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Daily Paper CastLumina-DiMOO: An Omni Diffusion Large Language Model for Multi-Modal Generation and Understanding 🤗 Upvotes: 39 | cs.CV Authors: Yi Xin, Qi Qin, Siqi Luo, Kaiwen Zhu, Juncheng Yan, Yan Tai, Jiayi Lei, Yuewen Cao, Keqi Wang, Yibin Wang, Jinbin Bai, Qian Yu, Dengyang Jiang, Yuandong Pu, Haoxing Chen, Le Zhuo, Junjun He, Gen Luo, Tianbin Li, Ming Hu, Jin Ye, Shenglong Ye, Bo Zhang, Chang Xu, Wenhai Wang, Hongsheng Li, Guangtao Zhai, Tianfan Xue, Bin Fu, Xiaohong Liu, Yu Qiao, Yihao Liu Title: Lumina-DiMOO: An Omni Diffusion Large Language Model for Multi-Modal Generation and Understanding Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06308v1 Abstract:...
2025-10-1021 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastMinerU2.5: A Decoupled Vision-Language Model for Efficient High-Resolution Document Parsing 🤗 Upvotes: 81 | cs.CV, cs.CL Authors: Junbo Niu, Zheng Liu, Zhuangcheng Gu, Bin Wang, Linke Ouyang, Zhiyuan Zhao, Tao Chu, Tianyao He, Fan Wu, Qintong Zhang, Zhenjiang Jin, Guang Liang, Rui Zhang, Wenzheng Zhang, Yuan Qu, Zhifei Ren, Yuefeng Sun, Yuanhong Zheng, Dongsheng Ma, Zirui Tang, Boyu Niu, Ziyang Miao, Hejun Dong, Siyi Qian, Junyuan Zhang, Jingzhou Chen, Fangdong Wang, Xiaomeng Zhao, Liqun Wei, Wei Li, Shasha Wang, Ruiliang Xu, Yuanyuan Cao, Lu Chen, Qianqian Wu, Huaiyu Gu, Lindong Lu, Keming Wang, Dechen Lin, Guanlin Shen, Xuanhe Zhou, Linfeng Zhang, Yuhang Zang, Xiaoyi Dong, Jiaqi Wang, Bo...
2025-09-3025 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastSciReasoner: Laying the Scientific Reasoning Ground Across Disciplines 🤗 Upvotes: 76 | cs.CL Authors: Yizhou Wang, Chen Tang, Han Deng, Jiabei Xiao, Jiaqi Liu, Jianyu Wu, Jun Yao, Pengze Li, Encheng Su, Lintao Wang, Guohang Zhuang, Yuchen Ren, Ben Fei, Ming Hu, Xin Chen, Dongzhan Zhou, Junjun He, Xiangyu Yue, Zhenfei Yin, Jiamin Wu, Qihao Zheng, Yuhao Zhou, Huihui Xu, Chenglong Ma, Yan Lu, Wenlong Zhang, Chunfeng Song, Philip Torr, Shixiang Tang, Xinzhu Ma, Wanli Ouyang, Lei Bai Title: SciReasoner: Laying the Scientific Reasoning Ground Across Disciplines Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21320v1 Abstract: We present a sci...
2025-09-2723 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastUnderstand Before You Generate: Self-Guided Training for Autoregressive Image Generation 🤗 Upvotes: 22 | cs.CV Authors: Xiaoyu Yue, Zidong Wang, Yuqing Wang, Wenlong Zhang, Xihui Liu, Wanli Ouyang, Lei Bai, Luping Zhou Title: Understand Before You Generate: Self-Guided Training for Autoregressive Image Generation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15185v1 Abstract: Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of high-quality visual representations in image generation and have highlighted the limitations of generative models in image understanding. As a generative paradigm originally designed for natural language, autoregressive models face similar challenges. In this work, we present the first systematic investigation into the mec...
2025-09-2021 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastFrom Editor to Dense Geometry Estimator 🤗 Upvotes: 63 | cs.CV, cs.AI Authors: JiYuan Wang, Chunyu Lin, Lei Sun, Rongying Liu, Lang Nie, Mingxing Li, Kang Liao, Xiangxiang Chu, Yao Zhao Title: From Editor to Dense Geometry Estimator Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04338v1 Abstract: Leveraging visual priors from pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) generative models has shown success in dense prediction. However, dense prediction is inherently an image-to-image task, suggesting that image editing models, rather than T2I generative models, may be a more suitable foundation for fine-tuning. Motivated by this, we conduct a sys...
2025-09-0618 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastInverse IFEval: Can LLMs Unlearn Stubborn Training Conventions to Follow Real Instructions? 🤗 Upvotes: 41 | cs.CL Authors: Qinyan Zhang, Xinping Lei, Ruijie Miao, Yu Fu, Haojie Fan, Le Chang, Jiafan Hou, Dingling Zhang, Zhongfei Hou, Ziqiang Yang, Changxin Pu, Fei Hu, Jingkai Liu, Mengyun Liu, Yang Liu, Xiang Gao, Jiaheng Liu, Tong Yang, Zaiyuan Wang, Ge Zhang, Wenhao Huang Title: Inverse IFEval: Can LLMs Unlearn Stubborn Training Conventions to Follow Real Instructions? Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04292v1 Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong performance on diverse tasks but often exhibit cognitive inertia, struggling to follow instructions that conflict wit...
2025-09-0623 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastA Survey of Scientific Large Language Models: From Data Foundations to Agent Frontiers 🤗 Upvotes: 40 | cs.CL, cs.AI Authors: Ming Hu, Chenglong Ma, Wei Li, Wanghan Xu, Jiamin Wu, Jucheng Hu, Tianbin Li, Guohang Zhuang, Jiaqi Liu, Yingzhou Lu, Ying Chen, Chaoyang Zhang, Cheng Tan, Jie Ying, Guocheng Wu, Shujian Gao, Pengcheng Chen, Jiashi Lin, Haitao Wu, Lulu Chen, Fengxiang Wang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Xiangyu Zhao, Feilong Tang, Encheng Su, Junzhi Ning, Xinyao Liu, Ye Du, Changkai Ji, Cheng Tang, Huihui Xu, Ziyang Chen, Ziyan Huang, Jiyao Liu, Pengfei Jiang, Yizhou Wang, Chen Tang, Jianyu Wu, Yuchen Ren, Siyuan Yan, Zhonghua Wang, Zhongxing Xu, Shiyan Su, Shangquan Sun, Runkai Zhao, Zhi...
2025-09-0223 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastCMPhysBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Condensed Matter Physics 🤗 Upvotes: 43 | cs.LG, cs.AI Authors: Weida Wang, Dongchen Huang, Jiatong Li, Tengchao Yang, Ziyang Zheng, Di Zhang, Dong Han, Benteng Chen, Binzhao Luo, Zhiyu Liu, Kunling Liu, Zhiyuan Gao, Shiqi Geng, Wei Ma, Jiaming Su, Xin Li, Shuchen Pu, Yuhan Shui, Qianjia Cheng, Zhihao Dou, Dongfei Cui, Changyong He, Jin Zeng, Zeke Xie, Mao Su, Dongzhan Zhou, Yuqiang Li, Wanli Ouyang, Yunqi Cai, Xi Dai, Shufei Zhang, Lei Bai, Jinguang Cheng, Zhong Fang, Hongming Weng Title: CMPhysBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models in Condensed Matter Physics Arxiv: htt...
