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SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead
X.com
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SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead

Leopold Aschenbrenner

AlphaXiv Trending

Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
AlphaXiv
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Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence

Kimi Team, Tongtong Bai, Yifan Bai

Computer Vision
Wonder: Video World Model Done Better
AlphaXiv
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Wonder: Video World Model Done Better

Jiacong Xu, Hanwen Jiang, Zhixin Shu

Adobe Research, Johns Hopkins University

Reinforcement Learning
Weak-to-Strong On-Policy Distillation
AlphaXiv
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Weak-to-Strong On-Policy Distillation

Fangxu Yu, Zinan Lin, Xiaodong Liu

University of Maryland, College Park, Microsoft Research

Pangram 4 Technical Report
AlphaXiv
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Pangram 4 Technical Report

Ben Glickenhaus, Katherine Thai, Jenna Russell

Reinforcement Learning
Living-Harness Is an Interactive-Agent Evolver
AlphaXiv
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Living-Harness Is an Interactive-Agent Evolver

Yuetian Du, Yucheng Wang, He Xu

Computer Vision
TurboVLA: Real-Time Vision-Language-Action Model at 32 Hz on an RTX 4090 with <1 GB VRAM
AlphaXiv
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TurboVLA: Real-Time Vision-Language-Action Model at 32 Hz on an RTX 4090 with <1 GB VRAM

Hengyi Xie, Chenfei Yao, Xianjin Wu

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, China

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Computer Vision
See2Think: Do Multimodal Models Really Use Intermediate Visual States?
HuggingFace
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See2Think: Do Multimodal Models Really Use Intermediate Visual States?

Siyu Yan, Zhuoran Yan, Haiying Xu, Panhao Zhou, Jingyu Chen

Machine Learning
β-OPSD: Deriving with Policy Optimization, Training with Self-Distillation
HuggingFace
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β-OPSD: Deriving with Policy Optimization, Training with Self-Distillation

Jiawei Xu, Minghui Liu, Juzheng Zhang, Tom Goldstein, Furong Huang

Furong Huang's Lab at UMD

NLP
Σ-Mem: An Online Reliability Memory for LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
HuggingFace
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Σ-Mem: An Online Reliability Memory for LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems

Peilin Feng, Suorong Yang, Soujanya Poria

Nanyang Technological University

NLP
Filesystem-Based Memory for LLM Agents: Organization, Evolution, and Sustainability
HuggingFace
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Filesystem-Based Memory for LLM Agents: Organization, Evolution, and Sustainability

Sizhe Zhou, Sheldon Yu, Hui Wei, Junda Wu, Siru Ouyang

Efficiency
Fairness Pruning: Locating Demographic Bias in GLU-MLP Layers via Differential Activations
HuggingFace
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Fairness Pruning: Locating Demographic Bias in GLU-MLP Layers via Differential Activations

Pere Martra, Eugenio Martínez Cámara, Alfonso Ureña López

Beyond Geometric Complementarity: Coherent Overlap in Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Routing
HuggingFace
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Beyond Geometric Complementarity: Coherent Overlap in Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Routing

Huiyuan Tian, Bonan Xu, Shijian Li