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Normalized Low-Rank Adaptation
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Normalized Low-Rank Adaptation

Affiliation: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Affiliation: Microsoft Research, Affiliation: Shenzhen Loop Area Institute, Affiliation: Yuanshi Intelligence Affiliation: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Affiliation: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Affiliation: Shenzhen Loop Area Institute

Reinforcement Learning
Does On-Policy Distillation Really Distill? From Noisy Teacher to Self-Improvement
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Does On-Policy Distillation Really Distill? From Noisy Teacher to Self-Improvement

Affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, USA, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University

Computer Vision
Lucida: Parse, Generate, and Place for Composable Real-to-Sim Scene Modeling
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Lucida: Parse, Generate, and Place for Composable Real-to-Sim Scene Modeling

† † affiliation: ByteDance Seed, † † affiliation: Peking University, † † affiliation: Zhejiang University

Robotics
LightNav-0: Eliciting VLM Spatial Intelligence for Generalist Embodied Navigation
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LightNav-0: Eliciting VLM Spatial Intelligence for Generalist Embodied Navigation

Retrieval
PaperGym: Rubric-Centered Evolution for Research-Plan Generation
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PaperGym: Rubric-Centered Evolution for Research-Plan Generation

Affiliation: Zhejiang University, Affiliation: Apple, PaperGym: Rubric-Centered Evolution for Research-Plan Generation, Zhejiang University, Apple

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Reasoning
Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness of Reasoning Models Varies with Where and How Preference Cues Are Delivered
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Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness of Reasoning Models Varies with Where and How Preference Cues Are Delivered

Aryo Pradipta Gema, Neel Rajani, Rohit Saxena, Wai-Chung Kwan, Pasquale Minervini

EdinburghNLP - Natural Language Processing Group at the University of Edinburgh

Computer Vision
ContextBias: Controlled Evaluation of Bias Persistence Under Context Shift in Text-to-Image Models
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ContextBias: Controlled Evaluation of Bias Persistence Under Context Shift in Text-to-Image Models

Shaghayegh Kolli, Sina Emami, Moreno D'Incà, Pouyan Nejadi, Nicu Sebe

Technical University of Munich

NLP
SpanCalib-VLM: Calibrated Hallucination Span Detection in Vision-Language Models
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SpanCalib-VLM: Calibrated Hallucination Span Detection in Vision-Language Models

Amanuel Gizachew Abebe, Yasmin Moslem

NLP
EvoGenUI-Bench: Evaluating LLMs as Multi-Turn Generative UI Assistants
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EvoGenUI-Bench: Evaluating LLMs as Multi-Turn Generative UI Assistants

Yue Peng, Lanke Xia, Zihan Wang, Jiahao Ye, Ke Ning

MAPS Research

Computer Vision
CoVA-SFT: A Large-Scale Dataset for Chain of Visual Abstractions
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CoVA-SFT: A Large-Scale Dataset for Chain of Visual Abstractions

Tsung-Han Wu, Heekyung Lee, Anya Ji, Haoming Chen, Trevor Darrell

University of California, Berkeley

Multimodal
MMMMM: A Unified Taxonomy for Investigating the Mechanisms of Multilingual MultiModal Misinformation
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MMMMM: A Unified Taxonomy for Investigating the Mechanisms of Multilingual MultiModal Misinformation

Nadav Borenstein, Greta Warren, Desmond Elliott, Isabelle Augenstein

CopeNLU