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May 21, 2026 16:00
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🤗 HuggingFace Papers 38

Zhifei Xie, Kaiyu Pang, Haobin Zhang, Deheng Ye, Xiaobin Hu
Despite rapid advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and large audio-language models, robust recognition in real-world environments remains limited by an "acoustic robustness bottleneck": models often lose acoustic grounding and produce omissions or hallucinations under s…
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Weimin Xiong, Shuhao Gu, Bowen Ye, Zihao Yue, Lei Li
Recent advances in multimodal large language models have driven growing interest in graphical user interface (GUI) agents, yet their generalization remains constrained by the scarcity of large-scale training data spanning diverse real-world applications. Existing datasets rely he…
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X. Feng, J. Zhu, M. Wu, C. Chen, F. Mao
Without incurring significant computational overhead, train-free long video generation aims to enable foundation video generation models to produce longer videos. Frame-level autoregressive frameworks, e.g., FIFO-diffusion, offer the advantage of generating infinitely long videos…
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Zunhai Su, Rui Yang, Chao Zhang, Yaxiu Liu, Yifan Zhang
The rapid advancement toward long-context reasoning and multi-modal intelligence has made the memory footprint of the Key-Value (KV) cache a dominant memory bottleneck for efficient deployment. While the established per-channel quantization effectively accommodates intrinsic chan…
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Zhepei Wei, Xinyu Zhu, Wei-Lin Chen, Chengsong Huang, Jiaxin Huang
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a dominant paradigm for improving reasoning in large language models (LLMs), yet the underlying geometry of the resulting parameter trajectories remains underexplored. In this work, we demonstrate that RLVR weight t…
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Rongbin Tan, Fangfang Lin, Zhenlong Yuan, Min Qiu, Kejin Cui
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable capability in bridging visual perception and textual reasoning, enabling zero-shot understanding across diverse industrial scenarios. However, their performance in open-vocabulary industrial anomaly detection (IAD) is…
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Kaiwen Luo, Zhenhong Zhou, Leo Wang, Liang Lin, Yang Xiao
The foundational capabilities established by Large Language Models (LLMs) have paved the way for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), within which Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) are essential for realizing universal auditory intelligence. Despite their remarkable perfor…
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Sangwoo Park, Woongyeong Yeo, Seanie Lee, Yumin Choi, Hyomin Lee
Contextual Integrity (CI) defines privacy not merely as keeping information hidden, but as governing information flows according to the norms of a given context. As large language models are increasingly deployed as personal agents handling sensitive workflows, adhering to CI bec…
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Emaad Khwaja, Chris Lettieri, Gerald Woo, Eden Belouadah, Marc Cenac
We show that time series foundation models scale: a single training recipe produces reliable forecast-quality improvements from 4M to 2.5B parameters. We release Toto 2.0, a family of five open-weights forecasting models trained under this recipe. The Toto 2.0 family sets a new s…
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Haiquan Lu, Zigeng Chen, Gongfan Fang, Xinyin Ma, Xinchao Wang
LLM agents have recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for solving complex tasks through planning, tool use, memory retrieval, and multi-step interaction. However, these agentic workflows often introduce substantial input-side overhead, making the compute-intensive prefilling st…
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Haobo Hu, Xiangwu Guo, Zhiheng Chen, Difei Gao, Haotian Liu
While GUI agents have made significant progress in web navigation and basic operating system tasks, their capabilities in professional creative workflows remain largely underexplored. To bridge this gap, we introduce Cutverse, a benchmark designed to systematically evaluate auton…
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Dian Zheng, Manyuan Zhang, Hongyu Li, Hongbo Liu, Kai Zou
Currently, enhancing Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) with image understanding, generation, and editing capabilities mainly relies on mixed multi-task training. Due to inherent task conflicts, such strategy requires complex multi-stage pipelines, massive data mixing, and balancin…
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Junyeob Baek, Mingyu Jo, Minsu Kim, Mengye Ren, Yoshua Bengio
How should future neural reasoning systems implement extended computation? Recursive Reasoning Models (RRMs) offer a promising alternative to autoregressive sequence extension by performing iterative latent-state refinement with shared transition functions. Yet existing RRMs are …
