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April 29, 2026 09:00
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🤗 HuggingFace Papers 20

Yuxin Zhang, Xiangyu Tony Zhang, Daijiao Liu, Fei Tian, Yayue Deng
Recent advancements in large audio language models have extended Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning into the auditory domain, enabling models to tackle increasingly complex acoustic and spoken tasks.…
huggingface
Shangqing Tu, Yanjia Li, Keyu Chen, Sichen Zhang, Jifan Yu
Creating interactive STEM courseware traditionally requires HTML/CSS/JavaScript expertise, leaving barriers for educators. While generative AI can produce HTML codes, existing tools generate static…
huggingface
Lei Xiong, Kun Luo, Ziyi Xia, Wenbo Zhang, Jin-Ge Yao
Autonomous scientific research is significantly advanced thanks to the development of AI agents. One key step in this process is finding the right scientific literature, whether to explore existing…
huggingface
Srija Anand, Ashwin Sankar, Ishvinder Sethi, Aaditya Pareek, Kartik Rajput
Crowdsourced pairwise evaluation has emerged as a scalable approach for assessing foundation models. However, applying it to Text to Speech(TTS) introduces high variance due to linguistic diversity…
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Mohammed Safi Ur Rahman Khan, Sanjay Suryanarayanan, Tushar Anand, Mitesh M. Khapra
Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly used to evaluate outputs of other models, for image-to-text (I2T) tasks such as visual question answering, and text-to-image (T2I) generation…
huggingface
Jiaqi Wang, Wenhao Zhang, Weijie Shi, Yaliang Li, James Cheng
On-policy distillation (OPD) has shown strong potential for transferring reasoning ability from frontier or domain-specific models to smaller students. While effective on static single-turn tasks,…
huggingface
Hongxin Li, Yuntao Chen, Zhaoxiang Zhang
Graphical User Interface (GUI) element grounding (precisely locating elements on screenshots based on natural language instructions) is fundamental for agents interacting with GUIs. Deploying this…
huggingface
Hongxin Li, Xiping Wang, Jingran Su, Zheng Ju, Yuntao Chen
Autonomous agents capable of navigating Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) hold the potential to revolutionize digital productivity. However, achieving true digital autonomy extends beyond reactive…
huggingface
Arnon Mazza, Elad Levi
Deploying guardrails for custom policies remains challenging, as generic safety models fail to capture task-specific requirements, while prompting LLMs suffers from inconsistent boundary-case…
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Yale Song, Yiwen Song, Nick Losier, Nathan Hodson, Ye Jin
While diffusion models generate high-fidelity video clips, transforming them into coherent storytelling engines remains challenging. Current agentic pipelines automate this via chained modules but…
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Yupeng Zhou, Lianghua Huang, Zhifan Wu, Jiabao Wang, Yupeng Shi
In this work, we propose Mutual Forcing, a framework for fast autoregressive audio-video generation with long-horizon audio-video synchronization. Our approach addresses two key challenges: joint…
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Jiayi Guo, Linqing Wang, Jiangshan Wang, Yang Yue, Zeyu Liu
Unified multimodal models (UMMs) integrate visual understanding and generation within a single framework. For text-to-image (T2I) tasks, this unified capability allows UMMs to refine outputs after…
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Wenqi Jia, Zekun Li, Abhay Mittal, Chengcheng Tang, Chuan Guo
Recent advances in text-driven human motion generation enable models to synthesize realistic motion sequences from natural language descriptions. However, most existing approaches assume…
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Zeyue Xue, Siming Fu, Jie Huang, Shuai Lu, Haoran Li
While large-scale video diffusion models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating high-resolution and semantically rich content, a significant gap remains between their pretraining…
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Zhiyuan Fan, Tinghao Yu, Yuanjun Cai, Jiangtao Guan, Yun Yang
Terminal agents have demonstrated strong potential for autonomous command-line execution, yet their training remains constrained by the scarcity of high-quality and diverse execution trajectories.…
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Jinxiang Meng, Shaoping Huang, Fangyu Lei, Jingyu Guo, Haoxiang Liu
Real-world data visualization (DV) requires native environmental grounding, cross-platform evolution, and proactive intent alignment. Yet, existing benchmarks often suffer from code-sandbox…
huggingface
Chenkai Pan, Xinglong Xu, Yuhang Xu, Yujun Wu, Siyuan Li
Reliably transferring specialized human knowledge from text into large language models remains a fundamental challenge in artificial intelligence. Fine-tuning on domain corpora has enabled…
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Xiyuan Yang, Jiaru Zou, Rui Pan, Ruizhong Qiu, Pan Lu
Recursive or looped language models have recently emerged as a new scaling axis by iteratively refining the same model computation over latent states to deepen reasoning. We extend such scaling…
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Shiyi Zhang, Yiji Cheng, Tiankai Hang, Zijin Yin, Runze He
Unified multi-modal understanding/generative models have shown improved image editing performance by incorporating fine-grained understanding into their Chain-of-Thought (CoT) process. However, a…
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Ahson Saiyed, Sabrina Sadiekh, Chirag Agarwal
Large Language Models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to optimization-based jailbreak attacks that exploit internal gradient structure. While Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) are widely used for interpretability,…
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🔗 Lobste.rs 3

