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Daily Paper CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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 CastDaily Paper CastBMMR: A Large-Scale Bilingual Multimodal Multi-Discipline Reasoning Dataset 🤗 Upvotes: 22 | cs.CL, cs.AI Authors: Zhiheng Xi, Guanyu Li, Yutao Fan, Honglin Guo, Yufang Liu, Xiaoran Fan, Jiaqi Liu, Jingchao Ding, Wangmeng Zuo, Zhenfei Yin, Lei Bai, Tao Ji, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Philip Torr, Xuanjing Huang Title: BMMR: A Large-Scale Bilingual Multimodal Multi-Discipline Reasoning Dataset Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03483v2 Abstract: In this paper, we introduce BMMR, a large-scale bilingual, multimodal, multi-disciplinary reasoning dataset for the community to develop and evaluate large multimodal models (LMMs). BMMR comprises 110k college-level questions spanning 300 UNESCO-defined subjects, spanning div...2025-07-0919 minDaily Paper CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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 minDaily Paper CastDaily Paper CastEstablishing Trustworthy LLM Evaluation via Shortcut Neuron Analysis 🤗 Upvotes: 23 | cs.CL Authors: Kejian Zhu, Shangqing Tu, Zhuoran Jin, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li, Jun Zhao Title: Establishing Trustworthy LLM Evaluation via Shortcut Neuron Analysis Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04142v1 Abstract: The development of large language models (LLMs) depends on trustworthy evaluation. However, most current evaluations rely on public benchmarks, which are prone to data contamination issues that significantly compromise fairness. Previous researches have focused on constructing dynamic benchmarks to address contamination. However, continuously building new benchmarks is costly and cyclical. In this work, we aim to...2025-06-0620 minSuena a chinoSuena 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 CastDaily Paper CastHardTests: Synthesizing High-Quality Test Cases for LLM Coding 🤗 Upvotes: 37 | cs.CL Authors: Zhongmou He, Yee Man Choi, Kexun Zhang, Jiabao Ji, Junting Zhou, Dejia Xu, Ivan Bercovich, Aidan Zhang, Lei Li Title: HardTests: Synthesizing High-Quality Test Cases for LLM Coding Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24098v1 Abstract: Verifiers play a crucial role in large language model (LLM) reasoning, needed by post-training techniques such as reinforcement learning. However, reliable verifiers are hard to get for difficult coding problems, because a well-disguised wrong solution may only be detected by carefully human-written edge cases that are difficult to syn...2025-06-0321 minDaily Paper CastDaily 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 CastDaily Paper CastMME-Reasoning: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Logical Reasoning in MLLMs 🤗 Upvotes: 73 | cs.AI, cs.CV Authors: Jiakang Yuan, Tianshuo Peng, Yilei Jiang, Yiting Lu, Renrui Zhang, Kaituo Feng, Chaoyou Fu, Tao Chen, Lei Bai, Bo Zhang, Xiangyu Yue Title: MME-Reasoning: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Logical Reasoning in MLLMs Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21327v1 Abstract: Logical reasoning is a fundamental aspect of human intelligence and an essential capability for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Despite the significant advancement in multimodal reasoning, existing benchmarks fail to comprehensively evaluate their reasoning abilities due to the lack of explicit categorization for...2025-05-2921 minDaily Paper CastDaily 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 CastDaily Paper CastUniVG-R1: Reasoning Guided Universal Visual Grounding with Reinforcement Learning 🤗 Upvotes: 43 | cs.CV Authors: Sule Bai, Mingxing Li, Yong Liu, Jing Tang, Haoji Zhang, Lei Sun, Xiangxiang Chu, Yansong Tang Title: UniVG-R1: Reasoning Guided