Daily Research Brief 2026-04-12

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Editor’s Note

The paper thread today: GaussiAnimate for animatable 3D categories, NUMINA aligning numerals in text-to-video diffusion (CVPR 2026), meta-cognitive tool use for multimodal agents (Act Wisely), and OpenVLThinkerV2 for multi-domain visual reasoning.

1. Latest arXiv Papers

1. GaussiAnimate: Reconstruction and Rigging for Animatable Categories — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08547

2. NUMINA: Aligning Textual Numerals and Visual Numbers in Text-to-Video Diffusion (CVPR 2026) — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08546

3. Act Wisely: Cultivating Meta-Cognitive Tool Use in Multimodal Agents — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08545

4. AVGen-Bench: A Multi-Granularity Benchmark for Text-to-Audio-Video Generation — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08540

5. OpenVLThinkerV2: A General Multimodal Reasoning Model for Multi-Domain Visual Tasks — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08539