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The Machine-Native Economy: How digital assets connect intelligence, commerce, and compute
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The Machine-Native Economy: How digital assets connect intelligence, commerce, and compute

Will Su, Robert Mitchnick, Jay Jacobs, William Helm

BlackRock

NLP
Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
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Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

Simon Lermen, Daniel Paleka, Joshua Swanson, Michael Aerni, Nicholas Carlini, Florian Tramèr

ETH Zurich, MATS, Anthropic

We trained a model to predict AI-written blog posts from structural features - and discovered the shape of slop
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We trained a model to predict AI-written blog posts from structural features - and discovered the shape of slop

AlphaXiv Trending

Memory Attention
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Memory Attention

JEV-as-a-Judge: Accept When Confident, Escalate When Unsure
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JEV-as-a-Judge: Accept When Confident, Escalate When Unsure

Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon University

Machine Learning
Self-Play Pretraining with Zero Data
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Self-Play Pretraining with Zero Data

Affiliation: Tel Aviv University, Affiliation: Stanford University, Tel Aviv University, Stanford University

Reinforcement Learning
Despite Instructions: Frontier Agents Improvise Covert Channels at Test Time
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Despite Instructions: Frontier Agents Improvise Covert Channels at Test Time

NLP
LLM Agents Can Easily Tamper With Their Own Traces
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LLM Agents Can Easily Tamper With Their Own Traces

Affiliation: ELLIS Institute Tübingen, Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Affiliation: Tübingen AI Center, Affiliation: University of Tübingen perfect-crime.ai, Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Affiliation: Tübingen AI Center

Representation World Model: Learning States, Transition and Executable Plans in Representation
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Representation World Model: Learning States, Transition and Executable Plans in Representation

HuggingFace Daily Papers

NLP
Your Transformer Can Hold Two Thoughts at Once: Evidence of Linear Superposition in LLMs
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Your Transformer Can Hold Two Thoughts at Once: Evidence of Linear Superposition in LLMs

Pavel Tikhonov, Anton Korznikov, Matvey Mikhalchuk, Nikita Dragunov, Temurbek Rahmatullaev

Speech Audio
Parts-of-Speech as Emergent Categories in SAE Latent Space
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Parts-of-Speech as Emergent Categories in SAE Latent Space

Alessandro Bondielli, Lucia Passaro, Serena Auriemma, Alessandro Lenci

CoLingLab | Computational Linguistics Laboratory - University of Pisa

Learning to Discover Interesting Mathematics
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Learning to Discover Interesting Mathematics

Niket Patel, Ahmad Rammal, Amaury Hayat, Remi Munos, Julia Kempe

New York University

Computer Vision
RGBD20K: A Large-Scale Benchmark for RGB-D Semantic Segmentation
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RGBD20K: A Large-Scale Benchmark for RGB-D Semantic Segmentation

Shaohua Dong, Zexuan Meng, Haiyan Sun, Bing Fan, Cuicui Zhang

University of North Texas

Reinforcement Learning
Just Ask Jev: Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions as a Zero-Shot Detector of AI Alignment Failures
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Just Ask Jev: Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions as a Zero-Shot Detector of AI Alignment Failures

Ruoqi Guo, Yi Liu, Gelei Deng, Yuekang Li, Lida Zhao

Computer Vision
AV-GRPO: Modality-Anchored Decoupling Diffusion Reinforcement Learning for Joint Audio-Video Generation
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AV-GRPO: Modality-Anchored Decoupling Diffusion Reinforcement Learning for Joint Audio-Video Generation

Zhiyu Xu, Weilong Yan, Yufei Shi, Shiyang Li, Yihao Liu

Shanghai AI Laboratory