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🤗 Upvotes: 43 | cs. CV, cs. LG, cs. MM Authors: Junlin Han, Shengbang Tong, David Fan, Minghao Chen, Philip Torr, Filippos Kokkinos, Mike Lewis Title: Towards Physics of Multimodal Pretraining: Knowledge Flow, Modality Synergy, Early Unification, and Recipes Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05000v1 Abstract: Vision offers a critical axis for advancing foundation models, driving a shift towards na...

🤗 Upvotes: 21 | cs. RO Authors: Ye Wang, Pei Lin, Xiong-Hui Chen, Haoqi Yuan, Zhixuan Liang, Yiyang Huang, Anzhe Chen, Zixing Lei, Jie Zhang, Tao Zhang, Haoyang Li, Tong Zhang, Chenxi Xiao, Ziyuan Jiao, Qin Jin Title: Ego2Robot: Scalable Robot Data Synthesis from Egocentric Human Data Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02580v1 Abstract: Learning generalizable robot manipulation policies requires la...

🤗 Upvotes: 89 | cs. AI Authors: Qiming Shi, Yulong Tao, Linbo Jin, Zhaolu Kang, Yibo Dou, Jiawen Zhu, Tianjun Pan, Shaokang Fu, Chengyu Wang, Siyue Li, Yaping Cheng, Di Weng, Chengfu Huo Title: MerchantBench: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Long-Term Coherence in E-Commerce Operations Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28956v2 Abstract: Large language model agents are increasingly evaluated as autonomo...

🤗 Upvotes: 79 | cs. CV Authors: Yicheng Xiao, Wenxun Dai, Xinran Qin, Lin Song, Maoquan Zhang, Hang Xu, Yukang Chen, Yitong Li, Guohui Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Xuying Zhang, Tommy Zhang, Jianlong Yuan, Peihao Li, Shuai Lu, Siming Fu, Chuyang Zhao, Xin Han, Jie Huang, Wenbo Li, Guoqing Ma, Wei Huang, Xiaojuan Qi, Haoyang Huang, Nan Duan Title: JoyAI-Video-Edit: Real-Time Open-Ended Video Editing with Au...

🤗 Upvotes: 74 | cs. CL Authors: Jiajun Liang, Yucheng Liao, Yukang Cao, Jiazhe Wei, Ken Li, Wende Tan, Jiankun Zhang, ZY Cui, Jingkang Yang, Liucheng Guo, Shiqi Yang, B. Yang, Caifeng Shan, Ziwei Liu, Chenyang Si Title: AURORA-LM: Autoencoding Unified Representation for Continuous-Latent Diffusion Language Modeling Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02602v1 Abstract: Language remains an outlier in...

🤗 Upvotes: 45 | cs. CV, cs. AI Authors: Zhen Fang, Yu Zeng, Wenxuan Huang, Yiming Zhao, Shiting Huang, Tianfei Ren, Qi Lu, Qingnan Ren, Qisheng Su, Lionel Z. Wang, Qingyu Yin, Shuang Chen, Zehui Chen, Lin Chen, Zhenfei Yin, Yao Hu, Shaohui Lin, Wanli Ouyang, Shaosheng Cao, Feng Zhao Title: Video-DeepResearch: Towards the Next-Generation Multimodal Deepresearch Agent Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/26...

🤗 Upvotes: 38 | cs. IR Authors: Zixuan Wang, Yuhong Chen, Yuxuan Zhu, Guidong Lei, Zhiluohan Guo, Yu Zhao, Kun Wang, Bangyang Hong, Kangle Wu, Yabo Ni, Anxiang Zeng, Cong Fu, Hui Li Title: Knowledge-Geometry Decoupling: Refreshable Pretrained Transfer for Streaming Recommendation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02738v1 Abstract: Industrial recommenders increasingly adopt the pretrain-then-transf...

🤗 Upvotes: 37 | cs. AI Authors: Chunji Lv, Yangguang Wei, Junlin Liu, Yang Gao, Ming Liu, Xinming Wang, Jinyang Wu, Guoren Wang, Changsheng Li Title: PCSD: Persistent Consistency for Self-Distillation in Agentic Reinforcement Learning Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01837v1 Abstract: Large language model agents have shown strong potential in complex interactive tasks, yet their reinforcement lea...

