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Speech Audio
An Industrial-Strength Audio Search Algorithm
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An Industrial-Strength Audio Search Algorithm

Avery Li-Chun Wang

Shazam Entertainment, Ltd.

NLP
The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act on It
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The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act on It

Valen Tagliabue, Leonard Dung, Cameron Berg

Financing the AI Buildout
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Financing the AI Buildout

Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

Columbia University Graduate School of Business

What if automating AI R&D triggers an intelligence explosion?
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What if automating AI R&D triggers an intelligence explosion?

Alan Chan, Christoph Winter, Andrew Barto, Jakub Pachocki, Geoffrey Hinton, Eric Horvitz, Yoshua Bengio, Dawn Song, Jack Clark, Hilary Greaves, Anton Korinek, Samuel Hammond, Thore Graepel, Ben Bariach, Philip H. S. Torr, Sheila A. McIlraith, Jeff Clune, Sam Manning, Girish Sastry, Tom Davidson, Daniel Eth, Sören Mindermann

GovAI, CASP, University of Cambridge, Institute for Law & AI, University of Massachusetts Amherst, OpenAI, University of Toronto, Vector Institute, Microsoft, Mila (Québec AI Institute), Université de Montréal, LawZero, University of California, Berkeley, Anthropic

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Computer Vision
H-JEPA: End-to-End Learning of Hierarchical World Models for Visual Planning
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H-JEPA: End-to-End Learning of Hierarchical World Models for Visual Planning

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Affiliation: Brown University, Affiliation: Advanced Machine Intelligence Affiliation: Brown University, Brown University

Reinforcement Learning
QF3: Fast Flow RL with Filtered Q-Gradients
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QF3: Fast Flow RL with Filtered Q-Gradients

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OpenWAM: An Open Framework for Composable World-Action Models
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OpenWAM: An Open Framework for Composable World-Action Models

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Affiliation: Stanford University, Stanford University

Retrieval
Kernel Autoresearch for Open-Ended Model Discovery
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Kernel Autoresearch for Open-Ended Model Discovery

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Robotics
RoboJEPA: Scaling Robotic Latent World Models
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RoboJEPA: Scaling Robotic Latent World Models

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Affiliation: FAIR at Meta, Affiliation: Chandar Research Lab, Affiliation: Mila - Quebec AI Institute, Affiliation: Chandar Research Lab Affiliation: Mila - Quebec AI Institute Affiliation: Polytechnique Montréal, Affiliation: FAIR at Meta Joint last author

Long-WAM: Scaling the Context of World-Action Models
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Long-WAM: Scaling the Context of World-Action Models

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NVIDIA MIT HKU UCSD

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Machine Learning
Iris-3B: Going Beyond the Latent with Pixel-Space Diffusion Training, Conversion and Fine-Tuning
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Iris-3B: Going Beyond the Latent with Pixel-Space Diffusion Training, Conversion and Fine-Tuning

Hanqiu Li Cai, Chema Garabito

speridlabs

Reinforcement Learning
Composing What Each Teacher Learned: Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation through Teacher-Relative Shifts
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Composing What Each Teacher Learned: Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation through Teacher-Relative Shifts

Hejian Sang, Zhengze Zhou, Shayan Mohajer Hamidi, Xiaomin Li, Rohit Jain

LinkedIn

Reinforcement Learning
Lineage-Aware Memory Governance: A Derivation-Gated Framework for Privacy-Preserving Column-Level Access Control in Enterprise AI Agents
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Lineage-Aware Memory Governance: A Derivation-Gated Framework for Privacy-Preserving Column-Level Access Control in Enterprise AI Agents

Venkata M Sangaraju, Sudhir Vissa

Machine Learning
MIMESIS: Learning User Simulators as Training Environments for Interactive Agents
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MIMESIS: Learning User Simulators as Training Environments for Interactive Agents

Hoang Phan, Dat Huynh, Andrey Zhmoginov, Qi Zeng, Wancen Mu

AI at Meta

Coral79
PAMI: Part Anchored Motion for Text to Human-Object Interaction Generation
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PAMI: Part Anchored Motion for Text to Human-Object Interaction Generation

Chuqiao Li, Xianghui Xie, Yong Cao, Andreas Geiger, Gerard Pons-Moll

Dexmac221
System Switch: When Should a Fast Decision Model Stop and Think?
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System Switch: When Should a Fast Decision Model Stop and Think?

Gian Luca Bailo