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Last Updated: May 1, 2026, 9:29 AM PT

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The AI Layoff Trap
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The AI Layoff Trap

Brett Hemenway Falk, Gerry Tsoukalas

AlphaXiv Trending

Incompressible Knowledge Probes: Estimating Black-Box LLM Parameter Counts via Factual Capacity
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Incompressible Knowledge Probes: Estimating Black-Box LLM Parameter Counts via Factual Capacity

Bojie Li

#nlp#alphaxiv
Tuna-2: Pixel Embeddings Beat Vision Encoders for Multimodal Understanding and Generation
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Tuna-2: Pixel Embeddings Beat Vision Encoders for Multimodal Understanding and Generation

Zhiheng Liu, Weiming Ren, Xiaoke Huang

#computer-vision#retrieval#multimodal#alphaxiv
A Milestone in Formalization: The Sphere Packing Problem in Dimension 8
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A Milestone in Formalization: The Sphere Packing Problem in Dimension 8

Sidharth Hariharan, Christopher Birkbeck, Seewoo Lee

#alphaxiv
World-R1: Reinforcing 3D Constraints for Text-to-Video Generation
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World-R1: Reinforcing 3D Constraints for Text-to-Video Generation

Weijie Wang, Xiaoxuan He, Youping Gu

#computer-vision#alphaxiv
Recursive Multi-Agent Systems
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Recursive Multi-Agent Systems

Xiyuan Yang, Jiaru Zou, Rui Pan

#reinforcement-learning#alphaxiv
The Last Human-Written Paper: Agent-Native Research Artifacts
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The Last Human-Written Paper: Agent-Native Research Artifacts

Jiachen Liu, Jiaxin Pei, Jintao Huang

#reinforcement-learning#retrieval#alphaxiv

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Compliance versus Sensibility: On the Reasoning Controllability in Large Language Models
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Compliance versus Sensibility: On the Reasoning Controllability in Large Language Models

Xingwei Tan, Marco Valentino, Mahmud Elahi Akhter +2 more

#nlp#reasoning#Xingwei-Tan
ViPO: Visual Preference Optimization at Scale
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ViPO: Visual Preference Optimization at Scale

Ming Li, Jie Wu, Justin Cui +2 more

#computer-vision#efficiency
Learning from Noisy Preferences: A Semi-Supervised Learning Approach to Direct Preference Optimization
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Learning from Noisy Preferences: A Semi-Supervised Learning Approach to Direct Preference Optimization

Xinxin Liu, Ming Li, Zonglin Lyu +2 more

#efficiency
Instruction-Guided Poetry Generation in Arabic and Its Dialects
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Instruction-Guided Poetry Generation in Arabic and Its Dialects

Abdelrahman Sadallah, Kareem Elozeiri, Mervat Abassy +2 more

#mbzuai-nlp
FlashRT: Towards Computationally and Memory Efficient Red-Teaming for Prompt Injection and Knowledge Corruption
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FlashRT: Towards Computationally and Memory Efficient Red-Teaming for Prompt Injection and Knowledge Corruption

Yanting Wang, Chenlong Yin, Ying Chen +1 more

#nlp#efficiency#wang-yanting
Safety Drift After Fine-Tuning: Evidence from High-Stakes Domains
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Safety Drift After Fine-Tuning: Evidence from High-Stakes Domains

Emaan Bilal Khan, Amy Winecoff, Miranda Bogen +1 more

#machine-learning#safety-alignment