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arXiv

Verdict: Notable

HairDeck: Animation-Ready Stylized Hair Cards from a Single Image

The hair of stylized characters in games and avatars is built from hair cards: artist-placed ribbons whose geometry is the visible hair, animated by spring bones.

By He, Wei, Zhao +3

  • HF ▲ 23
  • Stars ★ 379
Score█████░░░░░5.3

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  1. 1. Multi-Token Prediction Done Right

    Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) is now a common ingredient in language-model pre-training, as it improves downstream performance and enables faster inference through speculative decoding.

    Verdict: Notable█████░░░░░4.8
  2. 2. Youtu-Parsing-Omni: One Encoder, One Schema, All Modalities

    We present Youtu-Parsing-Omni, an omni-modal parser that converts documents, images, audio, and video into structured records grounded in space and time, providing a perception layer for agents that read, locate, and…

    Verdict: Notable████░░░░░░4.4

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No.03 to No.08

  1. arXivby Metinov, Arziev

    Glance: The Generator Is Its Own Reranker

    Retrieval-augmented generation commonly serves separate models for reranking and answering, duplicating model residency and passage processing.

    No.03Verdict: NotableScore████░░░░░░4.2

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