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Vesuvius Challenge — Reading the Herculaneum Scrolls with AI
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Vesuvius Challenge — Reading the Herculaneum Scrolls with AI

Brent Seales

University of Kentucky

Computer Vision
Qwen-Image-3.0
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Qwen-Image-3.0

Qwen team

Alibaba

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Computer Vision
Masked Visual Actions for Unified World Modeling
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Masked Visual Actions for Unified World Modeling

Hadi Alzayer, Wenlong Huang, Haonan Chen

Stanford University, University of Maryland, College Park, Harvard University

Intelligence from Learnable Novelty
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Intelligence from Learnable Novelty

Yanbo Zhang, Michael Levin

Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University, Medford, MA, 02155, USA, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University

Reinforcement Learning
Measuring Reward-Seeking via Contrastive Belief Updates
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Measuring Reward-Seeking via Contrastive Belief Updates

Axel Højmark, Jérémy Scheurer, EN, Evgenia Nitishinskaya

Reinforcement Learning
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Scaling Agentic RL: 365,000+ Environments for SWE, Terminal, and Search

Daniel Auras, Prime Intellect Team

Computer Vision
Robots Acquire Manipulation Skills in Seconds from a Single Human Video
AlphaXiv
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Robots Acquire Manipulation Skills in Seconds from a Single Human Video

X SQUARE ROBOT, Guangyan Chen, Meiling Wang, Te Cui

Tsinghua University

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Machine Learning
K12-KGraph: A Curriculum-Aligned Knowledge Graph for Benchmarking and Training Educational LLMs
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K12-KGraph: A Curriculum-Aligned Knowledge Graph for Benchmarking and Training Educational LLMs

Hao Liang, Qihan Lin, Zhaoyang Han, Xiaochen Ma, Zhen Hao Wong

Peking University

Computer Vision
SANA-Video 2.0: Hybrid Linear Attention with Attention Residuals for Efficient Video Generation
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SANA-Video 2.0: Hybrid Linear Attention with Attention Residuals for Efficient Video Generation

Junsong Chen, Jincheng Yu, Yitong Li, Shuchen Xue, Haozhe Liu

NVIDIA

Computer Vision
Self-Supervised Learning of Structured Dynamics from Videos
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Self-Supervised Learning of Structured Dynamics from Videos

Lukas Knobel, Andrew Zisserman, Yuki M. Asano

Fundamental AI Lab at UTN

Reinforcement Learning
Multi-Turn On-Policy Distillation with Prefix Replay
HuggingFace
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Multi-Turn On-Policy Distillation with Prefix Replay

Baohao Liao, Hanze Dong, Christof Monz, Xinxing Xu, Li Dong

Microsoft Research

Reinforcement Learning
FinanceComplexQA: Benchmarking Agentic Reasoning on Industrial-grade Financial Documents
HuggingFace
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FinanceComplexQA: Benchmarking Agentic Reasoning on Industrial-grade Financial Documents

Xianfu Cheng, Shiwei Zhang, Jiyu Zhao, Jian Yang, Xinyuan Wang

Beihang University

Efficiency
Dataset Distillation by Influence Matching
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Dataset Distillation by Influence Matching

Haoru Tan, Wang Wang, Sitong Wu, Xiuzhe Wu, Yangtian Sun

Hong Kong University