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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

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Machine Learning
Vector Policy Optimization: Training for Diversity Improves Test-Time Search
AlphaXiv
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Vector Policy Optimization: Training for Diversity Improves Test-Time Search

Ryan Bahlous-Boldi, Isha Puri, Idan Shenfeld

Improbable AI Lab, MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab

Gated DeltaNet-2: Decoupling Erase and Write in Linear Attention
AlphaXiv
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Gated DeltaNet-2: Decoupling Erase and Write in Linear Attention

Ali Hatamizadeh, Yejin Choi, Jan Kautz

Retrieval
Advancing Mathematics Research with AI-Driven Formal Proof Search
AlphaXiv
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Advancing Mathematics Research with AI-Driven Formal Proof Search

George Tsoukalas, Anton Kovsharov, Sergey Shirobokov

Aarhus University, Google, Advancing Mathematics Research with AI-Driven Formal Proof Search, Google DeepMind

Computer Vision
PiD: Fast and High-Resolution Latent Decoding with Pixel Diffusion
AlphaXiv
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PiD: Fast and High-Resolution Latent Decoding with Pixel Diffusion

Yifan Lu, Qi Wu, Jay Zhangjie Wu

Computer Vision
Cambrian-P: Pose-Grounded Video Understanding
AlphaXiv
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Cambrian-P: Pose-Grounded Video Understanding

Jihan Yang, Zifan Zhao, Xichen Pan

New York University, Meta FAIR

Reinforcement Learning
SkillOpt: Executive Strategy for Self-Evolving Agent Skills
AlphaXiv
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SkillOpt: Executive Strategy for Self-Evolving Agent Skills

Yifan Yang, Ziyang Gong, Weiquan Huang

Microsoft, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tongji University, Fudan University

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Machine Learning
CUA-Gym: Scaling Verifiable Training Environments and Tasks for Computer-Use Agents
HuggingFace
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CUA-Gym: Scaling Verifiable Training Environments and Tasks for Computer-Use Agents

Bowen Wang, Dunjie Lu, Junli Wang, Tianyi Bai, Shixuan Liu

Qwen

Computer Vision
Injecting Image Guidance into Text-Conditioned Diffusion Models at Inference
HuggingFace
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Injecting Image Guidance into Text-Conditioned Diffusion Models at Inference

Agata Żywot, Iason Skylitsis, Thijmen Nijdam, Zoe Tzifa-Kratira, Derck Prinzhorn

University of Amsterdam

NLP
Language Models Need Sleep
HuggingFace
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Language Models Need Sleep

Sangyun Lee, Sean McLeish, Tom Goldstein, Giulia Fanti

Safety Alignment
Broadening Access to Transportation Safety Data with Generative AI: A Schema-Grounded Framework for Spatial Natural Language Queries
HuggingFace
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Broadening Access to Transportation Safety Data with Generative AI: A Schema-Grounded Framework for Spatial Natural Language Queries

Mahdi Azhdari, Eric J. Gonzales

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Ben Dlwlrma
Representation over Routing: Overcoming Surrogate Hacking in Multi-Timescale PPO
HuggingFace
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Representation over Routing: Overcoming Surrogate Hacking in Multi-Timescale PPO

Jing Sun

Reinforcement Learning
Decoupling Communication from Policy: Robust MARL under Bandwidth Constraints
HuggingFace
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Decoupling Communication from Policy: Robust MARL under Bandwidth Constraints

Alexi Canesse, Benoît Goupil, Jesse Read, Sonia Vanier

Orailix