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NLP
Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How Large Language Models Navigate Conflicts of Interest
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Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How Large Language Models Navigate Conflicts of Interest

Addison J. Wu, Ryan Liu, Shuyue Stella Li, Yulia Tsvetkov, Thomas L. Griffiths

Princeton University, University of Washington

Attention Is All You Need
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Attention Is All You Need

Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Łukasz Kaiser, Illia Polosukhin

Google Brain, University of Toronto

AlphaXiv Trending

NLP
Continuous Latent Diffusion Language Model
AlphaXiv
111

Continuous Latent Diffusion Language Model

Hongcan Guo, Qinyu Zhao, Yian Zhao

ByteDance Seed, The University of Hong Kong, The Australian National University, Peking University, Renmin University of China

Reinforcement Learning
SkillOS: Learning Skill Curation for Self-Evolving Agents
AlphaXiv
79

SkillOS: Learning Skill Curation for Self-Evolving Agents

Siru Ouyang, Jun Yan, Yanfei Chen

Google Cloud AI Research, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Robotics
Reconstruction or Semantics? What Makes a Latent Space Useful for Robotic World Models
AlphaXiv
57

Reconstruction or Semantics? What Makes a Latent Space Useful for Robotic World Models

Nilaksh, Saurav Jha, Artem Zholus

Chandar Research Lab, Mila – Quebec AI Institute

Reinforcement Learning
AI Co-Mathematician: Accelerating Mathematicians with Agentic AI
AlphaXiv
52

AI Co-Mathematician: Accelerating Mathematicians with Agentic AI

Daniel Zheng, Ingrid von Glehn, Yori Zwols

Google

Reinforcement Learning
Skill1: Unified Evolution of Skill-Augmented Agents via Reinforcement Learning
AlphaXiv
45

Skill1: Unified Evolution of Skill-Augmented Agents via Reinforcement Learning

Yaorui Shi, Yuxin Chen, Zhengxi Lu

University of Science and Technology of China, National University of Singapore, Zhejiang University, Wuhan University

Machine Learning
Lecture Notes on Statistical Physics and Neural Networks
AlphaXiv
37

Lecture Notes on Statistical Physics and Neural Networks

Olaf Hohm

Institute for Physics, Humboldt University Berlin

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Machine Learning
MatryoshkaLoRA: Learning Accurate Hierarchical Low-Rank Representations for LLM Fine-Tuning
HuggingFace
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MatryoshkaLoRA: Learning Accurate Hierarchical Low-Rank Representations for LLM Fine-Tuning

Ionut-Vlad Modoranu, Mher Safaryan, Dan Alistarh

IST Austria Distributed Algorithms and Systems Lab

NLP
SkCC: Portable and Secure Skill Compilation for Cross-Framework LLM Agents
HuggingFace
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SkCC: Portable and Secure Skill Compilation for Cross-Framework LLM Agents

Yipeng Ouyang, Yi Xiao, Yuhao Gu, Xianwei Zhang

Sun Yat-Sen University

What if AI systems weren't chatbots?
HuggingFace
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What if AI systems weren't chatbots?

Sourojit Ghosh, Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Sanjana Gautam, Avijit Ghosh

NLP
Discovering Reinforcement Learning Interfaces with Large Language Models
HuggingFace
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Discovering Reinforcement Learning Interfaces with Large Language Models

Akshat Singh Jaswal, Ashish Baghel, Paras Chopra

Lossfunk

NLP
Rethinking RL for LLM Reasoning: It's Sparse Policy Selection, Not Capability Learning
HuggingFace
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Rethinking RL for LLM Reasoning: It's Sparse Policy Selection, Not Capability Learning

Ömer Faruk Akgül, Rajgopal Kannan, Willie Neiswanger, Viktor Prasanna

University of Southern California

Machine Learning
CGM-JEPA: Learning Consistent Continuous Glucose Monitor Representations via Predictive Self-Supervised Pretraining
HuggingFace
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CGM-JEPA: Learning Consistent Continuous Glucose Monitor Representations via Predictive Self-Supervised Pretraining

Hada Melino Muhammad, Zechen Li, Flora Salim, Ahmed A. Metwally

Google