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🤗 Upvotes: 32 | cs. CV, cs. AI, cs. LG, cs. MM, cs. RO Authors: Junxiang Xu, Ruisi Wang, Fanyi Pu, Maijunxian Wang, Ran Ji, Tongxi Zhou, Chenyang Gu, Jing Zuo, Hongcan Xiao, Yimeng Geng, Wanqi Yin, Wei Chen, Oscar Qian, Zhengan Yan, Ziqi Huang, Haiwen Diao, Liang Pan, Bo Li, Xiangyu Fan, Dezhi Luo, Fengyuan Yu, Zehong Zhao, Qingying Gao, Tinghui Zhu, Yilan Zhang, Jingqi Tong, Pinyuan Feng, Zhengz...

🤗 Upvotes: 22 | cs. IR, cs. AI Authors: Bin Dou, Junru Zhang, Zhaoyi Yuan, Wuliang Huang, Letian Gong, Baokun Wang, Huan Li, Yu Cheng, Weiqiang Wang Title: Towards a Densing Law for User Representation Learning at Billion-Scale Capacity Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23392v1 Abstract: User representation learning in real-world industrial scenarios is commonly scaled by increasing user amount, b...

🤗 Upvotes: 22 | cs. CV Authors: Xinming Wang, Weinong Wang, Hongming Yang, Yansong Lin, Zheng Ruan, Shangpin Peng, Qiming Peng, Nan Qiao, Fengyuan Lu, Guoqing Ma, Marito Li, Songyang Zhang, Saiyong Yang, Han Hu, Yonglong Tian, Xu-Yao Zhang Title: Beyond Correctness: Benchmarking and Aligning Response Behaviors in Hybrid-Thinking MLLMs Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12781v2 Abstract: Hybrid-thin...

🤗 Upvotes: 26 | cs. CV Authors: Dengyang Jiang, Ruoyi Du, Zhennan Chen, Dongyang Liu, Zanyi Wang, Mingzhe Zheng, Xiangpeng Yang, Huanqia Cai, Aiming Hao, Yuming Jiang, Peng Gao, Harry Yang, Steven Hoi Title: An Empirical Study of Training Pixel-Space Text-to-Image Diffusion Models Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16887v1 Abstract: This paper investigates an increasingly important topic in generat...

🤗 Upvotes: 24 | cs. DB, cs. AI, cs. CL, cs. LG Authors: Zhaoyan Sun, Xiaoxiao Wang, Guoliang Li Title: Agentic Transaction: Towards ACID-Compliant Agent Systems Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13900v1 Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are evolving from conversational assistants into autonomous systems that execute long-horizon tasks through reasoning, tool use, code generation, and wor...

🤗 Upvotes: 260 | cs. CV, cs. AI Authors: Shuo Liang, Yixing Ma, Pengfei Zhou, Zhenglin Wan, Xingyan Chen, Zihan Mei, Manting Li, Feihan Chen, Zhiwen Wang, Bin Xu, Haotian Zhang, Jiajun Song, Shiya Su, Run Liu, Zhenghang Ni, Yifa Yu, Jintao Hong, Bolong Feng, Yifei Liu, Zirui Zhang, Jingxuan Zhang, Songlin Zhao, Yifan Bai, Kang Tan, Yizhe Liu, Junhao Du, Yongtao Ge, Zhaopan Xv, Xinyuan Zhang, Meng...

🤗 Upvotes: 149 | cs. CV, cs. AI Authors: Yijiang Li, Yijun Liang, Yunjie Tian, Bingyang Wang, Ke Zhang, Zhenfei Yin, Di Fu, Philip Torr, Nuno Vasconcelos Title: Self-Supervised Visual On-Policy Distillation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14144v1 Abstract: Visual on-policy distillation relies heavily on an informative teacher-student asymmetry, through either a larger, stronger teacher or privil...

🤗 Upvotes: 43 | cs. AI Authors: Yiwei Li, Wanli Yang, Hexiang Tan, Xiangzhou Huang, Zhengyu Chen, Ziran Li, Borun Chen, Shanglin Lei, Huaisheng Zhu, Hao Tian, Fei Sun, Xunliang Cai, Jingang Wang Title: Beyond Final Scores: A Systematic Evaluation of Agents for Long-Horizon AI Research and Development Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13417v1 Abstract: Autonomous agents are increasingly capable of...

