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NLP
LLMs can't jump
X.com
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LLMs can't jump

Tom Zahavy

Google DeepMind

AlphaXiv Trending

Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
AlphaXiv
437

Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence

Kimi Team, Tongtong Bai, Yifan Bai

Robotics
Data Pyramid for Embodied Manipulation
AlphaXiv
53

Data Pyramid for Embodied Manipulation

Yifan Ye, Yankai Fu, Yaoxu Lv

Computer Vision
Wonder: Video World Model Done Better
AlphaXiv
37

Wonder: Video World Model Done Better

Jiacong Xu, Hanwen Jiang, Zhixin Shu

Adobe Research, Johns Hopkins University

Retrieval
RSIBench-Data: Benchmarking Data-Centric Research for Recursive Self-Improvement
AlphaXiv
31

RSIBench-Data: Benchmarking Data-Centric Research for Recursive Self-Improvement

Fanqing Meng, Lingxiao Du, Qiguang Chen

RSIBench-Data: Benchmarking Data-Centric Research for Recursive Self-Improvement, National University of Singapore

MODUS: Decoder-Only Any-to-Any Modeling of Diverse Modalities
AlphaXiv
26

MODUS: Decoder-Only Any-to-Any Modeling of Diverse Modalities

Mingqiao Ye, Zhaochong An, Zhitong Gao

Reinforcement Learning
Pass the Baton: Trajectory-Relayed On-Policy Distillation
AlphaXiv
24

Pass the Baton: Trajectory-Relayed On-Policy Distillation

Haolei Xu, Xiaowen Xu, Haiwen Hong

Zhejiang University, Yuvion Team, Alibaba Group

HuggingFace Daily Papers

NLP
MindForge: Teaching Small Language Models Whole-Life-Cycle Software Engineering via Source-Free Program Synthesis
HuggingFace
16

MindForge: Teaching Small Language Models Whole-Life-Cycle Software Engineering via Source-Free Program Synthesis

Yihao Chen, Shi Chang, Khaled Chawa, Feng Lin, Boyuan Chen

Centre for Software Excellence

Reinforcement Learning
Voice Memory for Agentic Speech Recognition
HuggingFace
5

Voice Memory for Agentic Speech Recognition

Chao-Han Huck Yang, Zih-Ching Chen, Piotr Zelasko, Zhehuai Chen, Jagadeesh Balam

NVIDIA

NLP
Memory for Large Language Models
HuggingFace
4

Memory for Large Language Models

Sining Zhoubian, Dan Zhang, Evgeny Kharlamov, Jie Tang

Knowledge Engineer Group @ Tsinghua University

Reinforcement Learning
CADENCE: Closing the Reasoning Gap via Coverage-Adaptive On-Policy Distillation
HuggingFace
3

CADENCE: Closing the Reasoning Gap via Coverage-Adaptive On-Policy Distillation

Satyam Kumar, Saurabh Jha

Pi R2 Flow
πR^2: Reactive Real-time Flow Policies
HuggingFace
1

πR^2: Reactive Real-time Flow Policies

Sungjae Park, Shubham Tulsiani

Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science

Computer Vision
DistillAlign: Coordinating Mode Covering and Mode Seeking in Autoregressive Video Distillation
HuggingFace
0

DistillAlign: Coordinating Mode Covering and Mode Seeking in Autoregressive Video Distillation

Jiaxing Li, Kai Zou, Cindy Zhou, Kaichen Huang, Junyao Gao