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Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

Thinking Machines

Thinking Machines

Reinforcement Learning
SEED: Self-Evolving On-Policy Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
AlphaXiv
90

SEED: Self-Evolving On-Policy Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

JW, Jinyang Wu, Shuo Yang, Zhengxi Lu

Tongji University, Tsinghua University

AlphaXiv
70

Inside TPU and GPU Clusters: The Anatomy of Collective Communication

Aleksa Gordić

Reinforcement Learning
Harness Handbook: Making Evolving Agent Harnesses Readable,Navigable, and Editable
AlphaXiv
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Harness Handbook: Making Evolving Agent Harnesses Readable,Navigable, and Editable

Ruhan Wang, Yucheng Shi, Zongxia Li

Tencent HY LLM Frontier, Indiana University, University of Maryland, College Park, University of Georgia, National University of Singapore

Computer Vision
Video = World + Event Stream
AlphaXiv
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Video = World + Event Stream

Lianghua Huang, Zhi-Fan Wu, Yupeng Shi

Alibaba Group

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Computer Vision
RxBrain: Embodied Cognition Foundation Model with Joint Language-Visual Reasoning and Imagination
HuggingFace
23

RxBrain: Embodied Cognition Foundation Model with Joint Language-Visual Reasoning and Imagination

Haotian Liang, Mingkang Chen, Yufei Huang, Yuchun Guo, Xiaomeng Zhu

NLP
Token Time Continuous Diffusion for Language Modeling
HuggingFace
7

Token Time Continuous Diffusion for Language Modeling

Parikshit Bansal, Sujay Sanghavi

University of Texas at Austin

Reinforcement Learning
Rethinking the Evaluation of Harness Evolution for Agents
HuggingFace
6

Rethinking the Evaluation of Harness Evolution for Agents

Yike Wang, Huaisheng Zhu, Zhengyu Hu, Yige Yuan, Zhengyu Chen

University of Washington

Robotics
Chat2Scenic: An Iterative RAG-Based Framework for Scenario Generation in Autonomous Driving
HuggingFace
4

Chat2Scenic: An Iterative RAG-Based Framework for Scenario Generation in Autonomous Driving

Yuan Gao, Wenting Miao, Mattia Piccinini, Haoyu Wang, Qunying Song

TUM - Professorship of Autonomous Vehicle Systems

Computer Vision
Hierarchical Denoising For Multi-Step Visual Reasoning
HuggingFace
3

Hierarchical Denoising For Multi-Step Visual Reasoning

Zezhong Qian, Xiaowei Chi, Chak-Wing Mak, Tianze Zhou, Ruibin Yuan

Computer Vision
On Locality and Length Generalization in Visual Reasoning
HuggingFace
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On Locality and Length Generalization in Visual Reasoning

Pulkit Madan, Sanjay Haresh, Reza Ebrahimi, Sunny Panchal, Apratim Bhattacharyya

Qualcomm