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Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

Thinking Machines

Thinking Machines

NLP
Bonsai 27B: Full 27B-Class Reasoning in Binary and Ternary Transformer Weights — On Laptops and Phones
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Bonsai 27B: Full 27B-Class Reasoning in Binary and Ternary Transformer Weights — On Laptops and Phones

PrismML

Robotics
Xiaomi-Robotics-U0: Unified Embodied Synthesis with World Foundation Model
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Xiaomi-Robotics-U0: Unified Embodied Synthesis with World Foundation Model

Xinghang Li, Jun Guo, Qiwei Li

with World Foundation Model

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AIDE²: The First Evidence of Recursive Self-Improvement

Weco Team

Speech Audio
Qwen-Music Technical Report
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Qwen-Music Technical Report

Jin Xu, Kangdi Wang, Ruibin Yuan

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Reinforcement Learning
Self-Improvements in Modern Agentic Systems: A Survey
HuggingFace
8

Self-Improvements in Modern Agentic Systems: A Survey

Zhe Ren, Yimeng Chen, Dandan Guo, Guowei Rong, Tonghui Li

NLP
Discrete Diffusion Models: A Unified Framework from Tokenization to Generation
HuggingFace
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Discrete Diffusion Models: A Unified Framework from Tokenization to Generation

Ye Yuan, Weien Li, Rui Song, Zeyu Li, Haochen Liu

AAAAA Academia Attractions

Robotics
Self in Space: Benchmarking Self-Awareness and Spatial Cognition in UAV Embodied Intelligence
HuggingFace
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Self in Space: Benchmarking Self-Awareness and Spatial Cognition in UAV Embodied Intelligence

Zhishan Zou, Guoyan Sun, Zhiwei Wei, Jiancheng Pan, Yujie Li

Reinforcement Learning
From Controlled to the Wild: Evaluation of Pentesting Agents for the Real-World
HuggingFace
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From Controlled to the Wild: Evaluation of Pentesting Agents for the Real-World

Pedro Conde, Henrique Branquinho, Valerio Mazzone, Bruno Mendes, André Baptista

Ethiack

Robotics
SPEAR: A Simulator for Photorealistic Embodied AI Research
HuggingFace
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SPEAR: A Simulator for Photorealistic Embodied AI Research

Mike Roberts, Renhan Wang, Rushikesh Zawar, Rachith Dey-Prakash, Quentin Leboutet

Adobe Research

Bekhouche
AffectFlow-DINO: Uncertainty-Aware Multi-Task Affect Estimation via Conditional Rectified Flow
HuggingFace
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AffectFlow-DINO: Uncertainty-Aware Multi-Task Affect Estimation via Conditional Rectified Flow

Salah Eddine Bekhouche, Abdellah Zakaria Sellam, Fadi Dornaika, Abdenour Hadid