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SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead
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SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead

Leopold Aschenbrenner

NLP
Inducing language models to assert their own consciousness restores human beliefs and values
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Inducing language models to assert their own consciousness restores human beliefs and values

Junsol Kim, Winnie Street, Roberta Rocca, Diane M. Korngiebel, Adam Waytz, James Evans, Geoff Keeling

Google, University of Chicago, University of London, University of Washington, Northwestern University, Santa Fe Institute

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Ten Advances in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
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Ten Advances in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science

OpenAI

Reasoning
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Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

Qwen Team

Machine Learning
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Scaling Automated Post-Training

Intology

Faster-WAM: Do World Action Models Need Deep Action Modules?
AlphaXiv
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Faster-WAM: Do World Action Models Need Deep Action Modules?

Liheng Ma, Rui Heng Yang, Zhanguang Zhang

Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei Celia Team, Department of Foundation Model, 2012 Labs

Computer Vision
TRACE: Ergodic Trajectory Optimization for Active Scene Reconstruction
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TRACE: Ergodic Trajectory Optimization for Active Scene Reconstruction

Ziyue Zheng, Linli Shi, Bingkun He

Robotics
Ego2Robot: Scalable Robot Data Synthesis from Egocentric Human Data
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Ego2Robot: Scalable Robot Data Synthesis from Egocentric Human Data

YW, Ye Wang, Pei Lin, Xiong-Hui Chen

AIM3 Lab, Renmin University of China, Qwen Team, Alibaba Inc, ShanghaiTech University, Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

HuggingFace Daily Papers

NLP
To Add Is Machine, To Delete Is Human: Measuring and Mitigating Deletion Avoidance in LLM Code Editing
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To Add Is Machine, To Delete Is Human: Measuring and Mitigating Deletion Avoidance in LLM Code Editing

Amir M. Ebrahimi, Mohammed Mehedi Hasan, Aaditya Bhatia, Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Ahmed E. Hassan

Centre for Software Excellence

NLP
Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents
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Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents

Yilin Xiao, Zhehan Zhu, Yujing Zhang, Jin Chen, Zijin Hong

Multimodal
Loud or Silent? A Reusable Framework for Per-Modality Failure Analysis in Multimodal Clinical AI
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Loud or Silent? A Reusable Framework for Per-Modality Failure Analysis in Multimodal Clinical AI

Quang Bui, Shlok Jaiswal, Samuel Paik-Heintz, Kevin Zhou, Kaushik Madapati

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Machine Learning
Wnuan: Staged Post-Training for Question Answering over Proprietary Enterprise Knowledge
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Wnuan: Staged Post-Training for Question Answering over Proprietary Enterprise Knowledge

Xiaofeng Shi, Xiaosong Qiu, Wenxin Ma, Qian Kou, Yiming Pan

Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

Reinforcement Learning
SG-WAM: Self-Guided World Modeling in Geometry-Aware Policy Space
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SG-WAM: Self-Guided World Modeling in Geometry-Aware Policy Space

Ruiteng Zhao, Zhengshen Zhang, Yue Su, Wenshuo Wang, Jiahui Li

NLP
Seeing or Knowing? Visual Context Sensitivity in Multimodal Large Language Models
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Seeing or Knowing? Visual Context Sensitivity in Multimodal Large Language Models

Jiaang Li, Chengzu Li, Zhaochong An, Yifei Yuan, Xi Liu