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The AI Layoff Trap
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The AI Layoff Trap

Brett Hemenway Falk, Gerry Tsoukalas

Reasoning
The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
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The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity

Parshin Shojaee, Iman Mirzadeh, Rishabh Agarwal, Róbert Csordás, Alex Lamb, Siamak Ravanbakhsh, Hanie Sedghi, Behnam Neyshabur

AlphaXiv Trending

Efficiency
DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence
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DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence

DeepSeek-AI

DeepSeek-AI

Machine Learning
There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
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There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning

Jamie Simon, Daniel Kunin, Alexander Atanasov

NLP
Incompressible Knowledge Probes: Estimating Black-Box LLM Parameter Counts via Factual Capacity
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Incompressible Knowledge Probes: Estimating Black-Box LLM Parameter Counts via Factual Capacity

Bojie Li

NLP
The Recurrent Transformer: Greater Effective Depth and Efficient Decoding
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The Recurrent Transformer: Greater Effective Depth and Efficient Decoding

Costin-Andrei Oncescu, Depen Morwani, Samy Jelassi

Computer Vision
Tuna-2: Pixel Embeddings Beat Vision Encoders for Multimodal Understanding and Generation
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Tuna-2: Pixel Embeddings Beat Vision Encoders for Multimodal Understanding and Generation

Zhiheng Liu, Weiming Ren, Xiaoke Huang

Computer Vision
World-R1: Reinforcing 3D Constraints for Text-to-Video Generation
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World-R1: Reinforcing 3D Constraints for Text-to-Video Generation

Weijie Wang, Xiaoxuan He, Youping Gu

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Reinforcement Learning
GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents
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GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents

V Team, Wenyi Hong, Xiaotao Gu, Ziyang Pan, Zhen Yang

NLP
Large Language Models Explore by Latent Distilling
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Large Language Models Explore by Latent Distilling

Yuanhao Zeng, Ao Lu, Lufei Li, Zheng Zhang, Yexin Li

Multimodal
RADIO-ViPE: Online Tightly Coupled Multi-Modal Fusion for Open-Vocabulary Semantic SLAM in Dynamic Environments
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RADIO-ViPE: Online Tightly Coupled Multi-Modal Fusion for Open-Vocabulary Semantic SLAM in Dynamic Environments

Zaid Nasser, Mikhail Iumanov, Tianhao Li, Maxim Popov, Jaafar Mahmoud

NLP
A Survey on LLM-based Conversational User Simulation
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A Survey on LLM-based Conversational User Simulation

Bo Ni, Leyao Wang, Yu Wang, Branislav Kveton, Franck Dernoncourt

Multimodal
FASH-iCNN: Making Editorial Fashion Identity Inspectable Through Multimodal CNN Probing
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FASH-iCNN: Making Editorial Fashion Identity Inspectable Through Multimodal CNN Probing

Morayo Danielle Adeyemi, Ryan A. Rossi, Franck Dernoncourt

Computer Vision
Probing Visual Planning in Image Editing Models
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Probing Visual Planning in Image Editing Models

Zhimu Zhou, Yanpeng Zhao, Qiuyu Liao, Bo Zhao, Xiaojian Ma