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Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling, Even in Ideal Bayesians
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Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling, Even in Ideal Bayesians

Kartik Chandra, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Joshua B. Tenenbaum

MIT CSAIL, University of Washington, Seattle, MIT Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences

NLP
Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
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Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

Vassilis Papadopoulos, McNair Shah, Sam Zimmerman, Jack Lindsey

AlphaXiv Trending

Computer Vision
Hawkeye: Hardware-Aware GPU Kernel Optimization with Minimal Supervision
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Hawkeye: Hardware-Aware GPU Kernel Optimization with Minimal Supervision

Arya Tschand, Kesavan Ramakrishnan, Alexander Ingare

SPADE: Self-Play in Adaptive Synthetic Executable Environments
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SPADE: Self-Play in Adaptive Synthetic Executable Environments

Bo Liu, Simon Yu, Yiding Jiang

University of Washington, Stanford University, Northeastern University, Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Reinforcement Learning
EnvHarness: Awakening Static Worlds for Agent Learning
AlphaXiv
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EnvHarness: Awakening Static Worlds for Agent Learning

Chengsong Huang, Zifeng Wang, Rujun Han

Machine Learning
What is Missing from AI Post-Training AI: An Empirical Analysis
AlphaXiv
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What is Missing from AI Post-Training AI: An Empirical Analysis

Joy Jia Yin Lim, Xin Huang, Hao Peng

Affiliation: Tsinghua University, Affiliation: Renmin University of China, Tsinghua University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Renmin University of China

Computer Vision
4DAnyone: Create Anyone in 4D from a Casual Monocular Video
AlphaXiv
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4DAnyone: Create Anyone in 4D from a Casual Monocular Video

Yudong Jin, Tao Xie, Qihang Zhang

Affiliation: State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou , China, Affiliation: Chinese University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong , China, Affiliation: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology , Hong Kong , China, State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, Chinese University of Hong Kong

NLP
AI4AI-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agents in Algorithmic Design for Recursive Self-Improvement
AlphaXiv
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AI4AI-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agents in Algorithmic Design for Recursive Self-Improvement

Yizhe Chi, Wenyi Li, Deyao Hong

Affiliation: Navers Lab, Einsia.AI Tsinghua University, https://lab.einsia.ai/ai4ai, Navers Lab, Einsia.AI Tsinghua University

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Efficiency
ParaTempo: Efficient Parallel Reasoning via Temporal Confidence
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ParaTempo: Efficient Parallel Reasoning via Temporal Confidence

Xuteng Zhang, Wenhao Zeng, Xiaodong Gu, Chao Hu, Haotian Lin

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Machine Learning
Partition the Support, Reconstruct the Residual: Training-Free Sparse Attention for Video Generation and World Models
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Partition the Support, Reconstruct the Residual: Training-Free Sparse Attention for Video Generation and World Models

Pardis Taghavi, Reza Langari, Gaurav Pandey

Texas A&M University

NLP
Peer-Voted LLM-Agent Stress Tests Find Feed-Induced Lexical Convergence but No Reliable Matched-Exposure Advantage for Distributed Sources
HuggingFace
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Peer-Voted LLM-Agent Stress Tests Find Feed-Induced Lexical Convergence but No Reliable Matched-Exposure Advantage for Distributed Sources

Rana Muhammad Usman, Dominic Williamson

Hydra-0: Action Flow for Generalist World Modeling and Control
HuggingFace
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Hydra-0: Action Flow for Generalist World Modeling and Control

Hongyu Li, Bowen Wen, Xinghao Zhu, Yixuan Wang, Yilun Du

NVIDIA

Reinforcement Learning
PhysCaP: Grounding Code-as-Policy Agent with Physics-Informed Exploration
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PhysCaP: Grounding Code-as-Policy Agent with Physics-Informed Exploration

Chen-Yu Lin, Jing-Wen Chen, Hsueh-En Chang, Hung-An Chen, Sheng-Hsun Chang

NLP
FlavourBench: Ranking Frontier Language Models with Executable Culinary Ground Truth
HuggingFace
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FlavourBench: Ranking Frontier Language Models with Executable Culinary Ground Truth

Josef Chen, Erim Hayretci