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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

StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction
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StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction

Jenna Russell, Rishanth Rajendhran, Chau Minh Pham, Mohit Iyyer, John Wieting

Computer Vision
LocateAnything: Fast and High-Quality Vision-Language Grounding and Detection
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LocateAnything: Fast and High-Quality Vision-Language Grounding and Detection

NVIDIA

AlphaXiv Trending

NLP
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Do Language Models Need Sleep? Offline Recurrence for Improved Online Inference

Sangyun Lee, Sean McLeish, Tom Goldstein

Carnegie Mellon University, University of Maryland

AlphaXiv
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When Does LeJEPA Learn a World Model?

David Klindt, Yann LeCun, Randall Balestriero

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York University, Brown University

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

Qiuyue Wang, Mingsheng Li, Jian Guan

Retrieval
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Gemini Embedding 2: A Native Multimodal Embedding Model from Gemini

Madhuri Shanbhogue, Zhe Li, Shanfeng Zhang

AlphaXiv
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Learn from your own latents and not from tokens: A sample-complexity theory

Daniel J. Korchinski, Alessandro Favero, Matthieu Wyart

Institute of Physics, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Department of Physics & Institute of Physics, Johns Hopkins University & EPFL

NLP
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Self-Improving Language Models with Bidirectional Evolutionary Search

Guowei Xu, Zhenting Qi, Huangyuan Su

Harvard University

HuggingFace Daily Papers

NLP
Linear Ensembles Wash Away Watermarks: On the Fragility of Distributional Perturbations in LLMs
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Linear Ensembles Wash Away Watermarks: On the Fragility of Distributional Perturbations in LLMs

Zhihao Wu, Gracia Gong, Qinglin Zhu, Yudong Chen, Runcong Zhao

King's College London

Reasoning
Domino: Decoupling Causal Modeling from Autoregressive Drafting in Speculative Decoding
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Domino: Decoupling Causal Modeling from Autoregressive Drafting in Speculative Decoding

Jianuo Huang, Yaojie Zhang, Qituan Zhang, Hao Lin, Hanlin Xu

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Computer Vision
Agent Skills Should Go Beyond Text: The Case for Visual Skills
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Agent Skills Should Go Beyond Text: The Case for Visual Skills

Binxiao Xu, Ruichuan An, Bocheng Zou, Hang Hua

Retrieval
ACL-Verbatim: hallucination-free question answering for research
HuggingFace
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ACL-Verbatim: hallucination-free question answering for research

Gábor Recski, Szilveszter Tóth, Nadia Verdha, István Boros, Ádám Kovács

KR Labs

NLP
Review Arcade: On the Human Alignment and Gameability of LLM Reviews
HuggingFace
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Review Arcade: On the Human Alignment and Gameability of LLM Reviews

Hans Ole Hatzel, Sebastian Steindl, Jan Strich

Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS) - G4KMU

Lost in Translation? Exploring the Shift in Grammatical Gender from Latin to Occitan
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Lost in Translation? Exploring the Shift in Grammatical Gender from Latin to Occitan

Ahan Chatterjee, Matthias Schöffel, Matthias Aßenmacher, Marinus Wiedner, Esteban Garces Arias

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich