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[AINews] DeepSeek v4.1-Flash: 763B-P8B-D16B novel causal Encoder–Decoder architecture with vision marks the Return of the Whale

DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash, an open-weight 763B-parameter model with a novel causal encoder-decoder architecture, 1M context, vision input, and MIT license.

DeepSeek launched V4.1-Flash, an open-weight MIT-licensed model using a novel causal encoder-decoder architecture with 763B total parameters and asymmetric active parameters: 8B for prefill and 16B for decode. It supports 1M-token context and text+image input, priced at $0.30 per 1M input and $1.20 per 1M output tokens with a 50% off-peak discount. Artificial Analysis scored it 40 on its Intelligence Index, above DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813, and Vals ranked it the #1 open-weight model ahead of Kimi K3. Baseten shipped day-0 support and Ollama began rolling it out to paid subscribers.

Latent Space · 4d agoModel release 7 sources1

3D Point Splatting for mmWave Radar Novel View Synthesis

Researchers propose 3DPS, a differentiable point renderer for mmWave radar novel view synthesis that outperforms optical-NVS baselines by 1.7x-5.2x.

The paper introduces 3D Point Splatting (3DPS), the first differentiable point renderer for radar, derived from the solid-angle form of the radar equation with ITU-R P.2040 material models and complex phasor splatting. On six outdoor ColoRadar scenes it reaches 0.587 mean Pearson correlation on held-out range-azimuth images, between 1.7x and 5.2x the RadarSplat, Radar Fields, and DART baselines. The same optimized scene produces ADC, complex range profile, and RA outputs via standard FFT pipelines, and training takes about 3 minutes per scene on an RTX 4090.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL · 5d agoAI research

Canonical Color as a Lens into Concept Decodability in Vision Encoders and VLMs

Probing study shows vision encoders make canonical color linearly decodable from grayscale images and tie it to object identity.

Researchers use canonical color as a controlled testbed for measuring conceptual (not just visible) information in vision encoder representations. A dataset of objects with canonical colors was built, and probes on both color and grayscale images show canonical color remains decodable even when color is removed from the input, linked to predicted object identity. Extending to full VLMs, they find post-training has a surprisingly large effect on color decodability in the vision encoder.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL · 7d agoAI research1

RelightFormer: Feed-forward Generative Transformer for Multiview Object Relighting

RelightFormer is a feed-forward generative transformer for photorealistic single- and multi-view object relighting, trained on a 90K-object dataset.

Researchers introduce RelightFormer, a feed-forward generative transformer adapted from a video foundation model that performs direct image relighting without explicit intrinsic property estimation. The architecture injects target environment maps via a latent illumination module with cross-attention and uses permutation-invariant positional encodings for unordered multi-view inputs. Training relies on the newly constructed Laval Objaverse Dataset (LOD) with 90K objects and 39K unique illuminations, and the model shows state-of-the-art quality with strong zero-shot generalization across single-view, multi-view, and novel-view relighting.

Hugging Face daily papers · 9d agoAI research

LLaDA-UI: Bringing Block-wise Diffusion to Vision-Language GUI Agents

LLaDA-UI, a 16.7B block-wise diffusion vision-language GUI agent, outperforms Qwen2.5-VL-7B and beats Qwen3-VL-8B on four of six GUI benchmarks.

LLaDA-UI is a 16.7B-parameter MoE-based, block-wise diffusion vision-language GUI agent built on the LLaDA2.0-mini-base diffusion language backbone with a native-resolution vision encoder. It uses a two-stage pipeline: general multimodal pre-training followed by GUI-agent supervised fine-tuning on mobile, desktop, web, and grounding data. It substantially outperforms Qwen2.5-VL-7B and surpasses Qwen3-VL-8B on four of six reported GUI benchmarks, establishing block-wise diffusion as a practical paradigm for latency-sensitive multimodal agents.

Hugging Face daily papers · 7d agoAI research

RenderFormer-V2: Neural Rendering with Heterogeneous Scene Primitives

RenderFormer-V2 is a transformer-based neural renderer handling caustics, volumetric scattering and out-of-distribution materials without per-scene training or specialized code.