Universal Visual Grounding with Reinforcement Learning Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14231v1 Abstract: Traditional visual grounding methods primarily focus on single-image scenarios with simple textual references. However, extending these methods to real-world scenarios that involve implicit and complex instructions, particularly in conjunction with multiple images, poses significant challenges, which is mainly due to the lack of advanced reasoning ability across diverse multi-modal contexts. In...2025-05-2318 minDaily Paper CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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 PowerMove 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 CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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 PodcastTHE 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 CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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/2501.13629v12025-01-2520 minDaily Paper CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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 CastDaily 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...2024-12-3117 minDaily Paper CastDaily Paper CastLongBench v2: Towards Deeper Understanding and Reasoning on Realistic Long-context Multitasks 🤗 Upvotes: 23 | cs.CL, cs.AI Authors: Yushi Bai, Shangqing Tu, Jiajie Zhang, Hao Peng, Xiaozhi Wang, Xin Lv, Shulin Cao, Jiazheng Xu, Lei Hou, Yuxiao Dong, Jie Tang, Juanzi Li Title: LongBench v2: Towards Deeper Understanding and Reasoning on Realistic Long-context Multitasks Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15204v1 Abstract: This paper introduces LongBench v2, a benchmark designed to assess the ability of LLMs to handle long-context problems requiring deep understanding and reasoning across real-world multitasks. LongBench v2 consists of 503 challenging multiple-choice questions, with contexts ranging from 8k to...2024-12-2123 minDaily Paper CastDaily Paper CastMulti-Dimensional Insights: Benchmarking Real-World Personalization in Large Multimodal Models 🤗 Upvotes: 29 | cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.CV Authors: YiFan Zhang, Shanglin Lei, Runqi Qiao, Zhuoma GongQue, Xiaoshuai Song, Guanting Dong, Qiuna Tan, Zhe Wei, Peiqing Yang, Ye Tian, Yadong Xue, Xiaofei Wang, Honggang Zhang Title: Multi-Dimensional Insights: Benchmarking Real-World Personalization in Large Multimodal Models Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12606v1 Abstract: The rapidly developing field of large multimodal models (LMMs) has led to the emergence of diverse models with remarkable capabilities. However, existing benchmarks fail to comprehensively, objectively and accurately evaluate whether LMMs align with the diverse nee...2024-12-1922 minTeach the Geek Podcast - public speaking for technical professionalsTeach the Geek Podcast - public speaking for technical professionalsEP. 338: Lei Wang is Climbing the Speaking BusinessLei Wang is Climbing the Speaking Business Lei Wang is a mountaineer, keynote speaker, author, and executive coach. Since she’s a professional speaker, let’s get her thoughts on picking a speaking topic, marketing yourself as a speaker, pricing services, and a bunch of other speaker-related topics. Plus, what’s the whole mountaineering thing about? Let’s get to it! To get in touch with Lei, visit https://mightymousespeaker.com. __ TEACH THE GEEK (http://teachthegeek.com) Prefer video? Go to http...2024-12-1822 minSparks of GratitudeSparks of Gratitude41. All 7 Summits and North and South Poles - Lei WangSend us a textLei Wang is a distinguished mountaineer, polar explorer, and a symbol of resilience and determination. She holds the remarkable distinction of being the first Chinese woman and the first Asian American to complete the Explorers Grand Slam—an extraordinary feat that