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🤗 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...

🤗 Upvotes: 26 | cs. CL, cs. AI Authors: Yingpeng Ma, Jianhao Yan, Bei Shi, Ka Hou Kam, Runnan Wang, Xuebo Liu, Yulong Chen, Yue Zhang, Derek F. Wong Title: Can LLM Agents Stick to the Script? A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Consistency in Interactive Narratives Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08160v1 Abstract: The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) is revolutionizing AI for Games by...

🤗 Upvotes: 23 | cs. CV Authors: Yuyang Yin, Zixiang Li, Longxuan Deng, Hongkai Li, Shifang Zhao, Junnan Liu, Weirong Huang, Mengyu Wang, Tianxiao Fu, Yikai Wang, Peng-Shuai Wang, Xiaojie Jin, Yao Zhao, Yunchao Wei Title: StateFlow: Building, Evolving, and Accessing 3D World States for Previsualization Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12314v1 Abstract: Previsualization is an intermediate layer bet...

🤗 Upvotes: 175 | cs. AI Authors: Qianggang Ding, Xingyao Wang, Rui Feng, Zhibin Wang, Feixiang Yao, Kelong Mao, Hao Sun, Zhiyao Luo, Jiankai Tang, Lei Li, Jiadong Guo, Minheng Ni, Weicong Lin, Chenxi Yang, Hongxiang Gao, Zhenghua Chen, Yang Bai, Min Wu, Jun Cheng, Huazhu Fu, Dacheng Tao, Bang Liu Title: ComBodied Agents: a New Paradigm of Human-Centric Agentic AI Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608....

🤗 Upvotes: 120 | cs. CL Authors: Qing Zong, Jiayu Liu, Junhao Shen, Zecong Tang, Linsi Wu, Yuxuan Liu, Rui Wang, Zhaowei Wang, Weiqi Wang, Cheng Qian, Xiusi Chen, Yangqiu Song Title: Co-Evolution in Agentic Systems: Toward Self-Directed Evolution Beyond Human Design Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10299v1 Abstract: Agentic systems are increasingly expected to improve after deployment, yet single...

🤗 Upvotes: 108 | cs. CV Authors: Zihao Liu, Xiaolong Shen, Zhenglin Zhou, Ruijie Quan, Yi Yang Title: Beyond Pixels: From Video Priors to 4D Worlds Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10744v1 Abstract: 4D generation synthesizes dynamic 3D scenes from conditions such as text or images. Existing methods either reconstruct generated RGB videos with a separate 4D model or adapt a particular video genera...

🤗 Upvotes: 40 | cs. CV, cs. RO Authors: Daeun Lee, Jaeah Lee, Woosung Kim, Haebeom Jung, Jaesik Park Title: Articulated Object Reconstruction from Rest-State Observation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27749v1 Abstract: Building interactive digital twins requires recovering both 3D geometry and the kinematic structures that govern how objects articulate. Yet existing methods for articulated obje...

🤗 Upvotes: 23 | cs. CV Authors: Mingju Gao, Jingkai Zhou, Kun Gai, Changqian Yu, Hao Tang Title: AdvFD: Boosting Visual Generation via Adversarial Fr'echet Distance Loss Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11205v1 Abstract: Fr\'echet distance has recently emerged as an effective distribution-level objective for generator post-training, complementing the conventional sample-level diffusion and flow-m...

🤗 Upvotes: 22 | cs. AI, cs. LG Authors: Changzhi Liu, Yilun Liu, Sikuan Yan, Volker Tresp, Yunpu Ma Title: Mendel G\"odel Machine: Recursive Self-Improving Coding Agents via Comparative Evolution Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07645v1 Abstract: Self-improving coding agents that iteratively rewrite their own source code have demonstrated impressive performance on coding tasks. However, existing...

🤗 Upvotes: 277 | cs. LG, cs. CL Authors: Mind Lab, :, Vin Bo, Asher Cai, Jingwei Cao, Song Cao, Vic Cao, Amelia Chen, Andrew Chen, Kaijie Chen, Cleon Cheng, Steven Chiang, Kaixuan Fan, Hera Feng, Huan Feng, Arthur Fu, Jun Gao, Pyke Han, Nolan Ho, Ori Hong, Hailee Hou, Piers Hua, Charles Huang, Miles Jiang, Nora Jiang, Yuyi Jiang, Qiuyu Jin, Fancy Kong, Kuss Koo, Jaron Lee, Andrew Lei, Alexy Li, D...

🤗 Upvotes: 253 | cs. NE, cs. AI, cs. LG, stat. ML Authors: Björn Engdahl, Adrian Kosowski, Jan Chorowski, Zuzanna Stamirowska, Przemysław Uznański, Junlin Jiang, Rohan Phadke, Remigiusz Kinas, Richard Zhong Title: BDH-CQ: In-Context Learning with Recurrent Latent Reasoning Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09888v1 Abstract: We introduce BDH-CQ, a reasoning model that combines in-context learning w...