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Theory Is All You Need: AI, Human Cognition, and Causal Reasoning
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Theory Is All You Need: AI, Human Cognition, and Causal Reasoning

Teppo Felin, Matthias Holweg

University of Oxford - Said Business School, Utah State University - Huntsman School of Business

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NLP
Recurrent Looped Transformer
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292

Recurrent Looped Transformer

NLP
FlashREINFORCE: Critic-Free Single-Rollout Asynchronous RL for Agentic Language Models
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FlashREINFORCE: Critic-Free Single-Rollout Asynchronous RL for Agentic Language Models

Reinforcement Learning
RSIAgent: Autonomous Exploration for Recursive Self-improvement in New Environments
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RSIAgent: Autonomous Exploration for Recursive Self-improvement in New Environments

University of California San Diego, University of Illinois Chicago

NLP
Discrete Beckmann Transport Models for One-Step Language Modeling and Reasoning
AlphaXiv
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Discrete Beckmann Transport Models for One-Step Language Modeling and Reasoning

University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, Kempner Institute

Reinforcement Learning
Atria Dawn: The Dawn of Agentic Superintelligence
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Atria Dawn: The Dawn of Agentic Superintelligence

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Reasoning
How Lossless Is Lossless Speculative Decoding? The Role of Numerical Precision in Orthrus
HuggingFace
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How Lossless Is Lossless Speculative Decoding? The Role of Numerical Precision in Orthrus

Ilya Koziev, Leonid Sinev, Ivan Oseledets

Reasoning
Thought without systematicity? Evaluating reasoning models on rule induction tasks
HuggingFace
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Thought without systematicity? Evaluating reasoning models on rule induction tasks

Simon Schug, Brenden M. Lake

Princeton University

NLP
Learning Sparse Decision Trees via Transformer Variational Auto-Encoders
HuggingFace
2

Learning Sparse Decision Trees via Transformer Variational Auto-Encoders

Giacomo Fidone, Alessio Cascione, Riccardo Guidotti

Reasoning
E2A-Bench: Benchmarking Evidence-to-Action Reliability in Financial Chart Reasoning
HuggingFace
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E2A-Bench: Benchmarking Evidence-to-Action Reliability in Financial Chart Reasoning

Xiaoya Wang, Yutong Xu, Junjie Wang

Computer Vision
ModaLens: Measuring Image Sensitivity in Report-Conditioned Medical VLMs
HuggingFace
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ModaLens: Measuring Image Sensitivity in Report-Conditioned Medical VLMs

Sebastián Andrés Cajas Ordóñez, Maximin Lange, Quang Bui, Anqi Peter Li, Felipe Ocampo Osorio

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Reinforcement Learning
Root-Cause Attribution Is a Search Problem: Continual Search for Long-Horizon Agent Failures
HuggingFace
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Root-Cause Attribution Is a Search Problem: Continual Search for Long-Horizon Agent Failures

Harsh Raj, David Lee, Anas Mahmoud, Renxiong Wang, Razvan-Gabriel Dumitru

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