2025-08-2820 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastIntern-S1: A Scientific Multimodal Foundation Model 🤗 Upvotes: 166 | cs.LG, cs.CL, cs.CV Authors: Lei Bai, Zhongrui Cai, Maosong Cao, Weihan Cao, Chiyu Chen, Haojiong Chen, Kai Chen, Pengcheng Chen, Ying Chen, Yongkang Chen, Yu Cheng, Yu Cheng, Pei Chu, Tao Chu, Erfei Cui, Ganqu Cui, Long Cui, Ziyun Cui, Nianchen Deng, Ning Ding, Nanqin Dong, Peijie Dong, Shihan Dou, Sinan Du, Haodong Duan, Caihua Fan, Ben Gao, Changjiang Gao, Jianfei Gao, Songyang Gao, Yang Gao, Zhangwei Gao, Jiaye Ge, Qiming Ge, Lixin Gu, Yuzhe Gu, Aijia Guo, Qipeng Guo, Xu Guo, Conghui He, Junjun He, Yili Hong, Siyuan Hou, Caiyu Hu, Han...
2025-08-2319 minMove with Power
Move with PowerThe Power of “Let Them”: Real Talk with Carol Wang on Healing and Rediscovering Her Light in Career, Love, and LifeIn this candid conversation, Carol Wang joins Esther and Shirley to reflect on the winding road of her 20s—from a global upbringing across Asia to a career in real estate investing. Raised between Shenzhen, Singapore, and Vancouver, Carol shares how her multicultural background shaped her independence and resilience. She opens up about working in real estate investing, finding her voice in a high-pressure industry, and learning to balance ambition with joy through grounding hobbies like ballet and book club.What makes this episode especially powerful is Carol’s honesty about walking away from a to...
2025-08-2139 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastHas GPT-5 Achieved Spatial Intelligence? An Empirical Study 🤗 Upvotes: 22 | cs.CV, cs.CL, cs.LG, cs.MM, cs.RO Authors: Zhongang Cai, Yubo Wang, Qingping Sun, Ruisi Wang, Chenyang Gu, Wanqi Yin, Zhiqian Lin, Zhitao Yang, Chen Wei, Xuanke Shi, Kewang Deng, Xiaoyang Han, Zukai Chen, Jiaqi Li, Xiangyu Fan, Hanming Deng, Lewei Lu, Bo Li, Ziwei Liu, Quan Wang, Dahua Lin, Lei Yang Title: Has GPT-5 Achieved Spatial Intelligence? An Empirical Study Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13142v1 Abstract: Multi-modal models have achieved remarkable progress in recent years. Nevertheless, they continue to exhibit notable lim...
2025-08-2019 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastSSRL: Self-Search Reinforcement Learning 🤗 Upvotes: 66 | cs.CL Authors: Yuchen Fan, Kaiyan Zhang, Heng Zhou, Yuxin Zuo, Yanxu Chen, Yu Fu, Xinwei Long, Xuekai Zhu, Che Jiang, Yuchen Zhang, Li Kang, Gang Chen, Cheng Huang, Zhizhou He, Bingning Wang, Lei Bai, Ning Ding, Bowen Zhou Title: SSRL: Self-Search Reinforcement Learning Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10874v1 Abstract: We investigate the potential of large language models (LLMs) to serve as efficient simulators for agentic search tasks in reinforcement learning (RL), thereby reducing dependence on costly interactions with external search engines. To this end, we...
2025-08-1921 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastGLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models 🤗 Upvotes: 79 | cs.CL Authors: GLM-4. 5 Team, :, Aohan Zeng, Xin Lv, Qinkai Zheng, Zhenyu Hou, Bin Chen, Chengxing Xie, Cunxiang Wang, Da Yin, Hao Zeng, Jiajie Zhang, Kedong Wang, Lucen Zhong, Mingdao Liu, Rui Lu, Shulin Cao, Xiaohan Zhang, Xuancheng Huang, Yao Wei, Yean Cheng, Yifan An, Yilin Niu, Yuanhao Wen, Yushi Bai, Zhengxiao Du, Zihan Wang, Zilin Zhu, Bohan Zhang, Bosi Wen, Bowen Wu, Bowen Xu, Can Huang, Casey Zhao, Changpeng Cai, Chao Yu, Chen Li, Chendi Ge, Chenghua Huang, Chenhui Zhang, Chenxi Xu, Chenzheng Zhu, Chuang Li, Congfeng Yin, Daoyan Lin, Dayong Yang, Dazhi Jiang, Din...
2025-08-1221 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastVeriGUI: Verifiable Long-Chain GUI Dataset 🤗 Upvotes: 117 | cs.HC Authors: Shunyu Liu, Minghao Liu, Huichi Zhou, Zhenyu Cui, Yang Zhou, Yuhao Zhou, Wendong Fan, Ge Zhang, Jiajun Shi, Weihao Xuan, Jiaxing Huang, Shuang Luo, Fang Wu, Heli Qi, Qingcheng Zeng, Ziqi Ren, Jialiang Gao, Jindi Lv, Junjie Wang, Aosong Feng, Heng Zhou, Wangchunshu Zhou, Zhenfei Yin, Wenlong Zhang, Guohao Li, Wenhao Yu, Irene Li, Lei Ma, Lei Bai, Qunshu Lin, Mingli Song, Dacheng Tao Title: VeriGUI: Verifiable Long-Chain GUI Dataset Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04026v1 Abstract: Recent studies have delved into constructing aut...
2025-08-0825 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastHunyuanWorld 1.0: Generating Immersive, Explorable, and Interactive 3D Worlds from Words or Pixels 🤗 Upvotes: 67 | cs.CV Authors: HunyuanWorld Team, Zhenwei Wang, Yuhao Liu, Junta Wu, Zixiao Gu, Haoyuan Wang, Xuhui Zuo, Tianyu Huang, Wenhuan Li, Sheng Zhang, Yihang Lian, Yulin Tsai, Lifu Wang, Sicong Liu, Puhua Jiang, Xianghui Yang, Dongyuan Guo, Yixuan Tang, Xinyue Mao, Jiaao Yu, Junlin Yu, Jihong Zhang, Meng Chen, Liang Dong, Yiwen Jia, Chao Zhang, Yonghao Tan, Hao Zhang, Zheng Ye, Peng He, Runzhou Wu, Minghui Chen, Zhan Li, Wangchen Qin, Lei Wang, Yifu Sun, Lin Niu, Xiang Yuan, Xiaofeng Yang, Yingping He, Jie Xiao, Yangyu Tao, Jianchen Zhu, Jinbao Xue, Kai Liu, Chongqing Zhao, Xin...
2025-07-3124 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastStep-Audio 2 Technical Report 🤗 Upvotes: 42 | cs.CL, cs.SD, eess.AS Authors: Boyong Wu, Chao Yan, Chen Hu, Cheng Yi, Chengli Feng, Fei Tian, Feiyu Shen, Gang Yu, Haoyang Zhang, Jingbei Li, Mingrui Chen, Peng Liu, Wang You, Xiangyu Tony Zhang, Xingyuan Li, Xuerui Yang, Yayue Deng, Yechang Huang, Yuxin Li, Yuxin Zhang, Zhao You, Brian Li, Changyi Wan, Hanpeng Hu, Jiangjie Zhen, Siyu Chen, Song Yuan, Xuelin Zhang, Yimin Jiang, Yu Zhou, Yuxiang Yang, Bingxin Li, Buyun Ma, Changhe Song, Dongqing Pang, Guoqiang Hu, Haiyang Sun, Kang An, Na Wang, Shuli Gao, Wei Ji, Wen Li, Wen Sun, Xuan Wen...
