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Research Briefing — July 24, 2026

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Research Hugging Face Papers Jul 23

SLAI T-Rex: Full-Parameter Post-training of the DeepSeek-V4 Family on Ascend SuperPOD

By Dongfang Li, Xiaodong Luo, Ruoyu Sun, Xuhui Chen, Linyuan Qiu, Jian Meng, Zhengxuan Lu, Yiting Wang, Yucheng Xie, Tao Guo, Tianxiang Fang, Jing Li, Sihang Chen, Shihao Hong, Chang Liu, Weihua Dai, Zirong Zeng, Ziwei Zhu, Zhuohan Wang, Zhengjun Yue, Igor Vasilyev, Min Liu, Weijian Sun, Xin Chen, Yingmeng Gao, Jinhua Zhou, Taolue Chen, Chenwei Wu, Dong Zhang, Wenlong Jin, Jinmin Xiang, Barkova Maria, Ushakov Anton, Xianfei Jin, Tian Ding, Zhihang Lin, Qian Chen, Linxin Yang, Mingzhe Yang, Bingwei Zhang, Hongzhang Yang, Fangxue Zhang, Shijun Qin, Jie Yu, Cuihua Hu, Tolstykh Vasiliy, Nosov Ivan, Abdullin Amir, Zhichen Zhou, Xin Zhang, Zhixiong Ning, Xutong Zhao, Junjie Huang, Jiajun Liu, Weiyan Kong, Zheng Zhang, Wenhan Luo, Lin Hu, Yangbo Guo, Li Zeng, Shihao Zeng, Baotian Hu, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, Zhiquan Luo

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Full-parameter post-training of trillion-parameter-scale MoE models introduces substantial system-level challenges for large-scale distributed training, including severe memory pressure, non-overlappe...

Full-parameter post-training of trillion-parameter-scale MoE models introduces substantial system-level challenges for large-scale distributed training, including severe memory pressure, non-overlapped communication overhead, and inefficient kernel execution. While most large-scale LLM training systems are built around GPU-based clusters, this report presents an end-to-end optimization practice on the Ascend NPU SuperPOD. Using the DeepSeek-V4 model family as the target workload, we develop a hi
Research Hugging Face Papers Jul 23

Self Gradient Forcing: Native Long Video Extrapolation

By Junhao Zhuang, Shiyi Zhang, Yuxuan Bian, Yaowei Li, Yawen Luo, Yijun Liu, Weiyang Jin, Songchun Zhang, Xianglong He, Xuying Zhang, Haoran Li, Haoyang Huang, Zeyue Xue, Nan Duan

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Recent autoregressive video diffusion methods are increasingly built upon Self Forcing, where the student is trained on histories produced by its own rollout rather than ground-truth video contexts. T...

Recent autoregressive video diffusion methods are increasingly built upon Self Forcing, where the student is trained on histories produced by its own rollout rather than ground-truth video contexts. This reduces exposure bias, but the historical key-value cache is still used by future frames only as frozen rollout state. As a result, future losses cannot supervise how earlier generated latents should be written into more useful keys and values for later video-latent generation. We call this the
Research Hugging Face Papers + AlphaXiv Jul 23

Beyond Relevance-Centric Retrieval: Rubric-Oriented Document Set Selection and Ranking

By Kailin Jiang, Lei Liu, Jian Xi, Hui Xu, Junlin Liu, Baochen Fu, Shaoqing Ren, Bin Li, Vichwang, Yu Lu, Haibo Shi

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As large language models and AI agents become the primary consumers of search results, document set quality determines the upper bound of downstream generation. Yet existing evaluation systems remain ...

As large language models and AI agents become the primary consumers of search results, document set quality determines the upper bound of downstream generation. Yet existing evaluation systems remain confined to scoring documents independently and aggregating via nDCG, ignoring inter-document interactions (redundancy, conflict, complementarity) and unable to answer what makes one document set better than another. To address these issues, we propose a complete evaluate-diagnose-optimize framework
Research Hugging Face Papers Jul 23

An Exam for Active Observers

By Jiarui Zhang, Muzi Tao, Shangshang Wang, Ollie Liu, Xuezhe Ma, Willie Neiswanger

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Human vision is a closed loop: gaze is continuously redirected by intermediate hypotheses rather than a single snapshot. Decades of psychophysics and cognitive science have argued that this active obs...

Human vision is a closed loop: gaze is continuously redirected by intermediate hypotheses rather than a single snapshot. Decades of psychophysics and cognitive science have argued that this active observation is essential for a wide range of tasks. Whether today's multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exercise active observation is an empirical question that current vision-language benchmarks do not answer. We introduce ActiveVision, a benchmark that makes active observation measurable for ML
Research Hugging Face Papers Jul 23

Scaling Laws for Hypernetwork-Based Knowledge Injection in Large Language Models

By Nischay Dhankhar, Dos Baha, Abulhair Saparov

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Injecting factual knowledge into large language models (LLMs) reliably and at scale remains an open challenge. Hypernetworks provide a promising solution to large-scale knowledge injection. Although h...

Injecting factual knowledge into large language models (LLMs) reliably and at scale remains an open challenge. Hypernetworks provide a promising solution to large-scale knowledge injection. Although hypernetworks are typically applied for test-time adaptation, we explore their use in train-time knowledge injection, where, given a large corpus of facts, we train a hypernetwork to generate a fixed LoRA adapter that, when inserted into the target model, enable the model to answer questions about th
Research Hugging Face Papers Jul 23

Generalizable VLA Finetuning via Representation Anchoring and Language-Action Alignment

By Dwip Dalal, Shivansh Patel, Chahit Jain, Jeonghwan Kim, Utkarsh Mishra, Alex Baratian, Hyeonjeong Ha, Heng Ji, Svetlana Lazebnik, Unnat Jain

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Finetuning a pretrained vision-language model (VLM) on robot demonstrations via behavior cloning (BC) has become the standard recipe for vision-language-action (VLA) policies. However, BC finetuning p...

