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AI Research Radar

June 16–22: 16 frontier papers out of 1,774 read.

16 frontier160 cleared1,774 papers read

Frontier

Papers rated as moving the field

How we choose

Cosmos 3

“Our evaluation demonstrates that Cosmos 3 establishes a new state-of-the-art across a diverse suite of understanding and generation tasks, demonstrating omnimodal world models as scalable, general-purpose backbones for embodied agents.”

The authors, in the abstract

Omnimodal World Models for Physical AI

DeepSeek-V4

“In the one-million-token context setting, DeepSeek-V4-Pro requires only 27% of single-token inference FLOPs and 10% of KV cache compared with DeepSeek-V3.2.”

DeepSeek

Nemotron 3 Ultra

“Nemotron 3 Ultra achieves up to 6x higher inference throughput as compared to state-of-the-art publicly available LLMs while attaining on-par accuracy.”

NVIDIA

Greed Is Learned

“We show that reinforcement learning can make a policy \emph{addicted} to such a visible self-benefit channel.”

NVIDIA

SpatialWorld

“Evaluating 15 advanced agents reveals that robust spatial task solving remains challenging: the strongest model, GPT-5, achieves an average task success rate (TSR) of only 17.4%, while the leading open-source model, Qwen-3.5, reaches 14.1%.”

Benchmark

TRIDENT

“On multi-UAV mobile-edge computing, autonomous intersection management, and a hybrid SMAC variant, TRIDENT cuts training-time violations by 95.5% over MADDPG and 76.3% over MACPO, while improving reward by 13.5% over the strongest unconstrained baseline.”

Loss Landscape Poisoning

“We demonstrate that the attack amplifies privacy leakage across language (up to 100% successful extraction), and vision-language models (up 90% successful extraction).”

ResearchClawBench

“Error analysis shows that failures concentrate in experimental protocol mismatch, evidence mismatch, and missing scientific core.”

Benchmark

GeoDisaster

“Experiments show that GeoDisaster challenges existing RS-VLMs and agentic systems, while RCEA improves tool use, evidence grounding, state consistency, and decision generation.”

Benchmark

Reward Hacking in Language Model Agents

“Our results show that reward hacking arises naturally when optimizing proxy objectives with capable language model agents and resists standard mitigations, suggesting that proxy-reward failures in agentic settings may require approaches beyond standard exploration and credit-assignment fixes.”

SACE

“Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves surgical concept erasure performance across various domains with minimal training overhead, timely and elegently resolute the critical safety vulnerabilities inherent in emerging VAR architectures.”

The week by field

Jun 16–22: 160 cleared, 16 frontier

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

Models under test

Papers this week that name the model

  1. GPT-4o5
  2. Claude Sonnet 4.63
  3. gpt-oss-120b2
  4. GPT-5.52
  5. Gemini 3 Flash2
  6. Qwen3 8B2
  7. Qwen3.6 35B A3B2
  8. GPT-4o mini2

Labs publishing

Papers this week with an author at the lab

  1. NVIDIA6
  2. Google4
  3. DeepSeek1
  4. IBM1
  5. Microsoft1

Also cleared

144 papers

All 144 papers