2025-07-2422 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastMiroMind-M1: An Open-Source Advancement in Mathematical Reasoning via Context-Aware Multi-Stage Policy Optimization 🤗 Upvotes: 93 | cs.CL Authors: Xingxuan Li, Yao Xiao, Dianwen Ng, Hai Ye, Yue Deng, Xiang Lin, Bin Wang, Zhanfeng Mo, Chong Zhang, Yueyi Zhang, Zonglin Yang, Ruilin Li, Lei Lei, Shihao Xu, Han Zhao, Weiling Chen, Feng Ji, Lidong Bing Title: MiroMind-M1: An Open-Source Advancement in Mathematical Reasoning via Context-Aware Multi-Stage Policy Optimization Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14683v1 Abstract: Large language models have recently evolved from fluent text generation to advanced reasoning across diverse domains, giving rise to reasoning language models. Among these domains, mathematical reasoning ser...
2025-07-2323 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastGLM-4.1V-Thinking: Towards Versatile Multimodal Reasoning with Scalable Reinforcement Learning 🤗 Upvotes: 141 | cs.CV, cs.AI, cs.LG Authors: GLM-V Team, :, Wenyi Hong, Wenmeng Yu, Xiaotao Gu, Guo Wang, Guobing Gan, Haomiao Tang, Jiale Cheng, Ji Qi, Junhui Ji, Lihang Pan, Shuaiqi Duan, Weihan Wang, Yan Wang, Yean Cheng, Zehai He, Zhe Su, Zhen Yang, Ziyang Pan, Aohan Zeng, Baoxu Wang, Boyan Shi, Changyu Pang, Chenhui Zhang, Da Yin, Fan Yang, Guoqing Chen, Jiazheng Xu, Jiali Chen, Jing Chen, Jinhao Chen, Jinghao Lin, Jinjiang Wang, Junjie Chen, Leqi Lei, Letian Gong, Leyi Pan, Mingzhi Zhang, Qinkai Zheng, Sheng Yang, Shi Zhong, Shiyu Huang, Shuyuan Zhao, Siyan Xue, Sha...
2025-07-0324 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastMiniCPM4: Ultra-Efficient LLMs on End Devices 🤗 Upvotes: 60 | cs.CL, cs.AI Authors: MiniCPM Team, Chaojun Xiao, Yuxuan Li, Xu Han, Yuzhuo Bai, Jie Cai, Haotian Chen, Wentong Chen, Xin Cong, Ganqu Cui, Ning Ding, Shengdan Fan, Yewei Fang, Zixuan Fu, Wenyu Guan, Yitong Guan, Junshao Guo, Yufeng Han, Bingxiang He, Yuxiang Huang, Cunliang Kong, Qiuzuo Li, Siyuan Li, Wenhao Li, Yanghao Li, Yishan Li, Zhen Li, Dan Liu, Biyuan Lin, Yankai Lin, Xiang Long, Quanyu Lu, Yaxi Lu, Peiyan Luo, Hongya Lyu, Litu Ou, Yinxu Pan, Zekai Qu, Qundong Shi, Zijun Song, Jiayuan Su, Zhou Su, Ao Sun, Xianghui Sun, Peijun Tang, Fan...
2025-06-1120 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastAstra: Toward General-Purpose Mobile Robots via Hierarchical Multimodal Learning 🤗 Upvotes: 25 | cs.RO, cs.AI Authors: Sheng Chen, Peiyu He, Jiaxin Hu, Ziyang Liu, Yansheng Wang, Tao Xu, Chi Zhang, Chongchong Zhang, Chao An, Shiyu Cai, Duo Cao, Kangping Chen, Shuai Chu, Tianwei Chu, Mingdi Dan, Min Du, Weiwei Fang, Pengyou Fu, Junkai Hu, Xiaowei Jiang, Zhaodi Jiang, Fuxuan Li, Jun Li, Minghui Li, Mingyao Li, Yanchang Li, Zhibin Li, Guangming Liu, Kairui Liu, Lihao Liu, Weizhi Liu, Xiaoshun Liu, Yufei Liu, Yunfei Liu, Qiang Lu, Yuanfei Luo, Xiang Lv, Hongying Ma, Sai Ma, Lingxian Mi, Sha Sa, Hongxiang Shu, Lei Tian, Chengzhi Wang, Jiayu Wang, Kai...
2025-06-1121 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastMiMo-VL Technical Report 🤗 Upvotes: 58 | cs.CL Authors: Xiaomi LLM-Core Team, :, Zihao Yue, Zhenru Lin, Yifan Song, Weikun Wang, Shuhuai Ren, Shuhao Gu, Shicheng Li, Peidian Li, Liang Zhao, Lei Li, Kainan Bao, Hao Tian, Hailin Zhang, Gang Wang, Dawei Zhu, Cici, Chenhong He, Bowen Ye, Bowen Shen, Zihan Zhang, Zihan Jiang, Zhixian Zheng, Zhichao Song, Zhenbo Luo, Yue Yu, Yudong Wang, Yuanyuan Tian, Yu Tu, Yihan Yan, Yi Huang, Xu Wang, Xinzhe Xu, Xingchen Song, Xing Zhang, Xing Yong, Xin Zhang, Xiangwei Deng, Wenyu Yang, Wenhan Ma, Weiwei Lv, Weiji Zhuang, Wei Liu, Sirui Deng, Shuo Liu, Shimao Chen, Shi...
2025-06-0619 minSuena a chino
Suena a chinoCHINA EXTRAORDINARIA cuenta su TRAYECTO después de HARVARD e historia de AMOR| Suena a chino EP19Hoy tenemos el placer de entrevistar a JIAJIA WANG LIU, cuya vida es un testimonio de valentía. Jiajia Wang Liu nació en Qingtian en 1988. A los ocho años, su familia se vio obligada a emigrar debido a una serie de circunstancias personales. Tras una travesía que los llevó a través de varios países, llegaron a Blanes, Cataluña, donde comenzaron una nueva vida. Su pasión por el conocimiento la llevó a estudiar idiomas y a aprovechar cada oportunidad educativa. A los 18 años, decidió que quería estudiar para poder "volar", y la educación se...
2025-06-051h 12Daily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastThe Entropy Mechanism of Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning Language Models 🤗 Upvotes: 84 | cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CL Authors: Ganqu Cui, Yuchen Zhang, Jiacheng Chen, Lifan Yuan, Zhi Wang, Yuxin Zuo, Haozhan Li, Yuchen Fan, Huayu Chen, Weize Chen, Zhiyuan Liu, Hao Peng, Lei Bai, Wanli Ouyang, Yu Cheng, Bowen Zhou, Ning Ding Title: The Entropy Mechanism of Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning Language Models Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22617v1 Abstract: This paper aims to overcome a major obstacle in scaling RL for reasoning with LLMs, namely the collapse of policy entropy. Such phenomenon is consistently observed across vas...
