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December 29, 2025 – January 4, 2026: 6 frontier papers out of 1,216 read.

6 frontier47 cleared1,216 papers read

Frontier

Papers rated as moving the field

How we choose

CorpusQA

“Extensive experiments reveal that even state-of-the-art long-context LLMs struggle as input length increases, and standard retrieval-augmented generation systems collapse entirely.”

The authors, in the abstract

A 10 Million Token Benchmark for Corpus-Level Analysis and Reasoning

AlibabaBenchmarkarXivPDF

Reward Modeling from Natural Language Human Feedback

“Experiments on multiple benchmarks demonstrate that our method consistently outperforms state-of-the-art GRMs trained with outcome-only reward, confirming the superiority of integrating natural language over binary human feedback as supervision.”

Alibaba

AgencyBench

“Experiments reveal that closed-source models significantly outperform open-source models (48.4% vs 32.1%).”

BenchmarkCode

Thinking-Based Non-Thinking

“Experiments on five mathematical benchmarks demonstrate that TNT reduces token usage by around 50% compared to DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B/7B and DeepScaleR-1.5B, while significantly improving accuracy.”

Mind the Gap

“Our results demonstrate a 100% success rate for atomic action hijacking and the ability to orchestrate high-impact exploits, including unauthorized file deletion, SMS transmission, and app uninstallation, without the attacker holding any corresponding permissions.”

The week by field

Dec 29, 2025 – Jan 4, 2026: 47 cleared, 6 frontier

The week’s papers have not been sorted into fields yet.

Models under test

Papers this week that name the model

  1. Gemma (7B)1
  2. gpt-oss-120b1
  3. Devstral Small 21
  4. GPT-51
  5. Qwen3 8B1
  6. DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B1
  7. DeepSeek-R11
  8. GPT-41

Labs publishing

Papers this week with an author at the lab

  1. Alibaba3
  2. Microsoft2
  3. AllenAI1
  4. Amazon1
  5. Google1

Also cleared

41 papers

All 41 papers