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Last Updated: Apr 29, 2026, 9:34 AM PT

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The AI Layoff Trap
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The AI Layoff Trap

Brett Hemenway Falk, Gerry Tsoukalas

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
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The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity

Parshin Shojaee, Iman Mirzadeh, Keivan Alizadeh +3 more

#reasoning

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DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence
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DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence

DeepSeek-AI

#efficiency
Image Generators are Generalist Vision Learners
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Image Generators are Generalist Vision Learners

Valentin Gabeur, Shangbang Long, Songyou Peng

#computer-vision#alphaxiv
There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
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There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning

Jamie Simon, Daniel Kunin, Alexander Atanasov

#machine-learning#alphaxiv
Hyperloop Transformers
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Hyperloop Transformers

Abbas Zeitoun, Lucas Torroba-Hennigen, Yoon Kim

#nlp#alphaxiv
Thinking Without Words: Efficient Latent Reasoning with Abstract Chain-of-Thought
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Thinking Without Words: Efficient Latent Reasoning with Abstract Chain-of-Thought

Keshav Ramji, Tahira Naseem, Ramón Fernandez Astudillo

#efficiency#reasoning#alphaxiv
Agentic World Modeling: Foundations, Capabilities, Laws, and Beyond
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Agentic World Modeling: Foundations, Capabilities, Laws, and Beyond

Meng Chu, Xuan Billy Zhang, Kevin Qinghong Lin

#reinforcement-learning#alphaxiv

HuggingFace Daily Papers

AutoResearchBench: Benchmarking AI Agents on Complex Scientific Literature Discovery
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AutoResearchBench: Benchmarking AI Agents on Complex Scientific Literature Discovery

Lei Xiong, Kun Luo, Ziyi Xia +2 more

#reinforcement-learning#retrieval#reasoning#CherYou
Step-Audio-R1.5 Technical Report
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Step-Audio-R1.5 Technical Report

Yuxin Zhang, Xiangyu Tony Zhang, Daijiao Liu +2 more

#speech-audio#stepfun-ai
MAIC-UI: Making Interactive Courseware with Generative UI
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MAIC-UI: Making Interactive Courseware with Generative UI

Shangqing Tu, Yanjia Li, Keyu Chen +2 more

#THU-MAIC
V-GRPO: Online Reinforcement Learning for Denoising Generative Models Is Easier than You Think
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V-GRPO: Online Reinforcement Learning for Denoising Generative Models Is Easier than You Think

Bingda Tang, Yuhui Zhang, Xiaohan Wang +2 more

#reinforcement-learning#tang-bd
Preferences of a Voice-First Nation: Large-Scale Pairwise Evaluation and Preference Analysis for TTS in Indian Languages
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Preferences of a Voice-First Nation: Large-Scale Pairwise Evaluation and Preference Analysis for TTS in Indian Languages

Srija Anand, Ashwin Sankar, Ishvinder Sethi +2 more

#speech-audio
Offline Evaluation Measures of Fairness in Recommender Systems
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Offline Evaluation Measures of Fairness in Recommender Systems

Theresia Veronika Rampisela

#safety-alignment