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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
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

Retrieval
The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons: How AI Could Disrupt the Regeneration of Professional Expertise
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The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons: How AI Could Disrupt the Regeneration of Professional Expertise

Nolan Lovett

NATO Special Operations University

AlphaXiv Trending

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Speculative Programmatic Tool Calling

Alex Zhang

Reinforcement Learning
Apodex 1.1: Scaling Agentic Intelligence for Complex Work
AlphaXiv
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Apodex 1.1: Scaling Agentic Intelligence for Complex Work

Apodex Team, B. An, B. Li

Reinforcement Learning
Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Harness
AlphaXiv
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Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Harness

Seth Karten, Alex L. Zhang, Kevin Thomas

Affiliation: Princeton University Prime Intellect MIT, Princeton University Prime Intellect MIT

Computer Vision
GeoWAM: Visual Geometry World Action Models for Autonomous Driving
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GeoWAM: Visual Geometry World Action Models for Autonomous Driving

Yiren Lu, Xin Ye, Jiaming Liu

Case Western Reserve University

Efficiency
Grape: Gradient Refinement and Progress-Aware Exploitation for Query-Efficient High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization
AlphaXiv
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Grape: Gradient Refinement and Progress-Aware Exploitation for Query-Efficient High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization

Richard Cornelius Suwandi, Feng Yin

NLP
Beyond the Stability-Exploration Dilemma: Environmental Regularization for LLM Policy Optimization
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Beyond the Stability-Exploration Dilemma: Environmental Regularization for LLM Policy Optimization

Xianlei Zhou, Xiangdi Meng, Yu He

Affiliation: [1ex] AMAP, Alibaba Group, Affiliation: Xi’an Jiaotong University, Affiliation: Beijing Normal University, AMAP, Alibaba Group, Xi’an Jiaotong University

HuggingFace Daily Papers

NLP
Quantization-Aware Healing: A Practical Recipe for Recovering Compressed, 4-Bit LLMs
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Quantization-Aware Healing: A Practical Recipe for Recovering Compressed, 4-Bit LLMs

Bakbergen Ryskulov, Iker García-Ferrero, David Montero, David Jansen, Ali Hashemi

Multiverse Computing

Retrieval
AutoResearch: Insight In, Hallucination Out
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AutoResearch: Insight In, Hallucination Out

Yiming Ren, Xiang Liu, Qumeng Sun, Xiao Zhang, Jiahao Li

EvoMap

LongWoF-Bench: Evaluating EvoMap Genes for Verifiable Long-Workflow Tasks
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LongWoF-Bench: Evaluating EvoMap Genes for Verifiable Long-Workflow Tasks

Xiao Zhang, Qumeng Sun, Jihao Li, Yiming Ren, Xiang Liu

EvoMap

Reinforcement Learning
ClawProBench: Trace-Aware Evaluation of AI Agents with Runtime Coverage and Frozen Workplace-Style Holdouts
HuggingFace
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ClawProBench: Trace-Aware Evaluation of AI Agents with Runtime Coverage and Frozen Workplace-Style Holdouts

YuanHang Xiao

Retrieval
The Laws of Context Allocation: Causal Measurement and Closed-Loop Orchestration in Generative Search
HuggingFace
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The Laws of Context Allocation: Causal Measurement and Closed-Loop Orchestration in Generative Search

Peiyang Liu, Xi Wang, Di Liang, Wei Ye

Peking University

Computer Vision
EXPL-FR: Explaining Face Recognition Models via Vision-Language Alignment
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EXPL-FR: Explaining Face Recognition Models via Vision-Language Alignment

Guray Ozgur, Mustafa Efe Tamyapar, Naser Damer, Fadi Boutros

Fraunhofer IGD