2025-05-3022 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastNovelSeek: When Agent Becomes the Scientist -- Building Closed-Loop System from Hypothesis to Verification 🤗 Upvotes: 86 | cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.CV Authors: NovelSeek Team, Bo Zhang, Shiyang Feng, Xiangchao Yan, Jiakang Yuan, Zhiyin Yu, Xiaohan He, Songtao Huang, Shaowei Hou, Zheng Nie, Zhilong Wang, Jinyao Liu, Runmin Ma, Tianshuo Peng, Peng Ye, Dongzhan Zhou, Shufei Zhang, Xiaosong Wang, Yilan Zhang, Meng Li, Zhongying Tu, Xiangyu Yue, Wangli Ouyang, Bowen Zhou, Lei Bai Title: NovelSeek: When Agent Becomes the Scientist -- Building Closed-Loop System from Hypothesis to Verification Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16938v1 Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is accelerating the transformation of...
2025-05-2420 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastVisualQuality-R1: Reasoning-Induced Image Quality Assessment via Reinforcement Learning to Rank 🤗 Upvotes: 28 | cs.CV Authors: Tianhe Wu, Jian Zou, Jie Liang, Lei Zhang, Kede Ma Title: VisualQuality-R1: Reasoning-Induced Image Quality Assessment via Reinforcement Learning to Rank Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14460v1 Abstract: DeepSeek-R1 has demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in incentivizing reasoning and generalization capabilities of large language models (LLMs) through reinforcement learning. Nevertheless, the potential of reasoning-induced computational modeling has not been thoroughly explored in the context of image quality assessment (IQA), a task critically dependent on visual reasoning. In this paper, we introduce VisualQuality-R1, a reasoning-induced no-reference IQA...
2025-05-2220 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastAdaptThink: Reasoning Models Can Learn When to Think 🤗 Upvotes: 58 | cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG Authors: Jiajie Zhang, Nianyi Lin, Lei Hou, Ling Feng, Juanzi Li Title: AdaptThink: Reasoning Models Can Learn When to Think Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13417v1 Abstract: Recently, large reasoning models have achieved impressive performance on various tasks by employing human-like deep thinking. However, the lengthy thinking process substantially increases inference overhead, making efficiency a critical bottleneck. In this work, we first demonstrate that NoThinking, which prompts the reasoning model to skip thinking and directly generate the final solution, is a b...
2025-05-2120 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastMiniMax-Speech: Intrinsic Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with a Learnable Speaker Encoder 🤗 Upvotes: 83 | eess.AS, cs.SD Authors: Bowen Zhang, Congchao Guo, Geng Yang, Hang Yu, Haozhe Zhang, Heidi Lei, Jialong Mai, Junjie Yan, Kaiyue Yang, Mingqi Yang, Peikai Huang, Ruiyang Jin, Sitan Jiang, Weihua Cheng, Yawei Li, Yichen Xiao, Yiying Zhou, Yongmao Zhang, Yuan Lu, Yucen He Title: MiniMax-Speech: Intrinsic Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with a Learnable Speaker Encoder Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07916v1 Abstract: We introduce MiniMax-Speech, an autoregressive Transformer-based Text-to-Speech (TTS) model that generates high-quality speech. A key innovation is our learnable speaker encoder, which extracts timbre fea...
2025-05-1521 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastSeed1.5-VL Technical Report 🤗 Upvotes: 86 | cs.CV, cs.AI Authors: Dong Guo, Faming Wu, Feida Zhu, Fuxing Leng, Guang Shi, Haobin Chen, Haoqi Fan, Jian Wang, Jianyu Jiang, Jiawei Wang, Jingji Chen, Jingjia Huang, Kang Lei, Liping Yuan, Lishu Luo, Pengfei Liu, Qinghao Ye, Rui Qian, Shen Yan, Shixiong Zhao, Shuai Peng, Shuangye Li, Sihang Yuan, Sijin Wu, Tianheng Cheng, Weiwei Liu, Wenqian Wang, Xianhan Zeng, Xiao Liu, Xiaobo Qin, Xiaohan Ding, Xiaojun Xiao, Xiaoying Zhang, Xuanwei Zhang, Xuehan Xiong, Yanghua Peng, Yangrui Chen, Yanwei Li, Yanxu Hu, Yi Lin, Yiyuan Hu, Yiyuan Zhang, Youbin Wu, Yu Li, Yudong Liu, Yue...
2025-05-1420 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastMiMo: Unlocking the Reasoning Potential of Language Model -- From Pretraining to Posttraining 🤗 Upvotes: 53 | cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG Authors: Xiaomi LLM-Core Team, :, Bingquan Xia, Bowen Shen, Cici, Dawei Zhu, Di Zhang, Gang Wang, Hailin Zhang, Huaqiu Liu, Jiebao Xiao, Jinhao Dong, Liang Zhao, Peidian Li, Peng Wang, Shihua Yu, Shimao Chen, Weikun Wang, Wenhan Ma, Xiangwei Deng, Yi Huang, Yifan Song, Zihan Jiang, Bowen Ye, Can Cai, Chenhong He, Dong Zhang, Duo Zhang, Guoan Wang, Hao Tian, Haochen Zhao, Heng Qu, Hongshen Xu, Jun Shi, Kainan Bao, QingKai Fang, Kang Zhou, Kangyang Zhou, Lei Li, Menghang Zhu, Nuo Chen, Qiantong Wang, Shaohui Liu, Shicheng Li, Shuhao Gu, Shu...
2025-05-1421 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastStep1X-Edit: A Practical Framework for General Image Editing 🤗 Upvotes: 55 | cs.CV Authors: Shiyu Liu, Yucheng Han, Peng Xing, Fukun Yin, Rui Wang, Wei Cheng, Jiaqi Liao, Yingming Wang, Honghao Fu, Chunrui Han, Guopeng Li, Yuang Peng, Quan Sun, Jingwei Wu, Yan Cai, Zheng Ge, Ranchen Ming, Lei Xia, Xianfang Zeng, Yibo Zhu, Binxing Jiao, Xiangyu Zhang, Gang Yu, Daxin Jiang Title: Step1X-Edit: A Practical Framework for General Image Editing Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17761v1 Abstract: In recent years, image editing models have witnessed remarkable and rapid development. The recent unveiling of cutting-edge multimodal mod...
2025-04-2620 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastPixel-SAIL: Single Transformer For Pixel-Grounded Understanding 🤗 Upvotes: 23 | cs.CV Authors: Tao Zhang, Xiangtai Li, Zilong Huang, Yanwei Li, Weixian Lei, Xueqing Deng, Shihao Chen, Shunping Ji, Jiashi Feng Title: Pixel-SAIL: Single Transformer For Pixel-Grounded Understanding Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10465v1 Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) achieve remarkable performance for fine-grained pixel-level understanding tasks. However, all the works rely heavily on extra components, such as vision encoder (CLIP), segmentation experts, leading to high system complexity and limiting model scaling. In this work, our goal is to explore a highly simplified MLLM without int...
