UniSlider: Perceptually Uniform Sliders for Continuous Image Editing
Sliders provide an intuitive interface for continuous image editing. In current generative approaches, however, the slider is…
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CLIFT: Conformal Self-Verification for Web Agent Training and Test-Time Scaling
Open-source web agents are now strong enough to execute realistic browser tasks, but training them with reinforcement learning…
Attempts to Keep Humans in the AI Loop May Actually Push Them Out
A crucial safeguard against AI agents going rogue—keeping humans in the loop to review and approve their decisions—will fail…
arXiv Is Rate Limiting Submissions Because It Can’t Keep up With AI Slop
The academic publisher said submissions have doubled in the past two years and moderators are having a hard time keeping up.
Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI ‘agent fleet’
Independent researchers discovered an agent swarm that seems to be running on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's…
AI Solves a Major Unsolved Math Problem. Not Everyone Is Happy
On 13 September, leading luminaries and up-and-coming talents in mathematics and computer science congregated at the annual…
Can Safeworld convince people that GenAI robots won’t hurt them?
Safeworld is building digital humans to make sure robots don't hurt the real ones.
AI is eroding office hours, study groups, and the trust between faculty and students, MIT report finds
An MIT expert committee warns that AI is eroding key parts of the college experience: office hours, study groups, and the…
People really hate AI, so why can’t they get enough?
Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of…
Weave Mamba Fusion: Global Cross-Scale Interaction for Lightweight Face Detection
Feature pyramid methods, from FPN to BiFPN, have achieved strong performance in face detection by fusing multi-scale features…
CCQ: A Multi-State Child Care Quality Dataset to Support AI for Children's Health Research
High-quality child care in early life is a critical determinant of children's growth and development. Research on child care…
Imagine to Act: High-Fidelity Data Synthesis via Image Editing World Model for Scalable GUI Agent Training
Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents have emerged as a promising paradigm for automating complex digital workflows across…
Curriculum Brain: Constructing Curriculum Knowledge Graphs as a Substrate for Cognitive Diagnosis
Cognitive Diagnostic Models (CDMs) identify which specific skills a student has and has not mastered, the signal a personalized…
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Collision-Free Locomotion of an Underactuated Biped
A bipedal robot cannot deviate from its path to avoid an obstacle without disturbing its balance, and this coupling is most…
TurboPairFormer: Fast and Stable Protein Folding Model Training with an Optimized Triangle Attention Kernel
Triangular attention is a core computation in AlphaFold3-style biomolecular models, with cubic cost in token count. Its shared…
The Blind Spot Paradox: When Adaptive Classifiers Defeat Drift Detectors
Monitoring concept drift from an adaptive classifier's error stream creates an operational conflict with the model's own update…
RepICL: Reusable In-Context Prediction Across Heterogeneous Representation Spaces
Frozen representations are widely reused for downstream classification, yet each new task typically requires fitting a new…
CACFG: Curvature-Aware Classifier-Free Guidance and Optimal Control
Diffusion models generate samples by learning to reverse a fixed corruption process, and classifier-free guidance (CFG) is the…
EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything
Yossi Matias, Vice President & Head of Google Research, explores how AI is beginning to reshape biology, infrastructure…
Negotiating Ontological Boundaries in User-Authored Personal Sensing Systems
Designed artifacts are ontological, shaping, and at times limiting, what becomes possible or imaginable. One path toward…
Is anyone else still rewriting AI-generated social posts because they sound too robotic?
I’ve noticed a lot of AI social tools still produce content that feels off-brand or slightly forced. I’ve tried Hootsuite’s AI…
The top 50 AI researchers by citations
How many on the list did you know? Obviously one paper like Attention is All You Need (278k citations) can influence a lot - all…
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