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Edition No. 5
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Top stories

  1. 1. Sharpening Tax in Post-Training

    An emerging hypothesis about reinforcement learning (RL) post-training of large language models (LLMs) is that it merely sharpens existing behaviors of a base model, improving single-shot accuracy at the cost of…

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  2. 2. TabFM: A Zero-Shot Foundation Model for Tabular Data

    Tabular machine learning typically relies on per-dataset workflows, fitting tree ensembles or running AutoML searches from scratch for every task.

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  3. 3. RSIGame: Autonomous Agentic Game Development with Recursive Self-improvement

    Recent advances in large language models have made automatic game generation increasingly feasible, yet reliably improving generated games beyond a playable version remains challenging.

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  1. arXivby Ren, Li, Liu +2

    Hierarchical Continuous Diffusion Language Models

    Discrete diffusion language models offer a compelling alternative to autoregressive generation for tasks demanding bidirectional reasoning and global constraint satisfaction.

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