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SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead
X.com
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SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead

Leopold Aschenbrenner

AlphaXiv Trending

Reasoning
AlphaXiv
218

Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

Qwen Team

Reinforcement Learning
LongHorizon-Harness: Advancing Long-Horizon Agents for Real-World Tasks
AlphaXiv
67

LongHorizon-Harness: Advancing Long-Horizon Agents for Real-World Tasks

Ziyu Ma, Hailang Huang, Shun Zou

DreamX Team, Alibaba Group

Robotics
Ego2Robot: Scalable Robot Data Synthesis from Egocentric Human Data
AlphaXiv
62

Ego2Robot: Scalable Robot Data Synthesis from Egocentric Human Data

YW, Ye Wang, Pei Lin, Xiong-Hui Chen

AIM3 Lab, Renmin University of China, Qwen Team, Alibaba Inc, ShanghaiTech University, Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Computer Vision
JoyAI-Video-Edit: Real-Time Open-Ended Video Editing with Autoregressive Diffusion
AlphaXiv
35

JoyAI-Video-Edit: Real-Time Open-Ended Video Editing with Autoregressive Diffusion

Yicheng Xiao, Wenxun Dai, Xinran Qin

Joy Future Academy, JD

Reinforcement Learning
DAPD: Dual-Anchored Policy Distillation
AlphaXiv
32

DAPD: Dual-Anchored Policy Distillation

Jianyu Wu, Yizhou Wang, Encheng Su

Reinforcement Learning
ETA: A New Agentic Paradigm for Embodied Tasks
AlphaXiv
30

ETA: A New Agentic Paradigm for Embodied Tasks

Yitong Chen, Zezheng Huai, Sixian Li

Shanghai Innovation Institute, Fudan University, Jilin University, Nanjing University, Zhejiang University

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Machine Learning
ABSeeker: Training Long-Horizon Search Agents via Answer-Backtracked Credit Assignment
HuggingFace
52

ABSeeker: Training Long-Horizon Search Agents via Answer-Backtracked Credit Assignment

Yijun Lu, Rui Ye, Jiajun Wang, Yuwen Du, Tian Jin

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Efficiency
Lossless Tensor Compression as Program Synthesis
HuggingFace
7

Lossless Tensor Compression as Program Synthesis

Jieke Shi, Junda He, Wenjia Jiang, Weifeng Sun, Shidong Pan

Singapore Management University

Reinforcement Learning
Self-Evolving Coding Agents
HuggingFace
3

Self-Evolving Coding Agents

Hao Zhou, Haichuan Hu, Ye Shang, Quanjun Zhang

Nanjing University of Science and Technology

DRIFT: Derailing Denoising Trajectories of Flow-Matching VLAs with Adversarial Patch Attack
HuggingFace
2

DRIFT: Derailing Denoising Trajectories of Flow-Matching VLAs with Adversarial Patch Attack

Hoseong Tae, Jong-Seok Lee

NLP
SIGNPOST-Bench: Benchmarking Text-Vision Conflict Resolution in Multimodal Large Language Models
HuggingFace
2

SIGNPOST-Bench: Benchmarking Text-Vision Conflict Resolution in Multimodal Large Language Models

Sirun Li, Minghao Liu, Ling Dai, Yong Li, Haoxin Lyu

Resume Means Resume: A Machine-Checked Conformance Contract for Checkpoint, Interrupt, and Resume Semantics in Workflow Persistence Layers
HuggingFace
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Resume Means Resume: A Machine-Checked Conformance Contract for Checkpoint, Interrupt, and Resume Semantics in Workflow Persistence Layers

Sajjad Khan