Daily Papers of 2026-08-28

  1. Agentic Game Development as a Verifiable Trajectory Data Engine for Scaling World Models 185 upvotes, #1 of 2026-08-28
  2. PAWBench: How Far Are We from Probabilistically Aligned World Modeling? 138 upvotes, #2 of 2026-08-28
  3. UrbanGround: From Local Perception to Spatial Agency in a Real-Scale City 106 upvotes, #3 of 2026-08-28
  4. Self-OPD: On-Policy Distillation for Flow Matching Models without Teacher 73 upvotes, #4 of 2026-08-28
  5. TTPO: Test-Time Policy Optimization 72 upvotes, #5 of 2026-08-28
  6. What Makes Good Agentic Data? An ACE Lens on Data Generation for LLM Agents 65 upvotes, #6 of 2026-08-28
  7. Training Agents to Evolve with Their Harness: TaoLive Digital Avatar Agent Technical Report 47 upvotes, #7 of 2026-08-28
  8. GameWAM: A World Action Model for Video Games 45 upvotes, #8 of 2026-08-28
  9. PILOT in the Loop: Live Self-Improvement for Long-Horizon Agents 30 upvotes, #9 of 2026-08-28
  10. WikiSkill: Compiling Agent Experience into Persistent Knowledge for Skill Evolution 24 upvotes, #10 of 2026-08-28
  11. Zero-WAM: In-Context World-Action Modeling from Human Videos for Open-Ended Task Generalization 19 upvotes, #11 of 2026-08-28
  12. Understanding Evolution Strategies for LLM Reasoning: Broader Reasoning Coverage than GRPO 17 upvotes, #12 of 2026-08-28
  13. Luce: Relightable Gaussians for 3D Asset Generation 14 upvotes, #13 of 2026-08-28
  14. Procedura: Agentic 3D Modeling with Procedural Control 13 upvotes, #14 of 2026-08-28
  15. Magpie: Real-Time World Renderer for Interactive Games 9 upvotes, #15 of 2026-08-28
  16. CritICL: Inference-Time Weak-to-Strong Generalization from Small Language Model Failure Modes 9 upvotes, #15 of 2026-08-28
  17. CaRGo-T: Causal Reasoning Graph-of-Thought improves Multimodal Humor Comprehension 7 upvotes, #17 of 2026-08-28
  18. CaSKG: Counterfactual-Causal Skill Graphs for Scalable Agent Skill Retrieval 5 upvotes, #18 of 2026-08-28
  19. TacForcing: Streaming Action Generation with Execution-Time Tactile Feedback 5 upvotes, #18 of 2026-08-28
  20. Thinking on Shots: Consistent Multi-Shot Video Editing with Agentic Reasoning 4 upvotes, #20 of 2026-08-28
  21. EditaLive! Unified Character Video Editing for Live Streaming 4 upvotes, #20 of 2026-08-28
  22. What Does an Evaluation License? A Commit-Bound Census of Claim-Relative Inference in Inspect Evals 3 upvotes, #22 of 2026-08-28
  23. Aphanta: Diagnosing Task-Aligned Image-Edited Intermediates for Multimodal Reasoning 3 upvotes, #22 of 2026-08-28

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