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This week's AI paper list includes Skaling and Harness-IF

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2026-08-19

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The author published The Top AI Papers of the Week list, covering paper topics such as Skaling, Harness-IF, Mind Viruses, and Distilled Reasoning Skills.

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AI Agent refactors should first freeze specs with Ideate→Specify

Joel Abenhaim's paper documents a 717725-line TypeScript app refactoring case and proposes the Ideate, Specify, Refine, Code, Verify workflow, emphasizing refining and freezing specs before writing code.

Why it mattersLarge code transformations can separate specification omissions from implementation deviations, reducing acceptance confusion.

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Apple Machine Learning Research(RSS)

MVICAD2 models differences in brain-source time delays and dilations

Université Paris-Saclay and other institutions proposed MVICAD2, allowing brain sources from different subjects to vary in time delay and dilation; simulations show it outperforms existing methods, and the Cam-CAN dataset verifies the correlation.

Why it mattersThis method provides finer-grained multi-subject temporal difference modeling for analyzing brain dynamics such as auditory stimuli.

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