🤗 Upvotes: 31 | cs. AI Authors: Kai Chen, Jifeng Ding, Ning Ding, Jiaye Ge, Lixin Gu, Yicheng Gu, Qipeng Guo, Ermo Hua, Haian Huang, Haozheng Hou, Jie Hou, Xiangyu Hong, Che Jiang, Minxi Jin, Cheng Liang, Dahua Lin, Dawei Liu, Kuikun Liu, Chengqi Lv, Haijun Lv, Han Lv, Ningsheng Ma, Biqing Qi, Jianmin Qian, Shiya Su, Youbang Sun, Huanze Tang, Zhongbo Tian, Hanjing Wang, Rui Wang, Ting Wang, Yi Wa...

🤗 Upvotes: 28 | cs. AI Authors: Brian Wang, Bin Feng, Xiaoman Pan, Chenyang An, Felix Liu, Tangqi Fang, Gongbo Sun, Lingfeng Shen, Ning Wang, Handuo Zhang, Feng Chen, Fuchao Yang, Xiang Wang, Jiacheng Lin, Siting Li, Zixuan Liu, Chi Han, Zhenhailong Wang, Kunlun Zhu, Lawrence Zhao, Yueqi Guo, Kailong Wen, Feng Xing, Yiling Guo, Lidong Bing, David Tan, Bo An, Heng Ji, Sheng Wang Title: Apodex Disc...

🤗 Upvotes: 23 | cs. CV, cs. AI Authors: Zian Meng, Zhen Li, Chuanhao Li, Qiang Li, Kaipeng Zhang Title: Marionette: Predicting World States, Rendering Geometry, Painting Appearance Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14530v1 Abstract: Interactive game world models typically autoregress visual observations directly in pixel or latent space, forcing structured properties such as pose, geometry, and oc...

🤗 Upvotes: 21 | cs. CL, cs. AI Authors: Peter Schneider-Kamp, Jacob Nielsen, Gianluca Barmina, Kenneth Enevoldsen, Lukas Galke Poech Title: DFM Mimir v1: An Open HRM Delivering Frontier Performance at 1B Parameters Using Only Permissible Post-Training Data Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13517v1 Abstract: Current large language model development relies on massive, often non-permissible datasets,...

🤗 Upvotes: 82 | cs. CV Authors: Yuanyang Yin, Gongxuan Wang, Yifan Zhan, Chuanhao Li, Kaipeng Zhang, Feng Zhao Title: Alaya-EVOKE: From Linear-Scaling Supervision to Endless World Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13546v1 Abstract: Interactive world models must support persistent memory, responsive interaction, and long-horizon generation, yet these requirements place conflicting demands on the mo...

🤗 Upvotes: 79 | cs. CV, cs. RO Authors: DreamX Team, Rui Chen, Xiangxiang Chu, Geng Li, Jifan Li, Qingfeng Shi, Datao Tang, Jing Tang, Jun Wang, Pengfei Zhang Title: DreamX-Phi 1.0: Action-Conditioned Video World Model for Robotic Manipulation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13489v1 Abstract: We present \textbf{DreamX-Phi 1.0}, an action-conditioned video world model for robotic manipulation tha...

🤗 Upvotes: 59 | cs. NE, cs. AI, cs. LG, cs. SE Authors: Yifan Zhang, Yutong Dai, Juntao Tan, Luyu Yang, Rishi Mullur, Thai Hoang, Zhiyuan Hu, James Zhu, Phil Mui, Silvio Savarese, Ran Xu, Zeyuan Chen Title: DarwinX: Evolving Agent Harnesses Through Natural Selection Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07545v1 Abstract: An LLM agent's capability depends not only on model weights but on its harness: p...

🤗 Upvotes: 43 | cs. LG, cs. CL, cs. CV Authors: Lei Bai, Jiaqi Cao, Chiyu Chen, Guanzhou Chen, Kai Chen, Guangran Cheng, Erfei Cui, Xuanlang Dai, Shengyuan Ding, Shangheng Du, Yanhui Duan, Yue Fan, Youqing Fang, Quan Gan, Yuanyuan Gao, Jiaye Ge, Lixin Gu, Yuzhe Gu, Qipeng Guo, Junjun He, Xin Hong, Ming Hu, Zhouqi Hua, Haian Huang, Junhao Huang, Zixian Huang, Minxi Jin, Lingkai Kong, Alexander Lam...

