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NLP
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GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence

Robotics
One Demonstration, Many Objects: Generalizing Manipulation via Local Contact Geometry
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One Demonstration, Many Objects: Generalizing Manipulation via Local Contact Geometry

Stanford University

NLP
Trace as State: Reasoning Traces as Conditional States for Long-Context Transformers
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Trace as State: Reasoning Traces as Conditional States for Long-Context Transformers

Affiliation: Tsinghua University, Tsinghua University

Machine Learning
Rethinking On-Policy Distillation of Large Language Models II: One Training Example
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Rethinking On-Policy Distillation of Large Language Models II: One Training Example

Affiliation: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Affiliation: Tsinghua University, Affiliation: Northeastern University, Affiliation: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

NLP
Unlocking Lossless Speedups in LLMs via Discrete Diffusion
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Unlocking Lossless Speedups in LLMs via Discrete Diffusion

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Computer Vision
Scal3R: Learning Efficient Multi-Relative Pose Query for Scalable Online 3D Reconstruction
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Scal3R: Learning Efficient Multi-Relative Pose Query for Scalable Online 3D Reconstruction

Chin-Yang Lin, Yang-Che Sun, Cheng Sun, Fu-En Yang, Min-Hung Chen

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Reasoning
Last Translation Benchmark
HuggingFace
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Last Translation Benchmark

Vilém Zouhar, Niyati Bafna, Mukund Choudhary, Maike Züfle, Sara Rajaee

Reinforcement Learning
Using Grounded Theory for Agent Behavior Analysis at Scale
HuggingFace
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Using Grounded Theory for Agent Behavior Analysis at Scale

Zhuoran Lu, Yangyang Yu, Zhuoyan Li, Yibo Meng, Nan Jiang

Purdue University

NLP
Select, Compress, Reinvest: A Controlled Study of Visual-Token Allocation in Long-Video MLLMs
HuggingFace
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Select, Compress, Reinvest: A Controlled Study of Visual-Token Allocation in Long-Video MLLMs

Prakhar Khatri

Machine Learning
DRACO: Fine-Grained Credit Assignment with Dynamic Rubrics for Long-Horizon Agent Training
HuggingFace
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DRACO: Fine-Grained Credit Assignment with Dynamic Rubrics for Long-Horizon Agent Training

Shubham Gandhi, Saurabh Goyal, Kiran Kate, Yara Rizk

IBM Research

Computer Vision
QCell: Recombining and Aligning Cell Queries for Overlapping Instance Segmentation
HuggingFace
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QCell: Recombining and Aligning Cell Queries for Overlapping Instance Segmentation

Yaroslav Prytula, Anton Popov, Dmytro Fishman