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The AI Layoff Trap
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The AI Layoff Trap

Brett Hemenway Falk, Gerry Tsoukalas

University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), Boston University

NLP
Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
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Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

Vassilis Papadopoulos, McNair Shah, Sam Zimmerman, Jack Lindsey

Anthropic Fellows Program, EPFL, Anthropic

Mathematics in the age of AI
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Mathematics in the age of AI

Terence Tao

UCLA Department of Mathematics

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Mathematics in the age of AI
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Mathematics in the age of AI

Terence Tao

Address: UCLA Department of Mathematics, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555, UCLA Department of Mathematics, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555

Recirculation
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Recirculation

Michael C. Mozer, Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, Danny Sawyer

Thanks: Work performed while a student researcher at DeepMind, Michael C. MozerGoogle DeepMind, Shoaib Ahmed SiddiquiGoogle DeepMind, Danny SawyerGoogle DeepMind, Rosanne LiuGoogle DeepMind

Computer Vision
Hawkeye: Hardware-Aware GPU Kernel Optimization with Minimal Supervision
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Hawkeye: Hardware-Aware GPU Kernel Optimization with Minimal Supervision

Arya Tschand, Kesavan Ramakrishnan, Alexander Ingare

SPADE: Self-Play in Adaptive Synthetic Executable Environments
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SPADE: Self-Play in Adaptive Synthetic Executable Environments

Bo Liu, Simon Yu, Yiding Jiang

University of Washington, Stanford University, Northeastern University, Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Q-Learning With World Models
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Q-Learning With World Models

Perry Dong, Yueru Jia, Chelsea Finn

Affiliation: Stanford University, Affiliation: Peking University, Stanford University, Peking University

Machine Learning
What is Missing from AI Post-Training AI: An Empirical Analysis
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What is Missing from AI Post-Training AI: An Empirical Analysis

Joy Jia Yin Lim, Xin Huang, Hao Peng

Affiliation: Tsinghua University, Affiliation: Renmin University of China, Tsinghua University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Renmin University of China

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Reinforcement Learning
Hierarchical Self-Improvement: A Framework for Task-Specific Evolvable Agent Harnesses
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Hierarchical Self-Improvement: A Framework for Task-Specific Evolvable Agent Harnesses

Tailin Zhou

HKUST

Raws Labs
TinyCast: Probabilistic Zero-Shot Forecasting with Computed Periodicity
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TinyCast: Probabilistic Zero-Shot Forecasting with Computed Periodicity

Armin Steinhauser

RAWS Labs

Robotics
τ_0-VLA: a Hierarchical Robot Foundation Model with World-Model-Guided Test-Time Computation
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τ_0-VLA: a Hierarchical Robot Foundation Model with World-Model-Guided Test-Time Computation

Xiaowei Cai, Yunuo Cai, Bingao Chen, Jingxiao Chen, Zhi Chen

Shanghai Innovation Institute

NLP
The Embedder's Dilemma: LLMs Are Better, but at What Cost?
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The Embedder's Dilemma: LLMs Are Better, but at What Cost?

Adnan El Assadi, Niklas Muennighoff, Jinhyuk Lee

LeonardNJU
QuoteBench: How Matched Scores Can Hide Command-Path Failures
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QuoteBench: How Matched Scores Can Hide Command-Path Failures

Shangao Li, Yao Zhang, Volker Tresp, Yuanyuan Yang

Reinforcement Learning
FlowEvo: Self-Evolving Agents through the Co-Evolution of Workflows and Executable Skills
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FlowEvo: Self-Evolving Agents through the Co-Evolution of Workflows and Executable Skills

Zeyu Ren, Ling Yue, Ran Li, Yishu Wang, Shengxiang Xu

Southeast Univeristy