The Research Desk.

The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons: How AI Could Disrupt the Regeneration of Professional Expertise

N Lovett

Old Dominion University

Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models

Jack Lindsey

Anthropic

Modeling Earth-Scale Human-Like Societies with One Billion Agents

Haoxiang Guan, Jiyan He, Liyang Fan, Zhenzhen Ren, Shaobin He, Xin Yu, Yuan Chen, Xueyin Xu, Shuxin Zheng, Yan Gao, Enhong Chen, Tie-Yan Liu, Zhen Liu

DFlash: Block Diffusion for Flash Speculative Decoding

Jian Chen, Yesheng Liang, Zhijian Liu

UC San Diego

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

Alexander Panfilov, David Schmotz, Ilia Shumailov

Affiliation: ELLIS Institute Tübingen, Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Affiliation: ELLIS Institute Tübingen Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, ELLIS Institute Tübingen, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

GLM-5.3: Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities

Z.ai

Z.ai

Full-bandwidth transformer

Xi Wang, Ziyang Cai, Zheng Zhan

Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, Microsoft

Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding

Kushal Chakrabarti

DreamX-Phi 1.0: Action-Conditioned Video World Model for Robotic Manipulation

DreamX Team, Rui Chen, Xiangxiang Chu

Massive Activations in Hybrid Linear Attention Large Language Models: Pre-Attention Spikes and Inter-Spike Plateaus

Zunhai Su, Bohan Sun, Xialie Zhuang

Affiliation: Tsinghua University, Affiliation: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Affiliation: The University of Hong Kong, Affiliation: University of Sydney, Affiliation: Columbia University[3pt

Thought-Level Beam Search for Reasoning

Lijie Yang, Hongyin Luo, Jiawei Zhao, Tri Dao, Ravi Netravali

Princeton University

RibAssist 3D: Biplanar Rib-Fracture Detection, Addressing, and Selective 3D Localization from CT-Derived Projections

Kabila Haile Soboka