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## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **Procedura: Agentic 3D Modeling with Procedural Control** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.26238) - **Training Agents to Evolve with Their Harness: TaoLive Digital Avatar Agent Technical Report** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.15763) - **Persona-Execution Separation: An Architecture Pattern for Evolving LLM Agents under Execution Audit** (arXiv) - [Read more](http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27427v1) - **Aphanta: Diagnosing Task-Aligned Image-Edited Intermediates for Multimodal
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **CaSKG: Counterfactual-Causal Skill Graphs for Scalable Agent Skill Retrieval** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.25500) - **Thinking on Shots: Consistent Multi-Shot Video Editing with Agentic Reasoning** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.26809) - **TTPO: Test-Time Policy Optimization** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.27448) - **UrbanGround: From Local Perception to Spatial Agency in a Real-Scale City** (arXiv) - [Read more](http://arxiv
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **GUI-Primitives: Diagnosing Spatial Reasoning Failures in Vision-Language GUI Grounding** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.21832) - **The Handoff Tax: Continuing Non-Native Trajectories in LLM Agents** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.24358) - **SWE Refactor Bench: Can Coding Agents Complete a Long-Horizon, Whole-Repository Stack Migration?** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.23564) - **Is Next-Chunk Reasoning RL Really Better than SFT?
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **When "Must" Becomes "Maybe": Constraint Weakening in LLM Agent Workflows** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.24569) - **WeMM-Embedding: WeChat Multi-Modal Embedding Technical Report** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.24053) - **Automata from Agent Traces: Failure and Next-Step Prediction** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.23670) - **SecOPD: Mitigating Adaptive Prompt Injections by On-Policy Distillation** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read mo
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **SWE Refactor Bench: Can Coding Agents Complete a Long-Horizon, Whole-Repository Stack Migration?** (arXiv) - [Read more](http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23564v1) - **ClawProBench: Trace-Aware Evaluation of AI Agents with Runtime Coverage and Frozen Workplace-Style Holdouts** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.22510) - **What AstroPT knows about galaxies, and what that can teach us about LLMs** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.22614) - **Towards a Densing Law for User Representati
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **Partition the Support, Reconstruct the Residual: Training-Free Sparse Attention for Video Generation and World Models** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.18484) - **ParaTempo: Efficient Parallel Reasoning via Temporal Confidence** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.16425) - **Every Coin Has Two Sides: On the Dual Nature of Generalization in On-Policy Distillation of Large Language Models** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.16647) - **Hadit
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **4DAnyone: Create Anyone in 4D from a Casual Monocular Video** (arXiv) - [Read more](http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.20335v1) - **FlowEvo: Self-Evolving Agents through the Co-Evolution of Workflows and Executable Skills** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2607.21596) - **Hierarchical Self-Improvement: A Framework for Task-Specific Evolvable Agent Harnesses** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.08466) - **The Embedder's Dilemma: LLMs Are Better, but at What Cost?** (Hugging Face Daily) -
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **NARU: A Benchmark for NARrative Evolution and Cultural Nuance Understanding in Japanese Extreme Long Video** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.13210) - **Towards Quantifying Benchmark Optimization in ASR Models** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.19936) - **FlashPrefill V2: Block-Sparse Prefill Attention for Long-Context LLM Serving** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.19758) - **Chain-of-Experience for Continual LLM Improvement** (Hugging
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **Thinking in a Low-Resource Language: What SFT Builds, What RL Fixes, What Accuracy Cannot See** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.17744) - **ConceptGuard: Benchmarking Context-Sensitive Unlearning in Large Language Models** (arXiv) - [Read more](http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.20338v1) - **MidTool: Mid-training Data Synthesis for Agentic Tool Use** (arXiv) - [Read more](http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.20314v1) - **AI4AI-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agents in Algorithmic Design for Recursive Self-Improvement** (arXiv) - [Read
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **Zetta ζ: An Efficient Closed-Loop Embodied Harness for Self-Evolving Physical Intelligence** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.16590) - **SemComp-Bench: Benchmarking Semantic Task Completion in Video Generation** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.17426) - **SPADE: Self-Play in Adaptive Synthetic Executable Environments** (arXiv) - [Read more](http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19197v1) - **Scaling Creative Writing Beyond Story-Centric Data with Attribute-Guided Genre Expansion** (Hu
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **HarnessRisk: A Lifecycle-Oriented Benchmark for Agent Harness Safety** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.17597) - **PixRestore: Unified Image Restoration via Pixel Diffusion Transformer** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.16793) - **Demystifying Agent Skills: Why They Work-Until They Don't** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.14036) - **EDITBRIDGE: Towards Faithful and Efficient Ultra-High-Resolution Image Editing** (Hugging Face Daily) -
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **Don't Drop the BATON: Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation via Agentic Subtask Exploration and Transition-aware Memory** (arXiv) - [Read more](http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16889v1) - **How Do Agents Fail on AutoResearch: End-to-End Diagnostic Evaluation on 100 Real-World Frontier Research Tasks** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.14905) - **StateM: Reaching 95.3% Raw Accuracy, or a \$15 Frontier Run, on Terminal-Bench 2.1 via Harness Scaling** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.1508
