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The AI Layoff Trap
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The AI Layoff Trap

Brett Hemenway Falk, Gerry Tsoukalas

Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Boston University

AlphaXiv Trending

Computer Vision
Qwen-VLA: Unifying Vision-Language-Action Modeling across Tasks, Environments, and Robot Embodiments
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Qwen-VLA: Unifying Vision-Language-Action Modeling across Tasks, Environments, and Robot Embodiments

Qiuyue Wang, Mingsheng Li, Jian Guan

Cosmos 3: Omnimodal World Models for Physical AI
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Cosmos 3: Omnimodal World Models for Physical AI

Aditi, Niket Agarwal, Arslan Ali

On the Scaling of PEFT: Towards Million Personal Models of Trillion Parameters
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On the Scaling of PEFT: Towards Million Personal Models of Trillion Parameters

Vin Bo, Song Cao

Mind Lab

Reinforcement Learning
Trust Region On-Policy Distillation
AlphaXiv
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Trust Region On-Policy Distillation

Xingrun Xing, Haoqing Wang, Boyan Gao

Samsung Research, Beijing, China, University of Oxford, Peking University

Speech Audio
WavTTS: Towards High-Quality Zero-Shot TTS via Direct Raw Waveform Modeling
AlphaXiv
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WavTTS: Towards High-Quality Zero-Shot TTS via Direct Raw Waveform Modeling

Wenxi Chen, Dongya Jia, Yushen Chen

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Innovation Institute, ByteDance Seed

WALL-WM: Carving World Action Modeling at the Event Joints
AlphaXiv
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WALL-WM: Carving World Action Modeling at the Event Joints

Shalfun Li, Victor Yao, Charles Yang

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Machine Learning
KletterMix: Climbing Toward High-Quality German Pretraining Data
HuggingFace
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KletterMix: Climbing Toward High-Quality German Pretraining Data

Maurice Kraus, Ruben Härle, Sebastian Sztwiertnia, Abbas Goher Khan, Mehdi Ali

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Lab at TU Darmstadt

NLP
Evaluating Large Language Models in Dynamic Clinical Decision-Making with Standardized Patient Cases
HuggingFace
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Evaluating Large Language Models in Dynamic Clinical Decision-Making with Standardized Patient Cases

Cheng Liang, Pengcheng Qiu, Ya Zhang, Yanfeng Wang, Chaoyi Wu

Computer Vision
PaintBench: Deterministic Evaluation of Precise Visual Editing
HuggingFace
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PaintBench: Deterministic Evaluation of Precise Visual Editing

Kai Xu, Ellis Brown, Shrikar Madhu, Rob Fergus, He He

VISIONx @ NYU

NLP
Agent libOS: A Library-OS-Inspired Runtime for Long-Running, Capability-Controlled LLM Agents
HuggingFace
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Agent libOS: A Library-OS-Inspired Runtime for Long-Running, Capability-Controlled LLM Agents

Yingqi Zhang

Tsinghua University

Reinforcement Learning
DAR: Deontic Reasoning with Agentic Harnesses
HuggingFace
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DAR: Deontic Reasoning with Agentic Harnesses

Guangyao Dou, William Jurayj, Nils Holzenberger, Benjamin Van Durme

Center for Language and Speech Processing @ JHU

Machine Learning
Stable-Layers: Fine-Tuning Image Layer Decomposition Models with VLM-Scored Reinforcement Learning
HuggingFace
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Stable-Layers: Fine-Tuning Image Layer Decomposition Models with VLM-Scored Reinforcement Learning

Ciara Rowles, Reshinth Adithyan, Nikhil Pinnaparaju, Vikram Voleti, Mark Boss

Stability AI