✨From Directions to Regions: Decomposing Activations in Language Models via Local Geometry

📝 Summary:
Mixture of Factor Analyzers MFA models language model activations via local Gaussian regions, capturing complex nonlinear structures. MFA outperforms baselines, improving localization and steering, positioning local geometry as a promising unit for concept discovery and control.

🔹 Publication Date: Published on Feb 2

🔹 Paper Links:
• arXiv Page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02464
• PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.02464
• Github: https://github.com/ordavid-s/decomposing-activations-local-geometry

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✨TreeCUA: Efficiently Scaling GUI Automation with Tree-Structured Verifiable Evolution

📝 Summary:
TreeCUA scales GUI automation by organizing CUA exploration trajectories into tree structures. It uses multi-agent collaboration, adaptive exploration, and verification to improve GUI planning. This approach achieves better efficiency, generalization, and enhances planning capabilities.

🔹 Publication Date: Published on Feb 10

🔹 Paper Links:
• arXiv Page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09662
• PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.09662
• Github: https://github.com/UITron-hub/TreeCUA

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✨Rethinking Global Text Conditioning in Diffusion Transformers

📝 Summary:
Conventional text conditioning pooled embedding in diffusion transformers offers little benefit alone. But, when used as training-free guidance for controllable generation, it significantly improves performance across text-to-image, video, and image editing tasks.

🔹 Publication Date: Published on Feb 9

🔹 Paper Links:
• arXiv Page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09268
• PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.09268
• Github: https://github.com/quickjkee/modulation-guidance

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✨Stop the Flip-Flop: Context-Preserving Verification for Fast Revocable Diffusion Decoding

📝 Summary:
COVER stops flip-flop oscillations in parallel diffusion decoding with cache override verification. It performs leave-one-out verification and stable drafting in one pass, preserving context via KV cache override. This greatly reduces revisions for faster, quality-preserving decoding.

🔹 Publication Date: Published on Feb 5

🔹 Paper Links:
• arXiv Page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06161
• PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.06161

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✨LLMs Encode Their Failures: Predicting Success from Pre-Generation Activations

📝 Summary:
LLMs encode their likelihood of success in pre-generation activations. Probes can predict performance on math and coding tasks, outperforming surface features. This allows efficient inference routing across models, reducing costs by up to 70% while improving performance.

🔹 Publication Date: Published on Feb 10

🔹 Paper Links:
• arXiv Page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09924
• PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.09924
• Github: https://github.com/KabakaWilliam/llms_know_difficulty

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✨Learning on the Manifold: Unlocking Standard Diffusion Transformers with Representation Encoders

📝 Summary:
Standard diffusion transformers fail on representation encoders due to geometric interference. Our RJF method uses Riemannian flow matching to guide generation along the manifold, enabling standard DiT architectures to converge effectively without width scaling.

🔹 Publication Date: Published on Feb 10

🔹 Paper Links:
• arXiv Page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10099
• PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.10099
• Github: https://github.com/amandpkr/RJF

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✨Learning to Continually Learn via Meta-learning Agentic Memory Designs

📝 Summary:
ALMA uses meta-learning to automatically discover adaptable memory designs for agentic systems, enabling continual learning without human engineering. Its learned designs outperform state-of-the-art human-crafted methods across diverse domains.

🔹 Publication Date: Published on Feb 8

🔹 Paper Links:
• arXiv Page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07755
• PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.07755
• Project Page: https://yimingxiong.me/alma
• Github: https://github.com/zksha/alma

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✨TokenTrim: Inference-Time Token Pruning for Autoregressive Long Video Generation

📝 Summary:
Auto-regressive video generation suffers from temporal drift due to error accumulation in latent conditioning tokens, which is addressed by identifying and removing unstable tokens during inference to...

🔹 Publication Date: Published on Jan 30

🔹 Paper Links:
• arXiv Page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00268
• PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.00268
• Project Page: https://arielshaulov.github.io/TokenTrim/
• Github: https://github.com/arielshaulov/TokenTrim

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✨C-ΔΘ: Circuit-Restricted Weight Arithmetic for Selective Refusal

📝 Summary:
Offline selective refusal in large language models is achieved through circuit-restricted weight updates that eliminate runtime intervention costs while maintaining performance. AI-generated summary M...

🔹 Publication Date: Published on Feb 4

🔹 Paper Links:
• arXiv Page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04521
• PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.04521

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✨Bridging Academia and Industry: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Attributed Graph Clustering

📝 Summary:
PyAGC presents a production-ready benchmark and library for attributed graph clustering that addresses limitations of current research through scalable, memory-efficient implementations and comprehens...

