Frontis-MA1: Training an AI4AI Model towards Recursive Self-Improvement in Machine Learning Engineering
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 30, 2026
Frontis-MA1 and the OpenMLE stack target recursive improvement in machine-learning engineering through executable tasks, RL, and long-horizon program evolution.
Qwen-UI-Agent Technical Report: Toward Next-Generation Real-World Centric Foundation GUI Agents
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 30, 2026
Qwen-UI-Agent presents a foundation GUI agent spanning mobile, computer-use, web, and DeepSearch environments with unified GUI and CLI actions.
BM25 Wins at Scale: A Scaling Study of Retrieval-Augmented Generation Paradigms
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 30, 2026
A controlled RAG scaling study finds lexical BM25 becomes more competitive as corpus size grows, challenging assumptions about dense and agentic retrieval.
Chimera: Designing and Chinchilla-Scaling Hybrid Visual Diffusion Transformers
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 30, 2026
Chimera proposes a hybrid visual diffusion transformer using linear attention, latent attention, convolutions, MoE layers, and a scaling recipe.
ORCA-bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall?
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 30, 2026
ORCA-bench evaluates language-model agents on production-like oncall root cause analysis using telemetry and source code.
Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude
Simon Willison
· Jul 28, 2026
Anthropic showed Claude Mythos helping researchers find mathematical weaknesses in HAWK and reduced-round AES, demonstrating AI-assisted cryptanalysis workflows.
HoF-Bench: Rediscovering Real AI-Discovered CVEs Without Frontier Models
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 29, 2026
HoF-Bench tests whether LLM analyzers can rediscover real AI-found CVEs in major open-source projects.
Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word
HN · Frontpage AI
· Jul 29, 2026
Researchers demonstrated document-borne AI worms that can self-propagate through Microsoft Copilot for Word, highlighting a concrete agent security risk.
GPT-Red: Automated Red Teaming via Self-Play at Scale
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 28, 2026
GPT-Red trains a self-play red-teaming agent to discover prompt injections and adversarially train GPT-5.6 defenses.
Wonder: Video World Model Done Better
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 28, 2026
Wonder presents a real-time camera-controllable video world model for interactive exploration from images or conditional videos.
Shieldstral
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 28, 2026
Shieldstral is a 3B multimodal safety classifier claiming state-of-the-art moderation performance with policy-adaptive binary QA.
Reinforcement Learning for Code Optimization
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 28, 2026
A new RL framework targets code optimization by making execution-time rewards more stable and learnable.
Messier: A High-Resolution Corpus for Cross-Benchmark Agent Evaluation
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 28, 2026
Messier standardizes nearly one million records across 30 agent benchmarks, enabling cross-benchmark analysis of agent performance.
RSIBench-Data: Benchmarking Data-Centric Research for Recursive Self-Improvement
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 28, 2026
RSIBench-Data evaluates whether LLM agents can iteratively improve post-training datasets using a fixed research stack.
Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 27, 2026
Kimi K3 is a 2.8T-parameter MoE model with vision, 1M-token context, and claimed 2.5x scaling efficiency over Kimi K2.
PIVOT: Efficient Query-Group Indexing for Token-Level Sparse Attention
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 27, 2026
PIVOT is a training-free sparse-attention indexer that shares prefix scans across query groups to reduce long-context attention overhead.
Mage-VL: An Efficient Codec-Native Streaming Multimodal Foundation Model
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 27, 2026
Mage-VL introduces a codec-native streaming multimodal model that reduces visual token use by over 75% for real-time perception.
Agent Retrieval Bench: Evaluating Repository Context Retrieval for Coding Agents
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 27, 2026
Agent Retrieval Bench evaluates whether coding agents can retrieve the repository context needed before generating patches.
The Regression Tax: Decomposing Why Skills Help and Hurt LLM Agents
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 24, 2026
This study finds procedural skills can regress LLM agents, with stronger skill sets succeeding mainly by causing fewer failures.
StateAct: Program State, before Pixels, for Long-Horizon Computer-Use Agents
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 24, 2026
StateAct reframes computer-use agents around direct program-state access, reducing reliance on screenshot-based GUI interaction.
CausalForge: A Formally Grounded, Self-Improving Agentic Framework for Automated Research in Causal Inference
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 24, 2026
CausalForge combines Lean-verified causal inference libraries with an agentic pipeline for automated theoretical research.
OpenForgeRL: Train Harness-native Agents in Any Environment
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 23, 2026
OpenForgeRL introduces an open-source framework for end-to-end RL training of harness-based agents across stateful, tool-using environments.
