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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 Lovett

NLP
Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models
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Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models

Jack Lindsey

Anthropic

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

Computer Vision
DFlash: Block Diffusion for Flash Speculative Decoding
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DFlash: Block Diffusion for Flash Speculative Decoding

Jian Chen, Yesheng Liang, Zhijian Liu

AlphaXiv Trending

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

Affiliation: ELLIS Institute Tübingen, Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Affiliation: ELLIS Institute Tübingen Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, ELLIS Institute Tübingen, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

Reasoning
BDH-CQ: In-Context Learning with Recurrent Latent Reasoning
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BDH-CQ: In-Context Learning with Recurrent Latent Reasoning

Björn Engdahl, Adrian Kosowski, Jan Chorowski

Affiliation: Pathway, https://pathway.com/research, Affiliation: New York University, https://pathway.com/research, New York University

Reasoning
AlphaXiv
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GLM-5.3: Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities

Z.ai

Z.ai

Reinforcement Learning
Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding
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Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding

Kushal Chakrabarti

AI4AI at Test-Time: Strong-to-Weak Capability Transfer via Harnesses
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AI4AI at Test-Time: Strong-to-Weak Capability Transfer via Harnesses

Cheng Qian, Wenting Zhao, Liangwei Yang

Affiliation: Salesforce AI Research, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Salesforce AI Research, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Small-Scale Experiments: Are We There Yet?
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Small-Scale Experiments: Are We There Yet?

Nicholas Lourie, Kyunghyun Cho, Karen Ullrich

† † affiliation: FAIR at MSL Meta, † † affiliation: New York University

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Computer Vision
Context-Matched Distillation: Teacher Causality for Autoregressive Video Distillation
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Context-Matched Distillation: Teacher Causality for Autoregressive Video Distillation

Hmrishav Bandyopadhyay, Xuanchi Ren, Zijian Huang, Jay Zhangjie Wu, Tianshi Cao

NVIDIA

Reinforcement Learning
Hybrid-Policy Self-Editing for Composable Unstructured Knowledge Editing
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Hybrid-Policy Self-Editing for Composable Unstructured Knowledge Editing

Tianci Liu, Zihan Dong, Tianchun Li, Yi-Chung Chen, Qiming Cao

Reinforcement Learning
Specification-first convergence with an AI coding agent: a case study of dismantling a core architectural invariant across 189 files in a 717k-line codebase with no test oracle and no human code review
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Specification-first convergence with an AI coding agent: a case study of dismantling a core architectural invariant across 189 files in a 717k-line codebase with no test oracle and no human code review

Joel Abenhaim

Computer Vision
RibAssist 3D: Biplanar Rib-Fracture Detection, Addressing, and Selective 3D Localization from CT-Derived Projections
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RibAssist 3D: Biplanar Rib-Fracture Detection, Addressing, and Selective 3D Localization from CT-Derived Projections

Kabila Haile Soboka

Safety Alignment
From Inaudible Inputs to Model Failures: Low-Frequency Safety Risks in LALMs
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From Inaudible Inputs to Model Failures: Low-Frequency Safety Risks in LALMs

Yuanhe Zhang, Weiliu Wang, Jie Ren, Liang Lin, Zhenhong Zhou

Safety Alignment
Mitigating Gender Bias in English to Romanian Machine Translation
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Mitigating Gender Bias in English to Romanian Machine Translation

Ioana Grigore, Sergiu Nisioi