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- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesFocusVTC: Efficient and High-Performance Visual Text Compression with Adaptive Resolution
Long-context reasoning in large language models incurs substantial computation and memory costs.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesScheduling Recursive Reasoning in Looped Transformers
Recurrent reasoning models have attracted growing attention for scaling test-time computation, typically by iteratively refining latent states with shared parameters.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesOn-Policy Parameter Update Direction Underlies Generalization in LLM Post-Training
The strong generalization performance of on-policy post-training paradigms has motivated studies of their parameter update behaviors.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesProgressCompass: Embodied Progress Reward Models Are Lost Without the Right Context
Embodied agents now take on ever longer tasks.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesVideo2Skill: From Streaming Experience to Reusable Embodied Skills
Manipulation behaviors vary widely across objects and scenes, but they share a small set of reusable skills, and planning with these skills helps embodied agents generalize to new tasks.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesCan Agents Design Libraries for Agents?
Agents increasingly build on code written by other agents, and they reimplement rather than reuse, growing the codebases later agents must work in.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesCorrGRPO: Correlation-Normalized GRPO for Multi-Reward Learning
Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) is widely used to train reasoning language models, where it computes advantages by centering and normalizing rewards across rollouts of the same prompt.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesWEFT: Scaling Tool-Use Post-Training for General-Purpose Agents
Recent efforts to scale tool-use post-training have largely centered on the synthesis of executable environments, which constitute only one component of a broader agentic interaction system comprising the environment, ta…
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesDating the Model: Hidden Dates in System Prompts Affect LLM Evaluation
Reproducibility is essential for scientific research, yet prior work shows that LLM outputs vary with hardware and batching.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesControlled Decoding Attacks on Black-Box LLMs
Manipulating next-token probabilities during generation can bypass the safety alignment of large language models.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesChinese-Jev: Bringing System One Model to Chinese-Language Tasks
System One models such as Jev offer an efficient alternative to generative language models for tasks that require decisions rather than open-ended responses.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesSalt++: Context-Aligned Post-Training for Few-Step Streaming Multimodal Generation
Few-step streaming audio--video generation requires both causal modeling and step distillation, yet standard training recipes face two context-related challenges.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesSelecting The Most Informative Tokens in Natural Language Autoencoders
Natural language autoencoders translate a language model's internal activations into readable explanations.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesImproved Distributional Diffusion Models
Distributional Diffusion Models (DDMs) replace the standard mean-prediction denoiser with a distributional denoiser trained via a scoring rule objective, learning a stochastic approximation to p(x_1 mid x_t) rather than…
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesAdaptive Reward Routing: Dynamic Multi-Reward Optimization for Joint Audio-Video Diffusion via Forward-Process RL
Multi-reward guided reinforcement learning (i.e., RL) offers a promising way to improve joint audio-video diffusion models along several complementary objectives, including modality-specific quality, cross-modal semantic…
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesFollow the Entities: A Corpus Map for Agentic Search
Answering questions and completing tasks over large document collections often requires connecting evidence spread across multiple documents, such as a project's approval recorded in one, its requirements in another, and…
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesAsking for What Was Never Requested: Horizontal and Vertical Proactivity in Agents
An agent that uses tools typically responds to what the user explicitly asks, yet completing the task may require information the user never requested.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesFoundations of Proactive Agents: Principles, Technical Layers, and Proactivity-Gym
Proactive LLM agents can turn idle compute into useful support before users ask.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesTaming VLAs under Robot Execution Errors: Self-Compensation and Stress Testing
Vision-language-action (VLA) policies often fail when a robot's executed motion deviates from their commanded action.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesPretrain Once, Route Anywhere: Towards a Foundation Model for LLM Routing
Large language model (LLM) routing aims to assign each query to the most suitable model from a heterogeneous candidate pool, improving the quality--efficiency trade-off of LLM inference.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesBeyond Prompt Count: How Data Shapes Transfer in On-Policy Distillation
On-policy distillation (OPD) trains students using teacher feedback on their own sampled responses, yet how prompt choice shapes transfer across teacher-student pairs remains poorly understood.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesRouting Should Pay for Itself: Sparse Supervision for Economical LLM Routing
Large language model (LLM) routing reduces serving cost by assigning each query to an appropriate model while preserving response quality.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesE-MoE: Enhanced Mixture-of-Experts for Non-Factorized Diffusion Language Models
Masked diffusion models (MDMs) generate sequences by progressively unmasking several tokens per denoising step, but their reverse process is typically factorized over positions, limiting sample quality in the few-step re…
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesSkillGym: Training Skill-Use Agents with Automatic Verifiable Environment Generation
Skills equip LLM agents with professional knowledge and guidance to complete long-horizon and complex tasks.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesAPM-Bench: Benchmarking Cross-session Persistent Memory for Egocentric Streaming Video Assistants
To serve as real-world personal assistants, streaming video models need persistent memory that retains past experiences for later use.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesDevils in Question Relay: Source-Conditioned Relay Steering to Mitigate Hallucinations in Audio-visual Large Language Models
Audio-visual large language models (AVLLMs) have made remarkable progress in multimodal understanding and reasoning through interactions among visual, auditory, and linguistic information.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesDecompose Radicals, Then Reward: Fine-Grained Inspection for Accurate Chinese Text Rendering
Rendering accurate Chinese text remains challenging for text-to-image models.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesEngiWorld: What Can Frontier Agents Deliver in Professional Engineering Environments?
