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Institutional Sovereignty in the Age of AI
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Institutional Sovereignty in the Age of AI

Palantir

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Machine Learning
Is One Layer Enough? Training A Single Transformer Layer Can Match Full-Parameter RL Training
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Is One Layer Enough? Training A Single Transformer Layer Can Match Full-Parameter RL Training

Zijian Zhang, RH, Rizhen Hu, AG, Athanasios Glentis

This work is independent of and outside of the work at Amazon, University of Minnesota, Peking University, Amazon

AutoMem: Automated Learning of Memory as a Cognitive Skill
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AutoMem: Automated Learning of Memory as a Cognitive Skill

Shengguang Wu, Hao Zhu, Yuhui Zhang

Stanford University

Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions
AlphaXiv
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Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions

Wentao Zhang, Liliana Hotsko, Woojeong Kim

University of Waterloo, Cornell University, Harvard University

Robotics
RoboDojo: A Unified Sim-and-Real Benchmark for Comprehensive Evaluation of Generalist Robot Manipulation Policies
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RoboDojo: A Unified Sim-and-Real Benchmark for Comprehensive Evaluation of Generalist Robot Manipulation Policies

Tianxing Chen, Yue Chen, Zixuan Li

Machine Learning
Vision Pretraining for Dense Spatial Perception
AlphaXiv
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Vision Pretraining for Dense Spatial Perception

Zelin Fu, Bin Tan, Changjiang Sun

Gemma 4 Technical Report
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Gemma 4 Technical Report

Gemma Team, Sherif El Abd, Vaibhav Aggarwal

Google DeepMind

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Robbyant
From Foundation to Application: Improving VLA Models in Practice
HuggingFace
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From Foundation to Application: Improving VLA Models in Practice

Wei Wu, Fangjing Wang, Fan Lu, He Sun, Shi Liu

Robbyant

Computer Vision
CanvasAgent: Enabling Complex Image Creation and Editing via Visual Tool Orchestration
HuggingFace
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CanvasAgent: Enabling Complex Image Creation and Editing via Visual Tool Orchestration

Hairui Zhu, Yiying Yang, Tengjin Weng, Ziyu Lu, Xiao Yao

Reinforcement Learning
Bibby AI: An Editor-Native Agentic Platform for Academic Research, Writing, and Publishing
HuggingFace
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Bibby AI: An Editor-Native Agentic Platform for Academic Research, Writing, and Publishing

Nilesh Jain

Bibby Research Labs

Hunter Heidenreich
Where to cut, how deep: BPE and Unigram-LM on chemistry SMILES
HuggingFace
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Where to cut, how deep: BPE and Unigram-LM on chemistry SMILES

Hunter Heidenreich

Efficiency
HunyuanOCR-1.5: Making Lightweight OCR VLMs Faster and Better
HuggingFace
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HunyuanOCR-1.5: Making Lightweight OCR VLMs Faster and Better

Gengluo Li, Xingyu Wan, Shangpin Peng, Weinong Wang, Hao Feng

Tencent

Computer Vision
Image2Sim: Scaling Embodied Navigation via Generative Neural Simulator
HuggingFace
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Image2Sim: Scaling Embodied Navigation via Generative Neural Simulator

Zihan Wang, Seungjun Lee, Yinghao Xu, Gim Hee Lee

National University of Singapore