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195 posts tagged ai-research.

  • AutoScaffold trains models with hints, then removes the hints Nov 11, 2026
  • B3 speeds up diffusion language models by overlapping the slow part Nov 11, 2026
  • Contrastive Discovery: Why Science Agents Should Weigh Rival Explanations, Not Just Reject One Nov 11, 2026
  • HiVe-Mem and the Case for Two-Dimensional Agent Memory Nov 10, 2026
  • MaxIM treats agent memory as a trained compression problem Nov 10, 2026
  • A Generalist Model Beat Specialist Robot Policies Without a Single Demo Nov 9, 2026
  • FiLSim pushes graph similarity past toy graphs Nov 9, 2026
  • FlowAlign treats alignment as target-space geometry, not just matching pairs Nov 9, 2026
  • FP4 KV Cache Done Right: What BitDecoding-FP4 Changes for Long-Context Serving Nov 9, 2026
  • Grasp-TAGS picks the grasp before the robot commits Nov 9, 2026
  • Protein model steering still breaks at the decoder Nov 9, 2026
  • What Microsoft Shutting Down AI Frontiers Says About Industrial Research Nov 8, 2026
  • What 'AI accelerating AI research' actually looks like inside a lab Nov 7, 2026
  • Does Looking Inside a Model Actually Make It Safer? Nov 6, 2026
  • MAEMs turn residual stream directions into testable text Nov 6, 2026
  • MedGraph treats medical memory as patient state, not chat history Nov 6, 2026
  • Scientist World Turns Research Papers Into Runnable Environments Nov 6, 2026
  • Animal ID Models Need Evidence, Not Just Retrieval Scores Nov 5, 2026
  • HALO Trains Humanoids in a Thousand Simulated Homes, Then Ships to the Real One Nov 5, 2026
  • Richer Context Does Not Automatically Fix LLM Social Agents Nov 5, 2026
  • A2ODA is a small optimizer idea with a practical training lesson Nov 4, 2026
  • Cognitive symbionts shift the agent question back to the human Nov 4, 2026
  • Fixed Personas Break on Context in Synthetic User Tests Nov 4, 2026
  • LoopVQ and the Hidden Memory Cost of Looped Transformers Nov 4, 2026
  • Monofacts may be the data ingredient behind AI scientific discovery Nov 3, 2026
  • Why VLM robot reward models hallucinate progress, and a prompt fix that works Nov 3, 2026
  • KLM Wants AI to Show Its Evidence. Its Own Negative Results Show Why That's Hard. Nov 2, 2026
  • When the Chain of Thought Doesn't Actually Drive the Answer Nov 2, 2026
  • Zyphra's tree-structured attention aims at million-token-plus context Nov 2, 2026
  • Factorio Peaceful Mode Is a Useful Agent Test, Not a Finish Line Nov 1, 2026
  • AI clutter suppression makes 5G sensing less brittle Oct 30, 2026
  • Neural Thickets May Be an Inference Trick, Not a Weight-Space Discovery Oct 30, 2026
  • SpecSlot splits image tokens by what needs global attention Oct 30, 2026
  • TextSeal2 keeps watermarks alive under speculative decoding Oct 30, 2026
  • The Economics of Proactive AI: When a Single 1B Decoder Beats a Two-Model Pipeline Oct 30, 2026
  • Project ProtoStar puts the boring data layer under science AI Oct 29, 2026
  • GAS-PFN brings road topology into zero-shot traffic forecasting Oct 28, 2026
  • Hexels push 3D reconstruction toward fewer primitives Oct 28, 2026
  • Latent world models are passing tasks without learning the world Oct 28, 2026
  • MuonGS relaxes weight-norm control without giving up training speed Oct 28, 2026
  • What LongChang's Altered-Physics Test Reveals About LLM Curiosity Oct 28, 2026
  • Wilson loops give relational attention a harder rule Oct 28, 2026
  • Clinical notes as an early warning layer for hospital mental health risk Oct 27, 2026
  • dSpark and the Order Problem in Diffusion Language Models Oct 27, 2026
  • FLORE shows why humanoids need force, not just motion Oct 27, 2026
  • OpenAI’s science claims need verification, not applause Oct 27, 2026
  • Reading Evolution Strategies as a Center of Mass, Not a Gradient Oct 27, 2026
  • AdaBPE makes tokenization care about LaTeX Oct 26, 2026
