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AtariBench: Evaluating Spatiotemporal Reasoning of Vision-Language Models in Atari Gameplay

arXiv:2611.08755v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved strong performance on static visual understanding benchmarks, yet their ability to act in dynamic environments remains less well understood. We introduce AtariBench, a controlled benchmark that evaluates VLMs across 20 Atari 2600 games, requiring models to make sequential decisions from high-temporal-resolution gameplay streams. By decoupling fast in-game dynamics from wall-clock inference speed, AtariBench focuses on whether models can perceive rapid visual state changes, reason over spatiotemporal dynamics, and ground actions in the current observation. Our experiments reveal substantial limitations in state-of-the-art VLMs: models often fail to infer object motion and direction, exhibit brittle sequential decision-making, and over-rely on textual interaction history despite newly appended visual feedback. We further introduce a separability analysis to identify which in-game scores provide reliable signals of model competence, and use the benchmark to study how memory design and prompting strategies affect performance. Overall, AtariBench exposes a persistent gap between passive visual perception and active decision-making, providing a lightweight and rigorous testbed for developing VLMs that can reason and act in dynamic environments.

Interpretable Multifidelity Learning with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Spatiotemporal Nuclear Reactor Flow Modeling

arXiv:2611.08512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of nuclear reactor systems are computationally expensive, motivating machine learning methods that reduce cost while preserving accuracy. Multifidelity surrogate modeling addresses this by combining inexpensive low-fidelity data with limited high-fidelity data. This work investigates whether the high-fidelity data required to predict the spatiotemporal mass flow rate across all 193 fuel assemblies of a pressurized water reactor (PWR) core can be reduced, comparing black-box multifidelity feedforward neural networks (MFNNs) with interpretable multifidelity Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (MFKANs). Cross-fidelity correlation across the core is weak, making this a challenging multifidelity problem, and neither architecture predicts the transient particularly well in absolute terms. MFKAN nonetheless performs comparably to MFNN for one-time-step-forward prediction while also providing closed-form symbolic equations unavailable with MFNN. To address the scarcity of CFD transients, with only one available per fidelity level, TabDDPM-generated synthetic data was used to augment cross-fidelity forecasting. KAN and FNN achieve comparable self-evaluation accuracy (Pearson correlation of roughly 0.73--0.81), but both perform poorly at true cross-fidelity forecasting (correlations of 0.03--0.06). Assembly-level analysis shows that each assembly's forecast correlation tracks its real cross-fidelity correlation for both architectures ($r=0.840$--$0.896$ for KAN, $r=0.804$--$0.903$ for FNN), confirming that forecasting accuracy is fundamentally limited by how correlated the fidelity levels already are. Overall, KAN-based multifidelity modeling achieves accuracy consistently comparable to MFNN across all settings, while additionally providing symbolic equations that match or exceed the spline representation's accuracy.

New NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Open Models for Interactive World Simulation

NVIDIA has introduced four new open-weight checkpoints for its Cosmos 3 model family—Cosmos3-Nano-Transfer-Auto, Cosmos3-Nano-Sim-Auto, Cosmos3-Nano-Sim-Transfer, and Cosmos3-Nano-Sim-Bimanual—enabling interactive world simulation and multi-sensor, multi-view driving scene generation. Each model is a post-trained variant of Cosmos 3 Nano with 16B trainable parameters and is based on OpenMDW1.1, allowing commercial and non-commercial use. The checkpoints support applications in robotics and autonomous driving by generating synchronized camera and LiDAR data, enabling streaming simulations, translating simulator controls into photorealistic video, and predicting visual outcomes from robot actions. They are designed to be adapted using custom data and training recipes, with support for offline data generation, causal distillation, and interactive rollouts. Resources include technical reports, demos, and notebooks for inference and adaptation.

