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Reasoning
AI Detectors Fail Diverse Student Populations: A Mathematical Framing of Structural Detection Limits
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AI Detectors Fail Diverse Student Populations: A Mathematical Framing of Structural Detection Limits

N.A. Garland

Griffith University

Sakana Fugu
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Sakana Fugu

Sakana AI

AlphaXiv Trending

Reinforcement Learning
Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents
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Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents

Yuxin Zuo, Zikai Xiao, Li Sheng

Reinforcement Learning
Autodata: An agentic data scientist to create high quality synthetic data
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Autodata: An agentic data scientist to create high quality synthetic data

Ilia Kulikov, Chenxi Whitehouse, Tianhao Wu

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Scaling Laws, Carefully

Lilian Weng

Reinforcement Learning
OpenThoughts-Agent: Data Recipes for Agentic Models
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OpenThoughts-Agent: Data Recipes for Agentic Models

Negin Raoof, Richard Zhuang, Marianna Nezhurina

Stanford University, University of Texas at Austin, Laude Institute, Harvard University & Harvard Medical School, TU Munich & Munich Center for Machine Learning

Robotics
World Value Models for Robotic Manipulation
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World Value Models for Robotic Manipulation

Zhihao Wang, Jianxiong Li, Yu Cui

You Don't Need to Run Every Eval
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You Don't Need to Run Every Eval

Yuchen Zeng, Dimitris Papailiopoulos

Microsoft Research, AI Frontiers, https://github.com/microsoft/benchpress, https://microsoft.github.io/benchpress/, https://huggingface.co/datasets/microsoft/benchpress-score-matrix

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Reinforcement Learning
Running the Gauntlet: Re-evaluating the Capabilities of Agents Beyond Familiar Environments
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Running the Gauntlet: Re-evaluating the Capabilities of Agents Beyond Familiar Environments

Mykola Vysotskyi, Runqi Lin, Grzegorz Biziel, Michal Zakrzewski, Sebastian Montagna

University of Oxford

Computer Vision
LISA: Likelihood Score Alignment for Visual-condition Controllable Generation
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LISA: Likelihood Score Alignment for Visual-condition Controllable Generation

Yanghao Wang, Hongxu Chen, Jiazhen Liu, Zhenqi He, Rui Liu

HKUST

Efficiency
Information-Aware KV Cache Compression for Long Reasoning
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Information-Aware KV Cache Compression for Long Reasoning

Jushi Kai, Zhuiri Xiao, Alexandra Birch, Zhouhan Lin

Machine Learning
Neglected Free Lunch from Post-training: Progress Advantage for LLM Agents
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Neglected Free Lunch from Post-training: Progress Advantage for LLM Agents

Changdae Oh, Wendi Li, Seongheon Park, Samuel Yeh, Tanwi Mallick

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Computer Vision
ABACUS: Adapting Unified Foundation Model for Bridging Image Count Understanding and Generation
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ABACUS: Adapting Unified Foundation Model for Bridging Image Count Understanding and Generation

Anindya Mondal, Sauradip Nag, Anjan Dutta

Luo Z13
EO-WM: A Physically Informed World Model for Probabilistic Earth Observation Forecasting
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EO-WM: A Physically Informed World Model for Probabilistic Earth Observation Forecasting

Junwei Luo, Shuai Yuan, Zhenya Yang, Yansheng Li, Zhe Liu