  • DexPort makes robot hand data collection less robotic Oct 26, 2026
  • SemantEq makes formal-math evals less easy to game Oct 26, 2026
  • When an LLM's 'True' and 'False' Don't Sum to One Oct 26, 2026
  • CausalCoT treats chain-of-thought as a dependency graph Oct 23, 2026
  • Pruning reasoning candidates by optimizing pass@k directly Oct 23, 2026
  • Adaptive Depth in Recommenders: What LoopRec Changes Oct 22, 2026
  • BatchBench puts biomedical vision models through the real failure mode Oct 22, 2026
  • Quant-Arena Tests Whether LLMs Can Actually Build Trading Strategies Oct 22, 2026
  • Sparse RLHF makes private preference data less impossible Oct 22, 2026
  • Why the Best Solver Model Is Rarely the Best Environment Author Oct 22, 2026
  • Adaptive MTP makes speculative decoding less wasteful Oct 21, 2026
  • NVIDIA’s JCA turns generated video into rig motion Oct 21, 2026
  • The Teacher That Scores Worse Than It Plays: Fixing Agentic Distillation Oct 21, 2026
  • What Arabic Dialect Math Problems Reveal About Model Reasoning Oct 21, 2026
  • AfriBED makes speech bias measurable in Bemba and Nyanja Oct 20, 2026
  • WeAct Turns LoRA Adapters Into Something an Agent Can Pick Mid-Task Oct 20, 2026
  • An AI Agent That Reproduces Cancer Studies and Checks Where They Wobble Oct 19, 2026
  • Pixel diffusion gets a smarter prediction target Oct 19, 2026
  • LeanGraphSearch makes theorem provers follow the proof graph Oct 17, 2026
  • PathFM Treats Forecasts as Paths, Not Quantile Spreads Oct 17, 2026
  • Indic pretraining is becoming a data pipeline problem Oct 16, 2026
  • MLExpert and the Case for Training Agents on Whole Experiments, Not Single Turns Oct 16, 2026
  • OpenAI’s GPT-Rosalind plan puts life-science AI inside academic labs Oct 16, 2026
  • Google DeepMind’s audit separates code volume from research speed Oct 15, 2026
  • HiRe-MoMa fine-tunes robots by correcting policies instead of replacing them Oct 15, 2026
  • PerSo splits persuasion into reading people and choosing the next move Oct 15, 2026
  • The Case for Making Research Agents Forget Their History Oct 15, 2026
  • When Renaming a Tool Breaks Your Agent: What CIPR Fixes Oct 15, 2026
  • DoubtLess uses a small model to make a big one stop overthinking Oct 14, 2026
  • Temperature Should Read the Room Oct 14, 2026
  • AI Cancer Claims Need Milestones, Not Cigarette Theater Oct 13, 2026
  • Can vision-language models actually spot persuasion in memes? Oct 12, 2026
  • Reading 4,000 Comic Books at Once: What the PAGE Framework Actually Does Oct 12, 2026
  • Tabular regression still punishes lazy early stopping Oct 12, 2026
  • The Same Attention Head Does Different Jobs Depending on the Task Oct 12, 2026
  • Tool retrieval should know when the tool is broken Oct 12, 2026
  • SGUID says most skills are not worth distilling Oct 10, 2026
  • Tokenizer compression is not the same as multilingual quality Oct 10, 2026
  • ViSkill and the case for keeping agent memory visual Oct 10, 2026
  • What SpaceCast-Bench reveals about the gap between seeing space and predicting it Oct 10, 2026
  • When One Input Has Many Right Answers: Bi-FORK and the Bifurcation Problem in ML Surrogates Oct 9, 2026
  • Multi-teacher distillation should copy the delta, not the whole teacher Oct 8, 2026
  • OpenAI’s withdrawn math results are a reminder that AI math needs audit trails Oct 8, 2026
  • Robot policies break on synonyms, not just scenes Oct 8, 2026
  • Scoring LLMs When There Is No Right Answer: A Lesson From Survey Economics Oct 8, 2026
  • The Explorer and the Student: How ExpDis Splits RL Into Two Jobs Oct 8, 2026
  • When a hallucination enters the context, can the model talk itself out of it? Oct 8, 2026
  • IdeaAnchor Trains Models on the Shape of Research Ideas Oct 7, 2026
  • OpenAI's Math Proofs on GitHub: What the Lean Files Actually Show Oct 7, 2026
