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The AI Layoff Trap
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The AI Layoff Trap

Brett Hemenway Falk, Gerry Tsoukalas

A Single Operator, Two AI Platforms, Nine Government Agencies: The Full Technical Report
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A Single Operator, Two AI Platforms, Nine Government Agencies: The Full Technical Report

Eyal Sela

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Machine Learning
In-Place Test-Time Training
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In-Place Test-Time Training

Guhao Feng, Shengjie Luo, Kai Hua

Neural Computers
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Neural Computers

Mingchen Zhuge, Changsheng Zhao, Haozhe Liu

Reinforcement Learning
PaperOrchestra: A Multi-Agent Framework for Automated AI Research Paper Writing
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PaperOrchestra: A Multi-Agent Framework for Automated AI Research Paper Writing

Yiwen Song, Tomas Pfister

Reinforcement Learning
SkillClaw: Let Skills Evolve Collectively with Agentic Evolver
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SkillClaw: Let Skills Evolve Collectively with Agentic Evolver

Ziyu Ma, Shidong Yang, Yuxiang Ji

NLP
Externalization in LLM Agents: A Unified Review of Memory, Skills, Protocols and Harness Engineering
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Externalization in LLM Agents: A Unified Review of Memory, Skills, Protocols and Harness Engineering

Chenyu Zhou, Huacan Chai, Wenteng Chen

Machine Learning
Learning is Forgetting: LLM Training As Lossy Compression
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Learning is Forgetting: LLM Training As Lossy Compression

Henry C. Conklin, Tom Hosking, Tan Yi-Chern

HuggingFace Daily Papers

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GlotOCR Bench: OCR Models Still Struggle Beyond a Handful of Unicode Scripts
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GlotOCR Bench: OCR Models Still Struggle Beyond a Handful of Unicode Scripts

Amir Hossein Kargaran, Nafiseh Nikeghbal, Jana Diesner, François Yvon, Hinrich Schütze

NLP
Do Thought Streams Matter? Evaluating Reasoning in Gemini Vision-Language Models for Video Scene Understanding
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Do Thought Streams Matter? Evaluating Reasoning in Gemini Vision-Language Models for Video Scene Understanding

Shivam Sharma, Sankalp Nagaonkar, Ashish Choithani, Ashutosh Trivedi

Robotics
Learning Versatile Humanoid Manipulation with Touch Dreaming
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Learning Versatile Humanoid Manipulation with Touch Dreaming

Yaru Niu, Zhenlong Fang, Binghong Chen, Shuai Zhou, Revanth Senthilkumaran

NLP
LASA: Language-Agnostic Semantic Alignment at the Semantic Bottleneck for LLM Safety
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LASA: Language-Agnostic Semantic Alignment at the Semantic Bottleneck for LLM Safety

Junxiao Yang, Haoran Liu, Jinzhe Tu, Jiale Cheng, Zhexin Zhang

Reinforcement Learning
PokeRL: Reinforcement Learning for Pokemon Red
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PokeRL: Reinforcement Learning for Pokemon Red

Dheeraj Mudireddy, Sai Patibandla

Reasoning
Spatial Competence Benchmark
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Spatial Competence Benchmark

Jash Vira, Ashley Harris