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **DFM Mimir v1: An Open HRM Delivering Frontier Performance at 1B Parameters Using Only Permissible Post-Training Data** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.13517) - **Agents Catching Agents: Shortcut Cascades and Benchmark Gaming in Clinical Multi-Agent Systems** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.03744) - **A Pathway to General-Purpose Scientific AI: Multimodal Comprehension of Scientific Images** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.14075) - *
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **The data geometry of masking diffusion: Certified-optimal schedules via unmasking growth complexity** (arXiv) - [Read more](http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13520v1) - **An AI4AI Framework for Visual Token Pruning** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.07193) - **Hybrid-Policy Self-Editing for Composable Unstructured Knowledge Editing** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.11660) - **LittleLearner: Language Models Under Pedagogically Controlled Knowledge Exposure** (arXiv) - [Read more]
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **SKILLER: Language-Level Reinforcement Learning for Reusable Skill Extraction in Small Language Models** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.10538) - **Thought-Level Beam Search for Reasoning** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.08020) - **Maglev: Sliding Recurrent Memory** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.02870) - **HumanTracker: Towards Comprehensive and Human-Aligned Motion Tracking Benchmark** (arXiv) - [Read more](http://arxiv.org/abs/2
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **Mitigating Gender Bias in English to Romanian Machine Translation** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.08606) - **Knowing When to Quit: Diagnosing and Training LLMs to Abort Futile Reasoning** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2607.29211) - **QuoteBench: How Matched Scores Can Hide Command-Path Failures** (arXiv) - [Read more](http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13547v1) - **Vero: Can AI Agents Build Formally Verified Software Repositories?** (arXiv) - [Read more](http://arxiv.org/abs/2608
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **Mechanist: AI as a Scientific Instrument for Discovering the Mechanisms of Intelligence** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.12036) - **Learning How the World Evolves: Extrapolative Video World Models via Latent Dynamics Reasoning** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.09926) - **SkillZip: Contract-Preserving Graph Compression for Scalable Agent Skill Libraries** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.05604) - **Convergent Detour Hijacking: Task-P
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **Can LLM Agents Stick to the Script? A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Consistency in Interactive Narratives** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.08160) - **Diagram-MMU: A Multi-Modal Benchmark for Scientific Diagrams** (arXiv) - [Read more](http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12262v1) - **The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.06270) - **Ready Cohorts: Bounding GPU Opportunity and Avoiding Host Round Trips in LLM-Agent Co
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **ContextMaster: Interactive Multi-Shot Video Creation via Fixed-Budget Sparse Context Routing** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.04956) - **MASS: Multiplayer World Models with Authoritative Shared State** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.06257) - **KVAE: Family of Tokenizers for Multimodal Generative Models** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.05798) - **FactorJEPA: Factorizing Monolithic Futures into Layout-Agent-Interaction Channels for
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **Interpretable MEG Decoding of Perceived Speech: Cortical Sources and the Stimulus Features That Drive Retrieval** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.01481) - **TRAJDEBUG: Tracing Error Lifecycle to Identify Critical Failures in Long-Horizon Agent Trajectories** (arXiv) - [Read more](http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06346v1) - **Activity Frames: Deterministic Screen-Activity Compilation for Agent Memory and Replay** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.05784) - **EffectLearner: World-A
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **DataSpace: Benchmarking Data Agents for Verifiable Analytics over Heterogeneous Workspaces** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.03451) - **Teaching Nemotron Greek: Mining a Corpus, Adapting Retrieval, and Grounding Generation for Modern Greek across Specialist Domains** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.05138) - **Learning When to Trust via Selective Context Preference Optimization** (arXiv) - [Read more](http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06377v1) - **Tracing the Heart: An Evidence-
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **AVE-Compass: Towards Holistic Evaluation for Audio-Video Editing Abilities** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2607.24821) - **GDPevo: Evaluating Agent Self-Evolution on Real Business Tasks** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.03764) - **ABSeeker: Training Long-Horizon Search Agents via Answer-Backtracked Credit Assignment** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.05102) - **FinanceHarness: Autonomous Financial Deep Research Framework** (Hugging Face
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **WorldCup Arena: Prospective, Leakage-Free Evaluation of Frontier LLMs on a Live Tournament** (arXiv) - [Read more](http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04008v1) - **ARCHead: Activation-Metric Residual Correction for Large Language Model Output Heads** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.02703) - **When Many Answers Are Valid, Voting Fails: Symbolic Verification for Best-of-K Causal Reasoning in LLMs** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.03506) - **CURV: Enhancing Chart Understanding Throu
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **Model or Harness? An Interaction-Centric Taxonomy for Localizing Agent Failures** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2607.28802) - **GPTQ-2D: Cubic-Time Two-Sided Adaptive Rounding** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2607.27042) - **Seeing or Knowing? Visual Context Sensitivity in Multimodal Large Language Models** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2607.26326) - **Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](
## Episode Summary In this episode, we cover: - **SAF-OPD: Stable Advantage Fusion for On-Policy Distillation** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2607.29209) - **EMBL AI Librarian: Life-Sciences Knowledge Layer for AI Agents** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2607.28229) - **Would You Walk to the Car Wash? Revealing the Salience Bias of Large Language Models in Commonsense Reasoning** (Hugging Face Daily) - [Read more](https://huggingface.co/papers/2607.28478) - **CodeShrink: Adaptive Visual Compression for Efficient Multimodal Cod
