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The AI Layoff Trap
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The AI Layoff Trap

Brett Hemenway Falk, Gerry Tsoukalas

Reasoning
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, Maxwell Horton, Samy Bengio, Mehrdad Farajtabar

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

DeepSeek-AI

DeepSeek-AI

Computer Vision
Image Generators are Generalist Vision Learners
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Image Generators are Generalist Vision Learners

Valentin Gabeur, Shangbang Long, Songyou Peng

Machine Learning
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

NLP
Hyperloop Transformers
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Hyperloop Transformers

Abbas Zeitoun, Lucas Torroba-Hennigen, Yoon Kim

Efficiency
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

Reinforcement Learning
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

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Reinforcement Learning
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, Wenbo Zhang, Jin-Ge Yao

Speech Audio
Step-Audio-R1.5 Technical Report
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Step-Audio-R1.5 Technical Report

Yuxin Zhang, Xiangyu Tony Zhang, Daijiao Liu, Fei Tian, Yayue Deng

THU MAIC
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, Sichen Zhang, Jifan Yu

Reinforcement Learning
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, Jiayuan Mao, Ludwig Schmidt

Speech Audio
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, Aaditya Pareek, Kartik Rajput

Safety Alignment
Offline Evaluation Measures of Fairness in Recommender Systems
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Offline Evaluation Measures of Fairness in Recommender Systems

Theresia Veronika Rampisela