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Rufus-Air is an open, reproducible post-training recipe built on GLM-4.5-Air-Base (106B-A12B) that runs as a serial pipeline of eight stages: SFT, Reasoning RL, Coding RL, Instruction-Following RL, General Agent, Coding …
Two research efforts report large cuts to the key-value cache used in transformer decoding. Grouped Value Attention (GVA) reduces persistent cache scalars by roughly 45–47% versus matched grouped-query attention while ke…
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Action, a 7B open-weights World Action Model for robot control that ranks first on the RoboLab-120 leaderboard at 42.92% task success, ahead of NVIDIA's 16B Cosmos 3 Nano at 36.8% and π0…
A study posted to arXiv (2609.28703v1) proposes a hate speech detection framework combining DistilBERT embeddings, a Bi-LSTM, and an attention mechanism, with LIME used to explain predictions. The framework reached F1-sc…
ELF-REG, a method that scales Embedded Language Flows (ELF) continuous diffusion language models to reasoning tasks, reached 55.96% pass@1 on GSM8K at 64 network function evaluations and 13.39% on MATH-500 and 22.56% on …
A new arXiv paper (2609.29131v1) proposes a three-level framework for tag-aware structured text translation that combines a hybrid data synthesis strategy (Hy-LST), multi-task supervised fine-tuning across four sub-tasks…
Researchers released BanglaKontho, a 20-hour single-speaker Bangla text-to-speech corpus of 7,050 segmented utterances at 24 kHz drawn from professional audiobook recordings, alongside a reusable Bangla text normalizer a…
A prospective study of weak signals in embedding space found that documents embedding-based topic models initially classify as noise can be predicted at publication time to become founding members of emerging topics, wit…
Researchers introduced EAGER, a reinforcement learning framework for generative event extraction that pairs fine-grained verifiable rewards with Schema-Contrastive Advantage Estimation to counter advantage collapse under…
Researchers introduced UltraBench 2, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating vision foundation models on ultrasound image analysis, with wide anatomical and task coverage and a focus on standardization, reproducibility,…
M-plicits, a multiscale neural implicit surface framework from researchers publishing on arXiv (2609.28684v1), models surfaces as a residual sum of MLPs trained over nested neighborhoods, achieving the best mean Chamfer …
Researchers released Smol-VL-BLV, a 500M-parameter vision-language model for blind and low-vision users that combines teacher-student distillation with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) using a composite BLV rewa…
DeltaWAM, a new world-action model from the AIGeeksGroup, improves average success on the RoboTwin benchmark over Fast-WAM from 81.3% to 85.4% in the clean setting and from 75.8% to 83.9% under visual randomization, acco…
Researchers introduced CinematicVQA, a benchmark for film-grammar reasoning in large vision-language models that uses a Cinematic Scene Graph (CSG) to link filming techniques to their perceptual effects and narrative fun…
Researchers introduced M$^2$PFN, an end-to-end framework that adapts the TabPFN tabular foundation model into a multimodal Alzheimer's disease predictor by back-propagating task gradients into 3D-MRI and tabular encoders…
Researchers developed MoVISA, a multi-token reasoning method for video object segmentation that replaces the single SEG token used in Multimodal Large Language Model pipelines with multiple tokens such as SEG0 and SEG1 t…
Researchers introduced FlipDir (Flip-Direction Steering), a training-free inference-time method that estimates a low-rank flip-inducing activation subspace from contrastive pairs of original and answer-flipping inputs an…
Direction-Scale Decomposition (DSD), an action representation that splits translation and rotation increments into direction and scale components before tokenization, improves average success rates for discrete-token vis…
ViRDM, a teacher- and critic-free post-training recipe for few-step causal video generation, reached 84.87 on the official VBench evaluation after only 20 generator updates, outperforming the previous best few-step causa…
Researchers introduced HelloWorld, a 2B-parameter driving world model system that specializes broad visual and motion priors from heterogeneous video data into controllable driving generation using ego pose, HD maps, and…