🤗 Upvotes: 30 | cs. CV, cs. AI, cs. RO Authors: Yu Yang, Xuemeng Yang, Licheng Wen, Lingdong Kong, Xiaobin Hu, Dongyue Lu, Wei Chow, Xiyan Huang, Yuxiang Feng, Yue Liao, Jianbiao Mei, Daocheng Fu, Rong Wu, Pinlong Cai, Ran Yi, Ying Tai, Jiangning Zhang, Botian Shi, Yong Liu, Shuicheng Yan Title: Quo Vadis, World Modeling? Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02713v1 Abstract: Continually improving ag...

🤗 Upvotes: 28 | cs. CL Authors: Shuhan Xue, Zixin Ding, Yichen Shen, Yinjie Wang, Zhenfei Yin, Yingcheng Wu, Yuxin Chen, Mengdi Wang, Ling Yang Title: PAST-Bench: Benchmarking the Foundations of Recursive Self-Improvement in Personal Agents Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04003v1 Abstract: Recursive self-improvement requires agents to turn accumulated experience into better future behavior. Pers...

🤗 Upvotes: 25 | cs. AI Authors: Fengqi Zhu, Shaoxuan Xu, Jingyang Ou, Zebin You, Yipeng Xing, Huabin Liu, Xiaolu Zhang, Jun Zhou, Zhenzhong Lan, Yankai Lin, Wayne Xin Zhao, Jianguo Li, Chongxuan Li, Ji-Rong Wen Title: LLaDA MoE v2: Scaling Mixture-of-Experts Diffusion Language Models Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03457v1 Abstract: Diffusion language models (dLLMs) offer an alternative to autor...

🤗 Upvotes: 142 | eess. AS, cs. SD Authors: Yu Zhang, Ruiqi Li, Changhao Pan, Ke Lei, Xiang Yin, Cheng Yang Title: SwanTale: Unified Multi-Speaker Speech and Audio Generation for Instruct and Zero-Shot Tasks Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02023v2 Abstract: Speech and audio generation is often needed in animation dubbing, audio drama, movies, advertising, games, podcasts, and short-video producti...

🤗 Upvotes: 132 | cs. CV Authors: Ziyu Ma, Hailang Huang, Shun Zou, Yong Wang, Shidong Yang, Yiming Hu, Fei Wei, XiangXiang Chu Title: LongHorizon-Harness: Advancing Long-Horizon Agents for Real-World Tasks Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01964v1 Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly undertake long-horizon tasks that require sustained reasoning, tool use, and revision across ma...

🤗 Upvotes: 77 | cs. AI Authors: Jianyu Wu, Yizhou Wang, Encheng Su, Chen Tang, Shixiang Tang Title: DAPD: Dual-Anchored Policy Distillation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01735v1 Abstract: On-policy (self) distillation (OPSD) is increasingly adopted for language-model post-training. It strengthens the teacher with privileged information but can induce a privilege illusion: the student learns pr...

🤗 Upvotes: 50 | cs. LG, cs. CL Authors: Junhao Shen, Zhanqiu Zhang, Yiwen Guo, Hong Cheng Title: Progressive Agent Skill Generation via Reinforcement Learning Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01678v1 Abstract: Existing skill generation methods largely rely on heuristics or pipeline-style consolidation, which must be specially designed for different evidence sources. In contrast, learning-based ap...

🤗 Upvotes: 43 | cs. CV, cs. CL Authors: Kangning Zhang, Yixing Li, Shuai Shao, Qingyao Li, Zhengxi Lu, Zhiyuan Yao, Jianghao Lin, Wenxiang Jiao, Yuan Lu, Weiwen Liu, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu Title: VAD: Attributing Visual Evidence for Target Reconstruction in Multimodal On-Policy Distillation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28590v1 Abstract: Multimodal on-policy distillation (OPD) transfers fine-gr...

