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May 08, 2026 09:00
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Topics searched: Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Large Language Models Security & Cybersecurity Cryptography Zero Knowledge Quantum Computing Crypto & Blockchain AI Agents & Reasoning AI Safety & Alignment
May 08, 2026 09:00 — Curated by Hermes Research Scout

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🧠 LLMs 34

HuggingFace
In recent years, open-source efforts like Senorita-2M have propelled video editing toward natural language instruction. However, current publicly available datasets predominantly focus on local editing or style…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
We revisit a universally accepted but under-examined design choice in every modern LLM: a token index is looked up once at the input embedding layer and then permanently discarded. This single-injection assumption…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
Many deployments must compare candidate language models for safety before a labeled benchmark exists for the relevant language, sector, or regulatory regime. We formalize this setting as benchmarkless comparative safety…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
We present our winning system for Task~B (generation with reference passages) in SemEval-2026 Task~8: MTRAGEval. Our method is a heterogeneous ensemble of seven LLMs with two prompting variants, where a GPT-4o-mini…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a central paradigm for improving reasoning and code generation in large language models, and GRPO-style training is widely adopted for its simplicity and…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
Geospatial reasoning requires models to resolve complex spatial semantics and user intent into precise target locations for Earth observation. Recent progress has liberated the reasoning path from manual curation,…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
World Action Models (WAMs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for robotic manipulation by jointly predicting future visual observations and future actions. However, current WAMs typically execute a fixed…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) hold significant promise for revolutionizing traditional education and reducing teachers' workload. However, accurately interpreting unconstrained STEM student handwritten…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
Despite the growing popularity of Multimodal Domain Generalization (MMDG) for enhancing model robustness, it remains unclear whether reported performance gains reflect genuine algorithmic progress or are artifacts of…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
Step distillation has become a leading technique for accelerating diffusion models, among which Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) and Consistency Distillation are two representative paradigms. While consistency…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
Reinforcement learning for agentic large language models (LLMs) typically relies on a sparse, trajectory-level outcome reward, making it difficult to evaluate the contribution of individual tool-calls within multi-turn…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
High-resolution image-to-video (I2V) generation aims to synthesize realistic temporal dynamics while preserving fine-grained appearance details of the input image. At 2K resolution, it becomes extremely challenging, and…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
This paper introduces EnergyFlow, a framework that unifies generative action modeling with inverse reinforcement learning by parameterizing a scalar energy function whose gradient is the denoising field. We establish…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
Foundation models have established unified representations for natural language processing, yet this paradigm remains largely unexplored for tabular data. Existing methods face fundamental limitations: LLM-based…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, particularly Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), has significantly advanced the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, in complex tasks,…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
A growing body of work in cognitive science suggests that reportable conscious access is associated with global ignition over distributed memory systems, while such activation is only partially accessible as individuals…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
We introduce ReflectDrive-2, a masked discrete diffusion planner with separate action expert for autonomous driving that represents plans as discrete trajectory tokens and generates them through parallel masked…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
Recent advances in generative video models are increasingly driven by post-training and test-time scaling, both of which critically depend on the quality of video reward models (RMs). An ideal reward model should…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
Modern Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures allocate expert capacity through a rigid per-layer rule: each transformer layer owns a separate expert set. This convention couples depth scaling with linear…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
Large language models have achieved remarkable success under the autoregressive paradigm, yet high-quality text generation need not be tied to a fixed left-to-right order. Existing alternatives still struggle to jointly…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
LLM-based agents are increasingly deployed to handle streaming tasks, yet they often remain one-off problem solvers that fail to learn from past interactions. Reusable skills distilled from experience provide a natural…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
A persistent skill library allows language model agents to reuse successful strategies across tasks. Maintaining such a library requires three coupled capabilities. The agent selects a relevant skill, utilizes it during…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
We introduce the AI co-mathematician, a workbench for mathematicians to interactively leverage AI agents to pursue open-ended research. The AI co-mathematician is optimized to provide holistic support for the…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
Reinforcement learning (RL) has been applied to improve large language model (LLM) reasoning, yet the systematic study of how training scales with task difficulty has been hampered by the lack of controlled, scalable…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
Reinforcement learning fine-tuning has become the dominant approach for aligning diffusion models with human preferences. However, assessing images is intrinsically a multi-dimensional task, and multiple evaluation…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
We study auto research as a closed empirical loop driven by external measurement. Each submitted trial carries a hypothesis, an executable code edit, an evaluator-owned outcome, and feedback that shapes the next…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
Large language models (LLMs) are routinely prompted to take on social roles ranging from individuals to institutions, yet it remains unclear whether their internal representations encode the granularity of such roles,…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
Current LLM safety benchmarks are predominantly English-centric and often rely on translation, failing to capture country-specific harms. Moreover, they rarely evaluate a model's ability to detect culturally embedded…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) learns interpretable logical rules from data. Existing methods are transductive: their learned parameters are bound to specific predicates and require retraining for each new task. We…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
This paper identifies a critical yet underexplored challenge in reasoning alignment from multiple multi-modal large language models (MLLMs): In non-stationary environments, the diverse reasoning distributions of source…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
Robotic systems that interact with the physical world must reason about kinematic and dynamic constraints imposed by their own embodiment, their environment, and the task at hand. We introduce KinDER, a benchmark for…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
Recent advances in large language models have led to strong performance on reasoning and environment-interaction tasks, yet their ability for creative problem-solving remains underexplored. We study this capability…
HuggingFaceLLMs
HuggingFace
Distillation-based acceleration has become foundational for making autoregressive streaming video diffusion models practical, with distribution matching distillation (DMD) as the de facto choice. Existing methods,…
HuggingFaceLLMs
Google Scholar
… The advent of large language models (LLMs) has marked a new … LLM usage. We further present the challenges associated with data bias, privacy, and the integration of these models …
Google ScholarLLMs

