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The AI Layoff Trap
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The AI Layoff Trap

Brett Hemenway Falk, Gerry Tsoukalas

NLP
Who's in Charge? Disempowerment Patterns in Real-World LLM Usage
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Who's in Charge? Disempowerment Patterns in Real-World LLM Usage

Mrinank Sharma, Miles McCain, Raymond Douglas, David Duvenaud

AlphaXiv Trending

Computer Vision
Thinking with Visual Primitives
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Thinking with Visual Primitives

Ruijie Lu, Yiyang Ma, Xiaokang Chen

Reinforcement Learning
Recursive Multi-Agent Systems
AlphaXiv
136

Recursive Multi-Agent Systems

Xiyuan Yang, Jiaru Zou, Rui Pan

Computer Vision
Representation Fréchet Loss for Visual Generation
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Representation Fréchet Loss for Visual Generation

Jiawei Yang, Zhengyang Geng, Xuan Ju

Reinforcement Learning
Agentic Harness Engineering: Observability-Driven Automatic Evolution of Coding-Agent Harnesses
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Agentic Harness Engineering: Observability-Driven Automatic Evolution of Coding-Agent Harnesses

Jiahang Lin, Shichun Liu, Chengjun Pan

Do Sparse Autoencoders Capture Concept Manifolds?
AlphaXiv
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Do Sparse Autoencoders Capture Concept Manifolds?

Usha Bhalla, Thomas Fel, Can Rager

Machine Learning
Let ViT Speak: Generative Language-Image Pre-training
AlphaXiv
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Let ViT Speak: Generative Language-Image Pre-training

Yan Fang, Mengcheng Lan, Zilong Huang

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Reasoning
MolmoAct2: Action Reasoning Models for Real-world Deployment
HuggingFace
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MolmoAct2: Action Reasoning Models for Real-world Deployment

Haoquan Fang, Jiafei Duan, Donovan Clay, Sam Wang, Shuo Liu

NLP
Repetition over Diversity: High-Signal Data Filtering for Sample-Efficient German Language Modeling
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Repetition over Diversity: High-Signal Data Filtering for Sample-Efficient German Language Modeling

Ansar Aynetdinov, Patrick Haller, Alan Akbik

Computer Vision
Persistent Visual Memory: Sustaining Perception for Deep Generation in LVLMs
HuggingFace
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Persistent Visual Memory: Sustaining Perception for Deep Generation in LVLMs

Siyuan Huang, Xiaoye Qu, Yafu Li, Tong Zhu, Zefeng He

Retrieval
Hierarchical Abstract Tree for Cross-Document Retrieval-Augmented Generation
HuggingFace
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Hierarchical Abstract Tree for Cross-Document Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Ziwen Zhao, Menglin Yang

Code World Model Preparedness Report
HuggingFace
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Code World Model Preparedness Report

Daniel Song, Peter Ney, Cristina Menghini, Faizan Ahmad, Aidan Boyd

LaureBerti
Prior-Aligned Data Cleaning for Tabular Foundation Models
HuggingFace
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Prior-Aligned Data Cleaning for Tabular Foundation Models

Laure Berti-Equille