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Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG

Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG
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How AI Learns to Navigate Live iOS Apps

Online Dense Reinforcement Learning with Planning-Grounding Agent for UI Navigation on Live iOS Apps
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GHARP: Real-Time Gaussian Head Animation from Large-Scale Reconstruction Prior

GHARP: Real-Time Gaussian Head Animation from Large-Scale Reconstruction Prior
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How Structured Choices Make Multimodal Agents Faster

Selection-Based Structured Reasoning: Toward Efficient Multimodal Search Agents
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When Should LLM Agents Plan Before Retrieving Tools?

Plan or Retrieve First? A Scale Study of Tool Discovery Architectures
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How to Run Giant LLMs Locally with MLX and RDMA

Local and Distributed Large LLM Inference with MLX and RDMA on Mac Studio
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How Speech Models Detect Code-Switching Without Transcripts

Code-Switching Detection via Language-Selective Dimensions in Speech Foundation Models
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Tri-Modal Diffusion: Learning Text, Images, and Audio

The Design Space of Tri-Modal Masked Diffusion Models
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Why Mixing Languages Beats Hyperparameter Tuning

Mix, Don’t Tune: Bilingual Pre-Training Outperforms Hyperparameter Search in Data-Constrained Settings
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How Idle Apple Silicon Devices Become a Shared GPU Cloud

Minions: A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices
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How Reliable Are LLMs at Judging Translation Quality?

Large Language Models for Machine Translation Quality Annotation: Humans and Models Are Both Challenged
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How Rubrics Help AI Agents Learn Across Environments

RISED: Rubrics for Agentic Multi-Environment Selection and Self-Distillation
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How People Shape What Personal Sensing Systems Know

Negotiating Ontological Boundaries in User-Authored Personal Sensing Systems
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Why Confidence-Based Diffusion Misses Token Dependencies

Limits of Confidence in Diffusion
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How Language Discrimination Improves Multilingual Speech

Language Discrimination Improves Linguistic Learning in Multilingual Speech Models
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How AI Learns and Improves from Its Own Failures

RLTL;DR: Self-Improvement by Internalizing Self-Generated Feedback
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Do AI Agents Need Complex Tools for ML Engineering?

How Much of a Harness Does a Strong Agent Need for Autonomous ML Engineering?
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How to Train and Evaluate Continual-Learning Agents

SCLATE: A Substrate for Continual-Learning Agent Training and Evaluation
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How LLM Steering Balances Effectiveness and Fluency

On the Effectiveness-Fluency Trade-Off in LLM Conditioning: A Systematic Study
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Stabilizing Pseudo-Labels for Federated Speech Recognition

A Practical Recipe for Semi-Supervised Federated ASR: Online Pseudo-Labels with Server Update Stabilization
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