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Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling, Even in Ideal Bayesians
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Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling, Even in Ideal Bayesians

Kartik Chandra, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Joshua B. Tenenbaum

MIT CSAIL, University of Washington, Seattle, MIT Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences

NLP
The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It
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The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It

Cameron Berg, Valen Tagliabue

Financing the AI Buildout
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Financing the AI Buildout

Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

Columbia Business School

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Towards Looped Models Done Right Part II: Rethinking at Fixed Points
AlphaXiv
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Towards Looped Models Done Right Part II: Rethinking at Fixed Points

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NLP
Looped Diffusion Transformer
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Looped Diffusion Transformer

SenseTime Research, LeapLab, Tsinghua University

Machine Learning
Finetuning with Sampling: SFT Learns Better Than You Think
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Finetuning with Sampling: SFT Learns Better Than You Think

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Affiliation: Harvard University Website Code, Harvard University

Retrieval
ScholarCatalyst: A Benchmark for Retrieving Papers That Inspire New Research
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ScholarCatalyst: A Benchmark for Retrieving Papers That Inspire New Research

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Affiliation: Stanford University Seoul National University University of Washington, Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University Allen Institute for AI MIT, Retrieving Papers that Inspire New Research, Stanford University Seoul National University University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University Allen Institute for AI MIT

Computer Vision
VISTA: A Visual Harness for Reasoning in an Interactive World
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VISTA: A Visual Harness for Reasoning in an Interactive World

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Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Affiliation: Code: https://github.com/joshhhhhan/VISTA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Recent Advanced Technologies in Financial Time-Series Generation: A Survey
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Recent Advanced Technologies in Financial Time-Series Generation: A Survey

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Reasoning
RealCompanion: Benchmarking Human Understanding from Reasoning over Longitudinal Real-World Conversations
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RealCompanion: Benchmarking Human Understanding from Reasoning over Longitudinal Real-World Conversations

Arman Behnam, Sunglyoung Kim, Liangwei Yang

Quis Lab

Reinforcement Learning
Tail-Influence Sampling for CVaR Policy Evaluation
HuggingFace
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Tail-Influence Sampling for CVaR Policy Evaluation

Pauline Bourigault, Xiaotong Ji, Matthieu Zimmer, Rasul Tutunov, Haitham Bou-Ammar

HUAWEI Noah's Ark Lab

Reasoning
MinkowskiPE: Minkowski Positional Encoding for Spatiotemporal Perception
HuggingFace
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MinkowskiPE: Minkowski Positional Encoding for Spatiotemporal Perception

Yuhao Li, Louie Hong Yao, Tianyi Shi, Hanqun Cao, Hongxia Hao

Computer Vision
KeyRec: Bounded Visual Memory for Streaming and Long-Video Understanding
HuggingFace
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KeyRec: Bounded Visual Memory for Streaming and Long-Video Understanding

Zihan Chen, Xuejian Rong, Xiaojuan Wang, Boqing Gong, Adi Zicher

Google

Computer Vision
4DCodeBench: Benchmarking Agents on Inverse Graphics of Dynamic Scenes
HuggingFace
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4DCodeBench: Benchmarking Agents on Inverse Graphics of Dynamic Scenes

Ruihong Shen, Žiga Kovačič, Peter Kulits, Xingrui Wang, Zizhang Li

4DCodeBench

Retrieval
Where Does Retrieval-Based Open-Ended Evaluation Fail? Automatic Taxonomy Induction from Long-Form Medical Answer Factuality Verification
HuggingFace
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Where Does Retrieval-Based Open-Ended Evaluation Fail? Automatic Taxonomy Induction from Long-Form Medical Answer Factuality Verification

Heyuan Huang, Jirui Dai, Alexandra DeLucia, Sonal Joshi, Mahsa Yarmohammadi

Center for Language and Speech Processing @ JHU

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