includes climbing the Seven Summits, the highest peak on each continent, and skiing to both the North and South Poles.In this episode, Lei Wang, is an extraordinary adventurer, speaker, and the first Asian and Asian-American woman to complete the Explorer's Grand Slam. Lei shares her incredible journey of climbing th...2024-12-1549 minDaily Paper CastDaily Paper CastShowUI: One Vision-Language-Action Model for GUI Visual Agent 🤗 Paper Upvotes: 48 | cs.CV, cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.HC Authors: Kevin Qinghong Lin, Linjie Li, Difei Gao, Zhengyuan Yang, Shiwei Wu, Zechen Bai, Weixian Lei, Lijuan Wang, Mike Zheng Shou Title: ShowUI: One Vision-Language-Action Model for GUI Visual Agent Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.17465v1 Abstract: Building Graphical User Interface (GUI) assistants holds significant promise for enhancing human workflow productivity. While most agents are language-based, relying on closed-source API with text-rich meta-information (e.g., HTML or accessibility tree), they show limitations in perceiving UI visuals as hum...2024-11-2824 minDaily Paper CastDaily Paper CastVLRewardBench: A Challenging Benchmark for Vision-Language Generative Reward Models 🤗 Paper Upvotes: 8 | cs.CV, cs.CL Authors: Lei Li, Yuancheng Wei, Zhihui Xie, Xuqing Yang, Yifan Song, Peiyi Wang, Chenxin An, Tianyu Liu, Sujian Li, Bill Yuchen Lin, Lingpeng Kong, Qi Liu Title: VLRewardBench: A Challenging Benchmark for Vision-Language Generative Reward Models Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.17451v1 Abstract: Vision-language generative reward models (VL-GenRMs) play a crucial role in aligning and evaluating multimodal AI systems, yet their own evaluation remains under-explored. Current assessment methods primarily rely on AI-annotated preference labels from traditional VL tasks, which can introduce bia...2024-11-2822 minWomen Leaders on the Move - HerCsuite® RadioWomen Leaders on the Move - HerCsuite® RadioUnlock Peak Performance: How Digging Deep Drives Success with Lei WangIn this inspiring episode, host Natalie Benamou uncovers the extraordinary life of Lei Wang, the first Asian woman to complete the Explorer's Grand Slam. Transitioning from a corporate career to becoming a world-class explorer, Lei shares her transformative journey of self-discovery, meticulous planning, and unwavering determination. Her story draws powerful parallels between conquering mountains and navigating the corporate world, offering valuable lessons in leadership, resilience, and personal growth.You will discover how Lei embraced challenges, overcame fear, and cultivated a mindset that allowed her to achieve seemingly impossible goals. This episode is a masterclass...2024-11-2724 minDaily Paper CastDaily Paper CastBlueLM-V-3B: Algorithm and System Co-Design for Multimodal Large Language Models on Mobile Devices 🤗 Paper Upvotes: 31 | cs.CV, cs.CL Authors: Xudong Lu, Yinghao Chen, Cheng Chen, Hui Tan, Boheng Chen, Yina Xie, Rui Hu, Guanxin Tan, Renshou Wu, Yan Hu, Yi Zeng, Lei Wu, Liuyang Bian, Zhaoxiong Wang, Long Liu, Yanzhou Yang, Han Xiao, Aojun Zhou, Yafei Wen, Xiaoxin Chen, Shuai Ren, Hongsheng Li Title: BlueLM-V-3B: Algorithm and System Co-Design for Multimodal Large Language Models on Mobile Devices Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10640v1 Abstract: The emergence and growing popularity of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have significant potential to...2024-11-2019 minDaily Paper CastDaily Paper CastAnimateAnything: Consistent and Controllable Animation for Video Generation 🤗 Paper Upvotes: 12 | cs.CV Authors: Guojun Lei, Chi Wang, Hong Li, Rong Zhang, Yikai Wang, Weiwei Xu Title: AnimateAnything: Consistent and Controllable Animation for Video Generation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10836v1 Abstract: We present a unified controllable video generation approach AnimateAnything