2026 historical paper scan and implementation through August 24¶
The requested frozen window was expanded to January 1–August 24, 2026 across industrial search/ads/recommendation and LLM applications, foundation models, LLM post-training and agents. The multi-query matrix and cross-source configuration deduplicate canonical arXiv IDs. Industrial work requires quantified online A/B or explicit full-traffic deployment; Google/Meta affiliation checks receive first priority.
- Historical scan and B00–B11 batches: 404 full-text candidates and 70 fixed follow-up implementations.
- Machine-readable candidates: all 3,906 deduplicated new candidates with query hits, screen buckets and planning states.
Reproducible scan¶
Run once per track:
PYTHONPATH=src python scripts/discover_papers.py \
--track <recommendation|foundation-model|post-training|agent> \
--date-from 2026-01-01 \
--date-to 2026-08-24 \
--page-size 50 \
--maximum-results-per-query 200 \
--cross-source-config configs/paper-discovery-sources.json \
--output paper-candidates.json
| Track | Deduplicated candidates | New | Full-text review |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial search/ads/recommendation and LLM applications | 716 | 627 | 237 |
| Foundation models | 1,319 | 1,303 | 42 |
| LLM post-training | 1,121 | 1,092 | 73 |
| Agents | 1,245 | 1,221 | 57 |
Broad queries retrieve many adjacent papers. Across four tracks there were 4,401 hits, 4,050 canonical papers, 3,906 not yet closed and 404 selected for full-text review. Hits do not establish eligibility.
B00: First verified and implemented batch¶
| Track | Paper | Eligibility evidence | Local result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial recommendation | OneModel | Quantified A/B on three Xiaohongshu surfaces | Scene-aware MovieLens-1M proxy did not beat shared sequential baseline; negative result retained |
| Foundation | RARE | Independently testable MoE steering/routing decoupling | Route agreement 82.37%→100%, with target steering retained |
| Post-training | GCPO | Rollout-RL subspace diagnostics and constraints, composable in Evolve | Arithmetic proxy final accuracy 63.28%, primary-direction overlap removed 99.56% |
| Agent | AUSO | Action-level JSD for skill internalization/exploration/use; author code public | PlanBench mini-suite retains success and reduces context cost 9.09% |
| Industrial recommendation | ClockRoPE | Quantified YouTube/Google DeepMind A/B in full text | MovieLens-100K NDCG@10 −2.30%; negative result retained |
| Industrial recommendation | OneShot | Meta/Instagram full rollout with online metrics | MovieLens-100K NDCG@10 −7.70%; negative result retained |
| Industrial recommendation | NEXT | Meta multi-week A/B with about 100 million users | MovieLens-1M NDCG@10 +20.33% single-seed diagnostic |
| Agent | AgentX | Kuaishou three-week production self-iteration loop | PlanBench-mini: 12 completed loops and 108 knowledge reuses |
Detail pages record paper metadata, author code status, local adapter/path, original figures, equations and distinct paper vs fixed local results. OneModel illustrates why implementing a mechanism and reproducing production lift are separate claims.
Google/Meta priority checks¶
Affiliation queries also found 2608.18531, 2608.15780 and 2608.15424. Full-text or topic review did not establish eligibility under the industrial online-evidence standard. Missing A/B in an abstract is not a reason for rejection.
Fixed follow-up batches¶
B01–B06 cover industrial generative recommendation, multimodal methods, search, ads, mixed ranking, long-term value and SIDs. B07 covers foundations, long context, KV cache and A/B/n tooling. B08–B09 cover OPD, rubrics, external rollouts and multi-reward RL. B10–B11 cover agentic RL, long-horizon credit, memory, tool planning and self-evolution. Exact IDs are frozen in the batch plan.
The other 331 full-text candidates were not rejected by default: they stay in the full-text review backlog until evidence supports rejection, deferral or promotion to a fixed batch. At this recorded stage, incremental-only scanning was to resume after B01–B11 and that backlog closed.