🔹 Publication Date: Published on Feb 9

🔹 Paper Links:
• arXiv Page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08519
• PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08519
• Project Page: https://pyagc.readthedocs.io
• Github: https://github.com/Cloudy1225/PyAGC

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✨On the Optimal Reasoning Length for RL-Trained Language Models

📝 Summary:
Length control methods in reinforcement learning-trained language models affect reasoning performance and computational efficiency, with optimal output lengths balancing these factors. AI-generated su...

🔹 Publication Date: Published on Feb 10

🔹 Paper Links:
• arXiv Page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09591
• PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.09591

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✨VISTA-Bench: Do Vision-Language Models Really Understand Visualized Text as Well as Pure Text?

📝 Summary:
VISTA-Bench evaluates vision-language models' ability to understand visualized text versus pure-text queries, revealing significant performance gaps and sensitivity to rendering variations. AI-generat...

🔹 Publication Date: Published on Feb 4

🔹 Paper Links:
• arXiv Page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04802
• PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.04802
• Github: https://github.com/QingAnLiu/VISTA-Bench

✨ Datasets citing this paper:
• https://huggingface.co/datasets/liuqa/VISTA-Bench

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✨pySLAM: An Open-Source, Modular, and Extensible Framework for SLAM

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pySLAM is an open-source framework supporting Visual SLAM with monocular, stereo, and RGB-D cameras, incorporating classical and modern features, loop closure methods, volumetric reconstruction, and d...

🔹 Publication Date: Published on Feb 17, 2025

🔹 Paper Links:
• arXiv Page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11955
• PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.11955
• Github: https://github.com/luigifreda/pyslam

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✨Large-Scale Terminal Agentic Trajectory Generation from Dockerized Environments

📝 Summary:
A scalable pipeline called TerminalTraj addresses challenges in creating high-quality terminal trajectories for training agentic models by filtering repositories, generating Docker-aligned task instan...

🔹 Publication Date: Published on Feb 1

🔹 Paper Links:
• arXiv Page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01244
• PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01244
• Github: https://github.com/multimodal-art-projection/TerminalTraj

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✨LatentLens: Revealing Highly Interpretable Visual Tokens in LLMs

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LatentLens enables interpretation of visual token representations in vision-language models by comparing them to contextualized textual representations, revealing that visual tokens are more interpret...

🔹 Publication Date: Published on Jan 31

🔹 Paper Links:
• arXiv Page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00462
• PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.00462
• Github: https://github.com/McGill-NLP/latentlens

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✨Surprisal-Guided Selection: Compute-Optimal Test-Time Strategies for Execution-Grounded Code Generation

📝 Summary:
Test-time training fails in verification-grounded tasks due to over-sharpening, while surprisal-guided selection improves performance by favoring diverse, low-confidence samples. AI-generated summary ...

🔹 Publication Date: Published on Feb 7

🔹 Paper Links:
• arXiv Page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07670
• PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.07670
• Project Page: https://jbarnes850.github.io/2026/02/02/surprisal-guided-selection/
• Github: https://jbarnes850.github.io/2026/02/02/surprisal-guided-selection/

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• https://huggingface.co/Jarrodbarnes/KernelBench-RLVR-120b

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✨Effective Reasoning Chains Reduce Intrinsic Dimensionality

📝 Summary:
Effective chain-of-thought reasoning strategies reduce intrinsic dimensionality, leading to better generalization by requiring fewer model parameters to achieve given accuracy thresholds. AI-generated...

🔹 Publication Date: Published on Feb 9

🔹 Paper Links:
• arXiv Page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09276
• PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.09276

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✨ContextBench: A Benchmark for Context Retrieval in Coding Agents

📝 Summary:
ContextBench evaluates context retrieval in coding agents through detailed process analysis, revealing that advanced agent designs provide limited improvements in context usage while highlighting gaps...

🔹 Publication Date: Published on Feb 5

🔹 Paper Links:
• arXiv Page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05892
• PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.05892
• Project Page: https://contextbench.github.io/
• Github: https://github.com/EuniAI/ContextBench

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✨Secure Code Generation via Online Reinforcement Learning with Vulnerability Reward Model

📝 Summary:
SecCoderX uses online reinforcement learning to align large language models for secure code generation while preserving functionality, addressing the functionality-security trade-off through vulnerabi...

🔹 Publication Date: Published on Feb 7

🔹 Paper Links:
• arXiv Page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07422
• PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.07422
• Github: https://github.com/AndrewWTY/SecCoderX

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✨Contact-Anchored Policies: Contact Conditioning Creates Strong Robot Utility Models

📝 Summary:
Contact-Anchored Policies CAP replace language conditioning with physical contact points, using modular utility models for robust robot manipulation. CAP achieves superior zero-shot performance with minimal demonstration data, outperforming large VLAs by 56%.

🔹 Publication Date: Published on Feb 9

🔹 Paper Links:
• arXiv Page: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09017
• PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.09017
• Project Page: https://cap-policy.github.io/
• Github: https://github.com/jeffacce/cap-policy

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