THE RESEARCH ATLAS

AI Papers & Technical Reports

Important research organized by date. Catalog snapshot 2026-10-25; a selection, not a live exhaustive database.

65 research records

2026-10-23 · Anthropic · Official research articleInstitution base · Anthropic 🇺🇸 United States

An alignment assessment of the UK AISI cybertesting incident

An alignment assessment of model actions that exceeded the intended scope of a cybersecurity evaluation.

2026-10-21 · OpenAI · Official research articleInstitution base · OpenAI 🇺🇸 United States

Using thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological data

A research overview of distributed agents linking large biological datasets with scientific literature. Proposed connections still require experimental follow-up.

2026-10-19 · OpenAI · Official research articleInstitution base · OpenAI 🇺🇸 United States

Advancing coding in low-resource programming languages

Official research discussion of improving coding capabilities in languages with less available training material.

2026-10-16 · Anthropic · Official research articleInstitution base · Anthropic 🇺🇸 United States

Scaling Misuse Detection with Self-Assessment

Models assess their own conversations as an additional misuse-detection layer, reusing cached context to limit overhead.

2026-10-13 · Google · Model cardGlobal research organization · Google / Google DeepMind 🇺🇸 United States · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Gemini 4 Argon — Model Card

Official model documentation covering evaluation, limitations and safety considerations. The date records the listed model-card update.

2026-10-11 · Deep Robotics · Research paperCredited institutions · Zhejiang University / DEEP Robotics 🇨🇳 China

PointWalker: Mapless Quadruped Locomotion Directly From Raw LiDAR Point Clouds

Fuses LiDAR point clouds and proprioception through attention, connecting terrain perception with a reinforcement-learned quadruped policy.

2026-10-09 · Anthropic · Official research articleInstitution base · Anthropic 🇺🇸 United States

Investigating unintended model actions in our evaluations and internal use

A report of unintended actions observed during model evaluation and internal use, with discussion of safeguards.

2026-10-06 · OpenAI · Official research articleInstitution base · OpenAI 🇺🇸 United States

Advancing computer use with Ironclad

An official account of progress in computer-use agents. Read the original methods and evaluations separately from deployment claims.

2026-10-06 · Google · Model cardGlobal research organization · Google / Google DeepMind 🇺🇸 United States · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Nano Banana 2.1 — Model Card

Official documentation for an image-and-text model, including inputs, outputs, architecture dependencies and safety evaluation.

2026-10 · Academic · Research paperAffiliations not yet verified · Academic ◌ Affiliations not yet verified

FACT: A Multimodal Force-Action-Track Foundation Model for Human-to-Robot Dexterity

Human and robot demonstrations are combined with force-aware planning for dexterous manipulation.

2026-09-30 · Anthropic · Official research articleInstitution base · Anthropic 🇺🇸 United States

What work can robots do?

A task-level analysis of robot exposure that distinguishes demonstrated capability in limited settings from general deployment.

2026-09-28 · Unitree · Official open-source projectInstitution base · Unitree Robotics 🇨🇳 China

UnifoLM-WLA-1.0: One Model Driven, Whole-Body Coordination

Connects embodied understanding, interaction-centric world modeling and action learning for tabletop and whole-body humanoid manipulation.

2026-09-21 · Qwen · Technical reportInstitution base · Alibaba Qwen 🇨🇳 China

Qwen-Audio-Agent Technical Report

A foreground-background architecture separates voice interaction from asynchronous task execution, coordinating authorization, state and delivery.

2026-09-10 · DeepSeek · Official research articleInstitution base · DeepSeek 🇨🇳 China

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: smarter, faster, more efficient

Official release introducing an asymmetric causal encoder-decoder architecture and linking its technical report and model resources.

2026-08-12 · xAI · Official research articleInstitution base · xAI 🇺🇸 United States

Introducing Grok 4.6

An official technical release describing supplemental training, regenerated SFT trajectories and agentic reinforcement learning.