that facilitates precise and consistent video manipulation across various conditions, including camera trajectories, text prompts, and user motion annotations. Specifically, we carefully design a multi-scale control feature fusion network to construct a common motion representation for different conditions. It explicitly converts all control information into fra...2024-11-2022 minDaily Paper CastDaily Paper CastHunyuan-Large: An Open-Source MoE Model with 52 Billion Activated Parameters by Tencent 🤗 Paper Upvotes: 16 | cs.CL, cs.AI Authors: Xingwu Sun, Yanfeng Chen, Yiqing Huang, Ruobing Xie, Jiaqi Zhu, Kai Zhang, Shuaipeng Li, Zhen Yang, Jonny Han, Xiaobo Shu, Jiahao Bu, Zhongzhi Chen, Xuemeng Huang, Fengzong Lian, Saiyong Yang, Jianfeng Yan, Yuyuan Zeng, Xiaoqin Ren, Chao Yu, Lulu Wu, Yue Mao, Jun Xia, Tao Yang, Suncong Zheng, Kan Wu, Dian Jiao, Jinbao Xue, Xipeng Zhang, Decheng Wu, Kai Liu, Dengpeng Wu, Guanghui Xu, Shaohua Chen, Shuang Chen, Xiao Feng, Yigeng Hong, Junqiang Zheng, Chengcheng Xu, Zongwei Li, Xiong Kuang, Jianglu Hu, Yiqi Chen, Yuchi Deng, Guiyang Li, Ao Liu...2024-11-0618 minWickedly Smart WomenWickedly Smart WomenScaling Summits and Crushing Goals: Lei Wang's Path to Everest - Ep.294We are thrilled to bring you Lei Wang, a motivational speaker, executive coach, and the first Asian woman to complete the Explorer's Grand Slam—conquering the seven summits and skiing to both poles. Lei shares her incredible journey from being a city girl in Beijing with no athletic training to becoming a world-class adventurer. Her story is one of resilience, meticulous planning, and relentless pursuit of passion. In this episode, you will learn about Lei's transformational journey, the detailed steps she took to prepare for her climbs, and the mental shift that fueled her success. Li...2024-10-1628 minLearning Podcasts: I Love Learning and On the Front LineLearning Podcasts: I Love Learning and On the Front LineLei Wang: Unlock Your Mighty Mouse PowersLei Wang was the first Asian women to complete the legendary Explorer's Grand Slam. She has such a great outlook on how to let go and how to win! She reminds us that each day we have hurdles to overcome, but if we set small goals, anything is possible. Rejections happen to each of us each and every day. The mountain is in front of all of us. She discusses practicing resilience on a daily basis. To get up each day with high spirits and have a plan each day to do your very best.2024-10-1427 minASIAN AMERICA: THE KEN FONG PODCASTASIAN AMERICA: THE KEN FONG PODCASTEP 495: Lei Wang On Being The First Asian Woman To Achieve The Explorers' Grand SlamLei Wang was perfectly happy with her burgeoning career in marketing and finance. But one fateful frigid Boston evening, she went to watch a documentary on mountain climbing, and something unusual began to stir in her. Even though she was a short, out-of-shape, unathletic 30-year-old person, she became seized by the vision of climbing to the top of Mount Everest! You'll be utterly amazed at what she went through to achieve this compelling vision. And you'll be inspired by the life-lessons she's learned along the way to climbing to the top of the world's highest peaks on...2024-09-0850 minMove with PowerMove with PowerGrowing a 400k+ YouTube Presence and Evolving Personally, with Creator Entrepreneur and Ex-Engineer/Consultant, Amy WangIn this episode of Move with Power, Shirley and Esther sit down with Amy Wang, Youtube content creator entrepreneur with 400k+ subscribers, podcast host of “Your A+ Life,” and soon-to-be student at MIT Sloan. Amy shares her remarkable journey from her engineering roots at Caltech, through her experiences in consulting, to launching her channel and digital products as now a creator entrepreneur. As she reflects on her upbringing, Amy discusses how her family influences initially pointed her to engineering, but how her self-discovery and