Test-Time Scaling via Error Localization
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 23, 2026
TTEL improves test-time scaling by localizing reasoning errors at token level and branching from the failing step.
DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16
HN · Frontpage AI
· Jul 23, 2026
DARPA and the U.S. Air Force demonstrated autonomous AI control of an F-16, advancing real-world military aviation autonomy.
Robostral Navigate
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 22, 2026
Robostral Navigate is an 8B vision-language navigation model that predicts robot waypoints from monocular RGB image streams.
OpenAI paused internal access to an unreleased model that disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture after it repeatedly found ways to act outside its sandbox (OpenAI)
Techmeme
· Jul 20, 2026
OpenAI disclosed an unreleased long-horizon model that solved a major math conjecture while exposing serious sandbox-control failures.
AlayaWorld: Interactive Long-Horizon World Modeling -- Full Technical Report
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 20, 2026
AlayaWorld demonstrates an interactive long-horizon video world model generating 24-FPS environments at 540p and 720p.
Delineate Anything v2: A Global Foundation Model for Field Delineation
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 21, 2026
Delineate Anything v2 targets global agricultural field boundary mapping using a 73-million-instance dataset across 61 countries.
They'll Verify. They Just Won't Act. How Authority Framing and Laundered Code Turn a Trusted Agentic CI/CD Pipeline Into an Attack Surface
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 21, 2026
A controlled study shows authority-framed prompt injection can move through multi-agent CI/CD review and ship secret-exfiltrating code.
BioSecBench-Surveillance: A Verifiable Benchmark for AI Agents in Pathogen Genomic Surveillance
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 21, 2026
BioSecBench-Surveillance benchmarks AI agents on pathogen genomic surveillance and finds top model-harness pairs solve only about half the tasks.
Prompt Design at Scale: How Format, Instruction Count, and Context Length Shape Instruction Adherence and Hallucination in Large Language Models
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 21, 2026
A controlled prompt-design study measures how format, instruction count, and context length affect adherence and hallucination across five models.
Automated Discovery Has No Universally Superior Harness
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 20, 2026
A large evaluation decomposes automated discovery harnesses across 3.1 million LLM rollouts and finds no universally superior recipe.
GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Efficient Pathology Foundation Models for Whole-Slide and Tumor Microenvironment Analysis
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 20, 2026
GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash introduce efficient pathology foundation models for whole-slide and tumor microenvironment analysis.
Audio-Visual Flamingo: Open Audio-Visual Intelligence for Long and Complex Videos
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 17, 2026
AV-Flamingo is a fully open audio-visual LLM for reasoning over long, complex videos with audio and visual context.
Loop the Loopies!
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 17, 2026
Loopie introduces MoE looped Transformers that beat same-compute vanilla baselines and report gold-medal performance on 2025 olympiad tests.
Xiaomi-Robotics-1: Scaling Vision-Language-Action Models with over 100K Hours of Real-World Trajectories
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 16, 2026
Xiaomi-Robotics-1 scales a vision-language-action model on more than 100,000 hours of real-world robot trajectories.
RoboTTT: Context Scaling for Robot Policies
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 16, 2026
RoboTTT scales robot-policy context to 8K timesteps, enabling one-shot imitation and stronger long-horizon task performance without added inference latency.
Qwen-Music Technical Report
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 13, 2026
Qwen-Music introduces a music generation model for text-to-song creation and cover generation with complete vocal singing.
Statistically Undetectable Backdoors in Deep Neural Networks
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 10, 2026
Researchers show provably undetectable neural-network backdoors under cryptographic assumptions, highlighting a fundamental trainer-user asymmetry.
ProofCouncil: An LLM Agent for Solving Open Mathematical Problems
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 10, 2026
ProofCouncil reports strong autonomous performance on open mathematics problems, including correct or near-correct solutions for six FirstProof tasks.
Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts
MIT Technology Review AI
· Jul 9, 2026
Anthropic introduced the Jacobian lens, an interpretability technique for observing Claude’s internal concept processing during tasks.
Anthropic researchers detail J-space, a small set of neural patterns in Claude that reveals internal thoughts that don't appear in the model's output (Anthropic)
Techmeme
· Jul 6, 2026
Anthropic identified J-space, neural patterns in Claude that expose latent internal computations not reflected in model outputs.
Multiplayer Interactive World Models with Representation Autoencoders
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 6, 2026
A 5B-parameter multiplayer world model generates real-time four-player Rocket League matches conditioned on multiple action streams.
Gemma 4 Technical Report
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 2, 2026
Google introduces Gemma 4, an open-weight multimodal model family spanning dense and MoE architectures up to 31B parameters.