RenderFormer-V2 is a learned transformer-based neural rendering model that models global light transport as a sequence-to-sequence transformation, handling caustics, volumetric scattering, environment lighting, textured and displaced surfaces and out-of-distribution materials. It uses a two-stage process: a view-independent stage resolving primitive-to-primitive transport, and a view-dependent stage converting the neural scene representation into pixels. Improvements include combined windowed-attention with a rendering-informed attention sink for scalability, support for heterogeneous primitives like environment maps and participating media, and a surface-reflectance-independent neural material encoding, validated across diverse scenes with extensive ablations.

Hugging Face daily papers · 12d agoAI research

27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter

A developer released gpu-lexer, a 27.5KB language-agnostic syntax highlighter that uses a tiny WebGPU model to label code tokens in the browser.

gpu-lexer splits source into words, whitespace, and symbols, then a small WebGPU model uses local and whole-file context to assign nine token classes, working on languages never seen in training. On held-out files, 12.57% of token labels differ from Shiki, though this measures agreement with Shiki rather than objective correctness. In benchmarks against Shiki 4.4.3, Prism.js, Highlight.js, Sugar High, and Starry Night, it highlighted 10 concatenated copies of three.min.js (5.56M characters) about 10x faster on an Apple M4 Pro in Chrome 152. The author frames it as an experiment, not a grammar-equivalent highlighter.

Hacker News · security · 7d agoAI tools & infraHN 21↑ · 5 comments1

Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source

Meta releases Muse Glimmer, an open-source model built for local, agentic, multimodal use.

Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a new open-source model highlighted on the Hugging Face blog. The model is designed to run locally and supports agentic and multimodal workflows. Details on parameter count and benchmarks were not provided in the title; the release marks Meta's return to open model releases.

Hugging Face Blog · Aug 10, 2026Model release

OpenAI Launches Two-Tier Security Access Program Alongside GPT 5.6 Cyber

OpenAI launches Daybreak Blue and Red security access tiers alongside GPT 5.6 Cyber, a frontier model for cybersecurity work.

OpenAI introduced a two-tier security access program: Daybreak Blue removes selected OpenAI-made guardrails, while Daybreak Red grants access to cyber-focused frontier AI models. The program launches alongside GPT 5.6 Cyber, a frontier model tuned for cybersecurity applications.

Infosecurity Magazine · Aug 11, 2026Model release

Mi-Ripple: Restoring Images Degraded by Iterative AI Editing

Mi-Ripple is a diagnosis-guided restoration workflow that removes digital ripple artifacts introduced by iterative AI image editing while preserving structure.

Iterative reference-conditioned image editing can introduce grid-like and granular textures known as digital ripple. Mi-Ripple separates periodic lattice artifacts from content-entangled granular texture, then applies selective spectral notching, structure-aware smoothing, and cleaned-reference regeneration. In fourteen notch-only executions, whole-image residual standard deviation was 0.08-0.44 in CIELAB lightness units, and reference cleaning reduced output debris density by 45% in a paired example.

Hugging Face daily papers · 6d agoAI research

Fashion app Daydream uses Apple Intelligence to help you shop the outfits in your camera roll

Fashion app Daydream uses iOS 27 Apple Intelligence APIs to turn saved outfit photos into shoppable matches and enable Siri voice search.

Daydream launched photo-based outfit shopping and Siri natural-language search built on Apple's iOS 27 developer tools, matching images against roughly 3 million products from 325+ retailers and 10,000 brands. The app claims over 1.5 million shoppers and frames the features as steps toward a cross-surface shopping agent. Competitors include Google, Amazon, Onton, and Alta.

TechCrunch · AI · 1d agoAI industry

Repeat-After-Me: Black-Box Adaptive Visual Prompt Injection

Researchers unveil Repeat-After-Me, a black-box visual prompt injection achieving over 80% success on Qwen3.6-27B and 47% on GPT-5.5.

