AI News Archive: August 20, 2026 — Part 21
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- JonnyLab
Clean screenshots and photos without giving up your privacy
- Listening Forward: Next Patch Embedding Prediction Enables Scalable Audio Learners
Self-supervised learning (SSL) has driven substantial progress in audio representation learning, though existing methods have increasingly relied on elaborate pre-training recipes to reach competitive performance. A markedly different pre-training philosophy underpins the most influential progress i...
- DAVSS: Distilled Audio-Visual State Space Models
State-space models (SSMs) distilled from transformer teachers combine the performance of transformers with the efficiency of SSMs. We extend the Transformer-SSM knowledge distillation to a multimodal setting and propose the Distilled Audio-visual State-Space (DAVSS) model. The DAVSS model, 14M param...
- Explainability by Design: Structured Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks over Probabilistic Attributes for Speech Deepfake Source Tracing
Modern speech synthesizers can produce highly realistic speech, making source tracing (i.e. identifying the generator behind a spoofed utterance) increasingly important for forensics, online content provenance, and platform accountability. Building on our prior work on transparent probabilistic attr...
- What Makes a Good Fiqh Retriever? Answer Retrieval for Arabic Islamic Jurisprudence
Retrieval-Augmented Generation is used for Islamic question answering, but most systems are evaluated end-to-end, making retrieval failures difficult to isolate from generation failures. We study answer-bearing retrieval for Arabic fiqh, where a passage is relevant only if it states the ruling requi...
- SCoRD: Semantic-Assisted Continual Retriever-Reranker Distillation for LLM-Based Recommendation
Recommendation systems increasingly adopt a two-stage pipeline, where an ID-based retriever retrieves candidates and an LLM-based reranker refines their rankings. To improve retrieval quality, reranker-to-retriever distillation is commonly used to transfer the reranker's knowledge to the retriever. ...
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- Factu.me
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- ImageVivid
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- Flux, Modern API Client
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- YN Translation Workshop
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- wan3video
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- AgentNet
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- MoveSmart AI
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- AngusKit
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- Zeqalune
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- Tech Trainers Tribe
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- StowLink
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- PC Tweaker — Every Millisecond Is Earned
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- ZenoAcc
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- Maxdesk
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- BetterDay AI
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- DOIT AI
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- Frontpages
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