Daily Research Brief 2026-05-23

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Covers the latest AI research, open source and industry moves, updated daily.

Editor’s Note

The paper thread today: Spreadsheet-RL brings RL to spreadsheet agents, MOSS self-evolves through source-level rewriting, an AI-assisted disproof of the Erdős unit-distance conjecture, and AI-designed hybrid architectures that outperform human designs.

1. Latest arXiv Papers

1. Spreadsheet-RL: Advancing LLM Agents for Spreadsheet Manipulation via RL — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22642

2. MOSS: Self-Evolution through Source-Level Rewriting and Editing — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22794

3. Improved Baselines with Representation Autoencoders — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18324

4. Disproof of the Erdős Unit Distance Conjecture via AI-Assisted Search — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20579

5. Causal Forcing++: Real-Time Interactive Video Generation — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15141

6. AI-Designed Hybrid Model Architectures Outperform Human Designs — https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15871

7. RecursiveMAS: Boosting Multi-Agent Collaboration Efficiency

8. GigaBrain-0.5M: World Model-Conditioned VLA for General Robotic Manipulation — https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12099

9. Seed: Decomposing LLM Reasoning Pathways via Chemical-Analogy Clustering — https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06002

10. LRS-VoxMM: A Benchmark for In-the-Wild Audio-Visual Models — https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27866