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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 and Cognitive Sciences

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

Mathematics in the age of AI
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Mathematics in the age of AI

Terence Tao

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Speculative Programmatic Tool Calling

Alex Zhang

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

Human–AI Collaboration at Scale: Task Criticality, Agency, and Friction Across 250,000 Conversations
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Human–AI Collaboration at Scale: Task Criticality, Agency, and Friction Across 250,000 Conversations

Yijia Shao, Dora Zhao, Vishakh Padmakumar

EchoWM: Open and Enterable Omnimodal World Models
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EchoWM: Open and Enterable Omnimodal World Models

Songchun Zhang, Yaowei Li, Junhao Zhuang

Joy Future Academy, JD, Beihang University, Stanford University, https://echo-team-joy-future-academy-jd.github.io/Echo-1.5-Page/wm

ReWorld: An Interactive World Model with Long-Horizon Memory
AlphaXiv
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ReWorld: An Interactive World Model with Long-Horizon Memory

Zhifei Chen, Luozhou Wang, Guibao Shen

ATH, Alibaba

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

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Robotics
GigaBrain-0.7: Scaling Embodied Foundation Models to Emergent Capabilities with a Three-System Architecture
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GigaBrain-0.7: Scaling Embodied Foundation Models to Emergent Capabilities with a Three-System Architecture

GigaBrain Team, Angen Ye, Axiang Sun, Can Jin, Chenxi Cheng

GigaAI

NLP
SecOPD: Mitigating Adaptive Prompt Injections by On-Policy Distillation
HuggingFace
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SecOPD: Mitigating Adaptive Prompt Injections by On-Policy Distillation

Yibo Peng, Long Lian, David Wagner, Sizhe Chen

Reinforcement Learning
AgentRoom: Concurrent Multi-Agent Coding in a CRDT-Backed Shared Workspace
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AgentRoom: Concurrent Multi-Agent Coding in a CRDT-Backed Shared Workspace

Seonglae Cho, Donghyun Lee

Reinforcement Learning
Automata from Agent Traces: Failure and Next-Step Prediction
HuggingFace
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Automata from Agent Traces: Failure and Next-Step Prediction

Seonglae Cho, Franklin Cardenoso Fernandez, Umar Mohammed, Zekun Wu, Kleyton Da Costa

Holistic AI

Reinforcement Learning
Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment
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Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment

Stephen Chung, Wenyu Du, William J. Wesley

Computer Vision
MoTE: Mixture of Task Experts for Multi-Task Video Understanding
HuggingFace
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MoTE: Mixture of Task Experts for Multi-Task Video Understanding

Muhammad Asad Ali, Umar Khan, Nadia Robertini, Didier Stricker

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