FlatCake: A Flat KVCache Storage Architecture for LLM Serving

arXiv:2610.38355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: KV cache reuse accelerates LLM serving, but existing systems manage host DRAM and NVMe SSD as a tiered hierarchy where DRAM acts as an intermediate cache. Production LLM workloads break both premises of this hierarchy. First, bimodal reuse defeats DRAM temporal filtering, since workloads are dominated either by one-shot blocks with long reuse distances or by multi-gigabyte agentic sessions that exceed DRAM capacity, putting SSD on the critical read path. Second, DRAM staging and eviction-ordered layout bottleneck SSD restoration. Holding host staging buffers for in-flight prefixes causes contention under load that aborts prefetches, while incremental eviction scatters a session's blocks across the SSD and prevents large sequential reads. We p

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Do AI Scientists Know What's New?

arXiv:2610.36511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A major challenge facing AI scientific discovery pipelines is how to determine when a generated idea is meaningfully novel. Ideally, novelty checks in these pipelines must be able to reject non-novel ideas while not rejecting too many novel ideas, and they should also be able to distinguish which parts of a proposal are non-novel, as opposed to opaquely discarding entire proposals. We design an analytical framework for evaluation of novelty checks with temporal ground truth at both the proposal- and claim-level, using four datasets of 1,060 proposals built from published papers, reviewer disputes, and generated ideas matching ones the field went on to publish. Auditing existing novelty checks with this framework, we find that checks with high

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SLICE-Mem: Salience-Gated Lightweight Information Curation for Efficient LLM Agent Memory

arXiv:2610.33015v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-term memory enables large language model (LLM) agents to maintain personalized and temporally coherent interactions, but repeated LLM inference for memory admission, extraction, and organization introduces substantial cost and latency. We present SLICE-Mem, a lightweight memory framework that combines salience-guided admission and predicate-centered information extraction. A compact classifier identifies user turns worth retaining, and a semantic-dependency-based extractor converts admitted turns into concise memory entries. This online pipeline requires no generative LLM calls, while cross-entry reconciliation is deferred to an offline consolidation stage. We evaluate SLICE-Mem on the weekly subset of Memora and LongMemEval-S using 8B a

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Toward Open ISA Supercomputing: A Comparative Study of RISC-V, Arm, and x86 Architectures on HPC Workloads

arXiv:2610.32632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: RISC-V is emerging as a candidate architecture for high-performance computing (HPC), but its competitiveness against established x86 and Arm processors remains difficult to assess because existing studies use different platforms, workloads, and methodologies, and rarely consider energy efficiency. Our work provides an evaluation of contemporary HPC RISC-V, Arm, and x86 processors using a common software stack and methodology. We characterize the Sophgo SG2044 and compare it with the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip and Intel Xeon Platinum 8480+ across four HPC benchmarks (STREAM, HPL, HPL-MxP, and HPCG) and four representative applications (iPIC3D, PLUTO, OpenFOAM, and llama.cpp). The version of HPL-MxP linked to OpenBLAS built and used for this wo

Toward Open ISA Supercomputing: A Comparative Study of RISC-V, Arm, and x86 Architectures on HPC Workloads
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OpenHome: From Perception to Insight in Smart-Home Camera Videos

arXiv:2610.31986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision language models (VLMs) have been increasingly adopted in consumer smart-home camera systems to interpret recorded videos and provide insights. However, video clips captured from smart-home cameras are different from curated web videos dominating existing VLM benchmarks. Smart-home video clips often do not contain subtitles or narration and are captured from different viewing angles, under various lighting conditions, and in diverse scenarios. However, the capabilities of the model in this domain, under sparse visual signals and limited context, are not fully assessed by existing VLM benchmarks. To close this gap, we introduce OpenHome, a visual-only, four-option multiple-choice benchmark for evaluating smart-home video understanding. I

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Qwen2-Audio: Chat with Your Voice!

DEMO PAPER GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DISCORD To achieve the objective of building an AGI system, the model should be capable of understanding information from different modalities. Thanks to the rapid development of large language models, LLMs are now capable of understanding language and reasoning. Previously we have taken a step forward to extend our LLM, i.e., Qwen, to more modalities, including vision and audio, and built Qwen-VL and Qwen-Audio. Today, we release Qwen2-Audio, the next version of Qwen-Audio, which is capable of accepting audio and text inputs and generating text outputs.

Qwen1.5-MoE: Matching 7B Model Performance with 1/3 Activated Parameters

GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD Introduction Since the surge in interest sparked by Mixtral, research on mixture-of-expert (MoE) models has gained significant momentum. Both researchers and practitioners are keenly interested in understanding how to effectively train such models and assessing their efficiency and effectiveness. Today, we introduce Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B, a small MoE model with only 2.7 billion activated parameters yet matching the performance of state-of-the-art 7B models like Mistral 7B and Qwen1.