WEEKLY TOP 10 · 2026-09-28 → 2026-10-04 · FINAL
Hot papers · 2026-W40
Ranked by Hugging Face upvotes among papers with a takeaway, grouped by the ISO week they were listed on HF Daily. A week is frozen once complete.
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#01▲7482026-09-27
Raven: The Harness of Harnesses for Composable Agentic Intelligence
Raven is an open multi-agent ecosystem that automatically builds, evolves and orchestrates specialised agent harnesses across domains.
Agents
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#02▲6422026-09-30
False Frontiers: Diagnosing and Mitigating Co-Cheating in Self-Evolving Search Agents
Identifies co-cheating in self-evolving search agents, where proposer and solver converge on shared errors, and mitigates it with multi-sample verification.
AgentsReinforcement learning
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#03▲5112026-09-29
The Teacher Is a Direction, Not a Destination: Extrapolating RL-Induced Representation Residuals in On-Policy Distillation
Extrapolates RL-induced hidden-representation residuals in on-policy distillation so students can surpass teachers more stably.
Efficient training & inferenceReinforcement learning
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#04▲4852026-09-25
Omni-IO Skills: Harnessing Your Agent Omni-Native
Omni-IO Skills makes existing agents omni-modal through hierarchical skills, a common execution interface and an asset registry.
AgentsMultimodal
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#05▲4172026-09-29
LoopVL: Recurrent Visual Intelligence
LoopVL brings looped (recurrent) Transformers to vision-language models, iteratively refining a shared vision-language state.
MultimodalReasoning
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#06▲3882026-09-28
In-Context Learning for Robots: Methods and Applications
A survey of in-context learning for robots, grouping methods into four families by how context is turned into action.
Robotics & embodied AI
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#07▲3672026-09-28
MaLiang-Harness: A Programmable Path to Image and Video Generation
MaLiang-Harness has MLLMs generate images and videos via programs in a build-inspect-revise loop that closes the program-to-visual gap.
Visual generationCode & SWE
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#08▲3272026-09-26
Scaling Properties of Same-Family On-Policy Distillation
Studies scaling of same-family on-policy distillation, finding accuracy rises roughly linearly with KL distance early in training.
Efficient training & inferenceReinforcement learning
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#09▲2962026-09-27
VisionHOPE: Visual Backbones as Self-Modifying Learning Systems
VisionHOPE turns a visual backbone into a self-modifying learner whose memory and update rules co-evolve within each image.
Vision & 3D
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#10▲2732026-09-24
Post-Training Leaves Behavioral Shadows on Unrelated Decisions
Shows post-training leaves behavioural shadows in unrelated outputs; a single teacher word per prompt can transfer capabilities to a student.
LLMsSafety & interpretability