2025-04-1720 minMove with Power
Move with PowerDecoding Personalities, Designing Products: Chloe Wang’s Journey in Product Management at Roo​In this special episode of Move with Power, Esther and Shirley sit down with one of our most multifaceted guests yet—Chloe Wang, a Senior Product Manager at Roo, whose career bridges UX design and machine learning.​Chloe shares her journey from Shanghai to Ohio and eventually to Wellesley College, discussing the cultural transitions and personal growth she experienced along the way. She delves into her path toward product management, highlighting her experiences exploring career options through internships, scaling startups, and leveraging AI in her professional endeavors.​We explore Chloe’s professional path, lessons, and takeaways...
2025-04-1458 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastAn Empirical Study of GPT-4o Image Generation Capabilities 🤗 Upvotes: 50 | cs.CV Authors: Sixiang Chen, Jinbin Bai, Zhuoran Zhao, Tian Ye, Qingyu Shi, Donghao Zhou, Wenhao Chai, Xin Lin, Jianzong Wu, Chao Tang, Shilin Xu, Tao Zhang, Haobo Yuan, Yikang Zhou, Wei Chow, Linfeng Li, Xiangtai Li, Lei Zhu, Lu Qi Title: An Empirical Study of GPT-4o Image Generation Capabilities Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05979v1 Abstract: The landscape of image generation has rapidly evolved, from early GAN-based approaches to diffusion models and, most recently, to unified generative architectures that seek to bridge understanding and gen...
2025-04-1022 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastMergeVQ: A Unified Framework for Visual Generation and Representation with Disentangled Token Merging and Quantization 🤗 Upvotes: 57 | cs.CV, cs.AI Authors: Siyuan Li, Luyuan Zhang, Zedong Wang, Juanxi Tian, Cheng Tan, Zicheng Liu, Chang Yu, Qingsong Xie, Haonan Lu, Haoqian Wang, Zhen Lei Title: MergeVQ: A Unified Framework for Visual Generation and Representation with Disentangled Token Merging and Quantization Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00999v1 Abstract: Masked Image Modeling (MIM) with Vector Quantization (VQ) has achieved great success in both self-supervised pre-training and image generation. However, most existing methods struggle to address the trade-off in shared latent space for generation quality vs. rep...
2025-04-0419 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastTowards Physically Plausible Video Generation via VLM Planning 🤗 Upvotes: 25 | cs.CV, cs.AI Authors: Xindi Yang, Baolu Li, Yiming Zhang, Zhenfei Yin, Lei Bai, Liqian Ma, Zhiyong Wang, Jianfei Cai, Tien-Tsin Wong, Huchuan Lu, Xu Jia Title: Towards Physically Plausible Video Generation via VLM Planning Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23368v2 Abstract: Video diffusion models (VDMs) have advanced significantly in recent years, enabling the generation of highly realistic videos and drawing the attention of the community in their potential as world simulators. However, despite their capabilities, VDMs often fail to produce physically plausible videos due to...
2025-04-0422 minTHE BOLT Podcast
THE BOLT PodcastFrom Peaks to Boardrooms: Leadership Lessons from the Edge with Lei WangIn this inspiring episode of the BOLT Podcast, host Todd Bertsch interviews Lei Wang, a leadership developer, executive advisor, and the first Asian woman to complete the Explorer’s Grand Slam—climbing the highest peak on every continent and skiing to both the North and South Poles. Lei shares her incredible journey from a corporate career in finance and technology to extreme adventure, highlighting the power of curiosity, resilience, and strategic goal-setting.Key Takeaways:Bold Beginnings: Lei set her Everest goal simply to improve her health but discovered a passion for extreme chal...
2025-03-1938 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastEgoLife: Towards Egocentric Life Assistant 🤗 Upvotes: 21 | cs.CV Authors: Jingkang Yang, Shuai Liu, Hongming Guo, Yuhao Dong, Xiamengwei Zhang, Sicheng Zhang, Pengyun Wang, Zitang Zhou, Binzhu Xie, Ziyue Wang, Bei Ouyang, Zhengyu Lin, Marco Cominelli, Zhongang Cai, Yuanhan Zhang, Peiyuan Zhang, Fangzhou Hong, Joerg Widmer, Francesco Gringoli, Lei Yang, Bo Li, Ziwei Liu Title: EgoLife: Towards Egocentric Life Assistant Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03803v1 Abstract: We introduce EgoLife, a project to develop an egocentric life assistant that accompanies and enhances personal efficiency through AI-powered wearable glasses. To lay the foundation for thi...
2025-03-0822 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastAgentic Reward Modeling: Integrating Human Preferences with Verifiable Correctness Signals for Reliable Reward Systems 🤗 Upvotes: 15 | cs.CL, cs.AI Authors: Hao Peng, Yunjia Qi, Xiaozhi Wang, Zijun Yao, Bin Xu, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li Title: Agentic Reward Modeling: Integrating Human Preferences with Verifiable Correctness Signals for Reliable Reward Systems Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19328v1 Abstract: Reward models (RMs) are crucial for the training and inference-time scaling up of large language models (LLMs). However, existing reward models primarily focus on human preferences, neglecting verifiable correctness signals which have shown strong potential in training LLMs. In this paper, we propose agentic reward mod...
2025-02-2818 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastLongWriter-V: Enabling Ultra-Long and High-Fidelity Generation in Vision-Language Models 🤗 Upvotes: 20 | cs.CV, cs.AI, cs.CL Authors: Shangqing Tu, Yucheng Wang, Daniel Zhang-Li, Yushi Bai, Jifan Yu, Yuhao Wu, Lei Hou, Huiqin Liu, Zhiyuan Liu, Bin Xu, Juanzi Li Title: LongWriter-V: Enabling Ultra-Long and High-Fidelity Generation in Vision-Language Models Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14834v1 Abstract: Existing Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) can process inputs with context lengths up to 128k visual and text tokens, yet they struggle to generate coherent outputs beyond 1,000 words. We find that the primary limitation is the absence of long output examples dur...
2025-02-2219 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastStep-Video-T2V Technical Report: The Practice, Challenges, and Future of Video Foundation Model 🤗 Upvotes: 38 | cs.CV, cs.CL Authors: Guoqing Ma, Haoyang Huang, Kun Yan, Liangyu Chen, Nan Duan, Shengming Yin, Changyi Wan, Ranchen Ming, Xiaoniu Song, Xing Chen, Yu Zhou, Deshan Sun, Deyu Zhou, Jian Zhou, Kaijun Tan, Kang An, Mei Chen, Wei Ji, Qiling Wu, Wen Sun, Xin Han, Yanan Wei, Zheng Ge, Aojie Li, Bin Wang, Bizhu Huang, Bo Wang, Brian Li, Changxing Miao, Chen Xu, Chenfei Wu, Chenguang Yu, Dapeng Shi, Dingyuan Hu, Enle Liu, Gang Yu, Ge Yang, Guanzhe Huang, Gulin Yan, Haiyang Feng, Hao Nie, Haonan Jia, Hanpeng Hu, Hanqi Chen, Haolong Yan, Hen...
2025-02-1823 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastBenchMAX: A Comprehensive Multilingual Evaluation Suite for Large Language Models 🤗 Upvotes: 35 | cs.CL Authors: Xu Huang, Wenhao Zhu, Hanxu Hu, Conghui He, Lei Li, Shujian Huang, Fei Yuan Title: BenchMAX: A Comprehensive Multilingual Evaluation Suite for Large Language Models Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07346v1 Abstract: Previous multilingual benchmarks focus primarily on simple understanding tasks, but for large language models(LLMs), we emphasize proficiency in instruction following, reasoning, long context understanding, code generation, and so on. However, measuring these advanced capabilities across languages is underexplored. To address the disparity, we introduce BenchMAX, a multi-way multilingual evaluation benchmark tha...
