Daily Research Brief 2026-04-25

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1. Latest arXiv Papers

1. Seeing Fast and Slow: Learning the Flow of Time in Videos — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21931

2. Seeing Without Eyes: 4D Human-Scene Understanding from Audio — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21926

3. Temporal Taskification in Streaming Continual Learning — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21930

4. Fine-Tuning Regimes Define Distinct Continual Learning Behaviors — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21927

5. When Prompts Override Vision: Prompt-Induced Hallucination in VLMs — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21911

6. From Research Question to Scientific Workflow: LLM-Driven Experiment Design — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21910

7. Evaluation of Automatic Speech Recognition Using Diverse Acoustic Conditions — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21928

8. MathDuels: Evaluating LLMs as Problem Posers and Solvers — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21916