@TheTuringPost: Must-read papers of the week Harness Handbook: Making Evolving Agent Harnesses Readable, Navigable, and Editable Search…
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A curated list of must-read papers of the week covering agentic systems, long-context RL, visual reasoning, and more.
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Must-read papers of the week
Harness Handbook: Making Evolving Agent Harnesses Readable, Navigable, and Editable SearchOS-V1 KnowAct-GUIClaw LongStraw: Long-Context RL Beyond 2M Tokens under a Fixed GPU Budget SEED: Self-Evolving On-Policy Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning DeepLoop: Depth Scaling for Looped Transformers RoboTTT: Context Scaling for Robot Policies UniVR: Thinking in Visual Space for Unified Visual Reasoning Hierarchical Denoising For Multi-Step Visual Reasoning Partition, Prompt, Aggregate: Statistical Self-Consistency in LMs Tracing Agentic Failure from the Flow of Success Self-Improvements in Modern Agentic Systems: A Survey
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