huggingface-daily-papers-2026-05-15
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HuggingFace Daily Papers — Top Picks · May 15, 2026
Ingested: 2026-05-15T09:08:00Z Source: https://huggingface.co/papers Sorted by community upvotes (top-upvoted first)
Executive Summary
- Total papers ingested: 42 scraped, 24 top picks written
- Top category: Agent memory & evaluation (4 papers in top 12)
- Notable orgs: NVIDIA, Tsinghua, HKUST, Meta, Microsoft Research, InternLM
- Key trend 1: Agentic RL with self-distillation (Self-Distilled Agentic RL, 49 🌟)
- Key trend 2: LLM self-evolution & reward models (Darwin Family, EvolveMem, RewardHarness)
- Key trend 3: Multimodal agent memory & evaluation (MemEye, MemLens, STALE, PREPING)
Top Papers by Upvotes
1. Achieving Gold-Medal-Level Olympiad Reasoning via Simple and Unified Scaling
- Upvotes: 104
- Authors: Yizhuo Li, Shunkai Zhang, Haoran Zhang, Runzhe Zhan, Yafu Li + 23 others
- Submitted by: yaful
- Topic: Reasoning
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.13301
2. Self-Distilled Agentic Reinforcement Learning
- Upvotes: 49
- Authors: Jinyang Wu, Zi-Han Wang, Zhuowen Han, Zhiyuan Yao, Zhengxi Lu + 7 others
- Submitted by: taesiri
- Topic: Agentic RL
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.15155
3. MemEye: A Visual-Centric Evaluation Framework for Multimodal Agent Memory
- Upvotes: 46
- Authors: Boxuan Zhang, Yihao Quan, Zeru Shi, Qingyue Jiao, Minghao Guo + 12 others
- Submitted by: DarkBluee
- Topic: Multimodal / Agent memory
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.15128
4. MemLens: Benchmarking Multimodal Long-Term Memory in Large Vision-Language Models
- Upvotes: 43
- Authors: NVIDIA
- Submitted by: ZhaoweiWang (NVIDIA)
- Topic: Vision-language / Memory
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.14906
5. SANA-WM: Efficient Minute-Scale World Modeling with Hybrid Linear Diffusion Transformer
- Upvotes: 42
- Authors: NVIDIA
- Submitted by: HaoyiZhu (NVIDIA)
- Topic: World models / Video
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.15178
6. Causal Forcing++: Scalable Few-Step Autoregressive Diffusion Distillation for Real-Time Interactive Video Generation
- Upvotes: 35
- Authors: Tsinghua Machine Learning Group
- Submitted by: zhuhz22 (Tsinghua)
- Topic: Video generation / Diffusion
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.15141
7. WildClawBench: A Benchmark for Real-World, Long-Horizon Agent Evaluation
- Upvotes: 35
- Authors: Intern Large Models
- Topic: Agent benchmark / Long-horizon
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.10912
8. STALE: Can LLM Agents Know When Their Memories Are No Longer Valid?
- Upvotes: 34
- Authors: HKUST NLP Group
- Topic: Agent memory
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.06527
9. Darwin Family: MRI-Trust-Weighted Evolutionary Merging for Training-Free Scaling of Language-Model Reasoning
- Upvotes: 33
- Authors: FINAL_Bench
- Submitted by: FINAL_Bench
- Topic: Model merging / Reasoning
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.14386
10. Warp-as-History: Generalizable Camera-Controlled Video Generation from One Training Video
- Upvotes: 29
- Authors: n/a
- Topic: Video generation / Camera control
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.15182
11. Beyond Individual Intelligence: Surveying Collaboration, Failure Attribution, and Self-Evolution in LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
- Upvotes: 24
- Authors: Xi'an Jiaotong University
- Topic: Multi-agent systems / Survey
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.14892
12. PREPING: Building Agent Memory without Tasks
- Upvotes: 22
- Authors: KAIST AI
- Topic: Agent memory
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.13880
13. EvolveMem:Self-Evolving Memory Architecture via AutoResearch for LLM Agents
- Upvotes: 19
- Authors: n/a
- Topic: Agent memory / Self-improving
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.13941
14. ATLAS: Agentic or Latent Visual Reasoning? One Word is Enough for Both
- Upvotes: 15
- Authors: n/a
- Topic: Visual reasoning / Agents
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.15198
15. RouteProfile: Elucidating the Design Space of LLM Profiles for Routing
- Upvotes: 14
- Authors: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Topic: LLM routing
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.00180
16. IntentVLA: Short-Horizon Intent Modeling for Aliased Robot Manipulation
- Upvotes: 13
- Authors: DeepCybo
- Submitted by: DeepCybo
- Topic: Robotics / VLA
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.14712
17. DiffusionOPD: A Unified Perspective of On-Policy Distillation in Diffusion Models
- Upvotes: 12
- Authors: n/a
- Topic: Diffusion / Distillation
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.15055
18. VGGT-Edit: Feed-forward Native 3D Scene Editing with Residual Field Prediction
- Upvotes: 12
- Authors: Peking University
- Topic: 3D generation
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.15186
19. FrontierSmith: Synthesizing Open-Ended Coding Problems at Scale
- Upvotes: 12
- Authors: n/a
- Topic: CodeGen / Synthetic training data
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.14445
20. Realiz3D: 3D Generation Made Photorealistic via Domain-Aware Learning
- Upvotes: 10
- Authors: AI at Meta
- Topic: 3D generation
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.13852
21. Orchard: An Open-Source Agentic Modeling Framework
- Upvotes: 9
- Authors: Microsoft Research
- Topic: Agent framework / Open source
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.15040
22. RewardHarness: Self-Evolving Agentic Post-Training
- Upvotes: 2
- Authors: Natural and Artificial Intelligence Lab
- Topic: RLHF / Agent post-training
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.08703
23. Nexus: An Agentic Framework for Time Series Forecasting
- Upvotes: 1
- Authors: n/a
- Topic: Agents / Time series
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.14389
24. FutureSim: Replaying World Events to Evaluate Adaptive Agents
- Upvotes: 1
- Authors: Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
- Topic: Agent evaluation
- URL: https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.15188