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/papers/reinforcement-learning-via-value-gradient-flow

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Value Gradient Flow: behavior-regularized RL as transport. Instead of training a new policy, it nudges samples from the dataset/base model along value gradients toward higher reward, with a transport budget to limit drift. Strong results in offline RL + LLM RL.

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/papers/parallax-why-ai-agents-that-think-must-never-act

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Parallax: Why AI Agents That Think Must Never Act. Key insight: don’t let the LLM execute. Split thinker vs independent doer that verifies actions, tracks sensitive info flow, and supports undo. OpenParallax blocked 98.9% attacks by default, 100% max.

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/papers/spikegpt-generative-pre-trained-language-model-with-spiking-neural-networks

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SpikeGPT: a GPT-style LM built with spiking neural networks. They train 45M/216M models that stay competitive on tested benchmarks while using ~20x fewer ops on neuromorphic hardware, via a sequential RWKV-like attention to avoid long-context blowups.

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/papers/seedance-20-advancing-video-generation-for-world-complexity

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Seedance 2.0: a unified model that generates video and audio together, taking text+image+audio+video references in one system. The key shift is reference-driven, production-style control (consistent assets) plus a Fast low-latency variant.

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/papers/knowrl-boosting-llm-reasoning-via-reinforcement-learning-with-minimal-sufficient-knowledge-guidance

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KnowRL: Boosting LLM Reasoning via RL with minimal-sufficient knowledge. It picks the smallest set of “knowledge points” that keep learning signal strong (even modeling hint interactions), giving a 1.5B model nearly +10 acc, no hints at runtime.

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/papers/clawgui-a-unified-framework-for-training-evaluating-and-deploying-gui-agents

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ClawGUI: a unified framework that makes GUI agents reproducible end to end: stable training across parallel virtual phones plus real devices, standardized evaluation across benchmarks, and deployment to Android/iOS/HarmonyOS with hybrid control and memory.

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/papers/quanbench-a-unified-multi-framework-benchmark-for-llm-based-quantum-code-generation

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QuanBench+: unified benchmark for LLM quantum code across Qiskit, PennyLane, Cirq with 42 aligned tasks + executable tests. One-shot tops ~60% (Qiskit), but feedback-based self-repair boosts to 83%, showing tooling matters as much as the model.

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/papers/deep-activity-propagation-via-weight-initialization-in-spiking-neural-networks

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Deep activity propagation via weight initialization in SNNs: standard inits cause vanishing spikes. This paper derives an SNN-specific init that keeps spike activity well-distributed through up to 100 layers, speeding MNIST training and improving accuracy.

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/papers/lpm-10-video-based-character-performance-model

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LPM 1.0: Video-based Character Performance Model introduces the “performance trilemma” (expressive, real-time, long-term identity-consistent avatars) and solves it via identity-anchored refs + base-to-streaming distillation for low-latency, unlimited video.

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/papers/dmax-aggressive-parallel-decoding-for-dllms

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DMax: Aggressive Parallel Decoding for dLLMs. Key idea: keep token states “soft” so the model can self-edit, and train on its own imperfect intermediate guesses. Result: much higher decoding throughput without the usual quality collapse.