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    • AI Agents

    Trajectory2Gym improves tool-use agents by synthesizing and grounding compositional interactions

    Trajectory2Gym constructs training data focusing on compositional coverage and decision grounding, improving tool-use agent performance across five Qwen3 model scales by 16.9–29.8 points on three benchmarks, especially in multi-turn, stateful tasks.

    Paper: Trajectory2Gym: Decision-Grounded Compositional Interaction Synthesis for Tool-Use Agents · Yihao Hu, Zhihao Wen, Yitong Lin and 5 others

    338 upvotes on Hugging Face6 min readRead the article

    • AI Agents
    • Benchmarks & Evaluation

    TraceTrial-Bench evaluates AI agent harness reliability separately from model performance

    TraceTrial-Bench benchmarks AI agent harnesses by assessing seven reliability components through 95 tasks, separating agent task success from harness reliability, and enabling failure attribution across 4 harnesses, 9 models, and 3,420 runs.

    Paper: Trial by Trace: Benchmarking AI Agent Harnesses for Reliability and Failure Attribution · Zhiyong Cao, Hengjie Zhu, Yongxin Wang and 20 others

    268 upvotes on Hugging Face6 min readRead the article

    • AI Agents
    • Multimodal & Vision

    StreamVibe enables proactive video agents to infer and adapt to evolving user intents

    StreamVibe introduces a benchmark and models for proactive video agents that infer implicit and dynamic user intents from streaming video, improving response timing and quality by 10.7% and maintaining consistent interaction states over time.

    Paper: StreamVibe: Proactive Video Agents for Evolving User Intent · Chengzhi Liu, Yuxiang Lai, Yuzhe Yang and 13 others

    246 upvotes on Hugging Face6 min readRead the article

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  1. Chain-of-thought prompting improves reasoning in large language modelsand 2 more papers
  2. Intrinsic Distribution Matching improves one-step text-to-image generation with feature moment constraintsand 2 more papers
  3. Falcon enables efficient, real-time audio-visual target speaker extraction in complex scenesand 2 more papers
  4. Capability-driven recursive self-improvement evolves specialized multimodal agent modulesand 2 more papers
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  6. Survey unifies video understanding and generation via world modeling frameworkand 2 more papers
  7. Fine-tuning GPT-3 with human feedback improves instruction following and truthfulnessand 2 more papers
  8. Residual connections enable training of very deep neural networks with improved accuracyand 2 more papers
  9. WeVisOne-VL unifies object- and pixel-level vision-language tasks with structured token predictionand 2 more papers
  10. StreamEval benchmark measures interactive streaming video generation across five tasksand 2 more papers
  11. FocusGUI improves multi-step omni-modal GUI agents by dynamically prioritizing relevant inputsand 2 more papers
  12. Parameter-efficient fine-tuning scales large multimodal models for brain encodingand 2 more papers
  13. HexaShell uses coding agents with RGB triangulation to improve robot manipulation on RoboDojoand 2 more papers
  14. Two efficient models learn high-quality word vectors from huge text corporaand 2 more papers
  15. Transformer replaces recurrence with multi-head self-attention for faster, better translationand 2 more papers
  16. Waypoint-OPD improves RL policy transfer by gating shifts using intermediate checkpointsand 2 more papers
  17. ATAS framework improves spatial and temporal consistency in agentic video generationand 2 more papers
  18. Jeva architecture enables stable, scalable, and cacheable system one decisionsand 2 more papers
  19. GroundingPI improves precise visual grounding for physical intelligence tasksand 2 more papers
  20. DiffusionART stabilizes and speeds up reinforcement learning fine-tuning of diffusion modelsand 2 more papers
  21. LoGRA cuts LLM RL training memory up to 45.7% using low-rank gradient sketchesand 2 more papers
  22. UltraText Bench evaluates dense bilingual visual text rendering in image generationand 2 more papers
  23. AgentGarten enables evolving agents via code-driven worlds and neural renderingand 2 more papers
  24. STEPQuant reduces memory and preserves accuracy in low-bit quantization of recurrent statesand 2 more papers
  25. Compact strict alignment supervision outperforms broader coverage in cross-tokenizer distillationand 2 more papers
  26. Kandinsky 6.0 Video generates synchronized 5-second videos with 44 kHz audio using dual-stream diffusion modelsand 2 more papers
  27. RealCompanion benchmarks AI understanding of real long-term human conversationsand 2 more papers