Researchers present Repeat-After-Me, a black-box adaptive visual prompt injection that induces frontier VLMs to reveal PII or make malicious tool calls via injected images. It exceeds 80% attack success rate on Qwen3.6-27B and 47% on GPT-5.5 even when the benign user prompt is unrelated and does not authorize the injected task. In a real-world OpenClaw Discord deployment, a minimally injected image can overwrite TOOLS.md, enabling later remote code execution and secret exfiltration.

arXiv cs.CR · 12d agoAI safety & security

NeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder

H Company released NeoMME, an efficient multimodal-native and multilingual encoder, via a post on the Hugging Face blog.

H Company published a Hugging Face blog post introducing NeoMME, described as an efficient multimodal-native and multilingual encoder. The article body was unavailable in the feed, so architecture, benchmarks, and licensing details could not be verified. The post suggests a new encoder release relevant to multilingual multimodal model development.

Hugging Face Blog · 13d agoModel release

One Editor, Many Edits: A Unified Training-Free Framework for Diverse Video Editing

Researchers introduce EditVid, a training-free video editing framework scoring 78.16 FiVE-Acc versus 58.95 for the strongest comparable baseline.

EditVid is a unified training-free framework for diverse instruction-guided and subject-guided video editing. It combines sparse causal memory for local coherence, correspondence-based post-attention token injection for long-range identity preservation, and soft latent blending for edit locality. On the FiVE benchmark it reaches 78.16 FiVE-Acc against 58.95 for the strongest evaluated training-free baseline, with competitive results on IVEBench. A user study showed 51.8% overall preference for EditVid over 7 competing methods.

Hugging Face daily papers · 13d agoAI research

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5

OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5, improving generation of personalized, polished images from ideas, sketches, and reference photos.

OpenAI announced ChatGPT Images 2.5, a new version of its image generation capability in ChatGPT. The update is designed to turn ideas, sketches, and reference photos into more personalized and polished images that better reflect user intent. No benchmark numbers, model sizes, or technical architecture details were disclosed in the announcement.

OpenAI News · 8d agoModel release

A Princeton Researcher Proposes Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT) that Carries Decoder State across Every Token, Fixing 96 Blocks per Token with Unbounded Temporal Depth

Princeton researcher Yifan Zhang proposes Recurrent Looped Transformer, carrying full decoder state across every token for unbounded temporal depth.

Yifan Zhang's technical report defines the Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT), pairing a causal encoder with a recurrent decoder whose final output and layerwise sliding-window attention cache carry into every subsequent token with no prompt-response boundary reset. The reference configuration ties 48 encoder and 48 decoder layers, executing 96 logical blocks per token while the state path grows to 48t blocks after t tokens at fixed per-token compute. The report details RL replay contracts that rebuild all states under current parameters and exact prefix snapshots for multi-turn serving, but explicitly reports no measured efficiency, reasoning quality, or scaling results.

MarkTechPost · 2d agoAI research1

Building a Production Greek-English Speech Recognizer

Engineering report details Sophea, a production Greek-English ASR reaching 4.26% WER on public English sets via ROVER ensemble and data-pipeline calibration.

Across 23 training iterations, two architectures, and nine production gates, no single data composition passed all gates; a three-model ROVER ensemble reached 9 of 9 gates and cut overlapping-speech WER from 53.35% to 37.87%. Calibrating an audio-quality filter against in-domain anchors reduced discarded scored Greek audio from 98.7% to 10.6%, and a pre-registered ablation traced a hallucination defect to one training-data package. The sophea/asr-k1 preview arbiter lists 4.26% average WER on eight public English test sets and 25.88% WER on live Greek noisy traffic; no weights or training data are released.

Hugging Face daily papers · 5d agoAI research

Update modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/elasticsearch_tika_xfa_xxe.rb

Rapid7 updated a Metasploit auxiliary scanner module that detects XML external entity injection in Elasticsearch via Apache Tika.

A commit in the Metasploit Framework updated modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/elasticsearch_tika_xfa_xxe.rb, an auxiliary scanner module. The module targets XML external entity (XXE) injection in Elasticsearch through Apache Tika, and was co-authored by jheysel-r7. The terse commit message contains no additional details, CVE references, or exploitation notes.

