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A New Look at AI’s Impact on Jobs: Firm-Level AI Spending and Workforce Adjustment
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A New Look at AI’s Impact on Jobs: Firm-Level AI Spending and Workforce Adjustment

Ara Kharazian, Lisa Simon, Ryan Stevens

Ramp, Revelio Labs

AlphaXiv Trending

Orca: The World is in Your Mind
AlphaXiv
397

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
291

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

XC, Xin Cheng, XY, Xingkai Yu, Chenze Shao

AdaJEPA: An Adaptive Latent World Model
AlphaXiv
148

AdaJEPA: An Adaptive Latent World Model

Ying Wang, Oumayma Bounou, Yann LeCun

New York University

Machine Learning
Is One Layer Enough? Training A Single Transformer Layer Can Match Full-Parameter RL Training
AlphaXiv
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Is One Layer Enough? Training A Single Transformer Layer Can Match Full-Parameter RL Training

Zijian Zhang, RH, Rizhen Hu, AG, Athanasios Glentis

This work is independent of and outside of the work at Amazon, University of Minnesota, Peking University, Amazon

Computer Vision
A Mathematical Introduction to Diffusion Models
AlphaXiv
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A Mathematical Introduction to Diffusion Models

Jianfeng Lu

Mathematics Department, Duke University, Box 90320, Durham, NC 27705 USA, research-level theorems stated with a proof roadmap. The intended audience is, Research-level theorems

Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions
AlphaXiv
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Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions

Wentao Zhang, Liliana Hotsko, Woojeong Kim

University of Waterloo, Cornell University, Harvard University

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Reinforcement Learning
Multi-Turn Agentic Scientific Literature Search via Workflow Induction
HuggingFace
7

Multi-Turn Agentic Scientific Literature Search via Workflow Induction

Jisen Li, Bingxuan Li, Nanyi Jiang, Xuying Ning, Xiyao Wang

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Speech Audio
Unified Audio Intelligence Without Regressing on Text Intelligence
HuggingFace
3

Unified Audio Intelligence Without Regressing on Text Intelligence

Zhifeng Kong, Sang-gil Lee, Jaehyeon Kim, Boxin Wang, Zihan Liu

NVIDIA

MatanAvitan
MANCE: Manifold Aware Concept Erasure
HuggingFace
3

MANCE: Manifold Aware Concept Erasure

Matan Avitan, Yoav Goldberg, Yanai Elazar

Bar-Ilan University

Transition-Aware best-of-N sampling for Longitudinal Chest X-ray Reports
HuggingFace
2

Transition-Aware best-of-N sampling for Longitudinal Chest X-ray Reports

Halil Ibrahim Gulluk, Max Van Puyvelde, Wim Van Criekinge, Olivier Gevaert

Gevaert Lab

Speech Audio
Taste-aware music retrieval from audio embeddings
HuggingFace
1

Taste-aware music retrieval from audio embeddings

Matteo Spanio, Antonio Rodà

Centro di Sonologia Computazionale

Multimodal
AI Wizards at EXIST 2026: Hierarchical Soft-Label Learning for Multimodal Sexism Identification in Memes
HuggingFace
0

AI Wizards at EXIST 2026: Hierarchical Soft-Label Learning for Multimodal Sexism Identification in Memes

Matteo Fasulo, Antonio Gravina, Luca Tedeschini, Luca Babboni

AI Wizards