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2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership
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2028: Two scenarios for global AI leadership

Anthropic

Safety Alignment
Marked Pedagogies: Examining Linguistic Biases in Personalized Automated Writing Feedback
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Marked Pedagogies: Examining Linguistic Biases in Personalized Automated Writing Feedback

Mei Tan

Stanford University

AlphaXiv Trending

ELF: Embedded Language Flows
AlphaXiv
230

ELF: Embedded Language Flows

Yiyang Lu, Keya Hu, Linlu Qiu

MIT

Computer Vision
Qwen-Image-2.0 Technical Report
AlphaXiv
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Qwen-Image-2.0 Technical Report

Bing Zhao, Chenfei Wu, Deqing Li

Robotics
World Action Models: The Next Frontier in Embodied AI
AlphaXiv
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World Action Models: The Next Frontier in Embodied AI

Siyin Wang, Junhao Shi, Zhaoyang Fu

Reasoning
Solve the Loop: Attractor Models for Language and Reasoning
AlphaXiv
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Solve the Loop: Attractor Models for Language and Reasoning

Jacob Fein-Ashley, Paria Rashidinejad

University of Southern California

NLP
𝛿 δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models
AlphaXiv
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𝛿 δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models

Jingdi Lei, Di Zhang, Junxian Li

WarmPrior: Straightening Flow-Matching Policies with Temporal Priors
AlphaXiv
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WarmPrior: Straightening Flow-Matching Policies with Temporal Priors

Sinjae Kang, Chanyoung Kim, Kaixin Wang

Microsoft Research

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Machine Learning
Long Context Pre-Training with Lighthouse Attention
HuggingFace
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Long Context Pre-Training with Lighthouse Attention

Bowen Peng, Subho Ghosh, Jeffrey Quesnelle

NousResearch

Reasoning
WildTableBench: Benchmarking Multimodal Foundation Models on Table Understanding In the Wild
HuggingFace
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WildTableBench: Benchmarking Multimodal Foundation Models on Table Understanding In the Wild

Junzhe Huang, Xiaoxiao Sun, Yan Yang, Yuxuan Hou, Ruotian Zhang

The University of Queensland

Computer Vision
Aligning Latent Geometry for Spherical Flow Matching in Image Generation
HuggingFace
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Aligning Latent Geometry for Spherical Flow Matching in Image Generation

Tuna Han Salih Meral, Kaan Oktay, Hidir Yesiltepe, Adil Kaan Akan, Pinar Yanardag

Virginia Tech

Computer Vision
Sat3DGen: Comprehensive Street-Level 3D Scene Generation from Single Satellite Image
HuggingFace
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Sat3DGen: Comprehensive Street-Level 3D Scene Generation from Single Satellite Image

Ming Qian, Zimin Xia, Changkun Liu, Shuailei Ma, Wen Wang

Wuhan Univeristy

Reinforcement Learning
Boosting Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards via Randomly Selected Few-Shot Guidance
HuggingFace
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Boosting Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards via Randomly Selected Few-Shot Guidance

Kai Yan, Alexander G. Schwing, Yu-Xiong Wang

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Reasoning
PreScam: A Benchmark for Predicting Scam Progression from Early Conversations
HuggingFace
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PreScam: A Benchmark for Predicting Scam Progression from Early Conversations

Weixiang Sun, Shang Ma, Yiyang Li, Tianyi Ma, Zehong Wang

University of Notre Dame