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The AI Layoff Trap
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The AI Layoff Trap

Brett Hemenway Falk, Gerry Tsoukalas

University of Pennsylvania, Boston University

NLP
Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
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Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

Vassilis Papadopoulos, McNair Shah, Sam Zimmerman, Jack Lindsey

Mathematics in the age of AI
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Mathematics in the age of AI

Terence Tao

UCLA

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Mathematics in the age of AI
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Mathematics in the age of AI

Terence Tao

Address: UCLA Department of Mathematics, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555, UCLA Department of Mathematics, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555

Recirculation
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Recirculation

Michael C. Mozer, Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, Danny Sawyer

Thanks: Work performed while a student researcher at DeepMind, Michael C. MozerGoogle DeepMind, Shoaib Ahmed SiddiquiGoogle DeepMind, Danny SawyerGoogle DeepMind, Rosanne LiuGoogle DeepMind

Robotics
Autonomous De Novo Protein Binder Design with Claude
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Autonomous De Novo Protein Binder Design with Claude

Amir Shanehsazzadeh

Computer Vision
Hawkeye: Hardware-Aware GPU Kernel Optimization with Minimal Supervision
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Hawkeye: Hardware-Aware GPU Kernel Optimization with Minimal Supervision

Arya Tschand, Kesavan Ramakrishnan, Alexander Ingare

Hydra-0: Action Flow for Generalist World Modeling and Control
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Hydra-0: Action Flow for Generalist World Modeling and Control

Hongyu Li, Bowen Wen, Xinghao Zhu

NVIDIA, Brown University, Columbia University, Harvard University

SPADE: Self-Play in Adaptive Synthetic Executable Environments
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SPADE: Self-Play in Adaptive Synthetic Executable Environments

Bo Liu, Simon Yu, Yiding Jiang

University of Washington, Stanford University, Northeastern University, Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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QuoteBench: How Matched Scores Can Hide Command-Path Failures
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QuoteBench: How Matched Scores Can Hide Command-Path Failures

Shangao Li, Yao Zhang, Volker Tresp, Yuanyuan Yang

Reinforcement Learning
Hierarchical Self-Improvement: A Framework for Task-Specific Evolvable Agent Harnesses
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Hierarchical Self-Improvement: A Framework for Task-Specific Evolvable Agent Harnesses

Tailin Zhou

HKUST

Robotics
τ_0-VLA: a Hierarchical Robot Foundation Model with World-Model-Guided Test-Time Computation
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τ_0-VLA: a Hierarchical Robot Foundation Model with World-Model-Guided Test-Time Computation

Xiaowei Cai, Yunuo Cai, Bingao Chen, Jingxiao Chen, Zhi Chen

Shanghai Innovation Institute

Robotics
GOAG: Generative and Object-Agnostic Grasp Planner for Dexterous Robotic Manipulation
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GOAG: Generative and Object-Agnostic Grasp Planner for Dexterous Robotic Manipulation

Julien Merand, Boris Meden, Mathieu Grossard, Liming Chen

Reasoning
CoToGrasp: Contact-Topology-Conditioned Dexterous Grasp Synthesis via Canonical Workspace Learning
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CoToGrasp: Contact-Topology-Conditioned Dexterous Grasp Synthesis via Canonical Workspace Learning

Julien Merand, Boris Meden, Liming Chen, Mathieu Grossard

NLP
The Embedder's Dilemma: LLMs Are Better, but at What Cost?
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The Embedder's Dilemma: LLMs Are Better, but at What Cost?

Adnan El Assadi, Niklas Muennighoff, Jinhyuk Lee