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Reasoning
The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
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The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity

Parshin Shojaee, Iman Mirzadeh, Keivan Alizadeh, Maxwell Horton, Samy Bengio, Mehrdad Farajtabar

Apple

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Reasoning
Generative Recursive Reasoning
AlphaXiv
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Generative Recursive Reasoning

Junyeob Baek, Mingyu Jo, Minsu Kim

Mila – Québec AI Institute, New York University

Reinforcement Learning
Code as Agent Harness
AlphaXiv
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Code as Agent Harness

Xuying Ning, Katherine Tieu, Dongqi Fu

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Meta, Stanford University

Robotics
AutoResearchClaw: Self-Reinforcing Autonomous Research with Human-AI Collaboration
AlphaXiv
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AutoResearchClaw: Self-Reinforcing Autonomous Research with Human-AI Collaboration

Jiaqi Liu, Shi Qiu, Mairui Li

Carnegie Mellon University, Rutgers University, Meta, Stanford University, Google

NLP
Vision-OPD: Learning to See Fine Details for Multimodal LLMs via On-Policy Self-Distillation
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Vision-OPD: Learning to See Fine Details for Multimodal LLMs via On-Policy Self-Distillation

Qianhao Yuan, Jie Lou, Xing Yu

Chinese Information Processing Laboratory, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Probabilistic Tiny Recursive Model
AlphaXiv
27

Probabilistic Tiny Recursive Model

Amin Sghaier, Ali Parviz, Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau

Mila – Quebec AI Institute

Multimodal
Lance: Unified Multimodal Modeling by Multi-Task Synergy
AlphaXiv
27

Lance: Unified Multimodal Modeling by Multi-Task Synergy

Fengyi Fu, Mengqi Huang, Shaojin Wu

HuggingFace Daily Papers

NLP
SEGA: Spectral-Energy Guided Attention for Resolution Extrapolation in Diffusion Transformers
HuggingFace
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SEGA: Spectral-Energy Guided Attention for Resolution Extrapolation in Diffusion Transformers

Javad Rajabi, Kimia Shaban, Koorosh Roohi, David B. Lindell, Babak Taati

University of Toronto Computer Science

NLP
Forecasting Downstream Performance of LLMs With Proxy Metrics
HuggingFace
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Forecasting Downstream Performance of LLMs With Proxy Metrics

Arkil Patel, Siva Reddy, Marius Mosbach, Dzmitry Bahdanau

McGill NLP Group

Machine Learning
Disentangling Sampling from Training Budget in Class-Imbalanced CT Body Composition Segmentation
HuggingFace
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Disentangling Sampling from Training Budget in Class-Imbalanced CT Body Composition Segmentation

Iason Skylitsis, Dimitrios Karkalousos, Ivana Išgum

Rladmstn1714
"I didn't Make the Micro Decisions": Measuring, Inducing, and Exposing Goal-Level AI Contributions in Collaboration
HuggingFace
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"I didn't Make the Micro Decisions": Measuring, Inducing, and Exposing Goal-Level AI Contributions in Collaboration

Eunsu Kim, Jessica R. Mindel, Kyungjin Kim, Sherry Tongshuang Wu

Reinforcement Learning
Lean Refactor: Multi-Objective Controllable Proof Optimization via Agentic Strategy Search
HuggingFace
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Lean Refactor: Multi-Objective Controllable Proof Optimization via Agentic Strategy Search

Jialin Lu, Soonho Kong, Rodrigo Stehling, Kaiyu Yang, Zhangyang Wang

Computer Vision
FashionLens: Toward Versatile Fashion Image Retrieval via Task-Adaptive Learning
HuggingFace
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FashionLens: Toward Versatile Fashion Image Retrieval via Task-Adaptive Learning

Haokun Wen, Xuemeng Song, Xinghao Xie, Xiaolin Chen, Xiangyu Zhao