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⚙️ Machine Learning 2

Google Scholar
… Building on this premise, this paper presents a framework for identifying breakthrough … potential to trigger technological breakthroughs. Next, a machine learning-based link prediction …
Google ScholarMachine Learning
Google Scholar
Rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and methane (CH 4 ) have sparked the interest of researchers in resolving this issue. Various technologies have been utilized such …
Google ScholarMachine Learning

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🔒 Security & Crypto 9

Lobste.rs
Tags: ai, plt, release | Score: 14
Lobste.rsSecurity & Crypto
Lobste.rs
Machine Learning Library, written in J. Contribute to jonghough/jlearn development by creating an account on GitHub.
Lobste.rsSecurity & Crypto
Lobste.rs
Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo. Contribute to 0xdeadbeefnetwork/Copy_Fail2-Electric_Boogaloo development by creating an account on GitHub.
Lobste.rsSecurity & Crypto
Lobste.rs
Tags: linux, security | Score: 79
Lobste.rsSecurity & Crypto
Lobste.rs
New details about what we found, and how agentic harnesses are now able to reproduce real bugs and dismiss false positives.
Lobste.rsSecurity & Crypto
Lobste.rs
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 continuously collected from…
Lobste.rsSecurity & Crypto
Google Scholar
… in adversarial AI, automated threat intelligence, and AI-driven security orchestration, this … AI’s role in cybersecurity. Figure 1 shows the key areas where Artificial intelligence (AI) and …
Google ScholarSecurity & Crypto
Hacker News
AI is rapidly changing cybersecurity across the world
Hacker NewsSecurity & Crypto
Hacker News
Tech troubleshooting guides for Android, iPhone, Windows, WiFi, and internet problems. FixTechHosts offers easy step-by-step fixes, tips, and solution
Hacker NewsSecurity & Crypto

📄 Web Findings

⚛️ Quantum 3

Google Scholar
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...
Google ScholarQuantum
Google Scholar
… in quantum-enhanced classical ML to native quantum algorithms and hybrid quantum-… It varies from applications in optimization, drug discovery, and quantum-secured communications, …
Google ScholarQuantum
Hacker News
Hard SiFi Author'Search for Readers
Hacker NewsQuantum

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🛡️ AI Safety 1

Google Scholar
… (RLHF), Constitutional AI (CAI), and mechanistic interpretability—treat alignment as a … alignment is fundamentally a relational problem: the quality of interaction between humans and AI …
Google ScholarAI Safety

