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Quarterly edition · Q3 2026 · Issue #6

Latents, long context, open data

Latent decoding, long-context training, and auditable document corpora.

Top 3 papers

Tracked since posting

  1. NCP-ArchPreview Technical Report: Moving towards Latent Space Language Models through Next Concept Prediction

    Adds product-quantized next-concept prediction to autoregressive decoding, matching OLMo-3-7B loss with 51.3% tokens.

    Posted13d
    Stars23+14
    Likes328+81
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  2. ZGCM-1: A Fully Open and Extremely Efficient Foundation Model for Math and Agentic Search

    Unlike larger post-trained specialists, it trains an open 7B from scratch to 256K context, ranking first across 14 reasoning benchmarks and reaching 4.2x faster 16K pretraining time-to-loss.

    Posted11d
    Stars565+360
    Likes262−29
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  3. Orca: The World is in Your Mind

    It learns one next-state latent from video and language, then probes frozen backbones for text, images, and robot actions.

    Posted87d
    Stars1k+1k
    Likes507+329
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  4. Previous leaderSkillOpt: Executive Strategy for Self-Evolving Agent Skills

    #1 paper of Q2, where it is now

    LedQ2
    Stars17.6k+8k
    Likes263+16
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Top 3 repos

Tracked since posting

  1. deepseek-ai/DeepSpec

    Unlike single-method decoding repos, it unifies data prep, multi-GPU training, and evaluation across DSpark, DFlash, Eagle3, and four target-model setups.

    Posted90d
    Stars7.2k+4.7k
    Forks668+437
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  2. jaredpalmer/kev

    Unlike recent typed-decision repos, it packs many question types into one calibrated, decode-free pass with 2.0× speedup and 4e-6 output parity.

    Posted3d
    Stars7.3k+1.3k
    Forks437+117
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  3. Tencent/WeMM-Embedding

    Unlike single-modality embedders, it unifies five input types in one space and retains 98.7% image/video performance at 256 dimensions.

    Posted27d
    Stars1.7k+773
    Forks116+58
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  4. Previous leaderantirez/ds4

    #1 repo of Q2, where it is now

    LedQ2
    Stars22.7k+6.5k
    Forks2.2k+788
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Top 3 datasets

Tracked since posting

  1. secemp9/arxiv-complete

    Unlike paper-text corpora, it combines 3.15M arXiv papers with source files, resolved TeX, and 5.03M-version history in one auditable 16.08 TB snapshot.

    Posted5d
    Downloads84.1k+74.3k
    Likes467+134
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  2. microsoft/XL-DocBench

    Unlike broad corpora, it tests evidence-grounded QA over documents up to 2,935 pages with page-level evidence, cross-document questions, abstention, and only 38.36% top accuracy.

    Posted24d
    Downloads1k+1k
    Likes7+1
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  3. hamzabagirsakci/turkish-court-decisions

    It offers 11 million CC0 full-text Turkish court decisions spanning 1962–2026 across five court systems.

    Posted32d
    Downloads3.5k+3.2k
    Likes136+75
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  4. Previous leaderCognitive-Lab/NayanaOCR_Corpus_2025

    #1 dataset of Q2, where it is now

    LedQ2
    Downloads53.1k+40.1k
    Likes18+3
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