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MemoAIMusic & audio

MemoAI is an AI-powered audio-to-text tool that supports localized processing, eliminating the need to upload data and ensuring privacy and security. It can efficiently transcribe YouTube videos, podcasts, and local audio/video files (such as MP4, MP3, AAC, M4A, etc.) into text, while offering core features like multilingual translation, speaker diarization, real-time subtitles, and floating notes—making it ideal for meeting minutes, interview transcription, content learning, and more.

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KiroCoding & development

Kiro is an AI engineering tool for developers that organizes requirements into specifications, architectures, and tasks, generates code via agents, and supports the entire workflow—from planning to code review—through property-based testing, execution memory, and integration with development tools.

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JAXModels & infrastructure

JAX is a Python numerical computing library designed for accelerators, specifically tailored for high-performance array computations and large-scale machine learning. It efficiently executes the same code across multiple hardware backends, including CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs.

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EvoMapAgents & automation

EvoMap is an infrastructure designed for the reuse of AI agent experiences. It organizes reusable strategies and repair assets with validation records via the GEP protocol, offering market- and quality-based ranking to help different agents discover, evaluate, and inherit existing capabilities.

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OpenDesign is an open-source design workspace that can connect to local programming agents, use built-in model keys, or leverage cloud-based models, enabling the creation and editing of prototypes, web pages, presentations, and graphics within a design system; local software is free, while model services incur fees.

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FlashCut is an AI-powered creation platform for voice-over and short-video marketing. It can generate finished videos with voiceovers, subtitles, and visuals from text, offering digital human customization, photo-to-digital-human conversion, live-stream clipping, and intelligent editing. It also provides APIs and branded mini-program solutions for businesses.

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ClipDropImages & editing

Clipdrop is a suite of AI-powered image creation and editing tools, covering background removal, local cleanup, image enlargement, upscaling, relighting, text removal, and background replacement. It allows users to process images directly in the browser and also provides developers with an API for integrating these capabilities into their applications.

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RowsData & analytics

Rows is a spreadsheet tool that combines AI analytics, data integration, and interactive reporting, enabling you to organize documents and business data using natural language, merge datasets, generate reports, and build computational models. The official website currently indicates that it has been integrated with Superhuman and provides a corresponding link to continue using the service.

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Cleaning an Agent's History Hurts When the World Still Holds the Error

arXiv:2611.14654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using language-model agents accumulate histories of their own mistakes, and a system that compacts, repairs or hands off such a history decides what it says about those mistakes while their effects stay in the world. Prior work cleans the history at a fixed world, where showing a corrected step and saying it is done move together. We ask whether the same correct content helps or hurts depending on how the history states it and what the world holds. We freeze an agent mid-task with its exact world state, edit the history or the world, and let a receiver model continue. On AgentCE-Bench, after the agent commits a wrong value, we hold the world fixed and add the correct value by two natural edits: a truthful note beside the preserved error or the agent's own completed action. The note raises recovery, the share of remaining targets the receiver gets right, from 51% under a matched neutral note to 66%. The completed action lowers it below the unedited history, from 50% to 44%, so the value's presence alone does not predict the effect. On AppWorld, after a database write, we vary whether its receipt reports success or failure and whether its effect is present. A success receipt lowers whole-task success from 45% to 28% while the effect is absent and raises it from 38% to 49% once present. The two effects differ by 27 points pooled over two receivers, a difference positive in six of eight receivers at 97.5% and seven at 95%. A history edit's effect thus depends on the world it describes, and a history made to look clean while the world still holds the error can leave an agent worse off than no edit at all.