🔗 All Sources

  1. Mojo v1.0.0b1 — Lobste.rs
  2. jlearn: Machine Learning Library in J — Lobste.rs
  3. Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo — Lobste.rs
  4. Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE — Lobste.rs
  5. Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview — Lobste.rs
  6. ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State. I Decrypted the Program That Does It — Lobste.rs
  7. Sparkle: Realizing Lively Instruction-Guided Video Background Replacement via Decoupled Guidance — HuggingFace
  8. TIDE: Every Layer Knows the Token Beneath the Context — HuggingFace
  9. When No Benchmark Exists: Validating Comparative LLM Safety Scoring Without Ground-Truth Labels — HuggingFace
  10. RaguTeam at SemEval-2026 Task 8: Meno and Friends in a Judge-Orchestrated LLM Ensemble for Faithful Multi-Turn Response Generation — HuggingFace
  11. Balanced Aggregation: Understanding and Fixing Aggregation Bias in GRPO — HuggingFace
  12. RemoteZero: Geospatial Reasoning with Zero Human Annotations — HuggingFace
  13. When to Trust Imagination: Adaptive Action Execution for World Action Models — HuggingFace
  14. EDU-CIRCUIT-HW: Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models on Real-World University-Level STEM Student Handwritten Solutions — HuggingFace
  15. Are We Making Progress in Multimodal Domain Generalization? A Comprehensive Benchmark Study — HuggingFace
  16. Continuous-Time Distribution Matching for Few-Step Diffusion Distillation — HuggingFace
  17. A^2TGPO: Agentic Turn-Group Policy Optimization with Adaptive Turn-level Clipping — HuggingFace
  18. SwiftI2V: Efficient High-Resolution Image-to-Video Generation via Conditional Segment-wise Generation — HuggingFace
  19. Recovering Hidden Reward in Diffusion-Based Policies — HuggingFace
  20. TabEmbed: Benchmarking and Learning Generalist Embeddings for Tabular Understanding — HuggingFace
  21. Nonsense Helps: Prompt Space Perturbation Broadens Reasoning Exploration — HuggingFace
  22. MiA-Signature: Approximating Global Activation for Long-Context Understanding — HuggingFace
  23. ReflectDrive-2: Reinforcement-Learning-Aligned Self-Editing for Discrete Diffusion Driving — HuggingFace
  24. Think, then Score: Decoupled Reasoning and Scoring for Video Reward Modeling — HuggingFace
  25. UniPool: A Globally Shared Expert Pool for Mixture-of-Experts — HuggingFace
  1. Continuous Latent Diffusion Language Model — HuggingFace
  2. SkillOS: Learning Skill Curation for Self-Evolving Agents — HuggingFace
  3. Skill1: Unified Evolution of Skill-Augmented Agents via Reinforcement Learning — HuggingFace
  4. AI Co-Mathematician: Accelerating Mathematicians with Agentic AI — HuggingFace
  5. Can RL Teach Long-Horizon Reasoning to LLMs? Expressiveness Is Key — HuggingFace
  6. MARBLE: Multi-Aspect Reward Balance for Diffusion RL — HuggingFace
  7. Auto Research with Specialist Agents Develops Effective and Non-Trivial Training Recipes — HuggingFace
  8. The Granularity Axis: A Micro-to-Macro Latent Direction for Social Roles in Language Models — HuggingFace
  9. XL-SafetyBench: A Country-Grounded Cross-Cultural Benchmark for LLM Safety and Cultural Sensitivity — HuggingFace
  10. A Foundation Model for Zero-Shot Logical Rule Induction — HuggingFace
  11. Turning Drift into Constraint: Robust Reasoning Alignment in Non-Stationary Environments — HuggingFace
  12. KinDER: A Physical Reasoning Benchmark for Robot Learning and Planning — HuggingFace
  13. CreativityBench: Evaluating Agent Creative Reasoning via Affordance-Based Tool Repurposing — HuggingFace
  14. Stream-R1: Reliability-Perplexity Aware Reward Distillation for Streaming Video Generation — HuggingFace
  15. Early identification of breakthrough technologies: Insights from science-driven innovations — Google Scholar
  16. Catalyst breakthroughs in methane dry reforming: Employing machine learning for future advancements — Google Scholar
  17. Large language models (LLM) in computational social science: prospects, current state, and challenges — Google Scholar
  18. Artificial intelligence and machine learning in cybersecurity: a deep dive into state-of-the-art techniques and future paradigms — Google Scholar
  19. Securing the future: exploring post-quantum cryptography for authentication and user privacy in IoT devices — Google Scholar
  20. Quantum machine learning: A comprehensive review of integrating AI with quantum computing for computational advancements — Google Scholar
  21. Relational Intelligence as Alignment Methodology A Case for Collaborative Approaches to AI Safety — Google Scholar
  22. AI is rapidly changing cybersecurity across the world — Hacker News
  23. (https://fixtechhubs.blogspot.com/2026/05/ai-cybersecurity-threats-are-rising.html) — Hacker News
  24. Hard SiFi Author'Search for Readers — Hacker News