🤗 Upvotes: 39 | cs. CL, cs. AI Authors: Ming Li, Chenguang Wang, Xirui Li, Xinyue Zeng, Dianqi Li, Peng Shi, Dawei Zhou, Tianyi Zhou Title: How Can Rhetoric Reward-Hack AI Reviewers? Dissecting Rhetorical Sensitivity in AI-Based Peer Review Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08975v1 Abstract: As large language models increasingly participate in scientific evaluation, we investigate a potential form...

🤗 Upvotes: 33 | cs. CV Authors: Kaixin Ding, Xi Chen, Minghong Cai, Zhiyuan Xu, Yiyang Wang, Yuxiang Lu, Junyi Li, Shuyang Chen, Yuan Gao, Xin Tao, Pengfei Wan, Hengshuang Zhao Title: PlayWorld: Benchmarking World Models with Agent Players over Long-Horizon Objectives Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13552v1 Abstract: Video world models simulate future states conditioned on current observations a...

🤗 Upvotes: 32 | cs. CV, cs. AI, cs. CL Authors: Yaxin Luo, Haobin Jiang, Jialv Zou, Xu Huang, Wenhao Yan, Haodong Li, Zhengrong Yue, Jing Li, Xiaofu Chen, Xiaohan Zhao, Jiacheng Liu, Jiacheng Cui, Zhiqiang Shen, Xiaotong Li Title: AutoDesign: Meta-Harness Optimization for Long-Horizon Agentic Design Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13560v1 Abstract: Transforming multimodal sources into condensed...

🤗 Upvotes: 29 | cs. AI Authors: Haokai Zhang, Yuhang Ding, Yunshu Zhou, Xinze Du, Shengtao Zhang, Zhiyue Zhao, Yuling Xi, Hao Chen Title: Spatial Memory Agent: Experience-Grounded Procedure Memory for Spatial Intelligence Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12743v1 Abstract: Spatial intelligence is becoming a foundation for embodied agents, robotic planning, and multimodal assistants. To improve the...

🤗 Upvotes: 216 | cs. CL Authors: Yunhao Chen, Xin Wang, Yixu Wang, Yi Liu, Jie Li, Yan Teng, Xingjun Ma, Xia Hu, Yu-Gang Jiang Title: OpenART: Scaling Agent Red Teaming via Open-Ended Environment Evolution Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00677v1 Abstract: AI agents operate in persistent environments where early state changes can influence decisions far into the future. Unlike conventional langua...

🤗 Upvotes: 211 | cs. CL Authors: Zhuoyang Qian, Biao Wu, Yiran Wang, Chris D Yan, Desan Dai, Liangwei Zheng, Jin Jiang, Junsheng Zhang, Wenhao Wang Title: Spark-to-Paper: End-to-End Research Paper Generation as a Composable Skill Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11924v1 Abstract: Turning a research idea into a complete paper requires more than text generation: the system must retrieve literature,...

🤗 Upvotes: 101 | cs. LG, cs. AI, cs. CL Authors: Cheng Qian, Wenting Zhao, Liangwei Yang, Heng Wang, Jielin Qiu, Heng Ji, Silvio Savarese, Huan Wang, Shelby Heinecke Title: AI4AI at Test-Time: Strong-to-Weak Capability Transfer via Harnesses Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12307v1 Abstract: Recent work on distillation transfers the capabilities of large models to smaller ones often by updating t...

🤗 Upvotes: 76 | cs. AI, cs. CL, cs. HC, cs. LG, cs. MA Authors: Mengru Wang, Junfeng Fang, Shuofei Qiao, Zhenqian Xu, Haoming Xu, Haoxiong Wang, Shumin Deng, Linyi Yang, Zhixiang Cui, Xin Xu, Yunzhi Yao, Buqiang Xu, Fei Shen, Haozhe Luo, Yunxiang Wei, Ningyu Zhang, Julian McAuley, Tat Seng Chua, Huajun Chen Title: Mechanist: AI as a Scientific Instrument for Discovering the Mechanisms of Intellig...

🤗 Upvotes: 73 | cs. CL, cs. AI Authors: Xingyu Tan, Xiaoyang Wang, Qing Liu, Xiwei Xu, Xin Yuan, Liming Zhu, Wenjie Zhang Title: SkillZip: Contract-Preserving Graph Compression for Scalable Agent Skill Libraries Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05604v1 Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly act as agents whose procedural knowledge is stored in reusable skill packages and loaded at in...