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NLP
Why are all LLMs Obsessed with Japanese Culture? On the Hidden Cultural and Regional Biases of LLMs
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Why are all LLMs Obsessed with Japanese Culture? On the Hidden Cultural and Regional Biases of LLMs

Joseba Fernandez de Landa, Carla Perez-Almendros, Jose Camacho-Collados

Cardiff University, University of the Basque Country, HiTZ Center – Ixa

Computer Vision
Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge
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Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge

QwenTeam

Alibaba

AlphaXiv Trending

Claude Opus 5 System Card
AlphaXiv
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Claude Opus 5 System Card

Anthropic

AlphaXiv
66

SIGReg from First Principles

Reza Bayat

Open Weights and American AI Leadership
AlphaXiv
59

Open Weights and American AI Leadership

Jensen Huang

NLP
Hilbert Operator for Progressive Encoding (HOPE): A Mathematical Framework for Deconstructing Learned Representations in Deep Networks
AlphaXiv
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Hilbert Operator for Progressive Encoding (HOPE): A Mathematical Framework for Deconstructing Learned Representations in Deep Networks

Hossein Mobahi, PL, Peter L. Bartlett

Reinforcement Learning
AlphaXiv
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Scaling Agentic RL: 365,000+ Environments for SWE, Terminal, and Search

Daniel Auras, Prime Intellect Team

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Computer Vision
SANA-Video 2.0: Hybrid Linear Attention with Attention Residuals for Efficient Video Generation
HuggingFace
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SANA-Video 2.0: Hybrid Linear Attention with Attention Residuals for Efficient Video Generation

Junsong Chen, Jincheng Yu, Yitong Li, Shuchen Xue, Haozhe Liu

NVIDIA

Computer Vision
Self-Supervised Learning of Structured Dynamics from Videos
HuggingFace
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Self-Supervised Learning of Structured Dynamics from Videos

Lukas Knobel, Andrew Zisserman, Yuki M. Asano

Fundamental AI Lab at UTN

Reinforcement Learning
Multi-Turn On-Policy Distillation with Prefix Replay
HuggingFace
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Multi-Turn On-Policy Distillation with Prefix Replay

Baohao Liao, Hanze Dong, Christof Monz, Xinxing Xu, Li Dong

Microsoft Research

Reinforcement Learning
OpenForgeRL: Train Harness-native Agents in Any Environment
HuggingFace
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OpenForgeRL: Train Harness-native Agents in Any Environment

Xiao Yu, Baolin Peng, Ruize Xu, Hao Zou, Qianhui Wu

Microsoft

Reinforcement Learning
FinanceComplexQA: Benchmarking Agentic Reasoning on Industrial-grade Financial Documents
HuggingFace
5

FinanceComplexQA: Benchmarking Agentic Reasoning on Industrial-grade Financial Documents

Xianfu Cheng, Shiwei Zhang, Jiyu Zhao, Jian Yang, Xinyuan Wang

Beihang University

Efficiency
Dataset Distillation by Influence Matching
HuggingFace
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Dataset Distillation by Influence Matching

Haoru Tan, Wang Wang, Sitong Wu, Xiuzhe Wu, Yangtian Sun

Hong Kong University