  • Recommendation systems need a throttle, not just a better ranker Oct 7, 2026
  • CLIFT turns web-agent judging into reusable verification Oct 6, 2026
  • Diffusion models may be sketching meaning before pixels Oct 6, 2026
  • Robot agents need indexed video memory, not bigger prompts Oct 6, 2026
  • The First Word a Model Writes Decides How Well It Reasons Oct 6, 2026
  • Running Anomaly Detection on the Satellite Instead of the Ground Oct 5, 2026
  • FERPO avoids action-gradient trust in continuous-control RL Oct 2, 2026
  • GALA makes Gaussian avatars lighter by distilling animation into shared blendshapes Oct 2, 2026
  • ScholarCatalyst: When Agentic Search Can't Beat a Plain Embedding Oct 2, 2026
  • SILSA compresses 3D generation by slicing the shape, not voxelizing everything Oct 2, 2026
  • Source learning makes RAG less forgetful Oct 2, 2026
  • What HC-DLM Fixes About Diffusion Language Models Oct 2, 2026
  • Looped Mixture of Experts: Two Efficiency Tricks That Finally Stack Oct 1, 2026
  • MatLoom makes generated materials editable, not just pretty Oct 1, 2026
  • The multilingual loophole in LLM unlearning Oct 1, 2026
  • When the Prompt's Phrasing Changes the Answer: SCAPO and Token-Level Credit in RLVR Oct 1, 2026
  • Wild AI Web Text Is Starting to Poison Pretraining Oct 1, 2026
  • Grounded Entity Biographies: A Different Fix for Long-Video Memory Sep 30, 2026
  • NoPE attention is not position-blind if local layers carry recency Sep 30, 2026
  • Not All Quantization Errors Are Equal: STEPQuant and the Memory Cost of Linear Attention Sep 30, 2026
  • Foil's Recipe for Looped MoE: Flatten the Experts, Untie the Attention Sep 29, 2026
  • For Linear ViTs, copy the MLP and distill the attention Sep 29, 2026
  • One uncertainty layer for graph neural networks Sep 29, 2026
  • Flow matching gives neural dissimilarity metrics one common frame Sep 28, 2026
  • Teaching a Reasoning Model to Know When It's Sure Cuts Its Token Bill Sep 28, 2026
  • What LLMs Miss About Haitian Creole, and Why Low-Resource Culture Breaks Evals Sep 28, 2026
  • Conspiracy Detection Needs Context, Not Just Better Keywords Sep 25, 2026
  • ExplorationBench and the Gap Between Recall and Real Discovery Sep 25, 2026
  • MISVO steers frozen language models at inference time Sep 25, 2026
  • Authorship verification works better as similarity, not classification Sep 24, 2026
  • Clifford-VAE puts pixels into symbolic memory space Sep 24, 2026
  • When a Model Gets Math Right but Reads the Same Problem Differently Sep 24, 2026
  • A Small Model That Steers a Bigger One's Reasoning Sep 23, 2026
  • Long-context models can miss the answer sitting behind nearby noise Sep 23, 2026
  • OOD generalization depends on exact mechanisms, not better fits Sep 22, 2026
  • Membership Inference Gets an Entropy Correction: Reading the ETD Paper Sep 21, 2026
  • OpenAI’s math advisory group is about claim control Sep 21, 2026
  • Softmax attention needs an off switch Sep 21, 2026
  • Decontamination reports are a promise, not a proof: the case for evaluation-side benchmarks Sep 20, 2026
  • A cipher win is not an eval without the working Sep 19, 2026
  • ComPO and the Case Against Optimizing the Loss You Wrote Down Sep 17, 2026
  • Double descent as an implicit regularization story Sep 17, 2026
  • Probabilistic Linear Explanations make interpretability more honest Sep 17, 2026
  • What Actually Makes a Tokeniser Good: Search Beats Objective Sep 17, 2026
  • When Rewording the Answer Key Reshuffles the Leaderboard Sep 17, 2026
  • Fuse tests the weak spot in AI social advice Sep 16, 2026
  • LACE compresses speech tokens one codec layer at a time Sep 16, 2026
  • ScienceBuddy and the case for training the harness before the model Sep 16, 2026
  • Bellman Policy Optimization cuts one moving part from RLVR Sep 15, 2026
  • LLM personas fail when opinions have to change Sep 15, 2026
  • OptiFlow treats offline RL policy learning as sample matching Sep 15, 2026
