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The AI Layoff Trap
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The AI Layoff Trap

Brett Hemenway Falk, Gerry Tsoukalas

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Boston University

NLP
Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
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Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

Vassilis Papadopoulos, McNair Shah, Sam Zimmerman, Jack Lindsey

Anthropic, EPFL

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Mathematics in the age of AI
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Mathematics in the age of AI

Terence Tao

Address: UCLA Department of Mathematics, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555, UCLA Department of Mathematics, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555

Robotics
Autonomous De Novo Protein Binder Design with Claude
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Autonomous De Novo Protein Binder Design with Claude

AS, Amir Shanehsazzadeh

Computer Vision
HarnessEval-W: Agentifying the Evaluation of Visual Worlds
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HarnessEval-W: Agentifying the Evaluation of Visual Worlds

Weiliang Chen, Haowen Sun, Jun Gao

https://github.com/mirros-lab/harnesseval-w, https://mirros-lab.github.io/HarnessEval-W

Proteus: Incremental Memory Activation for Long-Context Sequence Modeling
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Proteus: Incremental Memory Activation for Long-Context Sequence Modeling

Reza Bayat, Ali Behrouz, Vahab Mirrokni

Machine Learning
An Empirical Study of Training Pixel-Space Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
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An Empirical Study of Training Pixel-Space Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Dengyang Jiang, Ruoyi Du, Zhennan Chen

Alibaba Token Hub, Alibaba Group, The Hong Kong University of Science, Nanjing University, University of California

Machine Learning
Agentic ESOpt: Fine-Tuning Long-Horizon LLM Agents with Minimal GPU Requirements
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Agentic ESOpt: Fine-Tuning Long-Horizon LLM Agents with Minimal GPU Requirements

Zhi Zheng, Rongsheng Chen, Yunpeng Ba

† † affiliation: National University of Singapore, † † affiliation: Southern University of Science and Technology, NUS — National University of Singapore

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Computer Vision
V-RAE: Rethinking Video Latent Spaces for Generation
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V-RAE: Rethinking Video Latent Spaces for Generation

Minghui Guo, Shengqiong Wu, Hao Fei

National University of Singapore

NLP
DiSCO: Defending text-to-image generation through distribution-guided contrastive prompt optimization
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DiSCO: Defending text-to-image generation through distribution-guided contrastive prompt optimization

Tong Zhang, Motasem Alfarra, Carlos Hinojosa, Christos Louizos, Bernard Ghanem

KAUST Center of Excellence in Generative AI

Reinforcement Learning
LEGO-RL: Harness-Native Reinforcement Learning for Coding Agents
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LEGO-RL: Harness-Native Reinforcement Learning for Coding Agents

Yiming Du, Yuxin Jiang, Tao Yuan, Jianbo Dai, Shaowei Wang

LegoX

NLP
PTXBench: Benchmark and Adapt LLMs for GPU Kernel Optimization with Architecture-specific PTX
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PTXBench: Benchmark and Adapt LLMs for GPU Kernel Optimization with Architecture-specific PTX

Genghan Zhang, Yixin Dong, Chengze Fan, Zhichen Zeng, Yueming Yuan

Stanford University

Multimodal
CardioState-JEPA: Delay-Aware Cross-Modal Learning of a Shared Cardiac Representation
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CardioState-JEPA: Delay-Aware Cross-Modal Learning of a Shared Cardiac Representation

Hamza Shafiq, Hung Manh Pham, Bin Zhu, Pan Zhou, Jun Hu

NLP
PixRestore: Unified Image Restoration via Pixel Diffusion Transformer
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PixRestore: Unified Image Restoration via Pixel Diffusion Transformer

Lingchen Sun, Rongyuan Wu, Xiangtao Kong, Jixin Zhao, Qiaosi Yi