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Last Updated: May 5, 2026, 9:28 AM PT

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The AI Layoff Trap
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The AI Layoff Trap

Brett Hemenway Falk, Gerry Tsoukalas

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 +1 more

#nlp

AlphaXiv Trending

Thinking with Visual Primitives
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Thinking with Visual Primitives

Ruijie Lu, Yiyang Ma, Xiaokang Chen

#computer-vision#alphaxiv
Recursive Multi-Agent Systems
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Recursive Multi-Agent Systems

Xiyuan Yang, Jiaru Zou, Rui Pan

#reinforcement-learning#alphaxiv
Representation Fréchet Loss for Visual Generation
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Representation Fréchet Loss for Visual Generation

Jiawei Yang, Zhengyang Geng, Xuan Ju

#computer-vision#alphaxiv
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

#reinforcement-learning#reasoning#alphaxiv
Do Sparse Autoencoders Capture Concept Manifolds?
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Do Sparse Autoencoders Capture Concept Manifolds?

Usha Bhalla, Thomas Fel, Can Rager

#alphaxiv
Let ViT Speak: Generative Language-Image Pre-training
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Let ViT Speak: Generative Language-Image Pre-training

Yan Fang, Mengcheng Lan, Zilong Huang

#machine-learning#computer-vision#alphaxiv

HuggingFace Daily Papers

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

Haoquan Fang, Jiafei Duan, Donovan Clay +2 more

#reasoning#allenai
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

#nlp#efficiency
Persistent Visual Memory: Sustaining Perception for Deep Generation in LVLMs
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Persistent Visual Memory: Sustaining Perception for Deep Generation in LVLMs

Siyuan Huang, Xiaoye Qu, Yafu Li +2 more

#computer-vision#multimodal#huaixuheqing
Hierarchical Abstract Tree for Cross-Document Retrieval-Augmented Generation
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Hierarchical Abstract Tree for Cross-Document Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Ziwen Zhao, Menglin Yang

#retrieval#Newiz430
Code World Model Preparedness Report
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Code World Model Preparedness Report

Daniel Song, Peter Ney, Cristina Menghini +2 more

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

Laure Berti-Equille

#LaureBerti