Ax Jiahao Tang, Henry Hengyuan Zhao, Lijian Wu, Yifei Tao, Dongxing Mao, Yang Wan, Jingru Tan, Min Zeng, Min Li, Alex Jinpeng Wang 4/17/2026

From Charts to Code: A Hierarchical Benchmark for Multimodal Models

Chart2Code benchmark evaluating chart understanding and code generation in multimodal LLMs across three difficulty levels with real-world scenarios.

Ax Zhuoyun Du, Runze Wang, Huiyu Bai, Zouying Cao, Xiaoyong Zhu, Yu Cheng, Bo Zheng, Wei Chen, Haochao Ying 4/17/2026

Enabling Agents to Communicate Entirely in Latent Space

Interlat framework enables LLM-based agents to communicate directly in latent space bypassing tokenization, improving information depth for collaborative problem-solving.

Ax Markus Knauer, Samuel Bustamante, Thomas Eiband, Alin Albu-Sch\"affer, Freek Stulp, Jo\~ao Silv\'erio 4/17/2026

IROSA: Interactive Robot Skill Adaptation using Natural Language

Framework combining foundation models with imitation learning for open-vocabulary robot skill adaptation from limited data for industrial deployment.

Ax Charles Ye, Jasmine Cui, Dylan Hadfield-Menell 4/17/2026

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion

Analyzes prompt injection attacks as role confusion where models infer text source from style not origin.

HN RyanShook 4/17/2026

Poisoning AI Training Data

Technical analysis demonstrating how easy it is to poison AI training data via fake web content. Includes practical attack example.

HN gmays 4/17/2026

Aurora

Aurora: research on speculative decoding for LLM inference with draft model staleness solutions. 40+ models benchmarked. Paper and code available.

HN okchildhood 4/17/2026

Software Is About to Get Cheap

Opinion piece on implications of AI making software development 10x cheaper and faster. Discussion of SaaS business model impact.

HN ascent817 4/17/2026

AST and LLM Navigation Tool

Developer tool using AST and LLM to navigate large codebases by intent. Creates navigable summaries for faster code exploration.