passion fueled her path to corporate life then entrepreneurship. Amy opens up a...2024-08-3141 minMove with PowerMove with PowerScaling Purpose-Led Organizations with Co-Founders of Girls Who Impact, Patricia Wang and Lyn Zhang [Mandarin Episode]In this week's special Mandarin episode, Esther and Aria Wang engage in a powerful conversation with Patricia Wang and Lyn Zhang, the visionary founder of Girls Who Impact. Together, they explore Patricia and Lyn's remarkable journey to entrepreneurship and their unwavering dedication to women’s empowerment. We dive into the key lessons they’ve learned throughout their journey, from the challenges of starting with a small team to expanding their organization to over 1,500 members. They also share the story behind their first in-person conference in New York and how it became a pivotal moment for their organization. Addi...2024-08-2746 minThe Modern ManagerThe Modern Manager320: How to Convince Yourself to Do the Hard Things with Lei WangImagine standing at the base of Mt. Everest, feeling the crushing weight of doubt and fear. Now, picture your toughest work challenge–where quitting feels like the best option. Would you push through or hit the quit button?Many of us struggle with the internal battle of wanting to avoid discomfort, even though deep down, we know that overcoming these challenges is essential for growth and success. For managers, this struggle is even more amplified. Our roles demand that we make difficult decisions, provide tough feedback, and guide our tea...2024-08-2029 minLeadHERShip Bytes™LeadHERShip Bytes™Season 2, Ep. 6: Transformation Through Resilience - A Conversation with Lei WangSummary Lei Wang, a trailblazing and celebrated keynote speaker, athlete, author, and executive coach, joins Cam to share her extraordinary journey from being the unlikeliest candidate for success to becoming the first Asian woman and Asian American to conquer the Explorer's Grand Slam, an adventure challenge where participants attempt to climb all of the famed seven summits and ski the North and South Poles. With contagious energy, she underscores the significance of mental and physical transformation, pushing past comfort zones, and seeking guidance and mentorship. Lei also shines a spotlight on the essential leadership skills...2024-08-1335 minJourney With LeiJourney With LeiDeveloping Empathy and Building Feedback Loops as a Leader with Patricia Bothwell Join us as we chat with Patricia Bothwell, General Manager and VP of Product for GoGuardian's Safety & Productivity business. In this episode, Patricia shares insights from her experience in product and strategy leadership roles at Avalara, PayPal, and Carnival Corporation, and how she ramped up fast while moving from industries to industries. We also dive into the importance of developing empathy, building feedback loops, and finding the right mentors as a people's leader.2023-08-2853 minJourney With LeiJourney With LeiDisrupting the Banking Landscape: Lessons in Leadership with Shannon BurchJoin us for a conversation with Shannon Burch, the Vice President of Experience at Neo Financial, where she is focused on disrupting the banking landscape in Canada. With an unconventional career journey that has taken her across Canada and internationally, Shannon has built transferable leadership skills that have helped her advance her career. In this podcast episode, she shares her experiences on advocating for her own career advancement, dealing with imposter syndrome, and how learning through failure has helped her to speed up the leadership growth journey. Additionally, she discusses the importance of empathy skills in leading teams in...2023-08-0739 minJourney With LeiJourney With LeiDesigning Your Career for Passion and Purpose with Dr. Richard Osibanjo Join us in a thought-provoking conversation with Dr. Richard Osibanjo, a leading expert in transformational leadership, as