Dr. Robert Li and Saadia Carbis trace cutting-edge AI research back to the real world.
Frontier Architectures
Have DeepSeek discovered a new technique to unlock training at massive scale? We explore mHC: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections (Xie et al., 2025) to find out. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.24880
Architecting for Agent and Tool Adaptation
Should AI agents be optimised for reasoning, or is reliable tool use a more viable path? We explore Adaptation of Agentic AI (Jiang et al., 2025) to find out. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.16301
AGENTS.md
Welcome to AI Paper Trails! In this first episode we introduce ourselves (hi!), and discuss our very first paper: Agent READMEs: An Empirical Study of Context Files for Agentic Coding (Chatlatanagulchai et al., 2025). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.12884