THE RESEARCH ATLAS

Reasoning & alignment papers

Human feedback, preference learning, reasoning and safety evaluation. Distinguish optimization objectives, reported scores and reliable real-world behavior.

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.

2026-10-16 · 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.

2026-10-09 · 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.

2026-08-12 · 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.

2026-03 · 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 · 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.

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.

2025-10-30 · 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.

2025-05 · 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.

2025-01 · 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.

2024-10-30 · 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.

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.

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.

2022-03 · 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.

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