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A New Look at AI’s Impact on Jobs: Firm-Level AI Spending and Workforce Adjustment
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A New Look at AI’s Impact on Jobs: Firm-Level AI Spending and Workforce Adjustment

Ara Kharazian, Lisa Simon, Ryan Stevens

Ramp, Revelio Labs

AlphaXiv Trending

Orca: The World is in Your Mind
AlphaXiv
310

Orca: The World is in Your Mind

Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, Yihao Wang, Yuheng Ji, Mingyu Cao

Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

Reasoning
DSpark: Confidence-Scheduled Speculative Decoding with Semi-Autoregressive Generation
AlphaXiv
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DSpark: Confidence-Scheduled Speculative Decoding with Semi-Autoregressive Generation

Xin Cheng, Xingkai Yu, Chenze Shao

AdaJEPA: An Adaptive Latent World Model
AlphaXiv
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AdaJEPA: An Adaptive Latent World Model

Ying Wang, OB, Oumayma Bounou, Yann LeCun

New York University

Reinforcement Learning
Scaling the Horizon, Not the Parameters: Reaching Trillion-Parameter Performance with a 35B Agent
AlphaXiv
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Scaling the Horizon, Not the Parameters: Reaching Trillion-Parameter Performance with a 35B Agent

Lei Bai, Zongsheng Cao, Yang Chen

Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Machine Learning
Is One Layer Enough? Training A Single Transformer Layer Can Match Full-Parameter RL Training
AlphaXiv
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Is One Layer Enough? Training A Single Transformer Layer Can Match Full-Parameter RL Training

Zijian Zhang, Rizhen Hu, AG, Athanasios Glentis

This work is independent of and outside of the work at Amazon, University of Minnesota, Peking University, Amazon

Computer Vision
A Mathematical Introduction to Diffusion Models
AlphaXiv
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A Mathematical Introduction to Diffusion Models

Jianfeng Lu

Mathematics Department, Duke University, Box 90320, Durham, NC 27705 USA, research-level theorems stated with a proof roadmap. The intended audience is, Research-level theorems

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Efficiency
VLA-Corrector: Lightweight Detect-and-Correct Inference for Adaptive Action Horizon
HuggingFace
22

VLA-Corrector: Lightweight Detect-and-Correct Inference for Adaptive Action Horizon

Yi Pan, Miao Pan, Qi Lu, Jiaming Huang, Man Zhang

ZJU-OmniAI

NLP
OrbitQuant: Data-Agnostic Quantization for Image and Video Diffusion Transformers
HuggingFace
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OrbitQuant: Data-Agnostic Quantization for Image and Video Diffusion Transformers

Donghyun Lee, Jitesh Chavan, Duy Nguyen, Sam Huang, Liming Jiang

Cantina, Inc.

NLP
DataComp-VLM: Improved Open Datasets for Vision-Language Models
HuggingFace
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DataComp-VLM: Improved Open Datasets for Vision-Language Models

Matteo Farina, Vishaal Udandarao, Thao Nguyen, Selim Kuzucu, Maximilian Böther

Reinforcement Learning
Securing the AI Agent: A Unified Framework for Multi-Layer Agent Red Teaming
HuggingFace
6

Securing the AI Agent: A Unified Framework for Multi-Layer Agent Red Teaming

Yong Yang, Xing Zheng, Huiyu Wu, Huangsheng Cheng, Xiaorong Shi

Tencent

Safety Alignment
Interpretation-Oriented Cloud Removal via Observation-Anchored Residual Flow with Geo-Contextual Alignment
HuggingFace
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Interpretation-Oriented Cloud Removal via Observation-Anchored Residual Flow with Geo-Contextual Alignment

Ziyao Wang, Maonan Wang, Yucheng He, Xianping Ma, Ziyi Wang

Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Machine Learning
MultAttnAttrib: Training-Free Multimodal Attribution in Long Document Question Answering
HuggingFace
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MultAttnAttrib: Training-Free Multimodal Attribution in Long Document Question Answering

Dang Quang Thien Tran, Quang V. Dang, Vinamra Tyagi, Sai Soorya Rao Veeravalli, Trang Nguyen