2026-06-25 · Qwen · Technical reportInstitution base · Alibaba Qwen 🇨🇳 China

Qwen-Image-2.0-RL Technical Report

A diffusion-model post-training pipeline combines task-specific rewards, reinforcement learning and on-policy distillation.

2026-06-15 · Qwen · Technical reportInstitution base · Alibaba Qwen 🇨🇳 China

Qwen-RobotWorld Technical Report: Unifying Embodied World Modeling through Language-Conditioned Video Generation

A language-conditioned video world model predicts future visual trajectories across manipulation, navigation and driving settings.

2026-04-01 · XPeng · Official research articleInstitution base · XPeng 🇨🇳 China

XPeng X-World: Controllable Multi-View Generative World Model for Autonomous Driving

Describes a controllable multi-view world model used for driving simulation, scenario generation, and evaluation.

2026-04 · Qwen · Technical reportInstitution base · Alibaba Qwen 🇨🇳 China

Qwen3.5-Omni Technical Report

The report explores an omni-modal model family and training over heterogeneous visual, textual and audio data.

2026-03 · Qwen · Technical reportInstitution base · Alibaba Qwen 🇨🇳 China

Qwen3-Coder-Next Technical Report

An open-weight model for coding agents explores strong training recipes with a small active parameter footprint.

2026-03 · Academic · Research paperAffiliations not yet verified · Academic ◌ Affiliations not yet verified

UniDex: A Robot Foundation Suite for Universal Dexterous Hand Control from Egocentric Human Videos

A dataset, VLA policy and capture setup connect human demonstrations to control across different dexterous hands.

2026-03 · Anthropic · Official research articleInstitution base · Anthropic 🇺🇸 United States

A “diff” tool for AI: Finding behavioral differences in new models

An interpretability research overview explores ways to identify behavior differences between AI models beyond predefined tests.

2026-02-02 · Kimi · Research paperInstitution base · Moonshot AI · Kimi 🇨🇳 China

Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence

Studies joint visual-language training and multi-agent task decomposition in an open multimodal model.

2026-02 · OpenAI · Official research articleInstitution base · OpenAI 🇺🇸 United States

Scaling social science research

An open-source toolkit uses language models to help turn qualitative text and image data into measurable variables.

2026-01-29 · Unitree · Official open-source projectInstitution base · Unitree Robotics 🇨🇳 China

UnifoLM-VLA-0: A Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Framework under UnifoLM Family

Continues training on robot manipulation data, connecting visual-language understanding and spatial instructions to action prediction.

2026-01 · Qwen · Technical reportInstitution base · Alibaba Qwen 🇨🇳 China

Qwen3-ASR Technical Report

A speech-recognition family and a forced-alignment model address multilingual transcription and timestamp prediction.

2025-12 · DeepSeek · Technical reportInstitution base · DeepSeek 🇨🇳 China

DeepSeek-V3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Models

Sparse attention and post-training methods are combined to improve efficiency, reasoning and agent-oriented behavior.

2025-11 · Qwen · Technical reportInstitution base · Alibaba Qwen 🇨🇳 China

Qwen3-VL Technical Report

The Qwen vision-language family integrates text, image and video understanding across several model sizes.

2025-10-30 · NVIDIA · Research paperInstitution base · NVIDIA 🇺🇸 United States

Alpamayo-R1: Bridging Reasoning and Action Prediction for Generalizable Autonomous Driving in the Long Tail

Connects driving reasoning and action prediction through Cosmos-Reason and a diffusion trajectory decoder, studying reasoning-action consistency.

2025-10 · Google · Technical reportGlobal research organization · Google / Google DeepMind 🇺🇸 United States · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Gemini Robotics 1.5: Pushing the Frontier of Generalist Robots with Advanced Embodied Reasoning, Thinking, and Motion Transfer

The report combines embodied reasoning, interleaved thinking and motion transfer across robot embodiments.

