Publication Broken Neural Scaling Laws in Learning the Optical Properties of Solids Max Großmann, Malte Grunert, Erich Runge PRX Intelligence | August 2026
Publication OpScale: Operator-level Provisioning and Autoscaling for LLM Serving Xingqi Cui, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Ziang Tang, Jiarong Xing, Haoran Qiu ArXiv | August 2026 Project
Publication Beyond Text Conditioning: A Systematic Study of MLLM-DiT Fusion for Video Generation Yanbo Ding, Yijia Fan, Caihua Shan, Yifan Yang, Yifei Shen, Weijie Wang, Xirui Hu, Dongsheng Li, Lili Qiu, Yuqing Yang, Yali Wang August 2026 arXiv | August 2026
Publication ForgeWM: Progressive Causal Training for Few-Step Action-Conditioned Video World Models Xinye Li, Lingshuai Lin, Lei Wang, Liuzhou Zhang, Jialin Cui, Qingshang Li, Guanchu Wang, Qingbin Liu, Xi Chen, Jiang Bian, Wai Lam August 2026 arXiv | August 2026
Publication Unifying Depth and Width Pruning for LLMs via Binary Knapsack Optimization Palaash Goel, Ayan Sengupta, Akshay Nambi, Tanmoy Chakraborty August 2026 arXiv | August 2026
Publication From Passive Delegates to Strategic Negotiators: Reinforcing Social Reasoning in Small Language Models with SocialRL Wenyue Hua, Zezhou Huang, Tyler Payne, Safoora Yousefi, Saleema Amershi, Asli Celikyilmaz August 2026 arXiv | August 2026
Publication “Always Want to Use it for Everything”: Understanding Young Adults’ Perceptions of AI Dependence Ashlee Milton, Leah Ajmani, Amy Heger, Forough Poursabzi, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Jina Suh AIES 2026 Project
Publication Agent Skills Can Be Harmful: An Empirical Study of Skill-Induced Failures in LLM Agents Gen Dong, Yanjie Gao, Liqun Li, Tianyin Xu, Yu Hua, Fan Yang August 2026 August 2026
Publication Dion3: Full-Stack Orthogonal Updates Noah Amsel, Jack Zhang, Kwangjun Ahn, Ali Naeimi, Austin Feng, Berlin Chen, Tri Dao, John Langford August 2026 arXiv | August 2026 Github
Publication Beyond “I Can’t Help with That”: How Child Safety Experts Evaluate AI Chatbot Safety Hannah Cha, Neha Shukla, Solon Barocas, Alex Chouldechova, Eugenia Kim, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan AIES 2026