Finetuning a pretrained vision-language model (VLM) on robot demonstrations via behavior cloning (BC) has become the standard recipe for vision-language-action (VLA) policies. However, BC finetuning progressively overwrites the pretrained representations that support visual and semantic generalization. Co-training on web image-text data, a common remedy, does not prevent this; it applies language and action losses to separate observations, leaving VLAs with language-action misalignment that stan
Research Hugging Face Papers Jul 23

Beyond Euclidean Clipping: Overcoming Exploration Collapse in LLM RL via Riemannian Isometric Policy Optimization

By Zhicheng Cai, Xinyuan Guo, Hanlin Wu, Mingxuan Wang, Wei-Ying Ma, Ya-Qin Zhang, Hao Zhou

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Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a dominant paradigm for enhancing LLMs' reasoning capabilities. However, RL algorithms with PPO-Clip are inherently limited by exploration collapse. Subsequent w...

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a dominant paradigm for enhancing LLMs' reasoning capabilities. However, RL algorithms with PPO-Clip are inherently limited by exploration collapse. Subsequent works remain primarily heuristic and fail to identify the essential cause of PPO-Clip's failure. This work reveals the fundamental flaw of PPO-Clip: it implicitly measures policy discrepancy using Euclidean metric, which is theoretically inconsistent with the intrinsic geometry on the policy Riemanni
Research Hugging Face Papers Jul 23

DocOps: A Verifiable Benchmark for Autonomous Agents in Complex Document Operations

By Jiazhen Jiang, Boxi Cao, Lingyong Yan, Yaojie Lu, Hongyu Lin, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin, Xianpei Han, Le Sun

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As autonomous agents rapidly evolve, their ability to reliably manipulate ubiquitous digital documents has become critical for enabling general-purpose AI assistants and automating complex workspace w...

As autonomous agents rapidly evolve, their ability to reliably manipulate ubiquitous digital documents has become critical for enabling general-purpose AI assistants and automating complex workspace workflows. In this paper, we introduce DocOps, a deterministically verifiable evaluation framework underpinned by a hierarchical taxonomy that deconstructs document operations inspired by real-world practices into atomic dimensions and escalating workflow complexities. Based on DocOps, we systematica
Research Hugging Face Papers + AlphaXiv Jul 23

ICAE-Bench: Evaluating Coding Agents as Interactive Project Builders

By Zhongyuan Peng, Dan Huang, Chuyu Zhang, Caijun Xu, Changyi Xiao, Shibo Hong, David Lo, Lin Qiu, Xuezhi Cao, Jiyuan He, Yixin Cao

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The recent emergence of vibe-coding workflows is changing what coding agents are expected to do. Instead of merely completing code under fully specified instructions, agents are increasingly expected ...

The recent emergence of vibe-coding workflows is changing what coding agents are expected to do. Instead of merely completing code under fully specified instructions, agents are increasingly expected to transform incomplete product intent into working software by combining various abilities including planning, requirement clarification, tool use, debugging, and repository-level construction. Yet existing benchmarks have not fully caught up with this shift, evaluating agents on static, fully spec
Research Hugging Face Papers Jul 23

ATSplat: Compact Feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting with Adaptive Token Expansion

By Cho In, Jeonghwan Cho, Mijin Yoo, Gim Hee Lee, Seon Joo Kim

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3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieves high-quality novel-view synthesis by optimizing freely placed primitives in 3D and adaptively densifying them in under-reconstructed regions. However, this scene-...

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieves high-quality novel-view synthesis by optimizing freely placed primitives in 3D and adaptively densifying them in under-reconstructed regions. However, this scene-adaptive capacity allocation is largely lost in existing feed-forward 3DGS methods, which commonly regress Gaussians at input pixels and lift them along camera rays. Such pixel-aligned formulations make the number and placement of primitives depend on image resolution and input viewpoints rather tha
Research Hugging Face Papers Jul 23

FVAttn: Adaptive Sparse Attention with Runtime Load Balancing for Video Generation

By Hao Liu, Chenghuan Huang, Ye Huang, Zhiying Wen, Hao Liu, Mohan Zhang, Chen Li, Ziyang Ma, Jing Lyu, Jiangsu Du

30 score
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Video Diffusion Transformers process long spatio-temporal sequences, making self-attention the main bottleneck in high-resolution video generation. Training-free sparse attention reduces this cost, bu...

Video Diffusion Transformers process long spatio-temporal sequences, making self-attention the main bottleneck in high-resolution video generation. Training-free sparse attention reduces this cost, but adaptive Top-p routing creates uneven per-head workloads under multi-GPU sequence parallelism. The resulting workload heterogeneity turns sparse attention into a rank-level straggler problem. We present , a training-free sparse-attention system that improves the distributed execution efficiency of
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Natural-language autoencoders score explanations of hidden activations by reconstruction: an explanation is deemed faithful if the activation can be regenerated from it. The test is structurally insen...

Natural-language autoencoders score explanations of hidden activations by reconstruction: an explanation is deemed faithful if the activation can be regenerated from it. The test is structurally insensitive to individual false claims: if flipping a claim does not change the reconstruction, the claim is never penalized. We show the test is passed in two ways, neither faithful. On a released Qwen-2.5-7B verbalizer, explanations reconstruct well above chance while ~2% of specific claims are reconst