2025-02-1419 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastLlasa: Scaling Train-Time and Inference-Time Compute for Llama-based Speech Synthesis 🤗 Upvotes: 10 | eess.AS, cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.MM, cs.SD Authors: Zhen Ye, Xinfa Zhu, Chi-Min Chan, Xinsheng Wang, Xu Tan, Jiahe Lei, Yi Peng, Haohe Liu, Yizhu Jin, Zheqi DAI, Hongzhan Lin, Jianyi Chen, Xingjian Du, Liumeng Xue, Yunlin Chen, Zhifei Li, Lei Xie, Qiuqiang Kong, Yike Guo, Wei Xue Title: Llasa: Scaling Train-Time and Inference-Time Compute for Llama-based Speech Synthesis Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04128v1 Abstract: Recent advances in text-based large language models (LLMs), particularly in the GPT series and the o1 model, hav...
2025-02-0822 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastSigma: Differential Rescaling of Query, Key and Value for Efficient Language Models 🤗 Upvotes: 33 | cs.CL Authors: Zhenghao Lin, Zihao Tang, Xiao Liu, Yeyun Gong, Yi Cheng, Qi Chen, Hang Li, Ying Xin, Ziyue Yang, Kailai Yang, Yu Yan, Xiao Liang, Shuai Lu, Yiming Huang, Zheheng Luo, Lei Qu, Xuan Feng, Yaoxiang Wang, Yuqing Xia, Feiyang Chen, Yuting Jiang, Yasen Hu, Hao Ni, Binyang Li, Guoshuai Zhao, Jui-Hao Chiang, Zhongxin Guo, Chen Lin, Kun Kuang, Wenjie Li, Yelong Shen, Jian Jiao, Peng Cheng, Mao Yang Title: Sigma: Differential Rescaling of Query, Key and Value for Efficient Language Models Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13629v1
2025-01-2520 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastIMAGINE-E: Image Generation Intelligence Evaluation of State-of-the-art Text-to-Image Models 🤗 Upvotes: 8 | cs.CV, cs.CL, cs.LG Authors: Jiayi Lei, Renrui Zhang, Xiangfei Hu, Weifeng Lin, Zhen Li, Wenjian Sun, Ruoyi Du, Le Zhuo, Zhongyu Li, Xinyue Li, Shitian Zhao, Ziyu Guo, Yiting Lu, Peng Gao, Hongsheng Li Title: IMAGINE-E: Image Generation Intelligence Evaluation of State-of-the-art Text-to-Image Models Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13920v1 Abstract: With the rapid development of diffusion models, text-to-image(T2I) models have made significant progress, showcasing impressive abilities in prompt following and image generation. Recently launched models such as FLUX.1 and Ideogram2.0, alo...
2025-01-2529 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastDeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning 🤗 Upvotes: 109 | cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG Authors: DeepSeek-AI, Daya Guo, Dejian Yang, Haowei Zhang, Junxiao Song, Ruoyu Zhang, Runxin Xu, Qihao Zhu, Shirong Ma, Peiyi Wang, Xiao Bi, Xiaokang Zhang, Xingkai Yu, Yu Wu, Z. F. Wu, Zhibin Gou, Zhihong Shao, Zhuoshu Li, Ziyi Gao, Aixin Liu, Bing Xue, Bingxuan Wang, Bochao Wu, Bei Feng, Chengda Lu, Chenggang Zhao, Chengqi Deng, Chenyu Zhang, Chong Ruan, Damai Dai, Deli Chen, Dongjie Ji, Erhang Li, Fangyun Lin, Fucong Dai, Fuli Luo, Guangbo Hao, Guanting Chen, Guowei Li, H. Zhang, Han Bao, Hanwei Xu, Haocheng Wang, Honghui Ding, Hua...
2025-01-2421 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastPairwise RM: Perform Best-of-N Sampling with Knockout Tournament 🤗 Upvotes: 13 | cs.CL Authors: Yantao Liu, Zijun Yao, Rui Min, Yixin Cao, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li Title: Pairwise RM: Perform Best-of-N Sampling with Knockout Tournament Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13007v1 Abstract: Best-of-N (BoN) sampling, a common strategy for test-time scaling of Large Language Models (LLMs), relies on reward models to select the best candidate solution from multiple generations. However, traditional reward models often assign arbitrary and inconsistent scores, limiting their effectiveness. To address this, we propose a Pairwise Reward Model (Pairwise RM) combined with a knockout tou...
2025-01-2422 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastHunyuan3D 2.0: Scaling Diffusion Models for High Resolution Textured 3D Assets Generation 🤗 Upvotes: 16 | cs.CV Authors: Zibo Zhao, Zeqiang Lai, Qingxiang Lin, Yunfei Zhao, Haolin Liu, Shuhui Yang, Yifei Feng, Mingxin Yang, Sheng Zhang, Xianghui Yang, Huiwen Shi, Sicong Liu, Junta Wu, Yihang Lian, Fan Yang, Ruining Tang, Zebin He, Xinzhou Wang, Jian Liu, Xuhui Zuo, Zhuo Chen, Biwen Lei, Haohan Weng, Jing Xu, Yiling Zhu, Xinhai Liu, Lixin Xu, Changrong Hu, Tianyu Huang, Lifu Wang, Jihong Zhang, Meng Chen, Liang Dong, Yiwen Jia, Yulin Cai, Jiaao Yu, Yixuan Tang, Hao Zhang, Zheng Ye, Peng He, Runzhou Wu, Chao Zhang, Yonghao Tan, Jie Xiao, Yangyu Tao, Jianchen Zhu, Jin...
2025-01-2320 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastOpenOmni: Large Language Models Pivot Zero-shot Omnimodal Alignment across Language with Real-time Self-Aware Emotional Speech Synthesis 🤗 Upvotes: 10 | cs.CL, cs.CV Authors: Run Luo, Ting-En Lin, Haonan Zhang, Yuchuan Wu, Xiong Liu, Min Yang, Yongbin Li, Longze Chen, Jiaming Li, Lei Zhang, Yangyi Chen, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Fei Huang Title: OpenOmni: Large Language Models Pivot Zero-shot Omnimodal Alignment across Language with Real-time Self-Aware Emotional Speech Synthesis Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04561v1 Abstract: Recent advancements in omnimodal learning have been achieved in understanding and generation across images, text, and speech, though mainly within proprietary models. Limited omnimodal datasets and the inherent challenges associated with rea...
2025-01-0920 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastOneKE: A Dockerized Schema-Guided LLM Agent-based Knowledge Extraction System 🤗 Upvotes: 11 | cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.DB, cs.IR, cs.LG Authors: Yujie Luo, Xiangyuan Ru, Kangwei Liu, Lin Yuan, Mengshu Sun, Ningyu Zhang, Lei Liang, Zhiqiang Zhang, Jun Zhou, Lanning Wei, Da Zheng, Haofen Wang, Huajun Chen Title: OneKE: A Dockerized Schema-Guided LLM Agent-based Knowledge Extraction System Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.20005v1 Abstract: We introduce OneKE, a dockerized schema-guided knowledge extraction system, which can extract knowledge from the Web and raw PDF Books, and support various domains (science, news, etc.). Specifically, we design OneKE with mul...
