☕️ Daily AI Digest — Feb 14, 2026 (Valentine's Edition 💘)

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🔬 PAPERS & RESEARCH

🔥 DeepGen 1.0 — Lightweight 5B unified model for image gen + editing. Beats 80B HunyuanImage by 28% on WISE, 27B Qwen-Image-Edit by 37%. Open-source weights, code, datasets.
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2602.12205
💻 github.com/DeepGenTeam/DeepGen

Latent Forcing — Pixel-space image generation matching latent diffusion quality without a separate decoder. Joint latent+pixel denoising with tuned noise schedules.
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2602.11401

Ctrl&Shift — Geometry-aware object manipulation in images/videos. Move & reorient objects while preserving scene realism, no explicit 3D reconstruction needed.
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2602.11440

Active-Zero — Self-evolving VLMs through active environment exploration (self-play but for vision models). Shifts from passive datasets to active visual data seeking.
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2602.11241

C-JEPA — Causal world models via object-level latent interventions. Extends JEPA from image patches to object-centric representations with counterfactual reasoning.
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2602.11389

New day, new JEPA. Extension, anyone? :D