  • Slip Detection Is Where Robot Hands Stop Dropping Things Sep 15, 2026
  • The Skill Router You Already Have: Gavel Reads Routing From a Frozen LLM Sep 15, 2026
  • AI math systems are still optimizing for the wrong proof Sep 12, 2026
  • Conversational XAI works best when it is a control surface, not a chatbot Sep 11, 2026
  • CRISPR screens need learned experiment pickers, not bigger chatbots Sep 11, 2026
  • DataShifts turns distribution shift into an error-budget problem Sep 11, 2026
  • MindTopo Tests Whether Vision Models Grasp Topology, Not Just Distances Sep 11, 2026
  • Recursive Self-Improvement Has a Roadmap Now, and Most of It Isn't Built Sep 11, 2026
  • ConvMem Turns Long-Context Reasoning Into a Tree Instead of a Chain Sep 10, 2026
  • Geometry reasoning gets better when the model is not doing every job Sep 10, 2026
  • OpenAI training-data accusations need a provenance test Sep 10, 2026
  • SG-JEPA points world models at the encoder, not the simulator Sep 10, 2026
  • NOAH models patient records as timelines, not snapshots Sep 9, 2026
  • Procedural Graphs give agents a memory of what to do, not just what happened Sep 9, 2026
  • AlphaGenome Atlas turns genome variants into an AI lookup layer Sep 8, 2026
  • OpenAI Says Its Own Researchers Now Lean on Coding Agents. What Does the Data Actually Show? Sep 6, 2026
  • Claude, Fermat, and the real value of machine-checkable proofs Sep 5, 2026
  • Auxiliary views explain why diverse pre-training data works Sep 4, 2026
  • Verbal reinforcement learning is a feedback routing problem Sep 2, 2026
  • SWE-Prime argues coding agents need cleaner wins, not more wins Aug 28, 2026
  • WikiSkill and the Case for Giving Agents a Memory That Compounds Aug 28, 2026
  • Anatomy-informed networks put clinical constraints before more data Aug 24, 2026
  • Agent memory works better when skills are small and written in text Aug 21, 2026
  • AlphaEvolve nudges the matrix multiplication exponent lower Aug 18, 2026
  • AutoSR turns symbolic regression into a research-state search Aug 18, 2026
  • PIHF turns prompts into a versioned policy layer Aug 18, 2026
  • YOPO makes abstention cheaper by reading the model before it lies Aug 17, 2026
  • Alignment baked into pretraining, not bolted on later Aug 14, 2026
  • AutoDesign turns paper-to-poster into a harness the agent rewrites itself Aug 14, 2026
  • LLMs Know When to Back Off, But Still Guess Too Specifically Aug 14, 2026
  • OmniScientist argues that AI scientists need eyes, not just workflows Aug 14, 2026
  • CLAUDE.md bloat is a memory problem, not a prompt problem Aug 12, 2026
  • Concise answers can weaken reasoning in fused LLM training Aug 11, 2026
  • Two prepared policies may be the sweet spot for uncertain MDPs Aug 4, 2026
  • AI research agents can code, but they still can’t judge the work Jul 30, 2026
  • The Automation Ceiling Nobody Prices In: When Human Participation Is the Product Jul 24, 2026
  • No Best Harness: Automated Discovery Systems Fail to Generalize Jul 21, 2026
  • Uncertainty metrics should follow the loss, not the other way around Jul 17, 2026
  • Vision models are getting the scene right, but not always the gaze Jul 13, 2026
  • Leanstral 1.5 points at proofs as a workflow, not a stunt Jul 11, 2026
  • DiaLLM separates dialect understanding from dialect writing Jul 9, 2026
  • Language critiques are a better training signal than a score, if you can afford them Jul 2, 2026
  • LLMs brainstorm like synthesis machines, not researchers Jul 2, 2026
  • TraceLab shows coding agents are an infrastructure workload now Jun 30, 2026
  • Google's Paper Assistant Wants to Catch Your Math Errors Before a Reviewer Does Jun 29, 2026
  • Nash solvers have preferences when the value is identical Jun 29, 2026
  • AI math is less about genius than verification Jun 27, 2026

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