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Computer Vision
Analytic non-axisymmetric 3D MHD equilibria without stellarator symmetry
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Analytic non-axisymmetric 3D MHD equilibria without stellarator symmetry

Opal Issan, Jonathan Citrin, Matt Landreman, Brendan Tracey

Google DeepMind, University of California San Diego, University of Maryland, College Park

AlphaXiv Trending

MemT-1.0: Towards Memory-Native Evolution
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MemT-1.0: Towards Memory-Native Evolution

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NLP
Koi: Evidence-Guided, Self-Calibrating Planning for Multi-Cloud, Heterogeneous LLM Inference Fleets
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Koi: Evidence-Guided, Self-Calibrating Planning for Multi-Cloud, Heterogeneous LLM Inference Fleets

Robotics
Ropedia W0: Scaling Loco-Manipulation World Models across Embodiments with Human Experience
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Ropedia W0: Scaling Loco-Manipulation World Models across Embodiments with Human Experience

Nanyang Technological University, Duke University, University of California, San Diego, Tsinghua University

EgoXperience: Learning World-Grounded Egocentric Representations from Human Experience
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EgoXperience: Learning World-Grounded Egocentric Representations from Human Experience

Nanyang Technological University, Tsinghua University, Peking University

Efficiency
HarnessPro: Recursive Harness Self-Improvement with Pareto Optimization for Performance-Cost Trade-offs
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HarnessPro: Recursive Harness Self-Improvement with Pareto Optimization for Performance-Cost Trade-offs

Affiliation: Tsinghua University, Affiliation: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Affiliation: University of Warwick, Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Machine Learning
Text-to-Image Generative Modeling Without Language Pretraining
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Text-to-Image Generative Modeling Without Language Pretraining

Affiliation: Stanford University, Affiliation: Stanford University Affiliation: Radical Numerics, Stanford University

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Reinforcement Learning
StopLoss: Teaching Agents to Predict Failure and Stop Early
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StopLoss: Teaching Agents to Predict Failure and Stop Early

Jiarong Liang, Xueguang Ma, Dongfu Jiang, Yuxuan Zhang, Ping Nie

Reinforcement Learning
Predicting Privileged Information Effectiveness for On-Policy Self-Distillation
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Predicting Privileged Information Effectiveness for On-Policy Self-Distillation

Kaijian Zou, Emiliano Penaloza, MohammadHossein Rezaei, Anisha Gunjal, Mohit Raghavendra

NLP
Measuring Mechanistic Uncertainty in Large Language Models via Causal Robustness
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Measuring Mechanistic Uncertainty in Large Language Models via Causal Robustness

Aneesh Komanduri, Majid Afshar, Timothy A. Miller, Yanjun Gao

NLP
Legal Guidance in the Wild: How Users Seek Legal Help in Real-World LLM Conversations
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Legal Guidance in the Wild: How Users Seek Legal Help in Real-World LLM Conversations

Amirreza Mohseni, Gerasimos Spanakis

Yliu Fort
First Passage Attention
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First Passage Attention

Yuxuan Liu

NLP
Competence-Based Evaluation of Logical Reasoning in Large Language Models
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Competence-Based Evaluation of Logical Reasoning in Large Language Models

Jize Jiang, Chengxiang Zhai

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign