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🤗 Upvotes: 47 | cs. CV Authors: Xin Zhou, Zongchuang Zhao, Zhibo Yang, Mingsheng Li, Humen Zhong, Shuai Bai, Du Chu, Ruizhe Chen, Zhaohai Li, Jun Tang, Qiuyue Wang, Mingkun Yang, Jiazhao Zhang, Dayiheng Liu, Dingkang Liang, Xiang Bai Title: Qwen-Drive-1.0: An Initial Step towards a Vision-Language Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00111v1 Abstract: We presen...

🤗 Upvotes: 34 | cs. CV Authors: Xionghao Wu, Yijun Yang, Shiyang Zhou, Haoze Sun, Jianhui Liu, Songsong Yu, Jiyao Zhang, Wenbo Li, Bo Wang, Guoqing Ma, Lin Song, Renjie Liao, Shenghe Zheng, Wei Tang, Xiaojuan Qi, Yanwei Li, Yuan Zhang, Zhuotao Tian, Haoyang Huang, Nan Duan Title: ZimaBlue: Evolving Generalizable World Action Models through Scalable Video Pre-training Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2...

🤗 Upvotes: 26 | cs. CV, cs. AI Authors: Danze Chen, Zeqing Wang, Ziyue Lin, Xingyi Yang, Yeying Jin Title: H3-World: Turning Language Understanding into World Control Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01560v1 Abstract: We present H3-World, an efficient framework that turns the 33B MiniMax-H3 video generator into an interactive world model. Our key finding is that, as large video generators become...

🤗 Upvotes: 22 | cs. CL, cs. IR Authors: Jueun Kim, Sungho Park, Wook-Shin Han Title: Hi-Q: Hierarchical Evidence-guided Query Refinement for Multi-Hop Question Answering Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30468v1 Abstract: A central bottleneck in multi-hop Question Answering (QA) is that the granularity at which a question is expressed often differs from the granularity at which corpus evidence is...

🤗 Upvotes: 64 | cs. CV, cs. SD Authors: Jiashu Zhu, Yanhao Zheng, Ruitian Tian, Rujing Dang, Shen Zhang, Bingze Song, Jiachen Lei, Ruimin Lin, Jiahong Wu, Xiangxiang Chu Title: DreamX-Creator: Democratizing Native Audio-Video Generation at 2K Resolution Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.31106v1 Abstract: Recent video generators often omit audio or synthesize it in a separate stage, limiting recipr...

🤗 Upvotes: 46 | cs. CV Authors: Guangting Zheng, Yiyuan Zhang, Tao Yang, Yunpeng Chen, Rui Zhu, Jiajun Deng, Yanyong Zhang Title: GenFirst: Generation Before Reconstruction for Stable End-to-End Latent Generative Modeling Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29335v1 Abstract: Latent generative models typically follow a two-stage pipeline, training a variational autoencoder for reconstruction and then...

🤗 Upvotes: 38 | cs. CV, cs. AI Authors: Minghan Qin, Yuang Wang, Xiuyu Yang, Yushi Long, Yujian Zhang, Ruihuan Wang, Kai Ye, Yangang Zhang, Hang Li Title: Lucida: Parse, Generate, and Place for Composable Real-to-Sim Scene Modeling Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30821v1 Abstract: Composable scene modeling aims to recover a real indoor scene as complete, editable object assets arranged as observ...

🤗 Upvotes: 36 | cs. LG, cs. CL Authors: Yi Ding, Ruqi Zhang Title: Does On-Policy Distillation Really Distill? From Noisy Teacher to Self-Improvement Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.31046v1 Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) offers dense token-level supervision as an alternative to the sparse outcome-level advantages of reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR). However, the teac...

🤗 Upvotes: 28 | cs. CL Authors: Yuhan Wang, Zhengxi Lu, Yuchen Yan, Kaitao Song, Wenqi Zhang, Weiming Lu, Jun Xiao, Yueting Zhuang, Yongliang Shen Title: PaperGym: Rubric-Centered Evolution for Research-Plan Generation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.31119v1 Abstract: Research planning is the decisive capability of AI scientists. Yet a research plan admits no verifiable answer, so reinforcement...

🤗 Upvotes: 23 | cs. LG Authors: Jiale Kang, Ziyin Yue, Zheng Zhan, Yangyi Huang, Weiyang Liu Title: Normalized Low-Rank Adaptation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.31036v1 Abstract: While low-rank adaptation (LoRA) is widely used for parameter-efficient model adaptation, how to regularize its training dynamics for stable and effective optimization remains underexplored. Because LoRA initializes t...

🤗 Upvotes: 21 | cs. CL, cs. AI Authors: Shangqing Tu, Daniel Zhang-Li, Yucheng Wang, Shiyu Gan, Yanpeng Wang, Huiqiang Rong, Mofei Chen, Shen Yang, Yini Chen, Yinuo Duan, Haoxuan Li, Binglin Liu, Ye He, Danqi Zheng, Zhanxin Hao, Yuxuan Wu, Mengting Tao, Yuqiu Liu, Jifan Yu, Juanzi Li, Bin Xu, Lei Hou, Huiqin Liu, Yu Zhang Title: CogEvol: Towards Efficient and Reliable Learning Environment Generat...

🤗 Upvotes: 112 | cs. AI Authors: Pengfei Zhou, Hexin Wang, Zhengfeiyang Zhang, Yixing Ma, Zhenglin Wan, Kaipeng Zhang, Wangbo Zhao, Yang You Title: Agentic Game Development as a Verifiable Trajectory Data Engine for Scaling World Models Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25518v1 Abstract: A common strategy for scaling world models is to train on more crawled video with more compute. We argue that t...

🤗 Upvotes: 73 | cs. CV, cs. AI Authors: Yuandong Pu, Le Zhuo, Sayak Paul, Gabriel Jorge Menezes, Avram Đorđević, Shiyang Li, Yifan Zhou, Bin Fu, Wenlong Zhang, Junjun He, Yu Qiao, Yihao Liu, Jingbo Xing, Xi Chen Title: PAWBench: How Far Are We from Probabilistically Aligned World Modeling? Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27345v1 Abstract: Recent video generation models are increasingly framed as...

🤗 Upvotes: 56 | cs. CL Authors: Aozhe Wang, Zhengxi Lu, Jianze Wang, Shangke Lv, Ying Liu, Weiming Lu, Jun Xiao, Yueting Zhuang, Hua Yang, Qianglong Chen, Yongliang Shen Title: TTPO: Test-Time Policy Optimization Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27448v1 Abstract: Recent prominent post-training methods, such as Reinforcement Learning (RL) and On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD), have driven rapid p...

🤗 Upvotes: 55 | cs. AI, cs. CL Authors: Xingshan Zeng, Zishan Xu, Boju Zhang, Yuzhou Wu, Lingzhi Wang, Jianghao Lin, Liangyou Li, Yasheng Wang, Lifeng Shang, Xin Jiang, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu, Qun Liu, Weiwen Liu Title: What Makes Good Agentic Data? An ACE Lens on Data Generation for LLM Agents Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27260v1 Abstract: LLM agents increasingly rely on generated interaction...

🤗 Upvotes: 54 | cs. CV Authors: Shiyi Zhang, Mushui Liu, Yunze Tong, Wanggui He, Siyu Zou, Jinlong Liu, Yunlong Yu, Jian Song, Hao Jiang, Pipei Huang, Bo Zheng Title: Self-OPD: On-Policy Distillation for Flow Matching Models without Teacher Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26872v1 Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD), which leverages a pre-trained, specialized teacher model to provide dense sup...

🤗 Upvotes: 51 | cs. CV Authors: Tianjie Ju, Zheng Wu, Yueqing Sun, Yuhan Cui, Bobo Li, Shengqiong Wu, Pengzhou Cheng, Haodong Zhao, Zongru Wu, Xinbei Ma, Doris Zhang, Kunling Li, Mong-Li Lee, Wynne Hsu, Hao Fei, Qi Gu, Gongshen Liu, Zhuosheng Zhang Title: UrbanGround: From Local Perception to Spatial Agency in a Real-Scale City Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27456v1 Abstract: Multimodal large l...

