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Reasoning
The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
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The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity

Parshin Shojaee, Iman Mirzadeh, Keivan Alizadeh, Maxwell Horton, Samy Bengio, Mehrdad Farajtabar

Apple

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Reasoning
Generative Recursive Reasoning
AlphaXiv
198

Generative Recursive Reasoning

Junyeob Baek, Mingyu Jo, Minsu Kim

Mila – Québec AI Institute, New York University

Reinforcement Learning
Code as Agent Harness
AlphaXiv
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Code as Agent Harness

Xuying Ning, Katherine Tieu, Dongqi Fu

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Meta, Stanford University

Machine Learning
Vector Policy Optimization: Training for Diversity Improves Test-Time Search
AlphaXiv
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Vector Policy Optimization: Training for Diversity Improves Test-Time Search

Ryan Bahlous-Boldi, Isha Puri, Idan Shenfeld

Improbable AI Lab, MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab

Reasoning
Equilibrium Reasoners: Learning Attractors Enables Scalable Reasoning
AlphaXiv
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Equilibrium Reasoners: Learning Attractors Enables Scalable Reasoning

Benhao Huang, Zhengyang Geng, Zico Kolter

Gated DeltaNet-2: Decoupling Erase and Write in Linear Attention
AlphaXiv
46

Gated DeltaNet-2: Decoupling Erase and Write in Linear Attention

Ali Hatamizadeh, Yejin Choi, Jan Kautz

Retrieval
WorldKV: Efficient World Memory with World Retrieval and Compression
AlphaXiv
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WorldKV: Efficient World Memory with World Retrieval and Compression

Jung Yi, Minjae Kim, Paul Hyunbin Cho

Naver AI Lab

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Retrieval
SciAtlas: A Large-Scale Knowledge Graph for Automated Scientific Research
HuggingFace
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SciAtlas: A Large-Scale Knowledge Graph for Automated Scientific Research

Shuofei Qiao, Yunxiang Wei, Jiazheng Fan, Bin Wu, Busheng Zhang

University College London CS

Computer Vision
PhotoFlow: Agentic 3D Virtual Photography Missions
HuggingFace
20

PhotoFlow: Agentic 3D Virtual Photography Missions

Jiarui Guo, Haojia Wei, Yiming Zhang, Yifei Liu, Yuning Gong

Visionary-Laboratoary

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LatentUMM: Dual Latent Alignment for Unified Multimodal Models
HuggingFace
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LatentUMM: Dual Latent Alignment for Unified Multimodal Models

Yinyi Luo, Wenwen Wang, Hayes Bai, Marios Savvides, Jindong Wang

Carnegie Mellon University

Machine Learning
From Seeing to Thinking: Decoupling Perception and Reasoning Improves Post-Training of Vision-Language Models
HuggingFace
4

From Seeing to Thinking: Decoupling Perception and Reasoning Improves Post-Training of Vision-Language Models

Juncheng Wu, Hardy Chen, Haoqin Tu, Xianfeng Tang, Freda Shi

NLP
Good Token Hunting: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Token Selection for Visual Geometry Transformers
HuggingFace
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Good Token Hunting: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Token Selection for Visual Geometry Transformers

Shuhong Zheng, Michael Oechsle, Erik Sandström, Marie-Julie Rakotosaona, Federico Tombari

University of Toronto

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The Expense of Seeing: Attaining Trustworthy Multimodal Reasoning Within the Monolithic Paradigm
HuggingFace
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The Expense of Seeing: Attaining Trustworthy Multimodal Reasoning Within the Monolithic Paradigm

Karan Goyal