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May 20, 2026 19:06
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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 20, 2026 19:06 — Curated by Hermes Research Scout

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🤗 HuggingFace Papers 23

Conversational AI has now reached billions of users, yet existing datasets capture only what people say, not what they think. We introduce ThoughtTrace, the first large-scale dataset that pairs…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS
AI evaluation is undergoing a structural change. Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as systems that act over time through tools, environments, users, and other agents, while many…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards has made post-training highly effective when correctness can be checked automatically. However, many important model behaviors require satisfying…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS
As AI-generated text enters the real-world at scale, institutions increasingly use commercial AI-text detectors, especially in education and academic-integrity workflows. We report a surprising…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS
Large language models (LLMs) are highly susceptible to backdoor attacks (BAs), wherein training samples are poisoned using trigger-based harmful content. Furthermore, existing defenses have proven…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS
The design of modern neural architectures has converged through incremental empirical choices, yet the mechanisms governing their training dynamics remain only partially understood. We identify and…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS
The effectiveness of Reinforcement Learning (RL) in Large Language Models (LLMs) depends on the nature and diversity of the data used before and during RL. In particular, reasoning problems can often…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS
This position paper argues that computer science conferences should require tamper-evident, nonrepudiable attestations of experimental results. We name the underlying problem experiment…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables real-time novel view synthesis with high visual quality. However, existing methods struggle with semi-transparent specular surfaces that exhibit both complex…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS
Dexterous manipulation is physics-intensive and highly sensitive to modeling errors and perception noise, making sim-to-real transfer prohibitively challenging. Domain randomization (DR) is commonly…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS
We identify intrinsic limitations of Rotary Positional Embeddings (RoPE) in Transformer-based long-context language models. Our theoretical analysis abstracts away from the specific content of the…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS
This paper tackles the task of learning to generate signals over triangle meshes in a triangulation-agnostic manner, meaning the trained model can be applied to different meshes and triangulations…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS
Recent progress in large language models has led to the emergence of reasoning models, which have shown strong performance on complex tasks through specialized fine-tuning procedures. While these…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS
Equipping LLM agents with reusable skills derived from past experience has become a popular and successful approach for tackling complex and long-horizon tasks. However, such lessons are often…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS
Humans naturally communicate through abstract concepts like "mood". However, current image editing benchmarks focus primarily on explicit, literal commands, leaving abstract instructions largely…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS
4D mesh generation has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for recovering dynamic 3D structure from videos, but existing methods remain slow, computationally expensive, and difficult to scale to…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS
Omni-modal large language models (om-LLMs) achieve unified audio-visual understanding by encoding video and audio into temporally aligned token sequences interleaved at the window level. However,…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS
Can a single LLM-based optimization system match specialized tools across fundamentally different domains? We show that when optimization problems are formulated as improving a text artifact…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS
Pairwise Ranking Prompting (PRP) elicits pairwise preference judgments from an LLM, which are then aggregated into a ranking, usually via classical sorting algorithms. However, judgments are noisy,…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS
Recent studies suggest that Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) is inherently more resilient to catastrophic forgetting than Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT). However, whether RFT (e.g., GRPO) can…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS
Training 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) at billion-primitive scale is fundamentally memory-bound: each Gaussian primitive carries a large attribute vector, and the aggregate parameter table quickly…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS
Backdoor attacks on language models pose a growing security concern, yet the internal mechanisms by which a trigger sequence hijacks model computations remain poorly understood. We identify a circuit…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS
Authorship attribution models fine-tuned with the same pretrained encoder, data, and loss can differ four-fold in performance depending only on their scoring mechanism. We use mechanistic…
HUGGINGFACE PAPERS

🎓 Google Scholar 6

Catalyst breakthroughs in methane dry reforming: Employing machine learning for future advancements
GOOGLE SCHOLAR
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…
GOOGLE SCHOLAR
Large language models (LLM) in computational social science: prospects, current state, and challenges
GOOGLE SCHOLAR
Artificial intelligence and machine learning in cybersecurity: a deep dive into state-of-the-art techniques and future paradigms
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 SCHOLAR
Quantum machine learning: A comprehensive review of integrating AI with quantum computing for computational advancements
GOOGLE SCHOLAR

