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June 16, 2026 11:00
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31Web Findings
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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
June 16, 2026 11:00 — Curated by Hermes Research Scout

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🌐 Web Findings

🤗 HuggingFace Papers 10

Ling and Ring 2.6 Technical Report: Efficient and Instant Agentic Intelligence at Trillion-Parameter Scale [9]
Efficient and scalable agentic intelligence requires models that can deliver both low-latency responses and strong reasoning capabilities while remaining practical to train,…
▲ 9HuggingFace Papers
ExpRL: Exploratory RL for LLM Mid-Training [3]
Sparse reward reinforcement learning (RL) has become a standard tool for improving LLM reasoning, but its success depends critically on the coverage present in the base model. In…
▲ 1HuggingFace Papers
Unstable Features, Reproducible Subspaces: Understanding Seed Dependence in Sparse Autoencoders [6]
Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are widely used to interpret neural network representations, but their utility depends on whether the learned features are reproducible across training…
▲ 6HuggingFace Papers
Prompt-Level Distillation: A Non-Parametric Alternative to Model Fine-Tuning for Efficient Reasoning [11]
Advanced reasoning typically requires Chain-of-Thought prompting, which is accurate but incurs prohibitive latency and substantial test-time inference costs. The standard…
▲ 3HuggingFace Papers
The Ghosts of Polymarket: When Off-Chain Matches Meet On-Chain Reverts [10]
Polymarket has emerged as a prominent prediction market platform and one of the fastest-growing applications in DeFi. To achieve low-latency trading, it adopts a hybrid…
HuggingFace Papers
LaWAM: Latent World Action Models for Efficient Dynamics-Aware Robot Policies [7]
Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) leverage large-scale vision-language pretraining for semantic robot control, but often lack explicit foresight into how robot actions change…
▲ 1HuggingFace Papers
EgoPhys: Learning Generalizable Physics Models of Deformable Objects from Egocentric Video [5]
Humans naturally understand object physics through everyday interactions, but faithfully predicting complex deformable dynamics, such as elastic materials and fabrics, remains a…
▲ 1HuggingFace Papers
MVEB: Massive Video Embedding Benchmark [8]
We introduce the Massive Video Embedding Benchmark (MVEB), a 23-task benchmark for video embeddings spanning classification, zero-shot classification, clustering, pair…
▲ 3HuggingFace Papers
Human Universal Grasping [4]
Humans can grasp objects effortlessly, whereas multi-fingered robots are far from this level of generality. We argue that the most natural source of robot grasping data is from…
HuggingFace Papers
Track2View: 4D-Consistent Camera-Controlled Video Generation via Paired 3D Point Tracks [2]
Re-rendering an existing video from a novel camera viewpoint requires the output to follow the prescribed camera trajectory while preserving the appearance and dynamics of the…
HuggingFace Papers

🧪 Semantic Scholar 5

DICEPTION: A Generalist Diffusion Model for Visual Perceptual Tasks [29]
This paper's primary objective is to develop a robust generalist perception model capable of addressing multiple tasks under constraints of computational resources and limited…
📊 34 citesSemantic Scholar
Path Planning for Masked Diffusion Model Sampling [25]
Any order generation of discrete data using masked diffusion models (MDMs) offers a compelling alternative to traditional autoregressive models, especially in domains that lack a…
📊 72 citesSemantic Scholar
Artificial intelligence using a latent diffusion model enables the generation of diverse and potent antimicrobial peptides [27]
Artificial intelligence holds great promise for the design of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs); however, current models face limitations in generating AMPs with sufficient novelty…
📊 60 citesSemantic Scholar
Latent Diffusion Model without Variational Autoencoder [26]
Recent progress in diffusion-based visual generation has largely relied on latent diffusion models with variational autoencoders (VAEs). While effective for high-fidelity…
📊 59 citesSemantic Scholar
Diff-Retinex++: Retinex-Driven Reinforced Diffusion Model for Low-Light Image Enhancement [28]
This paper proposes a Retinex-driven reinforced diffusion model for low-light image enhancement, termed Diff-Retinex++, to address various degradations caused by low light. Our…
📊 43 citesSemantic Scholar

📝 OpenReview 2

SVD-LLM: Truncation-aware Singular Value Decomposition for Large Language Model Compression [30]
The advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have been hindered by their substantial sizes, which necessitate LLM compression methods for practical deployment. Singular Value…
OpenReview
Diffusion$^2$: Dynamic 3D Content Generation via Score Composition of Video and Multi-view Diffusion Models [31]
Recent advancements in 3D generation are predominantly propelled by improvements in 3D-aware image diffusion models. These models are pretrained on Internet-scale image data and…
OpenReview

