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The AI Layoff Trap
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The AI Layoff Trap

Brett Hemenway Falk, Gerry Tsoukalas

Reasoning
The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
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The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity

Parshin Shojaee, Iman Mirzadeh, Keivan Alizadeh, Maxwell Horton, Samy Bengio, Mehrdad Farajtabar

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NLP
Incompressible Knowledge Probes: Estimating Black-Box LLM Parameter Counts via Factual Capacity
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Incompressible Knowledge Probes: Estimating Black-Box LLM Parameter Counts via Factual Capacity

Bojie Li

Computer Vision
Tuna-2: Pixel Embeddings Beat Vision Encoders for Multimodal Understanding and Generation
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Tuna-2: Pixel Embeddings Beat Vision Encoders for Multimodal Understanding and Generation

Zhiheng Liu, Weiming Ren, Xiaoke Huang

A Milestone in Formalization: The Sphere Packing Problem in Dimension 8
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A Milestone in Formalization: The Sphere Packing Problem in Dimension 8

Sidharth Hariharan, Christopher Birkbeck, Seewoo Lee

Reinforcement Learning
Recursive Multi-Agent Systems
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Recursive Multi-Agent Systems

Xiyuan Yang, Jiaru Zou, Rui Pan

Computer Vision
Thinking with Visual Primitives
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Thinking with Visual Primitives

Ruijie Lu, Yiyang Ma, Xiaokang Chen

Reinforcement Learning
Agentic Harness Engineering: Observability-Driven Automatic Evolution of Coding-Agent Harnesses
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Agentic Harness Engineering: Observability-Driven Automatic Evolution of Coding-Agent Harnesses

Jiahang Lin, Shichun Liu, Chengjun Pan

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Efficiency
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: Efficient and Open Multimodal Intelligence
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Nemotron 3 Nano Omni: Efficient and Open Multimodal Intelligence

NVIDIA, Amala Sanjay Deshmukh, Kateryna Chumachenko, Tuomas Rintamaki, Matthieu Le

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Reinforcement Learning
Step-level Optimization for Efficient Computer-use Agents
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Step-level Optimization for Efficient Computer-use Agents

Jinbiao Wei, Kangqi Ni, Yilun Zhao, Guo Gan, Arman Cohan

Efficiency
Learning from Noisy Preferences: A Semi-Supervised Learning Approach to Direct Preference Optimization
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Learning from Noisy Preferences: A Semi-Supervised Learning Approach to Direct Preference Optimization

Xinxin Liu, Ming Li, Zonglin Lyu, Yuzhang Shang, Chen Chen

Computer Vision
ViPO: Visual Preference Optimization at Scale
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ViPO: Visual Preference Optimization at Scale

Ming Li, Jie Wu, Justin Cui, Xiaojie Li, Rui Wang

NLP
FlashRT: Towards Computationally and Memory Efficient Red-Teaming for Prompt Injection and Knowledge Corruption
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FlashRT: Towards Computationally and Memory Efficient Red-Teaming for Prompt Injection and Knowledge Corruption

Yanting Wang, Chenlong Yin, Ying Chen, Jinyuan Jia

Machine Learning
Safety Drift After Fine-Tuning: Evidence from High-Stakes Domains
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Safety Drift After Fine-Tuning: Evidence from High-Stakes Domains

Emaan Bilal Khan, Amy Winecoff, Miranda Bogen, Dylan Hadfield-Menell