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2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership
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2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership

Anthropic

NLP
Is ChatGPT Racially Biased? The Case of Evaluating Student Writing
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Is ChatGPT Racially Biased? The Case of Evaluating Student Writing

Melissa Warr, Margarita Pivovarova, Punya Mishra, Nicole Jakubczyk Oster

New Mexico State University, Arizona State University

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ELF: Embedded Language Flows
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ELF: Embedded Language Flows

Yiyang Lu, Keya Hu, Linlu Qiu

MIT

Robotics
World Action Models: The Next Frontier in Embodied AI
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World Action Models: The Next Frontier in Embodied AI

Siyin Wang, Junhao Shi, Zhaoyang Fu

NLP
𝛿 δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models
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𝛿 δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models

Jingdi Lei, Di Zhang, Junxian Li

VGGT- Ω Ω
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VGGT- Ω Ω

Jianyuan Wang, Minghao Chen, Shangzhan Zhang

WarmPrior: Straightening Flow-Matching Policies with Temporal Priors
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WarmPrior: Straightening Flow-Matching Policies with Temporal Priors

Sinjae Kang, Chanyoung Kim, Kaixin Wang

Microsoft Research

NLP
SANA-WM: Efficient Minute-Scale World Modeling with Hybrid Linear Diffusion Transformer
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SANA-WM: Efficient Minute-Scale World Modeling with Hybrid Linear Diffusion Transformer

Haoyi Zhu, Haozhe Liu, Yuyang Zhao

NVIDIA

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Machine Learning
Long Context Pre-Training with Lighthouse Attention
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Long Context Pre-Training with Lighthouse Attention

Bowen Peng, Subho Ghosh, Jeffrey Quesnelle

NousResearch

Reasoning
WildTableBench: Benchmarking Multimodal Foundation Models on Table Understanding In the Wild
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WildTableBench: Benchmarking Multimodal Foundation Models on Table Understanding In the Wild

Junzhe Huang, Xiaoxiao Sun, Yan Yang, Yuxuan Hou, Ruotian Zhang

The University of Queensland

Computer Vision
Aligning Latent Geometry for Spherical Flow Matching in Image Generation
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Aligning Latent Geometry for Spherical Flow Matching in Image Generation

Tuna Han Salih Meral, Kaan Oktay, Hidir Yesiltepe, Adil Kaan Akan, Pinar Yanardag

Virginia Tech

Computer Vision
Sat3DGen: Comprehensive Street-Level 3D Scene Generation from Single Satellite Image
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Sat3DGen: Comprehensive Street-Level 3D Scene Generation from Single Satellite Image

Ming Qian, Zimin Xia, Changkun Liu, Shuailei Ma, Wen Wang

Wuhan Univeristy

Reinforcement Learning
Boosting Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards via Randomly Selected Few-Shot Guidance
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Boosting Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards via Randomly Selected Few-Shot Guidance

Kai Yan, Alexander G. Schwing, Yu-Xiong Wang

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Reasoning
PreScam: A Benchmark for Predicting Scam Progression from Early Conversations
HuggingFace
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PreScam: A Benchmark for Predicting Scam Progression from Early Conversations

Weixiang Sun, Shang Ma, Yiyang Li, Tianyi Ma, Zehong Wang

University of Notre Dame