Autonomous agents have made rapid progress in general-purpose computer use, but reliable automation of professional industrial engineering remains out of reach, as engineering workflows demand reasoning over geometric an…
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesWISE-ATTA: When to Ask for Labels in Budgeted Active Test-Time Adaptation
Active test-time adaptation (ATTA) improves robustness under distribution shift by updating a deployed model during inference while selectively querying supervision.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesPolyOCR-Venus: Unified OCR Foundation Models for Text-Centric Visual Intelligence
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is evolving from plain-text transcription toward general visual intelligence, requiring models to recognize, localize, and reason over textual information in complex visual environment…
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesContext Language Models
We introduce Context Language Models (CLMs), language models that natively manage their own context.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesThe Geometry of Inference in Transformer Residual Streams
Transformer language models build predictions through successive residual updates, but how their representations become specific to an eventual outcome remains unclear.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesIt's Not What the Image Shows: Irrelevant Context Destabilises VLM Judges Without Informing Them
Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used in place of human annotators, making it important that substitutability tests reflect the model rather than incidental evaluation conditions.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesRetrieval Capacity of Self-Attention Under Competition
How many tokens from its context does a language model actually use, and what determines that number?
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesOvercoming Scaling Limits in On-Policy Self-Distillation for LLM Reasoning
On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) trains a student to match a privileged teacher distribution along its own sampled trajectory.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesEpiCon: Collective Agent Learning through Co-Evolving Multimodal Memory
Agents can learn from past executions, but enabling different agents to reuse and build on one another's experience remains challenging.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesRollout-Marginal Distillation for Long-Horizon Autoregressive Video Generation
Autoregressive (AR) video diffusion enables low-latency, streamable video generation, but prediction errors often accumulate over long rollouts.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesVideo-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement of Video Understanding Agents via Harness Evolution
Video understanding agents acquire evidence through an executable harness that controls what they observe and how they use those observations.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesTabFM: A Zero-Shot Foundation Model for Tabular Data
Tabular machine learning typically relies on per-dataset workflows, fitting tree ensembles or running AutoML searches from scratch for every task.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesSoL-Refiner: Speed-of-Light One-Step Refinement for High-Resolution Video
High-resolution video generation is expensive, as its cost grows rapidly with the number of spatiotemporal tokens.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesTabFM-Auto: Self-Evolving Pipelines for Tabular Foundation Models
Tabular foundation models achieve strong zero-shot accuracy on structured data by pretraining on synthetic tables, but they ignore the column names, task descriptions, and auxiliary files that carry dataset semantics.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesHybridCUA: Learning to Orchestrate GUI and CLI for Computer-Use Agents
Computer use agents (CUAs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in completing digital tasks.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesRetrieval-Augmented Skill Optimization via Cross-Harness Adaptation
An agent skill is a reusable, actionable natural-language artifact that guides an agent to perform a task effectively under a given harness.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesEVO-WAM: Evolving World Action Models through Video-Action Verification
Improving robot policies on new tasks without collecting additional expert demonstrations remains a central challenge in robot learning.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesWorldLine: Action-Driven Visual Simulation for Robotic Manipulation
Real-world robot learning is constrained by the cost of collecting experience and evaluating candidate behaviors.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesMotorMind: Scaffolding General Vision Language Models for Zero-Shot Robot Manipulation
Vision-language-action (VLA) models have advanced robotic manipulation, but their zero-shot generalization in new tasks and environments remains limited, and their reliance on specialized training keeps them from benefit…
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesTail-Influence Sampling for CVaR Policy Evaluation
Policies with similar mean returns can differ sharply in rare failures, yet estimating lower-tail conditional value-at-risk (CVaR) accurately can require many costly rollouts.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesExplore Broadly, Reason Sharply: Push Small Models toward the Frontier via Sampling
Power-sharpened sampling is an inference-time alternative to reinforcement-learning (RL) post-training for enhancing reasoning in large language models (LLMs).
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesVideoLoop: Looped Working Memory Against Semantic Thrashing in Long-Form Video Agents
Long-form video understanding requires multimodal agents to iteratively gather evidence over many reasoning steps.
- Hugging Face PapersResearch SourcesWUSH-KV: KV Cache Quantization with Data-Adaptive Transforms
KV cache memory and bandwidth costs grow with context length and batch size, which limits efficient long-context inference.