2025-01-0218 minDaily Paper Cast
Daily Paper CastNext Token Prediction Towards Multimodal Intelligence: A Comprehensive Survey 🤗 Upvotes: 17 | cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.CV, cs.LG, cs.MM, eess.AS Authors: Liang Chen, Zekun Wang, Shuhuai Ren, Lei Li, Haozhe Zhao, Yunshui Li, Zefan Cai, Hongcheng Guo, Lei Zhang, Yizhe Xiong, Yichi Zhang, Ruoyu Wu, Qingxiu Dong, Ge Zhang, Jian Yang, Lingwei Meng, Shujie Hu, Yulong Chen, Junyang Lin, Shuai Bai, Andreas Vlachos, Xu Tan, Minjia Zhang, Wen Xiao, Aaron Yee, Tianyu Liu, Baobao Chang Title: Next Token Prediction Towards Multimodal Intelligence: A Comprehensive Survey Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18619v2 Abstract: Building on the...
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2024-12-1822 minSparks of Gratitude
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2024-12-1549 minWomen Leaders on the Move - HerCsuite® Radio
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2024-10-1628 minLearning Podcasts: I Love Learning and On the Front Line
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2024-10-1427 minASIAN AMERICA: THE KEN FONG PODCAST
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2024-09-0850 minMove with Power
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2024-08-3141 minMove with Power
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2024-08-2746 minThe Modern Manager
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2024-08-2029 minLeadHERShip Bytes™
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2024-08-1335 minJourney With Lei
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2023-08-2853 minJourney With Lei
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2023-08-0739 minJourney With Lei
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2023-07-1242 minJourney With Lei
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2023-06-2241 minJourney With Lei
Journey With LeiEncouraging New Ideas and Fostering Employee Engagement: A Leadership Discussion with Jill Wiedemann-West Join us as we talk to Jill Wiedemann-West, CEO of People Incorporated, as she shares her insights on building a culture of transparency, encouraging diverse voices, and fostering employee engagement. Discover how her leadership style has helped to encourage new ideas and create a positive work environment.
2023-06-0543 minJourney With Lei
Journey With LeiOvercome Entrepreneurial Challenges With Mental Fitness TrainingJoin us as we chat with Jocelyn Tan, CEO and founder of Sisu VR, about her journey to success in the virtual reality industry and how our Mental Fitness program helped her become a more confident and effective leader. Learn about Jocelyn's pivot from focusing on funding to customer acquisition, and her passion for immersive learning through virtual reality. Discover how our Mental Fitness program helped her shift to a positive mindset and feel happier in her entrepreneurial journey. Key takeaways: 1.   Virtual reality can revolutionize corporate compliance training and make it more enjoyable for employees.
2023-05-0921 minJourney With Lei
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2023-04-2028 minJourney With Lei
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2023-04-1137 minJourney With Lei
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2023-03-2739 minJourney With Lei
Journey With LeiBuilding a Successful Career: Insights and Advice from Executive and Entrepreneur Megan EffertzJoin us in this insightful podcast interview with Megan Effertz, an accomplished executive and entrepreneur with over two decades of experience. Megan shares her journey of building companies in different industries and how she developed her transferrable skills to jump from industry to industry. She also provides timely advice for job seekers, including how to do two-way interviews to find the right cultural fit and not settle for just any job. As a leader, Megan emphasizes the importance of humbleness and good listening to build trust with the team and create a supportive work environment. She also shares tips...
2023-03-0750 minChina EVs & More
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2023-02-0745 minJourney With Lei
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2023-01-1754 minJourney With Lei
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2022-08-0940 minJourney With Lei
Journey With LeiLead With Character In Uncharted Waters with Sandy StoszAdmiral Sandy Stosz was the first woman to command an icebreaker on the Great Lakes and lead a US armed forces service academy. Sandy served for 12 years at sea, commanding two ships, and led large Coast Guard organizations during crisis and complexity. She finished her career as the first woman assigned as Deputy Commandant for Mission Support, directing one of the Coast Guard’s largest enterprises. Today, we discuss how to earn respect as a leader even when you are a minority in your workplace and how you can be an ally to those aspiring minority leaders.
2022-07-2640 minJourney With Lei
Journey With LeiLead Through Change With Nate ThompsonNate Thompson is an award-winning catalyst and healthy disruptor who has been leading transformations across four industries over the past 20 years. Creating the future has been the throughline of his career in top companies such as Qualcomm, Comcast, DaVita, Oppenheimer Funds, and Invesco. In this episode, we discuss how leaders can continue to grow and innovate through changes.
2022-07-1243 minJourney With Lei
Journey With LeiRedefine Success with Tammy BarletteTammy Barlette, a US Air Force fighter pilot, retired in 2018 as a Lieutenant Colonel. Upon retiring she became a professional speaker and founded Athena’s Voice, a speaker referral business featuring female military pilots from around the United States. Tammy served in the US Air Force for over 20 years, and she assisted and protected troops on the ground in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In this episode, Tammy shares what it takes to succeed in a demanding military career, balance it with her role as a mom of three children, and consistently practice self-care.
2022-06-2144 minJourney With Lei
Journey With LeiWhy Every Leader Needs a Coach with Jerry TuislJerry Tuisl is a Business Coach with 25 years of experience in business development, sales, and management. He specializes in helping dental practice owners build a strong team culture and get their passion back into their practice. In this episode, you will hear an open conversation on the best strategies and mindsets for leadership development.
2022-06-071h 03The Main Thing Podcast
The Main Thing PodcastMountain Climber Lei Wang Shares Peak WisdomWelcome to The Main Thing Podcast! If you enjoy climbing mountains, whether literally or figuratively, you are going to love today’s show. And you will be enthralled by the stories of our wise guest Lei Wang. In 2004, Lei, who grew up as a Beijing city girl who had no athletic training, set out to climb Mount Everest. She was on a promising career track in finance with an MBA from Wharton. But she was excited about proving that an ordinary person could climb Everest. That excitement empowered Lei, not only to climb Everest, but to become th...
2022-05-2715 minJourney With Lei
Journey With LeiHow Companies Can Improve Employee Health and Wellness With Andrew JacobusAndrew Jacobus has been a senior executive in the corporate wellbeing space for over six years and previously had more than 20 decades of experience in Analytics, Human Capital, and Strategic Workforce Planning. As a Vice President at Limeade Institute, a corporate wellbeing and employee experience company, Andrew leads the research and analytics group. In this episode, Andrew shares his insights on how companies can improve employee health and wellness.
2022-05-1739 minWhat The Parent?
What The Parent?Ever wanted to climb a mountain? How about all 7 of the tallest peaks on Earth? Lei Wang from www.journeywithlei.com did! Come listen how she changed her life to follow her passions, and how to climb your own inner Everest!Lei Wang - Inspirational isn't strong enough of a word to describe her!In 2004, Lei, who grew up as a Beijing city girl who had no athletic training, set out to climb Mount Everest. She was on a promising career track in finance with an MBA from Wharton. But she was excited about proving that an ordinary person could climb Everest. That excitement empowered her to not only climb Everest but to become the first Asian woman to complete a journey to the summits of the highest mountains on each of the 7 continents and to the north...
