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Normalized Low-Rank Adaptation
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Normalized Low-Rank Adaptation

Affiliation: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Affiliation: Microsoft Research, Affiliation: Shenzhen Loop Area Institute, Affiliation: Yuanshi Intelligence Affiliation: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Affiliation: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Affiliation: Shenzhen Loop Area Institute

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Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

Reinforcement Learning
Does On-Policy Distillation Really Distill? From Noisy Teacher to Self-Improvement
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Does On-Policy Distillation Really Distill? From Noisy Teacher to Self-Improvement

Affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, USA, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University

Computer Vision
Qwen-Drive-1.0: An Initial Step towards a Vision-Language Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving
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Qwen-Drive-1.0: An Initial Step towards a Vision-Language Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving

Affiliation: Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Qwen-Drive-1.0: An Initial Step towards a Vision-Language Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

H3-World: Turning Language Understanding into World Control
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H3-World: Turning Language Understanding into World Control

Affiliation: 1 Tencent 2 National University of Singapore 3 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Tencent, National University of Singapore, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Machine Learning
From Production Traffic to Post-Training: Building a Self-Hosted LLM That Covers the Corporate Request Mix
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From Production Traffic to Post-Training: Building a Self-Hosted LLM That Covers the Corporate Request Mix

Olga Tsymboi, Dmitrii Stoianov, Ramil Latypov, Danil Taranets, Daniil Dryabin

T-Tech

Adapting Without Gradients: Affine Statistics Transport and What Its Certificate Can Tell You
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Adapting Without Gradients: Affine Statistics Transport and What Its Certificate Can Tell You

Salim Khazem, Ibrahim Mohamed Serouis

Talan

Burtsev
Recursive Criticality of AI Self-Improvement
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Recursive Criticality of AI Self-Improvement

Mikhail Burtsev

Reasoning
Learning Where Outcomes Change:Credit-Addressable Reasoning for Multimodal Geometry
HuggingFace
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Learning Where Outcomes Change:Credit-Addressable Reasoning for Multimodal Geometry

Jiani Guo, Junjie Wang, Jie Wu, Pengxiang Zhao, Dongdong Zhang

Tsinghua IIGroup

Reinforcement Learning
Token-Efficient Data Reasoning Agents via Adaptive Structuring of Unstructured Data
HuggingFace
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Token-Efficient Data Reasoning Agents via Adaptive Structuring of Unstructured Data

Milad Rezaei Hajidehi, Qitong Wang, Stratos Idreos

Harvard University

Reasoning
DramaChain Bench: An End-to-End Benchmark for Short-Drama Generation
HuggingFace
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DramaChain Bench: An End-to-End Benchmark for Short-Drama Generation

Haoyuan Shi, Mingtao Chen, Shuo Jiang, Ziyan Chen, Xuyi Sheng

Tencent Hunyuan