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2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership
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2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership

Anthropic

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, Keivan Alizadeh, Maxwell Horton, Samy Bengio, Mehrdad Farajtabar

Apple

AlphaXiv Trending

Reinforcement Learning
Self-Distilled Agentic Reinforcement Learning
AlphaXiv
234

Self-Distilled Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Zhengxi Lu, Zhiyuan Yao, Zhuowen Han

Zhejiang University, Tsinghua University

VGGT- Ω Ω
AlphaXiv
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VGGT- Ω Ω

Jianyuan Wang, Minghao Chen, Shangzhan Zhang

Reasoning
Generative Recursive Reasoning
AlphaXiv
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Generative Recursive Reasoning

Junyeob Baek, Mingyu Jo, Minsu Kim

Mila – Québec AI Institute, New York University

NLP
Look Before You Leap: Autonomous Exploration for LLM Agents
AlphaXiv
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Look Before You Leap: Autonomous Exploration for LLM Agents

Ziang Ye, Wentao Shi, Yuxin Liu

University of Science and Technology of China

Reinforcement Learning
Code as Agent Harness
AlphaXiv
25

Code as Agent Harness

Xuying Ning, Katherine Tieu, Dongqi Fu

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Meta, Stanford University

Reinforcement Learning
Not Every Rubric Teaches Equally: Policy-Aware Rubric Rewards for RLVR
AlphaXiv
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Not Every Rubric Teaches Equally: Policy-Aware Rubric Rewards for RLVR

Utkarsh Tyagi, Xingang Guo, MohammadHossein Rezaei

Scale AI Research

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Speech Audio
Mega-ASR: Towards In-the-wild^2 Speech Recognition via Scaling up Real-world Acoustic Simulation
HuggingFace
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Mega-ASR: Towards In-the-wild^2 Speech Recognition via Scaling up Real-world Acoustic Simulation

Zhifei Xie, Kaiyu Pang, Haobin Zhang, Deheng Ye, Xiaobin Hu

National University of Singapore

Computer Vision
Enhancing Train-Free Infinite-Frame Generation for Consistent Long Videos
HuggingFace
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Enhancing Train-Free Infinite-Frame Generation for Consistent Long Videos

X. Feng, J. Zhu, M. Wu, C. Chen, F. Mao

alibaba-inc

NLP
A Survey of Large Audio Language Models: Generalization, Trustworthiness, and Outlook
HuggingFace
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A Survey of Large Audio Language Models: Generalization, Trustworthiness, and Outlook

Kaiwen Luo, Zhenhong Zhou, Leo Wang, Liang Lin, Yang Xiao

Nanyang Technological University

NLP
LLMEval-Logic: A Solver-Verified Chinese Benchmark for Logical Reasoning of LLMs with Adversarial Hardening
HuggingFace
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LLMEval-Logic: A Solver-Verified Chinese Benchmark for Logical Reasoning of LLMs with Adversarial Hardening

Ming Zhang, Qiyuan Peng, Yinxi Wei, Yujiong Shen, Kexin Tan

LLMEval Official Team

Toto 2.0: Time Series Forecasting Enters the Scaling Era
HuggingFace
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Toto 2.0: Time Series Forecasting Enters the Scaling Era

Emaad Khwaja, Chris Lettieri, Gerald Woo, Eden Belouadah, Marc Cenac

Datadog

Speech Audio
Stable Audio 3
HuggingFace
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Stable Audio 3

Zach Evans, Julian D. Parker, Matthew Rice, CJ Carr, Zack Zukowski

Stability AI