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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 C. Lovett

Old Dominion University

Reinforcement Learning
Modeling Earth-Scale Human-Like Societies with One Billion Agents
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Modeling Earth-Scale Human-Like Societies with One Billion Agents

Haoxiang Guan, Jiyan He, Liyang Fan, Zhenzhen Ren, Shaobin He, Xin Yu, Yuan Chen, Xueyin Xu, Shuxin Zheng, Yan Gao, Enhong Chen, Tie-Yan Liu, Zhen Liu

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Computer Vision
On-Policy Self-Distillation without Any Supervision
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On-Policy Self-Distillation without Any Supervision

Yijiang Li, Bingyang Wang, YL, Yijun Liang

Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, ByteDance

Reinforcement Learning
AlphaXiv
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Introducing Muse Glimmer: An Open Agentic Model That Runs on Your Device

Meta Superintelligence Labs

NLP
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
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Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

Alexander Panfilov, David Schmotz, Ilia Shumailov

Computer Vision
JEPA-WAM: Learning Vision-Language-Action Policies with Joint-Embedding World Modeling
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JEPA-WAM: Learning Vision-Language-Action Policies with Joint-Embedding World Modeling

Yihan Lin, Jiawei He, Shifeng Bao

Motif 3: Technical Report
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Motif 3: Technical Report

Junghwan Lim, Joon Son Chung, Sungmin Lee

Reinforcement Learning
SWE-Bench ProMax: Benchmarking Agents on Large-Scale Multilingual Code Refactoring
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SWE-Bench ProMax: Benchmarking Agents on Large-Scale Multilingual Code Refactoring

Yuling Shi, Jinghan Xu, Kelin Fu

HuggingFace Daily Papers

NLP
Gaming Without an Attacker: Benchmark Fingerprinting in LLM-Driven Search Under Selection Pressure
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Gaming Without an Attacker: Benchmark Fingerprinting in LLM-Driven Search Under Selection Pressure

Víctor Gallego

NLP
A Hybrid Nested Harness for Decoupling Structure and Parameters in LLM-Driven Optimization
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A Hybrid Nested Harness for Decoupling Structure and Parameters in LLM-Driven Optimization

Víctor Gallego

NLP
SymDiag: Explainable Diagnosis for LLM Reasoning via Neuro-Symbolic Verification
HuggingFace
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SymDiag: Explainable Diagnosis for LLM Reasoning via Neuro-Symbolic Verification

Wenyao Cui, Huaping Zhang, Yongyi Huang, Qiuchi Li, Jian Xu

Machine Learning
Omega-S: A Functional Resilience Index for LLM Fine-Tuning
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Omega-S: A Functional Resilience Index for LLM Fine-Tuning

Alberto Acedo

Computer Vision
MirrorWorld: Taming Video Diffusion Models for Mirror Reflection Generation
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MirrorWorld: Taming Video Diffusion Models for Mirror Reflection Generation

Youjun Zhao, Alex Warren, Gary K. L. Tam, Rynson W. H. Lau

City University of Hong Kong

Don't Scroll Back: Missing-Evidence Memory for Streaming Dialogue Summarization
HuggingFace
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Don't Scroll Back: Missing-Evidence Memory for Streaming Dialogue Summarization

Hyangsuk Min, Hwanjun Song