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2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership
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2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership

Dario Amodei

Anthropic

Safety Alignment
Marked Pedagogies: Examining Linguistic Biases in Personalized Automated Writing Feedback
X.com
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Marked Pedagogies: Examining Linguistic Biases in Personalized Automated Writing Feedback

Mei Tan, Lena Phalen, Dorottya Demszky

Machine Learning
Nested Learning: The Illusion of Deep Learning Architectures
X.com
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Nested Learning: The Illusion of Deep Learning Architectures

Ali Behrouz, Meisam Razaviyayn, Peilin Zhong, Vahab Mirrokni

Google Research

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ELF: Embedded Language Flows
AlphaXiv
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ELF: Embedded Language Flows

Keya Hu, Linlu Qiu, Yiyang Lu

MIT

Computer Vision
Qwen-Image-2.0 Technical Report
AlphaXiv
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Qwen-Image-2.0 Technical Report

Bing Zhao, Chenfei Wu, Deqing Li

Robotics
World Action Models: The Next Frontier in Embodied AI
AlphaXiv
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World Action Models: The Next Frontier in Embodied AI

Siyin Wang, Junhao Shi, Zhaoyang Fu

Reasoning
Solve the Loop: Attractor Models for Language and Reasoning
AlphaXiv
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Solve the Loop: Attractor Models for Language and Reasoning

Jacob Fein-Ashley, Paria Rashidinejad

University of Southern California

Reinforcement Learning
Evolving-RL: End-to-End Optimization of Experience-Driven Self-Evolving Capability within Agents
AlphaXiv
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Evolving-RL: End-to-End Optimization of Experience-Driven Self-Evolving Capability within Agents

Zhiyuan Fan, Wenwei Jin, Feng Zhang

School of Computer Science, Peking University

Reinforcement Learning
Unmasking On-Policy Distillation: Where It Helps, Where It Hurts, and Why
AlphaXiv
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Unmasking On-Policy Distillation: Where It Helps, Where It Hurts, and Why

Mohammadreza Armandpour, Fatih Ilhan, David Harrison

Apple

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Reinforcement Learning
Learning to Communicate Locally for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Pathfinding
HuggingFace
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Learning to Communicate Locally for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Pathfinding

Valeriy Vyaltsev, Alsu Sagirova, Anton Andreychuk, Oleg Bulichev, Yuri Kuratov

Computer Vision
ViMU: Benchmarking Video Metaphorical Understanding
HuggingFace
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ViMU: Benchmarking Video Metaphorical Understanding

Qi Li, Xinchao Wang

Computer Vision
Sat3DGen: Comprehensive Street-Level 3D Scene Generation from Single Satellite Image
HuggingFace
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Sat3DGen: Comprehensive Street-Level 3D Scene Generation from Single Satellite Image

Ming Qian, Zimin Xia, Changkun Liu, Shuailei Ma, Wen Wang

Wuhan Univeristy

Machine Learning
Boosting Omni-Modal Language Models: Staged Post-Training with Visually Debiased Evaluation
HuggingFace
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Boosting Omni-Modal Language Models: Staged Post-Training with Visually Debiased Evaluation

Che Liu, Lichao Ma, Xiangyu Tony Zhang, Yuxin Zhang, Haoyang Zhang

StepFun

Reasoning
PreScam: A Benchmark for Predicting Scam Progression from Early Conversations
HuggingFace
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PreScam: A Benchmark for Predicting Scam Progression from Early Conversations

Weixiang Sun, Shang Ma, Yiyang Li, Tianyi Ma, Zehong Wang

University of Notre Dame

BEAM: Binary Expert Activation Masking for Dynamic Routing in MoE
HuggingFace
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BEAM: Binary Expert Activation Masking for Dynamic Routing in MoE

Juntong Wu, Jialiang Cheng, Qishen Yin, Yue Dai, Yuliang Yan

alibaba-inc