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Pulse Energy Eu
SlopShape: Identifying AI-Generated Commercial Web Content
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SlopShape: Identifying AI-Generated Commercial Web Content

Jochen Madler

Sitefire

AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data
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AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data

I. Shumailov, et al.

University of Oxford, University of Cambridge

NLP
Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
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Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

Simon Lermen, Daniel Paleka, Joshua Swanson, Michael Aerni, Nicholas Carlini, Florian Tramèr

MATS, ETH Zurich, Anthropic

AlphaXiv Trending

Reinforcement Learning
MatToolBench: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents in Real-World Materials Science Workflows
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MatToolBench: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents in Real-World Materials Science Workflows

Reinforcement Learning
DexAgent: An Agentic Human2Sim2Robot Framework for Dexterous Manipulation with Self-Evolving Tool Library
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DexAgent: An Agentic Human2Sim2Robot Framework for Dexterous Manipulation with Self-Evolving Tool Library

Affiliation: Stanford University, Affiliation: Columbia University, Stanford University, Columbia University

Robotics
AD-E2E-JEPA: A Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture For End-to-End Autonomous Driving
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AD-E2E-JEPA: A Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture For End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Affiliation: New York University, New York University

NLP
Context Language Models
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Context Language Models

Affiliation: University of Washington, Affiliation: Meta Superintelligence Labs, Affiliation: University of Washington Affiliation: Meta Superintelligence Labs, University of Washington, Meta Superintelligence Labs

Robotics
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T 2 2 Mem: Learning Test-Time Memory for Robotics

Affiliation: Stanford University, Affiliation: NVIDIA, Affiliation: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Stanford University, NVIDIA

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Efficiency
Periodic Weak Spots: Phase Sensitivity from Chunked KV-Cache Compression
HuggingFace
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Periodic Weak Spots: Phase Sensitivity from Chunked KV-Cache Compression

Xingyu Zhu, Pu, Yi, Ziheng Cheng, Ang Lv

ByteDance Seed

NLP
Scheduling Recursive Reasoning in Looped Transformers
HuggingFace
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Scheduling Recursive Reasoning in Looped Transformers

Boyuan Wang, Chengyao Yu, Jiaxi Ren, Hongxin Wei, Bingyi Jing

Reinforcement Learning
Can Agents Design Libraries for Agents?
HuggingFace
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Can Agents Design Libraries for Agents?

Gabriel Orlanski, Alex L. Zhang, Avi Trost, Vincent Sunn Chen, Frederic Sala

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Reinforcement Learning
Scaling Properties of Same-Family On-Policy Distillation
HuggingFace
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Scaling Properties of Same-Family On-Policy Distillation

Yuntai Bao, Qinfeng Li, Guoqing Jiang, Liwei Chen, Zhiheng Qin

Zhejiang University

Computer Vision
Org-Agent: Beyond Personal Assistants Towards Organizational Agents
HuggingFace
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Org-Agent: Beyond Personal Assistants Towards Organizational Agents

Luyao Zhuang, Yujing Zhang, Zijin Hong, Yilin Xiao, Xiao Huang

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Joshua Ren
Learning Dynamics of Continual Learning: A Unified View of Data Attribution, Forgetting, and Plasticity Loss
HuggingFace
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Learning Dynamics of Continual Learning: A Unified View of Data Attribution, Forgetting, and Plasticity Loss

Yi Ren, Wenlong Deng, Guanzhe Hong, Clare Lyle, Yarin Gal

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