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Ming Zhang, Qiyuan Peng, Yinxi Wei, Yujiong Shen, Kexin Tan
Evaluating large language models (LLMs) on natural-language logical reasoning is essential because rule-governed tasks require conclusions to follow strictly from stated premises. Many existing logical-reasoning benchmarks are generated by templating natural-language items from s…
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Guan Wang, Changling Liu, Chenyu Wang, Cai Zhou, Yuhao Sun
The current pretraining paradigm for large language models relies on massive compute and internet-scale raw text, creating a significant barrier to foundational research. In contrast, biological systems demonstrate highly sample-efficient learning through multi-timescale processi…
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Alimurtaza Mustafa Merchant, Krish Veera, Sajal Kumar Goyla, Shambhawi Bhure, Dhaval Patel
Industrial asset operations workflows are latency-sensitive because a single user query may require coordination over sensor data, work orders, failure modes, forecasting tools, and domain-specific agents. We evaluate this problem on AssetOpsBench (AOB), an industrial agent bench…
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Seungone Kim, Dongkeun Yoon, Kiril Gashteovski, Juyoung Suk, Jinheon Baek
With the advancement of AI capabilities, AI reviewers are beginning to be deployed in scientific peer review, yet their capability and credibility remain in question: many scientists simply view them as probabilistic systems without the expertise to evaluate research, while other…
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Zach Evans, Julian D. Parker, Matthew Rice, CJ Carr, Zack Zukowski
Stable Audio 3 is a family of fast latent diffusion models (small, medium, large) for variable-length audio generation and editing. Since our models can generate several minutes of audio, variable-length generations are key to avoid the cost of producing full-length generations f…
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Ziye Li, Henghui Ding
Recent layout-to-image models have achieved remarkable progress in spatial controllability. However, they still struggle with inter-object occlusion. When bounding boxes overlap, most existing methods lack explicit occlusion information, which makes the generation in intersection…
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Hyojun Go, Hyungjin Chung, Prune Truong, Goutam Bhat, Li Mi
For practical use, diffusion- or flow-based generative models must be aligned with task-specific rewards, such as prompt fidelity or aesthetic preference. That alignment is challenging because the reward is defined for clean output images, but the alignment procedure requires val…
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Yulin Chen, He He, Chen Zhao
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR) has proven effective in improving Large Language Model's (LLM) reasoning ability. However, the learning dynamics of RLVR remain underexplored. In this paper, we reveal a counterintuitive phenomenon: among hard examples that the…
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Jinrang Jia, Zhenjia Li, Yijiang Hu, Yifeng Shi
Generating a consistent whole-house VR tour from a floorplan and style reference requires both photorealistic panoramas and cross-view spatial coherence. Pure 2D generators produce appealing single panoramas but re-imagine geometry and materials when the viewpoint changes, wherea…
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Md Mehrab Tanjim, Jayakumar Subramanian, Xiang Chen, Branislav Kveton, Subhojyoti Mukherjee
LLM agents organize behavior through skills - structured natural-language specifications governing how an agent reasons, retrieves, and responds. Unlike monolithic prompts, skills are multi-field artifacts subject to hard platform constraints: description fields are truncated for…
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Mark Boss, Vikram Voleti, Simon Donné, Shimon Vainer
The key-value (KV) cache dominates memory bandwidth and footprint in long-context autoregressive inference. Recent rotation-preconditioned codecs (TurboQuant, PolarQuant) show that a structured random rotation followed by a per-coordinate scalar quantizer matched to an analytical…
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Zhiqin Yang, Yonggang Zhang, Wei Xue, Dong Fang, Bo Han
Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as a popular alternative to Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), offering theoretical equivalence with simpler implementation. We prove this equivalence is conditional rather than universal, depending on an implicit a…
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Bingchen Zhao, Dhruv Srikanth, Yuxiang Wu, Zhengyao Jiang
As long-horizon coding agents produce more code than any developer can review, oversight collapses onto a single surface: the automated test suite. Reward hacking naturally arises in this setup, as the agent optimizes for passing tests while deviating from the users true goal. We…