Metasploit Framework commits · 7d agoTools

AdaptVPR: Route-Aware Hard Positive Generation for Robust Visual Place Recognition

AdaptVPR generates route-aware synthetic hard positives for visual place recognition, releasing the 160K-image AdaptCities dataset with R@1 gains up to 9.2% under domain shift.

AdaptVPR is a generative augmentation framework that creates same-place hard positives under illumination, weather, seasonal, and dynamic-occlusion shifts for robust visual place recognition training. A vision-language model parses scene attributes and estimates editability, while a rule-based scheduler routes generation through global appearance, local occlusion, or dual perturbation routes with geometric-consistency verification. The resulting AdaptCities dataset contains 160K verified synthetic hard positives, and experiments show R@1 gains up to 9.2% across VPR baselines and backbones. Code and data are publicly released on GitHub.

Hugging Face daily papers · 13d agoAI research

Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party

Meta filed a patent for AI glasses that identify people via facial recognition and auto-generate highlight reels of events like dinner parties.

A newly published Meta patent describes smartglasses that use facial recognition to detect people in frame, capture video clips of their actions, and compile highlight reels. The filing signals Meta's continued, controversial push to combine facial recognition with its AI glasses line. The patent was published Thursday and offers granular detail on Meta's product plans, though it does not confirm a shipping feature.

404 Media · Aug 14, 2026AI industry

SenseNova-U1.5: Towards Native Unified Visual Intelligence

SenseTime releases SenseNova-U1.5, an 8B-MoT encoder-free multimodal model unifying visual understanding, reasoning, and generation with native 4K resolution.

SenseNova-U1.5 is an 8B mixture-of-transformers multimodal model with an encoder-free, VAE-free architecture that understands, reasons about, and generates visual content at native resolutions up to 4K. Post-training optimizes specialized experts for visual aesthetics, bilingual text rendering, infographic generation, and image editing, consolidated through multi-expert on-policy distillation. Evaluations report gains in image fidelity, text rendering, multi-reference editing, and instruction following. The team plans to open-source training code including supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and on-policy distillation.

Hugging Face daily papers · 6d agoModel release

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5 with two API variants improving multi-turn instruction following and subject-preserving edits.

OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5, exposing two API model IDs: gpt-image-2.5-sunburst for precision editing and gpt-image-2.5-flare for fast everyday generation. The company says its image models have generated more than 3 billion images across ChatGPT Images and the GPT-Image API. The update improves multi-turn instruction following, response speed, and preservation of subjects from reference photos.

Simon Willison · 7d agoModel release

FlashVector: Agent for Hierarchical Model Serving Stack Optimization

FlashVector agent optimizes all layers of Unity's ad-serving stack, delivering up to 2x model-server throughput and 1.98x latency speedup in production.

FlashVector is an agentic system that optimizes performance across GPU kernels, ML framework computation graphs, model servers, and on-demand feature processing. Deployed in Unity's Vector advertising platform, it achieved up to 2x model-server throughput increase, 1.98x latency speedup, and 1.6x feature-store throughput gain. Optimizations spanned NVIDIA Triton's C++ codebase and the Python feature transformation service, demonstrating extensibility beyond single-kernel tuning.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL · 1d agoAI research

UniH^3: Unifying Hierarchical Homogeneity and Heterogeneity for All-in-One Medical Image Restoration

UniH3 unifies hierarchical homogeneity and heterogeneity modeling for all-in-one medical image restoration across modalities and degradation types.

UniH3 introduces a Hierarchical Homogeneity Memory module that distills shared anatomical priors from high-quality images, injected via a Homogeneity-Guided Attention mechanism. A Hierarchical Heterogeneity Balancer mitigates inter- and intra-task conflicts during multi-task optimization. It achieves state-of-the-art on MedIR-2D-500K and MedIR-3D-3D benchmarks for both all-in-one and single-task restoration, with code released on GitHub.

Hugging Face daily papers · 6d agoAI research

TANGO: Humanoid Navigation in Cluttered Environments with a Whole-Body Vision-Language-Action Model

Researchers introduce TANGO, a whole-body vision-language-action model enabling zero-shot language-guided humanoid navigation on the Unitree G1 robot.