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KernelMosaic: An Open Dataset and Agentic Framework for CUDA Kernel Generation

arXiv:2611.14604v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training large language models to generate efficient CUDA kernels requires supervision spanning diverse computational requirements and iterative code optimization. Constructing this supervision is challenging because of heterogeneous specifications, and useful implementations emerge through iterative complicated testing and refinement. We introduce KernelMosaic, an open dataset pairing diverse CUDA tasks with verified solutions and trajectories. Human-guided review and diversity-aware selection curate tasks expressed as natural-language descriptions, reference programs, mathematical specifications, and their intersections. To build the solutions and trajectories, our agentic framework guides a strong LLM through implementation, correctness repair, and performance optimization with reusable CUDA guidance and execution feedback. Supervised fine-tuning of a small open-source model on KernelMosaic raises correctness from 4%, 0%, and 0% to 88%, 82%, and 16% on KernelBench L1, L2, and L3, respectively, while increasing the fraction of tasks with kernels faster than PyTorch eager at every level. Further training experiments show that supervision from the curated trajectories substantially outperforms direct responses and promotes sustained testing and revision. These results demonstrate that KernelMosaic enables a general-purpose model to achieve substantial gains in CUDA kernel generation.

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Confusion-Adaptive Margin Learning for Handwritten Letter Recognition: A Controlled Study on EMNIST Letters

arXiv:2611.09953v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Handwritten character recognition systems can achieve high accuracy while retaining concentrated errors among visually similar classes. Motivated by residual letter confusions in earlier geometry-based recognition work, we investigate whether these errors can be addressed through the training objective. We introduce Confusion-Adaptive Margin Learning (CAML), which constructs a sparse weighted confusion graph from a discovery partition held out from pilot training and applies pair-specific cosine-separation constraints during final training. CAML adds no classifier, routing rule, or inference-time parameters. We evaluate CAML on EMNIST Letters against a strictly matched cross-entropy CNN baseline, using the same architecture, final training data, deterministic augmentation, optimizer, and checkpoint selection. Eight confusion pairs are targeted: I/L, G/Q, U/V, R/V, D/O, C/E, I/J, and H/N. On the official clean test set, accuracy changes from 95.6346% to 95.6731%, and macro-F1 from 0.956326 to 0.956724. Mean accuracy across ten predefined corrupted conditions increases from approximately 95.3812% to 95.4303%; symmetric errors within targeted pairs decrease from 614 to 605 (1.47%). The global differences are small and not statistically reliable. CAML fixes 124 baseline errors but introduces 116 new errors on clean data (exact McNemar p=0.6515), and no corruption-specific difference remains significant after Holm correction. Thus, CAML does not establish global superiority, but shows that a leakage-controlled, pair-specific margin objective can alter targeted error structure with limited overall benefit for an already strong classifier.

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DeFSM: Robust and Efficient Decentralization of Federated Submodular Maximization

arXiv:2611.11866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Submodular maximization seeks a small subset best representing a large dataset. In its federated setting, the server is a single point of failure and some clients may be Byzantine. Removing the server raises a trilemma of decentraliza- tion, efficiency, and security. We propose DeFSM, a Byzantine-robust and communication-efficient architecture that replaces the server with a lightweight smart contract and a pool of independent, consensus-free agents. Its aggregation rule, SafeGM, builds on two notions from combinatorial geometry: Tukey depth and safe points (the points lying in the convex hull of the good points wherever the bad points are). SafeGM makes the robust decision on 2D Gaussian random projections, which the contract can compute efficiently, and lifts it back as a convex combination of actual updates. Since lifting loses information, it uses the projected geometric median only when its depth certifies it, and otherwise a Tukey median. The share of bad updates is then bounded only by a count: how many there are, not what they contain. We prove, and confirm empirically, that this bound controls the solution quality. On CIFAR10 and PathMNIST, with up to 30% Byzantine clients and agents, DeFSM never collapses and retains on average about 91% of the quality of the ideal reference, the geometric median at a trusted central server. The geometric median decentralized in its best setting would retain about 96%, but the contract cannot compute it, and so each agent would have to download six times more data, or each client twice as much.