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Xiaoqiang Wang, Chao Wang, Hadi Nekoei, Christopher Pal, Alexandre Lacoste
We present Mem-π, a framework for adaptive memory in large language model (LLM) agents, where useful guidance is generated on demand rather than retrieved from external memory stores. Existing memory-augmented agents typically rely on similarity-based retrieval from episodic memo…
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Haotian Wang, Yusong Huang, Zhaonian Kuang, Hongliang Lu, Xinhu Zheng
Recent feed-forward models have significantly advanced geometry perception for inferring dense 3D structure from sensor observations. However, its essential capabilities remain fragmented across multiple incompatible paradigms, including online perception, offline reconstruction,…
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Anis Radianis
Modern language-model training is increasingly exposed to instability, degraded runs, and wasted compute, especially under aggressive learning-rate, scale, and runtime-stress conditions. This paper introduces Learn-by-Wire Guard (LBW-Guard), a bounded autonomous training-control …
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Guanglong Sun, Siyuan Zhang, Liyuan Wang, Jun Zhu, Hang Su
Safety post-training can improve the harmfulness and policy compliance of Large Language Models (LLMs), but it may also reduce general utility, a phenomenon often described as the alignment tax. We study this trade-off through the lens of continual learning: sequential alignment …
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Hyunji Lee, Justin Chih-Yao Chen, Joykirat Singh, Zaid Khan, Elias Stengel-Eskin
Real-world agents operate over long and evolving horizons, where information is repeatedly updated and may interfere across memories, requiring accurate recall and aggregated reasoning over multiple pieces of information. However, existing benchmarks focus on static, independent …
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Ziliang Zhao, Zenan Xu, Shuting Wang, Hongjin Qian, Yan Lei
Planning is a fundamental capability for large language models (LLMs) because such complex tasks require models to coordinate goals, constraints, resources, and long-term consequences into executable and verifiable solutions. Existing planning benchmarks, however, usually treat p…
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Riddhi Mohan Sharma
As autonomous agentic systems scale across regulated critical infrastructures, the lack of mechanistic, hardware-rooted enforcement for high-frequency policy updates presents a fundamental safety gap. We introduce Ethical Hyper-Velocity (EHV), a novel architectural framework for …
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Kailai Sun, Mingyi He, Heye Huang, Can Rong, Alok Prakash
Urban Building Energy Modeling plays a critical role in achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals 7 and 11. Although existing studies based on satellite imagery and deep learning have achieved remarkable progress, many challenges exist: most existing studies are…
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Jun Zheng, Zhengze Xu, Mengting Chen, Jing Wang, Jinsong Lan
Video Virtual Try-On (VVT) aims to seamlessly replace a garment on a person in a video with a new one. While existing methods have made significant strides in maintaining temporal consistency, they are predominantly confined to non-interactive scenarios where models merely showca…
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Guangzhi Xiong, Qiao Jin, Sanchit Sinha, Zhiyong Lu, Aidong Zhang
Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) show promise in medical applications, but their inability to faithfully ground responses in visual evidence raises serious concerns about clinical trustworthiness. While visual attribution methods are widely used to explain LVLM predictions, w…
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Tao Wang, Lei Jin, Zhihua Wu, Qiaozhi He, Jiaming Chu
Text-to-motion generation, which translates textual descriptions into human motions, faces the challenge that users often struggle to precisely convey their intended motions through text alone. To address this issue, this paper introduces DrawMotion, an efficient diffusion-based …
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Sajjad Khan
Concurrent LLM agents sharing mutable natural-language state produce Structural Race Conditions (SRCs): write-write and cross-shard stale-read conflicts that silently corrupt agent output. Existing multi-agent frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen) provide no write-ownership sem…
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📚 Google Scholar 6

… Building on this premise, this paper presents a framework for identifying breakthrough … potential to trigger technological breakthroughs. Next, a machine learning-based link prediction …
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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 …