TANGO addresses humanoid navigation in cluttered indoor environments by predicting 29-DoF joint-space actions directly from natural-language instructions and egocentric RGB, rather than 2D path planning. It is trained entirely in simulation via a pipeline combining global path planning, kinematic whole-body motion generation, obstacle-aware motion editing, and RL-based tracking. In simulation it achieves state-of-the-art vision-language navigation performance and transfers zero-shot to a Unitree G1 humanoid without any real-world navigation data.

Hugging Face daily papers · 8d agoAI research1

microsoft/VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming-7B — new model trending #27 on Hugging Face

Microsoft released VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming-7B, an open streaming ASR model with speaker attribution, custom hotwords, and support for 10 languages under MIT license.

Microsoft Research released VibeVoice-ASR-Streaming-7B on Hugging Face, a unified streaming speech recognition model that continuously transcribes who said what as speech arrives. The 7B model supports customized hotwords for domain-specific terms and 10 languages including Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Code is available at github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice with a live demo, and a technical report is on arXiv (2609.02812). The model is licensed under MIT.

Hugging Face trending models · 14d agoModel release1

VDiff-Bench: A Challenging Benchmark for Fine-Grained Image Difference Identification

VDiff-Bench, a 1,756-question benchmark, shows multimodal LLMs struggle with fine-grained image-difference identification, scoring as low as 8.7% on low-level changes.

VDiff-Bench is a multiple-choice benchmark of 1,756 four-way questions over image pairs covering 10 change categories including position, motion, color, texture, OCR/text and illumination, with curated hard negatives. Evaluation of 11 state-of-the-art open- and closed-source MLLMs shows fine-grained visual comparison remains brittle: 7-8B-scale open-source models score 52.5-70.6% on semantic changes but only 8.7-33.3% on low-level changes like noise and texture. Notably, Grok 4.3 shows a sharp performance drop on noise and texture differences, falling behind large open-source models like Kimi K2.5 and K3.

Hugging Face daily papers · 11d agoAI research

H Company Releases NeoMME: A Family of 260M and 800M Single-Tower Multimodal Encoders That Drop the Vision Tower and Causal Decoder

H Company released NeoMME, 260M/800M single-tower multimodal encoders matching 3.75B ColQwen2.5 on ViDoRe v3 while being 14.4x smaller, under Apache 2.0.

H Company released NeoMME, a family of 262,937,906- and 793,715,032-parameter bidirectional encoders that process text and raw 32x32 image patches in a single tower, pretrained via masked diffusion and released under Apache 2.0 with day-zero Hugging Face Transformers support. NeoMME-Retriever-260M reaches 0.523 nDCG@10 on ViDoRe v3, matching 3.75B-parameter ColQwen2.5 while being 14.4x smaller; the 800M model scores 0.556. Hierarchical token pooling with int8 and binary quantization shrinks late-interaction indexes from roughly 1.5 MB to 6 kB per page while retaining 95.19% of nDCG@10; text-only BEIR retrieval remains a weak spot.

MarkTechPost · 9d agoAI research

Omni Interaction Agent Technical Report

Researchers release Gander, an end-to-end omni interaction model with full-duplex streaming across video, speech, and text plus agentic capabilities.

Gander is an end-to-end model unifying omni perception, realtime interaction, and agentic capabilities in a single framework, accepting continuously streaming video, speech, and text. It uses a Cerebellum-Brain architecture where the Cerebellum handles realtime conversation and the Brain handles reasoning and agentic tasks, built on a streaming Thinker-Talker design with chunk-level token streams. Internal human evaluations report spoken dialogue on par with SOTA open source models and competitive omni interaction; the models, code, and data are released publicly.

Hugging Face daily papers · 8d agoModel release

Multi-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers

Hugging Face details building and using multi-vector late-interaction embedding models with Sentence Transformers for retrieval workloads.

Hugging Face published a guide on multi-vector, late-interaction embedding models (ColBERT-style) supported through Sentence Transformers. The post covers how practitioners can build and use these models for retrieval and RAG pipelines. It is a developer tooling and technique write-up, not a security advisory.

Hugging Face Blog · 29d agoAI tools & infra1