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The AI Layoff Trap
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The AI Layoff Trap

Brett Hemenway Falk, Gerry Tsoukalas

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Boston University

NLP
Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models
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Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models

Jack Lindsey

Anthropic

Computer Vision
DFlash: Block Diffusion for Flash Speculative Decoding
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DFlash: Block Diffusion for Flash Speculative Decoding

Jian Chen, Yesheng Liang, Zhijian Liu

Z Lab

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NLP
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
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Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

Alexander Panfilov, David Schmotz, Ilia Shumailov

Affiliation: ELLIS Institute Tübingen, Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Affiliation: ELLIS Institute Tübingen Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, ELLIS Institute Tübingen, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

Reasoning
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GLM-5.3: Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities

Z.ai

Z.ai

Reinforcement Learning
Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding
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Why Does CLAUDE.md Keep Growing? Catastrophic Remembering in Agentic Coding

Kushal Chakrabarti

Small-Scale Experiments: Are We There Yet?
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Small-Scale Experiments: Are We There Yet?

Nicholas Lourie, Kyunghyun Cho, Karen Ullrich

† † affiliation: FAIR at MSL Meta, † † affiliation: New York University

NLP
Model Discovery Agent: LLM-assisted Bayesian experiment design for data-efficient discovery of mechanistic world models
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Model Discovery Agent: LLM-assisted Bayesian experiment design for data-efficient discovery of mechanistic world models

Kevin Murphy

Machine Learning
Training AI Scientists to Replicate Research
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Training AI Scientists to Replicate Research

Damon Falck, Samer Sabri, Anja Surina

Training AI Scientists to Replicate Research

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Retrieval
Thought-Level Beam Search for Reasoning
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Thought-Level Beam Search for Reasoning

Lijie Yang, Hongyin Luo, Jiawei Zhao, Tri Dao, Ravi Netravali

Princeton University

Maglev: Sliding Recurrent Memory
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Maglev: Sliding Recurrent Memory

Bo Liu, Qiang Liu

University of Texas at Austin

Computer Vision
Context-Matched Distillation: Teacher Causality for Autoregressive Video Distillation
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Context-Matched Distillation: Teacher Causality for Autoregressive Video Distillation

Hmrishav Bandyopadhyay, Xuanchi Ren, Zijian Huang, Jay Zhangjie Wu, Tianshi Cao

NVIDIA

Safety Alignment
From Inaudible Inputs to Model Failures: Low-Frequency Safety Risks in LALMs
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From Inaudible Inputs to Model Failures: Low-Frequency Safety Risks in LALMs

Yuanhe Zhang, Weiliu Wang, Jie Ren, Liang Lin, Zhenhong Zhou

Safety Alignment
Mitigating Gender Bias in English to Romanian Machine Translation
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Mitigating Gender Bias in English to Romanian Machine Translation

Ioana Grigore, Sergiu Nisioi

Computer Vision
RibAssist 3D: Biplanar Rib-Fracture Detection, Addressing, and Selective 3D Localization from CT-Derived Projections
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RibAssist 3D: Biplanar Rib-Fracture Detection, Addressing, and Selective 3D Localization from CT-Derived Projections

Kabila Haile Soboka