2022-05-1249 minJourney With Lei
Journey With LeiHow to Create a Highly Engaged Remote Team with Gordon TredgoldGordon Tredgold is a former corporate warrior and a highly sought-after keynote speaker on Leadership, Employee Engagement, and Operational Excellence. He’s been recognized by Global Gurus as one of the Top 10 Leadership Experts and Speakers. Gordon’s work has been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Inc., Entrepreneur, and Fortune. He’s written four books and his last book, FAST, was a finalist in the Chartered Management Institute Management Book of the Year.
2022-05-0334 minJourney With Lei
Journey With LeiThe Grit Factor With Shannon PolsonShannon Polson is an author, speaker, and you can picture her as the female Top Gun, because she is! She is one of the first women to fly the Apache helicopter in the U.S. Army. In this episode, Shannon shares with us the leadership lessons she learned from leading in the most male-dominated organization in the World.
2022-04-2039 minThe Far Side of Fitness
The Far Side of Fitness404. Lei Wang - Writing Programs for Wall Street, Climbing the 7 Summits, Skiing the North and South Poles and Learning How to Make FriendsAs the first Asian woman to complete the Explorer's Grand Slam, Lei has been a sought-after international motivational speaker since 2010. She has inspired people across the world to dream big and really achieve that fulfilling life, work, and relationship that they are truly excited about. Today, as an executive coach, Lei helps business leaders accelerate their careers to exciting new heights with ease and grace, lead their organizations to make a bigger impact, and connect deeper with the community they serve. https://JourneyWithLei.com;  https://www.linkedin.com/in/leiwang/ https://www.facebook.com/JourneyWithLei Support this podcast at — https://red...
2022-04-1636 minBook Smarts Business
Book Smarts BusinessLei Wang, After The SummitHave you ever spoken to someone who has climbed the tallest mountain on each continent and skied to the North and South Pole?  Our guest has done all of that.  Lei Wang is an executive coach who takes all the learnings from her adventures and shows others how to say yes to success for themselves and their business!  And she is an author of After the Summit!Buy After the SummitConnect with Leihttps://journeywithlei.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/leiwang/
2022-03-3015 minJourney With Lei
Journey With LeiLead with Vulnerability and Connect Authentically with Tracy OswaldTracy Oswald is the VP of Sales Learning & Development for LOCALiQ, part of the USA TODAY network. Tracy also is a keynote speaker, coach, and host of the podcast, Defending Lady Macbeth, the show for every woman who was ever told “you are too much, too loud, or too ambitious.” In this episode, we discuss the vulnerability in leadership and how to connect with teams authentically.
2022-03-2946 minJourney With Lei
Journey With LeiCreative Leadership with Brant MenswarBrant Menswar is a speaker, author, entrepreneur, and he is also a former rock star! He is the founder and CEO of Booky Call, a revolutionary book discovery app. In this interview, we discuss values-based leadership, especially how to practice creativity as one of the non-negotiable core values in leadership. Brant also shares insights on how he came up with the innovative design of BookyCall that has expanded its user base so drastically in less than one year since the inception of the idea.
2022-03-1553 minThe Everyday Determinator Podcast
The Everyday Determinator PodcastExcel, Excitement and Everest with Lei WangEpisode 015In this episode, I'm talking to Lei Wang. Lei grew up in Beijing, where she studied an undergraduate and a master's degree in computer science and then went on to achieve an MBA in finance and marketing from the Wharton School, and was on a promising career track and finance. In 2010, she became the first Asian women to complete a journey to the summit of the highest mountains, on each of the seven continents. And to the north and south pole. This is a feat called the explorers Grand Slam. Through this journey of hardships and...
2022-03-1437 minJourney With Lei
Journey With LeiHow to create values at work to accelerate your career growth with Clement KaoClement Kao is the founder of Product Teacher, a product management education company that aims to create accessible and practical resources for a global community of product managers, founders, and entrepreneurs. In this episode, Clement shares practical advice for young professionals, especially those interested in a career in product management, on how to create values at work and advance careers fast.
2022-03-0850 minThe Doctor of Digital™ GMick Smith, PhD
The Doctor of Digital™ GMick Smith, PhDWho Was the First Asian Woman to Complete the Explorer's Grand Slam? Lei Wang Interview Episode #CCXXIX The Doctor of Digital™As the first Asian woman to complete the Explorer's Grand Slam, Lei has been a sought-after international motivational speaker since 2010. She has inspired people across the world to dream big and really achieve that fulfilling life, work, and relationship that they are truly excited about. Today, as an executive coach, Lei helps business leaders accelerate their careers to exciting new heights with ease and grace, lead their organizations to make a bigger impact, and connect deeper with the community they serve.List Of Women Who Have Climbed Mount EverestAs of December 2021, six hundred and...
2022-03-0227 minThe Doctor of Digital™ GMick Smith, PhD
The Doctor of Digital™ GMick Smith, PhDDo You Want to Ascend Mount Everest? Lei Wang Promo Episode #CCXXVII The Doctor of Digital™ GMick Smith, PhDWhatever you dare to dream, Lei will get you there!As the first Asian woman to complete the Explorer's Grand Slam, Lei has been a sought-after international motivational speaker since 2010. She has inspired people across the world to dream big and really achieve that fulfilling life, for, and relationship that they are truly excited about.Mick Smith, Consultant M: (619) 227.3118 E: mick.smith@wsiworld.com Commercials Voice Talent:https://www.spreaker.com/user/7768747/track-1-commercials Narratives Voice Talent:https://www.spreaker.com/user/7768747/track-2-narratives...
2022-03-0203 minJourney With Lei
Journey With LeiLive your life boldly with Susan SeahSusan Seah has been a believer in living life boldly and is constantly undertaking new challenges to learn and grow. She grew up in Singapore, and in 2009, she started her law practice with a law partner and now acts as outside General Counsel for various technology firms. In 2019, Susan launched The Koa Club as a passion project – combining her love of connecting people, her belief in the need to empower women with knowledge and skills, and her desire to challenge others to be brave in trying new things. In this episode, we discuss empowerment for women leaders.
2022-03-0135 minJourney With Lei
Journey With LeiHow To Support and Motivate Employees and Leaders With Andrea HeustonAndrea Heuston is the Founder and CEO of Artitudes Design, a full-service graphic design firm delivering award-winning design solutions. She is also the Author of Stronger on the Other Side: The Power to Choose and is an award-winning entrepreneur. Andrea hosts the Lead Like a Woman Show, where she features top women leaders who share their inspirational stories on life and leadership.
2022-02-0333 minThe Booth
The BoothJan. 25, 2022: Lei Wang (1st Asian Woman to Complete Explorer's Grand Slam)Topics *A BIG THANKS to my Special Guest last week Anthony Marrese of Netflix’s “Don’t Look Up” Tonight’s guest has made history… Literally! Lei Wang is my Special Guest for tonight. News Booth *Dorchester man dies after being shot in the head at SSP *DOT Workers FIRED after car gets trapped on Chelsea Bridge *Monkeys missing after a truck crash on the way to a lab Legal Booth *Trump Jan 06 & Election Tampering Cases Begin Entertainment Booth *RIP Robert Poulson AKA...
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