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A New Look at AI's Impact on Jobs
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A New Look at AI's Impact on Jobs

Ara Kharazian, Lisa K. Simon, Ryan Stevens

Ramp, Revelio Labs

Computer Vision
LocateAnything: Fast and High-Quality Vision-Language Grounding with Parallel Box Decoding
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LocateAnything: Fast and High-Quality Vision-Language Grounding with Parallel Box Decoding

Shihao Wang, Shilong Liu, Yuanguo Kuang, Xinyu Wei, Yangzhou Liu, Zhiqi Li, Yunze Man, Guo Chen, Andrew Tao, Guilin Liu, Jan Kautz, Lei Zhang, Zhiding Yu

NVIDIA, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Princeton University, Nanjing University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Reinforcement Learning
Equipping agents for the real world with Agent Skills
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Equipping agents for the real world with Agent Skills

Anthropic

NLP
Ask, Don't Judge: Binary Questions for Interpretable LLM Evaluation and Self-Improvement
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Ask, Don't Judge: Binary Questions for Interpretable LLM Evaluation and Self-Improvement

S. Cho

AlphaXiv Trending

Orca: The World is in Your Mind
AlphaXiv
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Orca: The World is in Your Mind

Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, Yihao Wang, Yuheng Ji, Mingyu Cao

Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

Reasoning
DSpark: Confidence-Scheduled Speculative Decoding with Semi-Autoregressive Generation
AlphaXiv
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DSpark: Confidence-Scheduled Speculative Decoding with Semi-Autoregressive Generation

Xin Cheng, Xingkai Yu, Chenze Shao

Reinforcement Learning
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Agentic AI: From Foundations to Systems
AlphaXiv
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Agentic AI: From Foundations to Systems

Haggai Roitman

Reinforcement Learning
Scaling the Horizon, Not the Parameters: Reaching Trillion-Parameter Performance with a 35B Agent
AlphaXiv
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Scaling the Horizon, Not the Parameters: Reaching Trillion-Parameter Performance with a 35B Agent

Lei Bai, Zongsheng Cao, Yang Chen

Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Machine Learning
MOPD: Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation for Capability Integration in LLM Post-Training
AlphaXiv
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MOPD: Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation for Capability Integration in LLM Post-Training

Wenhan Ma, Jianyu Wei, Liang Zhao

Peking University, University of Hong Kong, Renmin University of China

AdaJEPA: An Adaptive Latent World Model
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AdaJEPA: An Adaptive Latent World Model

Ying Wang, Oumayma Bounou, Yann LeCun

New York University

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Retrieval
Logit-Contribution Scoring Identifies Non-Literal Retrieval Heads
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Logit-Contribution Scoring Identifies Non-Literal Retrieval Heads

Aryo Pradipta Gema, Beatrice Alex, Pasquale Minervini

AutoLearnMem
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, Xiaohan Wang, Serena Yeung-Levy

Machine Learning
WARP: Weight-Space Analysis for Recovering Training Data Portfolios
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WARP: Weight-Space Analysis for Recovering Training Data Portfolios

Tzu-Heng Huang, Aditya Goyal, John Cooper, Frederic Sala

sprocket-lab

Reinforcement Learning
DuoMem: Towards Capable On-Device Memory Agents via Dual-Space Distillation
HuggingFace
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DuoMem: Towards Capable On-Device Memory Agents via Dual-Space Distillation

Peyman Hosseini, Ondrej Bohdal, Ahmed Alajrami, Andrea Maracani, Ignacio Castro

Efficiency
Parameter-Efficient Quantum-Inspired Fast Weight Programmers for Traffic-Matrix Forecasting
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Parameter-Efficient Quantum-Inspired Fast Weight Programmers for Traffic-Matrix Forecasting

Kuo-Chung Peng, Jiun-Cheng Jiang, Chun-Hua Lin, Tai-Yue Li, Nan-Yow Chen

Retrieval
Scaling Laws for Grid-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in High Dimensions
HuggingFace
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Scaling Laws for Grid-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in High Dimensions

Matthew J Liu, Wei Hang Zheng, Vidhan Purohit, Siqi Xie, Chieh-En Li

University of California, Berkeley