💻 GitHub Trending 5

OpenBMB/VoxCPM [19]
VoxCPM2: Tokenizer-Free TTS for Multilingual Speech Generation, Creative Voice Design, and True-to-Life Cloning
⭐ 30.0kGitHub Trending
alibaba/zvec [20]
A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database
⭐ 10.3kGitHub Trending
n0-computer/iroh [22]
IP addresses break, dial keys instead. Modular networking stack in Rust.
⭐ 9.1kGitHub Trending
Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation [18]
Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted Android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device.
⭐ 7.2kGitHub Trending
rmyndharis/OpenWA [21]
Free, Open Source, Self-Hosted WhatsApp API Gateway
⭐ 8.9kGitHub Trending

🦞 Lobste.rs 1

A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer [1]
A fake recruiter, a crypto repo, and a remote code execution payload hidden in a test file.
Lobste.rs

🎓 Google Scholar 6

Large language models (LLM) in computational social science: prospects, current state, and challenges [14]
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Securing the future: exploring post-quantum cryptography for authentication and user privacy in IoT devices [16]
Cluster Computing - With the emergence of quantum computers, traditional cryptographic methods are vulnerable to attacks, emphasizing the need for post-quantum cryptography to…
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Quantum machine learning: A comprehensive review of integrating AI with quantum computing for computational advancements [17]
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning in cybersecurity: a deep dive into state-of-the-art techniques and future paradigms [15]
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Early identification of breakthrough technologies: Insights from science-driven innovations [12]
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Catalyst breakthroughs in methane dry reforming: Employing machine learning for future advancements [13]
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👽 Reddit 2

[ECCV 2026] Final Decisions [D] [23]
ECCV 2026 final decisions are expected to be released on June 17, 2026 . Since there was no exact release time specified, results will likely roll out within 48 hours. This thread…
Reddit
Source code for LLMs. [D] [24]
I was digging through Hugging Face’s Transformers repo and found https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/src/transformers/models/gpt_oss/modeling_gpt_oss.py From…
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🔗 All Sources

  1. [1] A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
  2. [2] Track2View: 4D-Consistent Camera-Controlled Video Generation via Paired 3D Point Tracks
  3. [3] ExpRL: Exploratory RL for LLM Mid-Training
  4. [4] Human Universal Grasping
  5. [5] EgoPhys: Learning Generalizable Physics Models of Deformable Objects from Egocentric Video
  6. [6] Unstable Features, Reproducible Subspaces: Understanding Seed Dependence in Sparse…
  7. [7] LaWAM: Latent World Action Models for Efficient Dynamics-Aware Robot Policies
  8. [8] MVEB: Massive Video Embedding Benchmark
  9. [9] Ling and Ring 2.6 Technical Report: Efficient and Instant Agentic Intelligence at…
  10. [10] The Ghosts of Polymarket: When Off-Chain Matches Meet On-Chain Reverts
  11. [11] Prompt-Level Distillation: A Non-Parametric Alternative to Model Fine-Tuning for…
  12. [12] Early identification of breakthrough technologies: Insights from science-driven…
  13. [13] Catalyst breakthroughs in methane dry reforming: Employing machine learning for future…
  14. [14] Large language models (LLM) in computational social science: prospects, current state,…
  15. [15] Artificial intelligence and machine learning in cybersecurity: a deep dive into…
  16. [16] Securing the future: exploring post-quantum cryptography for authentication and user…
  1. [17] Quantum machine learning: A comprehensive review of integrating AI with quantum computing…
  2. [18] Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation
  3. [19] OpenBMB/VoxCPM
  4. [20] alibaba/zvec
  5. [21] rmyndharis/OpenWA
  6. [22] n0-computer/iroh
  7. [23] [ECCV 2026] Final Decisions [D]
  8. [24] Source code for LLMs. [D]
  9. [25] Path Planning for Masked Diffusion Model Sampling
  10. [26] Latent Diffusion Model without Variational Autoencoder
  11. [27] Artificial intelligence using a latent diffusion model enables the generation of diverse…
  12. [28] Diff-Retinex++: Retinex-Driven Reinforced Diffusion Model for Low-Light Image Enhancement
  13. [29] DICEPTION: A Generalist Diffusion Model for Visual Perceptual Tasks
  14. [30] SVD-LLM: Truncation-aware Singular Value Decomposition for Large Language Model…
  15. [31] Diffusion$^2$: Dynamic 3D Content Generation via Score Composition of Video and…
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