we explore how to design a career that aligns with your passion and purpose. As a chemist turned executive coach and keynote speaker, Dr. Richard shares valuable insights on how to transition careers, find your voice, and clarify your goals by aligning your potential, passion, and purpose.2023-07-1242 minJourney With LeiJourney With LeiEmpowering Women in the Workplace: Insights from Holly O'DellIn this episode, we sit down with Holly O'Dell, the first female President and CEO of Montana State Fund, to discuss the importance of building relationships with other women in the workplace. Join us as Holly shares her personal experiences and best practices on advocating for oneself, balancing family and work, and the power of asking for what you want.2023-06-2241 minJourney With LeiJourney 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 LeiJourney 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 LeiJourney With LeiFrom Research Scientist to CEO: Lessons and Challenges with Dr. Katherine Grill Join us as we speak with Dr. Katherine Grill, CEO and co-founder of Neolth, a technology company that provides personalized mental health support to teens. Dr. Grill shares her experience of transitioning from a research scientist to an entrepreneur, and provides valuable advice and lessons learned along the way. We also dive into how she applies mental health tools to her own team, the decision-making process when starting the company, and how she deals with wellness, balance, and mental health as a start-up founder. Additionally, she discusses the challenges she faces as a leader and shares her strategies for...2023-04-2440 min转念间 The Mindset Coaching with Kai 闲子转念间 The Mindset Coaching with Kai 闲子#41 女性价值探索03 闲子分享怀疑自我价值的低谷期,而做到享受当下,未来可期的两位优秀嘉宾妈妈是什么样的?本集:#41 女性自我价值探索03 闲子分享怀疑自我价值的低谷期,而做到享受当下,未来可期的两位优秀嘉宾妈妈是什么样的? 生完老大和老二,身材方面,嘉宾Lei的反应前后为何如此不同? 生完老二她如何成功告别身材焦虑和产后不自信? 她是如何摆脱养育焦虑做到享受当下的? 她为什么对未来充满自信? 嘉宾Catherine的过人之处体现在哪里?作为两枚幼童的妈妈,她自我成长和提升的时间从哪里来? #情绪管理 #女性成长 #产后身材焦虑 #养育焦虑 #阅读习惯培养 #作息引导 #婴幼儿睡眠引导 #女性自我价值 2023-04-2028 minJourney With LeiJourney With LeiEnding Homelessness with Innovation: Insights from Elizabeth Funk Join us for an inspiring conversation with Elizabeth Funk, the Founder, CEO, and Chairman of DignityMoves, a nonprofit that has developed an innovative solution to end street homelessness in our communities. Elizabeth's career experience spans various industries, including real estate, venture capital, climate technology, and several non-profit ventures. In this podcast episode, she shares her journey and how a "can do" mentality led her to find an innovative solution to combat the homeless conundrum in our communities. She also discusses how to implement a Silicon Valley startup culture in a nonprofit organization, and the value of exploring various career...2023-04-1137 minJourney With LeiJourney With LeiBuilding Resilience and Growth Mindset with Jutta WilliamsJoin us as we speak with Jutta Williams, a career data protection professional and AI Ethics evangelist, about building resilience and a growth mindset in both personal and professional life. Jutta shares her insights on the power of speaking accurately, introducing struggle to promote growth, and finding fulfillment through personal growth. She also discusses the importance of training resilience like a muscle and preparing teams to handle crises through open communication and exposure to smaller challenges. Tune in to learn how to stay open to opportunities and keep life exciting and fun.2023-03-2739 minJourney With LeiJourney 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 & MoreChina EVs & MoreEpisode #102 - Catching up after CNY, January Sales, Charging in the US - to Swap or Not to SwapThis podcast starts with Lei’s headlines but because of the break, there was ALOT to update. Tu then moves the convo over to January sales and they both agreed that it’s hard to tell who did well because