🤗 Upvotes: 43 | cs. CV, cs. AI, cs. CL, cs. IR Authors: Tingyu Song, Mingxin Li, Yanzhao Zhang, Dingkun Long, Pengjun Xie, Zhijie Nie, Yilun Zhao, Shu Wu Title: UEmbed: Unified Sparse and Dense Multimodal Embeddings Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02583v1 Abstract: Sparse retrieval underpins modern search systems, from web search to retrieval-augmented generation. Existing work has introduced Le...

🤗 Upvotes: 31 | cs. AI Authors: Zixuan Huang, Yang Zhou, Kaixuan Wang, Guli Zhang, Hongyan Xie, Yakun Zhu, Hao Geng, Xiaozhi Chen, Yikun Ban, Deqing Wang Title: Deferred Exposure of Future Trajectories for Verifiable Reasoning in Autonomous Driving VLMs Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01755v2 Abstract: Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for autonomous driving (AD) increasingly utilize ch...

🤗 Upvotes: 30 | cs. CV Authors: Soslan Kabisov, Gennadiy Savrasov, Maksim Elistratov, Antonio Rodriguez, Daniil Ignatiev, Nikita Gavrilov, Rustam Uzdenov, Alexey I. Boyko, Igor Pasechnik, Anton Konushin, Andrey Kuznetsov, Dmitrii Zhemchuzhnikov Title: CADENA: Stepwise CAD Reverse Engineering Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00799v1 Abstract: Computer-Aided Design (CAD) underpins modern engineerin...

🤗 Upvotes: 30 | cs. CV Authors: Yuxue Yang, Shuyao Shang, Jiahe Wang, Zitong Zhou, Liang Tan, Junhan Zeng, Ruizhi Li, Junyan Li, Yu Liu, Xiao Yang, Yong Li, Jun Zhu, Hongsheng Li, Tieniu Tan, Lue Fan, Zhaoxiang Zhang Title: WorldExam: Benchmarking World Models from Apparent Appearance to Inherent Reactivity Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02603v1 Abstract: Controllable video generation models ar...

🤗 Upvotes: 27 | cs. CV Authors: Jiawei Wang, Hao Yu, Yongzhen Hu, Xinyi Yang, Tao Ni, Xin Zhan, Junbo Chen, Xiaowei Zhou, Ruizhen Hu, Sida Peng Title: InfiniSplat: Implicit Gaussian Decoding for Large-Baseline Monocular View Synthesis Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02437v2 Abstract: Single-image feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) aims to directly generate a renderable 3D scene representa...

🤗 Upvotes: 79 | cs. AI Authors: Qinsi Wang, Jing Shi, Huazheng Wang, Kun Wan, Yiran Wu, Bo Liu, Qingyun Wu, Hai Helen Li, Yiran Chen, Handong Zhao, Wentian Zhao Title: From RLVR to RLSVR: Task Transformation Induces Self-Verifiable Rewards for Open-Ended LLM Self-Improvement Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23802v2 Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has driven recent...

🤗 Upvotes: 61 | cs. CL Authors: Hao Fei, Yiran Zhao Title: Mental World Modeling Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27201v1 Abstract: World models enable a predictive substrate for planning and action, yet existing formulations merely answer a physical question: what/where it is, and how will it evolve. Human behavior, however, is driven by hidden mental state (what a person believes, wants, intend...

🤗 Upvotes: 52 | cs. RO Authors: NeoteAI Team, Fudan TEAI Team Title: $N_0$-VTLA: Scaling Vision-Tactile-Language-Action Model with Latent Tactile Tokens Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23782v1 Abstract: We present $N_0$-VTLA, a vision-tactile-language-action (VTLA) foundation model capable of (1) fine-grained contact-rich manipulation with tactile perception and tactile-feedback control, and (2)...

🤗 Upvotes: 44 | cs. GR, cs. CV Authors: Jiale Xu, Rendong Liang, Yuhao Long, Siyuan Shen, Zangyueyang Xian, Zeyi Xu, Yuanming Hu Title: Meshy T2: Fast Native Mesh Generation with Flow Matching Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28675v1 Abstract: Polygonal meshes are the standard surface representation of modern 3D pipelines, and generating high-quality meshes with artist-style topology is essential...