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Last Brew Time: Sep 29, 2026, 11:21 AM PT

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The Machine-Native Economy: How digital assets connect intelligence, commerce, and compute
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The Machine-Native Economy: How digital assets connect intelligence, commerce, and compute

Will Su, Robert Mitchnick, Jay Jacobs, William Helm

BlackRock

Model to predict AI-written blog posts from structural features (shape of slop)
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Model to predict AI-written blog posts from structural features (shape of slop)

AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data
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AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data

Ilia Shumailov, Zakhar Shumaylov, Yiren Zhao, Nicolas Papernot, Ross Anderson, Yarin Gal

University of Oxford, University of Cambridge

NLP
Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
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Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

Daniel Paleka, Joshua Swanson, Michael Aerni, Florian Tramèr, Simon Lermen, Nicholas Carlini

ETH Zurich, Anthropic

AlphaXiv Trending

NLP
AlphaXiv
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Language Model "Shape"

Reinforcement Learning
Agent Priors-guided Policy Learning
AlphaXiv
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Agent Priors-guided Policy Learning

Affiliation: National University of Singapore, National University of Singapore

NLP
Improving Test-Time Scaling with Adaptive Looped Transformers
AlphaXiv
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Improving Test-Time Scaling with Adaptive Looped Transformers

Affiliation: Tsinghua University, Affiliation: Yale University, Tsinghua University, Yale University

WorldPlay2: Extending Real-Time Interactive World Models in Control and Horizon
AlphaXiv
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WorldPlay2: Extending Real-Time Interactive World Models in Control and Horizon

Reinforcement Learning
DexAgent: An Agentic Human2Sim2Robot Framework for Dexterous Manipulation with Self-Evolving Tool Library
AlphaXiv
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DexAgent: An Agentic Human2Sim2Robot Framework for Dexterous Manipulation with Self-Evolving Tool Library

Affiliation: Stanford University, Affiliation: Columbia University, Stanford University, Columbia University

Reinforcement Learning
Learning Native Reflection in Unified Models with Interleaved Reinforcement Learning
AlphaXiv
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Learning Native Reflection in Unified Models with Interleaved Reinforcement Learning

Nanyang Technological University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, The University of Tokyo

HuggingFace Daily Papers

Machine Learning
VisionHOPE: Visual Backbones as Self-Modifying Learning Systems
HuggingFace
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VisionHOPE: Visual Backbones as Self-Modifying Learning Systems

Siran Peng, Tianshuo Zhang, Tianyu Fu, Weisong Zhao, Haoyuan Zhang

Chinese Academic of Science Institute of Automation

Machine Learning
SentZero: An Enhanced Sentence-Centric Vision-Language Pretraining for Multi-Task Zero-Shot Chest X-Ray Analysis
HuggingFace
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SentZero: An Enhanced Sentence-Centric Vision-Language Pretraining for Multi-Task Zero-Shot Chest X-Ray Analysis

Hangyul Yoon, Hyungyung Lee, Edward Choi, Eunho Yang

Computer Vision
Geometry as Address: Routing Attention to Visual Memory for Long-Horizon Camera-Controlled Video Generation
HuggingFace
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Geometry as Address: Routing Attention to Visual Memory for Long-Horizon Camera-Controlled Video Generation

Zesong Yang, Weikai Chen, Liyuan Cui, Lutao Jiang, Runze Zhang

NLP
SCOPD: Sparse-Context On-Policy Self-Distillation for Efficient Vision-Language Models
HuggingFace
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SCOPD: Sparse-Context On-Policy Self-Distillation for Efficient Vision-Language Models

Ahmadreza Jeddi, Enming Zhang, Jasper Gerigk, Hakki Karaimer, Mozhgan Nasr Azadani

University of Toronto

Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcing Agentic Creativity in Scientific Ideation with Night Science
HuggingFace
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Reinforcing Agentic Creativity in Scientific Ideation with Night Science

Priyanka Kargupta, Silviu Cucerzan, Shweti Mahajan, Allen Herring, Jiawei Han

Microsoft Research

NLP
Who Gets a Token, and What Does It Carry? Unequal Name Support and Concept Access in Large Language Models
HuggingFace
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Who Gets a Token, and What Does It Carry? Unequal Name Support and Concept Access in Large Language Models

Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Davood Rafiei

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