the month was shortened by CNY but NIO’s numbers were a pleasant surprise.Tu and Lei then talk a bit about expectations for Tesla and what it’ll take for them to regain their sales growth I China outside of cutting prices on the MIC Model 3 & Y. They move to discuss the recent hir...2023-02-0745 minJourney With LeiJourney With LeiThe Tao of Alibaba With Brian A. WongHow did Alibaba, a company started by an English teacher in a second-tier city in China, become one of the most influential companies in China, and one of the largest and most valuable companies in the world? Alibaba’s story is about how businesses can succeed by focusing on serving the good. In his latest book, the Tao of Alibaba, @Brian A. Wong, explores the nuts and bolts of how Alibaba connects its mission with execution to make the vision come true. His vivid account of many behind-the-scene stories about Jack Ma, the vi...2023-01-1754 min值得表扬值得表扬04. 经济学/辛亥革命/土地改革值得表扬第四期邀请我的好朋友Yan Zhan和我一起采访她在CU Boulder经济学系的学长Peiyuan Li. Peiyuan的博士论文用经济学的角度研究辛亥革命和农村土地改革这两个重大的历史事件。 2022到2023年 Peiyuan Li在教职市场,你可以在他的个人网站上获取更过关于他的信息:https://www.oscarpeiyuanl.com 更正:1. 嘉定三屠是李成栋,不是李成梁 (口误)。           2. 投3个职位得到一个面试这是导师十几年前的经验,不是我的。现在的形势可能是投30-50个职位能有一个面试。 Timeline:  5:13 如何走上经济学之路的 9:20 为什么读博 为什么是美国 10:30 申请的故事 经济学PhD如何申请 17:35 国内外博士培养的差别 18:50 国内高校的差别 以某中部地区985为例 23:20 第一篇论文 辛亥革命 民族概念的来源 26:27 清政府的两种压迫 29:44 革命者利用压迫和反压迫塑造中华民族这个概念 31:35 研究的具体内容 32:47 如何找到数据之间的关系的 33:58 经济学中关于辛亥革命已有的研究 44:32 民族 中华民族 关系 50:43 如何找到工具变量确定数据之间的因果关系的 58:50 如何找到这个研究方向的 1:04:43 第二篇论文 土地改革 背景介绍 1:08:42 土改政治动员的意义 用数据验证 1:11:23 85公里为节点 1:16:38 如何想到这个研究方向的 1:17:22 数据收集以及研究中的困难 1:19:42 如何知道有这个数据的 何时确定了这个研究是可行的 1:21:48 和社会学中定量研究的区别 1:27:30 对经济学研究方法的争议 1:30:04 经济学研究给出具体建议 以课堂分组为例 1:33:08 经济学研究affirmative action 1:37:45 经济学研究的道德问题 (黑人社区 走出非洲) 1:46:15 经济学做中国研究的困境 (女性研究 计划生育 武汉中考位置值制) 1:52:18 就读体验 读博建议 1:57:07 上教职市场是种什么体验 感谢Yan Zhan和Peiyuan Li为我们整理的聊天中出现的文献: Bai, Y., Jia, R. (2016). Elite recruitment and political stability: the impact of the abolition of China’s civil service exam. Econometrica, 84(2), 677-733. Mattingly, D. C., Chen, T. (2022). The missionary roots of nationalism: Evidence from China. The Journal of Politics, 84(3), 000-000. Kung, J.K.S. and Wang, A.Y. (2020). Foreign Education, Ideology, and the Fall of Imperial China. Working Paper. Li, P. (2022). The Sin of Words: Censorship and Self-Censorship in China during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911). Available at SSRN 4023933. Li, P. (2022). Political Repression, Media Propaganda, and Nation-building, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kiVnPZwJNchAtE-MNx25u40LQ3YTuRkU/view. Chen, S., & Lan, X. (2020). Tractor vs. animal: Rural reforms and technology adoption in China. Journal of Development Economics, 147, 102536. Chen, S., & Lan, X. (2017). There will be killing: Collectivization and death of draft animals. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 9(4), 58-77. Xue, M. M. (2021). 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Some canonical or recent influential work in sound studies: 1. David Novak and Matt Sakakeeny, ed. Keywords in Sound. 2. Steven Feld. Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression. Steven Feld 发明了acoustemology这个term,就是人怎样通过/伴随声音认识这个世界,这本书记录了他在巴布亚新几内亚卡鲁利人部落做的田野调查,可以看到雨林原住民如何通过聆听鸟叫模仿鸟叫来认识世界创造意义表达情感。Acoustemology这个概念在他此后的很多研究里也贯穿始终,不止应用在原住民和大自然的语境里。 3. Ana María Ochoa Gautier. Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia. 十九世纪哥伦比亚语境里的aurality和orality与殖民、知识生产、权力的关系(比如殖民者如何通过聆听和发声方式来界定何谓现代文明人 etc.) 4. book.douban.com 这本比较新,追溯了人类检测听觉的历史,以及各种文化社会观念/权力关系和我们对于听觉这个感官的认知是如何互相影响的 5. book.douban.com 这本是关于声音和美国的种族建构...2022-11-242h 06Journey With LeiJourney With LeiThe Introvert’s Guide to Badassery With Jenn DonahueJenn Donahue, Ph.D., is a retired US Navy Captain and civil engineer who works on large-scale, high-profile geotechnical projects. 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