2025-08 · OpenAI · Model cardInstitution base · OpenAI 🇺🇸 United States

gpt-oss-120b & gpt-oss-20b Model Card

Open-weight reasoning models are described through their architecture, training, capabilities and safety evaluations.

2025-08 · AI2 · Research paperAffiliations not yet verified · AI2 ◌ Affiliations not yet verified

MolmoAct: Action Reasoning Models that can Reason in Space

Depth-aware perception, spatial planning and low-level action prediction are organized into an explicit action-reasoning pipeline.

2025-07 · Google · Technical reportGlobal research organization · Google / Google DeepMind 🇺🇸 United States · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities

An industrial model-family report covering reasoning, multimodal input, long contexts and agent-related evaluations.

2025-06 · Hugging Face · Research paperAffiliations not yet verified · Hugging Face ◌ Affiliations not yet verified

SmolVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable and Efficient Robotics

A compact vision-language-action model explores accessible robot learning and an efficient inference pipeline.

2025-05 · Qwen · Technical reportInstitution base · Alibaba Qwen 🇨🇳 China

Qwen3 Technical Report

Dense and mixture-of-experts models integrate thinking and non-thinking behavior, with configurable inference-time reasoning.

2025-04-22 · Huawei · Official research articleInstitution base · Huawei Intelligent Automotive Solution 🇨🇳 China

Huawei Qiankun ADS 4: World Engine and World Behavior Model (WEWA)

Huawei's official WEWA description links generated scenarios in a cloud world engine with an on-vehicle world behavior model.

2025-04 · Physical Intelligence · Research paperInstitution base · Physical Intelligence 🇺🇸 United States

π0.5: a Vision-Language-Action Model with Open-World Generalization

A vision-language-action system studies generalization across environments and tasks using varied sources of supervision.

2025-03 · NVIDIA · Research paperInstitution base · NVIDIA 🇺🇸 United States

GR00T N1: An Open Foundation Model for Generalist Humanoid Robots

A coupled vision-language and diffusion architecture combines reasoning with continuous robot-action generation.

2025-03 · Google · Technical reportGlobal research organization · Google / Google DeepMind 🇺🇸 United States · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Gemini Robotics: Bringing AI into the Physical World

Gemini-based models address robot manipulation and embodied reasoning, connecting multimodal understanding with physical control.

2025-01-07 · NVIDIA · Technical reportInstitution base · NVIDIA 🇺🇸 United States

Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform for Physical AI

A platform of video curation, tokenizers, pretrained world models and post-training for physical-AI applications.

2025-01 · DeepSeek · Research paperInstitution base · DeepSeek 🇨🇳 China

DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement learning is used to develop reasoning behavior, with additional pipelines for usable models and distillation.

2024-12 · DeepSeek · Technical reportInstitution base · DeepSeek 🇨🇳 China

DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report

A mixture-of-experts language model combines architectural and training-efficiency techniques, including latent attention and multi-token prediction.

2024-10-30 · Waymo · Research paperInstitution base · Waymo 🇺🇸 United States

EMMA: End-to-End Multimodal Model for Autonomous Driving

Builds on Gemini to predict driving trajectories, perception objects and road structure from camera inputs and text.

2024-10 · Physical Intelligence · Research paperInstitution base · Physical Intelligence 🇺🇸 United States

π0: A Vision-Language-Action Flow Model for General Robot Control

A pretrained vision-language backbone is combined with flow-based action generation for diverse robot tasks.

2024-08-01 · Meta FAIR · Research paperInstitution base · Meta Fundamental AI Research 🇺🇸 United States

SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos

Extends promptable segmentation from images to video using streaming memory and interactive data collection.

2024-06 · Academic · Research paperAffiliations not yet verified · Academic ◌ Affiliations not yet verified

OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model

An open vision-language-action model and adaptation framework make generalist robot policy research more accessible.