Contribute to triton-lang/triton-ascend development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Edit April 2, 2026: I've been getting inbound interest from researchers wanting to run their own queries. The MCP integration I use for my own research lets you analyze live mobile telemetry…
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🎓 Google Scholar 5

This paper conducts systematic analysis of advancements in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) from the year 2010 onwards, by performing original quantitative analysis of Epoch AI notable AI…
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Cluster Computing - With the emergence of quantum computers, traditional cryptographic methods are vulnerable to attacks, emphasizing the need for post-quantum cryptography to secure devices and...
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▲ Hacker News 4

“It’s now or never. There’s a tidal wave coming.”
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Article on hackernews — see link for details.
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Article on hackernews — see link for details.
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🔗 All Sources

  1. [1] Triton language for Huawei Ascend (lobsters)
  2. [2] Distributing the Keys for Private Access to the Web (lobsters)
  3. [3] ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State. I Decrypted the Program That Does It (lobsters)
  4. [4] Step-Audio-R1.5 Technical Report (huggingface_papers)
  5. [5] MAIC-UI: Making Interactive Courseware with Generative UI (huggingface_papers)
  6. [6] AutoResearchBench: Benchmarking AI Agents on Complex Scientific Literature Discovery (huggingface_papers)
  7. [7] Preferences of a Voice-First Nation: Large-Scale Pairwise Evaluation and Preference Analysis for TTS in Indian Languages (huggingface_papers)
  8. [8] Seeing Isn't Believing: Uncovering Blind Spots in Evaluator Vision-Language Models (huggingface_papers)
  9. [9] TCOD: Exploring Temporal Curriculum in On-Policy Distillation for Multi-turn Autonomous Agents (huggingface_papers)
  10. [10] GoClick: Lightweight Element Grounding Model for Autonomous GUI Interaction (huggingface_papers)
  11. [11] AutoGUI-v2: A Comprehensive Multi-Modal GUI Functionality Understanding Benchmark (huggingface_papers)
  12. [12] BARRED: Synthetic Training of Custom Policy Guardrails via Asymmetric Debate (huggingface_papers)
  13. [13] Co-Director: Agentic Generative Video Storytelling (huggingface_papers)
  14. [14] Mutual Forcing: Dual-Mode Self-Evolution for Fast Autoregressive Audio-Video Character Generation (huggingface_papers)
  15. [15] Refinement via Regeneration: Enlarging Modification Space Boosts Image Refinement in Unified Multimodal Models (huggingface_papers)
  16. [16] IAM: Identity-Aware Human Motion and Shape Joint Generation (huggingface_papers)
  1. [17] A Systematic Post-Train Framework for Video Generation (huggingface_papers)
  2. [18] Toward Scalable Terminal Task Synthesis via Skill Graphs (huggingface_papers)
  3. [19] DV-World: Benchmarking Data Visualization Agents in Real-World Scenarios (huggingface_papers)
  4. [20] Programming with Data: Test-Driven Data Engineering for Self-Improving LLMs from Raw Corpora (huggingface_papers)
  5. [21] Recursive Multi-Agent Systems (huggingface_papers)
  6. [22] Meta-CoT: Enhancing Granularity and Generalization in Image Editing (huggingface_papers)
  7. [23] Towards Understanding the Robustness of Sparse Autoencoders (huggingface_papers)
  8. [24] Advancements in Artificial Intelligence: Breakthroughs, Challenges and the Road Ahead (google_scholar)
  9. [25] Large language models (LLM) in computational social science: prospects, current state, and challenges (google_scholar)
  10. [26] Artificial intelligence and machine learning in cybersecurity: a deep dive into state-of-the-art techniques and future paradigms (google_scholar)
  11. [27] Securing the future: exploring post-quantum cryptography for authentication and user privacy in IoT devices (google_scholar)
  12. [28] Quantum machine learning: A comprehensive review of integrating AI with quantum computing for computational advancements (google_scholar)
  13. [29] (https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/915660/mythos-script-kiddies-hackers-attack-cybersecurity-ai) (hackernews)
  14. [30] Computing quantum waves from classical action (hackernews)
  15. [31] (https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspa/article/482/2336/20250413/481461/On-computing-quantum-waves-exactly-from-classical) (hackernews)
  16. [32] Quantum Computing and Blockchain [pdf] (hackernews)