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Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling, Even in Ideal Bayesians
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Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling, Even in Ideal Bayesians

Kartik Chandra, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Joshua B. Tenenbaum

MIT CSAIL, University of Washington, Seattle, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Retrieval
The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons: How AI Could Disrupt the Regeneration of Professional Expertise
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The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons: How AI Could Disrupt the Regeneration of Professional Expertise

Nolan Lovett

NATO Special Operations University

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Human–AI Collaboration at Scale: Task Criticality, Agency, and Friction Across 250,000 Conversations
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Human–AI Collaboration at Scale: Task Criticality, Agency, and Friction Across 250,000 Conversations

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Reinforcement Learning
Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Harness
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Prime Agent: A Self-Improving RLM Harness

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Affiliation: Princeton University Prime Intellect MIT, Princeton University Prime Intellect MIT

Retrieval
Accelerating Scientific Research with Gemini in the Real-World
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Accelerating Scientific Research with Gemini in the Real-World

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Affiliation: Google DeepMind, Affiliation: Duke University, Affiliation: Columbia University, Affiliation: Google Research, Affiliation: Texas A&M University

Reinforcement Learning
Code World Model: Coding Agent as World Brain
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Code World Model: Coding Agent as World Brain

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Westlake AGI Lab, AGI Lab, Westlake University, Nanyang Technological University

Computer Vision
On-Policy Self-Distillation in Diffusion Models
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On-Policy Self-Distillation in Diffusion Models

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Efficiency
Prefix Sliding for efficient test-time scaling
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Prefix Sliding for efficient test-time scaling

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Affiliation: s Stanford University c University of California at Santa Barbara p Prime Intellect, Affiliation: w University of Washington, Stanford University, University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Washington

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Reinforcement Learning
Agentic Game Development as a Verifiable Trajectory Data Engine for Scaling World Models
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Agentic Game Development as a Verifiable Trajectory Data Engine for Scaling World Models

Pengfei Zhou, Hexin Wang, Zhengfeiyang Zhang, Yixing Ma, Zhenglin Wan

National University of Singapore

Reinforcement Learning
PILOT in the Loop: Live Self-Improvement for Long-Horizon Agents
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PILOT in the Loop: Live Self-Improvement for Long-Horizon Agents

Yang Xiao, Yusong Sun, Haoyi Wu, Wenyang Hui, Wen Da

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Computer Vision
Procedura: Agentic 3D Modeling with Procedural Control
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Procedura: Agentic 3D Modeling with Procedural Control

Youtian Lin, Yikang Yang, Zhanpeng Hu, Mengqi Zhou, Feihu Zhang

Nanjing University

TacForcing: Streaming Action Generation with Execution-Time Tactile Feedback
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TacForcing: Streaming Action Generation with Execution-Time Tactile Feedback

Jianbo Zhou, Boyuan Zhao, Yuzheng Zhang, Yiyang Chen, Wenxin Chen

Efficiency
What Does an Evaluation License? A Commit-Bound Census of Claim-Relative Inference in Inspect Evals
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What Does an Evaluation License? A Commit-Bound Census of Claim-Relative Inference in Inspect Evals

Xi Qin

Computer Vision
EditaLive! Unified Character Video Editing for Live Streaming
HuggingFace
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EditaLive! Unified Character Video Editing for Live Streaming

Zhiyuan Li, Chi-Man Pun, Peng-Tao Jiang, Bo Li, Xiaodong Cun

GVC Lab at Great Bay University