🤗 Upvotes: 41 | cs. CL Authors: TaoLive AIGC LLM Team, Yuhan Sun, Wenhao Lin, Yongdong Luo, Yibo Hu, Meiguang Jin, Junfeng Ma, Weihang Pan, Jiaxin Zhao, Zulong Chen Title: Training Agents to Evolve with Their Harness: TaoLive Digital Avatar Agent Technical Report Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.15763v3 Abstract: AI-powered digital avatar streamers must answer product questions, engage viewers, a...

🤗 Upvotes: 35 | cs. AI, cs. CV, cs. LG Authors: Yuncheng Guo, Zhanqiu Zhang, Yiwen Guo, Weijia Li Title: GameWAM: A World Action Model for Video Games Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26200v1 Abstract: Modern video games combine first-person perception, rapid visual changes, persistent world state, and heterogeneous native controls. Existing game agents map visual and task context directly to act...

🤗 Upvotes: 25 | cs. AI Authors: Yang Xiao, Yusong Sun, Haoyi Wu, Wenyang Hui, Wen Da, Zhaokai Luo, Mu Chuan, Yao Hu, Wenjie Li, Chengyue Jiang Title: PILOT in the Loop: Live Self-Improvement for Long-Horizon Agents Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26530v1 Abstract: Long-horizon agent runs generate experience that can improve both the current run and future work. Most self-improvement methods proc...

🤗 Upvotes: 116 | eess. AS, cs. AI, cs. IR, cs. MM, cs. SD Authors: Zhifei Xie, Jiaqi Lang, Ze An, Yifan Zhao, Dongchao Yang, Kai Li, Ziyang Ma, Mingbao Lin, Chunyan Miao, Shuicheng Yan Title: VoiceMem: Streaming Dual-Brain Memory for Real-Time Interaction Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26005v1 Abstract: Conversational systems, such as duplex speech language models (SLMs), still lack a streaming...

🤗 Upvotes: 115 | cs. AI, cs. CL, cs. SE Authors: Liangcai Su, Zhaopeng Feng, Zhuo Chen, Zhen Zhang, Xiang Lin, Ruilin Li, Handuo Zhang, Ning Wang, Kailong Wen, Yueqi Guo, Feng Xing, Yiling Guo, Chenxiong Qian, Simon Shaolei Du, Lidong Bing, Xinyu Wang Title: FrontierChallenge: Evaluating Scientific Workflow Completion Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24979v1 Abstract: Scientific agents increasing...

🤗 Upvotes: 96 | cs. CV, cs. AI Authors: Xuan He, Cong Wei, Yuhao Cheng, Linrui Ma, Yuxuan Zhang, Zuojun Li, Yuhao Wen, Jize Jiang, Zeyi Liu, Yuren Hao, Songcheng Cai, Keming Wu, Penghui Du, Kai Zou, Rui Yang, Chenkai Sun, Ke Yang, Ping Nie, Kelsey R Allen, Chenglong Wang, Michel Galley, Jianfeng Gao, ChengXiang Zhai Title: VGI-Bench: Probing Visual Intelligence in Video Generation Models Arxiv: h...

🤗 Upvotes: 95 | cs. LG Authors: Zihao Wu, Hongyao Tang, Yi Ma, Huizhong Song, Pengyi Li, Yifu Yuan, Fei Ni, Jinyi Liu, Wei Wei, Jianrong Wang, Yan Zheng, Jianye Hao Title: WarpSAC: Towards the Pinnacle of Scalable Off-policy RL by Rethinking Exploration and Exploitation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24479v1 Abstract: Massively parallel simulation changes the data regime in which off-policy rei...

🤗 Upvotes: 45 | cs. CL, cs. LG Authors: Guibin Zhang, Leo Lu, Fangzhou Xie, Kang Zhu, Junhao Wang, Zhifei Xie, Zhaochen Yu, Zihang Liu, Zhongxiang Sun, Qiankun Li, Yue Liao, Heng Chang, Xiaobin Hu, Qibing Ren, Wangchunshu Zhou, Shuicheng Yan Title: JIT-Agent: Scaling Harness Intelligence via Just-in-Time Harness Evolution Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25593v1 Abstract: Agent capability is not...