🦞 Lobste.rs 15

A deep dive by Baseten's research team breaking down the math behind TurboQuant
LOBSTERS
An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics.
LOBSTERS
AI takes many forms. Like the word “transportation”, it refers to a collection of technologies as diverse and distinctive as bicycles to rockets. But today, one version of AI takes all the oxygen:…
LOBSTERS
Therefore, I’m taking my blog and my books offline so that I can decide what to do next – especially w.r.t. AI companies stealing my work. This may take a while (think months): I don’t have any…
LOBSTERS
Documentation for the npm registry, website, and command-line interface
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In recent weeks, we pointed Mythos and other security-focused LLMs at live code across critical parts of our infrastructure. We share what we observed, the models’ strengths and weaknesses, and what…
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The rationale of edge computing is simple: instead of moving data to centralized data centers, computation is brought closer to where data is produced. In practice, this means deploying software on…
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Attached: 1 video back in 2022 i found a bug that would let me, with no user interaction, turn any chromium-based browser into a permanent js botnet member in edge, you wouldn't even notice anything…
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A single XSS vulnerability can turn passkeys from a phishing-resistant login mechanism into a persistent account takeover backdoor. If malicious JavaScript can run on your page, it may be able to…
LOBSTERS
Logic bug in the Linux kernel's __ptrace_may_access() function (CVE-2026-46333)
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How cross-thread double free detection could work in glibc malloc
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the may 2026 fedi software vulnerability
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Proactively shrink a Linux host's kernel-module attack surface by blacklisting every module not currently in use. - jnuyens/modulejail
LOBSTERS
Grafana Labs confirmed a targeted attack by a cybercrime group that gained unauthorized access to our GitHub repositories and downloaded our codebase. Here is the latest update about our…
LOBSTERS
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…
LOBSTERS

📺 Hacker News 3

Google said Monday that it had disrupted a criminal group’s attempt to use artificial intelligence to exploit another company’s previously unknown digital vulnerability, adding to heightened worries…
HACKERNEWS
Irst Apple M5 memory exploit discovered using Anthropic AI
HACKERNEWS
Will computers based on quantum physics really change the world?
HACKERNEWS

🔗 All Sources

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    [(25, 'Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Robot Learning: A Dexterous Manipulation Study on Reactive Catching', 'https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.09789', 'huggingface_papers'), (26, 'RoPE Distinguishes Neither Positions Nor Tokens in Long Contexts, Provably', 'https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.15514', 'huggingface_papers'), (27, 'Matérn Noise for Triangulation-Agnostic Flow Matching on Meshes', 'https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.19305', 'huggingface_papers'), (28, 'Why Do Reasoning Models Lose Coverage? The Role of Data and Forks in the Road', 'https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.17026', 'huggingface_papers'), (29, 'Harnessing LLM Agents with Skill Programs', 'https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.17734', 'huggingface_papers'), (30, "Editor's Choice: Evaluating Abstract Intent in Image Editing through Atomic Entity Analysis", 'https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.14842', 'huggingface_papers'), (31, 'Fast 4D Mesh Generation by Spatio-Temporal Attention Chains', 'https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.19786', 'huggingface_papers'), (32, 'Stage-adaptive Token Selection for Efficient Omni-modal LLMs', 'https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.20035', 'huggingface_papers'), (33, 'optimize_anything: A Universal API for Optimizing any Text Parameter', 'https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.19633', 'huggingface_papers'), (34, 'Active Learners as Efficient PRP Rerankers', 'https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.14236', 'huggingface_papers'), (35, 'Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting in Visual Continual Learning with Reinforcement Fine-Tuning', 'https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.09640', 'huggingface_papers'), (36, 'TideGS: Scalable Training of Over One Billion 3D Gaussian Splatting Primitives via Out-of-Core Optimization', 'https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.20150', 'huggingface_papers'), (37, 'Language-Switching Triggers Take a Latent Detour Through Language Models', 'https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.18646', 'huggingface_papers'), (38, 'Where Does Authorship Signal Emerge in Encoder-Based Language Models?', 'https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.19908', 'huggingface_papers'), (39, 'Catalyst breakthroughs in methane dry reforming: Employing machine learning for future advancements', 'https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360319924036942', 'google_scholar'), (40, 'Advancements in Artificial Intelligence: Breakthroughs, Challenges and the Road Ahead', 'https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11050474/', 'google_scholar'), (41, 'Large language models (LLM) in computational social science: prospects, current state, and challenges', 'https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13278-025-01428-9', 'google_scholar'), (42, 'Artificial intelligence and machine learning in cybersecurity: a deep dive into state-of-the-art techniques and future paradigms', 'https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10115-025-02429-y', 'google_scholar'), (43, 'Securing the future: exploring post-quantum cryptography for authentication and user privacy in IoT devices', 'https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10586-024-04799-4', 'google_scholar'), (44, 'Quantum machine learning: A comprehensive review of integrating AI with quantum computing for computational advancements', 'https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215016125001645', 'google_scholar'), (45, '(https://apnews.com/article/google-ai-cybersecurity-exploitation-mythos-926aea7f7dc5e0e61adce3273c55c6d4)', 'https://apnews.com/article/google-ai-cybersecurity-exploitation-mythos-926aea7f7dc5e0e61adce3273c55c6d4', 'hackernews'), (46, 'Irst Apple M5 memory exploit discovered using Anthropic AI', 'https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164199', 'hackernews'), (47, '(https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-computing-is-reaching-its-make-or-break-moment/)', 'https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-computing-is-reaching-its-make-or-break-moment/', 'hackernews')]