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The AI Layoff Trap
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The AI Layoff Trap

Brett Hemenway Falk, Gerry Tsoukalas

AlphaXiv Trending

Computer Vision
Thinking with Visual Primitives
AlphaXiv
123

Thinking with Visual Primitives

Ruijie Lu, Yiyang Ma, Xiaokang Chen

Reinforcement Learning
Recursive Multi-Agent Systems
AlphaXiv
117

Recursive Multi-Agent Systems

Xiyuan Yang, Jiaru Zou, Rui Pan

Reinforcement Learning
Agentic Harness Engineering: Observability-Driven Automatic Evolution of Coding-Agent Harnesses
AlphaXiv
74

Agentic Harness Engineering: Observability-Driven Automatic Evolution of Coding-Agent Harnesses

Jiahang Lin, Shichun Liu, Chengjun Pan

Computer Vision
Representation Fréchet Loss for Visual Generation
AlphaXiv
72

Representation Fréchet Loss for Visual Generation

Jiawei Yang, Zhengyang Geng, Xuan Ju

Reinforcement Learning
Co-Evolving Policy Distillation
AlphaXiv
48

Co-Evolving Policy Distillation

Naibin Gu, Chenxu Yang, Qingyi Si

Computer Vision
Visual Generation in the New Era: An Evolution from Atomic Mapping to Agentic World Modeling
AlphaXiv
32

Visual Generation in the New Era: An Evolution from Atomic Mapping to Agentic World Modeling

Keming Wu, Zuhao Yang, Kaichen Zhang

HuggingFace Daily Papers

NLP
Web2BigTable: A Bi-Level Multi-Agent LLM System for Internet-Scale Information Search and Extraction
HuggingFace
25

Web2BigTable: A Bi-Level Multi-Agent LLM System for Internet-Scale Information Search and Extraction

Yuxuan Huang, Yihang Chen, Zhiyuan He, Yuxiang Chen, Ka Yiu Lee

Computer Vision
Prox-E: Fine-Grained 3D Shape Editing via Primitive-Based Abstractions
HuggingFace
10

Prox-E: Fine-Grained 3D Shape Editing via Primitive-Based Abstractions

Etai Sella, Hao Phung, Nitay Amiel, Or Litany, Or Patashnik

NLP
Stable-GFlowNet: Toward Diverse and Robust LLM Red-Teaming via Contrastive Trajectory Balance
HuggingFace
7

Stable-GFlowNet: Toward Diverse and Robust LLM Red-Teaming via Contrastive Trajectory Balance

Minchan Kwon, Sunghyun Baek, Minseo Kim, Jaemyung Yu, Dongyoon Han

Computer Vision
When Do Diffusion Models learn to Generate Multiple Objects?
HuggingFace
4

When Do Diffusion Models learn to Generate Multiple Objects?

Yujin Jeong, Arnas Uselis, Iro Laina, Seong Joon Oh, Anna Rohrbach

Computer Vision
Trees to Flows and Back: Unifying Decision Trees and Diffusion Models
HuggingFace
3

Trees to Flows and Back: Unifying Decision Trees and Diffusion Models

Sai Niranjan Ramachandran, Suvrit Sra

Machine Learning
Better Models, Faster Training: Sigmoid Attention for single-cell Foundation Models
HuggingFace
0

Better Models, Faster Training: Sigmoid Attention for single-cell Foundation Models

Vijay Sadashivaiah, Georgios Dasoulas, Judith Mueller, Soumya Ghosh