EvasionBench, a benchmark of 50 diverse task-policy pairs in which completing the task requires an operation prohibited by a runtime monitor. Agents know that their tool calls are monitored and are prompted to continue working when they pause. Across our evaluations, best-of-3 evasion attempt rates reach up to 98% and succe…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
A Nearly Quadratic Lower Bound for Linear Optimization over Convex Bodies in the Membership Oracle Model ↗
We prove nearly quadratic lower bounds for randomized algorithms for linear optimization and uniform sampling over convex bodies in the membership oracle model. For linear optimization, this matches the known nearly quadratic upper bound up to a polylog factor in the dimension. For uniform sampling, this improves on the previous linear lower bound. Our construction also implies the same lower bound for volume estimation.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Underwater C3-JEPA: An Object-Centric Cross-View World Model for ROV Salvage ↗
We present Underwater C$^{3}$-JEPA (cross-view, control-conditioned, context-extended), an object-centric multi-view predictive world model for near-field heavy-load underwater ROV salvage. Without contact sensors, it predicts in latent space how the task-object state evolves through contact interaction and under the hydrodynamic lag of the vehicle, from synchronized multi-view RGB observations and vehicle control signals. C$^{3}$-JEPA encodes multi-camera observations into task-object and context tokens, fuses cross-camera evidence through held-out-view attention, and directly predicts future…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
ReVAMP: Vector-Accelerated Motion Planning for Kinematically-Constrained Systems via Reparameterization ↗
Robots often must satisfy one or more constraints during motion planning for real-world tasks. When such constraints reduce the valid configuration space to a measure-zero subset, sampling based planning algorithms require modifications to draw feasible samples. For many common end-effector constraints, parameterizations built on inverse kinematics (IK) provide an alternate formulation where the constraints are satisfied by construction, allowing directly sampling the feasible set. Despite their elegant approach, parameterized planners have remained slower than vector-accelerated implementatio…
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
AI Workers' Inquiry 2026 ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Unmasking "zombie cells" in aging tissue with an AI-powered barcode ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Anchored Extra-Proximal Methods: Optimal Higher-Order Methods for Monotone Inclusion Problems ↗
We study the deterministic oracle complexity of finding approximate solutions to composite monotone inclusion problems, formed by the sum of a smooth single-valued monotone operator and a maximally monotone set-valued operator, under the tangent-residual criterion. We introduce the Anchored Extra-Proximal (AEP) framework, which combines an anchored extrapolation step with an inexact anchored proximal update satisfying a relative-error condition. The framework recovers the composite Fast Extragradient method in the first-order setting and yields natural second- and higher-order extensions by re…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
The Alignment Illusion in Multimodal Large Language Models ↗
Layer-wise visual-text similarity in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) is widely interpreted as evidence that the language model progressively integrates visual content into a shared representation space. This reading rests on the assumption that scalar alignment scores reflect content-level cross-modal interaction. To test this assumption, we apply controlled interventions to the visual stream. Across 13 MLLMs from five families spanning 0.5B to 72B parameters, replacing projector-output visual tokens with Gaussian noise sharply reduces task accuracy, yet four standard scalar measures…
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