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Model releases, architecture work and prompting research on large language models — from frontier-lab announcements to the arXiv papers behind them.

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arXiv AI
Aug 5

SKILL-KD: Contrastive Skill Distillation for LLM Agents

arXiv:2607. 28048v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Skill-based prompting has become a practical mechanism for improving large language model (LLM) agents, yet existing skill acquisition methods often treat skills as experience summaries, memory entries, or direct summaries of successful demonstrations.

By Qiming Shi, Yibo Dou, Jiawen Zhu, Yulong Tao, Linbo Jin, Zhaolu Kang, Yunfan Zhou, Di Weng
arXiv AI
Aug 5

Self-Organising Digital Circuits

arXiv:2608. 02606v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fault tolerance in classical computing has traditionally relied on static strategies like hardware redundancy and error-correcting codes.

By Marcello Barylli, Gabriel B\'ena, Alexander Mordvintsev, Eleni Nisioti, Sebastian Risi
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 5

GoT-CD: Graph-of-Thoughts Causal Discovery and the Fragility of Post-hoc Path-Specific Fairness Audits

arXiv:2608. 02877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Causal discovery recovers directed structure from observational data and is increasingly used in clinical settings to support mechanism reasoning and fairness audits of predictive models.

By Nitish Nagesh, Elahe Khatibi, Thomas Dean Hughes, Mahdi Bagheri, Pratik Gajane, Amir M. Rahmani
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 5

Cross-Model KV Cache Transfer in LLM Families: A Closed-Form Linear Mapping for Prefill Reuse

arXiv:2608. 03893v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Production deployments often swap between different-sized models in a family for cost-quality cascading, mid-conversation switching, and routing, and each swap forces the receiver to repay the prefill from scratch.

By Taekyung Heo, Rasoul Shafipour, Ritchie Zhao, Maximilian Golub, Mohammad Mahdi Kamani, Ritika Borkar, Makesh Tarun Chandran, Pantea Zardoshti, Bita Darvish Rouhani
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 5

A Physics-Flavored Transformer Network for Parametrizing Contraction Dynamics of Engineered Skeletal Muscle Tissues

arXiv:2608. 03927v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Engineered Skeletal Muscle Tissues (ESMs) have become a key structure for biomedical disease modeling and pharmacological screening, yet their functional characterization often relies on simplistic metrics like peak force, discarding critical kinetic information.

By Mattias Luber, Timo Betz
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 5

VIVID: A Culturally Grounded Benchmark Exposing the Figurative Language Gap in Vietnamese NLP

arXiv:2608. 03095v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present VIVID (Vietnamese Idioms for Validation and Interpretation Depth), the first systematic benchmark for evaluating culturally grounded figurative language understanding in Vietnamese.

By Tu Tran Do, Nhat Ngoc Nguyen, Khanh-Tung Tran, Hoang D. Nguyen, Tu Minh Phuong, Long Hoang Dang