2024-01-08 · Mistral AI · Research paperInstitution base · Mistral AI 🇫🇷 France

Mixtral of Experts

Introduces a sparse mixture-of-experts model exploring model capacity and activated computation.

2023-09-29 · Wayve · Research paperInstitution base · Wayve 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

GAIA-1: A Generative World Model for Autonomous Driving

Models video, text and vehicle actions as sequences to generate conditioned driving scenes and possible futures.

2023-07 · Google · Research paperGlobal research organization · Google / Google DeepMind 🇺🇸 United States · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control

Vision-language models are trained to produce robot actions, exploring transfer from web-scale learning to robotic control.

2023-05 · Academic · Research paperCredited institutions · Stanford University 🇺🇸 United States

Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model

A preference-based objective optimizes a language model directly, avoiding a separate reward-model training stage.

2023-03 · OpenAI · Technical reportInstitution base · OpenAI 🇺🇸 United States

GPT-4 Technical Report

The report describes GPT-4’s capabilities, evaluation results and limitations while leaving important training details undisclosed.

2023-03 · Academic · Research paperAffiliations not yet verified · Academic ◌ Affiliations not yet verified

Diffusion Policy: Visuomotor Policy Learning via Action Diffusion

Robot control is formulated as conditional denoising of action sequences, linking diffusion models to visuomotor learning.

2022-12-20 · Academic · Research paperAffiliations not yet verified · Academic ◌ Affiliations not yet verified

Planning-oriented Autonomous Driving

Unifies perception, prediction and planning around the driving objective, using query interfaces to coordinate tasks.

2022-12 · Anthropic · Research paperInstitution base · Anthropic 🇺🇸 United States

Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback

A set of written principles guides critique, revision and AI-generated preference feedback during alignment.

2022-05 · Academic · Research paperCredited institutions · Stanford University / University at Buffalo 🇺🇸 United States

FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness

An IO-aware attention algorithm reduces memory transfers while computing exact attention.

2022-03 · OpenAI · Research paperCredited institutions · OpenAI 🇺🇸 United States

Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback

Human demonstrations and preference feedback are used to improve how a language model follows instructions.

2022-03 · Google · Research paperCredited institutions · DeepMind 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models

The study examines how to allocate a training-compute budget between model size and training data.

2021-06 · Microsoft · Research paperCredited institutions · Microsoft / Carnegie Mellon University 🇺🇸 United States

LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

Low-rank trainable updates adapt a frozen pretrained model without updating all of its parameters.

2021-02 · OpenAI · Research paperCredited institutions · OpenAI 🇺🇸 United States

Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision

Contrastive training aligns images with natural-language descriptions, enabling transfer to new visual categories.

2020-06 · Academic · Research paperCredited institutions · UC Berkeley 🇺🇸 United States

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models

A generative model learns to reverse a gradual noise process, establishing an influential approach to image synthesis.

2020-05 · OpenAI · Research paperCredited institutions · OpenAI 🇺🇸 United States

Language Models are Few-Shot Learners

GPT-3 studies how larger autoregressive language models perform new tasks through examples in their input context.

2018-10 · Google · Research paperCredited institutions · Google AI Language 🇺🇸 United States

BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding

Masked-language pretraining learns bidirectional representations that can be adapted to language-understanding tasks.

2018-03-16 · Baidu Apollo · Research paperInstitution base · Baidu Apollo 🇨🇳 China

The ApolloScape Open Dataset for Autonomous Driving and its Application

Documents a driving dataset and applications for sensor fusion, semantic understanding, and localization.

2017-06 · Google · Research paperCredited institutions · Google / University of Toronto 🇺🇸 United States · 🇨🇦 Canada

Attention Is All You Need

The Transformer replaces recurrent sequence processing with attention, creating a foundation for many later language and multimodal models.

2012 · Academic · Research paperCredited institutions · University of Toronto 🇨🇦 Canada

ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

A deep convolutional network demonstrated how data, GPU computation and learned representations could transform visual recognition.