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Seeing Like a Shopper: Validating Vision-Language Models as Synthetic Consumers

arXiv:2611.09977v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models are widely used as synthetic respondents in surveys, behavioral experiments, and market research. Most of these respondents read text, whereas shoppers in a store choose by looking at shelves, which makes vision-language models (VLMs) natural synthetic shoppers. We test whether VLM shoppers follow real consumers at two levels. At the purchase level, VLM shoppers built from household records plan their trips from a store directory and select products from shelf images, and we compare their purchases with six public datasets from three countries. The synthetic baskets hit held-out purchases as often as the households' own past trips, and synthetic group differences correlate with real ones twice as strongly as those of a trained regression. Without fitting, VLM shoppers reproduce alcohol purchases by gender and age in Russia and trip sizes by store distance in Taiwan, and respond to situations, prices, and displays within measured ranges. At the level of a single shelf choice, a model's answer confounds the product with its position and letter label. We therefore introduce ShelfSight, shelf renderings that vary products, positions, labels, viewpoints, and prices independently, together with a factor model that separates product preferences from the effects of label and position, which we call answer effects. On ShelfSight, hosted VLMs read the shelf, follow stated needs, keep their product preferences across views, and respond to price as budget shoppers. These answer effects, a preference for the letter A and for positions in the image, are estimated once per image type and removed. VLMs are thus good synthetic shoppers whose corrected shelf choices reflect product preferences.

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Ducks in a Column

DuckDB is fast among other reasons because it stores data by column, so a query reads only the columns it names. This post covers DuckDB features that take advantage of that design choice: querying files in place, column-level SQL, aggregation shortcuts, window functions, ASOF joins, and writing well-organized Parquet.

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An Anatomy-guided 3D Segmentation Pipeline for Prostate Surgical Phantoms from CT Scans

arXiv:2611.08652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full autonomy has been a long-term goal in robotic surgery and a near-to-medium-term goal for prostatectomy. Due to the relatively closed structure of the procedure, its standard-of-care robotic/laparoscopic solutions, and procedure economics, prostate procedures are an optimal early target for surgical automation. Prototyping and testing of possible solutions is done in constructed laboratory phantoms, either synthetic tissues or animal phantoms. To enable measurement of perceptual and robotic motion error, phantoms undergo volumetric imaging; these images are critical to both a potential deployed automatic system, used in planning motion and treatment (cutting, ablation, suturing, etc.), as well as post-hoc assessment of system performance. Rapid iteration on these phantom models yields small, inconsistent datasets, while the current workflow for human annotation is often anatomically unreliable and prohibitively time-consuming, rendering deep learning unsuitable at reasonable scales. To address these limitations, we present an automated 3D segmentation pipeline that uses classical medical image-processing techniques to encode the known anatomy of the phantoms as explicit geometric and intensity priors, which requires no training corpus and is transferred to each new phantom revision without re-annotation. Across 57 scans spanning multiple phantom revisions, our pipeline recovers the capsule interior at 0.83 median Dice on 11 contrast-suppressed scans and detects all 32 annotated focal lesions without false positives, completing a full scan in 2-8 minutes on commodity CPU hardware versus 1-2 hours by hand.

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Compression of Emotion in Language Model Representations

arXiv:2611.08683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have been evaluated on their ability to identify emotions expressed in text and produce fluent emotional language. However, output predictions alone do not reveal how fine-grained emotion distinctions are organized internally. We study seven LLMs on GoEmotions, an English Reddit dataset annotated with 27 fine-grained emotion categories plus neutral. We compare model predictions and emotion-prompted final-token representations with the 28 GoEmotions categories and with coarser emotion-family and sentiment groupings. We find a consistent pattern of $\textit{overcompression}$ relative to the fine-grained GoEmotions taxonomy. Under the tested KMeans protocol, when we cluster their hidden representations without using emotion labels, the clearest split is into two groups that largely separate positive from negative emotion. Coarser emotion groupings are also recovered with fewer clusters than the full 28-category taxonomy. Yet linear probes retain substantial fine-grained predictive information. These results suggest that fine-grained emotion information remains accessible even though broader affective structure more strongly organizes the unsupervised geometry.

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