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GLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Tasks

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Looped World Models
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Looped World Models

Hongyuan Adam Lu, Z.L. Victor Wei, Qun Zhang

NLP
VibeThinker-3B: Exploring the Frontier of Verifiable Reasoning in Small Language Models
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VibeThinker-3B: Exploring the Frontier of Verifiable Reasoning in Small Language Models

Sen Xu, Shixi Liu, Wei Wang

NLP
Variable-Width Transformers
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Variable-Width Transformers

Zhaofeng Wu, Oliver Sieberling, Shawn Tan, The paper introduces ">

MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab

Robotics
Qwen-RobotManip Technical Report: Alignment Unlocks Scale for Robotic Manipulation Foundation Models
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Qwen-RobotManip Technical Report: Alignment Unlocks Scale for Robotic Manipulation Foundation Models

Haoqi Yuan, Zhixuan Liang, Anzhe Chen

HuggingFace Daily Papers

NLP
Context-Aware RL for Agentic and Multimodal LLMs
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Context-Aware RL for Agentic and Multimodal LLMs

Peiyang Xu, Bangzheng Li, Sijia Liu, Karthik R. Narasimhan, Pramod Viswanath

Princeton University

Freeing the Law with LOCUS: A Local Ordinance Corpus for the United States
HuggingFace
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Freeing the Law with LOCUS: A Local Ordinance Corpus for the United States

Denis Peskoff, Joe Barrow, Christopher Vu, Diag Davenport

LOCUS

Reinforcement Learning
LedgerAgent: Structured State for Policy-Adherent Tool-Calling Agents
HuggingFace
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LedgerAgent: Structured State for Policy-Adherent Tool-Calling Agents

Md Nayem Uddin, Amir Saeidi, Eduardo Blanco, Chitta Baral

Arizona State University

Reinforcement Learning
LegalHalluLens: Typed Hallucination Auditing and Calibrated Multi-Agent Debate for Trustworthy Legal AI
HuggingFace
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LegalHalluLens: Typed Hallucination Auditing and Calibrated Multi-Agent Debate for Trustworthy Legal AI

Lalit Yadav, Akshaj Gurugubelli

Independent Research

Reinforcement Learning
Configurable Clinical Information Extraction with Agentic RAG: What Works, What Breaks, and Why
HuggingFace
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Configurable Clinical Information Extraction with Agentic RAG: What Works, What Breaks, and Why

Osman Alperen Çinar-Koraş, Marie Bauer, Sameh Khattab, Merlin Engelke, Moon Kim

IKIM

Mrseongminkim
ReSyn: A Generalized Recursive Regular Expression Synthesis Framework
HuggingFace
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ReSyn: A Generalized Recursive Regular Expression Synthesis Framework

Seongmin Kim, Hyunjoon Cheon, Su-Hyeon Kim, Yo-Sub Han, Sang-Ki Ko