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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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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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… in quantum-enhanced classical ML to native quantum algorithms and hybrid quantum-… It varies from applications in optimization, drug discovery, and quantum-secured communications, …
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🗺 Hacker News 6

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  1. [1] ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State. I Decrypted the Program That Does It
  2. [2] FatGid - FreeBSD 14.x kernel LPE
  3. [3] Mega-ASR: Towards In-the-wild^2 Speech Recognition via Scaling up Real-world Acoustic Simulation
  4. [4] Video2GUI: Synthesizing Large-Scale Interaction Trajectories for Generalized GUI Agent Pretraining
  5. [5] Enhancing Train-Free Infinite-Frame Generation for Consistent Long Videos
  6. [6] OScaR: The Occam's Razor for Extreme KV Cache Quantization in LLMs and Beyond
  7. [7] You Only Need Minimal RLVR Training: Extrapolating LLMs via Rank-1 Trajectories
  8. [8] IndusAgent: Reinforcing Open-Vocabulary Industrial Anomaly Detection with Agentic Tools
  9. [9] A Survey of Large Audio Language Models: Generalization, Trustworthiness, and Outlook
  10. [10] It Takes Two: Complementary Self-Distillation for Contextual Integrity in LLMs
  11. [11] Toto 2.0: Time Series Forecasting Enters the Scaling Era
  12. [12] Mix-Quant: Quantized Prefilling, Precise Decoding for Agentic LLMs
  13. [13] CutVerse: A Compositional GUI Agents Benchmark for Media Post-Production Editing
  14. [14] Uni-Edit: Intelligent Editing Is A General Task For Unified Model Tuning
  15. [15] Generative Recursive Reasoning
  16. [16] LLMEval-Logic: A Solver-Verified Chinese Benchmark for Logical Reasoning of LLMs with Adversarial Hardening
  17. [17] HRM-Text: Efficient Pretraining Beyond Scaling
  18. [18] Evaluating Temporal Semantic Caching and Workflow Optimization in Agentic Plan-Execute Pipelines
  19. [19] On the limits and opportunities of AI reviewers: Reviewing the reviews of Nature-family papers with 45 expert scientists
  20. [20] Stable Audio 3
  21. [21] OcclusionFormer: Arranging Z-Order for Layout-Grounded Image Generation
  22. [22] Stitched Value Model for Diffusion Alignment
  23. [23] The Unlearnability Phenomenon in RLVR for Language Models
  24. [24] PanoWorld: A Generative Spatial World Model for Consistent Whole-House Panorama Synthesis
  25. [25] MOCHA: Multi-Objective Chebyshev Annealing for Agent Skill Optimization
  26. [26] OCTOPUS: Optimized KV Cache for Transformers via Octahedral Parametrization Under optimal Squared error quantization
  1. [27] Conditional Equivalence of DPO and RLHF: Implicit Assumption, Failure Modes, and Provable Alignment
  2. [28] SpecBench: Measuring Reward Hacking in Long-Horizon Coding Agents
  3. [29] Mem-π: Adaptive Memory through Learning When and What to Generate
  4. [30] UniT: Unified Geometry Learning with Group Autoregressive Transformer
  5. [31] Learn-by-Wire Training Control Governance: Bounded Autonomous Training Under Stress for Stability and Efficiency
  6. [32] Safety Alignment as Continual Learning: Mitigating the Alignment Tax via Orthogonal Gradient Projection
  7. [33] LongMINT: Evaluating Memory under Multi-Target Interference in Long-Horizon Agent Systems
  8. [34] PlanningBench: Generating Scalable and Verifiable Planning Data for Evaluating and Training Large Language Models
  9. [35] Ethical Hyper-Velocity (EHV): A Provably Deterministic Governance-Aware JIT Compiler Architecture for Agentic Systems
  10. [36] SENSE: Satellite-based ENergy Synthesis for Sustainable Environment
  11. [37] iTryOn: Mastering Interactive Video Virtual Try-On with Spatial-Semantic Guidance
  12. [38] Rethinking Visual Attribution for Chest X-ray Reasoning in Large Vision Language Models
  13. [39] DrawMotion: Generating 3D Human Motions by Freehand Drawing
  14. [40] S-Bus: Automatic Read-Set Reconstruction for Multi-Agent LLM State Coordination
  15. [41] Early identification of breakthrough technologies: Insights from science-driven innovations
  16. [42] Catalyst breakthroughs in methane dry reforming: Employing machine learning for future advancements
  17. [43] Large language models (LLM) in computational social science: prospects, current state, and challenges
  18. [44] Artificial intelligence and machine learning in cybersecurity: a deep dive into state-of-the-art techniques and future paradigms
  19. [45] Securing the future: exploring post-quantum cryptography for authentication and user privacy in IoT devices
  20. [46] Quantum machine learning: A comprehensive review of integrating AI with quantum computing for computational advancements
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  22. [48] Show HN: Limitless – AI OSINT search and interactive intelligence sandboxes
  23. [49] Show HN: CipherStash Stack – Data Level Access Control in TS/JS
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  25. [51] Vega: Zero-knowledge proofs for digital identity in the age of AI
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